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Emmanuel Florac

COP29 Summit: Another corporate puppet show in Baku - DiEM25 Communications

#geopolitics #corruption #war

Even more hypocritical is the European Union’s role. Having cut off Russian gas due to geopolitical and human rights concerns, the EU now eagerly pursues Azerbaijani gas, despite the similarly dismal human rights record of the Ilham Aliyev regime, and its aggressive actions against Armenia.

https://diem25.org/cop29-summit-another-corporate-puppet-show-in-baku/

COP29 Summit: Another corporate puppet show in Baku - DiEM25 Communications

COP29 is a hypocritical spectacle driven by corporate and political interests that betray any meaningful commitment to climate action

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Donald Trump Is Not Your Friend - by Caitlin Johnstone

#geopolitics #imperialism #war

Virulent Iran hawk Brian Hook has reportedly been chosen by Donald Trump to help staff the State Department of the incoming administration, just in case you were still holding out hope that this time might be different and Trump really would end the wars and fight the deep state.

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/donald-trump-is-not-your-friend

Donald Trump Is Not Your Friend

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

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waynerad@diasp.org
Wayne Radinsky

A Russian court has fined Google $20 decillion. Because there was a law that said that fines accumulate daily but double weekly. Whoever made that law never heard of the chessboard with the grains of rice. According to the story, some ruler of India many years ago was so delighted with the newly created game of chess that he wanted to reward its creator. The creator asked for 1 grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard on the first day, 2 on the 2nd square of the chessboard on the 2nd day, 4 on the 3rd square of the chessboard on the 3rd day, 8 on the 4th square of the chessboard on the 4th day, and so on -- each day the number of grains of rice doubles. At first the numbers look small but the doubling causes them to eventually become huge -- surpassing the entire world's grain production, and even, by the end of the chessboard, so they say, adding up to a number of grains so huge the pile would be higher than Mount Everest. It's an apocryphal story designed to illustrate the power of exponential growth. In mathematical terms, the number of grains on square x of the chessboard is 2^(x-1) and the total number for the whole chessboard is 2^64 - 1, about 18 followed by 18 0s. If you go thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion (?), what comes after "quadrillion", "quintillion"? Then it's about 18 quintillion.

Likewise, here, according to the article, the World Bank estimates global GDP as around $100 trillion, which is 1 followed by 14 0s, but the fine here, $20 decillion, is 2 followed by 34 0s. (1 followed by 38 0s in rubles.)

To add to the absurdity, what is Google being fined for? Banning the YouTube channels of 17 Russian TV stations. That's it.

Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

#geopolitics #absurdity

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

The spirit of Brexit has infected the EU - Yanis Varoufakis

#geopolitics #UE

Since the pandemic, EU exports to China have flatlined while the United States almost doubled its imports from Europe. Totally reliant on America for arms, fossil fuels, and external demand, the EU is immensely vulnerable. If Donald Trump wins the coming presidential election and introduces his promised tariffs on EU exports, Europe will face deeper stagnation and fragmentation.

It is a tragic indictment of Europe’s leaders that, by holding out for so long against moderate but fundamental political reform of the EU, they guaranteed its disintegration.

https://diem25.org/the-spirit-of-brexit-has-infected-the-eu/

The spirit of Brexit has infected the EU - Yanis Varoufakis

It is a tragic indictment of the EU's leaders that, by holding out against moderate but fundamental political change, they guaranteed the Union's disintegration

waynerad@diasp.org
Wayne Radinsky

Export controls not working on semiconductor equipment to China.

"Huawei has been able to scoot around TSMC's weak end customer checks and secure thousands of leading edge wafers through Bitmain / Sophgo, and many other established Chinese design firms. While this is a huge failure in enforcement of the export controls, it's also relatively low volume compared to domestic fabrication of the Ascend 910B. Huawei has been relying on primarily Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) to produce their domestic AI chip and they have run tens of thousands of wafers of the main compute chiplet on their domestic SMIC N+2 (~7nm) and N+3 (~6nm) process nodes."

