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Tuesday, 02 May

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Wo wir gerade bei Fremdschmen waren: The Front Fell ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Wo wir gerade bei Fremdschmen waren: The Front Fell Off. Bei Arcserve. Einem Backup-Anbieter. Sie mchten uns aber versichern, dass das nicht blich ist bei ihnen, dass sie Daten ihrer Kunden lschen.

Was machen Sie eigentlich beruflich?

Update: Bonus-Lacher: Der Datenverlust ist anlsslich des Schiebens der Nutzerdaten in die Cloud passiert.

Achtung, liebe Leser. Boris Palmer "hat das N-Wort ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Achtung, liebe Leser. Boris Palmer "hat das N-Wort gesagt". Da muss man ihn natrlich sofort auf einer Konferenz drauf ansprechen, damit er es nochmal sagt. Und dann kann man gleich doppelt emprt sein, dass er "das N-Wort gesagt" hat.

Ich wusste gar nicht, dass das in Deutschland als Konzept existiert. "Das N-Wort sagen".

Oh und wenn man schon am emprt sein ist, kann man auch gleich den Palmer einen Nazi schimpfen. Das ist aber natrlich nicht "das N-Wort" dann. Das ist etwas vllig anders, msst ihr wissen. Denn WIR sind die GUTEN und DIE DA DRBEN sind DIE BSEN.

Der ganze Artikel ist ein Fest fr Freunde des Fremdschmens.

Ich frage mich vor allem eines: Wieso muss das auf tagesschau.de stehen? Ich geh da fr Nachrichten hin, nicht fr heie Promi-News ber Leute, die mir kaum egaler sein knnten.

Bonus: Das war eine Migrationskonferenz. Wieso man zu sowas Boris Palmer einladen wrde, und wieso man ihn ausgerechnet dort danach fragen muss, erwhnt dieser hochinvestigative Artikel leider nicht.

Psychologist's death due to AstraZeneca Covid vaccine reaction "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

The death of a psychologist after his Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab was due to "unintended complications of the vaccine", an inquest has ruled. Stephen Wright, an NHS employee in south-east London, died 10 days after his first dose in January 2021, senior coroner Andrew Harris found. Dr Wright, 32, suffered a blood clot to the brain after receiving the vaccine. His wife Charlotte has been trying to get the "natural causes" wording on her husband's death certificate changed. She is pursuing legal action against the pharmaceutical company. At London Inner South Coroner's Court, Mr Harris described it as a "very unusual and deeply tragic case". Dr Wright suffered from a combination of a brainstem infarction, bleed on the brain and "vaccine-induced thrombosis", the inquest heard. His condition rapidly worsened, but the nature of the bleed meant he was unfit for surgery. After the inquest, Mrs Wright ... said: "It was made clear that Stephen was [previously] fit and healthy and that his death was by vaccination of AstraZeneca. For us, it allows us to be able to continue our litigation against AstraZeneca. This is the written proof." Speaking about the coroner's ruling, mother-of-two Charlotte Wright said: "It provides relief but it doesn't provide closure. I think we're only going to get that when we have an answer from AstraZeneca and the government." From May 2021, the AZ jab was no longer offered to adults under 40 after it became clear the vaccine carried [a] risk of blood clots which could be fatal.

Note: Dr. Wright's death is one of many tragedies related to the COVID-19 vaccine, as revealed in a powerful documentary that follows the lives of people significantly harmed by the vaccine, yet were discredited and abandoned by the medical system and our media systems. A recent analysis report estimates that in 2022 alone, out of 148 million people, the mass COVID-19 inoculations injured 26.6 million, disabled 1.36 million, and caused 300,000 excess deaths, with an estimated economic cost of nearly $150 billion. For more along these lines, explore revealing news articles on coronavirus vaccines from reliable major media sources.

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up' "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission. The company, Clearview AI, boasts of its potential for identifying rioters at the January 6 attack on the Capitol, saving children being abused or exploited, and helping exonerate people wrongfully accused of crimes. But critics point to privacy violations and wrongful arrests fueled by faulty identifications made by facial recognition, including cases in Detroit and New Orleans, as cause for concern over the technology. Once a photo has been scraped by Clearview AI, biometric face prints are made and cross-referenced in the database, tying the individuals to their social media profiles and other identifying information forever and people in the photos have little recourse to try to remove themselves. CNN reported Clearview AI last year claimed the company's clients include "more than 3,100 US agencies, including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security." BBC reported Miami Police acknowledged they use the technology for all kinds of crimes, from shoplifting to murder. The risk of being included in what is functionally a "perpetual police line-up" applies to everyone, including people who think they have nothing to hide, [said] Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst for the international non-profit digital rights group Electronic Frontier Fund.

Note: Read about the rising concerns of the use of Clearview AI technology in Ukraine, with claims to help reunite families, identify Russian operatives, and fight misinformation. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing....

Georgia National Guard Will Use Phone Location Tracking to Recruit High School Children "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

The Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices military recruiting at schools and location-based phone surveillance to persuade teens to enlist, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept. The federal contract materials outline plans by the Georgia Army National Guard to geofence 67 different public high schools throughout the state, targeting phones found within a one-mile boundary of their campuses with recruiting advertisements "with the intent of generating qualified leads of potential applicants for enlistment while also raising awareness of the Georgia Army National Guard." Geofencing refers generally to the practice of drawing a virtual border around a real-world area. The ad campaign will make use of a variety of surveillance advertising techniques, including capturing the unique device IDs of student phones, tracking pixels, and IP address tracking. It will also plaster recruiting solicitations across Instagram, Snapchat, streaming television, and music apps. The campaign plans not only call for broadcasting recruitment ads to kids at school, but also for pro-Guard ads to follow these students around as they continue using the internet and other apps, a practice known as retargeting. While the state's plan specifies targeting only high school juniors and seniors ages 17 and above, demographic ad targeting is known to be error prone, and experts told The Intercept it's possible the recruiting messages could reach the phones of younger children.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on military corruption and the disappearance of privacy from reliable major media sources.

Johns Hopkins study shows lockdowns only reduced COVID-19 death rate by .2% "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Lockdowns during the first COVID-19 wave in the spring of 2020 only reduced COVID-19 mortality by .2% in the U.S. and Europe, according to a Johns Hopkins University meta-analysis of several studies. "While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic and social costs where they have been adopted," the researchers wrote. "In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument." The researchers Johns Hopkins University economics professor Steve Hanke, Lund University economics professor Lars Jonung, and special advisor at Copenhagen's Center for Political Studies Jonas Herby analyzed the effects of lockdown measures such as school shutdowns, business closures, and mask mandates on COVID-19 deaths. "We find little to no evidence that mandated lockdowns in Europe and the United States had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality rates," the researchers wrote. The researchers also examined shelter-in-place orders, finding that they reduced COVID-19 mortality by 2.9%. Studies that looked at only shelter-in-place orders found they reduced COVID-19 mortality by 5.1%, but studies that looked at shelter-in-place orders along with other lockdown measures found that shelter-in-place orders actually increased COVID-19 mortality by 2.8%. The researchers concluded that limiting gatherings may have actually increased COVID-19 mortality. 

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.

Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19 "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Lockdowns in the U.S. and Europe had little or no impact in reducing deaths from COVID-19, according to a new analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The lockdowns during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020 reduced COVID-19 mortality by about 0.2%, said the broad review of multiple scientific studies. "We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality," the researchers wrote. But the research paper said lockdowns did have "devastating effects" on the economy and contributed to numerous social ills. "They have contributed to reducing economic activity, raising unemployment, reducing schooling, causing political unrest, contributing to domestic violence, and undermining liberal democracy," the report said. "Such a standard benefit-cost calculation leads to a strong conclusion: lockdowns should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy instrument," the paper concluded. Early on, many states and 186 countries imposed bans on work, socialization, in-person schooling, travel and other restrictions to limit the spread of the disease, citing recommendations by top health care experts. Researchers at the Imperial College London, for example, predicted that such steps could reduce death rates by up to 98%. That never happened, according to the new study by researchers Steve Hanke, Jonas Herby, and Lars Jonung at Johns Hopkins.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on government corruption and the coronavirus from reliable major media sources.

Possible links between Covid shots and tinnitus emerge "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Thousands of people say they've developed tinnitus after they were vaccinated against Covid. Shaowen Bao, an associate professor in the physiology department of the College of Medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson, believes that ongoing inflammation, especially in the brain or spinal cord, may be to blame. Bao, a longtime tinnitus sufferer and a representative of the American Tinnitus Association's scientific advisory board, has studied tinnitus for more than a decade. A Facebook group of people who developed tinnitus after getting a Covid vaccine convinced Bao to look into the possible link. One man told Bao that he couldn't hear the car radio over the noise in his head while driving. Along with ringing in their ears, participants reported a range of other symptoms, including headaches, dizziness, vertigo, ear pain, anxiety and depression. Significantly more people first developed tinnitus after the first dose of the vaccine, compared with the second. This suggests "that the vaccine is interacting with pre-existing risk factors for tinnitus. If you have the risk factor, you will probably get it from the first dose," Bao said. As of Sunday, at least 16,183 people had filed complaints with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they'd developed tinnitus, or ringing in their ears, after receiving a Covid vaccine. [Vaccine expert Dr. Gregory] Poland, who was stricken with tinnitus after he received his Covid vaccines two years ago, suggested that the CDC remains "unconcerned" about these reports of tinnitus.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on coronavirus vaccines from reliable major media sources.

As Drug Crisis Mounted, Sacklers Gave Millions to Group That Advises on Opioids "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

For the past decade, the White House and Congress have relied on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, a renowned advisory group, to help shape the federal response to the opioid crisis, whether by convening expert panels or delivering policy recommendations and reports. Yet officials with the National Academies have kept quiet about one thing: their decision to accept roughly $19 million in donations from members of the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the drug OxyContin that is notorious for fueling the opioid epidemic. The opioid crisis has led to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths, spawned lawsuits and forced other institutions to publicly distance themselves from Sackler money or to acknowledge potential conflicts of interest from ties to Purdue Pharma. The National Academies has largely avoided such scrutiny as it continues to advise the government on painkillers. Institutions that more publicly examined their use of Sackler donations include Tufts University, which released a review of possible conflicts of interest related to pain research education funded by Purdue Pharma. Concerns noted in the report included a senior Purdue executive's delivering lectures to students each semester. The World Health Organization in 2019 retracted two guidance documents on opioid policy after lawmakers aired concerns about ties to opioid makers, including a Purdue subsidiary, among report authors and funders.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on Big Pharma corruption from reliable major media sources.

TikTok: Chinese "Trojan Horse" is Run By State Department Officials "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

A MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok. Many more individuals with backgrounds in the FBI, CIA and other departments of the national security state also hold influential posts at the social media giant, affecting the content that over one billion users see. The influx of State Department officials into TikTok's upper ranks is a consequence of "Project Texas," an initiative the company began in 2020 in the hopes of avoiding being banned altogether in the United States. During his time in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the charge to shut the platform down, frequently labeling it a "spying app" and a "propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party." It was widely reported that the U.S. government had forced the sale of TikTok to Walmart and then Microsoft. But in late 2020, as Project Texas began, those deals mysteriously fell through, and the rhetoric about the dangers of TikTok from officials evaporated. Project Texas is a $1.5 billion security operation to move the company's data to Austin. In doing so, it announced that it was partnering with tech giant Oracle, a corporation that, as MintPress has reported on, is the CIA in all but name. Evidently, Project Texas also secretly included hiring all manner of U.S. national security state personnel to oversee the company's operations and not just from the State Department. Virtually every branch of the national security state is present at TikTok.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on corruption in intelligence agencies and in the corporate world from reliable major media sources.

Link "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Dr. Peter Gtzsche is a well known Danish physician with four decades of research experience, publishing 97 papers in the "big five" (BMJ, Lancet, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and New England Journal of Medicine) and 19 Cochrane reviews. He is a co-founder of the Cochrane Collaboration. Gtzsche, along with ... Maryanne Demasi, PhD, have published a new paper titled "Serious harms of the COVID-19 Vaccines: A Systematic Review." It's been a task for academics to look into this phenomenon given the fact that vaccine manufacturers and drug regulators never allowed independent researchers to examine the raw trial data, forcing transparency advocates to sue the FDA for access to the documents. The adenovirus vector vaccines increased the risk of venous thrombosis and thrombocytopenia. (Authorities have responded by suspending the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine across many European countries, and in the US, regulators have advised restricted use of Janssen's vaccine). The mRNA-based vaccines increased the risk of myocarditis, with a mortality of about 1-2 per 200 cases. It was more common in younger males. We found evidence of serious neurological harms, including Bell's Palsy, Guillain-Barr syndrome, myasthenic disorder and stroke, which are likely due to an autoimmune reaction from mRNA and adenoviral vector vaccines. Severe harms, i.e. those that prevent daily activities, were underreported in the randomized trials.

Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on coronavirus vaccines from reliable major media sources.

Reassessing Technology for Time-Warp Space Travel "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

A 17-year-old boy ... received the Air Force's highest science award in the 1960s. This young man had the audacity and guts to build and test a new and unusual rocket. The boy's name was David Adair, and the engine he built was a nuclear-fusion electromagnetic containment engine. This rocket was tested successfully and had an eventful landing in that land beyond lands that doesn't exist, the famous Area 51. This vehicle had the capability of achieving light speed and, according to the builder, was capable of exceeding light speed with capabilities to propel an interstellar ship to the stars. Where did David Adair, now head of Intersect Inc. in Atlanta, get the design for this engine? As he tells it, directly from NASA. The organization evidently had 18 engine designs, and guess what? Only two were solid- or liquid-propelled rocket engines. This was in the 1960s. I wonder what happened to the rest of those engine types in the past 30 years. I also wonder what type of engines have been and are being tested at the old Rocketdyne facility in the Santa Susana Mountains above Simi Valley. One might ask if the massive class-action lawsuit against Rocketdyne, which alleges contamination of the nuclear type, has any relationship to the engines that were developed and continue to be developed today. If we look at some of these modern concepts and then consider the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation, it doesn't seem quite so impossible.

Note: Don't miss this mind-blowing video of prodigy rocket scientist David Adair describing a most stunning and intriguing encounter with an ET craft in an underground hanger at Area 51. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on UFOs from reliable major media sources.

'Bees are sentient': inside the stunning brains of nature's hardest workers "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

When Stephen Buchmann finds a wayward bee on a window inside his Tucson, Arizona, home, he goes to great lengths to capture and release it unharmed. This March, Buchmann released a book that unpacks just how varied and powerful a bee's mind really is. The book, What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories and Personalities of Bees, draws from his own research and dozens of other studies to paint a remarkable picture of bee behavior and psychology. It argues that bees can demonstrate sophisticated emotions resembling optimism, frustration, playfulness and fear, traits more commonly associated with mammals. Experiments have shown bees can experience PTSD-like symptoms, recognize different human faces, process long-term memories while sleeping, and maybe even dream. Approximately one-third of the American diet, including many fruits, vegetables and nuts, relies on bees for pollination. In the past, bee research has focused on their role in crop pollination, but the work being pioneered by Buchmann and his contemporaries could force an ethical reckoning with how the animals are treated. Can large-scale agriculture and scientific research continue without causing bees to suffer, and is the dominant western culture even capable of accepting that the tiniest of creatures have feelings, too? Buchmann hopes an ethical shift will happen as details about the emotional lives of invertebrates especially bees are shared with the public.

Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.

Magnetic Crystals, Guides for Animals, Found in Humans "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

An intriguing claim that human brain cells possess crystals of a highly magnetic mineral known as magnetite was described today by Dr. Joseph Kirschvink, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. The 38-year-old geobiologist said he believed that magnetite crystals enabled animals from bees to whales to navigate by using the earth's magnetic field. He said he doubted that they supported any sensory capability in humans, although he suspected that they might account for the possible influence of strong electromagnetic fields on human health. That magnetite, one of the hardest metals on earth, is synthesized by the human brain "is sure to astound most scientists," Dr. Kirschvink said, but what it is doing there is a "total mystery." It might be a vestige from evolution and serve no purpose, he said. Or it could play a role in biology, explaining why electromagnetic fields have been associated with brain cancer and leukemia and why certain odd blips, called spin echoes, show up on magnetic resonance images of the brain. Each human brain on average contains seven billion particles of magnetite, weighing a total of one-millionth of an ounce. Magnetite interacts over a million times more strongly with external magnetic fields than any other biological material, Dr. Kirschvink said, including the iron in red blood cells. If only one cell in a million contains magnetite, he said, magnetic fields could exert an effect on the tissue.

