The pedophile Frank Houston founder of Hillsong. Pictured in Sydney in the 1980s

Donald Elley of Bellingen

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Eds Desk is an occasional column in New Matilda where we sub-edit a story that has already been published, but probably shouldnt have been. This edition, we look at Sky News comedian/bestiality warrior Cory Bernardi, and his man-love for Chicken Strangler turned War Criminal, Ben Roberts-Smith.

Hi Cory,
Ive been asked to cast an eye over your script for tomorrow, re Ben Roberts-Smith being found by a judge to have committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Please see notes below. Cheers Ed.

[HEADLINE] Ben Roberts-Smiths courage under fire can never be disputed
EDS DESK: Cory, no-one is disputing Robert-Smiths courage under fire, any more than people questioned Ted Bundys sense of calm while he was chopping up young women. You may as well suggest Robert-Smiths capacity to wipe his arse and pull up his pants is above reproach because its about as relevant. Also, Roberts-Smith is a psychopath, so obviously he loves being under fire. Headline will need to change.

[BODY COPY] The news this week has been dominated by the defamation verdict of war hero Ben Roberts-Smith.
Right. When you say war hero Cory, did you mean war criminal? I understand how the two terms might be confusing for you both have the word war in them. But theyre quite different things. Please amend.

I have to admit the trial was a victory for the Nine Media Group, which the judge ruled had satisfied the grounds for their accusations that they levelled against the Victoria Cross winner.
You dont have to admit anything Cory, because youre not accused of a crime. Yet. But it is true that Nine won the defamation action, so just say that, rather than trying to appear fair and balanced by acknowledging the existence of facts you dont like.

Now, Ive gotta say, I dont know Ben Roberts-Smith, although I do know some people who do. Accordingly, I am not equipped to make judgement as to whether hes a good bloke or not, and nor do I know first-hand what sort of soldier he was.
Okay, perfect. That was quick. Lets leave it at then. Cheers Ed.

However, what I do know is that...

My interview with the LA-based radio program, Background Briefing, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, the ongoing US persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and a major win for truthful journalism last week in a case about war crimes in Afghanistan:

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After two decades inside, Kathleen Folbigg is set to be pardoned following a decision by the NSW Attorney General Michael Daley to grant her a release from prison ahead of the handing down of the full report from the inquiry into her convictions that has taken place over the last 12 months.

The decision follows mounting community and media pressure and a motion that passed the NSW Upper House last week introduced by Greens MP, solicitor and spokesperson for Justice, Sue Higginson.

A huge moment for justice

This is a huge moment for justice in this state, said Ms Higginson. Kathleen Folbiggs friends, supporters and legal team have stood by her and fought for justice for years and years and finally we are seeing justice be delivered. It is with the deepest gratitude that I thank the Attorney General for showing the necessary courage to make this decision.

The Attorney General has listened to the community, the Parliament and most importantly the evidence and made a decision that I think we can all agree is the right one.

Ms Folbigg should not have been in prison for even a day longer after the inquiry showed there was reasonable doubt about her guilt, but now we are finally seeing the necessary steps being taken to ensure she is released from prison and that is a decision that we welcome.

The power that ongoing campaigning for justice can have

Ms Higginson said this moment demonstrates the power that ongoing campaigning for justice can have. Last week the Attorney General appeared steadfast in his position to delay the release of Ms Folbigg until after the report from the inquiry had been handed down, but we brought the fight for justice to his doorstep and he has responded to the pressure in the only acceptable way and made the decision to release Ms Folbigg.

Weve received confirmation that Ms Folbigg has walked free this morning and that she is in the sunlight, shes now free from prison.

It is a massive relief for all of those who have stood by Ms Folbigg. This decision is in the best interests of Ms Folbigg and the NSW Community.

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Here are some of the colony's police force's manuals for the equipment used to measure a driver's velocity.

If a device has been used to ascertain your vehicle's speed, where you are contesting this, then in the full brief*, the manual to the device must be included.

See:

Gatsometer MRS Type 24 Slant Radar: 

Gatsometer Radar 24-GS11 (Sep 2013) v3.0:

NSW Silver Eagle Radar:

Pro Laser 3:

Stalker DSR 2X :

TruCam (By Laser Technology, Inc):

Victronic PoliScan:

The proposed locations of overdose prevention centres aren't chosen at random. They are based on evidence and careful consideration. For the site to be effective, it needs to be pinpointed, in what experts call a 'honeypot'.

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If there is one thing that Northern Rivers communities loves, its a good busker and after a successful pilot program in 2022, Busking For Change is launching nationally were in!

