Freedom of Information Act requests 

From Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by Melbourne researcher Grant Lavac, and myself; correspondence between Grant Lavac and the Office of the Australian Minister for Defence; and other reporting, it can be stated that:

1. "Defence does not have a protocol that covers recording or reporting of UFO sightings." [June 2019.]

2. "Defence does not have a protocol that covers recording or reporting of unidentified aerial phenomena..." [June 2019.]

3. DOD has no internal emails, generated between 1 January 2021 and 16 June 2021, which refer to keywords "Unidentified drone;" "Unidentified aircraft;" "Unidentified object;" or "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." [July 2021.]

4. The former Chief of Air Force Air Marshall Mel Hupfield said "...he had not seen any reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAPs - in Australian airspace." [October 2021.]

Former Chief Of Air Force - Mel Hupfield

5. In early 2022, the DOD prepared an internal briefing paper on UAP, for possible use in responding to UAP related questions in Senate Estimates Committee Hearings. Included in this briefing paper were the following:

a. The RAAF ceased handling UFO reports in 1996.

b. "Defence Safety flight incidents, including those posed by UAP are handled by the Defence Aviation Safety Authority." [Note: Grant Lavac was advised by the DOD in an FOIA response, that no DASA reports between 2017 and 31 March 2022 referred to UAP.]

c. "...the United States nor any other nation or ally has requested or offered to collaborate on any...

Media release

On 20 July 2022, the U.S. Department of Defense published a media release titled "DoD Announces the Establishment of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office." The text of the release reads:

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Mar/03/2002592680/-1/-1/0/210212-A-BI463-0003.JPG

"On July 15, 2022, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence [DNI], amended her original direction to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security by renaming and expanding the scope of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group [AOIMSG] to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office [AARO], due to the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022, which included a provision to establish an office, in coordination with DNI, with responsibilities that were broader than those originally assigned to the AOIMSG.

Today, USD (I&S) Hon Ronald S.  Moultrie informed the department of the establishment of AARO within the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, and named Dr. Sean M. Kirkpatrick, most recently the Chief Scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center, as the Director of AARO.

The mission of the AARO will be to synchronize efforts across the Department of Defense, and with other US federal departments and agencies, to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest in, on or near military installations, operating areas, training areas, special use airspace and other areas of interest, and, as necessary, to mitigate any associated threats to safety of operations and national security. This includes anomalous, unidentified space,...

Background

My 12 July 2021 blog article titled "NASA and UAP: an updated official statement is available," drew attention to a 10 June 2021 interview with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, by U.S. media outlet "Politico."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-administrator-bill-nelson/

In the "Politico" article, Nelson revealed that, as a member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, he was briefed, on observations of UAP by Naval aviators. So, he had later, once he joined NASA, directed a senior member of staff, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, to look into the topic.

In my own article, I described then recent statements by NASA personnel about UAP; and the contents of part of NASA's own website, which presented a then current statement about UAP. 

NASA study of UAP

On 9 June 2022 a NASA media release came out titled "NASA to Set Up Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena." It read:

"NASA is commissioning a study team to start early in the fall to examine Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - that is, observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena - from a scientific perspective. The study will focus on identifying available data, how best to collect future data, and how NASA can use that data to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.

The limited number of observations of UAPs currently makes it difficult to draw scientific conclusions about the nature of such events. Unidentified Aerial Phenome...

From the magnificent Ross Eastgate. Limp lettuce leaf enough to drive old Digger to drink MICK Benson recalled the exact date and time Australians involved in the 1941, 241-day Siege of Tobruk were each issued two warm bottles of Fosters Lager. In a military career spanning four and a bit...

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The Butt Light Story is not going away. The damage is far deeper and fully intentional. More than is initially Understood

In 2008 Belgian INBEV bought Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion. That puchase delivered ABI which among other investments owns Butt Light.

Its history and what is termed Stake Holder Capitalism; attempting to dictatorially force ideologies onto consumers, rather than acting as a genuine commercial enterprise of meeting consumer demands; has cornered INBEV-ABI which is not only facing consumer rejection; beyond boycott; over The Mulvaney Curse; but now has banks as HSBC downgrading the viability as an investment of the sewered stock of the holding company itself.

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Thats all ChatGPT is. Emily Bender explains.

When you read the output of ChatGPT, its important to remember that despite its apparent fluency and despite its ability to create confident sounding strings that are on topic and seem like answers to your questions, its only manipulating linguistic form. Its not understanding what you asked nor what its answering, let alone reasoning from your question + its knowledge to come up with the answer. The only knowledge it has is knowledge of distribution of linguistic form.

It doesnt matter how intelligent it is it cant get to meaning if all it has access to is form. But also: its not intelligent. Our only evidence for its intelligence is the apparent coherence of its output. But were the ones doing all the meaning making there, as we make sense of it.

I think we know this from how we learn language ourselves. Babies dont lie there with their eyes closed processing sounds without context they are associating and integrating sounds with a complex environment, and also with internal states that are responsive to external cues. Clearly what we need to do is imbed ChatGPT in a device that gets hungry and craps itself and needs constant attention from a human.