Note: Robert O. Becker's classic book "The Body Electric" presents amazing scientific experiments showing the importance of electrical fields and magnetic crystals in the human body. Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.

Mushrooms communicate with each other using up to 50 'words', scientist claims "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Mathematical analysis of the electrical signals fungi seemingly send to one another has identified patterns that bear a striking structural similarity to human speech. Previous research has suggested that fungi conduct electrical impulses through long, underground filamentous structures called hyphae similar to how nerve cells transmit information in humans. It has even shown that the firing rate of these impulses increases when the hyphae of wood-digesting fungi come into contact with wooden blocks, raising the possibility that fungi use this electrical "language" to share information about food or injury with distant parts of themselves, or with hyphae-connected partners such as trees. Prof Andrew Adamatzky at the University of the West of England's unconventional computing laboratory in Bristol analysed the patterns of electrical spikes generated by four species of fungi enoki, split gill, ghost and caterpillar fungi. The research, published in Royal Society Open Science, found that these spikes often clustered into trains of activity, resembling vocabularies of up to 50 words, and that the distribution of these "fungal word lengths" closely matched those of human languages. The most likely reasons for these waves of electrical activity are to maintain the fungi's integrity analogous to wolves howling to maintain the integrity of the pack or to report newly discovered sources of attractants and repellants to other parts of their mycelia, Adamtzky suggested.

Note: Explore a treasure trove of concise summaries of incredibly inspiring news articles which will inspire you to make a difference.

01:06

Soludo Laments N88bn Revenue Deficit As Workers Demand Minimum Wage Increment "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State has decried the poor revenue status of the state, saying the state is in a deficit of N88bn in one year. This coming hours after workers in the area are demanding an increase in the minimum wage as well as the payment of arrears of pensions and gratuities owed []

The post Soludo Laments N88bn Revenue Deficit As Workers Demand Minimum Wage Increment appeared first on New Telegraph.

01:05

Recall Of Nigerias Ambassadors And High Commissioners: Matters Arising "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

As the President Muhammadu Buhari administration enters its last days, many key stakeholders in the incoming Bola Tinubu administration have commenced diverse schemes to position themselves in positions of reckoning in the next dispensation. Especially involved in these schemes to bag government appointments are those who were not elected into statutory offices in the legislature []

The post Recall Of Nigerias Ambassadors And High Commissioners: Matters Arising appeared first on New Telegraph.

01:03

Obasanjo To Inaugurate 23.4km Etinan Eket Dual Carriageway Tomorrow "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Arrangements have been concluded for the commissioning of the 23.4km Eket Etinan Road, which was constructed by Governor Udom Emmanuel. The inauguration of the road which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023, and will be graced by the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, as the []

The post Obasanjo To Inaugurate 23.4km Etinan Eket Dual Carriageway Tomorrow appeared first on New Telegraph.

01:02

The Perils of Literal AI "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

I went to Hong Kong twice in the early 00s, and the second time I decided to have one of Hong Kongs legendary tailors clone me a copy of my dads vintage 1940s Hart Schaffner and Marx tuxedo. (spoiler: it came out great)

One of my friends said, the great thing about Hong Kong tailors is you can get the best suit you know how to ask for. That was a mind-expanding bit of philosophomacation, right there.

I think of it occasionally when playing with AI art generation systems, because its literally 100% the case the prompt is crucial, sort of, but youre dealing with an unknown training set. What you get out if it will have a lot to do with the language that was associated with the various weightings at the time that the training set was constructed. This can get fun, because with some of the AIs youre sharing training sets that were built by other people, for their own purposes, and you have to have a good mating of your intent, the training sets vocabulary, and your prompt. I dont do psychoactives any more, except for coffee and alcohol, but I imagine itd be a ton of fun to be high as fuck and just ask the AI for weird things to see what comes out. I have a lot of fun doing that with a couple of glasses of cheap red wine in me, I cant imagine shrooming and messing with the AIs. Actually, I am deeply irritated by their speed, and High-Marcus might not be able to handle it.

Midjourney AI and mjr: hard drive sushi

Sometimes its really fun to put something vague in, just to see what comes out the other side:

Midjourney AI and mjr: the most depressing thing possible.

Anyhow, as Ive mentioned before, the content filters on Midjourney and Dall-E annoy me greatly, because I feel that Americans are incredibly hypocritical about their cultural values which specifically downplay eroticism in favor of violence. I know its important to have enthusiastic young killers for the imperial military, but it disgusts and annoys me. Also, its impossible to play with these AI art generators and not think I wonder if it can do Donald Trump sitting on a really gigantic Putin-shape...

01:02

Doguwa Announces Speakership Bid Amidst Murder Case "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The majority leader of the House of Representatives and a lawmaker representing Kano States Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency, Alhassan Doguwa, has announced his intention to run for the Speaker of the 10th National Assembly, citing his love of nation-building as the motivation. The lawmaker made this known in a letter of intent sent to members-elect []

The post Doguwa Announces Speakership Bid Amidst Murder Case appeared first on New Telegraph.

01:00

Foundation gets chairman "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN) has appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Amni International Petroleum Development Company Limited, Tunde Afolabi as new board chairman. He took over the chairmanship of the SCFN Board from Prof. Olu Akinyanju, the founder and first chairman of the foundation. Afolabi was appointed to champion and drive the foundations mission []

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01:00

Omotosho: Nigeria Poses Greater Challenge To Successful Intra-Regional Trade "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The Registrar NAGAFF Academy,Francis I. Omotosho, in this interview with BAYO AKOMOLAFE, speaks on inadequate circulation of new naira notes, challenges in the first three months of the year in the port sector and why Nigerian market would pose challenges to intra-regional trade What is your view of the port industry performance in the first []

The post Omotosho: Nigeria Poses Greater Challenge To Successful Intra-Regional Trade appeared first on New Telegraph.

01:00

Unilever Nigeria Appoints MD "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Unilever Nigeria Plc has appointed Mr. Tim Kleinebenne as managing director with effect from May 5, 2023. In a statement by the company, he was appointed following the resignation of Mr. Carl Cruz as managing director with effect from May 4, 2023. Kleinebenne obtained a degree in business economics from the University of Hamburg in []

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01:00

Wema Bank: 5-week 7% Loss In Stock Value Unsettling "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Wema began the year with a share price of 3.90 NGN but has since lost 2.56 percent off that price valuation, ranking it 130th on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) in terms of year-to-date performance. Shareholders worries are com- pounded by the development that has seen the lender losing seven per cent of the stocks []

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01:00

Weekly Wrap-Up: Gains As Benchmark Indexes Up 2.04% "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Nigerian equities closed its session stronger on Friday to finish in perfect week. This brings the All-Share Index up by 0.32 per cent to settle at 52,403.51 points. Gains in BUAFOODS (+5.56%), WAPCO (+0.42%) and ACCESSCORP (+1.50%) outweighed losses in telco heavyweight, MTNN (-0.57%) alongside GTCO (-0.20%) and NB (-2.59%), keeping the market in the []

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01:00

Rating Agency, A M. Best, Set For 49th AIO Conference In Algiers "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

AM Best will sponsor and attend the 49th African Insurance Organisation (AIO) Conference and Annual General Assembly to be held 27-31 May 2023 in Algiers, Algeria. Andrea Keenan, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, AM Best, along with Dr Edem Kuenyehia, director, market development and communications, and in his capacity as AM Bests director []

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00:53

German IT provider Bitmarck hit by cyberattack "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Bitmarck, one of the largest IT service providers for social insurance carriers in Germany, announced yesterday that it has suffered a cyber attack.

The German IT service provider Bitmarck announced on April 30 it had taken all its systems offline due to a cyberattack. The incident impacted statutory health insurance companies that have their IT operated by BITMARCK. The company immediately reported the incident to the responsible authorities.

The company did not disclose details about the attack, it launched an investigation into the incident with the help of external cybersecurity experts.

BITMARCK has identified a cyber attack. Our early warning systems have reported an attack on BITMARCKs internal systems. As part of our security protocol, BITMARCK then took customer and internal systems offline and carried out an impact analysis. reads the announcement published by the company. BITMARCK is currently taking systems back online step by step in accordance with a structured, security and priority-oriented process.

The company excludes a data breach, it pointed out that the patient data stored in the EHR was and is never endangered by the attack. 

The service providers statement said that the services that are already available or will be available shortly include, in particular, the digital processing of electronic certificates of incapacity for work (eAU) and access to the electronic patient file (ePA). 

The bad news is the disruptions are not ended and will likely cause considerable restrictions in day-to-day business for the foreseeable future. 

BITMARCK and the statutory health insurance companies plan and carry out the necessary measures under the proviso that essential services are impaired as little as possible. Whenever possible, alternative procedures will be made available. concludes the statement. We very much regret the inconvenience caused to our customers, service providers and insured persons and are working to restore the syste...

00:47

East Palestine Derailment Disaster Continues to Unfold with Amanda Kiger "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

East Palestine Derailment Disaster Continues to Unfold with Amanda Kiger On February 23, a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, causing an environmental disaster of historic proportions. It was a Norfolk Southern train, which was over a mile long and carrying hazardous materials, including over 100,000 gallons of vinyl chloride. Three days later, a so []

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00:46

The Leaked Plan to Attack Russians in Syria Revealed "IndyWatch Feed War"

By Steven Sahiounie | Strategic Culture Foundation | May 1, 2023

The war in Ukraine was planned to extend to Syria. Leaked secret documents revealed the Ukrainian military were planning to attack Russian troops stationed in Syria in an effort to distract Russia and cause losses and casualties far from the battlefield in eastern Europe.

Jack Teixeira, a young member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested by the FBI in the investigation of leaked classified military intelligence which were viewed on the Discord chat platform.

Among the documents were details of the planning and assessment of attacks on Russian military capabilities in Syria, to be carried out by the U.S. military partner there, the SDF.

The SDF control the northeast quarter of Syria and the troops are made up of about one-third Kurds and two-thirds Arab tribal members. The Kurdish semi-autonomous region in Syria was created by the U.S. alliance with the Communist administration of the Kurds under Ilham Ahmed and General Mazloum Abdi.

The area the U.S.-Kurdish alliance controls is not populated by a majority of Kurds, but the Kurds do represent a sizable ethnic population. Once they became financially and militarily supported by the U.S., the Kurds were able to carry out a program of ethnic cleansing which displaced the original inhabitants from their homes, lands and businesses.

The SDF working alongside the U.S. occupation forces in Syria were planned to be supplied with drones and other equipment to attack the Russian troops in Syria. The Russian airbase on the coast in Latakia was cited to be attacked as well as other areas.

The Ukrainian military intelligence had planned the attacks in Syria, using the U.S. allied paramilitary force the SDF, for the purpose of opening a second front in the war with Russia. The planning strategized that Russia would be distracted by attacks on its forces in Syria, and become weaker in their military capabilities.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, a former TV comedienne, cancelled the operations while still in the planning stages.

The Russian military was invited into Syria in October 2015, when the terrorist group Jibhat al-Nusra was at its height and threatened to over-run the coastal region. After the Russian military arrived in Syria, the Russian forces alongside the Syrian Arab Army were successful in pushing the terrorists back. Today, the central government in Damascus controls almost all of Syria with the exception of the Kurdish region prev...

00:44

While Lockheed Martin Shareholders Met Online, Residents of Collingwood, Canada Protested Their Fighter Jets "IndyWatch Feed War"

WBW Chapter member Frank stands outside MP office with sign reading Lockheed Jets are Climate Threats

While Lockheed Martin held its annual general meeting for shareholders online on April 27, World BEYOND War chapter members picketed outside their Member of Parliaments office in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. The Canadian government recently committed to purchasing F-35 fighter jets produced by Lockheed Martin. The following article was published in their local paper ahead of their protest.

WBW Chapter member Gillian stands outside MP office with a sign reading $55,000 buys ONE HOUR of jet rime.. or ONE YEAR of nurse time!

By Collingwood Today, May 1, 2023

Collingwood-based Pivot2Peace is inviting residents to join them for a demonstration today in protest against the Canadian governments upcoming $7-billion purchase of F-35 fighter jets.

The jets will be...

00:43

One Health The Global Takeover of Everything. The Pandemic Treaty "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:35

Military Situation In Bakhmut On May 1, 2023 (Map Update) "IndyWatch Feed War"

Military Situation In Bakhmut On May 1, 2023 (Map Update)

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  • Russian forces took control of the medical college and the military in the center of Bakhmut;
  • Russian forces are advancing southwest of the intersection of the streets of Dekabrists and Alexander Matrosov;
  • Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue along Chaikovskoho street;
  • Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue along Levanevskoho street;
  • Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue near the Mig-17 monument;
  • Russian forces took control of almost 90% of Bakhmut

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00:32

John Pilger on the Coming War. Speak Up, Now "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:31

Bipartisan US Bill Aims to Prevent AI From Launching Nuclear Weapons "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Brett Wilkins In the name of protecting future generations from potentially devastating consequences, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation meant...

Bipartisan US Bill Aims to Prevent AI From Launching Nuclear Weapons

00:30

Charles Lieber: From China Spy To Two Days Already Served "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Maryam Henein Former Harvard Professor Charles Lieber was initially arrested for espionage, but slowly the 64-year-olds charges were distilled to mere tax evasion. And...

Charles Lieber: From China Spy To Two Days Already Served

00:27

Net Zero and the Transhuman Agenda: War Against Nature and Humanity "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:23

6 Physics Breakthroughs Predicted During Your Lifetime | Unveiled "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

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In this video, Unveiled takes a closer look at the most exciting ways that physics will change the world during YOUR lifetime! Were now SO CLOSE to making these incredible breakthroughs, but which will happen first? And which will have the greatest impact on life, the universe, and everything?

This is Unveiled, giving you incredible answers to extraordinary questions!

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0:00 Intro.
0:40 CERN and Supersymmetry.
2:27 New Nuclear Energy.
3:48 Dark Energy Breakthrough.
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7:09 Theory of Everything.

00:18

The Corona Agendas Abiding Ironies: Freedom, Slavery and Singularity "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:17

Fedora Onyx Aims To Be A New Fedora Linux Immutable Variant "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

While there is already Fedora Silverblue as a Fedora Workstation variant leveraging RPM-OSTree for creating an ummutable OS image and Fedora Kinoite as a KDE-based alternative, Fedora Onyx has been proposed as a new immutable variant of Fedora Linux...

00:13

Bringing back knobs and buttons for car controls "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Unlike in similar countries, the pandemic brought some bad news on the roads for the US.

Unlike in most peer countries, American roadway deaths surged during the pandemic and have barely receded since. Pedestrian and cyclist fatalities recently hit their highest levels in 40 years, but U.S. transportation officials continue to ignore key contributing factors.

One of the causes for the increased accident rate may be the proliferation of touch screen controls that can lead to more distracted driving.

As I explained in a 2021 Slate article, the trend toward car touch screens has been a dangerous one for road safety. Those who drove in the 1990s will remember using buttons and knobs to change the radio or adjust the air conditioning without looking down from the steering wheel.

Despite their name, touch screens rely on a drivers eyes as much as her fingers to navigateand every second that she is looking at a screen is a second that she isnt looking at the road ahead. Navigating through various levels of menus to reach a desired control can be particularly dangerous; one study by the AAA Foundation concluded that infotainment touch screens can distract a driver for up to 40 seconds, long enough to cover half a mile at 50 mph.

The irony is that everyone basically accepts that its dangerous to use your phone while driving, said Farah. Yet no one complains about what were doing instead, which is fundamentally using an iPad while driving. If youre paying between $40,000 and $300,000 for a car, youre getting an iPad built onto the dashboard.

It appears that drivers are revolting against touch screens and some car makers are paying heed and going back to buttons and knobs.

The touch screen pullback is the result of consumer backlash, not the enactment of overdue regulations or an awakening of corporate responsibility. Many drivers want buttons, not screens, and theyve given carmakers an earful about it. Auto executives have long brushed aside safety concerns about their complex displaysand all signs suggest they would have happily kept doing so. But their customers are revolting, which has forced them to pay attention.

