Leider steht da nicht, wie alt die Richter waren. Ich bin mir aber ziemlich sicher, dass die sich sicher sind, den Kollaps des kosystems nicht per persnlich ausbaden zu mssen. Das knnen dann die Kids machen, die wir jetzt in den Knast tun, um sie schonmal an Entbehrung zu gewhnen.

01:41

Prof Natufe Reiterates Okpe Request For restoration Of Sapele, Warri, Koko Ports, Decries Marginalisation "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

President General, Okpe Union, Professor Igho Natufe,

LAGOS MAY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The President General, Okpe Union, Professor Igho Natufe, on Tuesday reiterated the Okpe kingdom long-standing request for the restoration of the Sapele, Warri, and Koko ports, calling on President-Elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his incoming Cabinet to pay urgent attention to this request.

The value of these three ports to the Nigerian economy cannot be underestimated. We also request the incoming President and his incoming Cabinet to treat as a matter of grave national urgency, the reconstruction of the Benin-Sapele-Warri expressway.

He praised President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent decision on the teaching of indigenous languages in local government areas across Nigeria.

This gives credence to our age-long agitation for the teaching of Okpe Language in all educational institutions situated in Okpe Kingdom as a critical component of Okpe Identity. We welcome this decision and shall collaborate with other organizations towards its realization in Okpe Nation. As a first step in this direction, I am pleased to announce that NEC has instructed the Education and Culture Committee of the Okpe Union to work out the modalities of awarding post-secondary scholarships/bursaries for deserving Okpe nationals to study Okpe Language and Literature to form the nucleus of future Okpe Language teachers in educational institutions in Okpe Nation.

Professor Natufe spoke at the 93^rd anniversary celebration of the founding of the Okpe Union in Lagos.

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01:40

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01:40

How Sudden Death Can Be Prevented Among Journalists Psychiatrist "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

An expert, Consultant Psychiatrist with Ladoke Akintola University Teaching, Ogbomosho, Dr Adeoye Oyewole has counseled journalists on how they can prevent sudden death which is parts of the resultants effect of poor stress management of their mental health. Oyewole speaking at Fountain University Osogbo, Osun State during a-day workshop organised by the final year students...

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01:30

Learn How Impossibly Close-fitting Parts Are Actually Made "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Most of us have seen those demonstrations of metal parts that mate together so finely that, once together, they have no visible seam at all. But how, exactly, is this done? [Steve Mould] has a video that shows and explains all, and weve never seen the process explained quite like he does.

The secret ingredient is wire EDM, or Electrical Discharge Machining, but thats only one part of the whole. Wire EDM works a bit like a hot-wire cutter slicing through foam, but all by itself thats not enough to produce those impossibly close-fitting parts we love to see.

EDM is capable of astounding precision in part because unlike a cutting tool nothing physically contacts the material. Also, there isnt a lot of friction and heat causing small distortions of the material during the machining process. EDM is as a result capable of fantastically-precise cuts...

01:29

(Des)Montajes: El canto de la Sibila: Lo mejor de la escena teatral en Mxico / Primer cuatrimestre 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Por Alexandro Guerrero Para Rita Guerrero RegeneracinMX.- La formacin de Rami Martnez es fundamentalmente escnica. Estudi en la Escuela de Teatro de Jalisco en Coordinacin []

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01:27

Energy and Economic Efficiency: The Market versus the Politicization of Our Energy Futures "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Jared Wall In the book Green Tyrannya fantastic history of the environmental alarmism movementauthor Rupert Darwall lays responsibility for the beginning of this movement...

Energy and Economic Efficiency: The Market versus the Politicization of Our Energy Futures

01:25

Wordt geen lid van Blogger! "IndyWatch Feed War"

Wordt geen lid van Blogger, want die is met een censuurcampagne begonnen. Sommige gecensureerde berichten blijken vervolgens ten onrechte gecensureerd te zijn, en worden terug gezet. Ik hou niet van censuur. Ik ben daar te oud voor.

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01:23

Wife Tells Court, My Husband Is A Flirt, Chases Anything Under Skirt "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

A 44-year-old Oluwatoyin Falade has prayed to a customary court in Orile Agege to dissolve her 11-year-old marriage on Wednesday, saying my husband is a flirt. The claimant, who lived at Tunde Davids Close in Agege, Lagos gave birth to two kids to her husband identified as Segun, with an 11 and 8 years old...

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01:23

I saw a quantum computer used by JPMorgan, with Microsoft and Nvidia as partners, and it was mind-blowing "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

It looks like a science experiment. And in some ways, it is. But Quantinuums new computer is commercially available and already has customers.

01:22

Scientists Invent a New Type of Battery The Oxygen-Ion Battery "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have developed a groundbreaking oxygen-ion battery, which boasts exceptional durability, eliminates the need for rare elements, and solves the problem of fire hazards.

Lithium-ion batteries, while commonplace in todays world powering everything from electric vehicles to smartphones arent necessarily the optimal solution for all applications. Researchers at TU Wien have made a breakthrough by creating an oxygen-ion battery that offers several significant advantages. While it may not match the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, its storage capacity doesnt diminish irreversibly over time, making it capable of an exceptionally long lifespan as it can be regenerated.

Moreover, the fabrication of oxygen-ion batteries doesnt require scarce elements and involves non-combustible materials. The innovative battery concept has already led to a patent application, filed in collaboration with partners in Spain. These oxygen-ion batteries could provide an outstanding solution for large-scale energy storage systems, such as those required to hold electrical energy from renewable sources.

01:22

Chris Hedges: "Sammy Goes to School" "IndyWatch Feed War"

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01:22

Rimac Nevera electric hypercar sets 23 records in single day, including fastest 0249 mph time "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Times of 060 mph simply arent enough when you get into the peak-performance, hypercar segment of electric vehicles. The Rimac Nevera has already done an excellent job demonstrating that its one of the highest-performing vehicles on the planet, but any doubt should now be dissolved as the electric hypercar smashed through 23 performance records in just a single day, a record in it of itself.

Since its founding in Croatia in 2009, Rimac Automobili has been developing some of the most exciting and technologically advanced electric hypercars. Rimacs first EV, the Concept_One, was introduced in 2016 and is considered one of the worlds fastest production vehicles at the time, although its production consisted of a mere eight vehicles.

Rimacs Concept_Two debuted in 2018 and eventually evolved into its production form, renamed the Nevera. As EV enthusiasts, the Nevera represents much of the potential of electric hypercars, which can significantly outperform ICE counterparts without any emissions.

01:22

The Worst Thing Russia Has Done to Socialism "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

I had recently a get-together with schoolmates from university. Not with my friends from university, who are a diverse bunch of different ages and professions and with whom I meet usually once/twice a year on a hiking trip or New-year celebrations, but with people with whom I studied chemistry. It was a totally depressing experience for multiple reasons, some deeply personal that I am not inclined to discuss with anyone, ever, and some that I shall discuss in this post.

The discussion did get slightly political and at that point I realized that I am the only person in the group who does not think that socialism is a dirty word describing an inherently ill-thought-out, dysfunctional, and/or evil political system. Everyone else expressed more or less libertarian or conservative-leaning opinions, although I must say not to the extreme sociopathic extent that can be observed in the US political discourse. After a short debate, I have inadvertently killed it outright with what in retrospect was the nuclear option, although it was not intended as such.

I said, Correct me if I am wrong, but at this table, I am the only person who actually has worked in the private sector his whole life and is not and was not employed by the state in an in-principle socialistic enterprise.

What followed was a short awkward silence, re-seating, and a permanent change of subject.

You see, everyone else seated at that table was either an accomplished scientist, a physician, a teacher, a high-ranking military officer, or (usually) a combination of these. Education is free of charge up to a university for anyone willing to take it, even foreigners residing in CZ, as long as they can take the classes in the Czech language. Healthcare is free of charge at the point of receiving, with healthcare insurance being mandatory for the employed and paid for by the state for the unemployed (it could be better by forgoing the middle-man in the form of insurance companies IMO). And the military is entirely financed by our taxes and owned by the state, as it always was.

So, why do these highly educated, highly intelligent, and oftentimes highly accomplished people think that socialism is inherently bad? Probably for the same reasons that I, too, thought so until some fifteen-twelve years ago.

We are the generation who still remembers the times behind the Iron Curtain. And although we did not experience the most brutal phases of that regime, it was still pretty bad at the time we were children. But when I tried to explain that what was wrong with that regime was not the socialism part but the totalitarianism part, it fell on deaf ears. I have managed to disconnect these terms in my mind, they have not. To them, the association between the two is too strong and they are seen as inherently intertwined.

And this might be, paradoxically, exactly because they never worked for a private com...

01:21

Nuevas amenazas a comunidades forestales "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Los nuevos mercados de carbono y las propuestas que vienen aparejadas entraan muchos impactos y problemas. Adems de que son un engao, ya que no sirven para enfrentar el cambio climtico, conllevan aspectos muy negativos como nuevas formas de despojo y apropiacin de territorios indgenas y campesinos. Veamos por qu.

Para empezar por lo ms evidente, los mercados de carbono son solamente una forma de hacer negocios en mercados financieros, es decir, hacer ganancias sin producir nada, solamente especulando. Para ello, imitando los bonos u otros ttulos financieros, se crearon los llamados bonos o crditos de carbono y/o crditos de compensacin (offsets por su nombre en ingls).

Se basan en el concepto enfermo de que se podra compensar la contaminacin y la emisin de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) que causan el cambio climtico con la absorcin y almacenamiento de dixido de carbono en alguna otra parte. Por ejemplo, en reas que se conoce absorben dixido de carbono -como bosques, manglares, ocenos, praderas, agrosistemas y otros ecosistemas, que supuestamente compensaran que se emitan gases GEI en otras partes. A esta compensacin se le pone un precio y se puede vender y revender por ms dinero a empresas que necesiten alegar que limpian su contaminacin.

Esto es absurdo por dos razones principales. La primera es que esos ecosistemas ya estn absorbiendo carbono (a veces demasiado y por eso algunos, como los marinos, estn acidificados). Decir que ahora lo harn para compensar nuevas emisiones de alguna empresa en un lugar determinado es una falacia. Adems, son ecosistemas vivos y respiran, absorben carbono pero tambin lo emiten, como parte de su ciclo de vida. Pueden emitir ms dixido de carbono del que absorben si son daados o destruidos. La segunda razn es que el carbono emitido por las formas de produccin y consumo industriales es acumulativo y no hay ninguna forma de salir del ciclo enfermo que caus calentamiento global y cre el caos climtico actual que no sea detener las causas. Es decir, reducir realmente las emisiones de carbono en su origen en las actividades industriales y empresas que las crearon, y en el consumo desigual y suntuario que sostiene esa produccin industrial.

Por tanto, inventar que existir una compensacin para la contaminacin, que justifique seguir aumentando la emisin de gases de efecto invernadero, es falso, absurdo y adems cruel contra las y los ms afectados por el caos climtico, ya que empeora el cambio climtico.

Para evadir la primera de estas razones, los empresarios del carbono han inventado que con las nuevas herramientas digitales y otras, se podra medir con precisin la cantidad de carbono que absorbe un ecosistema y asegurar -sin bases reales- que es ms de lo que hara en forma natural. Pero medir con precisin esta dinmica es otra falacia: los ecosistemas son diversos, dinmicos y variados, no se ajustan a est...

01:20

Alonso Commited To Bayer Leverkusen "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Xabi Alonso is one of the hottest prospects when it comes to the position of Manager, and he has done extremely well to deserve it and currently clubs are circling around to get his signature. Alonso has confirmed he will still be in charge of Bayer Leverkusen next season. The former Liverpool midfielder had been...

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01:10

Crisis del agua en Uruguay: mala planificacin territorial, extractivismo y derechos humanos vulnerados "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Foto: Nicolas Pousthomis / Subcoop

La ciudad de Montevideo, y otros centros urbanos, enfrentan la peor crisis hdrica de las ltimas cuatro dcadas. En una inslita y peligrosa medida, el Gobierno aument la salinidad del agua potable que consume la poblacin. Entre las causas de la crisis: gestin irresponsable, falta de previsin, agronegocio, forestales e intencin de privatizacin.

El pas atraviesa la peor crisis de abastecimiento de agua potable de por lo menos los ltimos 40 aos en el rea metropolitana de Montevideo y en varios centros urbanos del pas, mientras las autoridades de Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE) responden con improvisaciones, comunicados falsos, aseveraciones absurdas y decisiones que generarn an ms problemas para la poblacin.

La resolucin de aumentar los valores en Cloruros de 250 miligramos por litro (mg/L) a 720mg/L, y en sodio de 200mg/L a 440mg/L en el agua potable incluy aseveraciones contradictorias y falsas sobre los efectos en la salud de la poblacin, que por la gravedad del tema se hace necesario repasar.

El 26 de abril de este ao el presidente de OSE, Ral Montero, dijo que la empresa estatal decidi aumentar el lmite de salinidad en el agua potable y advirti que cambiara el gusto al momento de beberla, aunque no afectara la salud de la poblacin.

El 4 de mayo, la ministra de Salud Pblica, la doctora Karina Rando, aclar que no se han visto problemas de salud para la poblacin en general. Sin embargo, advirti que al aumentarse los valores, en particular de sodio, puede afectar la dieta, sobre todo de pacientes con hipertensin arterial severa, insuficiencia cardaca o insuficiencia renal.

manifestacin publica en el centro del Uruguay, Crisis del agua en Montevideo / Uruguay — Foto: Redes.org.uy

En tanto, segn una nota de La Diaria del 8 de mayo...

01:08

Police Invades Seun Kutis House, Seize Wifes Phone "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Popular afrobeats singer, Seun Kutis home have been invaded by the Lagos State Police Command who are in search of evidence to arrest him with a separate crime. The security operatives, who carried out the search on Tuesday, reportedly seized Kutis wifes mobile phone during the raid. However, New Telegraph gathered that the operatives of...

