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Underneath, On-top and Above "IndyWatch Feed National"

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25/04/23

Whenever the topic of UFOs and Aliens is raised during recent times the responses are as fascinating as they are predictable. For quite a few such fanciful prattle is pure fictional nonsense espoused by the gullible and deceitful, while for even more there are varying degrees of acceptance that often spills over into unquestioning reverence. For some they are technologically advanced devils<strong>,</strong> others see them as being angelic and for many they see nothing at all. The reality is every reaction has nothing to do with the evidence accumulated by each person, but is all about their free will.</p> <p>                 Of course, when it comes to an indistinct object moving in the sky, there is some room to negotiate as to whether it is a planet, frisbee thrown in the air, weather balloon, drone, swamp gas, secret flying object made by humans, due to photo-shopping or tricks of the light are all permanent and extremely convenient offerings. But none of these as on top excuses are applicable to what has been found so below in the earth. None of the archaeology presented moves through the air as all are stationary and still and in every case exhibit either solid evidence or Original testimonies that is beyond the capaciti...</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div>

13:53

New low - Albaneses divisive, racist Anzac Day slur. Our diggers fought for all Aussies, regardless of race. "IndyWatch Feed National"

Remember when ANZAC Day was a day of unity? This so-called Prime Minister has decided its time to divide us. The sick left will stop at nothing.

10:33

Beautiful Anzac Day service in the pre-dawn at Hell-Fire Pass, Thailand. Lest We Forget. "IndyWatch Feed National"

A wonderful service. Congratulations to the Australian Government and The Australian Army, brilliantly done. Lest We Forget.

09:39

Whats important on ANZAC Day? "IndyWatch Feed National"


Every year its the same, where the nation stops to commemorate the perils of war, right?

Nope!

Only a few hours are set aside, an inconvenience to those who are at the lowest level of Maslows Hierarchy of Needs.

After all thats what Australia is all about, the economy.

Got to keep those mice turning that wheel perpetually.


You, the corporate fodder (or more appropriately known as consumers) have to keep spending, to keep the economy going, their economy.

Youre told not to hoard (old terminology; save up) cash in order to purchase a television or vehicle, but rather get a loan for it to keep the banks and financial institutions profiteering from usury (refer to the Statute of the Jewry) on the fruits of your labour, a modern day accepted form of slavery.

But isnt hoarding what the global elite do? 

They amass vast sums of cash, lock up art in private collections, and even keep stolen artefacts from their thieving ways, the British monarchy as just one example.

Whats not important on ANZAC Day?

For you to know that what is known as World War I, was actually a cousins war, where the offspring of the serfs were seen as cannon fodder and thus put in their appropriate use case scenario for the entertainment and financial gain of the global elite.

True sociopaths are in control.

Whats more disgusting is that people accept this, but then again, the majority of people are not supposed to think.

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05:28

Die Folgen eines Krieges gegen China "IndyWatch Feed National"

Im Dienst von US-Interessen

Um die Folgen eines etwaigen Krieges gegen China fr das eigene Land in den Blick zu nehmen, hat krzlich die Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australiens ffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunkgesellschaft, vier erfahrene Insider befragt, die im Lauf ihrer Karriere jeweils Fhrungspositionen in den politisch-militrischen Hierarchien des Landes innehatten, an militrischen Operationen beteiligt waren und Einsicht in Papiere smtlicher Geheimhaltungsstufen nehmen konnten. Es handelt sich um Professor Hugh White, einen ehemaligen stellvertretenden Staatssekretr fr Strategie und Geheimdienste im Verteidigungsministerium; Admiral Chris Barrie, 1998 bis 2002 Oberbefehlshaber der Streitkrfte; Allan Behm, einst Leiter der Abteilungen fr Internationale Politik und Strategie im Verteidigungsministerium; und Professor Clinton Fernandes, Ex-Militrgeheimdienstler. Alle vier sind fest berzeugt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten im Fall eines Krieges gegen China auf einer Beteiligung Australiens bestnden und dass sich die Regierung in Canberra dem nicht entziehen werde. Behm beklagt ausdrcklich eine fundamentale strategische Pathologie des australischen Establishments, US-Interessen auf Kosten unserer eigenen Interessen zu untersttzen.[1]

Bestenfalls ein militrisches Patt

Alle vier von der ABC befragten Experten stimmen zudem darin berein, dass die Vereinigten Staaten einen Krieg gegen China nicht gewinnen knnen. Das deckt sich mit den Resultaten zwar nicht aller, aber doch einer Mehrheit der sogenannten war games in den USA, bei denen Denkfabriken, Regierungsmitarbeiter und Militrs konkrete Kriegsszenarien durchdeklinieren.[2] Die Experten weisen darauf hin, dass sowohl die USA als auch China ber immense High-Tech-Militrapparate verfgen. Haben die US-Streitkrfte im Gegensatz zu den chinesischen umfangreiche Erfahrung mit dem Fhren von Kriegen, so knnen die chinesischen Streitkrfte daraus Vorteile ziehen, dass sie auf oder nahe dem eigenen Territorium kmpfen mssten, whrend die US-Truppen riesige Nachschubwege ber den Pazifik zu bewltigen htten. Kme es zu einem Abnutzungskrieg wie in der Ukraine, knnte China zudem auf seine erheblich greren Streitkrfte setzen. White urteilt, er sehe keine glaubwrdige Chance fr Amerika, einen Krieg mit China um Taiwan zu gewinnen. Behm differenziert dahingehend, dass er im Fall eines Krieges, der in den nchsten fnf bis zehn Jahren begnne, als bestes Szenario fr die USA ein Patt prognostiziert, whrend er mit Blick auf Chinas rasante Aufrstung urteilt, nach 2035 sei ein chinesischer Sieg ber die USA das wahrscheinlichere Ergebnis.

Dramatische Verluste

Was die konkreten Kriegsszenarien anbelangt, sind sich die Experten uneinig. Whrend White davon ausgeht, ein Waffengang zwischen den USA und China werde sich vorrangig auf See abspielen, rechnet etwa Fernandes eher damit, dass China Taiwan blockieren knne; die....

01:00

This and That "IndyWatch Feed National"

    Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by, that here obedient to their laws, we lie. Simonides More toxic masculinity.   Identify it   Aging Europe   A Graveyard Garden Island Ships Graveyard, Port Adelaide, Australia. 40 ships were left here, 25 of which are known to date from around 1909-1945. Such []

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Monday, 24 April

23:50

Binance integrates ChatGPT into the Web3 Academy "IndyWatch Feed National"

Binance released a new AI-driven tool it named the Binance Sensei that uses machine learning to generate answers from its education platform to help users learn about Web3.

23:20

Link "IndyWatch Feed National"

See also : Keyboard Warriors of the Australian #AltRight : XYZ & David Hiscox, February 5, 2018. Above : Luke Hollowood. 1) Spectator Australia keeps publishing white supremacists and anti-Semites writes Cam Wilson (Crikey, April 21, 2023). The white supremacists Continue reading

23:10

Barry Humphries: Misunderstood Anarchist of Culture "IndyWatch Feed National"

He was always a step ahead, his mind geared not only for the next move, but the next sequence. He also smelt it, anticipated the audience reaction, shaped the prejudice in context for consumption. and enraged audiences with his polymathic, panoramic reach.

The genius of the late Barry Humphries first took root in Britain, along with a flowing of other Australian expatriates who had made Blighty their home. It became evident in Britains most famous, remorseless panner of reputation and issue, the satirical magazine Private Eye, that weedkiller of inflated reputations. There, another genius of comedy, Peter Cook, understood a kindred spirit. At Cooks suggestion, Humphries ran a comic strip that made him famous and eventually found celluloid expression: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.

The reception of the comic strip in Australia, with its slang-fluent, rough protagonist stomping through the Mother Country, was a foretaste of things to come. Compiled in three book collections, the first two were banned by the Customs Department under the Customs Prohibited Import Regulations. The silly justification was section 4A, which prohibited the importation of works and articles deemed blasphemous, indecent, or obscene, or unduly emphasising matters of sex, horror, violence or crime, or are likely to encourage depravity.

The harebrained nature of this measure, one that could only have been appreciated by Humphries, was that selections from Private Eye, including Barry McKenzies Naughty Night, were already available in the country in the 1965 publication Penguin Private Eye.

Her Dame Edna Everage (Mrs Norm Everage to some) act, hewn from the dull, insular terrain of Moonee Ponds in Victoria, was always going to be an uneven sell for home audiences. In the sex-suppressed Anglosphere, with its hypocrisies of gender, control and concealment, it was brilliant, a poking, full frontal display of the bigoted housewife giving bigotry a lengthy outing.

The bricks of the mythmakers are now being assembled, an effort to build a mausoleum of deception. Always be suspicious of the he was much loved by all tag; they usually have a fair share of aggrieved, envious enemies.

There are, however, clues in the coverage. Humphries was a comedy export read, not palatable in straitlaced, monochrome Australia, a bit too salty, or gamey, for local consumption. He tested his various alter-egos the barely tolerable Edna, the monstrous, dribbling Sir Les Patterson and so forth on foreign soil. (Rarely mentioned in tributes is his more complex,...

23:05

Labor Market and Mainstream Economics "IndyWatch Feed National"

Market and labor in market are crucial questions both to capital and labor. The questions have been discussed and answered by economists, from the mainstream, and also from the camp of labor.

Markets, writes Michael D. Yates in his Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle (Monthly Review Press,  2022), act as a veil, hiding the face of the system. They are impersonal mechanisms, which allow us to use them without knowing what is underneath.

Yates elaborates the issue: We buy goods and services and are thereby dependent on those who produce our food, clothing, shelter, and services of every kind. However, we simply exchange money for them. And as the Romans said, Pecunia non olet. Money has no smell.

He shows the argument employers use to defend self-interest: Employers say that they pay the market wage. If it is too low for survival, that is no fault of the boss.