For well over a decade, touch screens have spread like a rash across dashboards. As with other dangerous trends in car design (see the steering yoke), this one can be traced back to Tesla, which has for years positioned its vehicles as tablets on wheels. As a result, touch screens were seen as representing tech-infused modernity. But cost has been a factor, too. These screens are presented as this avant garde, minimalist design, said Matt Farah, a car reviewer and host of The Smoking Tire, an auto-focused YouTube channel and podcast. But really, its t......

00:04

Four new stable kernels "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.3.1, 6.2.14, 6.1.27, and 5.15.110 stable kernels. They all contain a fairly small collection of important fixes. Note that there is a report of build problems in the wireguard subsystem for the 6.1.27 and 5.15.110 kernels, so we may see updates for those fairly soon.

00:04

How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:02

The Wests Sanctioning and Isolating Russia Has Failed. Massive Worldwide Majority for Multipolarity "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:00

Your Guide To Using Amazons Sidewalk Network for the Internet of Things "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

As the Internet of Things became a mainstream reality, it raised an interesting point about connectivity. We quickly learned it wasnt ideal to have every light bulb, toaster, and kettle buzzing away on our main WiFi networks. Nor was it practical to sign up for a cellular data plan for every tracker tag or remote sensor we wanted to use.

To solve this issue, various tech companies have developed their own low-power mesh networking solutions. Amazons Sidewalk network is one of the widest spread in the US. Now, its opening it up for wider use beyond its own products, and you can get in on the action.

See You On The Sidewalk

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00:00

Who Likes Jets? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

  Identify the Tank   Identify the Aircraft 1 Favored by Astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Glenn & baseball legend Ted Williams. 2 3   FLIP Pillars and floats are pretty stable, compared to regular boats. This research vessel, called FLIP, purposefully capsizes itself to be more steady when conducting research.     Do you []

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23:55

Why Tucker Carlson Had to be Purged. Axed by the Regimes Henchmen "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:54

Security updates for Monday "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Security updates have been issued by Debian (distro-info-data, ffmpeg, jackson-databind, jruby, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, libxml2, openvswitch, sniproxy, and wireshark), Fedora (git, libsignal-protocol-c, php-nyholm-psr7, python-setuptools, rust-askama, rust-askama_shared, rust-comrak, thunderbird, and webkitgtk), SUSE (git, glib2, shadow, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (Apache Commons Net, git, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-kvm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-snapdragon, netty, and ZenLib).

23:49

War Weapon: The Erasure of History. Manlio Dinucci "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:49

Iranian govt uses BouldSpy Android malware for internal surveillance operations "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Iranian authorities have been spotted using the BouldSpy Android malware to spy on minorities and traffickers.

Researchers at the Lookout Threat Lab have discovered a new Android surveillance spyware, dubbed BouldSpy, that was used by the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA).

The researchers are tracking the spyware since March 2020, starting in 2023, multiple security experts [1,2] started monitoring its activity.

Despite BouldSpy spyware supports ransomware capabilities, Lookout researchers have yet to see the malicious code using them, a circumstance that suggests the malware is under development or it is a false flag used by its operators.

The analysis of exfiltrated data from C2 servers used by the spyware revealed that BouldSpy has been used to spy on more than 300 people, including minority groups such as Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Azeris, and possibly Armenian Christian groups. The malware was likely used to counter and monitor illegal trafficking activity related to arms, drugs, and alcohol. 

We believe FARAJA uses physical access to devices, likely obtained during detention, to install BouldSpy to further monitor the target on release. In our research, we obtained and reviewed a large quantity of exfiltrated data that included photos and device communications, such as screenshots of conversations, recordings of video calls, as well as SMS logs. reads the report published by Lookout. Our analysis also revealed photos of drugs, firearms, and official FARAJA documents that indicate potential law enforcement use of the malware. However, much of the victim data points to its broader usage, which indicates targeted surveillance efforts towards minorities within Iran.

23:48

Government Corruption is Unprecedented "IndyWatch Feed World"

COMMENT: Hi Martin
Thanks largely to you, my family and I never took the covid vaccines. You are/were right that the Covid pandemic was a scam.
However, today, I read a post by you that reported that an 11% spontaneous abortion rate is something to be concerned about. The average miscarriage rate for woman younger than 35 is 15% and it gets worse, the older you get.

HH

REPLY: I think this T-Shirt sums it all up. We cannot survive under a Republic without term limits. Once someone becomes a politician, all is lost. Our politicians have been bribed and now there is a lawsuit filed against the head of the EU for she never put it to Parliament, bought billions of doses many times more than the population of Europe, with ZERO accountability.

These people have crossed to the other side and we become the enemy. I was in British Columbia about 20 years ago and I was totally shocked by a left-wing woman politician I do not remember her name. She actually said that EVERYTHING we earn belongs to the government. They decide how much we are allowed to retain.

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23:39

Chris Hedges: The Enemy From Within "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Washington DC (Scheerpost) America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be constant preparation for war. The war machines massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Gtterdmmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, without the gods.

Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its tax dollars on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single-sustaining activity of the government. Military systems are sold before they are produced with guarantees that huge cost overruns will be covered. Foreign aid is contingent on buying U.S. weapons. Egypt, which receives some $1.3 billion in foreign military financing, is required to devote it to buying and maintaining U.S. weapons systems. Israel has received $158 billion in bilateral assistance from the U.S. since 1949, almost all of it since 1971 in the form of military aid, with most of it going towards arms purchases from U.S. weapons manufacturers. The American public funds the research, development and building of weapons systems and then buys these same weapons systems on behalf of foreign governments. It is a circular system of corporate welfare.

Between October 2021 and September 2022, the U.S. spent $877 billion on the military, thats more than the next 10 countries, including China, Russia, Germany, France and the United Kingdom combined. These huge military expenditures, along with the rising costs of a for-profit healthcare system, have driven the U.S. national debt to over $31 trillion,...

23:35

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23:17

BDS Fails, May 2023 (Stories you wont read in the UK media) "IndyWatch Feed War"

Heres the latest installment in our ongoing series of posts documenting BDS fails stories of Israeli success that are rarely covered by British media outlets.

Political BDS Fails

US House of Representatives passes pro-Israel, Abraham Accords resolution in 400-19 vote

Legislators voted overwhelmingly yesterday in favor of a resolution expressing support for the U.S.-Israel relationship and the Abraham Accords, in honor of Israels 75th anniversary

The resolution represents a strong bipartisan show of support for the U.S.-Israel relationship and highlights the robust support that Israel continues to enjoy in Congress.

North Dakota signs anti-BDS legislation

North Dakota has become the 35th state to pass a law countering the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

The legislation prevents those contracting with the state from participating in boycotts of Israel and bars the state from investing in companies that would have the effect of requiring or inducing any person to boycott Israel.

William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, praised the nearly unanimous passage of the law, which, he stated, demonstrates North Dakotas firm commitment to Israel, as the goal of the BDS Movement is to end Israels existence as a Jewish state.

Pa...

23:13

WATCH: Parents STAND UP to council and trans activists over Drag Storytime "IndyWatch Feed World"

READ MORE AT REBEL NEWS AUSTRALIA  Hundreds of concerned parents and ratepayers gathered at Monash...

23:07

Recent Severe Microwave Syndrome, Triggered by 5G? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:03

Crying Out Against the Drive for World War. Emanuel Pastreich "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:00

Rockefeller Foundations New Focus on Climate Change Signals the Next Phase of the Great Reset "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:00

Feds admit offshore wind can kill whales! "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried in the depths of thousand page documents

Photo Essay: The colonial violence that goes unreported in Palestine "IndyWatch Feed War"

Palestinian farmers line up at an Israeli military gate in West Bank village of Hablah to reach their agricultural land located behind the Israeli colonial wall, in March 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Bazz, Activestills)References to 'cycles of violence' dominate the mainstream media's coverage of Palestine, but this ignores the violence of Palestinians' daily reality living under Israeli colonialism.

22:54

Neocons Starting to Panic About Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:54

Spot the Individual "IndyWatch Feed War"


 
Extracts from a 2 March 2023 study by Kisielinski, Wagner, Hirsch, Klosterhalfen, and Prescher, Possible toxicity of chronic carbon dioxide exposure associated with face mask use, particularly in pregnant women, children and adolescents A scoping review,:

Introduction
During the SARS-CoV-2-pandemic, face masks have become one of the most important ubiquitous factors affecting human breathing. It increases the resistance and dead space volume leading to a re-breathing of CO2. So far, this phenomenon and possible implications on early life has not been evaluated in depth.

Discussion
There is a possible negative impact risk by imposing extended mask mandates especially for vulnerable subgroups.

22:53

Hairy Male Creep on the Cover of Brides Today "IndyWatch Feed War"

A male wearing a dress is featured on the latest cover of Brides Today, an English-language Indian publication. The model is a non-binary transfeminine activist who goes by Alok.

In the article, Alok said: I wish I could post an image of myself online without being inundated with hate mail. I wish I could be seen as a human being But Im not going to wait for that future, Im going to build it now, here, with the people who are ready for love.

To those who lean toward the to each their own/its none of my business/live and let live line of thinking [sic], please allow me to introduce something else Alok said a few years ago:

These days the narrative is that transgender people will come into bathrooms and abuse little girls. I believe in the radical notion that little girls are complicated people. There are no fairy tales and no princesses here. Little girls are trans, queer, kinky, devious, kind, mean, beauti...

22:53

What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do? "IndyWatch Feed War"

<p><a href= "https://substack.com/redirect/5bae526e-337a-4d84-98b6-511ac4ded6c7?j=eyJ1Ijoiam4wMmoifQ.PaddeBtKle9joHJvDN3ueADzsKO9yeCM5BKLmMw0ldw" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" height= "368.2" src= "https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/DbwRjHU33w7kRBOE6Owd5WofLEGDqSB2xwFw2oeXO7S0-d1Pl4fkBYv3yLjXVfLtV0vWshp6nyXaCdSr231dhGcP_6WBoX7xC7ft14Cie97ypTCUBdqWsCUbWXvkH7kgs8reIH1VVX-i3R0C6gCVL-tO5R_JZdB0ylSRjiqMJvGEcAACM21yvxGqIN5569ov7hCvfcDJJVkulOFZu0WLZofL-PQ7WwBeD85f6Fx82mUxBVXWVAAqTPPtTOvRRNEY08yEWNUSSRyz9Gpq8RgkcSf3MFx-Ckh7TBrQAsEJ14JPM1pdsYE=s0-d-e1-ft#https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1248,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F923246a8-8897-450f-873e-fab16f9159fe_624x422.png" width="500"></a><br> Illustration by Sam Poling</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Daniel Ellsberg the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who has been an inspiring activist for peace since the early 1970s recently wrote a public letter disclosing that he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, with a prognosis that he has only three to six months to live.</em></p> <p>Join us for Daniel Ellsberg Week to celebrate the lifes work of Daniel Ellsberg, to take action in support of whistleblowers and peacemakers, and to call on state and local governments around the country to honor the spirit of difficult truth-telling with a commemorative week, April 24-30.</p> <p> <a href= "https://substack.com/redirect/a60c3172-609e-4b2b-b78f-0c7187a8164c?j=eyJ1Ijoiam4wMmoifQ.PaddeBtKle9joHJvDN3ueADzsKO9yeCM5BKLmMw0ldw" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy & The RootsAction Education Fund

I first met Dan Ellsberg through the pages of history, an 11-year-old boy caught up in the political scandal that was known as Watergate. He emerged as a footnote to the larger drama surrounding President Richard Nixons involvement with the so-called White House plumbers, a secret investigative unit working directly for Nixon. The plumbers had broken into the Watergate Hotel to steal information from the Democratic National Committee that could be of use in support of Richard Nixons reelection bid, only to get caught.</p> <p>In the investigation that followed, it became known that the plumbers had carried out numerous other jobs for the President, includ...</p>

22:52

An Occupying Power Cannot Be a Beacon of Democracy "IndyWatch Feed War"

As Israel celebrates its 75th anniversary, every Israeli should remember that the occupation stains the countrys independence day and that Israel is not and will not be a true democracy as long as it remains an occupying power

I couldnt applaud and admire enough the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who protested for 17 consecutive weeks against the Netanyahu governments scheme to subvert Israels judiciary under the pretense of necessary reforms. In reality, Netanyahu and his Justice Minister Levin were bent on subordinating Israels Supreme Court to the whims of a simple majority in the Knesset, and the appointment of judges to a committee with an increased number of representatives handpicked by his government. Should such legislations come to pass, it will be tantamount to giving the government unlimited power without any checks and balances, destroying the very foundation of democracy on which the country was founded and in which Israelis take special pride.

The irony here though is that whereas the majority of Israelis believe that their country is a democracy and fervently poured into the streets to preserve it, and often refer to it as the only democracy in the Middle East, what escapes them is that no country can claim to be a democracy and be an occupying power at the same time. Indeed, applying two different sets of laws and rules, one that governs Israeli citizens (including Israeli settlers in the West Bank) that accords them protection and social, economic, and political freedoms, versus the military rules that govern the Palestinians under occupation, depriving them of their basic human rights, is totally inconsistent with democracy by any definition.

The question is, why have the Israelis grown so comfortably numb to the ruthless occupation and have not once protested against its continuation, as if it were a normal state of being that has no effect or repercussions on either the occupier or the occupied?

Public acrimony: To begin with, successive Israeli governments, especially since the second Intifada in 2000, during which conservative governments were largely in power, have systematically engaged in acrimonious public narratives against the Palestinians, portraying them as being an irredeemable foe. Depicting the Palestinians as such was deliberate, albeit every Israeli government knew only too well that the Palestinians will never be in a position to pose a credible existential threat against their country.

Nevertheless, they continue to promote their denunciation of the Palestinians for public consumption, knowing that they have been nurturing hatred and cultivating hostility against the Palestinians, which now defines the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. Acrimonious public narratives that set one people against another obviously fosters conflict rather than cooperation, which is essential to a functioning democracy.

Lack of awareness: Most Israelis have very little firsthan...

22:51

The G20 Must Build on the G7 Five-Point Plan for Critical Minerals "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The G7, formed in 1975, is an intergovernmental political forum of seven member states of CanadaFranceGermanyItalyJapan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union (EU). Historically, these countries are amongst the most influential ones, with significant political, economic, and military power. Japan assumed the G7 Presidency for 2023 and the 49th G7 Summit is scheduled to be held from 19-21 May 23 at Hiroshima.

Considering the increasing role of other countries in global politics, the G20 (Group of Twenty) was created which included emerging economies such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea and Turkey, along with the countries of the G7. Though the G20 was formed in 1999, initially it was attended only by finance ministers and central bank governors. The G20 represents over 80% of global GDP and two-thirds of the worlds population and provides a platform for both advanced and emerging economies to discuss and implement coordinated international responses on globally important issues, making it the premier forum for economic cooperation. India assumed the G20 Presidency for 2023 and the 18th G20 Heads of State and Government Summit will be held in New Delhi in September 2023.

 

Importance of critical minerals  

Critical minerals are those non-fuel minerals that are essential for the economic and national security of a country, but are vulnerable to supply chain disruption. These include lithium, cobalt, graphite, copper, rare earth elements, and platinum group metals, amongst others. These minerals are essential for clean energy technologies such as wind turbines, solar PV panels, storage batteries and electric vehicles. Therefore, their availability plays an important role in the sustainable energy transition.

The supply-demand gap of critical minerals in widening. The IEA forecasts that, driven by increasing deployment of clean energy technologies, the overall demand for critical minerals could increase by as much as six times by 2040, with the demand for lithium, graphite, cobalt and nickel increasing...

22:50

Europe Has Lost Its Guiding Myth. The Neocons Rising Fever for War with China "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:46

Harvard Scientists Have Developed a Groundbreaking Solution to Hearing Loss "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A group of scientists at Harvard Medical School are the pion-ears of innovative developments in hearing loss treatment.

Researchers at the schools Mass Eye and Ear hospital claim to have developed a groundbreaking solution to hearing loss, one of the music communitys most vexing and elusive problems.

According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers formulated a drug-like cocktail comprising various molecules that regenerate the inner ear hair cells responsible for relaying sounds to the brain.

