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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht weist die "linksunten.indymedia"-Verfassungsbeschwerde ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht weist die "linksunten.indymedia"-Verfassungsbeschwerde ab.
Annahmegrnde im Sinne des 93a Abs. 2 BVerfGG liegen nicht vor. Sie haben keine Aussicht auf Erfolg. Entgegen den Anforderungen aus 23 Abs. 1 Satz 2, 92 BVerfGG an die Begrndung einer Verfassungsbeschwerde zeigen sie nicht hinreichend substantiiert auf, dass die Mglichkeit besteht, durch die angegriffenen gerichtlichen Entscheidungen in Grundrechten oder grundrechtsgleichen Rechten verletzt zu sein (vgl. BVerfGE 140, 229 <232 Rn. 9>; 151, 67 <84 f. Rn. 49>; 159, 223 <270 Rn. 89> jeweils m.w.N.).Damit kann der Staat jetzt einfach so von irgendwelchen Webseiten behaupten, es sei ein Verein, diesen Verein verbieten, und niemand kann irgendwas dagegen tun. Der Betreiber der Webseite kann sich nicht wehren, als Verein eingestuft zu werden, auer er tritt ausdrcklich als Vereinsvertreter auf und besttigt damit die Einstufung als Verein.
Was soll das werden? Die Stromerzeugung durch Installation eines Dynamos an Franz Kafkas Grab?
Kriegt ihr eigentlich mit, was da gerade in Georgien ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Kriegt ihr eigentlich mit, was da gerade in Georgien abgeht?
"George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
"George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former roommate tells feds"
George Santos ist ein Abgeordneter im US-Reprsentantenhaus, der schon mehrfach negativ auffiel.
ATM sind Geldautomaten.
Die Serie der "um actually"-Leserbriefe zu CO2 in Gewchshusern ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Die Serie der "um actually"-Leserbriefe zu CO2 in Gewchshusern lsst nicht ab. Hier noch eine relevante Korrektur: CO2 ist schwerer als Stickstoff und Sauerstoff, entweicht daher nicht ber eine offene Dachluke sondern bleibt am Boden.
Die neuen Terroristen: Menschen mit Dreck am Schuh. ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Die neuen Terroristen: Menschen mit Dreck am Schuh. Im Wald, brigens, bei einer Tanzveranstaltung.
Gut, die Tanzveranstaltung richtete sich gegen ein im Bau befindliches Polizei-Trainingslager namens "Cop City", und da gab es wohl ne Stunde vor den Verhaftungen einen Brandanschlag. Aber das war ber eine Meile entfernt, und gegen die Tnzer im Wald hatten die Cops nichts weiter in der Hand.
Also haben sie das flexibelste Gummigesetz rausgesucht und die alle wegen Domestic Terrorism verhaftet.
The probable cause stated in the warrants against the activists is extremely weak. Police cited arrestees having mud on their shoes in a forest. The warrants alleged they had written a legal support phone number on their arms, as is common during mass protests. And, in a few cases, police alleged protesters were holding shields hardly proof of illegal activity which a number of defendants even deny.Die hatten die Nummer einer Anwalts-Hotline dabei! Offensichtlich planten die illegale Dinge!1!! Das knnen wir nicht dulden, ganz klar.
Es sind mal wieder digitale Gesundheitsdaten geleakt. ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Es sind mal wieder digitale Gesundheitsdaten geleakt. Nur ein paar Hundert diesmal. Eigentlich nicht der Erwhnung wert. Wre da nicht ein klitzekleines Randdetail:
A top House official said that a significant data breach at the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday potentially exposed personal identifiable information of hundreds of lawmakers and staff.Woher wissen sie das? Nun, ...
the FBI was able to purchase some of the hacked material on the dark webNatrlich betrifft das neben den Congress-Hanseln auch einen groen Haufen anderer Leute, aber auf die scheien wir ja alle. Datenlecks und Online-Beleidigungen spielen nur eine Rolle, wenn sie sich gegen Politiker richten. Hben wie drben.
Das Pentagon foltert 48 Frettchen, um ihnen Havannasyndrom ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Das Pentagon foltert 48 Frettchen, um ihnen Havannasyndrom zu geben.
Wenn die Cops keinen Bock haben, mit dir zu diskutieren, ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Wenn die Cops keinen Bock haben, mit dir zu diskutieren, ob du ihnen Videos von deinen Amazon-Ring-Cloudwanzen gibst, dann holen sie sich das halt direkt von Amazon. Bonus: Es ging gar nicht um den Typen sondern um seinen Nachbarn.
Das hat dem Richter gereicht, um das Video von 20 der 21 Wanzen bei Amazon anzufordern. Amazon hat natrlich alles sofort rausgerckt. Wie viele davon innerhalb auf das Schlafzimmer zeigten. Nicht des mutmalichen Drogenkonsumenten sondern des unschuldigen Nachbarn mit den Cloudwanzen.
What do others think of Evolutionary Psychology? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Over there on Reddit, there is a subreddit called r/evolution for the discussion of evolutionary questions and issues. There is now consideration of a rule to clarify their stance on evolutionary psychology. Its a good one.
As you know, the moderator team has been considering the possibility of new rules to help improve things around here. And of course, we wanted to get the communitys feedback on the matter before we pulled the trigger. Please, just remember to voice your disagreements peacefully.
- Rule #X: Evolutionary Psychology. The moderation team takes the stance that evolutionary psychology is pseudoscience. Like any pseudoscience, it starts with a conclusion rather than drawing that conclusion from data; it also tends to ignore or even demonize other fields of science that already provide information about the topics it addresses; and tends to boil personal behaviors and preferences (as well as complicated sociocultural and developmental phenomena) down to a handful of terms it uses as buzzwords to craft adaptationist/bioessentialist just-so stories that are often untested, untestable, or even wildly incorrect. Its also frequently used to justify everything from preexisting biases all the way to dehumanizing rhetoric. These posts also tend to attract a lot of baseless speculation and experts on these topics are often drowned out by negativity and downvotes, all of which is antithetical to the climate were trying to cultivate.
- Please note that while we discourage evolutionary psychology and pseudoscience in general, simply asking questions about the evolutionary basis for certain human behaviors or cognitive traits isnt necessarily an issue: there are legitimate scientists in various fields (eg, anthropology, especially evolutionary anthropology, ethnography, behavioral genetics, etc), who study these topics with proper, physical data, and so there is information out there. However, if we feel that a question is better suited for other academics (eg, regular psychologists, historians, sociologists, philosophers, etc), if things start getting pseudoscientific, or if certain lines are crossed, we may choose to intervene.
More pithily, they say the problem is that evolutionary psychology is science in the same way that Taco Bell is authentic Mexican food. There is some polite agreement with the statement (Im not saying anything, because Id only provide loud impolite agreement) a...
UK: Kate Middleton, wife of the future king, dons hijab on visit to Islamic center "IndyWatch Feed War"
Italy 2020: Inside Covids Ground Zero "IndyWatch Feed War"
Michael Bryant On the third anniversary of the WHO declaring Covid a pandemic, we take a detailed look at how Italy provided the perfect platform for creating, and then spreading, the Covid narrative. Three years ago the Western World came to a standstill. The official Covid-19 narrative depicted a strange suddenly-super-spreading, deadlier-than-flu virus hailing from
Whale Death Confusion Abounds and Some Is Deliberate "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
But the sonar blasting is very likely killing a lot of whales indirectly by inducing things like deafness and deadly behavior.
The post Whale Death Confusion Abounds and Some Is Deliberate first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Israels new far-right government: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities "IndyWatch Feed War"
Israels far-right government provides Palestinian
rights advocates an urgent responsibility and unprecedented
opportunity to challenge Israeli settler-colonialism, apartheid,
and occupation.
Ogun Guber: Accord Party Denies Adopting Abiodun As Guber Candidate "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
The Ogun State Chapter of Accord Party has denied adopting the incumbent governor, Dapo Abiodun as its governorship candidate in the Saturday, March 18 election. The Chairman of the party, Tajudeen Olayokun who disclosed this to journalists in Abeokuta on Saturday, dissociated the party from the purported endorsement of Abiodun, insisting that, the governorship candidate []
Cholera Outbreak: Two Killed In Ebonyi, Lawmaker Mobilizes Doctors "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Two persons have died in a cholera outbreak in Ofenekpa Inyimagu, Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. There has been a cholera outbreak in some communities in Ikwo in the last one month with over 17 persons killed. The member representing Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Chinedu Ogah intervened []
BATLOADER Malware Uses Google Ads to Deliver Vidar Stealer and Ursnif Payloads "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
The malware downloader known as BATLOADER has been observed abusing Google Ads to deliver secondary payloads like Vidar Stealer and Ursnif. According to cybersecurity company eSentire, malicious ads are used to spoof a wide range of legitimate apps and services such as Adobe, OpenAPI's ChatGPT, Spotify, Tableau, and Zoom. BATLOADER, as the name suggests, is a loader that's responsible for
Get Ready to Meet the ChatGPT Clones "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
ChatGPT might well be the most famous, and potentially valuable, algorithm of the moment, but the artificial intelligence techniques used by OpenAI to provide its smarts are neither unique nor secret. Competing projects and open-source clones may soon make ChatGPT-style bots available for anyone to copy and reuse.
Stability AI, a startup that has already developed and open-sourced advanced image-generation technology, is working on an open competitor to ChatGPT. We are a few months from release, says Emad Mostaque, Stabilitys CEO. A number of competing startups, including Anthropic, Cohere, and AI21, are working on proprietary chatbots similar to OpenAIs bot.
The impending flood of sophisticated chatbots will make the technology more abundant and visible to consumers, as well as more accessible to AI businesses, developers, and researchers. That could accelerate the rush to make money with AI tools that generate images, code, and text.
GPT-4 reveal: Microsoft wont comment on launch rumors "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Andreas Braun, CTO of Microsoft Germany, announced the introduction of GPT-4 for next week. The models will be multimodal.
At the AI in Focus Digital Kickoff event, Microsoft Germany presented business applications of large language models and talked about its cooperation with OpenAI and new Azure offerings resulting from it.
As Silke Hahn reports for Heise, Braun announced a GPT-4 reveal next week: Next week we will present GPT-4, there we have multimodal models that offer completely different possibilities for example videos, Braun said.
Microsoft Says OpenAIs Latest Blockbuster AI Is Dropping Next Week "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Update, March 10: A spokesperson for OpenAI has confirmed in a statement to Futurism that OpenAI has not announced any timing for GPT-4.
A German Microsoft executive has, for some reason, claimed that OpenAIs next large language model (LLM) will drop imminently.
We will introduce GPT-4 next week, there we will have multimodal models that will offer completely different possibilities for example, videos, claimed Microsoft Germany CTO Andreas Braun during a digital kickoff event yesterday, per German tech news site Heise Online.
Election: Why Im Not Supporting Peter Obis Candidate Aisha Yesufu "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Nigerian activist and co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, Aisha Buhari has revealed why she is not supporting the labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obis governorship candidate in Enugu State, Chijioke Edeoga. Obi had on Thursday urged his supporters to vote for some Labour Party Governorship candidates including Edeoga in the March 18, governorship and state []
Come to Minnesota, one of the few sane states in the country "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Minnesota is doing the right thing.
Minnesotas Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive order Wednesday directing state agencies to take action to protect and support access to gender-affirming health care across the state.
All state agencies must, to the fullest extent of their lawful authority, pursue opportunities and coordinate with each other to protect people or entities providing, assisting, seeking or obtaining gender affirming health care services in Minnesota, the order says.
Gender-affirming care is medically necessary, evidence-based care that uses a multidisciplinary approach to help a person transition from their assigned gender the one the person was designated at birth to their affirmed gender the gender by which one wants to be known.
Walzs order comes as Republican-led states around the country push restrictions on such care, with at least four states this year having passed measures to outlaw gender-affirming care for minors. As part of the order, the governor is prohibiting the state from cooperating with investigations by states that aim to penalize such care, saying their actions pose a grave threat to the health of members of the LGBTQ community.
Yeah. Basically, Republican-led states have turned evil and want to actively harm their own citizens, but Minnesota will stand strong as a refuge. Join us!
Learn How to Code a zkApp Hello World With Me Using TypeScript "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Recorded this video for the Mina Foundation going through the first tutorial for zkapps. If you're interested in understanding what goes into these zk smart contracts then this is for you!
Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia resume ties in China-brokered deal "IndyWatch Feed War"
Which State You Live in Matters for How Well Environmental Laws Protect Your Health "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
By Susan Kaplan
Your child could go to gym class on Monday morning and play soccer on a field that was sprayed over the weekend with 2,4-D, a toxic weedkiller that has been investigated as possibly causing cancer. Alternatively, the school grounds may have been treated with a lower-toxicity weedkiller. Or maybe the grounds were managed with safe, nontoxic products and techniques.
Which of these scenarios applies depends in large part on your states laws and regulations today more so than federal regulations.
For example, Texas requires all school districts to adopt an integrated pest management program for school buildings; IPM prioritizes nonchemical pest control methods and includes some protections regarding spraying of grounds. Massachusetts also restricts pesticide use on school grounds. Illinois requires IPM for school buildings only if economically feasible. States also vary greatly in the education and technical assistance they provide to implement these practices.
Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is involved in some baseline pesticide functions, shortcomings of the main pesticide law, along with industry influence, ca...
Prometei botnet evolves and infected +10,000 systems since November 2022 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Cisco Talos researchers reported that the Prometei botnet has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022. The crypto-mining botnet has a modular structure and employs multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection.
The Prometei botnet was first observed by Cisco Talos experts on July 2020. A deep investigation on artifacts uploaded on VirusTotal allowed the experts to determine that the botnet may have been active at least since May 2016. Experts pointed out that the malware has constantly been updated by its creators with the implementation of new modules and features.
Now Talos confirms that the Prometei botnet continues to improve modules and exhibits new capabilities in recent updates.
More specifically, the botnet operators updated certain submodules of the execution chain to automate processes and challenge forensic analysis methods. reads the post published by Cisco Talos. We assess with high confidence that v3 of the Prometei botnet is of medium size, with more than 10,000 infected systems worldwide, based on data obtained by sinkholing the DGA domains over a period of one week in February 2023.
Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts, covers villages in ash "IndyWatch Feed World"
Indonesia's Mount Merapi, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted on Saturday (Mar 11), spewing out smoke and ash that blanketed villages near the crater. There were no immediate reports of casualties, the country's disaster mitigation agency said. Images broadcast on local outlet Kompas TV showed ash-covered houses and roads at a village near the volcano, located on Java Island, near Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta. The Merapi Volcano Observatory estimated the ash cloud reached 3,000m (9,600 feet) above the summit.
Poll: How Makinde Deceived South-West PDP Secretary "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Ramon Owokoniran, the South-West Zone General Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the members of the party in the zone are aggrieved that Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State campaigned for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), during the February 25 presidential election. Owokoniran said both the party and []
Silicon Valley Bank Shut Down by Regulators, Biggest Bank Failure Since 2008 Global Financial Crisis "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Via: CNBC: Financial regulators have closed Silicon Valley Bank and taken control of its deposits, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced Friday, in what is the largest U.S. bank failure since the global financial crisis more than a decade ago. The collapse of SVB, a key player in the tech and venture capital community, leaves []
How the 8086 Processor Determines the Length of an Instruction "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
https://www.righto.com/2023/02/how-8086-processor-determines-length-of.html
The Intel 8086 processor (1978) has a complicated instruction set with instructions ranging from one to six bytes long. This raises the question of how the processor knows the length of an instruction.1 The answer is that the 8086 uses an interesting combination of lookup ROMs and microcode to determine how many bytes to use for an instruction. In brief, the ROMs perform enough decoding to figure out if it needs one byte or two. After that, the microcode simply consumes instruction bytes as it needs them. Thus, nothing in the chip explicitly "knows" the length of an instruction. This blog post describes this process in more detail.
[...] The 8086 uses a 6-byte instruction prefetch queue to hold instructions, and this queue will play an important role in this discussion.3 Earlier microprocessors read instructions from memory as they were needed, which could cause the CPU to wait on memory. The 8086, instead, read instructions from memory before they were needed, storing them in the instruction prefetch queue. (You can think of this as a primitive instruction cache.) To execute an instruction, the 8086 took bytes out of the queue one at a time. If the queue ran empty, the processor waited until more instruction bytes were fetched from memory into the queue.
Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Linux 6.4 To Enable Sensor Monitoring On More ASUS Z590 Motherboards "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
A simple patch queued in "hwmon-next" this week for the Linux 6.4 cycle later this spring gets motherboard sensor monitoring working on three more ASUS motherbards for modern Intel systems...
Nederland "IndyWatch Feed War"
Woonprotest Den Haag
Linux 6.2.4 and 6.1.17 kernels have been released this morning as new emergency releases...
Message To The White Man "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
A recent article on white supremacist absolution garnered an unsurprising, but very interesting, set of responses leading to even more white supremacist absolution and denial. This article is a response to those indictments and will, hopefully, provide much needed clarifications.
GNU Octave 8.1 Released For Free Software MATLAB Alternative "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
GNU Octave 8.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this free software for scientific computing and numerical computations that remains a leading open-source alternative to MATLAB...
The Dogmatic Personality: Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral Dimensions "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
How do you know when you are arguing with a dogmatic personality? Usually they are overly certain they are right. Your discussions are with people who behave as if they're playing King of the Hill games. Their questions are posed in dualistic, either/or way with no middle ground. According to psychologist Judy J. Johnson, dogmatic personalities have fourteen characteristics - five cognitive, four emotional and five behavioral.
Missing Ukrainian girl Rescued From Russian Re-Education Camp "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
KYIV, Ukraine Tetiana Vlaiko feels like an idiot. She is ashamed to speak to WhoWhatWhy about how the Russians took her 11-year-old daughter Lilia to Russian-occupied Crimea. She says that last October, the teachers at her daughters school in Kherson convinced her to send Lilia to what they called a summer camp.
It turned out to be a Russian re-education facility.
All the mothers at the school signed up. Probably, I could have said no, but the teachers kept saying that all kids are going, it is for free, and she will come back in two weeks, said 36-year-old Vlaiko.
Vlaiko said that she initially thought it would be good for her daughter to get away from Kherson for a short period. At the time, the city was under Russian control, and the Ukrainians were fighting to get the city back. Life there was dangerous. Vlaiko says there were rumors of Russian brutality and rape of people on the streets and a constant risk of shelling.
Crimea was (and still is) also under Russian control, but it was safer than Kherson.
Lilia was supposed to be home on October 21. She didnt show up, and neither did any of her classmates.
I called the teachers when I realized she wasnt returning. I tried to find out what was happening, but they didnt answer, said Vlaiko, who explained that some teachers picked up the phone at the beginning and said they didnt know when or if the kids would return.
She told WhoWhatWhy that the school closed for good after the kids were taken.
At one point in late October, Vlaiko and other parents found the schools director, who told them the kids werent returning. She recalls him saying there was nothing he could do about it and that he was planning to leave Kherson and go to another Russian-controlled area. Vlaiko told WhoWhatWhy that he seemed very pro-Russian.
It became clear that they never intended to send my daughter back. I got crazy hysterical and was full of guilt, said Vlaiko.I should never have told her she could go.
She didnt see her daughter again for almost four months.
Just Another Day: Queer, Non-Binary, Sharia-Adherent State Rep Hid Trans Activist Who Assaulted Cop "IndyWatch Feed War"
A Fancy Connected Caliper For Not A Lot "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
An essential for the engineer is a decent caliper, to measure dimensions with reasonable accuracy. Some of us have old-fashioned Vernier scales, while many up-to-date versions are electronic. When entering large numbers of dimensions into a CAD package matters can become a little tedious, so the fancier versions have connectivity for automatic reading transfer. [Mew463] didnt want to shell out the cash for one of those, so modified a cheaper caliper with an ESP32-C3 microcontroller to provide a Bluetooth interface.
Many cheaper calipers have a handy hidden serial port, and its to this interface the mod is connected via a simple level shifter. The ESP and associated circuitry is mounted on a custom PCB on the back of the caliper body, with a very neatly designed case also holding a small Li-Po cell. It adds a little bulk to the instrument, but not enough to render it unusable. Whether the work required to design and build it is worth the cost saving over an off-the-shelf connected caliper is left to the reader to decide.
Weve covered similar hacks in the past, but this ones to a very high standard. Meanwhile if calipers are of interest to you then theyre...
Scores Of Policemen On Trial In Delta Over Alleged Election Manipulation "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ali Mohammed Ari, yesterday, revealed that scores of police personnel were undergoing orderly room trial at Delta State Police Headquarters, in Asaba, for allegedly aiding politicians to disrupt or manipulate election results in February 25, 2023 elections.
Ari, who made the revelation at the stakeholders roundtable advocacy meeting held in Asaba, did not mention the number of officers being quizzed for tempering with the rules of the game.
Ari, who spoke via CSP Danjuma Alex, however, assured Delta residents of their safety at various polling units during the next governorship and House of Assembly elections on March 18, 2023.
The Director of National Orientation Agency, Mr. Chris Anyabuine, said Nigerias democracy was on course, but we must embrace the culture of getting things done right, at all times.He advised both the politicians and electorates to play by the rules of the game since we are still in a learning process. He said election should not be seen as a do-or- die affairs.
The Asagba of Asaba, Prof. Chike Edozien,, represented by Chief Christopher Chukwura, said INECs refusal to adhere to its own laws was anti-democratic. He said the repeat of incidents that occurred during the February 25 presidential elections in the governorship elections would spell disaster for the country.
On his part, the State Secretary of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Chief Tony Igwebuike blamed INEC for the lateness in the distribution of electoral materials to the various wards. He called for adequate logistics to mitigate challenges that could disenfranchise some voters.
Guardian-Nigeria
Guber Poll: APGA, Ebonyi Govt Bicker Over Alleged Fake Soldiers, Policemen "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
The Ebonyi State Chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the state government are exchanging banters over the alleged fake military and police invasions in the state ahead of next Saturdays governorship election. APGA, in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity Campaign Organization, Charles Otu, alleged that there is []
VA House Stops Democrats From Putting A Right To Partial-Birth Abortion In The State Constitution "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
The
amendment would have sanctioned the killing of the unborn in
Virginias Constitution and legalized abortion up to and during
birth.
'You can't go to the beach': Florida's gulf coast lined with thousands of dead fish from red tide "IndyWatch Feed World"
Tens of thousands of dead fish are washing up on southwest Florida beaches due to red tide, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. A video posted to Facebook by Dawn Workman Lansing showed numerous dead fish washed up in Venice on Thursday. They ranged in size from very small to what appeared to be a goliath grouper, which can weigh up to 800 pounds. Red tide is a type of harmful algal bloom that occurs when colonies of algae grow out of control and produce toxins that can kill marine life, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Red tide can also cause human illnesses or make the air near the water difficult to breathe.
BBTitans: How 2023 Elections Reduce Chances Of Nigerian Housemates "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
As the 2023 general elections take the central stage across the country, the Big Brother Titans reality TV show has continued to experience low patronage from Nigerians. New Telegraph observed that in a bid to elect a new leader to take over the affairs of the country from President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has refocused Nigerians []
24/7 AI Seinfeld show is back on Twitch "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Really bad now. BUT, the future of entertainment industry:
Transphobic comments lead to Larry Feinbergs downfall on Twitch. According to the host, the reason for Feinbergs bias is an outdated OpenAI language model without a functioning moderation system.
Since mid-December 2022, the small media group Mismatch Media has been running one of the most unusual shows on Twitch (and thats saying something): Using AI tools like DALL-E, GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, and more, Mismatch Media broadcasts an AI-generated show inspired by the popular U.S. sitcom Seinfeld every day, around the clock. Nothing, Forever is the name the team has given to their art project.
The AI-generated content is stitched together in the Unity engine to create an audiovisual pixel show reminiscent of early 90s video games. The jokes rarely have punchlines, the conversations are empty and incoherent, and the audiences fake applause starts in the wrong places.
KDE's Konsole Now Works On Windows, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Come Too "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
It was a busy March week for KDE developers as they have now got the Konsole terminal emulator working on Windows, Qt apps surviving compositor restarts, other Plasma 6.0 development work under their belt, and the continued flow of fixes...
Arabic press review: Tunisian blogger arrested after Al Jazeera appearance "IndyWatch Feed War"
Arabic press review: Tunisian blogger arrested after Al Jazeera appearance
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Tunisian police arrested a blogger and activist who is critical of President Kais Saied after he appeared on Al Jazeera, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported on Thursday.
Sahbi Omari was detained on Wednesday and his health has deteriorated since his arrest, according to the London-based newspaper.
Omari appeared on an Al Jazeera Arabic investigation aired last month.
The activist was a former member of the Ennahda movement who left the party and later became critical of its policies. He has also become a fierce critic of Saied's mid-2021 power grab, while regularly blogging about corruption and abuses in Tunisia.
His detention comes amid a wave of arrests by Tunisian authorities targeting key opposition figures.
Cori Bushs 109-Trillion-Year-Old Bodyguard Offers a Bizarre Explanation for His Anti-Semitism "IndyWatch Feed War"
Appeal Courts Order: Atiku Writes INEC, Demands Inspection Of Election Materials "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Following the Appeal Court order, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has officially written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow him to inspect the election materials used for the February 25 elections. New Telegraph had earlier reported that the Court of Appeal directed INEC to allow Atiku and []
Donaldsons Dilemma: to lead or to follow? "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
The figures in todays Lucid Talk poll for the Belfast Telegraph reveal the sheer scale of the challenge facing Jeffrey Donaldson. His initial reaction to the Windsor Framework was to avoid committing himself and to set up a mechanism the panel of 8 chaired by Peter Robinson which would permit him to delay a definitive response and spread responsibility for the final decision around the party.
But poll results suggest that time could be his enemy and that the moment calls for leadership not party management.
A large majority of DUP supporters do not like what they currently know about the Framework. 73% say they would vote against it if there were a referendum on the issue.
That will come as no news to the DUP leadership. What will give them pause is that only a half of DUP supporters (54%) want the partys boycott of Stormont to continue.
So, his supporters are currently divided down the middle on what to do about the Framework, while a quarter of his partys supporters would not even vote against it. The party is very conscious of the support it could, and did, lose to the TUV for not being seen as strong enough in its opposition to the Protocol. An equally large segment of its support could now be at risk if it takes an equally strong stance against the Framework.
Donaldson wants to avoid having to alienate either segment of his partys voters. And there is a worst case scenario in which delay ends up upsetting both, with the party losing anti-Framework voters to the TUV at one end, while at the other the UUP, and even Alliance, take those who want Stormont restored.
This double danger could increase as long as the DUP position remains unclear. We can expect Jim Allister to campaign strongly against the Framework, while Alliance will argue the need for restored devolved government. In the absence of a firm line from the DUP these are the two positions that the public will hear and will be influenced by.
The importance of that influence should not be overlooked. Polls in the US and here in NI have shown that these days, along with social media, politicians and political parties are a major source of information for the public. More specifically many people look to politicians they trust for information on political issues. A recent Lucid Talk poll found that more people have a high level of trust in the TUV than in the DUP on the issue of the Protocol, while Naomi Long and Colum Eastwood were the most trusted overall.
The UUP will either adopt and amplify one of these positions or, if it too prevaricates, will have little influence on the debate (although that does not mean that they could not still achieve some electoral benefit.) 56% of UUP voters would back the Framework in a referendum.
A policy of delay has many attractio...
The Company Testing Air in East Palestine Homes Was Hired by Norfolk Southern. Experts Say That Testing Isnt Enough. "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Last month, Brenda Foster stood on the railroad tracks at the edge of her yard in East Palestine, Ohio, and watched a smoky inferno billow from the wreckage of a derailed train. The chemicals it was carrying and the fire that consumed them were so toxic that the entire area had to evacuate. Foster packed up her 87-year-old mother, and they fled to stay with relatives.
With a headache, sore throat, burning eyes and a cough, Foster returned home five days later as soon as authorities allowed. So when she saw on TV that there was a hotline for residents with health concerns, she dialed as soon as the number popped up on the screen.
The people who arrived offered to test the air inside her home for free. She was so eager to learn the results, she didnt look closely at the paper they asked her to sign. Within minutes of taking measurements with a hand-held machine, one of them told her they hadnt detected any harmful chemicals. Foster moved her mother back the same day.
