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  1. Sep 2023
    1. Beneath the veneer of condemning the fascist past, the Orbánists promulgate the same sort of nationalist, irredentist, and imperialist views that gave birth to fascism in the first place. Orbán’s cherished idea of “Greater Hungary” implies retrieving the “historical” lands now belonging to Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, as well as small portions of Austria and Poland. And Hungarian Turanism preaches the “brotherhood” of peoples with roots in Central Asia and the Ural region, which accounts for Hungarian nationalists’ gravitation towards both Turkey and Russia, the latter being the “cradle” of the Turanian peoples, and the Russians viewed by some as “Slavicized” Turkic and Finno-Ugric peoples.
    1. Initial ideas for the program are described in a Tobacco Institute memo, five months before the ADA was signed into law. At that point, Forscey had reported to the Tobacco Institute that the ADA might protect smokers as “disabled persons”
    2. Using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library and Congressional records, we examined the tobacco industry’s involvement with the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). During legislative drafting of the ADA (1989–1990), the Tobacco Institute, the tobacco industry’s lobbying and public relations arm at the time, worked with industry lawyers and civil rights groups to include smoking in the ADA’s definition of “disability.”
  2. Jun 2023
    1. A Soviet hate campaign against the United States is generallyconsidered to have started on January el, 1951. On that date Pospelov,in the presence of the full Politburo, delivered a speech on the theme"The hands of the American imperialists are steeped in the blood of theRussian people."
  3. May 2023
    1. 05 Feb 88 Radio Moscow English-language broadcast to SouthAfrica repeats ìethnic weaponsîdisinformation
    2. 18 Feb 88 Brecha Leftist Uruguayan weekly carriesarticle ìAIDS from a YankeeLaboratory?î, written by knowndisseminator of disinformation
    1. United States biomedical researchers and pharmaceutical companies are conducting and paying African doctors to conduct unethical and illegal testing of human subjects. Nonconsensual research on human subjects is an atrocity that occurred in Tuskegee, Alabama, and in Guatemala for over forty years. Once outlawed in the U.S., medical researchers began experimenting on thousands of human research subjects without their consent in Cameroon, Ghana, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and other African countries.

    1. A sample of 489 self-identified Australian gay men 18–72 years old participated in an online survey on masculinity and homosexuality. Descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and sequential multiple regressions were used to test the study’s aims. Sequential multiple regressions revealed that conformity to masculine norms and threats to masculinity contingency were stronger predictors of internalized homophobia over and above demographic and other factors.