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Wie schlimm ist die Lage? So schlimm:France has banned ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Wie schlimm ist die Lage? So schlimm:
France has banned the sale, possession and transport of fireworks over the Bastille Day weekend next week amid fears of renewed riots.
Wisst ihr noch, der nPA? Der neue Personalausweis? ... "IndyWatch Feed Europe"
Wisst ihr noch, der nPA? Der neue Personalausweis? Die Digitalfunktion? Die sie einem wirklich mehrfach nachdrcklich sogar im persnlichen Gesprch nochmal reinzudrcken versucht haben? Den keiner haben wollte?
Nun, wenn man die Erwachsenen nicht kriegt, dann indoktriniert man halt die Kinder, solange sie sich nicht wehren knnen!
Ab 2024 soll es keine neuen Kinderreisepsse mehr geben - das hat der Bundestag beschlossen. Ersetzt werden sollen sie durch elektronische Psse mit lngerer Gltigkeitsdauer und mehr Nutzungsmglichkeiten.Oh yeah, die vielen neuen ... Nutzungsmglichkeiten!!1! Also nicht fr die Kinder, versteht sich. Fr den "Sicherheits"-Apparat aus Geheimdiensten, Polizeien und sonstigen Unterdrckungsbehrden.
Aber Fefe, wieso bist du denn schon wieder so schlecht gelaunt? Da steht doch nur was davon, dass sie es fr die Kinder besser machen wollen!
Mit der Reform des Pass- und Ausweisgesetzes soll es den Behrden auerdem erleichtert werden, deutsche Sexualstraftter und Extremisten an einer Ausreise zu hindern - und zwar dann, wenn zu befrchten ist, dass sie im Ausland Straftaten begehen. Wenn bestimmte Tatsachen diese Annahme begrnden, erhalten solche Menschen entweder keinen Reisepass, der Pass kann ihnen entzogen oder die Ausreise untersagt werden.Ach. Ach was. Extremisten, sagt ihr? Na sowas.
Update: War ja auch hchste Zeit, dass mal jemand die Klimakleber am Ausreisen hindert. Die sollen bitte schn hier wohnen bleiben, und unter den Auswirkungen dessen leiden, was sie vergeblich zu verhindern versucht haben.
Leute an der Ausreise hindern, das hatten wir seit 1989 nicht mehr. War hchste Zeit, dass diesen rechtsfreien Raum mal jemand beseitigt.
As Retailers Adopt AI, One Things Unchanged: The Value Of Location "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
As customers browse and shop in-person and online, AI is humming behind the scenes looking for the relevant connections between bits of information. Already, its helped retailers make potentially millions of decisions to better manage inventory, understand shoppers, and price their products and services.
And its just getting started. Able to parse an amount of data no human could, AI has the potential to detect disruptions or product demand earlier, allowing retailers to avoid missed opportunities. Location, as always, remains vital to that undertaking. The most successful retail operation gives the customer what they want when and where they want it at a price point most profitable for the seller.
How Artificial Intelligence, Data And Analytics Are Transforming Formula One In 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Formula One (F1) has always been a technology-driven sport. Behind every car tearing up the circuit at 250 mph is a team of engineers and scientists competing to wrangle every advantage, leveraging the latest innovations in data, analytics and high-performance computing.
Right now, as is the case in every industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a wave of disruption, transforming car design, race performance and fan experience alike.
As Christian Horner, CEO of Oracle Red Bull Racing, says, Data is in the teams lifeblood. Every element of performance how we run a race, how we develop a car, how we select and analyze drivers its all driven by data.
Omar ElNaggar, CEO at Weavechain, joins our Information Sciences Board. "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Omar ElNaggar, CEO at Weavechain, joins our Information Sciences Board.
Weavechain believes that the path to the future involves Weaving existing technology into the patterns that are commonly known as Web3.In a first, a robotic system makes four-arm laparoscopy feasible for surgeons "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
A new robotic system promises to bring the best out of human surgeons by allowing them to use their feet along with their hands during a laparoscopic operation.
Some surgeries are so complex and tiresome that while performing them doctors may wish they could have four arms. Laparoscopy is one such operation, it is used to diagnose and treat various problems in the abdomen and pelvis region.
Every year more than 13 million laparoscopic surgeries are conducted across the globe and its one of those medical procedures that put a lot of mental and physical load on surgeons.
China readies for second launch of pioneering methane-propelled ZQ-2 rocket "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Chinas LandSpace is getting ready to launch its revolutionary ZQ-2 methane-powered rocket for the second time sometime this year.
Chinese space tech company LandSpace is gearing up to launch its revolutionary methane-propelled rocket, the Zhuque-2 (ZQ 2), for the second time sometime this year. Scheduled to blast off from the companys launch facility in the Gobi Desert, the mission will deliver a satellite into space. LandSpace, widely considered Chinas answer to SpaceX, the launch is hoped to cement further the utility of using methane as a reliable next generation of rocket fuel.
In December, the ZQ 2 rocket undertook its maiden flight at the Jiuquan center. The rocket successfully More.
Landspace.
UK space firm is building a nuclear fusion rocket engine that will get hotter than the Sun "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
It will also reduce travel time to Saturns moon Titan to just two years.
Pulsar Fusion, a UK-based space firm, is building a nuclear fusion-based rocket engine that could exceed temperatures on the Sun. The construction of the largest-ever fusion rocket engine has begun, and its exhaust speeds could exceed 500,000 miles per hour.
Nuclear fusion has long been proposed to answer our energy and climate change woes as it promises a cleaner power source. Inspired by the Sun, scientists have been working to build nuclear fusion reactors and have succeeded in generating record-high temperatures but not more energy than they have put in.
Magnetic robots are walking, crawling, and swimming with ease "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
These soft-bodied machines are poised to revolutionize confined space tasks and biomedical applications.
Scientists at MIT have achieved a major milestone in robotics by creating tiny soft-bodied robots that can be controlled using a simple magnetic field. These remarkable robots, constructed from flexible magnetic spirals, have the ability to walk, crawl, and even swim, all in response to an easily applicable magnetic force.
Professor Polina Anikeeva, leading the team of researchers behind this innovative creation, expressed her excitement: This is the first time this has been done, to be able to control three-dimensional locomotion of robots with a one-dimensional magnetic field.
Linux 6.5 Bringing Sensor Monitoring To Many More Desktop Motherboards "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Among the many interesting changes that landed the past two weeks for the Linux 6.5 merge window, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates as a whole standout for bringing numerous desktop motherboards and other devices to now enjoy working sensor monitoring support under Linux...
Lab-Grown Meat Approved for Sale: What You Need to Know "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Cultured meat, grown from real animal cells, will soon be available in restaurants in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
The Future of AI: What to Expect in the Next 5 Years "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
In the near future, AI will make us feel that life is speeding up. Human behavior will change and industries will be radically transformed. Learn more.
Despite All Rhetoric, Ukraine NATO Accession Would Not Do Washington Any Good "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Pollution: Fishermen In Burutu Community Raise Alarm Over Gas Well Leakage "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
LAGOS JULY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Fishermen at Odimodi community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State have sent a Save Our Souls (SOS) appeal to the Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) over the gas leakage from the Bemobebe-aka Gas Well.
This is even as ERA/FoEN in a statement signed by Communication Officer, Elvira Jordan on Thursday called on Agip to stop the leakage urging the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) to conduct an assessment of the level of air pollution in the area for immediate clean up.
The CSOs also recommend that a medical team be deployed to Odimodi, to examine the health status of residents after being exposed to such pollution.
ERA/FoEN received a Save Our Souls (SOS) from the community on the 5th of July, 2023, lamenting over a gas leakage from Bemobebe-aka Gas Facility belonging to Agip, which has been nonoperational for some time.
The Bemobebe-aka gas well is located at the outskirts of Odimodi Community; a route that is usually used by fishermen to carry out their fishing activities, and farmers to access their farm lands.
The environment around the gas leakage is very toxic and highly polluted. The people of Odimodi are currently at risk of facing severe health implications from inhaling the gas that has circulated around the air space of Odimodi, coupled with the dangers of a fire outbreak, as gas is highly flammable, the statement reads in part.
According to the statement, a fisherman, Brakemi Ndoro who first spotted and reported the leak to the leadership of the community said the leak was discovered about three months ago and is suspected to be from a broken valve from the gas plant.
The Chairman of Odimodi Community, Solomon Gbegha revealed to ERA/FoEN that the leak was reported to the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), followed by a joint inspection of the leakage by the community representatives and NOSDRA on the 26th of June 2023.
According to the chairman, no other efforts have been made to shut the leak after the inspection. He added that the people of Odimodi are now living in fear, as they have been instructed to stay clear of the area until it has been turned off.
Also, lending her voice o...
Left with Few Tanks and Ammunition, Ukraine Puts Its Hope in Cluster Munitions "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Re: CVE-2022-42009: Apache Ambari: A malicious authenticated user can remotely execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Posted by Brandon Perry on Jul 10
Do you have an example proof of concept or a bug link for this?CVE-2022-45855: Apache Ambari: Allows authenticated metrics consumers to perform RCE "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Posted by Brahma Reddy Battula on Jul 10
Affected versions:CVE-2022-42009: Apache Ambari: A malicious authenticated user can remotely execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Posted by Brahma Reddy Battula on Jul 10
Affected versions:Institucionalidad resquebrajada "IndyWatch Feed Noramerica"
La capital del estado qued desolada. La poblacin totalmente inerme, sometida bajo el fuego de la delincuencia que tom el control de la ciudad este sbado 8 de julio, para causar terror y demostrar su poder. La peor actuacin fue la ausencia de las autoridades de los tres niveles de gobierno; la inaccin de las corporaciones policiacas y el repliegue de la guardia nacional. Los polticos, a diferencia de los eventos pblicos donde lucen sus mejores atuendos, no dieron la cara, ni actuaron para hacer valer el estado de derecho. Brillaron por su ausencia y se distinguieron por su silencio. Fueron indiferentes y ajenos al drama de la gente. Se desentendieron de esta grave situacin que requiere intervenciones inmediatas y toma de posturas claras y firmes. Mostraron que no tienen temple ni compromiso con la poblacin ante los momentos ms crticos y desafiantes, como es la violencia y la inseguridad que impera en Chilpancingo.
Las familias no tuvieron otra alternativa que bajar las cortinas de sus negocios y cerrar las puertas de sus domicilios para librarse de las balas. Fue muy evidente la descoordinacin y la probable complicidad o temor de los cuerpos policiales, que ante el reporte de un periodista que grababa en su celular, de cmo se quemaba un taxi (despus de que el chofer haba sido balaceado), su reporte y llamada de auxilio no fue atendido por los cuerpos de seguridad.
Es inaudito que, en plena capital donde se encuentra el mayor nmero de efectivos militares y corporaciones policiacas (despus del puerto de Acapulco) demuestren impericia, desconocimiento y desconcierto sobre el modus operandi de los grupos de la delincuencia. Es inconcebible que la mesa de coordinacin estatal para la construccin de la paz no cuente con informacin detallada sobre las rutas, escondrijos y modos de operar del crimen, y que no tengan una cartografa til para disear intervenciones inteligentes y contundentes.
Lo que este sbado padecieron los habitantes de la capital, ya lo han experimentado guerrerenses de otras regiones y municipios, como Ciudad Altamirano, San Miguel Totolapa, Ajuchitln del Progreso, por mencionar algunos. Esto mismo sucede en Iguala, Taxco, Acapulco, Zihuatanejo y Tixtla, los municipios ms importantes del estado que han sucumbido ante el poder creciente del crimen organizado.
Lo que caracteriza a los gobiernos municipales es su debilidad para regir con visin y firmeza las riendas del municipio. No se deciden a extirpar de tajo la corrupcin y las redes delincuenciales que estn interconectadas con los grupos polticos que pululan en el estado. Muchos presidentes y presidentas municipales estn supeditadas a intereses macrodelincuenciales que trascienden los mbitos locales. La mayora desempea el rol de peones del ajedrez, que son sacrificables y tienen la obligacin de obedecer y proteger a sus jefes. Los grupos polticos que se han enquistado en la estructura gubernamental desempean...
Gas-Powered Fly Swatter Slightly Over-Engineered "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Any good flyswatter ought to be able to break through a hefty piece of wood. At least, that is how [Finn] explains the design philosophy behind this enormous, overpowered flyswatter. Although we dont know if everyone needs as robust a machine as this to deal with a minor annoyance like a house fly, we can certainly appreciate the over-engineered, extremely powerful (and dangerous) machine that can swat flies but also break through a two-by-four with ease.
The build comes to us in two parts, with the first part documenting the construction of some of the parts of the flyswatter, including the piston-driven gas cylinder. As a bit of a tangent, [Finn] first tests this part by using it to shoot lemons at pieces of plywood. After this initial testing of the gas cylinder, a cam mechanism is installed on the top, and the gas cylinder is slightly modified to pull on a piece of Dyneema rope attached to the cam. At the other end of the rope is a long metal lever with the flyswatter on the end, in this case, made out of a sheet of laser-cut plate steel.
With the addition of a few safety features, like a spring-assisted bumper to keep the flyswatter from swinging too far and hitting its operator, the machine is ready...
Video: Ukraine Counter-Offensive. Small Assault Groups. Heavy Losses "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Ukraine SitRep: 'Mosquito' Tactics - S-200 Land Attacks "IndyWatch Feed War"
The U.S./NATO doctrine, as it had been taught to the Ukrainian units that were prepared for the counter-offensive, has failed. As a comment allegedly made on a forum of veterans of the West Point Academy describes it: Classic attacks under...
[$] The rest of the 6.5 merge window "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Linus Torvalds released 6.5-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle on July 9. By that point, 11,730 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline for 6.5; over 7,700 of those were pulled after the first-half merge-window summary was written. The second half of the merge window saw a lot of code coming into the mainline and a long list of significant changes.
AMD Revises WiFi RFI Mitigation Feature For Linux "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Besides Bcachefs missing out on Linux 6.5, another patch series that didn't get buttoned up in time for the v6.5 merge window was AMD's work on radio frequency interference (RFI) mitigation between WiFi 6/6e/7 hardware and AMD's newest SoCs with RDNA3 graphics...
Journalists assault in Chechnya follows revenge campaign against my family "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
Chechen activist speaks to openDemocracy after his mother was imprisoned and the reporter covering her case attacked
We Just Held a 24-Hour Peace Wave and You Can Watch It "IndyWatch Feed War"
By World BEYOND War and International Peace Bureau, July 10, 2023
We just held the second annual 24-hour peace wave, a 24-hour zoom with live filming of peace events around the world, moving west with the sun. There are street actions, concerts, art projects, peace-pole installations all variety of creative contributions from a global community uniting to put an end to war and build a culture of peace.
The videos are at 24hourpeacewave.org
The post We Just Held a 24-Hour Peace Wave and You Can Watch It appeared first on World BEYOND War.
Celebrating 33 Years of EFF "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Patience is a virtue. And so is tenacity.