What she didnt realize is that the page of test results that put her mind at ease didnt come from the government or an independent watchdog. CTEH, the contractor that provided them, was hired by Norfolk Southern, the operator of the freight train that derailed.
And, according to several independent experts consulted by ProPublica in collaboration with the Guardian, the air testing results did not prove their homes were truly safe. Erin Haynes, a professor of environmental health at the University of Kentucky, said the air tests were inadequate in two ways: They were not designed to detect the full range of dangerous chemicals the derailment may have unleashed, and they did not sample the air long enough to accurately capture the levels of chemicals they were testing for.
Its almost like if you want to find nothing, you run in and run out, Haynes said.
...Naira Ends Week On Negative Note Against Dollar "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
The Naira lost to the dollar as it exchanged at N461.50 at the Investors and Exporters window on Friday, March 10, 2023. The rate represented a decrease of 0.11 per cent, compared to the N461 for which it exchanged to the dollar on Thursday. The open indicative rate closed at N461.50 to the dollar on []
IRC Proceedings: Friday, March 10, 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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17 Females Who Made It To 10th National Assembly Amid Calls For Women Inclusiveness "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Following the continued clamour for womens inclusiveness in governance, no fewer than 17 females have won the February 25 National Assembly election and are set to be inaugurated into the 10th Red and Green chambers of the NASS come June 2023. The 17 women had also received their Certificates of Return (CoR) from the Independent []
Unhinged: Pro-abortion activist Jane Fonda suggests murdering pro-life Americans "IndyWatch Feed World"
On Friday, 85-year-old actress and far-left activist Jane Fonda went on The View to say that "murder" was something that could be done aside from peaceful protest to change the opinions of pro-life lawmakers in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade. Fonda said, "We have experienced many decades now of having agency over our body, of being able to determine when and how many children to have. We know what that feels like, we know what that's done for our lives. We're not going back, I don't care what the laws are. We're not going back."
Are Colorados Efforts to Curb HOA Foreclosures Working? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Last year, when the Colorado legislature passed a bill aimed at protecting residents in disputes with their homeowners associations, lawmakers had one key goal in mind: reducing the number of foreclosures filed by HOAs.
So far, the reform appears to have had its intended effect. An analysis of state court data by Rocky Mountain PBS and ProPublica shows that HOAs filed 47 foreclosure cases in the nearly six months between Aug. 10, when the law took effect, and the end of January. Thats a significant drop from the same period for the previous four years, when an average of 281 cases per year were filed.
During the 10 weeks between the reform bills signing and its implementation, HOAs appear to have been in a rush to start foreclosure motions, filing 151 cases, compared to an average of 98 cases per year in the same 10-week period for the previous four years.
We see that this is working. Its preventing people from being foreclosed on, and people are being able to stay in their homes, said Rep. Naquetta Ricks, an Aurora Democrat who cosponsored the bill.
But advocates and some lawmakers say more needs to be done to address lingering problems with how HOAs are run in Colorado. For one thing, the drop in foreclosure filings might be only temporary. HOA attorneys told Rocky Mountain PBS and ProPublica that the drop may be due to HOAs restarting their collection efforts the law requires most HOAs to update their collection policies, provide homeowners with several notifications about delinquencies and offer longer payment plans. Once theyve complied with the new rules, HOAs may decide to restart their foreclosure efforts.
Ricks said she plans to introduce a number of fixes during the current legislative session aimed at undoing some unintended consequences of last years reform bill. She said the changes would primarily be focused on the aspects of the law that dictat...
What Would Socrates Say? A Look at America's Education Crisis "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
I watch our education system crumble into something worse than second rate. It's a system that is being destroyed by political ideologies that influence laws, curricula, teacher qualifications, and students' futures in profoundly troubling and negative ways.
Hillary Ties It All Together, Says Women Are the Main Victims of Climate Change, Especially In Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed War"
Facebook: Extending its Legacy of Science Denial "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
...the climate cults ambitions are too much of a threat to our way of life and lives to dismiss.
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HOA Foreclosures Are a Lose-Lose Game for Coloradans, but These Lawyers Win Regardless of the Outcome "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Karl Paymah was on the clock.
A certified letter from the Rock Ridge Condominium Association in the Denver suburb of Aurora said he had 30 days to pay $1,515.45 in unpaid homeowners association dues and penalties or face foreclosure.
After receiving the letter on Dec. 23, 2021, Paymah said he tried to pay the balance through the HOAs website, as he had done in the past. But his account had been locked because it was turned over to the HOAs collections attorney, Tammy Alcock. Next, he called Rock Ridges management company, which he said told him to discuss the matter with Alcock. But there was no answer when he called her office three times that afternoon. The office of Alcock Law Group was closed for the holiday.
I cant pay. I cant pay through the portal. I cant pay with the management company. I cant pay with this attorney that theyre telling me to go through, Paymah, a retired NFL cornerback, recalled thinking. So Im just sitting there.
Watch Rocky Mountain PBSs Report (Jeremy Moore/Rocky Mountain PBS)Turning the account over to Alcock meant that the association was asserting its right under Colorado law to charge him for the attorney fees it was incurring, causing his debt to grow rapidly.
By early February, when Rock Ridge began moving forward with foreclosure, the legal process of taking the home from its owner, Paymahs debt had more than tripled to about $5,000, mostly because of legal costs.
Paymahs experience is a case study in how even a small dispute can quickly escalate into an expensive legal fight in Colorado, where state law empowers HOAs to initiate foreclosure proceedings against homeowners who owe money to them. As Rocky Mountain PBS and ProPublica have reported,...
TIDBITS: THIS WEEKS HONOURABLE MENTIONS "IndyWatch Feed War"
You'll want to spend some time looking at this week's honourable mentions, because last Sunday was a particularly difficult day deciding what to blog
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Masked bandits "IndyWatch Feed World"
Masks "have come to be about far more than blocking aerosolized secretions," one doctor and Yale University lecturer wrote. Sure enough, you could open the prestige journals of our culture from any time over the past three years and find a reason to wear a mask that, at best, was a few steps removed from the primary goal of containing viruses. "Masks have also become so much more than mere barrier between germs and lungs," one New York Times reporter stated in spring 2021. "They can keep that too-chatty neighbor at bay or help the introvert hide in plain sight."
March 18 Election: Delta Police Warn Politicians Against Fomenting Trouble "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Commissioner of Police (CP) in Delta, Mr Ari-Mohammed Ali has warned politicians in the state against fomenting trouble during the forthcoming governorship and House of Assembly election.
The CP gave the warning at a meeting with some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Patani on Friday.
The meeting was sequel to a petition sent to the police by the APC, accusing some PDP leaders of conducting themselves in a manner that would lead to breakdown of law and order.
Ali advised them to work towards peaceful conduct of the election by maintaining peace in the area.
The CP was represented by the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Patani Police Division, CSP Tobi Debakeme.
Elections are opportunities for the electorate to exercise their franchise in a peaceful atmosphere and does not call for violence, he told the two party leaders.
Ali assured that the Police command would deploy crack teams to Patani LGA to maintain law and order during the election.
He reminded all candidates in the forthcoming election that they would be required to sign an undertaking of good conduct.
The CP warned that anyone that runs foul of the law would be apprehended and prosecuted.
The t the meeting was attended by Chief Lawrence Babodor, Mr Opute Yakekemewerigha, Mr Pere Nduku, Mr Reginald Ashugwu and Elder Joseph Ekiyor, on behalf of the APC.
The PDP was represented by Patani Local Government Area Chairman, Isaac Aguanah, Mr Jude Sinebe, Mr Godspower Ashugwu and Mr Godbless Omoniyei, among others.
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Blizzard warnings issued as snow causes UK travel disruption "IndyWatch Feed World"
Up to 40cm of snow expected in Peak District and Pennines, with warning of 'exceptionally cold night' on Friday. Snow and rain are expected to bring further travel disruption across large areas of Britain on Friday. Three amber warnings for blizzard conditions with up to 40cm (15.7in) of snow were issued by the Met Office on Thursday and remain in place until Friday morning.
Delta: Ndokwa Communities Lament Abandoned Projects "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Some Delta State communities have raised the alarm over the number of abandoned projects in their vicinities.
A non-governmental organisation, Connected Development, had recently commenced the tracking of abandoned projects in the Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the state.
Some of the projects being tracked are the construction of a Multipurpose Hall at the School of Marine Technology Umusam-Ogbe awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, construction of Modern Civic Centre and Museum awarded by the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission in Isumpe community among others.
Speaking at a town hall meeting organised by CODE in collaboration with OXFAM at their respected communities, the Delta State Support Officer, Mr Ugochukwu Alexander, said the meeting was to get the community buy-in and permission from the people in tracking the projects.
He said, We cannot just enter the communities and start tracking these projects. Thats why we came to you having identified these projects.
CODE is to amplify the communities voices and help to track these abandoned projects with a view to drawing the governments attention to them.
He noted that the government had continued approving new projects on a daily basis but failed to complete the already approved projects, explaining that factors that might contribute to abandoned projects include inflation, youth restiveness among others.
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Scientists Say The Moon Needs Its Own Lunar Time Zone. Heres Why "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong took that first fateful step onto the Moon. The exact moment occurred just as our planets standard universal time hit 2.56 am. But what time was it for Neil?
Theres currently no answer to that question, but with plans in place to inhabit the Moon, that may need to change.
At a recent meeting in the Netherlands, members from space organizations around the world agreed that we need to implement a proper lunar time zone an internationally accepted common lunar reference time that all future missions can use to communicate and navigate with ease.
Meet ALAN, a robot that requires minimal human supervision "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created ALAN, an autonomous robot, meaning that it can perceive its environment, make decisions based on what it perceives, and can possibly work for extended periods of time. It has been programmed in such a way that it can recognize and then move or manipulate tasks within that environment.
Solving Previously Unsolvable Problems: A New Type of Analog Quantum Computer "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Physicists have created a novel type of analog quantum computer capable of addressing challenging physics problems that the most powerful digital supercomputers cannot solve.
A groundbreaking study published in Nature Physics.
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Scientists Discover Enzyme That Can Turn Air Into Electricity "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
In an exciting turn for the field of sustainable energy research, Australian scientists have found a way to make energy out of thin air. Literally.
As detailed in a new study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia discovered a new bacterial enzyme that transforms the traces of hydrogen in our atmosphere into electricity, technology that could one day be used in fuel cells that power anything from a smartwatch to even a car.
Weve known for some time that bacteria can use the trace hydrogen in the air as a source of energy to help them grow and survive, including in Antarctic soils, volcanic craters, and the deep ocean, said Professor Chris Greening, a contributor to the study, in a statement.
Unrepentant US health agencies issue more bizarre directives "IndyWatch Feed World"
You might think U.S. health authorities would be embarrassed. After all, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other agencies oversaw policies that produced more COVID-19 deaths per capita than nearly any other developed country. More humiliating, they earned that distinction while dictating draconian shutdowns and school closures that profoundly damaged our economy and our children's educations. And even though Americans had early access to the world's best vaccines. You would be wrong. Instead of adopting a humbler or more cautious approach to managing the waning virus, the CDC and the Biden administration are more truculent - and incomprehensible - than ever.
Is Neuralink the Next Step in Human Evolution? (Or its Downfall) "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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Cleric Lists Delta, Four Other States Labour Party May Take From APC, PDP "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned the All Progressive Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against losing to the Labour party in the governorship elections.
In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele said the APC and PDP in Abia, Cross River, Delta, Akwa-Ibom, and Enugu should not underestimate the candidates of the Labour party because they will shake them.
He noted that all the Labour party candidates need is to put in more effort in order to shake the political status quo in these states.
Also, Primate Ayodele called on the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi to throw his weight behind the candidates of the party instead of focusing too much on court cases regarding the presidential election.
The APC and PDP in Abia state, Cross River, Delta, Akwa-Ibom, Enugu should not underestimate the governorship candidates of the Labour party. If these candidates put in efforts, they will shake long-term parties in these states. Candidates of the ruling parties should sit right because underestimating the Labour party will lead to their loss.
Peter Obi shouldnt focus too much on the court cases, what he should do now is make efforts to support the governorship candidates of these states. He should attend their rallies in order to boost their chances.
Speaking briefly on the governorship election in Lagos state, Primate Ayodele urged Governor Babajide Sanwoolu to still put in more effort in order to win the election.
The cleric noted that Sanwoolu is the best man for the job.
Naira Crisis: 10 States Plan Contempt Proceedings Against FG, Emefiele "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
No fewer than 10 state governments plan to initiate contempt proceedings against the Federal Government and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) over the Naira Redesign policy crisis. The move followed the continued silence of the Federal Government and the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele after the Supreme Court ordered that the old Naira notes should []
NATOs Trojan Horse Behind Europes COVID-19 Response "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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'As easy as ordering pizza': How fentanyl-laced pills are killing America's youth "IndyWatch Feed World"
On the morning of July 25, 2020, Matthew Thomas took what he believed was Percocet, a prescription drug for pain relief. He died moments later, a victim of fentanyl poisoning. On Jan. 26, 2019, Austen Babcock took what he believed was cocaine. Unbeknownst to him, it was laced with fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid. He died shortly after, another victim of fentanyl poisoning. April Babcock, Austen's mother, and Wendy Thomas, Matthew's mother, have both become activists to raise awareness about illicit fentanyl. Babcock is the founder of Lost Voices of Fentanyl, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness on illicit fentanyl, and Thomas is the founder of Matthew's Voice.
Hezbollah, Anti-imperialism, and the Compatible Left "IndyWatch Feed War"
March 11, Source: Al Mayadeen English By Sammy Ismail A review of Banerjees Fighting Imperialism and Authoritarian Regimes: Between the Devil and the Deep Sea (2003) and Salameys Hezbollah, Communitarianism, and Anti-Imperialism (2019). such power and the people who excercised it, embodied a mystique, expressed not simply in guns but in books, uniforms, social behavior and []
A Love Letter to the Sphere Computer "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
[Ben Z] loves the Sphere computer, a very early entry in the personal computer boom of the mid 1970s. The 6800 CPU was unique in its day that it was a full system at least in theory. If you could afford the whole system, you got a nice case with a keyboard and a memory-mapped display board. You can see a great video tour of the system below the break.
