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Sunday, 26 March

23:57

Anyone know what fruit this is? "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Anyone know what fruit this is?

Found on the trail to the devil's pools in babinda.

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22:58

Songs about things that are long gone "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Pop songs are a product of the times in which they were created. The people who write and perform them draw on contemporary life for inspiration. No surprise, then, that songs often reference whats new, whats hot, at the time.

Thats one of the reasons music can so powerfully evoke memory and conjure a time. But, many  decades later, some of the things being sung about no longer exist, and we might need to call in the archaeologists to help us understand them.

Jukeboxes were once the main way people heard music. Theyre long gone now, but theres plenty of songs that reference them. Same with telegrams, short messages sent by Morse code and telex that would be delivered to your home at whatever time of day or night.

Even relatively modern inventions have gone, like pagers, a device that fascinated the early rappers. Theres the party line, switchboard operators, Myspace, and more.

21:43

RAAF Boeing B737-7ES / E-7A Wedgetail A30-001 "Wedgetail 23" Completes Airwork at CQ Airports "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

On Friday 17 March, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Boeing B737-7ES / E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft A30-001 was noted completing airwork at a couple of Central Queensland Airports.


https://www.facebook.com/Fog.Shots.Media

A30-001 was flying as "Wedgetail 23" and looked to fly up to Hamilton Island Airport from RAAF Base Williamtown where it looked to complete a missed approach. It then continued up to complete more airwork at Cairns and then headed back South.

A30-001 "Wedgetail 23" then flew down via an inland route to Longreach Airport where completed another missed approach before then returning back direct to Williamtown.

Nice!

21:36

Renewal & Integration "IndyWatch Feed National"

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From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 4 (Aug 2022)

We should be cautious of prophecies that claim we are on a path of infinite political progress or infinite economic growth or, conversely, heade...

21:36

Major Geopolitical Changes Now Underway "IndyWatch Feed National"

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From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 16 No 4 (Aug 2022)

The following was one of the final pieces written by the late Australian geopolitical analyst James ONeill. For several years, James had been writing on these matters for New Dawn. Today we are witnessing the beginning of the new multipolar world.

The annual meeting of the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum (STIEF) was held in June 2022. As usual, it received very little coverage in the Western mainstream media, which prefers to ignore developments in Russia or, if it mentions t...

21:36

The Outsider in the Twenty-First Century "IndyWatch Feed National"

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From New Dawn 189 (Nov-Dec 2021)

In his debut book, The Outsider, the twenty-four-year-old British existentialist Colin Wilson (19312013) made his first attempt at analysing a character he felt was peculiar to our age, or at least to that of the mid-twentieth century, when the book appeared. 

In the midst of the buttoned-down, conforming 1950s, published in the same year as Allen Ginsbergs Howl (1956)and a year before Kerouacs On the Road (1957), Wilsons inquiry into the nature of the sickness of mankind in t...

21:35

Exploring the ShamanismAlien Abduction Connection Part 1 "IndyWatch Feed National"

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From New Dawn 188 (Sept-Oct 2021)

Baldwin Spencer and Frank Gillen, in their book, The Northern Tribes of Central Australia...

20:58

Best barbers in Townsville? "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

I just moved here and was wondering what the best barber is?

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19:32

Any sports bar that shows the European cup qualification game tonight? "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Hi Cairns, as the title says, do anyone know a bar in the city that shows the Denmark kazakhstan match tonight? I know soccer isnt really popular in Australia and I imagine Denmark and Kazakhstan are even less popular. However it cant hurt asking right?

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18:56

Good food "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Wheres the best Texas style bbq if any pit cooked brisket

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17:35

Vandal Matt Kean screws the Liberal Party then runs away "IndyWatch Feed National"

"Spend more time with the family" excuse is code for "I will use my spare time to undermine a nearby Federal Member of Parliament so I can get his seat". Snake Kean destroyed the Liberal Party's reputation in NSW to the point that he was among the top reasons people...

15:35

best spots to see the sunrise "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Gday everyone

Im up here for a few days from the GC and in trying to find a good sport to see the sunrise. I have rented a car so Im hoping to find somewhere just outside of town. Ideally looking over the water and the hills.

Preferably no rough dirt roads please, I only have a little Hyundai

Cheers!

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14:14

Is Dutch Provincial Election a Victory for Farming Community or the Globalists? "IndyWatch Feed National"

Dutch farmers and Michael Yon

by Joachim Hagopian

If you want to know where the United States is fast-headed in record time, just look at the abysmal state that Europe currently finds itself in. Potential world war spreading beyond Ukraines border, severe supply chain energy and food shortages, deindustrialization, record-high cost of living spikes, runaway inflation and imminent economic collapse, starting with the impending fall of teetering...

13:32

This is quite funny - but also a great insight into the real Ray Hadley "IndyWatch Feed National"

As anyone whos worked with him will attest, this might be a send up but it give you chills when you know the reality. Like this.

13:15

Gluten free restaurant "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Hi I'm after recommendations for restaurants that have a good gluten free variety menu. My friend is gluten intolerant but wants to go out to different restaurants and actually be able to eat properly

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07:00

Rupert Murdoch faces jail for threatening employee to lie under oath in $1.6 billion Dominion defamation case "IndyWatch Feed National"

Abby Grossberg who works for Rupert Murdochs Fox News in the US has filed 2 proceedings against Fox, one in Delaware and one in New York, claiming Foxs legal team coerced, intimidated, []

03:22

Old and busted: Leute laden ihre private keys bei Github ... "IndyWatch Feed National"

Old and busted: Leute laden ihre private keys bei Github hoch.

New hotness: Github ldt ihren private key bei Github hoch!

Einmal mit Profis arbeiten!

Update: Das ist besonders lustig, weil Github ihren Usern seit geraumer Zeit einen Service reindrckt, der bei Checkins guckt, ob irgendwas wie ein private key aussieht, und dann das Checkin abbricht. Ja, so hufig ist das anderen Leuten passiert, dass sie dafr einen Service gebaut haben, der das verhindern soll. Und trotzdem schaffen sie es, selber ihren private key hochzuladen.

Das muss dieser Fachkrftemangel sein, von dem man immer hrt.

01:21

Massive Aurora Australis solar storm seen over Tasmania, Australia and New Zealand "IndyWatch Feed National"

Naked eye aurora australis visible from Franklin, Tasmania on the night of 23/3/2023. All the colours visible in this footage were visible to the naked eye, which is extremely rare for Aurora. This is easily the biggest and brightest aurora display I've seen in the 23 years I have been chasing aurora. It doesn't get much better than this from Australia. Aurora gets such a bad wrap for being colourless, but once it got bright enough the colour receptors in my eyes suddenly switched on. It was like upgrading from a B&W TV to full HD.

