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Sunday, 04 June
05:30
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Wednesday, 15 March
01:23
U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk's bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks "IndyWatch Feed National"
On at least four occasions since 2019, Elon Musk has predicted that his medical device company, Neuralink, would soon start human trials of a revolutionary brain implant to treat intractable conditions such as paralysis and blindness. Yet the company, founded in 2016, didn't seek permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until early 2022 and the agency rejected the application. Musk has detailed a bold vision for Neuralink: Both disabled and healthy people will pop into neighborhood facilities for speedy surgical insertions of devices with functions ranging from curing obesity, autism, depression or schizophrenia to web-surfing and telepathy. Musk also has said Neuralink would restore full mobility to paralyzed patients. Reuters exclusively reported late last year that the federal government was investigating the company's treatment of its research animals. The probe was launched amid growing employee concern that the company is rushing experiments, causing additional suffering and deaths of pigs, sheep and monkeys. Musk's company ... trails at least one direct rival in the race for FDA approval. Synchron, a competitor making a BCI implant, has won the agency's blessing for human trials. The company first tested its device on four patients in Australia who successfully sent text messages with their minds. Synchron recently raised $75 million, including from funds backed by tech billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
Note: For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on microchip implants from reliable major media sources.
Tuesday, 14 March
18:57
Link "IndyWatch Feed National"
This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Byron Clark [Twitter/Mastodon]. Byron is the author of Fear: New Zealands hostile underworld of extremists (HarperCollins, 2023), which maps New Zealands alt-right underworld and unearths the roots of the occupation that Continue reading
17:26
BUILD THE PEOPLES MOVEMENT FOR PEACE! "IndyWatch Feed National"
A CALL FOR PEACE TRUTH NOT WAR
On 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq
Saturday 5 MARCH 2023 AT 1
PM
State Library Swanston Street Melbourne.
Organised by the 18 March Peace Roundtable Melbourne
Contact: noaukus@gmail.com
Speakers
Dr Margie Beavis: Medical Association for the Prevention of War
Professor Richard Tanter: Nautilus Institute
Dave Sweeney: Australian Conservation Foundation
John Lander: Former Diplomat to China
Shirley Winton: No AUKUs Coalition Victoria/IPAN
David McBride: War Crimes Whistleblower
More speakers at Treasury Gardens after the march.
The post BUILD THE PEOPLES MOVEMENT FOR PEACE! appeared first on The Pen.
15:37
The ugly face of NSW Labor is still in business. "IndyWatch Feed National"
Just in case you were fooled into thinking that NSW Labor was all nice, new, and clean - a quick reminder, people like Laurie Ferguson is still pulling the strings. Far left Laurie is long gone from the shop-front of Australian politics but he still lingers in the back rooms....
15:27
14:19
Vote for Food Scorecard "IndyWatch Feed National"
VOTE FOR FOOD SCORECARD OF MAJOR PARTY POLICIES ON FOOD FOR THE NSW ELECTION The upcoming NSW election will be contested in the context of substantial cost of living rises, extreme weather and continued pandemic recovery. Sustain, Food Fairness Illawarra, Professor Karen Charlton from the University of Wollongong, Australias Right to Food Coalition, Community []
The post Vote for Food Scorecard appeared first on CGA.
13:13
Justice Is Required Exposing The Largest Criminal Case in Australian History "IndyWatch Feed National"
<p>&
Introduction by DM
Insight Truth Media, Julia Starr, brings you an update on The largest criminal case in Australian history (as referred to by the Australian Federal Police (AFP).</p> <p>What do you do when children disclose horrific sexual abuse: COVER IT UP OR PROTECT THEM?</p> <p><strong>Pastor Paul Robert Burton</strong> does an excellent job of explaining the court case Operation Noetic. The AFP / Operation Noetic started when they began constructing a case to criminalise a number of innocent people helping to protect children who had made multiple disclosures of sexual abuse. <span id= "more-35632"></span></p> <p>In the conversation above Paul and Julia get Ann Greer and Patrick ODea on the line.</p> <p>Operation Noetics hearing date set for <strong>March 15th at Brisbane Magistrates Court on George St. </strong></p> <p>BE THERE TO SUPPORT JUSTICE IF YOU ARE ABLE.</p> <p>Case No 1499 of 2021<br> <em>THE KING</em> v PATRICK FINBAR MCGARRY ODEA, WILLIAM<br> RUSSELL MASSINGHAM PRIDGEON, CATHERINE LEE<br> DOUBLEDAY, ANN KATHLEEN GREER, PATRICIA ANN<br> PLAISTED, ARIEL JOSEPHINE JOHNSON and JOYCE EVELYN<br> FAZLDEEN</p> <p>Dr. Russell Pridgeon along with 7 other co-defendants are being prosecuted in a prosecution name Operation Noetic, for trying to protect children from serious sexual abuse. The facts and evidence of the childrens abuse are being denied and hidden from the courts by the AFP and Commonwealth DPP.<br> If you would like to support Dr.Russell Pridgeon and the case, please follow the link below:</p> <p> https://www.paulrobertburton.com/protecting-children-and-grandchildren</p> <p>Socials:<br> t.me/juliastarrinsight</p> <p>The post <a href= "https://gumshoenews.com/justice-is-required-exposing-the-largest-criminal-case-in-australian-history/" rel="nofollow">Justice Is Required Exposing The Largest Criminal Case in Australian History</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gumshoenews.com" rel="nofollow">Gumshoe News</a>.</p>
13:01
A lack of principals - or a confusion of politicians. "IndyWatch Feed National"
Make mine a double thanks Joe.
12:56
Never again response to Covid-19 pandemic profiteering, world figures warn "IndyWatch Feed National"
Tuesday, March 14, 2023: The Peoples Vaccine Alliance issued a letter by 204 eminent global figures on March 11, the third anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO), calling for governments to act in four ways:
- Support a Pandemic Accord at the WHO that embeds equity and human rights in pandemic preparedness and response. To do so, it must commit governments to waive relevant intellectual property rules automatically and ensure the sharing of medical technology and knowledge when a Public Health Emergency of International Concern is declared.
- Invest in scientific innovation and manufacturing capacity in the Global South through projects like the mRNA Technology Transfer Hub established by WHO and partners. Governments, companies, and international institutions should provide political, financial, and technical support to these initiatives to maximise production and supply for all.
- Invest in global common goods. Public funding delivered miracles in the COVID-19 pandemic. But publicly financed medical innovations should be used to maximise the public benefit, not private profits. They should not be locked behind patents. All governments should invest more in public research and development, and place strict requirements for publicly funded medical technologies developing from that investment to be affordable and accessible to everyone, everywhere.
- Remove the intellectual property barriers that prevent knowledge and technology sharing. Governments at the World Trade Organization (WTO) took too long and did too little to address this barrier for COVID-19 vaccines. WTO members should move to approve an intellectual property waiver for COVID-19-related vaccines and extend that decision to cover COVID-19 tests and treatments.
The Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, former first lady of South Africa and Mozambique Graa Machel, former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, are among the signatories who called on governments to never again allow profiteering and nationalism to come before the needs of humanity, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
These current and former presidents and ministers, Nobel laureates, faith leaders, heads of civil society organisations and health experts say Covid-19 vaccines and treatments had been developed with public fun...
12:15
Senator Alex Antic just keeps getting better and better "IndyWatch Feed National"
Thank you Bob for the tip.
11:40
Celia: the left-wing melancholia of Australias forgotten Marxist masterpiece "IndyWatch Feed National"
Ann Turners poignant, eerie Cold War coming-of-age film Celia captures a period in Australian history that is glaringly absent from the national collective memory.
The post Celia: the left-wing melancholia of Australias forgotten Marxist masterpiece appeared first on Overland literary journal.
11:07
The American people have complete confidence in Joe Biden "IndyWatch Feed National"
NOW - Biden: "The banking system is safe." pic.twitter.com/CXR6r6SrNJ Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 13, 2023
09:48
US congress votes against ending occupation of Syria "IndyWatch Feed National"
The following article appeared on the news desk of The Cradle on 9 March 2023. Th ongoing occupation of roughly a third of Syria continues the unjust and illegal occupation of another country by that which sponsored ISIS and other terror groups, and in the name of combatting them. The occupation is really about geopolitical control and access to resources by a nation trying to build its empire. Congress voted against a bill that would put an end to the occupation.
A War Powers Resolution that would have ended the US armys illegal occupation of Syria was struck down late on 8 March by the House of Representatives in a 103-321 vote.
The bill, introduced late last month by Republican Matt Gaetz, garnered the support of 47 Republicans and 56 Democrats including several members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC).
US House votes against occupation troops pull out from Syria
Video from Al Mayadeen English
There is no role for the United States of America in Syria. We are not a Middle Eastern power. We have tried to build a democracy out of sand, blood, and Arab militias. Time and again, the work we do does not reduce chaos. Oftentimes, it causes chaos the very chaos that then subsequently leads to terrorism. While todays vote may have failed, my fight to end forever wars and bring our troops home has only just begun, Gaetz said in a statement following the vote.
We have to also acknowledge Syria and Iraq are the two countries on the planet Earth where we have done the most to fund ISIS. We give weapons to these so-called moderate rebels, Gaetz continued, referring to Washingtons policy to arm rebel groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
...09:04
Seemacht EU "IndyWatch Feed National"
Die Maritime Sicherheitsstrategie der EU
Erstmals verabschiedet hat die EU eine Maritime Sicherheitsstrategie (European Maritime Security Strategy, EUMSS) im Jahr 2014. Zur Begrndung hie es damals, der grere Teil nicht nur des Auen-, sondern auch des Binnenhandels der Union werde auf dem Seeweg abgewickelt. Insbesondere hnge die Energiesicherheit der EU in hohem Ma vom Import von Energietrgern ber die Weltmeere ab.[1] Nicht zuletzt verliefen ber 70 Prozent der EU-Auengrenzen im Meer. Die Sicherheit der maritimen Gewsser bzw. die Sicherung der Seewege seien deshalb fr die EU von grter Bedeutung. Bereits damals hie es, dies gelte grundstzlich global insbesondere fr das Netzwerk der Schifffahrtsrouten zwischen Kontinenten, aber auch fr verschiedene Seegebiete mit spezieller strategischer Bedeutung. Besonders habe die EU die Nord- und die Ostsee, das Mittel- und das Schwarze Meer, die arktischen Gewsser und den Atlantischen Ozean sowie die Outermost Regions (OMR, Gebiete in uerster Randlage) im Blick. Letzteres bezieht sich auf die Gewsser rings um oder vor Territorien etwa in der Karibik oder im Indischen bzw. im Pazifischen Ozean, die von EU-Staaten kontrolliert werden Lnder und Inseln, die die Kolonialmchte einst erobert hatten und die sie bis heute in ihrem Besitz halten.
Im Golf von Guinea
Die neue Maritime Sicherheitsstrategie, die die EU-Kommission und der Auenbeauftragte Josep Borrell am Freitag vorgelegt haben, knpft im Kern an die Version aus dem Jahr 2014 an. So heit es, auch weiterhin msse man zum Beispiel gegen Piraterie, Menschenhandel, Schmuggel von Waffen und Drogen, illegalen Fischfang oder Terrorismus vorgehen; die EU tue dies beispielsweise im Rahmen ihrer Operation Atalanta, mit der sie seit 2008 am Horn von Afrika Piraten bekmpft, oder im Rahmen ihrer Operation Irini, mit der sie seit 2020 das Waffenembargo gegen Libyen durchzusetzen sucht. Auerdem sollen Manahmen wie diejenigen weitergefhrt werden, mit denen die EU im Golf von Guinea ttig ist. Die Region ist seit vielen Jahren von Piraterie betroffen, was die Union insofern trifft, als dort zahllose europische Handelsschiffe kreuzen. Die EU untersttzt jetzt Anrainerstaaten bzw. regionale Organisationen etwa bei der Verbesserung der Hafensicherheit oder auch bei Entwicklung sowie Umsetzung maritimer Sicherheitsstrategien.[2] In der Vergangenheit hat die Deutsche Marine auch schon an Gromanvern im Golf von Guinea teilgenommen, deren Ziel darin bestand, den gemeinsamen Kampf gegen Piraten zu proben.[3]
Strategischer Wettbewerb
Allerdings geht die neue Maritime Sicherheitsstrategie ber die Einsatz- und Operationswelt ihrer Vorgngerin deutlich hinaus. Zum einen zielt sie auf den verstrkten Schutz der eigenen maritimen Infrastruktur ab etwa auf den Schutz von Hfen und Ksteninfrastruktur, von Schiffen, aber auch von Pipelines und Unterseekabeln, und zwar unter explizitem Bezug auf den Ansch...
08:04
NSW Police Falsely Claimed that Violet Coco Blocked an Ambulance "IndyWatch Feed National"
A good cross-section of NSW civil society was appalled when Violet Coco was sentenced to 15 months prison time last December, in relation to her taking part in a Fireproof Australia action that blocked one lane just one lane of the Sydney Harbour Bridge for 25 minutes last April.
During the hearing, NSW police argued that Coco and the three other Fireproof Australia activists conducting the nonviolent direct action to warn of the escalating climate crisis had blocked an ambulance trying to get across this bridge with its lights and sirens on responding to an emergency.
At the time, there had been an uptick in nonviolent climate action in Sydney, much of which involved road blockages, with the chief argument against these protests put by AM radio shock jocks and conservative politicians being they could block an ambulance responding to an emergency.
So, it was quite convenient that an ambulance had been put out by this action, as it served to validate the opposing position, just after the Perrottet government had rolled out its harsh antiprotest laws, while prominent climate defender Violet Coco was putting her liberty on the line.
But on Tuesday, when two fellow Fireproof activists, Alan Glover and Karen Fitz-Gibbon, went before Downing Centre Local Court, the NSW Police Force withdrew its false allegation that an ambulance had been blocked by their Harbour Bridge action, which has clear implications for C...
