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>Sometimes when my morale is low I wonder if those of us on here are the 4-6% lost forever.

I've had the same feeling(s) sometimes.

Hyperjump: Think Theoretical Physics / Advanced Intelligence

I also wonder if this is "video game" people play once their planet attains a certain level of achievement. Wound up in a ball of entertainment that keeps them from exploring the Universe because they are so enthralled with their "game".

Are we the ultimate pleebs?

Good gracious, I hope not.

Sidebar: Clockfag here reminding you that today is alien invastion at 5 p.m. (both attached drops on the clock)

https://insiderpaper.com/controversial-beijing-backed-confucius-institutes-opening-again-in-us-under-a-new-name/

Controversial Beijing-backed Confucius Institutes opening again in US under a new name

Brendan TaylorJune 29, 2022 11:20 am

According to a report by the National Association of Scholars, Confucius Institutes, the controversial Beijing-backed language and cultural learning centres that were mostly closed across the US after being designated as foreign missions by the State Department, are rebranding and reopening.

According to the report, of the 118 Confucius Institutes that once existed in the United States, 104 were closed as of June 21 and four are in the process of closing, according to VOA.

Of these, “at least 28 have replaced their Confucius Institute with a similar programme, and at least 58 have maintained close relationships with their former Confucius Institute partner,” according to the report.

Perry Link, a professor of Chinese language studies at the University of California, Riverside, was taken aback by the June 21 report, which updates a March 2018 report.

Link told VOA Mandarin that he was initially struck by “how many Confucius Institutes have been shut. I didn’t expect the rate of closures to be so high. Second, they still exist in another way with another name. I think this is expected. I just didn’t expect it to happen so soon.”

In October 2021, the Chinese state-owned Global Times quoted a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Germany as saying, “China firmly opposes the politicisation of academic and cultural exchange activities.”

Critics saw the institutes as a tool to monitor and interfere with campus speeches and activities, as well as an overseas propaganda machine for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For example, the Confucius Institute objected to North Carolina State University’s plan to invite the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, to speak on campus in 2009.

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1542417659580469248

Kek, they're apoplectic

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1542253701812944898

This Court is going to be looked at as like the Court of Plessy, ushering in some of the darkest days for American democracy and upholding power at every turn.

Against hundreds of years of congressional action, against solid #SCOTUS precedent, and hundreds of years of history, the Supreme Court held today that states have jurisdiction over certain crimes in Indian Country by judicial fiat. A devastating result for our democracy.

The Feds can now prosecute child sex tourism on Indian Reservations?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_agencies

Partial list of alphabet agencies

Agencies created between 1933 and 1938 are New Deal Agencies.

Initialism Year Agency

AAA 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Administration

BPA 1937 Bonneville Power Administration

CAA 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (early Federal Aviation Administration)

CCC 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps

CWA 1933 Civil Works Administration

DRS 1935 Drought Relief Service

DSH 1933 Subsistence Homesteads Division

EBA 1933 Emergency Banking Act

EPA 1970 Environmental Protection Agency

FAA 1958 Federal Aviation Agency

FAP 1935 Federal Art Project (part of WPA)

FCA 1933 Farm Credit Administration

FCC 1934 Federal Communications Commission

FDA 1906 Food and Drug Administration

FDIC 1933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FERA 1933 Federal Emergency Relief Administration

FHA 1934 Federal Housing Administration

FLSA 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act

FMP 1935 Federal Music Project (part of WPA)

FSA 1935 Farm Security Administration

FSRC 1933 Federal Surplus Relief Corporation

FTP 1935 Federal Theatre Project (part of WPA)

FWA 1939 Federal Works Agency

FWP 1935 Federal Writers' Project (part of WPA)

HOLC 1933 Home Owners' Loan Corporation

IRS 1862 Internal Revenue Service

LUP 1934 Land Utilization Program

NASA 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NIRA 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act

NLRA 1935 National Labor Relations Act

NLRB 1934 National Labor Relations Board/The Wagner Act

NRA 1933 National Recovery Administration

NYA 1935 National Youth Administration

PRRA 1933 Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration

PWA 1933 Public Works Administration

RA 1935 Resettlement Administration

REA 1935 Rural Electrification Administration (now Rural Utilities Service)

SEC 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission

SES 1933 Soil Erosion Service

SSB (now SSA) 1935 Social Security Board (now Social Security Administration)

TVA 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority

USHA 1937 United States Housing Authority

USMC 1936 United States Maritime Commission

USPS 1792 United States Postal Service (then the Post Office Department)

WPA 1935 Works Progress Administration

In national security

Since the 1990s, the term "alphabet agencies" has been commonly used to describe the agencies of the U.S. national security state. Many are members of the United States Intelligence Community,[3][4] and several were founded or expanded in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.[5][6][7][8] Alphabet agencies in this sense of the term may also be called three-letter agencies,[9] because they often use three-letter acronyms.

Initialism Year Agency

ATF 1972 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

CIA 1947 Central Intelligence Agency

DEA 1973 Drug Enforcement Administration

DIA 1961 Defense Intelligence Agency

DHS 2002 Department of Homeland Security

DOJ 1870 Department of Justice

FBI 1908 Federal Bureau of Investigation

FEMA 1979 Federal Emergency Management Agency

ICE 2003 Immigration and Customs Enforcement

NRO 1961 National Reconnaissance Office

NSA 1953 National Security Agency

ONI 1882 Office of Naval Intelligence

OSI 1949 Office of Scientific Intelligence

TSA 2001 Transportation Security Administration

Cabinet departments

Partial list

Initialism Year Department

DOE 1979 Department of Education

DOT 1967 Department of Transportation

HHS 1953 Department of Health and Human Services

USDT 1789 Department of the Treasury

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https://insiderpaper.com/nato-says-chinas-coercive-policies-challenge-our-interests/

NATO Says China’s ‘Coercive Policies Challenge Our Interests’

AFPJune 29, 2022 9:54 am

NATO on Wednesday, for the first time in its guiding blueprint, said China’s might challenges the alliance and Beijing’s closer ties to Moscow went against Western interests.

“The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) stated ambitions and coercive policies challenge our interests, security and values,” NATO’s strategic concept published at a summit in Madrid said.

“It strives to subvert the rules-based international order, including in the space, cyber and maritime domains.”

It accused China of targeting NATO members with its “malicious hybrid and cyber operations and its confrontational rhetoric”.

Leading NATO power the United States has pushed for the alliance to pay greater attention to China, despite reluctance from some allies to switch attention away from the focusing on Europe.

NATO’s guiding document — updated for the first time since 2010 — said Russia was the “most significant and direct threat to allies’ security” after its invasion of Ukraine.

And it said that increasingly close ties between Moscow and Beijing “run counter to our values and interests”.

In a sign of the increasing concerns about China, the leaders from Asian partners Japan and South Korea were attending a NATO summit for the first time.

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1542395007255998464

KEK Tweet dropped at 2:30 a.m >23

The article was at 9:54 (on 6.29.22)

9 is '45' on the clock (which was the clock time yesterday - see notables for Qclock June 29)

'54' a mirror to '45'

makes me think something is going to shift at NATO…hopefully.