Oh nosomeone, somewhere is about to wrap a diaper around a server.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 30, 2023, Patrick talks with 21WIRE writer and commentator Blake Lovewell, about the recent Bilderberg Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, where the global elites and captains of industry gathered to decide their secretive agenda for managing the masses over the coming year. Microsofts CEO was promoted to top Bilderberger this year, as the CBDC agenda goes into high gear. Will they be able to pull it off? Republican Presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has passed a law in Florida banning CBDCs and supporting crypto instead. Will others follow suit? All this and more. Listen:

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Indonesia memiliki banyak sekali objek wisata yang memukau. Rasanya akan sulit memilih mana yang terbaik dari semua tempat wisata di tanah air ini. Namun, mengunjungi semua tempat pun sepertinya juga tidak mungkin, apalagi jika waktu untuk berlibur hanya sebentar.

Nah, untuk memudahkan kamu memilih destinasi liburan, kami telah merangkumkan tujuh tempat wisata yang bisa dikunjungi. Penasaran? Berikut 7 rekomendasi tempat wisata terbaik di Indonesia:

1. Candi Borobudur, Jawa Tengah

Siapa yang tidak familier dengan objek wisata satu ini? Ya, tempat yang merupakan candi Buddha terbesar di dunia ini merupakan destinasi wisata sejarah yang sangat populer di kalangan wisatawan. Tak hanya di tanah air saja, nama Borobudur juga sangat populer di mancanegara. Tak heran jika ketika berkunjung ke sini, kamu akan menemukan banyak turis dari berbagai negara.

Candi Borobudur merupakan sebuah puzzle raksasa yang tersusun dari kurang lebih 2 juta balok batu vulkanik. Berbatuan itu kemudian dipahat sedemikian rupa sehingga bisa saling mengunci satu sama lain.

Salah satu yang menjadi daya tarik dari candi ini adalah reliefnya. Setidaknya, candi Borobudur memiliki 2.672 panel relief. Jika panel-panel tersebut disusun bisa mencapai panjang hingga 6 km. UNESCO sendiri sampai memberikan pujian relief Buddha di sini adalah yang terbesar dan paling lengkap di dunia. Dalam hal seni, relief ini sungguh tak tertandingi, setiap adegannya merupakan mahakarya yang utuh.

Kalau ingin mengikuti cerita d...

3AW reports, A mans car registration is in jeopardy, after his personalised number plate DANOUT was deemed inappropriate by VicRoads. The 'inappropriate' personalised number plate which VicRoads wants recalled 3aw.com.au Is Andrews such a weasel that he cares about this? If the public service in Victoria so perverted that this...

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Kevin Barrett The Unz Review May 27, 2023

Dr. Lucy Morgan Edwards has impeccable establishment credentials (Ph.D International Relations, Exeter; former political advisor to the EU Ambassador in Kabul). Shes calm, sensible, down-to-earth, and blessed with uncommonly good judgment. If the invaders and occupiers of Afghanistan had listened to her, things might have turned out differently. (See her book The Afghan Solution for details).

So why, her establishment ex-colleagues must wonder, does Dr. Morgan-Edwards suspect that Dr. Rashid Buttar, the famous COVID dissident physician, may have been assassinated? Does she really take seriously Dr. Buttars ravings about a COVID vaccine depopulation plot? What could have led her to wander so far off the reservation?

The answer, of course, is that Lucy Morgan-Edwards has experienced the extreme untrustworthiness of todays Western elites first-hand. Given the outrageous mendaciousness and utter corruption of the Western oligarchy and its propaganda-pumping mainstream media, the notion that a faction of Big Pharma biowarriors may have simultaneously developed COVID and mRNA vaccines for nefarious purposes is hardly implausible. Indeed, a fair bit of evidence points in that direction. And when one of the most prominent voices warning of such possibilities, Dr. Rashid Buttar, claimed he was poisoned during an appearance on CNN, and then dropped dead a few months later at age 57, you dont have to be paranoid to wonder whether they might have been out to get him.

It is an article of faith in mainstream media that only crazy people worry about politically suspicious deathsat least in the USA. If an enemy of Putin or Xi or Assad or the Iranian government or any other hostile regime dies suspiciously, we are supposed to automatically assume the worst. But as we all know, politically-motivated assassinations by insiders could never occur in America. Or as Frank Zappa memorably put it, It cant happen here.

How do we know that it cant happen here? Because the CIA told us so! In CIA Document 1035-960, Countering Criticism of the Warren Report, distributed in January 1967 to Agency moles illegally infiltrating the media, we learn that only crazy conspiracy theorists harbor suspicions about such events as the murder of President John F. Kennedy. And since only a conspiracy theorist would care that the CIA invented the wh...

(L) Martina Correia with Dublin nuns (C) the back of the famous tee-shirt (R) Troy Davis (1968-2011)

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Everybody knows that the late Troy Anthony Davis was innocent. Here are two ways you could know it. First, a worldwide group of justice warriors took up his case and gathered two-thirds of a million signatures, requesting clemency.  Among the requesters were Bishop Tutu, former president Jimmy Carter, and 3,000 clergypersons.

Clemency only means reduce his sentence form death to life imprisonment. There was no reason, no reason at all, for the 3 members of Georgias Pardon Bord to vote against the request. So that is Red Flag #1.

The other Red Flag is the fact that another man was suspected of having been the person who actually committed the crime.  Even his cousin blames him. But the police, to this day, never charged that man or investigated him in any way. So it is obvious they did not want to solve the crime (the fatal shooting of security guard Mark McPhail).

The subject of this article is witness t...

