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Was da wohl die Mission sein wird am Ende? Einmal die amerikanischen Spionagesatelliten runterholen? Oder vielleicht eine Permanentmission zum Starlink-Ausdnnen?

Bleibt jedenfalls spannend.

Benutzt hier jemand CUPS zum Drucken? "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Benutzt hier jemand CUPS zum Drucken?

Die Hlle ist zugefroren!Die irische Datenschutzaufsicht ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Die Hlle ist zugefroren!

Die irische Datenschutzaufsicht hat eine DSGVO-Rekordstrafe in Hhe von 1,2 Milliarden Euro gegen Meta verhngt und den Facebook-Mutterkonzern verpflichtet, alle personenbezogenen Daten wieder in Rechenzentren in der Europischen Union vorzuhalten.

Das wird bestimmt die Klimaanlagen-Stromkosten deutlich senken.

Die Diversity-Beauftragte von Uber wurde beurlaubt. ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Die Diversity-Beauftragte von Uber wurde beurlaubt. Ja natrlich hat Uber eine Diversity-Beauftragte, was dachtet ihr denn?! Das spielt doch keine Rolle, dass das eine bse Firma ist, deren Geschftsmodell Ausbeutung und Abzocke, h, Surge Pricing basiert.

Ja gut, Fefe, aber warum wurde die denn beurlaubt? Nun, die hat eine Veranstaltung organisiert. Die hie "Don't Call Me Karen" und sollte auch weien Frauen mal ermglichen, ihren Opferstatus ffentlich zu zeigen.

Das kam bei den anderen angetretenen Athleten in der Opferolympiade nicht gut an, die ihren eigenen Opferstatus nicht geschmlert sehen wollten.

Bonus: Die Diversity-Beauftragte ist selbst keine weie Frau. Sie heit Bo Young Lee.

Ja super!Deutsche Ministerien haben im vergangenen ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Ja super!

Deutsche Ministerien haben im vergangenen Jahr Hunderte Millionen fr Software ausgegeben am meisten fr Microsoft.

Ach deshalb verrottet hier die Infrastruktur und wir haben kein Geld fr Wohnungsbau!

Aus der Antwort der Bundesregierung geht auch hervor, wer das meiste Geld ausgibt: Das Verteidigungsministerium war mit fast 110 Millionen Euro fr rund die Hlfte der Ausgaben verantwortlich. Dahinter folgen des Innenministerium mit 40 Millionen Euro und das Finanzministerium mit etwa 28 Millionen Euro.

Und da kommen noch 562 Millionen Euro fr Lizenzen und Dienstleistungen anderer Anbieter drauf.

Gute Nachrichten!President Joe Biden said Sunday that ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"

Gute Nachrichten!

President Joe Biden said Sunday that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured him personally he wont use F-16 fighter jets to attack Russian territory.

Damit ist dann ja alles geklrt. Feuer frei!

EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

The US Environmental Protection Agency has in effect ignored a 2020 federal court order prohibiting the use of Monsanto and other producers' toxic dicamba-based herbicides that are destroying millions of acres of cropland, harming endangered species and increasing cancer risks for farmers, new fillings in the lawsuit charge. Instead of permanently yanking the products from the market after the 2020 order, the EPA only required industry to add further application instructions to the herbicides' labels before reapproving the products. A late 2021 EPA investigation found the same problems persist even with new directions added to the label, but the agency still allows Monsanto, BASF and other producers to continue using dicamba. The EPA's pesticide office is included in allegations that career managers are influenced by or have colluded with industry, and in some cases falsified science to make dangerous substances appear less toxic. About one-third of the pesticide office's funding comes from industry fees. The agency in 2016 approved the dicamba-based herbicide developed by Monsanto, which was to be used on genetically modified soybean and cotton crops. The herbicide can damage or kill neighboring crops and plants that are not engineered to be dicamba-resistant. The results are "devastating" and destroying millions of acres as "as never before seen in the history of US agriculture", the plaintiffs said. In some cases, direct dicamba exposure can kill insects, mammals and other animals.

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

Less Than a Third of Heavily Advertised Drugs have 'High Therapeutic Value': Study as reported by US News and World Report "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Television ads for drugs are filled with glowing images of people living their best lives, all thanks to that new med they've been prescribed. But drugs being touted on TV often have little to no benefit compared to other treatments, a new study published online Jan. 13 in JAMA Network Open finds. Fewer than one-third of drugs commonly advertised in the United States are highly rated first-line therapies, based on regulatory reviews from three different health agencies, the researchers said. Further, medications categorized as "low benefit" accounted for nearly $16 billion of the $22 billion in TV ad spending during the six-year study period, the results showed. "Proponents of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising often argue that these ads have high public health value by encouraging uptake of the most therapeutically beneficial therapies. Our study pushes back against this argument," said lead researcher Neeraj Patel. "The U.S. is one of only two high-income countries in the world that widely permits direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs," Patel said. "And there's been a ton of empirical research over the past two decades that has suggested that this type of advertising can be misleading, lead to inappropriate prescribing, and inflate health care costs." In the meantime, people should have frank discussions with their doctor about any drug that's caught their eye on TV, focusing on the real risks and benefits, Patel said.

Note: This profoundly eye-opening interview of a top cardiologist reveals without doubt how big Pharma has corrupted science and greatly damaged public health. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on big Pharma corruption from reliable major media sources.

The pharmaceutical industry finances about 75 percent of the [FDA]'s drug division "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Every five years, top officials of the Food and Drug Administration go behind closed doors to negotiate the terms of its core budget about $3 billion this year. But the F.D.A. is not at the table with members of Congress or with White House officials. Instead, it's in dozens of meetings with representatives of the giant pharmaceutical companies whose products the agency regulates. The negotiations are a piece of the "user fee" program in which drug, device and biotech companies make payments to the agency partly to seek product approvals. The fees ... make up nearly half of the F.D.A.'s budget, financing 6,500 jobs at the agency. The pharmaceutical industry funding alone has become so dominant that last year it accounted for three-quarters or $1.1 billion of the agency's drug division budget. Advocates for patients and doctors say the agreements have enabled the industry to weaken the approval process meant to ensure that drugs are safe and effective. "It's kind of like a devil's bargain," said Dr. Joseph Ross, a professor at the Yale School of Medicine who has studied F.D.A. policies, "that I think is not in the best interest of the agency, because it turns this every-five-year cycle into the F.D.A. essentially asking industry, 'What can we do to secure this money?'" Senator Bernie Sanders ... suggested that the pharmaceutical companies' tendency to charge "outrageous" prices was related to their significant role in funding and advancing policy goals of the F.D.A.'s drug division.

Does Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Directly Harm Patients? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University recently published an article in JAMA that highlights rising concern around the effects of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTC) on health care. Their work shows that DTC advertising might have direct harm on patients. They studied drug characteristics and total advertising expenditures for the 150 top-selling branded prescription drugs in the United States, finding that total promotional spending by the manufacturer was associated with a significantly lower added clinical benefit for the drug. In fact, companies spent nearly 15% more on DTC advertising for drugs that had demonstrated lower added benefit. Even more troubling, each 1.5% increase in spending was associated with a 10% increase in sales. Simply put, pharmaceutical companies spent more money on DTC advertising when medical research found that the drug was less effective, and this spending directly led to more sales for those inferior drugs. The U.S. is one of only two countries in the world that still allows direct-to-consumer advertising. Aside from increased pressure on providers to prescribe particular drugs which may not be the best option, there are other downsides to DTC. The data show that DTC advertising leads to increased drug costs overall, adding to the already skyrocketing costs of medical care in America. Additionally, DTC advertising tends to reduce use of generic medications, which are often equally effective but significantly cheaper for patients.

Fighting giants: eco-activist Vandana Shiva on her battle against GM multinationals "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

For almost five decades, [Dr. Vandana] Shiva has been deeply engaged in the fight for environmental justice in India. Regarded as one of the world's most formidable environmentalists, she has worked to save forests, shut down polluting mines, exposed the dangers of pesticides, spurred on the global campaign for organic farming, championed ecofeminism and gone up against powerful giant chemical corporations. Her battle to protect the world's seeds in their natural form rather than genetically altered and commercially controlled versions continues to be her life's work. "I couldn't understand why were we told that new technology brings progress, but everywhere I looked, local people were getting poorer and landscapes were being devastated as soon as this development or new technology came in," she says. "No one was stopping to ask: what will be the impact on the environment? What will this cost the farmers? They only wanted to win the race and control all the world's seeds." Currently more than 60% of the world's' commercial seeds are sold by just four companies, which have led the push to patent seeds, orchestrated a global monopoly of certain [genetically modified] crops such as cotton and soya and sued hundreds of small-scale farmers for saving seeds from commercial crops. Shiva considers her most important work to be her travels through India's villages, collecting and saving seeds ... setting up more than 100 seed banks, and helping farmers return to organic methods.

Note: The Seeds of Vandana Shiva is an excellent documentary that reveals the remarkable life story of Dr. Shiva, her significant influence in creating an international food justice movement, and how she stood up to the big players of industrial agriculture. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on GMOs and food system corruption from reliable major media sources.

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Vinicius Jr: Three People Arrested After Racist Abuse Of Real Madrid Star In Valencia "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Spanish Police have arrested three people in connection with the racist abuse aimed at Vinicius Jr in Valencia. Four men have also been detained in connection with an incident in January in which an effigy of the Brazilian was hung from a bridge outside the Real Madrid training ground. It comes after Real Madrid on Monday lodged a...

The post Vinicius Jr: Three People Arrested After Racist Abuse Of Real Madrid Star In Valencia appeared first on New Telegraph.

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Tomgram: Priti and Stan Cox, Two Great Powers, Too Much Violence "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you've got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and counterterrorism officials. And we're worried, too "" worried enough, in fact, to feel that it's time to take a look at the experience of India, where Hindu supremacist dogma has increasingly been enforced through violent means[...]

01:05

FG Commissions 2nd Niger Bridge, Fed Secretariat In Anambra "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The Federal Government of Nigeria has commissioned the Second Niger Bridge and the Federal Secretariat Complex in Anambra. Prof Chukwuma Soludo, Governor of Anambra State who spoke during the commissioning said Nigerians will remember President Mohammadu Buharis legacies including the ongoing commissioning of the second Niger bridge in Onitsha and Ebele Ofunneamaka Okeke Federal Secretariat...

The post FG Commissions 2nd Niger Bridge, Fed Secretariat In Anambra appeared first on New Telegraph.

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Judge Greenlights Election Integrity Lawsuit Seeking ERIC Voter Data In Alaska After Lt. Gov. Tried To Shut It Down "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

ERIC's secrecy isn't the only reason the voter-roll management organization is raising alarm bells among leading election integrity activists.

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We Need a Plan: A Young Chief Helps His Tribe Navigate the Climate Crisis "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Devon Parfaits earliest memories are of the Louisiana bayou. He spent countless hours on his grandfather Pierres shrimping boat, hauling up freshly baited traps and hearing old family stories. His family, part of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe, had lived off the water for generations.

But those days came to an abrupt end in 2005 when Hurricane Rita tore through Dulac, Louisiana, destroying his familys residence along with nearly 9,900 other homes in Terrebonne Parish. Pierres boat was split in two.

Parfait and his family left Dulac, along with many members of the community, and Parfait, who was 8 years old at the time, spent the rest of his childhood shuttling between southern Louisiana and eastern Texas. He attended four different schools in the span of eight years.

Now 25, Parfait is helping his community navigate a future made uncertain by climate change. Last year he became chief of the 1,100-member Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe.

I always knew I wanted to work on behalf of my people, Parfait said. He was chosen to be chief when he was 12 years old, after showing what former chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar (a distant cousin) described as a persistent interest in preserving tribal customs and helping the community. Having the title of future chief has guided me throughout my life, helping me to make decisions so that I would be prepared to be a leader in our future community.

Parfait lives in Marrero, about an hour from Dulac. As chief, he represents his tribe in negotiations with local and state governments, works with elders to organize community events, and leads outreach to other tribes. When hes not attending to those duties, hes working as a coastal resilience analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). There, he researches technical solutions to land loss, like sediment diversions and shoreline protection, and organizes with other regional advocacy groups. Its a combination he describes as a dream role.

You dont get a salary as chief, he said. [This way], I can do my duty...

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No progress in Saudi-Israel dtente as MBS rejects Netanyahus request to meet "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Press TV May 23, 2023

A foreign diplomatic source says there has been no progress in the normalization of diplomatic ties between the Tel Aviv regime and Saudi Arabia, as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has rejected a request from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet.

Netanyahu and bin Salman spoke on the phone twice in recent weeks. Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani facilitated the calls.

The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said, the 73-year-old Israeli leader and Saudi Arabias de facto ruler held talks before and after last weeks Arab League meeting in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah to discuss the possibility of rapprochement.

The leaders also did not discuss the possibility of direct flights from the Israeli-occupied territories to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage Hajj to the holy city of Mecca this year.

According to the N12 news site, Saudi authorities presented a list of demands for Israeli concessions vis--vis the Palestinians.

Those demands include allowing the Palestinian security apparatus to be strengthened at the expense of Israeli military forces in the occupied West Bank, the report said.

MBS also requested Palestinian security control over al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the occupied Old City of al-Quds.

Last week, Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen told The Jerusalem Post newspaper normalization with Saudi Arabia was not a matter of if, but of when. We and Saudi Arabia have the same interests.

He said White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk and Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security Amos Hochstein had spoken to the Saudi crown prince about dtente with Israel during their visit to Jeddah earlier this month.

Normalization with Saudi Arabia could come within the next six months to a year, though senior Saudi officials have always said publicly that headway must be made between Israel and the Palestinians for Riyadh to take that step, Cohen told N12 Saturday night.

The Palestinian issue was and remains the central issue for Arab countries, and it is at the top of the kingdoms priorities, MBS said at the Arab League summit in Jeddah.

We will not delay in providing assistance to the Palestinian people in recovering their lands, restoring their legitimate rights and establishing an independent state on the 1967 borders with East al-Quds as its capital, he noted.

