by Joachim Hagopian

Recent mass killings in Texas since 2006 show the Lone Star State accounting for nearly 8% of all mass shootings in America, and with this year more than one mass shooting per day, the US is on pace to break all records. Its a perfectly reasonable postulation especially based on history to conclude the unprecedented gun shootings are state-sponsored false flags intent on delivering stricter gun control measures.

Consider what happened three years ago in New Zealand. The false flag in Christchurch on March 15, 2019 the Ides of March was immediately followed by strict gun control.

Of all people, pedophile John Pizzagate Podesta just happened to be in New Zealand 24 hours before the Christchurch shootings, praising WEF groomed dictator Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as a superstar. according to Vatican watchman-author Leo Zagami, Podestas an Illuminati-Vatican asset and according to millions more an unindicted sadist-pedophile.

Alleged shooter Brenton Tarrant, now New Zealands biggest mass murderer, happens to be the same age as Australias biggest mass murderer at the time of the Port Arthur killings, 28-years of age, al...

Donald Elley of Bellingen:

May 16, 2023

I was at all 13 days of Brian Houstons court case in December 2023. Australias Channel Nine asked me to make comments on the court case on the first day, December 5 for their A Current Affair program. My comments are in the video below. Brian returns to court on June 15 and 16 to hear final submissions from the Prosecutor and Defence. And later comes The Judgment.

I worked hard since 2012 to hold Brian Houston accountable for what he did. Concealing his pedophile father. Depriving his fathers boy victims of justice.

If anyone lies and deceives like Brian in my orbit its only a matter of time before I will bring them to justice. I will overcome every set-back until justice is finally accomplished. I despise liars and deceivers like Brian Houston of Hillsong and will call them to account, No expense spared.

Please be warned.

Ash Gardner calls out Cricket Australia for scheduling mens Test against West Indies on Australia Day Indigenous cricket star Ash Gardner says she is disappointed that there will be a mens Test match against the West Indies on Australia Day next summer, saying it is not appropriate. Heres a tip...

As they say in Latin: cacas in cerebro.

celebrating a saudi's wedding in the desert pic.twitter.com/n2kzSCu8wr clips that go hard (@clipsthatgohard) May 15, 2023

Wonder how much this cost taxpayers and how it was funnelled.

Wonderful to celebrate launch of an Aboriginal Culinary Journey - a unique collaboration between @BrevilleAus, the National Museum of Australia & incredible Australian Indigenous artists. Nothing better than celebrating the worlds oldest continuous cultures in @nma @dfat pic.twitter.com/yLTWekVzwL Kevin Rudd AC (@AmboRudd) May 12, 2023

Writing personally about Israel/Palestine, why I have the positions I do, is something I mostly avoid. But a notable exception is my long essay in this weeks edition of the Good Weekend magazine, inserted every Saturday into the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age. The readership is over one million people.

The striking profile photo was taken by Wolter Peeters.

The response to my article has been overwhelming, with huge numbers of people writing to express gratitude, support and relief.

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On Saturday, May 13, the neo-Nazi groupuscule National Socialist Network (NSN) organised a rally at Parliament House in Melbourne. Desperately unhappy at being unable to afford to leave their parents leafy homes in the eastern suburbs, approximately 30 NSN members Continue reading

My book review in The Saturday Paper on the new book by Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives:

Were all complicit. Anybody who uses a laptop, mobile phone, electric vehicle (EV) or tablet has purchased a product that contains cobalt, a rare-earth element. Its largely unknown to the general public and yet 70 per cent of the worlds cobalt is mined annually in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one of the poorest nations on the planet.

Few nations are blessed with a more diverse abundance of resource riches than Congo, writes Siddharth Kara, a senior fellow at Harvards T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an activist against modern slavery. No other country in the world has been more severely exploited.

Every so often a book comes along that completely challenges the way we live. This is a work of courageous reportage that reveals the secrets of a country that rarely enters our consciousness. Kara dismisses the denials of corporate giants such as Apple, Samsung, Tesla, Daimler and Glencore, all of which claim to have zero tolerance for child labour and commitments to supply-chain transparency. Less has changed since colonial times than we might care to admit, he says.

At great risk to his life, Kara travels to places in the DRC where very few outsiders have been. He brings readers the voices of people and communities toiling in subhuman conditions so we can tweet and drive cars that we tell ourselves are good for the environment. When he visits Kolwezi, the capital city of Lualaba Province, he explains that its the new heart of darkness, a tormented heir to those Congolese atrocities that came before colonisation, wars, and generations of slavery.

The view here is apocalyptic, with villages and forests destroyed and massive mines dominating the landscape. Its crowded with underpaid miners including teenagers who work in the toxic environment with no safety equipment such as gloves, closed shoes or masks.

Reform of this broken system is possible, but pressure must be applied on those most responsible. EV manufacturers are the main drivers of the explosion in the demand for cobalt and Kara urges consumers to push them to treat the artisanal miners as equal employees to the people who work at corporate headquarters. He supports the transition away from fossil fuels and the embrace of renewable energy. But should the people of the DRC suffer for our green dreams?

Pan Macmillan, 288pp, $49.99

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You have to do it badly. If it is poetry, even more so, because there is no because. If you write like you were the best in the world, you are the worst because you pretend too hard. Too harsh, too. Why do you want to be the best? Is that because you are a lack or there is a lack in you that you feel like filling up all the time? Even when you are named the best, does that mean anything?

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Since March 2020 I have been revealing the fraud behind the COVID alleged pandemic and the fact that it never had anything to do with health. Now three years later it has been proven to be a hoax created for the purposes of population control and surveillance. This purpose is being driven by the United... [Read more]

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Ever walked into a room and immediately felt energised, calm, or drained? What if the design of the building was making you feel that way? A Pint of Science can tell you why.

Next week, University of South Australia (UniSA) postdoctoral researcher Dr Isabella Bower will address this important gap in knowledge, explaining to local Adelaide pub patrons how aspects of built environment design (like the size or colour of a room) affect us.

Dr Bower is one of three UniSA researchers stepping out of the laboratory and into the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Thebarton as part of Pint of Science Australia from May 2224.

Pint of Science

The Pint of Science Australia festival is returning for its ninth year, bringing together scientists and researchers from all over the country to share their latest discoveries in a casual and relaxed setting local pubs!

Pint of Science is an international festival held in more than 400 cities worldwide. This year, the Pint of Science Australia festival will take place in 30 pubs across 15 cities, including Adelaide, Bendigo, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Geelong, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Toowoomba, and Townsville with and online option available as well.

Attendees will be able to enjoy a pint of their favourite beverage while listening to fascinating talks from science communicators and experts in their respective fields including fantastic phalluses, battling bees and the future of AI among other curious topics.

This international festival will showcase the latest breakthroughs and innovations in areas such as health, technology, and the environment.

An interactive environment

Over three evenings, attendees can learn from experts in various fields, ask questions in an interactive environment and gain a better understanding of the role science plays in our everyday lives.

Pint of Science Australia Co-CEO Maria Roitman said the group is excited to bring insights from all corners of Australian research to share with the public in a fun and engaging way, making science accessible for everyone.