Bosses never coerce

Bosses are always faultless! They define whats right and whats wrong, what rights are and what goes beyond rights, what should be enforced and what shouldnt be. Its now an old, well-known fact: In former times, writes Marx, capital resorted to legislation, whenever necessary, to enforce its property rights over the free laborer. (Capital, vol. I, Progress Publishers, Moscow, erstwhile USSR, 1977) He cites example from 1815: The emigration of mechanics employed in machine making was, in England, forbidden, under grievous pains and penalties. That, pains and penalties, was faultless, no fault by the bosses. There was no coercion; bosses never coerce. This story of pains and penalties isnt told today.

Coercion-free arrangement

This faultless, coercion-free arrangement and environment is also present today, in countries, in markets, in labor markets, in varied forms, which is overlooked tenaciously. The Roman slave was held by fetters, as Marx again tells another fact, the wage-labourer is bound to his owner by invisible threads. (ibid.) So, whats now told is whats called the push and pull factors: Peasants t...

22:00

The Art Of The Orange Pill: Lessons On Pitching Bitcoin From A Third-Generation Salesman "IndyWatch Feed National"

A former sales account manager describes pitching Bitcoin with a focus on influencing perspectives while maintaining honesty and integrity.

This is an opinion editorial by Source Node, a former sales account manager with a background in training and industrial-organizational psychology.

When I pitch Bitcoin to a relative, to a friend or to a complete stranger in the bathroom stall next to me, they will inevitably ask, "How is this benefiting you? Are you going to make money from me buying bitcoin?"

In one sense, the honest answer is yes, but my main objective is actually to alleviate suffering.

Will any single investor buying bitcoin make my bitcoin increase in value? Not unless I'm convincing a hyper-rich communist sympathizer like Charlie Munger to hop onboard. The average investor buying $1,000-worth of BTC is not going to change the price of bitcoin. In fact, even a very wealthy investor allocating $100 million may not significantly change the price of bitcoin. In that sense, I am not benefiting directly from convincing individuals to buy bitcoin at all.

However, given the early stage of adoption that we are currently experiencing, the asymmetric upside of investing in bitcoin today has the potential to turn a relatively-small investment into life-changing financial security. For this reason, the motivation to pitch Bitcoin to people I care about is greater now than it will be in the future. The potential future which Bitcoin enables for myself and for society is the primary driving force behind my participation in the network. The prospect of living in a world of abundance, voluntary behavior and geopolitical cooperation is becoming more achievable by the block. I wish to benefit from the transition to that world and I wish for those whom I love (as well as random strangers I encounter) to benefit from it as well.

I know I am not the only one who holds this view. It seems to be a natural inclination for nearly every Bitcoiner to compulsively pitch Bitcoin to their friends, relatives and acquaintances. Unfortunately, I have seen many people become exhausted with these pitches. This exhaustion seems to slow down adoption more than support it, which indicates to me that some of what I have...

21:52

'Guess what guys?' Kevin Rudd is still an insufferable, cringe-making dickhead. "IndyWatch Feed National"

This'll take a bit of beating. You could say my visit to the @WhiteHouse was pretty sweet pic.twitter.com/XZMmSrRXiz Kevin Rudd AC (@AmboRudd) April 22, 2023

21:46

NBN turns to micro wind turbines in search for power for remote sites RenewEconomy "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Mini wind was once a real contender before cheap solar stole the show; the owner of the latest iteration hopes this proves its viability. The post NBN turns to micro wind turbines in search for power for remote sites appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NBN turns to micro wind turbines in search for power for remote sites RenewEconomy

21:23

Why You Must Never Trust a Liar? "IndyWatch Feed National"

Lying is a common human behaviour that has been around for centuries. People lie for various reasons, such as to avoid punishment, gain an advantage, or protect their reputation. However, lying can have serious consequences, especially when it comes to trusting others. In this essay, I will explain why you must never trust a liar, the types of people who lie, why people lie, and why it is dangerous to believe the lies of a liar. I will also answer the question, "Can a liar ever tell the truth?"

Why You Must Never Trust a Liar?


Lying is a breach of trust, and trust is the foundation of any healthy relationship. When someone lies to you, they are essentially saying that they do not respect you enough to tell you the truth. This lack of respect can lead to a breakdown in the relationship, as the liar m...

20:00

A response to a public records request that raised more questions than it answered "IndyWatch Feed National"

Last August, a U.S. federal research misconduct watchdog announced findings that a longtime researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles named Janina Jiang faked data in 11 grant applications. 

More than a month later, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) issued a rare correction to its announcement, saying additional information from UCLA indicated that one of the grants did not fund or contain falsified/fabricated data. The watchdog agency said it would remove the application in question from its findings of research misconduct. 

The grant, UL1 TR000124, helped fund the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) with $57 million from 2012-2015. The listed principal investigator, Steven M. Dubinett, is the interim dean for UCLAs David Geffen School of Medicine. 

At the time of the correction, we wondered how a report that would have had to be reviewed by multiple officials and lawyers at both institutions could include such a mistake, and filed public records requests to find out. 

As we...

Asked and Answered "IndyWatch Feed National"

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A Letter to LiberalsA Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

By Robert Kennedy Jr.

A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science
 
Democrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. They once took pride in understanding how to read science critically, exercising healthy skepticism toward notoriously corrupt entities like the drug companies that brought us the opioid crisis, and were outraged by the phenomenon of agency capture and the pervasive control of private interests over Congress, the media, and the scientific journals.
 
A Letter to Liberals is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s, challenge to lockdown liberalisms embrace of policies that are an affront to once cherished precepts.

DenialDenial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future

By Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted

Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.

...

19:34

Everybody Knows, Part 5: How To Harass a Doctor, on the Cheap "IndyWatch Feed National"

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

The text of this article was not written by me.  I shall leave off the real authors name (by his leave), but you will understand. Its a short story about an event in the life of man who has had much harassment.

The beauty of this one is that it took so little effort for the harassing crew to wreak havoc. Bet it cost them less than a-dollar-eighty-five, all up. It cost the good doctor, well, you know, stomach aches, sleepless nights, concern for his livelihood.

Note: the author gave a fake name for the bad guy, but I have faked it up even more, calling him Mr Brackleston (Ive just checked whitepages.com.au...

19:30

What do apple cider vinegar gummies actually do? Golis $438 million business may or may not have the answer "IndyWatch Feed National"

Pushed by an army of social media influencers, Goli went viral on Instagram and TikTok. Then came the lawsuits.

Ask entrepreneur Michael Bitensky, founder of Goli Nutrition, what he considers his biggest accomplishment, and he doesnt point to the gummy vitamin companys hundreds of millions in annual revenue or the thousands of Target, CVS, and Walgreens stores that stock his products. Nor does he point to the companys ranking as a perennial top seller on Amazon Prime Day, its vast network of Instagram influencers, or even the investments of A-list celebrities Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. Instead, Bitensky points to the more than 350,000 reviews his companys apple cider vinegar gummies have garnered on Amazon.

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19:21

Chris Bowen announces his 'HUGE WEEK' of giving away other people's money for the weather "IndyWatch Feed National"

Big week in Federal EV policy: Launched the National Electric Vehicle Strategy $40 million from CEFC in concessional loans for EVs $70 million in ARENA funding for EV charging Roll out of National Charging Network with NRMA for chargers every 150 kms on our highways pic.twitter.com/FiJ4hBH6yl...

17:35

STILL DEAD RIGHT "IndyWatch Feed National"

17,029 PEOPLE HAD DIED FROM COVID-19 WHEN 2023 STARTED

There is no satisfaction in being dead right when the subject is the ongoing murder of my fellow Australians. As the infographic above shows, we finished 2022 with 17,052 people dead.

ULR: https://wp.me/p1n8TZ-3ex

Now check out the latest death toll:

17:03

Whats open in Geelong for the ANZAC Day Public Holiday 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

For those of you who will be getting up early for the ANZAC day dawn services, a coffee will definitely be needed and for those that dont feel like cooking, a meal out is always a nice way to spend the day.

We did the rounds, and here are the cafes, restaurants and bars that are most certainly ready to help you out with your caffeine, beverage and food requirements some are even open extra early for you!

But its important to remember that ANZAC Day is about remembering the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who served and died in any wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. If you cant make it to a dawn service, you can donate to the ANZAC appeal here. Also, read more about the day here.

A guide to all the services and marches on ANZAC Day across the Geelong region

Please note, this list is not exhaustive. It comprises businesses that have announced their opening hours for the day, have bookings open, or who we have spoken with directly. There are plenty more businesses that are most likely opening their doors, so if theres somewhere youre craving be sure to check their website or socials directly.

Brother Lawrence

Alongside the dense, chewy hoops (bagels) at Brother Lawrence, the cafe also boasts a quaint but vibrant breakfast and lunch menu inspired by fresh and local produce while youll also find a cabinet stocked with focaccias, freshly squeezed juices, sparkling drinks, hot drinks, assorted tea from Love Tea and coffee by Ona, brewed and served to perfection. Plus there are hot cross bagels.

Open for ANZAC day from 9am-2pm.

Where: 11 Rutland Street, Newtown.

Sweet Adeline Cafe

Whether youre keen to hit the walking track or just stock up on some sweets, Sweet Adeline Cafe is the pop-up you need to swing by.

Theyll be open from 8am-2pm with a minute of silence at 11am.

Where: 1/560 Latrobe Blvd, Newtown

Toasty

Toasty offers generously-sized toasties and hot coffee right in the heart of Geelong. Theyll be open on Anzac Day from 9am-2pm.

Where: 85 Ryrie St, Geelong

Vid Bar Highton

This gem is all about delivering the sweet, sweet overseas culinary classics, headlined by a range of authentic tasty bite-sized Greek doughnuts (aka loukoumades aka pieces of heaven). For Anzac Day, theyll be open from 11am to 10pm.