Saudi Arabia did not show any opposition when the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco in 2020 became the first Arab count.......

00:56

Paiute Shoshone Protectors at Ox Sam Camp at Thacker Pass "IndyWatch Feed War"

By Ox Sam CampCensored NewsThe Hoobie'joes at Ox Sam Camp: Josephine, Mary McCloud and Elvida. Our beautiful and precious elders visited our ceremonial prayer camp. The elders shared important stories about PeeHee Mu'Huh, the Paiute and Shoshone Tribes Traditional Cultural District and the surrounding significant landscapes.Pesa Mu precious Mary McCloud and family for standing with the Ox Sam

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Drama As Impeached Ogun Deputy Speaker Blocks Assembly Gate "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The crisis rocking the Ogun State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, took a worse turn as the impeached Deputy Speaker of the House, Dare Kadiri blocked the main gate of the Assembly complex. This is coming barely three months after Kadiri and his supporters stormed the Assembly to enforce judgement nullifying his suspension by the...

The post Drama As Impeached Ogun Deputy Speaker Blocks Assembly Gate appeared first on New Telegraph.

00:53

F-16s To Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed War"

A few days ago U.S. President Joe Biden announced the training of Ukrainian pilots for the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft: President Joe Biden told G7 leaders on Friday that the US would join in efforts to train Ukraines pilots on...

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How, What and Why We Celebrate, Shapes Memories and Creates Legacies "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Corporatism is programming the willing to fight the wrong battles, while our earth and life on earth they are stealing at a profit

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Link "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_45478" style= "width: 210px;"><a href= "https://www.frackcheckwv.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/07148664-BEAD-4097-B407-3D49819C5B2E.jpeg"> <img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-45478" height="300" src= "https://www.frackcheckwv.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/07148664-BEAD-4097-B407-3D49819C5B2E-174x300.jpg" title="07148664-BEAD-4097-B407-3D49819C5B2E" width="210"></a> Also in Monongalia County, this is another application for drilling & fracking, etc. (click to enlarge)

Horizontal Natural Gas Well Work Permit Application Notice By Publication

>> NOTICE: 23613 April 5, 12 in Dominion Post Newspaper, Morgantown, WV Notice is hereby given: Pursuant to West Virginia Code 22-6A-10(e) prior to filing an application for a permit for a horizontal well the applicant shall publish in the county in which the well is located or is proposed to be located a Class II legal advertisement. The following applicant intends to apply for a horizontal natural well work permit which disturbs three acres or more of surface excluding pipelines, gathering lines and roads or utilizes more than two hundred ten thousand gallons of water in any thirty day period. Applicant: Northeast Natural Energy, LLC. Well Number: Dolls Run 3H, 5H, 7H, 9H Address: 707 Virginia St. E, Suite 1200, Charleston, WV 25301 Business Conducted: Natural gas production. Location WV. County: Monongalia. District: Clay. Quadrangle: Osage. UTM Coordinate NAD83 Northing: 3H 4388829.9; 5H 4388835.9; 7H 4388817.8; 9H 4388841.9 UTM coordinate NAD83 Easting: 3H 577809.8; 5H 577810.7; 7H 577808.2; 9H 577811.5 Watershed: Dunkard Creek Coordinate Conversion: To convert the coordinates above into longitude and latitude, visit: http://tagis. dep.wv.gov/convert/llutm_conus.php Electronic notification: To receive an email when applications have been received or issued by the Office of Oil and Gas, visit http://www.dep.wv.gov/insidedep/Pages/DEPMailingLists.aspx to sign up. Reviewing Applications: Copies of the proposed permit application may be reviewed at the WV Department of Environmental Protection headquarters, located at 601 57th Street, SE Charleston, WV 25304(304-926-0450). Full copies or scans of the proposed permit application will cost $15, whether mailed or obtained at DEP headquarters. Copies may be requested by calling the office or by sending an email to DEP.comments@wv.gov. Submitting Comments: Comments may be submitted online at: https://apps.dep.wv.gov/oog/comments/c...

00:49

PyPI removes PGP-signature support "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The PyPI package archive has removed support for PGP signatures on packages.

In other words, out of all of the unique keys that had uploaded signatures to PyPI, only 36% of them were capable of being meaningfully verified at the time of audit. Even if all of those signatures uploaded in that 3 year period of time were made by one of those 36% of keys that are able to be meaningfully verified, that would still represent only 0.3% of all of those files.
Given all of this, the continued support of uploading PGP signatures to PyPI is no longer defensible.

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Se puede garantizar el Acuerdo de Escaz mientras los gobiernos imponen el extractivismo con represin? "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Foto: Represin a familias Campesinas en Santiago del Estero. (Hernn Vittenberg)

Argentina ratific el Acuerdo de Escaz, plan regional para la proteccin del ambiente y los defensores de la naturaleza, pero el mismo Gobierno fomenta actividades que arrasan territorios y vulneran derechos humanos. Los lmites de la diplomacia ambiental, el doble discurso de Jvenes por el Clima y el maquillaje verde de funcionarios y empresas.

El Acuerdo de Escaz hoy nos enfrenta a preguntas: Cmo validamos este acuerdo cuando los territorios siguen siendo devastados, reprimidos y criminalizados bajo las polticas extractivistas? Cmo lo avalamos sin hacernos eco de la urgencia en el presente frente a una crisis climtica socioambiental que no solo no se disipa, sino que crece?

Entre el 19 y el 21 de abril se realiz en Buenos Aires la Segunda Conferencia de Partes (COP) de Escaz, que involucra a pases de Amrica Latina y el Caribe. Se trata del primer acuerdo regional ambiental en garantizar la proteccin de les defensores de la naturaleza, la participacin informada frente a las iniciativas que tengan efectos sobre el ambiente, el acceso a la justicia y la no-regresividad en materia ambiental.

Lo que resulta en una serie de compromisos a los que los gobiernos y el Poder Judicial deberan supeditarse.

El Acuerdo de Escaz entr en vigencia en Argentina el 22 de abril del 2022. Sin embargo, desde entonces continan sucediendo hechos de represin y detenciones contra luchadores ambientales en todo el pas y por supuesto se sigue avanzando con la explotacin de los territorios sin consulta previa; al igual que suceda previo a la firma.

En mayo del 2022 en Choya (Andalgal, Catamarca), el gobierno provincial desat una brutal represin y posterior detencin arbitraria de les vecinas y vecinos por defender el derecho al agua y oponerse a la instalacin del proyecto minero MARA (Agua Rica-Alumbrera).

En agosto se derog en Ro Negro la Ley 3308 (ley conseguida popularmente en 1999) que protega del avance de infraestructura petrolera en pos de proteger y preservar la biodiversidad, la actividad pesquera y el turismo. Para octubre, otro supuesto conflicto en la misma provincia termin c...

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Drone-bombs hit Russian border region - governor "IndyWatch Feed World"

Ukrainian forces targeted several settlements in Belgorod Region, Russia with drones carrying explosives on Monday night, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The region had been placed under "anti-terrorism operation" regulations in the wake of a raid by a Ukrainian saboteur group. Late in the evening, several improvised explosive devices were dropped on civilian houses in the town Grayvoron, which is located 7km from the Ukrainian border, Gladkov confirmed on Telegram. Two houses caught fire, but there were no casualties, the official added. Grayvoron is the administrative center of the district that had been targeted in a Ukrainian intrusion earlier in the day.

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Prince Harry Loses Challenge To Pay For Police Protection In UK "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Prince Harry has lost a legal challenge over his bid to be allowed to make private payments for police protection. His lawyers wanted a judicial review of the rejection of his offer to pay for protection in the UK after his security arrangements changed when the prince stopped being a working royal. According to a...

The post Prince Harry Loses Challenge To Pay For Police Protection In UK appeared first on New Telegraph.

00:44

Organizaciones sociales llaman a la unidad por la justicia en Guerrero "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"

Organizaciones sociales de Guerrero, as como las madres y padres de los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos llaman a la unidad para fortalecer las demandas de justicia, verdad, salud y educacin. Proponen formar un frente que aglutine a las organizaciones sociales del estado que respalde sus movimientos sociales.

En una reunin llevada a cabo este viernes 19 de mayo en la Universidad Pedaggica Nacional, representantes de 11 organizaciones sociales, incluidas las madres y padres de los 43, plantearon la importancia de unirse y de invitar a otras organizaciones para acrecentar el movimiento social. Analizaron el contexto en que se desarrolla cada uno de sus movimientos, y manifestaron inconformidades que tienen que ver con la falta de escuelas y profesores en regiones como la Montaa; centros de salud y atencin mdica en las comunidades; atencin y mejoras en las condiciones de trabajo de los mineros de Taxco; y la falta de justicia por el asesinato de Ranferi Hernndez junto a su esposa, su suegra y su ahijado el da 14 de octubre del 2017 en Chilapa de lvarez. Durante el encuentro tambin lamentaron el fallecimiento de Mario Vergara, quien fuera buscador de personas desaparecidas, luego de que su hermano Toms fuera desaparecido en 2012 en el municipio de Huitzuco, Guerrero.

Tambin mostraron inconformidad ante la Cuarta Transformacin del presidente de la repblica Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador, el 1 de mayo salimos a demostrar a este gobierno de la denominada Cuarta Transformacin que no estamos de acuerdo con sus polticas que ha estado implementando, tanto en lo educativo como en lo social y la salud, mencion un maestro integrante de la Coordinadora Estatal de Trabajadores de la Educacin de Guerrero (CETEG).

El representante de la CETEG hizo hincapi en la necesidad de seguir aglutinando organizaciones sociales, hoy estamos 11, anteriormente ramos ms, debemos seguir haciendo el llamado para que puedan seguir viniendo ms. La Coordinadora Estatal empez una brigada en las regiones, hoy estamos en Costa Grande, la semana que viene en Costa Chica, hemos podido llegar a las escuelas de los maestros y dicen que s es necesaria la lucha. Esa lucha debe hacerse con las organizaciones sociales. Se acab la luna de miel con el gobierno de la 4T, la seccin 22 de Oaxaca se moviliza en la Ciudad de Mxico y en su estado, tenemos que despertar al movimiento social.

Una de las propuestas resalt que es necesaria la creacin de un frente y de comisiones con la finalidad de difundir y fortalecer las demandas de cada organizacin, debe haber una comisin que se encargue de difundir, otra comisin que se encargue de visitar a las organizaciones y otra comisin para hacer los posicionamientos si se requiere, si golpean a cualquier organizacin debemos tener un funcionamiento como respuesta. Si no estamos todas, al menos la mayora para que nos pongamos a analizar y decir este va a ser el objetivo del frente, esta...

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Google announced its Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program) "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Google introduced Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program), a new bug bounty program for reporting vulnerabilities in its mobile applications.

Google announced a new bug bounty program, named Mobile VRP (vulnerability rewards program), that covers its mobile applications.

Googles Mobile VRP is a bug bounty program for reporting vulnerabilities in first-party Android applications developed or maintained by Google.

Only apps published by the developers in the list below or apps in the Tier 1 list (Googles Play Services, AGSA (Android Google Search app), Chrome, Cloud, Gmail, and Chrome Remote Desktop) are in covered by the new program:

The IT giant will reward arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities and flaws that can lead to the theft of sensitive data. The company is also looking for:

Path traversal / zip path traversal vulnerabilities leading to arbitrary file write
Intent redirections leading to launching non-exported application components
Vulnerabilities caused by unsafe usage of pending intents
Orphaned permissions

Below is the table reporting the rewards offered by the company for the different categories of vulnerabilities and the level of user interaction for their exploitation:...

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13 Minutes of COVID Propaganda "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Via: Ivor Cummins:

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ElDee: My Father Brought Internet To Nigeria "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Retired Nigerian rapper and singer, ElDee the Don has claimed that his father was the first person that brought the internet to Nigeria. Speaking in a recent interview with media personality, JOI, the singer made the shocking revelation while adding that he inherited ICT knowledge from his father. He said, My dad was the person...

The post ElDee: My Father Brought Internet To Nigeria appeared first on New Telegraph.

00:35

Bukayo Saka Signs New Deal With Arsenal "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Arsenal attacker, Bukayo Saka has signed a new long-term contract with his boyhood club. New Telegraph reports that the new contract will reportedly run till 2027. The 21-year-old has become an instrumental figure for the Gunners and coach, Mikel Arteta. He has received his reward for a stellar campaign with a new deal. Saka won...

The post Bukayo Saka Signs New Deal With Arsenal appeared first on New Telegraph.

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Supreme Courts Ruling on Humane Treatment of Pigs Could Catalyze a Wave of New Animal Welfare Laws "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

By David Favre

Should California be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? On May 11, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Californias position by a 5-4 vote in National Pork Producers Council v. Ross.

While the ruling was fractured and reflected complex legal questions, it is a major victory for those working to improve farm animal welfare. A number of states will undoubtedly take advantage of the power that the Supreme Court has recognized.

As a specialist in animal law, I expect that this will result in a patchwork of laws that are likely to make national meat producers very uncomfortable. Ultimately, it could push Congress to set federal standards.

More Indoor Space for Sows

Pork producers sued California over a law that the states voters adopted in 2018 via ballot initiative with over 63% approval. It set new conditions for raising hogs, veal calves and egg-laying chickens whose meat or eggs are sold in California. The state produces virtually no pork, but represents about 15% of the U.S. pork market.

At most commercial hog farms, pregnant sows are kept in pens called gestation crates that measure about 2 feet by 7 feet enough room for the animals to sit, stand and lie down, but not enough to turn around. Californias law requires that each sow must have at least 24 square feet of floor space nearly double the amount that most now get. It does not require farmers to raise free-range pigs; just provide more square footage for hogs in buildings.

The National Pork Producers Council argued that this requirement ...

00:28

UK Bars Foreign Student From Bringing In Family "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The United Kingdom (UK) Government has banned Nigerian students and other international students from bringing their families as dependents, with the exception of under specific circumstances. New Telegraph gathered that the new directive is in an effort to reduce the nations current level of immigration, which is currently around one million. This was contained in...

