RETRACTED. Another article on that bogus Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria nonsense has been pulled from the literature.

The usual suspects are all outraged at this rebuke. The odious Colin Wright wrote an article damning the journal he claims the retraction was over a minor, inconsistently applied technicality.

The technicality? Informed consent. Very minor. Totally unimportant. I dont know why we even bother.

For those unfamiliar with this slop, the assessment of the psychological state of young trans people was obtained by soliciting self-reports from their parents, parents recruited from web sites where people obsessed with trans issues gather. All their data was gathered from an anti-trans website! Its as if someone looked up the parents of scientists by finding their posted comments on Answers in Genesis, and then came to the conclusion that all evilutionists were formed by resentment of their pastors and association with god-hating school clubs, and determined that scientists were all pathological basket-cases.

I dont know how it got published in the first place. The authors are openly biased, they pulled all their data from an openly biased website, and they even admit in the paper that there is a chance their results were biased, and somehow, it got accepted anyway. Surprise, if you poll posters to a site called ParentsOfROGDKids, youll get testimonials to the existence of ROGD.

Another surprise: they even say in the paper that The initial purpose of the survey was not for scientific publication, but information gathering for a community of parents with shared concerns. Then, what the hell, they published it anyway.

Oh, and if you want to know where one of the authors, J. Michael Bailey (hey, I also mentioned him yesterday) is coming from, this might help:

Jamaica is a global producer of bauxite, a critical material used to produce aluminum. The Caribbean island, most well-known globally for its vibrant tourism industry, has exploited this red dirt for decades. While the industry remains profitable, there has been significant push-back recently, including a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling against a new mining project.

The importance of Red Dirt

In 2022, Jamaicas bauxite production totaled 7,048kt, up 22% from 2021, and the Caribbean island accounts for 2% of global bauxite production. The major global producers are Australia, China, Guinea, Brazil, and India; Jamaica hovers around the 10th place according to Statista, though other outlets put Jamaica in the seventh spot.

The top mining projects on the island are the St. Ann Bauxite Mine (owned by the government of Jamaica and New Day Aluminium), Windalco Mine (owned by United Company Rusal), and Alpart Project (owned by Jiuquan Iron and Steel: JISCO). In late 2021, United Company RUSAL (UC RUSAL) began making payments towards the US$35 million Bauxite Production Levy owed for the April 2018 to September 2021 period. In early June 2023, Mining Minister Floyd Green met with JISCO Alpart to discuss the companys plans for the reopening and resumption of plant operations, which has been stalled since 2019.

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Depositors smash Lebanese banks demanding their money back Follow us on Odysee: https://t.co/gMbz1a2E5x pic.twitter.com/1GZf7oEPrB RT (@RT_com) June 16, 2023

Tony Windsor could be a respectable retired former MP. Instead hes an old dickhead on twitter.

Every family deserves their home to be a safe haven. However, there are often hidden hazards hiding in plain sight. While some household hazards are obvious and next to impossible to miss, the real danger lurks in those less obvious hazards that so many of us overlook.

Today, well discuss 5 of the most common hidden dangers around the home, and what you can do to eliminate them. Lets begin.

Old Lead Paint

If your home was built before 1970, theres a very good chance that lead paint was used on your walls. Even if your home has been repainted, it could still be lurking a few coats deep. The recommended amount of lead in domestic paint has dropped from 50% in 1965 to 0.1% in 1997 due to toxicity, and is especially harmful to children, pregnant women and unborn babies.

While well-maintained lead paint thats in good condition doesnt pose any hazards, its if it begins to flake or chalk that the trouble begins. It can also be very hazardous when its on surfaces that are exposed to high amounts of friction, such as windows, doors or railings. People renovating their homes are in the most danger when it comes to lead exposure, so if you suspect your home has any traces of lead paint do not attempt to amend the issue yourself. Instead, hire professional painters who will know how to safely remove lead paint and replace it with a lead-free alternative.

Radon

Radon is a naturally occurring gas, and can often find its way into your home through cracks in your foundations, gaps surrounding your pipes or wall joints. While its found in all homes at some level, if the levels are too high then it can release radioactive particles and cause damage to the lung tissue.

Radon is tasteless, odourless and colourless, meaning that the only way to assess its levels is through a radon test kit. If you find that the levels in your home are too high for comfort, the best way to fix this is often through improving ventilation and sealing cracks found in your foundation.

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)

If youre buying new furniture, painting your walls or installing new carpet, chances are that these upgrades are bringing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into your home along with them. These VOCs, such as methylene, benzene, toluene and xylene, can release gas into the air that can cause headaches, cold-like symptoms and nausea in the short-term and cancer, liver and kidney damage and central nervous system damage in the long-term.

The best way to avoid harmful exposure to VOCs is to buy either VOC-free or low-VOC products, or ventilating any rooms where upgrades have been made for at least a w...

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Which came first, the Vatican or the Bank?

According to the current official version, the bank was created by Papal decree in 1942, an interesting enough choice, but even moreso since Jewish Holocaust survivors attempted to sue the bank in 1999, but were defeated by sovereign immunity.

The name was reconfigured to the Institute for Religious Works and running along the lines of any other Foundation it recently funded a statue of Moloch, potentially more than one.

This modern Vatican Bank seems to have been created not only for immediate World War II wealth-shifting circumstances but also to fulfil a need, to solidify all the centuries of swirling speculations into something concrete and of course sanitised, another bait and switch.

What of the past?

Out of the turmoil of the slowly decaying Roman Empire, with its cherished hegemony being eroded by silversmiths everywhere, its mercenaries becoming fickle and disloyal, its leadership losing its edge and sanity in equal measures, Emperor Constantine the Great (2...

PharmaFiles By Aussie17 June 15, 2023

Hold onto your seats, folks, because a few hours ago, Daniel Horowitz from Conservative Review unleashed Pfizers Post Marketing Adverse Event Report [SOURCE].

The numbers were staggering, with 1.6 million adverse events jumping off the page. But guess what? The actual report from Pfizer is even more shocking.

It seems like Daniel may have reported the figures for the report interval, covering the period between December 2021 and June 2022. However, when you dig into the cumulative data from December 2020 to June 2022, the adverse event count skyrockets to almost 5 million. Talk about a jaw-dropping revelation!

