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The much publicised case of fox News v Dominion Voting Systems in the United States has been settled outside the court for a payment of $US787.5 million. Fox News, and this means Rupert Murdoch have escaped punishment for spreading the lies that Donald Trump really won the 2020 presidential election and that this was due to massive electoral fraud.

Fox as good as admitted guilt when in its statement it said, we acknowledge the court rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false, adding we are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.

The bottom line is that Fox, and therefore Murdoch, have paid to avoid justice. Who says money doesnt talk? Murdoch has paid for silence. Dominion walks away with the cash.  

One of Dominions lawyers put this down to money is accountability, and in doing so, underlined the truth about American democracy style and the market. Everything is for sale.

Fox has an estimated value of an  estimated value around $US17 billion. The payment handed over for the settlement is hardly a punishment. Justice is a commodity to be bought and sold. Dominion has been compensated. At the expense of selling out the American nation, which had the most rising on this case.

Despite admitting culpability, Murdoch wont have to face the prospect of public disclosure of damaging evidence.

There was not even the pretence of an apology from Fox. Tucker Carlson might have been given his marching orders. He has been merely a pawn piece in the Murdoch game, easily sacrificed. It does not mean that the reporting style, with the constant use of distortions and outright lies wont continue as before. It will.

Mudochs media has said almost nothing about the case.

Other cases are pending. Another election technology company has lodged its own claim. This is Smartmatic. It is seeking $US2.7 billion in damages. There will probably be another out of court settlement. Another case by Fox investors is about access to...

When it comes to recycling, most of us want to do the right thing. While the majority of Australians are more than well-practised in how to recycle, there are still plenty of commonly made mistakes that stop tonnes of packaging from being turned into new products every single year.

With so many different products at the tip of our fingertips with all different types of packaging, keeping up with the proper protocols can be overwhelming to say the least. Below, well explore what so many of us are getting wrong when it comes to recycling properly and what you can do to correct your mistakes.

1. Recycling Items Still Contaminated with Food
   
   Food packaging needs to be clean when its placed into the recycling bin, which means putting a bit of extra time to rinse and wash your recyclables before you dispose of them. Unfortunately, if you put food packaging that still contains food into the recycling, entire shipping containers of recyclables can end up being rejected and sent to landfills instead.

   This is because food waste attracts pests and insects, and recycling centres dont have the means to look through tonnes of recyclable waste to find the root of the problem. If you cant remove the food from the packaging, simply place it in the general waste bin as it will most likely be rejected anyway. If you really want to recycle it, you can tear off the areas that arent contaminated and place them in the recycling bin and leave the rest for your general waste.

2. Not Sorting Waste Properly
   
   Sorting your waste makes recycling more efficient and effective, making it easier for recycling facilities to keep as much waste as possible out of landfills. In many local councils, they would have provided you with two recycling bins one for glass and one for paper, cardboard, aluminium and plastic bottles and food containers.

   If youre a business owner, you can hire a number of different recycling bins to make it easier than ever for your staff and clients to recycle properly, and ensure that none of it ends up in landfills.

3. Putting Recycling Items in Plastic Bags
   
   Another commonly made mistake is people placing all of their recycling into a plastic bag and then placing it in their recycling bin. Plastic bags cannot be recycled with waste inside of them, even eco-friendly, biodegradable and recyclable ones. This is because plastic bags can damage the equipment by getting caught in the machines at recycling centres, and they pose a hazard to the employees who cannot see whats inside of them.

   Instead, all your recyclables need to be placed in recycling bins freely. If you have recyclable plastic bags you want to keep out of landfills,...

The ABC really is a fools paradise. Every under-performing, self absorbed bum gets a substantial pay rise. You have to feel for the small group who actually do pull their weight. The Australian reports: Thousands of ABC employees will receive an 11 per cent pay rise and $1500 bonus after...

The Human Rights Law Centre, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and Migrant Workers Centre will today appear before the Joint Standing Committee on Migration calling for Australias migration laws to centre the rights of people over punitive politics and economic profit.

Currently thousands of people across Australia are denied the basic right to live in safety, reunite with their partner and be a parent to their children. People are stuck on dead-end visas, with no way to make a permanent home in Australia. Predatory bosses exploit this uncertainty to get away with stealing the wages of workers, threatening people with visa cancellation and deportation.

