Covert tracking tool on trust webpages passed on medical information to US tech giant in 'unacceptable' privacy breach

• The Meta Pixel tracking tool was being used by the webpages of 20 NHS trusts
• Details shared included information about medical conditions and treatments

Global security is facing a novel form of threat as tweets, bots and artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly become equally as important as conventional munitions for states aiming to gain advantage in warfare.

This was an ever-present theme at the NATO Strat Comm Dialogue in Latvia I attended earlier this month, where two days of disheartening panels and presentations forecast the decade of war ahead. As the dialogue made clear, wars are now not just material, but are fought within the global flows of information and through the exchange of disinformation. This new paradigm operates at an expansive scale, is personally targeted, and lethal.

The power of propaganda

Propaganda has always been a part of war. It is the tool that mobilises public sentiment, galvanises a population, and sustains the expenditure of resources and human lives something that would be otherwise intolerable in times of peace.

It is symbolic that the battlefield of war has long been described as a theatre, for the violence that unfolds there has always been intensified by theme and story a narrative with purpose.

Here stories of unity and righteous cause are critical to motivating a brutal consensus, pitting one group against another. And narratives of validation and triumph sustain momentum through adversity in pursuit of an ultimate conclusion.

But the new era of information warfare is not propaganda, at least not in the ancestral mass-media form. In the digital age it is disinformation and disruption. During the Vietnam War, America literally bombed with ideas, dropping billions of leaflets across the country and actively occupying the airwaves in an attempt to instil disunity amongst the North Vietnamese people and persuade them on the virtue of the American cause.

It had little if any impact, but it served as a projection of American internal propaganda abroad. It was traditional wartime propaganda.

The new technologies of warfare are increasingly precise and intimate. They are drones and sophisticated tactical weapons, but they are also the weaponisation of large-scale social media platforms, where individuals are targeted en-masse, closed groups are infiltrated, and the information ecosystem is flooded with unlimited voices of dissent.

These voices are indistinguishable from your neighbour or your local barista. They seem like a mum from your yoga group, and in the future, they will include sophisticated deep fakes that present as any trusted voice in your life. The disinformation created in an AI future will weaponise your social network against you.

The numbers crunch

Anthropologist Robin Dubar proposed that the number of people that any one person can maintain stable social relationships with is about 150. We now live in a world where our digital profile retains...

One of the unfortunate things about arrogance as a human trait is that its frequently accompanied by stupidity, the two bedfellows apparently irresistible to one other.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, seemingly had both in spades, hence why his body and those of four of his high-paying customers are lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, about 500 metres from the wreck of the Titanic.

Its impossible to have missed the Titan submersible story this past week, unless you turned off news altogether. Even then, you probably still heard about it. Equally, the stories of Rush dismissing warnings about the safety of his craft are now everywhere, including this one which reveals that at one point, he threatened legal action to shut up one of his detractors.

And there was this as well, from 60 Minutes Australia: Why rescuing a deep sea sub in the depths of the ocean is nearly impossible. The story doesnt actually mention the Titan. It doesnt even deal with the impossibility of rescuing a deep sea sub. Its just a misleadingly re-badged story from a few years ago about director James Cameron exploring the Titanic wreck. You know, because expressing derision at the stupid and avoidable deaths of five people, like so many did on social media, is callous and cruel, but shamelessly exploiting those deaths for clicks and commercial gain is, well, its what passes as modern media these days.

At the same time, media reporting has also been tempered with a distinct there but for the grace of God go other explorers, as though Rush, while tragically flawed, was the sort of adventurer who bravely pushed boundaries, and drove innovation for the benefit of us all.

Rush certainly pushed boundaries, thats undeniable, and evidenced by his mostly liquified corpse now drifting around the deep currents of the Atlantic. But if by drove innovation we actually mean took innocent people with him in the most staggeringly idiotic way possible, well then he ticks...

NAIDOC Week is held every year in early July. It is a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements, and is an opportunity to recognise the contributions that First Nations Australians make to our country and to our society. This year, the theme for NAIDOC...

