Ich verfolge Apple-Ankndigungen normalerweise nicht, aber aktuell gibt es zwei, die doch interessant sind.

Erstens: Apple hat ohne groe Ankndigung ein DirectX12-Emulationslayer ausgeliefert, wenn ich das richtig verstehe. Damit knnte man dann zumindest theoretisch Windows-Spiele einfach so auf Apple-Hardware spielen. Damit stehen sie natrlich auf den Schultern von Open-Source-Giganten, die auch schon DXVK und co im Angebot haben. Valve hat Millionen in DirectX-Emulation in Wine gesteckt. Da wird sich Apple einfach mal bedient haben.

Erwhnenswert ist das aus zwei Grnden. Erstens haben sie wohl einen groen Patch an Wine zurckgeschickt. Die GPL funktioniert also!

Zweitens sind ja in den M1 und M2-ARM-Gerten angeblich sehr gute GPUs drin, die es mit gehobenen Mittelklasse-GPUs auf PCs aufnehmen knnen. Konnte man nur nie sinnvoll nutzen, weil es keine erwhnenswerten Spiele fr Apple gab. Es knnte also sein, dass die wirtschaftlich eh schon darbenden GPU-Hersteller jetzt auch noch von Apple Stress kriegen.

Die andere Ankndigung war, dass Apple berraschend in Safari pltzlich JPEG XL untersttzt. Ich bin ein Fan von JPEG XL und war sehr ungehalten, als Chrome und Firefox das abgekndigt haben, obwohl das grte Argument gegen die Untersttzung schon vom Tisch war: Dass das viel Arbeit ist. Die war schon getan.

Jetzt habe ich Hoffnung, dass Chrome und Firefox ihre hirnrissige Abkndigung zurcknehmen und wir doch noch alle JPEG XL bekommen.

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My interview with Nora Barrows-Friedman at the US-based Electronic Intifada on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, is a wide-ranging discussion on how Israel tests weapons in Palestine and explains why the Jewish state has become the 10th biggest arms dealer in the world:

On episode 78, were joined by journalist, filmmaker and best-selling author Antony Loewenstein to talk about his latest book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports The Technology Of Occupation Around The World.

Loewensteins book is a meticulously researched expos on how Israel tests weaponry and surveillance technology on Palestinians, perfecting what he calls the architecture of control.

He talks about Israels occupation and the requisite dehumanization of Palestinians as a marketing tool, and its weapons and spyware including NSO Groups signature Pegasus software as Israels export assets.

This technology is being sold to global markets as field-tested.

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My story in the Australian outlet Crikey on the Greens political party releasing an updated policy on Israel/Palestine:

The Australian Greens announced a new policy on Israel and Palestine this week and its already causing conniptions in the pro-Israel lobby.

After the party released details about its revised position, stating that Israel is practising the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, both the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) and Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) issued statements accusing the Greens of anti-Semitism and extremism.

Their portrayal of Israel doesnt reflect reality and their suggestion that Israel is a colonialist country is a bigoted attempt to reject Jewish indigeneity to the land, the ZFA said.

This weaponisation of anti-Semitism demeans the ZFA and AIJAC, whose influence is gradually declining, but more importantly it ignores undeniable facts on the ground in Palestine.

Read the whole thing: Labor should follow Greens on Israels treatment of Palestine

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My interview on global broadcaster TRT World on the growing push by the US and Israel to make the friendship with Saudi Arabia official.

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My new essay in the UK-based Middle East Eye examines my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and also details the growing Israeli influence on Taiwan and other nation states.

An extract:

The Israeli defence industry inspires nations across the globe, many of which view themselves as under threat from external enemies.

The Taiwanese foreign minister, Joseph Wu, recently told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that: Every aspect of the Israeli fighting capability is amazing to the Taiwanese people and the Taiwanese government.

Wu explained that he appreciated how Israel protected its own country because, basically, we [Taiwan] have barely started. The fighting experiences of Israel are something were not quite sure about ourselves. We havent had any war in the last four or five decades, but Israel has that kind of experience.

Wu also expressed interest in Israeli weapons, suggesting his country had considered their usefulness in any potential war with China.

Israel has the Iron Dome, he said, referring to Israels defence system against short-range missiles. We should look at some of the technology that has been used by the Israelis in its defence. Im not sure whether we can copy it, but I think we can look at it and learn from it.

The Palestine laboratory is so successful because nobody wants to seriously regulate the fruits of its labours.

Read the whole thing: For Israels arms industry, Palestinians are the weapons lab guineapigs | Middle East Eye

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Better Reading is the most popular books-related podcast in Australia.