22:45

Israeli settlers brutally beat Palestinians in fresh attack "IndyWatch Feed War"

Israeli settlers brutally beat Palestinians in fresh attack

A group of settlers physically assaulted two Palestinian men while visiting their land, as settler violence surges
Fayha Shalash Mon, 05/01/2023 - 13:45
A masked Israeli settler throws stones towards Palestinians during clashes in the West bank village of Urif, near Nablus 30 April 2013 (Reuters)
A masked Israeli settler throws stones towards Palestinians during clashes in the West bank village of Urif, near Nablus 30 April 2013 (Reuters)

A group of Israeli settlers assaulted and wounded two Palestinians on Monday in the latest attack against farmers, amid a rise in settler violence in the occupied West Bank.

Khaled Salah, 50, and Mahmoud Faroniya, 51, were trying to access their land in Burqa village near Nablus, north of the West Bank, when around eight settlers approached them in a car, and then proceeded to get out of the vehicle and attack them.

"When we saw them, we started to move away because we knew that they were going to attack us," Salah told Middle East Eye.

"My friend managed to run away,...

22:45

Israel: An Occupying Power Cannot be a Beacon of Democracy "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:45

The Voice: Trojan Horse to take our land Part 2 "IndyWatch Feed World"

READ MORE AT XYZ By Stephen Reason at Just One Focus and Stephen Reason Substack....

22:42

Linux 6.4 Has Many Networking Changes From A New Performance Tunable To More WiFi 7 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

With Linux running on everything from tiny single board computers with basic WiFi or Ethernet networking up through massive super-computer clusters, the Linux networking subsystem continues seeing immense improvements each kernel cycle. With Linux 6.4 the networking changes are heavy from new hardware support (including Apple M1 Pro/Max WiFi!) to continued work around WiFi 7 support as well as never-ending work on performance optimizations...

22:38

What the US Needs for Future Nuclear Power Tech to Get Off the Ground "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The National Academies call for the US to be smart about new reactor designs:

"The race against climate change is both a marathon and a sprint," declares a new report from the US National Academies of Science. While we need to start decarbonizing immediately with the tech we have nowthe sprintthe process will go on for decades, during which technology that's still in development could potentially play a critical role.

The technology at issue in the report is a new generation of nuclear reactors based on different technology; they're smaller and easier to build, and they could potentially use different coolants. The next generation of designs is working to avoid the delays and cost overruns that are crippling attempts to build additional reactors both here and overseas. But their performance in the real world will remain an unknown until next decade at the earliest, placing them squarely in the "marathon" portion of the race.

The new report focuses on what the US should do to ensure that the new generation of designs has a chance to be evaluated on its merits.

Most of the next generation of nuclear power designs fall into the category of what are termed small modular reactors (SMRs). These designs have two emphases: They are modular and could potentially be mass-produced, and they focus on inherent safety. Combined, these factors will theoretically allow for rapid and cheap production of reactors and a far lower footprint for the supporting power plant where the reactors are installed.

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22:36

The False Messaging on Vaccines Given to Pregnant Women "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:32

Shocking Footage Inside Nazi Death Camps "IndyWatch Feed World"

READ MORE AT RENEGADE TRIBUNE  We have been lied to about the death camps (work...

22:31

New Decoy Dog Malware Toolkit Uncovered: Targeting Enterprise Networks "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

An analysis of over 70 billion DNS records has led to the discovery of a new sophisticated malware toolkit dubbed Decoy Dog targeting enterprise networks. Decoy Dog, as the name implies, is evasive and employs techniques like strategic domain aging and DNS query dribbling, wherein a series of queries are transmitted to the command-and-control (C2) domains so as to not arouse any suspicion. "

22:30

The Big Chill will Save California From the Big Melt "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"


The media has been going big on potential disasters in California.

Drought warmings earlier this winter have been replaced by scary warming of major flooding as an incipient  "Big Melt" rapidly melts the record-breaking snowpack over the Golden State.

Desperately, California reservoir managers have been dumping water in a race to prevent reservoirs from being overtopped and potentially damaged as temperatures warm.

But it now appears that the weather gods have decided to be kind, and meteorological salvation is now in California's future.

An incipient Big Chill is about to reduce the Big Melt to tolerable levels.

Using the European Center ensemble prediction system, the best in the world, here are the predicted differences from normal of surface air temperatures around California for the ne...

22:27

Sudan Crisis Sets Stage for Possible Egypt Intervention "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Sudan has always been viewed by Egypt as strategic depth that is crucial for its national security; thus, the ongoing and rapidly developing crisis in Sudan undoubtedly presents the Egyptian administration with a set of complex and unique challenges. These challenges stem from the economy-related internal situation in Egypt, in parallel to external factors related to its foreign policy and strategic interests which can, at times, be opposed to regional Arab and Western allies interests. The latter was apparent over the past decade with regards to how Egypt approached the files of Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Gaza. However, the situation in Sudan is like no other. In Sudan, the conflict is between two heavily armed sides, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudans Armed Forces (SAF), where both are roughly the same size in terms of fighting manpower. Yet the RSFs history appears to be full of human rights abuses across Sudan and the paramilitary force that was originally created by the Sudanese government to counter national threats is now a regional major threat itself.

While the situation in Sudan is already starting to have spillover effects on neighbouring countries such as Chad, Central African Republic, and Eretria because of the massive influx of migrants, the threat to Egypt is much worse. Before the fighting, Egypt has been already the home for more than five million Sudanese people, representing more than 10% of Sudans population. Not to mention the number of Palestinian, Libyan, and Syrian refugees and immigrants who have found their way to Egypt since 2012. Yet with the ongoing and developing crisis in Sudan, Egypt is bracing for greater refugee influx border crossing and smuggling along with fear of lacking the capacity to absorb these refugees. That said, reports show that trafficking groups are taking advantage of the situation and becoming increasingly active along the Sudanese-Egyptian borders, thus increasing the risks associated with terrorism and extremist groups infiltration. Such risks have further been amplified by the RSFs attempt to open Sudans prisons, letting all prisoners and criminals loose to divert the attention of the SAF and destabilize the country further. In this respect, Egypt suffered over the past decade from events along its western border with Libya and eastern border with Gaza, which resulted in in terrorist groups infiltrating the borders and executing terrorist attacks in Egypt. This episode clearly indicates why Egypt would not allow the same to happen again from its southern border.

Another security threat to Egypt stems from Sudans strategic depth, corresponding to any military action by Egypt toward Ethiopia should the latter continue to pose a national security threat to Egypts water share from the Nile River through the al-Nahda Dam. In this respect, it...

22:26

Russian APT Nomadic Octopus hacked Tajikistani carrier "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Russian APT group Nomadic Octopus hacked a Tajikistani carrier to spy on government officials and public service infrastructures.

Russian cyber espionage group Nomadic Octopus (aka DustSquad) has hacked a Tajikistani telecoms provider to spy on 18 entities, including high-ranking government officials, telecommunication services, and public service infrastructures.

The cyberspies compromised a broad range of devices, from individuals computers to OT devices, as part of an operation tracked as Paperbug.

The Nomadic Octopus APT has been active since at least 2014, it focuses on entities in Central Asia and former Soviet Union countries. In April 2018, Kaspersky researchers discovered a new Octopus sample developed to target Windows systems, the malicious app used by the Democratic Choice (DVK) opposition party in Kazakhstan.

The initial step that led to the compromising of other victims very likely was the infiltration of the XXXXXXX network, even though the initial access time to XXXXXXX and how it was infiltrated is uncertain. reads the report published by cyber threat intelligence firm Prodaft. According to the frequency of screenshots being taken by Nomadic Octopus especially while targeted victims were writing e-mails and creating new contracts of their customers, the group spied on devices and took their notes diligently.

According to the researchers, the techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) observed in Operation PaperBug align with the attack pattern associated with Russia-linked threat actors like the Sofacy APT.

The Nomadic Octopus threat actor has continued to spy on the carrier since November 2020.

The researchers noticed that in some cases the state-sponsored hackers failed to stay stealthy in the compromised systems. They sometimes inadvertently caused permission pop-ups on the victim systems.

The Nomadic Octopus group used multiple servers as C2 for its backdoors and tools in the Paperbug campaign. The Octopus malware employed in the campaign supports the following capabilities:

  • Checking real IP address of the target system
  • Sending system information of the target system to the command and control server
  • Taking screenshot of the target system
  • Dumping Windows system credentials using fgdump program

Everything seems to b...

22:23

How vector databases can revolutionize our relationship with generative AI "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

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Generative AI has received a lot of attention already this year in the tech world and beyond. Whether its ChatGPTs prose or Stable Diffusions art, 2022 provided an insight into the potential for AI to disrupt creative industries.

But behind the headlines, 2022 brought an even more important development in AI: the rise of the vector database.

22:23

Ethereal whirlpool of light grows into a giant, perfect spiral above Alaska. What was it? "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A mystifying swirl of light recently appeared in the night sky above Alaska, briefly outshining a vibrant auroral display.

22:23

4 Reasons Our Future is Decidedly Virtual "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

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In January, new reports on Apples long-awaited augmented reality/virtual reality headset were released. And if whats in these reports is even partially true, Apple is poised to give the world one of the most jaw-dropping, powerful pieces of technology in history (again) which is why it was a bit surprising that this news didnt make more of a splash.

This is the same company that has fans enter lotteries for tickets to corporate keynote addresses! Yet, outside of the usual tech blogs and a few newspaper columns, the future of Apples AR/VR device went largely unnoticed.

22:22

Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Geoffrey Hinton, a VP and engineering fellow at Google and a pioneer of deep learning who developed some of the most important techniques at the heart of modern AI, is leaving the company after 10 years, the New York Times reported today.

According to the Times, Hinton says he has new fears about the technology he helped usher in and wants to speak openly about them, and that a part of him now regrets his lifes work.

22:22

Mark Zuckerberg says AI boosts monetization "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

AI is having its moment on tech earnings calls for the second consecutive quarter, following the widely popular launch of OpenAIs ChatGPT in late November. But not every company has the same plans for the new technology.

Nvidia (NVDA) is selling AI powered supercomputers. Microsoft (MSFT) is integrating ChatGPT into its search engine to compete with Google (GOOGL), which has its own AI searchbot.

Metas approach is slightly different. The core business for Meta since the early days of Facebook has been advertising sales, which still account for 98% of the companys quarterly revenue. So naturally, enhancing advertisements with AI is where Meta believes the new technology can be most impactful.

22:22

Link "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Can we ensure that AI is used ethically? Will AIs themselves develop empathy and ethics? Thats the topic Id like to discuss today. Its important.

I recently sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, PhD, AI researcher and Deputy CEO of Smart Eye, at my private CEO Summit Abundance360 to explore these questions. Rana has been focused on this very topic for the past decade.

Think about what comprises human intelligence. Its not just your IQ, but also your emotional and social intelligence, specifically how we relate to other people.

22:22

'Massive attack against freedom of speech': Elon Musk condemns Ireland's Orwellian hate speech bill "IndyWatch Feed World"

Ireland is about to pass "one of the most radical hate speech bills" in the entire world which will throw people in jail for possessing "hateful" material on their devices and consider the accused guilty until proven innocent. "Ireland is about to pass one of the most radical hate speech bills yet," Irish nationalist Keith Woods said on Twitter. "Merely possessing 'hateful' material on your devices is enough to face prison time." "Not only that, but the burden of proof is shifted to the accused, who is expected to prove they didn't intend to use the material to 'spread hate'. This clause is so radical that even the Trotskyist People Before Profit opposed it as a flagrant violation of civil liberties. Dark times."

22:20

Another One Down? First Republic Bank Is Failing, FDIC Likely to Seize Deposits TODAY "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Daisy Luther It was only 6 weeks ago when the nation was briefly paralyzed with concern as we watched three banks go under, with...

Another One Down? First Republic Bank Is Failing, FDIC Likely to Seize Deposits TODAY

22:19

Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel 2023Q1 Brings Improved Multi-GPU Video Acceleration Support "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Intel's open-source "cartwheel-ffmpeg" project is their repository where they collect all of their FFmpeg patches prior to upstreaming. While the patches have been available in Git form, prior to the weekend Intel released their 2023Q1 queue of patches to this widely-used, open-source multimedia library...

22:19

Ethiopia used chemicals to kill locusts. Billions of honeybees disappeared "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

Between 2019 and 2021, swarms of desert locusts swept across the Horn of Africa and East Africa. In response, the worst-affected countries, Kenya and Ethiopia, sprayed millions of hectares of cropland and pastures with chemical pesticides. A new study now finds the chemical spraying coincided with a steep decline in honey production in Ethiopia. Co-author Elena Lazutkaite a specialist in sustainability and pest control, and her colleagues at the Berlin think tank TMG estimate that in Ethiopia, billions of honeybees died or abandoned their hives during this period. In their study in the journal Agronomy, they argue that use of synthetic pesticides was most likely to blame. TMG is the nonprofit research arm of a consultancy co-founded by former top officials at the Food and Agriculture Organization and the U.N. Environment Programme. Chemical control may work faster against pests, but it comes with a greater cost, Lazutkaite said. If we consider the impact of wild pollinators and other non-target animals, the true costs of insecticide use could be in the realm of billions of U.S. dollars, she said. The FAO calls locusts a dangerous migratory pest because, in such colossal numbers, they can prove extremely destructive. An adult desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) consumes as much as its own body weight in a day. The 2019-2021 infestations made food scarcer for 20 million people in the region. Desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) climbing a tree to fledge. Image by ChriKo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). S. gregaria isnt always disruptive toThis article was originally published on Mongabay

22:18

Preparing for War: The Growing Global Military Budget "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:15

Welcome to Future Headline Friday "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Today, were trying something new and unique. In a world brimming with bewildering headlines, we spend a lot of time...

Welcome to Future Headline Friday

22:12

Net Zero and the Transhuman Agenda: War Against Nature and Humanity "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Julian Rose I have covered the great deception of Net Zero in more than one article already. But Im sticking with it because this...

Net Zero and the Transhuman Agenda: War Against Nature and Humanity

22:12

Graeme MacQueen: A Warrior for Peace. His Legacy will Live "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:05

Welcome to the last week of the semester "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Everything crashes together at the end of the term. Its inevitable that everything comes due before everyone goes away, and its urgent that I get it all graded as fast as possible. So I set a deadline of 6pm tonight for the final lab report in genetics; then tomorrow at 6pm is the deadline for the last take-home midterm; and then the day after tomorrow is the last class session, which Ive set aside for final grade assessment. Everything has to be done by Wednesday so everyone knows their semi-final status! The next couple of days are going to involve me sitting late at night staring at reports and exams on the screen.

I have two more lectures to give in introductory biology, one on examples of modern evo-devo research, and a final discussion of bioethics.

I wont be done after that, though. I have to compose take-home final exams for genetics and the intro biology course, and get those formatted and submitted by Friday. Grading those will slap me in the face at the end of next week.

One bright spot in the endless misery of evaluation is that Ive decided that Friday will be game day: I have a few decks of Clades and Ecologies and well celebrate the last day of the semester with some fun.

22:02

[POSTPONED] Book presentation w/ Peter Gelderloos | Strategies for ecological revolution from below "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

We are sorry to announce that because of a health emergency we unfortunately have to postpone the book presentation from Peter Gelderloos to a later date. We are awaiting further info on his condition and wish him well and solidarity. For more future info keep an eye on our website Lees verder/Read more

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22:01

KISS co-founder Paul Stanley calls normalizing child sex changes a 'sad and dangerous fad' "IndyWatch Feed World"

KISS singer and guitarist Paul Stanley called normalizing gender reassignment surgery on children a "sad and dangerous trend" on Sunday, sparking both backlash and praise for his comments as the nation battles many states crafting legislation surrounding so-called gender-affirming care. Stanley, 71, who co-founded the iconic rock n' roll group formed in the 1970s, posted on Twitter a statement where he shared thoughts about the controversial topic and new social contagion that has swept the U.S. recently and convinced minors to mutilate their body parts. "There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it," he wrote in a statement under the title "My Thoughts On What I'm Seeing."

21:59

April Music "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Music Ive bought in April.