Pint of Science Australia Co-CEO Jin-Oh Choi said: We encourage everyone to attend, even if science is not your thing. Its a great opportunity to learn something new and meet other inquisitive minds.

Tickets for the Pint of Science Australia 2023 festival are on sale for $8.

For more information about the festival, including participating pubs and speakers, please visit the Pint of Science Australia website.

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From one of Barry's closest lifetime friends.

Contributed from Victoria

Some 30,000 people across Australia will have a direct interest in a class action to win compensation for contamination of their homes by Australian Defence Force. It is alleged that toxic chemical spraying was used at a range of military bases, and this has affected large areas around them. The result has been the spread of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS). These accumulate in the bodies of plants and animals and are known to damage reproductive, developmental, and other biological systems. Shine lawyers have taken on the case.

A previous hearing in February found the case proven. But the plaintiffs saw the compensation offered as insufficient to cover the losses and refused to sign a settlement. It has now gone back to court.

Participants in the class action say their homes were covered with a fine dust, plants dont grow properly, and they and their families have been hit with major health problems. Even the health of their pets has been affected. Some studies have found a link to liver damage, and kidney and testicular cancer.

PFAS were widely used in firefighting foams at military bases until the early 2000s. Residents within the contaminated areas have been trapped in toxic homes for many years, and it is only now that the whole truth has emerging.

The case appeared in the court last Monday and is expected to last about 6 weeks. Landowners in Wagga Wagga (NSW), Richmond (NSW), Wreck Bay (NSW), Wodonga (VIC), Darwin (NT), Townsville (QLD), Edinburgh (SA) and Bullsbrook (WA) are being represented.

According to Craig Allsop, head of class actions at Shine Lawyers,...

This article was first published by GR in November 2009.

Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six  years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable

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This rare documentary film, entitled, THE EYE OF THE STORM: The Inventions of Nikola Tesla, shown only once on Australian television, covers the history of secret U.S. government research into futuristic propulsion and Energy systems. The Film also discusses the work of Nikola Tesla, including information on mysterious devices locked away in safes at the time of his death in 1943. Man made UFOs are also an important feature, as well as the Philadelphia experiment, featuring some classic 80s style sci-fi kitsch dramatized scenes. Watch:

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Bill Thompson from the long running Outside Insiders brilliantly sums up the ABC's awkward and often laughed at political editor Andrew Probyn. "A worthless piece of shit". https://youtu.be/to72AYPBHZo Start from 10:25 Bill has been trying to get the ABC to acknowledge its failure to report on the arrest, charge, and...

My mother Valerie with her mother Madge Brooker in 1931. At their home on the hills of Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealands capital.

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Colin Todhunter Off-Guardian May 13, 2023

Its a lose-lose situation for Ukrainians. While they are dying, financial institutions are insidiously supporting the consolidation of farmland by oligarchs and Western financial interests.

So says Frdric Mousseau, Policy Director of the Oakland Institute, an independent think tank.

Depending on which sources to believe, between 100,000 and 300,000 Ukrainian soldiers (possibly more) have died during the conflict with Russia. That figure, of course, does not include civilian casualties.

But it is not the purpose of this article to explore these issues. Much has already been written on this elsewhere. But billions of dollars worth of military hardware has been sent to Ukraine by the NATO countries and hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians have died.

They died in the belief that they were protecting their nation their land. A land that is among the most fertile in the world.

Professor Olena Borodina of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine says:

Today, thousands of rural boys and girls, farmers, are fighting and dying in the war. They have lost everything. The processes of free land sale and purchase are increasingly liberalised and advertised. This really threatens the rights of Ukrainians to their land, for which they give their lives.

Borodina is quoted in the February 2023 report by the Oakland Institute War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraines Agricultural Land, which reveals how oligarchs and financial interests are expanding control over Ukraines agricultural land with help and financing from Western financial institutions.

Aid provided to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment programme requiring the creation of a land market through a law that leads to greater concentration of land in the hands of powerful interests. The programme also includes austerity measures, cuts in social safety nets and the privatisation of key sectors of the economy.

Frdric Mousseau, co-author of the report, says:

Despite being at the centre of news cycle and international policy, little attention has gone to the core of the conflict who controls the agricultural land in the country known as the breadbasket of Europe. [The] Answer to this question is paramount to understanding the major stakes in the war.

The report shows the total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares exceeding 28% of Ukraines arable land (the rest is used by over eight million Ukrainian farmers).

The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests mostly European and North American as well as the...

Must a plane loaded with commercial passengers drop from the sky literally, CRASH, before the airline industry, FAA, NTSB and pilots themselves ONLY enter the cockpit after myocarditis is ruled out? Why not mandate high sensitivity troponin, contrast chest MRIs, D-dimers, EKGs before flying?

Dr Paul Alexander Substack May 13, 2023

8 other recent Pilot incapacitations in-flight:

April 4, 2023 United Airlines Flight 2102 (BOI-SFO) captain was incapacitated, first officer was only one in control of the aircraft. (click here)

March 25, 2023 TAROM Flight RO-7673 TSR-HRG diverted to Bucharest as 30 yo pilot had chest pain, then collapsed (click here)

March 22, 2023 Southwest Flight WN6013 LAS-CMH diverted as pilot collapsed shortly after take-off, replaced by non-Southwest pilot (click here)

March 18, 2023 Air Transat Flight TS739 FDF-YUL first officer was incapacitated about 200NM south of Montreal (click here)

March 13, 2023 Emirates Flight EK205 MXP-JFK diverted due to pilot illness hour and a half after take-off (click here)

March 11, 2023 United Airlines Flight UA2007 GUA-ORD diverted due to incapacitated pilot who had chest pains (click here)

March 11, 2023? British Airways (CAI-LHR) pilot collapsed in Cairo hotel and died, was scheduled to fly Airbus A321 from Cairo to London (click here)

March, 3, 2023 Virgin Australia Flight VA-717 ADL-PER Adelaide to Perth flight was forced to make an emergency landing after First Officer suffered heart attack 30 min after departure. (click here)

3 recent Pilot deaths:

Pilot death April 13, 2023 Phil Thomas, graduate of Flight Training Pilot academy in Cadiz, Spain (FTEJerez) died suddenly.

Pilot death Ma...

  Photo of me with my mother I think that was snapped after I returned from deployment to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Desert Shield/Storm/Saber.   Pain There are at least seven answers to the problem of pain or how to be happy. The Buddhist answer. Existence is pain. Happiness is an illusion. Blessedness comes []

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Previously we looked at the BBC News websites initial report concerning Operation Shield and Arrow on May 9^th:

BBC NEWS AVOIDS RELEVANT PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD BACKGROUND

As noted, at no point in that report were BBC audiences told that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a terrorist organisation which is designated by the EU, the US, the UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel and readers were not provided with any information concerning the financial and military sponsorship provided to the PIJ by Iran.

As the operation continued, the BBC News website published additional reports which, like that initial article, were not tagged with the name of the terrorist organisation that is their topic.

On May 10^th a report by David Gritten that was originally headlined Gaza militants fire rockets after new Israeli air strikes appeared on the websites Middle East page. The headline was later amended to read Israel and Gaza militants in heaviest fighting for "https://camera-uk.org/topic/raffi-berg/" rel="noopener" target= "_blank">Raffi Berg and David Gritten....