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If youre curious about the nitty-gritty details, check out the tabulation of Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events. What you really want to focus on is the C column, which represents the cumulative cases from December 2020 to June 2022. This column reveals the serious adverse events, including those categorized as Death, Life Threatening, or resulting in Disability/Permanent Damage. You can read the full definition from FDA here)

Heres the link to the tabulation of Serious and Non-Serious Adverse Events.

Heres an example of Neoplasms (i.e. malignant neoplasms means cancer).

Total neoplasms reported = 3092.

The Financial Times has reviewed my book, The Palestine Laboratory, and it feels like 7/10. Written by journalist Mehul Srivastava, I disagree with many of his criticisms but thats the life of an author.

Heres the intro:

Warfare is, among many things, a spectacular advertisement for weapons, especially in the age of television. Having watched Israels Iron Dome missiles streak over Tel Aviv hunting down Hamas rockets, the Ukrainian government contacted its Israeli counterpart last October, hoping to buy the air defence system to fend off the Iranian drones swarming their skies.

If theyd read Antony Loewensteins The Palestine Laboratory, they would have known not to bother. The tiny countrys weapons exports, which hit just over $11bn in 2021, are a means to an end, he argues. Despots and dictators are welcome to them, so long as they serve a geopolitical necessity.

Read the whole thing: The Israeli weapons and spyware falling into the hands of despots | Financial Times

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To the LGBTQI+ Community the Biden-Harris Administration has your back. pic.twitter.com/ZlUNwWOcch

The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 13, 2023

President Joe Biden admitted the truth the government is claiming your children as their own.

Speaking on his favorite topic, the LGBTQ community, Biden addressed the nation in a disturbing video posted on Twitter that states:

To the LGBTQI+ Community the Biden-Harris Administration has your back. These are our kids. These are our neighbors. Not somebody elses kids; theyre all our kids. And our children are the kite strings that hold our national ambitions aloft. It matters a great deal how we treat everyone in this country. LGBTQ Americans, especially children, you are loved, you are heard, and this administration has your back.

Hillary Clinton has a famous line that says it takes a village to raise children, and everyone cheered, thinking she meant having a strong community. Now, the Democrats are taking it further than any leader would go other than perhaps Kim Jung-Un. Well, I am not sure that he would even permit childhood castration. The American public schools want to indoctrinate your children from an early age. This is why they are refusing to listen to the parents who are pleading with teachers not to teach their kindergarteners about pronouns and sex. The government under Biden is passing laws permitting children to make life-altering decisions without their parents consent. In fact, they are working to punish parents who do not cave to the woke agenda. The government is taking away parental rights entirely.

They are not your kids, Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted in reply. You are the government. They are NOT your kids, Elon Musk tweeted in a message that now has over 416K likes. This should concern everyone. Bidens message was specifically targeting troubled youth. Feel misunderstood by your parents after years of education indoctrination? Turn to the government to be your family.

Sorry, but Biden failed to raise his own kids. STAY AWAY FROM OUR KIDS.

@republicanrefl...

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Writer and author Naomi Klein has written a new column in the Guardian about the US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr where she methodically debunks his populist appeal.

Im grateful for her mention, when discussing Kennedys blind embrace of Israel, of my new book:

Myth #3: He is anti-war and pro-human rights.

Kennedy is most persuasive when opposing US military intervention abroad, or when he is discussing the humanitarian cost of the war in Ukraine, and calling for a peaceful settlement. But how seriously should we take his pacifism and human rights concerns? One hint rests in the blanket supporthe offers the Israeli government, one of the top recipients of aid from the US military industrial complex he decries, and a nation consistently unwilling to entertain peace with justice, while escalating tensions with Iran. Have a look at Antony Loewensteins latest, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, for an indispensable accounting.

This position alone should cause Kennedys supporters to question his supposedly antiwar, anti-surveillance stance. So should his increasingly reactionary position on border controls. Kennedy talks a good game condemning the US for overthrowing democratically elected governments abroad and destabilizing entire regions.

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Australians are working harder for less under Anthony Albanese and his government. pic.twitter.com/CaKYJEfKSQ Peter Dutton (@PeterDutton_MP) June 15, 2023

In the finest traditions of The Regiment: Had anyone of us been wounded, that would have been the end, as we would never have left a mate behind. With sadness we received the news of the passing of Michael Ruffin OAM. Joining the Australian Army at 18 years old, Mr...

The growing public distrust of the mainstream media is an issue that should concern all living and breathing citizens (and yes, there are often good reasons for it).

Its an issue I discuss in this interview on The Jist podcast along with my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, and mass surveillance.

I previously appeared on The Jist in 2020 talking about disaster capitalism.

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Israeli company Cellebrite sells a phone hacking tool thats ubiquitous across the world including in Australia.

Its an issue I investigate in my new book, The Palestine Laboratory.

Heres my interview with ABC Radio Australia in Sydney and Canberra where I discuss Cellebrite and other mass surveillance tools that exist in the West with barely any public awareness.

The interview starts at 1:19:53.

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What Is Our Relationship With "Dirt"?

Big surprise (or not)! Dirt is everywhere! We assume that we in the West are living "clean" lives but if you look at the air on a sunny day in New York where I am you will see an extremely dense cloud of dust!

Seeing that, if we then got motivated enough to analyze what is going into our lungs as we go about our day "on the town," wed probably faint. What are those dust particles made of? Bits from garbage dumps? Car tires and wall paint? Other pedestrians hair and skin? Microplastics from masks? Geoengineering sprays?

Whatever the composition, we are breathing it all in and amazingly, we just keep walking like Energizer bunnies. Personally, I consider it a major compliment to how resilient and beautiful our bodies are!

By the way, just in case, let me make it clear: the dramatic description of dust was not an advertisement for smart masks, lol although I imagine that soon enough the WEF crowd will use the fact of tremendous air pollution as a "reason" to try and dress us all up in smart cattlewear. And why wouldnt they? They quite love cattlewear on peasants, so ...

Back to dust. It turns out that dust has some pretty "interesting" stuff in it. According to a 2009 report by NPR, to this day, some dust contains DDT, despite the chemical being banned decades ago. And according to this 2021 Conversation article, some dust is natural, coming from rocks, soils and even space. At the same time, the DustSafe program in Australia, for example, revealed that house dust could contain substances like these:

• Trace metals
• Radioactive elements
• Antibiotic resistant genes (genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics)
• Microplastics and
• Perfluorinated chemicals (PFAS) found in fire-fighting foams, stain and water protection for fabrics and carpets, some packaging and other sources

As they say, sometimes, innocence is bliss .....

