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NiemanLAB – Russian, Chinese, and Iranian media are turning on Trump

October 28, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Meanwhile, over at NiemanLAB, an interesting analysis of these three “enemies” of the USA and their take on the election campaigns and the presidential prospects compared to 2016. Interesting times we live in? “Intransigence” and “ignorance” Sometimes, last-minute surprises upend the final month of the U.S. presidential race. This year was no exception, with Trump’s … [Read more…]

Posted in: Pandemic, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: 2020 campaign, Al Alam News, China, debate, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, election cycle, Iran, Joe Biden, Kommersant, Newspaper, political narrative, Russia, Russian media, The Beijing News

Abramović and Ulay

April 25, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the Guardian, an essay on the performance artists Abramović and Ulay, and their attempt to walk the Sleeping Dragon, the Great Wall of China. The bittersweet story of Marina Abramović’s epic walk on the Great Wall of China – In 1988 Abramović and Ulay trekked from opposite ends of the wall to meet in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Abramović, art project, Artists, China, Chinese, Dragon, Five thousand kilometres, geomancers, Gobi Desert, mythology, the Great Wall, the Great Wall of China, The Lovers, The Sleeping Dragon, Ulay

Preserving a ‘national memory’ of an outbreak

March 4, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Columbia Journalism Review, Preserving a ‘national memory’ of an outbreak by Betsy Joles, 03/03/2020. “We actually have really good journalism in China,” Shen says. “It’s just those who are working very hard to get the stories out, they’re usually not recognized.”

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Censorship, China, Chinese journalists, COVID-19, Internet Archive, Li Wenliang, New York Times, Tencent, Wuhan

Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind

July 4, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech IEEE Spectrum – By Sally Adee But for Red Moon, which is set so close to the current moment, the underlying “really” is the same thing as the explicit plot—it’s about China taking over the moon. China and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Finanace, Nuclear Industry, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: capitalism, China, Helium-3, IEEE Spectrum, Kim Stanley Robinson, libration zones, lunar, Mars, Moon, socialism

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