We explore a productive vegie garden that once played host to family tennis tournaments. For Jaclyn Crupi and her partner Andrew Stewardson, transforming a disused tennis court into a productive vegie garden was about finding a design that balanced history, happiness and health.  In 2019, Jaclyn and Andrew acquired half an acre on the Mornington Peninsula, less than 100 kilometres southeast of Melbourne. On it stands a mid-century home that remains practically unchanged from what would have been regarded a quite forward-thinking build in its day, right down to the pantrys cold cupboard next to the small original kitchen at

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When I wrote two years ago in the pages of Overland that there were no rationally persuasive reasons for Julian Assange to be imprisoned in a British high-security prison, I didnt suspect that nothing would have changed two years down the track. I was nave: I believed in the exercise of justice.

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There are plans to crack down on MIS and DIS (information) like Covid was a planned pandemic, Vaccines are unsafe etc., etc. The usual stuff.

It was all over the TV stations last night that social media companies will be fined millions of dollars if they allow the spread of disinformation and misinformation; and that Communications Minister Michelle Rowland will draft legislation allowing the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to impose industry-wide standards enforcing social media platforms to remove potentially harmful content.

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This referendum is chance to build a more united Australia. Recognising our full history, and listening to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about issues that affect them. Its that simple - lets get it done. pic.twitter.com/v6n43pD1NF Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) June 25, 2023

In the wake of Red Cross Lifebloods decision to ease restrictions on whole blood donation by people with tattoos, the Let Us Give campaign has called on Lifeblood to do the same with gay, bisexual and transgender donors.

From today, the four month blood donation restriction on people with new tattoos has been reduced to one week, and there is no restriction for plasma donation. Lifeblood estimates the change will result in 10,000 extra blood donations a year.

Meanwhile, gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men, must be sexually abstinent for three months before donating whole blood. Let Us Give spokesperson, Rodney Croome said lifting that ban would deliver even greater resources for the Red Cross.

We estimate that lifting the gay blood ban would result in over 54,000 extra donations per year, which is over five times as many new donations than Lifeblood estimates from the easing of tattoo restrictions, Mr Croome said.

The science and the international experience show that there is no risk from lifting the current gay blood ban if there is a new system in place that assesses all donors for their individual risk.

The UK, US, Canada, Germany, France and the Netherlands have all adopted individual risk assessment and Australia should too.

Lifeblood says it will allow plasma-only donation for gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men, but we believe that will make gay, bi and trans people second-class donors.

We note that Lifeblood has eased restrictions on both whole blood and plasma from people with tattoos, so why not gay, bisexual and transgender donors as well?

Lifeblood has approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration to allow gay plasma donation, but not whole blood donation. Mr Croome said the plasma-only option will solve neither the shortages of whole blood nor discrimination in blood donation.

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The referendum proposal became law on 19 June when it was passed in the Senate: 52 for, 19 against.

In the 1967 referendum, Section 51 of the 1901 Australian Constitution was altered so that Indigenous people were, for the first time, recognised as people of any race for whom is deemed necessary to make special laws by deleting other than the aboriginal race in any State. 

Section 127 was removed altogether. It stated that Aborigines not to be counted in reckoning population. Over 90 per cent supported the amendment. There wasnt a No option. 

Although then regarded as fully fledged citizens Indigenous representation in our parliaments did not follow. 

Why do we need a Voice today?

Some people, who are wondering now why the proposed Voice would be desirable, are saying 11 Indigenous people are actually parliam...

Simon Crean, a former leader of the federal Labor Party and a minister in the Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard governments, has died suddenly over the weekend, during a trip to Europe promoting trade. He was 74 years of age.

Crean led the Labor Party from November 2001 to December 2003, replacing Kim Beazley after the disastrous Tampa election, before resigning the leadership which was subsequently won narrowly by Mark Latham, a man Crean would feud with for years.

As Opposition leader in 2003, Crean opposed Australias involvement in the Iraq War. And despite being wedged by the Howard government on the issue of refugees, he also advocated for a gentler approach to refugees.

It was also Crean who, in 2002, convinced the ALP to increase the quota of women preselected to winnable seats from 35 per cent to 40 per cent. The move was bitterly contested at the annual conference, and Crean would pay more broadly for attempts at party reform, with his seat of Hotham targetted in the lead-up to the 2007 election. But today, across the country, Labor has 218 men in federal, state and territory governments, compared to 217 women (Labor women actually outstrip the number of men in federal parliament (55 to 49), and theyre also over-represented in four other parliaments Victoria (38-33); Western Australia (38-36); Tasmania (seven to six); and the ACT (six to four). By contrast, the Liberal-Nationals have 195 men and 89 women, a rate of less than one-third).