From Bill: What may well be my last Outside Insiders as ABC will start broadcasting from Canberra, soon! Cheers, Bill T

Before he went to his Delaware beach home today, Biden was given an honorary doctorate from Howard University for his "sound analytical intellect" and "popularity on both sides of the aisle" pic.twitter.com/tThjvIGR56 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 14, 2023

Biden at Howard Univ.: The most dangerous threat to our homeland is white supremacy and Im not just saying this because Im at a black HBCU. pic.twitter.com/WhwoSvlyN7 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 13, 2023

Sung by Battlers Ballad in Sydney in 2012: Jim Jones at Botany Bay

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

This article is in the form of a letter to the people who are busy in the child-trafficking industry.

Dear Racketeers,

You poor dopes. I bet you havent got a clue what child-stealing is all about.

Possibly, if you think only in terms of consumerism and capitalism, you assume that there is a market for this forbidden product and its forbiden-ness puts the price up. You could thereby get in on a nice take-home. All you need do is harden your heart when the child screams.

Or maybe the money is simply your pay for your career. You are a lawyer maybe an Independent Childrens Lawyer, an ICL oo, how sophisticated!  It was explained to you when you signed up, that there are a lot of bad mothers who alienate their children from the father oo, those bad mothers. If you do the right thing, which is to quell kids complaints, and make mincemeat of the mothers, youll be all set.  Oo judges will smile at you, isnt that exciting!

But ah, a different group.  You are old-school mafia. Organized crime is your thing.  Its what you do. The instructions come from the boss. Camaraderie is what makes the world go round.  And dont forget omerta. Questioning the choice of the group is a no-no. And if you do something out-of-line, well, the Hail Mary could be interrupted with a bang on the lake.

Wait.  Maybe you are the Epstein type. Here the goal is to compromise as many politicians and decision makers...

Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (5/13/23).
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Shane Drumgold SC told the ACT Inquiry into the police cover-up attempt of the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins that he believes 11 of the 12 jurors would have found Bruce Lehrmann []

Gaza: Egypt brokers ceasefire to end Israel's bombardment

The immense power of AI is being wasted.----Yes, it can, and has, been used to create astounding pictures, even videos. It has been used to generate stories, articles, and text answers to any questions that humans ask one another.----But it's this last part that needs exploring, or exploding, perhaps. ----Here, a FTL spaceship is discussed with Elon Musk AI. Did we succeed?

The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. (Michael Parenti)

For as long as Ive been writing, giving public talks, and all that, I have offered informed critiques of capitalism.

For as long as Ive been offering informed critiques of capitalism, I get replies like this: I suppose you think socialism is the answer.

The paucity of imagination never ceases to disappoint me.

Breaking news: One can challenge capitalism both its theoretical and practical versions without being a fan of Castro or Lenin.

Side note to those in the medical freedom movement: Your frequent misuse of the words communism and Marxism does not serve you well.

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ANKARA Turkiye has no plans to wait until it is brought back to the US F-35 multirole fighter program, from which it was officially removed two years ago, and seeks a refund of $1.4 billion paid for the jets, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday.

We want out money now. We want the money we paid there to be returned. Our friends from the ministry came together and reviewed the steps we will take from now on. We are now taking care of ourselves, Cavusoglu told media, adding that Ankara does not want the situation to turn into a snake story like with the Patriot defense system.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously said that the country had paid $1.4 billion for the jets.

In April 2021, the US excluded Turkiye from the F-35 program after Ankara purchased Russias S-400 air defense systems. Washington annulled the joint memorandum on the F-35 fighters with the country, while signing the document with seven other project partners the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Denmark, Canada and Norway. Erdogan said later that year that Turkiye had received a US offer to buy F-16 jets instead, one generation behind the F-35s. The US Congress has been debating whether to include restrictions on the sale of jets in its annual defense spending bill for fiscal 2023, while the US State Department has been trying to convince lawmakers that the deal was aligned with Washingtons interests.

Authorities are searching for a 46-year-old missing surfer who is believed to have died after a shark attack on the west coast of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. "A man is believed to have died following a shark attack," police said in a statement, adding that he was the only person to be attacked. The man from Elliston was surfing at the Walkers Rocks Beach on the Great Australian Bight when he was attacked 30 to 50 metres offshore. Police and paramedics were called to the beach about 7km north of Elliston after 10am (local time) on Saturday. Over half a dozen boats and jet skis were pressed to search for the "well-known" local where he was last seen, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.

A huge tornado-like water has been spotted off the coast of Sydney, dwarfing two tankers seen sailing on the horizon. The spout formed just off the coast near South Coogee in Sydney's eastern suburbs on Saturday as a storm moved closer to hitting the fringes of the city. Water spouts form as heavy winds travel in opposing directions, causing the air to be drawn upwards in a spiralling column. The rising air carries water vapour along with it into the sky where it can create showers and storms. While mostly harmless, water spouts can cause damage if they move ashore, with one destroying a dozen homes in Lennox Heads in 2010.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/us-firm-unveils-game-changing-small-nuclear-reactor US tech company, Westinghouse, has announced the launch of the an effort to extend access to nuclear power as demand for clean energy rises. The AP300 nuclear reactor is scheduled to be operational in 2027 and will provide...

You know, the inevitable dumb one.

If there are more than two sexes, name a third one.

The correct answer is, obviously, Your mom.

But seriously, if I tell you something is a range or continuum, you dont refute me by telling me I have to name every shade. When I was a child, I learned that there are 7 colors, precisely 7, in the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Then when I got older I learned that there are hundreds of wavelengths between 400 and 700 nanometers. And then when I got older still I learned that color is the product of combinations of wavelengths, like chords, and the numbers got larger still. And then I learned about photoreception and color vision, and discovered that colors were a property of visual processing derived from context and relative distinctions in illumination and intensity, and theres nothing fixed about them. I read David Marr in the 1980s, you know.

Then someone comes along and insists that the stuff they learned in kindergarten is the absolute rock solid truth.

Hey, I bet you this person is also one of those who mocks the abbreviation LGBTQIA+ because there are too many letters in it and we keep adding more.

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:

He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon. From recipes to product reviews to how-to books, artificial intelligence text generators are quietly authoring more and more of the internet. (Washington Post)

The Crypto Winter Cost People More Than Their Money: Some acolytes lost faith, others blamed devilsand some went even harder. An essay exploring what happens when the prophecy of blockchain fails. (Bloomberg)

Is It Time to Quit Coffee for Good? A growing chorus of concerned former addicts are trying to wake people up to caffeines negative effects. (Esquire)  My answer ius No!

Richard Feynman: The One and Only: Richard Feynman was the Michael Jordan of physics. His intellectual leaps, seemingly weightless, defied explanation. In 1960, in his early forties, restless and unable to find a physics problem worth working on, Feynman taught himself enough biology to make an original discovery of how mutations work in genes. (New York Review of Books)

Your IQ isnt 160. No ones is. Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids. (The Intrinsic Perspective)

The Time Thief Who Stole 106 Rare Clocks in a Daring Heist: Authorities eventually recovered 96 of the lost timepieces, including a $30 million watch commissioned for Marie Antoinette. (Smithsonian Magazine)

On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world: Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the virus factory, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why? (The Guardian)

Seaflooding: The Surprising Solution to Mitigate Climate Change, Create More Life, and Grow the Economy: Do You Like the Mediterranean Toda...