Geez. Has it been a month already? I guess time flies when youve got a sprained ankle. And I guess that Ive been totally slacking in the buying new music dept for pretty much the same reason, somehow

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I did get at least one great album The Blue Hour by all these people above. We randomly caught the performance of the thing at Big Ears in Knoxville this year, and it was amazing. And the albums good, too.

...

21:57

Full Disclosure of Fracking Chemicals is Long Overdue ~ Legislation Needed "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_45180" style= "width: 300px;"><a href= "https://www.frackcheckwv.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/5D93D41D-80EE-4776-B194-6D696D13D56B.jpeg"> <img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-45180" height="224" src= "https://www.frackcheckwv.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/5D93D41D-80EE-4776-B194-6D696D13D56B-300x224.jpg" title="5D93D41D-80EE-4776-B194-6D696D13D56B" width="300"></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">These challenges exist in PA, OH, WV, CO, CA, ND, NM & TX (click to enlarge this image)

EDITORIAL: Implement reforms for drilling & fracking in Pennsylvania
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Lawmakers were so eager to accommodate the natural gas industry nearly two decades ago that they opened the rich Marcellus Shale gas field without an adequate regulatory regime. Now, the state continues to play catch-up. It still does not require drillers to disclose all of the chemicals that they use to drill and hydraulically fracture gas wells, for example.

Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has raised the question of long-term fracking-waste disposal, three years after a statewide grand jury identified major regulatory failures and recommended significant reforms to better inform and protect the public.

That grand jury was convened by Attorney General Josh Shapiro. It followed up its findings of criminal wrongdoing against two drillers with a report on which the Governor the very same Josh Shapiro and the Legislature now should act.</strong></p> <p><strong>According to the EPA, the industry nationally produces about 1 trillion gallons of contaminated wastewater each year, about 2.6 billion gallons of which comes from deep wells in Pennsylvania.</strong></p> <p>To the industrys credit, it reuses most of the wastewater. But according to the PA Department of Environmental Protection, the industry still permanently disposed about 234 million gallons of the wastewater in deep injection wells in 2022. The industry also holds about 90 million gallons above ground at any given time, pending its reuse.</p> <p><strong>Because Pennsylvania has just 12 deep disposal wells, drillers ship most of the contaminated water by truck to Ohio, which has more than 200 such wells.Those wells themselves are controversial, partly because earthquakes have been attributed to them, including in Ohio. A consultant for a PA-DEP advisory board recently told the agency that the state would need between 17 and 34 more injection wells to handle the current wastewater volume.</strong></p> <p>Democratic state Sen. Kati...

21:56

Blood Clots, Pulmonary Emboli in Young Women: A Not-so-rare and Often Fatal Complication of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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21:55

EMF/RF/5G Cell Towers at Schools? Massachusetts Town Meeting Votes, For or Against Safety "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Patricia Burke In a tale of more than two cities, voters in Massachusetts face dramatically different choices at their town meetings in early May....

EMF/RF/5G Cell Towers at Schools? Massachusetts Town Meeting Votes, For or Against Safety

21:51

Contrary to What Microsoft-Funded Media Keeps Saying, Bing Has Lost a Lot of Market Share Since the Lying Chatbot Was Introduced (Despite Endless Marketing) "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Even in places/geographies where Microsoft does a lot of marketing and back room deals the market share of Bing falls noticeably (there were also many Bing layoffs this year).

Search Engine Market Share North America Nov 2022 Apr 2023: (link)

Search Engine Market Share North America Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
Down by a lot since all the fake hype started (from 7% to about 5.5%)

Search Engine Market Share Europe Nov 2022 Apr 2023: (link)

Search Engine Market Share Europe Nov 2022 - Apr 2023
Down by a lot since all the fake hype started (from 4% to about 3%)

Summary: We keep reminding people that the media/press is lying for Microsoft; not only is Bing not gaining, as in practice it is universally falling quite sharply and there are layoffs in that division (some of those who survived the layoffs are now vacated from the offices in Bellevue, WA)

21:39

Huge Development Means IRS Whistleblower Can Soon Explode Biden Family Scandals "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Hunter BidenAlthough unraveling the scandal will start with the tax case against Hunter Biden, it wont end there.

21:38

Sonnet on War "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Yes, my son, they covet global power.--But let them keep on preening as they strut--their stuff about the stages they construct--for demonizing those who will not cower.

21:38

Former child actor Matthew Lawrence says he was fired by agency after refusing casting couch advances by Marvel director "IndyWatch Feed World"

On Friday, actor Matthew Lawrence said on his podcast Brotherly Love, co-hosted by his brothers and fellow actors Andrew and Joey Lawrence, both actors, that he was "propositioned to get a huge role" by a famous director to get a role in a Marvel movie. "Whether it's another woman or another man in power, there's been many times in my life where I've been propositioned to get a huge role," Lawrence said. "I've lost my agency because I went to the hotel room which I can't believe they would send me to of a very prominent Oscar award-winning director, who showed up in his robe, asked me to take my clothes off and said he needed to take Polaroids of me and then if I did XY and Z I would be the next Marvel character." "I didn't do that. And my agency fired me because I left this, this director's room," he added.

21:28

Financially Low-Risk Borrowers Will Now Pay Higher Mortgage Fees In The Name Of Equity "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

hand writing check next to credit cards laying on deskBorrowers who put down less than 5 percent on their mortgage are having their fees reduced, no matter their credit score.

21:23

All 9 Supreme Court justices issue rare statement after leftist attacks on conservative justices "IndyWatch Feed World"

All nine Supreme Court Justices issued a statement late last week pushing back on attempts from Senate Democrats to implement new ethics oversight measures over the nation's highest court which comes after the political Left has tried to generate controversy surrounding three conservative justices in recent weeks. The statement from the justices also included a letter from Chief Justice John Roberts to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-IL) saying that he will not attend a hearing that Senate Democrats want to hold. "Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence," Roberts said.

21:21

Republicans Proved They Arent Holding Anyone Hostage On Raising The Debt Limit "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Speaker McCarthy speaking behind podium on House floorAfter last Wednesdays vote, Democrats cant claim conservatives amount to legislative nihilists who cant get to 'yes' on an issue.

21:14

CIA veteran reveals why he didn't sign Hunter Biden laptop letter "IndyWatch Feed World"

A retired CIA official is opening up about why he did not sign a letter that suggested the Hunter Biden laptop story could be part of a Russian disinformation operation just weeks before the 2020 election. Dan Hoffman, the CIA's former Moscow station chief, told Fox News he was "surprised" that no one requested his Russia expertise in discussing the letter before it went public and explained why he did not want his signature attached to it. "I remember I got the letter, October 18, 2020, and at first glance, it seemed natural to lay the blame at the Kremlin's doorstep. Remember, Vladimir Putin is in the Kremlin and he's well known for cloak-and-dagger espionage operations," Hoffman said. "But at the same time, there was no evidence and the letter noted there was no evidence. And I just felt like we needed to do the forensics. It was a very convoluted story."

21:11

After Bruno Pereiras murder, widow Beatriz Matos strives for Indigenous rights "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

One of the most important days of my life, are the words that anthropologist Beatriz Matos uses to describe her February visit to the Javari Valley on her first project as head of the Department of Territorial Protection and of Isolated and Recently Contacted Peoples inside the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.. Just eight months after the murder of her partner, Indigenous specialist Bruno Pereira, together with journalist Dom Phillips, she returned to the place with Minister of Indigenous Peoples Sonia Guajajara to make this administrations position very clear: The government will pay close attention to the local situation and work to guarantee safety and protection for Indigenous peoples and their territories. In an exclusive interview with Mongabay, Matos tells of the responsibilities she has at her job, speaks to the situation of isolated and recently contacted peoples in Brazil and shares memories of her partnership both personal and professional with Pereira. Beatriz Matos in Lobo, a village belonging to the Matss people in the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, Amazonas, in 2010. Image courtesy of Beatriz Matos. Mongabay: When was your first visit to the Javari Valley and what impact has this place had on your life? Beatriz Matos: The first time I actually set foot inside the Indigenous territory was in 2004. At the time, I was working at the CTI [Center for Indigenous Work], which was organizing teacher training courses. I took one of the courses together with people from the Mati and Marubo groups. That wasThis article was originally published on Mongabay

21:08

With little will to fight it, corruption is major risk for Indonesian palm oil "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

JAKARTA The combination of weak antigraft policies, lack of transparency, revolving-door politics, and the prevalence of politically exposed persons within companies makes Indonesias palm oil industry highly prone to corruption, a new report says. Published by anticorruption NGO Transparency International Indonesia (TII), the report evaluates the top 50 palm oil companies in Indonesia, the worlds biggest producer of palm oil. It focuses in particular on their disclosure practices with respect to their anticorruption programs, lobbying activities, company holdings, and key financial information. The report then scores these companies on six criteria on a scale of 0-10, with 0 being extremely not transparent and 10 being very transparent. The report found that, on average, the 50 companies only scored 3.5 out of 10. This means theres a general lack of transparency in palm oil companies political activities and how they can interfere with government policies, according to TII program officer Bellicia Angelica. In short, any government lobbying they carry out is done without much scrutiny and monitoring, leading to policies and regulations that are favorable to them, she said. This should serve as a warning for the government, the private sector and civil society to regulate the management of the palm oil industry more seriously, Bellicia said. The highest-scoring company in the report, at 7.2, is PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART), one of the palm oil arms of Indonesias billionaire Widjaja family, presiding over dozens of plantations and oil-processing mills across Indonesia. Yet even SMARTs score doesntThis article was originally published on Mongabay

21:00

Patent Spat Leaves DJI Owing Textron $279M "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Patents are the murky waters where technical jargon and legalese meet, and in this vast grey area of interpretation, DJI now owes Textron $279M.

At issue in the case were two patents issued to Textron (#8,014,909 and #9,162,752) regarding aircraft control systems for relative positioning to other vehicles and automatic hovering. The jury found that Textrons intellectual property (IP) had been infringed and that damages amounted to $279M. DJI asserts that Textrons patents are not valid and will appeal the decision. Appeals in patent trials are handled by the Federal Circuit and can be kicked up to the US Supreme Court, so dont expect a final decision in the case anytime soon.

Were not lawyers, so we wont comment on the merits of the case, but, while it was a jury trial, it was one of many cases decided in the court of Judge Alan Albright, who has been the...

21:00

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr., His Presidential Candidacy and Vaccine Views, Help Trump "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

I have mixed feelings about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the recently announced challenger to President Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination. But not evenly mixed feelings. 

 

On the positive side, he is one of the very few members of the Kennedy family willing to risk saying what others in the family will not: Key people in charge of investigating the deaths of his uncle and father, John and Robert, consistently failed to pursue meaningful leads that contradicted the official story.

 

Related: Sirhan May Go Free But the Truth on the Kennedy Assassinations Remains Locked Up

 

Nearly two decades ago, while doing document- and interview-based research for a book, I accidentally stumbled onto  copious evidence that there was more to the deaths of both men, which surprised me, as it certainly would most people and changed forever how I understood the limits of official candor and honest investigation. 

 

Bobby Jr.s willingness to endure a broad range of risks for talking about that topic impressed me, and led me to look at what else he has said, including his bracing critique of the military-intelligence-industrial complex. 

 

Unfortunately, the good news ends there. Its one thing to recognize real conspiracies and another to embrace all kinds of disinformation in keeping with his preconceived ideas, which are not supported by fact. 

 

Which takes us to RFK Jr.s views on public health. 

 

His outspoken positions and continuous leadership of the anti-vaccination movement are a huge blot on his overall record. Because its such a striking and profound departure from evidence-based logic, I think it instantly disqualifies him as a presidential candidate. 

 Now, I know plenty of people who buy the line that the COVID-19 vaccines or all vaccines are dangerous. Such people cite so-called experts and outliers who present evidence of grave danger from vaccines evidence that has been discredited by the vast majority of medical and scientific personnel worldwide. A number of anti-...

20:53

Wanted Dead or Alive: Real-Time Protection Against Lateral Movement "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Just a few short years ago, lateral movement was a tactic confined to top APT cybercrime organizations and nation-state operators. Today, however, it has become a commoditized tool, well within the skillset of any ransomware threat actor. This makes real-time detection and prevention of lateral movement a necessity to organizations of all sizes and across all industries. But the disturbing truth

20:52

Qualcomm Continues Working To Upstream Gunyah Hypervisor Support In Linux "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Near the start of 2022 engineers out of the Qualcomm Innovation Center posted Linux driver patches for their Gunyah hypervisor. Gunyah is an open-source type-1 hypervisor developed by Qualcomm with an emphasis on security and other features. More than one year later the Gunyah drivers have yet to be upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel but work on them persists...

20:46

Wealth of Nature "IndyWatch Feed World"

How has Costa Rica managed to restore its natural wonders, while big, rich nations fail?

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st April 2023

One of the worlds greatest environmental heroes doesnt even have a Wikipedia page. Though he has done more to protect the living planet than almost anyone alive, his name is scarcely known. Its partly because hes quiet and self-effacing and partly because of a general ignorance about Central America that so few of us have heard of Alvaro Umaa.

This might be about to change. He stars in a fascinating film, now released in the Netherlands and negotiating global sales, called Paved Paradise (disclosure: I was also interviewed). Its the first feature-length documentary Ive watched that engages intelligently with the most critical environmental issue: land use. By contrast with popular but misguided films such as Kiss the Ground or The Biggest Little Farm, it recognises that sprawling extractive land uses are a lethal threat to the living world. It makes the case that, unless we count the hectares and decide together how best they should be used, we will lose the struggle to defend the habitable planet.

Paved Paradise tells the story of the most remarkable ecological turnaround on Earth: the transformation of Costa Rica. From 1986 to 1990, Umaa was environment minister in scar Ariass government. Arias received the Nobel peace prize for his regional diplomacy. But the equally astonishing environmental shift Umaa catalysed is less well known.

Until the Arias government took power, Costa Rica suffered one of the worlds worst deforestation rates: on one scientific assessment, its forest cover fell to just 24.4% of the country.

Today, forests occupy 57%, which, Umaa tells me, is close to the maximum: some parts were never forested, while others are now occupied by productive farms and cities. While a small amount of illegal timber felling continues, Costa Rica is the only tropical country to have more or less stopped and then reversed deforestation. It now has one of the worlds highest percentages of protected areas. How did it happen?

Umaa persuaded Arias to let him run a new department (energy and environment) with responsibility for protected areas. He saw that the key task was to change financial incentives. Though cattle ranching was unproductive, as the land could support just one cow per hectare, it was marginally more lucrative than allowing th...

20:46

Biden CIA chief met with Epstein several times after financier convicted of child sex crime "IndyWatch Feed World"

Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns had three meetings with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014, when the top spy official was deputy secretary of state and after Epstein was convicted of child sex exploitation, documents indicate. Epstein's "black book" of contacts and flight logs shows that Burns first met with Epstein in Washington before Burns visited the convicted sex offender in his Manhattan townhouse, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Burns, who became CIA director under Joe Biden in 2021, met with Epstein while he was preparing to leave his position in the government, CIA spokeswoman Tammy Kupperman Thorp said.

20:38

Linux 6.4 Delivers A Big Performance Boost For VDUSE "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Merged last week for the Linux 6.4 kernel were all of the VirtIO and Virtual Data Path Acceleration (VDPA) changes. Interesting from that pull request is delivering a big performance bump for VDUSE...

20:30

No City Should Rely Primarily on a Sales Tax for Funding "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

 

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The concept of a Value Added Tax (VAT) used to be a popular discussion topic in public policy circles, especially in the past when Americans used to be more sensitive to debt and deficits. Culturally, we no longer have that sensitivity, despite some flaccid political posturing of late that, to me, seems more campaign rhetoric than an assertion of core beliefs. At the federal level, were all committed to debt now.

But, back when we werent, there were some serious people pushing for a VAT tax. The argument was simple. A VAT is a small tax assessed at each phase of the production stage for a good or service. Republicans could support it, it was suggested, because it was an almost invisible tax. Both parties could support it because VAT is a cash cow.

Local governments cant take on unlimited debt. They cant print their own money. They have hard fiscal constraints that the federal government does not have. Yet, some have a nearly invisible revenue source that is also a cash cow: the sales tax

There are plenty of arguments for cities to use a local sales tax as a primary revenue source. Besides it being a cash cow, it is also nearly invisible. With the exception of large purchases, taxpayers usually dont mind paying it because its a few cents here, a few cents there. There is a sense of solidarity in that everyone contributes, yet those who purchase more items, or more expensive items, pay more tax. And, for communities with a lot of people passing through, a sales tax is a way to tap into outsiders to pay for services for residents. 