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00:23

Artificial Intelligence Explosion: How AI May Cause The End of The World?? "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Artificial intelligence is a superior lifeform that humans are creating, and many AI researchers have outlined various scenarios in which this technology can pose an existential risk to humanity that could result in the literal end of the world.

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00:22

Japan Just Shattered the Internet Speed Record at 319 Terabits per Second "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Engineers in Japan just shattered the world record for the fastest internet speed, achieving a data transmission rate of 319 Terabits per second (Tb/s), according to a paper presented at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Communications in June. The new record was made on a line of fibers more than 1,864 miles (3,000 km) long. And, crucially, it is compatible with modern-day cable infrastructure.

00:22

Machine learning approach opens insights into an entire class of materials being pursued for solid-state batteries "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

A team of researchers at Duke University and their collaborators have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive candidates for both solid-state battery electrolytes and thermoelectric energy converters.

The discoveriesand the machine learning approach used to make themcould help usher in a new era of energy storage for applications such as household battery walls and fast-charging electric vehicles.

The results appeared online May 18 in the journal Nature Materials.

00:22

Nvidia chips away at Intel, AMD turf in supercomputers "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

May 22 (Reuters) Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) on Monday said it has worked with the U.K.s University of Bristol to build a new supercomputer using a new Nvidia chip that would compete with Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O).

Nvidia is the worlds top maker of graphics processing units (GPUs), which are in high demand because they can be used to speed up artificial intelligence work. OpenAIs ChatGPT, for example, was created with thousands of Nvidia GPUs.

But Nvidias GPU chips are typically paired with what is called a central processing unit (CPU), a market that has been dominated by Intel and AMD for decades. This year, Nvidia has started shipping its own competing CPU chip called Grace, which is based on technology from SoftBank Group Corp-owned (9984.T) Arm Ltd.

00:19

Dont destroy Earth on the way to Mars (commentary) "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

Experimental rocketry may be causing irreparable harm to one of the most biodiverse and special places in the United States. On April 20, the first fully integrated test of SpaceXs Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket destroyed its launch pad at an experimental launch facility in South Texas before exploding in a rapid unscheduled disassembly over the Gulf of Mexico. Further launches are grounded as the Federal Aviation Administration investigates an anomaly in the ascent that resulted in the Starship failing to decouple from the rocket. This time, SpaceXs launch base barely averted disaster. However, it is likely that accidents like this will continue to be the norm, as SpaceXs record clearly indicates. This is particularly concerning, as the Boca Chica, TX, site is surrounded by fragile lands and rare animals found nowhere else in the United States. Northern bobwhite eggs discolored by wildfire caused by an explosion at SpaceX launch site. This species has been rapidly declining for decades in the state. Image courtesy of the Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries program of Defenders of Wildlife. The site is no stranger to explosive outcomes. In April 2021, a Starship prototype rocket crashed on its launch pad, raining large debris onto nearby protected flats and wetlands. Removal of that debris caused significantly more damage to the fragile refuge lands when crews attempted to retrieve the scattered rocket parts. Worse yet, in September 2022 a static test of the Raptor engine resulted in a fire that incinerated 68 acres of theThis article was originally published on Mongabay

00:12

Raining and snowfall reported in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan for 3 consecutive days - snow accumulated up to a meter deep "IndyWatch Feed World"

It has been raining in Issyk-Kul for three consecutive days and snowfalls have been reported in remote parts of the region, Turmush reports. Bakyt Barktabasov, the head of the Issyk-Kul regional department of the Road Department under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, reported that the Bokonbaeva-Tosor-Jyluu-Suu road is currently covered in snow. The Tosor Pass, in particular, has seen snow accumulate up to a meter in certain areas.

00:10

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00:05

Indonesian project shows how climate funding can and should go directly to IPLCs "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

JAKARTA Suryani grew up in a family of farmers on the island of Java in Indonesia. Her parents are members of a farmers union called SPP. The land they live and farm on isnt titled, so Suryani knows very well the importance of having farmers land rights recognized and protected. Yet shes also seen how other women farmers like her tend to be reluctant to share their opinions during meetings of the farmer union. We always sat in the back, in the dark corner, Suryani says. So when she heard from her mentor in the union that there would be a four-day training workshop for women farmers in their region, she was excited to join. It would cover gender equality, emphasizing how women farmers have the same rights to voice their opinions as their male counterparts and to fight for their rights as well. The workshop took place in December 2022 in the district of Ciamis, a four-hour drive from Suryanis home village in Garut district. She rode in the back of a rental pickup truck, and it rained heavily that day. Suryani was soaked by the time she arrived at the workshop, but that didnt dampen her spirits: she was there, she reminded herself, to continue her parents fight to get the familys land rights recognized by the government. I wanted to learn and get more knowledge and experience, she says. If I dont learn from now on how to organize and strengthen [the movement], then my parentsThis article was originally published on Mongabay

00:05

Hajj: CSO Cautions Incoming Political Leaders Against Change Thatll Disrupt 2023 Operations "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The Hajj Reporters, a Non-Governmental Organization has cautioned the elected Governor, as well as the President against making any last minutes changes to the leadership of the Hajj Welfare Offices that might Disrupt the 2023 operations. The Reporters National President, Muhammad Ibrahim started this in a press release issued on Tuesday, saying any last minutes...

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00:03

Q&A: How can countries stop subsidies harming biodiversity? "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

Subsidies that harm nature and the environment cost the world an estimated $1.8tn each year the equivalent of the entire GDP of Canada.

Governments funnel this money into supporting fossil fuels, agriculture and other sectors which can have negative impacts on biodiversity.

Countries have signed up to a number of targets to cut down these subsidies, including in a recent global agreement to reduce biodiversity-harming subsidies by at least $500bn by 2030.

But experts say there is still a long road ahead to reduce the ways in which governments harm nature and ecosystems, such as lowering the cost of fossil fuels, fertilisers and pesticides alongside other actions including building roads in biodiverse areas.

In this Q&A, Carbon Brief explains how these subsidies can cause damage and the hurdles standing in the way of getting rid of them.

What are harmful subsidies to biodiversity?

There are two key types of harmful subsidies those that damage the environment and those that harm biodiversity.

In general, harmful environmental subsidies impact our surroundings whereas harmful biodiversity subsidies affect plant and animal life. But there is overlap bet...

00:00

Supercon 2022: Nick Poole Makes a Jolly Wrencher Tube "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

[Nick Poole] shared his circuitous journey into the obscure world of homemade vacuum tubes on the Supercon 2022 stage. It began innocently enough when he saw [Usagi Electric]s single bit computer vacuum tube computer, which uses dozens of vacuum tubes. He got to wondering, could you make vacuum-tube-like devices containing multiple elements? There are some examples, like the 256-bit memory Selectron tube from the 1950s, but nothing general purpose like a 555 timer or quad NAND gate packages. Unencumbered by a deep understanding of how vacuum tubes work, [Nick] proceeds to fill this void by imagining Integrated Thermionic, a fictitious company that exists in an alternate history where transistors were not invented and the vacuum tube reigns supreme. He also showcases a variety of innovative products that Integrated Thermionics manufactured over the decades, including surface mount tubes.

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23:58

Aba Tenants Unite Against Touting, Multiple Taxations "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The residents of Aba under the umbrella body, Association of Aba Tenants (AAT) have urged the incoming government of Dr. Alex Otti to stop touting and multiple taxations in the area, the commercial nerve centre of Abia State to avoid a crisis. AAT President, Mike George in an open address at the occasion marking the...

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23:58

No Labels another Trojan Horse for Israel support without media scrutiny "IndyWatch Feed War"

The well-funded bipartisan group "No Labels" wants politicians to compromise, but its CEO says "there is no middle ground" when it comes to Israel. Why is media coverage leaving this part of the story out?

23:56

COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries: Multiple Heart Attacks or Multiple Strokes "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:56

North Korean Kimsuky Hackers Strike Again with Advanced Reconnaissance Malware "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Kimsuky has been observed using a piece of custom malware called RandomQuery as part of a reconnaissance and information exfiltration operation. "Lately, Kimsuky has been consistently distributing custom malware as part of reconnaissance campaigns to enable subsequent attacks," SentinelOne researchers Aleksandar Milenkoski and Tom

23:52

NUJ Berates Wike Over Demolition Of Bayelsa Govts Property In Rivers "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has flayed the ongoing face-off between the government of Rivers and Bayelsa States, noting that the row, which has led to the demolition of the Bayelsa State Government property in Rivers would have far-reaching implications, if allowed to degenerate calling for an immediate ceasefire by the key actors. This...

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23:51

646 Hospitals At Risk Of Closure, Ranked By State "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Laura Dyrda There are 646 rural hospitals at risk of closure due to financial issues, comprising around 30 percent of all rural hospitals in...

646 Hospitals At Risk Of Closure, Ranked By State

23:46

SFPD Obtained Live Access to Business Camera Network in Anticipation of Tyre Nichols Protest "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

By Matthew Guariglia New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) received live access to the...

SFPD Obtained Live Access to Business Camera Network in Anticipation of Tyre Nichols Protest

23:45

Fusion Risk Management TPRM enhancements deliver continuous monitoring of third parties "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Fusion Risk Management announced expanded functionality of its third-party risk management (TPRM) offering. The enhanced solution delivers continuous monitoring of third parties beyond its traditional instance as well as an evaluation of potential operational and business impacts that those third parties may have. This functionality enables a holistic and real-time view of third-party ecosystem health which improves decision-making and response times in order to transform how third-party risk teams anticipate and manage disruptions. Organizations continue More

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23:44

American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantanamo "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:44

German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall suffered Black Basta ransomware attack "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The German automotive and arms manufacturer Rheinmetall announced it was victim of a Black Basta ransomware attack that took place last month.

Rheinmetall is a German automotive and arms manufacturer that is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange. The company this week announced it was victim of a ransomware attack conducted by the Black Basta ransomware group.

The incident took place in Mid-April and impacted the business unit that serves industrial customers, particularly in the automotive sector. The defense division of the company was not impacted by the ransomware attack as reported after the discovery of the incident by Rheinmetalls spokesperson Oliver Hoffmann.

The automotive and arms manufacturer launched an investigation into the incident with the help of cybersecurity authorities.

The company filed a criminal complaint with the Cologne public prosecutors office.

The company is still working to completely recover from the security breach.

In March, the pro-Russian hacker group Killnet called to cyber arms on his Telegram channel against the company IT infrastructure in Germany and Australia after Rheinmetall announced a new tank factory in Ukraine as the Russian invasion of the Eastern European nation continues.

The company is a supplier of weaponry used on the Leopard tank which were sent to Ukraine by several European countries.

On September 2019, a series of cyber attacks hit defense contractors Rheinmetall AG and Defence Construction Canada (DCC) damaging their information technology systems.

Black Basta has been active since April 2022, like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model.

In November 2022, Sentinel Labs researchers reported having found evidence that links the Black Basta ransomware gang to the financially motivated hacking group FIN7.

In November 2022, experts at the Cy...

23:38

Africas First Test Run For A CBDC has Failed "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

By Martin Armstrong The transition to CBDC in Nigeria did not go as planned. The elites always seek out African nations to use as their...

Africas First Test Run For A CBDC has Failed

23:37

Grand Delusion The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:34

Belgorod Attack Helps Kiev to Disguise Its Military Disaster in Bakhmut "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:33

The US Occupation of Syria That Never Happened "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:31

Bidens Running Out of Ukraine Money? Good. "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:31

NGOs urge continued sanctions against DRC mining giant Dan Gertler "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

Earlier this year, 25 Congolese and international civil society organizations wrote a letter to the U.S. secretary of state, calling on the United States government to maintain sanctions against diamond trader Dan Gertler. Since reaching a settlement requiring Gertler to hand over several valuable mines and oil concessions, the Democratic Republic of Congos government backed by some local civil society groups says the sanctions have had the desired effect and should be lifted. Anti-corruption groups in the country say no. The concern is legitimate: On Jan. 15, 2021, as former President Donald Trump was leaving office, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin granted the Israeli businessman a one-year license to do business with U.S. entities and access frozen money in U.S. accounts. The one-year delay was meant to allow the U.S. administration to examine the evidence provided by Gertler before deciding on the final lifting of the restrictions. That move generated strong criticism from human rights groups and Democratic lawmakers. A few months later, the Biden administration canceled the license, arguing that the measure is inconsistent with Americas strong foreign policy interests in combating corruption around the world, specifically including U.S. efforts to counter corruption and promote stability in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement. But there is nothing to say that it cant happen again. When contacted, the U.S. State Department and U.S. Treasury office did not respond to our request for an interview. The origin of the sanctionsThis article was originally published on Mongabay

23:30

Palestinian Singer Mohammed Assafs Patriotic Song Removed from Spotify, Apple Music "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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AMD Launches Ryzen 7020 C-Series - Continues Pushing Zen 2 For Chromebooks "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

AMD today announced the Ryzen 7020 C-series processors. These processors are interesting for at least having integrated RDNA2 graphics but are based on the aging Zen 2 architecture...

23:30

IRONSCALES and Infinigate collaborate to provide customers with email security solution "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

IRONSCALES has partnered with the Infinigate Group to distribute IRONSCALES cloud email security platform in the Benelux, the Nordics, and Switzerland regions, with a view to widen the partnership across the wider EMEA territory. Infinigate is a key partnership for IRONSCALES and allows us to expand our reach to Benelux, the Nordics, and Switzerland to provide advanced phishing protection to MSPs, MSSPs, VARs, and System Integrators across the region, said Henrik Davidsson, VP of International More

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23:27

Historical Context for Pilot Incapacitations "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:26

Oil spill spotted in the Red Sea "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Oil spill spotted in the Red Sea

A 250km-long oil spill is moving south, although the source is currently unknown

Katherine Hearst Tue, 05/23/2023 - 14:26

Imagery by the Sentinel-2 L1C satellite revealing the oil spill on 14 May (Sentinel-2 L1C)

Satellite imagery has revealed a 250km-long oil spill in the Red Sea.

The spill appears to have started on 19 May, with additional images from the Sentinel-2 L1C satellite the next day showing oil drifting further south from waters off the coast around the Egyptian-Sudanese border.