Three visual poems from Catherine Vidler's Chaingrass series.

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COMMENT: Mr. Armstrong; reading your piece on the unconstitutionality of this Woke Agenda, I must say as a legal expert that you are very accomplished in the law. You would have made one heck of a lawyer.

WY

ANSWER: Thank you. I think we could take it one step further. You might want to consider a class action against the boards of directors PERSONALLY. This is no different than taking other peoples money for personal use. If they put their home gardening on the books and had the company pay those personal expenses on the side, that would be theft. Here they are also violating their fiduciary duty as a board member and using company money to further their own PERSONAL political agenda.

So while hiring people less qualified to fill spots to be able to check a box violates that persons civil rights by engaging now in reverse discrimination, there is also a claim against the directors for using other peoples money for their personal political beliefs. A lawsuit should be brought against them to compel them to refund all the money they have spent on this WOKE agenda.

What if a board suddenly converts to some religion and decides to hand 10% of all profits to that church? Wouldnt that violate their Fiduciary Duty? Where is the SEC when they really should be defending shareholders? There should be a Congressional hearing calling in these people from the SEC. Are they protecting corporate officers like the FBI is protecting Biden?

Write to your Congressman and demand an investigation into the SEC.

...

Pierre Poilievre may have momentarily humbled Justin Trudeau after knocking him off his high horse. Poilievre demanded answers regarding inflation in Canada, specifically the growing costs of groceries. Trudeau wants to increase the carbon tax by over C$0.40 cents per liter to C$0.61 cents, guaranteed to increase the costs of essential items at a time when Canadians are already struggling with the increased cost of goods.

Justin Trudeau stated that he began his career as a teacher before entering politics as if he were in tune with the average Canadian citizen and not a nepotism baby with no real qualifications. Poilievre reminded Trudeau that he was clearly not a math teacher and then took it a step further by reminding Trudeau that he was forced to leave his teaching position in the middle of the semester. I am having trouble remembering why, Poilievre stated, receiving a roaring applause.

All Canadians know the scandal. In 2001, the West Point Grey Academy fired Trudeau after he was accused of having numerous relationships with students and potentially a students mother. Trudeau had deep connections due to his last name and was able to conceal the story, claiming he left mid-semester to take up a different career path. They claim there is no evidence against Trudeau, but would anyone want to be in the national spotlight and have their name dragged through the mud? Trudeau groomed his students and then received grooming by Klaus Schwab to become a Young Leader of the WEF. Now this man walks around telling other nations about ethics and morals.

The amazing irony of the Australian Defence Force upper commands trying to look like they care. They are the ones prosecuting and leaking against veterans giving the media the ability to report against returned soldiers in the first place. Defence HQ needs a hose out. From Campbell down. Subject: Request...

Berbicara mengenai tempat wisata di Jawa Barat sepertinya memang tidak ada habisnya. Ada banyak sekali destinasi menarik yang wajib dikunjungi yang rasanya akan butuh waktu panjang jika harus dibahas satu per satu.

Namun, kamu tidak perlu khawatir karena di sini, kami akan merangkumkan 10 tempat wisata terbaik yang ada di Jawa Barat supaya tidak bingung. Tertarik? Berikut 10 rekomendasi tempat wisata terbaik di Jawa Barat:

1. Pantai Santolo, Garut

Ingin berlibur ke pantai pasir putih di Jawa Barat? Datang saja ke Pantai Santolo yang berada di bagian selatan Garut, tepatnya di Pamalayan, Kecamatan Cikelet, Kabupaten Garut. Di tempat yang memiliki garis pantai panjang ini, kamu bisa menemukan sebuah pulau kecil bernama Santolo.

Pulau ini bisa dikunjungi wisatawan, lho. Kalau ingin ke sana, kamu bisa menyewa perahu nelayan. Sebenarnya ada jembatan yang menghubungkan pantai ke pulau ini, tetapi sayangnya kondisinya sudah tidak layak dan berbahaya jika digunakan.

Ada satu hal yang unik dari Pantai Santolo ini. Ketika air laut sedang pasang, air akan mengalir menuju ke sungai. Padahal biasanya air sungai yang mengalir ke laut, ya. Bukan mistis atau bagaimana, fenomena alam ini wajar terjadi karena posisi hilir sungai lebih rendah dibandingkan dengan bibir pantai.

Pantai ini sangat populer di kalangan wisatawan. Buktinya, saat hari libur, Pantai Santolo selalu ramai pengunjung. Ada banyak faktor mengapa pantai ini jadi favorit, selain karena harga tiket masuknya yang terjangkau, pesona Pantai Santolo juga tidak bisa diabaikan begi...

It was an ugly case lasting five years with a host of ugly revelations. But what could be surprising about the murderous antics of a special arm of the military, in this case, the Australian Special Air Service Regiment, which was repeatedly deployed on missions in an open-ended war which eventually led to defeat and withdrawal?

Ben Roberts-Smith was meant to be a poster boy of the regiment, the muscular noble representative who served in Afghanistan, a war with sketchy justifications. Along the way, he became Australias most decorated soldier, raking in the Medal of Gallantry in 2006, the Victoria Cross in 2010, and a Commendation for Distinguished Services for outstanding leadership in over 50 high-risk operations in 2012. He came to be lionised in the popular press, even being named Father of the Year in 2013.