My interview with its founder, director Cheryl Akle, was a personal and political examination of Judaism, Zionism, abusing history and my new book, The Palestine Laboratory:

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Apparently Australians don't like uppity self-important smart-arses. Who knew? From www.news.com.au https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/just-1000-listeners-abc-radio-national-audience-continues-to-collapse/news-story/73ff7c41e8aad659b20e3bc5c1662f84 The ABCs flagship radio program has continued to plummet in the ratings, averaging as low as just 1000 listeners in one capital city. The third GfK radio ratings survey of 2023 released on Tuesday saw KIIS FMs Kyle...

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Once upon a time in a far-off land, there was a Ruler of his country who had eight Lieutenants, one in each of the 6 provinces and two territories. These leaders were instructed by two foreign organisations to run a program that would have a detrimental effect on the population of that land, which is known as Downunder Land.

These organisations, although separate, were being led by two Ogres, respectively, who had conspired to greatly reduce the Worlds population. Their theory: It is more likely that a smaller population, in panic would accept domination by a One World Government.

However, Downun...

The phrase artificial intelligence is a profoundly ideological way to characterise automation technologies. It is an expression of the general tendency to discuss technologies as though they were powerful in and of themselvesas if power werent a relative measure of the different capacities and prerogatives of social classes.

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The age old question of how do you know a politician is lying, is quite simply put when his (or now her) lips are moving.

Fraud in the real estate industry in Australia costs consumers dearly, every year and the government has very little intention to remedy this, as it is a 'stakeholder' in the fraud, raking in the dollars.

While the same may apply to realtors as it does to politicians when it comes to lying, there is another way to lie, and that is by staying silent.

MANY realtors keep quiet, when asked about a premises that they have been seconded to sell.

They know about the property, its faults and even structural issues, yet they claim they know nothing.

How can you prove it?

It's very difficult, but not impossible.

According to Consumer Affairs Victoria, the following is stated about silence.

Julian Assanges case continues to drag on in London, where the United States is seeking to extradite him to face a lifetime in prison, in what are widely considered bogus charges. revelations about the destruction of important documents coming from a Freedom Of Information case, has compelled a judge to order the release of documents, and this is to Assanges benefit. Paul Knaggs wrote about this in Labour Heartlands (1 June 2023)

In a groundbreaking ruling on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case surrounding Julian Assange, Judge OConnor has ordered the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to reveal information regarding the destruction of key documents.

This decision marks the first crack in the wall of secrecy surrounding the case, which has faced years of obstruction.

WIKILEAKS state In addition to the ruling, Labour MP John McDonnell has just obtained new information from the Crown Prosecution Service. McDonnell is calling for an independent inquiry into the CPSs role in the Assange case.

For the last six years, all attempts to shed light on the destruction of key documents in the Julian Assange case, even though the emails were deleted when the high-profile, controversial case was still ongoing have been rejected.

When, How and Why

But now the British authorities at the Crown Prosecution Service have been ordered to come clean. They must declare whether they hold any information as to when, how and why documentation was deleted, and if they do hold any other documentation, they must either release it to the WikiLeaks team or clarify the grounds for their refusal.

There has always been controversy surrounding the emails between the Swedish prosecutors and their British counterparts.

The correspondence between the Swedish SPA and British CPS is absolutely crucial to understanding and reconstructing what really happened in the Swedish alleged rape allegation investigation.

That investigation was ultimately dropped once and for all without Assange ever being charged, but for almost a decade has deprived him of the empathy of public opinion.

Documents obtained and released under Freedom of Information requests to Italian magazine La Repubblica confirm the very close relationship between the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Sweden in...

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Whats the point of buying yourself a Supreme Court justice if pesky senators can just keep peppering you with questions about it? Thats what billionaire Harlan Crow must be thinking right about now.

On Tuesday, in response to Crows continued refusal to provide details on the expensive gifts and lavish vacations he heaped on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a thinly veiled threat that they might subpoena him to get some answers.

It all started with a series of stories, the first one broken by ProPublica a couple of months ago, in which journalists revealed that the conservative justice has been on the receiving end of the billionaires largesse to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Thomas did not feel that it was necessary to disclose any of this.

Now, you may think its troubling that a billionaire is showering a Supreme Court justice with obscenely expensive luxuries whether its because they are close friends or to grease the wheels of justice a bit but dont worry.

Both Thomas and Crow have said that this is totally fine, so its probably all on the up-and-up.

But do you know who wont just accept the word of these two paragons of virtue? Senate Democrats.

They keep pestering Crow with questions about these gifts and even want the Supreme Court to put in place some ethics rules that would require justices to disclose when somebody hands them fistfuls of cash or equivalent gifts. The nerve, right?

In any case, last week, the billionaires lawyers told the Judiciary Committee to shove it, citing an issue with the separation of powers.