The Sphere suffered from a few problems, none of which were easily foreseeable by its designer. First, the 6800 didnt get the traction that the 8080-derived CPUs did. Second, the S-100 bus would prove to be popular but that nearly always meant an 8080-type processor in practice. Third, while an all-in-one system was the right idea, it was pricey at the time, and many people would opt for something less expensive even if it had less capability. People also wanted to leverage hardware they may have already had. It was easier to imagine hooking up a surplus TeleType, for example, to a more conventional computer than to a Sphere that expected its own display hardware and keyboard.
BEST OF THE WEB: "Expect mass layoffs..." - The real-world impact of SVB's failure "IndyWatch Feed World"
For most people in America, the news that a 'bank in Silicon Valley' has failed will be forgotten quicker than a story about soaring shoplifting in their local supermarket. It shouldn't. Reality is that the contagion of the shuttering of the 18th largest bank in the US are widespread. SVB is in fact the second largest (by assets) bank failure in US history after WaMu.
Top Democrat on J6 committee: We actually didn't review any of the surveillance video "IndyWatch Feed World"
After Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired Capitol surveillance footage this week exposing yet more falsehood from the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 and leaving Democrats and their media allies irate, the committee chair on Wednesday said the panel never actually analyzed the crucial footage. On Monday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Fox News aired the footage of the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, undermining the select committee's narrative of a "deadly insurrection." Given access to the video by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Carlson's team reviewed over 40,000 hours of footage, which offered proof the committee manipulated audio and video to dramatize the riot for its made-for-TV hearings in an election year. But in a Wednesday night statement to CNN, select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., claimed the panel never analyzed the blockbuster footage Fox News aired this week.
Untold Realities About the Hydro-Politics of the Nile River. Is Ethiopia Considered the Water Tower of the Region? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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HANCOCK CAUGHT RED HANDED WITH THE LOCKDOWN FILES "IndyWatch Feed War"
The Highwire with Del Bigtree | March 9, 2023
The Telegraphs publishing of former UK Health Czar Matt Hancocks private Whatsapp messages has been dubbed The Lockdown Files. The messages detail multiple interactions demonstrating the U.K. Governments willingness to abandon science and a reasoned approach to Pandemic measures, for coercion and control of the British people.
The Highwire with Del Bigtree | March 9, 2023
Former CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield, testified before The House Selection Committee on the Coronavirus Pandemic this week, letting loose on Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, Francis Collins, gain-of-function research and the lab origin debate detailing what he witnessed in early 2020. His testimonials are nothing short of historical.
What Plants Are Saying About Us "IndyWatch Feed World"
What the dogs of Chernobyl can teach us about life at the edge "IndyWatch Feed World"
NATO a captured entity "IndyWatch Feed World"
The Dire Significance of Putins Feb 21 Speech
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On Tuesday, February 21st President Putin gave a speech that was expected to be very significant. After it was delivered, however, most pundits said he didnt say anything we didnt already know. Most of them focused on his announcement of the withdrawal from the START II treaty. However, he said something far more significant.
An Existential Threat
What Mr. Putin said, when read through the lens of international law, should be chilling to the West.
We would do well to remember that Mr. Putin majored in international law. His speech made a legal case against NATO.
First he listed,...
This Planet would have Died without the Galactics with steve beckow "IndyWatch Feed World"
Asentamientos ilegales, caza y tala amenazan a la reserva de Balam-K en Campeche "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
En lengua maya, Balam-K significa templo del jaguar. Ese es el nombre que lleva la reserva estatal ms grandes de Campeche, en el sur de Mxico, rea que forma parte de la selva maya y que enfrenta una intensa presin ante el avance de los asentamientos irregulares. Tan solo entre diciembre de 2022 y febrero de 2023, se registraron 510 alertas de deforestacin en los lmites de la zona protegida.
Imgenes satelitales, analizadas a travs de la plataforma de Global Forest Watch, muestran que a partir de la segunda semana de diciembre de 2022 comenz la prdida de cobertura forestal en terrenos localizados en el municipio de Candelaria y que colindan con la parte sur de la reserva estatal.
Esa es una zona crtica, seala en entrevista el ingeniero Arturo Bernardo Balam Koyoc, de la Direccin de las Reservas Estatales del estado de Campeche. En esa rea del municipio de Candelaria, explica, desde mediados 2022 se han identificado asentamientos irregulares que realizan cambios de suelo forestal para ganadera y agricultura. Son tres asentamientos nuevos que se estn creando por el lado sur de la zona. No dentro de la reserva, pero s en los lmites de la reserva.
En julio de 2022, durante un recorrido por esa zona, el director de Balam-K calcul que, al menos, en 100 hectreas ya se haba realizado un cambio de uso de suelo forestal sin contar con los permisos de las autoridades federales.
Las 409 200 hectreas que integran la reserva estatal de Balam-K fueron decretadas como una Zona Sujeta a Conservacin Ecolgica el 14 de agosto de 2003 para, entre otras cosas, detener el avance de la frontera agrcola y ganadera en el sur de Campeche. Esta regin fronteriza con Guatemala se caracteriza por an conservar amplias reas de bosque tropical.
Cuatro aos antes, en 1999, tambin al sur de Campeche, el gobierno estatal decret la Zona Sujeta a Conservacin Ecolgica de Balam-Kin en 110 990 hectreas.
Balam-K y Balam-Ki son vecinas de la Reserva de la Biosfera de Calakmul. Las tres reas naturales protegidas abarcan alrededor de 1.2 millones de hectreas e integran uno de los macizos forestales ms importantes al sur de Mxico, hbitat de especies que en el pas estn consideradas En Peligro de extincin, entre ellas el jaguar (Panthera onca) o el tapir (Tapirus bairdii).
Las tres reas tambin comparten fuertes presiones que ponen en riesgo su conservacin. Entre ellas estn la expansin de asentamientos irregulares, la tala ilegal y la cacera.
...March 18th Election: Labour Party Chieftain Urges Deltans To Shun Iboris Antic, APC, PDP "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
LP presidential flagbearer, Peter Obi (left); LP Governorship candidate, Deacon Ken Pela and his running mate, Prof. Julie Nwabogo-Umukoro
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Labour Party Chieftain, Chief Ajufo urges Delta state electorates to shun recent moves by the former governor of Delta State, James Ibori and his boys who are migrating in droves from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the Saturday, March 11, gubernatorial poll, which has now been postponed to March 18.
Chief Ajufo alleged that former Governor Ibori is now scheming to reclaim his godfather or grand commander position through support for his godson, guber candidate of APC and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.
The Labour Party chieftain said Deltans needed to be wary of Omo-Ageges governorship bid, as it is a backdoor for Ibori to re-take control of the management of the states resources in a manner likely to be worse than the 1999 2007 era when he was governor.
Ajufo described the APC as PDP-2 trying to upstage Governor Ifeanyi Okowas PDP-1 from power, saying Deltans should reward both of them with electoral defeat since both parties have run the country (APC 8 years) and Delta State (PDP 24 years) badly. He argued that none of them deserves to occupy the seat of power in Asaba come May 29, 2023.
According to Ajufo, We must sever our links with the people from both parties that have collectively ruined the fortunes of this oil-rich state by running it aground since 1999, he noted.
He added, This is a gathering of vultures and it does not augur well for our beloved Delta State. Ibori wants to use the APC backdoor to reclaim his faded godfather status since all his allies are dumping PDP in droves and moving over to APC.
The signs are not good for Deltans who have been pauperised for so many years in spite of the huge oil wealth that comes to the state monthly. I urge Deltans to see through the evil thats about to befall them if they elect Ovie Omo-Agege. Of course, PDP is dead,...
After Neo-Nazis Threaten March by Trans Youth, Proud Boys Associate Pulls Gun While Sacramento Police Look On "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Over 75 pro-LGBTQ+ and antifascist demonstrators rallied in downtown Sacramento on March 10th, opposing a much smaller anti-trans rally that attracted neo-Nazis and far-Right activists. The anti-trans rally was organized by up and coming conservative star Chloe Cole of nearby Manteca, CA. Cole has become a darling in conservative and far-Right circles, after the 18 year-old announced plans to sue medical giant Kaiser for providing her with gender-confirming female-to-male medical procedures, and has since appeared along-side far-Right anti-trans grifters like Matt Walsh and also addressed the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where Michael Knowles called for transgender people to be eradicated from public life entirely.
Neo-Nazis post online threats against trans march in Sacramento, CA.
In the lead up to the counter-demonstration against the anti-trans rally on March 10th which was called by Pride Was a Riot Sacramento, neo-Nazi groups made multiple threats online against the mobilization, writing, It would be a shame if a group of white nationalists were to show up, one post stated. Another called for their followers to, Bring PPE for pepper spray and monkey pox.
Pride Was a Riot could not take to Twitter to report these violent threats however, as far-Right conspiracy peddler Andy Ngo had gotten them kicked off the platform only hours before, after Ngo complained to Elon Musk that PWAR had posted a photo of a flyer t...
Conflictos perpetuados "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
Lucio Dupuy, el nio de 5 aos asesinado a golpes por su madre y su pareja en noviembre de 2021, interpel a lo largo y ancho del pas a toda la comunidad, y tristemente nos sigue reflejando como una sociedad altamente violenta sobre las infancias en su etapa inicial de crecimiento y desarrollo. El juicio dictamin que ambas fueran condenadas a prisin perpetua, qu es la perpetua?
Estos ndices son el reflejo que en el tiempo dan cuenta de la precariedad del enfoque de derechos sobre las infancias y las prcticas de cuidado de las que dependen les nies. Garantizar el desarrollo integral de les pibes en su vida cotidiana es una responsabilidad de la que nadie queda exento; contribuir a prevenir y cesar la violencia con la dimensin fsica psquica, afectiva, social, cultural, simblica y poltica que tal proceso requiere, lejos est de saldarse con la cadena perpetua a la que las agresoras de Lucio fueron condenadas. Esta problemtica deja muy visible la necesidad que tenemos de componer un proceso profundamente crtico, pero por sobre todo pedaggico y comunitario sobre la problemtica de malos tratos e infanticidios que el sistema judicial y la lgica punitiva no puede ver, (porque cada vez que se conoce la noticia, pareciera que es la primera vez que ocurre) mucho menos prevenir o reparar.
Lucio, en el trnsito por la pseudo intervencin de la prctica judicial que estuvo a cargo de Ana Prez Ballester, titular del Juzgado de Familia y del Menor N 1 de La Pampa, iba siendo menos visible como persona, para transformarse en un caso.
Todxs son responsables de los resultados de esa intervencin; desde la asesora de menores Eliza Catn hasta cada auxiliar de la justicia que intervino en la vida de este nio o que miro para otro lado; no podemos naturalizar los hechos como una situacin aislada en el marco de un accionar judicial que fall.
Esto materializa toda una lgica que se regula en sentido verticalmente arbitrario y sistemtico en una perspectiva vulgarmente nefasta que lejos est de garantizar el inters superior del nio como establece la convencin sobre los derechos del nio Ley 23.849. Se falla sin tener en cuenta los hechos concretos de cada situacin, haciendo de la interpretacin de la ley, una receta que no se puede aplicar de la misma manera en cada intervencin.
Por lo tanto, podemos decir, que en todo el proceso la interpretacin de la Ley 26.061, Ley de proteccin integral de los derechos de lxs nixs no respet ninguno de sus artculos; estamos acostumbradxs a este tipo de prcticas, ya que es moneda corriente cosificar los conflictos y las trayectorias vitales de las personas e invisibilizar a las infancias, que se vuelven CASOS de un momento a otro.
...El desborde del hambre en Colombia "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
Das difciles y desesperanzadores transitan las mayoras en Colombia a pesar del gobierno progresista. Sin ninguna respuesta a la vista que ayude a cambiar su realidad, ms all del slvese quien pueda como pueda!, millones viven la penuria y el desamparo. El hambre reina en las calles y la miseria es cada vez ms visible en nuestro pas, que desde hace aos rompe cifras rcord en desigualdad, concentracin de la riqueza y el poder, as como en desplazamientos forzados.
Una vez ms, un informe abre los ojos ante la cruda realidad colombiana, esta vez lo hace el recin publicado por el Programa Mundial de Alimentos, quienes a partir de un estudio realizado entre junio y noviembre de 2022, hacen dos evaluaciones de seguridad alimentaria: una enfocada en la poblacin colombiana y la otra en la poblacin migrante. La informacin recolectada se obtuvo de 29 departamentos y 118 municipios del pas.
Aunque el informe definitivo ser publicado en el transcurso del presente mes, el informe ejecutivo evidencia cifras escandalosas, como que el 30% de la poblacin colombiana, es decir 15,5 millones de personas, se encuentran en una situacin de inseguridad alimentaria moderada y severa, as como que el 51% de la poblacin (alrededor de 25,5 millones de personas) se encuentra en situacin de seguridad alimentaria marginal, lo cual significa que su situacin podra deteriorase si no hay mejora en los factores coyunturales de la economa.
Realidad que deja en evidencia la Colombia de hoy, donde solo el 19% de la poblacin (alrededor de 9,5 millones de personas) cuentan con seguridad alimentaria digna, evidenciando as, una vez ms, la perpetua desigualdad que reina en el pas.
Los departamentos que concentran la mayor inseguridad alimentaria se agrupan en la Costa Atlntica, donde las cifras por departamento son las siguientes: Crdoba con un 70% de inseguridad alimentaria, Sucre con el 63% de inseguridad alimentaria, Cesar con el 55%, Bolvar el 51% y la Guajira 50%. As mismo, departamentos como Arauca cuenta con un 62%, Putumayo 48%, Choc 45% y Norte de Santander 40%.
Segn el informe, en trminos absolutos, es en las zonas urbanas donde se encuentra la concentracin ms alta de personas en situacin de inseguridad alimentaria, Bogot destaca entre ellas con 1,5 millones de personas, seguida por Medelln con 650 mil y Cali con 500 mil personas.
La inseguridad alimentaria est altamente correlacionada con mltiples factores como la pobreza monetaria, que para 2021 se ubic en 39,3%, mientras que la pobreza extrema fue de 12,2% en todo el territorio nacional. As mismo el desempleo y la informalidad laboral son factores notables para caer en la inseguridad alimentaria, no debe olvidase que desde el 2019 el desempleo aument en cifras de dos dgito...
