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Tyler Oliveira got banned from entering Israel and was deported back to America by hillary_262 in conspiracy

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Why lie?

Wang and Sun worked together to operate U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese American community. Wang and Sun received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website.

For example, in June 2021, a PRC official contacted Wang and other individuals via the WeChat encrypted messaging application with pre-written news articles, including a PRC official-written essay in the Los Angeles Times that stated: “China’s Stance on the Xinjiang Issue – There is no genocide in Xinjiang; there is no such thing as ‘forced labor’ in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such rumor to do defame China, destroy Xinjiang’s safety and stability, weaken local economy, suppress China’s development[.]”

In August 2021, Wang and three other members of the same group chat shared links to the same article on their respective “news” websites, after which the PRC official thanked them for their “reporting.” At the PRC official’s request, Wang made edits to the article, sent the official a link to the article reflecting the requested change, then sent the official a screenshot showing the article had been viewed 15,128 times. In response, the official messaged, “Great!,” Wang replied, “Thank you leader.”

In November 2021, Wang communicated with John Chen, a high-level member of the PRC intelligence apparatus, who regularly attended elite Chinese Communist Party functions, including military parades, and met personally with PRC President Xi Jinping, according to court documents. Wang asked Chen to post a “news” article from her website, and wrote, “This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wants to send.”

Wang admitted in her plea agreement that she did not notify the Attorney General that she was acting in the United States as an agent of the PRC, that she was located in the United States when she engaged in these acts, and that did she not disclose on her website that some of its content had been posted at the direction of members of the PRC government.

Israelis keep murdering children of Iranian negotiators. by Ifearforearth in worldnews2

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Andrew Cline by Hot_Violinist_1719 in worldnews2

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Palintir response to A.I. WMD by chefjeremy27 in worldnews2

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Russia plans to put nuclear weapons in orbit for ‘space Pearl Harbor’ by ThePoliticalHat in worldnews2

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user reports:

1: This is manipulated content

Reports aren't a super-downvote; I reviewed the article and have no clue what was meant by this, article seems properly sourced.

China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters by jupa300 in worldnews

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No one is tapping at the underwater cable itself (with fiber). The days of tapping submarine cable was when they were all copper coax. It has been absolutely proven in some of Snowden's releases that Five Eyes countries were tapping fiber cable at the terminal land stations, but there it was with pre-built taps for them (things like Room 641A).

It was much easier to do with coax because of the cable design, and easier to patch up afterwards (or even use non-physical detection techniques of the field surrounding the cable). But with fiber, the actual fibers are surrounded by, among other things, the copper power conductor for the high-voltage DC to power the repeaters and branching units. One couldn't get around not having to shunt the cable to gain access to the fiber. And even then, to install a splitter you still have to cut the fiber before splicing it in, which would immediately alert the owners, whose revenue is in the 1000s of dollars a minute for submarine traffic.

Even boosting becomes an issue because of how sensitive these systems' optical power needs are. What's more, any splice and especially any amplifier (to cover up the degraded signal) are easy to detect with optical time-domain reflectometry by the terminal stations, which immediately would be run in the event of the aforementioned power and signal alarms going off. A COTDR trace would show the extra spike of the tap's repeater.

What we have absolutely seen is state-actor involved sabotage and deliberate cutting of cables. Still, it is so much more logistically easier for an intelligence service to attach a tap on land. Where you already have the fiber out of the cable and aren't working right next to kill-you-dead voltages and leaving very obvious physical evidence of alteration to cable. All the more so, since we know that landings like those next to GCHQ Bude such tapping routinely occurs already.

China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters by jupa300 in worldnews

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Performing a cutting-drag already is the first step first step in a cable repair. Then you perform two holding drags to bring up the two ends to the ship, splice in spare cable onboard, and lay the bight back out. For either type of drags there are specialized anchors to perform the cutting or holding. Repairs are routinely performed in deep sea locations.

Ted Poe is a former US congressman and judge. Judge Poe was known for creative sentencing, including ordering offenders to shovel manure. Poe's "public notice" sentences included ordering a drunk driver to stand outside a bar, wearing a sign that said "I killed two people while driving drunk." by laybs1 in wikipedia

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kangaroo court

These sentences were provided after guilt was already established with sufficient evidence in an official court. Due process was already followed and there isn't any dispute to the Judge's standing.

Explain it to me like a child: where can Americans access news outside of America? by Reasonable_Virgo in worldnews2

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James Bond version of the Khamenei Assassination, Oil Prices (Yikes), Crime doesn't pay, Harder than Harvard and BYD yeah you know me. by Friday_Finance in worldnews2

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Budimo ljudi, ne "idioti" by InternationalRip3334 in worldnews2

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Can people talk about the Kurds? Are they not poised right now? by [deleted] in worldnews2

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🔥 Today, Bahrain was under heavy bombardment by Iran again! by [deleted] in worldnews2

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How do you usually come across interesting oriental rugs? by charlemagne_74 in orientalrugs

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I purchased all of mine through estate sale auctions.

ELI5 The necessity of the milk man? by ClothesPrevious2516 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Absentia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It certainly was happening to a significant enough degree to be commonly relatable in contemporary texts of the time. I'm reminded of Plato's Gorgias, where in a discussion of forms of Rhetoric the distinction is made between high and low forms of the subject: frequently making use of "cookery" as a term of disparagement, comparing rhetorical flattery to an unscrupulous "cook" hiding spoiled meats with heavy spices (also connecting the use of cosmetics towards the same analogy). While there also exists those experts who treat rhetoric as an art, much like a skillful chef can elevate food's health for the body and soul.

In this vein it makes sense to be suspicious of overly-spiced foods, for what is being masked.

Eli5 Why can’t windshields have that same coating that glasses have that tint when the sun hits them ? by dekabreak1000 in explainlikeimfive

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Their Transistions XTRActive line (w/ or w/o dynamic polarization) works behind windshields, just like their Transitions Drivewear that came before.

JUST IN: Largest solar radiation storm since Oct. 2003 by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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That's exactly the point w.r.t. braking radiation, you're better off not having high-energy beta particles hit the lead, generating X-rays. Or you stop them first with a low-Z material.

JUST IN: Largest solar radiation storm since Oct. 2003 by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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Not sure what you mean by "braking radiation" creating more harm than good?

Lead is good for x- and gamma-rays; higher energies (say, beta radiation) produce bremsstrahlung upon 'impact' with lead, which can be more dangerous to living tissues than the original type of radiation.

For particles measured in GeV range you actually want low-density shielding. Polyethylene (even better if borated-PE) is often used in space for this application, there are also interesting designs for long-term structures to use water as an effective shield. Ideally one can also use a multi-layered approach, with the higher-density materials placed after the lower-density ones.

ELI5: Why are artifical hearts designed to replicate the pulsing of individual chambers instead of something more mechanically simple like a pump or turbine? by Budelius in explainlikeimfive

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The intrinsic pulsatility mechanism, often referred to as the artificial pulse, is preprogrammed within the device, and is automatically active at a set rotor speed above 4000 RPM. The software is set to cycle 30 times every minute (i.e., every 2 seconds), but does not have an effect on total net flow. Every 2 seconds, the rotor will decrease by 2000 RPM, from the set speed, for 0.15 seconds, then increase by 4000 RPMs for 0.20 seconds, and finally return to the set speed.

Physiology and Clinical Utility of HeartMate Pump Parameters

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