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01:07

Independent Judiciary, Life Wire Of Democracy Osun NBA Chairmanship Aspirant "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

An Osogbo-based legal practitioner, barrister Yemi Abiona has posited that independent Judiciary remains the life wire of democracy and constitutional governance. Mr Abiona who is contesting as the Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Osogbo branch, stated this while addressing some of his colleagues during a campaign to their offices. The Lawyer argued that...

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01:06

Tesla Bot Update "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

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01:05

Migrar frente al cambio climtico: IMUMI "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Invertir en nuestro planeta fue el lema del Da Mundial de la Madre Tierra este 2023, que, como cada 22 de abril, desde 2009, nos invita a la reflexin acerca de los problemas que afectan al medio ambiente y a crear conciencia para hacer frente al cambio climtico. Esta reflexin debe estar encaminada, tambin, a los efectos que tiene la crisis climtica en la movilidad humana. Reconocer que los desplazamientos pueden tener una causa medioambiental es parte de reconocer la crisis climtica como un tema que requiere de una atencin urgente, coordinada, internacional e interinstitucional.

Si bien es cierto que el fenmeno migratorio obedece a una multiplicidad de causas, el cambio climtico es una de ellas y tiene influencia en una variedad de impulsores econmicos, sociales, polticos y demogrficos que, a su vez, afectan la movilidad.

Una respuesta a la falta de inters y voluntad de algunos Estados para reconocer la crisis climtica como un problema apremiante es que los efectos e impactos medioambientales se viven de manera desigual. La vulnerabilidad ante el cambio climtico obedece esencialmente a tres factores: el grado de exposicin, la sensibilidad y la capacidad de adaptacin que las personas tengan.

Los pases catalogados como en desarrollo son quienes se ven particularmente afectados, ya que, aunque no tengan un grado de exposicin alto a fenmenos climticos, un solo evento ambiental extremo podra ser devastador sino se cuenta con la capacidad para hacerle frente.

Un ejemplo es Honduras, un pas centroamericano en el que las mujeres representan el 51.7% de su poblacin y que adems tiene un alto porcentaje que vive en situacin de pobreza y desigualdad. En 2020, Honduras no slo enfrent una crisis sanitaria, tambin una de carcter ambiental pues en noviembre, Eta e Iota, 2 huracanes de categora 4 azotaron al pas agravando las condiciones sanitarias provocadas por la pandemia de COVID-19.

Ambos huracanes afectaron el sector agropecuario nacional daando cultivos, fincas, suelo de siembra y prdida de ganado. El sector agrario representa casi la mitad de la poblacin hondurea econmicamente ocupada, lo que implic una prdida patrimonial para muchas familias.

De acuerdo con ONU MUJERES, Eta e Iota afectaron a ms de 4 millones de personas en Honduras y han obligado a muchas a dejar sus hogares. Se contabilizaron 96 mil personas albergadas y 494 mil evacuadas, de las cuales, aproximadamente el 40% son mujeres y el 20% nias, nios y adolescentes. Entre los damnificados, tambin se encuentran los pueblos misquitos, lencas y garfunas.

Es cierto que la posicin geogrfica de Honduras influye en la aparicin...

01:05

System76 Pangolin Makes For A Nice All-AMD Linux Laptop "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

I spent the past few weeks testing the latest System76 Pangolin laptop that has been working out well as an all-AMD 15-inch laptop running the company's increasingly-popular Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

01:05

2023: PDP Sets Cttee On Alleged Anti-Party By G-5, Other Members "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has constituted committee on reported cases of indiscipline and anti-party activities by some members of the party in the 2023 general elections. The party had lost the presidential election in some of its strategic states mostly in states controlled by its aggrieved five governors. PDP National Working Committee (NWC), after...

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01:01

Is this the answer to Google Drive spam? "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

There's good news if you're plagued by shared Google Drive files from strangers. Google Drive is getting a spam folder.

01:00

Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

<img src= "https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/black-and-white-portait-of-a-man-in-front-of-a-pink-and-green-lined-background.jpg?id=33685229&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C73%2C0%2C491"> Rapid and pivotal advances in technology have a way of unsettling people, because they can reverberate mercilessly, sometimes, through business, employment, and cultural spheres. And so it is with the current shock and awe over large language models, such as <a href="https://openai.com/product/gpt-4" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GPT-4</a> from <a href= "https://openai.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">OpenAI</a>. Its a textbook example of the mixture of amazement and, especially, anxiety that often accompanies a tech triumph. And weve been here many times, says <a href= "https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/rodney-brooks" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rodney Brooks</a>. Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the <a href= "https://www.csail.mit.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</a> at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. Brooks, who is now working on his third robotics startup, <a href= "https://www.robust.ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">Robust.AI</a>, has written <a href= "http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/publications.html" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hundreds of articles and half a dozen books</a> and was featured in the motion picture <a href= "https://vimeo.com/454131115" rel="noopener noreferrer" target= "_blank">Fast, Cheap & Out of Control. He is a rare technical leader who has had a stellar career in business and in academia and has still found time to engage with the popular culture through books, popular articles, TED Talks, and other venues.

It gives an answer with complete confidence, and I sort of believe it. And half the time, its completely wrong. Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI IEEE Spectrum caught up with Brooks at the recent <a href= "https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/event/2023-vic-summit-honors-ceremony-gala/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit</a>, where he was being honored with the 2023 <a href= "https://corporate-awards.ieee.org/award/ieee-founders-medal/" rel= "noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">IEEE Founders Medal</a>. He s...

00:55

The End of Bakhmut "IndyWatch Feed War"

The Ukrainians are organizing to pull out

By Stephan Bryen | Weapons and Strategy | May 16, 2023

Ukraine is close to retreating from Bakhmut. This could happen anytime now, but it has to happen fast enough before exit routes are closed down. Predictions on a timetable vary, but the Ukrainians should evacuate Bakhmut no later than the weekend, provided they can.

There are still a couple of roads open to exit the city, secured in part by Ukrainian army attacks on the flanks of the city. But these roadways and fields will not stay available if the Wagner forces pour in fast.

In the last night the Wagner forces stormed and took the two most fortified and defensible parts of the Citadel area of the city, pushing the Ukrainians back into the last part of the Citadel which is mainly low rise buildings. These will be hard to hold. There is also fighting around a portion of the citys northwestern sector where the Ukrainians are holding out at the Childrens Hospital (long since evacuated of patients). The purpose of the Ukrainian force is to hold this area to keep the road open out of the city in that direction and to divert Wagner forces from taking over the entire Citadel too quickly.

Commander in Chief Valery Zaluzhny with Colonel General Aleksandr Syrskyi (left)

The Ukrainians could negotiate a safe withdrawal with the Russians, but it is unlikely that Zelensky will allow that to happen. Furthermore, the so-called leaks about Prigozhins communications with Ukrainian intelligence, which he has heatedly denied, makes it almost impossible for the Wagners to make any deals with their Ukrainian enemies.

The battle for Bakhmut is Zelenskys battle, because he demanded that his army stay there and fight, even after his commanders told him it was too costly and not worth taking needless losses. The battle has raged for eight or nine months and, to a degree, has caused big losses on both sides. Recently his top commanders have put out statements that the fight was worth it. It is likely Zelensky demanded these statements of support.

The big question is, what is next. The Russians could use their forces to move toward Chasiv Yar and push the Ukrainian army back toward the Dnieper river. The Dnieper is absolutely strategic for Ukraine, an...

00:50

Died Suddenly: Police Officers Who Died Suddenly Recently, Possibly Due to Injuries from COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:50

Tribunal: Tinubu, Shettima Oppose Live Coverage Of Election Petition Proceedings "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The president-elect and the vice president-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima on Wednesday urged the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to deny Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Partys request for a live broadcast of the proceedings. Responding to the suit, Tinubu and Shettima stated that the relief sought by the applicants are not such...

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00:49

Viral Video Of Personnel Flogging Woman, Misleading Osun Police "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The Osun State Police Command has debunked a viral video which showed policemen beating a woman, describing it as an old video. In the video which has since gone viral on social media, the woman that was beaten, Tola Abdulazeez was standing beside a police patrol van. Police Public Relations Officer, Yemisi Opalola in a...

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00:49

Re: IPv6 and Route of Death "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Posted by Barry Greene on May 17

My recommendation - check your Exploitable Port Filter rules and include IPv6. Test your gear to insure it can
filter exertion headers.

Read through RFC 9098.

This is an doc on how major ISPs deploy port filtering in their networks. Some are applying RFC 9098.

https://www.senki.org/operators-security-toolkit/filtering-exploitable-ports-and-minimizing-risk-to-and-from-your-customers/

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00:43

Military Situation In Bakhmut On May 17, 2023 (Map Update) "IndyWatch Feed War"

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Wagner fighters took control of Cherema microdistrict;
Wagner fighters took control of most of 18th microdistrict;
Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue in the area of Mig-17 monument;
Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue near Berkhovsky water reservoir;
Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue southwest of Ivanivske.

00:41

Victor Osimhen Absent At Napoli Training Ahead Of Inter Clash "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Osimhen remains an integral figure for Luciano Spallettis side, with his 28 goals in 36 games helping deliver a long-awaited Scudetto. But Soccernet.ng report that the Nigeria international missed the Partenopeis latest training session on Wednesday due to suffering from illness. Napoli will host Champions League finalists Inter at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on...

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00:40

May 8 and the Rehabilitation of Nazism in Germany "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:37

Google is going to delete your data forever, if you havent logged into your account for two years "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Google has announced a new policy on dealing with inactive accounts - and it's an important read for anyone who doesn't regularly login. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

00:33

Lost Souls with Nukes "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:31

Ohanaeze Leadership: Concerned Stakeholders Warn Against Impersonation "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Rising from their meeting in Enugu on Wednesday, the concerned stakeholders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide issued a strong warning to two Igbo sons; Chidi Ibe and Okechukwu Isiguzoro to stop impersonating to be leaders of Ohanaeze. In a communique signed after their meeting, the spokesperson of the concerned stakeholders, Ndubuisi Igwekani said that it is...

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00:31

Ox Sam Camp, Thacker Pass 'Come and Stand With Us' "IndyWatch Feed War"

"Its a good day to disobey. Come stand with us at Ox Sam Camp."Paiute and Shoshone are resisting a foreign mining company, Lithium Americas of Vancouver, Canada, destroying the land where Paiute were massacred. Biden and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's Bureau of Land Management, BLM, issued the permit, even though it violates federal laws -- including laws protecting Native American burial

00:30

Inseego and UScellular launch 5G indoor router FX3100 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Inseego has launched the next-generation 5G indoor router FX3100, with UScellular. The new upgraded FX3100, which includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon X62 5G Modem-RF System, adds new capabilities to the current generation FX2000. The new FX3100 solution brings fast broadband internet to residential, enterprise and SMB customers in a form factor that can be easily deployed by end users. UScellular is having success providing broadband internet services using their state-of-the-art 5G network in their region, said More

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00:30

New York to Track Residents Food Purchases and Place Caps on Meat Served by Public Institutions "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:28

Bilderberg 2023 Coverage "IndyWatch Feed World"

The closures outside the Pestana Palace began at around 3 pm local time. #Bilderberg pic.twitter.com/b5K338DjoZ

Josh Friedman (@FreeManReporter) May 17, 2023

It appears the annual #Bilderberg Meeting will be taking place this week in Lisbon, Portugal. pic.twitter.com/PmpiaQUpYx

Josh Friedman (@FreeManReporter) May 16, 2023

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00:26

West Bank: Hamas list wins key university elections "IndyWatch Feed War"

West Bank: Hamas list wins key university elections

Results of student elections at An-Najah University in Nablus are read as a reflection of wider Palestinian society

Ola Marshoud Wed, 05/17/2023 - 15:26

Palestinian students cast their votes in student elections at An-Najah National University in the West Bank city of Nablus on 16 May 2023 (Imago Images via Reuters)

A Palestinian student casts her vote in elections at An-Najah National University in the West Bank city of Nablus, on 16 May 2023 (Imago Images via Reuters)

A Hamas-affiliated list has won student elections at a key West Bank university for the first time in 16 years, in the latest sign of dwindling support for the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The Islamic Wafa bloc secured 40 seats out of 81 available in the student council of Nablus An-Najah National University on Wednesday.

Its main rival, the "Shabiba" bloc - the student arm of the PAs ruling party, Fatah - won 38 seats, while three seats went to a list linked with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

The An-Najah polls, along with elections at Ramallah's Birzeit University, are considered the bellwether of West Bank politics. The results of these elections are read as a reflection of wider Palestinian society, its position on the PA, and voters' orientations in any broader elections that may be held in the future.

"The exclusionary approach [of the PA] in the West Bank and the repression [of opponents] led people to hold onto their principle more firmly, said Sayel Amara, a lecturer at An-Najah.

00:25

Ukraine aid and US stockpiles are running out. Whats next? "IndyWatch Feed War"

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Responsible Statecraft | May 17, 2023

There might be a massive new Ukraine aid budget debate on the horizon, as Uncle Sam is depleting the last one at a record pace and Pentagon stockpiles are, by all accounts, running low.

According to a new report by Defense One, some $36.4 billion of the $48.9 billion allocated for Ukraine-related military aid since February 2022 has been delivered, contracted, or otherwise committed. There is only $11.3 billion left, and it will run out in four months.

The most recent allocation ($1.2 billion last week) came under the U.S. Security Assistance Initiative, which means the additional air defense systems, artillery rounds, and ammunition that have been promised will be farmed out to U.S. defense contractors and wont be ready for shipment right away. Alternatively, aid has come via the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which sends Ukraine weapons directly from the Pentagons stockpiles. According to the Department of Defense, there have been 37 such drawdowns totaling over $21 billion in weapons and supplies since August 2021 when the U.S. first responded to Russian forces massing along the border with Ukraine.

But now reports indicate that American stockpiles of HIMARS, Javelins, Stinger missiles, and 155 mm artillery rounds have been shrinking since late last year, and arms manufacturers are now scrambling to keep up.