A number of his colleagues, keen to take him down a peg or two, saw through the sheen. As did journalists at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Canberra Times. The deployments by the special forces to Afghanistan had not, as the narrative would have it, been paved with heroic engagements of military valour. Roberts-Smith, it seemed, was less plaster saint than ruthless executioner and bully.

Some of the transgressions reported on by the papers were very much of the same type investigated by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force. The findings were eventually made available in the stomach churning Brereton Report, released in 2020.

But even prior to that, a 2016 report by sociologist Samantha Crompvoets, commissioned by the Special Operations Commander of Australia (SOCAUST), noted body count competitions and the use of the Joint Priority Effects List (JPEL) among special force personnel sent to Afghanistan. The JPEL became what effectively amounted to a sanctioned kill list.
Unsurprisingly, the numbers that were put forth were cooked, often featuring the gratuitous torture and killing of unarmed villagers.

Roberts-Smith, incensed by the reporting, commenced defamation proceedings against the three papers in question, and the journalists Nick McKenzie, Chris Masters and David Wroe. The use of such a civil weapon is often odious, a measure designed to intimidate scribblers and reporters from publishing material that might enlighten. While the defamation laws have been mildly improved since the trials commencement, featuring a public interest defence, the publishers here could only really avail themselves of t...

     About Friends of ATLAS   Back in 2014 at the start of spring in the Blue Mountains (Australia), Katoomba residents Maureen and Peter Toy from their home at 57 Megalong Street observed a man inspecting this magnificent tree on the verge out front.  They approached the man, who then told them that he []

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BREAKING: Biden takes a big fall on stage just now at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation pic.twitter.com/GxkMbpyoNo Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) June 1, 2023

From Psychlings Podcast: Brett Deacon is a clinical psychologist and distinguished academic who has been at the forefront of academia for over 15 years in the U.S. and Australia. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters on topics ranging from critiques of the biomedical model to co-authoring the book Exposure Therapy for Anxiety: Principles and Practice . . . Please enjoy the knowledge, insight, and strong opinions from Brett covering: Why psychiatric medication isnt the solution to mental health challenges The background to the DSMs evolution Why more psychologists should use exposure therapy.

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The failure of Ben Roberts-smith to win his defamation case is making big news. For anyone who doesnt know what this is about, Roberts-Smith is the alleged bully and murderer behind the execution unarmed civilians, while serving in Australias armed forces on Afghanistan.

He murders were made pubic by an investigation reported by three newspapers the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, and the Canberra Times in 2018. Ben Roberts-Smith sued, and the 100 day case ended yesterday (1 June 2023). The judgement went against him.

Roberts-Smith was an officer in the Special Air Service (SAS).

Justice Anthony Besanko found that on a mission to the southern Afghan village of Darwan in 2012, he marched a handcuffed man named Ali Jan to stand above a 10-metre-high cliff that dropped down to a dry riverbed below. The court heard that Roberts-Smith then walked forward and kicked the individual in the chest, and then ordered a subordinate soldier to shoot the man dead.

Photo from the Department of Defence: Australian troops on an operation near Darwan

Another allegation was that on another mission an elderly man and second and younger man with a prosthetic leg, were executed.

It was ruled that on the probability of balance, based on the evidence, the newspapers had established the truth.

There are allegations of further murders and multiple assaults.

An immediate fallout has been the calls to have his uniform removed from the Australian War Memorial. It is there because Ben Roberts-Smith is Australias highest decorated war veteran.

There is no sign yet however, that he is going to be charged and made to face court for murder or anything else. There is not even the promise of a proper investigation. It adds to years of cover up by the military authorities.

Release of the Brereton report in 2020, which found credible evidence that implicated 25 current or former special forces personnel in the alleged unlawful killing of...

ASIA:

Chinas factory activity contracted at a faster rate than expected in May, signaling weakening demand and adding pressure on policymakers to support the countrys uneven economic recovery. The official manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) fell to a five-month low of 48.8, below the 50-point threshold that indicates expansion, and lower than the forecasted increase to 49.4. Additionally, the service sector activity expanded at a slower pace in May, with the official non-manufacturing PMI declining to 54.5 from 56.4. These disappointing readings caused Asian financial markets to decline, with the yuan, Australian dollar, and New Zealand dollar weakening, and regional stocks experiencing sharp falls. The PMI subindexes for May highlighted a contraction in factory output and a decline in new orders, including new exports, for the second consecutive month.

The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:

• NIKKEI 225 increased 260.13 points or 0.84% to 31,148.01
• Shanghai increased 0.07 points or 0.00% to 3,204.63
• Hang Seng decreased 17.36 points or -0.10% to 18,216.91
• ASX 200 increased 19.50 points or 0.27% to 7,110.80
• Kospi decreased 7.95 points or -0.31% to 2,569.17
• SENSEX decreased 193.70 points or -0.31% to 62,428.54
• Nifty50 decreased 46.65 points or -0.25% to 18,487.75

The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

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Recently, I asked myself a question:

Am I hopeful that we will reinvent our civilization to handle the existential threats facing us?

This is difficult to answer! I feel extremely hopeful, spry, super inspired by something these days but somehow it isnt connected to our likelihood of surviving the coming catastrophes, individually or as a species. I am not sure that is still a useful way to think about our circumstance, in any case.