Where: 4/1-3 Belle Vue Ave, Highton

Ocean Grind

If you want to feel good while you indulge in caffeine, Ocean Grind roastery in Torquay is all about fresh, quality coffee, appreciating the coast and the natural environment and the al...

16:37

The East Gippsland Winter Festival returns bigger and brighter, expanding to a month-long event in 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

The East Gippsland Winter Festival is set to light up Victorias east with more than 100 spectacular events. Running from 9 June to 9 July, the festival returns for its third outing, and this year, has been extended to a month-long celebration of regional art, food, culture and nature.

The feature-packed program of events will kick off on the Kings Birthday Long Weekend, incorporate the Winter Solstice and run right through the Victorian School Holidays. 

East Gippsland Winter Festival

  • Theres a massive month-long festival happening in East Gippsland this winter
  • Discover the treasures of East Gippsland through art, wine, craft beer, local produce and live music
  • It takes place from June 9 until July 9 coinciding with the Victorian school holidays and the winter solstice

Stay up to date with whats happening in and around the region here

A plethora of free activities and family-friendly events offers an affordable, yet magical winter getaway in a region that boasts mild winters by the coast and a diverse natural landscape of stunning mountains, mighty rivers, Ramsar-listed lakes, 90-mile beaches, tall forests and picturesque valleys. 

This years theme How We Winter will guide the event, as the region comes alive in a festival of light, food, music, art and culture. From beautiful handmade lanterns, projection art that augments reality, and live music in unexpected places, to wellness experiences overlooking lakes, long lunches and winter feasts in spectacular locations, theres something for everyone at this glorious winter fest. 

 

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15:02

The Waifs announce second Queenscliff Up All Night 20th anniversary show "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Demand has soared for The Waifs 20th Anniversary Up All Night Australian tour, with tickets to many shows selling out in record time. Shows in Queenscliff, Melbourne, Meeniyan, Upwey, Warrnambool and Perth sold-out in just one day, with the regional show sell-outs reflecting the bands long history and love of touring smaller towns across the country.

Now The Waifs have announced new shows at the Queenscliff Town Hall for the locals, with the band now performing on Wednesday 31 May prior to the sold-out show on Thursday 1 June.

The Waifs have also announced second shows at The Northcote Theatre (with a very special guest still to be announced), The Gov, with Jordie Lane and the Albany Entertainment Centre with Liz Stringer, to accommodate the unprecedented demand for tickets.

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

The Waifs announce Up All Night 20th anniversary Australian tour

The Adelaide and Queenscliff shows are on sale now, whilst the new Albany show will be on sale this Wednesday. The new Melbourne show will be on sale from this Thursday.
New shows will be announced for Perth in the coming weeks, keep your eye out for details.

Up All Night debuted at #3 on the ARIA charts and won four ARIA Awards for Best Blues and Roots Album, Best Independent Album, Engineer of The Year, and Producer of the Year for Chris Thompson. The album features some of the bands most beloved tracks, including London Still, which was voted in at number three on the triple J Hottest 100.

To purchase tickets, head here

The post The Waifs announce second Queenscliff Up All Night 20th anniversary show appeared first on Forte Magazine.

14:30

Groovin the Moo Bendigo set times are here for 2023 "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Music lovers, mark your calendars for April 29 GTM is all set to open the gates at Bendigos Prince of Wales Showgrounds this weekend!

Whether youre a first timer or a festival fanatic, youre in for a full day of country hospitality, incredible tunes and seriously good times at GTM.

Heading up the lineup includes Denzel Curry, lord of the bangers Fatboy Slim, and Eliza Rose, who just took out the number 2 spot on the hottest 100 countdown with B.O.T.A (Baddest Of Them All). Further hottest 100 rankers fill out the GTM lineup including Ball Park Music (#8 Stars In My Eyes), Skegss (#19 Stranger Days), LUUDE (#28 Big City Life), Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers (#55 Girl Sports) with Teenage Dads, while GTM alumni Ocean Alley and Amy Shark will return once more.

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

With the festival just days away, the set times are also here to help plan your day out.

Bendigo Groovin The Moo Set Times 2023

This years Fresh Produce program is set to blow your mind. With nearly 100 new artists added to the lineup, the energy and talent on display is going to be off the charts. Each of these artists is pumped to hit their local GTM stage across the country and showcase their skills to the world.

Interestingly, the Fresh Produce program has been the launchpad for many artists who have gone on to achieve global recognition. Names like Alex Lahey, Haiku Hands, Hockey Dad, Lime Cordiale, and Montaigne, who all started in the Fresh Produce program, have since graduated to the national touring lineup. And, of course, we cannot forget to mention the 2023 touring artists who are already making waves in the music scene, such as Confidence Man, Genesis Owusu, Ocean Alley, and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers

With a lineup this impressive, its no wonder that the Groovin the Moo festival has become a must-attend event for music lovers all over Australia. So, if youre ready to experience the best of Australian music, mark April 29 on your calendar and get ready to dance the day away at GTM.

We are so happy to be able to do a full tour across the country in 2023. We have missed you terribly and cant wait to bring back the good times around the country. Whilst we are very sad n...

14:11

The southern hemispheres biggest music industry event BIGSOUND announces first speaker lineup "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Returning for its 22nd year, the southern hemispheres biggest music industry gathering and Australias longest-running and most influential music market BIGSOUND has officially unveiled their first round of speakers and buyers with an absolute trove of heavy hitters and industry leaders set to land in Brisbane from 5 8 September.

Coming off the back of being named in Time Magazines worlds greatest places list, the annual event will once again return to Brisbanes one-of-a-kind Fortitude Valley music precinct, and will bring together the worlds music decision-makers for four days of music discovery and important discussions around the development of art and commerce in one of the worlds largest music markets.

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

Artist applications for BIGSOUND 2023 are now open

Welcoming tastemakers from across the globe including media, A&R, agents, promoters, music supervisors, buyers and so much more, the first announcement is a sign of big things to come for the event, locking in the likes of Roc Nation, Netflix, Paramount, Soundcloud, Interscope and more, signifying a major win for the dedicated music showcase and conference.

This will see the likes of American music industry juggernaut Omar Grant (Co-President of JAY-Zs ROC Nation and A&R genius behind Rhiannas globally acclaimed eighth album ANTI); Michele Ronzon, A&R Coordinator for Interscope / Geffen / A&M Records; Hazel Savage, the Australian-born London-based visionary behind music AI company Musiio and now VP of Music Intelligence at Soundcloud; CEO of one of the biggest TikTok agencies in the world, Ash Stahl (Flighthouse) and royalties technology expert and co-founder of The Orchard, JKBXs Scott Cohen all join the festival.

Australia is at an exciting place right now musically and I cant wait to head down under to discover some great new artists, said ROC Nation Records co-president Omar Grant.

Some of the most innovative artistry in the world comes from Australia and in an industry thats often so caught up online these days, getting in a room with passionate music people and discovering real talent performing live is a...

14:01

Australian court releases judges remarks in unprecedented secret prisoner trial "IndyWatch Feed National"

AN AUSTRALIAN HIGH COURT has released the sentencing remarks in an unprecedented closed-door trial of an intelligence officer, identified only as Witness J, who was convicted in 2019 of a crime that cannot be revealed. The man, who is also known as Prisoner 123458, was given a jail sentence in November of 2019. His sentencing []

14:00

Australian Dollar and Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"

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13:34

Reminder of what an average person Malcolm Turnbull is. "IndyWatch Feed National"

When Barry Humphries went public with his support for the Monarchy during the 1999 Republic debate, Malcolm Turnbull did what all hate filled leftists do ... He got personal. Played the man not the argument. Andrew Bolt reminds us today: Malcolm Turnbull, who as Australian Republican Movement head pompously accused...

13:26

Ghost announce first Australian headline tour for October "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

One of the worlds most exhilarating and esteemed creative forces, Grammy-winning Swedish theatrical rock band Ghost heading down under this October for their first Australian headline tour.

Frontman Tobias Forge (otherwise known as Papa Emeritus, the demonic anti-pope) will be joined by his gang of seven masked Nameless Ghouls for the headline dates, kicking off in Sydney on Tuesday, October 3 at the Hordern Pavilion, then heading to Melbourne on Wednesday, October 4 at Margaret Court Arena before making its way to Brisbane on Saturday, October 7 at the Riverstage.

Ghost 2023 Australian tour

  • Oct 3 Horder Pavillion, Sydney
  • Oct 4 Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne
  • Oct 7 The Riverstage, Brisbane

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

While their music alone would qualify them for legend status, Ghosts live shows are not to be missed. Elaborate costumes, transformative stage design and relentless energy combine to whip audiences into a manic frenzy.

We wish to inform you that your patience and loyalty have paid off, Ghost will be haunting Australian lands in October 2023, said the Clergy in a statement.

Founded in 2006, the Linkping-based band is an unstoppable force in the heavy scene.  Fusing far-fetched influences including vintage satanic rock, prog rock, psychedelia, pop and a splash of musical theatre, their sound is distinctly their own.

Their accolades include a Grammy for Best Metal Performance, countless other awards and nominations, over a billion streams and the title of one of Kerrangs 50 Most Evil Songs Ever for their song Ritual.

Ghosts latest release, their fifth studio album Impera, is based on the rise and fall of empires. It features the singles Call Me Little Sunshine, Twenties and Spillways. Theyll be dropping an EP called Phantomine on May 18.

Tickets for the Australian tour are set to be released on Friday April 28 at 9am, with a presale option starting on April 26.

To grab your tickets to see Ghost in Melbourne on October 4, head here

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12:16

126 organisations call on Attorneys-General to #RaiseTheAge to 14 "IndyWatch Feed National"

An open letter signed by 126 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, health, legal, community and human rights organisations today reiterated calls to Attorneys-General to stop jailing 10 year old kids and raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 years old, with no exception.