04:04
Rally The Smile | Donna Crouch | Sisterhood Australia. Pastor Donna Crouch Hillsongs MK (Mind Control) Mistress "IndyWatch Feed National"
Hillsong Pastor Donna Crouch. Uses MK (mind control) techniques and teaches them to all Hillsong churches. A Satanic-like witch. MK techniques are occult techniques used by the Illuminati, Satanists, Occult warlocks and witches. And now by Hillsong mega-church to dumb up the masses and make them give up all their cash.
Donald Elley of Bellingen
00:04
Smartphones haben ja heute echt krasse Kameras dran. ... "IndyWatch Feed National"
Smartphones haben ja heute echt krasse Kameras dran. So mit fettem Zoom, monstrser Auflsung, die schrfen das Bild und entwackeln die Aufnahme, machen mehrere Aufnahmen und rechnen daraus dann eine bessere zurecht.
Oh und nicht zu vergessen: Eine Ebene Machine Learning, die das Bild optimiert!
Leute mit aktuellen Samsung-Handys haben teilweise echt umhauende Bilder vom Mond gemacht. So umhauend, dass der Vorwurf im Raum stand, Samsungs KI klebt da eine hochaufgelste Textur drber, damit die Kamera besser aussieht als sie ist.
Nur beweisen konnte das keiner. Bis jetzt.
Monday, 13 March
23:08
Reading it knotted up my guts with anxiety "IndyWatch Feed National"
My daughter might appreciate this. Shes writing up papers, getting ready for her Ph.D. thesis defense, and trying to raise a four year old, and all I have to contribute isit could be worse.
I dont think she has any mad Australian guardians living next door, unfortunately.
22:51
Who would want this? "IndyWatch Feed National"
Also, where is Ray Comfort getting the money?
Thats a box full of crap you can get for free from LivingWaters/london. Just fill out the form at that link, giving Ray Comfort your address, and he will ship up to ten boxes of his book and Bible tracts about the coronation.
You could have a thousand copies of Rays book and six thousand cheesy tracts delivered to your doorstep, totally free. Unless youre in the UK, EU, Australia, or New Zealand, in which case you dont get the books, just 10,000 cheesy tracts. Or if youre outside those countries, you get nothing, and will have to pick up your free tracts in person in London.
From this I have determined that Canada is truly blessed.
I thought about ordering a box, just to bleed a few drops from the bloated vampiric corpse of Ray Comforts unaccountably rich organization, but decided not to. My reasons: a) its not enough to exsanguinate the parasite, b) it would just encourage him, c) its incredibly wasteful and would just have to be recycled, and d) I dont want to read his stupid book (Ive read enough Comfort to know it will be awful), I dont want his tracts, and I dont need a box of waste paper in my house. The man is giving away free garbage, and that does not appeal.
I still have to wonder, though: does ol Ray have some multi-millionaire sugar daddy? Or does he get so much in donations from a horde of deluded Christians that he can afford these ridiculous give-aways? Does he pay taxes on all of his revenues that he then spends on evangelical nonsense?
By the way, Ray Comfort is very, very excited about the coronationbut hes not going to bother to go himself. He wants his minions to do the humiliating work of distributing his crap to all the people who dont want it in London.
17:19
16:15
Great work from Seeker of Truth on National Indigenous Aust Agency corruption probe "IndyWatch Feed National"
The National Audit Office is having a really close look at NIAA as to Management of Provider Fraud and Non-compliance issues by the entities it deals with. The National Audit Office is due to table its report on 23 April 2023. I imagine it won't be flattering as to NIAA's...
16:12
Night closure of Main Beach carpark for installation of wheel stops "IndyWatch Feed Northcoast"
Byron Bays Main Beach carpark will be closed for two nights on 14-15 March 2023.
The reason for the closure is to allow for the installation of concrete wheel stops in the car parking spaces.
Main Beach carpark is not only a carpark, but it serves as a great place for people to check the surf and take in the spectacular beach vista from the lighthouse right up the coast, James Flockton, Councils Infrastructure Planning Coordinator, said.
At the moment there is no barrier at the end of the car parking spaces that front the ocean, and often drivers are parking over the footpath which is impeding pedestrian access, Mr Flockton said.
Its very tricky for people pushing prams or using mobility devices to navigate the cars.
The wheel stops will stop drivers unknowingly parking on the footpath and it will be a lot safer for pedestrians as well, Mr Flockton said.
The carpark will be closed from 8pm to 3am this Tuesday and Wednesday night.
Electronic signs will be in place advising of the closure.
In keeping with the colourful Byron vibe, the stops will be painted to represent the sand and the ocean so they can be easily seen by walkers and drivers.
The post Night closure of Main Beach carpark for installation of wheel stops appeared first on Byron Bay Blog.
16:03
The Myth of Fair Value "IndyWatch Feed National"
QUESTION: If the metals are not trading at a fair value relative to everything else, then does that not prove they are manipulated?
SN
ANSWER: Your problem is the assumption that everything must be trading at some fair value. That is up there with the theory of random walks. ALL markets trade for periods where they remain well below fair value. That was the entire takeover boom of the 1980s which they also blamed on me because I was advising many of the takeover players. I simply showed these charts back then which show in terms of book value, the Dow Jones bottomed in 1977. The market was grossly undervalued because you could buy a company, sell all its tangible assets, and double or triple your money. Michael Douglas famous speech in that movie about greed would not even be possible if everything always trade like some mythical robot at fair value. Everything overshoots and undershoots.
15:54
Link "IndyWatch Feed National"
J.G. Olsen / Financial Expositor
What is the Crimean War II all about really, how does it end, and how does Australia fit in?
The region is the crossroads of Europe and Asia and this trade route, lately known as One Belt Road has been contested for many centuries. In fact Crimea itself was originally part of the Greek Empire. The original Crimean war was the same clash of empires.
NATO understands it cannot beat Russia, in fact neither side can win in a direct clash. The Crimean acces...
15:28
Questions About You Must Know the Answers To "IndyWatch Feed National"
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15:01
The Metals Are Not Manipulated "IndyWatch Feed National"
COMMENT: Marty; Two former Merrill Lynch traders were each sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday for manipulating the precious metals markets, the US Department of Justice announced. Of course, - , which is forever bullish metals, claims they moved the metals in the direction they wanted from 2008 to 2014. It just seems that people claim it is always manipulation when they have been wrong. They only look at gold in dollars as you have said its a global market. They would have to manipulate all the currencies as well.
This latest affair of so-called manipulating trades during the day proves what you have been saying. They have always been gunning for stops during the day, but they cannot manipulate the trend between a bull or bear market. Do you think people will ever understand this is a global economy?
HD
ANSWER: I know. Unless people have actually been a trader, they will never understand the market. They will blame people like this to pretend they were not wrong. The problem is that this nonsense of manipulation is driving a stake through the heart of the market. Trading is like a poker game. Do you reveal your hand before everyone starts to bet? Sometimes you bluff, but the point is if you are bluffing, you have to stand behind your bet.
