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Thursday, 20 July
22:45
Kentucky declares state of emergency as historic rainfall floods communities - 11.2 inches of rain in 24 hours "IndyWatch Feed World"
Kentucky's governor declared a state of emergency Wednesday after historic rainfall inundated parts of the state and forecasters said additional storms on "extremely saturated ground" overnight raised fresh flooding concerns. The big picture: Gov. Andy Beshear urged people to "pray for Mayfield and areas of Western Kentucky impacted by significant flooding from last night's storms" as officials responded to the damage. The city in Graves County is still recovering from a December 2021 tornado that left 57 people dead, the Washington Post notes.
16:12
Central banks planning to introduce CBDC microchip implants, warns top economist "IndyWatch Feed War"
Kevin Hughes Natural News July 18, 2023
A well-known German economist has revealed that central banks around the world are planning to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the form of microchips implanted under the skin. This technology will enable complete government control over personal finances of its citizens.
I was taught by a central banker [that] the CBDCs look like a small grain of rice that they want to put under your skin, said Richard Werner in an interview with podcaster Ivor Cummins. Werner is known for developing the now commonly used bank practice of quantitative easing.
CBDCs, in comparison to other forms of digital currency used at present, demand that individuals open bank accounts directly with central banks such as the Federal Reserve, granting governments control over citizens access to money.
You have to think of CDBCs as a control system [or a permit system], not a currency, Werner said, adding that peoples money would no longer be truly their own. (Related: Expert warns CBDCs could lead economies to a dark path where governments dictate what you can purchase.)
Werner considers implanted CBDCs a violation of human dignity, noting that central bankers themselves know that this common opinion among the masses is a hurdle.
They say theres a problem of trust because people suspect that governments and central banks are just trying to roll this out in order to monitor and control and restrict transactions. Theyre absolutely right, said Werner.
Cummins noted that while implanted CBDCs may sound like a conspiracy theory to some, thousands of people have already agreed to have microchips implanted under their skin to ease financial transactions and access to select areas. Late last year, the first British implanted with a bank card microchip was able to make purchases with only the tap of his hand.
Meanwhile, several Christian commentators have indicated that if such technology becomes a requirement for access to goods and services, it will lead to authoritarianism of biblical magnitude.
Central banks will convince people to adopt CBDC microchip implants
According to Werner, CBDCs will be brought in through phone-based apps during the initial phase. Why hasnt it been rolled out yet? Theres no actual need for it. That need has to be cr...
03:12
The Pandemics Labor Market Myths "IndyWatch Feed Nthamerica"
The Pandemics Labor Market Myths (Maria)
The authors write, For economists and other forecasters, the pandemic and post-pandemic economy has been a lesson in humility. Time and again, predictions about ways in which the labor market had been permanently changed have proved temporary or even illusory. That is not to say nothing has changed. In a historically strong labor market with very low unemployment, workers have a lot more power than is typical, so they are winning better wages and new perks. And a shift toward working from home for many white-collar jobs is still reshaping the economy in subtle but important ways. But the big takeaway from the pandemic recovery is simple: The U.S. labor market was not permanently worsened.
The Single Biggest Threat to the Security of the Country: Extremism in the Military Is Alarming Experts (Reader Jim)
The author writes, There is no reliable data on the prevalence of extremist views among service members, and the likelihood, with roughly 1.4 million Americans in uniform, is that the percentage is very small. But there is this: In the last five years, at least 82 current and former military service members have been arrested and exposed as harboring far-right, antigovernment, or neo-Nazi ideologies, according to a Boston Globe analysis of court documents, media reports, and studies compiled by independent researchers.
Can Judaism Survive a Messianic Dictatorship in Israel? (Gerry)
From Haaretz: Jews around the world will shortly commemorate Tisha BAv, the fast day marking the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians and of the Second Temple by the Romans. Can Judaism survive the destruction of the Third Temple the prosperous Israeli democracy this time by the Jews themselves? And what would such destruction look like?