Next thing you know, these senators had the gall to inform Crow that he is not, in fact, a co-equal branch of government, and therefore the separation of powers does not apply to him. In defense of Crows attorney, who may not have been aware of this, it certainly seems as though billionaires are a branch of government these days, so maybe it was just an honest mistake.....

Persia dan anggora merupakan jenis kucing berbulu panjang yang banyak dijadikan pilihan untuk dipelihara. Tampilannya yang menawan menjadi daya tarik utama. Walaupun sama-sama menawan, tapi, anggora dan persia itu berbeda. Bahkan, keduanya punya perbedaan baik dari fisiknya hingga sifatnya. Biar kamu tidak salah beli kucing, sebaiknya kamu tahu perbedaan mendasar antara kucing persia dan anggora. Berikut 10 perbedaan kucing persia dan anggora yang kami kutip dari situs perawatan kucing goldenmaze.net.  

1. Perbedaan #1: Tempat Asal Kucing Berbeda

Karena bentuknya hampir sama, saya mulai mencari tahu nih, apakah persia dan anggora berasal dari tempat yang sama? Ternyata, kedua ras kucing ini berasal dari tempat yang berbeda lho!

Jenis kucing persia berasal dari daerah yang bernama Persia atau yang saat ini lebih dikenal sebagai Iran. Walaupun begitu, kucing persia pertama kali dikenalkan di Italia. Setelah itu, ras ini terkenal hingga sekarang.

Bagaimana dengan kucing anggora?

Menurut sejarah, kucing anggora sudah ada sejak tahun 1600an di Angora (Turki), Turki. Wah, tidak heran ya kalau di Ankara banyak dijumpai kucing anggora!

2. Perbedaan #2: Bentuk Wajah Kucing Berbeda

Perbedaan kedua ada di bentuk wajah. Bagi orang awam, wajah kucing anggora dan kucing persia itu sama saja. Pad...

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My question is that you have always said that the fourth challenge to a high is when it breaks out. Do you expect that this year?

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In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 2, 2023, broadcasted LIVE at the Better Way Conference in Bath, UK. Patrick talks with special guest Dr. Simon Goddek, about solutions for society post-Covid, and also journalist and filmmaker James Corbett about the true nature of the global power structure and where the world is heading in 2023. We also spoke with health advocate Clive de Carle about the event in Bath and the medical technology pioneered by Nikola Tesla. All this and more. Listen:

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Together with China and Japan, India is one of the three leading Asian powers, whose mutual relations will increasingly determine the situation in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. In turn, this latter is today in the focus of the current stage of the Great World Game. And if we can speak more or less definitely about the positioning of the first two countries at the table on which the global action is unfolding today, then Indias position at this table still looks transitional.

What are the initial and the end points of this transition and how far has it progressed? It is quite easy to answer the first part of this question. We are talking about the transition from the relatively neutral positioning of India at the previous stage of the Great World Game, called the Cold War, to the current one, in which the level of the mentioned neutrality is steadily decreasing. This is due to the drastic changes that have occurred over the past few decades both in the composition of the main players and in the weight of India itself in...

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Divide and Dissolve is an Australian-based instrumental doom metal duo that features saxophonist and guitarist Takiaya Reed and percussionist Sylvie Nehill. For the female duo, the act of simply inhabiting a prominently white male genre space is political.

Reed is descended from indigenous people of the so-called United States. The duo also collectively stated: Our music is helping carve out space where it isnt supposed to be. Heavy music is apparently supposed to look, sound, and feel a certain way. Divide and Dissolve is and will continue to be a point of difference.

The abhorrent history of colonial violence, genocide, slavery, rape, and murder is still continuing today. It is this past, and the lasting and active power structures present in our world today that has driven me to prioritize decolonization, according to Nehill.

Divide & Dissolves intent is explicit with song titles such as Reparations, Resistance, Indigenous Sovereignty, Assimilation, and Cultural Extermination.

The duo recently released Indignation, a track off their upcoming fourth album Systemic due June 30. The tune is a prayer that land be given back to Indigenous people, explained Reed. A hope that future generations no longer experience the atrocities and fervent violence that colonization continues to bring forth.

They also released an accompanying video directed by Sepi Mashiahof. Mashiahof said of the visuals, In reflecting on the powerful and vital messaging found in Divide and Dissolves music: decolonization, the destruction of white supremacy, and liberation from oppressive structuresthis video is about the collective grief we experience about the lives we all could have were it not for the cruel and arbitrary systems of power that impede each and every one of our potentials.