The mere fact that someone is blaming this type...
15:00
Australian Dollar and Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"
1.00 AUD = 0.00003 BTC
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14:54
The Nightmare Espionage Act That is Killing Julian Assange and the First Amendment "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
As for Julian Assange, the urgency behind bringing attention to the case is justified. According to Shenkman, We tried to dig through the history to see if a publisher has ever been charged for anything like Julian Assange has been accused of. And the answer is no. This is the first case in U.S. history of its kind. And it would set a precedent that would open the floodgates for prosecuting the press.
https://scheerpost.com/2023/03/03/the-nightmare-espionage-act-that-is-killing-julian-assange-and-the-first-amendment/ by EDITOR March 3, 2023
The use of the century old Espionage Act in the Julian Assange case continues to set the chilling precedent of a bleak future in American journalism, a precedent that endangers even those outside US borders.
arey Shenkman, attorney, author, and litigator specializing in civil and human rights, joins Robert Scheer for this weeks Scheer Intelligence, where Shenkman offers a sobering analysis on one of the most chilling attacks on press freedom exhibited in the Julian Assange case. Using his recently published book, A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press, Shenkman details the history of the Espionage Act and how civil liberties have continued to be eroded as a result of the existence of this law and the lack of revision.
Shenkman talks about the bipartisan disdain towards the Espionage Act in legal circles yet its continued use by bipartisan presidents brings the conversation to its flaws and disreputability: Over the decades, you have folks that are coming out with law review articles saying that its vague, verbose, that it makes no sense, and that ambiguity in the law is being exploited now to go after Julian Assange, to go after government whistleblowers. So there have actually been serious calls for its reform and repeal in recent years. Assange faces 175 years in a U.S. maximum security prison after being indicted with 17 charges relating to the Espionage Act.
...14:50
Ocean discharge is the worst plan for Fukushima waste water IPPNW peace and health blog "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
Japan may soon start dumping radioactively contaminated waste water from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, despite warnings from neighboring countries, marine scientists, and health experts. As soon as within a month or two, Japan could begin dumping into the Pacific Ocean 1.3 million tons of treated but still radioactively contaminated wastewater []
Ocean discharge is the worst plan for Fukushima waste water IPPNW peace and health blog
As soon as within a month or two, Japan could begin dumping into the Pacific Ocean 1.3 million tons of treated but still radioactively contaminated wastewater from the stricken Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant. Construction of the kilometer long undersea discharge tunnel and a complex of pipes feeding it commenced last August.
This cheap and dirty approach of out of sight out of mind and dilution is the solution to pollution belongs in a past century. It ignores the significant transboundary, transgenerational and human rights issues involved in this planned radioactive dumping, projected to continue over the next 40 years.
Concerns about Japans ocean dumping plans have been strongly voiced by China and South Korea, and by numerous Pacific island nations. Multiple UN Special Rapporteurs have severely criticised the plan, which has also been opposed by the United States National Association of Marine Laboratories and many regional and international health and environmental civil society organisations.
Australia bears a particular responsibility in relation to the aftermath of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster, since fuel fabricated with uranium from Australia was in each of the Fukushima reactors which exploded. Yet my letters to the relevant Australian federal ministers on this matter have gone unanswered for seven weeks, and no evidence is publicly available that the Australian government has supported our Pacific neighbours in raising concerns about the planned discharge with its Japanese counterparts.
We are in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30). As Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Secretary-General Henry Puna reminded us in ...
14:36
How does a 'civilised' world tolerate these stone-age barbarians? This is their 'education' minister. "IndyWatch Feed National"
Neda Mohammad Nadim, the Taliban's minister of higher education says, "anyone who weakens the system (Taliban regime), whether through the use of words, pen, or actions, they are all rebels and they must be killed." VIDEO pic.twitter.com/JHhRzSkuIs Natiq Malikzada (@natiqmalikzada) March 12, 2023
14:26
Russian dementia care facilities apparently using Biden in their commercials. "IndyWatch Feed National"
Thank you for the tip Andrew! https://ripleyporch.blogspot.com/2023/03/dementia-story.html
13:37
Community rallies around Feros residents "IndyWatch Feed Northcoast"
11:23
Why do we need Albanese's voice? Aren't 109 separate Aboriginal agencies enough? "IndyWatch Feed National"
Thanks to Bob Hay for this incredible list. The following 109 pages are in this Wikipedia category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A Aboriginal Advancement League Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Services Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts Aboriginal Children's...
11:00
Health Officials Caught Deploying Fear and Staging Coverup "IndyWatch Feed National"
In January 2022, House Oversight Committee Republicans released a batch of emails sent to and from the National Institutes of Health (NIH),1,2,3 showing that scientists in the earliest days of the pandemic strongly suspected SARS-CoV-2 was a genetically engineered virus.
The correspondence also revealed that NIH leaders Dr. Anthony Fauci and then-NIH chief Dr. Francis Collins were nervous about the possibility that they'd funded the creation of this virus and were determined to suppress questions about its origin.
Fauci, Collins and at least 11 scientists convened for a conference call February 1, 2020, during which they discussed the evidence for genetic manipulation. Yet, no more than three days later, by February 4, four of the participants had already drafted a paper titled "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," in which they dismissed the possibility of a lab origin for the virus.
One of the authors of this paper, Kristian Andersen, Ph.D., a professor at Scripps Research, has so far insisted that Fauci did not attempt to influence the working group's conclusions.
In a letter to Sens. James Comer and Jim Jordan, Scripps Research answering questions on Andersen's behalf claimed that Andersen "objectively weighted all the evidence available to him." In a March 5, 2023, memorandum,4,5 the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic laid out evidence showing that this assertion is "demonstrably false."
Fauci and Collins Prompted Creation of 'Proximal Origin'
According to the Select Subcommittee, the evidence available clearly shows that Fauci did indeed prompt Andersen to write "Proximal Origin," and for a specific reason, namely to "disprove" the lab leak theory. "The authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal," the Subcommittee writes.
As noted in the memorandum,6 in a February 8, 2020, email, Andersen stated: "Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory " Furthermore, in a February 12 email to the journal Nature, Andersen openly and clearly admitted Fauci's and Collins' influence:7
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10:43
Why Ill risk arrest in the cause of saving the NSW peoples forests from native forest logging "IndyWatch Feed National"
I HAVE RELUCTANTLY decided to risk arrest by joining a walk into the Yarratt State Forest on March 16, after days working out why. I was 18 the first and only time I did something expecting to be arrested. On October 22, 1977, I joined other students at Queensland University to go to King George []
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Margo Kingston is a retired Australian journalist and climate change activist. She is best known for her stint as Phillip Adams Canberra Babylon contributor and her work at The Sydney Morning Herald and #Webdiary. Since 2012, Kingston has been a citizen journalist, reporting and commenting on Australian politics via Twitter and No Fibs.
10:35
Greens will see anti-protest laws repealed "IndyWatch Feed Northcoast"
If there is one thing that binds the people from all parts of the Northern Rivers community together, it is their great and successful ability to protest yet the current government would see many of the folk who protested at Terania and Bentley, behind bars if those actions happened today.
