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1 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Are they synced or is he just careless with laptops?

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
"Let me tell you about the very rich.They are different from you and me.They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful,in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."
Easy pickings for clever, ruthless Chinese Communists who have not yet lost the hungry edge.
Wo Fat vs password= nameOfOwner + "02"

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Is there a model where variables expressed in specific quarantine acts, surveillance and previous biosphere immunity can be tested? What is the probability of an n+1 wave given n lockdowns?
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The 3 players in our drama are Science, a way of knowing; Technnology whose business is translating the more certain Science into practical effects; and Public Policy which takes some of Science, some of technology and serves it with political calculation.
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The "BD family" scandal is catastrophe for Chinese Communist Party operatives in the US. It exposed how they operated nearly at will during the former "Happy Time".The complacency may be ending, if the media can be persuaded to take notice, but the CCP is far from beaten.
The rollup of the CIA network in China, the loss of the OPM data should have warned the media something evil was loose. But the then-dominant narrative was the Global World, so the signal was filtered out.
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The mysterious Patrick Ho and CEFC

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Ho
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nytimes.com/2018/12/12/bus…
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The tipping point.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
"Well, your toe bone connected to your foot bone
Your foot bone connected to your heel bone
Your heel bone connected to your ankle bone
Your ankle bone connected to your leg bone ..."

Dem unintended lockdown consequences.
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