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Saturday, 25 March

23:59

Are Rads Escalating? "IndyWatch Feed National"

Q: Are Rads escalating? Thats Deadly Gamma Radiation to you and me. That is a tricky question to answer. The Rad plays a big part in lowering the average age of death of Americans. The Rads especially target unborn babies and little infants. The Rad is especially vicious; always has been; always will be. Nothing []

23:35

AUKUS, the Australian Labor Party, and Growing Dissent "IndyWatch Feed National"

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23:32

Sneaky AiG "IndyWatch Feed National"

Part of the money-making strategy at Answers in Genesis is to constantly promote how popular they are in a never ending cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy. One of the recent lies has been that they bring in so many tourists that hotel chains are building new places near the Ark Park to meet the booming demand.

It is true that the country contains many yokels who like to vacation in a boring wooden box that reassures them that their interpretation of the Bible is true, but its not exactly a growth industry. Theyve had to constantly misrepresent their popularity to get support from state and local government, and wouldnt you know it, hotels arent springing up all around the place. Ken Ham has been bragging about one new hotel in the neighborhood, but surprise surprise, it isnt in response to demand AiG is spending its own money to have it built. Gotta spend money to make money, you know. If that involves building a whole Potemkin village to make themselves look popular, thats what theyll do.

Ken Ham is being quiet that Answers in Genesis (AIG) owns part, or perhaps all, of the new Hampton Inn that just opened adjacent to the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky. Moreover, he is trying to make it look as if the supposed success of the Ark Park has brought the new hotel to the region. Information below shows that AIG shares a high-level employee with the new hotel, and the LLC that owns the hotel shares a Post Office box with AIG.

AiG is perfectly within its rights to use its own money to build a hotel to serve its little attraction, but it does bring into question the purpose of all those tax subsidies it has received, and I also wonder why they are so desperate to hide their role.

Fabulous new housing development going up in Wiliamstown, Kentucky!

23:06

Mitchell Water Cessna 525 Citation M2 Bizjet VH-WMY Calls into the Whitsunday Airport at Shute Harbour - Plus More! "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

<p><p><p>On <b><i>Thursday 16 March</i></b>, Mitchell Water Cessna 525 Citation M2 bizjet VH-WMY flew up from Melbourne (Moorabbin) to the Whitsunday Airport at Shute Harbour before then flying down to Waikerie, Mildura and then back to Moorabbin.</p> <div><br></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class= "tr-caption-container" style= "margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="text-align: center;"><a href= "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_41UVMem64HOG7xLqfXK1G_3qWHeLGh38Nj_QaZ06IjaHkCInyf6rsf_mmhBByUVCkOogAh7HYT1pwVSw8LzhYvJ6UJPZs7T7a6H2JI3h-rj2R44-KrBeh0vU12Y394JlBZcISQIp3pqyObHmUA-VtRy7BfaWGhQxAPf6I6OWW1C7tons87c7uFCo/s3665/IMG_3376.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src= "https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_41UVMem64HOG7xLqfXK1G_3qWHeLGh38Nj_QaZ06IjaHkCInyf6rsf_mmhBByUVCkOogAh7HYT1pwVSw8LzhYvJ6UJPZs7T7a6H2JI3h-rj2R44-KrBeh0vU12Y394JlBZcISQIp3pqyObHmUA-VtRy7BfaWGhQxAPf6I6OWW1C7tons87c7uFCo/s320/IMG_3376.jpg" width="320"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">File photo</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div><br></div> <div>Of interest, over the previous week, VH-WMY also visited Miles Airport twice.<br> <br> Navair Flight Operations Embraer EMB-500 Phenom 100 bizjet VH-LXZ as "Navair 131" visited Mackay Airport from Bankstown and Cessnock. <div><br></div> <div>LifeFlight (Aeromed) Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 bizjet VH-OFA "Ambulance 614" visited Rockhampton Airport from Brisbane.<br> <div><br></div> <div>And Machjet (Machjet International) Cessna 525 Citation CJ1 bizjet VH-SIY looked to fly up from the Sunshine Coast to Bundaberg Airport to complete airwork before then returning to the Sunny Coast.  <br> <br> Meanwhile, also on <b><i>Thursday 16 March</i></b>, Hinterland Aviation Cessna 208 Caravan VH-CVN as HND456 departed Rockhampton Airport for Cairns.  Fellow Hinterland Aviation Cessna 208 Caravans VH-JES and VH-MRZ operated flights from Rockhampton Airport to and back from the Labona Station Airstrip within Adani Australia's (Bravus Mining & Resources) Carmichael Coal Mine site.

Brisbane-based Crockett Aviation Group Beech B200 King Air VH-FAQ visited the Labona Station Airstrip within Adani Australia's (Bravus Mining & Resources) Carmichael Coal Mine site from Archerfield and the Sunshine Coast.


Amateur-built Rans S-21 Outbound VH-RHM flew out from Kilcoy to Roma Airport and then Longreach Airport.

UPDATE!  On <b><i>Monday 20 March</i></b>, VH-RHM returned to Kilcoy from Longreach Airport b...

22:13

Notorious Australian neo-Nazi joins Ukrainian forces to fight Russia - media "IndyWatch Feed National"

Canberra had tried but failed to prevent the violent criminal with deep extremist ties from traveling, local media has reported. Daniel Newman, a far-right extremist and a violent criminal, has flown from Australia to Ukraine to join the fight against Russian troops, Australia's Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) newspaper reported on Thursday, citing its sources. The development coincides with efforts by Canberra to prevent violent extremists from traveling to the war-torn country to gain combat experience, SMH said. Newman first traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and then to Europe in February, before arriving in Ukraine this month, the report claims, adding that the man had supposedly told his associates he was planning to take up arms against Russian forces.

21:24

Visiting Great Barrier Reef "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Hello, we (mom dad and 2 kids 9 and 5) are visiting Cairns in April and Im overwhelmed with tour options. Im hoping someone can help.

We are hoping to do some snorkelling and see the reef in a safe and appropriate way. Is there a best way to do this? Is it best to go with a tour group? Any suggestions on best ones? Or could we pay a taxi driver, and avoid tours, and go somewhere close to cairns that we could view the reef and see some colourful marine life? Super grateful for any guidance and advice!!

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20:03

Where have all our land titles gone, long time passing? "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Gone to corporations everyone, when will they ever learn?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-12/$2.6-billion-price-tag-on-nsw-land-titles-registry-sale/8439176

By Simon Johanson SMH

November 1, 2016

Australias big four banks have quietly destroyed all paper land titles they hold for 1.6 million Victorian mortgagees, forcing property owners to use a bank-owned electronic transaction system.

