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B (Obama) is holding secret desperation meetings of all Congressional Dems. and allied handlers.

The  MAGA demonizing narrative has backfired. MAGA is the average, now deeply suffering, American. It is no one else.

There are no Biden voters and no Harris voters. The grossly exaggerated 42% poll numbers encompass the robotic Dem voters. Excluding the Dem fraud machine.

Trump packs in the stadiums. As he always did &#821...

Bill Shorten is overseeing Australias biggest fraud scam known as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) which is now seeing up to $7 billion a year stolen according to the Australian Criminal []

The Lawyer X scandal appears to have become a circus, with the Victorian Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) announcing no criminal charges will be brought against Victorian Police over what the highest court in the land described as atrocious and reprehensible conduct which corrupted and debased the fundamental premises of the criminal justice system all but accusing police of perverting the course of justice.

The decision has heads shaking in Australias legal community and means a jury will not be given the opportunity to decide whether the states police officers engaged in cr...

Ep. 6 Bobby Kennedy is winning pic.twitter.com/jW51PYahLV Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 22, 2023

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(

A full-on crypto scene and heaps of Web3 projects in Australias largest city show Sydney has more to offer than beaches and a bridge.

Welcome to Carbon Briefs DeBriefed. 
An essential guide to the weeks key developments relating to climate change.

This week

Money talks in Paris

CLIMATE FINANCE: Dozens of world leaders met in Paris this week to discuss climate finance, green growth, the debt crisis and how to tap private sector sources of investment, BBC News reported. The overall ambition of the meeting was to give poorer countries access to hundreds of billions of dollars to tackle climate change, according to BBC News. The two-day summit was co-chaired by prime minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, and French president, Emmanuel Macron. 

FUNDS FOR 1.5C: Ahead of the summit, the climate change ministers of Australia, Canada and New Zealand in the Guardian called for an international financial system that can help the world stay as close as possible to 1.5C of warming. In a comment piece in Reuters, Dr Rachel Kyte, a climate policy expert, predicted that a challenge for the summit would be how to bolster investment in emerging markets and developing economies in a way that does not incur debt. Those gathering in Paris this week agree that the current system is no longer fit for purpose, Kyte wrote.

DEBT PAYMENT PAUSE: The summits first day saw the World Bank unveil several new measures to help countries affected by extreme weather, including a pause in debt repayments to the lender, Reuters reported. On the second day, the summits final statement, seen by Reuters, announced that multilateral development banks are expected to unlock $200bn in extra firepower for emerging economies by running their balan...

This is an opinion editorial by Konstantin Rabin, a finance and technology writer.

Death is not something that many people like talking about all too much, but it is crucial to sit and have a good think about what will happen to all of your earthly belongings when the inevitable eventually happens.

Despite its importance, a 2021 study found that less than half of all adults in the U.S. have a will set up at all. While many are too scared of thinking about it, a large number of people simply feel that they lack the know-how for setting one up or want to wait until they have children before they feel the need to sort out their afterlives.

Over the last year or so, I decided to have this will discussion with myself, and after much thinking and many hours of research, the answer for the best method of inheritance to establish in my own will seemed obvious: Bitcoin.

As things stand in the world today, you are bound to end up with issues if you dont set up a will. Lets say that you kick the bucket tomorrow without an inheritance plan drawn up. The first thing that might happen is that all of your assets could be frozen until the courts take their sweet time digging through every detail of your estate. This alone can take from several months to several years, depending on where you live and the assets that are in your name. If you were married and died intestate (without a will), your spouse might end up having to find an executor, which often costs a lot of money, and then comes the months of paperwork and infighting with long-lost relatives who might suddenly start showing up at your doorstep. Along with all of this drama could come the taxman, ready to act as the grim reaper of the assets you leave behind, often taking huge percentages of your life savings.

With all this in mind, setting up your will with BTC can solve many problems for those who you leave behind in the land of the living. I will be going through some of my thoughts on this and explaining exactly why I have decided to set up my will with Bitcoin.

Advantages Of Bitcoin Over Traditional Assets

To me, it all came down to two aspects, with the first being accessibility. With physical assets, you end up having to do more than just paperwork when passing on your property after death. Whether it is gold bars, a cellar of investment-grade whisky or expensive paintings, there is a certain level of expertise needed to move these items from one place to the next and then to look after them properly.

Bitcoin solves this for me. Here you have an asset that doesnt need anything other than a 256-bit long combination to be accessed globally, without your next of kin having to wait months to gai...

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

On very rare occasions I like to do a blog where I say very little about a topic, and rather, ask the readers of

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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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Power prices are rising, despite recent political promises they wouldn't, and renewable investment has stalled, despite frantic government efforts to attract new capital.