We are elated to celebrate the Electronic Frontier Foundations 33rd anniversary today. EFF has officially been working toward internet freedom longer than many people have been online. I'm grateful to EFF's supporters for ensuring that digital rights remain important and vital, even as the internet itself becomes a crucial yet often overlooked fact of life for most.
What would the world be without any privacy or free expression online? You can see examples of that dark dimension in the battles we continue to fight every day: the rules that keep you from controlling the services you use and devices you own; corporate policies that censor the powerless; rampant data collection by both companies and governments; and laws that would break encryption.
Thats why EFF works so carefully to nurture a web that puts civil liberties and human rights at its center. Its with great pride that EFF takes on court and legislative battles that may last years. But simultaneously, our team works onand winsimmediate policy and legal fights while we develop rights-enhancing technologies to bridge the gap. Were committed to defending your digital freedom for as long as technology changes and grows. With support from people like you, were not going anywhere.
EFFs membership drive for this summer touches on the ways we tend the internet like a digital garden. Its an apt metaphor because let me assure you: we get our hands dirty every day to weed out threats for your rights online. Through July 20, you can be an EFF member for just $20, and receive two limited-edition gifts as a special thanks.
Together we till the hard ground, plant the ideas, nurture the discussions, and nourish the movement we know today. Its hard and sometimes slow work to grow the law, international po...
Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for Lithium "IndyWatch Feed War"
Paiute Shoshone elder Josephine was grief-stricken after the police raid on Ox Sam Camp. The Eagle Feathers and Staff were illegally confiscated and disrespected.Interior Sec. Haaland Supports Digging into Paiute Massacre Site for LithiumRaided and terrorized by police, their Eagle Feathers taken, now Interior Sec. Deb Haaland has broken their hearts, imperiling future generations. Ox Sam Camp at
Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS): Neurological Injury Caused by COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Security updates for Monday "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, fusiondirectory, ocsinventory-server, php-cas, and thunderbird), Fedora (dav1d, perl-CPAN, and yt-dlp), Red Hat (python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (prometheus-ha_cluster_exporter and prometheus-sap_host_exporter), and Ubuntu (ghostscript, linux-azure, linux-intel-iotg, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, and ruby-doorkeeper).
Connecting Dots and Opening Doors: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Tells Us the Truth "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Ex-Team USA gymnastics doctor and sexual assaulter Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in prison "IndyWatch Feed World"
Convicted child molester Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in the federal prison where he is serving hundreds of years for sexually assaulting gymnasts, including gold medal-winning Olympians, according to a report Monday. Two people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press the attack happened Sunday during a fight with another inmate at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida. He was stabbed in the back and in the chest but was said to be in stable condition, according to one of the sources.
Extremist Ideology in Europe: Leave Everyone Behind (Except Us) "IndyWatch Feed War"
Credit: United Nations
According to the Napoleonic French Revolutions three pillars, Liberty means freedom for an individual to do what he/she wants to do without harming others Liberty. Equality means equal opportunity to all the citizens irrespective of their caste, religion, race, gender.
Fraternity means an environment of brotherhood among the citizens of a nation.
Not true that all humans are equal
These concepts have also been clearly reflected in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the actual umbrella of all the other international laws and agreements, such as the 2030 Agenda, which was adopted in 2015 by all countries -including the richest ones, those who now violate their own principles.
Instead, the extremist ideology promoted by Europes right and far-right politicians is pushing either openly or surreptitiously for the suppression of many of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established in the worldwide adopted 2030 Agenda under the principle:Leave No One Behind...
RomCom RAT attackers target groups supporting NATO membership of Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
On July 4, the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team uncovered a spear phishing campaign aimed at an organization supporting Ukraine abroad.
The researchers discovered two lure documents submitted from an IP address in Hungary, both targeting upcoming NATO Summit guests who are providing support to Ukraine.
The lure documents identified by BlackBerry impersonate Ukrainian World Congress, a legitimate non-profit, (Overview_of_UWCs_UkraineInNATO_campaign.docx) appear as a letter declaring support to the Ukrainian government for the inclusion to the NATO alliance (Letter_NATO_Summit_Vilnius_2023_ENG(1).docx).
The experts attributed the attacks to a threat actor known as RomCom (aka Tropical Scorpius and UNC2596) based on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), code similarity, and attack infrastructure.
The upcoming NATO Summit will be held in Vilnius on July 11-12, during the event, it will be discussed the possible future membership in the alliance of Ukraine.
Threat actors aimed at engaging the victims into clicking on a specially crafted replica of the Ukrainian World Congress website.
The attackers used typosquatting techniques to masquerade the fake website with a .info suffix and make it look legitimate.
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Six Stories You Missed While Everyone Focused On The Titanic Sub "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
By Don Via Jr. From the next phase of the Great Reset to hundreds lost at sea, two scandals, a shocking expos, and more, theres...
Six Stories You Missed While Everyone Focused On The Titanic Sub
Ubuntu Revisiting Its Initramfs Compression Approach "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
About a year ago Ubunty changed its default compression level for its initramfs handling down to Zstd level one to deal with slow initramfs creation times on low-end systems / development boards. But since then that has resulted in larger initramfs sizes and yielding other bugs like more quickly filling up the /boot partition on Ubuntu systems. Thus the developers have gone back to the drawing board and are trying to figure out a path forward for better initramfs handling that works well for low-end single board computers while also maximizing space savings and working out well for all Ubuntu use-cases...
Cash-Strapped Consumers Resort To Dumpster Dining To Save On Grocery Bill "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
By Tyler Durden Despite the Biden administrations cheerleading that Bidenomics is the economic savior of the middle class most Americans will disagree there has...
Cash-Strapped Consumers Resort To Dumpster Dining To Save On Grocery Bill
Stop Biden from Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed War"
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By Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd, World BEYOND War, July 10, 2023
President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore up Ukraines slow counter-offensive against Russian troops.
On Friday, 19 House Democrats, led by Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7), signed a letter to Biden warning that his decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine severely undermines our moral leadership.
This time its not just left-leaning activists in CODEPINK and the Peace in Ukraine Coalition who recoil in horror at Bidens escalation in Ukraine, but congressional Democrats who previously stood by their President. These are the same Democrats who voted to approve over $100 billion in Ukraine spending, an estimated half for weapons and military assistance for which there is no accountability.
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN-4), ranking member of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, told Politico: The decision by the Biden administration to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine is unnecessary and a terrible mistake The legacy of cluster bombs is misery, de...
NHTSA Reminds Tesla to Cough Up Data for Autopilot Probe "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
NHTSA reminds Tesla to cough up data for Autopilot probe:
An investigation by America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) into the safety of Tesla Autopilot has led to a threat of fines if Elon Musk's electric car company doesn't hand over the data requested.
If Tesla doesn't comply with the order in the NHTSA's July 3 letter [PDF], the agency said it could issue fines and penalties that could reach as high as $26,315 per violation per day capping out at $131.5 million.
That's not to suggest that Tesla has been avoiding giving US highway regulators the data they've asked for. Documents from the investigation indicate Tesla has turned over information several times already. The NHTSA told The Register that fine warnings are a standard part of such letters no matter which manufacturer is getting them.
Among the data requested by the NHTSA is a full rundown of information on vehicles included in the investigation, which is a lot: "All Tesla vehicles, model years 20142023, equipped with [Autopilot] at any time."
The NHTSA wants to know the software, firmware and hardware versions of each and every Tesla that falls into its investigative purview, whether the vehicles have a cabin camera installed, when the vehicle was admitted into Tesla's full-self-driving beta, and dates of the most recent software/firmware/hardware updates.
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Video: Bidens Secret Army: Legal Government Surveillance of All US Citizens, Control of Your Bank Accounts "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Civil society changes up campaign against jailed Kalimantan farmers "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
JAKARTA, Indonesia The Kinjil Three languished in a jail cell an island away as demonstrators arrived outside a beige Jakarta office block and began distributing thousands of coins on the street. I came from Central Kalimantan to meet the BGA leadership, said Gusti Samudera, who traveled to Jakarta for the demonstration, referring to a plantation company in Central Kalimantan province. We demand the release of Aleng, Suwadi and Maju, who are accused of stealing palm fruit from their own land. In April, police and security officers from PT Bumitama Gunajaya Abadi (BGA) arrested Aleng Sugianto, 63, Suwadi, 40, and Maju 63, three farmers from Kinjil, a village in the West Kotawaringin district of Central Kalimantan province. The trio stand accused of stealing oil palm fruit worth around 2.9 million rupiah ($190), according to civil society groups. The three farmers now face a possible seven-year prison sentence. Theyve already spent two months behind bars on remand, unable to provide for their families. Following the arrests, local residents and civil society groups swiftly formed a campaign group to protest the farmers detention. Outraged by what they perceived to be a heavy-handed approach by law enforcement, members of the Justice for Kinjil Farmers Coalition decided to collect coins in Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, to make their provocative statement. Maybe BGA was short on money seeing as the loss of 2.9 million rupiah put our colleagues in jail, said Uli Artha Siagian, forestry campaign lead for the Indonesian Forum forThis article was originally published on Mongabay
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, July 09, 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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Indonesia - Severe weather in Bali triggers deadly flooding and landslides "IndyWatch Feed World"
Bali, Indonesia experienced severe weather conditions from 07 to 09 July 2023, leading to devastating impacts on the region. Heavy rainfall resulted in widespread flooding, while strong winds downed trees and damaged buildings. Furthermore, the heavy rain falling on unstable ground triggered numerous landslides, exacerbating the destructive effects of the weather. The Bali Province Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) reported a total of 78 incidents, including landslides, fallen trees, and floods, across several affected areas. These areas included Badung, Bangli, Buleleng, Denpasar, Gianyar, Jembrana, Karangasem, Klungkung, and Tabanan. As a result of the severe weather, approximately 50 homes were damaged, and around 50 individuals were displaced from their residences, according to the ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet). The impact of the disaster extended to a total of 192 people, who were directly affected by the floods, landslides, and other related incidents.
New Tree Tech: AI, drones, satellites and sensors give reforestation a boost "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
This story is the first article of a four-part Mongabay mini-series exploring the latest technological solutions to support reforestation later this week. Later this week, read Part Two, Part Three and Part Four. Plant a tree! has become a go-to, nature-based solution and green rallying cry, proclaimed in the mainstream media by climate-conscious celebrities, corporations and influencers eager to promote mega-planting projects. These reforestation efforts often bring out thousands of volunteers shovels in hand to abandoned cow pastures and other degraded landscapes to disperse millions of small saplings. Regardless of whether these initiatives are sincere attempts at conservation or cynical greenwashing exercises, tree planting is often portrayed as a silver bullet to mitigate climate change sometimes allowing polluting industries to continue with business as usual by counting proposed reforestation as carbon offsets. Tree planting is usually marketed for its carbon storage benefits and for mitigating rapidly growing greenhouse gas emissions. But these projects often have other valid and laudable environmental and social goals, such as regulating water cycles and preventing desertification, protecting against soil erosion, restoring biodiversity, and alleviating poverty. The oft-cited goal is to plant a trillion trees by 2050, which global NGO Plant-for-the-Planet says could capture up to a trillion metric tons of CO2. Likewise, the Bonn Challenge, launched in 2011 by global wildlife conservation authority the IUCN, has accrued pledges to restore 210 million hectares (519 million acres) from governments and NGOs. Reforestation in Brazil and many other forest-rich countries has even become keyThis article was originally published on Mongabay
Jennys Daily Drivers: Slackware 15 "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
As a recent emigre from the Ubuntu Linux distribution to Manjaro, Ive had the chance to survey the field as I chose a new distro, and I realised that theres a whole world of operating systems out there that we all know about, but which few of us really know. Hence this is the start of what I hope will be a long-running series, in which I try different operating systems in my everyday life as a Hackaday writer, to find out about them and then to see whether they can deliver on the promise of giving me a stable platform on which to earn a living.
For that they need an internet connection and a web browser up-to-date enough to author Hackaday stories, as well as a decent graphics package. In addition to using the OS every day though, Ill also be taking a look at what makes it different from all the others, what its direction and history is, and how user-friendly it is as an experience. Historical systems such as CP/M are probably out of the question as are extremely esoteric ones such as the famous TempleOS, but this still leaves plenty of choice for an operating system tourist. Join me then, as I try all the operating systems.
Negating the Negative Influence of AI in Humanitys 5D Evolutionary Shift "IndyWatch Feed World"
July 11th, 2023 By Open Contributing Writer for Wake Up World Recently in the Openhand movement, weve been exploring the End Game for the Intervention Agenda here on Earth essentially to replace the current human configuration with a more synthetic version, one thats still organic, but controlled by a centralised AI brain. The evidence I []
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openDemocracy crowdfunds 55,000 to cover Russias war "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
The emergency appeal has helped secure future coverage of Russias war at openDemocracy
An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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MISUNDERSTANDING MARX 6 "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
This final article on this series of misunderstandings of Marx, by Marxists and other commentators who misunderstand aspects of Marxs research, concerns the idea that Marx proposed a definite economic mode of production to replace capitalism. It is a common mistake made by system designing ideologists on the left, particularly talented intellectual ones. Even among the most sincere of them, there is often a patronising wish to save working people from the trouble of having to work things out for themselves and from having to evalulate and change things when they get them wrong.
The elitist assumption, taken from the bourgeois and petite-bourgeois playbooks, is that the mass of ordinary people will need a blue-print produced by experts of various kinds, which they can then meticulously follow. The history of the Bolshevik leadership in the aftermath of the collapse of Russian Feudalism in 1917 demonstrates the results of this assumption. The Bolshevik Central Committee discussions and the setting up of the State Planning Commission and the numerous Organising Bureaus, indicate the elitist thinking involved. Furthermore, Lenin at the Extraordinary Seventh Congress of the Russian Communist Party convinced the delegates that what was needed in Russia was;
the transformation of the whole of the state economic mechanism into a single huge machine, into an economic organism that will work in such a way as to enable hundreds of millions of people to be guided by a single planunquestioning subordination to a single will is absolutely necessary. (Lenin. Complete Works. Volume 27 page 90/91 and 296.)
A single plan and worker subordination to a single will, that was the alienating essence of Bolshevik socialism. Years previous to this, Marx had written a particularly scathing analysis of an earlier programmatic blue-print influenced by a man (Ferdinand Lassalle) who also thought he knew best how guide working people. In an letter, later entitled Critique of The Gotha Programme, Marx, describes much of the content as; verbal rubbish; ideological nonsense; trash; and, a monstrous attack on the understanding. The whole document is well worth the read and he often returned to the theme. In a further example Marx notes the following;
Individual thinkers provide a critique of social antagonisms, and put forward fantastic solutions which the mass if workers can only accept, pass on and put into practice. By their very nature, the sects established by these initiators are abstentionists, strangers to all genuine action, (Marx . The First International and After. Penguin. Page 298.)
Turning from the role of individual thinkers to the role of elite created state organisations, Marx studied and...
