#also just for clarity take this into account: the chinese communist party is still in power

[drcyan]

woaaah chill out, vegeta

I’d bet money that the only economic systems twitter OP and wack-ashimself could actually name would be capitalism, socialism, and communism, and their actual definitions would all be wrong.

I’d love to know how capitalism sabotaged mercantilism, or feudalism.

If you ever find yourself going “the only problem with X is that we couldn’t keep Y from making it fail”, you might want to sit down and have a think. Especially if your side’s previous line was “real X has never been tried!”

@capitalism-and-analytics

[indianarrative1]

China’s Xinhua News, one of the largest news agencies in the world, it’s largest newspaper People’s Daily, the national English language newspaper Global Times run under the People’s Daily, state-controlled broadcaster CGTN, CCTV and China Daily are amongst several major Chinese accounts that have been labeled as ‘state-affiliated media’ by Twitter for being controlled by the government.

“China blocks access to Twitter for regular users. We believe that people benefit from additional context when interacting with Chinese government and state-affiliated accounts. Labels on state-affiliated media accounts provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official representatives of governments, state-affiliated media entities and individuals closely associated with those entities,” Twitter said in a blog post.

The label appears not just on the organization’s verified accounts but also on the profile page of their key personnel – like the Twitter handle of Hu Xijin, Editor-in-chief of Chinese and English editions of the Global Times – and on each and every Tweet sent by and shared from these accounts.

The Twitter accounts of Chinese diplomats, such as Cui Tiankai, the Chinese Ambassador to the US or Sun Weidong, the Chinese Ambassador to India, have also been labeled as ‘China government account’ to provide clarity.

Labels contain information about the country the account is affiliated with and whether it is operated by a government representative or state-affiliated media entity.

Additionally, these labels include a small icon of a flag to signal the account’s status as a government account and of a podium for state-affiliated media.

Twitter said that currently these labels appear on relevant Twitter accounts from the five countries that comprise the permanent membership of the UN Security Council – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

It includes government accounts heavily engaged in geopolitics and diplomacy, state-affiliated media entities and individuals such as editors or high-profile journalists associated with state-affiliated media entities.

“At this time, we’re not labeling the personal accounts of heads of state, as these accounts enjoy widespread name recognition, media attention, and public awareness. Institutional accounts associated with their offices that changeover depending on election results will be labeled, however,” said Twitter.

While most in the business already knew about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deeply involved in the running of media organizations in the country, the latest move by Twitter will limit their functionality as the microblogging platform will no longer amplify state-affiliated media accounts or their Tweets through recommendation systems including on the home timeline, notifications, and search.

India Narrative has constantly updated its readers about how the pressure is building on Chinese President Xi Jinping after the huge failure of its much-hyped ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy. Hyper-nationalistic and outrageous rhetoric belted out by state-run tabloids like the Global Times has backfired terribly as China’s relations with not just the United States but several other nations, including India, have hit an all-time low.

Beijing has fallen victim to its own propaganda and wounded by inflammatory, most of the times incredulous, stuff published by its media since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and also the Galwan valley faceoff in Ladakh against India.

However, the lessons are still not being learnt by the authoritarian regime.

“From the suppression of Huawei to the robbery of TikTok, the aggression shown by the US has spread even to individual Twitter accounts; however, posts on Twitter would not be regarded as a threat to the US’ hegemony if the Trump administration is confident, observers said. Twitter’s move shows they are actively cooperating with the Trump administration to suppress voices from China,” the Global Times reported Friday calling it a ‘political move’ to satisfy Trump.

China is also questioning the move to exempt Twitter accounts like BBC and US state-funded media Voice of America. Twitter had, however, already clarified the reasons for not labeling them.

“We believe that people have the right to know when a media account is affiliated directly or indirectly with a state actor. State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, will not be labeled. As part of the development of this process, we consulted with a number of expert groups, including members of the Digital and Human Rights Advisory group in Twitter’s Trust & Safety Council.”

Two months ago, Twitter had suspended over 1.73 lakh accounts for engaging in a range of manipulative and coordinated activities which favored and promoted the agenda of Chinese government.

“They were tweeting predominantly in Chinese languages and spreading geopolitical narratives favorable to the Communist Party of China (CCP), while continuing to push deceptive narratives about the political dynamics in Hong Kong,” Twitter haid said in a statement.

The fake network comprised a core network of 23,750 accounts and over 150,000 more acting as an amplifier network which were “strategically designed to artificially inflate impression metrics and engage with the core accounts.”

China, on the other hand, continues to cry for being the “biggest victim of disinformation” with many platforms spreading much falsehood about China.