I find hope often irritates me. When I think of hope, I recall the 2008 Obama campaign based on hope and change. Once in office, he quickly betrayed the hopes of his progressive base. He pandered to Wall Street, accelerated fracking, and perpetuated various horrific military adventures. Without a firm deadline, hope often seems a selling technique, a postponement device. A way to kick the can down the road.

Hope reminds me of should, another word I find suspect. Whenever someone tells me they should do something, I cringe a bit. Should is the word we use for anything we dont want to do while feeling some vague guilty compulsion to do it anyway. If you feel you should do something, you probably shouldnt, and most likely you wont.

Hope forfeits the present for the future. We gaze toward something better up ahead, via our deeply distorted concept of linear time, for which we should sacrifice not do what we really want now.

Equally problematic, for me, is the word charity. When some wealthy person chooses to donate some of their loot to charity, I cant help but wonder about the rest of their fortune. This, presumably, was amassed with uncharitable, in other words, selfish or greedy intentions. Why didnt they act with good intentions and purposes all along, from the get-go? If they did if everybody did there wouldnt be any need for charity, no reason to give some money away to assuage a bad conscience.

One idea I find clarifying was originally attributed to Hegel (not sure if he actually wrote or even implied this, but if he did, it could be his pithiest one-liner):

There is no such thing as unrealized potential.

This simple idea saves me a great deal of time, energy, and stress. It pushes me to be more present, more complete, with whatever task is at hand. If there is no unrealized p...

Binance suspended fiat on- and off-ramps by bank transfers in Australia, as well as trading for Australian dollar (AUD) pairs.

By Laurie Calhoun | The Libertarian Institute | May 30, 2023

The quest to develop and refine technologically advanced means to commit mass homicide continues on, with Pentagon tacticians ever eager to make the military leaner and more lethal. Drone swarms already exist, and as insect-facsimile drones are marketed and produced, we can expect bug drone swarms to appear soon in the skies above places where suspected bad guys are said to residealong with their families and neighbors. Following the usual trajectory, it is only a matter of time before surveillance bug drones are upgraded for combat, making it easier than ever to kill human beings by whoever wishes to do so, whether military personnel, factional terrorists, or apolitical criminals. The development of increasingly lethal and creative means to commit homicide forges ahead not because anyone needs it but because it is generously funded by the U.S. Congress under the assumption that anything labeled a tool of national defense is, by definition, good.

To some there may seem to be merits to the argument from necessity for drones, given the ongoing military recruitment crisis. There are many good reasons why people wish not to enlist in the military anymore, but rather than review the missteps taken and counterproductive measures implemented in the name of defense throughout the twenty-first century, administrators ignore the most obvious answer to the question why young people are less enthusiastic than ever before to sign their lives away. Why did the Global War on Terror spread from Afghanistan and Iraq to engulf other countries as well? Critics have offered persuasive answers to this question, above all, that killing, torturing, maiming, and terrorizing innocent people led to an outpouring of sympathy for groups willing to resist the invaders of their lands. As a direct consequence of U.S. military intervention, Al Qaeda franchises such as ISIS emerged, proliferated, and spread. Yet the military plows ahead undeterred in its professed mission to eliminate the bad guys, with the killers either oblivious or somehow unaware that they are the primary creators of the bad guys.

Meanwhile, the logic of automation has been openly and enthusiastically embraced as the way of the future for the military, as in so many other realms. Who needs soldiers anyway, given that they can and will be replaced by machines? Just as grocery stores today often have more self-checkout stations than human cashiers, the military has been replacing combat pilots with drone operators for years. Taking human beings altogether out of the killing loop is the inevitable next step, because war architects focus on lethality, as though it were the only meas...

Why do people clear forest? To anybody who has lived on the forest frontier, the answer is as simple as it is obvious: it is essential to the livelihoods of the regions inhabitants. In some cases, it may be to grow food to feed a family but, more often, people clear forest to generate wealth by selling timber, cultivating a crop or raising livestock. The flow of goods between rural and urban societies is as old as civilization, but in todays global economy the connection between the producer and the consumer is mediated by a supply chain that is complex and not particularly transparent. Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Credit: Rhett Butler. For the last several decades, increases in demand for food and fibre have been met by the expansion of agricultural supply chains into tropical forest wilderness. Producers operating on these landscapes are responding to global demand for the goods they produce; they are acting in their own self-interest to create wealth for their families and jobs for their communities. Many are fully aware that deforestation is a global problem but maintain that they should not bear the cost of conserving biodiversity or fighting global warming, especially when wealthy nations have sacrificed their own forest and polluted the atmosphere in pursuit of economic growth. A common refrain, voiced across economic spectra, is that wealthy nations should assume the cost of forest conservation. Many consumers in wealthy nations are concerned about tropical deforestation, and some express a willingness to pay for conservationThis article was originally published on Mongabay

Indigenous territories with secure land rights not only reduce deforestation inside their lands in the Brazilian Amazon, but also lead to higher secondary forest growth on previously deforested areas, says a new study. This new report, published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is off the back of multiple studies in recent years pointing to the efficiency of Indigenous forest conservation in Brazils Amazon once their territories gain full recognition by the government. According to the report, these territories support higher rates of secondary forest growth than the privately owned and unincorporated lands around them. The secondary forests that grow back after clearing of original old-growth help revive biodiversity and capture carbon, combating climate change. Regenerated forests, also known as secondary forests, attempt to mimic the old-growth forest that was once there and act as carbon sinks, explains environmental and natural resource economist Nilesh Shinde, a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a co-author on the paper. Granting tenure to these Indigenous lands in Brazil is not only a really good human rights policy, but its actually a great environmental policy as well, says political scientist Kathryn Baragwanath, now at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia, and lead author of the study. Land tenure prevents outsiders from entering territories for logging, mining, setting up crop pastures and land-grabbing, and it protects Indigenous traditional ways of life largely based on forest stewardship. Studies show this form of land protection contains some of the most healthy forestsThis article was originally published on Mongabay