This has led the U.S. to go out on an ammo-raising spree, gathering pledges from allies and partners. Some, like South Korea, have resisted but found a way to comply. According to the Wall Street Journal, Washington has sent Ukraine more than one million rounds of 155 mm caliber ammunition, and allies and partners have contributed more on top of that. Moreover, NATO and European partners are being pressed to send whatever they have from their own stockpiles for Ukraines anticipated counteroffensive.

So...

00:25

IPv6 and Route of Death "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Posted by Jeffrey Walton on May 17

Hi Everyone,

This seems to have been dropped as a 0-day. I have not seen a CVE
assigned to it.

IPv6 and Route of Death:

* https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/13jfehf/linux_ipv6_route_of_death_0day_no_patch/
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950379

I _think_ this is the original writeup:

* https://www.interruptlabs.co.uk//articles/linux-ipv6-route-of-death

Jeff

00:22

Business As Usual: Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish "IndyWatch Feed War"

There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.

Ludwig von Mises

Once again, the police state is up to its old tricks, stoking tensions over whether or not the government is forced to shut down, even partially, due to a default on the national debt.

Yet while these political games dominate news headlines, send the stock market into a nosedive, and put federal employees at risk of having to work without pay, nothing about these high-handed theatrics will diminish the immediate and very real dangers of the American Police State with its roadside strip searches, government surveillance, biometric databases, citizens being treated like terrorists, imprisonments for criticizing the government, national ID cards, SWAT team raids, censorship, forcible blood draws and DNA extractions, private prisons, weaponized drones, red light cameras, tasers, active shooter drills, police misconduct and government corruption.

Default or not, war will continue. Drone killings will continue. Surveillance will continue. Censorship and persecution of anyone who criticizes the government will continue. The governments efforts to label dissidents as extremists and terrorists will continue.

Police shootings will continue. Highway robbery meted out by government officials will continue. Corrupt government will continue. Profit-driven prisons will continue. And the militarization of the police will continue.

Indeed, take a look at the programs and policies that will not be affected by a government default on its debt leading to a possible shutdown, and youll get a clearer sense of the governments priorities, which have little to do with serving taxpayers and everything to do with amassing money, power and control.

Surveillance will continue unabated. On any given day, whether youre walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. Police have been outfitted with a litany of surveillance gear, from license plate readers and cell phone tracking devices to biometric data recorders. Technology now makes...

00:20

Big Pharmas Rampant Corporate Lawlessness Cost Americans $40 Billion in 2019: Report "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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Historic bill would stop New York from subsidizing illegal Israeli settlements "IndyWatch Feed War"

The bill to "End New York funding of Israeli settler violence Act" would establish a civil penalty for nonprofits that help fund settlements. The pro-Israel backlash has predictably described it as antisemitic.

00:17

Business As Usual: Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. ...

Business As Usual: Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish

00:15

West fueling Ukrainian financial woes Moscow "IndyWatch Feed War"

RT | May 17, 2023

Western financial measures are leading Kiev into a sovereign debt crisis, with the burden expected to exceed Ukraines GDP by the end of the year, the Russian ambassador to the UN has warned.

We will hear a lot today about the solidarity of the Western community with Ukraine, the readiness to support it as long as it takes. However, it is necessary to understand that this support is taking Ukraine to the brink, Vassily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Monday. Its foreign debt surged to a record $132 billion, or 89% of GDP in 2022. Its estimated that by the end of this year it will exceed 100%.

The Russian envoy added that the enormous funds allocated to Ukraine by the IMF, the EU, and the US are driving that country into a debt pit, cautioning that ordinary Ukrainians will have to repay the debts.

Commenting on Kievs agreement with US financial company BlackRock to launch the Ukraine Development Fund, Nebenzia noted that the American firm will be in charge of managing the finances.

What essentially is happening under the guise of attracting private investment for large-scale projects in key areas of the economy, is a transfer of state sovereignty to external corporate management of the worlds largest investment fund headquartered in New York, the diplomat stated.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has pushed Western leaders to provide more and more cash to sustain the economy and military. He previously told the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that the country would need $55 billion in 2023 to cover the estimated budget deficit and rebuild critical infrastructure amid the conflict with Russia.

Ukraine has already deferred payments until 2024 on more than $20 billion of debt held by international investors. It is set for foreign debt restructuring next year, with G7 creditors claiming they would only extend their grace period for Ukrainian debt if private creditors agree. The nations budgetary shortfall is estimated to surpass $43 billion in 2023 alone.

00:13

Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. Thats why both sides are relying increasingly on low-tech alternativesdumb artillery shells instead of pricey missiles, and drones instead of fighter aircraft.

This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here, Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraines minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year.

In early May, Russia attributed explosions at the Kremlin to drones sent by Ukraine for the purpose of assassinating Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader. Ukraine denied the allegation. True, the mission to Moscow was ineffectual, but it is amazing that it could be managed at all.

Like fighter planes, military drones started cheap, then got expensive. Unlike the fighters, though, they got cheap again.

Drones fly slower than an F-35, carry a smaller payload, beckon ground fire, and last mere days before being shot out of the skies. But for the most part, the price is right: Chinas DJI Mavic 3, used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35. Also, theyre much easier to maintain: When they break, you throw them out, and theres no pilot to be paraded through the streets of the enemy capital.

Smoke clouds rise on a flatscreen monitor above a struck target, as a Ukrainian serviceman of the Adam tactical group operates a drone to spot Russian positions near the city of Bakhmut, Don...

00:09

Washington Wants War with China Served Hot, Not Cold "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:03

Theatre stands accused for the first time in post-soviet Russia "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

00:02

Britains Undeclared War with Russia "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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00:00

Ever Again "IndyWatch Feed War"

An unusual and pleasant experience occurred when I attended the webinar book launch of Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, authored by Dr. Andrew Port, Professor of History at Wayne State University. Skeptical of Germanys anxiety in remaining identified with the genocidal Nazi past and its servile attempts to gain Jewish approval by assisting Israel, I audaciously framed a question for Dr. Port, You say never again, but Germany supports Israels genocide of the Palestinian people. How do you reconcile that hypocrisy?

I admit that the question was poorly expressed and can be misinterpreted; Germany does not support Israels genocide of the Palestinian people; Germany has contributed to Israels oppression and simmering genocide of the Palestinian people. In addition to German government reparations payments, estimated at $60 billion, the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) sponsors the second-largest scientific research in Israel and German scientists represent the largest group of foreign scientists working in Israel. Between the years 2009-2020, the FRG accounted for 24 percent of Israels arms imports. Included in the weapons deals were submarines, which can be equipped with missiles, and four German-made corvette warships for patrolling the coast, which Germany subsidizes. From Germanys Relations with Israel: Background and Implications for German Middle East Policy, Congressional Research, January 19, 2007.

In 1999 and 2000, in perhaps the most high-profile German arms shipments to Israel since German unification, Germany financed 50% of the costs for three Dolphin-class submarines designed specifically for the Israeli navy. In August 2006, the German government committed to deliver and finance one-third of the costs, approximately 1 billion Euros ($1.3 billion), for two more submarines by 2010.

By not admitting that its assistance to Israel has dual use, Germany flirts between contributing and supporting Israels oppression strengthening Israel economically and militarily and enabling donated and other resources to be made available to oppress the Palestinians. The FRG jumped to supporting the oppression when a majority of legislators in the Bundestag voted in favor of a motion to label the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as an entity that uses anti-Semitic tactics to fulfill its political goals.

Knowing that moderators do not relish provocative q...

00:00

ammune.ai integrates with Intel to protect Kubernetes clusters from API attacks "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Ammune.ai (Formerly L7 Defense), has integrated its API security solution ammune, with the Intel NetSec Accelerator Reference Design, providing node-based protection for Kubernetes clusters from API attacks. The deployment architecture incorporates the integration of ammune RT-units with the Intel NetSec Accelerator Reference Design, a blueprint delivering the functionality of a server in an Intel processor-based PCIe add-in card which minimizes CPU processing requirements for cybersecurity operations. Additionally, ammune Analytic Units are utilized to remotely support More

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00:00

Two Factor Authentication Apps: Mistakes to Malware "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Everyone in security will tell you need two-factor authentication (2FA), and we agree. End of article? Nope. The devil, as always with security, is in the details. Case in point: in the last few weeks, none less than Google messed up with their Google Authenticator app. The security community screamed out loud, and while its not over yet, it looks like Google is on the way to fixing the issue.

Since 2FA has become a part of all of our lives or at least it should lets take a quick dip into how it works, the many challenges of implementing 2FA correctly, what happened with Google Authenticator, and what options youve got to keep yourself safe online.

You probably know or use Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, or an app like Authy. What all of these authenticator apps have in common is the generation of a time-dependent six digit number, given a secret key. Perhaps you scanned that secret key into your phone...

Wednesday, 17 May

23:56

How Many People Has the U.S. Government Killed? "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 17, 2023

Of course I can only touch on one aspect of recent history here.

Im looking at the new report from Costs of War.

Five years ago, I think Nicolas Davies credibly and conservatively estimated 6 million people directly killed in U.S. wars since 2001 in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Somalia.

What Costs of War has now done is to go with the highly dubious but corporate-respectable estimate of 900,000 directly killed in all of those wars, but leaving out Libya and Somalia. Theyve then documented a pattern of four indirect deaths for every direct death. By indirect deaths, they mean deaths caused by a wars impact on:

1) economic collapse, loss of livelihood and food insecurity;
2) destruction of public services and health infrastructure;
3) environmental contamination; and
4) reverberating trauma and violence.

Then theyve multiplied 900,000 by 5 = 4.5 million direct and indirect deaths.

Applying the same ratio to 6 million would have resulted in 30 million direct and indirect deaths.

But, of course, its possible that the common insistence on underestimating direct deaths if Im right about that tells us more about the proportion of deaths that are direct and indirect, rather than about the total number of deaths. If there are, for example, act...

23:52

How Many People Has the U.S. Government Killed? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

What I think Costs of War's report tells us for certain is that, how ever many people have been killed directly in these wars, huge numbers have also been killed indirectly.

23:47

[$] The state of the page in 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

to folios was never going to be done in a day. At a plenary session at the start of the second day of the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Matthew Wilcox discussed the current state and future direction of this work. Quite a lot of progress has been made and a lot of work remains to be done.

23:44

OilAlpha: Emerging Houthi-linked Cyber Threat Targets Arabian Android Users "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A hacking group dubbed OilAlpha with suspected ties to Yemen's Houthi movement has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting development, humanitarian, media, and non-governmental organizations in the Arabian peninsula. "OilAlpha used encrypted chat messengers like WhatsApp to launch social engineering attacks against its targets," cybersecurity company Recorded Future said in a

23:40

Who Ya Gonna Get to Hammer Nails and Wire up your Internet? "IndyWatch Feed War"

I know, I know, every time I get onto the Zoom Doom thing with the Chronicle for Higher Education, the entire experience is dirty beyong dirty. Today, it was more bizarro people yammering about talent search challenges for getting people to go into higher education.

Three women went into their experiences recruiting and screening potential college hire-ons. The language coming from these people belies the vapidity of our times. Now, well, one woman said, we have 30 people applying for one job, compared to a few years ago when 300 applied for one job. I almost puked.

This entire thing was all about HR-speak, and the shallowness of their conversation and the Dystopian proposals they lay out are just signs of the shifting baseline disorder times.

They are happy about hybrid work, about kicking down the useless 9 to 5 timeframe for work, and are happy that work can be done at home, 8 am to 8 pm, or later, if need be.

Then, two males came on, and they are the Linked-In creeps, which sponsors these talks. Microsoft, now, owns Linked-In. Linked-In does staffing/hiring now, and alas, many of the universities and colleges are using hiring and staffing services like Linked-In to do the real work of hiring and screening.

One of the fops stated that colleges are way behind the times, technologically, and that getting courses and admin work on line, in hyper-remote ways, is the only way forward. You know, these monsters who believe the bricks and mortar campuses are just dinosaurs.

Yikes, here it is:...

23:40

Russian Kinzhal hypersonic missile destroys Kievs US-made Patriot air defense system "IndyWatch Feed War"

By Drago Bosnic | May 17, 2023

For most of this month, the mainstream propaganda machine has been parroting the same story over and over again a Russian 9-A-7660 Kinzhal air-launched hypersonic missile was shot down by a US-made Patriot SAM (surface-to-air missile) system. The conclusive evidence cited by the political West is laughable at best, but it was enough to convince those without specific knowledge of how weapons actually work, which includes most of the population. Moscow didnt really comment on the claims. Or to be exact, not until the early hours of May 16, when the actual response came in a very non-rhetorical form.

Namely, the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) launched a SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses) mission over Kiev, with the operation including two Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, which were used to neutralize at least one battery of the Patriot SAM system. While neither side commented on the variant of the destroyed US-made air defense system, video evidence shows that it was most likely one of the latest iterations, the PAC-3 MSE (Missile Segment Enhancement upgrade) that also includes the much-touted CRI (Cost Reduction Initiative) interceptors. The cost of a single CRI missile currently stands at close to $5,300,000, meaning that the 32 interceptors fired by the Kiev regime forces amounted to nearly $170,000,000.

Such a massive quantity of interceptors was still nowhere near enough to stop the Russian hypersonic weapons, although the Neo-Nazi junta announced that it shot down most of the missiles fired by the VKS, including the claim that it allegedly neutralized six Kinzhals, despite the fact that the Russian military used only two during this attack. Although Moscow didnt publicly reveal this, the information is based on the comments from the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu himself. In response to the Kiev regimes reverie, Shoigu stated laconically:

The figures given by the Ukrainians about the interception of Russian missiles are [usually] three times higher than the amount [of weapons] we actually use.

Several military experts estimate that the VKS used a lot of decoys of various types to bait the air defenses in and around Kiev, which would explain the claims of the local authorities that the Russian strike was exceptional in density. The Neo-Nazi junta officials stated that the attack also included cruise missiles and drones. Local air defense forces allegedly shot down 18 missiles and nine drones, including six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. The claims are widely ridiculed by military experts and numerous Telegram channels, with dozens of m...