Crean was the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) from 1985 to 1990, before being elected to Federal Parliament, just like his father Frank Crean, who served as Gough Whitlams treasurer from 1972 to 1974.

President of the ACTU, Michele ONeil said the labour movement had lost a giant in the passing of Simon Crean.

He was a great believer in and fighter for fairness and justice for working people in Australia and around the world, ONeil said.

He was a leader of conviction and courage and was generous and supportive to young unionists and all those who sought his support and advice.

His legacy has made a lasting impact on the wages, entitlements, safety and retirement dignity of working people.

His loss will be keenly and deeply felt across our movement and we send out sincere condolences to his wife Carole and his whole family.

Before he served as the AC...

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Scandal ridden PwC aims at a cover up to get itself off the hook. The US based giant consultancy to big business firm is now known in Australia for using its connections with government for its dirty dealings.

Exposed by information falling into the hands of a Senate committee finding that the firm had engaged in a calculated breach of trust by using confidential government information to help clients avoid tax, PwC finds itself reeling from multiple tax related scandals.

The response of the parent n the US has been to transfer Australian division CEO Kristin Stubbins and bring in an executive from its British wing, Kevin burrows, to take over the role of Australia CEO. PwC hopes that doing this will help to convince the Australian public that it is actively turning over a new leaf.  

Photo by Jessica Hromas: Moved PwC COE Kristin Stubbins as a senior partner in 2016

A shallow cosmetic change like this will do nothing to change behaviour, and it is a good indicator that there will be no change.

More sinister is the deal about selling off its government contracts for $1. The news was revealed by the Australian Financial Review (23 June 2023). This makes a catchy headline. The catch is that there is something shady going on.

PwCs government business is to be hived off to a Stock Exchange listed firm calling itself Allegro Funds. The $4 billion entity was Founded in 2004 by Chester Moynihan and Adrian Loader. Sounds reasonable? The catch is that part of the deal is that PwC will maintain its involvement.

It is still unclear how this is going to be brought about. But we know PwC will be involved in Allegros consulting arm. We know that both will be involved in the establishment of a new entity to handle PwCs gover...

The US TV show, Democracy Now!, interviewed me in a long 20-minute segment on my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, where we discussed the EU use of Israeli drones, ethno-nationalism, Israeli spyware et al.

Ive previously appeared on Democracy Now! in 2008, 2013 and 2015.

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My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, was positively reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age on the weekend in a piece written by Michael Ruffles:

Antony Loewenstein has brought a book to a gunfight, taking on Israels enormous and expanding military-industrial complex and invasive cyber spy operations with the low-tech tool of words on paper.

In the right hands, theres nothing more powerful or incendiary than words and Loewenstein mounts a full-scale attack. He accuses Israel of not only running an apartheid state but profiting from the tools used to oppress millions, and selling them to some of the worlds more murderous despots and least scrupulous governments.

Read the whole article: Israel-Palestine conflict: Book highly critical of Israel

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The last refugee held on Nauru to be evacuated to Australia after 10 years arrived last night, in a welcome and long overdue move for refugees. However, around 80 people still held in Papua New Guinea need urgent evacuation.

This is a testament to a decade of powerful resistance from refugees and the efforts of countless people to expose the harm caused by offshore detention.

Since July 2013, 3,127 people who sought safety in Australia have been taken to offshore detention in Nauru and PNG. Since this date, people have been resettled in third countries, hundreds were returned to the countries they fled and others remain in Australia after being transferred for healthcare. Eighty people remain offshore in PNG.

The refugees still trapped in PNG have been separated from family and friends and denied their freedom and safety for a decade. People in PNG need to be offered urgent evacuation to Australia to receive medical care and pursue permanent resettlement.

While there is no one currently held in a detention facility in Nauru the Albanese Government will continue to maintain detention facilities in the country, spending $486 million this year alone according to the Federal Budget. The Albanese Government also has an agreement with a for-profit prison company, MTC, to oversee the facilities on Nauru until September 2025 at a cost of $422 million.