Godless Fake Science. The Importance of Truth "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Kennedys Peace Speech Set to Music "IndyWatch Feed War"
By Irthlingz, July 10, 2023
Full Performance:
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Excerpts:
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For excerpts with discussion see Part 5 of 24 Hour Peace Wave 2023.
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Graph of IBMs Debt Helps Shed Light on the Red Hat Squeeze "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Lets see how IBM is doing at the bank by examining debt. The following are deficits and totals (running sums), not savings.
Long Term Debt ($53.826 billion in March):
Buying Red Hat was like paying for a trophy while burying the
legacy parts (Kyndryl) and selling some to China (Lenovo). Notice
how debt grew.
Total Liabilities ($111.964 billion in March):
These are liabilities. Squeezing
Red Hat customers (RHEL/CentOS users) for money is classic IBM,
being a company that despite many people forgetting it or not
knowing it extorts clients through lawyers.
Summary: The media does not often talk about the debt of the dying giant. IBMs total liabilities for the quarter ending March 31, 2023 were $111.964 billion and long term debt for the same quarter was $53.826 billion. Like many other companies, IBM is buying back its own shares, faking stability and growth. IBM has not been a household name or even prominent in business for nearly two decades already, so its contemporary existence is largely speculative and the company still makes a lot of its revenue by (software) patent blackmail, using patents that last 20 years.
NATO Unwittingly Defines the New European Order "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Mermaids appeal against LGB Alliance dismissed on technical grounds "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
The judges opted not to provide their views on whether or not the LGB Alliance should have charity status
Web App Development: Ultimate Guide for 2023 "IndyWatch Feed World"
If you want to develop a web app, you need to use the right tools. Theyre key to the success of your app, and they shouldnt be overlooked. This article created by BizUpLab will present you with the available options, so lets get started.
Many front-end tools for web app development have been around for a long time, but the most reliable and popular ones include:
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a fundamental tool for web app development. It provides the structure and semantic markup necessary for organizing and presenting content on the web, allowing developers to create the backbone of their applications.
JavaScript is a versatile programming language widely used in web app development. It adds interactivity and dynamic functionality to websites, allowing developers to create engaging user experiences through features like form validation, interactive elements, and real-time updates. With JavaScript, developers can enhance the functionality of their web apps and make them more responsive and interactive.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a crucial component in web app development. It enables developers to control the presentation and styling of web pages, allowing for consistent and visually appealing designs across different devices and browsers. With CSS, you can define colors, fonts, layouts, and other visual elements, ensuring a polished and professional look for your web app.
An accidental discovery could change the world "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Every now and then, revolutionary technology seems to spontaneously appear out of thin air and change our world. Dynamite, penicillin, X-ray machines, and even microwaves are all examples of such revolutionary accidental discoveries.
Well, this year we may have had yet another. However, this time it is set not only to revolutionise the way we live, but potentially save our planet from looming climate change by unlocking an elusive technology: lithium-sulfur batteries.
For decades, we have been searching for the best technology to power our modern lifestyle and enable clean technology, like electric cars. Since the early 90s, the battery technology of choice has been lithium-ion.
How quantum dots can revolutionize solar energy "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Theres a new way to harness the power of the sun and it may just revolutionize how we approach solar energy. The development is called quantum dots and it consists of tiny semiconductor particles only a few nanometers in size.
This is according to a report by Fagen Wasanni published on Saturday.
Quantum dots have unique properties that make them ideal for use in solar cells. Their small size allows them to absorb light from a wide range of wavelengths, including those that traditional solar cells cannot capture. This means that quantum dot-based solar cells can potentially convert more sunlight into electricity, significantly increasing their efficiency, states the report.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Successful But Who Cares in Virginia? "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
RGGI is very much needed because of the climate crisis, WV should join too!
From an Article by Rebecca R. Rubin, Virginia Mercury, July 3, 2023
RGGIs track record clearly demonstrates we need not choose between clean air, affordable electricity and a strong economy.
In June, Virginians were inundated with smoke from wildfires that have been raging across Canada and could continue through the summer in the worst wildfire season in that nations history a crisis that scientists agree is being driven by climate change.
Thousands of miles from the flames, we Virginians suffered levels of air quality ranging from unhealthy to hazardous, disproportionately impacting children, the elderly and those with preexisting respiratory conditions. Environmental agencies advised those of us who could to stay indoors. School and recreational youth athletics and other outdoor events were canceled.
And as smoke blotted out the sun, turning blue skies gray and orange, the Youngkin administration worked to dismantle one of our best tools to address climate change, protect clean air and secure a livable future for our children.
Wednesday, June 7, Youngkins majority of the State Air Pollution Control Board voted to end Virginias participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state cap-and-invest program that has been cutting pollution and driving the clean energy transition in Virginia, and throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, while returning hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue to our state to fund vital resiliency and energy efficiency programs.
The repeal regulation is now under review by Gov. Youngkin, who will likely add it to the Virginia Register. It is widely expected that the repeal will face legal challenges from the public and environmental groups.
With no funding or policies economic or otherwise in place to replace this program, this short-sighted rollback leaves Virginias localities on their own to fund vital infrastructure, and takes cost-saving energy efficiency resources away from low-income Virginians. It also signals to energy producers that under Youngkins watch, they can continue pumping air pollution into communities unabated which negativ...
So much for 'freedom gas': US LNG exports decline - Reuters "IndyWatch Feed World"
Maintenance issues and sluggish demand from the EU are behind the fall, data shows. US exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) dropped 10% in June in monthly terms to 6.82 million tons due to plant maintenance and a decline in EU demand, Reuters reported this week, citing preliminary data from Refinitiv. According to the report, planned outages at two big suppliers affected US LNG production. Combined with a warmer-than-normal winter, this led to a build-up of gas inventories and lower prices, it said.
YouTube is Becoming Television (With DRM) and Creators Just Get in the Way "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Biggest instance of Invidious was forced offline without prior notice:
Summary: The Google Gulag does not pursue anything but money, which it increasingly wants to aggressively (e.g. by blackmail) pursue by grabbing control over peoples PCs (in GNU/Linux, YouTube already latches onto desktop components, maybe a one step away from protected content through Widevine DRM), so creators who do all the hard work are demoted and their audiences mistreated; waste no time and get away from YouTube as soon as possible
WE HAVE been writing a lot about YouTube lately because the mainstream media does not talk about the quiet revolution which mostly involves attacking creators, viewers, and Free software. Google is a Gulag and all it cares about is money. Its tired of losing money and now its crushing all the volunteers/serfs who helped YouTube become so dominant. Can they still justify this? Can they still tolerate the Gulag? Should they? For many of them, as the classic saying goes, enough is enough!
YouTube should only be optional and Googles lawyers try to ensure no other options exist.Weve already made some constructive suggestions last month (see links at the very bottom) and we recently pushed to Git some code that helps bypass YouTube links by suggesting alternatives to them in IRC. We need to discourage adoption/usage of YouTube and part of that involves asking people to not upload to YouTube or also uploading somewhere else. YouTube should only be optional and Googles lawyers try to ensure no other options exist.
Well, some people reported to us (in IRC) that YouTube now blocks Falkon, the Web browser. I could not reproduce this at my end (thats the main browser I use and maybe these changes are experimental, hence they only impact a subset of visitors), but I noticed other problems with YouTube ads in Falkon, notably a lack of picture, just sound playing. Itll get worse over time as they optimise for Chrome, with no ad blocking (not even in Chrome!), and add more DRM on top. GSoC is, to them, just some hush money (also grossly underpaid, te...
Times reporter tries to turn Palestinian terrorist into a civilian "IndyWatch Feed War"
For years, weve been documenting the egregious anti-Israel bias of Times Middle East correspondent Catherine Philp, However, a report she published yesterday was so biased, and so clearly coloured by her own pro-Palestinian views, that it hardly can be called journalism.
The putatively straight news article published on July 9 was titled Palestinian boy killed by Israeli sniper in Jenin was unarmed, CCTV suggests, but, as her tweet of the article shows, it seems to have been motivated by her frustration with the fact that there hasnt been one confirmed civilian death during Israels two-day anti-terror operation in Jenin last week.
While the article begins by suggesting that a Palestinian in Jenin named Abdulrahman Hasan Ahmad Hardan was unarmed by IDF soldiers when he was shot, it then proceeds to claim that he was an uninvolved civilian, and not a terrorist as was reported.
Here are the relevant paragraphs:
Militant groups such as the relatively new Jenin Brigades, Islamic Jihad and the armed wing of Fatah have little compunction about claiming non-combatants, even unarmed women and children, as their martyrs. Militants brought banners to the house celebrating him as such; his family expressed their unhappiness at that at not inconsiderable risk to themselves but they were adamant: Abdulrahman was not a militant and did not belong to any armed group.
[His mother] wept as she described rushing to Jenin after learning that her son had been shot in the head. He died five hours later in surgery. He was an ordinary boy, he was not a terrorist like they are saying, his mother said.
When Islamic Jihad posted photographs of its claimed martyrs, Abdulrahman was the only one not pictured with a firearm.
asked if Abdulrahman had been armed, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hecht, the Israel Defence Forces...
YMCA accuses teen girl of hate speech for opposing man in girls' locker room "IndyWatch Feed World"
Yet another "trans"-cultic offense against children, women, decency, reason, and basic human rights has taken place. Such offenses will continue unless and until right-thinking Americans oppose them with courage and tenacity oh, and lawsuits. The Springfield YMCA Typhoons Swim Team (SPY) in Springfield, Illinois now allows biological men who pretend to be women to enter the girls' locker room including when minor girls are present and undressing. The coaches and YMCA administrators began this practice without telling any girls or their parents. Here is an excerpt from a summary provided by the father of one of the girl swimmers at the center of what should be a shocking event:
Burning the Quran and the Counter-Offensive: Why the West Is Panicking "IndyWatch Feed World"
Desecrating, then burning the Holy Quran in Sweden has, once again, raised a political storm of condemnation but also of justification, if not outright approval.
Such acts are protected by law, top Swedish and EU officials have declared.
But why are the rights of those who oppose Western agendas, colonialism, imperialism, Zionism and military interventions not equally protected by law?
The Palestine boycott movement, BDS, for example, is constantly fighting in Western societies and institutions for the right to use certain language or merely challenge, though non-violently, Israeli occupation and apartheid.
Iranian media offices were shut down in some Western countries, and various Western-operated satellites removed Iranian Press TV, Lebanons Al-Manar TV and other anti-Israel occupation media outlets from their line-ups.
Thousands of Palestinian activists have been banned or censored on Western social media platforms for daring to criticize Israeli war crimes in Palestine. The writer of this article is one of many others.
More. As soon as the Russia-Ukraine war began, western governments were asked to completely block Russia Today and other Russian media channels from operating in Western capitals, leading to the shutting down of offices, and social media channels, removal from YouTube, Google and other search engines and so on.
In February 2022, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, said: We will ban the Kremlins media machine in the EU.
For some odd reason, all this censorship is, somehow, morally and legally defensible from the viewpoint of the West.
5 Benefits of AI for Logistics and Supply Chains "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
By Owais Sultan
Automation is crucial for logistics and warehousing Explore 5 game-changing benefits of Artificial intelligence or AI for
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Libya's Haftar 'rerouting' supplies to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Libya's Haftar 'rerouting' supplies to Sudan's Rapid Support Forces
International monitoring has pushed Khalifa Haftar into changing the routes his forces use to supply Sudans Rapid Support Forces (RSF), local sources close to the eastern Libyan commander have told Middle East Eye.
Politicians, analysts and intelligence sources from southern Libya confirmed to MEE that Haftar is involved in the supply of arms and fuel to the paramilitary group, which has been at war with the Sudanese army since 15 April.
While pictures of shipments of weapons being transported from military bases in eastern Libya were published early in the conflict, the sources also revealed the names of airbases they said are now being used as launching points for cargo.
In an exclusive interview, Saad Bou Shradah, a member of Libyas state council from the countrys south, told MEE that Haftars Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) is flying military supplies from its territory to the Central African Republic, from where they are driven by car across the border into the Sudanese interior.
Sources inside Haftar's operation, who spoke anonymously because they are not authorised to talk to the media, confirmed this. Opposition sources in CAR have previously told MEE that the government there is working with the Wagner Group to supply the RSF.
Bye Bye Paris: Chinese CO2 Emissions are Skyrocketing "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
As industries in green nations like Germany struggle with unaffordable green energy, China is boosting coal use. China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened. Thats bad
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Checked Out: How LA Failed to Stop Landlords From Turning Low-Cost Housing Into Tourist Hotels "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
<p class="byline">by <span class="name">Robin Urevich</span>, <a href="https://capitalandmain.com/">Capital & Main, and Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, photography by Barbara Davidson for ProPublica
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By law, the American Hotel in downtown Los Angeles is supposed to be reserved for residents who cant afford to live anywhere else. For decades, the building was a haven in the citys sky-high housing market, where artists, musicians and people down on their luck could rent rooms for about $500 a month. At the end of the day, longtime tenants would hang out at Als Bar, a legendary punk and alternative rock venue on the ground floor where bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers played long before they sold out stadiums.</p> <p>But amid the largest homelessness crisis in the nation, the Americans owner has turned the building into a boutique hotel where tourists can book rooms for as much as $209 a night.</p> <p>And the city has done nothing to stop him.</p> <p>Long before Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared a housing emergency last year, city officials recognized that affordable housing was vanishing and sought to address it by making it difficult for developers to scoop up the residential hotels whose single-room dwellings were the only places many people could afford. Residential hotels consist of small, bare-bones rooms, some with shared bathrooms and most with no kitchens, in aging downtown buildings and roadside motels. In 2008, the LA City Council passed 300 such buildings, totaling nearly 19,000 rooms (about 15% of the citys lowest-cost housing units today).</p> <p>But seven years later, the Americans new owner, Mark Verge, <a href= "https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23865518-american-meeting"> called the residents to a meeting</a>. He said he planned to remodel the crumbling building and, according to tenants, offered to pay them to move. For months before the meeting, rumors had swirled around the Am...</p>
Sid Meiers Clash of Civilizations "IndyWatch Feed World"
Just like any other medium, video games can serve pedagogical purposes. Putt-Putt and Carmen Sandiego taught me some very basic world history and geography, and I spent a lot of time on Math Blaster in my childhood computer classes.
Whether its learning the location of Kathmandu or practicing basic math, video games can clearly communicate facts and sharpen real-world skills. Games can also offer arguments about how the real world works even if those will be shaped by technological, commercial, and political constraints.
That video games can teach us things is not a new argumentthis idea is central to the long-running serious games movement, and the U.S. military has long used games for various purposes. Sometimes, however, players learn lessons the game designers never meant to communicate.
Video games are, to borrow Jesper Juuls term, half-real: real in that they consist of real rules with which players actually interact, and in that winning or losing a game is a real event. However, when winning a game by slaying a dragon, the dragon is not a real dragon but a fictional one. To play a video game is therefore to interact with real rules while imagining a fictional world, and a video game is a set of rules as well as a fictional world.
To treat the fictional worlds of video games as if they can provide dispositive evidence on how the real world works would be a mistake, yet some players seem to do exactly that.