Comment: Tthe Guardian puts out a puff piece attempting to rehabilitate a war criminal who among other things, fanned the flames of Ukraine's neonazi coup. While a person's imminent death is tragic, it does not warrant whitewashing his past or abetting his lies. Mikheil Saakashvili warned of Putin's ambitions 15 years ago. Now he tells of torture by a regime that panders to Moscow Locked up in a Tbilisi hospital, Mikheil Saakashvili is slowly wasting away. "I am asking to be transferred to Poland, as it is crystal clear that in Georgian hospital I will die," Georgia's former president wrote in response to questions from the Observer last week. His answers were scrawled in blue ballpoint pen on sheets of paper, passed to his lawyers. Photographs and video of Saakashvili in hospital show him gaunt and confused. A recent report from independent experts suggested his health has deteriorated severely and he will soon face irreversible organ damage. Since his arrest, he says, his weight...

How woke is too woke? What on earth does 2SLGBTQI+ even mean?

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 29, 2023, Patrick talks with our roving correspondent for culture & sport, Basil Valentine, about the BBCs latest debacle where the British establishments propaganda arm was caught lying in order to get Roger Waters UK concerts cancelled under the increasingly bogus charge of antisemitism. Also, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau attempts to leapfrog the whole of wokery by extending the former LGBTQ acronym to the new upgraded 2SLGBTQI+ but what on earth does this even mean? All this and more. Listen:

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Will NATO attempt another stunt as they did last summer when they set explosives to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines?

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 30, 2023, Patrick talks with former German and NATO military member, Markus Kraus, about the disturbing signs surrounding NATOs upcoming Air Defender 2023 drill which will feature hundreds of military aircraft, and will even close down German airspace. Will NATO attempt another stunt as they did last summer when they set the explosives to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines? Also, NATO members like Germany are now forming special police forces to put down demonstrations against their proxy war against Russia, and the mainstream media have blacked-out any coverage of anti-war demonstrations in countries like Germany. Listen:

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry protested to Tokyo over the G7 summits vilification of Beijing and interference in Chinese internal affairs.

The G7 summit, which took place in Hiroshima, Japan, from May 19 to 21, was not without controversy. The leaders of the so-called most industrialized countries have once again demonstrated their exclusivity and pretention to judge everyone and everything. The communiqu produced at the summit drew much attention to China; in particular, the G7 countries expressed worry over Taiwan, the South China Sea, human rights, and the non-market practices of the PRC.

This cavalier attitude on the part of the leaders of the collective West could not have gone unanswered by China. Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Sun Weidong protested to the Japanese ambassador in Beijing over the inflated issues related to China at the G7 summit in Hiroshima. According to a Chinese foreign ministry statement, Japan, which holds the G7 presidency this year, attacked and vilified China along with other countries during the G7 events in Hiroshima as well as in the joint G7 statement. Such gross interference in Chinas internal affairs violates basic principles of international law and harms Chinas sovereignty, security and development interests. In this regard, Beijing expresses its acute discontent and strong protest, the statement stressed.

The Chinese diplomat also noted that the G7 has a confrontational and Cold War camp mentality and its actions violate historical trends, objective facts and international morality. Sun Weidong pointed out that the issues related to Hong Kong, Xinjiang and Tibet are exclusively internal Chinese affairs, and no outside forces will be allowed to interfere in any way. Accusations of economic coercion of other countries and creating a debt trap c...

The interview simulator, named Boris, assesses everything from the content of your answer to your eye contact and posture.

As Hallo CEO Vern Howard shares his Zoom screen with me, Im immediately transported back to the AOL era, with a window that pops up in the typical typewriter font of the instant messaging application. But this demo is far from the technology of AOLits an AI-powered career coach named Boris designed to assist Gen Z students land a dream job as part of Hallos digital events and recruiting platform.

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The Australian government suddenly announced a new eight-week consultation to ask how heavily it should police the AI sector.

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Alex Soros, son of liberal billionaire George Soros, has maintained access to the upper echelons of President Bidens White House and has frequently taken advantage of those channels.

The younger Soros, who chairs the board of directors for his fathers Open Society Foundations network, has now visited the White House at least 17 times since 2021, according to a Fox News Digital review of visitor logs.

Alexs most recent visits include three meetings between February 8th and 10th, records released Tuesday show. The visitor logs list Jon Finer, the principal deputy national security adviser; Jordan Finkelstein, special assistant to the president and the chief of staff for senior Biden adviser Anita Dunn; and Mariana Adame, the adviser to the counselor of the president, as the individuals who greeted Alex.

It remains unclear precisely who Alex may have met with for the sessions, as the records can contain White House staff who book appointments, meet the guests and take them to other personnel.

For example, a White House official confirmed to Fox News Digital in January that two of Alexs past visits were with Ron Klain, Bidens former chief of staff, who was not listed in the records. OSF did not answer questions on the nature of his most recent meetings, and the White House did not respond to an inquiry.