Primary schools across the country are being invited to be Busking For Change changemakers  in a simple and joyful fundraiser.

Students commit to learn to sing, play an instrument or dance to a given song, and seek donations from family and friends.

Money raised supports the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) and the access and
creation of books for children in remote Communities across Australia, where resources are
limited.

The charity event was initiated by five-time ARIA award-winner and ILF Lifetime
Ambassador, Josh Pyke in 2009, and subsequently raised over $50,000. I always thought it could be more than just a pub gig, says Josh.

Music is a joyful celebration

Its World Environment Day and this year the spotlight is on finding solutions to plastic pollution #BeatPlasticPollution.

United Nations Secretary-General Antnio Guterres says we can beat plastic pollution  if we act now.  This World Environment Day is a call to beat plastic pollution. Every year over 400 million tonnes of plastic is produced worldwide, one third of which is used just once.

Every day the equivalent of over 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic dumped

Every day, the equivalent of over 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic is dumped into our oceans, rivers and lakes. The consequences are catastrophic....

The following was written by Joe Montero in his capacity as the Victorian President of Fair Go For Pensioners. and it puts a view on the action needed than that practiced by a succession of Australian governments and was repeated in the May federal budget. The resulting debate has unleashed a rise in the debate about what is needed, and this provides a good opportunity to raise alternatives to the obsession of reliance on the market.

Being able to afford a home to provide for housing needs is an important part of living a quality life. In fact, a decent home to live in should be treated as  fundamental human right. If was to be treated this way in Australia, the government would act to ensure this right was met, and what it had to do to achieve this end would be a no brainer.

It would means investing enough to ensure affordable housing is in reach for everyone. This would be the only acceptable minimum.

But Australia has not yet reached this understanding. Governments, whether Coalition or Labor, remain wedded to the dogma that only the market can legitimately provide the answer. Neither believed this once. Now they both do. This is the hold that the ideology has on them. Government intervention must be kept to a minimum according to them, and what there is must only be contemplated if it takes the form of giving assistance to the major players in the industry.

Neither really regards adequate housing as a basic human right. Housing is seen as a commodity to be bought and sold by those who can afford to be players.

The high price of housing is the result of market failure and the associated raise of a housing speculation bubble, aided by government handouts to developers and big landlords. Behind the market failure is the high degree of monopoly that enables developers and corporate landlords to take advantage and profit in excess of what a properly functioning market would allow.  The outrageous cost of housing is not a market price. The mechanism to achieve the high price has been the deliberate creation of excessive debt.

The graph below reveals the ongoing rise of finance approval, which means a continuing expansion of debt, which imposed a huge burden on mortgage owner occupier homes of $28.8 billion by mid 2022.

This brings us to the claim that the problem is a shortage in the supply of housing. Where...

Migrant Justice Institute and the Human Rights Law Centre today welcome the Albanese Government's commitment to introducing visa-based protections for migrant workers who address exploitation at work.

The Minister of Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Andrew Giles committed today to introducing 3 important protections for migrant workers: protection against visa cancellation, flexible visa requirements for future sponsorship visas, and a short-term visa to bring claims for wages they are owed and hold exploitative employers to account.

The Human Rights Law Centre, Migrant Justice Institute and academics at UNSW and UTS have led a coalition of 40 organisations across the country - including trade unions, migrant rights and faith-based groups - to develop a blueprint for visa protections for migrant workers. Todays announcement reflects the commitment of migrant workers and their allies.

Migrant Justice Institute and the Human Rights Law Centre also welcome the governments announcement of two further protections for migrant workers, for which they and other migrant worker allies have campaigned for many years: regulations to enable sponsored migrants to leave a dodgy employer and work to support themselves for up to 6 months while they find a new sponsor, and a commitment to changing the Migration Act to ensure all workers are protected by Australian workplace laws regardless of immigration status.

The coalition warned, however, that in order to be effective, visa-based protections must be robust and reflect the realities of migrants lives at work. The co-design of those protections by the Department of Home Affairs must centre migrant workers, their representatives in the union movement and allies.

Inderjit Kaur, a temporary visa holder and advocate with the Migrant Workers Centre, said:  

I had my wages stolen by two employers, because they knew my visa could be cancelled if I stood up to them, and they took advantage of that. Because I had no security with my visa, I could not take action until it was too late. I never got back any of the money that was stolen from me and my visa is now uncertain. This should not have happened to my family, and it should not happen to migrants who are coming to Australia now.  

Sanmati Verma, Managing Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, said: 

The Albanese Government has finally heeded the call from migrant workers and their allies to introduce visa protections for migrant workers. It has a critical opportunity over the coming months to design out some of the levers for exploitation in the migration regime. If it is serious about achieving that, it will put migrant workers and their allies at the centre of co-designing these critical protections. 