According to Wim Zwijnenburg of Dutch peace organisation Pax, which specialises in climate, conflict and environment, the spill appears to amount to approximately 100,000 litres of oil.

He told Middle East Eye that the slick was likely to be light fuel, rather than heavy crude oil, and dispersed by the wind. The source is currently unclear.

This could have been either a leak or a strike on an Iranian tanker, but we have not seen any reported incidents of explosions, Zwijnenburg told MEE.

23:26

Adding Indirect Deaths, Total Death Toll in the War on Terror Is 4.5 Million "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:25

Dont Let Them Rewrite History: Ventilators Killed People and It Was No Accident "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:22

Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences, by A. B. Abrams "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:19

Snowfall on the verge of summer in the Sierra Nevada, southern Spain "IndyWatch Feed World"

In the coming days, significant accumulations of snow are expected in the higher areas of the mountains, after being almost absent in the first part of the spring.

23:15

Corona Sirens "IndyWatch Feed War"

If this is going on at Surrey Memorial Hospital in British Columbia Canada where else is it going on?

These patients take up beds and nursing support that would normally be used to treat incoming emergencies. This bed-block forces us to routinely treat strokes, heart attacks, traumas, miscarriages and palliative patients in the hallway.

Visitor overwhelmed by crowded emergency at Surrey Memorial Hospital, Vancouver Sun, 18 May 2023

23:11

Theyre learning "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Finally, the whales have had enough. Orcas have sunk 3 boats off the coast of Spain. All it took was one innovative revolutionary who decided shed had enough, and then her fellows took notice and realized they dont have to take it.

Experts suspect that a female orca they call White Gladis suffered a critical moment of agony a collision with a boat or entrapment during illegal fishing that flipped a behavioral switch. That traumatized orca is the one that started this behavior of physical contact with the boat, Lpez Fernandez said.

Orcas are social creatures that can easily learn and reproduce behaviors performed by others, according to the 2022 study. In the majority of reported cases, orcas have made a beeline for a boats rudder and either bitten, bent or broken it.

Im surprised that whales of all species hadnt taken action centuries ago, when humans started exterminating them wholesale.

Unfortunately, the next lesson theyll learn is that humans are vengeful and vicious and dont take kindly to anything challenging their dominion.

23:02

SFPD Obtained Live Access to Business Camera Network in Anticipation of Tyre Nichols Protest "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) received live access to the hundreds of surveillance cameras that comprise the Union Square Business Improvement Districts (USBID) camera network in anticipation of potential protests following the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee. The protests were impassioned and peaceful as Bay Area residents gathered to oppose police violenceand the SFPD proactively got access to watch it all, opening up activists to potential risk of reprisal and retribution for their political beliefs and potentially chilling future participation in demonstrations.

On January 27, 2023, an SFPD commander reached out to the USBID with a 12-hour live monitoring request for the 450 cameras in its network, citing potential civil unrest in anticipation of the release of body camera footage of Tyre Nichols killing by members of the Memphis Police Department. Reporting in the San Francisco Standard suggests that the SFPD may not have ended up engaging in live monitoring, but simply requesting this access before a protest can chill First Amendment activity. This act also indicates the SFPD is interpreting the ordinance too broadly. The policy states: SFPD is prohibited from accessing, requesting, or monitoring any surveillance camera live feed during First Amendment activities unless there are exigent circumstances or for placement of police personnel due to crowd sizes or other issues creating imminent public safety hazards." But the SFPD has not shown that, when they obtained live access, there were any imminent hazards or exigent circumstances.

The SFPD was able to seek live monitoring as a result of the controversial September 2022 temporary ordinance that authorized police to receive live access to non-city security cameras for a host of reasons, including to monitor so-called significant events. This temporary camera ordinance, which passed as a 15-month pilot, was ...

23:00

They Have Some Demands "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:00

Its Good News Week. Joe Biden Is Creating Enemies Everywhere "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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23:00

Conceal and White Rock Cybersecurity partner to isolate browsing sessions "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Conceal has announced a new strategic partnership with White Rock Cybersecurity. White Rock Cybersecurity is committed to delivering innovative, scalable, and manageable solutions in information technology, said James Range, CEO of White Rock Cybersecurity. With the inclusion of Conceals Zero Trust isolation technology in our offerings, we are significantly boosting the defense capabilities of our customers against both existing and emerging cyber threats at the edge, Range added. ConcealBrowse, Conceals flagship product, is a browser More

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23:00

Unionism needs plurality not unity; strategy not the reactionary "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

Callum Jones is a Senior Parliamentary Assistant to a Conservative MP, based in Westminster, but originally from North Down.

The overwhelming unionist takeaway from the local elections has been that it is in dire straits: eclipsed by republicans, demoralised and split in three separate directions. Discussion over the cold slab of unionisms post mortem has drawn one common conclusion: unionism needs a rethink. It is more stark than that: unionism needs nothing short of a reformation.

The DUP has sought to portray its result of retaining all the seats it entered Thursday with as a consolidation or a recognition of its Protocol/Framework position. That may be so of the voters who could actually muster the enthusiasm to visit the polling booth. The sliding ground under unionisms feet came as many voters with nothing in the unionist offering they thought worth voting for stayed at home.

In comparison with the nationalist vote which surged no doubt galvanised by Sinn Feins respect/equality/DUP arrogance pitch which has revived the partys fortunes beyond their wildest dreams over the last few election cycles. Such messaging has been extremely electorally lucrative for Sinn Fein in recent years when its star appeared to be waning. The Protocol derangement syndrome that has infected unionism has handed just such a gift into their lap.

Unionism therefore needs to wake up to the fact its stance of weaponising Stormont (in order to hold out on the UK Government in vain hope it delivers changes to the Windsor Framework that satisfy concerns over the NI-GB link) has backfired spectacularly.

What has been gained by refusing to enter power-sharing if Sinn Fein has been able to turn the narrative to its own advantage so successfully? The DUP boycott of the institutions has instead only allowed republicans to: become the largest party in both local government and the assembly; crush the moderate constitutional nationalists of the SDLP; seen nationalists outpoll unionists for the first time; turbocharge demands for a border poll; thus upset the constitutional balance even more and demoralise (an increasingly belligerent and cantankerous) unionism yet further.

This damning charge sheet thus only increases the urgency for the aforementioned reformation unionism needs. The unionist political spectrum has become lopsided and incoherent. Its dominant position of abstentionism (embodied by DUP and TUV) over the Protocol has proved strategically inept, handing huge advantage to republicanism as the result of unionisms retreat into its ideological comfort zone of throwing its toys out the pram.

Therefore unionism needs to draw a new dividing line; between the strategic pragmatists on the one hand jaded by unionisms backs against the wall, protestant siege mentality and the paisleyite reactionaries burying their heads in the sand on the other. Few can surely b...

23:00

The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

First-year college students are understandably frustrated when they cant get into popular upper-level electives. But they usually just gripe. Paras Jha was an exception. Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll.

On Wednesday night, 19 November 2014, at 10:00 p.m. ESTas the registration period for first-year students in spring courses had just openedParas launched his first distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. He had assembled an army of some 40,000 bots, primarily in Eastern Europe and China, and unleashed them on the Rutgers central authentication server. The botnet sent thousands of fraudulent requests to authenticate, overloading the server. Parass classmates could not get through to register.

The next semester Paras tried again. On 4 March 2015, he sent an email to the campus newspaper, The Daily Targum: A while back you had an article that talked about the DDoS attacks on Rutgers. Im the one who attacked the network. I will be attacking the network once again at 8:15 pm EST. Paras followed through on his threat, knocking the Rutgers network offline at precisely 8:15 p.m.

On 27 March, Paras unleashed another assault on Rutgers. This attack lasted four days and brought campus life to a standstill. Fifty thousand students, faculty, and staff had no computer access from campus.

On 29 April, Paras posted a message on Pastebin, a website popular with hackers for sending anonymous messages. The Rutgers IT department is a joke, he taunted. This is the third time I have launched DDoS attacks against Rutgers, and every single time, the Rutgers infrastructure crumpled like a tin can under the heel of my boot.

Paras was furious that Rutgers chose Incapsula, a small cybersecurity firm based in Massachusetts, as its DDoS-mitigation provider. He claimed that Rutgers chose the cheapest company. Just to show you the poor quality of Incapsulas network, I have gone ahead and decimated the Rutgers network (and parts of Incapsula), in the hopes that you will pick another provi...

23:00

Regime Climate Censorship Enforcer NewsGuard: The tragic case of Zack Fishman "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

NewsGuard is a Pentagon funded member of the US Government's Censorship Industrial Complex.

Whats the Story? Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan on Israeli medical apartheid "IndyWatch Feed War"

Dr. Lina Qasem-Hassan on how the Israeli healthcare system discriminates against Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territory.

22:59

Rein in the FBI: Put an End to the FBIs Gestapo Tactics "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:58

Chisels 3 "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

We start with pain.

Those are simply too big. I really dont know what I was thinking when I turned them, but seeing them sitting on the table, and hefting them it was just wrong. Once I realized that they were wrong, I couldnt un-think or un-see or un-realize. So, I went quickly over to the hot metal shop and un-realized them.

Thats what a 16 ton forging press does to mortal materials. Zeep-pop. I salvaged something from all of this, though, since it gave me a chance to process the performance of G-Flex and carbon fiber chop bedding. I know that, since I posted the first episode with the carbon fiber, Ive been informed that carbon fiber and steel are maybe sub-optimal, but its too late to worry about it for this set. Anyhow, I had a lot of not exactly fun removing the wood and composite from the blades. My conclusion was that, wow, that stuff is tough I had to sort of skim a diamond cut-off wheel down the metal to cut the CF/epoxy mix.

Now, I have to be careful how I say this, but: these chisels are intended for a female person with hands that are a bit smaller than the trogloditic machine-tools I have at the end of my arms. When I hefted the original handles, they were big for me to hold on to. They were also heavy. Pretty, but wrong. I decided to go with something a lot more slender and grippable.

Next (not shown) I took two pieces of cherry off a large cherry board Ive had for a while, then set the table saw blade at a 45-degree angle and knocked the edges off so I had 2 octagonal pieces. Those fit directly into the chuck(s) on the lathe and I could jump right in and shape them. But, for the sake of making things harder, I first cut the ends off and pinned/epoxied a thin sheet of synthetic ivory into the butt. Generally, I am profligate with my materials since I consider the valuable part of any given project to be the hours of my life that tick away while I am making it $20 worth of synthetic ivory is no big deal compared to the hours and hours I have sunk into the project.

Thats a trick I learned from Jimmy DiResta. Use a flat clamp to create a slideable flat surface that doesnt risk spinning when the table saw or bandsaw blade hits it. Back when I started using Mr Happy Dancing Bandsaw, I nearly mangled my hand trying to cut a piece of pipe on it. Bad idea. The great thing about DirestaR...

22:58

Massive Shipment of Explosive Chemicals Disappears in Mojave Desert, Investigation Underway "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:56

Is a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Imminent? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

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22:56

The insufferable pettiness of Anna Krylov "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

I just discovered an op-ed from 2021 written by Anna Krylov, the crusader against political correctness whose terrible paper I criticized on YouTube. Its also a terrible opinion piece, but it is evidence that she is trying to launch a career that would appeal to the right wing, and also that she isnt very thoughtful.

The piece is called The Politicization of Science and its the same ol, same ol. She starts off by giving her personal history she grew up in the Soviet Union, in a town that was renamed multiple times in response to the shifting political rule, and she knew people who were denied educational opportunities because they werent sufficiently deferential to the powers-that-be. Its deplorable stuff, and the stupid whims of the political class wrecked many aspects of Russian science. I can see where Krylov is sensitive to the problems.

Unfortunately, after the history lesson, it goes off the rails. She thinks the US is following the same path (and it may, but not for the reasons she cites.)

Fast forward to 2021another century. The Cold War is a distant memory and the country shown on my birth certificate and school and university diplomas, the USSR, is no longer on the map. But I find myself experiencing its legacy some thousands of miles to the west, as if I am living in an Orwellian twilight zone. I witness ever-increasing attempts to subject science and education to ideological control and censorship. Just as in Soviet times, the censorship is being justified by the greater good. Whereas in 1950, the greater good was advancing the World Revolution (in the USSR; in the USA the greater good meant fighting Communism), in 2021 the greater good is Social Justice (the capitalization is important: Social Justice is a specific ideology, with goals that have little in common with what lower-case social justice means in plain English). As in the USSR, the censorship is enthusiastically imposed also from the bottom, by members of the scientific community, whose motives vary from naive idealism to cynical power-grabbing.

Wait, wait, wait: I had to stop at that claim that Social Justice (capitalized) has little in common with social justice (lower case.) Thats weird. I followed her citations to see where thats coming from, an...

22:50

G7 Leaders Falter Over Nuclear Disarmament in Hiroshima "IndyWatch Feed War"

Wreath-Laying at the Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims by G7 leadersItalys PM Meloni, PM Trudeau of Canada, President Macron of France, Summit host Fumio Kishida, US President Biden, and Chancellor Scholzflanked by European Commission president von der Leyen (right) and European Council president Michel (left). Credit: Govt. of Japan.

By Thalif Deen, In Depth News, May 23, 2023

UNITED NATIONS, 22 May 2023 (IDN) When leaders of the Group of 7 (G7) countries met in Hiroshima May 19-21, one of the issues on the agenda was nuclear disarmament.

The venue of the summit was symbolically stark because the US atomic bombings in 1945 killed over 226,000 people in the twin Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with the heaviest toll in Hiroshima.

But the seven leadersfrom Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus the European Union (EU)failed to produce anything singularly significant towards a world without nuclear weapons.

The failure was even more disappointing because three of the G7 countriesFrance, UK and USare not only major nuclear powers (along with Russia and China) but also permanent members of the UN Security Council.

Asked at a press briefing in Hiroshima May 21, about the G7 Hiroshima Vision on Nuclear Disarmament, which implicitly justified nuclear weapons for defensive purposes, UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres said: Well, Im not a commentator of documents. (But) I think its important to say what I believe should be done. I dont think we can give up on our main objective, which is to have a world free of nuclear weapons.

