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RandAlThor

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  • Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

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  • Yes Biden's chips act did create a ton of new investments in chip building in the US. Only for Trump and Maga to kill it upon taking power. Now he's going to claim the credit for all the investments made from the time of Biden's chips act.

  • Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

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  • He will exempt companies who makes chips in the US - as long as they make some of them in the US, their imports are exempt from the tariff. A quick glance says major chip makers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia) have some production facilities in the US.

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    Cambodia’s reason for abandoning soldiers' bodies on the border

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  • The body count isn't from the paper. If you read, it is a direct quote attributed to a general of the Thai military.

    I am not sure there are any center-left newspapers left in Thailand. The nation isn't a rag as you claim to be. It is a reputable news outlet.

    The Nation is an English-language daily online newspaper founded in 1971, published in Bangkok, Thailand. It is one of two English-language dailies in Bangkok, the other being the Bangkok Post. On 28 June 2019, it published its final broadsheet edition, leaving only its online edition.[5]

    Though The Nation has a right-of-centre opinion page, which welcomed the 2014 coup and military rule, its daily news coverage is more center-left, criticizing, for example, Thailand's lèse-majesté law.[8] According to acclaimed, left-of-centre journalist, Pravit Rojanaphruk, who worked at Nation for 23 years: "The Nation, at least during its heyday ..., was a bastion of committed journalism and tolerance." But over the past decade, it "morphed from a progressive newspapers into a coup-apologist cheerleader for military intervention,..." Pravit was fired from The Nation in 2015 after release from a three-day junta detention without charge for "attitude adjustment", his second such detention.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation_(Thailand)

  • Trump Brazenly Preyed On Me as Epstein Watched: Model

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    Cambodia’s reason for abandoning soldiers' bodies on the border

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  • lost no fewer than 3,000 men.

    Holy crap. I didn't realize the battles were that huge. Even if only 10% of Thai estimates are true, that's still a lot of deaths for a few days of what I thought were border skirmishes.

  • AA refutes Bangladesh army's allegation of KNF-AA links

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  • For those unfamiliar with the political situation on the Arakan front - which is where the world's attention on Myanmar has been due to the Rohingya crisis, this is a small lifting of the rug so to speak to the complex history of the area and its political participants.

  • Myanmar junta lifts emergency rule, calls for December vote

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  • Why now? Because they have finished rigging everything for this to happen. And the dictator running the junta - Min Aung Hlaing - have always had the desire to be called "President" of the country. Head of Junta isn't sexy enough for him. And this election will force some of the countries to recognize the military government (who have their own political party) allowing him to go on overseas as head of state and host foreign dignitaries on visits in Burma. Currently, the only countries he can visit are Russia and Belarussia as head of state. Even China while allowing him to visit for the first time this year didn't host him as head of state but just another foreign dignitary at a regional meet in a minor city. He's an ass who's in love with the trappings of being president of a country.

  • Myanmar junta lifts emergency rule, calls for December vote

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  • The military's ambition was always to legitimize their rule through an election system that's rigged in their favor - the constitution was written by them, the electoral system was set up by them. They won the first election in 2011, but to their surprise, lost to the NLD in 2016. They thought they would win in it in 2021 with an ultra-nationalist policy, but again lost to NLD so they staged the coup. This time they've banned most of the opposition parties, disqualified them from running and put them in jails, and made conditions that are almost impossible for others to participate in the election. And on top of that, I am sure they will cheat. This will legitimize their rule. They will seek recognition from other nations on the back of this election. China is pushing for elections too for whatever reason.

  • Myanmar junta lifts emergency rule, calls for December vote

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  • While the state of emergency has been lifted, I very much doubt that heavy-handed military presence with indiscriminate stops and check points in cities and towns will change. This is just the precursor to steps that legitimize military's rule with a fake election at the end of the year.

  • Trump Administration Considers Rare Earth Deal That Could Reshape the Burma Conflict

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  • In the early days of the coup, Burmese people naively asked for US intervention of the coup, in similar ways we saw the US intervene in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea in the decades past that led to a democracy. The cynical and popular answer was that Burma held no oil, i.e. no strategic value for the US. Rare earths may soon change that.

    While all the production from Burma goes to China for processing due to proximity to China, there is a way for the exports to be coursed to Thailand, via the same routes opium and other narcotics have been shipped out of Burma in the decades since CIA encouraged opium farming in Eastern Burma to finance the Chinese Republican army fighting the Red Army.

  • Trump Administration Considers Rare Earth Deal That Could Reshape the Burma Conflict

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  • Or like the Chinese, he will play both sides - the junta and the rebels.

  • Ghislaine Maxwell Lawyer Says She Will Only Testify for Immunity or Clemency

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  • There we go. She's asking for it explicitly what Trump's been dangling in her face.

  • Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia

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  • Honestly, someone hurry up and launch an alternative! Chinese are setting up one but I wouldn't trust them either.

  • UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house

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  • So much for "liberal" government.

  • UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house

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  • Why has liberal-ruled Britain become attack dogs for Israel?

  • The mathematics of starvation: Why aid can't fix the lethal shortage of food in Gaza

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  • Check the article body.

  • Why did U.S. — not Canadian — fighter jets respond to alleged hijacking of B.C. plane?

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  • My guess is US air bases in Washington were closer to Vancouver so Norad activated their combat aircraft. I think this shows how tightly integrated US and Canadian air defenses are. I think we better draw up some plans in case US becomes the enemy.

  • Why did U.S. — not Canadian — fighter jets respond to alleged hijacking of B.C. plane?

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  • True, though it doesn't base F18s for this kind of mission.

    CFB Comox is the RCAF's primary air defence installation on Canada's Pacific coast and serves as the home base for maritime patrol / anti-submarine aircraft and search and rescue (SAR) aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotary-wing .

  • Why did U.S. — not Canadian — fighter jets respond to alleged hijacking of B.C. plane?

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  • So I wonder why we don't have an air base in BC.