With the Albanese Government poised to act on its once in a generation migration review, we are calling for:

• An ending to permanently temporary visa status, by abolishing dead-end skilled visa pathways and walking back the visa cancellation framework;

• The abolition of Fast Track processing and permanent pathways for people subject to it;

• Evacuation of people seeking asylum still held in Nauru and Papua New Guinea to Australia and permanent resettlement pathways for all those subjected to offshore detention;

• Equal protections for migrant workers to take action on exploitation;

• An end to deliberate family separation in migration and asylum laws.

The Albanese Government must end discrimination against people based on their visa status or how they arrived in the country. We must make sure that everyone who comes to Australia seeking a better life has a clear pathway to settle down, no matter what visa they hold.

Quotes attributed to Sanmati Verma, Managing Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre:

Successive Australian government have treated migration as an extension of their economic policy, and people who migrate as nothing more than sources of skill, talent and labour for the rest of the community. That has led to a migration and asylum system based on uncertainty and insecurity.

It is common for people to live in Australia for ten years without permanent residency, or a clear pathway towards it.

The Albanese Government must stop discrimination against people based on their visa status or how they arrived in the country. The principle that a persons membership of the community should be reflected in their status and entitlements must be reintroduced to the migration system, and all people, irrespective of status, must be entitled to equal protection.

Quotes attributed to Hannah Dickinson, Principal Solicitor at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre: 

The Albanese Government has a unique opportunity to build a fair, effective, properly resourced migration system th......

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In February at a local RSL club on Sydneys Northern Beaches, Voices of Mackellar hosted what we hope will be the first of a series of Q & As to engage more residents to participate in their democracy. The guest of the inaugural event was Federal MP Dr. Sophie Scamps with the focus on learning []

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The Andrews government has today announced its intention to raise the age of criminal responsibility to only 12 years old. Keeping the age of criminal responsibility as low as 12 is a failure by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes for the children locked up behind bars, and the children who will be exposed to the criminal legal system.

Raising the age to 14 with no exceptions, is the absolute bare minimum reform the Andrews Government must make now. The Governments commitment to consider raising the age to 14 by 2027 is too little, too late, and risks exposing an entire generation of children to the quicksand of the criminal legal system.

The Andrews Government has faced significant pressure for maintaining the age of criminal responsibility at 10. Key government ministers and high-ranking bureaucrats are expected to be  giving evidence before the Yoorrook Justice Commission this week with critical law reform like raising the age of criminal responsibility set squarely on the agenda. 

The Yoorrook Justice Commission recommended immediately raising the age to 14, but instead the Andrews Government is upholding laws that will keep First Nations kids overrepresented in the criminal legal system.

No 12 year old child should grow up in prison.

Twelve and 13-year-olds should be finishing primary school and starting high school. They should be in our schoolyards and with their families, not locked up behind bars. Prison has devastating and lifelong impacts on childrens and young peoples health, development, mental health and wellbeing.

Evidence shows that the earlier a child is locked up in jail, the more the child is at risk of being entrenched in the justice system and re-offending later in life. 

Instead of locking up kids in prison, Premier Andrews and the Victorian Government should fund community-led solutions which keep the community safe and have better outcomes for children.

Cheryl Axleby, Co-Chair, Change the Record: 

"The Victorian Government announcement to increase the age of criminal responsibility to 12 will not make any real difference to the already high and unacceptable rates of Aboriginal youth overrepresentation in the legal system.

We advocate strongly that all state and territory governments commit to raising the age to 14, particularly as the Federal government has committed $81.5 million to justice reinvestment. There is now no excuse whatsoever why all state and territory governments do not now support Aboriginal-led designed and delivery of culturally responsive diversionary programs to break the intergenerational cycle of incarceration for our younger generations."

Quotes from Amala Ramarathinam, Acting Managing Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre:  

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Above, Dave from X22 gives a fair summary of what has and is unfolding about the departure of Tucker Carlson and the stolen election; plus the take-over of the US government. One has to wonder whether the whole Dominion lawsuit is a sham and that no money will be exchanged. Or was the removal of Tucker the exchange? <span id= "more-36283"></span></p> <p>Below, Redacted with Clayton Morris:</p> <p>The post <a href= "https://gumshoenews.com/information-warfare-and-tucking-the-truth-away/" rel="nofollow">Information Warfare and Tucking the Truth Away</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gumshoenews.com" rel= "nofollow">Gumshoe News</a>.</p>

Thank you to those readers who've brought this article to our attention. This is from The Gateway Pundit: The New York Post has more details on the charges: A man, 23, was charged with intentionally endangering the safety of others, aggravated assault, damage to property, disorderly behavior in a public...