Any future sales of properties whose titles are held by the bank will need to be transacted, at least in part, electronically.

The mass destruction of paper titles and their replacement with electronic certificates has been questioned by property lawyers who fear it will compromise security and effectively outsource the 150-year-old Torrens title system to private operators.

The Law Institute of Victoria has been an outspoken critic of the electronic system, arguing it increases costs for consumers, undermines those holding titles for security against other assets, and adds complexity and legal uncertainty to a what was once a simple, safe system.

The changes were ushered in by the Registrar of Titles who declared in a notice in the Victoria Government Gazette that paper based titles will be void and of no effect from October 22, 2016.

Property owners whose paper land titles are held by major banks were not told their title documents hav...

19:58

LifeFlight (Aeromed) Canadair Challenger 604 Bizjet VH-OFB "Ambulance 624" Calls into Mackay Airport Twice! "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

On Saturday 4 March, LifeFlight (Aeromed) Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 bizjet VH-OFB "Ambulance 624" was noted visiting Mackay Airport twice during a busy afternoon and evening of flying.


VH-OFB in new livery  (File photo)

It flew down from Townsville and Cairns to Mackay Airport before departing to Brisbane.  VH-OFB "Ambulance 624" later returned to Mackay Airport before returning to back to Townsville.

As mentioned below, VH-OFB returned from overseas at the start of the year and has been spotted at various places now wearing the revised LifeFlight livery as was first shown by sistership VH-OFA.

Photo taken by Mary Marshall 

19:54

The Nine RoKAF Black Eagles KAI T-50B Jets - Plus C-130 Hercules Transport Aircraft - All Depart Rockhampton Airport for Darwin and then Home to South Korea "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

As expected, on Saturday 11 March, the visiting deployment of The Republic of Korea (South Korea) Air Force (RoKAF) "Black Eagles" aerobatic team departed Rockhampton Airport for Darwin via Cairns and RAAF Base Tindal at Katherine, as they continued their journey home to South Korea from Avalon Airport where they participated at the recently completed Australian International Airshow.




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19:44

How can I get a job? "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

I am a University student with no work experience and no licence, who really needs money. I am turning 18 next month, and my goal was to have a job before then, but that plan's not going so well.

I've got application's being rejected left right and centre, just because of my lack of experience and lack of a licence. I really need a job, as soon as possible, and job searching websites aren't being even remotely helpful. Any help would be must appreciated, thank you.

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19:13

A logistical puzzle! "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Hi all, and thanks for the great advice Ive been reading so far about tourism. Husband and I are coming in October for a week and bringing three kids, two boys that are 17 and 21 (so not really kids) and our four year old daughter. My questions are: what kinds of thrill seeking touristy things are worth doing for the two older boys, and can anyone suggest a good GBR tour that would be great for a small child? I worry that the bigger tours for 200-odd people might be a bit too busy for a child to enjoy properly, but also worried that a more private tour of 20-50 may be more adult-oriented. I would love to hear the thoughts of anyone who has an opinion!

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18:35

Northern Territory Aboriginal lawmakers do not want a Voice or treaty "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Treaty is a contract, trade agreement and a trap. Lurnpa people

The referendum question released yesterday: Do you support an alteration to the Constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?

The wishy-washy Liberals as usual, cannot agree on having a referendum for the Voice. Nothing unusual here, the only decision they ever made while in power was to inject the population with a toxic gene-altering compound that has already killed around 33,000 victims.

This video is evidence that our community people are not being consulted on what a Treaty or Voice to parliament means. You can not lock people into an agreement they know nothing off, its fraud. The Corporate government is rushing this through without consultation, because they are desperate. We must say no to a Treaty and a Voice, both are nothing but corporate contracts designed to maintain the ongoing theft of land resources whilst maintaining control over the Tribal people. When the government pushes something they say is good for us, then we know something is wrong, its always been in their best interest everything they do around us, its all based on trickery and fraud, its just another attempt to maintain our enslavement. -Lurnpa

18:08

Ukraine war planned for the Great Reset? "IndyWatch Feed National"

kla.TV March 24, 2023

February 24th marked the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops. One year of war and no end in sight! zdf.de wrote, The Kremlin had a lightning bolt victory in mind when it attacked Ukraine a year ago. Twelve months later, there is a stalemate between Kiev and Moscow Neither Moscow nor Kiev is willing to negotiate on the basis of the status quo. Well, a blitzkrieg was supposedly planned but there has now been more than a year of war. More and more people in Europe, but also in the Ukraine itself, are asking the question, Is Russia really not capable of achieving a military victory?

If, however, you compare the military strength of Russia and the Ukraine in 2022, the Russian army should be far superior.

(https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/292788/umfrage/vergleich-der-militaerstaerke-von-russland-und-der-ukraine/)

Are there ultimately other goals behind this war than Moscow is ostensibly communicating? Could it therefore even be a matter of design that there is no end in sight? This program tries to find possible answers to these questions.

First of all, we have to look at the motives and intentions Moscow put forward for the war. Purported motives for the war:

  1. Eastward expansion of NATO and the threat of the Ukraines entry into NATO
  2. Aid to the Donbass Peoples Republics
  3. Denazification of the Ukraine.

The eastward expansion of NATO, as Putin calls it, right up to Russias borders has taken place in five steps since 1999. Other candidates would include Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine. That this does not please Russia is hard to deny.

The conflict in the eastern Ukraine, which has been ongoing since 2014, had by the end of 2018 alone cost the lives of 13,000 people, including some 3,300 civilians, according to UN figures. Attacks by Ukrainian troops on the population in the Donbass increased dramatically from mid-February 2022, before Russian troops had entered the country. OSCE neutral observers counted up to 1,400 explosions per day from February 17, 2022. 100,000 civilians were reportedly evacuated to the interior or to Russia for protection. The Azov Regiment is a volunteer battalion that became part of the National Guard of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukraine in 2014. According to Wikipedia, the unit is controversial because of links to far-right groups and Nazi symbolism.

Taking stock after one year

After one year of war, we are now taking stock of the extent to which Russia has pursued or achieved its stated goals.

A group discussion on the Internet portal NuoViso with Billy Six provides some pointers on this. Billy Six is...

16:43

Judy Woods 9-11 Thesis and How We Can Deal with Our Treason "IndyWatch Feed National"

Photo: front cover of the book Where Did the Towers Go?

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Judy Woods 20006 book Where Did the Towers Go? is a masterpiece. I am only up to page 78 so far. Dr Wood (PhD in mechanical engineering) easily disproves the claim that the collapse of WTC twin towers was caused by fire, as is ludicrously touted by the NIST (thats the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, within the US Commerce Department).