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Rugby League Journalist Paul Kent has been charged with domestic violence offences following an incident at his home. @lizziepearl #9News pic.twitter.com/jyDeZTM02M 9News Sydney (@9NewsSyd) May 13, 2023 Thanks to UnderMinder who tells us: This could get a bit spicy! I'll say, get your questions in now. Ask Kenty tonight...

They got it all - there's no secondary growth in his lymph nodes. Michael Smith 573 Thank you from Ralph Blewitt - he's today been advised they got all the cancer

The total number of new dwellings approved for construction decreased by 0.1 per cent in March, in seasonally adjusted terms, following a 3.9 per cent rise in February, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Daniel Rossi, ABS head of construction statistics, said The result was driven by a 2.8 per cent fall in approvals for private sector houses, following an 11.3 per cent February rise. Private sector house approvals remain 15.0 per cent lower than March 2022, Mr Rossi said.

Private sector dwellings excluding house approvals increased 5.6 per cent in March, following a 9.7 per cent decrease in February.

This is the sixth consecutive month where the trend result has fallen for total dwellings approved,  Mr Rossi said.

Across Australia total dwelling approvals decreased in Tasmania (-42.1 per cent), South Australia (-19.1 per cent), and Queensland (-6.7 per cent). Western Australia (+27.2 per cent), New South Wales (+3.1 per cent), and Victoria (+1.7 per cent) rose in March.

Approvals for private sector houses fell in most states: New South Wales (-4.0 per cent), Queensland (-3.9 per cent), Victoria (-3.8 per cent), and South Australia (-0.1 per cent). Western Australia was the only state with a March increase (+8.7 per cent).

The value of total building approvals fell 5.9 per cent, following a 19.5 per cent rise in February. The value of total residential building approvals fell 6.5 per cent, comprised of a 6.4 per cent decrease in new residential building and a 7.4 per cent fall in alterations and additions.

The value of non-residential building approved decreased 5.1 per cent, following a 41.0 per cent rise in February.

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Australian gay blood donation campaigners have welcomed a decision in the United States to allow gay men to give blood, and urged Australia to follow suit.

The US has ditched a three-month abstinence period before gay men can give blood and will instead ask questions about sexual risk of all donors regardless of their sexual orientation, an approach known as individual risk assessment.

In Australia the Red Cross Lifeblood Service has no plans to allow safe gay men to donate whole blood, despite individual risk assessment now being the approach in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Greece, Argentina and many other countries.

Instead, Lifeblood wants gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men, all of whom can currently not give whole blood, to be able to give blood plasma.

Let Us Give spokesperson, Thomas Buxereau applauded the US for replacing its gay blood ban with individual risk assessment, and called on Australias blood authorities to do the same.

Allowing blood donations from gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men, who are safe to give, will mean a new source of safe blood for those Australians in need, Mr Buxereau said.

Australian gay, bisexual and trans people who are currently blocked from donating blood want to be able to save lives in the same way as our counterparts in the UK, Canada and the US.

Researcher, Dr Sharon Dane, said international research shows there is no meaningful risk from allowing gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men, to give blood under the conditions now applying in the US.

Under the system of individual risk assessment in the UK, Canada, US and other countries, every donor is asked if they have had anal sex with a new partner or multiple partners in the last three months. If they say no they can donate.

The Australian Lifeblood Service has said this may deter a significant number of heterosexual donors but the international evidence has shown this is not the case.

Rather than allowing whole blood donation by gay men, and bisexual men and trans women who have sex with men, Lifeblood wants to only allow plasma donation.

But this does not address the regular shortages of whole blood and still means gay, bisexual and trans people are not treated equally.

Canada and Israel trialled plasma donation for gay men but quickly abandoned those trials and moved on to equal treatment for all donors.

The so-called plasma pathway is a dead-end Australia should not go down.

The post US Lift...

Nord Stream Attack: New revelations surface while the mystery deepens.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 10, 2023, Patrick talks with independent French researcher and journalist Freddie Ponton, to continue the discussion on the Nord Stream attack in September 2022, briefly commenting on recent press articles in the US and Europe that keeps pushing exotic narratives. The conversation rapidly shifts to new information uncovered by Freddie, who points to Sweden and a submarine rescue exercise which took place during NATO Naval training BALTOPS 22. Freddie also announces Part 3 of his investigation, which will reveal some astonishing facts. Listen:

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Australians have been urged to look past deliberate moves to seed doubt around the Voice to Parliament at a panel discussion on Indigenous Constitutional Recognition at Queensland University of Technology this week.

QUT partnered with Empowered Communities, a collaboration of 10 regional, urban and remote communities across Australia, to present the panel discussion and launch The Voice, Partnership, Empowerment explained booklet.

Hosted by QUT Chancellor Ann Sherry, the panel of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders spoke about what Constitutional Recognition through The Voice means for their lives and futures, and for the future of Australia.

Fiona Jose, Kuku Yalanji and Torres Strait, Cape York Partnership CEO and Cape York Empowered Communities leader, said public debate about exact details of how The Voice would operate was detracting from the purpose of the referendum.

The referendum is actually about reconciliation. It is going to be our countrys most unifying moment in history. There is no reconciliation without The Voice, she said.

Ms Jose said while it was important to have public debate on the best way to implement the Voice, that had to happen at the right time.

The details around the policies is the job of parliament and for the parliamentarians to sort out, she said.

What we are being asked in the referendum is really simple do we support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution through a Voice to Parliament? The option to the Australian public is to answer yes to that question, or no.

Keri Tamwoy, of the Wik Nation and Mayor of Aurukun, said Aboriginal politicians who said the Voice wouldnt work hadnt consulted with remote communities to find out what they needed.

I can guarantee that these politicians will not come to our remote communities, to sit down with us and hear what we want. They need to come into our community and sit around that same fire and eat from that same fire, from the one plate, to experience what it is we go through on a daily basis, Mayor Tamwoy said.

Two Knitting Nannas members of a renowned and growing international activist organisation set up to protest inaction on climate change were back in the NSW Supreme Court this week challenging repressive anti-protest legislation passed last year by the Perrottet government.

Dominique Jacobs and Helen Kvelde, through their lawyers at the NSW Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), launched a constitutional challenge to s214A of theCrimes Act 1900 in October 2022, claiming it breaches their right to free speech implied in the Australian Constitution.

Following highly publicised protests in Sydney earlier this year, the NSW Government pushed through changes to the Road Amendment (Major Bridges and Tunnels) Regulation 2022 and introduced the Roads and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2022 to parliament without public consultation.

On behalf of on Ms Kvelde and Jacobs, the EDO has launched a Constitutional challenge to section 214A of the Crimes Act 1900 that makes it an offence to remain near any part of a major facility if that conduct causes persons attempting to use the major facility to be redirected, on the basis it impermissibly burdens the implied freedom of political communication.