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So he went [and at the] summit, even Clancy took a pull,
It well might make the boldest hold their breath,
The wild hop scrub grew thickly, and the hidden ground was full
Of wombat holes, and any slip was death.
And the man from Snowy River never shifted in his seat
It was grand to see that mountain horseman ride.
He sent the flint stones flying, but the pony kept his feet,
He cleared the fallen timber in his stride.

Then they lost him for a moment, where two mountain gullies met
In the ranges, but a final glimpse reveals
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Better not knock on the wrong door or drive into the wrong driveway, you may get shot. Kids are afraid to go to school for fear of getting killed, as the body count from mass shootings climbs every day. Hate crimes are increasing, and just driving to work is potentially dangerous. Think of tailgaters honking their horns and flipping you the bird as they speed past. Politicians address these issues by calling for gun safety legislation, increasing the number of police, and so on. But these policy responses accept the existence of aggressive behavior as a given and only treat the symptoms. The jugular question focuses on why people are becoming increasingly more violent and aggressive in the first place. We think Herbert Marcuses analysis of the relationship between late capitalism and the human psyche provides a good tool to answer this question.

Marcuse claims that the United States is a sick society, sick because its basic institutions and structures do not permit the use of available material and intellectual resources for the optimal development and satisfaction of individual needs. In other words, Marcuse saw that late capitalism possessed the material potential for people to enjoy much more freedom from want and work than they realized, but capitalism would never permit the fulfillment of this freedom because it would threaten the privilege and power of its ruling class. He calls this disparity between the potential for free human development and the constrained conditions of society surplus repression. In late capitalist society surplus repression is so strong and prevalent that social stability necessitates the opening of the human psyche for manipulation and control, thus creating human automatons, one-dimensional beings incapable of critical thought. This invasion of the mind, he argues, is not a conspiracy. Its rooted in the very structure of power in an advanced consumer capitalist society.

The objective of late capitalism to negate consciousness of the rupture between the individual and the societal imposed mode of existence has implications for the human psyche. Marcuse assumes the validity of Freuds concepts of Eros the life instinct and Thanatos the death instinct to explain how the structures of late capitalism breed aggressive behaviors. In arresting the development of human potential, late capitalism stifles Eros and fortifies Thanatos, he claims. This dynamic, he argues, creates destructive energy that is socially useful not only to maintain but to reproduce the dominant system of economic, political, and technological power. In short, the ascendancy of Thanatos creates the aggressive psyches necessary for the stability of late capitalism. The abundance of goods and services available provides almost unlimited opportunities for consumers to buy goods that reproduce the system of domination and create an endless supply of aggressive human beings. In other words, in a supposed exercise of freedom.....

Crypto exchange Coinbase has sued the SEC, demanding the agency clarify whether existing securities laws apply to digital assets. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

The FBI isn't giving House Republicans any answers on the agency's alleged retaliation against whistleblowers.

The National Citizens Inquiry is a citizen-led and citizen-funded initiative that is hearing testimony from Canadians and experts examining the nature, the legality and the effects of the Canadian governments' COVID mandates and restrictions.  Today James talks to the volunteer-run inquiry's volunteer communications director, Michelle Leduc Catlin, about the inquiry itself, what it is seeking to accomplish and how Canadians (and people around the world) can support it in its endeavours.

Contracting a builder to tackle your home renovation can be a daunting task, and theres a lot at stake if you make the wrong decision. After all, youll be spending a significant amount of time collaborating, working with and seeing your chosen renovation builder, and its up to them to deliver a renovation that meets (and hopefully exceeds) your standards.

Thats why its so important that you select someone with the experience, ability and people skills to get the job done right and deliver on your expectations.

So how do you make sure of this?

Asking the right questions will help you weed out the pretenders and give you the ultimate peace of mind that youve found a builder you can trust. Here are 5 questions to ask any potential builder before signing that all-important contract.

How many Renovations have they completed?