At least 14 people subjected to offshore detention have died, many due to treatable illnesses, and everyone held offshore has endured a decade of human rights abuses.

After a decade of cruelty enacted by successive governments, people held in PNG need to be immediately evacuated to Australia. Everyone subjected to offshore detention needs safe and permanent resettlement.

Betelhem Tibebu, human rights activist and refugee previously held on Nauru said: All my friends are so happy this week. We dont have to lose any more friends, people dont have to get sick, no trauma, and no fear. Nauru, it killed us mentally, for us Nauru is hell, where we lost our lives.

For ten years we have been so scared. Every six months when we renew our visa we hear that we can be sent back to Nauru. I never sleep peacefully because I worry they will take us back at night, not just me but all of us. I want everyone to know this is a fear for us. I am happy no one is there now.

They should not have left the person alone there on the island alone by himself, from thousands of refugees to one person, can you imagine? He is a hero. I swear, I am so happy everyone is released. That place should be closed, it is where so many young people lost their future. For 10 years that place for us was fear.

Thanush Selvarasa, human rights activist and refugee previously held on Manus Island, PNG said: This is very exciting and happy news hearing no one will...

Weve know for a long time that the social media world is not always a fun or safe place to be and new research shows that many young people would like to cut back their viewing habits.

Just released from headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation, a report shows that half of young people surveyed wanted to disconnect from social media but a fear of missing out (FOMO) may be stopping them, with close to a third feeling pressured to keep up with everything from politics to gossip on social media.

51 per cent have thought about logging off

The headspace National Youth Mental Health Survey surveyed 3,107 young people and found 51 per cent of young people have thought about logging off social media, but FOMO keeps them online. This is despite almost half (44 per cent) of respondents agreeing the content they see is more negative than positive.

In fact, a third (35 per cent) of young people also felt an urge to use social media more and more, despite them knowing its negative impacts.

Participants told headspace they felt pressure to use social media to keep up to date with news and current events (32 per cent).

Ultimately, one in three young people who took part in the survey were found to experience problematic social media use (33 per cent).

Young people can have really positive experience

Headspace CEO Jason Trethowan said young people can have really positive experiences using these platforms. Social media can be used to connect with others, as a creative outlet, to learn new things and to pursue interests.

Overall, 41 per cent of young people we surveyed said the information they can find on social media is empowering, and two in five reported social media is also a good place to meet new friends.

Social media has also given young people the opportunity to find their voice; almost half of young people agreed it is easier to express their opinions online than in person (44 per cent).

Content on social media can be very overwhelming

However, the amount of content and the kind of content on social media can be very overwhelming, said Mr Trethowan.

The more time young people spend on social media, the less time they have for other important parts of life, like being active, getting into life, sleeping and eating well. Its also the reasons theyre choosing to use social media that need to be addressed.

Young people thinking of logging off might experience a fear of missing out on news, popular culture or conversations with friends. They may also worry about how going offline could impact their status or influence. Its similar to the feeling young people might experience if they missed out on a party or social event.

Social media can also lead us to make unhelpful comparisons between our life and the li...

If you frequent Reddit or engage in household debates on food storage, youve likely encountered the controversy surrounding foil or plastic seals on food products like yogurt and sour cream. Should these seals be removed or retained for additional coverage after opening? One couple debated this question for an impressive ten years before a directive from the very product in question solved their quandary. The husband found the unexpected resolution under the contentious disposable seal, which was imprinted with a manufacturers instruction: To prolong freshness, completely remove and discard this foil seal.

This straightforward message from the product manufacturer may solve the debate, but it still leaves us wondering about the original purpose of the seals. Moreover, how can leaving these seals on an opened container compromise the freshness of its contents? In pursuit of these answers, we consulted two renowned germ experts.

Understanding the Purpose of Foil or Plastic Seals on Food Containers

According to Jason Tetro, a respected microbiologist and author of the book The Germ Files, there are two primary reasons for the existence of these seals. Firstly, it helps to increase shelf lifethe container is usually flushed with nitrogen before sealing, which reduces the amount of oxygen inside, he explains. Nitrogen flushing is a common technique used by food manufacturers to prolong the shelf-life of their products. The reduction of oxygen inside the container is intended to suppress the growth of aerobic bacteria and fungi, which can cause food to spoil.