Sid Meiers Civilization (Civ) series, for example, gives players the chance to guide a highly stylized civilization through history and to win through military conquest, religious or cultural influence, diplomatic feats, scientific advances, or some combination thereof. Civ...
Bitcoin Trading System Impacts on the Businesses of Mozambique "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
The Bitcoin trading system has become a hot topic in the world of finance and commerce. Its significance has been felt in various parts of the world, including Mozambique. As a result, businesses in Mozambique have been affected by the Bitcoin trading system in both positive and negative ways. Explore this link https://immediateconnect.app/ for further []
Left with few tanks and ammunition, Ukraine puts its hope in cluster munitions "IndyWatch Feed War"
By Ahmed Adel | July 10, 2023
The Ukrainian military lacks tanks, armoured vehicles, and ammunition to dislodge Russian forces from their well-entrenched positions, demonstrating that over half a year of planning and training for the current counteroffensive has dissipated into complete failure. The situation for Ukraine is so bad that it was even forced to withdraw its German-made Leopard 2 tanks from the front lines so they could be preserved for the future. This revelation comes as the Biden administration announced on July 6 that it would send cluster munitions to Ukraine.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Ukraine is now attempting to dislodge an entrenched enemy, one of the most daunting operations any military can undertake. Russian troops have spent months building physical defences that include bunkers, tank traps and mine fields.
The same outlet quoted Lt. Col. Oleksiy Telehin of Ukraines 108th Territorial Defence Brigade as saying that it was not only impossible to destroy well-prepared positions before advancing but that Ukrainian forces were suffering from a shortage of armoured vehicles, with infantry forced to advance on foot, which makes it vulnerable to flanking manoeuvres.
The Ukrainian military has only managed to capture a few villages in Zaporozhye and the Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR). A month of fighting has resulted in only the capture of some villages and failure to reach Russias first defensive line, and more disturbingly, at the cost of thousands of deaths and hundreds of destroyed tanks and armoured vehicles.
Ukrainian personnel admit to horrific losses, with soldiers presumably in Zaporozhye, saying they could have lost dozens of men in a single attack.
We had to evacuate the evacuation team, said a 19-year-old combat medical professional, according to the US outlet. The teenager also recalled a case where a mortar hit his vehicle during an evacuation of the wounded.
According to reports, Russian helicopters fly less than 8 kilometres from Ukrainian positions, which should ordinarily make them vulnerable to air defences, but as a platoon commander from the 108th Brigade said, We dont have proper air defence systems to deal with the threat. When were warned that an enemy plane has taken off, the only way to deal with it is to take cover.
The Russian Defence Ministry reported on July 9 that since the beginning of the special military operation, their forces have destroyed from Ukraine 453 planes, 241 helicopters, 4,948 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,604 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,137 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,396 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,547 special military motor vehicles.
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New Mozilla Feature Blocks Risky Add-Ons on Specific Websites to Safeguard User Security "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Mozilla has announced that some add-ons may be blocked from running on certain sites as part of a new feature called Quarantined Domains. "We have introduced a new back-end feature to only allow some extensions monitored by Mozilla to run on specific websites for various reasons, including security concerns," the company said in its Release Notes for Firefox 115.0 released last week. The company
A flaw in Revolut US payments resulted in the theft of $20 Million "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
In early 2022, threat actors exploited a zero-day flaw in Revolut payment systems to steal more than $20 million, reported the Financial Times quoting multiple unnamed sources.
The issue resulted from differences between American and European payment systems. When some transactions were declined, the company would erroneously refund accounts using its own money.
The problem was exploited by threat actors to steal approximately $23 million, part of this sum was recouped by the net loss was about $20 million.
The total amount of funds stolen is worrisome considering that it is equal to almost two-thirds of Revault annual net profit in 2021.
The problem took place in 2021 and threat actors began exploiting the issue in 2022. Crooks made expensive purchases that would be declined, then withdraw the refunds at ATMs.
It seems that the problem was known in the cybercrime ecosystem.
At this time, a Revolut spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by multiple media.
In September 2022, the financial technology company Revolut suffered a highly targeted cyberattack over the weekend, threat actors had access to the personal information of 0.16% of its customers (approximately 50,000 users).
Upon discovering the intrusion, the security team promptly locked out the threat.
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Socialist Georgia mayor arrested on trespassing, burglary charges "IndyWatch Feed World"
The socialist mayor of South Fulton, Georgia, was arrested Saturday morning and charged with first-degree criminal trespass and burglary. South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Saturday but was released later in the day after posting $11,000 bond, according to Fox News. The mayor reportedly entered a house that he thought was abandoned. "The City of South Fulton is committed to upholding the law and ensuring that all individuals, regardless of their position, are subject to the same fair and just treatment," a statement from the City of South Fulton said. "As the investigation is still ongoing, we are unable to provide further details at this time."
A Vital Paper: David Crowe challenges the discovery of the COVID-19 virus "IndyWatch Feed World"
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Continuing my greatest COVID hits...
This weekend was a bust "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
So disappointed. We found some old graves of dead Westads, and thats about it.
Damn few spiders. I dont know why. We were tromping around in nature preserves around Fertile, but spiders were scarce, we only found a handful. We didnt even see many insects, other than ants, which were flourishing in the sandy soils of the old Lake Agassiz shoreline.
I was reduced to taking pictures of flowers, out of a lack of worthy subjects.
All right, time for me to go home.
Bangladesh captive elephant death by train highlights need for conservation "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
On May 17, an elephant was killed after a train hit it in the capital Dhakas Uttara area. The incident took place in the Court Bari area while two captive elephants, guided by their mahout, were crossing the railroad tracks. Immediately after the incident, the mahout fled the spot, and nobody took responsibility for the incident, sparking widespread criticism by wildlife experts and animal rights activists for not taking proper measures to protect the captive Asian elephants, which are critically endangered in Bangladesh. When the news of the elephants death spread, wildlife lovers rushed to the spot but no wildlife conservator came immediately. As the elephant was still alive and trying to stand up while bleeding, people gathered around were trying to save the injured animals life by pouring water on it. But, finally, it succumbed to the injuries on the spot. Later, animal lovers and animal rights activists held a demonstration in front of the Forest Department office (Ban Bhaban) in the citys Agargaon area with banners and festoons. Captive elephants have a long history in the region. In the 19th century, wild elephants were abundant throughout the Bengal region, frequently raiding crop fields. Several landholders kept tame female elephants as decoys for capturing these wild elephants. Elephants were also sometimes hunted and killed for ivory. About a hundred years ago, elephants were still abundant in most of the forests here, even in the Madhupur forests near present-day Dhaka. A captive elephant at a stream. Image by Shikirocks viaThis article was originally published on Mongabay
Snowfall in Johannesburg, South Africa for the first time in 11 years "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Snow has fallen on Johannesburg for the first time in more than a decade. The South African city woke up to snowflakes, rain and wind, with temperatures cold enough to keep the snow lying on the ground through the morning. Photos show children wrapped up in coats and beanies, making snow angels on their school fields. For some youngsters, today will be the first time they have ever seen snow.
Selected Articles: The WHOs Burgeoning Biomedical Police State: Whos Going to Stop It? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
The WHOs Burgeoning Biomedical Police State: Whos Going to Stop It?
By , July 09, 2023
The organization atop the world Public Health hierarchy, the WHO, is now explicit in stating these aims out loud in public, apparently
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Why Did Gates and the Pentagon Release Gene Edited (GMO) Mosquitoes in Florida Keys? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Japanese Scholars Call on the G7 Group for a Ceasefire to End Escalation in Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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New TOITOIN Banking Trojan Targeting Latin American Businesses "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Businesses operating in the Latin American (LATAM) region are the target of a new Windows-based banking trojan called TOITOIN since May 2023. "This sophisticated campaign employs a trojan that follows a multi-staged infection chain, utilizing specially crafted modules throughout each stage," Zscaler researchers Niraj Shivtarkar and Preet Kamal said in a report published last week. "These modules
Russian Intelligence: US Forces Handed Over Missiles with Poisonous Substances to Daesh in al-Tanf "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian near West Bank settlement "IndyWatch Feed War"
Israeli forces kill Palestinian near West Bank settlement
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian man near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
The man was identified as Bilal Ibrahim Qadah, 33, by the Palestinian health ministry.
Qadah, a father of three, was apparently in his car driving close to the Palestinian village of Deir Nidham and the Israeli settlement of Khalamish when he came under fire.
According to an eyewitness and footage from the scene, his car was hit from the back.
Qadah was pictured laying on the floor next to his car after being shot by Israeli soldiers.
Palestinian media said Israeli troops blocked paramedics and residents from reaching him after he was injured, leaving him to bleed to death.
The Israeli military said in a statem...
Cancer-Causing Forever Chemicals Found in Nearly Half of U.S. Tap Water, Study Finds "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Gemini Links 10/07/2023: More on Old Computer Challenge "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
About 100 grams of sourdough starter (roughly 100% hydration, or about 50 grams of flour) plus enough rye flour and water to make for a 80% hydration dough with 500 grams of flour. And some salt. Actually I ran out of rye flour so had to pad the loaf with bread flour, whoops. Thirty minutes at 445F got the bread to about 160F internal temperature; another 15 minutes got it a little above 200F inside.
I am paralyzed mentally; not physically, and I dont mean to amplify what Im talking about to the level of someone who actually does suffer from that. I just dont really know how to describe what I feel in any other concise way.
In a lot of ways, I feel like I cannot move and I cant tell if its my fault or the fault of something else. I went to therapy for the first time last week, and I have my next appointment tomorrow yay!
This article seeks to correct all too common generalisations and distortions about the London Congress of 1881. It indicates how looking solely at the resolutions as most non-anarchists do gives a distinctly false impression of both the Congress itself and anarchist ideas and strategy. This is an expanded Anarchist FAQ** and then in **Black Flag Anarchist Review** (Spring Review**.
Today Im starting Solenes Old Computer Challenge V3. This is the 3rd year shes run...
Watch: 'Unexpected' summer snowfall covers village in Himachal Pradesh, India "IndyWatch Feed World"
The entire village was covered with a thick layer of snow after it experienced the surprise snowfall on Sunday morning. Losar village in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh received an 'unexpected' spell of snowfall on Sunday as various parts of north India remain affected due to heavy rainfall. The entire village was covered with a thick layer of snow after it experienced the surprise snowfall on Sunday morning. "Losar village received an unexpected sudden snowfall on Sunday morning as various parts of north India are affected due to heavy rainfall," officials said.
Joe Biden and His Warmongering Minions Seem Absolutely Determined to Drag America Into World War III "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Shocking Real Reasons for COVID Shot! The Pandemic of Lies "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Why is Erdogan linking Swedens Nato bid to Turkeys EU membership? "IndyWatch Feed War"
Why is Erdogan linking Swedens Nato bid to Turkeys EU membership?
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened a new lane of negotiations with his western allies on Monday, explicitly linking for the first time Sweden's Nato membership bid with Turkey's own longstanding bid for European Union membership.
Speaking on TV before departing for the Nato summit in Lithuania, Erdogan bought up the EU accession process, which has been stalled for many years for Turkey following deteriorating diplomatic relations between the country and its neighbours.
First, open the way to Turkey's membership of the European Union, and then we will open [Nato membership] for Sweden, just as we had opened it for Finland," Erdogan said.
In a phone call with US President Joe Biden on Sunday, Erdogan also brought up the question of EU membership.
Stating that Turkey is principled and honest about EU membership, President Erdogan said that Turkey wants to revive the EU membership process, a Turkish presidency press release said....
Unexpected summer snowfall in Skardu, Pakistan breaks 18-year record "IndyWatch Feed World"
Skardu's famed tourist spot, Deosai, has received unexpected snowfall in the past few days, giving the warm month of July a feel of winter. Local authorities say that this is the first time it has snowed in Skardu in July in the last 18 years. Temperatures have dropped in the Skardu valley and everything in sight is covered in white. While the snowfall was unexpected, it has turned into a surprising delight for tourists hoping for a summer get away.
The Weaponization of Mosquitos: WHO and Gates Inc Announce Plans to Flood Africa with Ultra Dangerous Malaria Vaccines "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Razer Data Breach: Alleged Database and Backend Access Sold for $100k "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
By Waqas
Razer Inc. is aware of the potential breach and is currently investigating.
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Sri Lanka: Tamil Tigers Making a Comeback? "IndyWatch Feed War"
As 2023 unfolds, Sri Lanka is wrestling with a series of political and economic crises, with growing fears of insecurity for the island. A narcotics and arms bust by Indias National Investigation Agency (NIA) in April identified a Pakistani criminal network associated with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the terrorist outfit Lakshar-e-Taiba (LeT) as responsible for an uptick in shipments between India and Sri Lanka. Further investigative details on the case also indicated a desire by the criminal group to revive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the prominent militant group that engaged in a decades-long civil war with the Sri Lankan government until its defeat in 2009.
In addition to the NIAs bust, a sensational claim in February 2023 by a Tamil nationalist suggested that the LTTEs founder and former leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, long believed to be deceased, was still alive. Though still unproven, this claim and the NIA bust has renewed debate over a potential revival of the LTTE. Compounding these concerns is an economic recovery effort in Sri Lanka that continues to lag.
Historical context
The LTTE emerged in the context of deep-seated ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils, becoming the most prominent group advocating for Tamil rights and, eventually, for a separate state known as Tamil Eelam. The Tamil Tigers distinguished themselves with a high degree of efficacy and sophistication in their attacks, proving their capability as a formidable non-state military force with naval and air power at its peak.
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Leftist Media Distort New Homelessness Study To Support Failed Housing First Policies "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Following
the release of a UCSF homelessness study, the media have heralded
free housing as the solution. But the data suggests otherwise.
Global Retailers Must Keep an Eye on Their SaaS Stack "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Brick-and-mortar retailers and e-commerce sellers may be locked in a fierce battle for market share, but one area both can agree on is the need to secure their SaaS stack. From communications tools to order management and fulfillment systems, much of today's critical retail software lives in SaaS apps in the cloud. Securing those applications is crucial to ongoing operations, chain management,
Why Has Election Day Turned Into Election Month? "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
A
case challenging North Dakotas 13 extra election days is about
helping to bring confidence back to elections nationwide.
South American countries have demanded that the EU first compensate them for their colonial past "IndyWatch Feed War"
The Ukraine issue has caused discord among the countries participating in the summit of Latin American and Caribbean states (CELAC), which will take place in Brussels on 17-18 July. Spain has invited Vladimir Zelensky to speak at the meeting, but this provoked resistance from Latin American leaders, after which Kiev refused to participate in the summit, writes Euractiv.
Central and Latin American countries also demanded that the reference to Ukraine be removed from the summit's final stat...
FRANCE UNDER ATTACK "IndyWatch Feed War"
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The pawns are fighting in the streets of France, but the war is between France and the Anglo-American Empire.