Associate Professor Ba......

The Human Rights Law Centre is calling on the Albanese Government to repatriate all Australian people still held in detention camps in Syria, after Save the Children were today forced to commence legal action because the Government has failed to act.  

Many Australians have remained trapped in the camps for four years, away from their homes and relatives in Australia, despite other countries taking steps to repatriate their nationals from Syria.   

The United Nations has reported that young boys in the camps are at risk of being removed from their families and placed in mens or adult prisons, as 17-year-old Yusuf Zahab was before he died in a Syrian camp. Before his death, he and his family had begged the Australian Government to bring him home.      

All Australian people have the right to return to Australia. The rights and protections of citizenship cannot depend on the whims of governments. The Albanese Governments failure to act earlier has cost lives and put other lives at risk.  

Save the Children has commenced legal action to secure the safe repatriation of the remaining women and children in the Federal Court. The case argues the Australian Government is ultimately responsible for their ongoing and unlawful detention. 

Josephine Langbien, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, said:    

The Australians trapped in Syrian camps have been held for years in dire and dangerous conditions. The Australian Governments refusal to repatriate them is the only reason they remain there. Every person involved in this case has a right to come home, and they should not have to resort to litigation to force their own government to bring them back.  

The Albanese Government is prolonging the trauma these Australians have endured and the separation from their loved ones at home. The Albanese Government must take responsibility for the safety of its citizens and ensure that no more lives are lost. All of these people, children and adults alike, deserve a future. They must be brought home to their families and communities in Australia. 

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Media contact:
Thomas Feng
Media and Communications Manager
0431 285 275
thomas.feng@hrlc.org.au

Michelle Bennett
Engagement Director
0419 100 519
michelle.bennett@hrlc.org.au

People in government departments commit criminal actions every single day where most if not all go unnoticed.

The ADF is on organisation that commits criminal activities, not only within the colony but also abroad.

There is no ousting of this criminal activity nor any real court time for the age old excuse of national security, which can almost be alleged to anything.

Persons within the ADF have committed the crime of tampering with evidence with regards to Ben Roberts Smiths killing of civilians overseas in Afghantistan.

They have altered photos to suit a false agenda.

A man who was a close associate of the ultra-nationalist pro-Putin supporter Simeon Boikov - known as the 'Aussie Cossack' - has been found dead by police. Comment: For the legacy media 'ultra-nationalist' and 'far-right' are mostly used to smear people, rather than to be used as accurate descriptions, and they're particularly used against people with regards to issues like Russia's special operation in Ukraine, or vaccine mandates and lockdowns. James Walters, 42, was found on May 23 by police in Sydney's northern suburbs, some 10 days after he was reported missing on May 13. NSW Police told Daily Mail Australia police were satisfied the body was that of Mr Walters, who had last been seen in the north-west Sydney suburb of Chatswood. 'We had concerns for the man's welfare,' a police spokesperson said, adding officers had seen nothing to suggest the death was suspicious.

Against the backdrop of failed attempts to draw Asian countries into its orbit, Washington decided to enlist the support of old European friends.

The French Navy frigate Prairial paid a courtesy visit to Japan from April 20 to April 27. The ship took part in a joint drill to repress unlawful activity at sea before taking the place of honor in the self-defense fleet, headquartered at Yokosuka. The entry was a kind of announcement of a number of other more substantial joint military maneuvers.

Rear Admiral Geoffroy dAndign, who oversees the campaign, enthusiastically said at the events press conference that the current year of 2023 should be unparalleled in terms of strengthening collaboration between the two countries in the military field. The newest frigate Lorraine, commissioned last year, will visit Japan in May to engage in anti-submarine exercises, after which a group of Rafale fighter jets will be dispatched to the islands, and the countries will arrange ground forces maneuvers in French New Caledonia at the end of the year. All these actions are said to be aimed at ensuring freedom of navigation and maintaining peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.

What is the source of Paris renewed interest in the distant region? Following its defeat in Indochina, France has permanently abandoned its colonial ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region, and the remaining Polynesian islands under its control are so remote from the sources of tension that the appearance of any threats to them is in the realm of science fiction. Consider for a moment that the military expansion is motivated by concern for the overseas territories, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand would make more sense as allies than Japan, which is constrained by limitations on action outside of its islands. Not to mention the challenging economic climate in France, which is made worse by the necessity of making monthly financial and armament donations to sustain the Ukrainian government. With these considerations in mind, planning military drills on the other side...