On Friday the Greens unveiled plans for legislative changes that will unravel the states anti-protest regime and protect the important right to protest in NSW. The announcement comes as environment, climate, and social activists are being targeted by NSW Police and copping harsh, unfair and excessive penalties.
Recent examples of this penalty include: climate activist Deanna Violet Coco sentenced to 15 months prison time for protesting on the Sydney Harbour Bridge; Cherish Kuehlmann arrested in the middle of the night by NSW police for protesting rising costs of living, and; long time forest protester Susie Russell singled out, charged and placed on restrictive...
10:01
The Launching of The Other Great Reset "IndyWatch Feed National"
(Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZZf3gGflk&ab_channel=Redacted)
Introduction by DM
Above, Clayton Morrisons video on World War.
At the end of this short video, Clayton mentions a company searching for gas in Europe to replace Russian gas. And guess who is part of this company? General Wesley Clarke. Amazing how the revolving door works.
In this article on Gumshoe:
Retired General Wesley Clark spent 34 years in the Army, became Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000, received many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He told us in 2007 that the US were planning to destroy the Middle East 7 countries in 5 years. A great tip which he got much praise for in alternative circles. But WHY did he just sit on that intel for six years while the US et al destroyed several of those countries?
Below, an interesting worldview from Clayton and Tucker Carlson (one of the only anti-war mainstream voices) on the role of journalism, political division, and beneficiaries of a rotten system. Tucker talks about the liberation of not lying.
The post The Launching of The Other Great Reset appeared first on Gumshoe News.
09:46
Inquiry shines light on the harmful Centrelink mutual obligation system "IndyWatch Feed National"
Contributed from Queensland
As the Robodebt inquiry rolls on, it not only causes embarrassment to for those politicians who were responsible and the bureaucrats who implemented it, this and other related inquiries are bringing other injustices to light.
The most important of these came by way of ombudsmans office submission into the Senate inquiry into the ParentsNext scheme for single parents, which takes aim against the mutual obligations system. Mutual obligation came into existence years ago. The original purpose was to target the unemployed. It was justified under the claim that recipients of Centrelink payments are somehow doing something wrong.
The system depends on a contractual agreement and imposing penalties for deemed breeches. The effect has been to propagate the accusation that the receiver of a Centrelink benefit is a malingerer trying to live it easy.
Anyone who has experienced not having a proper job and trying to make ends meet will tell you that this is far from being a ticket to an easy life. It is tough living in poverty. To be treated as a third-rate citizen, humiliated, and being forced pass through ongoing and meaningless loops makes it all that much worse.
Cartoon by Megan Herbert
Being under the presumption that you are doing something wrong invites mistreatment. You are always presumed guilty of wrongdoing. Under the system, most will sooner or later have their payment suspended because of often unproven accusations or for not complying. For instance, if you do not turn up for an appointment if you are sick. The same thing will if you happen to be working on that day or attending a job interview. it does not matter whether you inform them of the fact or not.
The mutual obligation system is engineered to be a system of punishment for having the affront to register for Centrelink. The purpose has been to discourage registration, and this has the effect of lowering the numbers and making the government of the day look better.
Making involvement with Centrelink into hell on Earth creates desperate people, who will take on underpaid and substandard working conditions. This suits those who want a cheap labour force to pull down wages and working...
09:00
WATCH: Building Community #SolutionsWatch "IndyWatch Feed National"
The powers-that-shouldnt-be are trying to keep us apart. Divided. Alone in the urban jungle. And so, building community is a way to fight back by constructing something newBut no one said building a community is easy. Join James Corbett for this episode of #SolutionsWatch, as he looks at The Conscious Agora and other examples of
07:04
Election 2023 Lismore: James McKenzie Independent "IndyWatch Feed Northcoast"
James McKenzie is running as an independent in the election later this month and has no intention of taking a seat in the New South Wales Parliament.
What is your big number one issue that youre looking at going into this election?
Running as a candidate to expose that Wollumbin, Arakwal and Bundjalung National Parks are fake and that Bundjalung is a white mans fabrication, Yugambeh in QLD and all the money has been wasted for two fake Nations in the one language group.
Have run for Tweed Shire Council three times to expose these scandals.
Wollumbin was taken as the name of my familys peak and applied as a fake dual name to Mt Warning (Wulambiny Momoli) in 2005, in 2010 I found Bundjalung to be a white mans fabrication.
Premier Bairds counsel sent my complaints to NSW ICAC in 2014, Premier Perrottet has been deceived by his own department, ministers and government about these scand...
06:51
Hiromi Tangos Rainbow in Lismores beating heart "IndyWatch Feed Northcoast"
On Saturday morning Magellan Street, Lismore, came alive with colour at the opening of Lismore Regional Gallerys latest pop-up exhibition Hiromi Hotel: Rainbow.
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02:23
JOHN PILGER: THE BETRAYERS OF JULIAN ASSANGE "IndyWatch Feed National"
MARCH 10TH, 2023 Source John Pilger This is an abridged version of an address by John Pilger in Sydney on 10 March to mark the launch in Australia of Davide Dorminos sculpture of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, Figures of Courage. I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London []
02:05
Guardian legitimises Mohammed el-Kurds blood libel "IndyWatch Feed National"
A storm brewed. Attention turned to the other Palestinian writers on the bill, including Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian poet whose debut collection Rifqa narrates his experience of dispossession in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. The Anti-Defamation League has criticised some of his social media comments as antisemitic, as well as a line in one of his poems: They harvest organs of the martyred, feed their warriors our own.
It shouldnt require the ADL for a Guardian journalist to understand that the accusation of Israel harvest[ing] the organs ofmartyred Palestinians and feeding those organs to their own soldiers is a monstrous, medieval antisemitic blood libel variations of which incited the murder of Jews going back to the Middle Ages. Though the libel began in Norwich in 1144 with the accusation that Jews murder non-Jews and then use the victims blood for Jewish rituals, the blood libel lives on in the sham charges accusing Jews/Zionists of harvesting the organs of their hapless Palestinian victims.
Yet, later in her article, Cain legit...
01:37
Battling Cancel Culture at Adelaide Writers Week "IndyWatch Feed National"
Writing festivals are often tired, stilted affairs, but the 38th Adelaide Writers Week did not promise to be that run-of-the-mill gathering of yawn-inducing, life draining sessions. For one thing, social media vultures and public relations experts, awaiting the next freely explosive remark or unguarded comment, were at hand to stir the pot and exhort cancel culture.
The fuss began with the festival organisers invitation of two Palestinian authors, Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd. Abulhawa was specifically targeted for critical comments on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, notably regarding NATO membership, and for being a mouthpiece of Russian propaganda, while El-Kurd has been singled out for social-media commentary on the Israeli state, calling it sadistic, demonic and a death cult.