Editor's Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published April 29, 2018.

Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have been shown to cause biological damage and even cancer, but exactly how does this happen? In this interview, Paul Hroux, Ph.D., a researcher and professor of toxicology and health effects of electromagnetism at the faculty of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, helps answer that question.

Originally trained as a physicist, he eventually ended up studying electrical power transmission lines, the topic of his Ph.D., and in the course of working for a power utility, he started investigating the health effects associated with the fields emitted from power lines.

"I got involved in biology, followed courses in medicine and became, so to speak, a different person from what my supervisors initially would have expected me to be," he says. In time, he became a specialist on the effects of magnetic fields on the human body, and joined the Faculty of Medicine to help protect health and the environment.

Types of EMFs

Broadly speaking, EMFs include electric, magnetic and radio frequency fields. While the literature tends to discriminate between low-frequency fields, high-frequency fields, microwaves, electric fields and magnetic fields, all of these have certain commonalities that allow you to lump them together, at least in terms of their biological action.

"It's true that frequency influences the effects," Hroux says, "but basically I could, using an electric field or a magnetic field, produce the same effect in a cell. Most higher frequency signals have enough low-frequency components to have a lot in common with low-frequency components.

The practical aspect of this is that usually the fields have an effect maybe in one application, but they are mirrored in other applications as well. There's a type of great unifying view that you can have about these fields."

Nonthermal Effects Matter

It's important to realize that the damage EMFs cause has nothing to do with thermal effects. At typical exposures, EMFs do not create heat, which has been the telecommunication industry's main defense and argument for the safety of cellphone radiation. However, hundreds of researchers have in fact noted biological effects both at low and high frequencies.

"Covering the whole spectrum, there is no doubt that there are biological effects," Hroux says, adding "There's no doubt there are substantial health effects that we have been experiencing for a long time, and that have been increasing our health bills.

Initially,...

Already temporarily removed from a divorce case, Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze is slated to answer new allegations by June 22.

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German industrial company K+S has submitted a proposal to build a saltworks in the Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia. Reaction from conservationists opposed to the 2,600 square kilometre project by the worlds largest salt company has been swift. The plan is to produce 4.7 million tonnes of salt per year in the nationally listed wetland, one of the last undisturbed arid-zone wetland ecosystems along the coast.

Salt ponds walls will be built over the nationally listed wetlands, which could disrupt the ecosystems nutrient flows via tidal or flood waters into the gulf and disrupt the marine food chain.

Photo by Andre Rerekura: Urala Creek at the top of the Exmouth Gulf will be part of the development footprint

The proposal has bee submitted to the environment Protection Authority (EPA). Almost 15 years ago, the EPA rejected a similar project, because the evidence suggested the environmental harm could be serious. This time the company has enlisted the support of dome local business interests and managed to get an agreement from some local First Nations people, and the outcome is not certain.

Opponents say the K+S plan will risk the discharge of toxic hypersaline water from the salt ponds, which will kill highly sensitive mangroves and harm marine animals, such as critically endangered sawfish and shovelnose rays living in the nearby creeks and marine waters.

Rejection of the earlier project resulted in a set of recommendations. They led the McGowen government to introduce protective measures for the region, which included the establishment of a new marine park for the eastern and southern parts of the Gulf, and A status for areas of significance. This was a recognition of the need to protect the Exmouth Gulf. The K+S proposal flies in the face of this.

Local conservation group Protect Ningaloo wants to see the project stopped. Its director, Paul Gamblin, said it poses too many risks to the local environment.

And people suck, too.  Something I was reminded of today, disaster from 1973:

Last Tree of Tnr

The Tnr wastelands of northeastern Niger were once populated by a forest of trees. By the 20th century, desertification had wiped out all but one solitary acacia.

The Tree of Tnr, as it came to be called, had no companions for 400 kilometers in every direction. Its roots reached nearly 40 meters deep into the sand.

The tree had become a sacred object among the nomadic Tuareg people that would pass by it on their journeys, never using it for firewood, or allowing their camels to graze on it. As more desert explorers came across the shockingly hardy plant, it became quite well known and was even included as a landmark on European military maps of the otherwise desolate expanse during the 1930s. When Michel Lesourd of the Central Service of Saharan Affairs first came upon the tree in 1939, he wrote:

One must see the Tree to believe its existence. What is its secret? How can it still be living in spite of the multitudes of camels which trample at its sides? How at each azalai does not a lost camel eat its leaves and thorns? Why dont the numerous Touareg leading the salt caravans cut its branches to make fires to brew their tea? The only answer is that the tree is taboo and considered as such by the caravaniers. There is a kind of superstition, a tribal order which is always respected. Each year the azalai gather round the Tree before facing the crossing of the Tnr. The Acacia has become a living lighthouse; it is the first or the last landmark for the azalai leaving Agadez for Bilma, or returning.

The Most Isolated Tree in the World Was Killed by a (Probably Drunk) Driver

For around 300 years, the Tree of Tnr was fabled to be the most isolated tree on the planet. The acacia was the only tree for 250 miles in Nigers Sahara desert, and was used as a landmark by travelers and caravans passing through the hostile terrain. The tree sprouted when the desert was a slightly more hospitable place, and for years was the sole testament to a once-greener Sahara.

In the 1930s, the tree was featured on official maps for European military campaigners, and a French ethnologist Henri Lhote called it, an Acacia with a degenerative trunk, sick or ill in aspect. But he noted, as well, that nevertheless, the tree has nice green leaves, and some yellow...

New research has found that five key shark species found in reef habitats are at higher risk of extinction than previously thought, mainly due to overfishing. Published in Science, the study indicates that gray reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus), whitetip reef sharks (Triaenodon obesus), nurse sharks (Ginglymostoma cirratum) and Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) declined by 60-73% across the world. As these sharks have disappeared from reefs, rays have begun to take over, except in places where both sharks and rays are being depleted, according to the study. This research builds upon a 2020 study in Nature that found that sharks were functionally extinct from about 20% of the worlds coral reefs. That [Nature] study basically grouped all of the sharks that occur on coral reefs together in one group and looked at what was going on, Colin Simpfendorfer, lead author of the new study and adjunct professor of marine and aquaculture science at James Cook University in Australia, told Mongabay. What weve done with this study is weve actually broken it down into individual species so we could look at what is happening to communities of sharks and rays. A reef shark visiting a baited underwater video station in the Caribbean. Image by Global Fin Print. Early results of the study were used to update the status of four of the shark species on the IUCN Red List: the gray reef shark and Caribbean reef shark are now listed as endangered, and the blacktip reefThis article was originally published on Mongabay

By Tony Kevin | Consortium News | June 13, 2023

Canberra On Friday The Guardian Australia website carried a news report, with a follow-up piece on Monday, whose implications for free speech are profoundly disturbing.