From a proud mum, Shazzie James: https://twitter.com/ShazbuzJames/status/1665183608166907907

And we give them aid money to fund their 'offspring bomb' making.

The weaponization of the vaccine industry and how our basic rights were dismantled during the global pandemic.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 1, 2023, broadcasted LIVE at the Better Way Conference in Bath, UK. Patrick talks with Dr. Meryl Nass who works with Childrens Health Defense, about the challenges facing Western civilization after the realization of how our basic rights were dismantled during the global pandemic crissi. Dr. Nass also talks about the weaponization of the vaccine industry, specifically the horrific effects questionable pharmaceutical products have had on members of the military. All this and more. Listen:

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Inside the polarizing new exhibition

The Brooklyn Museum invited an unexpected new voice into the art worlds upper echelonthe Australian comedian Hannah Gadsbyand its causing a stir.

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Chatham House is one of Britains leading policy institutes.

Its monthly magazine, The World Today, has published a review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, by the International Crisis Group Senior Analyst on Israel/Palestine, Mairav Zonszein.

Its a largely positive review with some pointed criticisms. It feels like 8 out of 10.

Heres an excerpt:

Loewenstein wants to expose Israel as a hostile regime on a par with Russia and China. He conveys a palpable frustration with the fact that Israel has managed to excel at developing tools to maintain ethnonationalist rule and export them to dozens of countries, and at both a financial and diplomatic gain.

He also writes at length about private Israeli companies, staffed by former Israeli intelligence officers and often operating with a government licence, that have, for instance, provided surveillance drones to Russia which were used in the Syrian civil war. These private companies, Loewenstein shows, often do the bidding of the Israeli government, blurring the line between public and private sector, between defence and commerce.

The West is complicit in this network, too. Surveillance technology developed in Israel has also been sold to the United States, in the form of watch towers on the Mexican border, and to the European Union, whose own border agency Frontex has used Israeli drone technology to monitor refugees.

Loewenstein also argues convincingly that growing numbers of regimes globally [are] learning how Israel gets away with politicide, citing the definition by Israeli academic Baruch Kimmerling as the dissolution of the Palestinian peoples existence as a legitimate social, political, and economic entity. This is a serious concern, considering explicit calls from senior members of the current Israeli government for the expulsion of Palestinians.

Read the whole thing: Review: Why Israel tests its spyware on Palestinians | Chatham House International Affairs Think T

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Netflix has decided that Cleopatra shall henceforth be black when in reality she was from the Ptolemaic dynasty. Ptolemy was a Macedonian General in the service of Alexander the Great. These Pharaohs had red hair, which is seen on the mummified remains.

The Egyptian Government says Statues of Queen Cleopatra confirm that she had Hellenistic (Greek) features, distinguished by light skin, a drawn-out nose and thin lips.

We have seen with the African slaves stories that history has been rewritten to add more resentment and c...

There is an increasing focus in academic and policy circles on research-policy partnerships. These partnerships are often achieved through co-creation, or the joint production of innovation between combinations of industry, research, government and civil society. Co-creation is central to innovation in the hard sciences and technology, but its role in international relations scholarship and aid policy remains underdeveloped.

As scholars of international aid practice, we believe that co-creation can help us design and conduct more relevant, rigorous, and impactful research. It is also a core mission of the Research on International Policy Implementation Lab (RIPIL), whose co-creation process engages policymakers and practitioners in: 1) the generation of important, policy-relevant research questions; 2) research on these questions, through regular validation and consultation; and 3) the development and dissemination of findings and their policy implications, which often leads to the identification of important new research questions and opportunities.

In this piece, we focus on the first phase: the co-creation of research questions. This is one of the trickiest phases of the co-creation process because it requires researchers and policymakers to find a common question and research design that aligns with academics incentive to publish rigorous research and policymakers incentive to feed evidence into the policy process. Future blog posts will discuss how to implement co-created research and disseminate co-created findings.

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we initiated a collaboration intended to generate policy-relevant research questions on the changing nature of international aid. Our aim was to get a sense of whether the combined shocks of COVID-19, growing calls to decolonize aid, and the rise of populism and popular protest had changed the underlying power dynamics in aid. 

Importantly, in this project, we did not just want to learn from practitioners based in Western Europe or North America. We wanted insights from key thinkers and actors from the context where aid dependency has been most acute: the African continent. We wanted to understand how these thought leaders viewed aid-related power dynamics and how research could help answer their most puzzling questions.

Between 2020 and 2022, we conducted one-on-one interviews, organized virtual focus groups, and hosted a high-level roundtable in Geneva with donor governments and international non-government organizations (INGOs) on power in aid, all to better understand the changing nature of aid and the research questions that matter to policymakers, practitioners, and key African thinkers.

