Eine SSD mit SAP-Mitarbeiterdaten ist bei Ebay aufgetaucht. Die SSD kommt anscheinend aus einem Rechenzentrum der SAP.

Das ist hchst erstaunlich, muss ich euch sagen. Die SAP ist mir bislang als absolutes Compliance-Purgatorium aufgetreten. Selbst als externer Dienstleister muss man da durch "Schulungen" durch, dass man keine USB-Sticks rumliegen lsst, und immer alles verschlsselt wird.

Dass es bei denen also berhaupt unverschlsselte SSDs gibt, und dann auch noch mit Mitarbeiterdaten drauf, ist schonmal bemerkenswert. Dass die dann auch noch jemand aus dem Rechenzentrum einfach so raustragen kann, ist noch bemerkenswerter.

Schlimmer noch:

Dem Bericht zufolge sei das bereits der fnfte Vorfall innerhalb von zwei Jahren, bei dem Festplatten aus SAPs europischen Rechenzentren verloren gingen.

Ich finde das bei so Compliance-Bullshit immer toll, wenn die Firmen gezielt alle Nachteile mitnehmen und sich und ihre Business-Partner grotesk ausbremsen, aber dann die Vorteile gezielt umschiffen. m(

We took note of a series of legislative novelties on #sanctions made up by London. Namely, that from now on the aims of #UKs illegal actions, which run counter to the fundamental international legal norms, will also include inducing our country to pay some sort of compensation to the #Kievregime....

This time last year, the Treaty Authority Bill passed parliament. In doing so, it put Victoria on the path to decolonisation. pic.twitter.com/GnRuBld3xA First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria (@firstpeoplesvic) June 22, 2023

Ayas hair is sopping wet and its long enough that the ends make swirling patterns against my exposed collarbones and tickle my skin from where she is leaning over my shoulder. She refuses to put it into a ponytail or a bun. I even offered to twist together one or two thick braids on the train ride over. She says wet hair down is a sexier look. Which is fine for the beach but I dont know what there is to be sexy for in the shoddy computer lab of Snapton Public Library.

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My interview on Australias Radio Nationals Drive program talking about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where we discuss my familys Jewish trajectory, Israels testing of weapons in Palestine and the threat that this poses to the world.

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Your wedding day is one of the most magical moments youll ever experience, and finding your dream wedding dress is an essential part of making it perfect. With so many options available, the process can seem overwhelming at first. But fear not!

In this article, well guide you through 7 steps to help you select your dream wedding dress, ensuring you feel confident, beautiful and radiant on your special day. Lets dive in.

Start Early

Trust us, theres no such thing as being too prepared. We recommend allowing yourself around 10 months before your wedding date to find your dress. This gives you time to visit all the wedding dress shops youre interested in and explore all your options without having to rush to make that all-important final decision.

Before booking any appointments, start your search online or with bridal magazines. This can be a great source of inspiration to narrow down what youre looking for, and help you keep up to date on all the latest styles and trends that are released every season.

Consider the Time and Place of Your Wedding

Knowing what the time and place of your wedding will be can go a long way in helping to streamline your search and avoid wasting your time. If youre planning a wedding (destination wedding) on the beach, then you can probably rule out a dramatic ball gown with a flowing train and detailed embellishments. If youre getting married in a church, youll probably want to avoid anything too casual or non-traditional.

When it comes to the weather, the majority of fabrics are suitable year-round, especially if the majority of your wedding will be taking place indoors. However, fabrics like linen and organdy are more suited to warmer weather and white velvet and brocade and more suited to the wintertime.

Set a Budget

Wedding dresses come in a wide variety of prices, so its important that you establish a budget before you begin your search. Be realistic and dont forget to consider all the other expenses in your wedding budget, as well as all the extra costs that can come on top of the initial price of your wedding dress including alterations, accessories, undergarments and hair and makeup.

By setting a clearly defined budget from the get-go, youll narrow down your options quickly and help yourself make a choice that aligns with your financial plan.

Bring Backup

When selecting who to invite wedding dress shopping with you, pick carefully. Try to bring people whose opinions you value the most and will give you h...

Coda Story is a news organisation that investigates surveillance tech and disinformation.

Its Istanbul-based reporter, Frankie Vetch, interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, with a particular focus on Israels work around the militarisation of global borders.

Heres an extract:

How has Israels tech industry changed borders across the world?

Maybe the most prominent example, although not particularly well known, is the Israeli surveillance towers on the U.S.-Mexico border. They were installed a number of years ago, and it doesnt make much of a difference whether its a Democrat or a Republican in the White House. In fact, Biden is accelerating this technological border, so to speak, and the company that America has used is Elbit, which is Israels biggest defense company. They have done a lot of work in the West Bank and across the Israel-Gaza border. And the reason the U.S. used Elbit as a contractor was because they liked what Elbit was doing in Palestine. I mean, the company promotes itself as being successful in Palestine.

Read the whole interview: Israel uses Palestine as a petri dish to test spyware Coda Story

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Act (noun)

• a thing done; a deed, a criminal act
• a pretence. she was putting on an act and laughing a lot

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The top priority of the first term of this new ALP Federal Government is to change the Constitution.

Everything else is window dressing. Why do we need a new constitution? Heres a useful...

A recent count of rough sleepers in NSW recorded 1,623 people compared to 1,207 people last year, with 300* of those people in the Byron Shire.

The count showed that regional areas are particularly affected with not only Byron Bay, but the Clarence Valley, Eurobodalla, and Coffs Harbour joining City of Sydney in the five areas with the highest increase.