Written by Alex Krainer. Originally published on Trend Compass
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Nederland "IndyWatch Feed War"
New Report: Many Microsoft Employees Are Nowadays Fake Workers, Contractors Instead of Real Staff (Not Even Counted as Layoffs After Their Disposal) "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Published one hour ago:
Yes, Microsoft a notable example:
Summary: Weve long said that the real number of Microsoft layoffs is far higher than what Microsoft and the media (parroting Microsofts lies) say and on top of that they dont even count the temps (temporary workers) and the contractors (what the above articles calls fake work); Microsoft suffers a serious crisis which dismantles entire teams and products/disservices (GitHub had at least two waves of layoffs this year, to give one example)
The Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed by Bidens Democrats "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
This is the second of a two-part series that contemplates what the Founding Fathers would make of todays politics and each of the parties. For Part 1, go here.
It doesnt take much imagination to realize that the Founding Fathers would be appalled by todays Republicans, which was the topic of our last column. However, how would they feel about Democrats?
Once again, we wonder what would happen if the Founders could travel forward in time.
Thats a bit trickier. Well, actually, we know what would happen first.
Before any of the Founding Fathers could get a word out, somebody would try to cancel them.
Not just because some of them were slave owners but also because of their unfamiliarity with the meaning of Latinx. And, lets face it, they would probably struggle with getting everybodys pronouns right.
That highlights two problems of modern Democrats. The first is that they pick the wrong battles. Spurred on by social justice warriors, they seem to fight hardest when it comes to mandating tolerance, which is impossible.
What they should be focused on instead is fighting for a society that teaches tolerance.
The second problem is that todays left has created purity standards that nobody, including themselves, can live up to.
Put these two things together, and its easy to see why progressives these days are more interested in achieving symbolic victories than affecting real change full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
That mindset leads to foolish endeavors like trying to cancel the Founding Fathers.
Sure, they were deeply flawed in many ways, but they also altered the course of history, and what they created ended up benefitting countless people to this day.
Of course it is fine, and even important, to acknowledge the flaws of the Founding Fathers. Put them in history books and on plaques to show Americans that they werent gods but rather just exceptional men with their own faults.
They led a struggle for greater rights that still serves as a model for people who want greater self-determination and freedom.
On balance, their accomplishment...
Corrupt Media Care More About Qanon Than Human Trafficking "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Leftist
media would rather obsess over 'Qanon' than address the work
conservative Americans are doing to fight human trafficking.
At least 1 dead as heavy summer rains set off flash flooding in New York state - up to 8 inches of rainfall "IndyWatch Feed World"
A slow-moving storm system brought heavy rain across a wide section of New York State on Sunday evening, flooding streets, prompting dozens of rescues for drivers whose vehicles were stranded on inundated roads and causing at least one death, the authorities said. The Hudson Valley was the most affected by the storm system on Sunday, with sections of the area getting between five and eight inches of rain, the National Weather Service said. The epicenter of the storm struck West Point, the U.S. Military Academy in Orange County, which had about eight inches of rain as of Sunday night. Trooper Steven V. Nevel of the New York State Police described the search-and-rescue efforts on Sunday night as an "all hands on deck" endeavor, saying that several bridges had collapsed and many roads were impassable.
For Queen & NATO: Listing Denmarks Recent Weapons Purchases "IndyWatch Feed War"
Grassley Probes Weiss Deputys Role In Obstructing Biden Investigation "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Grassley
highlighted the numerous ways Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney
Lesley Wolf appeared to have obstructed the investigation into
Hunter Bidens potentially criminal business activities.
Kit Knightly The scandal doing the rounds across all British media is the BBCs revelation that an as-yet-unnamed BBC presenter has been suspended following allegations he allegedly paid over 35,000 for nude pictures of an unnamed teenager. This would technically be a crime, due to a strange legal set-up in the UK which says that
Kim-1: Memory Problem Resolved "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
At the very start of the personal computer revolution, there were relatively inexpensive boards with little more than a CPU, some memory, a display, and switches or a keypad. Some of these had expansion ports meant to allow you to build up, and some were just trainers to learn about computers. While you could argue that the Altair fell into this category, it had a case and a proper bus. The computers we are thinking about were usually just on a single board and with luck had an edge connector for expansion. Perhaps the most famous of these was the KIM-1 and [Old VCR] shows us how he brought one back to life.
These were highly popular mainly because of the low price of $245 back in 1976. For that price you got a calculator-style keyboard and LED display, 1K of RAM, and 2K of ROM. [Old VCR] has several and noticed that one was developing memory problems.
Some basic troubleshooting found the culprit to be the memory chip at U10 on the schematic. Piggybacking a good RAM chip proved the chip was at fault, and, of course, there was no socket, so surgery ensued!
On the old boards, it is hard to remove a part without damaging traces and this was no exception. Silver conductive ink fixed the trace, but the repair was unsuccessful. Thats when the diagnostic board a design from [Dwight Elvey] makes an appearance.
Spoiler alert: the culprit was a solder bridge, also easy to do on the...
[Meme] Equality at Sirius Open Source "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
DEI-compliant, but not law-compliant
Summary: To the credit of Sirius Open Source, both men and women in the company were defrauded for years and formal, certified payslips were lies; it might be very hard to recover the stolen money, but the perpetrators of the crime need to be arrested (the government and the police cover up for them because some people are implicated contractually)
Google Revises New Driver For Stadia Controller Rumble Support On Linux "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
While Google shutdown their Stadia game streaming service, with updated firmware there is Bluetooth (BLE) support for the controller as well as USB wired connectivity for those wishing to continue using this gaming controller. Google engineers have also been working on a new Linux driver for enabling force feedback "rumble" support with this controller...
Exclusive: Lawyer reviewing Britains sex education acted for anti-LGBT lobby group "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
Alasdair Henderson represented Christian Concern, which has also campaigned against educating kids about contraception
Indonesias No. 2 palm oil firm faces global backlash over community conflict "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
CENTRAL SULAWESI, Indonesia Karolus Kolong, a 62-year-old villager on Indonesias Sulawesi island, has spent nearly two decades fighting to get his land back from palm oil giant Astra Agro Lestari. AAL, as the company is known, is the second-largest plantation company in Indonesia, which in turn is the worlds largest producer of palm oil. AALs global reach means its palm oil could, until recently, be found in products made by household brands like PepsiCo and Nestl. In 1995, Karolus was part of a group of more than 50 families who migrated from their village in East Nusa Tenggara province to Rio Mukti village in Central Sulawesi in search of a better life. In [the old] village, I had nothing, Karolus told Mongabay at his home in October 2022. For the first few years in this new land, the dream appeared to be coming true: Karolus grew oranges, chili and cacao on a 3-hectare (7-acre) plot of land, which hed bought in 1997 from the village chief at that time. Things changed soon after. In 2004, PT Mamuang, a subsidiary of AAL, won a concession covering 8,000 hectares (19,800 acres), parts of which overlapped with villages in the area, including Rio Mukti. Karolus and 70 other Rio Mukti villagers tried to negotiate with the company to spare their land, but to no avail: they could only watch as their crops and homes were bulldozed to make way for Mamuangs oil palm plantation. Karolus said he was too scared to fight.This article was originally published on Mongabay
Sinjajevina Prepares for Annual Celebration and Ongoing Resistance "IndyWatch Feed War"
By Tim Pluta, World BEYOND War, July 10, 2023
The outhouses are up and functioning, our tents are pitched, and there is a warm fire going on a cool night in the mountains of Sinjajevina in Montenegro.
The local organizers of the Save Sinjajevina Campaign have already been working long hot days, purchasing sleeping bags, tents, sleeping pads, food, and other supplies, organizing transportation and pick ups, and readying their mountain camp for the supporters that will be arriving in 4 days to celebrate St Peters Day.
Along with paying their respects to St. Peter, they will also bring attention to the reality that somewhere, members of NATO are attempting to devise yet another plan to turn the mountains of Sinjajevina into a practice bombing range despite the fact that a corner of it would be a part of a UNESCO reserve, the people living there have been doing so in complete balance with nature for 400 years, and, oh yes, NATO does not have their permission.
While the limit of visitors had been set at 50, organizers suspect that last minute folks just showing up might result in as many as 70 people at the celebration.
On this cloudless night, with a campfire blazing, resting after 2 days and nights of preparation, tenacity comes to mind. On the one hand the tenacity of NATO to do whatever it takes to keep the military industrial complex alive, strong, and killing people. On the other hand, the tenacity of residents and supporters of Sinjajevina, gathering together as a functioning, nonviolent international community, resisting the fanatical efforts of NATO to maintain life-support for the dying and obsolete concept that war is somehow a good idea.
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The Injustice Continues for Victims of the Black Wall Street Massacre "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
More than 100 years after the Black Wall Street massacre, all that the remaining survivors of one of the worst terrorist attacks on US soil wanted was some semblance of justice. If Tulsa County District Court Judge Caroline Wall has her way, they wont get it.
On Friday, Wall threw out a lawsuit filed on behalf of three centenarians who were alive in 1921, when a mob of white people descended on a Black district in Tulsa, OK, killed hundreds of its residents, and left the thriving community in ruins.
Tulsa officials then tried to downplay and cover up what really happened that day, which is one of the reasons why more Americans are not aware of the massacre, and why justice has been so hard to come by.
In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs argue that, even a century later, the impact of the massacre reverberates. At the time of the attack, Black Wall Street, as that part of Tulsa had been known, was one of the most prosperous Black communities in the US. All of that was reduced to ashes in just a few hours.
And still, there has been no compensation for the victims.
Wall is not the first judge who is denying them justice. As far back as 1937, when a series of property cases were dismissed, the courts have done their part to perpetuate this grave injustice.
That is really one of the most baffling things about the massacre and its aftermath. It is easy to understand how racism, jealousy, and poverty would motivate a white mob in the 1920s to sack a wealthy Black community.
And it also makes sense that Tulsa officials tried to downplay what happened. Who wants to be known as the city where hundreds of residents were slaughtered without repercussions?
However, the way in which the legal system, even 100 years after the fact, has failed the victims is stunning.
Just the fact that the defendants in the lawsuit, including the City of Tulsa and the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce, chose to fight it instead of finding some sort of solution is baffling.
Their argument that the request to compensate the victims for the property that was stolen and destroyed would impose a burden on the citys financial stability is just ridiculous. A horrific crime was committed, and nobody paid for it. However, many people (and their descendants) have materially benefited from it.
Anybody interested in justice should want there to be some kind of compensation.
Apparently, however, Wall is not.
Upon hearing the arguments of counsel and considering the briefs filed by counsel for plaintiffs and counsel for defendants the court respectfully finds and order the plaintiffs second amended petition should and shall be dismis...
Thousands of dead fish wash ashore in drought-hit Iraq "IndyWatch Feed World"
In a staggering scene, thousands of fish floated in the Al-Ezz River in the southeastern Iraqi governorate of Maysan due to water scarcity and the high level of salinity. Social media activists shared videos of fish deaths with angry comments about the situation in their areas because of water scarcity. The local authorities in Maysan announced on Saturday that they had monitored the deaths of fish in the Al-Ezz River, warning of serious diseases at the same time.
Arming Autocracies: Arms Transfers and the Emerging Biden Doctrine "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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BEST OF THE WEB: Will the Ukraine war be the undoing of the European Union? - former UN Assistant Secretary-General "IndyWatch Feed World"
With the ending of the division of Europe, we will strive for a new quality in our security relations while fully respecting each other's freedom of choice in that respect. Security is indivisible, and the security of every participating state is inseparably linked to that of all the others. We therefore pledge to cooperate in strengthening confidence and security among us and in promoting arms control and disarmament. (Charter of Paris for a New Europe November 21, 1990) The madness of war reigns again in Europe. The delusion that only weapons provide security is once again in high season among politicians, think tanks, and the media across Europe. It has become acceptable once again in Europe that human sacrifices are being offered at the altar of alleged decisive battles. As if we had learned nothing from the past, the Ukrainian counter-offensive is now supposed to become such a decisive battle that it should bring a military solution to what we could not or did not want to...
Hackers Exploit Flaws in Revoluts Payment System, Stealing $20 Million "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
By Waqas
Revolut has not yet issued an official statement regarding the cyber attack.
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Why Private Wealth Should Lead Public Investment "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Americas Suburban Experiment is an interlude of financial unreality that began at the end of World War II. We are in the process of transitioning out of it, moving to something different. What that development pattern will be is unclear, but emerging constraints suggest that we will learn a lot from understanding the historic relationship between private investment and public investment.
Here is an image Ive used a lot. Its Front Street in my hometown of Brainerd, Minnesota:
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Front Street. Brainerd, MN, 1870.
Heres the second generation of buildings on this same street. Version 2.0:
Boycott TikTok "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
and convince others to do the same
Summary: Bytedances TikTok (some spell it ByteDance) comes in two flavours, which are known as spinach and opium. The former is for the local (Chinese) market and makes people obedient, whereas the latter makes people destructive (to themselves and to others) overseas; why cant the mainstream media properly convey such a simple message?
THE threat remains potent and the evidence keeps piling up. The US Surgeon Generals investigations into health damage, both physical and mental, caused by social control media is relevant. Then theres also the CBS 60-Minutes segment from last autumn, even though it is not viewable outside the US. Its the opium TikTok vs spinach TikTok segment.
So why are people still being Zuckers of Facebook? Why are people flocking from one poison to another poison? Why are so many people in the West still using (being used by) Bytedances TikTok? Do they not understand what Bytedance is? The name sounds benign. Its misleading. Those are all poisons, but both methods and dosages vary, depending on geography and geopolitics.
Were hoping that the media will be predisposed to criticise Bytedances TikTok. We can only hope.
Were hoping that the media will be predisposed to criticise Bytedances TikTok. We can only hope.Even though the pertinent facts are widely and openly available, the media thinks it can gain audiences by sucking up to Bytedances masters. Sometimes it gets paid to do this! To give an example, a tabloid that kept promoting TikTok almost every day (even several times per day in recent months) decided to publish an article entitled Dangerous TikTok trends claim 4 lives in 6 months in Alabama: officials. This was published this past Saturday. As someone explained today, Bytedances TikT...
Work Continues For Supporting Intel Sapphire Rapids C0.x Idle States On Linux "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
While Intel's Linux engineers were very timely in enabling much of the Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" support for the upstream Linux kernel well ahead of the processor launch at the beginning of the year, one patch series that has continued on post-launch has been working to get the new C0.x idle states supported...
Disaster: Palestinian Homes Used as Israeli Bases in Jenin "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Trump holds meeting with Mel Gibson and Roger Stone after Sound of Freedom movie tops box office "IndyWatch Feed World"
President Donald Trump met with Hollywood legend Mel Gibson backstage during UFC 290 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. This meeting was hot on the heels of the inspiring success of the anti-child trafficking film Sound of Freedom at the box office. Gibson has been a major promoter of the movie. "One of the most disturbing problems in our world today is human trafficking and particularly the trafficking of children" Gibson said recently in promotion of SOF. In fact, Jack Posobiec said that "Tim Ballard claimed Mel Gibson had some input on the final edit of Sound of Freedom." UFC boss Dana White pledged, just hours earlier to pay for all of his employees to see the groundbreaking film.