Nwaoboshi Ex-Aide Recounts How Omo-Agege Relocates Fed Poly From Kwale-Ndokwa To Orogun "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
By Christian Onwugbolu
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The people of Ndokwa Nation (Ukwuani, Ndokwa East, Ndokwa West) for years have been clamouring for the establishment of a government-owned higher institution of learning in their land so they could benefit from what such projects brings to the people.
The Ndokwa people are no doubt the second largest ethnic group in Delta State after the Urhobos.
Prior to Ndokwa people fighting to own just one higher institution of learning in their land, the Urhobos already have several higher institutions which include the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun, Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State Polytechnic Oghara, School of Nursing Sapele, Delta State Teaching Hospital Oghara, School of Nursing, Eku and many others not mentioned.
On Thursday 25th January 2018, the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi in a bid to ensure that there is some level of fairness in the siting of higher institutions in Delta State and with the clamour of Ndokwa people, initiated and presented the Bill for the Establishment of Federal Polytechnic Kwale.
The bill, Federal Polytechnic Kwale, Delta State (Est, etc) Bill, 2018 (SB. 603) was laid on the floor of the 8th Senate and passed First Reading. The 8th Senate was under the leadership of Sen. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
The news of this bill echoed across the length and breadth of Ndokwa Nation and caused great jubilation amongst the people.
Mind you, Ovie Omo-Agege was the senator representing Delta Central during this period and was in the house too when this Kwale Polytechnic bill was hovering and gaining ground.
Fast forward to the 14th of February 2018, the Bill for the establishment of a Federal Polytechnic Kwale passed second reading and was successful in the Senate before the very eyes of Ovie Omo-Agege.
The hopes of the Ndokwa people again were brought to a higher octave as their young graduates who have been out of jobs upon graduation began to dust their CVs while others were optimistic about getting jobs as non-academic staff too. All this was due to the speed at which the bill was gathering momentum and its popularity.
A brief stop over to Wednesday 11th July 2018, a Public Hearing was held by the Senate Committee on...
The Empire of Lies Strikes Back Extraordinary Cover-Up of Nord Stream Terrorism "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
The New York Times and other Western news media ran with clumsy and blatantly diversionary claims this week, which in the end only serve to draw even more attention to the guilt of the United States in blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipelines.
Not only is the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden even more indictable over the criminal act; the absurd cover-up attempt this week exposes the Western media as nothing but a ministry of propaganda masquerading as journalism.
Four weeks ago, the eminent independent American journalist, Seymour Hersh, published a blockbuster investigative report that revealed how President Biden and senior White House staff ordered the explosive detonation of the natural gas pipelines connecting Russia to the European Union via the Baltic Sea and Germany. The legendary Hersh has an impeccable record of groundbreaking stories, from the My Lai massacre committed by U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968 to the Abu Ghraib prison torture in Iraq under American occupation to the operation of ratlines to funnel weapons and mercenaries from Libya to Syria to fight Washingtons proxy war for regime change in Damascus.
In his seminal report on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, Hersh relied on insider Washington sources. He published claims that the United States carried out the covert operation using a team of U.S. Navy divers under the cover of NATO war maneuvers known as BALTOPS 22 last summer. Explosives were planted on the seabed during the exercises held in June 2022 and then later detonated on September 26 with the help of Norwegian military aircraft.
The convincing aspect of Hershs report was not just the credible detail of the operation, but that it confirmed what many independent observers had already concluded from strong circumstantial evidence about who had the motive and means to conduct the sabotage. Readers are referred to a recent editorial by Strategic Culture Foundation which compiles the background of why the United States is deemed to be the culprit.
Now here is a curious thing. While Hershs report provoked shockwaves around the world, Western governments and the mainstream media chose to ignore his report. In a weird parallel universe sort of way, they pretended that Hershs resounding revelations did not exist.
One would think that given Hershs reputation for world-news-breaking scoops, and given that his latest report revealed a rock-solid plausible account of how a major civilian infrastructure project was sabotaged, and further given that the implication of this report was the inculpation of the United States and its presi.....
La batalla de Ins Fernndez contra el poder militar en Guerrero "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
El primero de marzo de este ao, el Juez Segundo de Distrito del Estado de Guerrero dict sentencia condenatoria de 20 aos de prisin y destitucin del cargo contra Hugo Humberto Garca de Len sargento segundo de infantera del ejrcito mexicano por los delitos de tortura, violacin, robo y allanamiento de morada cometidos en agravio de Ins Fernndez Ortega, indgena Mephaa de Barranca Tecuani municipio de Ayutla de los Libres Guerrero.
El 22 de marzo de 2002 Ins Fernndez Ortega se encontraba en su casa con 4 de sus pequeos hijos preparando agua fresca dentro de su cocina. De manera intempestiva irrumpieron elementos del ejrcito mexicano en su domicilio. Con armas en la mano la interrogaron preguntando por su esposo y cuestionndole dnde haba robado carne que se encontraba tendida en su patio. Al no contestar Ins fue golpeada salvajemente, la violaron y torturaron sexualmente. Los militares se robaron la carne de res que tena tendida en el patio de su casa.
Ins junto con su familia iniciaron un camino tortuoso en busca de justicia. Acudieron al Ministerio Pblico y a los centros de salud de Ayutla de los Libres sin que nadie la atendiera. Tuvieron que acompaarla organizaciones sociales y de derechos humanos para que recibieran la denuncia, a pesar de este acompaamiento ninguna autoridad dio una respuesta diligente, por el contrario, las investigaciones quedaron en manos del Ejrcito negndole cualquier informacin. Ante la imposibilidad de impugnar el actuar de la justicia militar por eso Ins Fernndez Ortega acudi a la Comisin Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y posteriormente a la Corte Interamericana donde por primera vez fue escuchada y respetada su palabra. En el mes de agosto 2010 el Tribunal de las Amricas dict sentencia contra el estado mexicano condenndolo por haber violado los derechos de Ins y su familia, y obligndolo a sancionar a los responsables y a reparar de manera integral los daos.
En estos 21 aos de lucha incansable, Ins Fernndez ha tenido la fuerza y el valor para abrirse paso en esta montaa de agravios. Ins tambin se enfrent a mltiples actos de discriminacin por su etnicidad, vulnerabilidad econmica y por su gnero, pese a ello continu su lucha y busc proteger a sus siete hijos. Ins camin varias horas con su esposo Fortunato y su familia para denunciar estos hechos atroces ante el Ministerio Pblico.
Recibi constante burlas porque hablaba Me Phaa. Pese a ello, Ins nunca se dobleg ni desisti en su lucha. Con sus pies cubiertos de lodo y con su pequeo hijo cargando en la espalda ha luchado durante dos dcadas para que las autoridades judiciales de nuestro pas la escuchen en su lengua materna y la respeten como persona con plenos derechos.
En lugar de protegerla, se permiti que el ejrcito asediara su domicilio y presionara a las autoridades de su comunidad para que Ins dejara de denunciarlos. Su osada le cost muy cara: asesina...
World welcomes Iran-Saudi detente as Israel feels fatal blow "IndyWatch Feed War"
Various countries have welcomed the restoration of diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, while the regime in Tel Aviv seems to view the development as a fatal blow to its regional coalition building against the Islamic Republic.
After several days of intensive negotiations hosted by China, Iran and Saudi Arabia finally clinched a deal on Friday to restore diplomatic relations and re-open embassies, seven years after ties were severed over several issues.
The important development soon became a hot topic in regional as well as international media and reactions from other countries began to pour in.
The return to normal relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia provides great capacities to both countries, the region, and the Muslim world, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who is set to soon meet with his Saudi counterpart to make the necessary arrangements, wrote in a post on his Twitter account.
The good neighborliness policy, as the key axis of the Iranian administrations foreign policy, is strongly moving in the right direction and the diplomatic apparatus is actively behind the preparation of more regional steps, he said.
Saudi National Security Adviser Musaid Al Aiban, who negotiated the agreement with his Iranian counterpart Ali Shamkhani, said that Riyadh welcomes the initiative of His Excellency President Xi Jinping, based on the Kingdoms consistent and continuous approach since its establishment in adhering to the principles of good neighborliness.
He said Saudi Arabia takes everything that would enhance security and stability in the region and the world, while adopting the principle of dialogue and diplomacy to resolve differences.
While we value what we have reached, we hope that we will continue to continue the constructive dialogue, in accordance with the pillars and foundations included in the agreement, expressing our appreciation for the Peoples Republic of Chinas continued positive role in this regard.
Chinas Top Diplomat Wang Yi praised the agreement as a victory for dialogue, a victory for peace, offering major good news at a time of much turbulence in the world.
China will continue to play a constructive role in handling hotspot issues in the world and demonstrate its responsibility as a major nation, Wang said. The world is not just limited to the Ukraine issue.
Addressing a local event on Friday, the secretary general of Lebanons Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Na......
Official: Iran bought Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets from Russia "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
The procedure for the Su-35S fighter jets, which Iran will deliver from Russia, has been completed. The planes have already been officially purchased by the Iranian Air Force.
The news comes from a reference to the official statement of the Iranian mission to the UN. Iranian media also claim the same. Among them is the Mehr news agency. Turkish media outlet sammunasanayist.com also claimed Irans purchase.
The Egyptian government has ordered 24 Sukhoi Su-35S fighter jets from the Russian Federation as part of the needs of the Egyptian Air Force [EAF]. However, the Su-35S produced by the Russian Federation for the Egyptian Air Force was not delivered for a long time.
It was claimed that the planes were not delivered due to political reasons, revealing technical problems from Egypt. The buyer of the Su-35s that Egypt did not receive is Iran. Iran, which is seeking to produce Su-35S for Egypt, has completed formal procedures with the Russian Federation.
Citing the official statement of the Iranian mission to the UN, the Iranian press reported that the purchase of the Su-35S has been completed. After the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988, Iran asked several countries to investigate the possibility of selling fighter airplanes to Iran, and Russia announced that it was ready to sell them.
The Iran UN mission added that Sukhoi-35 fighters are technically approved by Iran. After October 2020 when the arms sales ban on the purchase of conventional weapons Iran was lifted according to UN Security Council Resolution 2231, Iran finally agreed to buy them.
It was noted that the planes were purchased despite pressure from Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE on Russia to cut or delay the deal. The number of fighter jets purchased and the contract price is kept secret.
According to unofficial data, Iran may have purchased Su-35S fighter jets previously ordered for the Egyptian Air Force, which remained at the factory due to Cairos refusal to buy the planes. Although 24 combat aircraft are known to have been ordered by Egypt, the number of aircraft produced under this order is estimated to be approximately 15.
It is noted that the purchase of new aircraft will seriously strengthen the Iranian Air Force, which suffers from a shortage of outdated equipme....
Patrick OCarroll Neutral Switzerland is an Illuminati Whore "IndyWatch Feed War"
Many great historians, such Professor Carroll Quigley, Professor Antony Sutton, and Fritz Springmeier, proved beyond all doubt that WW2 WAS THE SINGLE MOST CONTROLLED CONFLICT IN HUMAN HISTORY. And Switzerland played a key role in that rigged conflict.
CIA Director Allen Dulles was one of MK Ultras supporters.
Throughout WW2, Allen Welsh Dulles lived at HerrenGasse 23, Bern, Central Switzerland, right beside Berns central train-station. In 1945, Bern was only a two-hour journey from Basel by car or railway. Along with London and NYC, the Illuminati used Basel as one of their three main financial hubs for financing, and controlling, both sides of their wholly artificial WW2.
Still today, the address HerrenGasse 23 belongs to the residential part of the five-floor building complex that houses the famous Loeb retail-store in Bern, which is still owned today by the Swiss Jewish Illuminati family Loeb....
Where is the love? Philadelphia experiencing worst VIOLENT CRIME surge in citys history "IndyWatch Feed War"
The City of Philadelphia is experiencing the worst violent crime surge in its history.
In a scathing opinion piece published by the Washington Examiner, commentary writer Christopher Tremoglie, an alumnus of the University of Philadelphia who has previously worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer, noted how incompetent city leadership coupled with radical left-wing criminal justice policies and reforms have left Philadelphias more than 1.5 million residents reeling from its worst violent crime surge ever. (Related: More people are rapidly leaving crime-ridden, high-cost cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago.)
Tremoglie pointed out how the Democratic Party officials and voters in Philadelphia owe the rest of the citys residents an apology for tricking them into believing that life would be better under their rule.
As a lifelong resident of the City of Brotherly Love, its continued allegiance to Democrats boggles my mind. No matter the horrors of the reality of living in the city, Philadelphians overwhelmingly continue to vote for Democrats who just keep making things worse, wrote Tremoglie.
Something has to change. Its time well beyond time, really for Philadelphias Democratic voters to apologize to the rest of the city for the mess they have caused, he continued, citing crime, poverty and corruption as the main hallmarks of decades of Democratic Party rule over Philadelphia and other major urban centers in the United States. The citys voters are to blame because they never learn.
Of the many crimes plaguing Philadelphias neighborhoods, shootings have become increasingly common. This past weekend alone has seen at least six dead in Philadelphia, including a 14-year-old boy.
Anthony Pinkney, 14, was shot dead in the Overbrook neighborhood of West Philadelphia on Saturday night, March 4. He was the youngest of the six victims.
Local media outlet 6ABC noted that Saturdays are typically the deadliest day of the week over the past three years, followed closely by Sundays and then Mondays. This violence has kept first responders and aid organizations like CARES busy providing emergency services and aid.
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A Message to the Jabbed "IndyWatch Feed War"
It is March 2023 and this is video 324. Congratulations if youve watched all of them though there are no prizes Im afraid. Maybe well have badges if I ever get to 500.
The bad news, Im afraid, is that anyone who allowed themselves to be jabbed with the fake, pseudo vaccine which was fraudulently promoted to prevent people catching or spreading covid-19 the rebranded flu then Im afraid the evidence strongly suggests that theyre more vulnerable than those who arent jabbed. In many respects we must now regard the vaxxed as members of a different species. We have no idea what the long-term consequences will be but it is absurd not to think that there will be long-term consequences. Official figures show the triple jabbed made up 92% of covid deaths. And the mortality rate in 2022 was lowest among those who rejected the lethal jabs.
Their circulatory system, including their heart may be adversely affected. They may be more likely to develop infections. They may be more likely to develop cancer or, if theyve had it, to develop metastases, and their brain may be affected.