This is the most obvious question to start with, as you have to make sure your builder is experienced in not only renovations in general but the specific type of project youre envisioning. Although you might think that all renovation work is the same, there are actually key differences in certain types of renovations and key elements that youll want them to have expertise in.

For example, if you want to carry out renovations on a semi-detached home that involves structural changes, youll want a builder that has experience in this kind of job and has an understanding of the laws and restrictions that apply to it. Renovation builders can demonstrate their experience through an extensive and in-depth track record of past works.

Can they provide testimonials from past clients?

Any good builder should have no problem providing a number of testimonials from past clients, demonstrating their satisfaction and the hard work and dedication of their builder. Make sure that these testimonials include recent works and not just ones from years ago, and try to see some from renovations that are similar to what youre planning.

If possible, try to talk to at least some of these clients directly to validify their statements and how genuine they are.

Can they show you their Builders Licence?

In Australia, the various states and territories have different laws regarding registered building practitioners and the type of work they can or cannot perform. In Victoria, for example, all building work with a cost of more than $10000 must be performed by a registered builder whos been approved by the Victorian Building Authority (VBA). Before signing with any builder, make sure that theyre registered and that their registration wont expire anytime near your estimated completion date.

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Whenever the topic of UFOs and Aliens is raised during recent times the responses are as fascinating as they are predictable. For quite a few such fanciful prattle is pure fictional nonsense espoused by the gullible and deceitful, while for even more there are varying degrees of acceptance that often spills over into unquestioning reverence. For some they are technologically advanced devils<strong>,</strong> others see them as being angelic and for many they see nothing at all. The reality is every reaction has nothing to do with the evidence accumulated by each person, but is all about their free will.</p> <p>                 Of course, when it comes to an indistinct object moving in the sky, there is some room to negotiate as to whether it is a planet, frisbee thrown in the air, weather balloon, drone, swamp gas, secret flying object made by humans, due to photo-shopping or tricks of the light are all permanent and extremely convenient offerings. But none of these as on top excuses are applicable to what has been found so below in the earth. None of the archaeology presented moves through the air as all are stationary and still and in every case exhibit either solid evidence or Original testimonies that is beyond the capaciti...</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div>

Remember when ANZAC Day was a day of unity? This so-called Prime Minister has decided its time to divide us. The sick left will stop at nothing.

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A wonderful service. Congratulations to the Australian Government and The Australian Army, brilliantly done. Lest We Forget.

Every year its the same, where the nation stops to commemorate the perils of war, right?

Nope!

Only a few hours are set aside, an inconvenience to those who are at the lowest level of Maslows Hierarchy of Needs.

After all thats what Australia is all about, the economy.

Got to keep those mice turning that wheel perpetually.

You, the corporate fodder (or more appropriately known as consumers) have to keep spending, to keep the economy going, their economy.

Youre told not to hoard (old terminology; save up) cash in order to purchase a television or vehicle, but rather get a loan for it to keep the banks and financial institutions profiteering from usury (refer to the Statute of the Jewry) on the fruits of your labour, a modern day accepted form of slavery.

But isnt hoarding what the global elite do? 

They amass vast sums of cash, lock up art in private collections, and even keep stolen artefacts from their thieving ways, the British monarchy as just one example.

Whats not important on ANZAC Day?

For you to know that what is known as World War I, was actually a cousins war, where the offspring of the serfs were seen as cannon fodder and thus put in their appropriate use case scenario for the entertainment and financial gain of the global elite.

True sociopaths are in control.

Whats more disgusting is that people accept this, but then again, the majority of people are not supposed to think.

Humberside Police: Mysterious Encounter

• an In My View article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the curious case of an unspecified offence, at an unspecified location and two mysteriously disappearing bobbies.

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A retired Hull Daily Mail journalist, author and CAB operative has been the victim of a curious intervention by two purported (but unidentifiable) members of the Humberside Police.

Mid-afternoon on 5th February 2023, Mr Steve ANDERSON was visited at his home by two uniformed females giving the appearance of being a Police Constable and a Support Officer, or CPSO. Interviewing Mr ANDERSON (72), the two officers questioned him in connection with an alleged incident which had apparently taken place during the afternoon of 20th January 2023 and been reported by a schoolboy.

Allegedly, a man answering Mr ANDERSONs description had been seen flailing his arms about and looking through the window of a house in the approximate vicinity of the pharmacy/surgery in Holme-on-Spalding-Moor.