23:39

Ubuntu Knocks On Docker In Latest Snaps Promotion "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

While for an Ubuntu desktop user that is used to running Snap versions of Firefox and other desktop application sandboxing it may seem strange for Canonical to be comparing Snaps to Docker containers, the emphasis of their comparison is on the IoT/edge computing side where they are trying to better position Snaps as a superior alternative to using Docker containers...

23:39

Suspected Robber Confesses How They Use Keke To Rob Their Victims In Lonely Area "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

LAGOS MAY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A suspected armed robber, 20-year-old Nworie Emmanuel has confessed to the police the modus operandi in which they use to rob innocent victim standing or walking along a lonely road.

Nworie who was arrested on May 15th, 2023 while police operatives of B division Warri, led by the DPO SP Bolarinwa Alabi were on visibility/confidence building patrol along Airport road. They sighted a tricycle with three male occupants and in their usual way, flagged down the tricycle, but the rider on sighting the Police maneuver in a bid to escape, the operatives went after them until they eventually abandoned the tricycle and took to their heels.

One of the suspects, named Nworie Emmanuel was arrested and taken to the police station. During interrogation, the suspect stated that he is a member of a three man gang of armed robbers who uses a tricycle to rob innocent people of their belongings along Airport Road, Warri, Delta State

He also confessed that they have robbed two persons on the day he was arrested along Airport road, adding that the phone robbed was with Abdul, one of their fleeing gang members. The suspect confessed that their modus operandi is to look out for their victims standing at a lonely road at night, and Abdul (currently at large) will jump down from the tricycle, use the knife to threaten their victim and rob them of their phones and other valuable.

Delta State Police Public relation Officer (PPRO) DSP Bright Edafe who confirmed the arrest of the suspect revealed that the tricycle, the knife they use to scare their victims are in custody alongside the suspect while effort is on to arrest the other fleeing members of the gang.

In a related development, the Command crack squad on 16/5/2023, raided a criminal blackspot located around Osuani in Patani LGA, an...

23:39

Potential Pollinator Hints at New Frontiers in Froggery! "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

If I asked a random person to name a pollinator, most people would probably default to bees. This is perfectly reasonable. Bees play a huge role in human life, and the decline in wild bees has rightfully caused a great deal of alarm. Today, however, were going to step back from the horrors of the world, and instead look at remarkable news from the wonderful world of pollination. Die-hard fans of plant sex will already be aware that pollinators come in all shapes and sizes. There are plenty of insects other than bees that pollinate, and a number of birds and mammals, but I have to admit that until today, I had never heard of a frog acting as a pollinator!

The image shows golden-brown frog with a pinkish-white belly and throat, clinging to a flower and chowing down on it. From Scientific American: The Xenohyla truncata tree frog was observed eating various plant parts and having pollen stuck to its back, pointing to a possible role in pollination. Credit: Henrique Nogueira

On rainy nights on the verdant coastal...

23:39

Debian pauses its /usr merge again "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The Debian Technical Committee has announced a new moratorium on moving files from the root into /usr, a necessary part of its UsrMerge project. Many distributions have made this change, but Debian has had more difficulties than most; LWN last looked at this project one year ago.

This moratorium lasts until we vote to repeal it. We expect to do that during the trixie development cycle, and sooner rather than later. We will continue to facilitate efforts to resolve the remaining issues that stand in the way of safely repealing the moratorium.

Trixie is the codename for Debian 13, the upcoming major release cycle.

23:36

The puzzling appeal of Nazism in the US today "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

We know that Hitler and the Nazis were impressed by racist and eugenics ideas in the US and that they coopted many of those ideas in their theory and program of Aryan supremacy that led to the mass killings of Jews, the Romani people, and others. We now have the reverse phenomenon, where some Americans are taking inspiration from those Nazi ideas and express admiration for Nazis. As a result, we have had various groups of white nationalists and anti-Semites recruiting people to their cause using neo-Nazi rhetoric..

I have been struggling to figure out what exactly is the contemporary appeal of Nazism in the US. Let me be clear about what puzzles me. The appeals to quasi-eugenics ideas such as the great replacement theory according to which there is a deliberate plan to displace white Christians from their dominant position by immigrants and people of color and Jews and other religions, have been around in the US long before the Nazis came to power in Germany.

In many ways, this is a return of an old American political tradition rather than a wholly new phenomenon, but it has taken on a new form and uses a language that must be properly understood if it is to be successfully challenged. Concepts of white supremacy were at the heart of the defense of slavery and central to the Lost Cause myth that justified segregation after the fall of the Confederacy.

The fear of immigrants of different religious traditions also has a long history in the United States; it fueled nativist political party the Know Nothings of the 1850s and the racist rules of the 1924 Immigration Act, which among its many outrages prevented immigration from Asia and remained in effect until 1965. The renowned U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was one of the most distinguished proponents of eugenics, and the idea that immigrants bring crime and disorder dates back to the anti-Irish panics that occurred throughout the 19th century. Anti-Semitism, meanwhile, had been an ugly feature of American political discourse well before the 1913 lynching of Leo Frank prompted the founding of the Anti-Defamation League.

So racists and other bigots do not need to invoke Nazis to their cause since they have a longer homegrown tradition that they could draw upon. In addition, Hitler and Nazism, while they wreaked a lot of suffering and destruction, were ultimately losers and have been repudiated, though not completely eradicated, even in the countries in which they were born. I can understand that some Germans, seeking to reclaim what they think of as past grandeur, yearn to go back to Hitlers time when Germany threatened to conquer the world and would like to have a second chance at succeeding. But why would Americans, especially right-wingers who tend to voi...

23:30

Amartus partners with ServiceNow to offer industry standard inter-party automation process and APIs "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Amartus has partnered with ServiceNow to offer Enterprises and Service Providers a combined solution for rapid implementation of MEF LSO (Life-cycle Service Orchestration) industry standard processes and APIs to automate trading & operation of services that underpin todays Enterprise Network & IT environments. Enterprise Networking and IT environments are undergoing radical transformation driven by the need to connect their increasingly global and mobile employee, customer & partner base to business applications running in geographically distributed More

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23:28

[$] Computational storage "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A new development in the NVMe world was the subject of a combined storage and filesystem session led by Stephen Bates at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit. Computational storage namespaces will allow NVMe devices to offer various types of computationanything from simple compression through complex queries and data manipulationsto be performed on the data stored on the device.

23:25

Confessions of a CIA Terrorist "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

In 1975, Philip Agee published his book Inside the Company: CIA Diary. In the introduction he wrote,

When I joined the CIA, I believed in the need for its existence. After twelve years with the agency I finally understood how much suffering it was causing, that millions of people all over the world had been killed or had their lives destroyed by the CIA and the institutions it supports. I couldnt sit by and do nothing and so began work on this book.

Enrique Prados book, Black Ops: The Life of a Shadow CIA Warrior (St. Martins Press, 2022), is written for the opposite purpose from Philip Agee. Prado says, This book is my attempt to correct the misperceptions that make the Agency one of the least understood and most mistrusted institutions in America today. The reality we faced on the ground in places from Muslim Africa to East Asia, to our own streets here at home, is one of persistent threats that must be countered to keep our people safe.

Prados memoirs were approved for publication by the CIA. They are self-laudatory and highly critical of restraints on the CIA. They confirm that while the ability to assassinate at will was temporarily restricted, CIA sabotage and paramilitary operations against other nations have continued nonstop.

Background

Enrique (Ric) Prados father lost his business in the Cuban revolution and Ric came to the US as a youth in the early 60s. He grew up in greater Miami. The Vietnam war was raging and his dream was to go to Vietnam.

After high school, Ric enlisted in the US Air Force and received training in rescue operations including parachute jumping and scuba diving. Prados dream was dashed because the Vietnam war was winding down and the US military downsizing.

Prado alludes to his involvement with Cuban American gangs and some troubled years. Then, starting with contract work, Prado began to perform assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Prado and the Contras

Prados timing was late for Vietnam but just right for Central America. In 1979 the Sandinista revolution overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. As a Spanish speaking Latino, Prado was not a typical Anglo American. He was recruited as a CIA officer responsible for overseeing the development of the Contra army...

23:25

Egypt 'detaining and torturing' female relatives of IS militants in North Sinai "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Egypt 'detaining and torturing' female relatives of IS militants in North Sinai

Women and girls who were victims of rape and forced marriage are being held in incommunicado detention, rights groups say

MEE staff Wed, 05/17/2023 - 14:25

A picture taken on 26 July 2018 shows Egyptian policemen stand guarding a street in the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish (AFP)

A picture taken on 26 July 2018 shows Egyptian policemen overlooking a street in the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish (AFP)

Egyptian authorities have arbitrarily detained and tortured women and girls related to suspected militants in the North Sinai region, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Authorities are holding women and girls in incommunicado detention, sometimes for years, partly in an attempt to obtain information on male relatives suspected of links to Sinai Province, the local branch of the Islamic State group.

Many of the women were themselves victims of abuse at the hands of militants, according to the report by Human Rights Watch and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights (SFHR).

Egyptian authorities have been abusing many women and children in North Sinai to extract information about their suspected ISIS affiliate relatives or pressure these suspects to turn themselves in, said Ahmed Salem, executive director of the Sinai Foundation, using a different acronym for IS.

The authorities should immediately free all women and girls held merely for being related to or associated with male suspects, and investigate torture and other ill-treatment against them.

23:24

German police arrest two senior journalists on Turkish newspaper "IndyWatch Feed War"

German police arrest two senior journalists on Turkish newspaper

German police arrested two veteran Turkish journalists in early morning raids on the Sabah newspaper

Elis Gjevori Wed, 05/17/2023 - 14:24

German police van (File Photo/Social Media)

German police arrested the European editor-in-chief of Turkish daily Sabah and another senior staff journalist in an early morning raid on Wednesday, a source at the newspaper told Middle East Eye.

According to the Sabah employee, journalists Ismail Erel and Cemil Albay were arrested in Frankfurt and sent to a police detention centre, and their houses were raided by police.

Ismail Erel and Cemil Albays houses were also raided today at 6am by German police, said the employee.

Erel is the German representative of Sabah newspaper and Albay, the editor-in-chief of Sabah in Europe.

Ismail is an experienced journalist working for more than 30 years as a journalist in Germany, hes well known amongst other journalists, said the employee.

According to the Turkish news outlet Anadolu Agency (AA), the Turkish foreign ministry contacted German authorities and demanded the immediate release of the detained journalists.

Speaking to AA, a diplomatic source said raiding newspaper offices and arresting journalists is an unacceptable act.

The Turkish government's c...

23:22

Drug-Resistant Ringworm Reported in US for First Time; Community Spread Likely "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

upstart writes:

The newly emerging fungal pathogen is often misidentified in common lab tests:

A dermatologist in New York City has reported the country's first known cases of highly contagious ringworm infections that are resistant to common anti-fungal treatmentsand caused by a newly emerging fungus that is rapidly outstripping other infectious fungi around the world.

In February, the dermatologist reported two cases to health officials in the state, which are described in a brief case study published Thursday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

[...] Ringwormaka tineas, dermatophytosis, jock itch, and athlete's footis a superficial fungal infection of the skin that causes red, itchy, sometimes scaly circular rashes. There are more than 40 different species of fungi that can cause the infection, which spreads from infected people and animals and also lurks in environments and on common household items, like towels. Ringworm is extremely common and can strike anyone. Usually, it's treatable with over-the-counter creams.

[...] While alarming, the identification of cases in the US is not surprising. The fungus behind the infections is Trichophyton indotineae (previously described as Trichophyton mentagrophytes type VIII), which is a newly emerging fungus globally. Though genetic studies date isolates back to at least 2008 in Australia, a multidrug-resistant lineage seemed to erupt in India between 2017 and 2018. Since then, it has reached epidemic proportions in the subcontinent, replacing other common causes of ringworm, and the pathogen has rapidly emerged in many countries throughout Asia and Europe, and Canada.

[...] The rise of T. indotineae is linked to the abuse of topical treatments that contain egregiously large combinations of steroids and antifungal/antibacterial agents, spurring the development of resistance. This is particularly a problem in India.

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23:21

OpenAI CEO warns of artificial intelligence's ability to persuade voters: It may 'cause significant harm to the world' "IndyWatch Feed World"

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared before Congress to address the need for new rules to help guide the development of artificial intelligence as the sector continues to grow exponentially. He suggested that while he was committed to working with the government to ensure that humans remain in control of the technology, there was a chance that things could get out of control. As the Daily Mail reports, Altman warned that if left unattended, AI could "go quite wrong," adding that OpenAI sought to "work with the government to prevent that from happening." He admitted that his "worst fear" was that products such as OpenAI's ChatGPT would cause "significant harm to the world."

23:18

Gemini Links 17/05/2023: Contact Juggling and Debt Ceiling Bullshit "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Gemini* and Gopher

Gemini* and Gopher
- Personal
  - Contact Juggling
    
    Contact Juggling is a physical skill and performance art that is close to juggling, except the balls stay in contact with your body.
    
    Its much less well known than juggling.
    
    When I saw performers contact juggling in the background in an episode of Deep Space Nine I had no idea what it was called, even, but I thought That looks great! It must be possible to learn. Ill do that.
  - SpellBinding: AEKMVRO Wordo: TWATS
  - Parallels
    
    Some things related to my experiences of being a trans woman, experiences i feel parallel another area of my life: one which should be a source of joy, but is actually a source of painful exclusion for me. No, i wont elaborate here; the situation is difficult enough as it is.
- Politics
  - Debt Ceiling Bullshit
    
    Once again mainstream media is escalating the last-minute debt ceiling
    doomsday propaganda.
    
    The so-called debt ceiling is complete bullshit. A piece of paper is signed, and for no good reason at all the state can borrow trillions of dollars. This was done 78 times since 1960, more than once every year. Its a joke.
    