A synthes...

Quant (QNT), an Ethereum-based token, has experienced a 15.15% increase in its price over the past seven days. QNT plays a vital role in Quant Networks Overledger, a suite of enterprise software solutions designed to connect public blockchains and private networks seamlessly. By enabling the creation of multi-chain decentralized applications (mDapps), Quant Network empowers developers to build and operate applications that span across multiple blockchains simultaneously.

With its focus on interoperability, Quant Networks Overledger solution provides a framework for bridging different blockchain networks, fostering connectivity and facilitating efficient data exchange between disparate systems. The use of QNT within the Overledger ecosystem not only powers these interoperability capabilities but also plays a crucial role in securing and incentivizing participants within the network.

As the price of Quant (QNT) continues its upward trajectory, the growing interest in the token reflects the recognition of its importance in enabling the seamless operation of mDapps and facilitating cross-chain communication. With Quant Networks innovative approach to interoperability, the future holds promising possibilities for enhanced collaboration and integration across various blockchain platforms.

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Whys There A Strong Bullish Sentiment For QNT? 

The recent price surge of Quant (QNT) can be attributed to the transformative power of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the unique features offered by the Quant platform. DLT, surpassing the limitations of traditional blockchain, provides solutions to unanswered questions, enabling secure and cost-effective asset exchange while driving value, opening new markets, and increasing efficiency for enterprises, governments, and individuals worldwide.

LAGOS JUNE 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a manhunt for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Representatives member-elect for Isoko federal constituency, Delta State, Jonathan Ukodhiko over alleged corruption and related issues, SaharaReporters has learnt.

Ukodhiko, who is currently being investigated by the anti-graft agency, it was reliably gathered, has been on the run for several weeks now and has refused to honour several invitations to him by the commission to answer questions bothering on alleged corruption involving his oil and gas conglomerate companies, Joeny Holdings Limited in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

SaharaReporters reliably gathered that the commission after approaching the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, got an order to seal off Ukodhikos office in Port Harcourt and in his Isoko country home at Erawah-Owhe, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta and other properties across the country.

Confiding in SaharaReporters, an operative of the commission who is involved in the investigation of the fugitive member-elect, confirmed the story, saying that Yes, the member-elect, Jonathan Ukodhiko is on the run, we have extended series of invitations to him to appear in our Port Harcourt office in Rivers State for questioning on issues bothering on corruption related matters.

But he has vehemently refused to honour all invitations extended to him so far. As a result of that we approached the court for an order to seal off his properties pending his arrest or surrounding himself to our office.

Following the court order in suit No: FHC/PH/CS/88/2023, we sealed off his Port Harcourt office, Rivers state few weeks ago and on Friday we went to his Isoko residence to seal it off as well as other properties identified to have been owned by him across the country.

Why is he on the run for several weeks now? Why is he evading arrest and interrogation? If you are running a genuine business; why hiding, why on the run, why refusing to honour invitation extended to you, why evading arrest? Any moment from now we shall declare him wanted and place a bounty on him. We learnt he travelled abroad and may not be back until the proclamation of the National Assembly by President Bola Tinubu.

On Friday when SaharaReporters visi...

US citizen Gonzalo Lira faces a long prison term in Ukraine for criticizing the country's government. Shunned by the US government, his father is fighting to stop the "slow death of a son." When US media have demonstrated any interest in the arrest of an American citizen, Gonzalo Lira, it has been primarily to celebrate his prosecution on the grounds that he has been "shilling for Putin." The US State Department, meanwhile, refuses to answer questions about the disappearance of an American at the hands of a government substantially funded by Washington. The Grayzone spoke to Lira's father, 80-year-old Gonzalo Lira Sr., about his son's arrest. "I can only say that this episode has marked my life because it is living a slow death of a son," Lira Sr. said. He fretted that the Ukrainian government was preparing a "kangaroo court" for his son, and lamented that it could lock him up for over a decade for his political speech. Lira is an American and Chilean citizen who has been living in...

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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Frost How does it affect Australians? From the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

The occurrence of frost can have a devastating effect on vegetation and crops  Frost is a localis...

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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.

The toxicity of Davos WEF is at the centre of the Woke insanity that has infected a number of corporations. All o...