Ms Jacobs and Kvelde say the new laws are so broad that a group of people could face serious criminal charges, including up to two years in prison, simply by protesting near a railway station and causing people to be redirected around them.

EDOs clients will also ask the court to find the definition of major bridge, tunnel or road under s 144G of the Roads Act too broad.

Ms Jacobs and Kvelde contend the Crimes Act amendment was unconstitutional because it impermissibly burdened the implied freedom of political communication, and that to uphold the Australian Constitution, the NSW Government must allow communities to peacefully protest government policy in public spaces.

The Crimes Act amendment introduced a number of offences relating to major facilities including making it an offence to remain near any part of a major facility if doing so causes persons attempting to use the major facility to be redirected.

Major facilities include train stations, such as Central, Town Hall and Martin Place, places that historically have been synonymous with peaceful protest. The reforms also increased maximum penalties for peaceful protest to two years prison and $22,000.

Ms Jacobs and Ms Kvelde have been at the frontline of Australian climate impacts, experiencing trauma and loss from drought, fire and flood in the last four years alone.

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Excess deaths: In the past, politicians and the media would be all over it. But today both our leaders and the presstitutes have normalized excess deaths, sudden deaths, and myocarditis in children When was asking questions misinformation?

Booster Blitz

This booster push on Channel 9 (Australia) was released on 19 January 2022. (I find it challenging to listen to the coersive dialogue.)

This ABC article is an example of...

UN Envoy: Humanitarian Deal Between Warring Sides is a First Step Toward a Cease-fire in Sudan

Sudanese evacuees wait under a pane at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The conflict between the country's military and a rival paramilitary group has killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands since it broke out in mid-April, creating a humanitarian crisis inside the country and at its borders. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

CAIRO (AP) The U.N. envoy for Sudan on Friday welcomed a deal between the countrys warring generals promising safe passage to civilians fleeing the conflict and protection for humanitarian operations in the East African nation.

The envoy, Volker Perthes, said the agreement was an important first step toward a cease-fire to the fighting which is about to enter its fourth week.

The Sudanese military and the countrys paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, signed a pact late Thursday vowing to alleviate humanitarian suffering across the country, although a truce remains elusive.

Both sides also agreed to refrain from attacks likely to harm civilians. The violence has already killed over 600 people, including civilians, according to the U.N. healthy agency.

The most important element is that both sides commit to continue talks, Perthes said during an online U.N. news conference from his office in Port Sudan. International efforts to turn the deal into a cease-fire have already started, he added.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the agreement, which outlines a series of shared pledges and promises to facilitate humanitarian action in order to meet the needs of civilians.

The deal signing-ceremony, brokered by the United Sates and Saudi Arabia, was aired by Saudi state media in the early hours of Friday morning. Neither the military nor the RSF immediately issued statements acknowledging Thursdays pact.

It does not provide any detail on how the agreed-on humanitarian promises would be upheld by troops on the ground. Previously, both sides agreed to several short cease-fires, since the fighting b...

China and Japan have addressed mysterious circumstances around disappearing space equipment, including a lunar lander that would have completed Japan's potential first successful moon landing. "It has been determined that there is a high probability that the lander eventually made a hard landing on the moon's surface," Takeshi Hakamanda, founder and CEO of Japanese spaceflight company Ispace, said of the venture. The company clarified shortly after that engineers had observed that the remaining propellant in the Hakuto-R spacecraft may have been "at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly increased," the New York Times reported.

Theres a new banana in town, and its been genetically modified (GM). Scientists at Australias Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have developed the first GM banana in the world, a variety of Cavendish banana known as QCAV-4, designed to help save the species.

QUT professor James Dale, who led the development of QCAV-4, and his team have been developing and growing the GM Cavendish variety for more than 20 years.

The devastating Panama Disease TR4 is caused by a soil-borne fungus that stays in the ground for more than 50 years, wiping out banana crops and destroying farms for generations, Dale said in the press release. It is a huge problem. It has devastated Cavendish plantations in many parts of the world and could cripple the Cavendish banana export industry worldwide.

If the new Cavendish banana variety is given the green light, it will become the first GM fruit approved for cultivation and consumption in Australia, reported The Guardian.

Dale estimates that there are between 300 and 1,000 types of bananas throughout the world, with the Cavendish variety making up about half of commercial production.

It has some disease resistance, its high yielding, it tastes pretty good and it travels well, Dale said, as The Guardian reported.

The team has been growing QCAV-4 bananas in field trials in Australias Northern Territory for more than six years and have found them to be highly resistant to TR4, the press release said.

About 95 per cent of Australias bananas...

Questions For Corbett is celebrating its 10th anniversary! Join James for this 100th Episode Extravaganza where he takes on the task of answering 100 questions from the ever-growing question bag in as entertaining and informative way as possible!

Calm down, hes not dead yet. At his age, though, hes probably contemplating his future successor. Bodie Hodge, his son-in-law, is a blithering goober, and the other people at the top of his organization are women, so naturally theyre out of the running. Andrew Snelling, Terry Mortenson, Danny Faulkner? Negative charisma. Tim Chaffey? Hes tall, thats about it. Nathaniel Jeanson? An insufferable twit.

Apparently, Ken has been recruiting back in the homeland of Australia, and he has landed a real winner: Martyne Iles. Hes perfect. Hes young. Hes loud. Hes a confirmed hater: he doesnt want anything to do with the gays or the transes, he despises the idea of climate change, he hates commies. Hes a cerfiable culture warror, and his ideology lines up nicely with Ken Hams.

And now hes been hired as Chief Ministry Officer for Answers in Genesis.

Also interesting: he was formerly the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, but he was kicked out. The apparent cause was that the ACL, under his leadership, was flopping badly. Australians kept passing those danged liberal laws anyway. He was ineffective and obnoxious.

The ACL grew rapidly under Iles its membership tripled, Iles said but its size wasnt the boards problem. It was struggling for political impact. In a few short years, it recorded losses on virtually every single key issue: same-sex marriage was legalised in 2017, just months before Iles took the post; almost every state in the country has loosened laws on abortion and voluntary assisted dying; and major steps against faced with the potential for a multi-term Labor government that saw the group as at best irrelevant, the Australian Christian Lobby needed a major strategic reset.

So now he has left Australia to a country that if more favorable ideologically. Hes just like Ken Ham!

They have one other thing in common: theyre both abominably stupid. Heres Iles evidence for god.

With the clock winding down on Title 42, there are many questions circulating about what the end of the policy means for the United States' border security. The policy was one instated by the Trump administration in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and has been in place since. With its expiration upon us, the immigration policy is going to look different for the United States, with migrants already lining up to enter the country. Here are some commonly asked questions about Title 42 answered. What was the Title 42 policy? What does Title 42 expiring mean? What is the difference between Title 42 and Title 8?

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What is happening to western societies? A new Irish law threatens to remove the right to freedom of expression and privacy. Where does it end?