    Every now and then, a crisis develops. A bunch of morons cant sign a piece of paper, and we cant pay our bills The world might end at the end of the month.
- Technical
  - Reflecting on Recent Experiences
    
    The last several weeks have been extremely consequential for me. Back in April, I had the privilege to travel to California as a result of participating in a group project involving the career technical organization my IT class is a part of, which was frankly a fantastic experience. I also finally passed t...

23:17

The Tasmanian AFL Stadium Protest "IndyWatch Feed War"

Every now and then, the sharpened, dedicated means of halting a monstrous white elephant before its birth can work. The wise suddenly seem in charge, conscious and aware that folly can be averted. This, however, is a rare feat indeed. In Tasmania protests of some magnitude against a proposed stadium for Australian Rules Football are starting to have some effect. These have taken place against a dark backdrop: a persistent, critical housing crisis; the presence of homelessness; concerns about food and energy security, and healthcare.

On May 13, thousands gathered on Hobarts parliamentary lawns protesting the $715 million proposal that envisages a redevelopment of the Macquarie Point precinct, a rather disingenuous justification to build a needless 23,000-seat structure on prime real estate using public funds. The package totalling $745 million, also envisages upgrades for York Park (UTAS Stadium) in Launceston.

A conspicuous figure present at the protests was one of Australias more prominent authors, Richard Flanagan. As he wrote in The Age last month, Tasmania, and its population of 550,000 people, has two stadiums where AFL games are routinely played. Tasmania doesnt have a stadium problem. It has a housing and homelessness problem. Rents in Australias poorest state have almost doubled over the last five years; affordable properties were elusive to those on Youth Allowance and JobSeeker.

In its myopic vision and scope, the stadium could be said, argues Flanagan, to be a symbol of government inaction on these issues that blight Australias smallest state. In addition to housing, it has Australias worst public health system, and, with 50 per cent illiteracy, a public education problem.

Also present at the protest was federal Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie, who proved to be both colourful and agitated. Tasmanians, she declared in her address to the crowd, have had a bloody gutful over the stadium and you can stick it up your bum.

In what must surely be considered an act of self-harm, the Tasmanian Liberals also find themselves in a governing minority largely because of Premier Jeremy Rockliffs edifice fetish. A day before the large protests, Liberal backbenchers John Tucker and Lara Alexander quit the party. As Alexander reasoned, The proposed shady deal to build a stadium in Hobart has sharply divided the community. While she did not often agree with her opposite nu...

23:16

The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Destroyed "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Michael Snyder If you wanted to destroy the middle class, one way that you could accomplish that goal would be to flood the system...

The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Destroyed

23:15

Syam Nair joins Zscaler as CTO "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Zscaler announced that Syam Nair has been appointed as the companys Chief Technology Officer and EVP of Research and Development. In this role, Nair will be responsible for driving the research and development engines to expand Zscalers Zero Trust Exchange platform, accelerate AI/ML innovations, and further scale the largest security cloud in the world. Nair will join Zscalers senior executive team on May 24, 2023. I am excited to welcome Syam to the Zscalers leadership. More

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23:14

Bridging the Gap to Nowhere? "IndyWatch Feed World"

Frances Gavins recently declared that the gap between policymaking and academic research has been bridged! As evidence of International Relations newfound influence on the making of U.S. national-security policy, Dr. Gavin points to a handful of scholars who, having crossed the Gap on their own two feet, now occupy prominent government positions. This underscores, he argues, that programs like the International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network and the Nuclear Studies Research Initiativeas well as his own Texas National Security Reviewhave successfully constructed a communications channel between academia and policymakers.

This is a common line of argument among gap-bridgersscholars who emphasize the importance of forging close connections between the academic study of international relations and the world of policymaking. The Bridging the Gap teams recent, thorough review provides a good example. It focuses on opportunities and challenges for connecting academic knowledge to policymakers, while also celebrating the influence of a number of scholars on the policy landscape.

The gap-bridgers do, indeed, have much to celebrate. But I worry that the bridges that they aim to construct and maintain suffer from some critical design flaws. Chief among them: they are made by academics for academics. The engineers ask little of the policymakers on the other side.

Bridge-building must move beyond catering to policymakers. Academics bridge no gaps if they, for example, content themselves with providing validation for policymakers existing beliefs. It means little if someone with an academic background occupies an influential policy position if they perform their role no differently than would any other appointment.

The problem is that gap-bridgers tend to start with the wrong set of questions. Instead of asking What do policymakers want from us? we need to ask ones like What should policymakers want from us?...

23:13

OpenBMC 2.14 Apparently Released "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The OpenBMC Linux Foundation collaborative project providing an open-source operating system / firmware stack for server baseboard release management still seems to be in a bit of disarray with OpenBMC 2.13 also having been released yesterday, but at least the code continues moving along...

23:13

Neighboring countries ready to pay Zelensky to stop conflict Seymour Hersh "IndyWatch Feed War"

RT | May 17, 2023

Poland is leading a group of European nations that are secretly urging Vladimir Zelensky to find a way to settle the conflict with Russia, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh has reported, citing a knowledgeable American official.

According to US intelligence, other EU countries that want to see an end to the fighting include Hungary, Germany, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, Hersh wrote in an article published on his Substack page on Wednesday.

Hungary is a big player in this and so are Poland and Germany, and they are working to get Zelensky to come around, the unnamed official claimed. Those countries have made it clear that Zelensky can keep what hes got if he works up a peace deal even if hes got to be paid off, if its the only way to get a deal.

By keep what hes got, the source was referring to the Ukrainian presidents villa in Italy and interests in an offshore bank, Hersh clarified.

However, Zelensky has so far rejected the proposal, while other major European players France and the UK are too beholden to the Biden administration, which is continuing to back the Ukrainian leader, the official said.

One of the main reasons why Poland and the others want the conflict to end is because the burden of accommodating Ukrainian refugees has become too much for them, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist wrote.

The problem for those countries is how to get the US to stop supporting Zelensky, Hershs source suggested.

He claimed that US intelligence is well aware that Ukraine is running out of money and that the next four or months are critical. And Eastern Europeans are talking about a deal.

However, he added that its not clear to the intelligence community what the president and his foreign policy aides in the White House know of the reality.

The US is still training Ukrainians how to fly our F-16s that will be shot down by Russia as soon as they get into the war zone. The mainstream press is dedicated to Biden and the war, and Biden is still talking about the Great Satan in Moscow while the Russian economy is doing great, the official explained.

Russia has repeatedly stated that its ready to resolve the conflict at the negotiating table. However, it did not receive any proposals from Ukraine and its Western backers that it could consider reasonable.

Zelensky has been promoting his ten-point peace plan, which calls for Russian forces to withdraw to borders claimed by Ukraine, to pay reparations, and to submit to war-crime tribunals.

Moscow has rejected the plan as unacceptable, saying it ignores the reality on the ground and is actually a sign of Kievs unwillingness to solve the crisis through diplomatic means.

23:11

KeePass flaw allows retrieval of master password, PoC is public (CVE-2023-32784) "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A vulnerability (CVE-2023-32784) in the open-source password manager KeePass can be exploited to retrieve the master password from the softwares memory, says the researcher who unearthed the flaw. The bad news is that the vulnerability is still unfixed and that a PoC exploitation tool aptly named KeePass 2.X Master Password Dumper is publicly available, but the good news is that the password cant be extracted remotely just by exploiting this flaw. If your More

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23:10

Head Of Ukraines Supreme Court Arrested For Large-Scale Corruption "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Tyler Durden Yet another large-scale corruption scandal has come out of Ukraine as the countrys National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutors...

Head Of Ukraines Supreme Court Arrested For Large-Scale Corruption

23:10

Delta Police Record Another Major Mile Stone, Nab Ten Suspected Kidnappers Terrorising Warri-Sapele Road "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

LAGOS MAY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Sequel to the series of reported cases of armed robbery/kidnapping along Sapele-Warri road and its environs, which have created fear among road users, the Delta State commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass on assumption of duty identified this ugly trend as a major security challenge in the state.

He then detailed an intelligence unit of the Command, the CP-Decoy squad to embark on a discreet and an intelligence led operation. The Commander Decoy squad, ASP Julius Robinson who led operatives of the squad relocated to Sapele on a covert operation while acting on credible intelligence gathered within Sapele and surrounding communities.

The CP strategy yield result as it led to the arrest of one Nyero Sunday of Okwitolo community alongside eight others all in Okpe LGA, Delta State. All the suspects who were arrested through technical intelligence led investigation have confessed to their involvements in numerous kidnapping/armed robbery operations. They equally admitted to terrorizing the Sapele-Warri road.

Further investigation according to Delta State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) DSP Bright Edafe led to the arrest of one Umar Bello from Sokoto state but resides in Warri. He usually buys the stolen phones and other valuables robbed from their victims. A Toyota Corolla with Reg. No. WWR 353 LS, a locally made cut-to-size single barrel pistol, eleven rounds of live cartridges were recovered from the syndicate. Effort is on to arrest other fleeing suspects.

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23:09

French Prez Macron defends graphic pedo paintings "IndyWatch Feed World"

Comment: Warning: Graphic descriptions of pedophilic images below. France's President Emmanuel Macron has defended artwork which appears to depict a child being orally raped by an adult after protestors threw paint on it. The graphic painting titled fuck abstraction! depicts an entirely nude, muscular adult forcing what appears to be a naked, slightly built male child kneeling with his hands bound behind his back to fellate him. Someone who objected to its pedophilic content splashed it with purple paint at the Palais de Tokyo modern art museum in Paris, prompting France's increasingly unpopular globalist president to leap to its defense.

23:08

Russian Missiles Destroy U.S Patriot Air Defense System and Kiev Military Facilities "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:07

US Gov offers a $10M reward for a Russian ransomware actor "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The US government is offering a $10M reward for Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (30) charged for his role in ransomware attacks

The US Justice Department charged Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (30), aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, for his alleged role in multiple ransomware attacks.

The DoJ unsealed two indictments charging the man with using three different ransomware families in attacks aimed at numerous victims throughout the United States. The attacks hit law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C. and New Jersey, as well as organizations in the healthcare and other sectors nationwide.

According to the indictment obtained in the District of New Jersey, from at least as early as 2020, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, aka Wazawaka, aka m1x, aka Boriselcin, aka Uhodiransomwar, allegedly participated in conspiracies to deploy three ransomware variants. reads the press release published by DoJ. These variants are known as LockBit, Babuk, and Hive, and Matveev transmitted ransom demands in connection with each.

According to the DoJ, total ransom demands allegedly made by the members of these three global ransomware campaigns to their victims is greater than $400 million. The total victim ransom payments amount to as much as $200 million.

On or about June 25, 2020, Matveev and his LockBit coconspirators targeted a law enforcement agency in Passaic County, New Jersey. On or about May 27, 2022, the man and his Hive coconspirators allegedly hit a nonprofit behavioral healthcare organization in New Jersey. On April 26, 2021, Matveev and his Babuk coconspirators hit the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C.

The Russian citizen has been charged with conspiring to transmit ransom demands, conspiring to damage protected computers, and intentionally damaging protected computers. If convicted, the man could face a sentence of over 20 years in prison.

The man is suspected to be living in Russia and is operating from that country. Clearly, due to the ongoing geopolitical crisis, its unlikely that Russia will capture the man to extradite him to the United States.

From Russia and hiding behind multiple aliases, Matveev is alleged to have used these ransomware strains to encrypt and hold hostage for ransom the...

23:02

Cyclone Mocha: Deadly storm hits Myanmar and Bangladesh coasts - at least 130 dead (UPDATE) "IndyWatch Feed World"

A powerful cyclone has hit the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm. Cyclone Mocha did not make landfall at the sprawling refugee camp in Cox's Bazar as earlier feared, but still tore apart hundreds of makeshift shelters. At least six people have been reported dead in Myanmar. Up to 90 per cent of the western Rakhine state's capital city Sittwe has been destroyed, residents told the BBC. The Burmese military has declared the whole of Rakhine as a natural disaster area.

23:00

Mithril Security raises 1.2 million to protect data privacy in AI "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

With BlindBox, you can use Large Language Models without any intermediary or model owner seeing the data sent to the models. This type of solution is critical today, as the newfound ease-of-use of generative AI (GPT4, MidJourney, GitHub Copilot) is already revolutionizing the tech industry. Its fun (and somewhat existentially terrifying) to use ChatGPT. Its so easy to use the tool that you can feel both amazed by the future possibilities and worried at how More

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23:00

Kick carbon out of football "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

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What I Learned about What Exxon Knew "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

This essay is the nuclear fallout emergent from that small spark.

22:57

Some nations see 'double standards' on Russia - Scholz "IndyWatch Feed World"

Germany's chancellor has acknowledged the viewpoint that Western powers don't apply their principles equally. India, Vietnam and other countries that have balked at condemning Russia over its conflict with Ukraine largely agree with the principles behind the Western-based "international order," but they aren't convinced that those tenets are being applied fairly to Moscow, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has admitted. "When I talk to leaders from those countries, many assure me that they are not questioning the underlying principles of our international order. What they are struggling with is the unequal application of those principles," Scholz said on Monday at the Global Solutions Summit in Berlin.

22:56

Jordanian court charges MP Imad al-Adwan with smuggling weapons into West Bank "IndyWatch Feed War"

Jordanian court charges MP Imad al-Adwan with smuggling weapons into West Bank

Adwan, 35, appeared before the state security court in Amman following his arrest at the Allenby crossing last month

MEE staff Wed, 05/17/2023 - 13:56

Imad al-Adwan had his parliamentary immunity revoked when Israel handed him to Jordan to face trial (Social media)

A Jordanian court has charged MP Imad al-Adwan with transporting weapons in his car while travelling to the Israeli-occupied West Bank last month.

Adwan was an MP at the time of his arrest by Israeli border guards at the Allenby crossing in April, who found a cache of guns in his car.

His parliamentary immunity was subsequently revoked after Israel handed him to the Jordanian authorities on 7 May.