Antivaxxers Blamed for Hijacking Data as Birth Rates Continue to Decline in Australia and Sweden "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Flash floods batter Sochi, Russia - cars washed away and houses submerged - 2 months rain in a day "IndyWatch Feed World"
Devastating flash floods have hit Sochi, Russia's top resort from where Vladimir Putin rules the country in summer. Remarkable footage shows how multiple cars were washed away as the Matsesta River burst its banks. Washed away cars even formed a dam on a submerged street which became a torrential river in the sudden deluge. Houses were also flooded with a storm warning in place until the end of the day on Monday. The Black Sea port Sochi, Putin's favourite summer hideaway, suffered two months of rainfall in one day, according to reports.
Wagering Requirements in Online Casinos and Course of Action "IndyWatch Feed World"
When it comes to online casino bonuses and promotions, wagering requirements often come into play. These requirements are an essential aspect of the terms and conditions associated with such offers.
Lightning strikes kill 17 in 24 hours across Uttar Pradesh, India "IndyWatch Feed World"
At least 17 persons died in Uttar Pradesh in the last 24-hours due to lightning strikes. There have been more rain-related deaths as well - five due to heavy rains and 12 due to drowning, office of the relief commissioner said. One person each died due to lightning in Baghpat, Etawah, Unnao, Agra and Ballia, two each in Jalaun, Kanpur Dehat, Kannauj and Ghazipur and four in Mainpuri. One person died in Sant Kabir Nagar, two in Badaun, four in Bareilly and five in Rae Bareli due to drowning in water. One person each died in Etah, Kannauj and Kaushambi, and two in Muzaffarnagar due to excessive rains. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has condoled the loss of lives due to lightning, drowning in water and heavy rains in the state. He has given instructions to immediately distribute the assistance amount of Rs. 4 lakh each to the dependents of the deceased.
Italy's PM Meloni to issue 425,000 work permits to foreigners to fill gaps in labor market "IndyWatch Feed World"
Italy's rightwing coalition plans to sharply increase the number of foreign workers from outside the EU while continuing to crack down on irregular migrants crossing the Mediterranean. Prime minister Giorgia Meloni's government this week said it would issue 425,000 work permits to non-EU nationals between this year and 2025, which Rome said was part of its plan to promote legal immigration to fill gaps in the labour market. The announcement followed repeated complaints from employers in various industries - including construction and tourism - about their acute difficulties in finding workers, as Italy's economy rebounds from the pandemic shock.
Declassified Intelligence Report on COVID-19 Origin: Both Theories Remain Plausible "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
A recently declassified intelligence assessment looking into a possible link between a lab in Wuhan, China, and the origin of COVID-19 found that both the lab-leak theory as well as a natural origin remain plausible.
The report, which Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines declassified last month, examined the role that one specific lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), may have played in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While that was not the documents focus, perhaps one of the most interesting takeaways from it is that the intelligence community has not yet reached a conclusion as to where COVID-19 came from.
All agencies continue to assess that both a natural and laboratory-associated origin remain plausible hypotheses to explain the first human infection, said the report, which was compiled by the National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation.
While pointing out that different agencies favor either of the two theories, the author stressed that the report does not address the merits of the two most likely pandemic origins hypotheses, nor does it explore other biological facilities in Wuhan other than the WIV.
Therefore, the report should not be used to draw conclusions as to whether COVID-19 originated in a lab or first occurred naturally.
The document does make it clear, however, that the different agencies are in agreement that COVID-19 was not developed as a biological weapon.
WIV has attracted a lot of attention as a possible site where the virus may have originated. It has been the subject to various theories related to the pandemic, and the declassified document addresses several of them.
The main takeaway of the report is that the evidence of the intelligence community does not support the theory that COVID-19 originated in WIV.
We continue to have no indication that the WIVs pre-pandemic research holdings included SARS-CoV-2 or a close progenitor, nor any direct evidence that a specific research-related incident occurred involving WIV personnel before the pandemic that could have caused the COVID pandemic, the document states.
One reason why people have suspected WIV as a possible source for COVID-19 is that a safety training was conducted around the time of the initial outbrea...
Tensions in Ukraine Show Why Nuclear Power Is the Most Dangerous Way to Boil Water "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Zaporizhzhia Dangers Should End Nuclear Power Pursuit "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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US accused of leaving innocents stranded in Sudan "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
For many, a safe haven is now out of reach amid the continuing violence in the African country, Gebrehiwot Ewnetu has told RT. The emergency exit plan enacted by US diplomats in Sudan, which involved destroying all passports submitted to the embassy, has left hundreds of innocent people stranded. Policy and governance expert Gebrehiwot Ewnetu told RT on Saturday that the victims of Washington's hasty withdrawal from the country, which is engulfed by clashes between rival factions, face enormous problems in replacing their documents. When fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces erupted in April, Washington ordered its personnel to evacuate. This prompted the embassy in Khartoum to scramble to destroy classified documents and passports in its files. A State Department spokeswoman confirmed as much to the New York Times, describing it as "standard operating procedure" to prevent sensitive materials from falling into the wrong hands.
Yellen's Visit To China Has Failed "IndyWatch Feed War"
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen visited China. There she tried to press the worlds biggest economy on several issues. Yellen, in Beijing, Criticizes Chinas Treatment of U.S. Companies - NY Times, July 7, 2023 Yellen Urges China to Step Up...
India's Space Agency Set to Launch Lunar Lander, Rover "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
On a shoestring budget, Chandrayaan-3 aims to observe Luna, Earth, even exoplanets:
India's Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will next week launch Chandrayaan-3, a mission that aims to land on the moon and deploy a rover.
ISRO yesterday announced that Chandrayaan-3 had been tucked into its capsule and mated with the (LVM-3) launcher that will take it into space. Liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre has been scheduled for July 14 at 2:35pm IST (09:05 Friday UTC).
The ridiculously economical $74.5 million mission aims to land near Luna's south pole in August. From a ramped compartment, the lander will deploy a 26 kilogram rover outfitted with instruments including an Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscope (LIBS).
The lander contains an accelerometer, Ka-band and laser altimeters, Doppler velocimeter, star sensors, inclinometer, touchdown sensor, and cameras for hazard avoidance and positional knowledge.
The lander also boasts several instruments including Chandra's Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) to measure surface thermal properties, Lunar Seismic Activity (ILSA) to measure tremors around the landing site, Radio Anatomy of Moon Bound Hypersensitive ionosphere and Atmosphere (RAMBHA) to study the gas and plasma environment, and a NASA-provided passive Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) for lunar ranging studies.
A propulsion module that carries the rover and lander will stay in a 100km lunar orbit, where it will act as a communication relay satellite, complete with a payload known as the Spectro-polarimetry of Habitable Planet Earth (SHAPE) that studies spectral and polarimetric measurements of Earth from roughly 362,000 to 405,000 kilometers away.
[...] Only three countries - the USA, Russia, and China, have successfully landed missions on the Moon. Good luck, Chandrayaan-3!
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The Robodebt Rogues Gallery "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Republicans wage a war on the truth "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Republicans confuse "free speech" with the right to say anything they feel like, without regard to the truth and certainly without regard to the repercussions of the lack of truth in their statements.
Max Blumenthal's Brave UN Speech on Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Speech given by Max Blumenthal at the United Nations.
EFF's Comment to the Meta Oversight Board on United States Posts Discussing Abortion "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
This post was co-authored with EFF legal intern
Virginia Kennedy.
EFF recently submitted comments to the Meta Oversight Boards call for submissions last month about posts in the United States discussing abortion that were removed under the companys violence and incitement policy.
EFFs comments address the over-removal of abortion-related content and the use of automated technologies to identify such content, as well as the need for contextualization in content moderation. EFFs comments also remind Meta of its responsibility to respect international human rights law, and ensure that any content removal be both necessary and proportionate.
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UK Government Report: The Automobile Industry Does Not Know How to Repair EV Batteries "IndyWatch Feed Enviro"
Even minor accidents often lead to a 14,200 - 29,500 battery write-off.
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Those Committed to Helping Ukraine Must First Decide What Constitutes Real Help for the Countrys People "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
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Who Is Responsible For Taraji P Henson Nude "IndyWatch Feed War"
I was recently asked about the responsibility for Taraji P Hensons nude photos circulating online. Its important to clarify that Taraji P Henson, the talented actress known for her roles in movies and TV shows like Hidden Figures and Empire, has not released any nude photos herself. The circulation of such images without consent is a serious violation of privacy and can have severe emotional and professional consequences for those involved.
In cases like these, its crucial to focus on the individuals responsible for the unauthorised distribution of private photos rather than blaming the victims. The responsibility lies with those who actively choose to share or distribute such intimate images without permission. This behaviour is not only unethical but can also be a criminal offence in many jurisdictions.
Privacy laws and regulations have been put in place to protect individuals from such violations, and it is the responsibility of law enforcement agencies and internet platforms to take action against those who engage in these acts. Additionally, educating people about consent, online safety, and the potential consequences of sharing such material is essential in preventing these incidents from happening in the first place.
Ultimately, it is important to respect the privacy and personal boundaries of individuals, including celebrities like Taraji P Henson. Instead of focusing on the victims of these privacy breaches, the attention should be directed toward holding those responsible accountable, raising awareness, and promoting a culture of consent and respect both online and offline.
Taraji P Henson, a talented and esteemed actress widely known for her captivating performances, found herself at the centre of a controversial incident the leaked nude photos. This unfortunate event raised questions about privacy, consent, and responsibility in the digital age. Heres an overview of the Taraji P Henson nude leak incident and the key aspects surrounding it.
THOUGHT AND THE GEOMETRY OF THE BRAIN "IndyWatch Feed World"
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Dont Top Your Boom! "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
What if Pedo Joe Croaks (tops his boom)? (Townhall) The democrats apparently dont want the Ho. Hey, what about the Butt Guy? Or Gavin Pelosi-Newsom? The liberal elite propose that we scrape the bottom of the barrel. Theres also Big Mike Obama maybe a Veep? So long as the elections are rigged, []
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The Reaction To Mila Kunis Leaked Nudes "IndyWatch Feed War"
The leaked nude photos of Mila Kunis have ignited a wave of reactions and debates across the internet. This breach of privacy has once again highlighted the ongoing issue of celebrity privacy invasion and the ethical ramifications of sharing explicit content without consent. As an observer, its disheartening to witness the fallout from such incidents and the impact it has on the individuals involved.
With her well-established career in Hollywood and her status as a public figure, Mila Kunis is no stranger to media attention. However, the leaking of her private photos goes beyond the realms of curiosity and enters the territory of violation. The circulation of these images has sparked conversations surrounding consent, privacy laws, and the responsibilities of both social media platforms and individuals in safeguarding personal information.
Its concerning to see the rapid dissemination of these intimate images, further magnifying the need for stricter regulations and the development of better online safety measures. The repercussions extend far beyond the immediate embarrassment for the individuals involved, as it raises questions about the online culture of invasion and the emotional toll it takes on victims.
As the discussions unfold and legal actions are potentially taken, its crucial to remember that privacy is a fundamental right that should be respected, regardless of ones public persona. The reaction to Mila Kunis leaked nudes serves as a reminder to reevaluate our own behaviours online and advocate for a safer and more compassionate digital landscape.
When news broke about the leak of Mila Kunis private and intimate photographs, it sparked a wave of public outrage and heated discussions across the internet. As an expert in the field, I couldnt help but analyse the reactions and delve into the underlying reasons for this widespread response. Heres a closer look at the publics outcry:
The Controversies Surrounding Is Kevin Gates Bisexual "IndyWatch Feed War"
When it comes to the personal lives of celebrities, controversies often catch the attention of the public and unfold in the public eye. One such controversy that has been swirling around the rapper Kevin Gates is the speculation surrounding his sexual orientation. Many fans and followers have been intrigued by the question: Is Kevin Gates bisexual?
The discussions and debates about Kevin Gatess sexual orientation have been fueled by various factors. One contributing factor is the lyrics in his songs, where he often expresses his emotions and experiences. Some listeners have interpreted certain song lyrics as indications of his possible bisexuality, leading to speculation about his sexual identity.
However, its important to note that Kevin Gates has not publicly confirmed or addressed these speculations. As with any individuals personal life, it is ultimately their decision to share or not share their sexual orientation with the public. Until Kevin Gates chooses to address the topic directly, the controversies surrounding his sexual orientation will likely continue to spark curiosity and debate among his fans and the media alike.
In conclusion, the controversies surrounding whether Kevin Gates is bisexual have emerged due to fan interpretations of his lyrics and his personal experiences. However, without a direct statement from Kevin Gates himself, the speculations remain just that speculations. As fans continue to enjoy his music and follow his career, it is important to respect his privacy and let him choose if and when he wants to address the topic of his sexual orientation.
Kevin Gates, the popular American rapper, has captivated audiences with his unique style and raw talent. As I delve into the story of his rise to fame, it becomes clear that his journey has been filled with both triumphs and controversies.
Is Cierra Mistt Only Fans Content Worth the Price? "IndyWatch Feed War"
Cierra Mistt is a rising sensation in the world of adult content, particularly known for her presence on the platform OnlyFans. As an expert in the adult industry, Ive been intrigued by the growing popularity surrounding Cierra Mistt and decided to delve deeper into who she is and what sets her apart.
Cierra Mistt, often referred to simply as Mistt, has gained a significant following on OnlyFans with her explicit and exclusive content. With the increasing demand for personalised adult content, Mistt has managed to captivate her audience through her engaging personality and unique style.
Here are a few key things you should know about Cierra Mistt:
Its important to note that while Cierra Mistt has gained a dedicated following on OnlyFans, whether her content is worth the price is subjective and varies depending on individual preferences. It is recommended to carefully review her content and consider your personal desires and expectations before subscribing.
Cierra Mistts rise to prominence in the adult content industry showcases her ability to engage and connect with her audience. Whether you find her content worth the price or not ultimately depends on your individual tastes and desires.
As Drought and Floods Threaten Millions in Ethiopia, Midwives Are a Lifeline for Pregnant Women and Newborns "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
DUDUMACAD, Ethiopia, 7 July 2023 (UNFPA)* Saving the life of this baby was a miracle and a blessing for my family. I am immensely grateful, said Amino Bashir, 25, as she held her newborn.
In
Ethiopias Somali region, a camp in the village of Gabias shelters
hundreds of households displaced by drought. Over 260,000 women are
currently pregnant in the Somali region alone, many of them
internally displaced from recurrent, multiple crises and at dire
risk of acute undernourishment, without access to even the most
basic health care. UNFPA Ethiopia/Paula Seijo
Ms. Bashir lives in Dudumacad
in the Somali region of Ethiopia one of the areas devastated by
a gruelling drought across the Horn of Africa that
has affected more than 36 million people so
far.
This was her fourth pregnancy, but her first safe a...