No child should grow up in prison in Australia. Last week, the Victorian Government disappointingly announced their intention to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 12. Raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14 with no exceptions is the absolute bare minimum to be in line with medical expert advice and international standards.

Evidence from brain development experts state that criminalising the actions of kids under 14 can cause serious long-term problems. But if provided with the care, support and treatment that they need, children can rehabilitate to live healthy and connected lives.

Locking up children behind bars does not work. Communities have the solutions to keep kids engaged and connected. Governments should stop funding new youth prisons and instead fund community-led solutions which keep the community safe and have better outcomes for children.

The calls by 126 organisations echo the support of 120,000+ people in Australia, as momentum grows across the country to raise the age of criminal responsibility in line with international UN standards.

State and territory Attorneys-General will meet on 28 April for the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General (SCAG), marking five years since they first began investigating whether to raise the age of criminal responsibility. A report, which Attorneys-General delayed releasing for over two years, was finally made public last year and recommended raising the age of criminal responsibility to 14 with no exceptions.

The report was prepared in 2020 with input from state, territory and Commonwealth justice departments and informed by over 80 public submissions made by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, medical and legal experts, and human rights organisations which all called for the age to be raised to 14.

This Friday, Australia can finally stop playing politics with children. We call on Attorneys-General to raise the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, with no exceptions.

Cheryl Axleby, Co-Chair, Change the Record: 

"If the Victorian government announces an increase to the age of criminal responsibility to 12, it will not make any real difference to the already high and unacceptable rates of Aboriginal youth overrepresentation in the legal system.  

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12:12

Powerful projections will light up Geelongs City Hall for ANZAC Day "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Commemorated on April 25th, ANZAC Day is Australias most important national occasion. It marks the anniversary of the first key military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War, and is a day when Australia comes together to recognise all those who have served our nation and pay tribute to the sacrifice of more than 102,000 Australians who have given their lives in the service of our country.

Heres a guide to all the services and marches on ANZAC Day across the Geelong region.

Honouring the service and sacrifice of our military personnel, veterans and their families and recognise the contribution our military families have made to our nation, photography, historical images, paintings and monuments have been brought together to produce a projection art program on Geelong City Hall to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the landing of ANZAC troops at Gallipoli.

The free projections by Ian de Gruchy and Olaf Meyer, produced by Multimedia Events, are set to be displayed on the Gheringhap Street building starting from 12am until dawn on ANZAC Day, Tuesday 25 April 2023. The imagery will then run from dusk until 11pm every night, ending on Sunday 30 April 2023.

 

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11:52

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QUESTION: Didnt you also buy gold bars from the SS Central America ship that was discovered? The gold bugs hate you and say you are bearish gold but you buy a lot of it.

All the best

JE

ANSWER: Oh yes. I tend to collect important relics from major economic events.  The sinking of that ship set off a financial panic in NYC because the banks were counting on that gold shipment. I did buy bars. There were some 30,000 pounds (13,600 kg) of gold and about 15 tons were recovered.

They are a piece of history. I would not melt them down.

The post...

11:41

Who knew shit could get so complicated: Brisbane rock band WAAX announce hiatus "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

After ten years as a band, Brisbanes WAAX are set to take a break from recording music and performing live, today announcing they will be going on hiatus after one final show.

WAAX will take to the stage for one last time at The Triffid on June 9th, for a gig theyve dubbed The Parting Gift. The band will be joined by soon-to-be-announced special guests as they farewell their fans, at least for now.

WAAX The Parting Gift Show

  • Friday, 9th June
  • The Triffid, Brisbane
  • Tickets on sale now HERE

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

 

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11:33

We always play what people want to hear: James Reyne, Ella Hooper bring comfort with national tour "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Families share invaluable memories together, are able to be vulnerable together, and appreciate one another. We were lucky enough to talk to James Reyne and one thing became apparent very quickly; Reyne loves his band and they are his family Ella Hooper included.

James Reyne and Ella Hooper have united for the national Way Out Way Out West featuring both Reyne and Hooper.

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

Reyne tells us that he has 20 albums with what he says are a million songs. He loves to play them all. A few key classics are always top of mind when you think about James Reyne Reckless, The Boys Light Up and Beautiful People. We wanted to know, of the million in his repertoire, why it was Reynes 1992 hit with James Blundell, Way Out West, the song originally released by The Dingoes back in 1973, which inspired a tour?

I will be really honest with you; the song was an afterthought. We were just having fun to be honest. We didnt have a tour planned, we didnt have any plans to record a song. We were just messing around. So, I forget whose idea it was. The song was there and it wasnt me but someone had the idea to redo Way Out West with Ella and go on the road. We decided to call it Way Out West it all seemed to tie in.

Its a good song! I think it probably locks into the public subconscious. It could have been a number of songs but this is just one of the ones that I am lucky enough to be associated with that seems to have locked into the public minds. Usually its people asking me why I dont do Reckless?

 

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11:32

Paying respect to a mate's uncle Harry Longford in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery. Lest We Forget. "IndyWatch Feed National"

Early morning train over the Kwai River Bridge. pic.twitter.com/4ZD19kHUeE Michael Smith News (@mpsmithnews) April 24, 2023 Kanchanaburi Thailand war cemetery. Lest We Forget. pic.twitter.com/C3OAAsrWZg Michael Smith News (@mpsmithnews) April 23, 2023

11:29

Dr McCulloughs Mass Negligent Homicide Interview on X22 Report "IndyWatch Feed National"

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A summary interview by Dr. McCullough on <strong>The Pandemic, Crime Of All Crimes, It Never Had To Be This Way, [Knowingly]</strong></p> <p>Dr McCullough points out that the vaccine developers defrauded the world, undermining early treatment and propagating the vaccines as the only solution. (crimes 19:00 min)</p> <p>He says this is Mass Negligent Homicide by denying effective early treatment and with 30x underreported injuries and deaths leading to 500,000 deaths from the vaccines. There are over 3,000 papers on the subject.<span id= "more-36264"></span></p> <p>He offers some solutions to the spike proteins.</p> <p>The post <a href= "https://gumshoenews.com/dr-mcculloughs-mass-negligent-homicide-interview-on-x22-report/" rel="nofollow">Dr McCulloughs Mass Negligent Homicide Interview on X22 Report</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gumshoenews.com" rel="nofollow">Gumshoe News</a>.</p>

10:38

First on RSL's Melbourne Anzac Day Dawn Service - Aboriginal 'Welcome to Country' "IndyWatch Feed National"

Thank you to reader Denzil who writes: Good morning Michael I trust this finds you well. I was appalled to discover, on reading the Order of Service for tomorrows Dawn Service in Melbourne, that the first item was a welcome to country. From the RSLs own website!! How offensive and...

10:14

Trophy Eyes announce Australian tour for June and July "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Newcastle punk rockers Trophy Eyes have announced the Suicide and Sunshine Australian Tour in support of the bands forthcoming studio album, Suicide and Sunshine, which us due to drop June 23 via Hopeless Records.

Trophy Eyes Australian Tour

Thursday 22 June  Fremantle Social Club, Fremantle
Friday 23 June  The Gov, Adelaide
Saturday 24 June  Northcote Theatre, Melbourne
Friday 30 June  The Tivoli, Brisbane
Saturday 1 July Metro Theatre, Sydney

Keep up with the latest music news, festivals, interviews and reviews here.

Trophy Eyes recently released the albums lead single What Hurts The Most. The single is a haunting song about pain, loss, and learning to say goodbye to relationships youve outgrown. The lyrics (as always) were Inspired by Trophy Eyes frontman John Floreanis personal experiences, and are a vulnerable peek inside his life.

I moved to Newcastle, Australia in my early 20s. My best friend and I had made a plan together in pursuit of happiness, and for some reason, to us, it all started there. Hed always struggled between the pressure of conventional life and risking all for the unattainable, and Id always flourished in chaos. Like it does, time marched on. I joined Trophy Eyes and he dedicated his time to house deposits and long term relationships, says Trophy Eyes John Floreani.

Trophy Eyes quickly consumed my life, taking my degree, relationships, friendships, jobs and homes even the honour of best man. I found less and less time for motivational speeches, and even when I could, it was always met by a void of negativity. I gave up on him. Our friendship soured at the idea of what Id sacrificed for my dream and how Id neglected his. During a tour of Europe, he crossed a line back home, and I never saw him again.

Just like the title Suicide and Sunshine, Trophy Eyes fourth album is about contrast. About light and dark. About beauty and tragedy. About the full spectrum of human existence, with each song plucked from the pages of frontman John Floreanis life.

The albums title comes from a lyric in the song Sean, Floreani writing that it was sunny when he heard of his mates passing, and that the Uber that took him to a gathering of Seans friends was playing poppy Top 40 hits. It is, however, a concept thats long inspired the singers work.

Its the tragedy and the beauty of life. When we did Chemical Miracle, our second full length, the logo for the album was a palm tree and a noose. Thats literally suicide and sunshine....

10:02

Marianne Williamson: "Democracy Is under Assault" "IndyWatch Feed National"

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson today spent nearly two and a half hours at a weekly town hall Zoom of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) expressing her views and answering numerous audience questions.

08:22

Leaks reveal reality behind U.S. propaganda in Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed National"

Medea Benjamin (cofounder of both CODEPINK Global Exchange) and Nicols Davies (independent journalist, a researcher for CODEPINK) write about the leaked Ukraine documents (LA Progressive 19 April 2023), which, among other disclosures of military action around the world, reveals the failing war strategy of the United States and the inability to win this proxy war. The leaks also reveal estimates that the war is not going particularly well for Russia. This might be partially true, but based on assumptions of what the Russian strategy is. Benjamin and Davies do not comment on this part. Their focus is on the role of the United States involvement, including actual military presence in Ukraine, the encouragement of corruption, and the fact that this is not something new. They call on Washington to tell the truth. After first making headlines, these leaks revealed by a whistleblower, have been quickly suppressed, and it is vital to mot allow the this to continue.

