Quick notes: Europe in decline | Proxy war...

• Long envied by outsiders, Europe is getting poorer: Europeans are experiencing a decline in their purchasing power. Adjusted for inflation and purchasing power, wages have declined by about 3% since 2019 in Germany, by 3.5% in Italy and Spain and by 6% in Greece. Real wages in the U.S. have increased by about 6% over the same period



• Seymore Hersh: US played critical role in Crimean Bridge attacks. “Of course it was our technology. The drone was remotely guided and half submerged—like a torpedo.”. . Proxy war? Leaked documents reveal the extent of U.S. involvement in the Ukraine fight.



• Will Nvidia kill the radiology stars? Algorithms today are more accurate than those of almost two-thirds of radiologists... Human Vs Machine



• Milking India: Chinese mobile companies evade Rs.9,000 crore in tax in India, Rs.1,629 crore recovered



• Just the facts: Condensed background to Manipur situation



• The only Self of all: There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self.




• Japan plans ambitious return to chip manufacturing: Rapidus Wants to Supply 2nm Chips to Tech Giants, Challenge TSMC.. Europe Greenlights Chips Act: $47 Billion for Semiconductor Industry



• Wall squats and planks: Strength-training exercises best at lowering blood pressure



• Noam Chomsky’s corrosive effects on linguistics as well as politics: “A deep disregard and contempt for the truth, a monumental disdain for standards of enquiry, a relentless strain of self-promotion, remarkable descents into incoherence, and a penchant for verbally abusing those who disagree with him.” .. What’s sad is to realize that no matter how deceitful or duplicitous their researchers can get, major universities tend to whistle and look the other way.



• July set to be world's warmest month on record:




• Padre's double game: Pastor at kidnapped US girl's funeral in 1975 charged with her murder



• 'Who is gay in the team?': BBC reporter's inappropriate question to Morocco women’s team captain



• Self-loathing: Qualification for a job at BBC's South Asia desk.

Beware of BBC. They are part of the Hinduphobia machine.

They've even turned something as boring as vegetarianism into a sensationalized and caste/oppression-fraught topic.

Today Geeta Pandey published this. It has all the woke buzzwords. Shame on her:https://t.co/GDg95s8gBK

— Probably Not Actually a Monkey (@ApeThinks) July 29, 2023




• TikTok Pushing Chinese Propaganda: TikTok is facing numerous government inquiries in Europe and abroad about its ties to the Chinese state. One of regulators’ top concerns about TikTok is a fear that it could be used by the CCP to warp civic discourse in democratic nations.



• Italy regrets joining China's BRI: Done little to boost Italy's exports, making China the only winner.