"SMIC produces 7nm-class chips including the Kirin 9000S mobile system-on-chip (SoC) and Ascend 910B AI accelerator. Two of their fabs are connected via wafer bridge, such that an automated overhead track can move wafers between them. For production purposes, this forms a continuous cleanroom and effectively one fab. But for regulatory purposes, they are separate! One building is entity-listed by the US and working on advanced logic for AI chips, a clear national security concern. The other is free to import 'dual use' tools as it runs only 'legacy processes.' Do you believe they aren't sharing anything over the wafer bridge?"

"An isotropic etch chamber, essential to producing the latest 2nm Gate-All-Around transistors, cannot be exported to China from Lam's US factories. This same etch chamber, manufactured in Lam's Malaysia facility, can legally be sold to an advanced logic fab in China if no US persons are involved (in manufacturing, sales, installation, and servicing). This includes even customers on the US entity list. Other companies follow the same playbook, including Applied Materials & KLA with their Singapore facilities."

"ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT)'s advanced DRAM with 18nm half pitch was subject to the original 2022 export controls. A new method of calculating half-pitch in the 2023 rules put them back above the minimum line for controls. Without changing the underlying process, they went from restricted to not. They also changed the node name from 17nm or 18.5nm to 19nm, to avoid any appearance of impropriety. The subtleties of the rule change that so specifically moved them from under to a literal nanometer or two over the restriction are, at least, very fortunate for CXMT. Lobbying efforts by giants such as Applied Materials who has made over $3 billion from CXMT may be noteworthy."

"Pengjin High-Tech, a gallium nitride (GaN) startup that is not entity-listed, is building its cleanroom across the street from entity-listed advanced logic producer Peng Xin Wei (PXW). Pengjin is free to import nearly all advanced Western production equipment, including equipment critical to producing advanced logic at 7nm or below (again the exceptions are a small number of tools on the control list, including extreme ultraviolet (EUV))."

Fab whack-a-mole: Chinese companies are evading US sanctions

#solidstatelife #semiconductors #geopolitics

Fab Whack-A-Mole: Chinese Companies are Evading U.S. Sanctions

Huawei Fab Network, WFE Vendors Cry Wolf, Framework for Future Controls

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waynerad@diasp.org
Wayne Radinsky

"Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers."

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development said it is planning to create its own Linux community, which "will unite developers from those countries that are ready to work with Russia." (Me quoting the Google Translate version of the Russian text, see the rbc.ru link below).

"Russia's response came after the Linux community blocked 11 Russians from maintaining the Linux kernel -- the operating system's core code -- citing 'various compliance requirements.' Linux creator Linus Torvalds stated that this decision 'is not getting reverted,' adding that as a Finn, he will not 'support Russian aggression.'" (This time quoting the English news article, which provides some context.)

"One of the Linux maintainers later explained that the restrictions would apply to developers whose companies are owned or controlled by entities on the US Office of Foreign Assets Control list, designated as involved in activities that 'threaten the national security, foreign policy, or economy' of the country."

Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers

#solidstatelife #linux #geopolitics #ukraineconflict

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wazoox@diasp.eu
Emmanuel Florac

Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng on X: "The CCP's People's Liberation Army withdrawing from the Ladakh region (ironically, they even added such heroic music as background for the video), all outposts and fortifications must be dismantled, and all supplies and equipment must be removed. This land will now be entirely under Indian jurisdiction.

India has already announced the establishment of the Ladakh Union Territory. This area is roughly equivalent to three Taiwans, forty Hong Kongs, totaling 90,000 square kilometers.

I can tell you that the CCP has not at all informed the Chinese people about the specifics of this agreement with India to "resolve the border dispute." Anyway, the media is controlled by the CCP, and the public has no right to know, only to be brainwashed and incited.

#geopolitics #China #India #Taiwan #leGrandRoque
https://xcancel.com/jenniferzeng97/status/1850918852693033027

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