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“…USAID report states that the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) redacted the names of UNRWA employees under investigation for ties to Hamas, rendering the documents it provided for the American probe “unusable.”…”
“…What is most stunning here is that Mrs. Obama has proven herself even more narcissistic than her husband…It’s Hillary Clinton all over again, where we are being subjected to the coattails ride of a bitter spouse…”
What has this nasty woman got to be bitter about? The cost of feeding her family when they lived in the White House?
She needs therapy for that?
Give me a break.
Pathetic.
“…Not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China. Then it started to disappear.
Land sales measures, foreign investment data and unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years. Data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone.
In all, Chinese officials have stopped publishing hundreds of data points once used by researchers and investors, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
In most cases, Chinese authorities haven’t given any reason for ending or withholding data. But the missing numbers have come as the world’s second biggest economy has stumbled under the weight of excessive debt, a crumbling real-estate market and other troubles—spurring heavy-handed efforts by authorities to control the narrative.
China’s National Bureau of Statistics stopped publishing some numbers related to unemployment in urban areas in recent years. After an anonymous user on the bureau’s website asked why one of those data points had disappeared, the bureau said only that the ministry that provided it stopped sharing the data.
The disappearing data have made it harder for people to know what’s going on in China at a pivotal time…”
If the data showed China in a good light, the data would still be available. The data was always manipulated to do just that. Now, the magnitude of manipulation required to maintain a positive image results in the data falling outside a reasonable cloud of possibility, rendering China’s manipulation obvious and laughable.
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