The potential to truly love ourselves and each other is distorted by the agendas of vicious capitalist vultures who seek to emaciate our joys, bonds, and communities for their own gain. This video depicts an abstracted portrait of what suffering under these accelerating conditions feels like. Technology, dysphoria, dream-form sentience, transaction, and depersonalization constitute the thematic palette, laid upon the hope of shedding our current forms and transcending into boundless, beautiful ether.

Divide and Dissolve is proof that music doesnt need lyrics to deliver a potent social message. As Reed explained, I believe in the power of non-verbal communication. A huge percent of communication is non-verbal. We learn so much without...

I have gotten several nervous emails from folks concerned with the relatively dry period of the past month over the Pacific Northwest.

Are such dry conditions unprecedented?

Are late springs getting drier?

Is global warming behind it?  Or El Nino?

I will try to answer the questions below.

Let's check the numbers, starting with Seattle.  Below I have plotted the total precipitation for May 1 through June 5 for SeaTac Airport and added a best-fit trend line as well.

You will note that our recent period was dry, but not the driest by far.

Yoons invitation to the summit, according to First Deputy National Security Adviser Kim Tae-hyo, will be an opportunity to reaffirm our status as a global partner in defending the rules-based international order and responding to global challenges. Therefore, during his speech at the enlarged G7 session on May 20, the president of the Republic of Korea actively demonstrated a global Korea, mostly concerning humanitarian issues and fighting for all good things. As a result, Yoon pledged an additional $24 million (nearly tripling South Koreas previous contribution) to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), an Oslo-based international public-private partnership that funds independent research projects to develop vaccines against emerging viral threats. Yoon also announced intentions to expand the ASEAN+3 Emergency Rice Reserve and committed to boost rice production capacity in seven poor African countries through the K-rice belt project, which intends to share South Korean rice production technology with sub-Saharan African countries. Yoon also has vowed to double South Koreas rice aid to developing countries through the UN World Food Program from 50,000 tons to 100,000 tons.

At the second extended session on climate, energy and the environment, Yoon emphasized South Koreas plans to actively cooperate with the G7 to address climate issues in particular, announcing the decision to actively promote a carbon-neutral policy while encouraging new low-carbon industries.

Yoon Suk-yeol and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese decided to intensify their partnership in the defense and arms sectors on May 19.  Albanese expressed hope that the two countries will increase the frequency of regional military exercises in which both countries take part. The two leaders also agreed to work more closely together based on the common understanding that North Koreas unprecedented provocations pose a serious threat to peace and prosperity in the region...

Thousands of South Australians have been left without power after the state was hit by a massive thunderstorm. More than 65,000 lightning strikes hit Australian state of South Australia (SA) in the 24 hours to Wednesday morning as a large storm system passed through causing mass blackouts. As of 06:00 am local time on Wednesday, more than 10,000 homes and businesses were still without power mostly in Adelaide, capital city of SA, and its surrounding towns. Two bands of heavy rainfall hit between 09:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday night and between 03:00 a.m. and 03:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, prompting a severe thunderstorm warning.

Described as acrimonious, divisive and disruptive to golf, the LIV Golf Tournament, launched with the aid of former world number one Greg Norman and an enormous well of capital fronted by Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund (PIF), will now unite with the enemy. The announcement that the PGA Tour and LIV Golf would be merging would only have shocked the nave and a number of fox hole bleeding hearts. And there were a few, clearly ignorant of that powerful nexus between money, the privateer spirit and sporting administrators.

Dylan Wu, PGA Tour member, could be counted as one of them. He wondered why the PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan, despite brimming hostility against LIV Golf had basically got a promotion to CEO of all golf in the world by going back on everything he said in the past 2 years? Having more or less answered his own question, Wu went on to express admiration for the LIV Golf renegade, Phil Mickelson, for whom he expressed gushing admiration. He went up in flames in the media cuz of his brutal honesty and now everyones finally realizing he was right and the PGA Tour does whatever they feel like.

Brandel Chamblee, a golf analyst, for they do exist, expressed his shock. I cant imagine that very many people outside the 2-3-4-5 people in the room and brought this merger to fruition would have known anything about it. Perhaps he should have asked the functionaries in Riyadh for clues or had a closer look at the black heart of the PGA Tour.

In the first season of LIV Golf events, the PGA Tour knew it was facing a formidable competitor that potentially threatened its existence. Each regular-season events total came to $25 million; $20 million was set aside for the individual event; $5 million went towards the team competition component. The ultimate winners earnings came to $4 million; the wooden spooner got a not negligible $120,000 for just turning up.

Off the field, the sides did legal battle. Most prominent was an antitrust lawsuit originally filed against the Tour by such LIV Golf exiles as Phil Mickelson. It was subsequently commandeered by LIV Golf. The Tour then filed a countersuit against LIV, convincing the courts that it could also add Saudi Arabias PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as co-defendants.