Not every time a lie, even if it is repeated a thousand times, becomes the truth, especially in China’s case.

[journeythroughbible]

As we Coron-on

To explain my “humor” ... “ Coron-on” is to “Drone-on” with Corona-virus blues.

I have taken a few weeks off from commenting about this “pandemic.” But the first thing is to let us look at the numbers for today 7/6/20; total cases are 11,483,400, with 534,938 total deaths. In the USA, we have 2,288,915 cases, with 130,007 deaths. The percentages are 0.147% of the world population infected and 4.66% death rate. The USA is almost 5 times greater at 0.695% infected and a death rate of only 0.583%. Remember, in looking at these numbers, remember the Spanish Flu of 1918 had an overall infection rate of 27% and a death rate between 3.4% to 20%, so we are not close to those “pandemic levels.”

The one thing these numbers tell us is while yes, they are still large and will remain so, the USA is either proving this is more widespread than we know or they have figured out how to treat the CCP-Virus. And still, the percentages show this is still statistically insignificant, although the USA is trending to reach the 1% mark on 7/13. Also, the USA is testing far more people than anywhere else in the world, so that appears to be why the death rate is almost 8x less than the world while our infection rate is approximately 5x greater.

The CCP-Virus is named such because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been controlling the information concerning the source and the initial infection rate. Also, the virus appears to have been developed in the lab in Wuhan, where it seems to have escaped. Just so it’s clear the USA is not complacent in this virus, Dr. Fauci’s agency, NIAID, gave the Wuhan lab $3.4M to study “gain of function” research with coronavirus in bats. For clarity, “gain of function” research is genetically modifying the virus to “see” what they can do with it.

Second, this has become hyper-political; we had to close the economy for a while before people got a handle on the problem. This problem has been compounded by a conflict between President Trump and others. For example, Trump suggesting HCQ as a “cure” based on anecdotal data from using the common low-cost drug was lambasted by his opponents and science for having no clear tests. The press latched on to the conflict without looking at the data, and science was complicit for not doing any meaningful tests. Well, they are starting to trickle in with amazing results compared to the drugs that cost thousands yet are still being promoted while HCQ results are ignored—no idea why this is going on, but it’s interesting to observe.

In watching the debate, I notice it’s similar to the Climate Change debate, where only a group of individuals (including scientists) are allowed to have an opinion. In contrast, other groups of individuals (including scientists) are not allowed to speak. As I have mentioned before, social media has suppressed opinions outside what they wish to promote and hence why I no longer participate on Facebook (other than promoting our business). The question I have is, why? If there is data, something is wrong, why suppress it? Why not discuss it, isn’t that what SCIENCE is about. Think about what we would not know if the debate was suppressed in the past!!

Anyway, look at the numbers and look at what we were told. If you did not know I pull the numbers off the John Hopkins site and compile them, I also do a “curve fitting” graph to help predict the future. When I initially stated the rate of infection was 11.29% daily increase, now it’s around 1.75%. Now the press has been talking about a “spike” in new cases as we open. My charts show this “spike” in the USA as going from 1.45% daily increase in new cases to 1.83%, not really a “spike.” Now I will say the daily number of cases has risen, and the percentage has gone down since the overall number of cases this number is based on is getting larger, but this is a number game. The overall percentages are where we live for perspective. A million is huge when compared to my bank account, but is small when compared to the national debt, that is why you use percentages to get a perspective on the overall size.

The one thing noted is how a month ago, after the country opened, irresponsible protesters were doing massive protests in the USA without following the “social distancing” rule seem to correlate closer to the increase in cases than “opening” has.

In Oregon, they are partially opened fully. I say partially since many restaurants are remaining take out only because they don’t want to open only to have the Governor close them down again. It’s a cost and risk they will wait on taking. We are now required to wear masks indoors and that’s receiving resistance. Why? Because there is mixed information on their effectiveness. We were initially told only N95 masks would work and that “bandanas” were worthless. Now anything over the face is fine. Hence it’s starting to look like government control versus health concerns. This rule added with the 4th of July being shut down, but a BLM protest of over 1000 people was allowed in Salem caused division. You can see why many believe this is starting to look more like a political/cabal driven population control method.

On a Biblical side, massive floods and locust infestations in China make this look closer and closer to “end times” prophecies. A YouTuber said it best, and we as Christians must pray in the name of Jesus, the NAME of those who need salvation in Jesus. So … if you’re reading this and don’t understand Jesus feel free to contact me via email c v s (at) b e l l s o u t h (dot) n e t. (done for preventing spam:)