But she has also destroyed the theory of controlled demolition, the pancaking of the 110 floors of the tower. She presents instead an explanation based on directed energy, a la Nicola Teslas work which has been hidden from the public.

I find it annoying that Dr Wood gets hostile when people refer to her work as theory or opinion. She says she only collects empiric...

15:00

Australian Dollar and Bitcoin "IndyWatch Feed National"

1.00 AUD = 0.00002 BTC
0.00010 BTC = 4.15 AUD
Converter

14:56

Shave for a cure donations please help!! "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Ok guys I need your help. I am doing World's Greatest Shave in May. However my goal is $10,000!! It's a huge goal but this year it's not just my head I'll shave. But my entire face! Beard, Mo, eyebrows!! As long as I hit $10k!! Please click the link to donate and share!!!

We have until May to hit the target!!

http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/marktimbs

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14:46

Russians catch Australian medics harvesting organs near Bakhmut "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

By Cossack Colonel Yuri Komonyiski

The ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Putin is illegal. In accordance with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons of Dec. 14, 1973, heads of state enjoy absolute immunity from the jurisdiction of foreign states. The ICC failed to be objective and to respect international law, its now only a matter of time before the international community starts to withdraw their support for this violated organisation. Moscow like the US, China and many other countries do not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. Even former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton says, the ICC is fundamentally illegitimate. The EU paid the ICC 10 million for work related to Ukraine then in 2025 they intend to pay another 3 million.

If the Russia decides not to extend the Ukrainian-UN grain deal after 60 days because of EU theft, Russia will supply the entire volume that was promised to needy countries in Africa free of charge. It should be noted that the west continues to obstruct Russias attempts to donate fertilizer for free. Recently Russia wrote off Africas USD 20 billion. The partnership between the RF and Africa is reaching a new level. Putin believes Africa will become one of the leaders of the new multipolar world as they strive to pursue an independent policy while opposing neo-colonial ideology. The transition to national currencies and the establishment of new transport and logistics chains will facilitate trade.

Leopard II tanks and Abrams are able to use U2-core projectiles as tank rounds the RF will look upon their use as dirty nuclear bombs, this would be a manifestation of genocide against the countrys inhabitants. Depleted U2 munitions are more powerful and have greater penetrating ability. When fired the...

13:29

Hospital admissions double and its got to be down to the vaccines "IndyWatch Feed National"

By Guy Hatchard | TCW Defending Freedom | March 24, 2023

Data from the New Zealand Ministry of Health has revealed a massive 103 per cent increase in hospitalisations among 12 disease categories measured in 2021 following the mRNA rollout. This calls into serious question the safety of medical interventions such as mRNA vaccines which penetrate the cell wall and re-program activity in the cell cytoplasm.

NZ had very few cases of Covid in 2021 due to draconian restrictions. Therefore the only reasonable cause of the disease increase is mRNA vaccination.

There were 38,178 extra hospitalisations in 2021 across the 12 categories compared with 2019 figures. The Ministry of Health tracks 37 disease categories, and figures for the remaining 25, including cancer, have not yet been released. These figures alone mean that New Zealanders had greater than a 1 in 90 chance of hospitalisation within one year of Covid vaccination. You can read a longer discussion of the figures here.

Similar disastrous figures have surfaced in official data from Western Australia (greater than 1 in 100 chance of serious injury).

Last week in the UK, MP Andrew Bridgen again attempted to captu...

12:56

Covid, imaginary pandemic of the brainwashed "IndyWatch Feed National"

By James Delingpole | TCW Defending Freedom | March 24, 2023

Tell me about your personal experiences of Covid 19. Actually, wait, dont. I think I may have heard it already, about a million times. You lost all sense of smell or taste and just how weird was that? It floored you for days. It gave you a funny dry cough, the dryness and ticklishness of which was unprecedented in your entire coughing career. Youve had flu a couple of times and, boy, when youve got real flu do you know it. But this definitely wasnt flu. It was so completely different from anything youve ever known, why you wouldnt be surprised to learn that it had been bioengineered in a lab with all manner of spike proteins and gain-of-function additives, perhaps even up to and including fragments of the Aids virus . . .

Yeah, right. Forgive me for treading on the sacred, personal domain of your lived experience. But might I cautiously suggest that none of what you went through necessarily validates lab-leak theory. Rather what it may demonstrate is the power of susceptibility, brainwashing and an overactive imagination. You lived we all did through a two-year period in which health-suffering anecdotes became valuable currency. Whereas in the years before the pandemic, no one had been much interested in the gory details of your nasty cold, suddenly everyone wanted to compare notes to see whether theyd had it as bad as you or, preferably, for the sake of oneupmanship, even worse. This in turn created a self-reinforcing mechanism of Covid panic escalation: the more everyone talked about it, the more inconvertible the pandemic became.

Meanwhile, in the real world, hard evidence as opposed to anecdotal evidence for this pandemic remained stubbornly non-existent. The clincher for me was a landmark article published in January 2021 by Simon Elmer at his website Architects For Social Housing. It was titled Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Manufacturing the Crisis.

In it Elmer asked the question every journalist should have asked but which almost none did: is this pandemic really as serious as all the experts, and government ministers and media outlets and medics are telling us it is? The answer was a very obvious No. As the Office for National Statistics data cited by Elmer clearly showed, 2020 Year Zero for supposedly the biggest public health threat since Spanish Flu a century earlier was one of the milder years for death in the lives of most people.

Lets be clear about this point, because something you often hear people on the sceptical side of the argument say is, Of course, no one is suggesting that Covid didnt cause a horrific number of deaths. But thats exactly what they should be suggesting:...

12:54

Are taxpayers still funding Rudd's obsessive pursuit of Rupert Murdoch and other pet projects? "IndyWatch Feed National"

Thank you Seeker of Truth who reports: As we know, Rudd is Ambassador to the US which is a very well paid job. He has been gagged by the Albanese government on talking on other matters (domestic politics) except those that relate to his Ambassadorial duties. He has resigned from...

12:41

ALP constitution says we must be a republic "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Letter to the Editor

AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, ALP National Constitution Objectives (m) reform of the Australian Constitution and other political institutions to ensure that they reflect the will of the majority of Australian citizens and the existence of Australia as an independent republic;

The Federal Referendum 1999, to become a Republic or stay as a Constitutional Monarchy. The people explicitly said No, this is a binding Act on all Political Parties, Australian Parliaments, Governments and Courts.

When Australian Parliaments, Governments, Political Parties and Courts dont listen to Referendums they enact TREASON upon themselves. The only excuse they have is to throw their Governor-General under the bus as he is a Traitor to the Office he sits in, as well as acting in Treason being outside Our Primary Law, Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1901 as Proclaimed and Gazetted.