How Was Discovered Katie Sigmond Leaked Onlyfans "IndyWatch Feed War"
I recently came across an intriguing story that had the internet buzzing the leaked OnlyFans content of Katie Sigmond. Its no secret that OnlyFans has gained tremendous popularity in recent years, providing creators with a platform to share exclusive content with their subscribers. However, privacy concerns and the potential for leaks have always loomed over this platform.
In the case of Katie Sigmond, her exclusive content was unfortunately compromised and leaked without her consent. The incident shed light on the vulnerabilities facing content creators on platforms like OnlyFans. It raises important questions about the protection of personal data and the potential consequences of unauthorised access to private content.
While the details surrounding the leak of Katie Sigmonds OnlyFans content still remain somewhat scarce, this incident serves as a reminder of the risks involved in creating and sharing adult content online. Its a wake-up call for both content creators and subscribers to prioritise digital security and be aware of the potential dangers lurking in the digital realm.
In the upcoming sections, Ill delve deeper into the story of Katie Sigmonds leaked OnlyFans content, exploring the aftermath, the importance of online privacy, and the measures that content creators can take to safeguard their work. So, stay tuned for a closer look at this captivating yet concerning story.
Its important to highlight the unfortunate incident that occurred involving Katie Sigmonds Onlyfans account, which resulted in her private content being leaked. Lets delve into the details and uncover how this breach of privacy came to be.
New Legislation In Michigan Gives Meaningful 2nd Chances To Low-Level, Nonviolent Offenders "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
Recently, Michigans criminal justice reforms, which were signed into law three years ago, finally went into effect. As a result, nearly 850,000 residents who had at least one conviction benefitted from the change, and their charges were automatically set aside.
Advocates refer to this bipartisan legislation as the Clean Slate initiative, and it has initiated an automatic expungement process. This process will effectively clear a range of convictions from an individuals record after a particular waiting period.
In Michigan alone, approximately 2.8 million individuals have criminal records, many of which compromise low-level, nonviolent offenses, or offenses that were committed during their juvenile years. Prior to the implementation of the new expungement laws, these convictions remained on the individuals record, creating major barriers to their ability to avail of good housing and employment opportunities.
As for John Cooper, executive director of Safe & Just Michigan, he shared, Were celebrating a historic step forward as Michigan becomes just the third state to implement automatic expungement. This reform will deliver immediate and automatic impact for more than a million people, all of whom are likely to see their access to housing and jobs improve overnight.
Innovative Solution To Plastic Bag Made Using Seaweed Thats Both Heat Resistant And Biodegradable "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
A compostable plastic wrap with the potential for large-scale production has been developed using an invasive seaweed species from the Caribbean. This innovative solution holds the promise of transforming the entire supply chain of the commonly used product, which is extensively utilized in restaurants worldwide.
The breakthrough originates from the University of Leeds in the UK, where Keeran Reed and his team sought to convert the brown seaweed species called sargassum (Sargassum natans) into a biopolymer. Sargassum consists of elongated molecular chains similar to those found in traditional plastics. Through a combination of acid, salt and specific chemicals, the researchers discovered that the seaweed could be made thicker and more pliable.
Subsequently, they transformed it into film sheets resembling regular plastic wrap to evaluate its performance under heated conditions and when subjected to composting. Unlike existing biodegradable plastics, which can take several months or even over a year to breakdown in compost heaps, the sargassum-based material decomposed in just two to three weeks.
Despite its rapid degradatio...
Exposed, the multi-billion-dollar illusion of HIV: Part 7 "IndyWatch Feed War"
Readers of TCW will be familiar with Neville Hodgkinsons critical reporting of the Covid crisis since December 2020, notably his expert, science-based informed alarm about the mass vaccine rollout, so absent from mainstream coverage. What they may be less aware of is the international storm this former Sunday Times medical and science correspondent created in the 1990s by reporting a scientific challenge to the HIV theory of Aids, presaging the hostile response to science critics of Covid today. In this series, which concludes today, he details findings that form the substance of his newly updated and expanded book, How HIV/Aids Set the Stage for the Covid Crisis, on the controversy. It is available here. You can read Part 1 of this series here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here and Part 6 here.
By Neville Hodgkinson | TCW Defending Freedom | July 9, 2023
This series has summarised a detailed, scientifically argued case that HIV, the purported viral cause of Aids, is a modern myth. Contrary to numerous assertions, HIV has never been proven to exist through standard microbiological techniques. Yet huge amounts of taxpayer cash have been commandeered by the HIV/Aids industry for research and treatment, with more than 250 failed HIV vaccine trials and an endless search for a cure.
Failures that led to the construction and maintenance of the HIV/Aids theory, and suppression of contrary evidence, are being repeated now with Covid. Worse will be to come while such high-level mistakes remain unacknowledged and uncorrected by the scientific and med...
Nearly 3 Million Displaced by Conflict in Sudan in Less than Three Months "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Geneva/Cairo/Port Sudan, 6 July 2023 (IOM)* Nearly 3 million people have been displaced internally and across borders by the conflict in Sudan, in less than three months.
In addition to the more than 2.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), nearly 700,000 others have fled into neighbouring countries, according to the latest figures by the International Organization for Migrations (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM).
Most of the people displaced in Sudan have fled from Khartoum state (67%) and Darfur (33%) towards Northern state (16%), River Nile (14%), West Darfur (7%) and White Nile states.
Food, access to health ser.........
The ThinkPad You All Wish You Had, With A Brain Thats Not Ancient "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
An IBM (or, later, Lenovo) ThinkPad is a popular choice in our community. Theyre prized for their rugged design, longevity, and good software support. Over the many years that the line has been available, there have been a few models which have captured the attention more than others, and among those, probably the most sought-after is the ThinkPad 701c. It would be an unremarkable mid-1990s 486 laptop were it not for the party piece of that flip-out butterfly keyboard (see video, below). [Karl Buchka] has one thats profoundly dead, and rather than use it as a novelty paperweight, hes giving it a new lease of life with a Framework motherboard.
This is very much a work in progress, so there will be plenty more to come, but so far, hes taken the display panel from an iPad and made it work with the Framework board, and designed an entirely new lower case for the Thinkpad. This will hold the Framework board with its USB-C ports at the edge, so in the place of its USB-based expansion modules, hes made a custom external port replicator. Meanwhile, a Teensy handles that unique keyboard. Were told that the design files will all eventually be put online should anyone else want to try.
Wed norm...
Hunger Grows as Sahel Crisis Spills into Coastal West Africa "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
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She heaves a sigh of relief. With her national identity and ration cards in hand, she hurries to the distribution point for World Food Programme (WFP) cash. She already knows what shell spend it on.
Since the arrival of refugees in our area, food is becoming more and more scarce in the market, says Youlka, who shelters 4 families 15 people who have fled armed conflict in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
Years of violence tearing apart Africas central Sahel region are fueling a broader West African crisis, as unrest and refugees move southward into coastal countries, crossing the borders not just of Togo, but also of neighbouring Benin, Cote dIvoire and Ghana.
In less than six month...
New Book Reveals the Uncensored History of AIDS "IndyWatch Feed War"
By Dr Joseph Mercola | July 9, 2023
In this video, I interview journalist Celia Farber about her recently republished book, Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS. As a young reporter working for SPIN magazine, Farber started questioning the official narrative around AIDS, and this book is the outgrowth of her decades-long investigation into and writing about this hot potato topic.
Long before censorship went mainstream, Farber was put through the wringer. In 2006, she published an article in Harpers Magazine titled Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science. In it, she highlighted the work of virologist and retrobiologist Peter Duesberg, who insisted that HIV doesnt cause AIDS.
In my view, Duesberg was brilliant, but like so many other brilliant scientists, he was widely discredited for not going along with the narrative promoted by the conventional medical establishment.
As a result of her reporting, Farber was vehemently attacked by leading AIDS researchers and activists,1 so much so, she ended up suing three of the attackers for defamation. The New York County Supreme Court dismissed2 her claim in 2011 and upheld the verdict in 2013. Still, she did not quit or back down, and kept searching for the truth.
The Passion of Duesberg
As explained by Farber, Duesberg worked at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, one of the most well-respected scientific institutions in the world. After moving to the United States, he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1987, he published a paper in Cancer Research, proposing that retroviruses are not the cause of cancer, nor the cause of AIDS. According to his scientific biographer, this was the paper that sealed his scientific doom forever after. Farber notes:
Duesberg mapped the genetic structure of retroviruses. So to him, yes, they were entities, but no, they didnt do anything. They didnt infect or kill cells. They were harmless. And he h...
Empowering Women in the Legal Field: Challenges and Triumphs in Texas "IndyWatch Feed World"
The legal profession is one that demands dedication, expertise, and a commitment to justice. However, in the state of Texas, as in many other places, women still face gender disparities in the legal field. Despite these challenges, women lawyers in Texas have made significant strides and achieved remarkable success.
In this blog post, we will explore the gender disparities, challenges faced by women, success stories, and strategies for empowering women in the legal field in Texas.
Gender disparities persist in the Texas legal field, with women facing numerous obstacles. According to statistics, although women account for approximately 50% of law school graduates, they are significantly underrepresented in leadership positions in law firms and the judiciary.
This underrepresentation not only limits career advancement opportunities for women but also hampers diversity and inclusion within the legal profession. Addressing these disparities is crucial to creating a more equitable legal system.
One notable example of a woman who has actively worked towards addressing these disparities is Franci Neely. As a philanthropist and advocate for womens rights, Neely has been a strong voice in promoting gender equality within the legal field.
Women in the legal field encounter various challenges that hinder their professional growth. One of the major obstacles is the pervasive gender bias that can manifest in subtle ways, such as unequal pay, fewer opportunities for career advancement, and biased evaluations.
Additionally, the demanding nature of legal work often clashes with traditional gender roles, making it difficult for females to balance work and family responsibilities. These challenges can lead to a lack of representation and hinder the progress of women in the legal profession.
...The art of the peaceful protest "IndyWatch Feed Politics.eu"
YET another anniversary, 25 years on from the Drumcree/The Garvaghy Road dispute which made headlines the world over. But there is a different orange protest in the news that has caught my eye. That would be the ongoing JUST STOP OIL campaign.
On Saturday a member of the public approached George Osborne and Thea Rogers as they emerged from their wedding and showered the newlyweds in orange confetti from a Union flag paper bag. Naturally, given the fact George Osborne is a former Chancellor and there were notable public figures in attendance, this was a bold move. It is still unclear if the campaign were behind the confetti-ing but the group did later tweet, You look good in orange, George Osborne congratulations to the newlyweds.
You look good in orange @George_Osborne congratulations to the newlyweds. pic.twitter.com/LARxEoraU2
Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) July 8, 2023
It got me wondering if we are witnessing the future of protests. Im all for a persons right to protest but surely stalking a persons wedding is a bit much? Are there no boundaries between a personal and profession life anymore? By all means confetti him 9-5, but on his wedding day?
It is encouraging though, that a lone eco-warrior can, it seems, make just as many waves as a crowd. With the right target, at the right occasion, this lady managed to make headlines and cause no real harm. But is it going to win people over to their cause? People, I imagine, will be much happier if it is not their lives interrupted, much rather a politicians. I would imagine this would be much more popular than the audacious interruptions at sporting events.
This year, the Orange Order applied for a 3,000-person march on the Garvaghy Road a larger-than-normal application to mark the 25th anniversary. The history here being that in 1998, the newly established Parades Commission ruled the Orange Order should not march down Portadowns Garvaghy Road on the end leg of its annual march from Drumcree Church. About 1,000 police and 1,000 soldiers were deployed to enforce this decision. Between Saturday 4 July and Tuesday 14 July 1998, there were more than 2,500 public order incidents recorded, according to RUC statistics in an Ulster University archive.
This years anniversary application was also kn...
UN Space Agency Vigilant over Threat Posed by Near-Earth Objects "IndyWatch Feed War"
(UN NEWS)* With over 18,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) lurking beyond the stratosphere, 2,000 of which are classified as potentially hazardous, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is using Fridays International Asteroid Dayto raise awareness across the planet.
Zero Amish children diagnosed with cancer, diabetes or autism "IndyWatch Feed World"
A comprehensive study has found that no Amish children have been diagnosed with chronic conditions that impact the rest of America. Across America, the current population of Amish people is quickly approaching 400,000. The largest concentrations of Amish citizens are 90,000 in Pennsylvania and 82,000 in Ohio. Amish communities have settled in as many as 32 U.S. states. Families have an average of 7 kids so the Amish population is growing rapidly. The Amish are a group of traditionalist Christians who are known for simple living, plain dress, and Christian pacifism.
Staying Productive in the Face of Corporate or Military-Grade Trolling (Maybe Even Doxing) "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
No, thanks, go away! GTFO.
Summary: The publication pace at Techrights has gone up by a lot; were nearly reaching the record levels of 2010
With 117 blog posts in the first 9 days of July, were set to break the records (371 posts in August 2010 and 361 the following month), but only if we dont get trolled to death in IRC or suffer DDOS attacks (like last month). Those records arent that important or objective (not all posts are equal), but our aim is to spend more time on videos and articles, a little less time on Daily Links.
Starting a bunch/batch of lawsuits would be very time-consuming (never mind cost), but thats not off the cards.When I left my job last December I had to spend a lot of time making phonecalls, talking to former colleagues, police, pension firms etc. With the crimes of Sirius Open Source being 100% confirmed (not even denied by the perpetrator, who sent me an E-mail 1.5 weeks ago) I can only hope the British authorities will realise that their own reputation is at stake, not just some small firms reputation. Starting a bunch/batch of lawsuits would be very time-consuming (never mind cost), but thats not off the cards.
As a side note, we have reasons to believe that aside from the bribe from Bill Gates (we'll try to get a subpoena for that NDA) what played a role in the above was a Microsofter...
Biden admin: Child-killing cluster bombs are only used by war criminals, until theyre used by us "IndyWatch Feed War"
The Biden regime has approved cluster bombs for Ukraine, under the justification that but Russia used them first.
Watch below as former White House press secretary Jen Psaki condemns the use of cluster bombs as war crime in 2022. The overall thrust of her comment suggests that only the bad guys would use these little bomblets that tend to be left lying on the ground, unexploded, until little children come along and pick them up, blowing their little bodies to smitherines.
BREAKING: Here is Jen Psaki in 2022 saying that using cluster bombs is a war crime
The Biden Admin is sending cluster bomber to Ukraine today pic.twitter.com/dSMKqumDm1
Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) July 7, 2023
Cluster bombs are widely banned around the world.
Sarah Yager, the Washington director at Human Rights Watch, called the U.S. decision devastating.
They are absolutely awful for civilians, Yager told Al Jazeera in a television interview. I think when legislators and policymakers here in the United States see the photos coming back of children with missing limbs, parents injured, killed by our own American cluster munitions, theres going to be a real awakening to the humanitarian disaster that this is.
Remember, this is the same wicked administration that has recently approved radiological depleted uranium shells to be used in Ukraine, potentially poisoning some of the worlds most fertile black soil for decades to come.