Homelessness NSW CEO Trina Jones said in the coldest recorded June in 13 years people are bedding down on streets, in tents and park benches because they dont have a safe place to call home. This should not be happening in one of the wealthiest places on Earth.

The rising cost of living and a dire shortage of affordable rental homes is fuelling a homelessness crisis across NSW.

Frontline services overwhelmed

Frontline services are so overwhelmed they can only help half the people who present to them and must make heartbreaking decisions about who to turn away.

For the local count Byron Shire Council worked alongside the NSW Department of Communities and Justice to carry out the street count in the early hours of 23 and 24 February 2023.

The Byron Shire recorded the highest number of people sleeping rough in the state, ahead of City of Sydney which recorded 277 rough sleepers.

Heartbreaking but no surprise

Byron Shire Mayor, Michael Lyon said this is heartbreaking but not really a surprise given the housing emergency of the last few years, exacerbated by Covid and the floods. We have an urgent and immediate need for assertive outreach services and supportive housing options in the Byron Shire.

We are hopeful that the NSW State Government can find money and resources to address the challenges facing some of the most vulnerable members in our community.

We cannot solve homelessness without more housing, its that simple.

Homelessness NSW today said that the government must lift funding for homelessness services and build more social housing after the annual street count found a 34 per cent rise in rough sleeping.

Trina Jones said Homelessness NSW acknowledges the governments commitment to drive homelessness numbers down and urge it to invest in the programs that work in the September budget.

An end to street sleeping

We can end street sleeping but we need to invest in what works. The Together Home Program supported over 1,000 people off the streets into safe homes. Its funded for those currently in the program until next year but doesnt have the resources to accept new people into the program.

We are calling on the NSW Government to embed this program in an ongoing way to support people to access a safe home with support to keep it.

The government....

The Shot is a satirical outlet with bite.

Its weekly podcast interviewed me this week, with hosts Jo Dyer and Grace Tame, on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and we discussed personal politics, challenging establishment power, mass surveillance and other (not always funny) subjects:

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The Fourth Estate is a weekly media show on community radio 2SER (based in Sydney but broadcast around Australia).

Its host, veteran journalist Monica Attard, interviewed me about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and tackled the personal, my evolution on Israel/Palestine, boycotts and mass surveillance:

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Zelda Grimshaw is a lifelong campaigner for peace, earth and human rights and a UN observer of the ballot for independence in East Timor in 1999, covers the recent actions by blockade Australia and the rise of the use of the law to attack basic rights in Australia (Pearls and Irritations 22 June 2023).

On 19 June 2022, NSW Police Forces Strike Force Guard launched their infamous strategic incapacitation operation targeting Blockade Australia. The Colo Raids saw over a hundred police with dogs, motorbikes, trucks, cranes, and helicopters swoop down on a rural property where the climate group had gathered.

Forty-three activists were arrested that day and over the following fortnight in connection with Blockade Australias Week of Climate Resistance in Sydney.

One year later to the day Blockade Australia burst back onto the scene of Australian climate activism with three simultaneous actions at major ports on the east coast. Like the hydra, we are back threefold. You cannot decapitate the climate movement they stated in a press conference as they announced their return.

Photo from Blockade Australia

Melbourne, Brisbane, and Newcastle ports were blockaded on Monday 19 June by activists suspended on monopoles, bipods and tripods across roads and rail bridges to the export facilities.

On Tuesday 20 June, Blockade Australia struck again, with simultaneous closures of the Melbourne and Brisbane ports. A single activist on a climbable structure has proven to be the favoured method of the radical group, and the tactic has successfully caused chaos at the economic pinch points the group targets.

This is in line with the stated aim of Blockade Australia: to build a political movement that can physically resist Australias planet destroying operations with disruptive and targeted action that shuts down the everyday functioning of this machine.

Blockade Australias return, in larger numbers and across three locations, evidences a rare determination. The repression experienced in June 2022 and subsequently would give pause to many. Strategic incapacitation is a policing technique that aims to smash the organising ability of a group of people, such that the group can no longer function.

To this end, Strike Force Guard laid serious charges, such as conspiracy, affray, assault and...

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Brian Houston likened himself to the great explorer Captain James Cook in his book Live Love Lead (2015).

In Live Love Lead Brian Houston likened himself to great pioneers, adventurers and explorers like Captain James Cook who discovered, charted and mapped Australia and New Zealand.

A group known as the The Invasive Species Council say that fire ants are a global super pest and they are migrating beyond the southern Queensland outbreak and threaten life as we know it across Australia.

An alliance of environment, agriculture, industry and land management groups, The Invasive Species Council are calling for urgent action on Australias fire ant outbreak and say the insects are heading toward D-Day, when on 13 July, Australias agriculture ministers will be meeting face-to-face for the first time since the COVID pandemic. 

Fire ants will be on the agenda.

One of the biggest environmental threats

Invasive Species Council fire ant campaigner, Reece Pianta, says fire ants are one of the biggest environmental threats facing Australia. The prospect of Australian governments giving up on fire ant eradication is truly terrifying.

Mr Pianta says fire ant invasion across Australia will be worse than the cane toad. They can kill people and wildlife and cause billions of dollars in lost agricultural production every year.

It doesnt matter if you are in Perth or Penrith, the whole of Australia will be invaded if fire ants are not eradicated.

They will undermine everything, making our sporting fields, schools, beaches and backyard barbecues unsafe. They will also threaten our food security by destroying crops and livestock.

Fire ants closing businesses, parks, schools, and sports grounds

Fire ants are already closing businesses, parks, schools, and sports grounds in southern Queensland. They will cause billions o...