You may not have known all that because the truth has been suppressed by the medical establishment, which was bought, lock stock and syringe by the pharmaceutical industry, and by the mainstream media, which was bought by your government. When advertising dried up during the lockdowns, governments spent huge amounts of taxpayers money placing propaganda ads in the media and kept newspapers and TV stations alive.
Later in this video Ill give some simple, practical advice for those who were tricked into accepting one or more covid-19 jabs.
Now that the truth is out that the covid-19 jab doesnt stop transmission of the rebranded flu but can cause a wide range of serious and deadly health problems, the jabbed are justifiably angry. They are angry that they were tricked and threatened into accepting a dangerous and experimental jab with unknown long-term consequences and they are angry that their health has been compromised. They were repeatedly told by health experts in the mainstream media that the jab was safe and effective. But then when countless millions had rolled up their sleeves they were told, whoops, fooled you, the jab doesnt actually really stop you getting covid-19 or spreading it if you do get it.
More and more people are beginning to realise that they were lied to. Many are directing their anger at the medical profession for fa...
Why do people think Putin dislikes clot-shots? "IndyWatch Feed War"
Putin Orders Destruction of All Covid-19 Vaccines in Russia, Real Raw Newsthe leading destination for real newsreported on March 4.
Russias president instructed the military to kill hospital staff that resisted the vaccine purge, the outletwhich, again, is the #1 location for very raw and very real newsrevealed.
Putin also ordered the execution of 130 scientists responsible for creating the Sputnik vaccine. There were no legal proceedings or trials before the scientists were liquidated, because in Russia such formalities are considered a waste of time.
This is the News. Raw and Real.
This is possibly Real Raw News biggest bombshell exclusive since announcing last month that the US military secretly executed Bill Gates, and soon after arrested Gates estranged ex-wife Melinda, who turned out to be actor Kevin Kline in drag.
One of these aforementioned real raw news fairy tales is being shared widely on social media as a boom-goes-the-dynamite game-changer. Can you guess which one?
That some lunatic claimed Putin karate-chopped all the clot-shots in Russia is not the problem hereafter all, what would the internet be without erotic fan fiction?
The problem is that many thousands of people saw the headline Putin Orders Destruction of All Covid-19 Vaccines in Russia, and immediately began popping champagne corks.
Why even bother reading the article? We all know this is something Putin would definitely do.
After all, Putin gave the greenlight to Sputnik V, even after Russian scientists explaineddirectly to his facethat the vaccine was based on an unproven and potentially dangerous technology.
When Moscow introduced the countrys first compulsory injection decree in June 2021, Putins spokesman predicted unvaxxed Russians would have to submit to the needleor face discrimination.
House Votes 419-0 on a Limited Hangout Bill that Requires Director of National Intelligence to Declassify All Information on the Origins of COVID. "IndyWatch Feed War"
It is now up to the installed senile diaper soiling ice cream licking pedo puppet criminal to sign off on.
JUST IN House votes 419-0 on a bill that requires the Director of National Intelligence to declassify all information on the origins of COVID. The bill now requires Biden's signature. pic.twitter.com/WWsYef40oh
Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 10, 2023
Perhaps Fauci et al. will finally now be thrown under the proverbial buses, accidented, or befall to SADS, etc.
If for some improbable reason the declass materials are legitimately damning enough to implicate all of the players, then expect PSYOP-WW3, PSYOP-UFO, PSYOP-CYBER-HACK, etc. to be most expeditiously deployed.
Do NOT comply.
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Biden Effect: Massive Line Forms Outside of San Francisco Silicon Valley Bank Branch as Bank Folds "IndyWatch Feed World"
Biden Effect: Massive Line Forms Outside of San Francisco Silicon Valley Bank Branch as Bank Folds | 10 March 2023 | A massive line formed outside of a Silicon Valley Bank branch in San Francisco this morning. The FDIC insures up to $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category. If customers were holding more than that amount then they are at risk of losing anything over $250,000. According to earlier reports, 90% of SVB customers had more than $250,000 in the bank. Customers also lined up in New York City. The NYPD responded to a Silicon Valley Bank branch in Manhattan Friday morning after investors showed up to try to pull money out of their accounts.
Climate Act Cap and Invest Program Numbers Do Not Add Up "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
If a power plant has insufficient allowances, it cannot run and provide energy when needed.
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Tax tips for gig workers "IndyWatch Feed World"
Whether youre a creator, a sole proprietor, or an entrepreneur, the success of your businessand a healthy cash flowwill depend on how well you manage those dreaded estimated quarterly taxes.
Self-employment has a lot to recommend it. You get to set your own hours. Theres a direct correlation between your hustle and your paycheck. And, of course, you enjoy a warm relationship with your boss.
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California Regulators CLOSE Silicon Valley Bank, FDIC Named Receiver; CEO Allegedly Sold $3.5 Million in Stock in Last Two Weeks "IndyWatch Feed World"
California Regulators CLOSE Silicon Valley Bank, FDIC Named Receiver; CEO Allegedly Sold $3.5 Million in Stock in Last Two Weeks | 10 March 2023 | California regulators closed Silicon Valley Bank on Friday. The FDIC was named receiver. Via Market Watch: "Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has been appointed receiver, becoming the first FDIC-backed institution to fail this year. The news comes amid a crisis at parent SVB Financial Group, which lost a record 60% of its value on Thursday, after it disclosed large losses from securities sales and announced a dilutive stock offering along with a profit warning. The FDIC said all insured [up to $250,000] depositors will have full access to their accounts no later than Monday morning..." The bank reportedly holds $173 billion in deposits. The crash could cause a recession.
Pan-African News Wire "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
IRAN, SAUDI TO RESTORE TIES IN MAJOR STEP FOR MIDDLE EAST
In a trilateral statement, Shiite-majority Iran and mainly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia said they would reopen embassies and missions within two months and implement security and economic cooperation deals signed more than 20 years ago.
This handout image provided by Nournews agency shows the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran Ali Shamkhani (R) shaking hands with the Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Wang Yi (C) during a meeting with Saudi Arabia's National Security adviser and Minister of State Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban (L) in Beijing on March 10, 2023. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore ties and to reopen respective diplomatic missions after talks in China, state media in both countries reported on March 10, 2023, seven years after relations were severed. Picture: NOURNEWS AGENCY / AFP
Zunaid Ishmael | 10 March 2023 22:08
TEHRAN - Regional powerhouses Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to restore ties and reopen diplomatic missions in a surprise, Chinese-brokered announcement that could have wide-ranging implications across the Middle East.
In a trilateral statement, Shiite-majority Iran and mainly Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia said they would reopen embassies and missions within two months and implement security and economic cooperation deals signed more than 20 years ago.
Riyadh cut ties after Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in 2016 following the Saudi execution of revered Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr - just one in a series of flashpoints between the two longstanding rivals.
Friday's announcement, which follows five days of previously unannounced talks in Beijing and several rounds of dialogue in Iraq and Oman, caps a broader realignment and efforts to ease tensions in the region.
"Following talks, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have agreed to resume diplom...
Pan-African News Wire "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Eastern DR Congo Hit by Rebel Attacks; 45 Civilians Killed
By CHRISTINA MALKIA and JUSTIN KABUMBA
Democratic Republic of Congo Defence Forces gather in the North Kivu province village of Mukondi Thursday March 9, 2023. At least 36 were killed when the Allied Democratic Forces, a group with links to the Islamic State group, attacked the village and burned residents' huts. (AP Photo/Socrate Mumbere)
GOMA, Congo (AP) The death toll from several attacks this week by extremist rebels in eastern Congo has risen to at least 45 people, local officials said on Friday.
Dozens of people were killed by rebels using machetes over two days when rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces, a militia with links to the Islamic State group, killed civilians in several villages in North Kivu province, said Saidi Balikwisha, the provinces deputy.
Here, three or four days dont go by without us recording deaths, the result of barbarity of the ADF terrorists. That is why once again, we repeat, we need a considerable military force to come that can contribute to the restoration of peace, he said.
Little has been done to help others whose homes were burned down by the rebels, he said.
Conflict has been simmering in eastern Congo for decades as more than 120 armed groups fight for power, influence and resources and some to protect their communities. The ADF has been largely active in North Kivu province but has recently extended its operations into neighboring Ituri province and to areas near the regional capital, Goma.
The ADF rebels are accused by the U.N. and rights groups of targeting, maiming, raping and abducting civilians, including children. Earlier this month the United States offered a reward of up to $5 million for information that could lead to the capture of the groups leader, Seka Musa Baluku.
On Thursday, AP reporters saw bodies lowered into a mass grave in Mukondi where more than 30 people were killed by gunshots, knives and machetes, according to authorities. Community members shoveled dir...
8 Ways To Release The Pain Of Loving Someone You Cannot Be With "IndyWatch Feed World"
Love can be a wonderful thing, or love can be pure hell. For those who end up in relationships with people that they simply cannot stay with, it can be really hard to let go.
Its one thing to have someone dump you and then completely cut contact. Yes, it hurts, but at the same time, you know there is nothing you can do. However, when you are forced to break up with someone and make an active choice not to be with someone, it is a different kind of pain. Its not easy to tell your heart no. But, there are really good reasons to sometimes. Perhaps your partner cheated, or perhaps the relationship was just flat-out toxic. Whatever the reason is, here are 8 ways to let go and move on.
The way out is through, and while that might just sound like something people say, there is a lot of wisdom in those few words. At the end of the day, the more you try to run from your feelings or trick yourself into forgetting, the more you will have to face later on. Its better to go ahead and face it now and grieve the loss.
It might be tempting to sit around and wonder what would have happened if things would have worked out. What if I just go back? you might ask. I implore you, do not to go through these mental gymnastics, because it isnt worth your sanity.
It may seem like a tough call to make, but if a relationship is toxic or has no chance, do not cling to it. Dont go around this person, hoping for things to magically work one day. They wont. You have to cut contact if you expect to move on. Yes, there are exceptions to this, such as if you have kids with this person. However, if you dont have a REAL reason to be around this person, just dont.
Avoid situations that will cause you pain. If you know your ex will be at a party you are going to, dont go. If you know their best friend will be there, reminding you of your pain, just skip the party. You know what you can handle and what you cannot.
Go ahead and allow yourself to forget about getting closure. I hate to say it, but you arent going to get it. If you really just cannot let go without getting closure, write a goodbye letter and burn it.
Build yourself a support system of friends and family that you trust. Go to them and ask them to remind you of why you left in the first place when you are feeling like backstepping.
You need to be honest with yourself about why this relationship had to end. It may be hard, but you need to be brutally honest with yourself. Sit down and write down why you cannot be with them, and be blunt about it.
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Senegals Ex-prime Minister in Custody After Criticism
By BABACAR DIONE
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) Senegals former prime minister has been taken into custody after he publicly suggested that the countrys president had funded a French politician during a recent visit.
Cheikh Haguibou Soumare was detained Thursday but he has not been told the charges against him, his lawyer Adama Gueye told a press conference Thursday.
The government is accusing the ex-prime minister of trying to discredit President Macky Sall by publishing an open letter that suggested Sall gave money to French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen. Le Pen, a member of Frances National Rally party, ran for the French presidency and lost last year and visited the West African country in January.
In an open letter published in local media last week, Soumare, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2009, accused Sall of giving 12 million euro from a poor country to a French politician. If by any chance all of this were true, please enlighten the Senegalese people as to whether you acted as president of the Republic of Senegal or as a leader of a political party and with what money, said the letter.
Salls government strongly criticized the letter.
The (Senegal) government firmly rejects and condemns such cowardly and baseless insinuations, which clearly demonstrate an evil desire to discredit the person of the president of the republic, to undermine the institution that he embodies and to harm relations between Senegal and a foreign power, said Abdou Karim Fofana the government spokesman in a statement this week.
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<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>US Trains West African Militaries as Jihadi Threat Spreads</b></span></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href= "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOQpXuzU2MJnDrn6LQDmRUl7gQ-Kb7qEtxBegFYYOegl39xQgeTqSBl9cA0-1kNhbya0mo5EQeGOG5t_fzfApney_-qRbe5pt54_uHWo8WuFQK2GYe5m-rhTi3vAxZD6QxrW7j_wquyXlslyaprACNH_w1BAhWlLSST21E-e-Cu7LUVzl6Yo/s800/Ghana%20soldiers%20trained%20by%20AFRICOM.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src= "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOQpXuzU2MJnDrn6LQDmRUl7gQ-Kb7qEtxBegFYYOegl39xQgeTqSBl9cA0-1kNhbya0mo5EQeGOG5t_fzfApney_-qRbe5pt54_uHWo8WuFQK2GYe5m-rhTi3vAxZD6QxrW7j_wquyXlslyaprACNH_w1BAhWlLSST21E-e-Cu7LUVzl6Yo/w400-h266/Ghana%20soldiers%20trained%20by%20AFRICOM.webp" width="400"></a></div> <p>By SAM MEDNICK</p> <p>A Ghanaian soldier performs in hook and climb drills during Flintlock 2023 on a Spanish frigate at Tema port, Ghana, Thursday, March 9, 2023. Some 1,300 military personnel from 29 countries are training in Ghana and Ivory Coast, amid surging jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that's killed thousands, displaced millions and plunged countries into crises. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)</p> <p>DAKAR, Senegal (AP) As extremist violence in West Africas Sahel region spreads south toward coastal states, the United States military has launched its annual military training exercise aimed at helping armies contain the jihadi threat.</p> <p>Soldiers from several African countries are being trained in counter-insurgency tactics as part of the annual U.S.-led exercise known as Flintlock, that began this week.</p> <p>Some 1,300 military personnel from 29 countries are training in Ghana and Ivory Coast, amid surging jihadi violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group thats killed thousands, displaced millions and plunged countries into crises.</p> <p>While most of the extremist activity is concentrated in West Africas inland Sahel region in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the violence is rapidly spreading to coastal states like Ghana, which is experiencing an upsurge in attacks by unidentified groups, which could have links to jihadis. Northern Ghana had just one violent incident connected to an unidentified armed group in 2021 but that figure rose dramatically to 19 in 2022, according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project.
This years U.S. Flintlock, a two-week event, is taking place amid growing anti-French sentiment in West Africa. Mali and Burkina Faso have ended their military cooperation with France, complaining that the French military presence over several years has done little to stem the growth of Jihadi violence. The military juntas ruling Mali and Burkina Faso are now gett...