So, all good, right?

...

20:24

Court Protects Redditors Right to Anonymous Speech in Piracy Case "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

reddit-logoEvery day, millions of people from all over the world submit posts, comments, and other content to Reddit.

In many cases, discussion comments are read and soon forgotten but several old threads were brought back to life recently as part of a piracy liability case.

Redditors as Evidence

The comments in question were picked up by Kerry Culpepper, a copyright attorney who leads several piracy lawsuits against Internet providers on behalf of independent film companies.

In the case at hand, the makers of The Hitmans Wifes Bodyguard, London Has Fallen, Hellboy and other films, accuse Internet provider RCN of not doing enough to stop subscribers from pirating on its network. Instead of terminating the accounts of persistent pirates, the ISP turned a blind eye, the filmmakers argued.

The main lawsuit was filed at a federal court in New Jersey and the parties are in the process of gathering evidence. As part of this quest, the filmmakers stumbled upon responses from nine Reddit users, whose comments are potentially relevant to the dispute.

For example, a comment from Redditor ChikaraFan noted the following regarding RCNs handling of copyright infringement emails:

Seems extremely rare if ever. RCN seems fairly laxno data caps. I looked up before I switched and had little trouble.

fairly lax

Reddit doesnt usually give up the identities of its users. However, in February the movie companies obtained a subpoena asking Reddit to share the personal details of nine users, including relevant IP-address logs.

Reddit Objects

Reddit was unhappy with the subpoena, characterizing it as overbroad. According to Reddits lawyers, the subpoena was more akin to a fishing expedition than regular evidence gathering. As such, Reddit only handed over the details of one user whose comment mentioned RCN, denying other less relevant ones, citing...

20:22

A megaprotein brake for aging and insulin-mTOR signaling "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Insulin-mTOR signaling drives anabolic growth in organismal development, while its late-life antagonistic pleiotropy affects aging and compromises lifespan across animal phylogeny. Here we identify LPD-3 as a megaprotein that orchestrates the tempo of insulin-mTOR signaling during C. elegans aging. We find that an agonist insulin INS-7 is drastically over-produced and shortens lifespan in lpd-3 mutants, a C. elegans model of human Alkuraya-Kuinskas syndrome. LPD-3 forms a bridge-like tunnel megaprotein to facilitate phospholipid trafficking to plasma membrane. Lipidomic profiling reveals increased abundance of hexaceramide species in lpd-3 mutants, accompanied by up-regulation of hexaceramide biosynthetic enzymes, including HYL-1 (Homolog of Yeast Longevity). Reducing HYL-1 activity decreases INS-7 levels and rescues the shortened lifespan of lpd-3 mutants through insulin receptor/DAF-2 and mTOR/LET-363. LPD-3 antagonizes SINH-1, a key mTORC2 component, and reduces protein abundance with age in wild type animals. We propose that LPD-3 acts as a megaprotein brake for aging and its age-dependent decline restricts lifespan through the sphingolipid-hexaceramide and insulin-mTOR pathways.

The authors have declared no competing interest.

20:21

Four killed as heavy rains, flood trigger dam collapse in Yemen "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The collapse of a water dam in the Al Mahwit governorate, roughly 111 km west of the country's capital Sanaa, resulted in the deaths of four people on Sunday in Yemen. The Al-Aqabi Dam which collapsed was in the Hafash region of the Al Mahwit governorate. Following the collapse it triggered a flood that carried away a mosque with four people inside. All four died. Moreover, homes and agricultural lands nearby were also damaged by the flood waters. The Houthi group has been in charge of the governorate since 2014. A Houthi-appointed official in the governorate named Adel Issa said that the dam was collapsed because of the excessive rains and the consequent floods.

20:16

Linus Torvalds Cleans Up The x86 Memory Copy Code For Linux 6.4 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

In recent years Linus Torvalds hasn't had the time to write too much original new code for the Linux kernel himself with these days mostly managing developers, providing insightful mailing list posts, and reviewing code for merging into the kernel tree along with related tasks. For Linux 6.4 though he did manage to write up some new code...

20:00

Colorado Lawmakers Mandate Audit of Halfway Houses Following ProPublica Investigation "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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Colorados halfway houses will get an independent financial audit for the first time in 20 years, after a ProPublica investigation found a lack of oversight contributes to a system where more people end up incarcerated than rehabilitated.

A new state law directs Colorados Division of Criminal Justice to hire a third-party auditor to evaluate the finances of halfway houses every five years, including the costs imposed on residents of the facilities. The findings of the first audits will be presented to lawmakers by July 1, 2025.

The goal is to make sure [halfway house programs] are working the way they were intended and to evaluate if they have the funds to meet those expectations, state Rep. Emily Sirota, a Denver Democrat who co-sponsored the bill, told ProPublica. We need the necessary data to assess that.

There are three ways people typically arrive in Colorados halfway houses: Some are sentenced by a judge to community corrections in lieu of jail or prison; others are finishing a prison sentence; and the rest are ordered to complete halfway house programs as a condition of parole.

This fiscal year, lawmakers allocated $87.7 million nearly 16% of the states public safety budget to the states 26 halfway houses. That money is funneled to local community corrections boards or governments that contract with either community or private operators to run the facilities.

A majority of these 26 halfway houses are owned by companies specializing in detention and community-based supervision. Three firms operate 15 of the facilities.

The new law follows a...

19:55

Five die in torrential rains, floods in Balochistan, Pakistan "IndyWatch Feed World"

Five people were died on Sunday due to rains and floods in different areas of Balochistan. According to private media reports, two persons were died each in Khuzdar, Mach and Lasbela and one in Ketch due to rains and flood. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) officials said that several slum houses were damaged in Chagai and Panjgur while Bolan Panjra Bridge and Sonari Bridge were partially vanished by Kohlu floodwaters due to recent heavy rains.

19:55

MAY DAY OR MAYDAY!!!!!!!! 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

May Day means International Workers Day which grew out of the 19th-century labour movement for workers rights and an eight-hour workday, while Mayday is a distress call that is used to signal a life-threatening emergency, usually on a ship or a plane. The history of the Nigerian working class has been that of continuous struggle []

19:17

Vietnamese Threat Actor Infects 500,000 Devices Using 'Malverposting' Tactics "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A Vietnamese threat actor has been attributed as behind a "malverposting" campaign on social media platforms to infect over 500,000 devices worldwide over the past three months to deliver variants of information stealers such as S1deload Stealer and SYS01stealer. Malverposting refers to the use of promoted social media posts on services like Facebook and Twitter to mass propagate malicious

19:05

These occupations will see the most jobs created, and lost, in the next 5 years "IndyWatch Feed World"

As you might have assumed already, technology will be a big driver behind which jobs will and will not exist in the near future.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has released its annual Future of Jobs Report for 2023 and it makes for some interesting reading, not only for employers but for younger people who have yet to decide upon a career path.

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19:01

Most parents would be supportive if their Gen Z children didnt want to go to college, study says "IndyWatch Feed World"

According to a new survey from Multiverse, millennial-age parents tend to express more support for alternative education pathways.

The cost of college has skyrocketed. Tuitions have increased 134% at private institutions in the past two decades and 141% at public institutions. However, a new report from Multiverse, a tech startup that offers apprenticeships as an alternate form of education, indicates that the majority of parents would be supportive if their children did not want a college degree.

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19:00

DR. CHARLES LIEBER SENTENCED "IndyWatch Feed World"

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19:00

Mondays Mistique "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

  Prepare to Come About   Boundary Stone 11th-century B.C. boundary stone with cuneiform inscriptions. Discovered in 1782 by botanist (and future French spy) Andr Michaux. (Photo BnF, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY)     Identify the SPG     Bullet Points: ** Crypto not a scam. No, not at all. ** []

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19:00

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #550 "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

If we could create the universe from scratch, wed all make sure that no one ever suffered misfortunes or disadvantages. The problem is that we dont get to create the universe from scratch. Thomas Sowell

Blocked Crossings Crisis Draws Local and National Calls for Action "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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Within 48 hours of an investigation about children having to crawl under parked trains to get to school in an Indiana suburb, residents packed a public meeting to demand solutions, the Federal Railroad Administration issued a safety advisory, a bipartisan group of Indiana lawmakers sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation pleading for change and Norfolk Southerns CEO, Alan Shaw, got involved.

The investigation, a partnership between ProPublica and InvestigateTV, detailed the challenges communities face when they are besieged by trains that can block railroad crossings for hours or even days. The piece featured videos and photos of children climbing over and crawling under trains operated by Norfolk Southern; the images were rebroadcast by news outlets across America and beyond. Hundreds of readers reached out to ProPublica about their own experiences with blocked crossings, caused by trains from various companies.

Officials in the working-class commuter city of Hammond previously told ProPublica that Norfolk Southern had not been helpful in the years the companys trains blocked its intersections. To them, I am nobody, Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. had said. But the day after the story was published, he got a call from Shaw, who told him he was shocked by the situation in Hammond and wanted to help fix it. I dont want to divulge too much about what we talked about, but if it works out the way I hope it does, it will be spectacular, the mayor said.

A company spokesperson previously attributed the blocked crossings problem to the citys location near the busy train hub of Chicago and to the fact that it sits between two major rail intersections that must remain open; moving a train forward or backward to clear Hammond streets would cut off the paths for other trains, which could belong to other companies. While...

18:52

APT28 Targets Ukrainian Government Entities with Fake "Windows Update" Emails "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of cyber attacks perpetrated by Russian nation-state hackers targeting various government bodies in the country. The agency attributed the phishing campaign to APT28, which is also known by the names Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, FROZENLAKE, Iron Twilight, Sednit, and Sofacy. The email messages come with the subject line "

18:50

UK Steams Towards Trade War with Turkey Over Ironing Boards "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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18:43

70-year-old hiker fought off mountain lion in Utah "IndyWatch Feed World"

A 70-year-old hiker escaped with cuts on his arms and legs after fighting off a mountain lion in north-central Utah, the state's Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) says. Evan Ray Nilsen was hiking in Diamond Fork Canyon near Spanish Fork on Thursday afternoon when he says the lion leapt on him. "A mountain lion hit me right on the side, knocked me down the hill," Nilsen said. "I kind of hunched up or folded up, and it come down around behind me," Nilsen told KUTV.

18:42

Who Gains from a Forever War in Ukraine? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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18:35

Google banned 173k developer accounts in 2022 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

In 2022, Google prevented 1.43 million policy-violating apps from being published in the official Google Play store.

Google announced that it prevented 1.43 million policy-violating applications from being published on Google Play in 2022. The IT giant also announced it has banned 173k developer accounts and prevented over $2 billion in fraudulent and abusive transactions.

Google announced that its successes are the results of improved security features and policy enhancements in combination with its continuous investments in machine learning systems and app review processes.

The company says it has prevented about 500K submitted apps from unnecessarily accessing sensitive permissions over the past 3 years.

Weve raised the bar for new developers to join the Play ecosystem with phone, email, and other identity verification methods, which contributed to a reduction in accounts used to publish violative apps. states the report published by Google. As the Android ecosystem expands, its critical for us to work closely with the developer community to ensure they have the tools, knowledge, and support to build secure and trustworthy apps that respect user data security and privacy.

The company explained that in 2022, the App Security Improvements program helped developers to address approximately 500K security weaknesses affecting approximately 300K apps.

Google is working with SDK providers to ensure the safety of SDKs used by app developers. The company also launched the...

18:23

US and South Korea Agree to Co-Design Nuclear Weapons Policy Five Years After Panmunjom Declaration "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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18:22

MIT Professor Compares Ignoring AGI to Dont Look Up "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

MIT professor Max Tegmark is stressed about the potential impact of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and thinks you should be, too.

18:22

Depleted Uranium An Untold Story "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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18:03

Lightning strike kills 4 children picking mangoes in Jharkhand, India "IndyWatch Feed World"

Ranchi, April 30: In Sahibganj, four children were killed by lightning. Ayesha Khatoon, 14, Nazrul Islam, 7, Zahid Alam, 6, and Tauqeer Alam, 10, were among those who died. There was a loud thunderclap, and the thunder fell on the same tree where the children were standing to pick mangoes. This thunderclap killed four children on the spot.

18:01

Preparing for War: The Growing Global Military Budget "IndyWatch Feed War"

US$2.24 trillion is a mighty amount. Its also a sickening figure when considering the object of this exercise. The flickering tease of war, the promise of bloodshed and an increasingly large butchers bill, are inevitable suggestions from such a figure. The scenes are also clear: well-paid suits dazed by theories of the next war; policy wonks jabbering over mock war games. A huge amount of money is being pushed into the venture, and the sceptics are being held at bay.

Much of this news comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institutes latest findings that countries are spending 2.2% of the worlds gross domestic product on armaments. Of that amount, the United States, China and Russia accounted for 56% of the total. Global military spending, the SIPRI report also notes, grew by 19% over 2013-2022, rising every year since 2015.

The amount is slightly more than the previous year, when SIPRI announced that total military expenditure had risen by 0.7% in real terms in 2021 to reach $2113 billion. The largest contributors to the binge on that occasion were the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom and Russia. In sum, the five countries accounted for 62% of expenditure.

This reads differently from the more optimistic International Monetary Institutes assessment from 2021: Worldwide military spending, when estimated on the basis of unweighted country averages, has declined by nearly half, from 3.6 percent GDP during the Cold War period (1970-90) to 1.9 percent of GDP in the years following the global financial crisis. When it comes to variations on the figures in this field, best stick with SIPRA.

2022 proved to be a boon for militarists the world over, though there were particular regions that saw more growth than others. In Europe, levels of spending had reached levels unseen since the Cold War, up from 13% from the previous twelve months. The reason commonly given: Russias invasion of Ukraine. In East Asia, the justification is the increasingly hostile US-Chinese rivalry, though those in Washingtons corner are ever pointing the finger to the Yellow Hordes ambitions in Beijing.

The picture in Europe is an ugly one, with concerns being expressed in certain strategic circles that not enough is being done to move away from dependency on the US imperium. The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)...

18:00

Hinges Live Inside 3D Prints "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Since desktop 3D printers have become more common, weve seen dramatic shifts in all kinds of areas such as rapid prototyping, antique restoration, mass production of consumer goods, or even household repairs that might not have been possible otherwise. There are a lot of unique manufacturing methods that can be explored in depth with a 3D printer as well, and [Slant 3D] demonstrates how one such method known as the living hinge can be created with this revolutionary new tool.

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17:53

Black Holes Resolve Paradoxes by Destroying Quantum States "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Performing the famous double-slit experiment near a black hole will never work:

Don't try to do a quantum experiment near a black hole its mere presence ruins all quantum states in its vicinity, researchers say.

The finding comes from a thought experiment that pits the rules of quantum mechanics and black holes against each other, physicists reported April 17 at a meeting of the American Physical Society. Any quantum experiment done near a black hole could set up a paradox, the researchers find, in which the black hole reveals information about its interior something physics says is forbidden. The way around the paradox, the team reports, is if the black hole simply destroys any quantum states that come close.

That destruction could have implications for future theories of quantum gravity. These sought-after theories aim to unite quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing subatomic particles, and general relativity, which describes how mass moves on cosmic scales.

"The idea is to use properties of the [theories] that you understand, which [are] quantum mechanics and gravity, to probe aspects of the fundamental theory," which is quantum gravity, says theoretical physicist Gautam Satishchandran of Princeton University.

Here's how Satishchandran, along with theoretical physicists Daine Danielson and Robert Wald, both of the University of Chicago, did just that.

First the team imagined a person, call her Alice, performing the famous double-slit experiment in a lab orbiting a black hole (SN: 11/5/10). In this classic example of quantum physics, a scientist sends a particle, like an electron or a photon, toward a pair of slits in a solid barrier. If no one observes the particle's progress, an interference pattern typical of waves appears on a screen on the other side of the barrier, as if the particle went through both slits at once (SN: 5/3/19). But if someone, or some device, measures the particle's path, it will register as having gone through one slit or the other. The particle's quantum state of apparently being in two places at once collapses.