The three most recent visits come on the heels of his 14 prior visits to the White House. And while the younger Soros has taken advantage of the Biden connections, hes also maintained close contact with Democratic lawmakers, which he often boasts about and posts on social media.

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Bud Light enlists a trans ladyface minstrel to sell beer. Target hires a trans Satanist to design LGBT clothes for kids and starts selling "binding" and "tucking" swimwear. North Face launches a marketing campaign featuring a creepy drag performer hocking LGBT gear to children ages 2 to 7. The Los Angeles Dodgers gives an award to a demonic hate group whose sole purpose is to blaspheme and profane the Catholic faith. All this, and June "pride month" hasn't even begun. What's happening? Why did so many major corporate brands decide to go all-in on promoting an aggressive, radical LGBT agenda that just a few years ago would have been considered totally unacceptable in civil society? Is this a psy-op? Is it real? What happens next? The short answer to these questions is that we've entered a new phase of the culture war, and in some ways have transcended "the culture war" completely. What we're in now is better described as a religious war one that's been launched by corporate...

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(7) Sal the Agorist on Twitter: "53 ppl shot in Chicagos gun-free zones over Memorial Day weekend No tweets from David Hogg or Joe Biden. No travel advisory from the NAACP. No coverage on MSM. Nothing. https://t.co/EqF3QACfyV" / Twitter
Scotland Today online - Zelenskyy to be investigated for "High Treason," by Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation
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PMID:  Environ Int. 2023 Apr 7 ;176:107916. Epub 2023 Apr 7. PMID: 37210806 Abstract Title:  Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and non-accidental mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Abstract:  BACKGROUND: The health effects of traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) continue to be of important public health interest across the globe. Following its 2010 review, the Health Effects Institute appointed a new expert Panel to systematically evaluate the epidemiological evidence regarding the associations between long-term exposure to TRAP and selected health outcomes. This paper describes the main findings of the systematic review on non-accidental mortality.METHODS: The Panel used a systematic approach to conduct the review. An extensive search was conducted of literature published between 1980 and 2019. A new exposure framework was developed to determine whether a study was sufficiently specific to TRAP, which included studies beyond the near-roadway environment. We performed random-effects meta-analysis when at least three estimates were available of an association between a specific exposure and outcome. We evaluated confidence in the evidence using a modified Office of Health Assessment and Translation (OHAT) approach, supplemented with a broader narrative synthesis.RESULTS: Thirty-six cohort studies were included. Virtually all studies adjusted for a large number of individual and area-level covariates-including smoking, body mass index, and individual and area-level socioeconomic status-and were judged at a low or moderate risk for bias. Most studies were conducted in North America and Europe, and a few were based in Asia and Australia. The meta-analytic summary estimates for nitrogen dioxide, elemental carbon and fine particulate matter-pollutants with more than 10 studies-were 1.04 (95% CI 1.01, 1.06), 1.02 (1.00, 1.04) and 1.03 (1.01, 1.05) per 10, 1 and 5 g/m, respectively. Effect estimates are interpreted as the relative risk of mortality when the exposure differs with the selected increment. The confidence in the evidence for these pollutants was judged as high, because of upgrades for monotonic exposure-response and consistency across populations. The consistent findings across geographical regions, exposure assessment methods and confounder adjustment resulted in a high confidence rating using a narrative approach as well.CONCLUSIONS: The overall confidence in the evidence for a positive association between long-term exposure to TRAP and non-accidental mortality was high.

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The newly elected NSW Labor government have stopped short of committing to paying volunteers who attend emergencies such as fires and floods, but say there is investment and initiatives underway to support those who volunteer as emergency service members. 

The Echo asked NSW Emergency Minister, Jihad Dib, During the 2022 floods, emergency services were clearly under-prepared, and it was the community, not the government or Council, who were on the ground immediately helping/saving each other from life threatening situations. It took around a week for any government assistance to arrive. 

Given this, will NSW Labor commit to appropriately fund emergency services, so volunteers are paid for being on call, so they are prepared for future events?

The minister replied, The NSW government remains committed to delivering world-class emergency services, and doing everything possible to keep communities safe from natural disasters.

Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for estate living? Or why do the community-activist Obamas prefer to live in not one, but three mansions? The answer is that calls for radical equity, "power for the people," and mandated equality are usually mostly sloganeering for those who enjoy power and the lucre it brings, and their wish is to augment both for themselves. The result is that the issue du jour of mandated equality often becomes secondary if not irrelevant. There is neither fear of inconstancy nor hypocrisy, given the central theme that governs a leftist party line is political utility or the ends of power always more than justify the hypocritical means used to obtain it. Spout racialist nonsense for 40 years? Harass women and young girls by blowing in their hair and squeezing them too tightly? Create a family grifting syndicate to leverage foreign cash in quid pro quo...

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Indias economic growth in the March quarter reached 6.1%, according to government data. This growth was driven by increased government and private capital spending, although private consumption remained sluggish. India continues to be one of the fastest growing emerging economies, particularly as Chinas recovery falters. Despite the risks posed by a global slowdown, the government anticipates growth to remain around 6.5% in the current fiscal year. The economy outperformed economists expectations, with a growth rate of 5.0% forecasted in a Reuters poll for the last quarter of the 2022/23 fiscal year. The full-year growth estimate was revised from 7% to 7.2%. In the previous fiscal year, Indias economy grew by 9.1%.