Righteously, the South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas showed his less than worldly view on such festivals by insisting on boycotting their talks and presentations. Ever the vote-getting politician, there were those constituents at the Association of Ukrainians in South Australia who had been making noise, notably through their president, Frank Fursenko. We are very concerned that [the festival organisers] are giving a platform to people who are known apologists for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, insisted Fursenko.
Malinauskas even contemplated pulling government funding from the event, something he declared at his address opening Writers Week. (This was also the view of the South Australian opposition leader, David Speirs.) The premier, it should be noted, is less morally troubled when it comes to funding the LIV Golf tournament, backed by the obscurantist journalist-assassinating regime of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
At the very least, he made some concession to maturity: refusing to listen to someones viewpoint also involved surrendering the opportunity to challenge it, much less change their mind. But for all that Abulhawas presence at the Writers Week had to be actively questioned.
The Advertiser was less reserved, barking in childish condemnation and demanding, via a statement from editor Gemma Jone...
Sunday, 12 March
23:03
Branding the Acceptable: Battling Cancel Culture at Adelaide Writers Week - by Dr Binoy Kampmark "IndyWatch Feed National"
Writing festivals are often tired, stilted
affairs, but the 38th Adelaide Writers Week did not promise to
be that run-of-the-mill gathering of yawn-inducing, life draining
sessions. For one thing, social media vultures and public relations
experts, awaiting the next freely explosive remark or unguarded
comment, were at hand to stir the pot and exhort cancel culture.
[This article by Dr Binoy Kampmark was first published March 12
2023 at
https://theaimn.com/branding-the-acceptable-battling-cancel-culture-at-adelaide-writers-week/]
The fuss began with the festival organisers invitation of two
Palestinian authors, Susan Abulhawa and Mohammed El-Kurd. Abulhawa
was specifically targeted for critical comments on Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, notably regarding NATO membership,
and for being a mouthpiece of Russian propaganda, while
El-Kurd has been singled out for
social-media commentary on the Israeli state, calling it sadistic,
demonic and a death cult.
Righteously, the South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas showed his less than worldly view on such festivals by insisting on boycotting their talks and presentations. Ever the vote-getting politician, there were those constituents at the Association of Ukrainians in South Australia who had been making noise, notably through their president, Frank Fursenko. We are very concerned that [the festival organisers] are giving a platform to people who are known apologists for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, insisted Fursenko.
Malinauskas even contemplated pulling government funding from the event, something he declared at his address opening Writers Week. (This was also the view of the South Australian opposition leader, David Speirs.) The premier, it should be noted, is less morally troubled when it comes to funding the LIV Golf tournament, backed b...
21:45
Assange protest outside Attorney General Mark Dreyfus's office (27 Feb 2023) - Video "IndyWatch Feed National"
On March 3, 2023, protesters gathered
outside Mark Dreyfus, the Australian Attorney General's office, to
complain of Dreyfus's failure to object to the British Government's
illegal and cruel imprisonment of heroic Australian citizen, Julian
Assange. March 3 is Assange's birthday. Inside is the text of James
Sinnamon's speech on that occasion.
Text of James Sinnamon's speech (video embedded below)
We are here today outside the office of a local Member of Parliament. Mark Dreyfus. Mark Dreyfus is the Attorney General of Australia, is the highest legal officer in the country.
As the highest legal officer in Australia, he knows full well
that the imprisonment of Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison is
illegal. Julian Assange has 
committed no crime. The only crime he has
committed is through his Wikileaks news service, telling
the world the facts about American crimes - American war crimes -
in countries that they have illegally invaded. Those countries
include Iraq, Syria, Libya Afghanistan, and others. He also has
reported on corruption in the American political system and
corruption in the Australian political system. Through Julian
Assange, citizens of the world know a whole lot more that the US
and the Australian governments would prefer them not to know. That
is why, since 2012, he has been effectively locked up - first of
all in the Ecuadorian Embassy where he had to flee to avoid being
extradited to America. Four years ago, in April 2019, he was
illegally taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy and locked away in
Belmarsh prison. For most of that time, he has been locked away in
solitary confinement.
Julian Assange is guilty of no crime. One crooked judge found Julian Assange guilty of the misdemeanor of skipping bail. Julian Assange skipped bail in 2012 so that he could not be kidnapped and send over to the United States, where they had plans to lock him away in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
His trial, since April 2019, was thoroughly crooked. No jury, no judge, with any decency, would have sentenced Julian Assange, who has committed no crime to be locked away further in solitary confinement. No decent judge, no decent jury, would have ordered Julian Assange be extradited to the United States. Yet that is exactly what happened.
The only way this could have happened was if the trial was overseen by a crooked judge, under the orders of the British government and United States.
Why didnt the Australian government say anyt...
18:07
Make Bellingen a carpark! Pt. 2 "IndyWatch Feed Northcoast"
Make Bellingen a carpark! More roads, wider roads and more parking Pt. 2
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17:00
Australian renewables integration. Part 2 "IndyWatch Feed National"
The authors believe it is most likely that costs will increase significantly and reliability will degrade considerably even if they do a great job of implementing all the planned changes.
The post Australian renewables integration. Part 2 first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
16:59
Video imaging program inspects entire road network "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
WITH their distinctive markings and mounted cameras on the roof, sides and rear, itll be easy to spot the vehicles out assessing the Citys 1045-kilometre network of sealed roads.
The inspection program started last week and uses laser measurements and detailed video imaging to assess the condition of the road network. Carried out every four to five years, it takes three weeks to inspect every council-managed road in the Local Government Area which stretches from stretches from Helensburgh to Windang and Yallah.
Wollongong Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery AM said the community might spot the brightly marked Road Survey vehicles out and about.
The information we gather will enable better management of these important community assets, enabling more effective maintenance and renewal strategies to improve community connectivity, mobility and safety, Cr Bradbery said.
The dat...
15:00
Australian Dollar and Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"
1.00 AUD = 0.00003 BTC
0.00010 BTC = 3.10 AUD
Converter
13:37
Graph Databases Provide a Significant Advantage Over Well-Architected Relational Databases "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
The results of the great DB debate on The Register were announced. Although it was a close-run race, and RDBMS was well ahead at several points during the week before a late surge for graph DBs yesterday. Over 2,000 readers voted. This debate is a part of the current spotlight on databases.
Our first contributor, arguing FOR the motion, was Andy Pavlo, associate professor of databaseology at Carnegie Mellon University. Pavlo's starting point on Monday was that graph DBMSs are "fundamentally flawed and, for most applications, inferior to relational DBMSs."
Jim Webber, Neo4j's chief scientist and a professor of computer science at Newcastle University, arguing AGAINST, said in his rebuttal that he could not back the idea that "relational can do anything" and rejected the assertion that graph databases cannot properly support views and migrations.
Then, on Wednesday, Pavlo threw down the gauntlet, stating that abandoning the relational database model would be akin to "reinventing the wheel." He also doubled down on a public wager he'd previously made that graph databases won't overtake relational databases in 2030 by marketshare. He has promised that if he loses, Pavlo will replace his official CMU photo with one of him wearing a shirt that says "Graph Databases Are #1."
