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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/05/mcmaster-china-strategy/609088/
"Our guide showed us where the last royal occupant of the Forbidden City, Emperor Puyi, was stripped of power in 1911, at the age of 5, during China’s republican revolution. Puyi abdicated in the midst of the “century of humiliation,” a period of Chinese history that Xi had described to Trump when the two leaders met for dinner at Mar-a-Lago, seven months before our tour. "
"If anyone in the American group had any doubts about China’s view of its relationship with the United States, Li’s monologue would have removed them. He began with the observation that China, having already developed its industrial and technological base, no longer needed the United States. He dismissed U.S. concerns over unfair trade and economic practices, indicating that the U.S. role in the future global economy would merely be to provide China with raw materials, agricultural products, and energy to fuel its production of the world’s cutting-edge industrial and consumer products."
"In 2010, China’s foreign minister matter-of-factly told his counterparts at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations: “China is a big country, and you are small countries.” China intends to establish a new tributary system through a massive effort organized under three overlapping policies, carrying the names “Made in China 2025,” “Belt and Road Initiative,” and “Military-Civil Fusion.”
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what was today's 4AM narratives?
the plan to leave Afghanistan was started by Trump so it is Trump's fault
the unvaccinated are spreading covid so leaders must mandate
also it is easier to mandate because FDA approved vaccine
hospitalizations surge and the staff are exhausted (they never mention how some Nurses quit when vaccines became mandatory, even after they worked the frontlines since COVID started, #hypocrites)
biden mentions sanctions for organizations that do not force vaccines
https://gab.com/threesevens/posts/106807591391109417
Big pharma pays off FDA advisors.
An investigation by Science magazine found that:
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Of 107 physician advisers who voted on the committees Science examined, 66 were paid. 40 received more than $10,000 in post hoc earnings or research support from the makers of drugs that the panels voted to approve. 26 of those gained more than $100,000; and six more than $1 million.
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Of the more than $24 million in personal payments or research support from industry to the 16 top-earning advisers—who received more than $300,000 each—93% came from the makers of drugs those advisers previously reviewed or from competitors.
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Most of those top earners—and many others—received other funds from those same companies, concurrent with or in the year before their advisory service. Those payments were disclosed in scholarly journals but not by FDA.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/hidden-conflicts-pharma-payments-fda-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical
https://saraacarter.com/podcasts/
Inside the Real Network Saving Lives in Afghanistan
Aug 23, 2021 • 43 min
https://gab.com/ResisttheMainstream/posts/106811063719408046
RTM poll of the day: Do you think the U.S. should accept and aid Afghan refugees?
A. Yes, they deserve to be free
B. No, ever heard of the Trojan horse?
C. Yes, but with extra caution
D. I'm not sure