And one thing that disturbs me is that disarmament that was moving forward quite positively during the last decades of the 20th century has completely stopped. And we are even seeing a new race to armaments, he noted.

I think it is absolutely essential to re-introduce disarmament discussions about nuclear weapons, and I think it is (also) absolutely necessary that countries that own nuclear weapons commit not to do the first use of those weaponsand I would say commit not to use them in any circumstance.

And so, I think we need to be ambitious in relation to the capacity of one day, I hope still in my life...

22:49

Three persons killed in two separate gaur (bison) attacks in Kerala, India "IndyWatch Feed World"

Three persons were killed on Friday morning in two different incidents of gaur attack at Erumeli and Anchal in Kottayam and Kollam districts respectively, police said. Chackochan (70) and Thomas (71) were killed at Erumely after a gaur, which ventured into a rubber plantation near here, attacked them at around 8 AM. A senior forest official told PTI that Thomas, who was engaged in rubber tapping inside the plantation which was near the forest area, was attacked first by the gaur.

22:49

How Solid Air Can Spur Sustainable Development "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

hubie writes:

A new paper proposes solid air as a medium for recycling cold energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain:

The world is undergoing an energy transition to reduce CO2 emissions and mitigate climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war have further increased the interest of Europe and Western countries to invest in the hydrogen economy as an alternative to fossil fuels. Hydrogen can significantly reduce geopolitical risks if the diversity of future hydrogen energy suppliers is increased.

Hydrogen is a particularly challenging product to transport safely. One option is to liquefy hydrogen, which requires cooling to 20 Kelvin (-253 C). This is an expensive process and requires around 30% of the energy stored within the hydrogen.

A pioneering approach developed by IIASA researchers and colleagues proposes solid air (nitrogen or oxygen) as a medium for recycling cooling energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain. At standard temperature and pressure, air is a gas, but under certain conditions, it can become a liquid or solid. Solid Air Hydrogen Liquefaction (SAHL) consists of storing the cooling energy from the regasification of hydrogen, by solidifying air, and transporting the solid air back to where the hydrogen was liquefied. The solid air is then used to reduce the energy consumption for liquefying hydrogen. The process is divided into four main steps: hydrogen regasification, solid air transportation, hydrogen liquefaction, and liquid hydrogen transportation.

[...] In their paper, the authors also address the ongoing debate in industry and academia to find the best alternative to transport hydrogen by sea:

"Compared to ammonia or methanol, liquefied hydrogen is the best option for several reasons. Transporting hydrogen with ammonia and other molecules would require around 30% of the energy transported to extract the hydrogen. The hydrogen is liquefied where electricity is cheap. Also, SAHL can lower energy consumption for hydrogen liquefaction by 25 to 50%," Hunt concludes.

Journal Reference:
Hunt, J., Montanari, P., Hummes D., et al. (2023). Solid air hydrogen liquefaction, the missing link of the hydrogen economy. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.405

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22:46

Can Institutions Ever Remain Honest? "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Thomas Jefferson wrote, in a letter to Edward Carrington in 1788 that The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild [sic], and government to gain ground. I have been reflecting a great deal on institutions in general, bureaucracies, governments, societies, foundations, and what not, and drawing upon my own experience as a member and occasional leader []

22:42

Australian Government Ruled COVID Wrong-Think Domestic Terrorism "IndyWatch Feed World"

READ MORE AT CALDRON POOL Freedom of information documents acquired by LNP senator Alex Antic...

22:40

The FBI Must be Held Accountable for Russiagate "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

The long awaited US Justice Department Russiagate report by Special Counsel John Durham exonerated President Donald Trump from false charges and performed the important public service of making law and order conservatives aware that their beloved FBI is a criminal agency that created a false narrative for the purpose of discrediting President Trump and preventing him from reducing the []

22:40

Fedora Onyx To Become An Official Fedora Linux Immutable Variant "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

There's been a proposal for Fedora Linux to become a new Fedora immutable variant and now it's been approved by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) to happen for the Fedora 39 cycle...

22:37

Why Putin is forcing occupied Ukrainians to become Russian citizens "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

22:36

G7 Provides Common Statement on China, but Challenges Remain "IndyWatch Feed War"

At the gathering of G7 countries in Hiroshima over the weekend, the assembled leaders of the worlds richest countries managed to put together a collective, yet veiled response to Chinese economic coercion and aggressive posturing in the Indo-Pacific. While not forgetting the ever-present war in Ukraine, evidenced by the presence of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, regional concerns dominated the weekend. It was a clear message to Chinese President Xi Jinping that changes in the geopolitical status quo would not be tolerated, or worse that the G7 would act with the same determination in Taiwan as it has in Ukraine. However, despite the message of unity, at home, many of the G7 members have challenges that threaten to overwhelm efforts to quell turmoil in the region.

U.S. President Joe Biden, while embracing training Ukrainian fighter pilots on American-made F-16 jets and who recently announced a $375 million military aid package, which includes artillery, ammunition and HIMARS rocket launchers, in addition to the more than $37 billion already spent since the Russian invasion began, is facing growing scrutiny at home. Republicans, as the 2024 Presidential campaign heats up, will continue to press the issue of the utility of US support for Ukraine. Both Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump have already called into question Bidens support, even suggesting that it is not vital to US national security interests. Ukrainian aid also runs counter to US domestic turmoil, where another debt ceiling debate forced Biden to cancel a Quad meeting in Australia and a historic first-ever meeting in Papua New Guinea. Attending both would have boosted American visibility in the region, and sent an important message to Indo-Pacific countries that the United States is a steady, trusted, and reliable partner. Abandoning the Papua New Guinea meeting gives China fodder for a legitimate counter argument.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also a visible presence at the G7, but despite the first face-to-face meeting with Zelenskiy, is likely to have to walk a careful line between calling for the end of the war in Ukraine to managing New Delhis relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. India between 2018 and 2021...

22:35

Where Did All the Money Go? Ukraines Organized Military Loses Major Stronghold City to Russian Mercenaries "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

$150 billion later, Americans remain with unanswered questions about Kievs stumbling armed forces. Five months ago to this day, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky delivered what has now become an infamous address to the U.S. Congress. During his speech, Zelensky boldly declared the city of Bakhmut as his countrys stronghold in the east, adding, the fight for Bakhmut will change the trajectory []

22:34

What Is Agent C? NSW Government Funding Anti-Far-Right Workshop "IndyWatch Feed World"

READ MORE AT CALDRON POOL In years gone by, the Government did not direct the...

22:33

Rogue Consultants: PwC, Tax Evasion, and Getting Clients "IndyWatch Feed War"

Things are not looking up at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a global professional services firm piratically free in sharing confidential tax information gathered from government clients. Then again, the firms expertise is not so much to look up to a principled heaven as down to a tax-proof Hades, buried in the scrambling minutiae of accounting and deception.

This year has been particularly eventful for PwC, notably in connection with its relationship with one of its most valuable clients: the Australian Commonwealth. It all began with the Australian Financial Reviews sniffing around the role played by now former PwC tax partner Peter Collins. Collins had circulated confidential information about proposed government plans to target the moving of multinational company profits to offshore havens to avoid tax. This took place despite the signing of a number of confidentiality agreements with the Australian Treasury between 2013 and 2018.

The little known regulator, the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB), had made little fuss of the whole business, only going so far as to place a two-year ban on re-registering Collins as a tax practitioner. It was small beer given his breaches, which included a failure to act with integrity, as required by his professional, ethical, and legal obligations. The best TPB Chair, Ian Klug, could do was express concern when tax practitioners abuse their positions of trust, or fail to act with integrity.

Then came the probing of an inquiry from the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committees, and the release of 144 pages of internal PwC emails. These revealed that PwC had created a global team to increase their client base using the tax information in question. The emails also reveal 53 redacted PwC emails addressed in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. Others were sent to tax partners and directors. It is estimated that the company raked in A$2.5 million from the leaked material.

In March, the PwC Australia executive Tom Seymour did few favours for himself, observing at the Financial Reviews Business Summit that evidence submitted to the Senate committee revealing that 20 to 30 partners and staff had received confidential information was merely a perception problem. He also insisted, without clarification, that those found to be directly involved, had l...

22:30

N-able partners with JCDC to reduce security risk for MSPs "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

N-able is collaborating with the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to help create a more secure global ecosystem and work towards helping reduce security risk for MSPs and their customers. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) established JCDC in August 2021 to transform traditional public-private partnerships into real-time private-public operational collaboration. The JCDC 2023 Planning Agenda helps advance cybersecurity and reduce supply chain risk for small and medium critical infrastructure entities through collaboration with More

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22:30

Fedora Developers Discuss An Idea For Using U-Boot On x86 BIOS Systems "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Last year Fedora and Red Hat developers began discussing the idea of dropping legacy BIOS support and to then only focus on UEFI platforms. There was a plan to deprecate BIOS support in Fedora 37 but ultimately it didn't go through due to some cloud providers still booting VMs in BIOS mode and some systems having broken UEFI implementations. An idea has now been raised over the possibility of using U-Boot on x86 BIOS systems to provide a UEFI-like experience from the Fedora perspective...

22:29

Turkiye Rallies Behind Erdogan "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

It comes as no surprise that the United States and the European Union didnt have the face to commend the performance of Recep Erdogan and his party in the presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkiye on Sunday. The election results do not serve the geopolitical interests of the US and its European allies. It is apparent that []

22:29

[$] An LSFMM development-process discussion "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

At the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Hannes Reinecke led a plenary session ostensibly dedicated to the "limits of development". The actual discussion focused on the frustrations of the kernel development process as experienced by both developers and maintainers. It is probably fair to say that no problems were solved here, but perhaps the nature of some of the challenges is a bit more clear.

22:26

New type of quasiparticle emerges to tame quantum computing errors "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Errors are the Achilles heel of quantum computation, cropping up at random and threatening to rui.

22:26

Metas open-source speech AI recognizes over 4,000 spoken languages "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Meta has created an AI language model that (in a refreshing change of pace) isnt a ChatGPT clone. The companys Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project can recognize over 4,000 spoken languages and produce speech (text-to-speech) in over 1,100. Like most of its other publicly announced AI projects, Meta is open-sourcing MMS today to help preserve language diversity and encourage researchers to build on its foundation. Today, we are publicly sharing our models and code so that others in the research community can build upon our work, the company wrote. Through this work, we hope to make a small contribution to preserve the incredible language diversity of the world.

Speech recognition and text-to-speech models typically require training on thousands of hours of audio with accompanying transcription labels. (Labels are crucial to machine learning, allowing the algorithms to correctly categorize and understand the data.) But for languages that arent widely used in industrialized nations many of which are in danger of disappearing in the coming decades this data simply does not exist, as Meta puts it.

Meta used an unconventional approach to collecting audio data: tapping into audio recordings of translated religious texts. We turned to religious texts, such as the Bible, that have been translated in many different languages and whose translations have been widely studied for text-based language translation research, the company said. These translations have publicly available audio recordings of people reading these texts in different languages. Incorporating the unlabeled recordings of the Bible and similar texts, Metas researchers increased the models available languages to over 4,000.

22:26

Startups bladeless flying car is designed to reach Mach 0.8 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Seattle-based startup Jetoptera is designing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles with bladeless propulsion systems potentially making the future of urban flight quiet, safer, and faster.

The challenge: The proportion of the global population living in cities is expected to increase from 50% today to nearly 70% by 2050, meaning our already crowded urban streets are likely to become even more congested.

22:26

Bahrain: Shia imam detained after calling for release of political prisoners "IndyWatch Feed War"

Bahrain: Shia imam detained after calling for release of political prisoners

Sheikh Muhammad Sanqour was detained Monday after raising concerns in sermon over mistreatment of prisoners

MEE staff Tue, 05/23/2023 - 13:26

Bahraini Sheikh Muhammad Sanqour speaking during a sermon (Alwefaq)

There has been mounting anger in Bahrain over the arrest of a senior Shia imam who called for the release of political prisoners in the kingdom.

Muhammad Sanqour, a senior religious leader at the Imam Sadiq Grand Mosque in the village of Diraz, was summoned by the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID) on Monday.

A few hours later, a statement from the interior ministry said his case was being referred to the Public Prosecution Office (OPP) over repeated inflammatory speeches that included legal violations" and "publicly inciting hatred and contempt for a group of people."

Although they did not specify, the arrest is believed to be linked to comments made last week during Friday prayers in which he raised concerns about the mistreatment of prisoners in the kingdom's jails.

We call upon the relevant authorities to reassure the families of prisoners about their loved ones, as it has come to their knowledge that a number of prisoners have been subjected to abuse and physical violence. Some have been subjected to isolation, solitary confinement, and deprivation of adequate healthcare," he said during his sermon.

"We also call to resolve this...

22:25

The dystopian future of menial work as AI replaces humans "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

On Wednesday, Google displayed how Bard, its new AI robot, could be used to write up job listings from a simple one line prompt. Microsoft has demonstrated how a ChatGPT-powered tool can write entire articles in Word.

There are a tonne of sales representatives doing a lot of banal work to compose prospecting emails, says Rob Seaman, a senior vice president at workplace messaging company Slack, which is working with OpenAI to embed ChatGPT into its app as a kind of digital co-worker.

New AI tools may remove some of the most tedious aspects of such roles. But based on past evidence, technology also threatens to create a whole new class of menial roles.

22:25

Flat Lenses Made of Nanostructures Transform Tiny Cameras and Projectors "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Metalenses migrate to smartphones.

Metalenz came out of stealth mode in 2021, announcing that it was getting ready to scale up production of devices. Manufacturing was not as big a challenge as design because the company manufactures metasurfaces using the same materials, lithography, and etching processes that it uses to make integrated circuits.

In fact, metalenses are less demanding to manufacture than even a very simple microchip because they require only a single lithography mask as opposed to the dozens required by a microprocessor. That makes them less prone to defects and less expensive. Moreover, the size of the features on an optical metasurface are measured in hundreds of nanometers, whereas foundries are accustomed to making chips with features that are smaller than 10 nanometers.