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17:41

Peter Obi, Fayemi To Become Visiting Lecturers At Western Delta Varsity Oghara "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

PETER OBI AND FAYEMI

LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the just-concluded general elections Peter Obi, and immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, have both agreed to become visiting lecturers at the Western Delta University (WDU), Oghara, Delta State.

They made the commitment at the 15th Founders Day lecture at the weekend.

Fayemi, who delivered a lecture on Sub-National Governance: the Ekiti State Example, promised to set up the School of Policy Implementation in the institution. He also promised to become the first lecturer once the school is completed.

Visitor to the University, Chief James Ibori, appealed to Obi, who he described as an experienced leader who has greatly contributed to nation-building to join Fayemi as a lecturer upon the completion of the policy school. Obi agreed to help set it up and join as a visiting professor.

Fayemi, who cited personal examples of what transpired during his tenure as Ekiti State governor, urged political office holders to ensure balance when making appointments and avoid the pitfalls of selecting those who will end up as liabilities to the government.

He said: One of the challenges that  every governor will face is that of making key appointments. Every governor will have to strike the right balance between appointing core politicians who have been involved in the long and tortuous political struggle, and technocrats who will be required to undertake specific assignments for the smooth running of the government.

The balance is that you cannot take all away from politics and you can also not give all to politics. However, a key lesson from my own experience is that whether one is a technocrat in government or a core politician, all political appointees must be strongly connected to their communities. Otherwise, they will become liabilities to the governor.

Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, called on political office holders to go beyond the barriers of political partisanship, tribal affiliations and religious inclinations in their contributions to societal development.

He restated that he attended the event because of his love for education and its developmental impact on the nation, though Ibori and Fay...

17:27

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in Jericho raid "IndyWatch Feed War"

Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager in Jericho raid

Seventeen-year-old Palestinian Jibril Muhammad Al-Lada'a was killed during a military raid on Aqabat Jaber camp in the occupied West Bank
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Seventeen-year-old Palestinian Jibril Muhammad Al-Lada'a, who was killed in Monday's raid (Twitter)

Israeli forces killed a Palestinian youth and wounded eight others in a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

The Palestinian health ministry identified the dead man as 17-year-old Jibril Muhammad Al-Lada'a.

Israeli forces stormed the Aqabat Jabr camp, south of Jericho, which was also targeted last week resulting in a Palestinian being killed and several injured.

The director of Jericho Hospital said that at least "three people critically wounded were transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah".

Palestinians hit out at EU leader for claiming Israel made 'desert bloom'
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A large Israeli force stormed the Aqabat Jabr refugee camp with Palestinian witnesses reporting that arrests were made. In a statement the Israeli military said Palestinians "burned tyres, set off fireworks and shot at soldiers, who responded by shooting".

The director of the Palestinian Prisoners' Club in Jericho, Eid Brahma, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that Israeli forces arrested...

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La vida que se busca, en el cielo o en la tierra "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Nostalgia de la Luz, un documental del ao 2010 dirigido por el chileno Patricio Guzmn, es una metfora visual de lo que puede representar nuestro encuentro con el pasado, el afn cautivante por descubrir los enigmas del origen de la vida y la necesidad imperante de evocar las memorias de ese pasado. El desierto de Atacama en el norte de Chile, uno de los lugares ms ridos de la Tierra, es el escenario que permite a la persona espectadora descubrir la hermosa analoga entre los vestigios del cielo y del suelo. La bsqueda de la historia de nuestra vida se parte en dos: lo que las estrellas son capaces de contarnos sobre el inicio de la composicin del universo y lo que los jeroglficos y restos humanos testifican sobre nuestro paso concebido como evolucin. La evocacin es la de un pasado que por ms lejano que se perciba, irradia sus signos en el tiempo presente, mientras que la memoria es la puerta que nos conduce a enormes interrogantes, al mismo tiempo que nos muestra las ms grandes y dolorosas paradojas. 

  En Nostalgia de la Luz se muestran las cicatrices de un pas como Chile que, mientras busca las grandezas de la existencia coloreando mapas en el cielo, sigue acorralado por la zozobra de no ver el rostro completo de eso que reconocemos como justicia. Como se muestra en el documental que hoy evocamos, el desierto de Atacama es un lugar predilecto para conocer las estrellas, con observatorios astronmicos que crean un acceso al cosmos para encontrar las races primigenias. Tambin es la sala de los arquelogos que ven en este desierto una especie de cpsula del tiempo, porque el suelo de ese desierto es resguardo de vestigios humanos momificados de hace decena de miles de aos, es cementerio de pueblos mineros abandonados, es ruina de un campo de concentracin que ocult a personas detenidas-desaparecidas en el periodo de la dictadura chilena de Augusto Pinochet y es fosa casi indescifrable de los cuerpos torturados y desaparecidos de aquella terrible poca.

  Nostalgia de la Luz es la apuesta de dos bsquedas sobre pasado: el pasado de las estrellas que explican nuestra aparicin en el universo y el pasado de las personas desaparecidas vctimas de un periodo cruento en la historia de Amrica Latina; es la bsqueda del rastro de los cuerpos celestes, pero tambin de los cuerpos desechados por un poder desaparecedor. La imagen de las mujeres buscadoras, intentando descifrar los rastros del crimen sobre la inmensidad del suelo salitre, intentando encontrar, para luego desenterrar los restos de sus familiares, nos lleva a una afirmacin prcticamente incontestable: es necesario vivir buscando, permanecer en un estado interminable de bsqueda, hasta que el cielo y la tierra nos ofrezcan las respuestas a nuestras ms bellas o trgicas preguntas: Cundo empez la existencia?, o cundo se detuvo la vida? 

Mxico, con una...

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DETRANSITIONING: LUKAS STORY "IndyWatch Feed War"

The Highwire with Del Bigtree | April 27, 2023

Del sits down with Luka, an advocate for protecting kids from gender medicine, who herself medically transitioned as a teen before transitioning back to a female. Hear her trying journey telling of how the medical and trans communities have turned their backs on her.

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Like Lao Tzu said; Those who Lose after almost winning, should have known the end from the beginning. "IndyWatch Feed War"

Smoking Mirrors April 28, 2023

Dog Poet Transmitting.

So Tucker Carlson left Fox. Jerry Springer left his body. Hopefully one day soon Materialism will fold up its tent and leave town for The Shady Glades Crematorium. Jerry Springer had a private cancer. All I could think of was paraphrasing that Tina Turner song; private cancer cancer for money yadda yaddadahda They want you to donate to the Pancreatic Cancer Survival Fund so that the business end of Cancer never has to suffer a cure.

Cancer is one of the biggest and least funny jokes in a very funny (not hah hah funny) time in The World. There have been cures left right and sideways for some time, but then they kill the doctor or medical researcher who came up with it. Id like to keep with the tradition of not speaking evil of The Dead (if there is such a thing) which means there really is no more to say about Jerry Springer.

Deaths a myth. Suffering is not. People have been coming and going here for a long time. Thats cause Time has a lot to do with the illusion of Death. Time and Death are both illusions but they are fairly solid illusions based on the concept of separation. Time is Eternity separated into increments. Death is a life portal. Life is a death portal.

Ive run out of mysteries. There is only what I think I know and what I dont know. There are no mysteries. Is that a mystery to you? God is real. Everything else is a momentary form in The Dream Web, composed of the same substance as The Web itself.

All webs have a spider. The Spider is your cannibal mind, spinning endless tales formed of crystallized desire. They melt away. Desire forms another. It melts away. Desire forms another. Its up to you what your desire forms. Thats The Good News. Thats The Bad News. Either you know this or you dont want to know this. Confusion is the middle ground, often overflowing the known and unknown.

What I am talking about here cannot be talked about with any real or lasting coherency. It simply is. Everything else is not. This makes perfect sense to the few people who already know it, and it makes no sense to the people who dont want to know it. They still have plans. Heh heh.

I said I would talk about Tucker Carlson, BUT what am I going to say? Hes an actor. Were all actors on the stage of the moment in a role that was chosen beforehand. None of these roles matter. The only role that matters is the role of the unidentified Mysterious Stranger. Eventually maybe you get to be The Mysterious Stranger. Until that happens, everything else is playing Blind Mans Wack-a-Mole.

Youre here for a while, wearing a time-sensitive mask. Then youre gone for a while until you get an...

17:04

Another Bad Creation "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Look upon my works ye donors and despair, for reaching the stretch goal on this fundraiser was rather like losing a bet


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Recent Case of Severe Microwave Syndrome Reveals Problems With 5G "IndyWatch Feed War"

David Charbonneau The Epoch Times April 29, 2023

A 5G tower disguised as a palm tree

After a 5G base station was installed within 60 meters of her second-floor apartment, a middle-aged, otherwise healthy, Swedish woman developed debilitating symptoms corresponding with radiofrequency (RF)/microwave syndrome, researchers at the Environment and Cancer Research Foundation (ECRF) in Sweden reported this month. This was the third such case the researchers had documented.

According to their case study, published in Annals of Clinical and Medical Case Reports, fifth generation (5G) wireless technology is being rolled out worldwide despite no previous research on possible negative effects on human health and the environment.

As a result, exposure to pulse-modulated microwave radiation has increased dramatically on a world-wide basis. Microwave radiation are frequencies in the range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz within the radiofrequency (RF) spectrum. In city environments, frequencies used for 5G are currently in the 3.5 GHz band.

Studies on possible health effects from exposure to 5G frequencies were all but non-existent until recently. In a study published in October 2022, animals were exposed to the 5G frequency of 3.5 GHz for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for one month. The exposure caused oxidative stress and an increase of degenerated neurons in the hippocampus region of the brain, in addition to decreased irisin levels, a hormone positively correlated with weight loss and healthy cognitive function.

In the case study, the woman quickly developed a large array of debilitating symptoms after the installation. These symptoms included headache, dizziness and balance problems, cognitive dysfunctionincluding memory, confusion and loss of focusas well as extreme fatigue, anxiety, cough, nose bleeding, and disorders of urinary function and the skin, including spontaneous bruising and skin eruptions.

The 5G antenna was installed on the roof of a three-floor adjacent building and projected towards her apartment on the second floor. There was previously a 4G base station antenna at the same spot, but it was only after it was replaced by the 5G antenna that the woman quickly develope...

17:01

Feminismo fuera de la hegemona colonialista: dilogos con Orchy Curiel "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Un proyecto de liberacin para todas y todos los condenados del mundo. Esa es una de las principales aportaciones del feminismo crtico presentado en los Dilogos feministas del Sistema Universitario Jesuita (SUJ) por la Dra. Orchy Curiel, acadmica y activista feminista decolonial cofundadora del Grupo Latinoamericano de Formacin y Accin Feminista (GLEFAS).

Su conferencia, titulada Aportes de los feminismos crticos, fue transmitida simultneamente en seis universidades distintas del SUJ: IBERO Ciudad de Mxico, IBERO Len, IBERO Monterrey, IBERO Torren, ITESO de Guadalajara, y la IBERO Puebla. Tambin estuvo disponible comunidad estudiantil del Instituto Superior Intercultural Ayuuk.

Este es un espacio que hemos creado desde el slido y creciente inters que tenemos en nuestras universidades por profundizar en los cuestionamientos y apuestas ticas, en el llamado a mantener la crtica como principio para la creacin de pensamientos consecuentes con la realidad, dijo la Dra. Nathaly Rodrguez, acadmica de la IBERO Puebla, quien moder el evento.

La Dra. Curiel expuso diferentes marcos analticos para la comprensin de las relaciones sociales, a partir del reconocimiento de las opresiones de raza, sexo, clase, sexualidad y geopoltica. stas son abordadas en los feminismos crticos, que buscan explicar una realidad hegemonizada desde sus orgenes.

El recorrido histrico fue necesario para comprender la premisa anterior, pues las primeras olas del feminismo en el mundo fueron heredadas de Estados Unidos y Europa, con movimientos como la Revolucin francesa y la sublevacin de las mujeres sufragistas.

De esta primera ola s...

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17:00

I Wish Modern Architecture Would Stop Assaulting My Eyes "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

A generated image of the future courthouse of Oregon County, Oregon.A hunk of glass does not belong on the roof, a giant metal spike does not belong on the side of a building, and a parking garage is not a museum.

Sad News for Vegan Activists: Tomatoes 'Scream' When Plucked From Plant "IndyWatch Feed Tech"





What makes tnis interesting is that it points to tools able to discover problems in field and forest.


That can be handy because the mark one eyeball is often misled or too far away.  We can even imagine wifi sensors placed all about a field to do this.

who would have thought that we could hear something when a plant is attacked at all?
 

Sad News for Vegan Activists: Tomatoes 'Scream' When Plucked From Plant

BY BEN BARTEE 5:31 PM ON APRIL 15, 2023


User:Luigi Chiesa, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

No chowder for you, cause clams have feelings too
Actually, they dont have central nervousness
No Manhattan style, clams have the right to smile
Come to think about it they dont have a face



They have no face, no place for ears
Theres no clam eyes to cry clam tears
No spinal cord, they must get bored
Might as well just put em out of misery

Vegans have been abusing innocent tomatoes for so long, yet weve only just discovered how the plants that suffer at these moral degenerates hands express their suffering.


https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/04/15/sad-news-for-vegan-activists-tomatoes-scream-when-plucked-from-plant-n1687575
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How the British 'Gun Control' Program Precipitated the American Revolution "IndyWatch Feed Tech"



How is it that we did not know this?  If someone is coming for your firearm, You suddenly have to make up your mind.  And the safest option is to actually hide your weapon.

All the other claims made always lacked traction.  No one cared about tea been thrown into the harbor.

It also brought out a real militia with real numbers and the colonists discovered their own putative strength.  Not smart for the brits.                                              .


How the British 'Gun Control' Program
Precipitated the American Revolution


By TJ Martinell. Aug 12, 2015

https://jpfo.org/articles-2023/how-british-gun-control.htm

When people think of the causes of the American War for Independence, they think of slogans like no taxation without representation or cause clbre like the Boston Tea Party.

In reality, however, what finally forced the colonials into a shooting war with the British Army in April 1775 was not taxes or even warrant-less searches of homes and their occupation by soldiers, but one of many attempts by the British to disarm Americans as part of an overall 'gun control' program, according to David B. Kopel.

Furthermore, had the American colonies lost their war for independence, the British government intended to strip them of all their guns and place them under the thumb of a permanent standing army.

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Auburn researcher finds soil moisture is key to understanding drought, flood risks "IndyWatch Feed Tech"





This is actually important and needs to be applied. what it is saying is that the soli naturally works to retain moisture and our simple models must fail. integrating cover crops and no till planting argues for an excellent moisture profile. then do add in rotational grazing as available and i think we are close to what we really want in dry land agriculture.


I am growing to loath a bare field.


I also think that saline damaged soils can truly be reversed using grazing in particular and eventually with the full on protocol.







Auburn researcher finds soil moisture is key to understanding drought, flood risks...

Vitamin C Deficiency Accelerates Bone Loss "IndyWatch Feed Tech"



As I have posted long since, all the symptons of old age conform to a low level scurvy condition, and yes, bone weakening is part of all that.  folks, you are fighting off scurvy from the day you are born,merely because we do not simply make it.

The rest of all this likely matters little but vitimin C does.  I use a heaping teaspoon of ascorbic acid daily in a beverage made up from grapefruit extrect.  Tastes good this way.  I also use it to add tumeric and ginger and black pepper.  Just in case they are really useful.

Making such an extract allows you to add other oddities if you like.  Go crazy with it.  It is a great base for producing the elixer of the Gods.


Vitamin C Deficiency Accelerates Bone Loss


Apr 24 2023

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/vitamin-c-deficiency-accelerates-bone-loss_5213280.html

Vitamin C is well known as a powerful antioxidant and valuable weapon against cancer and other diseases. But this versatile vitamin can also prevent bone loss by preventing oxidative stress that destroys bone structure.

Bone loss, known as osteoporosis, strikes older adults and can devastate mobility and quality of life. You can minimize the risk of bone loss by supplementing with vitamin C and following a healthy lifestyle to avoid toxins and other stress....

The surge in women CEOs is no coincidence "IndyWatch Feed World"

Women are stepping into CEO roles in record numbers. And for good reason.

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. Sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning.