From Dick Yardley

Queensland

12:36

Warren Mundine - Albanese's so-called Voice a dangerous con-job "IndyWatch Feed National"

https://www.connorcourtpublishing.com.au/-Beyond-Belief--Rethinking-the-Voice-to-Parliament_p_509.html

11:51

Oldest evidence of a meteor collision with Earth discovered in Australia "IndyWatch Feed National"

Scientists in Australia have unearthed 3.48 billion-year-old rock fragments that may be the earliest evidence of a meteorite crashing into Earth. The fragments, known as spherules, may have formed when the meteor slammed into the ground, spraying melted rock into the air. This melted rock then cooled and hardened into pinhead-size beads that became buried over the eons. Researchers presented this discovery, which has not been peer-reviewed, at the 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas last week. In a summary of their results , the scientists concluded that the spherules, which they drilled up from a group of volcanic and sedimentary rocks called the Dresser Formation of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia, are "the oldest evidence of a potential bolide impact in the geologic record of Earth." (A bolide is a large meteor that explodes in the atmosphere while falling to Earth.)

08:57

Are Andrews operatives behind Victorias gay Nazi boy gang? "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Victoria Police escorted these Nazis to the steps of State Parliament to provide Dan Andrews the opportunity to smear the rising push-back against transgender outrages against women and children.
...

08:47

Looking for lodging for a group of 21 campers in June "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

I lead environmental studies courses and used to do so in Cairns pre-pandemic. Well be a group of 21 who will need an occasional place to stay in Cairns between the end of June - first week in July. We will have full camping gear and so have the ability to camp but could also rent a big house. Our days in Cairns are meant to be regrouping/resupplying days, so something centrally located and walking distance from groceries and other necessities is ideal. A place that would be willing to store some bags for us while we make multiday excrusions would be good too.

In the past we have stayed at caravan parks (in our tents) or in a backpackers hostel that seems to be closed nowHas anyone heard of the fate of Caravella Backpackers at 149 The Esplanade? No ones picking up the phone. Im trying to coordinate all this from the US, so its hard to get a clear picture of whats going on.

Just thought I might try reddit instead of the usual nightmare of google/airbnb/expedia. If you have a place that might fit the bill or a recommendation, please let me know.

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08:24

Child Labor Is on the Rise in the Land of the Free "IndyWatch Feed National"

 


Child Labor Is on the Rise as Republicans See an Answer to Labor Shortages

Anti-immigrant policies and spiraling rates of poverty are driving thousands of children into the U.S. labor market.

08:00

Green Dictatorship? Netherlands Politicians Answering to the EU instead of Voters "IndyWatch Feed National"

The EU sees no reason to allow the Netherlands to change course, despite a resounding rejection of EU agriculture policies during recent elections.

05:39

Can we stop playing make believe? Where are the adults when it comes to Ukraine? "IndyWatch Feed National"

There are still a number of unanswered questions about the incident that downed the MQ9 Predator off the coast of Crimea on Tuesday. Let us start with the facts: The MQ9 drone was conducting an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance mission in international air space off the coast of Crimea. The MQ9 turned off its Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) transponder. Russian air defense systems were tracking the drone. Russian jet fighters were scrambled to intercept the drone. The United States and NATO have been flying drones along the Crimea coast for more than a year. The drone was brought down without a shot being fired by the Russian combat jet fighters. So far the United States and Russian military are sticking with the same story i.e, one of the planes clipped the drone's propeller accidentally, which cause the drone to crash. We are in full blown Kabuki theater. The United States insists this drone was harmless, just minding its own business, when an incompetent...

04:00

3 Reasons Californias Drought Isnt Really Over, Despite All the Rain "IndyWatch Feed National"

PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our readers because they are important, surprising, troubling, enlightening, inspiring, or amusing. They appear on our site and in our daily newsletter. Please send suggested articles, videos, podcasts, etc. to picks@whowhatwhy.org.

 

3 Reasons Californias Drought Isnt Really Over, Despite All the Rain (Maria)

The author writes, Ask a water expert if Californias drought is finally done, and the answers sound something like this: Yes and no. Kind of. Depends what you mean by drought. The state has been deluged by storms this winter, hit by 12 atmospheric rivers that have led to evacuation orders, rising rivers and broken levees. But in California, water shortages arent just due to a lack of rain, and the states chronic water problems are far from over.

 

Trump Asked Supporters to Take to the Streets. This Was the Sad Result. (Russ)

From The New Republic: Lets get you caught up on the pageantry of waiting outside a courthouse in New York City for Donald Trump to get arrested. There are police barricades. There are policemen. What there havent been, to speak of, are the protesters that Trump summoned to this spot there are perhaps two at this point, though its hard to tell for sure. There are no Trump flags here, no signs, no bombastic speeches about God and country and freedom.

 

Oklahoma Supreme Court Finds Limited Right to Abortion in State Constitution (Dana)

From The Oklahoman: The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the state constitution includes an inherent right of a pregnant woman to terminate a pregnancy when necessary to save her life. The court struck down one law passed by the Legislature to criminalize abortions but left another in place and took no position on the broader question of whether there is a right to elective abor......

02:58

As oceans warm, temperate reef species edge closer to extinction, study shows "IndyWatch Feed Capricornia"

Marine heat waves have led to widespread population declines of Australian shallow reef species, particularly those associated with temperate reefs, new research suggests. In a new study published in Nature, scientists draw on extensive reef survey data to assess population trends of 1,057 common shallow reef species, including fish, corals, seaweeds and invertebrates. They found that populations of 57% of these species declined between 2008 and 2021. Moreover, 28% of these surveyed species experienced declines of more than 30%, which would qualify them as threatened with extinction if assessed according to IUCN Red List criteria, the authors say. For instance, the study found that the weedy seadragon (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus), a fish endemic to southern Australia, decreased by 59% from 2011 to 2021. According to the study, most of these declines happened after warming events, specifically when the water temperature rose by more than about 0.5 Celsius (0.9 Fahrenheit) above 2008 levels. Conversely, warming that didnt exceed 0.5C led to an increase in some species. In this paper, we detected a 0.5-degree threshold over which we really saw significant biodiversity change, Amanda Bates, study co-author and marine ecologist at the University of Victoria, tells Mongabay. I analyzed some of the data sets from Tasmania, and I know there was significant change in those locations. But I think what was special about this analysis is it allowed us to test for relative change across all of Australia, including Tasmania. So that allowed us to compare the relative shifts that are happening across thisThis article was originally published on Mongabay

02:00

Who Has Right on Their Side? "IndyWatch Feed National"

In Henrik Ibsens An Enemy of the People, the character Dr. Stockmann says:

The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of those social lies against which an independent, intelligent man must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk or the stupid? I dont imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. But, good Lord!you can never pretend that it is right that the stupid folk should govern the clever ones! [the crowd cries out] Oh yesyou can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side-unfortunately; but right it has not. I am in the rightI and a few other scattered individuals. The minority is always in the right.