They concern a Radio New Zealand, or RNZ, broadcasting employee unnamed, but everyone in the small New Zealand broadcasting world will soon know who it is who has been placed on leave while their professional conduct is investigated.  Obviously, a career hangs in the balance.

The malign ghosts of Orwells 1984 stalk this story.

Russian Garbage

This unnamed person in RNZ committed the cardinal sin of inappropriate editing of incoming Reuters news feeds on the war in Ukraine to insert Russian garbage in the contemptuous words of Paul Thompson, chief executive of RNZ. That is to say, they drew on Russian news sources to insert balancing pro-Russian material to the incoming Western news agency feeds.

The Guardian tells us that in fact accurate information about Ukraine was added to the Reuters copy:

The articles in question made a range of amendments: adding the word coup to describe the Maidan revolution; changing a description of Ukraines former pro-Russian president to read pro-Russian elected government; adding references to a pro-western government that had suppressed ethnic Russians; and on several occasions adding references to Russian concerns about neo-Nazi elements in Ukraine.

And more truth was added to the story, The Guardian says:

In one article, a paragraph was added reading: The Kremlin also said its invasion was sparked by a failure to implement the Minsk agreement peace accords, designed to give Russia speakers autonomy and protection, and the rise of a neo-Nazi element in Ukraine since a coup ousted a Russian-friendly Ukrainian government in 2014.

Another added that Russia launched its invasion claiming that a US-backed coup in 2014 with the help of neo-Nazis had created a threat to its borders and had ignited a civil war that saw Russian-speaking minorities persecuted.

This, it seems, is an offence not...

The Charge of the Light Brigade was a catastrophic military action of the Crimean War in which a British error of judgment ordered cavalry to gallop directly into Russian artillery. 

This fatal mishap of 1854, costing casualties of two-thirds of the brigade, caught the imagination of the Victorians, who couldnt stop obsessing about it. The calamity inspired a popular poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and eventually three films (made in 1912, 1936, and 1968).  

Americans tend to celebrate success, such as the raising of the flag over Iwo Jima in World War II, or the storming of the Normandy beaches on D-Day (along with British and Australian support). 

More recently, American success has been equated with money, represented by such films as Air, which touted the triumph of Nike in marketing the Air Jordan shoe, netting the company (and namesake Michael Jordan) billions of dollars. This monetary windfall is heralded in an end-credit crawl with solemn pomp, as if the company had vanquished cancer or solved the climate crisis.

But the British continue to have a curious relationship with national failure or personal mishap. They have their heroic moments, such as when Winston Churchill intoned his inspiring speeches during the Blitz, the subject of countless books and films. But youll just as likely find a movie about a king stuttering, going mad, or getting his head cut off.

Other films have celebrated General Gordon, who was beheaded........

For the first time ever, solar and wind components made in the U.S. are less expensive than imports, a new study by researchers from Dartmouth and Princeton has found.

The study estimated the impacts the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will have on the U.S. solar and wind industries. It looked at how it will change solar and wind manufacturing, job creation and labor standards for renewable energy workers and demand for materials.

The study reveals how the Inflation Reduction Act transforms the economics of wind and solar power to help delink our climate goals from overseas supply chains that are marred by labor abuses, higher levels of pollution, and shipping bottlenecks, said nonprofit BlueGreen Alliance Vice President of Manufacturing and Industrial Policy Ben Beachy in a press release from the organization. Instead, these new investments offer an opportunity to build our clean energy future on a foundation of good jobs, clean manufacturing, and a more reliable and equitable industrial base.

The report, Effects of Renewable Energy Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act on Technology Costs, Materials Demand, and Labor, was funded by a grant from BlueGreen Alliance, which helps unite labor unions with environmental organizations.

The report zeroed in on the potential effects of the IRAs 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Tax Credit, as well as the laws investment and green electricity production tax credits, the press release said.

The study found that developers of solar and wind will save big by using components manufactured in the U.S. while paying fair wages to workers.

<p><p><strong><em>Why Novaxx is the GOAT, and how will America flip the political coin between Trump and Biden scandals.</em></strong></p> <p>In this episode of the <a href= "https://tntradio.live/shows/patrick-henningsen-show/"><span class= "s1"><b>Patrick Henningsen Show</b></span></a> on TNT Radio which aired on June 12, 2023, Patrick talks with our roving correspondent for culture & sport, Basil Valentine, to discuss the incredible sporting achievement of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic and his 23 grand slam titles making him the GOAT, and among sports greatest ever competitor but also because hes Novaxx standing up to the Pharma fascists over the Covid vaccine mandate. Also, as Trump gets indicted by a corrupt FOJ, Joe Biden finds himself embroiled in a major bribery scandal in Ukraine. All this and more. <em>Listen:</em></p> <p><span class="mce_SELRES_start" style= "display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;"> </span></p> <p><strong><em>More from Basil:<br> <a href= "https://twitter.com/says_basil">Twitter</a></em></strong></p> <p><strong><img alt="" class="emoji" draggable="false" src= "https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/svg/25b6.svg"> TUNE-IN LIVE to TNT RADIO for the Patrick Henningsen Show every MON-FRI at 12PM-2PM (NEW YORK) | 5PM-7PM (LONDON) | 2AM-4AM (BRISBANE):<br></strong> <a href= "https://tntradio.live/"><strong>https://tntradio.live</strong></a></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">READ MORE COVID NEWS AT:</span> <a href= "https://21stcenturywire.com/tag/covid-19/">21st CENTURY WIRE COVID FILES</a></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: #000080;">ALSO JOIN OUR</span> <a href="https://t.me/My21wire">TELEGRAM CHANNEL</a></strong></p> <p><strong><em>SUPPORT OUR INDEPENDENT MEDIA PLATFORM  <a href="https://21wire.tv/membership/plans/">BECOME A MEMBER @21WIRE.TV</a><br></em></strong></p> <div class= "ad-480x320 adsanity-480x320 alignnone adsanity-alignnone" id= "ad-157532"> <div class="adsanity-inner"><a href= "https://21stcenturywire.com/ads/surfshark-vpn-for-in-content/" target="_bank" title= "Get Surfshark - Jaw Dropping Deals on Fast, Easy-to-Use VPN"><img alt="Get Surfshark - Jaw Dropping Deals on Fast, Easy-to-Use VPN" border="0" height="320" src= "http://feeds.feedburner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Surfshark-480x320-Spring.png" width="480"></a></div> </div> <p> </p></p>

The world can only hold its breath as NATO continues to play its dangerous game of Russian roulette. 