PMID:  Dis Markers. 2023 ;2023:8371623. Epub 2023 Jan 27. PMID: 36741908 Abstract Title:  Tanshinone IIA Inhibits Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells MDA-MB-231 via G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor- (GPER-) Dependent Signaling Pathway. Abstract:  Due to the lack of classic estrogen receptors, there has been a shortage of targeted therapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), resulting in a poor prognosis. However, the newly discovered G protein-coupled estrogen receptor (GPER) has been found to be expressed in TNBC cells.(Danshen) is an essential Chinese medicine for gynecological disorders, and its component tanshinone IIA (Tan IIA) exerts an anticancer effect. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate whether GPER is involved in the inhibitory effect of Tan IIA on TNBC. We applied various databases and GO pathway analysis to predict the possible mechanism of Tan IIA. We identified 39 overlapping targets, including c-Jun, c-Fos, and caspase-3, and enriched cell cycle-related pathways. Next, we demonstrated the strong binding ability of Tan IIA to GPER by molecular docking assay. In the subsequent validation tests, Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK8) assay showed that Tan IIA inhibited proliferation of MDA-MB-231 cells time and dose dependently without affecting normal cells. Using Transwell plate, flow cytometry, and Western blot assays, we showed that Tan IIA inhibited migration and induced apoptosis of MDA-MB-231 dose dependently. Importantly, protein expressions of GPER, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), extracellular regulated protein kinases (ERK), c-Fos, and c-Jun were all decreased by Tan IIA dose dependently. Administration of GPER inhibitor partly abolished these effects. Furthermore, nuclear translocation of c-Fos and c-Jun as well as cell cycle-related proteins was downregulated by Tan IIA dose dependently. In summary, Tan IIA could inhibit the proliferation and migration of MDA-MB-231 cells and induce apoptosis, and the possible mechanism may be the regulation of GPER-mediated pathways, suggesting that GPER could be a therapeutic target for TNBC.

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April 19, 2023, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formally announced his 2024 Democratic presidential campaign.¹ Early polls show hes got nearly 20% of the Democratic vote. Unfortunately, Democrat Party officials are doing everything they can to avoid public debates, and their media allies seem hellbent on not giving Kennedy the opportunity to share his views either.

May 17, 2023, Krystal Ball, cohost of the online show Breaking Point, interviewed Kennedy,^2,3 or perhaps more accurately, debated him herself. Ball told Kennedy she disagrees with his views on vaccines, and claimed Democratic voters by and large share her opposition. According to Ball, Kennedys vaccine skepticism and antivaccine advocacy is a red line that disqualifies him from holding the highest office.

Antiscientific Shilling for Big Pharma

In the video playlist above, comedian Jimmy Dore of The Jimmy Dore Show dissects Balls hatchet job of an interview, pointing out Balls poor journalism, rudeness and irresponsible, antiscientific shilling for corporate interests.

She repeatedly interrupted Kennedy with Big Pharma talking points putting her own ignorance on public display and didnt allow him to answer her questions. Kennedy asked her to show him where he got things wrong many times, and she deflected with broad generalities.

When Kennedy pointed out that countries with the lowest COVID jab rates had far lower COVID cases and mortality, Ball insisted that there were many other factors that played into that, such as the high rate of obesity in America, and the fact that we dont spend as much time outside in the sun as people in Africa.

Never mind the fact that obesity and sun exposure recommendations were never part of the COVID response. Not only did U.S. health authorities not offer any guidance on reducing obesity, but they closed parks and beaches and told everyone to spend as little time outdoors as possible.

The only solution they provided was the vaccine. If it worked, we ought to have far better outcomes than countries like Africa that didnt follow our COVID response guidelines, like staying indoors and getting jabbed multiple times. But we didnt.

Basically, Ball is admitting seemingly without realizing it that factors such as obesity and sun exposure were more important than the jab, because places with lower obesity rates and greater sun exposure fared better e...

This story is about how to get through to the ones who are still under the "COVID spell." I would also like to poke the most inconvenient elephant in the room, and I would like to do so with love.

"How Do We Get Through to Them?"

In the past three years we have been on a very dramatic roller coaster ride. It is fair to say that we've been through hell. And the most traumatizing and maddening part has been seeing our loved ones succumb to the spell of the "COVID response" and behave like their souls have been stolen off.

For that reason, in our circles, it is very common to ask, "How do we get through to the ones who have acted out of character and who are still under the COVID spell?" First, I am going to answer this question in earnest and then, I am going to go to into the ideological "permafrost" and poke the giant elephant (or a wooly mammoth, rather) hiding there.

Patience Is a Virtue, Alas

There are no magical formulas. We in America are somewhat used to magical formulas, psychological "systems," and impressive consultants riding in on a white horse with a solution and an invoice.

But perhaps, the past three years showed up to strip us of that delusion and to demonstrate to us in the most visceral way that here we are, human beings between the earth and the sky, with a deep longing in our hearts and a clumsy prayer on our lips. And perhaps, that longing in our heart and that imperfect prayer on our lips are all we have and it's a start.

