Tag: Technology

Israel, Israel Crimes

Biden and Congress Are Destroying International Law for Israel – ScheerPost

Colonialism failed indigenous Australians who have had a continuous genetic and lived connection to the land for 75 years. Their land rights were usurped and unrecognized from 1778- 1992. Australians recently had the opportunity to recognize and reverse the injustice done in the referendum on the Voice but voted “No”.

Zionists have been Colonizing and voting “No” at the point of a gun continuously for less than 100 years and have been doing it in the 21st Century with the support of America in denial of the majority of nations and peoples of the world

Whether it is through more subtle means, as Biden prefers, or the all-out and blatant assault on the rule of law preferred by Republicans, the end result will be the same. This is a moment of truth for the ICC and for international law in general. The world has already failed Gaza, as it has failed Palestine for a century. If there can at least be some justice after the fact, there might at least be something to build a better world on.

Source: Biden and Congress Are Destroying International Law for Israel – ScheerPost

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israel’s Shadow Over Free Speech: The Truth Behind the TikTok Ban Bill – ScheerPost

The chief architect behind the TikTok bill is Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher, whose biggest donor is AIPAC

In December 2023, MintPress investigated The 10/7 Project, a new Zionist lobby entity founded by AIPAC, ADL, AJC, JFNA, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. The outfit was initially intended to be a very public affair, promoting human interest stories and atrocity propaganda generated by Operation Al-Aqsa Flood in the media while elevating its eponymous date to 9/11 levels in the American public mind.

The 10/7 Project has, to say the least, failed in this mission not least because citizen activists and journalists have challenged Israeli propaganda and exposed the realities of the Gaza genocide, with such devastating effect, on platforms such as TikTok. As such, it is only to be expected that the same lobbying organizations behind this effort have redoubled their quest for narrative control. If the information war cannot be won fairly, the only option is to nobble all opposition via straight-up censorship.

Source: Israel’s Shadow Over Free Speech: The Truth Behind the TikTok Ban Bill – ScheerPost

Media

The New York Times Has an Ugly Anti-Palestinian Bias

The fact that the New York Times assigned its investigation of October 7 sexual assault claims to Anat Schwartz, a non-journalist with anti-Palestinian beliefs and ties to the Israeli military, is an extreme reflection of the paper’s unflagging pro-Israel bias.

Beneath these surface layers of anti-Palestinian bias, though, there may be a deeper and simpler issue. As Noam Chomsky and his late coauthor Edward Herman argued in Manufacturing Consent, one of the defining biases of mainstream media in general — of which the New York Times was emblematic long before the beginning of these dramatic recent conflicts of interest — has been a deep deference to and ideological affinity with the US national security state.

That was true of how they covered the Vietnam War when Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon were carpet-bombing that country to crush a peasant revolution. That was true of the Iraq War when the Times uncritically published the George W. Bush administration’s lies about “weapons of mass destruction.” We should not be surprised to discover that it’s true about Gaza, where the mass slaughter and displacement of civilians is being carried out with American funds and American weapons.

 

Source: The New York Times Has an Ugly Anti-Palestinian Bias

Israel

Human Rights? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The Declaration of Human Rights was written as a response to the inhumanity of the Holocaust which saw the killing of 13 million people because of their race, their religion, their ideologies were not acceptable to the Nazi regime in Germany. The races targeted were Jews and Gypsies, two marginalised groups, marginalised not just in Germany, but in much of Europe, and marginalised for centuries, Jews for their religious beliefs, Gypsies were ‘the wandering spirits of the earth’. On ideologies, these included homosexuals and people with disabilities.

Palestinians are marginalised in Israel, but not just in Israel, also in Lebanon, in Jordan, in Egypt where they are placed in Refugee camps, denied employment, treated as second class people and have really nowhere to go.

It seems those who ignore history are likely to repeat it while those who know history can only look on in wondrous amazement.

Source: Human Rights? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israel’s Ministers attend this conference in favor of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza. That “joke” about beach front properties was always MORE THAN REAL

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Families of the captives also slammed this conference [calling for building illegal settlements in Gaza], saying the ministers who were dancing there, were “dancing on the blood” of 136 Israelis who are still being held inside of Gaza.

Protests [for the release of captives] are taking place on a near-nightly basis with the families trying to block roads, and holding signs that say, “Give up anything”, to get the captives back.

They have been reiterating this for around 115 days, saying that Israel’s government is simply not hearing their plight. They do not feel heard or seen.

They feel that the government is not keeping in line with what they have previously told them and they say that any deal that is on the table, any concession that needs to be given up [to get the captives back] – the time to do so is now.