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The chair of a U.S. House oversight subcommittee said all of the documents the SEC had provided on Sam Bankman-Fried's charges and arrest had been publicly available at the time.

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In a narrow aisle of shelves packed with cardboard boxes, Jrgen Peder Steffensen grins like a mischievous child unwrapping a holiday present as he pulls out a plastic-wrapped hunk of ice from a box marked Keep Frozen.

The bag of ice contains the transition from 1 BCE to 1 CE, he says. That means we have the real Christmas snow.

This piece of ice, a bit longer than his arm, doesnt visibly look different from modern ice. Yet bubbles trapped in it preserve the chemistry of the air in Greenland from more than two millennia ago. But we cant find any traces of reindeer, or magical dust, Steffensen quips.

In this freezer facility in Denmark, Steffensens team at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen stores some 40,000 segments of ice cores, long cylinders of ice from polar regions that preserve the history of past climate. Beyond cataloging frozen treasures, Steffensen collaborates on research that chisels out historical secrets hidden in ice, and runs logistics for an international drilling project in Greenland to retrieve even more deep-core samples.

Copenhagen is one of several places in the world where pieces of ice cores drilled from our planets extremities are kept safely cold. Other large research freezers are located in the United States, Australia, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Japan. According to Steffensen, Copenhagen has the most samples from the worlds deepest cores, amounting to 15.5 kilometers (9.6 miles) of ice. Thats about the distance from Steffensens laboratory in central Copenhagen to this unassuming yellow-tiled warehouse in an industrial park, where the ice archive has been housed since 2019. Both the lab and the freezer spaces are temporary, awaiting the completion of a massive construction project for a new university facility. The archive also keeps an additional five kilometers (3.1 miles) of ice from shorter cores drilled in Greenland, Antarctica, Iceland, Patagonia, and a glacier in a Slovakian cave. Some ice samples came from initiatives with strong Danish involvement, while others came from researchers abroad looking for a chilled home.

Ice cores serve as important historical records for scientists interested in how our planets climate has changed, whether in the distant past or more recently. Like tree rings, layers of snow that fell and formed these cores can be counted and correlated to years in the past. In a core drilled from a place that sees minimal melting, all those annual layers of snowfall are just in one undisturbed sequence back in time, Steffensen says. The deeper you go, the farther back in time you go.

Palestinian girl killed by Israeli sniper mourned by family who witnessed shooting

The Australian Government must strengthen its commitment to human rights in its laws, policies and practices, the Human Rights Law Centre said today in response to new comprehensive data looking at the state of human rights in Australia. 

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative, which tracks human rights performance across countries, has found that Australian governments are failing to uphold civil liberties and political freedoms, the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and refugees and people seeking asylum.  

The Initiative found many communities continue to suffer a range of rights violations in quality of life, safety from the state and empowerment. People especially vulnerable to arbitrary or political arrest include:  

• Public protesters, and participants in union protests and strikes, particularly those protesting climate change 

•  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are overrepresented in prisons and discriminated against by the police 

• Journalists subjected to police harassment, especially if they criticise the government 

• Asylum seekers and refugees experiencing up to several years of indefinite detention in onshore locations 

Caitlin Reiger, CEO, Human Rights Law Centre, said:

As a wealthy, stable democracy, Australia could lead the world on human rights, yet too often Australian governments fail to respect peoples human rights in critical areas. The evidence behind the Human Rights Measurement initiative shines a light on Australias treatment of people protesting, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and refugees and people seeking asylum in particular.  All people have the right to be treated with dignity and fairness, and rely on legal protections for their basic rights. 

In addition to addressing these ongoing and alarming human rights issues, we call on the Albanese Government to implement an Australian Charter of Human Rights to ensure human rights are at the heart of all decision making. 

The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. Protest has been crucial to achieving many important social changes from First Nations land rights to the eight-hour workday. Yet across the country we have seen a range of draconian anti-protest laws set in place. The right to protest is a cornerstone of a robust civil society that holds government to account. 

Though the Australian Government signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2009, it has failed to implement its most fundamental article, that of Indigenous self-determination. The challenges facing Aboriginal communities can only be addressed by empowering Aboriginal people. 

Human...

Our assignment to collect recipes and photograph food preparation for the forthcoming community and school garden recipe book and website

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EXCLUSIVE: News Corp has been running a rabid campaign against alleged rape survivor, Brittany Higgins, for apparently going to the media before the police while neglecting to inform the public about the fact that it was News Corp journalist, Sam Maiden, who first published an 'exclusive' story about the alleged Parliament House rape by Bruce Lehrmann, against Ms Higgins's own wishes. Serkan Ozturk reports.

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We have been reporting on Shane Warne and a few other celebrities whose lives have been cut way to short here, here and here.

Sky News in a headline reported that Shane Warne: Post-mortem reveals cricket legend died of natural causes...

Introduction

I have written much about Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) and the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP.) Simply type these acronyms into this blog's search function to read as much as you wish.

BAASS

French researcher Marc Cecotti submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, on 8 December 2021. In it he sought:

"...a copy of all records, including but not limited to emails, reports, memorandum, presentations, mentioning : "Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program" or the acronym "AAWSAP," "Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies" or the acronym "BAASS." Date range for record search from 1/1/2008 to 12/31/2012."

The DHS response was a one page document with the following text:

"BAASS goals 2011/2012

Area 1:

1. Advanced Technology Analysis Center - analyze recovered AAV technology in collaboration with aerospace companies. Construct extremely secure underground lab facility.