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How retirement looks different for Gen Z than it does for boomers "IndyWatch Feed World"

On the latest episode of The New Way We Work, we get advice on how every generation can save for retirement and why things arent as bad as they may seem.

My six-year-old recently asked my mom how she had money if she didnt work anymore. I didnt expect to explain the concept of pensions, 401(k)s, and social security to my first grader, but in doing so I also summarized the very different positions my moma boomer born in the 1950sand me, a millennial born in the 1980s, find ourselves in when it comes to saving and planning for retirement. I told my kid in essence: Grandma, her job, and the government all saved money while she was working, but I just have to save money by myself.

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Escuela de Paz Nacional JTatik Samuel Ruiz 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Convocatoria para participar en la Escuela de Paz Nacional JTatik Samuel Ruiz 2023 - modalidad presencial

Qu es la Escuela de Paz Nacional? 

La Escuela de Paz Nacional 2023 es un espacio educativo de aprendizaje, encuentro y fortalecimiento de los actores sociales y las organizaciones civiles en su camino para la transformacin de conflictos sociales, desde la propuesta educativa basada en el enfoque de la Transformacin Positiva de Conflictos (TPC).

El proceso educativo de la Escuela de Paz Nacional, consta de cuatro mdulos que se llevarn a cabo en modalidad presencial. 

A quin est dirigida? 

La Escuela convoca a integrantes de organizaciones civiles y sociales, movimientos sociales, educadoras y educadores populares, autoridades y personas promotoras comunitarias que viven o acompaen situaciones de conflictividad social y...

16:58

Russian Warplanes Are Trying to Dogfight US Jets Over Syria, General Says "IndyWatch Feed War"

Above, photo from a US MQ-9 drone as a Russian-Su-27-dumps-fuel-on it over the Black Sea.

Marcus Weisgerber Defense One April 27, 2023

Russian warplanes are flying increasingly close to American fighter jets in the skies over Syria like theyre trying to dogfight, the top U.S. Air Force general in the region said.

Since March 1, Russian pilots have acted in hostile ways that have U.S. military leaders concerned about the possibilities for miscalculation and escalation.

The Russians have been increasingly bellicose in how theyre approaching us, Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who leads Air Forces Central Command, said in an interview. Theyre maneuvering aggressively against us when our protocols would say were supposed to stay several miles apart and just monitor each other.

[T]heyre aggressively maneuvering, almost like theyre trying to dogfight, if you will, Grynkewich said. Thats very concerning.

Dogfighting is a term used to describe planes engaging each other in aerial combat.

The generals message to his pilots: Dont take the bait.

The guidance that Ive given our folks is were not going to act like they are, Grynkewich said. Were going to act in a professional manner, and were going to try to de-escalate the situation.

Since U.S. aircraft rarely fly alone, there are multiple aircraft to protect one another.

We always try to keep one of our fighters in a position of advantage with respect to the Russians as theyre trying to do the maneuvering against the other one, Grynkewich said. The other [American] one basically, tries to de-escalate, to shake them, to get them to turn and go a different direction.

The Wall Street Journal first reported increasingly hostile interactions between American and Russian warplanes, but not the dogfighting.

For years, American and Russian jets have shared the skies over Syria. U.S. aircraft have been fighting ISIS while Moscows planes have backed the Syrian governments efforts to suppress anti-government rebels. U.S. and Russian military officials communicate regularly on a deconfliction telephone, sharing details about planned missions, including aircraft call signs and planes electronic transmission codes.

The two sides still have some technical and professional exchanges on the phone, Grynkewich said. I think that that is good that the phones are still ringing, the phones are still being picked up. But the physical manifestation of their behavior is concerning nonetheless.

And the general said U.S. officials complaints about the encounters with Moscow appear to...

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Why Is HiPP German The Best Choice For Your Infant? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Introduction

HiPP is a European brand of organic infant formula that is widely known for its high-quality ingredients and strict manufacturing standards. HiPP German formula is made from milk sourced from biodynamic farms in Germany, which means that the cows are fed with organic grass and hay and are not treated with any antibiotics or hormones. This HiPP Formula is also free from artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives and does not contain genetically modified ingredients.

Moreover, HiPP German formula contains a balanced ratio of essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals that are important for infant growth and development. The formula is also enriched with prebiotics and probiotics that support healthy gut flora and improve digestion and immunity. 

Some parents may choose HiPP German infant formula because it contains organic milk from pasture-raised cows, organic whey, and organic vegetable oils that provide essential nutrients for an infants growth and development. The company also claims that its products do not contain any harmful ingredients such as GMOs, pesticides, artificial flavors, and preservatives. 

Here are a few points which make the formula the best choice for your infant:

1. Organic Ingredients: 

HiPP German infant formula is made using organic ingredients, meaning that the milk used comes from cows that are organically fed and is not treated with any hormones or antibiotics. Organic certification ensures the product is free from pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

2. Essential Nutrients: 

HiPP German infant formula is designed to provide all the nutrients infants need for healthy growth and development. It contains a balanced combination of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and essential vitamins and minerals such as iron, calcium, and vitamin D.

3. Gentle on the Digestive System: 

HiPP German infant formula is formulated to be ge...

16:54

Prigozhin Issues Most Dire Warning Yet Ahead of Ukrainian Counterattack "IndyWatch Feed War"

Rolo Slavskiy The Slavskiy April 30, 2023

The full interview where Evgeniy Prigozhin absolutely lambasted Shoigu and the MoD and the Kremlin bureaucracy just came out recently. You can watch it in Russian here. I saw a lot of people talking about it on Twitter and I couldnt believe what I was reading so I decided to listen to the interview myself, and analyze it line by line to figure out just what was being said exactly. I will share the bullet-points with you here as I listen along:

  • By the 80s, the Soviet Army was just a social club, ineffective and neutered and not even an organization capable of providing a social lift
  • Russia didnt win the Chechen wars, Putin paid Kadyrovs dad a bribe to end it
  • There was no such thing as the Delbaltsevo Cauldron in Donbass Poroshenkos army simply made an orderly retreat intact. It was a patriotic lie told by Russia
  • Wagner was the main force that saved Assad in Syria and was undermined by the MoD every step of the way
  • The SMO proved that the Russian army is totally demoralized, unorganized, untrained, undisciplined and unprepared
  • The MoD routinely lies about realities on the battlefield even about Wagners operations
  • The Russian Army in the north likes to get drunk and the Ukrainians make good money selling them cognac
  • Wagner launched its operation to stabilize the front when the Russian army was retreating in chaos and disorder following the Ukrainian counterattack
  • The military command gives bizarre orders to its men
  • There is no real leadership in the army
  • Russia has the resources to win, but the leadership keeps the resources away from the people who need it on purpose
  • Lower level officers are pressured to lie to higher-ups because everyone will get in trouble if they dont
  • Bakhmut was a plan created by Wagner and General Surovikin to damage the Ukrainian army
  • Mentally-ill people in the command believed in saving funds and supplies for a later attack, but this decision was eventually reversed
  • Prigozhin says he knows where the supplies are being kept, there are enough supplies to fight another half-year
  • MoD Deputy in charge of supplies Aleksei Krivoruchka has to be fired
  • Prigozhin outlines some simply military math one hectare requires X amount of shells to be successfully neutralized before a storm. Wagner needs 80,000 shells a day at the very bare minimum
  • On paper, the Russian Army has soldiers on Wagners flanks, but they are not there in reality
  • Prigozhin believes this is a politica...
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16:54

Gunmen Abduct Two Catholic Priest  In Urhobo Community "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Gunmen

LAGOS MAY 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Two Catholic priests, Reverend Fathers Chochos Kunav and Raphael Ogigba have been kidnapped in Urhobo community of  Agbaro-Otor,  Ughelli in Ughelli North LGA of Delta State.

They were abducted on Agbaro-Otor Road on Saturday night while on their way apparently to Ughelli or Warri.
A statement by Very Rev Father Okereke Kizito, said one of the hostages, Father Chochos, works in Ibadan (Ogun State) and was on a visit to his colleague at the Catholic Diocese of Warri.

They both later went to see another priest around Agbaro-Otor and on their way back, they were abducted.
The statement called for prayers for the safe release of the priests, adding: We ask for intense prayers for quick and safe release. May Jesus the high priest and the Good Shepherd take care of his priests and may our mother thrice admirable Queen and victress of schoenstatt intercede for them.

A text message to the Delta State police spokesman on the incident, Bright Edafe had not been responded to at press time.

Vanguard

 

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Matrix Hacker Incestuous Breeding: The Underbelly of Hollywood "IndyWatch Feed War"

HenryMakow.com April 30, 2023

Ashton Kutcher is the secret son of his ex-wife Demi Moore and her ex-boyfriend Anthony Kiedis (above left).

Ashton was born on February 7, 1978 when Moore and Kiedis attended the same high school.

 (Makow disclaimer- I reserve judgment)

 By Matrix Hacker (henrymakow.com)

The Hollywood/Cabalist breeding program is a vast operation that uses the making of Hollywood movies, television shows, celebrity marriages, and celebrity dating as cover for the secret breeding of future celebrities.

Typically, these children are adopted into unrelated families composed of individuals who have also been bred by and born into the Satanic cult and possess similar looks to the children.  The purpose of baby switching is twofold in that it conceals the true bloodlines of celebrities from the public and facilitates incestuous breeding between secret half siblings and parents and children.

Baby switching is a Satanic ritual and the mechanism through This ritual sets the stage for inevitable manipulation of the sexually of celebrities who are delayed in meeting their true relatives until they become fertile.  Incestuous breeding is valued within the Satanic cult because it reduces its gene pool which accentuates desirable genes, inhibits undesirable genes, and results in offspring who often possess outstanding looks.     

Continues

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Huge SatanCon devil-worshipping convention sparks furious protests from religious groups in angry scenes in Boston "IndyWatch Feed War"

SatanCon attendees flaunt the Satanic Salute Devil horns hand sign. Note how many are wearing facemasks, which suggests to this writer that they may be more gullible than they claim.

  • Hundreds of Satanists have descended on Boston for the largest Satanic gathering in history 
  • Several furious religious groups are ambushing the event, with one saying they plan to use intense prayer to counter the Devil worshippers
  • Counter-events have been set up across the city, while large numbers of protestors are gathered outside the conference

Will Potter Daily Mail.com April 29, 2023

Furious Christian groups are attempting to shut down the largest Satanic gathering in history after hundreds of The Satanic Temples members descended on Boston.

The annual SatanCon festival arrived in town on Friday to celebrate the organizations 10-year anniversary, kicking off with a bizarre opening ceremony that saw speakers tear up the bible and perform un-baptisms.

But the arrival of the Devil worshippers on the East Coast has sparked backlash from religious groups, with crowds gathering Saturday to stage a series of demonstrations across the city and combat the hellish three-day event with intense prayer.

It comes after Dr Jaymz Sideras, the leader of religious group Revive Boston, warned: While they think they are coming to ambush Boston, little do they know that God has planned to ambush them.

His organization is hosting a counter-event at the Revere Hotel Boston Common, less than a mile from the Satanist convention at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.

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16:40

Rally to stop the Great Wall of Frankston Saturday 13 May 10.30am "IndyWatch Feed World"

<div class= "field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p><img alt="" height="100" src= "http://candobetter.net/files/rally-poster.png" style= "float: left;" width="216"><strong>Rally to Stop the Great Wall of Frankston, Saturday 13th May at 10.30 AM, Corner Wells St. and Kananook Creek Frankston.</strong> Planning Applications are at Frankston City Council for <strong>14, 15 and 16 storey apartment blocks of up to 60 metres height</strong> on the beachside of Nepean Hwy, and only 200 metres from Frankstons scenic beach. The towers would overshadow Kananook Creek, the beach, nearby homes, exacerbate wind tunnel effects and change the face of Frankston forever. </p> <p>Back in 2017, Frankston Councillors voted to adopt 20m height limits for its waterfront precinct. Then, in 2018, eight of Frankstons nine Councillors voted for mandatory 20m height limits in the waterfront precinct.  And yet in 2023, and still without mandatory height limits, Frankstons coastline is now vulnerable to massive overdevelopment.</p> <p>Most Councils around Port Phillip Bay have mandatory height limits of 2-3 storeys for their coastal areas, but that could be challenged if these Frankston proposals are allowed to proceed, setting a most unwelcome precedent for coastal areas elsewhere.</p> <p>All coastal communities need to remain vigilant to ensure that Councils around the Bay, indeed around Victoria, do not fall for developer demands to transform our irreplaceable coastal areas into a series of Gold Coasts of the south.  </p> <p>Port Phillip Conservation Council (PPCC) is supporting our member group Frankston Beach Association and the Long Island Residents Group who are determined to stop these overbearing developments on Frankstons much loved waterfront overlooking Frankstons beautiful largely natural beach, dominating coastal scenery and blocking views for everyone but the high rise apartment owners.</p> <p>We expect Planning Minister Sonia Kilkenny, Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke and Frankston City Council to understand the need for mandatory height limits for Frankstons waterfront and to act to protect a wonderful part of Port Phillip Bays coastline. To help them understand, we are holding a rally near the high rise development site on <strong>Saturday 13th May at 10.30 am.</strong>   <strong>See attached flier for rally details.</strong> </p> <p>Please come to our rally to show your support. Hear planning experts <strong>Professor Michael Buxton</strong> <em>RMIT Emeritus Professor of Environment & Planning and former Federal MP The Hon. Kelvin Thomson Convenor of Planning Democracy, speak on future plans for Frankston, along with other informed speakers.

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16:36

Michoacn: territorios bajo asedio "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Ilustracin: Roberto Janacua Benites.

El derecho a un medio ambiente sano, garantizado por el artculo cuarto constitucional, es un derecho que, por lo menos en el estado de Michoacn, no se cumple a cabalidad. De ello dan cuenta los procesos de despojo de tierras, agua, bosque, lagos, salud y bienes inmateriales que sufren las comunidades indgenas y rurales a lo largo y ancho del estado.

En Mxico, las comunidades indgenas poseen la quinta parte del territorio nacional que comprende 1.958,201 kilmetros cuadrados, lo que significa que gran parte de los recursos naturales como bosques, selvas, minerales y recursos hdricos, se encuentran tambin bajo su territorio (Ventura, 2006).

Los intentos por despojar a las comunidades de su territorio y de los elementos naturales no son recientes. Diversas estrategias han sido esgrimidas por aquellos que codician los territorios y riquezas de las comunidades. Desde legislaciones de y para el despojo, como la llamada Ley Lerdo de desamortizacin de 1856 cuya finalidad era la obtencin de tierras y la liberacin de mano de obra; la reforma neoliberal al artculo 27 constitucional de 1992 que finalmente favoreci la venta renta de terrenos comunales y ejidales; hasta procesos de terrorismo de Estado como el impulsado por el gobierno de Felipe Caldern 2006- 2012.

En la actualidad, los territorios de las comunidades indgenas y rurales continan siendo codiciados para la instauracin de diversos proyectos de inversin econmica como cultivos de exportacin (aguacate y berries), proyectos pecuarios, desarrollos inmobiliarios, desarrollos tursticos, desarrollos industriales, proyectos mineros, rellenos sanitarios y represas entre otros. La ubicacin geogrfica de Michoacn y la conectividad que le brinda la infraestructura vial y portuaria lo convierten en un enclave industrial que abarata costos de produccin lo que le convierte en un territorio bajo asedio.

Ante ello, las comunidades se han tenido que organizar para defender de facto el territorio que ancestralmente les pertenece a travs de prcticas ancestrales heredadas como las asambleas comunales, las faenas y las rondas comunitarias. Es conocido que, en sus tcticas de despojo, quienes codician los territorios muchas veces tratan de seducir a actores sociales relevantes como jefes de tenencia, representantes de bienes comunales o lderes morales de la comunidad. Con ellos se utilizan las tcticas del despojo: o los seducen y los integran a sus filas, o les amenazan y asesinan.

En Michoacn, tristemente la lista de defensores ambientales y comunitarios se incrementa ao tras ao, ello, a pesar del discurso gubernamental de apoyo y respeto a los derechos de las comunidades indgenas. Un discurso que, dadas las circunstancias ms bien pareciera tener como objetivo fundamental la limpieza de la imagen del gobernador en turno. As, el objetivo de este breve y lgubre texto es...

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