On Tuesday, the 35-year-old Adwan appeared before a Jordanian court in Amman to face charges of weapons smuggling, which carry a potential prison sentence of up to 15 years.

Adwan's lawyer, Ali al-Mubaeedin, stated that his client was questioned by the Jordanian prosecutor after firearms and gold were seized by Israeli authorities.

Israel arrested Adwan on 22 April while he was travelling through the Israeli-administered Allenby crossing - also known officially as King Hussein crossing - in Jordan.

Israeli security forces allegedly found 12 rifles and 194 pistols in Adwan's car, Israel's internal security agency, the Shin Bet, sai...

22:55

Americans are rejecting religion as the Christian right becomes more extreme "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

22:53

[$] High-granularity mappings for huge pages "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The use of huge pages can make memory management more efficient in a number of ways, but it can also impose costs in the form of internal fragmentation and I/O amplification. At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, James Houghton ran a session on a scheme to get the best of both worlds: using huge pages while maintaining base-page mappings within them.

22:52

Poor Peterson, beset on all sides "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Ive said before that Jordan Peterson is a bad biologist, not any kind of biologist at all, and especially not an evolutionary biologist. When someone knowledgeable in the field looks at his expertise, hes not even a good clinical psychologist. What, exactly, is he supposed to be good at? We can definitely say it sure isnt ancient languages and the Bible.

I discuss in detail how Peterson routinely tries to use ancient myths and the Bible to support his various noxious viewpoints, despite the fact that he has absolutely no understanding of the academic study of these subjects and his interpretations of them display a profound ignorance of the historical and cultural contexts from which they originate and how ancient audiences understood them.

Peterson frequently makes etymological arguments, which Ive always found silly and are typically used creatively by know-nothings to make rhetorical points. Fake etymologies are common on the internet. The annoying thing about Peterson is that he uses them to sound scholarly, but hes using them in bizarre ways.

By the way, sin. Theres two derivations of the word sin: one is chet, which is from the Hebrew, and the other is hamartia, from the Greek. And they both are archery terms that mean to miss the target.

And then he goes on to babble about sports arenas and crowds and I dont know what, all while gesturing madly. Its weird display. Very cringe.

But hes getting everything wrong! Not that that would slow him down in the slightest.

In these few short sentences, Peterson has already made three serious errors. First, he mispronounces the Hebrew word (e)a noun derived from the verbal root (--)as /tt/ (pronouncing the at the beginning like the ch in cheese) when it should actually be pronounced /t/. This is a pronunciation mistake that no one who actually knows anything about Hebrew would make, since the sound /t/ does not exist in ancient or modern Hebrew. By mispronouncing the word in this blatant manner, Peterson clearly demonstrates that he does not even know the Hebrew alphabet.

Second, Peterson claims that these words are derivations of the word sin, but th...

22:50

Business As Usual: Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:49

Turkey Emerging Election Fraud "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:49

Eight stable kernels "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The 6.3.3, 6.2.16, 6.1.29, 5.15.112, 5.10.180, 5.4.243, 4.19.283, and 4.14.315 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes. Note that 6.2.16 will be the final update for the 6.2 kernel.

22:45

Dismantling the Supreme Court "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:45

Ice jams, snowmelt result in catastrophic flooding in Alaska "IndyWatch Feed World"

On Sunday, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration after ice jams and snowmelt led to significant flooding in several communities along the Kuskokwim and Yukon rivers this past weekend. A major ice jam on the Yukon River, which originates in the coastal mountains of Canada and flows nearly 2,000 miles northwest into the Bering Sea, has created catastrophic flooding in several riverfront communities. "Ice jams are caused when ice breaks up on the river, begins to flow downstream but then gets 'stuck' and acts as a dam. This causes the water in the river to rise, usually quite rapidly, and gives very little notice to the flood threat," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines said. This time of the year is known as the "spring breakup" in Alaska, and while that may sound like the name of a rom-com movie, FEMA officials say it's no laughing matter, especially if you live in The Last Frontier. In April and May, most of the river ice in Alaska thaws and breaks up into...

22:42

Oil Wars, Weapons and How the US is Fueling the Somalia Crisis, with Ann Garrison "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Congress recently voted against pulling American troops out of Somalia. Officially, U.S. forces number 900 and are there in an advisory role to help the government of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud combat terrorist forces such as Al-Shabab.

Yet our guest today states that U.S. boots on the ground in Somalia are doing nothing but serving as a recruiting tool for jihadists, their presence provoking widespread resentment among the people of the resource-rich but war-torn African nation.

Ann Garrison is a journalist and a contributing editor to The Black Agenda Report. You can also find her at The Grayzone and on Pacifica Radio. Her latest article, Ilhan Omar Voted to Withdraw from Somalia, but Shes No Anti-Imperialist, assesses the Minnesota Congresswomans record on opposing U.S. actions in the Horn of Africa.

Garrison notes that Washington has little interest in genuinely opposing radical jihadist groups in the region and is instead focused on maintaining control of a strategically important part of the world. Somalia sits on the Red Sea, across a narrow strait from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Around 40% of world seaborne trade passes by its waters on the way to or from the Suez Canal. Moreover, the nation is believed to possess over 100 billion barrels of untapped offshore oil reserves. Securing African resources is an existential imperative for the U.S., Garrison said.

The United States has spent the past decade bullying and intimidating countries in North East Africa. From the bombing of Libya and the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 to its attempts to isolate Eritrea economically and politically to bombing Somalia and supporting the insurgency of the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front against Ethiopia, Washingtons actions have led many in the region to sour on the United States altogether.

Into this void has stepped China and, to a lesser extent, Russia. Massive Chinese infrastructure projects are everywhere in the region, as Chinese companies build railways, hospitals, schools and roads. African countries have, by and large, also refused to follow the U.S. line on the Ukraine War, instead opting to stay neutral rather than condemn and oppose Moscow. The U.S. has attempted to push China out of the region, but, as Garrison said, China isnt going anywher...

22:40

OnLogic Taps Intel Raptor Lake For 1U Axial AC101 Edge Server "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The folks at OnLogic have released the Axial AC101 as a new edge server offering that is powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" processors and this BMC-enabled, shallow-depth server can accommodate up to 150 Watt PCI Express expansion cards in aiming to make this compact edge server ideal for machine learning, AI, and other IoT use-cases...

22:39

Disastrous Proxy Wars by Great Powers Create Military, Monetary, Financial and Economic Chaos Worldwide "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:39

TP-Link routers implanted with malicious firmware in state-sponsored attacks "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A Chinese state-sponsored APT group implanted malicious firmware into TP-Link routers as part of attack campaigns aimed at European foreign affairs entities, say Check Point researchers. Custom malicious firmware for TP-Link routers The malicious firmware was exclusively created for TP-Link routers. Among its many harmful components, theres also a customized backdoor dubbed Horse Shell. Horse Shell has three main functionalities: Remote shell Gives threat actors full access to the infected device File transfer More

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22:30

Brivo and Eagle Eye Networks announce $192 million investment "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo announced one of the largest investments to date in cloud physical security. SECOM, one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000, has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo are independent companies majority owned by Dean Drako. Drako founded Eagle Eye Networks in 2012 More

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22:22

Security updates for Wednesday "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Security updates have been issued by Debian (netatalk), Mageia (connman, firefox/nss/rootcerts, freeimage, golang, indent, kernel, python-django, python-pillow, and thunderbird), Red Hat (apr-util, firefox, java-1.8.0-ibm, libreswan, and thunderbird), SUSE (conmon, curl, java-11-openjdk, and libheif), and Ubuntu (libwebp, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-kvm, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.19, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-raspi, node-eventsource, and openjdk-8, openjdk-lts, openjdk-17, openjdk-20).

22:17

Complaint to SMH re errors in Assange editorial - by Tony Murphy "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"> I have sent the following complaint to the Sydney Morning Herald and I hope others will do the same. Was unable to use the SMH's "feedback" page, so I sent an email to news@smh.com.au. I complained that theire editorial of May 12, 2023, based on their Assange poll and his Kafkaesque incarceration, while widely welcomed, nonetheless contained errors too often repeated which I requested the SMH correct publicly or by publishing my comments. <h2>Complaint</h2> Your editorial of May 12 based on your Assange poll and his Kafkaesque incarceration, while widely welcomed nonetheless contained errors too often repeated which I request you correct publicly or by publishing my comments. [1] 1. You say that Assange was "trapped in a limbo of his own making". This is said without explanation but obviously lays blame on Assange when he has not been found guilty of anything and is imprisoned despite being internationally recognised as a political refugee who was illegally evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy. 2. You say, that "the years have turned Assange into a victim". Not "the years" but the Kafkaesque brutal persecution by the US & UK as detailed in Nils Melzer's book The Trial of Julian Assange.

3. You say, "the recklessness of Assanges release of confidential diplomatic cables". Not reckless but carefully considered. Again, consult Melzer's book or even Wikipedia about this and you will discover Assange went to great lengths to mitigate any harm to anyone and no harm to anyone has ever been documented. Check the findings of Manning's 2013 court martial. Two online organisations had published the unredacted Cables before Wikileaks after disgruntled Guardian journalists David Leigh maliciously broke an agreement and published an encrypted Wikileaks password. Also Assange asked the US to assist in making redactions but the State Dept refused. 4. You say, Assange was "holed up" in the Ecuadorian embassy "voluntarily". As the UN rapporteur on arbitrary detention found, Assange was a bona fide political refugee surrounded 24/7 by British police who prevented him from leaving. 5. You say he "fought extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges" when no charges were ever laid and as discovered by Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi the Swedish investigation was drawn out at the insistence of the UK's Crown Prosecution Service headed by Keir Starmer to manufacture a narrative that Assange was on the run from the law when in fact he tried to cooperate with Swedish investigators despite the interference of the CPS which destroyed its correspondence with the Swedes in a cover-up. NOTES [1] [Republishe...

22:16

CVE-2023-24805: RCE in cups-filters, beh CUPS backend "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Posted by Till Kamppeter on May 17

Following bug got reported to OpenPrinting's GitHub, repo cups-filters,
as a private (security) issue report:

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/security/advisories/GHSA-gpxc-v2m8-fr3x

Summary

If you use "beh" to create an accessible network printer, this security
vulnerability can cause remote code execution.

Details

cups-filters/backend/beh.c

Line 288 in 5c9498a
retval = system(cmdline) >> 8;

//...

22:15

Entro raises $6 million to address secret-based breaches "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Entro announced $6 million in seed funding led by StageOne Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures. Founded by CEO Itzik Alvas and CTO Adam Cheriki to address secret-based breaches, Entro continuously monitors and protects secrets and programmatic access to cloud services and data. Angel investors include Rakesh Loonkar, founder of Trusteer and Transmit Security, Mickey Boodaei, founder of Imperva, Trusteer and Transmit Security, and Amichai Shulman, founder of Imperva and AirEye. According to the Verizon 2022 Data More

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22:09

Link "IndyWatch Feed War"

22:04

Grooming event held today at Parliament House in Melbourne "IndyWatch Feed World"

Dictator Daniel Andrews has hosted a child grooming event inside Parliament House!!! A groomer event...

22:03

Advanced Plastic Recycling is Highly Suspect of Greenwashing "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

American Chemistry Council (ACC) promotes crazy stuff!

Stop chemical recycling, processes that can generate even more pollution
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From the Climate Reality Project, May 16, 2023
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Advanced recycling and chemical recycling are the two new greenwashed terms in town. The process primarily involves converting plastic into fuel. A pretty expensive and roundabout way of burning fossil fuels, if you ask us.

The chemicals industry is lobbying hard to get two types of these plastic-to-fuel incinerators pyrolysis and gasification exempt from regulations under the Clean Air Act. And the American Chemistry Council (ACC) recently announced it would try to introduce legislation that would promote these false solutions to our plastic waste crisis.

This is incredibly dangerous, given that the US EPA reportedly found that pollution from an associated plastic-based fuel poses a one-in-four risk of cancer.

Letting these incinerators escape the Clean Air Act would particularly harm the low-income communities and communities of color where most pyrolysis and gasification facilities exist, and where they are likely to be sited in the future. It would also set a terrible precedent, encouraging other polluting industries to pursue their own special exemptions.

Take action now. Demand that your representatives call on the Biden Administration to reject these proposed exemptions under the Clean Air Act and vote NO on any such legislation that promotes these false solutions to our plastic waste crisis.

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See Also: RECYCLING LIES: CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF PLASTIC IS JUST GREENWASHING INCINERATION, Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC], February 2022

https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/chemical-recycling-greenwashing-incineration-ib.pdf

22:03

If Brazils Firearm Ban Is So Great, Why Wont Gun-Control Activists Bet On It? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Brazil has banned gun and ammunition sales, but leading gun-control academics are unwilling to bet that murder rates will fall.

22:00

Veza launches Authorization Platform on the Snowflake Data Cloud "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Veza has unveiled that the Veza Authorization Platform is now available on the Snowflake Data Cloud. With this integration, joint customers can now manage access permissions and secure their sensitive data at scale. By leveraging the Snowflake Data Cloud, Veza is joining Snowflake in mobilizing the worlds data to help organizations secure access to sensitive data and achieve continuous compliance. As the volume of data companies store increases, so does the number of identities, SaaS More

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21:54

New York Times Warps History To Affirm Queen Cleopatras Cultural Blackness "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

The New York Times defends anti-historical ideas that Cleopatra was herself black, if not ethnically then culturally.

21:54

Identifying a Patch Management Solution: Overview of Key Criteria "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Software is rarely a one-and-done proposition. In fact, any application available today will likely need to be updated or patched to fix bugs, address vulnerabilities, and update key features at multiple points in the future. With the typical enterprise relying on a multitude of applications, servers, and end-point devices in their day-to-day operations, the acquisition of a robust patch

21:52

Threat Group UNC3944 Abusing Azure Serial Console for Total VM Takeover "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A financially motivated cyber actor has been observed abusing Microsoft Azure Serial Console on virtual machines (VMs) to install third-party remote management tools within compromised environments. Google-owned Mandiant attributed the activity to a threat group it tracks under the name UNC3944, which is also known as Roasted 0ktapus and Scattered Spider. "This method of attack was unique in

21:48

NY Times is wrong on dedollarization "IndyWatch Feed War"

21:48

EURASIAUS corporations cash in on Ukraines oil and gas "IndyWatch Feed War"

EURASIA

US corporations cash

in on Ukraines oil and

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21:44

Fat And Infertile: New Study Raises Alarm Over Link Between Obesity And Low Sperm Count "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Male minors who were overweight or obese had lower testicular volume, which is associated with lower sperm count.