Getting through to ideological addicts is a time-consuming and difficult feat, and we get through by being patient, by not despairing, and by respecting their free will which I think can only be done if there is a total and massive self-love in us, a massive love for them, and a total spiritual confidence in good things.

It is also important to make honest assessments in real time as to when to talk to them and when to let them be, perhaps for a while. Also, prayer helps, and it doesn't have to be an institutional prayer. Prayer is prayer. The Creator is intelligent enough to understand our hearts.

Personally, I believe with passion that the lesson of the past three years is not about how to be better at marketing and arm-twisting than the ones on the dark side. In fact, I think it's not possible to compete in the dark art of bending free will and arm twisting with the ones on the dark side without joining their team.

That's the end of that story, really. If one does not have one's eyes and one's heart on honest healing and free will, and if one is not prepared to do the work but also relax and trust the universe (God, higher powers, however we think about those things) to make things right, one is just merely torturing himself or herself over what he or she cannot very quickly change.

And, if we are on t...

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PMID:  Mol Cell Biochem. 2022 Dec 31. Epub 2022 Dec 31. PMID: 36586093 Abstract Title:  Tanshinone IIA (TSIIA) represses the progression of non-small cell lung cancer by the circ_0020123/miR-1299/HMGB3 pathway. Abstract:  Tanshinone IIA (TSIIA), a multi-pharmaceutical compound, has been demonstrated to have anti-tumor properties. This study explores the potential regulatory mechanism of TSIIA on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) progression. The cytotoxicity of TSIIA was evaluated by MTT (3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-Diphenyltetrazolium Bromide) and LDH (lactate dehydrogenase) assays. Expression levels of circ_0020123 (hsa_circ_0020123) and microRNA-1299 (miR-1299) were assessed by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Cell proliferation, migration, invasion, and apoptosis were analyzed by MTT, colony formation, transwell, wound-healing, or flow cytometry assays. The relationship between miR-1299 and circ_0020123 or HMGB3 (high mobility group box 3) was verified by the dual-luciferase reporter and/or RNA immunoprecipitation (RIP) assays. Protein level of HMGB3 was measured by western blotting. The relationship between TSIIA and circ_0020123 was confirmed by xenograft assay. TSIIA reduced xenograft tumor growth in vivo and repressed proliferation, migration, invasion, and facilitated apoptosis of NSCLC cells in vitro. TSIIA reduced circ_0020123 and HMGB3 expression, whereas elevated miR-1299 expression in NSCLC cells. Circ_0020123 knockdown enhanced the repressive influence of TSIIA treatment on the malignancy of NSCLC cells in vitro and in vivo. Circ_0020123 sponged miR-1299 to regulate HMGB3 expression under TSIIA treatment. MiR-1299 inhibitor reversed circ_0020123 knockdown-mediated influence on malignant behaviors of NSCLC cells under TSIIA treatment. HMGB3 elevation offset the suppressive impact of miR-1299 mimic on the malignancy of NSCLC cells under TSIIA treatment. TSIIA curbed NSCLC progression by the circ_0020123/miR-1299/HMGB3 axis, manifesting that the TSIIA/circ_0020123/miR-1299/HMG regulatory network might be a potential treatment strategy for NSCLC.

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PMID:  Dis Markers. 2022 ;2022:5851412. Epub 2022 Dec 19. PMID: 36578443 Abstract Title:  Tanshinone IIA Improves Acute Gouty Arthritis in Rats through Regulating Neutrophil Activation and the NLRP3 Inflammasome. Abstract:  OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevention and treatment effect of tanshinone IIA (TIIA) on acute gouty arthritis (AGA) and its mechanism.METHODS: The anti-AGA effect of TIIA was observedand. Neutrophils were isolated from the abdominal cavity of mice, and the anti-AGA effect of TIIA was investigated in a rat model of MSU-induced AGA. The pathological changes of the ankle joint tissues were assessed by H&E. Cytokine and chemokine expression were determined by ELISA and RT-qPCR. The NLRP3 inflammasome pathway protein levels in the ankle joint tissues were evaluated via western blotting. Neutrophil migration was evaluated in air pouch and transwell assays. Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence analysis evaluate the release of myeloperoxidase (MPO), neutrophil elastase (NE), and citrullination of histone H3 (CitH3). Beclin-1 and LC3B expressions were determined using western blotting and immunofluorescence.. Treatment with TIIA alleviated synovial hyperplasia and neutrophil infiltration, regulated cytokine and chemokine expressions, and inhibited NLRP3 activation in AGA rats, neutrophil migration, MPO, NE, and CitH3 expression, and LC3B and Beclin-1 protein expression.CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate that TIIA can effectively enhance AGA by focusing on the neutrophils and NLRP3 inflammasome, demonstrating that TIIA may act as a potential helpful agent for AGA.