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 13, 2023, Patrick talks with former German and NATO military member, Markus Kraus, about the massive Air Defender 2023 and BALTOPS23 drills being run in Europe by NATO, and why this is extreme in light of the Wests escalation over Ukraine. All this and more. Listen:

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The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as E1.

Though Israeli construction in the East Jerusalem area has supposedly been halted under international pressure, the Israeli government has found ways to keep the plan alive.

It did so through constant expansion of the various settlements in the name of natural expansion, confiscation of Palestinian land and the ruthless yet routine demolition of Palestinian homes.

But why does Washington, Israels main defender and benefactor, oppose, at least verbally, the construction in E1 while turning a blind eye to illegal construction throughout the West Bank?

The answer lies in the fact that E1 will further expand the Jerusalem municipal boundaries, minimize any Palestinian demographic presence in the city (from the current 42 percent to about 20 percent), and prejudice any political solution that includes East Jerusalem.

East Jerusalem is a Palestinian city occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war. It is recognized by the United Nations and international law as part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel should have neither legal rights nor jurisdiction there.

Washington, which rarely cares about the rights of Palestinians, is concerned that, without East Jerusalem as part of the political equation, any discussion of a two-state solution will become forever obsolete.

In other words, the US is more worried about the political, not territorial, consequences of the Israeli decision. Indeed, the US entire political program in Palestine and Israel is situated within the two-state solution template. Without it, Washingtons role would cease to serve any purpose.

This is precisely why US Secretary of State Antony Blinken criticized Israeli settlements during his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) on June 5.

A farmer in Niger tends to a tree sprout growing among his millet crop. TONY RINAUDO / WORLD VISION AUSTRALIA

I am nearing the point where I can offer an update on the trees we have planted in advance of 1,000+ coffee plants going into the ground in their shade. Thanks to Fred Pearce, reporting in Yale E360, I have some inspiration coming from across the Atlantic on the broader value of those trees:

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Henry A. Murray has much to answer for. Between 1959 and 1961, the Harvard psychology academic, as the leader of a team of equally unprincipled academics, was responsible for conducting an CIA-funded experiment most unethical on twenty-two undergraduates. The individuals in question were pseudonymised. One particularly youthful figure, named Lawful, was the mathematically gifted Theodore John Kaczynski.

A central theme of the experiments was examining the effects of stress, characterised by what Murray called vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive attacks. Ideals and beliefs were assailed; egos pulverised. For Murray, this came naturally. He had cut his teeth designing psychological screening tests for the forerunner to the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services. It was perfect preparation for what came to be known as Multiform Assessments of Personality Development Among Gifted College Men.

Kaczynski was the less than grateful recipient of the higher end of the experiment. I had been talked or pressured, he told his attorney Michael Mello in August 1998, into participating in the Murray study against my better judgment. It is indisputable that he, along with other subjects, had been sufficiently deceived to be victims of a breach of experimental ethics known more commonly as the Nuremberg Code.

Drafted in the aftermath of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial of German concentration camp doctors, the code stressed the importance of informed consent. The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential, declared the judges responsible for formulating the code. The subject should also be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress

Kaczynski can hardly be said to go on to better things, but they were certainly bigger. In terms of notoriety, his position in the technology obsessed undergrowth of the United States was assured by his murderous and maiming efforts. His favourite method: the package bomb, 16 of which were mailed to his intended victims. Three people died; 23 were injured.

A central tenet of Kaczynskis thought was levelled at those complicit representatives of what he called the Industrial Society and its state manifestation. Far from being critical of power, its methods, and its wielding by bureaucrats and planners, its members were adjutants and prosecutors of a sinister agenda of behavioural control.

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 14, 2023

The Ukrainian blonde had the smell of trouble. She had perched herself, along with her mute friend, in a restaurant across from the famed South Melbourne Market. On arriving at

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[RECORDED MAY 20, 2023] via ChildrensHealthDefense.org: Where did the global biosecurity agenda come from? Where is it going, what was it intended to do? Was it hijacked, or was it always nefarious? How then do the IHR Amendments and Pandemic Treaty fit into this, and who were the funders? Dr. Meryl Nass and James Corbett continue their discussion in the 7th installment of their series on the WHO + One Health to answer these questions and more, with former WHO expert Dr. David Bell. Tune in!

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My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been very positively reviewed in the UK-based outlet, Middle East Eye, by Long Road Magazine co-founder and journalist Patrick O. Strickland:

As the Israeli colonisation of Palestine plods forward at a breakneck pace and its own facade of democracy trembles, Loewensteins book stands out as a new addition to the pantheon of important works of political reportage about Israels role in the world, and what toll especially for Palestinians that role may take.

Read the whole thing: The Palestine Laboratory: How technology helps Israel cosy up to the worlds autocrats | Middle East

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A key section in my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, is on the role of Israeli spyware and hacking tools. Israeli company Cellebrite is a major player and it has a large, mostly unheralded presence in Australia. Declassified Australia recently ran my investigation into the companys role in Australia (alongside an edited book extract.)

Heres my interview with The Briefing podcast in Australia, conducted by Antoinette Lattouf, on Israeli spyware and serious questions about how such tools challenge the very concept of privacy:

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From The Age. Only the political editor at the ABC would understand the scrutiny that comes with this role, Probyn said. It has been a tremendous privilege and I have worked with some wonderful people. I struggle to understand the direction the ABC is going in that it could consider...

The Long Road Magazine is a great, European-based outlet reporting on borders and borderlands.

I was recently interviewed by one of its co-founders, Patrick O. Strickland, about my new book, The Palestine Laboratory, with a particular focus on Israeli tech maintaining borders (in the EU and on the US/Mexico).

The wonderful sketch of me, published alongside the interview, is by Azza Abbaro.