Secondly, these seals serve as a protective barrier for the containers contents. It helps to prevent the introduction of chemicals and microbes that could spoil the products and/or cause illnesses, states Tetro.

Adding further clarity to this matter, microbial ecologist Jack A. Gilbert, Ph.D., a professor at the University of California San Diego, elaborates on the importance of the seal. He describes it as a safety and quality mechanism. It works by creating a barrier between the product and the external environment while also providing assurance to consumers that the product has not been tampered with prior to purchase.

Removing the Seal Post-Opening: A Crucial Practice for Food Safety

In casual parlance, breaking the seal refers to the first bathroom visit while c...

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LAGOS JUNE 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain and former  gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has appealed to Delta State Government to set up Forestry and Conservation Commission to tackle deforestation, forest degradation and develop the forest assets.

Onuesoke who decried the effects the  loss and degradation of forest  is having on the people pointed out that the Commission if inaugurated  will reverse the trend, harness the forest wildlife resources to promote conservation of the ecosystem and take charge of the ungoverned spaces in the forest.

The PDP Chieftain who made the call when some loyalists paid him a visit in his office at Oto-Udu in Udu local government area of Delta State  expressed worries over the devastating impacts of poachers, illegal logging activities and arsonists, especially herdsmen, who allegedly set fire in the forest to allow for fresh pasturing grasses.

According to him, Deforestation and forest degradation is happening at an alarming rate, resulting in many wildlife habitats being destroyed, farmlands opened to flooding, loss of biodiversity, greenhouse gases accumulation and loss of forest ecosystem, among others. Delta State  is a low-lying coastal state that is vulnerable to climate change. The trees in the forest are very important for the sequestration of carbon, so we need to conserve the forest.

Through afforestation, there would be more plants or trees to help absorb carbon dioxide and reduce its content in the air or in the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide is being reduced through the help of trees, then the problems of climate change and global warming will be answered, even in the smallest way. More than the trees, the soil that is being developed as a forest also absorbs the CO2 from the atmosphere three times more than the trees.

The soil used for the afforestation also gets to be healthy again, and helps in the natural water filtration system. Moreover, afforestation also helps the environment by providing shade for people, habitat for wildlife, and providing food for both human and herbivores.

He argued that  it is sad  that a state like Delta that is blessed with natural forest  to allow the extinction of peculiar animals and giants African trees enriched with interlocking canopies from the forests, which are pot...

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian mercenary group Wagner, said he told his forces to immediately halt their advance on Moscow and return to their bases in Ukraine as fear gripped the country about a potential deadly power struggle.

by G5

(23 and 24 June 2023)

Purchasing Power

All the American money of the past six plus months aimed at Ukraine to fight Russia was direct...

Rather a tricky situation, what with a large active and ready nuclear arsenal. NB - here's the text if you'd like it enlarged: The attempted armed mutiny in our country is resolutely rejected by Russian society, which strongly supports President of Russia Vladimir Putin. Reckless aspirations of the conspirators are...

Too many Australians, whether young or old, voting Labor, Greens, Liberal or Teal, are mostly abrogating their capacity for reason in favour of being fashionable.

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Rights Groups Denounce Spain and Moroccos Lack of Justice as Melilla Tragedy Anniversary Nears

By JENNIFER O'MAHONY

FILE - Migrants run on Spanish soil after crossing the fences separating the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco in Melilla, Spain, on June 24, 2022. Rights groups on Friday denounced a lack of justice and transparency over the deaths of 37 migrants on June 24 last year as they attempted to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Melilla. (AP Photo/Javier Bernardo)

MADRID (AP) Rights groups on Friday denounced a lack of justice and transparency over the deaths of at least 37 migrants last year during a mass attempt to cross the border from Morocco into the Spanish enclave city of Melilla.

Ahead of the tragedys first anniversary on Saturday, Amnesty International said the Spanish and Moroccan authorities were preventing attempts to find the truth of what happened when up to 2,000 African migrants tried to climb a border wall and dozens were crushed, beaten and denied medical attention by security forces at the Barrio Chino border crossing.

The independent Spanish Commission for Refugees, also known by its Spanish acronym CEAR, ordered authorities to clarify what happened that day for truth, justice and reparations, and demanded the launch of an independent investigation after prosecutors shelved the only state probe into the deaths in December.

