April 7, 20214 yr 21 hours ago, Toastrel said: Putin signs law allowing him to run for two more terms as Russian President https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/05/europe/putin-russia-presidential-term-intl-hnk/index.html Not only will he be allowed to run for two more terms, the entire population will be allowed to have their votes counted as one for him as well. Pravda, baby. I'm old enough to remember when Trumpbots tried to claim Putin wasn't a dictator. How quaint.
April 8, 20214 yr Those Chinese fishing boats were only following the fish that run during that time(only joking) I've said to numerous people that Communist China is our greatest threat at this time. They reacted as if I was a Martian.If the rest of the country is like this we are in deep do do because of their ignorance. Those islamds they're building aren't for Norwegian or Holland- America cruise ship stops. They intend to out flank the Philippines while threatening the Republic Of China( Taiwans official name) to dominate the shipping lanes to Japan. Communist China also claims the Spratly Islands because of possible oil under the ocean floor. I unlike plenty of people,always use Communist China when referring to the mainland. Look what they have done to Hong Kong. Are the BRITS that IGNORANT AND DUMB???????
April 8, 20214 yr 10 minutes ago, Bill said: Not even close. You could at least argue that Russia poses a more immediate threat. Their tactics are certainly more aggressive/hostile and their tone is more defiant. But why split hairs? F*** 'em both.
April 8, 20214 yr 11 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: You could at least argue that Russia poses a more immediate threat. Their tactics are certainly more aggressive/hostile and their tone is more defiant. But why split hairs? F*** 'em both. Pretty much. They're both the enemy and needed to be treated as such. Russia is a larger threat for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is on display in this thread.
April 8, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Gannan said: Agreed. China is a very distant second. Let me rephrase. China is a much larger long term geopolitical threat than Russia is, to a myriad of more people than Russia is. To say that the Russian threat is anywhere close to the Chinese one demonstrates a stunningly superficial knowledge of both military power and geopolitics. 1 hour ago, EaglesRocker97 said: You could at least argue that Russia poses a more immediate threat. Their tactics are certainly more aggressive/hostile and their tone is more defiant. But why split hairs? F*** 'em both. Russia is the thorn that hurts. China is the tree that’s about to fall on us.
April 8, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, Bill said: Let me rephrase. China is a much larger long term geopolitical threat than Russia is, to a myriad of more people than Russia is. To say that the Russian threat is anywhere close to the Chinese one demonstrates a stunningly superficial knowledge of both military power and geopolitics. Russia is the thorn that hurts. China is the tree that’s about to fall on us. Thanks for making my point for me.
April 8, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Gannan said: Thanks for making my point for me. The level of mental gymnastics you had to go through to even entertain that as a thought let alone accept it as truth is a level of tumbling on par with Kz.
April 9, 20214 yr Russia's ultimate goal appears to be re- creating the old Soviet Union by violating Ukraines sovereignty and testing Biden. Communist China's goal is to annex ROC ( Taiwan) , out flank the Philippines and threaten shipping and Japan. No one here has answered my questions about why Communist China is building those islands and establishing military bases on them.Eventually Communist China will EXTORT PROTECTION MONEY for ships to pass by the Spratly Islands. They will attempt to dominate countries through economic means or computer hacking. Most people's in the U.S. have their heads in the sand or IGNORANT about Communist China. They are FAR more dangerous than Russia. I wouldn't trust them in a room full of cobras.
