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just being himself
gus has gone no-contact with his dad and is making james somerton-style youtube essays
gretchen is writing tumblr posts about gifted-kid burnout and forever applying for a PhD
spinelli has become the owner of an asbestos factory.
T.J is unionizing his workplace and working on inventing a brand new type of soda
vince was set to become an olympic athlete in steeple-chase, but a knee-injury forced him to retire early. he's now looking to start a soda-type podcast with T.J. (they are lovers) while barely making rent from his part-time job as a P.E. teacher.
mikey is filling the world with love
wow. i didn't know that. you're telling me this for the first time
yet to see a tumblr users with that many badges have a good take about anything
Athletes undercover? Global and U.S. anti-doping agencies clash over tactics (Aug 7, Reuters)
The global and U.S. anti-doping agencies are at odds over undercover tactics used by the American body to try to catch drug cheats, Reuters has learned.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.
USADA says the tactic is necessary and allowed, and wants to keep using it. WADA says it is against its code and that athletes caught breaking doping rules should not get to line up in races, potentially winning prize money and medals, without first being publicly prosecuted and sanctioned.
[...] The U.S. agency has defended letting drug rule violators compete so they could act as undercover informants, saying in one case such assistance had provided intelligence to a U.S. federal law enforcement investigation into a human and drug trafficking scheme.
So what's the money on US intelligence agencies using positive doping tests to blackmail these athletes into not only spying on rival teams, but sabotaging them as well?
Remember in 2021, when several athletes from the Chinese swimming team tested positive after eating contaminated food? The US and other Western media outlets of course reported on it as some fantastical lie by the Evil Chinese, but the WADA report agreed with the Chinese investigation, noting that all subsequent and prior test showed that no systematic doping could have been taking place among the tested Chinese athletes:
From the WADA report:
In early April 2021, CHINADA informed WADA that it had initiated an investigation, involving the public health authorities, into the source of TMZ found in the samples. There were strong indicators that these cases could be a case of group contamination considering the following factors:
- There were 23 swimmers, and 28 positive samples. All tested positive at the same time for TMZ at consistently very low levels (pg or low ng/mL range).
- The swimmers were from different regions of China, with different coaches and from different swimming clubs.
- The swimmers were in the same place at the same time when the positive samples arose.
- A number of these swimmers were tested on multiple occasions during the swim meet. Some of them were tested on two or even three occasions on consecutive days. For several swimmers, the results varied from negative to positive within a few hours, which is not compatible with a doping scenario of deliberate ingestion nor with micro-dosing.
- Some of the competing swimmers stayed in at least one other hotel. Three of those athletes were tested and none tested positive for TMZ.
It also goes into details about how hard USADA were pushing for a further investigation, disputing both CHINADA and WADA's findings without providing any counter evidence. Really, the whole thing is very 👀
turning into a third-worldist from watching the olympics
blueanon people saying it's staged lmao
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This issue of the international edition of Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横) explores the widely debated topic of de-dollarisation. The articles examine the US dollar’s hegemonic status in the international economic order, efforts across the Global South to develop alternatives, and the role of the BRICS in this process.
came to check hexbear after seeing the news about the iranian president and...
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Hillary Clinton And Lin-Manuel Miranda To Host Joe Biden Broadway Fundraiser Performance Of 'Suffs: The Musical'
(hexbear.net)
it's so joever
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tingle's freshly picked rosy rupeeland needs to be added to the list of essential communist games
(hexbear.net)
the whole game is based around haggling and it has made me hate the concept of money more than even losing at monopoly can (another essential communist game)
at the back of the box there's a fun game where you help an azov solider find their way out of a black sun maze
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archived link / original link (the guardian)
“We are herbivores in a world of carnivores. It is a power politics world, yet we still have in mind that through trade and preaching the rule of law we can have influence on the world. We must still preach the rule of law but we have to be aware there are some leaders that need to be dealt with in a different way.”
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Borrell predicted the war in Ukraine, and the eventual outcome, would be one of the three driving forces creating a new world order, alongside competition between China and the US, and the rise of the global south.
He admitted he was no fan of the term “global south” to describe such a heterogeneous group of people but that an entity existed that “consider themselves part of an alternative to the western models”. He said it was critical to “try to avoid the alliance of China plus Russia, plus parts of the global south.
“The people of the global south want to be recognised because 40, 50 years ago, when the world order was built, some of these countries did not exist. Either they were colonies or so poor they did not have a vote.
“So now they are independent countries and they have been growing economically, demographically, and they want to have a say.”
He added: “Understandably these countries are hedging. One day they look at Russia , another at China. At the UN they vote against the war in Ukraine but many of them do not have this feeling of moral indignation that we have.”
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looks like ukrainian politicians are being taught the art of western diplomacy by their nato handlers
(hexbear.net)
In a new low of diplomacy, the Ukrainian advisor to the President of the war-hit country made bizarre claims about India and China in an interview that came days after the successful organization of the G20 summit in Delhi. Mykhailo Podolyak said, “What’s wrong with India, China, and so forth? The problem is that they are not analyzing the consequences of their steps, these countries have weak intellectual potential, unfortunately.”
Mykhailo Podolyak further said, “Yes, they invest in science. Yes, India has launched a lunar rover presently and is now trekking on the surface of the Moon, but that does not indicate that this country fully comprehends what the modern world is about.”
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Sasuke
joined 3 years ago
china still has a long way to go with lgbt rights, but at least they're moving in the right direction. can't say the same for the western world