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on May 10, 2023, Patrick talks with political philosophy researcher Dr. David Thunder about his thoughts on Irelands draconian Hate Speech Bill. David explains how the new law could lead to Irish citizens being arrested and jailed for something as insignificant as a social media post or a meme which the authorities deem to be offensive. They also discuss the effects it will have on freedom of expression and privacy, as well as the privileges certain groups and individuals which the state decrees as persons with protected characteristic. In a Stasi-like fashion, this could easily open the doors for abuse of power and thought policing. David also shares his thoughts on the current state of Irish politics. All this and more. Listen:

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By Dan McKnight | The Libertarian Institute | May 12, 2023

Did you see what Donald Trump said about Ukraine?

At a CNN town hall on Wednesday evening, the former president and current candidate announced:

If Im president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. Ill meet with Putin, Ill meet with Zelensky, they both have weaknesses and they both have strengths, and within 24 hours that war will be settled. Itll be overI dont think in terms of winning or losing. I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people and breaking them.

When CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Trump if he wanted Ukraine or Russia to win this war, he responded, I want everybody to stop dying. Theyre dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them stop dying. And Ill have that done in 24 hours, Ill have it done. You need the power of the presidency to do it.

Thats a damn good answer. And a much better one than anyone in the Biden White House has presented for why weve spent over a hundred billion dollars to fight a war with Russia.

These corporate press stand-ins never explain what victory conditions look like for Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky has said his aims include the recapture of Crimea and the decapitation of the Russian state.

But...

Wang Wenbin, Chinas Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, held his regular press conference in Beijing, on May 11th, and answered a reporters question: It was reported that the G7 Summit to be held in Japan will ask China to abide by international rules. Do you have any comment? by saying that those countries are hypocritical for accusing others of violating the never-defined stock phrase of the U.S. Government international rules. He said:

The US has spied indiscriminately on countries globally, not least its G7 allies, strong-armed countries diplomatically, and applied economic coercion and military interference. The US has blatantly invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria and other countries that are smaller and weaker than the US, killing and displacing tens of millions of innocent civilians. When it comes to international rules, the USs place is in the dock. It is in no position to point fingers at other countries.

His statement that When it comes to international rules, the USs place is in the dock suggests that international rules means the same thing as international laws, but the U.S. Government, and its allies, have never defined what the term international rules means, nor what international body sets those rules, nor where they are codified, nor what they are. If those rules are international laws, then it would be easy to document which Government violates them more than any other Government does, because obviously that is the U.S. Government itself.

Wenbins answer also included the following:

When the G7 talk about international rules, they mean the Western rules that draw lines according to ideologies and values and the US-first and G7-dominated rules of a small circle. Those rules serve the vested interest of a very few countries, including the G7, rather than the common interests of the international community.

By the international community, he was referring to the General Assembly of the United Nations. It is the U.N., and not the U.S. Government, which establishes those laws. Wengbin opened his answer by talking about that:

Before discussing international rules, we need to first of all make clear what exactly the international rules are. For the overwhelming majority of countries in the world, international rules consist of the basic norms governing international relations b...

Al Mytty in Illinois during webinar for which these remarks were prepared.

By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, May 12, 2023

We very much need World BEYOND War educational and activist events and campaigns in Illinois (and every other location). We also need the people of Illinois (and every other location on Earth) as part of the global movement to end war.

I say that having been in Chicago many times and at least once to Carbondale. Interstate 64 which comes by my house also cuts through Illinois, so a few cups of coffee and Im there.

We started World BEYOND War in 2014 to work with thousands of existing peace groups but to do three things a bit differently. One is to be global. Another is to go after the entire institution of war. Another is to use education and activism, both and together. Ill say a few words about each of these things.

First, on being global. Theres a great peace activist named Bill Astore who has an article this week at TomDispatch where he suggests that if we rid the world of nuclear weapons he could like his country better. I also read yesterday a book by my old philosophy professor Richard Rorty, probably the smartest person in many ways Ive ever met, who simply obsesses over the need to view U.S. history as a glass half full, even if it means believing in myths and ignoring ugly facts. Unless one does that, he writes, we cannot do the work of creating a better country. He never even entertains long enough to reject it the possibility of staring at all the facts head-on and doing the work regardless (is the question of whether a country has done more harm or more good even answerable?). Nor does he ever even consider the possibility of identifying with the world or a locality more so than a nation.

What I love most about online World BEYOND War events is that people use the word we to mean we people of the Earth. Now and again, youll have someone always its someone from the United States use we to mean a military always its the U.S. military. As in Hey, I remember you from that jail cell we were in for protesting the fact that we were bombing Afghanistan. This assertion would seem like a riddle to a Martian who might wonder how one can bomb Afghanistan from a jail cell and why one would have also protested ones...

I am grateful to you for reading this newsletter, which has been coming to you since March 2018 and which now thanks to the efforts of our movements reaches over a million people. Our first newsletter posed a problem that remains at the heart of our institutes work:

The Left has before us a serious challenge: people think that we are good and sensitive people, but that we are utopian and fail to provide reasonable answers to practical problems. We have to overcome this penalty. We have to show that radical thinking is not merely utopian (and has no place in reality), but that it attempts to solve practical challenges given the constraints of property and power. It has to show, more importantly, how certain problems cannot be solved within these constraints and require more ambitious transformations of the political and economic system. This kind of thinking guided by political and social movements will be at the heart of the institute.

Over the course of the past sixty-two months, we have tried our best to hold fast to this mission. To this end, we set for ourselves a series of objectives:

1. To bridge the gap between movements and intellectual institutions.
2. To bridge the gap between movements across the planet.
3. To amplify the voices of the new intellectuals who lead these movements.
4. To elaborate the theories that are often implicit in these movements.
5. To reclaim the histories of socialism and national liberation.

These objectives ground our work. We hope that what we have researched and produced has been useful to those committed to strengthening our movements and advancing...

For more than 75 years, Palestinians have organized for a liberated future. Today, as resistance against Israeli apartheid intensifies, unity and revolutionary optimism has become the main infrastructure of struggle.

It is nearing the 75th commemoration of the beginning of the Nakba, and Palestinians have mourned at least 150 martyrs since the beginning of 2023. Currently, 4,900 Palestinians are detained in Zionist jails, including 160 children. But for Palestinians on the ground and those of us in exile, the revolutionary optimism remains, underlying a long, arduous, steadfast struggle for liberation.

Since the Unity Intifada of 2021, we have witnessed a clear, systematic rise in popular armed resistance in Palestine. With it comes a necessary reckoning with the current phase of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from Zionist settler-colonialism. Unity among Palestinians has characterized the Unity Intifada, as the name suggests. Palestinians are unified against the Zionist project, in spite of the deliberate, systematic fragmentation imposed upon them.

The notion of unity, especially regarding armed struggle, prisoner revolt, and labor revolt, is what consistently rings the loudest. It rings loudest despite a colonial separation wall, military checkpoints, and indiscriminate detainments by the Zionist state and the comprador Palestinian Authority (PA). It rings despite a genocidal blockade on Gaza, and the imposition of arbitrary colonial categoriesIDs, passports, permits, and laissez-passers.