The officers claimed that video-footage had been recovered from a door-bell camera. But, when pressed, the officers said they had (a) not seen the video, (b) spoken to any person filing a complaint, or (c) spoken to anyone else with any knowledge of  the incident.

They were also unable to identify (d) the nature of the alleged offence, or (e) the precise location of the alleged incident. They did not know much. But they did say the suspect had possibly been standing in someones garden.

Mr ANDERSON told the Enquirer:

I told them the claims were ridiculous and that, although I had been near the pharmacy that day, it was before lunch and I had been talking to a friend outside while waiting for my wife to collect a prescription. As for flailing my arms around, it was still frosty and I would certainly have been animated in an effort to get warm. And noI was not in anyones garden at any time.

Mr ANDERSON said neither of the officers offered ID not even a business card but one did promise to telephone him with any updates. When no progress report was forthcoming, Mr ANDERSON complained to the Professional Standards Department of the Humberside Police.

The Police Act 1996 states, at s.90:

90 Impersonation, etc.

(1) Any person who with intent to deceive impersonates a member of a police force or special constable, or makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that h...

Im Dienst von US-Interessen

Um die Folgen eines etwaigen Krieges gegen China fr das eigene Land in den Blick zu nehmen, hat krzlich die Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australiens ffentlich-rechtliche Rundfunkgesellschaft, vier erfahrene Insider befragt, die im Lauf ihrer Karriere jeweils Fhrungspositionen in den politisch-militrischen Hierarchien des Landes innehatten, an militrischen Operationen beteiligt waren und Einsicht in Papiere smtlicher Geheimhaltungsstufen nehmen konnten. Es handelt sich um Professor Hugh White, einen ehemaligen stellvertretenden Staatssekretr fr Strategie und Geheimdienste im Verteidigungsministerium; Admiral Chris Barrie, 1998 bis 2002 Oberbefehlshaber der Streitkrfte; Allan Behm, einst Leiter der Abteilungen fr Internationale Politik und Strategie im Verteidigungsministerium; und Professor Clinton Fernandes, Ex-Militrgeheimdienstler. Alle vier sind fest berzeugt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten im Fall eines Krieges gegen China auf einer Beteiligung Australiens bestnden und dass sich die Regierung in Canberra dem nicht entziehen werde. Behm beklagt ausdrcklich eine fundamentale strategische Pathologie des australischen Establishments, US-Interessen auf Kosten unserer eigenen Interessen zu untersttzen.[1]

Bestenfalls ein militrisches Patt

Alle vier von der ABC befragten Experten stimmen zudem darin berein, dass die Vereinigten Staaten einen Krieg gegen China nicht gewinnen knnen. Das deckt sich mit den Resultaten zwar nicht aller, aber doch einer Mehrheit der sogenannten war games in den USA, bei denen Denkfabriken, Regierungsmitarbeiter und Militrs konkrete Kriegsszenarien durchdeklinieren.[2] Die Experten weisen darauf hin, dass sowohl die USA als auch China ber immense High-Tech-Militrapparate verfgen. Haben die US-Streitkrfte im Gegensatz zu den chinesischen umfangreiche Erfahrung mit dem Fhren von Kriegen, so knnen die chinesischen Streitkrfte daraus Vorteile ziehen, dass sie auf oder nahe dem eigenen Territorium kmpfen mssten, whrend die US-Truppen riesige Nachschubwege ber den Pazifik zu bewltigen htten. Kme es zu einem Abnutzungskrieg wie in der Ukraine, knnte China zudem auf seine erheblich greren Streitkrfte setzen. White urteilt, er sehe keine glaubwrdige Chance fr Amerika, einen Krieg mit China um Taiwan zu gewinnen. Behm differenziert dahingehend, dass er im Fall eines Krieges, der in den nchsten fnf bis zehn Jahren begnne, als bestes Szenario fr die USA ein Patt prognostiziert, whrend er mit Blick auf Chinas rasante Aufrstung urteilt, nach 2035 sei ein chinesischer Sieg ber die USA das wahrscheinlichere Ergebnis.

Dramatische Verluste

Was die konkreten Kriegsszenarien anbelangt, sind sich die Experten uneinig. Whrend White davon ausgeht, ein Waffengang zwischen den USA und China werde sich vorrangig auf See abspielen, rechnet etwa Fernandes eher damit, dass China Taiwan blockieren knne; die....