Webber then countered this in his Thursday argument, noting that the pending standard for graphs, GQL, is overseen by the same ISO committee that delivered SQL. If SQL extensions were enough to solve the graph problem, the committee wouldn't have bothered itself, he seemed to be saying. Instead, it decided graphs were different enough to warrant a full query language.
Webber also mentioned: In late 2010, I visited former colleagues at the University of Sydney, Australia. I gave a talk on graph databases and ended it by lightheartedly saying something like, "This technology category is going to catch on. You're going to ignore it for now, but in about a decade you will become interested and start telling us that we've done it all wrong."
Several papers from CIDR 2023 were cited in the discussion.
...
11:00
THE TRUE BETRAYERS OF JULIAN ASSANGE ARE CLOSE TO HOME "IndyWatch Feed National"
08:00
In AUKUS, Navy eyes a full-service submarine garage in Asia-Pacific "IndyWatch Feed National"
The U.S. Navy envisions a submarine hub in Australia from which the service can oversee the entire range of undersea activities in the Asia-Pacific region, from boat production to repairs to missions, service Secretary Carlos del Toro said last month. His comments, made ahead of a major announcement about the U.S.-U.K.-Australian submarine partnership dubbed AUKUS, reveal how Washington views its future relationship with Australia as a key foothold in closer proximity to rival China. Bloomberg reported earlier this week President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are expected to address the way ahead in the pact on March 13 in San Diego, California. With most of the plans for a fleet of nuclear-powered boats for Canberra still up in the air, the U.S. sea service has its eyes on the near-term benefit of being able to base and repair U.S. Virginia-class attack submarines in Australian ports. Del Toro told Defense News last...
Saturday, 11 March
23:00
Missing Ukrainian Girl Rescued From Russian Re-Education Camp "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
KYIV, Ukraine Tetiana Vlaiko feels like an idiot. She is ashamed to speak to WhoWhatWhy about how the Russians took her 11-year-old daughter Lilia to Russian-occupied Crimea. She says that last October, the teachers at her daughters school in Kherson convinced her to send Lilia to what they called a summer camp.
It turned out to be a Russian re-education facility.
All the mothers at the school signed up. Probably, I could have said no, but the teachers kept saying that all kids are going, it is for free, and she will come back in two weeks, said 36-year-old Vlaiko.
Vlaiko said that she initially thought it would be good for her daughter to get away from Kherson for a short period. At the time, the city was under Russian control, and the Ukrainians were fighting to get the city back. Life there was dangerous. Vlaiko says there were rumors of Russian brutality and rape of people on the streets and a constant risk of shelling.
Crimea was (and still is) also under Russian control, but it was safer than Kherson.
Lilia was supposed to be home on October 21. She didnt show up, and neither did any of her classmates.
I called the teachers when I realized she wasnt returning. I tried to find out what was happening, but they didnt answer, said Vlaiko, who explained that some teachers picked up the phone at the beginning and said they didnt know when or if the kids would return.
She told WhoWhatWhy that the school closed for good after the kids were taken.
At one point in late October, Vlaiko and other parents found the schools director, who told them the kids werent returning. She recalls him saying there was nothing he could do about it and that he was planning to leave Kherson and go to another Russian-controlled area. Vlaiko told WhoWhatWhy that he seemed very pro-Russian.
It became clear that they never intended to send my daughter back. I got crazy hysterical and was full of guilt, said Vlaiko.I should never have told her she could go.
She didnt see her daughter again for almost four months.
22:00
Screening for Perinatal Depression: An Effective Intervention, or One That Does More Harm Than Good? "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
Today, pregnant women are regularly asked about their mental wellbeing during their medical checkups, and such questioning continues during their postnatal visits to their pediatricians. The quickest assessment relies on the Whooley questions, a depression screening tool devised by Pfizer in 1993 shortly after its launch of Zoloft. It has just two questions:
During the past month, have you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed or hopeless?
During the past month, have you often been bothered by little interest, or pleasure in doing things?
An answer of yes to one of the two questions yields a positive result requiring further evaluation. If a subsequent assessment determines that the woman is depressed, she may be treated for the condition, even though prior to the screening she might not have self-identified as suffering in this way.
In the United States, such perinatal screening is widely recommended. The American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists (ACOG), the United States Preventative Services Task Force, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) all promote it as an evidence-based practice.
According to the AHRQ, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, it provides a proven benefit: Depression during pregnancy can raise the risk of having a lowbirthweight baby and premature birth. Screening pregnant women for depression enables health professionals to initiate services that can prevent later problems for both the mother and baby.
However, other national task forces, most notably in Canada and the U.K., have come to an opposite conclusion about the merits of perinatal screening. The U.K. National Screening Committee concluded in its 2019 review that there was not enough evidence that such screening programmes were of benefit to women and children, and that, in fact, they could do harm. False positives could lead to unnecessary treatment, and even if the screening correctly identified [women] with mental health problems, it could prove harmful to the majority, the committee wrote.......
21:00
HOA Foreclosures Are a Lose-Lose Game for Coloradans, but These Lawyers Win Regardless of the Outcome "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
This article was produced for ProPublicas Local Reporting Network in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
Karl Paymah was on the clock.
A certified letter from the Rock Ridge Condominium Association in the Denver suburb of Aurora said he had 30 days to pay $1,515.45 in unpaid homeowners association dues and penalties or face foreclosure.
After receiving the letter on Dec. 23, 2021, Paymah said he tried to pay the balance through the HOAs website, as he had done in the past. But his account had been locked because it was turned over to the HOAs collections attorney, Tammy Alcock. Next, he called Rock Ridges management company, which he said told him to discuss the matter with Alcock. But there was no answer when he called her office three times that afternoon. The office of Alcock Law Group was closed for the holiday.
I cant pay. I cant pay through the portal. I cant pay with the management company. I cant pay with this attorney that theyre telling me to go through, Paymah, a retired NFL cornerback, recalled thinking. So Im just sitting there.
Watch Rocky Mountain PBSs Report (Jeremy Moore/Rocky Mountain PBS)Turning the account over to Alcock meant that the association was asserting its right under Colorado law to charge him for the attorney fees it was incurring, causing his debt to grow rapidly.
By early February, when Rock Ridge began moving forward with foreclosure, the legal process of taking the home from its owner, Paymahs debt had more than tripled to about $5,000, mostly because of legal costs.
Paymahs experience is a case study in how even a small dispute can quickly escalate into an expensive legal fight in Colorado, where state law empowers HOAs to initiate foreclosure proceedings against homeowners who owe money to them. As Rocky Mountain PBS and ProPublica have reported,...
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16:01
Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? Heres why the answer is political, social, scientific, and complex "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic three years ago today, but experts disagree about how and when pandemics end.
Its been three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. So we know when the pandemic officially began. But what must happen for it to officially end? Who even makes the call?
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13:37
That Time a Homeless Womans Prayer was Answered "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
Ive written about B before. Shes a homeless woman I knew through my project. But heres a little reminder of her backstory:
B lost both her legs in a subway accident. When I met her, she was living in a medical homeless shelter and panhandling daily in a wheelchair. B has four kids who, for a while, were living with her ex. It was not a good scenario. Very long story short: The State eventually took the kids away from him and temporarily placed them with Bs mother.