After the martyrdom of 18-year-old resistance leader Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi in August 2022, the Lions Den made its first appearance in public. Heeding Ibrahim Al-Nabulsis call to action, a grassroots, youth-led, revolutionary armed faction sprouted from the occupied West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin. We long recognize these cities as two nuclei of Palestinian resistance. The conditions of 75 years of brutal settler-colonialism birthed Ibrahim Al-Nabulsi,...

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In a surprising though not unprecedented move, Chile announced plans to nationalize its lithium industry, following similar efforts in resource nationalism among major producers of battery metals. Although implementation of the reforms is expected to be gradual and keep existing contracts intact, the decision stands to influence the political will and feasibility for other lithium producers to follow suit. In seeking to indigenize and retain a greater portion of the value chain in their mining sector, the policies instituted by Chile and other lithium producers have significant implications for the global energy market as demand for electric vehicles and renewable infrastructure soars.

At present, Chile possesses the worlds largest lithium reserves and is the 2^nd largest producer, behind Australia. In its return to resource nationalism, Chile seeks to secure its domestic supply and maximize revenue generation from this strategic resource, positioning itself as a leading player in the global battery metals market. Santiagos move toward greater state control of critical minerals precedes a similar phased plan for copper nationalization dating back to the 1950s and ending with the military coup in 1973 that removed the left-wing government of then-President Salvador Allende.

The post Chile Announces Plan to Nationalize Lithium Industry appeared first on Geopolitical Monitor.

Europe is joining a number of other regions on the planet in suffering a prolonged water crisis; and it is one that shows little sign of abating. To this can be added the near catastrophic conditions that exist in other parts of the globe, where ready and secure access to water supplies is more aspiration than reality.

Since 2018, according to satellite data analysed by researchers from the Institute of Geodesy at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), the continent has been enduring increasingly dire drought conditions. Groundwater levels have been, according to the institute, low, despite the occasional dramatic flooding event. Even through winter, there has been no relief.

In a piece published in Geophysical Research Letters, Eva Boergens and her fellow authors picked up on sharp water shortages in Central Europe during the summer months of 2018 and 2019. In the summer months of 2018, Central and Northern Europe experienced exceptionally dry conditions [] with parts of Central Europe receiving less than 50% of the long-time mean precipitation.

In July and August that year, vicious heatwaves aided in inducing drought conditions. Much the same pattern was repeated in 2019: below-average precipitation, beating heatwaves in June and July. The consequences for such deficits in water, the authors note, are severe to agricultural productivity, forest management, and industrial production, with the latter cut back by disrupted transport on inland waterways due to extremely low water levels. Levels since have barely risen.

The researchers from TU Graz also note the bleak picture from prolonged drought, one all too familiar to those inhabiting dry swathes of land on such continents as Africa and Australia. The dry riverbed and bodies of stagnant water are becoming more common features of the European landscape. Aquatic species are losing their habitats and ecological disruption is becoming the norm.

From the human perspective, the water crisis has also encouraged an energy shortage. The French nuclear industry has prominently struggled with inadequate supply, even in the face of a parliamentary bill to accelerate the construction of new reactors. As Marine Tondelier, national secretary of Europe Ecologie-Les Verts (EELV, Greens), declared on March 7, Once and for all, lets say it, simply and firmly: at this rate, there will soon not be enough water in our rivers to cool the nuclear power plants!

In Spain, the countrys weather service, Aemet, has concluded that the situation....

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Psychiatric treatment and psychiatric drugs are the common denominator of the growing number of shootings and other acts of violence, which are soaring right along with the soaring prescribing of psych drugs. Killers on Psych Drugs

Heres a question that every American should be able to answer: What percentage of the killersthat have carried out mass shootings across the United Stateswere on powerful psychiatric medications?

• a1%
• b25%
• c50%
• d75% or more

Why dont we know the answer to this question? Doesnt the United States have more mass shootings than any country in the world?

• Yes, it does.

And arent these shootings the source of great suffering and anxiety?

• Yes, they are.

And dont most people genuinely want to know why these lone gunman feel compelled to kill innocent people?

• Yes, they do.

Then, why dont we know? Whyafter more than two decades of these bloody incidentsdo we still not have a definitive, thoroughly-researched answer to this one simple question: How many of these mentally-disturbed killers were on dangerous psychiatric medications?

Instead, the media pursues a line of inquiry that fails to reveal anything even remotely conclusive about the gunmans actions. If white supremacy or Nazi ideology impacted the killers decision to go on a deadly shooting spree in Texas, then why didnt he target a black community center or a Jewish synagogue? Wouldnt that have been more consistent with his alleged ideology?

Yes, it would have been, which suggests that his alleged ideology is a symptom of his fragile mental condition not the primary factor driving his behavior. The reason these people go on crazed killing sprees is because they are damaged goods not because they are ideologues. Theres a big difference.

So, why does the media keep harping on this silly the idea that the killers behavior was effected by his feelings about white supremacy or Nazi ideology? Its ridiculous, after all, the killer was not white himself nor were his victims racially targeted. They were merely random passersby strolling through a shoppi...

Winters gone. Springs almost up. The Autonomous Shelter Network is still here.

The question remains, for how long?

Having made it through Christmas, Ramadan, and Easter the answer seems clearer for the Autonomous Winter Shelter in Shadwell. In a blend of unprecedented yet signature authoritarianism, the Metropolitan Police have circumvented the courts.

On the 30th of April they posted a letter to the Shelter filled with tedious claims of the premises not being protected under Section 144 of the LASPO. The vagueness of their legal reasoning or lack thereof, matched only by the clarity of their ultimatum.

If you do not vacate t...

QUESTION: Allison Schrager at Bloomberg claimed that AI does a great job finding solutions based on existing rules and information. But its less suited for finding novel solutions to new problems. Somehow, this does not seem to apply to Socrates for there are no new problems anyway. Am I correct that Socrates will find new solutions?

GU

ANSWER: Yes, you are correct. However, Socrates has a database that is unprecedented and cost tens of millions of dollars to assemble. It can find solutions that are certainly not mainstream and may appear to be revolutionary but in fact, may have taken place even 2,000 years ago.

Socrates is NOT a Neutral Net. This is something I created from scratch. I put myself into this system. I had to teach Socrates how to analyze. I did not create some open AI and let it develop in some unknown manner. This is not Chat GPT where it is searching the net to come up with answers to what is the name of Lady GaGas dog.

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QUESTION: The rumor was that you were considering coming to London to hold a quick update WEC. Is there any chance of that?

WJ

ANSWER: You have good sources. Yes, I was considering that. Since the UK has insanely crossed Putins red line by sending Ukraine long-range Storm Shadow missiles to use in its fighting against Russia, I am not sure London is a viable place anymore.  Ukraine is NOT trustworthy. Why do they need long-range missiles unless they intend to attack Moscow? Germany sunk the Lusitania because the US was secretly sending arms on passenger ships to London. Britain has made that mistake with Ukraine.

Britain has just put its own national security and its citizens at risk all for what? This war would NEVER have taken place if the West did not lie and simply honored the Minsk Agreement and let those people in the Donbas, which are Russian, not Ukrainian, decide their own future. That was OK for Kiev, but not the Russians?