The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today:

• NIKKEI 225 decreased 440.28 points or -1.41% to 30,887.88
• Shanghai decreased 19.65 points or -0.61% to 3,204.56
• Hang Seng decreased 361.51 points or -1.94% to 18,234.27
• ASX 200 decreased 118.00 points or -1.64% to 7,091.30
• Kospi decreased 8.40 points or -0.32% to 2,577.12
• SENSEX decreased 346.89 points or -0.55% to 62,622.24
• Nifty50 decreased 99.45 points or -0.53% to 18,534.40

The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

• AUDUSD decreased 0.00552 or -0.85% to 0.64618
• NZDUSD decreased 0.00455 or -0.75% to 0.59905
• USDJPY decreased 0.04 or -0.03% to 139.750
• USDCNY increased 0.03877 or 0.55% to 7.12947

Precious Metals:

• Gold increased 5.81 USD/t oz. or 0.30% to 1,964.95
• Silver increased 0.265 USD/t. oz or 1.14% to 23.480

Some economic news from last night:

China:

Chinese Composite PMI (May) decreased from 54.4 to 52.9

Manufacturing PMI (May) decreased from 49.2 to 48.8

Non-Manufacturing PMI (May) decreased from 56.4 to 54.5

Japan:

Industrial Production (MoM) (Apr) decreased from 1.1% to -0.4%

Retail Sales (YoY) (Apr) decreased from 6.9% to 5.0%

Australia:

Construction Work Done (QoQ) (Q1) increased from 1.0% to 1.8%

CPI (YoY) decreased from 7.0% to 6.8%

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I know its not as impressive as the mammoth, but it gives AMAB people an edge in rugby, therefore trans athletes should be banned. So saith Sean Ingle, chief sportswriter for the increasingly transphobic Guardian.

As he repeated many lies about trans women in sport, whether through ignorance or malice, Ingle said, And going back to the start with the science is to have a separate, exclusive, preserved category for natal females with trans women and trans men then going into an open, universal category. And those that support this approach point to the recent science that suggests that even when testosterone is reduced, strength in transgender women only goes down 5%.

Most of that advantage for male puberty is retained. They also point out, and I hear this a lot, that women are not men with lower testosterone. They point out there are thousands of physical differences between males and females, and they arent always obvious.

Females tend to have better peripheral vision than males. Males, in contrast, are quite as fast[sic?] at accurately detecting the trajectory of a moving object. That is, how fast its moving, in which direction its moving, and where its going to be 1 second from now.

Thats helpful when youre trying to chuck a spear at a rabbit. If youre going back to evolutionary biology times, its also helpful when youre trying to intercept a rugby ball. My general view here is that The Guardian should be at the heart of all this and that we should write about the subject fearlessly.

Ah, even sportswriters have absorbed the biases of evolutionary psychology. Now men, not women, have evolved to be better at throwing spears.

These glib comparisons always make me wonder what was being compared in these studies. All women tend to have better peripheral vision than men? What if you compared men, in general, to women tennis players? Is it still true? Isnt it quite likely that peripheral vision, and the ability to calculate trajectories, are plastic and responsive to practice?

Also, how large is the variation within men, and within women? Arent we really dealing with selected subsets of populations, making blanket claims about the aggregate abilities of diverse populations rather problematic?

The whole premise is flawed. It assumes that men of the paleolithic were specifically and exclusively selected for spear chucking, that women of that time had no use for that tal...

The variety of garlic was not named, of course. Via: ABC: An Australian variety of garlic could reduce COVID and flu-related infections, according to new medical research. A study by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (the Doherty Institute) and farming company Australian Garlic Producers has found that extracts of an as-yet-to-be-named garlic, []

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You dont think people who hid behind face diapers and face shields are going to say no to a dinner of grasshoppers and cockroaches?

by Mike Stone (henrymakow.com)

Forbes recently ran a piece called Eat Bugs! Its What for Dinner.

Why is a so-called financial magazine promoting bugs for dinner? The answer is conditioning. Its how every organic movement begins. Grass roots is really astro turf.

Conditioning is how the whole tranny movement started. In 2007, Barbara Walters interviewed Jaron Bloshinsky, a ten-year-old boy who claimed to be a girl. That was the first step in getting the public to accept tranny mania. It was followed by a subtle increase in news stories about transsexuals and how they were accidentally born into the wrong bodies. Total nonsense, yet look at where we are today.

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Thats how these agendas are pushed. They begin with what looks like a harmless question or an enlightened news story thats put forth by the media in order to gauge public perception. Gradually those stories increase in number until the public is fully conditioned, then the push begins.

Bugs for dinner is the latest thing. Its being heavily promoted by the World Economic Forum, and when Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum says, Jump, the presidents of major countries ask, How high?

Under pressure from the WEF, the European Union has declared meat carcinogenic. Their recommended replacement? Bugs.

Bill Gates has his hands all over eat bugs. Hes a major investor in Beyond Beef, a fake meat company. The more people he can convince to stop eating meat, the more money he will make.

Replacing meat with bugs is an issue that very few people are currently aware of. Mention it, and the average person will laugh out loud and not take you seriously. How blind they are. Like trannyism, they wont see it until a plate of fried cockroaches is staring them right the face.

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