22:24

Quantum Theorys Measurement Problem May Be a Poison Pill for Objective Reality "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Solving a notorious quantum quandary could require abandoning some of sciences most cherished assumptions about the physical world.

22:23

Link "IndyWatch Feed World"

I am joined on the podcast tonight 22/05/23 by former AVN president, Nadine Sisterson to...

22:15

WithSecure releases Cloud Security Posture Management to identify insecure cloud configurations "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

WithSecure has released Cloud Security Posture Management, a new module for its WithSecure Elements security platform, that identifies insecure cloud configurations attackers use to compromise networks. Its now become commonplace for organizations to incorporate cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings into their IT estates. This transformation has many benefits, but also new challenges, particularly in relation to security. These challenges include the rapid development of IaaS platforms, a scarcity of professionals with cloud security skills and experience, More

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22:14

The COVID Trojan Horse: Its Time to Move Beyond this Diabolical Deception to Understand the Real Agenda! "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

First published on April 24, 2023 On April 19, 2023, Robert Kennedy Jr. announced his candidacy for Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Kennedy said after taking the stage. My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign, and throughout my presidency, will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power []

22:08

Look Up! Wake Up, People! You Are Being Suicided in Warp Speed. "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Look up! And you will see, there is something deadly wrong. First published on December 14, 2022 Dont look up lest you could see what nobody wants you to see namely the Big-Big Lie. As time goes on and Agenda 2030, alias The WEFs Great Reset progresses, the asteroid approaching Mother Earth is ever moving closer, []

22:03

Majority Of Americans Know Regime Medias Favorite Narratives Are Fake News "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Harvard CAPS/Harris' May poll results demonstrate that regime media narratives are untrustworthy to the majority of American voters.

22:00

Mastercard collaborates with HealthLock to protect medical data "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Mastercard and HealthLock have partnered to offer millions of Americans help in protecting themselves against medical bill fraud, claim errors and overcharges. Consumers who link their insurance accounts to the HealthLock platform gain the ability to monitor all healthcare claims in one place and benefit from automated reviews to potentially help reduce expensive medical bills and reverse claim rejections. The partnership will initially open HealthLocks analytics-backed healthcare services to millions of US-issued HSA and FSA More

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21:56

The Lord of Vaccines and the Health Terrorist Ideology. Where Do You Think this Is Going? Get Off that Crazy Train "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

First published on November 1, 2021 I am not a practitioner, in the usual sense of the word, of a religion or an esoteric current. On the other hand, I have read a lot, studied, reflected, curious about everything, open to everything. I dont exclude anything, I go everywhere, especially if an authority tells me, []

21:56

CVE-2023-33246: Apache RocketMQ: RocketMQ may have a remote code execution vulnerability when using the update configuration function "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Posted by Rongtong Jin on May 23

Severity: moderate

Affected versions:

- Apache RocketMQ through 5.1.0

Description:

For RocketMQ versions 5.1.0 and below, under certain conditions, there is a risk of remote command execution.

Several components of RocketMQ, including NameServer, Broker, and Controller, are leaked on the extranet and lack
permission verification, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability by using the update configuration function to
execute commands as...

21:55

Flag March: The Annual Israeli Display of Jewish Supremacy "IndyWatch Feed World"

The annual display of Jewish Supremacy in Palestine, known as the Flag March, is not limited to the Old City of Jerusalem. It is part of a campaign of intimidation in cities around the country that have a significant Palestinian population. This year this racist, violent display of supremacy took place in Jerusalem, Yafa ad El-Lyd.

The Torah Seed

What could be more innocuous than a seed? A Torah seed is a seed through which the Torah grows and spreads. Building bridges, connecting people to their ancient traditions, aiding those who are in need and generally developing communities steeped in the values of charity and goodwill. This is the veil behind which the Settler community is planting itself in what are known as mixed cities.

The world, and most Israeli Jews, concentrate only on the fanatic, racist gangs of settler communities in the West Bank. However, for several decades the same political, quasi-religious movement that created these awful communities has been moving into municipalities known as mixed cities. These include Yafa, El-Lyd, Ramle and a few others with large Palestinian populations.

Their purpose is twofold:

To plant the Torah seen in the Jewish communities, or in other words, win the hearts and minds of poor, disenfranchised Israeli Jews, who typically live in mixed cities.

To terrorize and eventually push out the Palestinian communities from these cities, making them pure and Jewish.

This, of course, has nothing to do with Judaism. It is yet another expression of the racist ideology which created the State of Israel and is known as Zionism.

We are the landlords

Claiming ownership of Palestine has always been an important Zionist talking point. What the Torah Seed groups are doing is marching through Palestinian neighborhoods to make that point. We are the landlords, we heard Itmar Ben-Gvir saying as he walked through the holy sanctuary of Al-Aqsa, and this they yell into the megaphones throughout Palestinian neighborhoods, in Yafa, El-Lyd, Ramle, Hebron, and, of course, Jerusalem.

These settlers who many people think are confined to the West Bank are taking over by squeezing Palestinians out. We no longer see trucks with soldiers evicting Palestinians like in 1948 or 1967. Instead, we see settler gangs armed with police protection terrorizing Palestinians and making their lives unlivable. Because these cities are within the boundaries of 1948 Palestine, it is not the army that protects these thugs but the police.

21:53

Russian interior minister in KSA days after surprise Zelensky visit "IndyWatch Feed World"

Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh on 23 May for talks with his counterpart in the kingdom Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). "During the session, they discussed ways to enhance security cooperation paths between the two countries' ministries of interior, in addition to discussing a number of issues of common interest," a report by SPA reads. The meeting was attended by several other interior ministry authorities from the kingdom, as well as Russian Ambassador Sergey Kozlov. Kolokoltsev's warm welcome to Riyadh comes despite a slew of sanctions issued against him by the US, Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK. In 2022, Washington refused to grant him a visa to participate in a UN chiefs of police summit.

21:51

First Contact: A Global Simulation "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Now and again scientists think of interesting ways to use our space missions in contexts for which they were not designed. Im thinking, for example, of the pale blue dot image snapped by Voyager 1 in 1990, an iconic view that forcibly speaks to the immensity of the universe and the smallness of the place we inhabit. Voyagers cameras, we might recall, were added only after a debate among mission designers, some of whom argued that the mission could proceed without any cameras aboard.

Fortunately, the camera advocates won, with results were all familiar with. Now we have a project out of The SETI Institute that would use a European Space Agency mission in a novel way, one that also challenges our thinking about our place in the cosmos. Daniela de Paulis, who serves as artist in residence at the institute, is working across numerous disciplines with researchers involved in SETI and astronautics to create A Sign in Space, the creation of an extraterrestrial message. This is not a message beamed to another star, but a message beamed back at us.

The plan is this: On May 24, 2023, tomorrow as I write this on the US east coast, ESAs ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, in orbit around Mars, will transmit an encoded message to Earth that will act as a simulation of a message from another civilization. The message will be detected by the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) in California, the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Observatory in Italy. The content of the message is known only to de Paulis and her team, and the public will be in on the attempt to decode and interpret it. The message will be sent at 1900 UTC on May 24 and discussed in a live stream event beginning at 1815 UTC online.

The signal should reach Earth some 16 minutes after transmission, hence the timing of the live stream event. This should be an enjoyable online gathering. According to The SETI Institute, the live stream, hosted by Franck Marchis and the Green Bank Observatorys Victoria Catlett, will feature key team members scientists, engineers, artists and more and will include control rooms from the ATA, the GBT, and Medicina.

Daniela de Paulis points to the purpose of the project:

Throughout history, humanity has searched for meaning in powerful and transformative phenomena. Receiving a message from an extraterrestrial civilization would be a profoundly transformational experience for all huma...
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21:45

Heres How House Republicans Could Block Senate Democrats Efforts To Thwart IRS Whistleblower "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Besides outing the partisan gamesmanship of the Senate committee, the whistleblowers attorneys signaled a solution to House Republicans

21:39

Lightning strike kills man in Deltona, Florida "IndyWatch Feed World"

A man reportedly lost his life after being struck by lightning while working on a roof in Deltona, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The incident occurred on Sterling Pointe Drive, prompting response from local authorities. Co-workers reported to officials that the man was on the roof of a house when a lightning bolt hit him, causing him to fall to the ground below. The victim, identified as 24-year-old Edvin J. Velasquez Cinto, was taken to a nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. Officials say preliminary investigations indicate that the cause of death was likely a lightning strike, although a formal determination will be made by the medical examiner.

21:34

Google Bans Downloader App: TV Outfits Claim Browser Violates Injunction "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

If the best ideas are always the simplest, in 2016 software developer Elias Saba hit the jackpot.

Two years after Amazon launched its first generation Fire TV, there was still no easy way to transfer files to the device. Released on the Amazon Appstore in November 2016, Sabas Downloader app offered users just two things; an empty URL field and a download button. It was basic yet functional, and in time, extraordinarily successful.

The Amazon Appstore and Google Play currently account for more than 50 million installs of Downloader, underpinned by Sabas decision not to charge a single penny for the software. At the time of writing, Downloader has 664,605 customer ratings on Amazon, averaging 4.3 stars out of a possible five. For several TV companies from Israel, Sabas work, success and generosity are of no consequence; Downloader is in their way and has to go.

Google Kicks Downloader Out of the Play Store

In a notification sent to Sabas last Friday, Google informs the developer that after a recent review, Downloader was found to contain content that doesnt comply with the Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Content policy operated on the Play Store.

The review was prompted by a copyright complaint from Israel-based TV companies HOT Communications Systems Ltd, DBS Satellite Services (1998) Ltd, United King Distribution Videos (1990) Ltd, and Charlton Ltd.

We have received an infringement notice that your app contains copyrighted content, Googles notice explains. Your app has been suspended and removed due to alleged copyright infringement (according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

Notices like this can be terminal

Googles notification reveals that the TV companies supplied no details of specific original content or details of content allegedly infringed. As a DMCA takedown notice, it arguably fails at the ve...

Shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake off New Caledonia "IndyWatch Feed World"

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted 288 km E of Vao, New Caledonia at 06:41:58 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 12.143 km, was initially determined to be at 22.9987 degrees south latitude and 170.2882 degrees east longitude.

21:31

Security updates for Tuesday "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Security updates have been issued by Debian (node-nth-check), Mageia (mariadb and python-reportlab), Slackware (c-ares), SUSE (geoipupdate and qt6-svg), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, and linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.19).

21:27

FFII: German President of the Unified Patent Court Rewrites the Treaty Like a Dictator "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

By Benjamin HENRION

Brussels, 22 May 2023 The German President of the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Klaus Grabinski, has decided alone to rewrite the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) at this own will, and move London to Paris and Munich due to Brexit. FFII condemn this abuse of power and violation of the Rule of Law. This a decision typical of a dictatorship, not of an institution governed by the separation of powers. Judge Grabinski will also have the last word over software patents in Europe, without any possible appeal to the European Court of Justice (CJEU).

The President of the UPC decided the following:

In its meeting of 8 May 2023, the Presidium of the Unified Patent Court decided that, as from 1 June 2023, actions pending before the central division related to patents in IPC section (A) shall be assigned to the seat in Paris while actions related to patents in IPC section (C) shall be assigned to the section in Munich. [] the Presidium has exercised its managerial power under Article 15(3) of the Statute of the Unified Patent Court in the aforementioned sense.

Unified-Patent-Court.org: Decision on the provisional distribution of actions related to patents in IPC sections (A) and (C) pending before the central division | Unified Patent Court (unified-patent-court.org) https://www.unified-patent-court.org/en/news/decision-provisional-distribution-actions-related-patents-ipc-sections-and-c-pending-central

Article 15(3) of the Statutes of the Unified Patent Court does not mention any power to decide on such a political topic to relocate the Court from one place to another, except a broad management responsibility:

The Presidium shall be responsible for the management of the Court and shall in particular:
(a) draw up proposals for the amendment of the Rules of Procedure in accordance with Article 41 of the
Agreement and proposals regarding the Financial...

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21:20

Pan-African News Wire "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Ongoing Violence in Sudan Despite Truce Taking Effect

Sudanese army chopper attacks RSF positions in Khartoum on April 22, 2023

May 22, 2023 (KHARTOUM) The seven-day truce that took effect on Monday in Sudan has seen a shaky start following air strikes and continued clashes in different parts of Khartoum on Monday.

The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed on Saturday to a seven-day humanitarian truce, which began on Monday at 9:45 p.m. local time (19:45 GMT).

Witnesses reported clashes and air strikes south of the capital and in the northeastern suburbs of Khartoum beyond the truce schedule. In addition, clashes took place in the Kadaro area, north of Khartoum North, and in Al-Ghaba (Forest) Street in central Khartoum.

The truce was preceded by the army launching intensive air strikes across the capital Khartoum on the RSF positions in the different neighbourhoods of the capital.

Recent talks in Jeddah have resulted in an agreement that includes a monitoring mechanism involving the army, Rapid Support Forces, and representatives from Saudi Arabia and the United States.

This mechanism is meant to help ensure that a truce is upheld, which is encouraging news.

Hemetti statements

Just before the ceasefire was set to begin, the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (aka Hemetti, released an audio recording that to condemn the air strikes in the capital.

In the recording, he urged the elements of the paramilitary forces to continue fighting until they had defeated the army, which he referred to as a coup.

Although its unclear when the recording was made, its likely that it was released in response to rumours that he had been injured or killed in the fighting.

Hemetti also commended the results of the Arab summit held in Jeddah and the efforts of Saudi Arabia and the United States in Sudan but he did not mention the ceasefire agreement of May 20.

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21:18

America Looks Weak: Long-Serving State Department Official Speaks Out After Pronoun Fiasco "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

'We look preoccupied and weak to our adversaries and potential allies.'