Given the House of Sauds indecent record on human rights, and its programmatic determination to use spor...

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Today is D-Day and at the American cemetery in Normandy, French caretakers will have collected sand from Omaha Beach and rubbed it into the gravestones to highlight the names of the departed. They do this for all 9,388 soldiers who lay there.#DDay79 pic.twitter.com/dRrjG9MWQK Michael Warburton (@MichaelWarbur17) June 6, 2023

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The Reserve Bank raised the interest rate yet again yesterday, and in doing so raised the ire of just about everyone. Yesterday its cash rate went up by another 25 basis points, taking the cumulative total to 4.1 percent.

According to the economic theory that has long been taken as gospel in countries like Australia, central banks shift the interest rate to maintain a balance in the economy between demand and supply. If this did work in real life, there would be no argument. Problems would quickly be fixed.

Those who persist with the above view, argue that the problem is that there is too much demand and real incomes must therefore be pushed down. This has been the approach taken by the reserve Bank, and the ongoing interest rate hikes have not overcome the persistent inflation.

Australia has seen a succession of interest rate rises since early 2022

What it has done, is to provide plenty of scope for the blame game. Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor says it is the fault of the budget. The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry blames it on wages being too high.

The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has countered by using findings from research by the Australia Institutes Centre for Future Work blames the interest rate rises on profit gouging by corporations. They are using monopoly power to raise prices above what the market would otherwise allow. Petrol and supermarket prices are two good examples of this practice.

This does translate into inflation. There is good reason to call it out.

Its not the budget, because it was fairly neutral in terms of spending and will not have much effect either way. Wages conti...

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Children are now allegedly dying of the flu. The proposed solution is more injectables.

I would suggest some children and people in general may be suffering from Vitamin D deficiency, much as the sailors used to die of Vitamin C deficiency, ie. scurvy.

From the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI):

very low risk of severe COVID-19 (e.g. hospitalisation due to COVID-19) in healthy children aged 6 months to <5 years. This age group is one of the least likely age groups to require hospitalisation due to COVID-19. Among the small number who are hosp...

IN THIS No Fibs episode I talk with Phil Haines and Lesley Howard, two of the 12 authors of the recently published book, THE INDI WAY. THE INDI WAY is a revealing account of a community using values-based, respectful processes to rewrite the political playbook. Featuring contributions by @helenhainesindi, @latingle, @barriecassidy, @Indigocathy, and more. Scribe []

What can you expect from a government headed by a comic actor named Zelensky? We see the answer to that question day by day in the way the Ukrainian armed forces are carrying out their much-anticipated spring counteroffensive: it is being stage managed by the Public Relations team with scant regard for their cannon fodder Continue reading "The Ukrainian Army Is Run Not by the Generals but by the PR Department"

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Late last year, Renters United and I joined together to make a renters. I had been aware of Renters United for about four years when the book came out and I loved what they were up to. Whenever the weird logic of property speculation got air time, Renters United would be there talking about the real impact on people. We were faced with two challenges: where to get the funds to make a few thousand copies, and how to make sure the copies didnt just sit in our garages getting damp.

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Some senior officers are retiring but who and what will replace them?

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There are a lot of anonymous bureaucrats that man the offices in the nations capital. If one were to mention the name Wendy Sherman at a Washington DC cocktail gathering it is likely that few in the room will have ever heard of her, but she has long been one of the most important players in Democratic Party administrations when it comes to foreign policy in key parts of the world. Sherman, the Deputy Secretary of State, will be retiring this summer after more than thirty years with the Foreign Service. She has been a fixture in often controversial top level policy making since Bill Clinton was in the White House, where she served as a top adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, also taking on the role of lead negotiator in the ultimately unsuccessful talks to stop North Koreas ballistic missile program in the late 1990s. With a return to power of the Democrats in 2008, she served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under Obama. To her credit, she was a lead negotiator with Iran on the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA), which Donald Trump acting on bad advice subsequently withdrew from.

More recently, Sherman has been a key part of the Biden administrations efforts to develop strategies to confront China in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere whenever Beijing has sought to develop trade relationships with key suppliers of essential raw materials. This has included putting pressure on allies like Australia and New Zealand in the Pacific to reject Chinese commercial initiatives, elevating what began as competitive trade policies into a perception that China was becoming a threat to American national security. Sherman also played a significant role in encouraging international diplomatic and military support for Ukraine after Russias invasion.

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This has been brewing for years.

Now a UFO whistleblower who has been given permission to be a whistleblower says that the U.S. is in possession of non-human made otherworldly craft and that it is being illegally held from Congress.

Is this legitimate? Clayton and Natalie Morris question why this is being presented to us now. They look into this disclosure and obviously have many questions!