The U.S. corporate medias first response to the leaking of secret documents about the war in Ukraine was to throw some mud in the water, declare nothing to see here, and cover it as a depoliticized crime story about a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who published secret documents to impress his friends. President Biden dismissed the leaks as revealing nothing of great consequence.

What these documents reveal, however, is that the war is going worse for Ukraine than our political leaders have admitted to us, while going badly for Russia too, so that neither side is likely to break the stalemate this year, and this will lead to a protracted war beyond 2023, as one of the documents says.

Image from Newsweek: Leaked document predicts a protracted war beyond 2023.

The publication of these assessments should lead to renewed calls for our government to level with the public about what it realistically...

07:00

Australia-wide assessment: climate change or instrument change? "IndyWatch Feed National"

...a majority of these AWS stations had an average 62.8% increase in their 99th percentile observations. These are the hottest 1 per cent of days calculated since the start year of each station.

06:37

Tong stands with Torres Strait over climate action "IndyWatch Feed National"

Uncle Fred Pabai, Uncle Paul Kabai, former President of Kiribati Anote Tong and Uncle Lalaitie Gilbert Akiba on Boigu island in the Torres Straight. Photo supplied.

Former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong, has been visiting communities in the Torres Strait between to stand alongside Uncle Paul Kabai on Saibai island and Uncle Pabai Pabai on Boigu island as they bring the landmark Australian Climate Case against the Australian government.

The case demands a reduction in emissions in line with the science....

05:12

President Boric proposes plan for Chilean lithium to benefit the Chilean people "IndyWatch Feed National"

Chile has been on an interesting and positive arc in recent years. Left-wing politician Gabriel Boric won the presidency there, representing the first big shift to the left since the fascist Pinochet took over in a US-backed coup in 1973. Theyre currently working on a number of reforms, and are trying to negotiate a new constitution, to replace the one from the Pinochet era. One big change that was just announced was a plan to gradually nationalize Chiles lithium industry. They intend to honor existing contracts, but to have more direct government involvement in new ones, with the intent of bringing more of the profits to the Chilean people, and eventually producing lithium-based products in Chile, rather than only selling raw lithium. From the Associated Press:

Boric, who spoke Thursday on a national media network, said the state will participate in the entire lithium production cycle in a public-private collaboration that the government will control.

Any private company, whether foreign or local, that wants to exploit lithium in Chile must partner with the state, he said.

Chile has the worlds third largest lithium reserves, at 9.6 million tons, behind Bolivia with 21 million and Argentina with 19.3 million, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But Chile was the worlds second largest producer last year with an estimated 39,000 metric tons, after Australia, with 61,000 tons.

Boric wants to create a National Lithium Company to partner with private companies, but he conceded that likely will not happen quickly because it would require support from an absolute majority in both houses of Congress, which is fragmented among a variety of parties.

In the meantime, he said, the state National Copper Corporation will sign agreements with private parties for lithium extraction.

Currently, there are two companies that mine lithium in Chile: the U.S. company Albemarle and Chiles Chemical and Mining Society (Soquimich), which has been controlled for three decades by Julio Ponce, whose father-in-law was the late dictator Augusto Pinochet. Boric said Ponces contracts will be respe...

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05:05

Pre-trial hearing for Nevada nuclear test site arrests "IndyWatch Feed National"

Friends, Many thanks for the prayers, messages of solidarity, concern and curiosity about Mondays (April 10) pre-trial hearing in Beatty, answering to charges of trespass at the Nevada National Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test Site, back in October. We were good company with some of the holdovers from the Sacred Peace Walk that finished []

04:43

Pan-African News Wire "IndyWatch Feed National"

IMF Predicts Fall in Economic Growth in Africa

Ndea Yoka, host of Business Africa and Catherine Patillo, Deputy Director of the Africa Department at the IMF.

By Ndea Yoka

 21/04 - 11:57

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a major financing shortage that threatens the region's growth, the International Monetary Fund warned in its report on the region's economic outlook.

The organization also warned that public debt is further delaying the region's economic recovery.

"Policymakers should stay the course of prudent monetary policy tightening."

Catherine Patillo, the deputy director of the Africa Department at the IMF answered questions from Africanews.

Senegal: Religious celebrations marked by inflation

While the country's economy is experiencing a sharper-than-expected slowdown according to IMF forecasts, Senegal is facing worrying inflation. It has reached 9.7 percent in 2022, its highest level in decades.

This situation is due in particular to soaring food prices. An unbearable increase for most Senegalese households, especially during the holiday season. A report by Wahany Johnson in Dakar.

Libya: promoting date exports

Date producers in Libya would like to export their abundant harvests, however, they face various challenges that slow down their hopes for emancipation.

The regions of Wahat, and Awjila are known for producing large quantities of dates, which reach 150,000 tons per year. The problem is that much of this fruit is destroyed or used as animal fodder due to poor marketing.

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22:00

When The Student Is Ready: Three Times I Was Able To Help Strangers Understand Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"

An educator recalls three times she was able to help strangers better understand Bitcoin out in the wild.

This is an opinion editorial by Tali Lindberg, co-founder of Free Market Kids, a company focused on financial literacy and Bitcoin education.

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My husband and I decided to become Bitcoin educators because we passionately believe that Bitcoin is a money standard everyone should know about. However, it can be very discouraging sometimes when most people see us as religious, cult evangelists who they should avoid or only politely tolerate.

But then, out of the blue, Ill experience amazing conversations with people who are ready to hear what we have to say. They are just waiting to find someone to discuss Bitcoin who can help them understand it better.

This article describes three such encounters Ive had in unexpected places. As the saying goes, (slightly modified), When the student is ready, the teacher (me) will be sent to them.

One: GoDaddy Tech Support

A few months ago, when my husband Scott and I were just starting our financial-literacy- and Bitcoin-focused organization Free Market Kids, we had a lot of trouble getting our website to work correctly. I spent hours with tech support through various service providers. During this incident, I called GoDaddy support and was instructed to reboot my computer.

While we were waiting for the computer to do its thing, instead of sitting on the line in silence, I began to chit chat with the support guy about where he was located, the weather, etc. Pretty soon, we were asking each other about our work and life experiences.

He asked, So, what is Free Market Kids?

Well, we teach people about Bitcoin and money with our board games, I answered.

Bitcoin! Sighing deeply, he continued, I sold mine years ago.

He explained that, early on, he had been persuaded by his friend to mine Bitcoin. When the price went up, he got excited and sold all his bitcoin because he needed the cash for something.

And now, he lamented, Im watching the bitcoin price go up like crazy, and I cant believe I blew my chance!

I asked him what he knew about Bitcoin, aside fr...

20:02

In Defense of Incoherent Psychiatry "IndyWatch Feed National"

I was stunned by the final two paragraphs of Peter Simons report No Evidence that Psychiatric Treatments Produce Successful Outcomes. In a viewpoint article in JAMA Psychiatry, the authors claimed that there is no system like Medicare collecting standardized data that is tracking changes in outcomes over time, and therefore we have no way to assess whether outcomes are continuing to improve.  They define the target outcomes as the prevention of undesirable events, such as death and disability, and the achievement of desirable ones, such as remission.

They appear to ignore the abundant existing evidence that, on those specific targets, modern psychiatric treatment appears to lead to worsening outcomes.  Like religious faith that often stands more firmly when faced with contradictory evidence, clinging to their belief that their treatments are beneficial, they dont take up the serious challenge posed by evidence of worsening outcomes.  Instead, they write as if the problem we have is a lack of a system that can chart how our treatments are continuing to improve outcomes.

Though there is no evidence of outcome improvement from the existing treatments and considerable evidence of the opposite, rather than questioning their use, we just need a system that can help us improve their efficacy.  Stunning!

Group Of Happy Excited Doctors Raising ArmsEarlier, I wrote a piece, In Defense of Placebo Psychiatry, in which I tried to see things from a prescribers point of view.  Feeling there was no defense for this apparently willful misunderstanding, I de...

18:57

Everybody Knows, Part 4: The KK System and the Mystery of Jimmy Saville "IndyWatch Feed National"

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

This series is about Russell Pridgeon, MD, and his difficulties, trying to survive the legal system after he was unfairly charged with a crime.  His crime in the eyes of most of us at Gumshoe News is that he went against the system. And what system is that? Ill give it a name: System KK (for kid kidnap).

As Dee McLachlan had spelled out in many articles, Australia almost uniformly follows System KK. And here is how it works.

  1. A man is abusing kids.
  2. Then he abuses his own offspring.
  3. The wife calls a hotline or reports it somehow.
  4. The man runs to court to ask for full custody (!)
  5. He and the court blame the mom for having alienated him.
  6. She gets called an abuser in the form of emotional abuse.
  7. The court orders her to lose custody.
  8. At most she gets supervised access to the kid.
  9. During the visit she must not say I love you or give gifts.
  10. She spends all her money on lawyers, and may lose her job.
  11. Mandatory reports from teachers and doctors are hidden.
  12. Evidence of the fathers crime is suppressed by police.
  13. He usually is granted custody, or the kid is fostered out.
  14. Hearings, and letters from court, become increasingly absurd.
  15. Big media is no help. Social media is gagged by Rule 121.
  16. Lawyers wont fight this. Podkonyak and Teffaha got disbarred.
  17. The moms reputation is ruined, and she sinks into depression.
  18. She may realize her girl or boy is pimped out as a prostitute.
  19. Mom constantly fears arrest for breaking even a small rule.
  20. The public is largely unaware, or refuses to think about this.

Russell Pridgeons case is directly about System KK. Here in Part 2 of the series, my question is: Why does such a system not get thrown overboard? Year after year, it gets supported by all authorities, be it a judge, a caseworker, a prosecutor, or an attorney-general. Woe is our society!