As I got to know B, I genuinely cared for her as a friend. We both looked forward to chatting whenever Id bring packages full of supplies geared to fit her specific needs. I bore witness to Bs journey and encouraged her as she dealt with mean-spirited passers-by and with a mountain of obstacles, e.g. housing, child services, medical bureaucracy, lawyers, etc.
Theres one story about her I havent yet shared, so here goes
12:47
Public Meeting Sunday 19th March: Can War be avoided or will Peace be shattered? "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
SUNDAY, 19th March, 5pm,
Marrickville Town Hall, Marrickville Rd, Marrickville,NSW.
You can join the meeting virtually livestream via the
Marrickville Peace Group Facebook. Speakers: Bob Carr, David
Shoebridge, Alison Broinowski, Lawrence Wilkerson. IPAN supports
this event.
Our March 19 event will be live streamed through the
Marrickville Peace Group Facebook page:- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090778261493
If people go to the page at the scheduled time (4.30pm AEDT), the
live stream will 'pop up'.
Speakers:
Prof. Bob Carr (former NSW Premier and
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs)
Senator David Shoebridge (NSW Greens
Senator)
Dr Alison Broinowski (President of
Australians for War Powers Reform)
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (assistant to US
Secretary of State, Colin Powell, in 2003)
Mary Kostakidis has agreed to act as
facilitator.
SUNDAY, 19th March, 5pm
Marrickville Town Hall, Marrickville Rd, Marrickville,NSW
FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/127716069995207/?ref=newsfeed
Topic:
07:37
Tale of Two Workers "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
What are workers? Are they human beings? Do they
have only a bundle of muscles but, no brains? How do they feel and
how do they think? Do they think at all? What do they face in their
life in factories, in foundries and other shops, in assembly lines,
in unions?
Workers answers to the questions above differ from the response the workers masters present. The factor that draws the delineating line is, in short, class position, which is often blurred while discussing issues of life and work, be it related to workplace or economic program, politics or social initiatives, charity, cooperative, ideology or culture.
Michael D. Yates, a labor organizer, discusses this issue in the chapter 1, Take this job and of his recently released book Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle (Monthly Review Press, New York, 2022). The professor of labor economics begins the chapter with a statement, simple or complicated:
It would be astonishing if the more than 150 million child laborers in the world were happily employed. Or if the 800 million farmworkers globally were content with their circumstances.
The mainstream investigates: Child laborers happiness with employment? Isnt it an invalid question? The system takes away happiness of childhood from millions of children, and then, searches whether or not the child workers are happy? The system shackles millions of farmworkers into bondage, and then, searches whether or not the farmworkers are happy? The system enslaves millions of workers into a life without humane condition, and then, surveys whether or not the workers are content with their life? Isnt it a mockery by the system and its scholarship? Isnt it a crude trick to hide the systems cruelty and its scholarships identity in the payroll of the system?
Michael Yates tells about two workers: his father and Ben Hamper, author of Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line (Warner Books, New York, 1991): Both spent good portions of their lives as factory workers, my father in a glassworks and Ben Hamper in an auto plant.
The description goes further: Both became factory workers because it was almost predetermined that they would. All their relatives and friends were factory hands.
Predetermined the powerful process or factor that determines the lives of millions of toilers in the world system of...
06:52
Matt Hancock is a monkey. But who was the organ grinder? "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
I find the Daily Telegraph's 'Lockdown Files' revelations about Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages simultaneously reassuring and disturbing. Reassuring, because over the many months I analysed Covid related data for Lockdown Sceptics (as this site was then called) I often had periods of self-doubt. Official announcements by politicians and senior civil servants were so discordant with publicly available information, I assumed I must be missing something, or misinterpreting the figures. Worse, I worried about inadvertently misleading our readership. Recent revelations suggest that my analyses were roughly correct - I'm not claiming any credit because the answers were hiding in plain sight. Anyone with a modicum of common sense and a basic training in biological sciences could have seen it - and many did. On the other hand, the message trails are disturbing for what they tell us about the nature of decision making in government. It is easy to be misled by taking Hancock's adolescent...
06:23
OpenAI president: Our mistake was definitely just being slow to respond "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
Greg Brockman, cofounder of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, talks with Fast Company about criticisms over political bias, and the most exciting developments in AI.
Its been four months since OpenAI debuted its chatbot, ChatGPT, and so far the hype train shows no sign of slowing down. These days everyone from teachers to journalists to HR departments are experimenting with generative AI. But theres also been a wave of criticism over the tech, including some calling out the chatbot for generating answers with political biases.
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01:44
Solar Mitigation Battleground "IndyWatch Feed Nsw"
A battle over how to protect the planet from overheating is heating up.
Academics are coming out of the woodwork, forming coalitions, issuing declarations. A subdued debate over the merits versus demerits of solar geoengineering (SRM) has been ongoing for years. Now battle lines are forming.
The SRM controversy is coming to a head, in part, because of a small two-person startup company named Make Sunsets launching weather balloons filled with reflective sulfur particles off the coast of Baja, California with the bold idea of testing whether it is realistic to reflect sun radiation back to outer space and thus help prevent overheating of the planet. Interestingly, they expect to profit by selling credits. As such, Make Sunsets has become a bit of a renegade actor serving as an unwelcomed catalyst for academics to come to grips with the issue. But looked at from another angle, its a welcomed catalyst for an issue that must be sorted out as soon as possible, regardless of Make Sunsets presence.
After all, the White House has already directed a study of SRM (solar radiation management). On October 13, 2022 the White House announced funding of a five-year research plan: One of the most controversial plans to fight climate change, utilizing technology to artificially modify the planets climate or in plain English geo-engineering by spraying fine aerosols into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight away.
The White House Request for Input to a Five-Year Plan for Research on Climate Intervention itemized, as follows: The report shall include: (1) the definition of goals in relevant areas of scientific research; (2) capabilities required to model, analyze, observe, and monitor atmospheric composition; (3) climate impacts and the Earths radiation budget; and (4) the coordination of Federal research and investments to deliver this assessment to manage near-term climate risk and research in climate intervention.
Obviously, Make Sunsets has jumped the gun and rattled several significant cages, especially in the face of unanswered questions about the risks of artificially tinkering with the climate system. But, then again, is geo-engineering a by-product of fossil fuel CO2 emissions, even if not by design? If yes, it implies that fossil fuel CO2 unintentional geo-engineering should be viewed as the direct opposite of SRM. CO2 traps heat. SRM reflects heat. This would mean that fossil fuel-generated CO2 emissions demonstrate what geo-engineering can accomplish, which is an enormous planetary headache, if misdirected.
In 2021, in Sweden, Harvard Universitys outdoor Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment was halted on the spot by opposition forces. Their experiment was only aiming to test the behavior of stratospheric aerosols. Harvards failed attempt is a prime example of SRMs steep uphill battle to establish credibility.
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