The post Who Has Right on Their Side? first appeared on Dissident Voice.

02:00

Congresswoman demands answers over DC childrens hospital Youth Pride Clinics life-altering gender procedures "IndyWatch Feed National"

Its about time. Theres much work to do to start protecting children from a dangerous element of the trans community that has mutated into a cult, and is now inflicting grooming and mutilation upon children, allegedly without parental consent. BREAKING EXCLUSIVE REPORT .@ChildrensNatl admits in damning audio recording that they do gender affirming hysterectomies on []

01:33

USGov: 2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Indonesia "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/indonesia/

2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices:
BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR

Indonesia
2022 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices:

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Indonesia is a multiparty democracy. In 2019 Joko Widodo (popularly
known as Jokowi) won a second five-year term as president. Voters also
elected new members of the House of Representatives and the Regional
Representative Council, as well as provincial and local legislatures.
Domestic and international observers deemed the elections to be free and
fair.

The Indonesian National Police is responsible for internal security and
reports directly to the president. The Indonesian National Armed Forces,
which also report directly to the president, are responsible for
external defense and combatting separatism, and in certain conditions
may provide operational support to police, such as for counterterrorism
operations, maintaining public order, and addressing communal conflicts.
Civilian authorities maintained control over security forces. There were
reports that members of the security forces committed abuses.

Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful
or arbitrary killings by government security forces; torture by police;
harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or
detention; political prisoners; serious problems with the independence
of the judiciary; serious abuses in the conflict in Papua, Central
Papua, Highland Papua, South Papua, and West Papua Provinces (the Papua
region), including unlawful civilian deaths or harm, torture, and
physical abuses; serious restrictions on free expression and media,
including unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists,
censorship, and the use of criminal libel laws; serious restrictions on
internet freedom; substantial interference with the freedom of peaceful
assembly and freedom of association; serious government corruption; lack
of investigation of and accountability for gender-based violence; the
practice of female genital mutilation/cutting; crimes involving violence
or threats of violence targeting members of racial, ethnic, and
religious minority groups; crimes involving violence or threats of
violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or intersex
persons; and laws in Aceh Province criminalizing consensual same-sex
sexual conduct between adults.

While the government took steps to investigate and prosecute some
officials who committed human rights abuses and engaged in corruption,
impunity for historic and recent serious human right...

Friday, 24 March

23:20

NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

240323 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES.
NEW DAWN NEWS
As the Bougainville women celebrated the National Womens Day the theme was Digit ALL Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality.
Three panel of discussion took place with women leaders in Bougainville on the agricultural, economic and good governance sector on the development of women through these sectors.
On the economic development panel and the use of communication technology, different panelist discussed with women gathered on the challenges and how technology was an advancement in their businesses and workplace.
Speaking on the panel was Julie Moroko who is a local Entrepreneur in Buka who runs a tailoring shop.
She expressed the importance of technology and how she used Facebook as a communication technology for her advancement in selling and advertising products online.
she explained she doesnt need to sit at the market place but only her phone as a technology helps in doing that.
Also, women who represent Bougainville Partnership in the panel was Claire Toboen and Belinda-Maree Gara where they talked about how technology empower women and girls in areas of economic development.
Claire Toboen who works at the Community Support Facility under the PNGAs Partnership with Bougainville.
She explained regarding women farmers where there is a gap in terms of technology with these women farmers.
However, they are challenged with technology advancement and only communicate face-to-face to address the women farmers.

ENDS//AB

23:20

NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

240323 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES.
NEW DAWN NEWS
As the Bougainville women celebrated the National Womens Day the theme was Digit ALL Innovation & Technology for Gender Equality.
Three panel of discussion took place with women leaders in Bougainville on the agricultural, economic and good governance sector on the development of women through these sectors.
On the economic development panel and the use of communication technology, different panelist discussed with women gathered on the challenges and how technology was an advancement in their businesses and workplace.
Speaking on the panel was Julie Moroko who is a local Entrepreneur in Buka who runs a tailoring shop.
She expressed the importance of technology and how she used Facebook as a communication technology for her advancement in selling and advertising products online.
she explained she doesnt need to sit at the market place but only her phone as a technology helps in doing that.
Also, women who represent Bougainville Partnership in the panel was Claire Toboen and Belinda-Maree Gara where they talked about how technology empower women and girls in areas of economic development.
Claire Toboen who works at the Community Support Facility under the PNGAs Partnership with Bougainville.
She explained regarding women farmers where there is a gap in terms of technology with these women farmers.
However, they are challenged with technology advancement and only communicate face-to-face to address the women farmers.

ENDS//AB

23:02

NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

240323 Importance of National Womens Day
New Dawn FM News

The National Womens Day is a day set aside to recognize and acknowledge and celebrate Papua New Guinean women breaking boundaries in a world once dominated by men.
It is also to acknowledge the life changing roles of women as mothers, professionals, grandmothers, daughters and their contributors to building up of their families, communities and nation as a whole.
This day was officially set aside in 1974 and 1975 by the governing council under the leadership of late Grand Chief Sir Michael Thomas Somare and the House of Assembly, who at the time recognized the important role that women play in society and towards nation building specialized for women. ENDS////AK

22:55

NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

240323 Bougainvillean Women celebrate National Womens Day
New Dawn FM News

Bougainvillean women leaders gathered to celebrate the National Womens Day celebrations organized by Bougainville Womens Federation at Kuri lodge today.
The theme of the day is Digit ALL Innovation & Technology for Gender Technology empowering the agriculture sector, economic development and good governance.
All participants had insights on the power of information communication technology (ICT) on how to integrate to improving agriculture, economic development and development in good governance.
Three panel of discussion will see first panel on topic of use of communication technology in agriculture chaired by Stella Waineti and panelist Member for Central Womens Representative Hon Geraldine Paul and Minister for Department of Primary Industries.
Second panel on topic of use of communication technologies in economic development panelist Julie Moroko, SME owner and Belinda Maree Gara, Team leader Bougainville Partnership chaired by Mr David Haputo.
And the third panel on the topic on use of communication technologies in Development in Good Governance panelist included Stephanie Elijah Deputy Chief Secretary Policy and Ariana as head of Missing Persons Link here in Bougainville chaired by moderator Catherine Pukena Gender officer, Department of Community Development. ENDS///AK

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20:35

How do Americans define wealth? The answer may surprise you "IndyWatch Feed National"

In an exclusive Fast Company-Harris Poll, few people equated wealth with extravagance and excess. Most just want to be comfortable.