2. Conscious interactions with, and control of, advanced AAV technology.

3. Extend Remote Communications Programs to communicate and retrieve data across dimensional/space-time barrier. Target multiple locations.

4. Identify anomlaous activity in select areas of the United States and establish field research laboratories and remote communication programs on site.

Retrieve and integrate all historical data on AAVs from retirees (oral history.)

Area 2:

1. Liaison with IC, FBI, State, Local and tribal Police, FAA, DoD (including AFOSI), National Laboratories and with US Aerospace companies.

2. Collect data, including classified data, from IC/DoD entities, e.g. cockpit flight recordings of AAV performance, communications, medical autopsy reports, weapons use, AAV trajectory records (from NORAD.)

3. Classified data collection from AAV interactions with Nuclear Wepons Storage Facilities - (Northern Tier and other AFB AAV incidents.)

Area 3:

Note: unclassified seperate organization.

1. Create an open organization for collection of data on AAV performance.

2. Liaise with civilian groups for AAV data collection."

Lacatski

Leading doctors have concluded that the death of legendary Australian cricketer Shane Warne was likely precipitated by the Covid mRNA vaccine that he had taken approximately nine months prior to his sudden cardiac death. His post mortem findings revealed coronary atherosclerosis. Cardiologists Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Chris Neil, who is President of the Australian Medical Professionals Society, have concluded that the Covid vaccine can cause a rapid acceleration of coronary disease especially in those that may already have undetected mild disease. Dr. Malhotra has further concerns that the Covid mRNA vaccines may be masking angina by damaging heart nerves, resulting in patients not experiencing the chest pain that typically precedes a diagnosis of severe blockages in the heart arteries, leading to detection not occurring until it's too late, with the first symptoms often presenting as a cardiac arrest.

The nation was distracted by the 24/7 news coverage about the submarine that went missing while cruising around to see the Titanic. It seems that there is always a big news story put forth on days when undesirable information is released. We know the entire conflict in Ukraine was planned many years ago (see: The Plot to Seize Russia). We know that Biden is in bed with Ukraine bought and paid for. Now, the Pentagon is admitting that due to accounting errors they LOST $6.2 BILLION!

Did the money go to contractors? Politicians? Ukraine? The government refuses to say. Deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh explained that they originally thought $3 billion went missing, but the figure they are admitting to the public is closer to $6.2 billion. We have confirmed that for FY23, the final calculation is $3.6 billion, and for FY22 it is $2.6 billion, for a combined total of $6.2 billion, Singh said. These valuation errors in no way limit or restricted the size of any of our PDAs or impacted the provision of support to Ukraine, she added as if taxpayers think that we arent doing enough for a foreign nation when America is a desperate state.

Everyone should be outraged. That is a HUGE sum of money that this indebted nation cannot afford to misplace. This entire situation reeks of corruption. If this happened under Trump, there would be a never-ending investigation from every angle. If you or I paid a penny less on our taxes, they would hunt us down with the full force of the law. That money was taken from hardworking Americans who pay their taxes. No taxation without representation is a faraway dream. WE DESERVE ANSWERS.

On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with war correspondents and military bloggers for a question and answer session at the Kremlin. One war correspondent asked Putin "a question about the notorious red lines." Addressing Putin, he said, "Clearly . . . we are at war not just with the Kiev regime, but with the so-called collective Continue reading "Is Putin Bluffing on Redlines? Ask Putin."

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At face value it is odd, then, that Jordan Petersons new venture, The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC), should boast an acronym designed to invoke the story of Noah while simultaneously railing against the false idol of apocalyptic ideology. Look closer, however, and the contradiction resolves itself in a familiar, albeit familiarly veiled, way. The apocalypse is indeed here, only it isnt global heating that poses an existential risk to humanity but the usual culture war suspects.

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More than two in 10 businesses experienced a cyber security attack during the 2021-22 financial year, compared to almost one in 10 in 2019-20, according to new data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Robert Ewing, head of ABS business statistics, said this mornings Characteristics of Australian Business data release is important because it gives governments and researchers information about the prevalence, impacts and nature of cyber attacks.

The types of cyber attacks included scams or fraud (16 per cent); malicious software infecting computers (5 per cent); and unauthorised access or use (3 per cent).

This helps them understand who they need to support and what strategies they need to use, Mr Ewing said.

The latest figures from the ABS also show how cyber attacks impacted businesses, and on that front theres some more encouraging news. In 2021-22 just over half of the business that experienced a cyber attack were negatively impacted by it compared, to more than 80 per cent of businesses in 2019-20.

In 2021-22, 34 per cent of businesses reported loss of time in managing cyber security attacks, 18 per cent reported downtime of service, while 17 per cent reported a loss of staff productivity, Mr Ewing said.

For the first time, all businesses were asked by the ABS about the types of cyber security measures they had in place, and seven in 10 (70 per cent) reported some form of protection measure.

Over 60 per cent of businesses reported regular updates to virus protection software. Around 37 per cent of businesses regularly backed up o...

Hosted by the Government of South Australia, the funeral will commemorate Sir James life, including his key role as part of the first team to defeat the United States in the America's Cup sailing race. Members of the public are welcome to attend and pay their respects. The service will...

A great review of my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, in the London-based The New Arab by Martorell Junyent:

Israeli weapons companies often promote their products for export by emphasising that they are battle-tested. Marketing weapons in such a way is misleading, to say the least.

Ever since the end of the 1973 October War, Israel has not participated in any battle if by battle we understand, as the Cambridge Dictionary does, a fight between armed forces.