21:16

Saudi Arabia executes three men in eastern region "IndyWatch Feed War"

Saudi Arabia executes three men in eastern region

Riyadh puts to death men over 'terrorism' charges, without having previously published any information on their cases

Rayhan Uddin Tue, 05/23/2023 - 12:16

Hassan bin Issa al-Muhanna (left) and Muhammad bin Ibrahim Muwais (right) were executed in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia (Screengrab)

Saudi Arabia has executed three men in the eastern region of the country, without having previously published any information on their cases.

The interior ministry released a statement on Monday confirming that Saudi nationals Hassan bin Issa al-Muhanna, Haidar bin Hassan Muwais and Mohammed bin Ibrahim Muwais had been put to death.

They were alleged to have joined a camp outside the country "in service of... terrorist organisations against the kingdom", possessed and been trained in the use of weapons and bombs, stored arms with the intent of "violating internal security", and smuggled wanted individuals outside the country.

"The three cases were not monitored at any of the judicial stages, as the Saudi government did not publish any official news about the arrest or their being wanted," the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR), an NGO with offices in London and Berlin, said in a statement.

The rights group condemned the decision, stating that according to international law, countries that still implement the death penalty should only use it in the most "serious cases", namely premeditated murder.

21:16

The Rising Threat of Secrets Sprawl and the Need for Action "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The most precious asset in today's information age is the secret safeguarded under lock and key. Regrettably, maintaining secrets has become increasingly challenging, as highlighted by the 2023 State of Secrets Sprawl report, the largest analysis of public GitHub activity. The report shows a 67% year-over-year increase in the number of secrets found, with 10 million hard-coded secrets detected

21:14

More dead dolphins found along the beach in South Jersey "IndyWatch Feed World"

More dead marine mammals continue to be found along the New Jersey shoreline. Data suggests it's happening at a much faster rate than in previous years. It was Sunday morning when Lisa Strano was walking her dog and saw yet another dolphin stranded on the beach in Sea Isle City. "It was completely motionless. It was clearly dead," said Strano.

21:11

New WinTapix.sys Malware Engages in Multi-Stage Attack Across Middle East "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020. Fortinet Fortiguard Labs, which dubbed the artifact WINTAPIX (WinTapix.sys), attributed the malware with low confidence to an Iranian threat actor. "WinTapix.sys is essentially a loader," security researchers Geri Revay and Hossein Jazi said

21:08

Pan-African News Wire "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Sudan Conflict: UNITAMS Chief Blames Military Leaders for Escalation

Volker Perthes briefs the Security Council about the situation in Sudan on May 22, 2023

May 22, 2023 (KHARTOUM) In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council on Monday afternoon, Volker Perthes, the head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), placed the blame squarely on the leadership of both warring parties for the escalating conflict in Sudan.

Perthes further urged an immediate end to the fighting, emphasizing that the responsibility for the ongoing violence rests with those who have chosen the battlefield over peaceful negotiations.

Addressing the council, Perthes acknowledged the various opinions regarding the root causes of the conflict. Some criticize the international community for failing to recognize the warning signs, while others point fingers at flaws in the political process or the Framework Agreement itself. However, He stressed that it is the leaders of the opposing sides who bear the responsibility for the daily warfare and its devastating consequences.

The responsibility for the fighting rests with those who are waging it daily: the leadership of the two sides who share accountability for choosing to settle their unresolved conflict on the battlefield rather than at the negotiating table, Perthes emphasized. He underscored that the decision to resort to violence has ravaged Sudan and that it is within the power of the warring parties to bring an end to the bloodshed.

The international diplomat told the Council that more than 700 people have been killed, including 190 children, with another 6,000 injured. Many are missing. Over a million have been displaced: more than 840,000 have sought shelter in rural areas and other states while another 250,000 have crossed Sudanese borders. Nearly 8,000 of the displaced population are pregnant women.

Perthes outlined the extensive efforts made by UNITAMS and the international community to prevent the crisis. Since the October 2021 coup, UNITAMS engaged diligent...

21:03

Taxpayers Spend Billions Of Dollars Annually On A Woke Welfare Racket "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

A new database tracks how taxpayers are funding a vast network of leftist activists dedicated to overturning American values.

21:00

Building Circuits Flexibly "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

You think of breadboards as being a flexible way to build things one can easily add components and wires and also rip them up. But MIT researchers want to introduce an actual flexible breadboard called FlexBoard. The system is like a traditional breadboard, but it is literally flexible. If you want to affix your prototype to a glove or a ball, good luck with a traditional breadboard. FlexBoard makes it easy. You can see a short video below and a second video presentation about the system, also.

The breadboard uses a plastic living hinge arrangement and otherwise looks more or less like a conventional breadboard. We can think of about a dozen projects this would make easier.

Whats more, it doesnt seem like it would be that hard to fabricate using a 3D printer and some sacrificial breadboards. The paper reveals that the structures were printed on an Ender 3 using ePLA and a flexible vinyl or nylon filament. Want to try it yourself? You can!

We know what we will be printing this weekend. If you make any cool prototypes with this, be sure to let us know. Sometimes we breadboard virtually. Our favorite breadboards, though, have more than just...

21:00

Open Source. But Not Open Contributions. "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

20:56

Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks out against lockdowns and mandates "IndyWatch Feed World"

In a statement made today on a case concerning Title 42, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch breaks the painful silence on the topic of lockdowns and mandates, and presents the truth with startling clarity. Importantly, this statement from the Supreme Court comes as so many other agencies, intellectuals, and journalists are in flat-out denial of what happened to the country. [T]he history of this case illustrates the disruption we have experienced over the last three years in how our laws are made and our freedoms observed. Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes.

20:54

Eric Adams Vegan Totalitarianism Shows Where Global Warming Activism Is Headed "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

The mayors plans to cut meat consumption and track New Yorkers meat and dairy consumption puts AOCs Green New Deal into action.

20:51

Sudan crisis: Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees plead to UN for help "IndyWatch Feed Africa"

Sudan crisis: Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees plead to UN for help

Open letter says UN refugee agency has failed to provide assistance to Eritreans and Ethiopians stranded in the conflict zone

MEE staff Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:51

Passengers fleeing war-torn Sudan arrive at the Qastal land port crossing between Egypt and Sudan, 13 May 2023 (AFP)

Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees in Sudan pleaded to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help them relocate to a safe third country, as the internal infighting leaves them exposed to abuse and violence.

In an open letter addressed to the UN body, refugees said many have been forced to flee the conflict to unknown locations while others became "victims of human trafficking".

"As refugees, we have suffered from atrocities committed against us by the army and commanders while we were in Khartoum," the letter, dated 21 May, said.

"We have experienced kidnapping, violence, torture, arbitrary arrests and exploitation by the Sudanese police."

The letter added that the UN refugee body has failed to provide them with "any assistance" for nearly a month.

"We are making a basic demand: to be relocated from Sudan to a safe third country. Failing to do so may cost us our lives and make us additional casualties of the war," the letter...

20:48

The Ideal International Institution: A Response "IndyWatch Feed War"

The concluding post from the author herself, drawing our symposium on The Ideal River to a close. Dr Joanne Yao is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Previously, Joanne taught at Durham University and the LSE, where she completed her PhD in 2017. Joanne was also one of three editors of Millennium: Journal of International Studies for Volume 43 (2014-2015) and is currently a member of Millenniums Board of Trustees.Her research centers on environmental history and politics, historical international relations, international hierarchies and orders, and the development of early international organizations. The Ideal River...

20:40

Ukraine War Fetishist David French Is Now Lecturing You From Kiev "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

French has looked into the eyes of Ukrainians because he is there in Ukraine and has seen for himself just how important it is that you, the American taxpayer, contribute more.

20:38

KDE Neon Unstable Now Building With Qt 6 Frameworks/Plasma "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

For those feeling adventurous and wanting to see how things are coming along for KDE Plasma 6.0 and KDE Frameworks Qt 6 porting, the KDE Neon Linux distribution with its "unstable" edition has begun building against the Qt6 components...

20:34

Pentagon debunked Fauci's anti-lab-leak 'proximal origin' paper in May 2020, leaked document reveals "IndyWatch Feed World"

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Defence wrote a devastating takedown of the Proximal Origin study, which was used by Dr. Anthony Fauci as proof that the COVID-19 virus had come from nature. The Epoch Times has the story. The takedown, dated May 26th 2020, was written in the form of a working paper called 'Critical analysis of Andersen et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2'. It was authored by Commander Jean-Paul Chretien, a Navy doctor working at the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Dr. Robert Cutlip, a research scientist at the Defence Intelligence Agency. The paper came to light on May 15th 2023, when it was leaked to the public via virus origins search group DRASTIC (Decentralised Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19). The working paper forensically dismantles the natural origin case made in Proximal Origin and concludes, "The arguments that Andersen et al. use to support a natural-origin scenario for SARS-CoV-2 are based not on scientific...

20:31

Linux 6.4 Lands Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake Workaround For INVLPG/PCID Bug "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The bug I wrote about this weekend where Intel is now disabling PCID for Alder Lake and Raptor Lake under Linux until updated CPU microcode is issued for addressing an issue with the INVLPG instruction when Process Context Identifiers are enabled, has now been merged to Linux 6.4...

20:30

Lifted Pickup Trucks: An Invitation to Rethink Normal "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Lately, while driving around town, Ive noticed an increased presence of pickup trucks that have been transformed through a variety of customizations: wider, off-terrain tires, a lift kit, LED lights, and suspension systems, just to name a few.

Cumulatively, these mods make the trucks wider, higher, and generally more intimidating on the road. I spent some time on Quora and Reddit trying to get a sense for why these kinds of trucks are so popular. It seems, with their origin in off-roading, lifting is praised by outdoor truck enthusiasts for their improved ability to get over rocky terrain or through water/mud, and by construction professionals who say that the added height leads to less damage on the job. But commenters also pointed out that many people arent using these trucks for a hobby or for a job. Theyre modifying them simply for the cool factor or in hopes of making an impression.

Lifted pickup trucks (LPTs) are not unique to Waco, nor even to Texas, for that matter. Ive discovered that there are entire Quora threads dedicated to decoding truck bro behaviors like aggressive driving, illegal parking, tailgating, and roll-coaling. For many others just trying to get around the city, especially anyone not in a car, these trucks can be a source of constant high blood pressure and worry about how to manage their negative externalities. The...

Florida Republicans Are Crafting A Legislative Blueprint Other Red States Should Follow "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Florida Republicans are implementing laws designed to defeat leftists' ongoing jihad against sanity and the American experiment.

20:19

Experts call for investigation over 'catastrophe' of excess deaths running thousands higher than during pandemic "IndyWatch Feed World"

Excess deaths in the past year were thousands higher than in the pandemic year of 2021 - 67,724 vs 54,770 above the pre-pandemic five-year average - and just a quarter were from Covid. Lucy Johnston has the story in the Express. Unexpected deaths are more than 10% higher than the pre-Covid average, with experts warning we are facing "a catastrophe of equal proportion to the pandemic itself". They are calling for an urgent investigation into the causes, with figures showing that there were more excess - or unexpected - losses last year than in 2021.

20:06

Sheikh Qassem: Objections Voiced by Some Lebanese Parties to Hezbollah Maneuvers are Useless "IndyWatch Feed War"

May 22, 2023 Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem indicated the Islamic Resistance military drill is unprecedented and sends a message of deterrence as well as readiness to confront any Zionist aggression and defend Lebanon. Addressing a political seminar in Southern Lebanon on Resistance and Liberation Day, Sheikh Qassem stressed that Hezbollah called for neglecting the []

20:04

New Study Reveals Possible Future Health Impacts Related to Climate Mitigation "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

upstart writes:

New study reveals possible future health impacts related to climate mitigation:

Reduce fossil fuel use and air quality will improve, right? It might not be as straightforward as it appears, according to a Penn State-led research team. They explored almost 30,000 simulated future scenarios and found that some climate mitigation efforts could lead to harmful health impacts in certain geographic areas.

Their results were published May 18 in Nature Sustainability.

"In general, reducing fossil fuel use is good for climate mitigation and good for cleaning up the air, and the modeling studies have always found health benefits from climate mitigation," said corresponding author Wei Peng, assistant professor of international affairs and of civil and environmental engineering at Penn State, who has conducted research in this area for a decade. "But in this study, for the first time, we were able to see potential co-harm occur in a certain part of the scenarios."

The researchers found some scenarios where fossil fuel reduction requires a significant land use change to grow bioenergy resources, such as algae and plants like corn stalks and barley straw that can be used to create biofuels including types of ethanol and biodiesel.

In these scenarios, deforestation could occur on a grander scale for certain areas, such as Russia and Canada, leading to worsening air quality. As a result, people in these areas with worsened air quality could suffer from more respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, which could lead to more premature deaths, said the researchers.

20:03

'Astonishing' rise in Britons with an irregular heartbeat - these are the main warning signs "IndyWatch Feed World"

The number of people in the UK diagnosed with a heart rhythm condition that puts them at increased risk of having a stroke has topped 1.5 million for the first time. The British Heart Foundation said its analysis of NHS data on atrial fibrillation - which causes an irregular heartbeat - showed there had been an "astonishing" 50% rise in cases from a total of one million in 2013. The latest figure means one in 45 people in the UK are now confirmed to have the condition - but the charity fears a further 270,000 people remain undiagnosed and unaware.

20:00

New York Charter Schools Write Their Own Rules for When to Call 911 on Students Having a Mental Health Crisis "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

by Abigail Kramer, THE CITY; Photography by Sarah Blesener for ProPublica

This article was produced for ProPublicas Local Reporting Network in partnership with THE CITY. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.

In a panic, if she floors it, Marilyn Blanco can drive from her job at the Rikers Island jail complex to her son Ians school in Harlem in less than 18 minutes.

Nine times since December, Blanco has made the drive because Ians school Success Academy Harlem 2 called 911 on her 8-year-old.

Ian has been diagnosed with ADHD. When he gets frustrated, he sometimes has explosive tantrums, throwing things, running out of class and hitting and kicking anyone who comes near him. Blanco contends that, since Ian started first grade last year, Success Academy officials have been trying to push him out of the school because of his disability an accusation similar to those made by other Success Academy parents in news stories, multiple lawsuits that resulted in settlements and a federal complaint.