The value of a dollar continues to erode due to high inflation, and as a result, Americans budgets are getting even tighter. But even as the typical American household has seen its purchasing power and wealth erode, many people are still feeling at least somewhat wealthy, according to an exclusive Harris Poll conducted earlier this month for Fast Company.

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19:19

NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

210323 Boxer achieves dream by placing his home Catarets Island on the world map
New Dawn FM News

Cataret Islander, Thaddeus Katoa is a professional fighter who fights under the 60kg weight division.
The gold medalist, is also a trainer prepping Catarets potential fighters participating in the upcoming Wakunai regional games.
Katoa is also prepping to attend the South Pacific Games in Solomon Islands in June.
He said meditation of his island home has been an inspiration to him as a fighter.
Before I enter the ring, I mediate and think of my island home. I have convinced myself for every fight to put my island, Catarets on the world Map, he said.
Katoa has experience in the international fights and brings an excellent level of training for various division fighters.
He currently fights under the Bullets Boxing Club in Buka.
According to Raymond Keso the team has no gloves, pat, ball guard, mouth guard and bandages.
He said boys are yet to conduct sparring due to no medical attention.
Katoa won gold at Western Samoa at Youth Games, Gold won common wealth games, participated in the recent Rio Olympic games where he reached the semi-final.
All male 20 fighters are currently in Buka. Favorite is Isaiac Manake from Siwai won Silver medal in Port Moresby, others to represent Tinputz Kasius Keso, Clive Tulin and Wens Keso. ENDS///AK

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19:12

NEW DAWN ON BOUGAINVILLE "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

210323 A Bougainvillean boxer preps for regional games in Wakunai
New Dawn FM News

A Bougainvillean boxer is prepping other amateur boxers to participate in the regional games tournament to be held in Wakunai following week.
Sporting codes especially volleyball teams from Nissan and boxing teams from Catarets arrived in Buka last Saturday to prepare themselves before leaving to attend the regional games coming Saturday.
A total of fifty sportsmen and women are being accommodated by the UOG AROB Campus Director Mr Joe Lera at the Polytech centre Hutjena.
Professional boxing champion Mr Thaddeus Katoa from Catarets is among the sports trainer who is enthusiastically supporting former Boxing legend Raymond Keso.
Mr Katoa is excited imparting his fighting skills and techniques to the younger fighters currently in the Bullets boxing club.
He said training on home grown soil is tough as he has no proper equipments and use sand bags to train at the moment.
Katoa is appealing to the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) to support sporting codes by setting up a gym or sporting facility for sportsmen and women to prepare themselves.
Senior boxing coach Raymond Keso says he wants the ABG government to push for Nissan Atolls regional team to focus on boxing.
Keso is interested to develop homegrown talent from Nissan, Catarets, Mortlock, Tasman and Fead atolls to become boxing champs.
Keso further emphasized the need for proper equipments and facility to see the dream of the sport become a reality for the islanders. ENDS//AK

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19:11

Fish kills leave Kenyas Lake Victoria farmers at a loss, seeking answers "IndyWatch Feed National"

KISUMU, Kenya It is a little past 5 p.m. at the lakeside city of Kisumu, in the western part of Kenya. An hour later, the sun sets over the sprawling Lake Victoria as far as the eye can see. Wisps of gray clouds are infused with the suns amber rays, which reflect off the lake in a bedazzling shimmer. The scene is captivating, but a faint stench lingers in the air. That stench, to many cage fish farmers, is a painful reminder of the extensive losses they suffered in November 2022 due to fish kills. A report commissioned by Kenyas State Department for Fisheries, Aquaculture and the Blue Economy estimates that cage farmers in different sections of Lake Victoria, particularly Kisumu and Homa Bay towns, lost more than 900 million shillings ($7.2 million) to fish kills in 2022. While the scientists Mongabay speaks to attribute the fish kills to a combination of natural phenomena and climate change, the fish farmers are wary of those explanations, saying the deaths could be a result of pollution. Fish farmers in Lake Victoria mainly stock tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), which, according to scientists, are preferred due to their fast growth, resistance to disease and ability to withstand low dissolved oxygen levels. Tilapia and Nile perch (Lates niloticus) are the two most abundant fish species in the lake, and tilapia is more profitable in the local market. Two of the fish farms, Kentila Farms and Lake Aqua Limited, suffered the greatest losses: 200.4 million shillingsThis article was originally published on Mongabay

13:57

3AC co-founder can answer subpoena or 'take his chances' US judge "IndyWatch Feed National"

The U.S. judge presiding over the Three Arrows Capital bankruptcy case has upped the pressure on Kyle Davies to comply with a January-issued subpoena.

13:44

South Papuan youths voice the dangers and threats of deforestation "IndyWatch Feed Niugini"

https://en.jubi.id/south-papuan-youths-voice-the-dangers-and-threats-of-deforestation/

South Papuan youths voice the dangers and threats of deforestation

News Desk Deforestation

23 March 2023

Merauke, Jubi South Papua Youth Movement for Indigenous Land Care (GPPSPTA), a group of young people in South Papua Provinces Merauke Regency, voiced the dangers and threats of deforestation to the community and local government.

GPPSPTA Coordinator Mario Mere in a written statement received by Jubi on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, said that in commemorating the World Forest Day on March 21, his party held a discussion on deforestation in the South Papua region.

We held the discussion at LBH Papua Pos Merauke and it was supported by the Pusaka Foundation. In the discussion, we agreed that forests had a very important role in the climate crisis and global warming, said Mere.

In general, Mere said, the natural forest in the southern part of Papua has been widely cleared for oil palm plantation, namely in Merauke Regency (Bupul, Muting District) and partly in Boven Digoel Regency (Asiki and surrounding areas).

Deforestation was caused by, among others, conversion of forest areas especially for state agendas such as the National Strategic Program, National Economic Recovery, Special Economic Zones, and food security.

Conservation and protected forest areas in Indonesia are currently under threat. The level of seriousness of the government in this matter is questionable because there are still policies that do not favor the protection and sustainability of natural ecosystems including peatlands, he said.

The threat of deforestation in Merauke in particular, said Mere, began in 2007. The Merauke Administration at that time proclaimed that year as the year of investment. Merauke was used as a rice barn to meet the needs of rice in Papua under the program MIRE (Merauke Integrated Rice Estate).