Read the whole interview here: In Conversation: Antony Loewenstein on Israeli Technology on Global Borders Long Road Magazine

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QUESTION: Dear Sir,
With regard to your recent blog post [ https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/word-of-warning-they-cant-put-trump-in-prison-but-they-can-you-for-protesting/ ]
you included the ECM chart depicting the decline and fall of the United States.
You have an encyclopedic understanding of the cyclical rise and fall of empires.
Seeing as how the USA presently constitutes a veritable empire in most respects, are you able to comment on the synergy between an empire and its satellite constituents ie, do the ECMs for the Five Eyes nations synchronize with the United States, or do they diverge?
Regards
PK

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States demonstrates one thing the rest of the West is not included. Yet 2032 is more than just the culmination of the current 51.6-year wave of the Economic Confidenc...

The people have spoken with their dollars, and companies are now less likely to go woke. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) pushes the CEI (Corporate Equality Index), a companys social woke credit score. The Open Society Foundation, operated by the Soros family, funds the HRC. The ESG promotes a companys green social credit score, promoted by BlackRock and the World Economic Forum. Companies were 31% less likely to mention these absurd social scores during earnings calls this quarter, marking the steepest annual drop and the fifth consecutive quarter of declines.

Financial research platform AlphaSense polled companies from April 1 to June 5 to see where they stood. The easiest thing to do is just to stay out of the conversation and emphasize other facets of business that are going to be perceived as less controversial and more core to the traditional metrics of the business, said Jason Jay, senior lecturer of sustainability at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is the approach Berkshire Hathaway has taken under the lead of Warren Buffett, who refuses to answer these asinine surveys.

The National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative thinktank, states that companies are discarding their fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders by taking up social issues. They also claim that these companies are discriminating against those who do not share these far-left beliefs.

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The 2005 murder of German backpacker Simone Strobel at the Tourist Caravan Park in Lismore led to the extradition of her then boyfriend Tobias Moran (previously Suckfuell, he changed his name when he married) from Western Australia  on 27 July, 2022. He was charged with murder following a $1 million reward for information that led to a further investigation into the homicide of Simones suspected murder. 

However, the charges have now been dropped by the Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP). 

The naked body of 25 year old Ms Strobel was found on 17 February 2005 covered by palm fronds on a sports ground about 90 metres from the Tourist Caravan Park nowhere she had been staying with Mr Moran.

Ms Strobel had last been seen at the Caravan Park on Friday 11 February 2005, after a night out with her then-boyfriend and friends, said the NSW Police in a media release at the time. Her body was found s...

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The koala in NSW is predicted to become extinct by 2050. In response the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) was proposed and in 2020 the Department of Planning Industry and Environments (DPIE) identified 55,000 hectares of State Forests for addition to existing National Parks as the Great Koala National Park. 

At the time the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) spokesperson Dailan Pugh welcomed the news saying Its a step in the right direction.

During the NSW election the Labor Party committed $80 million to establish the GKNP which would connect 175,000 hectares of state forests with existing national parks, creating a nature reserve of more than 300,000 hectares according to the ABC. 

However, in the meantime the NSW Forestry Corporation, a government agency, continues to heavily log areas that are proposed for the GKNP. Local communities have, and continue, to actively block their logging attempts of these native forests.

Boambee State Forest on the western edge of Coffs Harbour, that is proposed to be part of the GKNP, is today being blocked from logging by activist Ella, a forest protector, who is 100 feet up a tree in a secured tree-sit in Boambee State Forest.  

Initial amendments to Australias federal public sector whistleblowing law, the Public Interest Disclosure Act, are a welcome step towards much-needed comprehensive reform, Australias leading whistleblowing experts said today.

The Human Rights Law Centre, Griffith University and Transparency International Australia said they were pleased the Government and all parties had listened to their joint submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee about significant problems with the initial bill, and made substantial improvements, now accepted by the Senate.

The Public Interest Disclosure Amendment (Review) Bill implements five aspects of reform one in full and four in part of the 21 elements outlined in Protecting Australias Whistleblowers: The Federal Roadmap, published last year by the three organisations.

Alongside the pending establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission,  Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus KC has committed to a second, wider phase of PID Act reform later this year. The government has also agreed to consult on the establishment of a whistleblower protection authority, with a discussion paper expected in the coming months.

Kieran Pender, Senior Lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre, said:

By exposing human rights violations and government wrongdoing, whistleblowers make Australia a better place. But our whistleblower protections framework has fallen behind global standards; too often Australian whistleblowers are punished, not protected.

The Attorney-General is to be commended for resuming the journey towards a better whistleblowing framework, having led the initial enactment of the PID Act over a decade ago. We also applaud the work of the Greens and Coalition Senator Paul Scarr in helping ensure major improvements to this initial bill.

Clancy Moore, CEO of Transparency International Australia said:

These initial technical changes will start to breathe life back into federal whistleblower protections, in tandem with the Albanese Governments historic success in establishing Australias long awaited national anti-corruption commission.

We welcome the Governments commitment to fully overhaul the PID Act in coming months, and stand ready to assist with making protections simpler, more comprehensive and more consistent for anyone who blows the whistle.

Professor A J Brown, from Griffith Universitys Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Transparency International Australia board member said:

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Patients are not being warned of persistent, irreversible sexual dysfunction caused by SSRIs

BY MARYANNE DEMASI, PHD | JUNE 12, 2023

Antidepressants can cause severe, sometimes irreversible, sexual dysfunction that persists even after discontinuing the medication.

Sufferers have described it as chemical castration a type of genital mutilation caused by antidepressants, mainly selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

The condition is known as post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD), a condition largely unrecognised, and the true incidence of which is unknown.

David Healy, psychiatrist and founder of RxISK.org said, I saw my first patient with PSSD in 2000, a 35-year-old lady who told me that three months after stopping treatment, she could rub a hard-bristled brush across her genitals and feel nothing.

Josef Witt-Doerring, psychiatrist and former FDA medical officer said, This condition is so devastating that it will cause serious changes to your life and to those around you.

It happened to Rosie

In 2020, during protracted covid lockdowns in Melbourne, 23-year-old Rosie Tilli felt an increasing sense of anxiety and depression.

Her psychiatrist prescribed a low dose of Lexapro (escitalopram), an SSRI to help Rosie calm down, assuring her that if she experienced side effects, theyd go away once she stopped the medication.

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They sound nice.

What's the BEST drive for gaming?

What drive is for 'content' creators, you know OnlyFans?

What SSD is best for workstation type loads?

Is 7300MB per second too slow for my games?

There are many misconceptions and 'lies' used to promote a manufacturer's wares, in order to be the sales kings of the industry.