21:33

IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, May 16, 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Also available via the Gemini protocol at:

Over HTTP:


#techrights log as HTML5	#boycottnovell log as HTML5

#boycottnovell-social log as HTML5	#techbytes log as HTML5

#techrights log as text	...

21:24

A New Electrocatalyst Massively Improves the Commercial Viability of Green Hydrogen "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Scientists have typically used precious metal catalysts, such as platinum to accelerate the separation of water into hydrogen and oxygen. The Curtin team found that by adding nickel and cobalt to cheaper catalysts, they could enhance their performance, making them worth exploring as a commercially viable alternative. The researchers published the results of their findings in the journal Nano Energy.

21:23

AI Has Evolved to Reason Like Humans, Scientists Say "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

This could get dangerous.

21:23

Exciting battery technology breakthrough announced "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

CATL, a Chinese battery manufacturer, has created a condensed battery that it says could help power electric aircraft while meeting the required safety and energy standards.

The company claims the batterys energy density is 500 watt-hours per kilogram, making it much more robust than it looks. This means that the battery can push out more power from a lighter component than the current options.

The belief is that condensed batteries will open the door to improved power systems for both electric cars and even the aviation field. Finding more efficient ways to handle power generation while also remaining lightweight is essential for both these fields, especially as electric cars try to offer longer ranges.

21:23

Meta is here and its a big deal "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Meta and other companies are building the next-level digital world right now and this will completely change how we interact with the world.

21:23

Microsoft Has Vowed to Achieve Nuclear Fusion Within Five Years "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Its a bold move. Lets see if it works out.

21:22

Meteor fireball over Spain (May 9) "IndyWatch Feed World"

This video shows a bolide recorded on May 9, at 5:37 local time (equivalent to 3:37 universal time). The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 78,000 km/h. The fireball overflew Valencia and Castelln (Spain). It began at an altitude of about 88 km over Caudete de las Fuentes (province of Valencia), moved northeast, and ended at a height of around 60 km over Aydar (province of Castelln). This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Olocau (Valencia). The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).

21:22

Weird particle that remembers its past discovered by quantum computer "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Particles with unusual properties called anyons have long been sought after as a potential building block for advanced quantum computers, and now researchers have found one using a quantum computer.

By Alex Wilkins

21:22

Does SIRT6 hold the key to human longevity? "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Last week, US-Israeli startup SIRTLab announced the appointment of leading geroscience researcher Nir Barzilai as its Chief Medical Adviser. The company is focused on the development of therapeutics that boost levels of a key protein called sirtuin 6 (SIRT6), which is heavily implicated in longevity.

Sirtuins are a group of proteins found in all living organisms, including humans, that play a vital role in regulating various cellular processes. There are seven different types of sirtuins, numbered from SIRT1 to SIRT7, each with its own unique functions. In recent years, SIRT6 has gained particular attention for its potential role in promoting healthy aging, and SIRTLab has put the protein at the center of its work.

Longevity. Technology: The SIRT6 protein has been shown to regulate several critical cellular pathways, including glucose metabolism, DNA repair and inflammation all of which play key roles in aging and longevity. One of the worlds leading authorities on SIRT6 is SIRTLab co-founder and Bar-Ilan University professor Haim Cohen, whose research is behind the companys work to develop therapeutics with longevity-boosting potential. To learn more about SIRTLabs longevity-first approach, we spoke to its co-founder and CEO Boaz Misholi.

21:21

Israel wins nothing from another Gaza assault - but Netanyahu might "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Israel wins nothing from another Gaza assault - but Netanyahu might

The bombing campaign will not stop another round of confrontation from starting soon, but it could give Netanyahu a political lifeline

Lily Galili Wed, 05/17/2023 - 12:21

A house being hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza city on 13 May 2023 (NurPhoto via Reuters)

Those saying Israel's latest assault in Gaza was just a bleeding exercise in futility fail to understand the real purpose behind it.

Polls released by major Israeli channels after the ceasefire, which was signed on Saturday night, prove beyond doubt the operation achieved its main goal from the governments perspective: the popularity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus coalition was on the rise.

Netanyahu was trailing in polls to his opposition rivals days before the bombing campaign, dubbed Operation Shield and Arrow, was launched on 9 May with a series of overnight assassinations.

Five days of Gaza bleeding - in which 33 Palestinians, including six children, were killed - and the ongoing bleeding of Netanyahus coalition was miraculously cured. Mission accomplished.

Netanyahu has restored his image as Mr Security - not the ailing prime minister accused of leading his country into a dictatorship with his governments controversial judicial overhaul plan.

21:13

Dont Miss The Most Damning Durham Finding "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Special Counsel John Durham declared the DOJ and FBI's hearts and minds corrupted.

21:13

Lightning kills youth along with 14 cows in Bangladesh "IndyWatch Feed World"

A young man along with 14 cows died in a lightning strike at Ishwardi upazila in Pabna district on Tuesday evening. The dead was Sajib Hossain, 25, son of Alhaj Pramanik, a resident of Kamalpur village of the upazila. Locals said Sajib was returning home from Kamalpur Char of Padma in the evening along with 41 cows. A lightning struck on him, and he died on the spot along with 14 cows. Ishwardi Police Station officer-in-charge Arbinda Sarkar confirmed the matter.

21:07

Italy - 2 dead, 3 missing after more flooding in Emilia-Romagna "IndyWatch Feed World"

Firefighters in Italy have rescued dozens of people trapped in flooded areas of the Emilia-Romagna Region. As of 17 May Civil Protection reported at least 2 people have lost their lives and 3 more were missing. Parts of the neighbouring Marche Region have also been severely impacted. Floods in the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy Communities in the region of Emilia-Romagna are still recovering from catastrophic flooding earlier this month when at least 2 people lost their lives. At the time, the President of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, described the situation as unprecedented. Further heavy rain fell in the region from 15 May 2023, increasing river levels and triggering landslides. Italy's fire and rescue service, Vigili del Fuoco, said 500 firefighters were working in the affected areas of Ravenna, Forl-Cesena, Rimini and Bologna Provinces.

21:00

DataWagon has a Galaxy of Cheap Dedicated Server Offers for You! "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

21:00

Mythic I: An Exploration of Artisanal Computing "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

While computers have become ever faster and more capable over the years, its hard to say theyve become any more exciting. In fact, theyve become downright boring. Desktop, laptop, or mobile, theyre all more or less featureless slabs of various dimensions. Theres not even much in the way of color variation the classic beige box is now available with white, black, or metallic finishes.

Believing that such a pedestrian appearance isnt befitting a device that puts the worlds collected knowledge at our fingertips, [Keegan McNamara] started exploring a more luxurious approach to computing. Gone is the mass produced injection molded plastic, in its place is hand-carved maple and Tuscan leather. Common computing form factors are eschewed entirely for a swooping console inspired by fine furniture and classic sports cars. The final result, called the Mythic I, is equal parts art and science. Not just a bold reimaging of what a computer can be, but an object to be displayed and discussed.

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Heres everything Uber just announced at its annual Go/Get product event "IndyWatch Feed World"

Users can now dial a dedicated line to request a ride.

Uber is taking it back to the past: Users who dont own a smartphone or have the app can now dial a dedicated line to request a ride in the U.S.

Read Full Story

20:52

Judge Sides With YouTube in Mexican Movie Tycoons Piracy Lawsuit "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Two years ago, Spanish-born movie tycoon Carlos Vasallo sued YouTube at a Florida federal court over various piracy-related claims.

The actor and producer own the rights to the worlds largest collection of Mexican and Latin American movies, many of which are illegally shared on YouTube.

The lawsuit accused YouTube of not doing enough to stop people from uploading pirated content. Those allegations arent new, but the movie tycoon also said that YouTube would not allow him to join the Content ID copyright protection program unless he agreed to specific terms, including a revenue share agreement.

Vasallo refused these terms and chose to send standard DMCA notices instead. YouTube processed them, as it should, but the movie tycoon complained that this did little to stop pirates. New copies were constantly uploaded and banned users reportedly returned under new aliases.

Motions of Summary Judgment

YouTube and Google vehemently disagreed with the copyright infringement allegations and filed a motion to dismiss. This was partially successful as the Florida federal court dropped the antitrust claims, but the infringement allegations remained.

As the case progressed, both parties submitted motions for summary judgment, which were filed under seal.

The movie tycoon alleged that, because YouTube only took down reported videos and failed to use its piracy filtering technology to find and voluntarily remove similar videos, the platform is liable for direct and secondary copyright infringement.

YouTube also submitted a motion for summary judgment to establish that it does nothing wrong. According to the company, the DMCA doesnt require platforms to proactively monitor uploads, on the contrary. Also, the movie tycoon failed to provide any evidence that YouTube was aware of non reported infringing videos.

Both motions for summary judgment landed on the desk of Magistrate Judge Edwin Torres, who issued a detailed report and recommendations yesterday. The Judge sides with YouTube and concludes that since the movie tycoon has no triable case, the lawsuit should be closed.

Monitoring Uploads

Under the DMCA, platforms such as YouTube are required to respond to takedown requests. In this case, there is little doubt that the video platform did so. However, the movie tycoon argued that it should have used its piracy filtering technology to find similar videos and remove these as well.

This piracy detection technolo...

20:52

Democrats Flip Jacksonville in Blow to DeSantis "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Jacksonville, FL, used to be the largest city in the United States with a Republican mayor. Following the unexpected victory of Democrat Donna Deegan in the citys mayoral election, that distinction will soon go to Mattie Parker (R), the mayor of Fort Worth, TX.

Love won tonight, and we made history, Deegan tweeted following her win. We have a new day in Jacksonville because people chose unity over division creating a broad coalition of people across the political spectrum that want a unified city.

https://twitter.com/DonnaDeegan/status/1658657401896042496?s=20

Deegans upset victory is about much more than who controls Jacksonville. After years of stinging losses, it is a sign of hope for the states Democrats, who had seen their fortunes decline in recent years as Florida moved from a purple state to a solidly Republican one.

With regard to national implications, the main takeaway from the election is that it is a defeat for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and a blow to his presidential ambitions. When he officially announces his bid for the White House, perhaps as early as later this month, DeSantis will make the case that he should be the Republican nominee because he is a fighter and because of his electability.

Both of these selling points have now taken a hit.

So far, he has looked weak and reluctant to battle back when former President Donald Trump and his allies have attacked him.

But, until last night, his electability was undeniably an asset. In 2022, DeSantis won Florida by almost 20 percent in a shock to pundits who had predicted a much closer race. That included a 12-point margin of victory in Duval County, which is almost entirely comprised of Jacksonville.

Now, in six months, Democrats have flipped the script. Deegan beat her DeSantis-endorsed opponent Daniel Davis by four percent, a 16-point swing.

Fairly or not, the citys election will also be seen as a referendum on DeSantiss...

20:49

Meteor fireball over Ontario on May 16 "IndyWatch Feed World"

We received 6 reports about a fireball seen over MI, Ontario and PA on Tuesday, May 16th 2023 around 06:56 UT. For this event, we received one video and one photo.

20:48

PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

PipeWire 0.3.71 is out today as the newest update to this now widely-used open-source solution for managing Linux audio and video streams and serving as a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK for audio needs on the Linux desktop...

20:38

How trans people became Hungarys latest target "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

20:35

Lead Vocal Tracks in Popular Music Go Quiet "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

hubie writes:

Lead Vocal Tracks in Popular Music Go Quiet:

A general rule of music production involves mixing various soundtracks so the lead singer's voice is in the foreground. But it is unclear how such track mixing and closely related lyric intelligibility has changed over the years.

Scientists from the University of Oldenburg in Germany carried out an analysis of hundreds of popular song recordings from 1946 to 2020 to determine the lead vocal to accompaniment ratio, or LAR. Their results appear in JASA Express Letters, published on behalf of the Acoustical Society of America by AIP Publishing, and show that, contrary to expectations, the LAR for popular music decreased over the decades in question. This means that, relative to their bands, lead singers are getting quieter.

An earlier study suggested that lead vocals were mixed at a higher level than other instruments, but it looked at songs that were not fully representative of popular Western music. The current study rectified this by considering the four highest-ranked songs from the Billboard Hot 100 chart for each year from 1946 to 2020.

[...] "Our analysis showed a significant downward trend in the LAR from about 5 decibels in 1946 to approximately 1 decibel in 1975, after which time the LAR remained constant," Gerdes said.

The investigators wished to determine whether LAR values changed over time to improve the intelligibility of lyrics or if changes in music technology were involved. Electrical amplification of instruments might, for example, be a factor, as could multitrack and stereophonic recording technology. They found that changes in music technology appear to be behind the observed decrease in LAR until 1975.

"Another possibility involves the stylistic evolution within popular music," author Kai Siedenburg said.

Journal Reference:
Karsten Gerdes; Kai Siedenburg; Lead-vocal level in recordings of popular music 19462020 [open], JASA Express Lett 3, 043201 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017773

Original Submission

20:30

Intel CR 23.13.26032.30 Further Improves Intel's Open-Source GPU Compute Stack "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The Intel Compute-Runtime 23.13.26032.30 update was released today as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source GPU compute stack used on Windows and Linux for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support. With this release comes various improvements and new features like FP64 emulation for Arctic Sound M...

20:30

How the Design of Corners Affects Speed "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

This article was originally published on America Walks. It is shared here with permission. All images for this piece were provided by the authors.

*Vehicle turning a smaller corner. (Source:* Corner Design For All Users 2020.)

