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Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by duxup »

tyingq wrote: post #11

The story seems to counter the popular view that BuzzFeed is low brow, low effort journalism. Did they have some kind of campaign to get better?

Buzzfeed News does good work.

Admittedly I have a moment of cognitive dissonance every time I see the word Buzzfeed in Buzzfeed News.

Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by suprfsat »

the_gipsy wrote: post #10
t3rabytes wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not true -- https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aviano+Air+Base/@46.033364...

Try this one, I just noticed it while on vacation nearby: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ccm3ZcQ771mb6Jtj8 Edit sorry I can't link to satellite view from mobile. It's the Mola Fortress on Menorca.

The Maxar/DigitalGlobe imagery is sharp: http://osmz.ru/imagery/#16/39.8754/4.3182/mp

Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by koenigdavidmj »

tyingq wrote: post #11

The story seems to counter the popular view that BuzzFeed is low brow, low effort journalism. Did they have some kind of campaign to get better?

Their money-making model is that the low-effort listicles pay for the real journalists.

Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by selimthegrim »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #6
ryaan_anthony wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Hey hey now maybe they’re just schools where they sing happily and build sand castles

Which just happen to be their permanent addresses (pace Dick Gregory)

Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by Beached »

throwaway69123 wrote: post #25

How as a consumer do I avoid the moral dread of buying made in China when 99% of everything is made in China.

unfortunately you will likely have to spend hours of research for every product, and be content with paying double once you find a suitable product.

Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by crispyporkbites »

throwaway69123 wrote: post #25

How as a consumer do I avoid the moral dread of buying made in China when 99% of everything is made in China.

Disproportionately purchase items made in your own country. Encourage others to do the same. Vote for government officials who encourage similar policies, write to government official who do not. Start/join action groups, engage in political debate at all levels. Start / invest in a local manufacturing company, run for local office, run for president, get rich and invest in local brands.

Re: Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps

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Post by throwaway4good »

"Alison Killing conducted this reporting with a grant and further assistance from the Open Technology Fund."

From wikipedia: "As of November 2019, the Open Technology Fund became an independent nonprofit corporation and a grantee of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.[7] Until its formation as an independent entity, it had operated as a program of Radio Free Asia."

Radio Free Asia ... founded by the CIA and a today well oiled propaganda arm for whatever is on the US government's foreign policy agenda.

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