The incident allegedly occurred on March 3, when a trans-identifying male high school student showered naked in front of four female freshmen.

CBS News became the latest legacy outlet to come to Jan. 6 agitator Ray Epps' defense Sunday night on '60 Minutes.'

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Binance released a new AI-driven tool it named the Binance Sensei that uses machine learning to generate answers from its education platform to help users learn about Web3.

He was always a step ahead, his mind geared not only for the next move, but the next sequence. He also smelt it, anticipated the audience reaction, shaped the prejudice in context for consumption. and enraged audiences with his polymathic, panoramic reach.

The genius of the late Barry Humphries first took root in Britain, along with a flowing of other Australian expatriates who had made Blighty their home. It became evident in Britains most famous, remorseless panner of reputation and issue, the satirical magazine Private Eye, that weedkiller of inflated reputations. There, another genius of comedy, Peter Cook, understood a kindred spirit. At Cooks suggestion, Humphries ran a comic strip that made him famous and eventually found celluloid expression: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie.

The reception of the comic strip in Australia, with its slang-fluent, rough protagonist stomping through the Mother Country, was a foretaste of things to come. Compiled in three book collections, the first two were banned by the Customs Department under the Customs Prohibited Import Regulations. The silly justification was section 4A, which prohibited the importation of works and articles deemed blasphemous, indecent, or obscene, or unduly emphasising matters of sex, horror, violence or crime, or are likely to encourage depravity.

The harebrained nature of this measure, one that could only have been appreciated by Humphries, was that selections from Private Eye, including Barry McKenzies Naughty Night, were already available in the country in the 1965 publication Penguin Private Eye.

Her Dame Edna Everage (Mrs Norm Everage to some) act, hewn from the dull, insular terrain of Moonee Ponds in Victoria, was always going to be an uneven sell for home audiences. In the sex-suppressed Anglosphere, with its hypocrisies of gender, control and concealment, it was brilliant, a poking, full frontal display of the bigoted housewife giving bigotry a lengthy outing.

The bricks of the mythmakers are now being assembled, an effort to build a mausoleum of deception. Always be suspicious of the he was much loved by all tag; they usually have a fair share of aggrieved, envious enemies.

There are, however, clues in the coverage. Humphries was a comedy export read, not palatable in straitlaced, monochrome Australia, a bit too salty, or gamey, for local consumption. He tested his various alter-egos the barely tolerable Edna, the monstrous, dribbling Sir Les Patterson and so forth on foreign soil. (Rarely mentioned in tributes is his more complex,...

Market and labor in market are crucial questions both to capital and labor. The questions have been discussed and answered by economists, from the mainstream, and also from the camp of labor.

Markets, writes Michael D. Yates in his Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle (Monthly Review Press,  2022), act as a veil, hiding the face of the system. They are impersonal mechanisms, which allow us to use them without knowing what is underneath.

Yates elaborates the issue: We buy goods and services and are thereby dependent on those who produce our food, clothing, shelter, and services of every kind. However, we simply exchange money for them. And as the Romans said, Pecunia non olet. Money has no smell.

He shows the argument employers use to defend self-interest: Employers say that they pay the market wage. If it is too low for survival, that is no fault of the boss.

Bosses never coerce

Bosses are always faultless! They define whats right and whats wrong, what rights are and what goes beyond rights, what should be enforced and what shouldnt be. Its now an old, well-known fact: In former times, writes Marx, capital resorted to legislation, whenever necessary, to enforce its property rights over the free laborer. (Capital, vol. I, Progress Publishers, Moscow, erstwhile USSR, 1977) He cites example from 1815: The emigration of mechanics employed in machine making was, in England, forbidden, under grievous pains and penalties. That, pains and penalties, was faultless, no fault by the bosses. There was no coercion; bosses never coerce. This story of pains and penalties isnt told today.

Coercion-free arrangement

This faultless, coercion-free arrangement and environment is also present today, in countries, in markets, in labor markets, in varied forms, which is overlooked tenaciously. The Roman slave was held by fetters, as Marx again tells another fact, the wage-labourer is bound to his owner by invisible threads. (ibid.) So, whats now told is whats called the push and pull factors: Peasants t...

A former sales account manager describes pitching Bitcoin with a focus on influencing perspectives while maintaining honesty and integrity.