April 11, 20214 yr PSA: Fu** China. Quote Official: Chinese COVID vaccines' effectiveness low By Joe McDonald and Huizhong Wu, Associated PressBEIJING -- In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country's top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to get a boost.Chinese vaccines "don't have very high protection rates," said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu. Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses abroad while trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made using the previously experimental messenger RNA, or mRNA, process. "It's now under formal consideration whether we should use different vaccines from different technical lines for the immunization process," Gao said.Officials at a news conference Sunday didn't respond directly to questions about Gao's comment or possible changes in official plans. But another CDC official said developers are working on mRNA-based vaccines. "The mRNA vaccines developed in our country have also entered the clinical trial stage," said the official, Wang Huaqing. He gave no timeline for possible use. Experts say mixing vaccines, or sequential immunization, might boost effectiveness. Researchers in Britain are studying a possible combination of Pfizer-BioNTech and the traditional AstraZeneca vaccine. The coronavirus pandemic, which began in central China in late 2019, marks the first time the Chinese drug industry has played a role in responding to a global health emergency. Vaccines made by two state-owned drug makers, Sinovac and Sinopharm, have been exported to 22 countries including Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia, Hungary, Brazil and Turkey, according to the foreign ministry. The effectiveness of a Sinovac vaccine at preventing symptomatic infections was found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil, near the 50% threshold at which health experts say a vaccine is useful. By comparison, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been found to be 97% effective. Health experts say Chinese vaccines are unlikely to be sold to the United States, Western Europe and Japan due to the complexity of the approval process. A Sinovac spokesman, Liu Peicheng, acknowledged varying levels of effectiveness have been found but said that can be due to the age of people in a study, the strain of virus and other factors. Beijing has yet to approve any foreign vaccines for use in China. Gao gave no details of possible changes in strategy but cited mRNA as a possibility. "Everyone should consider the benefits mRNA vaccines can bring for humanity," Gao said. "We must follow it carefully and not ignore it just because we already have several types of vaccines already." Gao previously questioned the safety of mRNA vaccines. He was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency as saying in December he couldn't rule out negative side effects because they were being used for the first time on healthy people. Chinese state media and popular health and science blogs also have questioned the safety and effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. As of April 2, some 34 million people in China have received both of the two doses required for Chinese vaccines and about 65 million received one, according to Gao. The Sinovac spokesman, Liu, said studies find protection "may be better" if time between vaccinations is longer than the current 14 days but gave no indication that might be made standard practice. ___Wu reported from Taipei. https://6abc.com/10507392/?ex_cid=TA_WPVI_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A Trending Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2MqcGVc__evF7Kll3VfywJN4PiRiER6Csu7N5N6SC267V_SdIdlSXNLCE
April 11, 20214 yr 16 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: PSA: Fu** China. Been known for a while that their vaccine was pure garbage. None of their studies held up to peer review. Surprisingly though, the Russian one (sputnik candidate from gamaleya) apparently did hold up, which I did not expect.
April 11, 20214 yr Economically Russia is a mess but in STEM they’re pretty good when they need to be. You figure China would be better able to counter the virus since it slipped out of their lab.
April 11, 20214 yr 16 minutes ago, Bill said: You figure China would be better able to counter the virus since it slipped out of their lab. China makes all kinds of things, none of which are known for quality.
April 12, 20214 yr On 4/8/2021 at 5:17 PM, Bill said: The level of mental gymnastics you had to go through to even entertain that as a thought let alone accept it as truth is a level of tumbling on par with Kz.
April 12, 20214 yr On 4/11/2021 at 1:01 PM, EaglesRocker97 said: PSA: Fu** China. As a follow up, Slovakia is now raising concerns over the efficacy of the sputnik vaccine. Seems like Russia has some explaining to do themselves.
April 12, 20214 yr To be frank, it seems like a dumb thing to lie about if you've already committed to exporting doses. At some point, the vials are gonna get into the hands of labs that will easily figure out if something is amiss which is what happened here. Russia is now demanding all vials be shipped back to them and is bashing Slovakia for "breach of contract". Swing and a miss, Vlad.
April 13, 20214 yr I'm sure all the peacenik Trumpbots who want all troops out of the middle east at all costs are going to lavish praise on Biden for this move any second now.... any second.... Quote BREAKING · 1 HR CNN.COM Biden to announce withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 JUST IN: President Joe Biden plans to announce a withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to three people familiar with the plans.
April 13, 20214 yr 11 minutes ago, Gannan said: I'm sure all the peacenik Trumpbots who want all troops out of the middle east at all costs are going to lavish praise on Biden for this move any second now.... any second.... @Kz! Now's your chance. Go!
April 13, 20214 yr Just what I'd expect from that no good coward. Surrendering when we were so close to fixing the middle east. Hi @VanHammersly, missed you too, buddy.
April 13, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, Kz! said: Just what I'd expect from that no good coward. Surrendering when we were so close to fixing the middle east. Hi @VanHammersly, missed you too, buddy.
April 13, 20214 yr Quote Japan's government announced a decision to begin dumping more than a million tons of treated but still radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean in two years.
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