It's a bit like reading an automotive manufacturer's fuel economy figures which can even be 30% less than in the real world.

Unfortunately many so called tech reviewers also have little to no idea, where all they're doing is supporting the advertising babble.

"What's the best gaming SSD in 2023?" could be answered in a simple line being: The same one as in 2020?

There are other more crucial specifications that are deliberately not focused on such as longevity, endurance, or even how long can the maximum speed be kept for, or a more real world use case scenario that 99% of the computing population does, where the speed of random read and writes are most important.

One of the better explanations out there is presented in this video:

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Donald Trump has finally been arrested and charged with criminal offenses and faces 37 counts of having committed federal crimes. This is over the theft of sensitive classified documents. Not surprisingly, Trump protests his innocence.

We most certainly enter a plea of not guilty, his lawyer said in the Miami court.

The defence rests on a counter accusation of victimisation. Trump alleges that he is the victim of a conspiracy hatched by the deep state, because he is popular, really won the last presidential election, and will win the one in 2024 easily. The implication of these allegations is that the deep state wants to stop him.

Its not as crazy as some would have it. In a nation where the faith in the political system and those who represent it has plummeted, Trumps words strike a chord. This is something that many of his critics with a voice to be heard conveniently ignore or fail to understand.

Photo from AP: Donald Trump in Miami

Trumps strategy is clever, and it might just propel him into the White house once again.

Another mistake made by many of his critics is the illusion that American law is the defender of justice and applies. Tell this to poor and non-white Americans. The yare the ones who feel the rough end of a justice system weighted against them.

Civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis observed in an astringent Yale Law Journal piece a few years ago, that the USs brutal punishment bureaucracy unfairly disadvantages poor people and people of colour throwing them in prison for minor offenses and making a mockery of the idealistic idea that our criminal justice system is objective.

Donald Trump is in a good position to manipulate this. He has the privileges and the means to turn the law to his advantage, with his army of lawyers, deep pockets to buy justice, judges he appointed, control over the Republican Party, a cult following, and the political power...

Thank you Ms Queensland Attorney General: We've passed new laws to ensure Queenslanders legal identity can match their lived identity. Put me down as a multi-billionaire thanks Queensland. What new 'Lived Identity' are you gunna be?

A man who participated in the first season of the cooking show MasterChef Australia has been found guilty of 43 child sexual abuse offenses and has been taken into custody, The New York Post reported. Paul Douglas Frost, 47, previously pleaded not guilty to numerous charges related to 11 victims, all of whom were former students []

Bruce Lehrmanns barrister for his rape trial Steve Whybrow confessed in a witness statement, as per below, to aiding and abetting Murdoch propagandist Janet Albrechtsen, who writes for The Australian, with a []

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The status of NATOs and Ukraines underwhelming Counter Offensive.

In this episode of the Patrick Henningsen Show on TNT Radio which aired on June 9, 2023, Patrick talks with Arnaud Develay, an international human rights lawyer who was recently on the ground in Donbas to discuss the true status of NATO and Ukraines much-vaunted Counter Offensive which has thus far been underwhelming and leaves conflict watchers asking if NATO is now looking for an exit strategy from what is clearly a losing proxy war against Russia which has all but destroyed Ukraine as a country and left over 200K Ukrainian soldiers dead and many others injured and maimed. All this and more. Listen:

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LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-It was wild jubilation over the weekend as members of the Super Eagles Supporters Club who stayed true to the clubs constitution and stayed away from the charade of an election purportedly held in Abuja some months back finally regained ownership and rulership of their Club via a Government backed Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) document of incorporation.

The document, a certified true copy of the certificate of incorporation dated and signed by the Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission on the 9th of June 2023, affirmed the 10 Trustees of the club as being the bona-fide Owners and Directors while re-confirming the removal of the names of the dissidents who tried to hijack the day to day running of the club albeit, illegally.

For emphasis, the Trustees of SUPER EAGLES SUPPORTERS CLUB ABUJA incorporated on the 7th day of June, 2018 have been changed by resolution dated 6th day of June, 2023 as follows:

Joseph Ani, Chigozie Nnadi Chibuzor Anyaora , Obadiah Diji,

Nnaoma Chigbu,Dauda Alli, Dere Buwaghan, Olusola Oladejo, Owolabi Ayo ,Vincent Okumagba.

The certificate of Incorporation clearly stated.The likes of Johnson Dagana, Sam Pirar, Catherine Edum, Ibeakamma Okechukwu, Ijeoma Okechukwu and Olutoye Orishabiyi have now been removed from the list of the Trustees of the SESC, the certificate affirmed.

Vincent Okumagba is the Founder and President of SESC. He was FIFA Fan Leader for the World Cup, Qatar 2022. He left on a medical tourism abroad and some people tried to hijack the club from him. They have been suspended and normalcy has returned, Chief Chibuzor Anyaorah the Deputy Vice President of SESC explained to this reporter over the telephone.

It will be recalled that Vincent Okumagba only a fortnight ago, emerged as the 1st Vice Chairman of the African Football Supporters Association (AFSA) and the Delta born FIFA Fan Leader will be leading out 100 members of the Super Eagles Supporters Club to Australia and New Zealand for the FIFA Womens World Cup this summer to cheer the Super Falcons all the way at the Mundial.

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The Ukrainian blonde had the smell of trouble. She had perched herself, along with her mute friend, in a restaurant across from the famed South Melbourne Market. On arriving at the modish, glorious bit of real estate known as Tipsy Village, a Polish establishment famed for accented French cuisine, she shrieked: Why do you have Ruskie dumplings on your menu?

The Polish host, a man of butter mild manner and infinite tolerance, covered in stout glory, took it in his stride. That is what they are called where I come from and that is what we serve, Peter Barnatt stated with serene clarity. (Such wickedness! Such a radical disposition!) The blonde shrieking wonder continued to invest in the dumplings some satanic quality, as if each one had been a shell, soldier, a weapon massed and launched against her pristine homeland which she had, it seemed, abandoned. We would just like coffees, she demanded. His temper finally disturbed, the host insisted that, as the two were not intent on dining, might just as well leave.

In a luxurious huff, they exited. Such behaviour was fascinating for being irresolvable no dining establishment worth its salt and cutlery should ever change that aspect of things. But for them, the issue had been decided, a prejudice firmed up and solid.