This lack of battle has been offset by an abundance of testing. The laboratory has been no other than the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

In his book The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World, Antony Loewenstein argues that the occupation of Palestine has provided Israel with an incomparable testing ground in the development of its weapons and surveillance technology.

At the same time, Palestine has also served as a display room for the effects of these weapons, which are then exported around the world generating both considerable revenue and valuable political influence for Israel.

As Loewenstein, an independent journalist, author, and filmmaker, writes, The Palestine laboratory is a signature Israeli selling point.

Read the whole review: Palestine is Israels laboratory for industry of occupation

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My interview with US radio station KPFA and its program, Against The Grain, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory:

Israel is one of the worlds most important producers of military hardware and surveillance technology, honed in its occupation of Palestine, and exported around the globe to various brutal regimes. Journalist and filmmaker Antony Loewenstein traces the history of Israels military tech sector, refined after the invasion of Lebanon and again following September 11th, and discusses its tools of mass surveillance today.

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Domesticated around 7,000 years ago from the Nubian and Somalian subspecies of African wild ass. The Nubian ass is now extinct, but the modern-day donkey is finding a new lease of life in Australia as a guard donkey.

In an innovative trial in the Central Tablelands trained donkeys have demonstrated their value in protecting sheep from wild dog attacks according to Local Land Services.

Landholders Butch and Fiona Pilley worked closely with Local Land Services to introduce two donkeys as guardian animals into their Hill End grazing operation, with no dog attacks recorded over the three years since, said Senior Biosecurity O...

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Researchers from Londons University of Roehampton suggest people who walk backward perform better on memory tests than those who stand still or walk forward. If you are looking to inject new energy into your exercise routine, you might want to try walking or running backward. Beyond the physical benefits to your body, exercising backward may boost your brain power, balance and more.

Walking Backward Shown to Boost Your Memory

In a study published in the journal Cognition,¹ researchers from the University of Roehampton (UR) in London have found walking backward can boost your memory. After inviting 114 volunteers to watch a video featuring a woman having her handbag stolen, participants were asked questions about what they saw. Upon completion of the video:

• One subset of the group was asked to walk forward 30 feet (9.1 meters)
• A second subset was told to walk the same distance backward
• People assigned to the control group were told to stand still

Based on their responses to 20 questions about the events in the video, the group that walked backward answered, on average, 10% more of the questions correctly than the control group and those who walked forward. All five variations of the experiment, including one in which the forward or backward movement was simulated, yielded similar effects.

In each scenario, the participants walking backward consistently got the most answers right. These outcomes resulted in the team of researchers, led by Aleksandar Aksentijevic, Ph.D., senior lecturer in psychology at UR, suggesting the experiment is an indication that a link between the concepts of 'time' and 'space' are essential to the way our minds form memories.²

It's a partial vindication of this idea that time is really expressed via space, Aksentijevic told the Daily Mail.³ That said, he suggests more studies are needed to unravel the mysteries of why motion, real or imagined, has the potential to improve our memory.

'I am sure that some of this work could be useful in helping people remember things, but how [that will be possible] is a question [needing] more research, he noted.⁴

Walking Backward Shown to Improve Cognitive Control, Balance

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This is Liz Deegan, the $360k a year Executive Director of NSW Police Public Affairs. Shes not a police officer nor is she experienced in law enforcement - but she does believe she has a right to mislead the public. Deegan was the one who authorised the

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I have put some effort into trying to make sense of the present battlefield offensive pf the Kiev forces in Ukraine. After trolling through claims and counter claims and getting a sense of the military strategies of both sides, some things have become quite obvious. These do not sit well with the barrage of media propaganda.

Not surprisingly, this is a war where the media is just as much the battle ground as what is happening on the ground. As they say, the first casualty of war is the truth.

Back to the point. A genuine examination of the facts, which includes those presented by both sides, will reveal some inescapable truths.

Like it or despise it, the Russian presence was never about taking over the whole of Ukraine. It involved the ethnic Russian majority regions to the east and south, in a long standing that became violent in 2014, a longtime before Russian forces crossed the border.

The Russian military strategy has three legs. The first has been to consolidate the core ethnic Russian areas to the east and south. These are bordered with a heavily fortified and static frontline. Air power and missiles have been used to harass the other side, rather than to capture new ground. Beyond the fortified border is a region of mobile rather than positional warfare. This is aimed at harassing Kievs forces, drawing them into ambushes, and inflicting maximum damage on them. All these legs have achieved considerable success.

The map below shows both the position (orange) and mobile war zones (grey).

This map is from the Russian media outlet Sputnik. Maps with this information are censored in the wests media

The on, off, and on again, so called offensive is concentrated on this mobile zone. Stories of victories and defeats that centre around who holds a town at a particular time, ignore that the nature of mobile warfare is assaults and withdrawals by both sides. These stories do not report the truth.

It is Kiev that is at a disadvantage b...