This is an opinion editorial by Source Node, a former sales account manager with a background in training and industrial-organizational psychology.

When I pitch Bitcoin to a relative, to a friend or to a complete stranger in the bathroom stall next to me, they will inevitably ask, "How is this benefiting you? Are you going to make money from me buying bitcoin?"

In one sense, the honest answer is yes, but my main objective is actually to alleviate suffering.

Will any single investor buying bitcoin make my bitcoin increase in value? Not unless I'm convincing a hyper-rich communist sympathizer like Charlie Munger to hop onboard. The average investor buying $1,000-worth of BTC is not going to change the price of bitcoin. In fact, even a very wealthy investor allocating $100 million may not significantly change the price of bitcoin. In that sense, I am not benefiting directly from convincing individuals to buy bitcoin at all.

However, given the early stage of adoption that we are currently experiencing, the asymmetric upside of investing in bitcoin today has the potential to turn a relatively-small investment into life-changing financial security. For this reason, the motivation to pitch Bitcoin to people I care about is greater now than it will be in the future. The potential future which Bitcoin enables for myself and for society is the primary driving force behind my participation in the network. The prospect of living in a world of abundance, voluntary behavior and geopolitical cooperation is becoming more achievable by the block. I wish to benefit from the transition to that world and I wish for those whom I love (as well as random strangers I encounter) to benefit from it as well.

I know I am not the only one who holds this view. It seems to be a natural inclination for nearly every Bitcoiner to compulsively pitch Bitcoin to their friends, relatives and acquaintances. Unfortunately, I have seen many people become exhausted with these pitches. This exhaustion seems to slow down adoption more than support it, which indicates to me that some of what I have...

Lying is a common human behaviour that has been around for centuries. People lie for various reasons, such as to avoid punishment, gain an advantage, or protect their reputation. However, lying can have serious consequences, especially when it comes to trusting others. In this essay, I will explain why you must never trust a liar, the types of people who lie, why people lie, and why it is dangerous to believe the lies of a liar. I will also answer the question, "Can a liar ever tell the truth?"

Why You Must Never Trust a Liar?

Lying is a breach of trust, and trust is the foundation of any healthy relationship. When someone lies to you, they are essentially saying that they do not respect you enough to tell you the truth. This lack of respect can lead to a breakdown in the relationship, as the liar m...

Last August, a U.S. federal research misconduct watchdog announced findings that a longtime researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles named Janina Jiang faked data in 11 grant applications. 

More than a month later, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) issued a rare correction to its announcement, saying additional information from UCLA indicated that one of the grants did not fund or contain falsified/fabricated data. The watchdog agency said it would remove the application in question from its findings of research misconduct. 

The grant, UL1 TR000124, helped fund the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) with $57 million from 2012-2015. The listed principal investigator, Steven M. Dubinett, is the interim dean for UCLAs David Geffen School of Medicine. 

At the time of the correction, we wondered how a report that would have had to be reviewed by multiple officials and lawyers at both institutions could include such a mistake, and filed public records requests to find out. 

As we...

A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals

By Robert Kennedy Jr.

A leading Democrat challenges his party to return to liberal values and evidence-based science
 
Democrats were the party of intellectual curiosity, critical thinking, and faith in scientific and liberal empiricism. They once took pride in understanding how to read science critically, exercising healthy skepticism toward notoriously corrupt entities like the drug companies that brought us the opioid crisis, and were outraged by the phenomenon of agency capture and the pervasive control of private interests over Congress, the media, and the scientific journals.
 
A Letter to Liberals is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s, challenge to lockdown liberalisms embrace of policies that are an affront to once cherished precepts.

Denial: How Refusing to Face the Facts about Our Autism Epidemic Hurts Children, Families, and Our Future

By Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted

Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs well into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic.

Pushed by an army of social media influencers, Goli went viral on Instagram and TikTok. Then came the lawsuits.

Ask entrepreneur Michael Bitensky, founder of Goli Nutrition, what he considers his biggest accomplishment, and he doesnt point to the gummy vitamin companys hundreds of millions in annual revenue or the thousands of Target, CVS, and Walgreens stores that stock his products. Nor does he point to the companys ranking as a perennial top seller on Amazon Prime Day, its vast network of Instagram influencers, or even the investments of A-list celebrities Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez. Instead, Bitensky points to the more than 350,000 reviews his companys apple cider vinegar gummies have garnered on Amazon.