Here at GumshoeNews, I published Part 1 of this series on April 19, 2023.  (Thats quite a woo-woo day in some circles, April 19th.) In the Comments, Rachel Vaughan offered us a Rumble video that listed many alleged perps who are/were high up in Australian society. No fewer than five Australian Prime Ministers came up on the screen while another two got honorable mention (for taking funding from Epstein). The implications of this seem huge. They must think that System KK is fine and dandy &...

17:25

Deagel population forecast of nearly 70 percent fewer Americans by 2025 is starting to look prophetic "IndyWatch Feed National"

Leo Hohmann leohohmann.com April 21, 2023

All of the globalist policies over the last three years are driving toward one thing, mass depopulation. Yes, they want to kill us. Until you understand that, you will never understand whats going on. You will never make sense of it.

I know its a hard pill to swallow, but reject it at your own risk. Those who live in denial will get duped, again. Many of those duped the first time lost their lives, or ended up with life-long health issues. Some even offered their children to the military-biomedical-security complex.

I like to revert back to the analysis done by Deagel Corp. in 2014, forecasting massive global population declines out to the year 2025, especially in Western countries.

Deagels founder was a military contractor who had sources well positioned in the deep state. The Deagel Corporation is an offshoot of US military intelligence which collects data for high-level decision-makers and prepares confidential briefing documents for agencies like the National Security Agency, the United Nations and the World Bank.

According to the Deagel forecast, Americas population would plummet from just over 310 million in 2017 down to just 99 million by the end of 2025. Western European nations, especially the U.K. and Germany, were forecast to see similarly drastic decreases in population, as were Canada and Australia.

If the Deagel calculations turn out to be even close to accurate, the most unsafe places to live over the next three years will be the United States, Canada and the U.K., followed by Germany, Australia and the rest of the E.U. nations. This population forecast was so controversial, showing population reductions of 68.5 percent in the United States (from 2017 levels) and between 25 and 70 percent for almost every Western European country, that the study mysteriously disappeared from Deagels website in March 2021.

But not all areas of the world will continue to decline. Some will actually have larger populations by 2025, according to the Deagel forecast. The safest places to be living would appear to be Central and South America, China and Africa. Interestingly, Russia came in as neutral, not gaining or losing population.

Is this Deagel forecast map a prediction of who will win World War III?

17:20

They are feeding us the dead without us even knowing. "IndyWatch Feed National"

Soylent Green was a 1973 film starring Charlton Heston. Set in an overpopulated world of 2022 beset by food shortages, Heston plays a New York detective who discovers in the course of a murder investigation that the food on which the population subsists is made from highly processed human corpses. Ed.

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17:15

April 22 Did Prominent Jews Get the Vaccine Jew Call? "IndyWatch Feed National"

(Oscar winning actor hospitalized in Georgia after being vaccinated)

HenryMakow.com April 22, 2023

Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.com

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Im not saying they did, but its a question worth asking and answering considering that

  1. Al Franken said he got the Jew Call from Ed Koch telling him to stay away from the WTC on 9-11
  2. White House and Congress, Big Pharma and CDC staff were not required to get vaccinated.

We know that many Israeli Jews suffered adverse reactions.  But did prominent Jews in the West get the vaccine, have adverse reactions or die? Please let me know hmakow@gmail.com

Heres a list of mostly non-Jewish celebrities that took the jab.

The satanists are compounding their crime by debunking and suppressing vaccine injuries and deaths

Continues with more headlines and links

14:09

The Contagion of War "IndyWatch Feed National"

QUESTION: You have suggested that we will end up at war with China, Russia, North Korea, and even Iran simultaneously. How does Socrates conclude such an event that perhaps never happened in the past?

ER

ANSWER: Your assumption that such a thing has never happened is not correct. Periods of war of this nature unfold like a contagion of the flu. The English Civil War (1642-1652) which ended with the beheading of the King in 1649 was instigated using religion as the rallying cry.

In France, there was also an uprising that dramatically interrupted monarchy in 1648 by the uprising of a series of challenges to the absolutism of the King that came to be known collectively as the Fronde.  The Fronde (1648-1653) plunged France into civil disorder.  The king was even driven from his capital as several provinces revolted. This was a revolution demanding a right to participate in government. When the Fronde ended, the king was restored to absolute royal authority.

Of course, the Fronde may not have changed the French system of government, but it set the stage for the final French Revolution. Nevertheless, the American Revolution then spread with that spirit to overthrow monarchy becoming the France Revolution in 1789.

Throughout history, if we correlate the civil uprisings and forget about the claimed cause, we will see an amazing correlation. Throughout Europe, there was the communist revolution that spread to all the countries in 1848. When you allow the computer to correlate the world, what pops up is that the same Communist Revolution spread to Spanish Latin America, with Revolutions that appeared in New Granada that led to the fall of the government there.

Looking closer, you will see in Brazil there was the Praieira Revolt between 1848-1852. You also see the Mexican-American War, which was also in part inspired by the Battle of the Alamo (February 23 March 6, 1836).

If we look closely, we will see that 1848 was aworld revolution for revolutions broke out almost simultaneously in fifty countries from Europe down to Brazil. This era created resentments that lingered beyond domestic revolution and international war jus...

14:00

Australian Dollar and Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"

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12:12

The Second Cold War Is More Dangerous than the First "IndyWatch Feed National"

Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky published a bestselling book called Hegemony or Survival. Since then, the stark choice he posed has only become more urgent. Depending on how humanity responds to the challenges of ecological destruction and imperialistic war, in the coming decade that terrifying question Hegemony or survival? may well be answered.

Modern history shows that the most dangerous periods are when two or more great powers are struggling for hegemony. The eighteenth century in Europe was a time of multipolarity, as Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia were almost continually at war, competing for geopolitical advantage and to divide the continent between them. The conflicts escalated in the era of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, as a mighty France, bursting with revolutionary energy, strove for absolute dominance against, in the end, Britain and Russia.

The 1815 Congress of Vienna led to a century-long balance of power presided over by an industrializing Britain, which soon became the supreme world power. Once industrialization swept the rest of Europe, however, particularly Germany, Britains power began to be challenged, not only in the Scramble for Africa but in Europe itself. German elites wanted their country to be the next Britain, and to a great extent it was their desire for hegemony that precipitated both world wars.

Since 1945, the United States has been virtually a global hegemon. As John Ross notes in the recently published Washingtons New Cold War, even at the height of its relative economic achievement in the mid-1970s, the Soviet Unions GDP was only 44 percent of the U.S.s. The Soviets had vast power in their limited sphere encompassing Eastern Europe and Central Asia, but they were not a capitalistically expansive, dynamically growing imperial power in the mode of the United Statesor, more recently, of a resurgent China. Chinas GDP is 74 percent of the U.S.s, and its growth rate is higher (it has grown seven times faster than the American economy since 2007). Measured by purchasing power parities, the U.S. accounts for only 16 percent of the world economy, and Chinas economy is 18 percent larger. In short, for the first time since World War II, we are entering an era of real competition between two mammoth economies, a declining hegemon and an aspiring hegemon.

When people talk about the China threat, this is, in effect, all they mean. In the long run, China poses a greater threat to U.S. power than the Soviet Union ever did. Mainstream commentators and politicians prate about Chinas threat to democratic values and human rightsthere always has to be an ideological rationalization for geopolitical strategybut U.S. foreign and domestic policy since the Second World War tells us how much it...

11:52

George is Getting Upset! Exit, Stage Right For Seinfeld Actor Over Twitter Blue Tick Loss "IndyWatch Feed National"

As the saying goes, the smaller the stakes, the greater the outrage. And for former Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, the stakes are very, very small.

First, they came for the politicians, and I said nothing. Then they came for the celebrities, and, well, youve gotta draw a line somewhere, right?

Jason Alexander, the actor who played the lovably repulsive George Costanza on the hit 90s sitcom Seinfeld is upset. Very upset. In a series of tweets yesterday, Alexander expressed his outrage at having his blue tick verification removed by Twitter. So in response, hes taken his bat, his ball and his outer space-sized ego, and gone home to Instagram.

By way of background, shortly after purchasing Twitter earlier this year, owner Elon Musk unarguably the worlds wealthiest and most powerful troll announced that users who want a blue tick (a verification that they are who they say they are) will have to pay $8 per month.

Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter boss Elon Musk. (IMAGE: Daniel Oberhaus, Flickr)

Thats right $8 per month. Or if you extrapolate that out to a year, thats nearly $100,000 no wait, sorry, $96.

In any event, this week the Twitter police came for Jason Alexander. He was reportedly at home at the time in his gazillion dollar Beverley Hills mansion, covered in Lindt chocolate and surrounded by satin pillows and small dogs.

In fact, Twitter came for all legacy accounts with the old blue tick verification, ending the free ride for (and creating widespread angst amongst) celebrities, public officials and journalists, who were no longer entirely sure who they were, or whether or not they remained publicly relevant. Alexander with almost three quarters of a million Twitter followers was particularly upset. And so he took action. By tweeting.

Ok everyone. Twitter has removed my verification. I will no longer be posting on this app. Anyone who posts as me is an imposter. I wish you all well.

11:33

GKP S5/E10 News Cycle Manipulation, Paradigm Shift, mRNA Tech in Food is Here "IndyWatch Feed National"

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n432m-13ec236 Gday Folks, For this episode Ethan is away so Andy and I throw down to dissect the latest.  Wheres the real news? Mainstream media continues to control the minds of the masses by dictating the narrative. Constant distractions like Chinese Spy Balloons, Epstein/Maxwell saga, Fear and Entertainment. When an actual event happens like the []

11:15

How I view China after 12 years Living Here - by Trip Bitten "IndyWatch Feed National"

With the atrocious China-bashing going on in Australia at the moment, mirroring US policy, we decided to republish the concisely expressed views of an American living in China. The comments under the video indicate a general approval of his appraisal by people who are familiar with Chinese life. His main criticism of China is the media censorship, which commenters suggest has worsened along with US China-bashing. Certainly the western world has recently indulged in frank xenophobia against China, starting with COVID, whilst steadily increasing its own media-censorship to Chinese levels.