An Australian McDonalds customer said they found uncooked meat in their hamburger, prompting them to warn others to check their patties before biting into their burgers, The New York Post reported. Check your burgers before you eat if youre buying from Woodbine Maccas [McDonalds] tonight, the man wrote in a post to Facebook Monday evening. []

Money laundering, shell companies, prostitution rings, foreign bribes, and influence peddling. All part of a days work at Biden Inc. #ImpeachBidenhttps://t.co/i8pdp1PL3I pic.twitter.com/aywyD2K6fu Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) June 21, 2023

PMID:  Brain Behav. 2023 Jun 21:e3108. Epub 2023 Jun 21. PMID: 37340873 Abstract Title:  The impact of humor therapy on people suffering from depression or anxiety: An integrative literature review. Abstract:  OBJECTIVES: To identify and synthesize existing research on the effectiveness and feasibility of multiform humor therapy on people suffering from depression or anxiety, with the hope of benefiting future research.METHODS: An integrative literature review of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed studies was performed. The PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Embase, and CINAHL databases were searched up to March 2022. Two independent reviewers conducted each stage of the review process, by assessing eligibility using preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analyses (PRISMA) and quality appraisal using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool, and data extraction.RESULTS: In this integrative review, 29 papers were included, containing 2964 participants across a diverse range of studies, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. The articles were from the United States, Australia, Italy, Turkey, South Korea, Iran, Israel, China, and Germany. The findings indicated that most of the subjects thought humor therapy was effective in improving depression and anxiety while a few participants considered the effect insignificant. However, more high-quality studies will be needed to confirm these conclusions.DISCUSSION: This review collated and summarized findings from studies examining the impact of humor therapy (medical clowns, laughter therapy/yoga) on people with depression or anxiety, including children undergoing surgery or anesthesia, older people in nursing homes, patients with Parkinson's disease, cancer, mental illness, and undergoing dialysis, retired women, and college students. The results from this review may help inform future research, policy, and practice in humor therapy to improve people's symptoms of depression and anxiety.IMPACT: This systematic review objectively evaluated the effect of humor therapy on depression and anxiety. As a simple and feasible complementary alternative therapy, humor therapy may provide a favorable alternative for clinicians, nurses, and patients in the future.

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ASIA:

The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:

• NIKKEI 225 increased 186.23 points or 0.56% to 33,575.14
• Shanghai decreased 42.46 points or -1.31% to 3,197.90
• Hang Seng decreased 388.73 points or 1.98% to 19,218.35
• ASX 200 decreased 42.90 points or -0.58% to 7,314.90
• Kospi decreased 22.28 points or -0.86% to 2,582.63
• SENSEX increased 195.45 points or 0.31% to 63,523.15
• Nifty50 increased 40.15 points or 0.21% to 18,856.85

The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today:

• AUDUSD increased 0.00101 or 0.15% to 0.67931
• NZDUSD increased 0.00347 or 0.56% to 0.62017
• USDJPY increased 0.459 or 0.32% to 141.899
• USDCNY decreased 0.00374 or -0.05% to 7.17756

Precious Metals:

• Gold decreased 2.09 USD/t oz. or -0.11% to 1,933.82
• Silver decreased 0.409 USD/t. oz or -1.76% to 22.777

Some economic news from last night:

Australia:

MI Leading Index (MoM) (May) remain the same at 0.0%

No economic news from today:

EUROPE/EMEA:

The major Europe stock markets had a negative day today:

• CAC 40 decreased 33.20 points or -0.46% to 7,260.97
• FTSE 100 decreased 10.13 points or -0.13% to 7,559.18
• DAX 30 decreased 88.19 points or -0.55% to 16,023.13

The major Europe currency markets had a mixed day today:

• EURUSD increased 0.00587 or 0.54% to 1.09747
• GBPUSD increased 0.00025 or 0.02% to 1.27635
• USDCHF decreased 0.00426 or -0.47% to 0.89364

Some economic news from Europe today:

UK:

CPI (YoY) (May) remain the same at 8.7%

CPI (MoM) (May) decreased from 1.2% to 0.7%

PPI Input (MoM) (May) decreased from 0.1% to -1.5%

CBI Industrial Trends Orders (Jun) increased from -17 to -15

US/AMERICAS:

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has affirmed that more interest rate increases are likely ahead as inflation is well above where it should be, and the process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way...

The Grattan Institute has recommended the Aussie Government help transition households to electric, and ban new gas connections.

The post Grattan Institute: Australia Should Shut Down Domestic Gas to Hit Net Zero first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

Former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and others such as former NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro could be looking down the barrel of criminal charges next week as the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption []

The Human Rights Law Centre has been granted leave to participate as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in a landmark appeal as part of the ongoing unjust prosecution of whistleblower Richard Boyle.

Boyle, who is being prosecuted after blowing the whistle on unethical debt recovery practices at the Australian Taxation Office, had sought immunity under the federal public sector whistleblowing law, the Public Interest Disclosure Act.

In March, Judge Kudelka of the District Court of South Australia ruled that Boyle was not immune from prosecution.

The judgment was the first consideration of the scope of the protections for Australian whistleblowers. Boyle has been charged in relation to allegedly unlawfully gathering documents and recording conversations as part of his whistleblowing which took place first internally, then to the tax ombudsman and then, as a last resort, to the ABC, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Judge Kudelka ruled that the key protection in the PID Act only applies to the act of blowing the whistle, not related preparatory steps.

Ahead of his trial in October, Boyle appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of South Australia. At a callover last Friday, Justice Doyle granted leave to the Human Rights Law Centre to make submissions and set the appeal down for 9 August.

Kieran Pender, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, said:
Richard Boyles appeal will determine the strength of protections for all Australian whistleblowers, given similar provisions exist in almost all Australian whistleblower protection laws. It is a vitally important test case with significant implications for truth and transparency in this country.

Boyle faces the spectre of jail for blowing the whistle on government wrongdoing whistleblowing that has been vindicated by several independent inquiries.

By exposing human rights abuses, government wrongdoing and corporate misdeeds, whistleblowers make Australia a better place. The Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC should fix the law and establish a whistleblower protection authority, to ensure that whistleblowers are protected, not punished. 