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College Removes Partial Malcolm X Quote That Sparked Protest
KINGSTON, R.I. (AP) The University of Rhode Island has removed a partial Malcolm X quote from the facade of its main library 30 years after members of the schools Black Student Leadership Group and others protested because they said the shortened quote misrepresented the fuller meaning of the civil rights leaders message.
The inscription on the Robert L. Carothers Library and Learning Commons was installed in 1992 and was meant to be a tribute, but instead, led to the takeover of a campus building, the university said in a statement Friday.
The inscription read, My alma mater was books, a good library ... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The full quote, from The Autobiography of Malcolm X, reads: I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read and thats a lot of books these days. If I werent out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity because you can hardly mention anything Im not curious about.
The 1992 protesters held a 30-year reunion in November, and it was at that time that school President Marc Parlange, who took over in 2021, pledged to have the quote removed.
The removal of this inscription started 30 years ago, when a group of URI students had the courage to stand up and speak out against injustices happening at that time, Parlange said in a statement. Our university is grateful to those students for their courage, and I am grateful to todays generation of student leaders who, advocating in that same spirit, continue to inspire our ongoing work to foster a truly inclusive and equitable community.
Michelle Fontes, who participated in the 1992 protest and now works at the university, welcomed the change.
I am happy to have been part of the activism that took place in 1992 and this quote finally being removed is proof that our new administration is listening and striving to do...
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9th Grader Sues Over Pledge of Allegiance Confrontation
By JEFFREY COLLINS
Marissa Barnwell, a River Bluff High School student, her parents and their lawyer, Tyler Bailey, hold a news conference in Columbia, S.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023, regarding a lawsuit filed against Lexington School District One. Marissa said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall. (Alexa Jurado/The State via AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials.
Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that followed. A teacher yelled at her, confronted her and pushed her against a wall.
Barnwell was then sent to the principals office, which she said was humiliating because she feared she was in trouble. The principal sent her back to class, but Barnwell said he never let her know that the teacher was wrong and she was right.
I was completely and utterly disrespected, Barnwell, 15, said at a news conference Thursday, according to The State newspaper. No one has apologized, no one has acknowledged my hurt. ... The fact that the school is defending that kind of behavior is unimaginable.
Barnwells parents are suing the River Bluff High School teacher, the principal, Lexington School District 1, and the South Carolina Education Department in federal court, saying they violated the girls civil rights and her First Amendment rights to both free speech or not to speak at all.
A state law passed more than 30 years ago requires public schools to play the Pledge of Allegiance at a specific time every day.
But that law also prohibits punishing anyone who refuses to recite the pledge as long as...
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Pandemic 3 Years Later: Has the COVID-19 Virus Won?
By CARLA K. JOHNSON
FILE - A person is taken on a stretcher into the United Memorial Medical Center after going through testing for COVID-19 Thursday, March 19, 2020, in Houston. On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2023, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines.
The virus appears here to stay, along with the threat of a more
New variants emerging anywhere threaten us everywhere, said virus researcher Thomas Friedrich of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Maybe that will help people to understand how connected we are.
With information sources drying up, it has become harder to keep tabs on the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University on Friday shut down its trusted tracker, which it started soon after the virus emerged in China and spread worldwide.
Saturday marks three years since the World Health Organization first called the outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the United Nations health organization says its not yet ready to say the emergency has ended.
A look at where we stand:
THE VIRUS ENDURES
With the pandemic still killing 900 to 1,000 people a day worldwide, the stealthy virus behind COVID-19 hasnt lost its punch. It spreads easily from person to person, riding respiratory droplets in the air, killing some victims but leaving most to bounce back without much harm.
Whatever the virus is doing today, its still working on finding another winning path, said Dr. Eric Topol, head of Scripps Research Translational Institute in California.
Weve become numb to the daily...
Moderna Never Had a Sample of the Virus "IndyWatch Feed World"
This video clip shows that Moderna never even has a sample of the virus to make a vaccine. It was all just theoretical computer science.
The post Moderna Never Had a Sample of the Virus first appeared on Armstrong Economics.Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? Heres why the answer is political, social, scientific, and complex "IndyWatch Feed World"
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic three years ago today, but experts disagree about how and when pandemics end.
Its been three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. So we know when the pandemic officially began. But what must happen for it to officially end? Who even makes the call?
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Who Did Blow Up the Nord Stream Pipeline? "IndyWatch Feed War"
In September 2022, the Nord Stream gas pipelines exploded in one of the most spectacular political and environmental acts of terrorism in history. In the days immediately following the attack, which cut Germany and Europe off from its gas supply and released enormous amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere, the West immediately pronounced judgement Continue reading "Who Did Blow Up the Nord Stream Pipeline?"
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Sexual Assault Reports Increase at US Military Academies
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
FILE - An entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., is seen Jan. 9, 2014. Reported sexual assaults at the U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students surveyed said they experienced unwanted sexual contact, the Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact, the Pentagon said Friday. The survey results were the highest since the Defense Department began collecting that data.
Defense and military leaders said student-reported assaults at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies jumped 18% overall compared with the previous year. Calling the increase extremely disappointing and upsetting, defense officials said teams are visiting all three academies this month to try and target improvements and changes to address the problem.
The increase was driven largely by the Navy, which had nearly double the number of reported assaults in 2022, compared with 2021. Its unclear whether the phasing out of COVID-19-related restrictions contributed to the increase, including at the U.S. Naval Academy, which is directly adjacent to bars in downtown Annapolis, Maryland.
The results are, simply put, extremely disappointing, said Vice Adm. Sean Buck, superintendent of the Naval Academy. The current situation is unacceptable and we must improve our culture.
A student survey accompanying the report found increases in all types of unwanted sexual contact from touching to rape at all the schools. And it cites alcohol as a key factor. The report was released Friday.
The military services and the academies have struggled for years to combat sexual assault and harassment, with myriad prevention, education and t...
The haunting secret behind the grotesque realism of The Last of Us "IndyWatch Feed World"
The Last of Us built, then destroyed, a fictional world to make the fungi-apocalypse believable.
You might think that designing a TV series based on a hit video game like The Last of Us would be a straightforward task. After all, everythingthe settings, the characters, the fungiwas already there. Making a show from it should be a simple matter of transferring assets from one medium to another, right?
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Girls Who Codes CEO on the radical power of joyful activism "IndyWatch Feed World"
How the leader of one of the worlds largest nonprofits for girls and non-binary students manifests joy into social change.
When Tarika Barrett, PhD, was pivoting Girls Who Codes (GWC) programs to online learning during the pandemic, she heard a story that became a guiding light for her team.
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Ted Lasso gets serious in season 3 as a key character takes a dark turn "IndyWatch Feed World"
Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and other insiders on the show explain what the fan reaction has felt like.
The season 3 trailer for the two-time Emmy-winning Ted Lasso, which returns to Apple TV+ on March 15, contains a battle between good and evil. Yes, even a show as folksy as Lasso has a supervillain: Nate Shelley began his journey to the dark side toward the end of season 2, gobsmacking fans of the show with his betrayal of Coach Lasso (cocreator Jason Sudeikis) and his defection to West Ham United, coaching for the detestable Rupert Mannion (Anthony Head). And based on the trailer, Nate and his former boss will face off on the pitch when Lassos AFC Richmond plays West Ham United. Forget Marvel: Welcome to the Lasso Universe.
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The Ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN High Seas Treaty "IndyWatch Feed War"
Ever so rarely, the human species can reach accord and agreement on some topic seemingly contentious and divergent. Such occasions tend to be rarer than hens teeth, but the UN High Seas Treaty was one of them. It took over two decades of agonising, stuttering negotiations to draft an agreement and went someway to suggest that the common heritage of mankind, a concept pioneered in the 1960s, has retained some force.
Debates about the sea have rarely lost their sting. The Dutch legal scholar Hugo Grotius, in his 1609 work Mare Liberum (The Free Sea), laboured over such concepts as freedom of navigation and trade (commeandi commercandique libertas), terms that have come to mean as much assertions of power as affirmations of international legal relations.
The thrust of his argument was directed against the Portuguese claim of exclusive access to the East Indies, but along the way, statements abound about the nature of the sea itself, including its resources. While land could be possessed and transformed by human labour and private use, the transient, ever-changing sea could not. It is a view echoed in the work of John Locke, who called the ocean that great and still remaining Common of Mankind.
With empires and states tumbling over each other in those historical challenges posed by trade and navigation, thoughts turned to a relevant treaty that would govern the seas. While there was a general acceptance by the end of the 18th century that states had sovereignty over their territorial sea to the limit of three miles, interest in codifying the laws on oceans was sufficient for the UN International Law Commission to begin work on the subject in 1949.
It was a project that occupied the minds, time and resources of nation states and their officials for decades, eventually yielding the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Brought into existence in 1982, it came into effect in 1995. UNCLOS served to define maritime zones, including such concepts as the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, the continental shelf, the high sea, the international seabed area and archipelagic waters.
What was missing from the document was a deeper focus on the high sea itself, lying beyond the exclusive economic zones of states (200 nautical miles from shore) and, by virtue of that, a regulatory framework regarding protection and use. Over the years, environmental concerns including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution became paramount. Then came those areas of exploration, exploitation and plunder: marine genetic resources and deep-sea mining.
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Florida Abortion Ban Could Have Impact Beyond the State
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
TALLAHASSE, Fla. (AP) Less than a year after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential contender, signed a ban on abortions after the 15-week mark of pregnancy, hes showing support for an even stricter ban introduced this week by state lawmakers. His position could have implications on the availability of abortion not only in Florida but across the South and also figure into the 2024 presidential race.
THE CURRENT FLORIDA LAW In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, giving control over abortion to the states. Some conservative legislatures passed bills years in advance that would impose abortion bans if Roe were overturned. Florida wasnt among those earlier states, but ruling, Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, in January 2022.
Florida lawmakers agreed to ban abortion after 15 weeks, with an exception for the life of the woman but not for rape or incest. DeSantis signed it in April and it took effect in July.
THE NEW PROPOSAL
The deeper ban, proposed as Floridas legislative session opened on Tuesday, would make it a crime to provide an abortion past six weeks gestational age.
There would be an exception to save the life of the woman and exceptions in the case of pregnancy caused by rape or incest until 15 weeks of pregnancy. In those cases, the woman would have to provide documentation such as a medical record, restraining order or police report.
The measure would also require that the drugs used in medication-induced abortions which make up the majority of those provided nationally could be dispensed only in person by a physician.
DeSantis this week called the rape and incest provisions sensible and reiterated his support for tighter restrictions, saying, We welcome pro-life legislation.
If Republican lawmakers can agree on th...
Behind the European dream, corruption in Moldova reaches new heights "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Two issues plague Moldova's stature: its judicial system and its family-like boys' and girls' club, where the elected leadership, the senior public servants and many middlemen come from the same social club.
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Texas Women Sued for Wrongful Death After Aiding in Abortion
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Three women in Texas are being sued for wrongful death by a man who claims they helped his now-ex-wife obtain medication for an abortion. Its another test of state-enforced bans since the U.S. Supreme court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision.
In a lawsuit filed late Thursday in Galveston County, Marcus Silva alleges assisting in a self-administered abortion is tantamount to aiding a murder. Silva is seeking $1 million in damages.
The woman who took the medication in July weeks after the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion that had been in place since 1973 is not named in the lawsuit. Texas law protects women who get an abortion from being held liable.
Abortion rights groups condemned the lawsuit, calling it an intimidation tactic.
This is an outrageous attempt to scare people from getting abortion care and intimidate those who support their friends, family, and community in their time of need, Autumn Katz, a lawyer with the Center for Reproductive Rights, said Friday in a statement. The extremists behind this lawsuit are twisting the law and judicial system to threaten and harass people seeking essential care and those who help them.
Silva is being represented by Jonathan Mitchell a former Texas solicitor general who helped create one of the states abortion bans attorneys from conservative legal group Thomas More Society and state Rep. Briscoe Cain, a Houston-area Republican.
Anyone involved in distributing or manufacturing abortion pills will be sued into oblivion, Cain said in a statement from the attorneys.
According to the lawsuit, the manufacturer of the pills will also be named as a defendant once it is identified in the discovery process.
The lawsuit claims it has text messages from among the women discussing how to obtain medication that could induce an abortion and how to aid the woman who was pregnant in planning to take the medication.
Lawsuits cha...
Estos son los congresistas ultraderechistas que piden que EE.UU. intervenga Mxico "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
Un grupo de congresistas norteamericanos ultraconservadores, proponen que EE.UU. invada Mxico para luchar contra el narco. Regeneracin, 10 de marzo del 2023. Un grupo de []
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CFMEU places green ban on Maribyrnong City Council proposed development of open space at McIver Reserve in Yarraville "IndyWatch Feed World"
The CFMEU has placed a green ban on a
proposed site of an indoor sports stadium at McIver Reserve in
Yarraville that will reduce the provision and access to open space
for the local community. McIver Reserve is a key community
hub for recreation and leisure. The proposed reduction of open
space in a council with already limited provision of open space
shows a lack of regard to the views of local residents by Council.
The development would see over 150 trees removed, and the closure
of the Yarraville Footscray Bowling Club for the period of
development, which could be two or more years.
A fenced dog park is proposed to be built around the north-east
perimeter of the baseball diamond to offset the reduction of the
current dog park, impacting residents who 
immediately back onto the proposed site.
Councils own consultation documents show residents value of open space, with 45 percent opposing the development and 12 percent unsure.
City of Maribyrnong has one of the lowest provisions of open space in Victoria, and despite residents concerns around reduction in access to open space and environmental impacts of the development, council has chosen to ignore community feedback.
The main reasons for residents opposing the development were:
Adjoining McIver Reserve is the Bradmill Precinct Development site which will include approximately 1300-1500 new dwellings and a Neighbourhood Activity Centre that will integrate with the existing urban environment.
The Bradmill Precinct Development site will inject thousands of residents into the area, but the Council is proposing to reduce access to open space in the surrounding area, said John Setka, Secretary of the CFMEU Vic-Tas.
It would be inappropriate to build an indoor facility on open space when there are other sites within the City of Maribyrnong more suitable for the development of an indoor sports stadium that would not come at a cost of reduced open space.