Furthermore, in 2010, the central government through the Ministry of Agriculture launched the MIFEE (Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate) in Sirapuh hamlet, Semangga District. The birth of this mega project stems from MIRE.

The presence of this large-scale investment has led to degradation of natural resources and the environment because agricultural land, he said.

The Minister of Environment and Forestry has indeed issued Decree 168 of 2022 on the 2030 Indonesias Forest and Other Land Use Net Carbon...

13:15

Narendra Modis Cricket Coup "IndyWatch Feed National"

What a coup. Nakedly amoral but utterly self-serving in its saccharine minted glory. Indias showman Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who otherwise appears to have clerkish, desk-bound qualities, had what he wanted: an accommodating, possibly clueless guest in the form of the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese; a common interest in Indias national sport cricket, and a show illuminating him as supreme Hindu leader presiding over a new age of politics. For Albanese, this was ill-fitting and disturbing but all in keeping with the occasion.

This month, Albanese, who has been held to the bosom of great powers of late, found himself at the mercy of cricket diplomacy at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad. He had been placed upon an improvised golf car with Modi prior to the start of the fourth cricket test between Australia and India. But Albanese was not merely Modis guest; he was also appearing in a stadium named after the prime minister he was keeping company with. Modesty had been exorcised; pomp and narcissism had taken its place.

The cricketers of the national sides were not spared florid manipulation and flowery exploitation. In India, cricket makes the god fearing, beer swilling followers of soccer look like mild agnostics of some reserve and domestic sensibility. In the Indian cricket canon, players are sanctified from across the globe, added to a sanctuary of permanent adoration in something reminiscent of ancient tradition. Much like the deities of the Roman Empire, all great cricket players, from Antigua to Sydney, find their spiritual holy ground on Indian soil, forever assimilated.

For Modi, this all meant opportunity and glory. He is the classically dangerous politician for those of the broadly described West who think they understand him. Supple, gentle, oleaginous, Modi is both unscrupulous and prone to wooing. And Albanese was there to keep him company. The teams of two great cricket nations were effectively shoehorned into the show, with Modi and Albanese giving the captains of their respective countries their caps before the games commencement.

The nexus of power in world cricket and its link Modi was also affirmed by the presence of officials from the enormously powerful Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). They were on hand to give Modi that most vulgar of gifts: a gaudily framed photo of himself.

The scenes should have made Albanese feel uncomfortable. While Australian officials, business types and opportunists dream of market opportunities in India, it is also worth appreciating what Modi is. This is only relevant given the mighty, moral bent Canberra takes on such matters: the Chinese and Russians are seen as barbarians hammering away at the rules-based...

12:39

Pan-African News Wire "IndyWatch Feed National"

Russia Will Not Return to Council of Europe Diplomat

Divorce with Strasbourg is not a whim, its a well-thought decision that took a few years to rip, Nikolay Kobrinets said

Sergei Fadeichev/TASS

MOSCOW, March 24. /TASS/. Over the past year, Russia understood that its decision to quit the Council of Europe was the right thing to do, and will not return to this organization in the future, a senior Russian diplomat has told TASS in an interview.

Director of the Russian Foreign Ministrys Department of European Cooperation Nikolay Kobrinets said: "The past year proved to us that we had made the right choice [to quit the Council of Europe]."

"Our divorce with Strasbourg is not a whim, its a well-thought decision that took a few years to ripe. The Council of Europe of the present day is far from what it used to be back in 1996. Double standards, hypocrisy and Russophobia are its distinctive traits now. Clearly, with the Council of Europe of this kind, our ways have parted," the Russian diplomat said.

Kobrinets went on to say that unification principles and democratic ideals, proclaimed by the Council of Europes Charter were "sacrificed to bloc interests." In his words, the West turned the organization into its ideological appendage and used it to "impose its dubious progressivist values" on Russia and to put pressure on its government and people.

"The page has been turned. There is nothing to regret," the Russian diplomat added.

He said that Russia was not going to tarnish its 26-year-long history as a Council of Europe member.

"There were lots of useful things, particularly for the development of the Russian legislation. But this chapter is now closed," Kobrinets said.

Russia withdrew from the Council of Europe in March 2022. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, NATO and European Union countries, who abuse their absolute majority in the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CMCE), continue to pursue "a course towards the destruction of the Council of Europe and the common humanitarian and legal space in Europ...

07:17

NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM MARCH 23 2023 "IndyWatch Feed National"

We have two stories today to talk about, and I think they're connected. The first, shared by E.E., concerns Texas US Senator Ted Cruz and a recent bill of his, and the other concerns the newest trend from the former freedom-loving country of Australia, a trend that we can call "debanking":
Texas Senator Ted Cruz Introduces Anti-CBDC Bill
 

04:53

Transcript (Declassified) "IndyWatch Feed National"

Committee Chair: Please state for the record your name and title. After that, you may provide a brief testimony and we will proceed with questions and answers.

Hoover: Thank you Mr Chairman. I am J. Edgar Hoover, deceased, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years.

Committee Chair: You may proceed with your statement for the record.

Fmr Director Hoover: I have been asked to testify regarding the risks of the TikTok application and its implications for national security. In this matter we are dealing with technologies that I have not directly experienced, but I have had plenty of time to keep abreast of developments in technology, and, let me state with certainty, that these things do not represent anything dramatically new; they bring problems that weve dealt with to some degree or another since World War I. Admittedly, the asian race the Chinese communists that we are up against are a more serious threat than a European people, but the basics remain the same. I will, however, explain my experience in terms of recent events, since some of the younger people in the room may not be experienced with history. [laughter; Hoover was looking directly at Dianne Feinstein as he said that]

The FBIs responsibility is domestic counter-espionage, crime prevention, and counter-terrorism. I believe our most important duty is to deter and combat communist spies, and to prevent the communists from infiltrating the liberal left, who are all too happy to threaten national security with their irresponsibility. Lately, the FBI has also been tasked with combating right wing terror which is a concept I do not fully support because often that amounts to making sure that patriots among us do not get carried away. We are constantly balancing Americans liberties against the necessity of counter-intelligence and law enforcement.

Midjourney AI and mjr: The ghost of former FBI director J Edgar Hoover gives congressional testimony about TikTok, in the style of Leyendecker

Now, let me briefly describe TikTok as I understand it. It is a Chinese communist made and provided app that runs on individuals portable computers. The software allows people to post pictures publicly, share pictures and messages privately, and to post short movie clips, comments, and so on and so forth. In that sense it is similar to other apps that have been popular lately such...

04:10

Australia: Soldiers Control Robot with Brain Computer Interface "IndyWatch Feed National"

Via: Science Daily: Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control. The advanced brain-computer interface was developed by Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng Lin and Professor Francesca Iacopi, from the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, in []

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