Those in the Donbas had a basic human right to vote on their own future. This is a war against Russia to conquer it. Handing these missiles to Ukraine will provoke Russia and would even justify attacking Britain according to the basic rules of war. They use these to attack Moscow, and Russia would be justified to attack London. This is a BS war that was to destroy Russia from the start.

The British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told lawmakers in the House of Commons that Storm Shadow missiles are now going into or are in Ukraine, but he did not say how many Britain was planning to send.

I love London. I miss it very much. But the British government is out of its mind putting all of Britain at risk for Ukraine? These people making these decisions are just Neocons who love war all the time.

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Indonesias biofuel program was supposed to be a boon for small farmers. But although the countrys biodiesel production has skyrocketed, many farmers complain that the program hasnt benefited them. Farmers are still struggling to become part of the biodiesel supply chain, which is dominated by large palm oil firms. How can the situation be addressed? Cellulosic ethanol could be the answer. Cellulosic ethanol is derived from plant fibers, which are generally composed of cellulose. Indonesias palm oil industry, the worlds largest, produces huge volumes of leftover plant residues such as palm trunks, empty palm fruit bunches and palm press fiber. With advanced technology, these raw materials can be turned into ethanol that can be blended with gasoline. Last year, President Joko Widodo announced plans to expand Indonesias sugar cultivation area to 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres), part of a bid to boost development of renewable sugar-based ethanol and wean the country of excessive petroleum consumption. But with vacant land often hard to come by in a nation of some 280 million people, my organization, the International Council on Clean Transportation, believes cellulosic ethanol could serve as an alternative. Straw waste can be used as raw material for cellulosic ethanol. Photo: Falahi Mubarok for Mongabay Indonesia. Our recent study on cellulosic ethanol found Indonesia has high potential to develop the industry, capable of producing up to 2 million kiloliters (528 million gallons) per year from palm residues alone. Currently, Indonesia exports these residues to countries like Japan, which imports palm kernelThis article was originally published on Mongabay

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is facing criticism from the United States Chamber of Commerce over its lack of clarity regarding which digital assets are securities under federal law. This issue has immense implications for every person involved in the $1 trillion digital-asset economy, a court filing by the Chamber states.

According to the filing, the SEC has refused to engage in any systematic process or rulemaking to explain what its claimed authority means, instead offering one-off enforcement actions and public speeches. This has created regulatory uncertainty and destabilized the regulatory environment for digital assets.

In July 2022, Coinbase petitioned the SEC to initiate a rulemaking regarding digital-asset securities. It urged the Commission to answer basic questions such as "which digital assets are securities?" More than 1,700 commenters echoed Coinbase's call, but the SEC expressed no interest in addressing Coinbase's request, according to the Chamber. Coinbase then pursued a lawsuit against the SEC in order to compel the regulator into action, which is where the filing by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce comes from.

The SEC's Chairman has asserted that the securities laws are unambiguous as applied to blockchain-based digital assets. Despite constructively denying Coinbase's petition, the SEC has refused to memorialize its decision in a formal response.

According to the Chamber, the SEC's lack of clarity has caused economic harm to both Coinbase and the broader business community. The uncertainty deters productive conduct and stifles innovation and undermines broader American economic and strategic interests. Continued uncertainty also has implications for the nation's geopolitical interests and the continued primacy of the dollar, given the increasing relevance of digital assets to international monetary policy.

The SEC's refusal to engage in rulemaking or respond to Coinbase's rulemaking petition has destabilized the regulatory environment for digital assets, the Chamber states.

Agencies ordinarily provide regulatory clarity by promulgating rules of general applicability, the filing says. This preference for rulemaking has important benefits: It forces agencies to put to paper their regulatory plans, and it provides for fixed, prospective effective dates that ensure...

The stock of Bud Light parent company Anheuser-Busch has been downgraded by analysts at HSBC who say the brand is in the midst of a "crisis" following the outcry over its ties to transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Carlos Laboy, a managing director at HSBC's global beverage sector, downgraded the stock of Anheuser-Busch InBev to a hold status meaning that investors should neither buy or sell shares of the company. Laboy said that the backlash to the Mulvaney branding partnership is a sign that there are "deeper problems than ABI admits," according to a note that was first reported by CNBC. "Is ABI's leadership getting the brand culture transformation right? It's mixed," Laboy wrote in a note that was published on Wednesday. "At Ambev, we think the answer is 'yes;' in the US, we think it's 'no'," Laboy wrote.

The Biden Administration has announced that its insane vaccine requirements for government employees and international travellers will finally end on May 11th, when the American pandemic state of emergency expires. The WHO has likewise declared that COVID-19 "no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern". Three years and two months after it all started, the last remaining participants in the Covid circus are finally folding up their tables and going home. It's worth asking why now, because by any objective measure, there has been no virus activity worthy of the words 'pandemic' or 'emergency' for a very long time. The answer seems to be the failure of Corona to return in the winter, as long-absent influenza succeeded in suppressing Corona infections (in accordance with my prediction), and the increasing disinterest of the public in obtaining official test results has put all virus statistics in the toilet. They're ending it now, in other words, not...

Is there a link between Psychiatric Meds and Mass Shootings? Here's a question that every American should be able to answer: What percentage of the killers that have carried out mass shootings across the United States were on powerful psychiatric medications? a 1% b 25% c 50% d 75% or more Why don't we know the answer to this question? Doesn't the United States have more mass shootings than any country in the world? Yes, it does. And aren't these shootings the source of great suffering and anxiety? Yes, they are. And don't most people genuinely want to know why these lone gunman feel compelled to kill innocent people? Yes, they do.

In April, Israels Foreign Affairs Ministry launched a program training high school students to boost the countrys image online. However, as global awareness grows of Israels human rights violations, the government is turning teenagers into its own personal troll army to combat the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movements efforts on social media.

Disguised as an academic initiative preparing students for the public diplomacy field, the program, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), will operate as a pilot for two years and begin in September. In the first year, it will target 10th graders and then add 11th and 12th graders in its second year.

According to the MFA: this task force of teenagerswill respond to the public relations and propaganda of radical elements, with extreme ideologies against the State of Israel and antisemitism in general.

The ministry did not respond to MintPress News inquiries about why it targets high school students or how much funding the project will receive.

Instead of shifting the status quo, Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP), told MintPress News that the program is just another futile attempt by Israel and its lobby to dissuade criticism. Friedman continued,

This is consistent with the longstanding talking point of much of the U.S. pro-Israel leadership and the Israeli government, which says, Dont worry about what were doing. Worry about how youre going to sell it.

Rather than look inward, Israel is instead trying to shift outside perspective. The answer to criticism of Israel for its policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians isnt to examine those policies and change them. Its to do a better job changing the subject to things that are positive about Israel or de-legitimizing the critics, Friedman said.

David Miller, a British sociologist and expert on propaganda, explained that Israel is taking this approach as its reputation across the globe sours.

Israel has been poisoned internationally for many years now, he said, adding,

Israel is at a point of great weakness. They see that themselves ministers and ex-heads of Shin Bet [Israels security agency] are unsure if Israel can last. And so its a desperation because they realize that the tide of opinion is against them.

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The MFAs new program is part of a long string of hasbara initiatives the government pushes. Hasbara, which means explanation in Hebrew, is an Israeli government...