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PMID:  Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2023 Feb 21. Epub 2023 Feb 21. PMID: 36810832 Abstract Title:  Salvianolic Acid B Attenuates Hypertrophic Scar Formation In Vivo and In Vitro. Abstract:  BACKGROUND: Hypertrophic scars (HTSs) are a fibroproliferative disorder that occur following skin injuries. Salvianolic acid B (Sal-B) is an extractant from Salvia miltiorrhiza that has been reported to ameliorate fibrosis in multiple organs. However, the antifibrotic effect on HTSs remains unclear. This study aimed to determine the antifibrotic effect of Sal-B in vitro and in vivo.METHODS: In vitro, hypertrophic scar-derived fibroblasts (HSFs) were isolated from human HTSs and cultured. HSFs were treated with (0, 10, 50, 100mol/L) Sal-B. Cell proliferation and migration were evaluated by EdU, wound healing, and transwell assays. The protein and mRNA levels of TGFI, Smad2, Smad3,-SMA, COL1, and COL3 were detected by Western blots and real-time PCR. In vivo, tension stretching devices were fixed on incisions for HTS formation. The induced scars were treated with 100L of Sal-B/PBS per day according to the concentration of the group and followed up for 7 or 14 days. The scar condition, collagen deposition, and-SMA expression were analyzed by gross visual examination, H&E, Masson, picrosirius red staining, and immunofluorescence.RESULTS: In vitro, Sal-B inhibited HSF proliferation, migration, and downregulated the expression of TGFI, Smad2, Smad3,-SMA, COL1, and COL3 in HSFs. In vivo, 50 and 100mol/L Sal-B significantly reduced scar size in gross and cross-sectional observations, with decreased-SMA expression and collagen deposition in the tension-induced HTS model.CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrated that Sal-B inhibits HSFs proliferation, migration, fibrotic marker expression and attenuates HTS formation in a tension-induced HTS model in vivo.NO LEVEL ASSIGNED: This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each submission to which Evidence-Based Medicine rankings are applicable. This excludes Review Articles, Book Reviews, and manuscripts that concern Basic Science, Animal Studies, Cadaver Studies, and Experimental Studies. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors www.springer.com/00266 .

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ASIA:

The major Asian stock markets had a green day today:

• NIKKEI 225 increased 376.21 points or 1.21% to 31,524.22
• Shanghai increased 25.43 points or 0.79% to 3,230.07
• Hang Seng increased 733.03 points or 4.02% to 18,949.94
• ASX 200 increased 34.30 points or 0.48% to 7,145.10
• Kospi increased 32.19 points or 1.25% to 2,601.36
• SENSEX increased 118.57 points or 0.19% to 62,547.11
• Nifty50 increased 46.35 points or 0.25% to 18,534.10

The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

• AUDUSD increased 0.0046 or 0.70% to 0.66160
• NZDUSD increased 0.00014 or 0.02% to 0.60714
• USDJPY increased 0.978 or 0.70% to 139.768
• USDCNY decreased 0.00209 or -0.03% to 7.10151

Precious Metals:

• Gold decreased 20.9 USD/t oz. or -1.06% to 1,956.98
• Silver decreased 0.224 USD/t. oz or -0.94% to 23.681

Some economic news from last night:

Australia:

Home Loans (MoM) decreased from 5.5% to -3.8%

South Korea:

CPI (YoY) (May) decreased from 3.7% to 3.3%

Some economic news from today:

India:

Bank Loan Growth decreased from 15.5% to 15.4%

Deposit Growth increased from 10.4% to 10.9%

FX Reserves, USD decreased from 593.48B to 589.14B

EUROPE/EMEA:

The major Europe stock markets had a green day today:

• CAC 40 increased 133.26 points or 1.87% to 7,270.69
• FTSE 100 increased 117.01 points or 1.56% to 7,607.28
• DAX 30 increased 197.57 points or 1.25% to 16,051.23

The major Europe currency markets had a mixed day today:

• EURUSD decreased 0.00454 or -0.42% to 1.07156
• GBPUSD decreased 0.00662 or -0.53% to 1.24588
• USDCHF increased 0.00315 or 0.35% to 0.90845

Some economic news from Europe today:

Spain:

Spanish Unemployment Change increased from -73.9K to -49.3K

US/AMERICAS:

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in May 2023, total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 339,000, and the unemployment r...

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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.

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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...

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.

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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.

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...

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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...

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...