Speed matters, and it particularly matters at intersections where vehicles and pedestrians interact. We want to let you in on a design feature that might influence speed more than you realize: corners. Once you see it, you cant unsee it, and youll be amazed and dismayed to see how often corners are designed for speed, not safety. The good news is, this can be fixed.

The Connection Between Corner Radii and Speed

All street corners depend on a design parameter called the corner radius, which is the curvature of the corner. The corner radius plays a crucial role in determining the safety of an intersection. Sharp corners have small or tight corner radii. These corners require drivers to slow down to take a turn safely. On the other hand, wide corners have large corner radii and they encourage high speeds when turning.

In many cities and towns, to facilitate turning when driving, intersections have been designed to be wider than necessary. As illustrated in the image below, large corner radii allow vehicles to make a turn without reducing their speed. This creates unsafe conditions for pedestrians, as drivers are less likely to yield to pedestrians and...

20:17

Serious Unpatched Vulnerability Uncovered in Popular Belkin Wemo Smart Plugs "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

has been found to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that could be weaponized by a threat actor to inject arbitrary commands remotely. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-27217, was discovered and reported to Belkin on January 9, 2023, by Israeli IoT security company Sternum, which reverse-engineered the device and

20:15

In Praise of Undisciplined Knowledge: The Epistemic Entanglements of the River "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The third post in our series on Joanne Yaos The Ideal River, today brought to you by Dr Kiran Phull. Kiran is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London. Her research centres on the politics of global knowledge production and the rise of opinion polling. She takes a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of public opinion, focusing on the ways that epistemic technologies (polls, surveys, population data) create and shape the conditions for governing social and political life. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics, where she received her PhD in IR exploring the history of scientific inquiry into Middle Eastern publics and the emergence of local emancipatory methods practices.

What does it mean to know a river? In its investigation of the taming of nature in the service of the modern international order, Joanne Yaos The Ideal River reveals how international history is coursed by rivers. Yaos meticulous weaving of institutional and imperial histories of the Rhine, the Danube, and the Congo offers a view of global governance that is both novel and necessary. By underscoring the co-conspiratorial relation...

20:14

Where I Can Find the Best Adjustable Dumbbell Set to Build Leg Size? "IndyWatch Feed World"

When it comes to building leg size and strength, theres nothing quite like incorporating dumbbell exercises into your workout routine. Dumbbells offer versatility, allowing you to target specific muscles while also engaging your stabilizer muscles for a well-rounded leg workout. However, with so many options available, finding the best adjustable dumbbell set can be overwhelming. But fear not! In this article, well guide you on your quest to discover the perfect set to help you achieve the leg gains you desire.

Understanding the Power of Adjustable Dumbbells

Adjustable dumbbells are an excellent choice for anyone seeking to build leg size due to their adaptability and convenience. Unlike traditional ones, adjustable dumbbell sets allow you to easily change the weight, enabling you to progressively increase the resistance as your leg muscles grow stronger. This feature ensures that your workout remains challenging and effective, helping you achieve your desired leg size more efficiently.

Factors to Consider When Choosing an Adjustable Dumbbell Set

Weight Range: Look for an...

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Gaza rises to victory by smashing Israeli diktats into smithereens "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

May 17, 2023 Source: Al Mayadeen English By Ahmad Karakira Al Mayadeen analyst for Arab and regional affairs says despite the great wounds as a result of the Israeli aggression, Gazans decided to maintain steadfastness. On Saturday at 10 pm Al-Quds time, an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli occupation took effect following a five-day Israeli []

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libei 1.0 Nears For Emulated Input On Wayland "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Libei has been the multi-year effort by Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer on emulated input handling for Wayland. Libei consists of a client side library and EIS as the "Emulated Input Server" for this Wayland-focused emulated input device solution. Libei 1.0 is about to finally be released...

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We wanted to share our playbook: Natalie Portman on her new Angel City soccer documentary "IndyWatch Feed World"

The Angel City FC cofounders new HBO docuseries offers an unvarnished look at the creation of L.A.s pro womens soccer team.

When the players for Angel City FC, Los Angeless professional womens soccer team, took the pitch for the first time last spring, expectations were high. Cofounded by actor Natalie Portman, venture capitalist Kara Nortman, and entrepreneur Julie Uhrman, the club counts among its high-profile investors Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, along with A-list actors and athletes, from Eva Longoria to Billie Jean King to Abby Wambach and Julie Foudy.

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Clyburns Role in South Carolina Redistricting May Be Examined as Supreme Court Hears Racial Gerrymandering Case "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

by Marilyn W. Thompson

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The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear oral arguments in a South Carolina redistricting case where the NAACP is challenging the states Republican plan as racially motivated.

The role of the states most powerful Democrat, U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, is likely to play an important part in the discussions, legal experts said.

In 2021, South Carolina Republicans reshaped the voting map, taking a district that had been in the hands of a Democrat as recently as 2018 and making it a much safer seat for the incumbent Republican. The NAACP brought a suit against the effort, and in January, three Democratic-appointed judges ruled in the groups favor.

The Supreme Court could decide to restore the map that the Republicans drew or order the legislature to create a new map. The case comes after a series of rulings from the high court that have made partisan gerrymandering easier, though the court has still deemed redistricting predominantly based on race to be illegal. Legal experts said this week that the South Carolina case will help define the limits of how much a legislature can consider race as it draws new maps.

South Carolina Republicans have defended their efforts, saying they were not motivated to dilute Black political power in the state. Lawyers for state Republican leaders argued during the trial that they did not consider race in making their map. They also contended that their map could not have targeted Black voters because they worked with Clyburn, one of the most powerful Black Democrats in the country.

This month, ProPublica added new detail to this account, reporting that Clyburn had been more involved in the process than previously known. He recommended moving Black and white voters in such a way that made his district politically safer but hurt Black Democrats.

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19:57

Arabic press review: Iranians snapping up properties in Damascus "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Arabic press review: Iranians snapping up properties in Damascus

Meanwhile, two Egyptian detainees die in prison, and Kuwait has the world's second highest rate of diabetes

Mohammad Ayesh Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:57

Damascus has seen a spike in Iranian property investors, many using shell companies (AFP)

Iranians buy real estate in Damascus

There has been a marked increase in property purchases in Damascus and its surrounding areas due to investment from Iranian individuals and companies, according to a report from London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi.

Southern areas of the Syrian capital and the nearby suburb of Ghouta have seen a particular spike in sales.

The investment from Iranian companies is linked to the recent restoration of relations between other Arab nations and the Syrian government, sources told the news outlet.

Arab League foreign ministers earlier this month decided to readmit Syria after more than a decade of suspension, consolidating a regional push to normalise ties with President Bashar al-Assad.

Iran has long supported the Syrian government during the civil war that broke out in 2011, after Assad cracked down violently on peaceful protesters.

19:39

Debian Votes To Reinstate Merged-/usr File Movement Moratorium "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The Debian Technical Committee has voted to reinstate the merged-/usr file movement moratorium...

19:36

The Holocaust survivor who can no longer call Labour home "IndyWatch Feed War"

The Holocaust survivor who can no longer call Labour home

Stephen Kapos quit the party after being warned not to speak at a Holocaust memorial event run by a group it banned. He says he will not be silenced

David Hearst Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:36

Stephen Kapos remembers hiding from the Nazis in Hungary and hearing his father's recollections of Belsen-Bergen (MEE/Hossam Sarhan)

If there is one issue that Keir Starmer has ruthlessly used to define his leadership of the British Labour Party and convince voters it is under new management after the Jeremy Corbyn era, it is antisemitism.

Rightly or wrongly, the issue just will not go away. It has been invoked to explain Starmers refusal to allow the former leader to stand as a Labour candidate at the next election - against all the rules of party democracy that the MP for Islington North upholds.

It was invoked in withdrawing the whip from Diane Abbott, after the publication of a letter in The Observer in which the longtime Labour MP drew a distinction between antisemitism and the racism suffered by people of colour, a comparison for which she later apologised.

It is invoked, too, by what remains of the left in the Labour Party. Left-wing campaign group Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) maintains with some justification that Jews are five times more likely to face charges of antisemitism than non-Jewish members.

The point that JVL, a group that is open about its support for Palestinian rights, is making is that Starmers purge is directed at anti-Zionists in the party under the fig leaf of an ever-elastic and catch-all definition of antisemitism, which is being...

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Sorority sisters file lawsuit against Kappa Kappa Gamma for allowing 6'2 trans-identified male with 'visible erections' into their Wyoming sorority "IndyWatch Feed World"

Sorority sisters at the University of Wyoming have filed a lawsuit against the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity for allowing a trans-identified male, who allegedly becomes "sexually aroused" in their presence, to move into the sorority in the fall semester. The complaint filed on Monday by seven past and present sorority members in the US District Court of Wyoming accuses Kappa Kappa Gamma of "betrayal" and "breaking their bylaws" which state that the sorority is a "single-sex organization" which must be preserved, Cowboy State Daily reports. The girls allege that Artemis Langford, a 6'2' biological male weighing 260lbs, has had "visible erections through his leggings" and "repeatedly questions the women about what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control,'" according to the complaint obtained by the outlet.

19:04

False Alarms "IndyWatch Feed World"

Using entirely bogus pretexts, the police are deploying oppressive new laws to shut down peaceful protest.

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 12^th May 2023

The more unequal a society becomes, the more oppressive its laws must be. This, I think, explains new acts that would not be out of place in a police state. So vague and broad are the powers granted to the police under last years Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act and this years Public Order Act that it is no longer clear where their abuse begins and ends.

At two oclock on the morning of the coronation, the Metropolitan Police, using the Police Act, arrested three people in Soho for carrying rape alarms. The police claimed they were acting on intelligence that rape alarms might be used to frighten the horses that would later be parading elsewhere.

The people they arrested were volunteers working for Westminster city council as Night Stars, helping to stop the sexual harassment of women. They give rape alarms to women who might need them. The alarms are funded by the Home Office. Night Stars volunteers wear pink tabards emblazoned with the logo of their partner organisation the Metropolitan Police. Yet the three volunteers who were arrested were cuffed for three hours and held for 14 before being released on bail.

Why would the police arrest their own partners? What was the intelligence on which they were acting? If they were really worried about rape alarms being misused, why did they not simply confiscate them? It looks to me like the old paso doble between police and press. Two weeks before, the Mail on Sunday had run a front-page story headlined Extremists vile plot to spook Kings horses with rape alarms: Fears protesters planning to sabotage Charles Coronation could cause serious injuries or even deaths as eco-zealot groups set to join forces to cause chaos.

The Mail produced precisely zero evidence that environmental or republican activists were planning such a thing. But if the police wanted to find people carrying these devices, they knew where to go. The arrests were used by the Mail as a vindication of its story. Though Westminster council had explained t...

19:01

The empathy gap between workers and companies is bigger than everbut CEOs just dont get it "IndyWatch Feed World"

The percentage of employees who believe corporate cares about them is at an all-time low, says a new study.

The job market is rough, the pandemic has burned everyone out, and the overall mood about work is sour. Now, according to the 2023 State of Workplace Empathy Report from HR benefits technology company Businessolver, employees perceptions of workplace empathy has dropped.

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19:00

Oh, Come on Now "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Post-it-Notes Culture The Spoon Lady Abby Roach (October 29, 1981) was born in Wichita, Kansas, United States. She had an abusive husband who knocked her teeth out. The state took her children, and she began to ride the rails. Today she is a percussionist, spoon player, and American storyteller, considered one of the []

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19:00

A CENTRAL BANK, A BARON, AND AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A PARABLE "IndyWatch Feed War"

(Translated from the incredibly high, turgid, and nearly incomprehensible German by me): Once upon a time there was a man who had reached the

The post A CENTRAL BANK, A BARON, AND AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A PARABLE appeared first on The Giza Death Star.

19:00

French President Macron Sells Out Climate Activists, Calls for a Pause in New Regulations "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

President Macron has chosen to dump climate activists in his desperate struggle to save his political skin from the rise of French Conservative Marine Le Pen.

Looking to Sell Your Home for Cash? Read This First. "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

by Byard Duncan and Anjeanette Damon

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published.

Youve seen the ads in your neighborhood. Theyve flashed across your television and buzzed your phone to life at odd hours. The slogans and phone numbers might change, but the pitch is the same: We buy houses for cash.

Thousands of real estate investors across the country use a variety of techniques to find potential sellers and plan their next deal.

A recent ProPublica investigation looked at how HomeVestors of America, one of the house flipping industrys leaders, teaches its franchisees to seek out people in Ugly Situations. (In a statement, the company said it does not target vulnerable sellers and pointed to an internally calculated 96% seller satisfaction rate.)

In the course of our reporting, we interviewed dozens of experts, attorneys, advocates, sellers and investors to better understand the world of cash home buying. Heres what they say you should know to get the most money for your home.

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18:41

East Jerusalem: US urges calm ahead of far-right Israeli march "IndyWatch Feed War"

East Jerusalem: US urges calm ahead of far-right Israeli march

Thousands of ultra-nationalist Israelis will take part in Thursday's annual flag march, raising fears of confrontation

MEE staff Wed, 05/17/2023 - 09:41

Israeli ultra-nationalists wave national and party flags during a 'flag march' in Jerusalem on 20 April 2022 (AFP)

The US has urged calm and restraint ahead of an expected march by thousands of Israeli ultra-nationalists through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on Thursday.

On Tuesday, the State Department's principal deputy spokesperson, Vedant Patel, said Washington would continue to urge the parties to refrain from actions and rhetoric and activities that would inflame tensions.

The Jerusalem Flag March, also known as the Jerusalem Day March, is an annual event that takes place in Jerusalem, particularly in the Old City.

The event is held on Jerusalem Day, which marks the Israeli conquest and occupation of East Jerusalem during the 1967 war.

Patel said the US believes in the right of individuals to express themselves and to do so peacefully while urging all parties to maintain calm, to exercise restraint and avoid any escalation of tensions.

This year, Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who h...

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