 

 

11:15

Dominate Minions, Re-order the New World "IndyWatch Feed National"

Turkey shooting 

Sun Tzu:

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can...

06:00

Teflon Dan Andrews conspired with Bill Shorten and his crime gang in $3.4 million pork-barrelling fraud IBAC report shows "IndyWatch Feed National"

Victorian Premier Dan Andrews conspired with Bill Shortens crime gang, who control the Health Workers Union (HWU), to steal $3.4 million from taxpayers which is outlined in a special report named Operation []

05:46

School shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto a 'blueprint on total destruction' say pols, who claim FBI is stalling its release "IndyWatch Feed National"

Nashville shooter Audrey Hale's manifesto is a "blueprint on total destruction" which the FBI are stalling releasing, according to local politicians, who describe its contents as "astronomically dangerous". Almost a month after Audrey Hale, who identified as transgender, killed six at the city's Covenant elementary school before being shot by police authorities have yet to release a motive or any of the writings seized from her home, despite growing pressure. Rep. Tim Burchett, (R-Tenn.) told The Post he knew the FBI was behind the delay, saying the news was "disappointing" and calling for documents to be released to grieving loved ones as well as members of Congress. The manifesto "could maybe tell us a little bit about what's going on inside of her head," he added. "I think that would answer a lot of questions."

03:24

The untold story behind the rape of Indian history? "IndyWatch Feed National"

The untold story behind the rape of Indian history? first shown on Taazakhabar News

The untold story behind the rape of Indian history?

Indian history has many unanswered questions like why the pain suffered by the Hindus for 1,400 years has not been adequately reflected. Why has this utterly painful, troubled, problematic, blood-drenched aspect of history been deliberately neglected? Were the Hindus not human enough? Are their suffering and humiliation not worth mentioning? Even if the Left-Liberal-Muslim Right cabal does not sympathize with the plight of the Hindus, does the truth not warrant being told? Why is it that our students are made to study the history of Muslim rule primarily in a political contextthe story of their conquests and administrationas if we had been living in anarchy or in some Dark Age before that? Why they have downplayed the human aspect, particularly the achievements of the Hindus before the advent of the Muslims and their sufferings after them?

...

02:30

Its Not The Ocean Levels "IndyWatch Feed National"

I think that a lot of the scare discussion around ocean levels is because its relatively simple to understand. More complex things, like arguing about the accuracy of certain climate models, is just too easily sidetracked into a sea of mights and maybes.

Whats going to kill us worst?

  1. Losing Florida
  2. The collapse of agriculture due to heat
  3. The collapse of agriculture due to drought
  4. The collapse of fisheries due to anoxic zones
  5. The collapse and death of people due to unsurvivable heat

Well, obviously the answer is all of the above but focusing on whether New York City will be uninhabitable in 100 years is letting the disaster off easily. Yes, there will be displacement, money lost, migrants started, etc., in the flooding scenario but thats not what scares me. And, what scares me is going to happen, sooner rather than later, and everyone is going to be shocked and freaked out in spite of decades of warnings.

Midjourney AI and mjr: mass casualty die-off from the heat, under a baking hot sun

The problem is simple: humans cant survive at temperatures above 35C/95F. In 6 hours, youre dead. We dont normally experience temperatures that high, because our body has evaporative cooling systems (AKA: sweat) that can cool us even in higher temperatures so long as the humidity is low enough that evaporation is fast, and we stay hydrated.

Of course this is going to kill a lot of poor, brown, people, so maybe thats why America is worries about whether Biden is going to take away our gas-guzzling air conditioned trucks. [science]

They discovered a handful of individual spotsincluding shorelines along the Persian Gulf and river valleys in India and Pakistanhad crossed the 35C wet bulb threshold, though only for an hour or two at a time. And in 2017, wet bulb conditions topped 30C 1000 timesmore than double the number in 1979, they write today in Science Advances.

Weather stations in several other places stood out. They include Mexican towns near the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf of California, and the coastal city of San Francisco in Venezuela. Areas in the Caribbean, West Africa, and southern China also had extreme readings. Weather station...

02:09

Time Mustnt Be Allowed to Run out on Julian Assange "IndyWatch Feed National"

Despite whatever charges Julian Assange may be accused of, it is well known that the WikiLeaks publisher was targeted for exposing the war crimes of the US government. In an upside-down Bizarro World, the screws are being ever so gradually tightened on Assange by the war criminals and their criminal accomplices. It is, in fact, a slow-motion assassination being played out before the open and closed eyes of the world.

The Slow-motion Assassination of Julian Assange

The above was written in 2020. Little has changed. In the foreword to Guilty of Journalism by Kevin Gosztola, American journalist Abby Martin writes, Assange was only publishing the leaks. He never committed any crime. He only published evidence of the crimes. (p xiii)

Assanges crime is exposing the crimes of the US; especially revelatory was the Collateral Murder video where US troops in an Apache helicopter gleefully gunned dead 12 civilians on a street in New Baghdad. The murderers remain scot-free. For exposing war crimes, Assange and Chelsea Manning have been punished.

Kevin Gosztola who has followed much of the judicial proceedings against Manning and Assange presents his knowledge of the cases, in particular that of Assange, in Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case against Julian Assange (Seven Stories Press, 2023).

What is readily apparent is that the releases by WikiLeaks triggered a tsunamic vendetta. This has resulted in a brazen miscarriage of justice manipulated by a red-faced United States with the connivance of allied nation states such as Australia; Sweden; Britain; after a change of presidents, Ecuador; and the bystander nations of the world.

The US seeks to try Assange under the Espionage Act, a relic from WWI designed to control the release of information (see chapter 4). Yet, such a prosecution of Assange is hampered by the US Constitution, as the First Amendment protects the freedom of the press. Prosecuting a publisher/journalist would entail grave implications for journali...

01:42

Dame Edna star Barry Humphries has died aged 89 "IndyWatch Feed Vic"

Celebrated Australian performer Barry Humphries, best known for his character Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson, has passed away on Saturday at the age of 89 years old.

The beloved star had been in hospital in Sydney after suffering complications following hip surgery in earlier this year.

A statement from his family read, He was completely himself until the very end, never losing his brilliant mind, his unique wit and generosity of spirit.

With over 70 years on the stage, he was an entertainer to his core, touring up until the last year of his life and planning more shows that will sadly never be. His audiences were precious to him, and he never took them for granted. Although he may be best remembered for his work in theatre, he was a painter, author, poet, and a collector and lover of art in all its forms.

He was also a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, and a friend and confidant to many. His passing leaves a void in so many lives. The characters he created, which brought laughter to millions, will live on.

He is survived by his wife Lizzie, his children Tessa, Emily, Oscar and Rupert, and 10 beloved grandchildren.

Tributes have flowed for the Melbourne-born star, with the likes of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Comedian Matt Lucas of Little Britain, Dannii Minogue, Elton John, and Piers Morgan, among many others from across the world.

A comic genius until the end, RIP.

 

The post Dame Edna star Barry Humphries has died aged 89 appeared first on Forte Magazine.

00:00

Flashback The Stephen Lawrence Affair "IndyWatch Feed National"

Rixon Stewart The Truthseeker (print publication) 1999

Question: can something be ostensibly anti racist but still harbour a hidden fascist agenda?

Answer: yes, particularly if it is Sir William McPhersons Report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence.

Let me explain: the inquiry into the murder recently released its findings along with recommendations that propose sweeping legal reform. After careful study however, it becomes obvious that the Lawrence Inquiry is no more than a Trojan horse: a Trojan horse for the introduction of draconian legislation. Of course, though it cant be called fascist because it has been introduced under the guise of an anti-racist banner. So naturally anyone who argues against it can automatically be branded as a racist. At its heart though the inquirys recommendations reveal a chilling authoritarian mentality, in a word fascist.

The scene was set on April 22 1993, Stephen Lawrence, an 18 year old A level student was waiting for a bus in Eltham, S.E. London. A group of 5 or 6 white youths approached Stephen and his friend Duwayne Brooks. The word nigger was used; Stephen was stabbed and died a short while later. From the outset it is alleged that the investigation was bungled because of institutionalised racism. Six years later the alleged killers are still free, despite 2 trials and an inquiry into the investigation itself. The inquirys report is published amidst intense media coverage, further allegations of institutionalised racism and calls for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to resign.

Amidst all the media generated controversy the reports proposals for sweeping reform become almost a side issue. In a sense they sneak in by the back door whilst everybodys attention was being diverted. Yet they lie at the very heart of the report and, when all is said and done, are probably the reason for its existence.

First though the report opens its case with allegations of institutionalised racism and unwitting prejudice. Only two clear examples are given, neither of which really stands up to rigorous objective scrutiny. However, its recommendations for sweeping change are based on the assumption that institutionalised racism is endemic: It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes or behaviour which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people.

Attitudes? Ignorance? Thoughtlessness? George Orwell had a term for this; he called it thought crime.

The report is particularly critical of D.S. Davison for maintaining that the killing may not have been racially motivated. According to him, These lads had attacked whites before, very similarly with a similar knife. I believe this was thugs. They were described as the Krays....

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23:00

The Solution to Extinction Is You "IndyWatch Feed National"

To recognize Earth Week, WhoWhatWhy is running a new piece from our partners at Covering Climate Now each day through today, Earth Day. We are committed to covering the climate crisis and other environmental struggles humanity faces each and every week. Read more of our environmental coverage here.

 

Happy Earth Day!

 

People ask me all the time: What can I do to help stop extinction?

 

As a scientist working to protect endangered species, I hear the frustration in their voices. But I also know how to answer. Its not simple, its not quick, but its essential and it will help more than threatened animals and plants.

