https://twitter.com/ericfish85/statu...86359167488006
https://twitter.com/CarlMinzner/stat...66412538580994
For those with a thinking cap there's a piece on another "interwar" period where uncontrolled authoritarianism and imperial envy played major parts...
https://warontherocks.com/2021/08/ho...nterwar-era-2/
It's Friday the 13th, so no biggie for me or most of the world for that matter, but in case you desire something akin to a quick chuckle, the most imperial of the so-called TLAs now claims to be mapping out some way to develop something it supposedly already imposed upon us a year ago...
https://twitter.com/SariArhoHavren/s...25306565169163
Meanwhile in that moustache-stained "Wandel durch Handel" capital in Central Europe the old establishment is hoping to reduce CO2 emissions from dirty local coal by plugging Carl Schmitt's spinning corpse to the national power grid.
https://twitter.com/TheBaseLeg/statu...33692281311236
For a more wholesome, slightly less holocausty facepalm:
https://twitter.com/Byron_Wan/status...22043815735297
Promoting the Party-state Insecurity Protocols aka so-called "NSL", CCP's propaganda arm Xinhua talked to "some HK-residing foreigners"...
"They all say..."
https://twitter.com/TMclaughlin3/sta...03991174680581
FWIW, "TKP" is just another propaganda arm of the CCP, the Ta Kung Pao...
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58394906
Among other pearls...
[...]Mass voting for reality programmes will also no longer be allowed unless it is done by live audiences.