This leaves the door wide open for such a tragedy to happen again, endangering the lives of thousands of people seeking refuge, said Estrella Galn, CEARs general director.

Amnesty noted that the families of 76 people who remain missing after the tragedy were still waiting for answers, and that Spain and Morocco both had failed to provide a full list of victims names, or any footage of the tragedy.

Bodies are still lying in a morgue and in graves and efforts to identify the dead and inform their relatives have been blocked, said Amnesty International Secretary General Agns Callamard.

Spains interior ministry has repeatedly denied that any deaths occurred on...

Sean Hazelden was recuperating after an icy morning swim when a tiny figure emerged from the surf and staggered up the beach. It took one step, and another, and fell onto its face. The Esperance resident rushed over, scooping up the skeletal traveller in his arms. "When I went over to pick it up it was really emaciated," he said. The black-and-white bird, crowned with a flourish of yellow feathers over each eye, was a Fiordland crested penguin, one of the world's rarest penguin species. The emaciated penguin had likely been at sea since February or March, and should have been almost 4,000 kilometres away on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island, ready for breeding season.

Sean Hazelden was recuperating after an icy morning swim when a tiny figure emerged from the surf and staggered up the beach. It took one step, and another, and fell onto its face. The Esperance resident rushed over, scooping up the skeletal traveller in his arms. "When I went over to pick it up it was really emaciated," he said. The black-and-white bird, crowned with a flourish of yellow feathers over each eye, was a Fiordland crested penguin, one of the world's rarest penguin species. The emaciated penguin had likely been at sea since February or March, and should have been almost 4,000 kilometres away on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island, ready for breeding season.

By Neenah Payne Stella Assange Addresses Australian National Press Club reported on the visit to Australia by Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, the Australian...

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The Dems

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...

Assessing President Putins big reveal in St. Petersburg in front of the African delegation.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 19, 2023, Patrick talks about the significance of President Putins big reveal in St. Petersburg in front of the African delegation, of how Russia and Ukraine had a draft neutrality treaty, ready on the table in spring of 2022 at peace talks in Istanbul, but Ukraine spiked the deal under pressure from US and UK. Listen:

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Russia and China moving towards a gold-backed currency and BlackRock takes big Bitcoin position.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 20, 2023, Patrick talks with 21WIRE writer and commentator Blake Lovewell, about the new twist for Bitcoin with BlackRock taking a big position on crypto, while Russia and China move to a gold-backed currency something which will rock an already faltering US dollar. Also, amazingly, FTX ponzi scammer and Democratic donor Sam Bankman-Fried managed to avoid additional charges from US justice department. All this and more. Listen:

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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 []

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The war in Ukraine has been a constant source of tension, with moments of fleeting calm shattered by alarming escalations. And lurking in the shadows is the notorious deep state, an enigmatic web of power that allegedly shapes American foreign policy from behind closed doors.

Nuland has just dropped a revelation of seismic proportions. In a video conference with Kyiv, she boldly declared that World War III could ignite on July 11th. Thats right, folks, the countdown to catastrophe has officially begun

WW3 on July 11th 

Reportedly, at a deleted video conference with Kyiv officials, Nuland stated that WWIII will effectively begin on July 11th stating that the US and its partners will fight as long as it takes 16 years or more The scheduled date was chosen to coincide with the NATO Summit, a one-day meeting in Lithuania.

The boldness of Nulands assertion makes one shudder. She considers the United States and its allies locked in a 16-year clash that never ends. And if thats not enough to make you anxious, take into account the fact that this timeline of Nuland falls on the same day as the NATO Summit. It appears as if she wanted to give the proceedings a little theatrical flair.

As the Summit approaches, one cant help but wonder what will be on the agenda. Is it going to be the protection of Europe from the inevitable backlash of this impending war or how many fighter jets will make it to Ukraine unscathed, defying the odds and avoiding mid-air disasters?

Who is Nuland? 

At the center of this geopolitical storm. A question may arise, who is Victoria Nuland? A very straight-faced answer could be, a figure who is apparently more powerful than Biden. A lady as divisive as they come and known for her unwavering support for democratic reforms and closer ties between Ukraine and the West, Nuland has fearlessly challenged the actions of Putin...

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

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...

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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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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...

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...