{"id":8891,"date":"2021-04-04T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2021-04-07T08:43:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T14:43:45","slug":"4-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"4.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need a strategy \u2014 and we need one now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; caret-color: rgb(10, 10, 10); color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-family: Vollkorn, sans-serif; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">Sadly, it\u2019s no surprise to see <a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2021\/04\/the-longest-telegram-a-visionary-blueprint-for-the-comprehensive-grand-strategy-against-china-we-need\/\">Washington on its back foot against the Chinese Communist Party<\/a>. Where American officials struggle to think beyond the latest news cycle, leaders in Beijing think in centuries-long historical epochs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His Plane <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/28\/world\/americas\/brazil-amazon.html\">Crashed in the Amazon<\/a>. Then Came the Hard Part.<\/p>\n<p>To calculate the real dislikes on a video, we tabulate only increases to the dislikes, and ignore decreases. On normal YouTube videos (e.g., on PewDiePie&#8217;s videos), the official YouTube stats and our real stats completely agree. On <a href=\"https:\/\/81m.org\/about\/\">many White House videos, there is a huge discrepancy between official dislikes<\/a> and our calculated real dislikes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/yellow-journalism-turns-blue-11616711532\">Yellow Journalism Turns Blue<\/a>. Ron Johnson is under attack from a press that\u2019s abandoned honesty and fairness.<\/p>\n<p>Give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/mar\/28\/give-pause-before-you-raise-a-glass-to-prospect-of-vaccine-passports\">pause<\/a> before you raise a glass to the prospect of a vaccine passport<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/1415896\/climate-fear-handling-pandemic-experts-jobs-lost-families-threats\">Climate of &#8216;fear&#8217; prevents experts<\/a> from questioning the handling of the pandemic<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/21\/03\/26\/hm-erased-from-apple-maps-other-platforms-in-china-amid-boycott\">H&amp;M erased from Apple Maps<\/a>, other platforms in China amid boycott<\/p>\n<p>After choosing<a href=\"https:\/\/algorithmwatch.org\/de\/impfen-in-berlin-riskante-terminvergabe-software\/\"> \u201cprivately insured\u201d in the online mask instead of \u201cstatutory insurance\u201d<\/a>, she was offered an earlier vaccination appointment. We followed up on this information to find out whether privately insured people are preferred when making appointments. It quickly became clear: It probably has nothing to do with the insurance status. It was simply a coincidence whether you could get an appointment online yesterday for April 12th, or a month later, for May 15th, in the same vaccination center.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/341963\/church-membership-falls-below-majority-first-time.aspx\">decline in church membership<\/a> is primarily a function of the increasing number of Americans who express no religious preference<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rosenzweig.io\/blog\/software-freedom-isnt-about-licenses-its-about-power.html\">How then should<\/a> we conceptualize software freedom?<\/p>\n<p>Which <a href=\"https:\/\/noahpinion.substack.com\/p\/yes-experts-will-lie-to-you-sometimes\">brings me to the reason experts should be more reluctant to lie to the public:<\/a> They aren\u2019t experts on the topic of when to lie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5984aae4e58c62ee930f614a\/t\/6061b81f0fbea64d81d3584c\/1617016863900\/Misdemeanor_Prosecution_ADH.pdf\">Misdemeanor<\/a> Prosecution<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s government passes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/china-passes-hong-kong-patriot-election-law-37117377-8d34-44c6-b44d-20913c6afae0.html\">Hong Kong &#8220;patriot&#8221;<\/a> election law<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/29\/covid-vaccine-sites-478233\">comparison, the federal retail pharmacy program reported March 11 it had administered nearly 1 million dose<\/a> s over a single day. Over the course of the next four days, the program\u2019s pharmacies administered more than 5 million more doses, according to the federal vaccination data obtained by POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/03\/30\/amazon-twitter-ambassadors-jeff-bezos-bernie-sanders\/\">Twitter Army Was Handpicked<\/a> for \u201cGreat Sense of Humor,\u201d Leaked Document Reveals<\/p>\n<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/google-collects-20-times-more-telemetry-from-android-devices-than-apple-from-ios\/\">collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices<\/a> than Apple from iOS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loomered.com\/2021\/03\/30\/congressional-candidate-laura-loomer-banned-from-payment-processing-company-stripe\/\">Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Banned<\/a> From Payment Processing Company Stripe<\/p>\n<p>Live on national television, Diana Church calmly explained to the Prime Minister that her son\u2019s doctor had asked to see him in a week\u2019s time, and yet the clinic had refused to take any appointments more than forty-eight hours in advance. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/03\/29\/what-data-cant-do\">Otherwise, physicians would lose<\/a> out on bonuses.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessesquires.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/apple-cooperation-with-authoritarian-governments\/\">cooperation<\/a> with authoritarian governments<\/p>\n<p>Meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearinvestigations.com\/articles\/2021\/03\/30\/meet_the_russiagate_prober_who_couldnt_verify_anything_in_the_steele_dossier_yet_said_nothing_for_years_769667.html\">Russiagate Prober Who Couldn&#8217;t Verify Anything<\/a> in the Steele Dossier Yet Said Nothing for Years<\/p>\n<p>Obama Transportation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/01\/983322307\/obama-transportation-secretary-didnt-disclose-foreign-cash-loan\">Secretary Hid Foreign Cash<\/a> Loan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.core77.com\/posts\/81665\/Eye-Opening-Photos-and-Video-Taken-Inside-Illegal-Click-Farms\">Eye-Opening Photos<\/a> and Video Taken Inside Illegal Click Farms<\/p>\n<p>Does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/world-politics\/article\/abs\/electoral-manipulation-and-regime-support\/D01D30F0D7D2DA066AEC35E32CEA30CC\">electoral fraud<\/a> stabilize authoritarian rule or undermine it?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/pluralistic.net\/2021\/04\/02\/innovation-unlocks-markets\/#digital-arm-breakers\">zombie economy and<\/a> digital arm-breakers<\/p>\n<p>Vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/democrat-vaccine-scandal\/\">distribution<\/a> and political contributions<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipvm.com\/reports\/racial-ethnic-standards\">Dahua and Hikvision Co-Author<\/a> Racial And Ethnic PRC Police Standards<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/gabriel-zucman.eu\/exorbitant\/\">exorbitant<\/a> tax privilege<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a strategy \u2014 and we need one now. Sadly, it\u2019s no surprise to see Washington on its back foot against the Chinese Communist Party. Where American officials struggle to think beyond the latest news cycle, leaders in Beijing think in centuries-long historical epochs.&nbsp; His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8949,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/8949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}