Names on the menu are a signature of a restaurants worth. Besides, dishes do not invade countries in tanks nor bomb cities. The episode was also strikingly, amusingly moronic. Food had been made out as somehow guilty, disgusting, revolting all because of a name, an identity. The sin had moved in the dough, the mixture and the potatoes, dumplings with agency. The restaurateur was all the more guilty for hosting them.

Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the gastro-culture war on serving dishes with a Russian name, be it with hint, flavour, or substance, has been total. Hatred of the Kremlin has become bigotry towards the dish. In Madrid, Sergiy Skorokhvatov, himself Ukrainian and an owner of a restaurant called Rasputin serving both Russian and Ukrainian cuisine, sensed trouble. He ventured into the thorny world of online discussions to clarify the nature of what he was serving, which was considered wise given what has happening to other restaurants serving Russian fare.

This method of insurance was not full proof. I thought that changing things would help us, but then people started posting similar stuff about us Dont go to Russian restaurants and pictures of blown-up buildings in Ukraine.

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LAGOS JUNE 14TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark, on Wednesday, described the immediate-past governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa as a traitor and a very crafty man.

Clark also alleged that Okowa emerged as Atiku Abubakars running mate for the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after spending Delta States money on (Atikus) campaign.

He made the claim while appearing as a guest in an interview on Arise TVs Morning Show.

Clarke revealed that the 17 southern governors had, ahead of the 2023 presidential election, resolved to oppose any party that presented a northern presidential candidate in their primaries but Okowa went behind his colleagues to team up with Atiku.

Let me tell you the reason why the whole of southern Nigeria regards Okowa as a traitor. Let me tell you, he is a betrayer. Okowa volunteered to host a meeting of the 17 governors of the south. He provided accommodation for every one of them, Clark said.

He provided his secretariat, I know the person who was the secretary to the government at the time. They were there, they drafted the communique supervised by him and gave it to Akeredolu to read. He read it, then they all went to Lagos to confirm it, they went to Enugu to confirm it, not knowing that the same Okowa was spending our money for Atiku. I asked him in my letter to answer it.

He added, The delegates of the PDP primary, who did they vote for? Did they vote for Wike or Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom? They all voted for Atiku. So, he deceived his colleagues that we should produce the president from the south only to team up with Atiku to betray us. All the governors know about that. He is a man who is very ambitious, quiet and gives a wrong impression about himself that he is a very good man. Very crafty man.

Rachael Maskell Labour/Co-operative, York Central

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Oklahoma joined the lawsuit against the University of North Carolina that SCOTUS is considering in a national affirmative action ban. But some in Oklahoma say the states ban has hurt diversity in larger ways than the government acknowledges.

Ive run into instances in work when dealing with a city, and were asking questions about consultants or contractors, and a lot of times they [cant give the] answer because of the anti-affirmative action ban, says Charity Marcus. Shes a consultant in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who works with cities, mapping out strategies for economic and community development.

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NATIVE title stakeholders, academics, legal experts and government representatives came together with community and cultural leaders for the highly anticipated 2023 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Summit in Western Australia last week. 

Held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from June 5-9, more than 1,000 delegates attended the summit on Noongar Boodja. 

For each of the five days of the summit, members of the Noongar community took it in turns to start the day with a smoking ceremony. Delegates were also welcomed to Country by local Elders like Geri Hayden and Liz Hayden. 

This years theme, Navigating the spaces

INDIGENOUS Australians Minister Linda Burney has referred to Bob Hawkes great regret at not delivering on a treaty as she quoted his widow saying if he was alive today he would urge voters to deliver a Voice to Parliament. 

Speaking at the Barunga Festival in the Northern Territory on Saturday, Ms Burney referred to the 1988 Barunga Statement which called for the recognition of Aboriginal rights. 

The statement was presented to then prime minister Hawke at the festival 35 years ago by then Northern Land Council chairperson Yunupingu and Central Land Council head Wenten Rubuntja. 

Ms Burney told ABC TV that Mr Hawke had said there should be a treaty between the Aboriginal people and the rest of Australia

In this edition youll read about:

FOUR Northern Territory land councils last Friday handed Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney the Barunga Voice Declaration, which calls on the nation to vote yes in the upcoming referendum.

More than 200 representatives of the Northern, Central, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa land councils were gathered on the traditional lands of the Bagala people southeast of Katherine for the Barunga Festival. 

THE legacy of Eddie Koiki Mabo was celebrated in style in Naarm (Melbourne) on Mabo Day (June 3) with dramatic and colourful performances by a range of dancers and musicians from the Torres Strait Islands. Curated by veteran performer and Torres Strait Islander Lisa Maza, the event held in the BMW Edge, Federation Square featured a Welcome to Country by Uncle Bill Nicholson

 In Sport:

WIRADJURI man Buddy Oldman wants to become the first Aboriginal person to be immortalised in the history books and not just any old history book.

Under the guidance of the Guinness World Records, the world champion Masters boxer will be punching a boxing bag for 72 hours to set a new world record. 

QUEENSLANDS bold selection call to include in-form tyros Reece Walsh and Hamiso Tabuai-Fidow proved decisive in the Maroons brave and extraordinary 26-18 win over NSW in State of Origin I in Adelaide.

Algerias President Starting State Visit to Russia at Invitation of Putin

FILE - Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune gestures during a press conference in Algiers, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is starting Tuesday June 14, 2023 a three-day state visit to Russia meant to strengthen relations of "friendship and cooperation" at the invitation of Vladimir Putin, according to a statement from Algerian authorities. (AP Photo/Fateh Guidoum, file)

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday is starting a three-day state visit to Russia meant to strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, authorities said Tuesday.

The Algerian presidency said in a statement that Tebboune will attend an economic forum to be held this week in the city of St. Petersburg.

Putins invitation had been conveyed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his visit to Algiers in May last year with the aim of developing bilateral military, economic and humanitarian ties, and in other areas.

Some Algerian media have criticized the visit amid Russias war in Ukraine.

The timing is not at all appropriate, as this visit by the president could be understood as a bias in favor of Russia in its conflict with Ukraine, whereas officially, it has a position of neutrality, the Maghreb Emergent website wrote on Monday, raising concerns about a potential backlash from Western countries.

Tebboune answered a question on the issue during his last appearance on public television last month.

Russia is a friendly country which helped our revolution and with which we have historic political, diplomatic and economic relations, but we also have good relations with the United States and the countries of the European Union, he said.

Gas-rich Algeria is in a delicate position regarding its long-standing ties to Russia.

With drastically less capacity, Algeria is increasingly eyed by Eur...