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AN AUSTRALIAN HIGH COURT has released the sentencing remarks in an unprecedented closed-door trial of an intelligence officer, identified only as Witness J, who was convicted in 2019 of a crime that cannot be revealed. The man, who is also known as Prisoner 123458, was given a jail sentence in November of 2019. His sentencing []

QUESTION: Didnt you also buy gold bars from the SS Central America ship that was discovered? The gold bugs hate you and say you are bearish gold but you buy a lot of it.

All the best

JE

ANSWER: Oh yes. I tend to collect important relics from major economic events.  The sinking of that ship set off a financial panic in NYC because the banks were counting on that gold shipment. I did buy bars. There were some 30,000 pounds (13,600 kg) of gold and about 15 tons were recovered.

They are a piece of history. I would not melt them down.

Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson today spent nearly two and a half hours at a weekly town hall Zoom of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) expressing her views and answering numerous audience questions.

...a majority of these AWS stations had an average 62.8% increase in their 99th percentile observations. These are the hottest 1 per cent of days calculated since the start year of each station.

Chile has been on an interesting and positive arc in recent years. Left-wing politician Gabriel Boric won the presidency there, representing the first big shift to the left since the fascist Pinochet took over in a US-backed coup in 1973. Theyre currently working on a number of reforms, and are trying to negotiate a new constitution, to replace the one from the Pinochet era. One big change that was just announced was a plan to gradually nationalize Chiles lithium industry. They intend to honor existing contracts, but to have more direct government involvement in new ones, with the intent of bringing more of the profits to the Chilean people, and eventually producing lithium-based products in Chile, rather than only selling raw lithium. From the Associated Press:

Boric, who spoke Thursday on a national media network, said the state will participate in the entire lithium production cycle in a public-private collaboration that the government will control.

Any private company, whether foreign or local, that wants to exploit lithium in Chile must partner with the state, he said.

Chile has the worlds third largest lithium reserves, at 9.6 million tons, behind Bolivia with 21 million and Argentina with 19.3 million, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But Chile was the worlds second largest producer last year with an estimated 39,000 metric tons, after Australia, with 61,000 tons.

Boric wants to create a National Lithium Company to partner with private companies, but he conceded that likely will not happen quickly because it would require support from an absolute majority in both houses of Congress, which is fragmented among a variety of parties.

In the meantime, he said, the state National Copper Corporation will sign agreements with private parties for lithium extraction.

Currently, there are two companies that mine lithium in Chile: the U.S. company Albemarle and Chiles Chemical and Mining Society (Soquimich), which has been controlled for three decades by Julio Ponce, whose father-in-law was the late dictator Augusto Pinochet. Boric said Ponces contracts will be respe...

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Friends, Many thanks for the prayers, messages of solidarity, concern and curiosity about Mondays (April 10) pre-trial hearing in Beatty, answering to charges of trespass at the Nevada National Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test Site, back in October. We were good company with some of the holdovers from the Sacred Peace Walk that finished []

IMF Predicts Fall in Economic Growth in Africa

Ndea Yoka, host of Business Africa and Catherine Patillo, Deputy Director of the Africa Department at the IMF.

By Ndea Yoka

 21/04 - 11:57

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a major financing shortage that threatens the region's growth, the International Monetary Fund warned in its report on the region's economic outlook.

The organization also warned that public debt is further delaying the region's economic recovery.

"Policymakers should stay the course of prudent monetary policy tightening."

Catherine Patillo, the deputy director of the Africa Department at the IMF answered questions from Africanews.

Senegal: Religious celebrations marked by inflation

While the country's economy is experiencing a sharper-than-expected slowdown according to IMF forecasts, Senegal is facing worrying inflation. It has reached 9.7 percent in 2022, its highest level in decades.

This situation is due in particular to soaring food prices. An unbearable increase for most Senegalese households, especially during the holiday season. A report by Wahany Johnson in Dakar.

Libya: promoting date exports

Date producers in Libya would like to export their abundant harvests, however, they face various challenges that slow down their hopes for emancipation.

The regions of Wahat, and Awjila are known for producing large quantities of dates, which reach 150,000 tons per year. The problem is that much of this fruit is destroyed or used as animal fodder due to poor marketing.