Revelation 18 speaks of the great Harlot, modern Babylon, being destroyed in the latter days, smashing its ability to traffic in all manner of luxury products including the bodies and souls of men, which I explored in my previous article about the story of Tim Ballard in Sound of Freedom.
But another characteristic of the end-times revived Babylonian system, which the Bible says in Revelation 18 will be destroyed in one hour is that it wreaks havoc...
The graveyard of empires: The top investments as the world order collapses "IndyWatch Feed World"
"You have the watches, but we have the time." The Taliban often referred to this old Afghan saying when discussing their fight against the Americans. Ultimately, they were proven correct. After almost two decades of conflict, an insurgent army from one of the world's poorest nations inflicted a decisive military defeat on the US, the global superpower that upholds the unipolar world order. The US government's total failure in Afghanistan the longest war in American history signifies a crucial moment and turning point in world history. The Soviet Union collapsed about two years after the Red Army was defeated and withdrew from Afghanistan. As we approach the second anniversary of the American retreat, could a similar fate be in store for the US?
UN and Partners Visit Severely Damaged Jenin Refugee Camp "IndyWatch Feed War"
(UN NEWS)* Senior UN officials and donor partners on Sunday [] visited the Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, where they witnessed the shocking damage sustained during the Israeli incursion this past week.
Ukraines Failed Counter Offensive Paints NATO Into A Corner "IndyWatch Feed War"
Ukraines attempt at a Hail Mary (the football play not the Catholic prayer) victory by seizing swaths of territory from the Russians is a failure. The Russians have intercepted every move and Ukraines negligible advances are counted in single-digit kilometers along with piles of Ukrainian corpses and burned-out hulk of Western-supplied tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Yet the West is struggling to come to grips with the reality and persists in peddling the delusion of a stalemate. Samuel Charap, a senior Political Scientist at Rand Corporation, wrote a piece published in Foreign Affairs on June 5 that grudgingly conceded the war in Ukraine is Unwinnable. But he only got it half-right. He wrote:
Russias invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a moment of clarity for the United States and its allies. An urgent mission was before them: to assist Ukraine as it countered Russian aggression and to punish Moscow for its transgressions. While the Western response was clear from the start, the objective the endgame of this war has been nebulous.
But it is now time that the United States develop a vision for how the war ends. Fifteen months of fighting has made clear that neither side has the capacity even with external help to achieve a decisive military victory over the other. Regardless of how much territory Ukrainian forces can liberate, Russia will maintain the capability to pose a permanent threat to Ukraine. The Ukrainian military will also have the capacity to hold at risk any areas of the country occupied by Russian forces-and to impose costs on military and civilian targets within Russia itself.
Charap is a prime example of the failings of political science as a science. He ignores the evidence that Russia, unlike Ukraine, has enormous capacity to achieve a decisive military victory over not only Ukraine, but NATO. Ukraine and NATO are running out of artillery shells, cruise missiles, tanks and combat aircraft. More importantly, Ukraine is drained of competent, trained soldiers that can operate those weapon systems.
The situation for Russia is the exact opposite. With each passing day Russias trained manpower increases along with soaring production of tanks, hypersonic missiles, artillery shells, mortars and drones. Russia is degrading Ukraines combat capability and has not yet launched its own offensive using the full weight of the Russian ground and air forces.
NATO has no stomach to let Ukraine join its club. Germany, along with denouncing Bidens decision to supply cluster munitions to Kiev, declared that any decision about Ukraine joining should be postponed. Hungary and Bulga...
CIA Running Ukraine Exposes Bidens Bluster of No U.S. Boots on the Ground "IndyWatch Feed War"
The American magazine Newsweek published a big exclusive report this week purporting to reveal the extent of CIA involvement in the Ukraine proxy war against Russia. It hardly merits the billing of exclusive since it is well known that the U.S. spy agency is up to its neck in orchestrating the conflict.
In truth, the CIAs nefarious role in Ukraine goes back decades to the end of World War Two. More on that further down.
Nevertheless, the Newsweek article provides a useful admission that Washington is recklessly and criminally fueling hostilities towards Russia, the worlds biggest nuclear power in terms of its arsenal. The Biden administration and its military-intelligence apparatus are risking an escalation of the proxy war to an all-out nuclear conflagration.
The Newsweek report remarks on the contradiction between President Joe Bidens public vow to not put American boots on the ground and the undeniable heavy presence of U.S. clandestine forces in Ukraine helping (more precisely, directing) the war effort. Instead of contradiction, a plainer, more fitting word is lie.
Recall, too, Biden previously said he doesnt want to start World War Three with Russia. Thats about as believable as an alcoholic saying he doesnt want another drink.
The Biden administration is engaged in gross deception of the American public by absurdly pretending that U.S. military personnel are not in Ukraine and that Washington is not directing a war against Russia. Bidens policy of pumping weapons into Ukraine ($40 billion so far) is inexorably leading the United States and its NATO allies deeper into an all-out war against Russia. Yet this mentally challenged president somehow maintains there are no U.S. boots on the ground and that the U.S.-led NATO alliance is not at war with Russia. Such blatant lies should be grounds for his impeachment.
Apart from the admission that the Newsweek article provides, the otherwise banal reporting is a whitewash of the CIAs pivotal and pernicious role in the Ukraine conflict.
Laughably, the article portrays the CIA as trying to ensure the war does not spin out of control. Thus, the agency is presented as a moderating, restraining influence on the Kiev regime and its military conduct. The reader is led to believe that Washington is endeavoring to prevent the Ukrainian military from launching direct attacks on Russia. It is claimed that the CIA is struggling to control the operations of the Kiev regime which has at times gone rogue against Bidens rules of engagement. Examples of rogue conduct, it is claimed, are the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, the bo...
The Corporate Cancel Culture Industry Part VIII: In Conclusion "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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Israel: Netanyahu government to help prevent collapse of Palestinian Authority "IndyWatch Feed War"
Israel: Netanyahu government to help prevent collapse of Palestinian Authority
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has committed to help prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, although without specifying concrete steps to do so.
Netanyahu said the decision had been made at a meeting of his security cabinet on Sunday, with eight members of the top-level forum supporting the move.
The vote was not unanimous, however, with one voting against and one abstaining.
The PA, established in 1994 following the Oslo Accords, holds devolved authority over parts of the occupied West Bank and was supposed to mark the first tentative step towards Palestinian sovereignty and negotiations over the creation of an independent state.
In the years since its creation, however, it has become widely unpopular over its corruption, authoritarianism and security cooperation with Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, aged 87, has also long outstayed his mandate as president.
Myth Dispelled: race relations in Zimbabwe crater without white presence "IndyWatch Feed Africa"
Interestingly, race relations in Africa seem to be spiraling, despite the common narrative that its white folks stirring up racism. Zimbabwes black president is now pointing fingers at Indian shop owners, blaming them for stockpiling goods and hiking prices. Hes even hinting at seizing everything they own.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a stern warning to the business sector and specifically targeted Indians, accusing them of stockpiling basic supplies to create artificial shortages and boost prices.
Only the corrupt African governments are allowed to hoard and price gauge how dare the Indians jump in on the action?
We are being attacked currently by price hikes. Why, just when we announced that we are going for general elections? Our enemies decided they must cause problems among our people and started hiking prices such as Innscor, Mnangagwa said, although Innscor had provided some of the food that people ate at the rally and had also displayed their banner alongside Zanu PF banners.
President Mnangagwa singled out businesspeople of Indian origin and said he had information that they were illegally hoarding basic commodities.
Lets bet on how long itll be before this shady government decides to swoop in and take everything away from these Indian folks, just to stash it away and jack up the prices even more.
I have been told today that some Indians in Harare are stocking basic goods in warehouses. They buy sugar from Chiredzi, all the basic goods like flour and so on to stock in their warehouse then raise the prices, let me warn them, he said and added that his team was investigating this issue and would proceed to confiscate the goods.
If it is true, we shall confiscate, not only the warehouses but the things inside them and give it to you and distribute to people.
The president said if foreign businesspeople based in Zimbabwe wanted to hoard goods, they should go back to their countries.
Our government will never tolerate such activities in an independent Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa said.
Mnangagwa accuses Indian business people of hoarding basic goods, threatens to confiscate them#Asakhe pic.twitter.com/wmjY1Az4ru
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Osama bin Laden The Man Who Died Twice "IndyWatch Feed War"
In early May 2011, Pieczenik confirmed to Alex Jones that the alleged recent raid on bin Ladens compound was a FABLE because Osama bin Laden had already been dead for the best part of a decade.
Death #2, May 2, 2011. Click to enlarge
In 2002, a certification that Osama bin Laden had died in 2001 was given by Dr. Steve Richard Pieczenik MD, an award-winning luminary of Harvard Medical School and a retired official of the US Regimes State Department who served in the regimes of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and GHW Bush.
Pieczenik stated: As a physician, I knew that CIA physicians treated bin-Laden and that it was on the intelligence roster that bin-Laden had MARFAN SYNDROME.
Pieczenik stated that the US Regime already knew that bin Laden was dead [or as good as dead] before it even launched the Afghanistan Invasion on 7 Oct 2001.
MARFAN SYNDROME is a degenerative genetic disease of the connective tissue for which there is no permanent cure. It shortens the lifespan of the sufferer, and it can cause instant death from the sudden rupture of the aorta.
France Is Facing An Immigration Crisis, Not A George Floyd Moment "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
In
order to safeguard their abundance and social stability,
governments will need to restrict immigration as well as empower
their working classes.
God is Sleeping in All of Us in The Kunda Pool Where The Kundalini Sleeps at The Base of The Spine "IndyWatch Feed War"
God Poet Transmitting.
What you put your attention on responds to that attention within the framework of time it is resident in; a person an animal a plant or a rock exist in a different time frame than do the residents of the other stages of being. If that attention be good or ill or dispassionate, the reactions will reflect this. There are people who can cause flowers to wilt by being in proximity to them and they have the same effect on people.
Of course, the reverse is true and masters shine like The Sun on all life wherever they may go. The problem is that there are too few masters, especially In Times of Material Darkness. They often retreat from the common thoroughfares of life because of the conditions of the times. This does not mean their influence ceases. It simply expresses in another fashion.
I asked The God on The Beach; Im going to stop calling him The Man on The Beach since it is evident to me now that he was no man, though I was not permitted to have that insight at the time or for some time after. I asked him why he wasnt in the city where he could help more people. He snorted and said, I dont like being pushed around.
As you can see part of me knew that he was something more than the ordinary life form or I wouldnt have asked him that, BUT I was completely under the spell of the moment. On reflection it seems that the whole episode was scripted.
At the time I met him, I had had no exposure to Eastern thought. It wasnt until I saw a seated Buddha statue in an antique store window in Palm Springs that the tradition was revealed to me. The right hand of the Buddha rested on its wrist on the knee with the index and pinkie fingers extended horizontally and the middle two fingers curled down and inward.
Here is Ramakrishna in Kundalini exaltation.
The whole time I was with him he held his hands in like manner, only his hands were formed as if he were holding the reins of a brace of horses, with the thumb pressed into the middle digit of the index finger and the index and pinkie fingers pointing to the side with the other two curled in along the palm. It was the same position as the Buddha, but differently aspected.
When I had my Kundalini experience in the Virginia woods, the same thing happened to me and my hands have stayed that way until this time.
Early in our interactions, he was seated cross-legged on the beach and I was in...
Trained like DOGS: Britons will readily comply with future lockdowns and mask mandates, Nudge Unit chief says "IndyWatch Feed War"
According to a British government adviser, since the United Kingdom has already been brainwashed to learn a new behavior, British people would quickly obey future pandemic lockdowns.
In principle, you can just switch it [behavior] back on, Professor David Halpern, head of the Behavioral Insights Team (BIT), which was spun out from the cabinet office, told the Daily Telegraph.
He pointed out that since the country had practiced the drill of the pandemics restrictive government mandates like wearing facemasks as well as following other health protocols such as social distancing and working from home, it would be easy to redo it in a future crisis because people are now conditioned to do what they are told. Thanks to the engineered globalists pandemic.
Boris Demands Brits Follow Lockdown Rules Amidst Controversy over PMs Alleged Cycling Trip Miles from Home https://t.co/o5nqMFGpRP
Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 12, 2021
Speaking on the Lockdown Files podcast, Halpern pointed out that generally, messaging based on fearmongering is ineffective. He defended its use in extreme circumstances, choosing not to reference the mass protests built across the country after the restrictions began in March 2020. There are times when you do need to cut through particularly if you think people are wrongly calibrated, he said.
The Nudge Unit chief also stressed how powerful messages on posters are. These were used throughout pandemic restrictions and could enforce visual prompts so that when people go into a shop or somewhere else, it reminds them, automatically cues and triggers the learned behavior.
The people got so used to the restrictions and mandates that they find it hard to unlearn them. He cited mask-wearing as an example. Though the threat of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission has lessened to almost no longer risky and studies have proven that facial coverings never really mitigated the spread of the virus, it actually even caused more harm for increased inhalation of carbon dioxide, people would still feel something is missing or naked when not we...
UK NHS Director of End-of-Life Care Confirms Doctors Lied About COVID Being Cause of Death to Create Illusion of a Pandemic "IndyWatch Feed War"
Before Covid, four types of pneumonia added together were the highest cause of death in the UK. In a newly implemented Medical Examiner System to certify deaths, the Medical Examiner was certifying all types of pneumonia deaths as Covid-19 deaths, a former Director of End-of-Life Care has said.
On Saturday, Sai, a former NHS Director of End-of-Life Care, wrote a Twitter thread which, amongst other things, gave a personal account of the changes to the system of reporting deaths implemented in the NHS:
When four different diseases [are] grouped and now being called covid-19, you will inevitably see covid-19 with a huge death rate. The mainstream media was reporting on this huge increase in covid-19 deaths due to the Medical Examiner System being in place.
Patients being admitted and dying with very common conditions such as old age, myocardial infarctions, end-stage kidney failure, haemorrhages, strokes, COPD and cancer etc. were all now being certified as covid-19 via the Medical Examiner System.
Hospitals were switching to and from the Medical Examiner System and the pre-pandemic system as [and] when they pleased. When covid-19 deaths needed to be increased, the hospital would switch to the Medical Examiner System.
In addition,
hospitals were incentivised to report covid-19 deaths over normal deaths, as the government was paying hospitals additional money for every covid-19 death that was being reported, Sai said. I have no doubt in my mind, that the Government has planned the entire pandemic since 2016 when they first proposed the change to medical death certification.
You can read Sais thread on Twitter HERE or Thread Reader App HERE. In the event it is removed from Twitter we have copied the thread below. In the following, the number at the beginning of a paragraph relates to the number of the tweet within the thread.
If You Think All Teachers Are Heroes, Youre Part Of The Problem "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
When
we regard teachers as heroes, we shouldn't be surprised when they
believe their duties include having discussions normally reserved
for parents.
Cost of Many Basic Grocery Items Has Increased 3 to 4 Times Inflation Rate: StatCan "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
Eat This to Think Better for the Next Six Hours -- and Beyond "IndyWatch Feed Tech"
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