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Nov 22 2024 
A few snippets from China: The new Dalai Lama in waiting is a Tibetan kid from Minnesota
The Dalai Lama seems to be getting to the end of his life.ย The US appointed one already:
It looks like the Dalai Lama is going to die.๐His supporters have gotten a Tibetan teenager from Minnesota, US, to say he's a reincarnated lama and let him inherit Dalai's career.Even though he only likes football & rap… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
Oreshnik – The 3 Km per Second Plot Twist
Nothing to see here. Just a hypersonic demo. Well, not really.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The average American is only capable of making (some sort of) sense of the world through movies. So letโs go back to a classic: the opening sequence of Coppolaโs Apocalypse Now โ the Vietnam war counterpart to Joseph Conradโs Heart of… Continue reading -
Nov 22 2024 
Putin: State awards for the novel Oreshnik missile
Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Kremlin with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense.ย (He really likes that Oreshnik!)
He kept using the word ‘novel’ in his speech yesterday, and I took it to mean new .. new concept.ย Not five minutes later the talking heads were speculating on which older technology this was… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
G20 knocks out G7 agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically,… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
What else happened yesterday?
Two major news items appeared yesterday, seemingly out of nowhere.ย There were others.
The first was Mr Putin’s address where he introduced the world to the short and intermediate-range new missile, the Oreshnik.ย The world was aware of a new weapon that Russia used the previous night and the controversy ran hot in terms of what… Continue reading