This is a cash grab by Council to build a facility that makes them money at a cost to residents provision of open space.
The union stands by the residents of the City of Maribyrnong who have not had their voices heard.
Madness of vaccine mandates in colleges: Ivy League universities that charge up to $75k a year are STILL refusing to teach students in-person who are not up to date with their Covid vaccines - with Harvard demanding up to FIVE "IndyWatch Feed World"
Madness of vaccine mandates in colleges: Ivy League universities that charge up to $75k a year are STILL refusing to teach students in-person who are not up to date with their Covid vaccines - with Harvard demanding up to FIVE --Students must receive a bivalent booster dose on top of their other Covid shots --If they don't without exemption, they will not be able to access in-person classes --Most Americans with bivalent booster are not protected against latest variant | 10 March 2023 | Ivy League schools are still refusing to teach students in-person who are not up to date with their Covid vaccines [mRNA clot shots] -- in a move slammed as "senseless" and "non-scientific." Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Pennsylvania have the most stringent mandates that make having the new bivalent booster a condition of entry. This means students at those schools who have already received four of the older shots would still need to get the new shot to continue their studies.The rest of the Ivy League universities demand at least two Covid jabs, with some requiring a booster too. Multiple experts told DailyMail.com the mandate "does not make sense" now that evidence shows the vaccines do not prevent transmission on a large scale.
GCHQ Manchester employee outs himself on LinkedIn "IndyWatch Feed War"
Forensic IT Analyst, first class honours from Cambridge
in 2008, but his name explains what is really going on. The full
exclusive story here!
1090 MHz ADS-B Mode-S Military Aircraft Logs "IndyWatch Feed War"
Military aircraft transponder logs from January 2014 to
present (last updated 11th March 2023), using 1090 MHz ADS-B Mode-S
receiver located near Manchester International Airport.
Detienen en Edomex al Monstruo del Bao; as abusaba de sus victimas en un knder "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
El Monstruo del Bao aprovechaba que sus vctimas, menores de edad, ingresaban a los sanitarios para abusar de ellas y luego las amenazaba. Regeneracin, 10 []
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What happens when a metaverse disappears? "IndyWatch Feed World"
Microsoft shut down its social VR world AltspaceVR this week, and Altspace users and creators used its final days to commemorate the platform.
A bugle played Taps. The crowd fell silent. Then, a coffin began floating down the aisle, as if carried by invisible pallbearers, until coming to a stop at a makeshift altar adorned with candles and flowers. The coffin was propped up, revealing under its transparent lid the iconic AltspaceVR robot avatar, and a short ceremony began.
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How Paramount+ became a top contender in the streaming wars "IndyWatch Feed World"
Were forced to be reckoned with in streaming today.Tom Ryan, president and CEO of Paramount Streaming
Tom Ryan is used to being an underdog. In fact, he prefers it.
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That Time a Homeless Womans Prayer was Answered "IndyWatch Feed War"
Ive written about B before. Shes a homeless woman I knew through my project. But heres a little reminder of her backstory:
B lost both her legs in a subway accident. When I met her, she was living in a medical homeless shelter and panhandling daily in a wheelchair. B has four kids who, for a while, were living with her ex. It was not a good scenario. Very long story short: The State eventually took the kids away from him and temporarily placed them with Bs mother.
As I got to know B, I genuinely cared for her as a friend. We both looked forward to chatting whenever Id bring packages full of supplies geared to fit her specific needs. I bore witness to Bs journey and encouraged her as she dealt with mean-spirited passers-by and with a mountain of obstacles, e.g. housing, child services, medical bureaucracy, lawyers, etc.
Theres one story about her I havent yet shared, so here goes
Tesla abre vacantes para la construccin de la Gigafbrica en Mxico "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
La instalacin de la planta de Tesla en Nuevo Len continua, segn lo previsto, generando empleos para el pas, estas son las nuevas vacantes que []
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FGR pide crcel para Lozoya por Odebrecht; defensa ofrece 200 mdd como reparacin del dao "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
La familia de Emilio Lozoya inform que se realizar un acuerdo reparatorio por el caso Odebrecht, aunque no es la cifra que pide la FGR. []
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From Covid to Crickets: Japan pushes edible insects "IndyWatch Feed War"
By Guy Gin | Making (Covid) Waves in Japan | March 6, 2023
Now that theyve stopped telling the public to constantly cover their mouths, Japans government and media have moved on to telling the public to put bugs into them. And who better to advocate for people to put insects down their throats than the man who advocated most actively for people to put mRNA injections into their veins, former Vaccine Minister and current Digital Minister Taro Kono?
Heres a better look at the delicious crickets Mr Kono pulled his mask down to taste.
But since about 90% of Japanese are resistant to the idea of eating bugs, Japans politicians and propaganda apparatus will have to work harder at pushing crickets than they did pushing Covid jabs. Reworking some of its greatest hits from the Covid era, the media has declared neophobia to be the new vaccine-hesitancy.
So are the neophobes selfishly preventing the creation of a sustainable society with their a...
CSIRO / USQ: Coffee Supplies Threatened by Climate Change "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
The absurd coffee climate threat which refuses to die.
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Public Meeting Sunday 19th March: Can War be avoided or will Peace be shattered? "IndyWatch Feed World"
SUNDAY, 19th March, 5pm,
Marrickville Town Hall, Marrickville Rd, Marrickville,NSW.
You can join the meeting virtually livestream via the
Marrickville Peace Group Facebook. Speakers: Bob Carr, David
Shoebridge, Alison Broinowski, Lawrence Wilkerson. IPAN supports
this event.
Our March 19 event will be live streamed through the
Marrickville Peace Group Facebook page:- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090778261493
If people go to the page at the scheduled time (4.30pm AEDT), the
live stream will 'pop up'.
Speakers:
Prof. Bob Carr (former NSW Premier and
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs)
Senator David Shoebridge (NSW Greens
Senator)
Dr Alison Broinowski (President of
Australians for War Powers Reform)
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (assistant to US
Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in 2003)
Mary Kostakidis has agreed to act as
facilitator.
SUNDAY, 19th March, 5pm
Marrickville Town Hall, Marrickville Rd, Marrickville,NSW
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/127716069995207/?ref=newsfeed
Russia, UN set for Ukraine grain deal renewal talks - Lavrov highlights how sanctions are prohibiting transfer ships "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Russia and the United Nations will hold talks in Geneva on Monday (Mar 13) on renewing the Ukraine grain export deal, with the UN saying the fate of millions rested on its extension. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February last year saw Ukraine's Black Sea ports blocked by warships until a deal signed in July allowed for the safe passage of exports of critical grain supplies. Comment: That was to ensure that Ukraine didn't use the opportunity for war related activities, in the same way it abused the Minsk peace process to instead shore up its military to attack Russia; and that was done with the full blessing of the West. More than 23.7 million tonnes have been exported under the UN and Turkey-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative, according to the United Nations. Comment: Some of the grain that was intended for Africa was instead taken by Western nations instead.
Australia to buy 5 nuclear-powered submarines as part of AUKUS in violation of previous commitments to China "IndyWatch Feed World"
In a major expansion and overhaul of its navy, Australia is planning to buy up to five US Virginia class nuclear powered submarines beginning in the next decade, Reuters and others are reporting. US as well as European officials have disclosed the future deal as part of a "landmark defense agreement between Washington, Canberra and London, four U.S. officials said on Wednesday, in a deal that would present a new challenge to China." Comment: Well, it's not so much a 'challenge' to China as it is a provocation, and further confirmation that the West is pathological in its plans to 'contain' the country. The impending agreement is seen as central to the relatively new AUKUS partnership, and the major sub deal is expected to be announced when President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet in San Diego Monday.
Saudi Arabia and Iran to Restore Ties in China-Brokered Deal "IndyWatch Feed War"
After seven years of tension, Riyadh and Tehran will reopen embassies and revive a 2001 security agreement. Saudi Arabia and Iran agreed on Friday to resume diplomatic ties and re-open embassies within the next two months. Relations between the Sunni kingdom and the Shia republic broke down in 2016, and the two powers have backed Continue reading Saudi Arabia and Iran to Restore Ties in China-Brokered Deal
Strange quantum event happens once every 10 billion chances "IndyWatch Feed World"
Quantum tunneling is a rare event that should be impossible under classical physics, but it is only now we are learning just how rare real-world examples are. The rate at which the rare but crucial quantum phenomenon known as tunneling occurs has been measured experimentally for the first time, and found to match theoretical calculations. The theoretical estimates in this area had been regarded as highly uncertain, so confirmation in one specific case allows for greater confidence in estimating the frequency of other tunneling events. Quantum tunneling is one of the many phenomena where subatomic particles behave in ways classical physics would say is impossible. In this case, an object trapped in a way that classically requires a certain energy to escape leaves the trap, despite having less than that amount of energy. It's a consequence, and proof of, the dual wave/particle nature of objects like electrons - a pure particle could not escape, but a wave occasionally can. Phenomena...
Bird of the Day: Green Jay "IndyWatch Feed World"
Falcon State Park, Zapata County, TX
Vinculan a proceso al jefe de seguridad de La Polar por homicidio de comensal "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
Un juez determin vincular a proceso a El Chiquiln, por el homicidio de un comensal del restaurante La Polar, en CDMX. Regeneracin, 10 de marzo []
La entrada Vinculan a proceso al jefe de seguridad de La Polar por homicidio de comensal se public primero en RegeneracinMX.
Appeals Court Upholds Restriction on Twitters First Amendment Right to Publish National Security Transparency Report "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
By Andrew Crocker A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week marks a new low in judicial deference to classification and...
Steve Sheppard and The Writings of Sir Edward Coke "IndyWatch Feed War"
Sir Edward Coke (1 February 1552 3 September 1634) was an English barrister, judge, and politician who is considered the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
During his time as a Member of Parliament he wrote and campaigned for the Statute of Monopolies, which substantially restricted the ability of the monarch to grant patents, and authored and was instrumental in the passage of the Petition of Right, a document considered one of the three crucial constitutional documents of England, along with Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1689.
Coke is best known in modern times for his Institutes, described by John Rutledge as "almost the foundations of our law", and his Reports, which have been called "perhaps the single most influential series of named reports". Historically, he was a highly influential judge; within England and Wales, his statements and works were used to justify the right to silence, while the Statute of Monopolies is considered to be one of the first actions in the conflict between Parliament and monarch that led to the English Civil War. In America, Coke's decision in Dr. Bonham's Case was used to justify the voiding of both the Stamp Act 1765 and writs of assistance, which led to the American War of Independence; after the establishment of the United States his decisions and writings profoundly influenced the Third and Fourth amendments to the United States Constitution while necessitating the Sixteenth.
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Coke's challenge to the ecclesiastical courts and their ex officio oath is seen as the origin of the right to silence. With his decision that common law courts could issue writs of prohibition against such oaths and his arguments that such oaths were contrary to the common law (as found in his Reports and Institutes), Coke "dealt the crucial blow to the oath ex officio and to the High Commission".The case of John Lilburne later confirmed that not only was such an oath invalid, but that there was a right to silence, drawing from Coke's decisions in reaching that conclusion. In the trial of Sir Roger Casement for treason in...
Wells Fargo Warns Customers Of Incorrect Balances Or Missing Transactions "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
By Tyler Durden Customers of Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the US by assets, are complaining of missing direct deposit payments and incorrect...
Wells Fargo Warns Customers Of Incorrect Balances Or Missing Transactions
Tennessee Lt Gov who backed anti-LGBTQ bills is reminded he liked gay mans sexy Instagram posts "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Republican Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, who is also the head of the state Senate, was confronted by a local news reporter over his social media habits in light of his years of support for anti-LGBTQ bills. Turns out, McNally left numerous comments on racy Instagram photos of Franklyn McClur, an openly gay Tennessee man, writing, []
Link roundup: March 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
<p>Although I dont always plug it here, I run a monthly ace journal club on my other blog. This months article was about <a href= "https://asexualagenda.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/journal-club-its-easier-to-just-say-im-queer/"> asexual experiences coming out</a>. It might be worth a read if you want an overview of asexual coming out experiences and how they sometimes differ from gay coming out experiences.</p> <p><a href= "https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web"> Chat GPT is a blurry jpeg of the web</a> | New Yorker A relatively pessimistic article about Chat GPT that describes it as a copy of the internet, saved with lossy compression. The author asks, how much use is a blurry <em class= "small">jpeg</em>, when you still have the original? I think this a great starting point to understanding the state of the art chatbots. The chatbots have strictly less knowledge than what you can find on the internetalbeit in more a form that may be easier to process. Perhaps the megacorps are right, and the best application is search engines.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojOkPmm8lw">The Problem With Masterworks</a> | The Plain Bagel (video, 19 min) If youve ever seen sponsored ads on youtube for Masterworks, an art-based investment scheme, you might have thought it sounded scummy. Sounds scummy, is scummy, this video gives the scoop on that. Apparently they skirt through regulation loopholes, which gives them a lot of leeway to report returns in a misleading way. I actually unsubbed to a channel because they accepted a sponsorship from Masterworks.</p> <p><span id="more-304394"></span></p> <p><a href= "https://thealmightybacklog.com/2023/02/14/dear-esther/">Dear Esther</a> | The Almighty Backlog Via <a href= "https://www.critical-distance.com">Critical Distance</a>, I found this review of one of the original walking simulator games. I admit, although I like walking simulators, I dont think very highly of Dear Esther. I dont like the story, and as this reviewer says, there isnt anything else for the game to fall back on. But its interesting to look back upon the roots of the genre. One of the unique aspects of the game is that parts of it are randomized on each playthrough. Its clever, but who would notice?</p> <p><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHmPTV0s0A">Whos Pranking Sam Harris & Eric Weinstein? | Rebecca Watson Rebecca highlights how Sam Harris and Eric Weinstein (best known for creating the intellectual dark web) seem to have been taken in by claims that there would be an imminent announcement that UFOs really are aliens. This is obviously great schadenfreude against two terrible people. Although my initial joy is tempered by my principled stand against mocking victims of hoaxes. I t...
Age Verification Mandates Would Undermine Anonymity Online "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
By Jason Kelley and Adam Schwartz Age verification systems are surveillance systems. Mandatory age verification, and with it, mandatory identity verification, is the wrong approach...
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