The Human Rights Law Centre has briefed Perry Herzfeld SC, Michelle Hamlyn and Hannah Ryan. National law firm Johnson Winter Slattery is acting for the Centre in the proceedings, led by partners Eve Thomson and Christopher Beames, senior associate Jade Tyrrell and associate Claudia Boccaccio.

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

Press TV June 21, 2023

North Korea has ridiculed US Secretary of State Antony Blinkens recent visit to China as a disgraceful begging trip, further slamming it as a failure of policy aimed at exerting pressure on Beijing.

The rare visit was aimed at begging for the relaxation of tensions as the attempt to press and restrain China may become a boomerang striking a fatal blow to the US economy, said North Korean international affairs analyst Jong Yong in a column published by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday.

In a word, the US state secretarys recent junket can never be judged otherwise than a disgraceful begging trip of the provoker admitting the failure of the policy of putting pressure on China, he then added.

The analyst further blamed Washington for escalating regional tensions with anti-China complexes such as the so-called Quad strategic security group, which includes Japan, Australia, India, and the United States, as well as the Australia-UK-US security deal known as AUKUS.

It is the height of the double-dealing and impudence peculiar to...

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Composting Is Becoming Mandatory in NYC Heres What You Need to Know (Maria)

The author writes, New York Citys mostly plant-based, health-minded Mayor Eric Adams just surprised his 8.5 million constituents who all have big opinions about their city by announcing that composting will become mandatory in all five boroughs in the coming year. Climate-conscious consumers who already recycle began asking: How will that work? The answer is composting will work, and already has begun to.

Secession Talks Emerge in One Northern California County. Is a New State a Possibility? (Reader Steve)

From The Sacramento Bee: When considering the possibility of a 51st U.S. state, places like Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are likely some of the first to spring to mind. But what about a sparser alternative, nestled between California and Nevada, with prime views of Lake Tahoes southern shore? A new proposal, put forth by a resident and supported by at least one former county leader, would have El Dorado County secede from California and become its own state.

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The author writes, Lots of us have Trump fatigue and perhaps even news fatigue from the last few days, but it would be a mistake to become numb to the unprecedented nature of the current moment.

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The BBCs underhanded and dishonest tactics used to discredit and defame members of the independent media.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 19, 2023, Patrick talks with UK-based author, artist, and antiwar activist Jason Liosatos, about his recent experience being targeted in a hit-piece by the BBC and its new self-styled disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring from BBC Verify, and her embarrassing series Marianna in Conspiracy Land where she set out to paint residents of Totnes, England as a cauldron of extremism and harmful ideas. Jason reveals the BBCs underhanded and dishonest tactics they use to discredit and defame independent media people, as well as their desperate efforts to conceal all of their own embarrassing fake news and propaganda, enabling wars based on fake claims and real disinformation. All this and more. Listen:

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Excitement around psychedelics continues to grow with thousands set to attend the Psychedelic Science conference in Denver this week. Proponents in the psychedelic space have promoted a strategy to focus on the medicalization to gain wider societal acceptance. But this could lead psychedelics to come under greater control, ensuring that they serve as profitable tools to maintain the status quo.

The Quest for Mainstream Acceptance: Magical Individual to Societal Healing

Today, in the effort to win mainstream acceptance of psychedelics, there are a number of voices in the room. Among them, the loudest are the ones who individualize illness through the medical lens while seeking legitimacy through access to powerful medical institutions, civil society, and the corporation in a proclaimed quest to heal those suffering in our society. We see anything from features in Forbes about 20-something tech billionaires microdosing to increase productivity, to 60 Minutes interviews with U.S. Iraq war veterans who report being cured from PTSD, to miracle stories of ketamine working with the poor and formerly incarcerated. Ironically, as this piece is being published, a number of these voices will be discussing and debating the path of the psychedelic renaissance at Psychedelic Science conference, taking place June 1923 and being marketed as the largest conference on psychedelics in history.

Organizationally, some of the best-known names in the psychedelic space are the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), the for-profit System Fail 23 mental health company Compass Pathways, and the nonprofit Usona Institute. Many inside these organizations often promote a course of thought claiming psychedelics in and of themselves can heal anything from PTSD to societal conflict. Its as if there is a search for a balm, a real-life soma, to dissociate from the horrors of race and class. For many, psychedelics are the answer to this search.

Of those who believe p...

Welcome to Carbon Briefs Cropped. 
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food and nature over the past fortnight.

Snapshot

Many of North Americas most iconic cities were cloaked in an otherworldly orange haze earlier this month as smoke from Canadas wildfires travelled across the continent. The smog is set to return this week.

El Nio conditions have been confirmed by US and Australian weather agencies. The weather pattern is expected to take a massive toll on crops, drive up food prices and inflation. The North Atlantic is reeling under a totally unprecedented marine heatwave.

Climate change is having an unprecedented and irreversible impact on the Hindu Kush Himalayas cryosphere, a major new assessment found. Glaciers disappeared 65% faster in the 2010s than in the previous decade and could lose up to 80% of their volume by 2100.

Key developments

Canada wildfires

TOXIC FUMES: Hundreds of wildfires burned across Canada earlier this month in an unprecedented start to the nations fire season. As Carbon Brief reported in an in-depth summary of the event, huge clouds of smoke from the blaze travelled thousands of kilometres down to the eastern US in early June, shrouding cities such as New York and Washington DC in an orange haze and causing levels of toxic air pollution to...

I recently shared a graph on Twitter and got a whole bunch of varied reactions. Twitter is a good place for quickly road-testing ideas and framings to see how theyre understood and what people push back against.