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The natural-gas industry in Australia is effectively feeding the crocodile. It should consider the possibility that, after coal, it is next on the list. And treat coal as an ally, not a rival.

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A new A.I. system can scan a persons face and determine with some degree of accuracy what their ideology or political leanings are.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 31, 2023, Patrick talks to research assistant Kristian James, about the UKs Philip Schofield underaged sex scandal debacle and how the mainstream media cover for the depraved multimillion pound presenters in their studios. Also, a new A.I. system can scan a persons face and determine with some degree of accuracy what their ideology or political leanings are presumably to locate far right clusters. Also, the green energy farrago continues, and also Target loses billions more after consumers boycott the store chain over its LGBT and Satanic childrens clothing line. All this and more. Listen:

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Military cooperation with the United States is ruinously expensive without any guarantees.

The United States has recently increased its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. For instance, in March of this year, plans were made for the transfer of nuclear-powered submarines to Canberra via the AUKUS bloc established in 2021. In February, the US and Philippine authorities agreed that the US military would have access to four more bases in the country (increasing their number to nine). Also, on April 12, representatives from Washington and Manila agreed to strengthen defense cooperation. On May 22, the US and Papua New Guinea signed a defense cooperation treaty giving the Pentagon unlimited access to a number of ports and airfields of the Pacific nation.

Experts say Australia will have to pay about $350 billion over the next 20 years to bring its ambitious militaristic plans into action. It is not yet known exactly how these funds will be allocated by item of expenditure (purchase of submarines, construction of production and service infrastructure, training of personnel, etc.). However, it is already clear that this project will not be an easy ride for Canberras public financial system and, consequently, for the Australian population, which is highly dependent on mineral exports. Canberra has not yet begun transactions in execution of contracts with its AUKUS partners (laws to make this possible have just been submitted to the US Congress for approval) yet it has already encountered economic difficulties. And the crisis, it appears, is so severe that the Australian government has to resort to anti-capitalist methods of direct regulation of the most important export industry production and trade of natural gas, namely, to administratively set a ceiling on domestic gas prices and limit exports, coming into conflict with the largest foreign hydrocarbon-produ...

Turkish President Erdogan is holding on to power effectively shoring-up his New Turkey Islamic State project.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 31, 2023, Patrick talks with Middle East scholar Dr. Can Erimtan about the results of Turkeys recent run-off election, with President Erdogan holding on to power and with that his New Turkey Islamic State project. Listen:

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US DOE of President Joe Bidens administration has rolled out a national clean hydrogen strategy that acts as an important signal for the emerging industry, but leaves unanswered questions about which types of hydrogen would be promoted.

The 99-page strategy aims to set a unified vision around scaling up US clean hydrogen production to 50 million metric tons by 2050, which would in turn cut 10% of US greenhouse gas emissions between now and then.

That 10% reduction would see decreases from multiple sectors of the economy particularly hard-to-decarbonize industries where hydrogen is increasingly eyed as a replacement for fossil fuels.

In the industrial sector, this includes segments like cement and steel, and in transportation, this includes heavy-duty trucking, maritime vessels and aviation, explained White House Climate Adviser Ali Zaidi in a call with reporters. The plan also eyes clean hydrogen uptake in agricultural sectors and energy use within buildings, Zaidi added.

Despite the broad appeal of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, (IRA) the US has faced criticism for mixed messages on the energy transition, with investors finding it difficult to reconcile sometimes-conflicting signals from various agencies, lawmakers and states. The new strategy marks an attempt to deliver more clarity on the clean hydrogen front while rallying the government around a unified goal and earning consensus and mutual trust from the private sector.

Biden administration officials said they canvassed views of industry and other stakeholders beforehand and used those to shape the strategy.

US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said a major objective of the new strategy is to provide certainty across the different points in the clean hydrogen value chain.

When youre creating an entirely new sector which is what the clean hydrogen economy will be you have to do everything, everywhere all at once, she said in a call with reporters. That means looking at supply-side strategy, the workforce, the offtake strategy to make sure there.........

Australian concepts of sovereignty have always been qualified. First came the British settlers and invaders in 1788. They are pregnant with the sovereignty of the British Crown, bringing convicts, the sadistic screws, and forced labour to a garrison of penal experiments and brutality. The native populations are treated as nothing more than spares, opportunistic chances, and fluff of the land, a legal nonsense. In a land deemed empty, sovereignty is eviscerated.

Then comes the next stage of Australias development. Imperial outpost, dominion, federation, a commonwealth of anxious creation. But through this, there is never a sense of being totally free, aware, cognisant of sovereignty. Eyes remain fastened on Britain. Just as the sovereignty of the First Nations peoples came to be destroyed internally, the concept of Australian sovereignty externally was never realised in any true sense. If it was not stuck in the bosom of the British Empire, then it was focused on the enormity of the United States, its calorific terrors and nuclear protections.