 

First and foremost, we cant think of biodiversity protection as isolated from everything else, something that only environmentalists or scientists handle while society goes on as usual. We have to address the biodiversity crisis, the climate emergency, and poverty and injustice simultaneously. And we can accomplish that by integrating biodiversity protection into the mainstream, into concerts, sports, fashion, business, education, transportation, everything everywhere all at once.

 

Habitat loss is still the biggest driver of extinction, and all our purchases and activities affect habitat somewhere. For all the things we purchase and consume, its important to ask where they came from, whose lives they affected wildlife and human alike and what byproducts are involved.

 

Our dollars are actions. If we see a terrible product like a living frog or fish in a sealed plastic container in a toy aisle, a trinket made out of a dead animal, or invasive landscaping plants like nandina, tropical milkweed, or Bradford pears theres a whole ladder of actions to take. First off, we can ask the store to stop selling them and ask the company to stop producing them. Most companies have parent companies that have a sustainability statement on their website but little knowledge of what the smaller brands they own are actually doing. They may not even know if we d...

15:18

The Discord leaks: Justification to quash encrypted messaging? "IndyWatch Feed National"

On April 13, the FBI took 21-year-old Air National Guardsman Jake Teixiera into custody for posting top secret military documents on a private Discord chat group. A large amount of classified information has been exposed, and people want answers. Why is this young man getting arrested when other people leak to the press all the time? Who gives a 21-year-old top-secret clearance? Are there some other, less-obvious motives at work here? First, let's look at the leaks. Let's look first at the leaks themselves. In early March, classified documents started popping up on a public Discord channel. They had originally been posted in a private, invitation-only chat group on Discord with a few dozen members in December 2022 or January 2023. At some point, one of the private group members started posting the classified documents to a public group. And once on the public group, the classified documents rapidly made their way around the internet. (source) This series of leaks provided evidence...

15:00

UNSW: Psychological Distance is Not Necessarily a Barrier to Climate Motivation "IndyWatch Feed National"

The Australian Psychological Society argues psychological distance can be a barrier to climate action. But UNSW professor Ben Newell counters that the evidence is unclear.

14:00

Farmers crippled by satellite failure as GPS-guided tractors grind to a halt "IndyWatch Feed National"

Tractors have ground to a halt in paddocks across Australia and New Zealand because of a signal failure in the satellite farmers use to guide their GPS-enabled machinery, stopping them from planting their winter crop.

11:04

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

By David Bell | Brownstone Institute | April 19, 2023

The mRNA vaccines were released globally in early 2021 with the slogan safe and effective. Unusually for a new class of medicine, they were soon recommended by public health authorities for pregnant women.

By late 2021, working-age women, including those who were pregnant, were being thrown out of employment for not agreeing to be injected. Those who took the mRNA vaccines did so based on trust in health authorities the assumption being that they would not have been approved if the evidence was not absolutely clear. The role of regulatory agencies was to protect the public and, therefore, if they were approved, the vaccines were safe.

Recently, a lengthy vaccine evaluation report sponsored by Pfizer and submitted to the Australian regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) dated January 2021 was released under a Freedom of Information request.

The report contains significant new information that had been suppressed by the TGA and by Pfizer itself. Much of this relates directly to the issue of safety in pregnancy, and impacts on the fertility of women of child-bearing age. The whole report is important, but four key data points stand out;

  • The rapid decline in antibody and T cells in monkeys following second dose,
  • Biodistribution studies (previously released in 2021 through an FOI request in Japan)
  • Data on the impact of fertility outcomes for rats.
  • Data on fetal abnormalities in rats.

We focus on the last three items as, for the first point, it is enough to quote the report itself Antibodies and T cells in monkeys declined quickly over 5 weeks after the second dose of BNT162b2 (V9), raising concerns over long term immunity.

This point indicates that the regulators should have anticipated the rapid decline in efficacy and must have known at the outset that the initial two-dose course was unlikely to confer lasting immunity and would, therefore, require multiple repeat doses. This expectation of failure was recently highlighted by Dr Anthony Fauci, former director at the US NIH.

The three remaining items should be a major cause for alarm with the pharmaceutical regulatory system. The first, as revealed in 2021, involved biodistribution studies of the lipid nanoparticle carrier in rats, using a luciferase enzyme to substitute for the mRNA vaccine.

The study demonstrated that the vaccine will travel throughout the body after injection, and is found not only at the injection site, but in all organs...

09:39

No Gunpowder Residue Found on Manuel Tortuguita Tern According to DeKalb County Autopsy "IndyWatch Feed National"

DeKalb County, GA Three months after Georgia State Patrol officers shot Manuel Tortuguita Esteban Paez Tern, killing the 26-year-old environmental and human rights advocate, the DeKalb County Medical examiner released their autopsy results. In the 34-page report, Dr. Gerald T. Gowitt, the chief medical examiner, wrote that gunpowder residue is not seen on the hands.

A Gun Shot Residue kit was performed, yet those findings remain undisclosed. Another piece of new information revealed in this autopsy was that Tortuguitas body had at least 57 gunshot wounds.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) continues to hold onto their investigation findings closely, leaving Terns family, loved ones, and the greater Stop Cop City movement searching for answers on their own.

On March 13, 2023, Terns family held a press conference to release an independent full autopsy of Tortuguita and to discuss the lawsuit the family filed against the City of Atlanta under the Georgia Open Records Act.

At the request of their family, Dr. Kris Sperry conducted the independent autopsy on Tortuguita. Sperry found that when they were shot and killed, Terns hands were raised in the air. According to the familys lawyers, The autopsy further reveals that Manuel was most probably in a seated position, cross-legged when killed.

According to the newly released DeKalb County autopsy report however, Dr. Gowitt wrote that there are too many variables with respect to movement of the decedent and the shooters to draw definitive conclusions concerning [Terns] body position.

Tern was killed on January 18 in the South River Forest. They were dedicating their time to the diverse Stop Cop City movement and working to prevent the construction of the Atlanta Police Foundations Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Tha...

09:17

Question: Which Cell Phone Companies Warn About Radiation Exposure from Their Products? Answer: All of Them "IndyWatch Feed National"

By B.N. Frank Decades of research have already revealed that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) from cell phones and other wireless sources including 5G...

Question: Which Cell Phone Companies Warn About Radiation Exposure from Their Products? Answer: All of Them

06:27

What a Supporter of Peace Can Know and Do on Memorial Day "IndyWatch Feed National"

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, April 21, 2023

Some countries have a Catholic Church holiday every day of the year. The United States has a war holiday every day of the year. Some of them, such as so-called Veterans Day, began as peace holidays that like Mothers Day or Martin Luther King Jr. Day were carefully stripped of any peace content, and were instead turned toward the glorification of war and war preparations. Many peace holidays and formerly peace holidays and potential peace holidays can be found in the Peace Almanac at peacealmanac.org.

Youll notice at the link for Veterans Day above that what used to be Armistice Day in the United States was and remains Remembrance Day in some other countries. In those countries, it has morphed from mourning the dead to celebrating the institutions that plan to create more dead. A similar trajectory can be charted for numerous other holidays in the U.S. and around the world, such as Anzac Day in New Zealand and Australia. A stellar example is Memorial Day in the United States, which falls on the last Monday in May every year. Heres what we can read in the Peace Almanac:

May 30. On this day in 1868, Memorial Day was first observed when two women in Columbus, MS, placed flowers on both Confederate and Union graves. This story about women recognizing lives sacrificed on each side due to the Civil War by visiting gravesites with flowers in their hands actually took place two years earlier, on April 25, 1866. According to the Center for Civil War Research, there were countless wives, mothers, and daughters spending time in graveyards. In April of 1862, a chaplain from Michigan joined some ladies from Arlington, VA to decorate graves in Fredericksburg. On July 4, 1864, a woman visiting her fathers grave joined by many who had lost fathers, husbands, and sons left wreaths at every grave in Boalsburg, PA. In the spring of 1865, a surgeon, who would become Surgeon General of the National Guard in Wisconsin, witnessed women placing flowers on graves near Knoxville, TN as he passed by on a train. Daughters of the Southland were doing the same on...

03:40

Waking From the Nightmare: Is Recovery From Akathisia Possible? "IndyWatch Feed National"

Is recovery from akathisia possible? Seven years ago, my answer to this question would have been no because I still had a blind belief in the medical system despite being utterly betrayed by it. The medical professionals with whom I had been working had told me that once someones conditions (meaning the drug-induced movement disorders Id developed) had deteriorated to the level mine had, the damage was permanent, and full recovery was unlikely.

That sentiment was reflected in the piece I wrote for Mad in America four years ago. Id made the short film about akathisia, How Bad Can Good Be?, from a hopeless state of mind. My hopelessness seemed reasonable at the time because I was told it was hopeless. Everything I read, everywhere I searched, everyone with whom I spoke either reinforced that narrative or had no hope to offer because they claimed theyd never seen anyone who had been so damaged by medications. In fact, my neuropsychologist called me the Lucy of Akathisia. As if I didnt feel isolated and freakish enough.

But what was there to feel hopeful about? I had been broken by a system Id been taught to trust with my actual life, and in turn, that system blamed what it could on me, the patient, while shirking any responsibility for what had happened to me with the callous disregard of a sociopath.

The Medical Model

For those who havent read my first article, Ill summarize briefl...

00:45

Walmart may be dumping Bonobos and Eloquii, but its strategy wasnt a total flop "IndyWatch Feed National"

While theres no question that Walmart significantly overpaid for these dealsto the tune of more than $400 millionit didnt walk away empty-handed.

When Walmart announced today that it was selling online womens-apparel brand Eloquii to FullBeautyBrands, just days after selling online menswear brand Bonobos for $75 million to a brand-management firm and the retailer Express, it marked the end of an experiment that started in 2016. Thats when Walmart bought e-commerce company Jet.com for $3.3 billion, in what was then the largest-ever acquisition of an e-commerce company.

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