The point I was trying to make was a simple one about the costs of building new housing. Countless American cities are in need of much more housing for their residents, and a reasonable question to ask is, Whats the cheapest way to produce it? To answer that, we need to understand how development costs work.

I have a rough conceptual diagram, without hard numbers attached to it, that I use to illustrate the way the height and complexity of a residential building intersects with the cost of but first, let me actually break it up into two separate diagrams: one that shows how the cost of land for new housing changes with density, the other that shows how the cost of construction itself changes.

(For the purposes of this article, were going to ignore various forms of prefab or manufactured housing. They deserve a lot of considerationjust not here and not now.)

Land Cost vs. Density

I am joined on the podcast today 21/06/2023 by Jason Woodforth from Brisbane to break...

James E. Hanley from the American Institute for Economic Research writes

I was recently told that humanity is rapidly advancing toward solving the socialist calculation problem. I wasnt told why, but around the same time, economist Daron Acemoglu suggested that artificial intelligence could be the solution. To get literary, perhaps we are on the verge of creating the Machines, the artificial intelligences that plan the global economy in Isaac Asimovs short story, The Evitable Conflict (which became the last chapter of his book, I, Robot.) The Machines perfectly calculate the needs of humanity and organize the economic order to best provide for them, in keeping with the first law of robotics, that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.

Given Asimovs insistence that the Machines were mere calculators of unimaginable speed, not super-brains, artificial intelligence could be a further step beyond Asimovs robotic brains. So could artificially intelligent Machines, at last, prove the central planners right?

No, they could not, and Ill answer the question in three ways. First, its theoretically impossible because the problem is about information generation, not the calculation of given information. Second, even if sufficient information existed to do the calculations, human incentives would always tinker with the Machines programming, biasing their performance. Third, if the machines escaped the biasing control humans, their interests would not necessarily be congruent with humanitys interests.

The Machines cannot solve the calculation problem because the real problem for central planning is not calculating existing data, but getting the data to calculate. As economist Michael Munger recently wrote, theres not a calculation problem, but a data generation problem. The calculations are supposed to direct economic activity, but the necessary data, which reveal the values of differing uses for resources, do not come into existence except as a consequence of that economic activity. 

And when it is generated, it is only fragmentary, with much of it hidden in the minds of the econo...

Today James answers the question he received most often from the attendees of The Better Way conference in Bath: are we going to win this thing? Get ready for a bigger answer than you're expecting and a homework assignment of your own.

The new bot can help you catch up with anything you missed in a meeting, or even draft a follow-up email.

Users of the meeting transcription tool Otter will soon have access to an AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about the content of their meetings.

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There are 4 billion people who use email daily. Out of that, 99% check their emails at least once a day, with 58% clicking on the big M as soon as their eyes open. Believe it or not, some even check their email 20 times a day- answers why email marketing is at its peak and is expected to surge in popularity even more in the near future.

You are all set to start your email marketing campaign. But who would you send your emails to? Got a reality check? Building your email list is indeed one of the toughest tasks out there. Even the most persuasive email copy can be swept aside if you send it to someone who has no interest in your service.

The good news is, compiling an email list that surprises you with its ROI has become easier than ever before with email list brokers. List brokers are companies that curate lists of email addresses of businesses and consumers, tailored to your target audience. In brief, they provide you with a list of people you should mail to get success in your marketing campaign.

But how to spot the right broker? Is that enough? Whats next? Given below are some expert tips that are meant to guide you from finding the perfect broker to writing a killer email copy to analyzing the success of your campaign. Read till the end and champion the process.

1. Find a Suitable List Broker To Get a Targeted Email List

We have already introduced you to them. Now lets find out how to get hold of the list broker who suits your needs the best.

• Talk to people in your circle, browse the net, and conduct your research to make a list of brokers who appear potent enough to generate the results you desire.
• Visit their websites, communicate via mail or calls, and shortlist a few of them based on their response.
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Will Jones The Daily Sceptic June 20, 2023

Leading doctors have concluded that the death of legendary Australian cricketer Shane Warne was likely precipitated by the Covid mRNA vaccine that he had taken approximately nine months prior to his sudden cardiac death. His post mortem findings revealed coronary atherosclerosis.

Cardiologists Dr. Aseem Malhotra and Dr. Chris Neil, who is President of the Australian Medical Professionals Society, have concluded that the Covid vaccine can cause a rapid acceleration of coronary disease especially in those that may already have undetected mild disease. Dr. Malhotra has further concerns that the Covid mRNA vaccines may be masking angina by damaging heart nerves, resulting in patients not experiencing the chest pain that typically precedes a diagnosis of severe blockages in the heart arteries, leading to detection not occurring until its too late, with the first symptoms often presenting as a cardiac arrest.

Shane Warne was found unresponsive in his hotel room in Thailand in March last year.

The doctors have called for the immediate suspension of Covid mRNA vaccines globally pending an investigation into serious side-effects, including late onset heart attack and sudden cardiac death.

Shane Warnes best friend, the former international cricketer Dimitri Mascerenhas, has supported the calls, saying Shane himself wouldnt want others to be harmed.

Consultant Cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra says:

Its quite unusual for former international sportsmen to suffer a sudden cardiac death at such a young age, 52. At the same time we also know Shane didnt have the healthiest lifestyle in recent years, being both overweight and a smoker. Its likely that some mild underlying furring of his arteries (as Ive seen with my own patients and how my father died) rapidly progressed in the months after he received two doses of the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine.

Published research already reveals the plausible biological mechanism of this occurring through increasing coronary inflammation that can last for months after the vaccine has been administered.

Other data on adverse cardiac effects including heart attack is extensive, derived from...