The testament to Australias infantile, and contingent sovereignty, is symbolised by the US Pine Gap facility, which is called, for reasons of domestic courtesy, a joint facility. In truth, Australian politicians can never walk onto its premises and have no say as to its running. The public, to this day, can only have guesses, some admittedly well educated, about what it actually does as an intelligence facility.

Australias Defence Minister, Richard Marles, whose views should never be taken at face value, insists that the facility ensures that Australia and our Five-Eyes partners maintain an intelligence advantage while being truly joint in nature, integrating both Australian and US operations under shard command and control by Australian and US personnel which I have had an opportunity to see firsthand. Hardly.

Another example is the annual rotation of US Marines in the Northern Territory. To date, there have been twelve such rotations, carefully worded to give the impression that Australia lacks a US military garrison to the countrys north. In March, Marles claimed that such rotations served to enhance the capabilities, interoperability, and readiness of the ADF and the United States Marine Corps and is a significant part of the United States Force Posture Initiatives, a hallmark of Australias Alliance with the US.

To therefore have an Australian Prime Minister now talk about sovereign capabilities is irksome, even intellectually belittling. Under Anthony Albaneses stewardship, and before him Scott Morrisons, the trilateral security pact known as AUKUS has done more to militarise the Austr...

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Japan also decided to impose export restrictions on 80 Russian entities

MOSCOW, June 5. /TASS/. Moscow is considering retaliatory steps to the fresh batch of anti-Russian sanctions by Tokyo, and will not let them pass without a reaction, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said on Monday.

"Indeed, at the end of May, a new package of sanctions was published, which we took very negatively, of course. We are currently considering retaliatory steps, this will not remain without a reaction," the deputy minister said, answering a relevant question from TASS.

The Japanese government has expanded sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Ukraine. According to the Japanese Foreign Ministry, 24 individuals and 78 entities have been added to the sanctions list. The sanctions in particular stipulate that if any assets from these individuals are found in Japan, they will be seized. Among those affected by the sanctions are representatives of the command of the Russian Armed Forces, general director of the Almaz-Antey concern Yan Novikov, journalist Olga Skabeeva, the National Wealth Fund, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and the Gorky Automobile Plant.

Japan also decided to impose export restrictions on 80 Russian entities, including the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, the Lavochkin scientific development and production center, PJSC KamAZ, MegaFon, the Skolkovo Foundation and Skoltech.

The Australian and Queensland governments have introduced a more than $160 million package to phase out the commercial gill net fishing that damages the Great Barrier Reef.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world, as well as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Area. It comprises more than 900 islands and 2,900 individual reefs, and is home to 400 types of coral, 4,000 species of mollusc and 1,500 types of fish, according to UNESCO.

This announcement is shaping up as a globally significant moment for ocean conservation, fisheries management and the Great Barrier Reef one of the natural wonders of the world, said Dermot OGorman, CEO of WWF-Australia, in a press release from WWF Australia. If all goes to plan, by June 2027 well have a Net-Free Reef where dugongs, turtles, dolphins and other threatened species can swim without the threat of becoming entangled and drowning in a gill net, and thats a cause for global celebration.

The government package will provide the funds for a gill net licenses buyout and mandate independent data validation for commercial fishing boats.

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PMID:  Am J Transl Res. 2023 ;15(2):729-744. Epub 2023 Feb 15. PMID: 36915782 Abstract Title:  Berberine inhibits the growth of osteosarcoma through modulating MMP/NM-23 and MAPK/JNK signal pathways. Abstract:  OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects and mechanisms of berberine (BBR) on the migration, invasion, proliferation and apoptosis of osteosarcoma cells in vitro.METHODS: Proliferation of MG-63 and U2OS cells was measured by the CCK-8 assay. Cells migration was examined by wound-healing assay. The invasion and metastasis of cells were evaluated by transwell invasion assay. Cells apoptosis was determined by the flow cytometry. Caspase-3 activity in MG-63 and U2OS cells was measured, and Western blot was used to measure the levels of Bax, Bcl-2, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in cells. In addition, the osteosarcoma graft tumor model of mice was established. The tumorigenesis of MG-63 cells in nude mice was compared among three groups. Immunohistochemistry assay was used to measure the levels of MMP-2, MMP-9 and NM-23 in tumor tissue.RESULTS: It was showed that BBR inhibited the proliferation of MG-63 and U2OS cells in vitro in time- and concentration-dependent manners. Moreover, BBR reduced the cells migration and invasion, also down-regulated the expressions of MMP-2 and MMP-9. BBR also inhibited the cells apoptosis by down-regulating the expression of Bcl-2 and up-regulating the expression of Bax. In nude mice, BBR obviously inhibited the tumorigenesis of MG-63 cells. Compared with the negative group, BBR decreased the levels of MMP-2 and MMP-9 and increased the level of NM-23. The molecular mechanism was associated with activation of the MAPK/JNK signal transduction pathway.CONCLUSIONS: BBR significantly regulates the biological behaviors of osteosarcoma cells and inhibits the growth of osteosarcoma. The molecular mechanism may be associated with the modulation of MMP/NM-23 and MAPK/JNK signals. BBR may be a potential drug for the treatment of osteosarcoma.