Israel

How to Create an Unlivable Hellscape in Gaza | The Smirking Chimp

Weapons Of Mass Destruction were originally designed and promised to be a defensive deterrent never to be used. We invaded Iraq on a suspicion that proved to be a lie and not just a myth that they were going to use them. We know Israel has them. We are witness to the fact that they are prepared to use them. They are currently demonstrating it with their illegal use of white phosphorus and the tonnage being dropped on the postage stamp known as Gaza. Bush invaded Iraq and now the worm has turned and Biden says it’s all OK why? Oil, oil tankers, and that Gas field off the coast of Gaza are far more important than any Palestinians

The violence inflicted on Palestinians by an Israel backed so strikingly by President Biden and his foreign policy team is unlike anything we had previously witnessed in more or less real-time in the media and on social media. Gaza, its people, and the lands that have sustained them for centuries are being desecrated and transformed into an all too unlivable hellscape, the impact of which will be felt — it’s a guarantee — for generations to come.

Source: How to Create an Unlivable Hellscape in Gaza | The Smirking Chimp

Israel

No Israeli soldiers have stood up and refused to participate in this evil war – Pearls and Irritations

Jerusalem, Israel - May 25, 2017: Israeli soldier military man saluting to the Western wall in Jerusalem. Western wall or Wailing wall or Kotel is the most sacred place for all jewish people.

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Jewish-Led Protest Demanding Gaza Cease-Fire Shuts Down California Capitol

Jews against Israel in California

Hitler Youth’s blinkered education from the cradle to the grave also hoped to achieve the same result. Israel may have done it in the short term but to last they will need to keep them locked in like they do in North Korea. Note the diaspora hasn’t come rushing to save Israel and they remain the majority and are furious.

It points to automatic obedience rather than to good citizenship. The army is trashing an entire region along with its residents, and that doesn’t bother our forces’ consciences.

We will never hear of any PTSD problem just as we never hear unvetted news from Israel. However, we have heard only 15% of Israelis support Netanyahu. How strange is that? Or that the IDF knew the Oct 7th was coming for a year beforehand and did nothing. They even shot their own and tried to cover it up. Pride comes before the fall

Source: No Israeli soldiers have stood up and refused to participate in this evil war – Pearls and Irritations

Climate Science, Not rocket science, Science vs Ideology

Kerry is Right that US must Cooperate with China to fight Climate Crisis, and CATL’s new Sodium Ion Battery Proves it

A startling new development in battery technology underscores why John Kerry is right that the US needs to cooperate with China on combating the climate crisis. The Washington Blob, the combination of lobbyists, permanent bureaucrats, national security professionals and think tanks, is always looking for an enemy to demonize. China is now being marked as a demon du jour inside the Beltway. There isn’t any doubt that the US has significant policy differences with Beijing. There is no reason, however, to allow those differences to be unnecessarily militarized. Moreover, there is no reason to allow differences in some areas to forestall cooperation in others.

The Chinese battery company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.( CATL) announced at the Shanghai auto show a few days ago that it has succeeded in developing a whole new kind of battery for EVs and even airplanes, which is twice as efficient as our current lithium ion batteries. The new battery is a sodium ion technology, different from the reigning lithium ion battery that fuels most electric cars. If the new battery performs as advertised, it is potentially a huge game changer in electrification.

Source: Kerry is Right that US must Cooperate with China to fight Climate Crisis, and CATL’s new Sodium Ion Battery Proves it

Capitalism

Automation Isn’t the Cause of Unemployment — Capitalism Just Can’t Generate Enough Jobs

Social theorists identify automation as both the main cause of unemployment and the future launchpad for a high-tech post-scarcity world. But, Aaron Benanav argues, the problem is the stagnation of global capitalism and its inability to generate enough jobs.

Source: Automation Isn’t the Cause of Unemployment — Capitalism Just Can’t Generate Enough Jobs

WAR

Vladimir Putin unleashes screeching killing machines in Ukraine war to terrorise the residents of Kyiv – ABC News

A white, triangular drone with a pointed warhead on its nose can be seen flying through the sky in a zoomed-in photo.

Western media tells us Putin is desperate

The screeching sounds of pilotless, bomb-carrying drones are now becoming a familiar daily routine in heart-stopping terror for everyone beneath them in Ukraine.

Killer drones a moral quandary

In the warped world of military industrial planners and arms dealers, automated, stand-off and drone weapon technology has long been viewed as the holy grail for future forms of “networked” warfare and their potential unethical use has been endlessly explored in movies and books.

Only now, in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, does the world seem to recognise the real-life quandary they present when used in heavily built-up urban areas occupied by civilians.

Source: Vladimir Putin unleashes screeching killing machines in Ukraine war to terrorise the residents of Kyiv – ABC News

India

India’s BJP: The rise of the world’s biggest political party

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters wear masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The rise of Religious Nationalism is detrimental to the principles of Democracy

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, has more members than most countries have people.

The unit’s latest report says there has been “a serious deterioration in the quality of democracy under leader Narendra Modi, whose Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has presided over increased intolerance and sectarianism towards Muslims and other religious minorities” and that a failure to “crack down on the persecution of religious and other minorities by Hindu nationalists continues to weigh on India’s democracy score”.

To rise from the fringes of Indian politics to become the world’s biggest party has been a stunning achievement. But can Indian democracy flourish with a political behemoth like the BJP?

