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“Xinjiang Shakedown: US Anti-China Lobby Cashed in on ‘Forced Labor’ Campaign that Cost Uyghur Workers Their Jobs” – By Max Blumenthal of The Grayzone

China Xinjiang NED AFL CIO Workers Rights Uighurs
A campaign against supposed forced labor in Xinjiang has forced Uyghur workers out of their jobs while extracting a handsome payout from a US apparel company to Uyghur exile groups lobbying against China.
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“A Growing Problem of ‘Deepfake Geography’: How AI Falsifies Satellite Images” – By Kim Eckart for University of Washington News.

satellite photo of Tacoma using geospatial data from Beijing, with shadows cast from most buildings
What may appear to be an image of Tacoma is, in fact, a simulated one, created by transferring visual patterns of Beijing onto a map of a real Tacoma neighborhood.Zhao et al., 2021, Cartography and Geographic Information Science
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An American Grim Reality: “HUD: Growth Of Homelessness During 2020 Was ‘Devastating,’ Even Before The Pandemic” — By Pam Fessler for NPR”

Homeless individuals sleep near a National Guard truck ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Jan. 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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“MORE CENSORSHIP ON THE WAY”“Facebook Hires NATO Press Officer Ben Nimmo as Intelligence Chief” — Alan Macleod for MintPress

It is now difficult to distinguish where the deep state ends and the fourth estate begins and Ben Nimmo’s move from NATO to NATO-aligned think tank to Facebook is just another example of this phenomenon.
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