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N-acetylcysteine (NAC), a precursor for glutathione biosynthesis, is a common dietary supplement that could hold a secret to treating tumors resistant to conventional cancer drugs. Researchers with the Department of Biomedicine of the University of Basel in Switzerland, found NAC restores the sensitivity of breast cancer cells to treatment.¹

NAC is already valued in the medical field for helping increase glutathione in the body, which prevents liver damage in cases of acetaminophen (Tylenol) overdose. It also reduces acetaldehyde toxicity,² which causes many hangover symptoms. But, it seems, NAC is living up to its reputation as an old drug with new tricks, as the featured study suggests it may significantly improve treatment of advanced breast cancer.

NAC May Help Fight Resistant Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, with more than 2.2 million cases developing annually.³ Among women with recurring disease, survival rates have barely improved in the last two decades. Most recurring metastatic cancers are either drug resistant or will become resistant to therapy, researchers wrote in Cell Reports Medicine. Thus, drug resistance is a substantial hurdle in the long-lasting cure of patients.⁴

About 70% of breast cancers have mutations in genes that affect the PI3K signaling pathway.⁵ The overactivation of PI3K promotes tumor development, which is why the drug alpelisib (brand name Piqray) a PI3K-selective inhibitor is often used to treat it. Resistance to the drug, however, is a serious problem.

Unfortunately, it turned out that the success of the medication is severely limited by resistance, researcher Mohamed Bentires-Alj said in a University of Basel news release. Hence, we urgently need to find out more about how resistance arises.⁶

The team found mutations that turn off production of a protein called NF1, which suppresses tumor growth, were involved in cancers resistant to alpelisib. The absence of NF1 is the elephant in the room; it throws everything into disarray within the cell and hinders successful treatment, Bentires-Alj said.⁷

With NF1 lost, the team found cells produce less energy via their mitochondria and rely more on other energy production pathways. NAC, an antioxidant, affects energy metabolism similarly, so the researchers expected it would have similar effects in...

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Organic farming methods mean less pesticides in our soil and food. They ensure agricultural runoff wont contain toxic chemicals that can make their way into our waterways, polluting the water supply and potentially harming wildlife and ecosystems. They also consider animal welfare.

So why do farmers continue to use synthetic pesticides? The answer is simple: yield. They worry giving up the pesticides will mean sacrificing the health and productivity of crops.

The same philosophy applies to the management of honey bee colonies. But a new study has shown beekeepers who employ organic methods can have honey bee colonies that are as productive and healthy as those managed using synthetic pesticides.

According to new research led by entomologists from Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), organically managed colonies can achieve similar results to those that are managed using conventional methods, but without the use of synthetic pesticides to keep pathogens and pests under control, a press release from Penn State said.

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The UK terrorism squad detains independent journalist after he embarrasses government by exposing deep state corruption.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 31, 2023, Patrick discusses the recent detention by the UK Terrorism Squad of independent journalist Kit Klarenberg. The precedent for Britains arbitrary detention of journalists and publishers was set by the seizure and imprisonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on behalf of the United Statesseeking his extradition under the Espionage Act. All this and more. Listen:

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• YouTube announced that it will no longer remove content featuring false claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential race.
• The decision, which comes ahead of the 2024 presidential races, undoes a policy implemented in December 2020 after President Joe Biden allegedly won the election, citing the need to balance its twin goals of protecting our community and providing a home for open discussion and debate.
• YouTube said there are still aspects of its election misinformation policy that remain, including highlighting authoritative sources in search and recommendations and prohibiting posts that aim to mislead voters on where and how to vote.

Indeed, YouTube may be making a half-hearted move to appear fair and objective, but free speech advocates are not convinced this move is genuine.

Arjun Singh from the Daily Caller News Foundation reports

YouTube reversed its misinformation policy regarding content about elections on Friday and will now permit content that questions the veracity of the 2020 presidential election results, according to the companys website.

YouTubes parent company Google has a policy that prohibits content advancing false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in certain past elections to determine heads of government, and Youtube...