Source: India’s BJP: The rise of the world’s biggest political party

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thoughts- There is no progress without criticism but not all criticism is progressive
Cuts to JobSeeker, Jobkeeper: out of the frying pan and into the fire

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 28/9/20; JobSeeker, JobKeeper, We aren’t a Public Service; The technology isn’t to blame; Fake News,

LNP Corruption, Uncategorized

The Morrison Government’s woeful record on technology

The Morrison Government’s woeful record on technology

Israel, Uncategorized

New VR app circumvents Israel’s travel bans, takes viewers across Palestine | +972 Magazine

Rowaida Abu Eid tries Palestine VR, an app that offers virtual tours of six regions in the West Bank and Gaza. (Screenshot of a Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy video)

via New VR app circumvents Israel’s travel bans, takes viewers across Palestine | +972 Magazine

Science, Uncategorized

Best new bots: Exhibitors unveil next-gen robots that can swim, fly & perform brain surgery — RT World News

Best new bots: Exhibitors unveil next-gen robots that can swim, fly & perform brain surgery

Best new bots: Exhibitors unveil next-gen robots that can swim, fly & perform brain surgery — RT World News

Germany, Uncategorized

Zero Carbon Electric Air Taxi 5-Seater Completes Maiden Flight in Germany

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The government’s 2014 Climate Action Programme suggested that increasing energy efficiency could cut emissions by 25 to 30%. Lilium says future passengers will not pay more for a flight than they do now for a regular taxi ride. The company expects its product to be ready for commercial use by 2025.

via Zero Carbon Electric Air Taxi 5-Seater Completes Maiden Flight in Germany

Israel, Uncategorized

How Israeli Tech Firms Act as Global Agents of Repression | The Nation

NSO Building Israel

Two Israeli companies are at the forefront of this commercialization of dirty ops: NSO Group and Black Cube. Those following the Harvey Weinstein scandal will remember that Black Cube was the cyber-surveillance firm that Weinstein’s lawyer, David Boies, hired after former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak introduced Weinstein to the company. Black Cube employed covert schemes to trick Weinstein’s accusers into exposing themselves so that his legal defense might have more ammunition to discredit them in court and in the public realm.

via How Israeli Tech Firms Act as Global Agents of Repression | The Nation

Australian Pride

UNSW professor Martin Green bests Elon Musk to win $820k Global Energy Prize – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Professor Martin Green standing in front of a solar-panelled roof holding a solar panel

Australia’s most uncelebrated Academic ignored by our LNP government and the  IPA who preferred to bribe universities to create space for Dr Bjorn Lomborg a globally ignored academic. Tony abbott’s view of progress was to cut funding to the likes of Professor Green (ODT)

“His fundamental and applied research has transformed the global energy sector and will continue to produce major economic and social benefits, both in Australia and worldwide.”

UNSW Dean of Engineering Professor Mark Hoffman said: “The global impact of the work of Martin and his research team has been profound. They have created the highest efficiency solar cells using techniques that have made them accessible to the world through commercialisation. And all of this has been achieved in Australia.

“We are proud of Martin’s inspirational leadership and pioneering research which is helping address the challenge of climate change.”

Professor Green said receiving the award was “a great honour”.

“The efficiency of solar modules is an area whose progress has been faster than many experts expected, and this is good news,” he said.

“We need to maintain the pace of research in Australia, not only to keep our international lead, but also to benefit society by providing a cheap, low carbon source of electricity.”

via UNSW professor Martin Green bests Elon Musk to win $820k Global Energy Prize – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

clean energy, Uncategorized

Clean Energy Germany- Video
Informed Comment, job loss

Rise of the machines: robots are coming for middle-class jobs next

The next advances in automation won’t just affect the low-skilled and low-paid.

Source: Rise of the machines: robots are coming for middle-class jobs next

Politics

Technology, democracy and the power of the people

Australia’s political duopoly only perpetuates a watered down democracy, which is now little more than a regional office for corporate interests, writes Andrew Chambers.

Source: Technology, democracy and the power of the people

TPP

Chinese Developer Builds 57-Story Skyscraper In Just 19 Days (Time-Lapse Video): What will Globalization and TPP agreements do with this building technology to improve lifestyle choices of Australian workers?

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When imagining the timeline for constructing a skyscraper, most people probably think in terms of months or even years. But for the Chinese construction firm Broad Sustainable Building, that’s simply too long.

BSB’s newest building, a 57-story tower in Changsha, China, was erected in a mind-blowingly fast 19 days – a rate of three stories per day!

BSB Architect Xian Min Zhang released a promotional time-lapse video showing the construction of the J57 tower – check it out below! (The time-lapse itself begins at around 1:55)

The J57 is a multi-purpose building, containing 800 apartments and office space for up to 4,000 people.

According to Gizmodo, the 80,000-square-meter skyscraper was built entirely out of, “energy-efficient, factory-produced, Lego-like blocks”, making it the world’s tallest prefabricated building.

BSB also took China’s pollution problem into account when constructing the building, using quadruple-thick glass and tight “99.9% sealed” construction to keep air pollution out.

Read more from Business Insider and Gizmodo.