When giving him detentions and suspensions didnt stop Ians tantrums, Blanco said, the school started calling the police. If Blanco cant get to Ian fast enough to intervene, a precinct officer or school safety agent from the New York Police Department will hold him until an ambulance arrives to take him to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation incidents the NYPD calls child in crisis interventions.

The experience has been devastating for Ian, Blanco said. Since the 911 calls started late last year, hes been scared to leave his house because he thinks someone will take him away. At one ER visit, a doctor wrote in Ians medical file that hed sustained emotional trauma from the calls.

Citywide, staff at the Success Academy Charter School network which operates 49 schools, most of them serving kids under 10 years old called...

Anthropic pulls in another $450 million to build safe AI "IndyWatch Feed World"

The company says the new money will support its work on helpful, harmless, and honest AI systems.

The AI research company Anthropic has raised another $450 million to further its development of safe large language models, and to feul a budding rivalry with generative AI market leader OpenAI.

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Youll waste hours of your life on this Pentagram-designed website for Moog "IndyWatch Feed World"

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Moog Model D synth, Pentagram partner Yuri Suzuki designed a digital mansion for exploring the machines legacy.

Head to minimoogmodeld.com, my friends, because you are in for a trippy treat to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Minimoog Model D, the iconic instrument that brought synthesizer sounds to countless influential albums, like David Bowies Low, Bob Marleys Catch a Fire, or Dr. Dres The Chronic.

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19:52

Republican Rep. says major bank gave private financial data to FBI for anyone in D.C. around Jan 6 "IndyWatch Feed World"

North Carolina Republican Dan Bishop said this week that the Bank of America provided the FBI with private financial information about anyone who was in Washington, D.C., from January 5-7, 2021. Bishop, a member of the Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, said that the federal government had widely victimized Americans through widespread surveillance, even those not accused of any wrongdoing on January 6. "Bank of America gave a list to the FBI of anyone who used BofA credit/debit cards in the DC area between Jan 5-7th, 2021 regardless of whether they participated in the events of Jan. 6th," he said on Twitter.

19:50

Template for a Transformation of Human Society "IndyWatch Feed World"

Julian Rose, Contributor
Waking Times

There are many thousands of groups that have formed themselves around the need to stand against the globalist attack on life on earth. There are thousands more presenting alternative vision/suggestions for a better future. And there are a small number who are doing both; declaring that one must commit to stopping the worst while simultaneously nurturing into life a new template for human and ecological emancipation.

It is the latter action which I subscribe to, because it strikes me that we have no choice other than to fight-off the most immediate threats to our fundamental life values; yet equally have no choice other than to recognise the obvious shortcomings of the day to day way of life that constitutes the accepted norm of most post industrial societies today.

Given this state of affairs, one finds oneself committed to taking a deeper look into both the causal factors behind the degradation of human values and what will form the key ingredients of a new society. That which emerges out of the darkness and leads the way beyond repetitions of the divisive trends destroying humanitys integrity.

Quite recently I came across the term Truth Movement and discovered that it stands for a broadly connected body of individuals all having a similar goal: the defeat of the globalists. This seemed to hark back to the term truthers as applied to those ready to expose the 9/11 fraud.

What, I asked myself, would this Truth Movement do if it were to actually succeed in fulfilling its ambition?

What would ensure that such a movement did not implode once faced by the responsibility for building a future purged of the rotten apple factors that so often bring-down otherwise promising movements and visions?

By rotten apple factor, I mean the tendency for jealousy, excessive ego, lack of importance given to trust, power complexes, political ambition and I would add the group psychology of demanding consensus in decision making, thereby pulling down individual aspirations and ending-up with abdication to the lowest common denominator as the only way to keep the peace.

Within socio-economic structures which largely reject the notion of leadership by the wise, a palpable void opens-up when important/controversial decisions have to be taken which require more than a superficial five sense appraisal of the way forward.

When our Truth Movem...

19:50

Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed Bill Gates "IndyWatch Feed War"

Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed Bill Gates with threat to expose alleged affair with Russian bridge player

Mr Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes, says Gates Foundation spokesperson

'Big mistake' to spend time with Epstein, Bill Gates says

Convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein reportedly blackmailed Bill Gates and threatened to expose his alleged affair with a Russian bridge player.

The late paedophile threatened to expose the Microsoft co-founders supposed affair with Mila Antonova if Mr Gates didn't reimburse him for tuition costs that Epstein had initially covered for the woman to attend a software coding school, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Epstein blackmailed Mr Gates in the form of an email in 2017, the report claims, after he failed to convince the world's fourth richest man to join a multibillion-dollar charity fund that he attempted to set up with JPMorgan Chase.

The bombshell report adds weight to longstanding speculation that Epstein may have been extorting his powerful network of friends.

Deutsche Bank to pay $75 million to settle lawsuit from Epstein victims, lawyers say

According to the WSJ report, the implication behind the message was that Epstein could reveal the affair if Mr Gates didnt keep up an association between the two men.

Mr Gates met with Epstein solely for philanthropic purposes. Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr Gates, a spokesperson for the Gates Foundation told the Journal.

The Microsoft co-founder reportedly met Ms Antonova around 2010, when she was in her 20s. In a YouTube video posted that year, she spoke about meeting Mr Gates at a bridge tournament and playing against him.

"I didn't beat him but I tried to kick him with my leg," Ms Antonova said in the video.

According to the Journal, Ms Antonova was trying to secure funds in order to establish an online bridge tutorial business. She was introduced to Epstein through Boris Nikolic, a close adviser to Mr Gates.

Ms Antonova and Mr Nikolic met Epstein at his townhouse in November 20...

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Suzuki motorcycle plant shut down by cyber attack "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

The Indian manufacturing plant responsible for manufacturing Suzuki motorcycles has been forced to shut down following a cyber attack, with the loss of an estimated 20,000 vehicles. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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A deeper insight into the CloudWizard APTs activity revealed a long-running activity "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Experts warn of a threat actor, tracked as CloudWizard APT, that is targeting organizations involved in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

On March 2023, researchers from Kaspersky spotted a previously unknown APT group, tracked as Bad Magic (aka Red Stinger), that targeted organizations in the region of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. The attackers were observed using PowerMagic and CommonMagic implants.

Looking for other implants with similarities with PowerMagic and CommonMagic, the researchers identified a different cluster of even more sophisticated malicious activities associated with the same threat actor.

The victims of this cluster were located not only in the Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea regions, but also in central and western Ukraine. The APT group targeted individuals, as well as diplomatic and research organizations in the area of the conflict. In the latest campaign uncovered by Kaspersky, the APT group, used a modular framework dubbed CloudWizard that supports spyware capabilities, including taking screenshots, microphone recording, harvesting Gmail inboxes, and keylogging.

A deeper analysis revealed that the threat actor CloudWizard has been linked to an activity cluster that dates back to May 2016 that was tracked by ESET researchers as Operation Groundbait.

In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic.

Researchers believe that threat actors use spear phishing as an initial attack vector, the messages include an URL pointing to a ZIP archive hosted on a web server under the control of the attackers. The archive contained two files, a decoy document (i.e. PDF, XLSX and DOCX versions) and a malicious LNK file with a double extension (i.e., .pdf.lnk) used to start the infection and deploy the PowerMagic backdoor.

Kaspersky attributed the October campaign to a new APT group operating in the area of Russo-Ukrainian conflict and tracked as Bad Magic.

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Locations Of US Carrier Strike Groups May 23, 2023 "IndyWatch Feed War"

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The GNU Assembler "Gas" as part of the GNU Binutils collection has landed support for Intel FRED and LKGS instructions...

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Rugby: Leinsters demise and Munsters hope "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"

Leinster have been hailed by many as the worlds best club rugby team for some time now, an assessment which failed to take account of their failure to win a European Cup for 5 years, which is half a professional rugby players average lifetime. True, they were beaten by a last minute try in the final in Marseilles last year, and La Rochelle were again twice within the width of a post of losing this year.

Munster also required a last gasp drop goal to seal the deal against a largely second-string Leinster side in the Semi Final of the URC, and the loss through injury of Sexton, and during this years final, of Ryan, Furlong and Henshaw should not be underestimated. These are the leaders of the team, and without them Leinster became increasingly defensive and negative in their mindset, hoofing the ball out of defence with no thought of a more creative (and brave) approach.

After an outstanding start, Leinster started to lose the set piece and collisions, and with that, gradually, the psychological battle as well. It can be incredibly difficult to win a rugby match if your scrum and maul defence is under pressure, if you cant win any opposition line-outs, and if you are losing the collisions and battle of the break-down as well.

In all of this you have to give due credit to La Rochelle, an absolutely outstanding team, which has acquired a ruthless winning mentality under the astute leadership of Ronan OGara as well as the extraordinary physical attributes of their monstrous pack. Will Skelton once again dominated line-out and maul. Danty, Atonio and the rest of the pack put huge pressure on the Leinster defence, and Hastoy hardly put a foot wrong. La Rochelle have improved significantly over the past year, while Leinster havent, or at least not to the same degree.

The worrying part is that this gives opposing teams in the world cup the blueprint to beat Ireland. Beirne, Bealham , and OMahony may improve the Ireland pack at the margins, but they do not provide the size and physicality which France (or South Africa) can bring to the table. Leinster tried to address this problem by recruiting Jenkins from Munster, and while he has been a limited success, he isnt world class like Skelton. Leinsters goose was probably cooked, or at least in the oven once Ryan and then Furlong had to go off.

Leinster could, in theory address this problem by recruiting another giant tight head and second row and another loose head as Healy retires. But players of this quality are rare indeed, and generally contractually tied up this close to a World cup. And neither would the IRFU allow them to do so, with Alaalatoa and Jenkins already non-Irish qualified within their ranks. And whatever about Leinster recruiting from outside, this is not an option for Ireland. We simply have to be smarter in how we play the game if we are to have a chance at the world cup.

This is easier said than done if you are being smashed in the....

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US, EU Lawmakers Seek Ouster of Oil Executive as Head of Climate Conference "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

In recent years, the oil industry has enjoyed an increasingly large presence at the annual United Nations (UN) climate summit known as the Conference of Parties (COP). This year, one of their own is slated to lead it: Sultan Al Jaber, who runs the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. That doesnt sit well with US and EU lawmakers, who sent a letter today trying to get him replaced as the head of the conference.

The decision to name as president of COP28 the chief executive of one of the worlds largest oil and gas companies a company that has recently announced plans to add 7.6 billion barrels of oil to its production in the coming years, representing the fifth largest increase in the world risks undermining the negotiations, the lawmakers say in the letter sent to US President Joe Biden, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres, and Simon Stiell, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

COP28 will be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November and December. The lawmakers believe there is still time to replace Al Jaber, who is also the UAEs Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and that not doing so would undermine the conference.

With commonsense reforms to help restore public faith in the COP process severely jeopardized by having an oil company executive at the helm, we respectfully submit that different leadership is necessary to help ensure that COP28 is a serious and productive climate summit, the letter states.

However, not everybody feels the same way. Earlier this year, US climate envoy John Kerry called Al Jaber a terrific choice for leading COP28.

In total, more than 100 lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic have signed the letter, including leading US progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

When the number of attendees representing polluting corporate actors, which have a vested financial interest in maintaining the status quo, is larger than the delegations of nearly every country in attendance, it is easy to see how their presence could obstruct climate action.

Most of the Eur...

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Simple OSINT techniques to spot AI-fueled disinformation, fake reviews "IndyWatch Feed Tech"

Error messages that ChatGPT and other AI language models generate can be used to uncover disinformation campaigns, hate speech and fake reviews via OSINT collection and analysis, says Nico Dekens, director of intelligence at ShadowDragon. AI-generated content found via Google (Source: ShadowDragon) Uncovering AI-generated content through OSINT Dekens has recently tried to pinpoint specific indicators that reveal online content news, social media posts, reviews created with the help of AI models. He concentrated More

The post Simple OSINT techniques to spot AI-fueled disinformation, fake reviews appeared first on Help Net Security.

19:00

Funny, It Worked Last Time "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

Culture Observation Identify the Aircraft 1 2 Bullet Points: ** Homelessness is increasing by all accounts. There is a simple reason it has gotten worse. The governments and communities affected refuse to face the facts about the true causes of homelessness, misdiagnose the problem, and refuse to apply the necessary measures []

The post Funny, It Worked Last Time appeared first on Virtual Mirage.

19:00

German Greens in Crisis, Plummet 40% In Opinion Polls as Anger Mounts Over Bans, Scandals "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"

...chances are better than even that things are going to get a lot worse as the bills for energy and drastic green policies start coming due.

Why Scientists Have a Hard Time Getting Money to Study the Root Causes of Outbreaks "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"

by Caroline Chen

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

The outbreaks keep coming.

Mpox, the virus formerly known as monkeypox, last year crossed borders with unprecedented speed to infect nearly 90,000 people. In the past year, Ebola killed at least 55 in Uganda, and a related, equally deadly virus called Marburg emerged in two countries that have never seen it before. Now, scientists are worried that a dangerous bird flu thats been jumping to mammals could mutate and spread among humans.

These viruses all came from wildlife. Understanding what conditions prime pathogens to leap from animals to people could help us prevent outbreaks. After COVID-19 showed the world the devastation a pandemic can bring, youd think this type of research would be among the hottest areas of science, with funders lined up far and wide.

Thats not the case. As ProPublica has shown in a series of stories this year, global health authorities focus far more attention and money on containing outbreaks once they begin rather than preventing them from starting in the first place. This mindset has hindered scientists who study the complex dynamics that drive whats known as spillover, the moment a pathogen leaps from one species to another.

Australian researcher Peggy Eby and her colleagues have shown that it is possible to predict when spillovers are going to happen by closely tracking bats that spread contagion and patiently observing changes that shape their world. This groundbreaking research on the often-fatal Hendra virus relied on decades of Ebys field work, some of which she did without pay. Early on, one government funder told her that the project she proposed wasnt a sufficiently important contribution. She and her colleagues had to cobble together a mishmash of different grants and keep impatient fund...

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