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  • Actually, the bigger, more intense war is between the Arabs and Iran. Sunni/Shia conflict is more divisive than their hate of Israel.

    From what I understand, Iran had a western puppet regime, the “Shah”, just like many other countries, Egypt, Iraq etc. The people revolted, and now you have the Ayatolla

    Ever since the revolution, there has been various fights with the West… Iran is just really unlucky, that the US wanted to fuck with them.

    The US tried the same shenanigans with bigger countries, like India, they sent an Aircraft carrier to threaten it before it had an air force, as well as sanctions for testing nukes.

    But, India was too big to control. Iran is 1/15 the size.

    That’s all the US has done since Vietnam - picked fights with small countries, since they really can’t win bigger invasions. Colonisation always fails… who would have guessed.










  • Huawei and DJI ? Not sure. I stopped following Huawei some years back, when I found out they were just a CCP puppet.

    I meant general industrial espionage. There were massive phishing campaigns starting maybe 10 years ago. The PLA Unit 61398 is rather infamous.

    They stole everything from the trains they use in the country (stolen from Siemens) to their new fighter Jets. Its a fascinating way for a third world country to catch up to far more developed nations.

    Still, they kind of shot themselves in the foot, because it opens up their companies to lawsuits and what not, should they try to operate in western markets.






    1. The guy talks pretty interestingly to be honest. Regarding his opinions on “experts”, yeah he is right. Finding good “experts” who are willing to acknowledge the limits of their understanding, can be hard.

    2. His main claim is that scientists haven’t pulled viruses out of sick patients, and imaged it directly from a patient’s blood. They need to grow the virus for some days in the lab, and then when concentrations are high, they can purify it and image it.

    He’s right about that. The concentration of the virus is quite low in the sick animals. If you tried to find the virus with an electron microscope directly in a patient’s sample, it could take you years, because at that scale, even a millimeter square area is the size of the entire USA

    But its a huge stretch to say that low concentrations mean the virus isn’t causing the disease or that it doesn’t exist.

    The easiest way to disprove it is to take the purified virus and inject it into another animal and see if it gets sick the same way. Which is how people discovered Viruses in the first place.

    1. He’s being very dishonest. Saying scientists don’t bother wasting time trying to search dilute concentrations of virus in a patients’ blood is one thing. But then going from there to say “they never found a virus” is a lie.

    TLDR: His overall point that scientists are not GOD, and don’t know the precise mechanics of how things work, is certainly true. A lot of scientists don’t want to admit it, and are rather arrogant.

    But, he took a technicality about Virus load, i.e. the concentrations are too low to directly image, and you have to let them grow in a petri dish before they can be easily imaged - to mean that viruses don’t actually exist, or they don’t cause the disease in low concentrations.

    Easy to disprove if you can infect another animal with it. Hell, a bunch of the fucking VAX are Monkey Adenoviruses that are modified



  • Yes, sorry. You are correct. What I said was true long ago. Now, its access to the Chinese market that is the carrot.

    At the same time though, most western companies like Uber, Google, Facebook got kicked out of China, and the Chinese stole their tech and made their own knockoffs.

    I think this garbage trend of Chinese censorship may start to fade away, when Chinese companies are the ones operating abroad and get screwed over, e.g Huawei and DJI