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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

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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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An Australian former Catholic priest previously convicted of child sexual abuse pleaded guilty this Thursday to sexually abusing a 72nd victim, the Associated Press reported. Gerald Ridsdale, 89, is currently serving a 39-year sentence for abusing children between 1961 and 1988 while he worked as a Roman Catholic priest in Victoria. He began serving his []

Another day, another bit of great news, folks. Everyones favorite agency, DARPA, is promising to develop a "travel adapter" for the human body. The travel adapter, intended for "warfighters," is supposed to play a magical trick on biology and program the soldiers sleep cycles at will, as well as disinfect food and water in the soldiers belly in real time. The miracle is going to be a transient and non-genetic "implantable or ingestible bioelectronic carrier."

Certainly, nothing can go wrong, and the proof is this very professionally done image on their website that shows us how one can "program" physiology by adjusting a slider in an app. This image alone is a masterpiece of seduction, selling the appealing-but-totally-fictional concept of getting "something for nothing," as if pulling it out of a magicians hat.

Betraying the Soldiers

Before we get down to the nitty-gritty of DARPAs ADAPTER program yes, the name of the program is acronym but they also call the device an "adapter," DARPA word weavers are crafty like that! I want to express my indignation at the entire vampire-like model of sacrificing human beings to senseless wars.

These wars are fought primarily to make a small crew of shameless people obscenely rich, and the biggest "beneficiaries" of the cruelty dont fight in those wars themselves, just organize the dark business of shedding other peoples blood.

Such betrayal! A lot of people on the ground join the military for noble reasons. Yes, some join out of desperation, to lift themselves out of poverty but many join for very sacred reasons, out of courage, to protect their own.

And then those brave young people get dragged into treacherous carnage, maimed in body and spirit, and sometimes experimented on (here is one pre-2020 example of the U.S. military experimenting on its soldiers, here is another, and we know what happened with COVID "vaccines").

Bioweapon Experimentation on Soldiers

Here is a phenomenally frank 2015 paper titled, "Science wars How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation?"

The paper argues that because the warfare is shifting toward the use of bioweapons, it is appropriate to experiment on soldiers as they have already agreed to risk their lives for the benefit of the state:

"With the threat of biological war becoming a more and more dis...

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...

But we're expected to believe A Voice will fix their problem with grog.

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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ARU ISLANDS, Indonesia More than 10 years have passed since a young official in Indonesias eastern Aru Islands saved his archipelago from becoming a monoculture plantation. Today, Mika Ganobal is drawing on his campaigning background as he governs part of the remote island chain he helped preserve a decade ago. Right now Mika is the top person to be able to eliminate illegal logging, said Alo Tabela, head of the Aru Islands trade and industry office. The Aru archipelago comprises almost 100 small islands in the east of Indonesia. The island chain, around the size of Puerto Rico, was part of the Australian landmass until separation occurred 8,000 years ago owing to rising sea levels. Today, the islands are home to around 100,000 people, more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) north of Australias Northern Territory. Mika was in his mid-30s in 2013 when prospectors from a shadowy company called the Menara Group (menara means tower in Indonesian) arrived with the intention of razing the Aru Islands for a massive sugarcane plantation. In the late 2000s, the district leader of the Aru Islands, a retired army colonel named Theddy Tengko, signed over most of its land area to be converted to a sugar plantation. Prior to Theddy authorizing the vast plantation, prosecutors had charged him with corruption, alleging embezzlement of almost $5 million from the islands annual budget. Theddy was convicted on those charges in 2012, although his legal team managed to keep him out of prison until he wasThis article was originally published on Mongabay

In 2004 I was interviewed by Craig Newnes for The Psychologist, a journal published by the British Psychological Society. The occasion was the publication of my first book, The Gene Illusion: Genetic Research in Psychiatry and Psychology Under the Microscope. Upon publishing my fourth book, Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion (2023), psychologist/author Mary Boyle invited me for a new interview to discuss the book and the changes that have occurred in behavioral science genetic research since 2004. Marys questions, and my answers, are found below. Jay Joseph

Mary Boyle: Jay, you were interviewed in 2004 about your book The Gene Illusion. It was a detailed critique of genetic research on schizophrenia, IQ and criminality and you concluded that there was little if any scientifically valid evidence in support of genetic influences on human behavioral differences. Your latest book, Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion has just been published. It, and your many other publications, show that a lot has happened in psychiatric and behavioral genetics research over the last 20 years. Well be talking about what has and hasnt changed and whether your earlier conclusion still stands. But first, tell us how you became interested in this area and what keeps you engaged with it.

Jay Joseph: I became interested in the genetics of schizophrenia topic as a U.S. clinical psychology graduate student in the mid-1990s. The arguments fascinated me, and because I saw the genetic argument as weak, it was stunning to hear that the debate had been largely closed in favor of genetics by the 1980s. My desire to learn more about genetic research led me...

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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

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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Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published December 8, 2018.

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

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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. []

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:

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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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