How the Daughters of a Nazi General Became Communist Spies (Al)
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Wednesday, 19 July
23:55
India-Russia train deal back on track after dispute resolution "IndyWatch Feed World"
Moscow and New Delhi have resolved a dispute over a joint venture worth an estimated $6 billion to build and maintain 120 trains for India's ambitious Vande Bharat Express rail service, it was reported on Wednesday. The joint venture to construct semi-high-speed trains involves the government-owned, publicly traded Indian company Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and Metrowagonmash - part of Transmashholding, Russia's largest rail manufacturer. The project is back on track after contractual issues were ironed out, Indian media have reported. The venture was formed last year to bid for the Vande Bharat tender, with Metrowagonmash receiving a 70% stake while RVNL and a smaller Russian partner, Locomotive Electronic Systems (LES), would gain shares of 25% and 5% respectively. The bid won the tender after offering the lowest price of 1.2 billion rupees ($14.61 million) per train, seeing off rivals such as Germany's Siemens, France's Alstom Transport, and Swiss Stadler Rail.
23:11
All-Consuming "IndyWatch Feed World"
The power of the very rich prevents us from addressing our two greatest existential threats.
By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 15th July 2023
According to Googles news search, the media has run more than 10,000 stories this year about Phillip Schofield, the British television presenter who resigned over an affair with a younger colleague. Google also records a global total of five news stories about a scientific paper published last week, showing that the chances of simultaneous crop losses in the worlds major growing regions, caused by climate breakdown, appear to have been dangerously underestimated. In mediaworld, a place that should never be confused with the real world, celebrity gossip is thousands of times more important than existential risk.
The new paper explores the impacts on crop production when meanders in the jet stream (Rossby waves) become stuck. Stuck patterns cause extreme weather. To put it crudely, if you live in the northern hemisphere and a kink in the jet stream (the band of strong winds a few miles above the Earths surface at mid-latitudes) is stuck to the south of you, your weather is likely to be cold and wet. If its stuck to the north of you, youre likely to suffer escalating heat and drought.
In both cases, the stuck weather, exacerbated by global heating, affects crops. With certain meander patterns, several of the northern hemispheres major growing regions such as western North America, Europe, India and east Asia could be exposed to extreme weather at the same time, hammering their harvests. We rely for our subsistence on global smoothing: if theres a bad harvest in one region, its likely to be counteracted by good harvests elsewhere. Even small crop losses occurring simultaneously present what the paper calls systemic risk.
Already, regional climate shocks have helped cause a disastrous reversal in the trend of global chronic hunger. For many years, the number of hungry people fell. But in 2015 the trend turned and has been curving upwards since. This is not because of a lack of food. The most likely explanation is that the global food system has lost its resilience. When complex systems lose resilience, instead of damping the shocks that hit them, they tend to amplify them. The shocks amplified across the system so far have landed most heavily on poor nations that depend on imports, causing local price spikes even when global food prices were low.
If this happens when harvests are affected in just one country or one...
21:04
Two people killed, 3 critically injured by bear in Odisha, India "IndyWatch Feed World"
A Forest official was reportedly killed and three others injured in bear attack in Odisha's Nuapada district on Tuesday. As per reports, 4 Forest officials had gone for patrolling in Bijakhaman forest under Komna range in the district in search of a bear which had killed a villager on Sunday. During patrolling, the bear first attacked Forester Gopal Mahanand and watcher Santosh Kumar Tundi. When two other staff, forest guard Sasadhar Sani and Sagar Thela, went to their rescue, they also faced the bear's wrath. All the four personnel sustained critical injuries in the attack.
20:57
Mysterious labyrinth found hidden under a church in Mexico "IndyWatch Feed World"
Archaeologists working at the Mitla site in southern Mexico have come across a discovery worthy of an Indiana Jones movie: a labyrinth of chambers and passageways hidden below a church, representing an 'entrance' to the underworld. When the buildings were put up by the ancient Zapotecs more than 1,000 years ago, they would've been used as a religious temple and known as the Lyobaa - the 'place of rest'. Several tombs appear to be part of the underground network, which sits some 5-8 meters (16-26 feet) below the surface. To find the underground structures, researchers used three scanning methods to reveal what was hidden from view: ground-penetrating radar (measuring electromagnetic wave reflections), electrical resistivity tomography (measuring the progress of electric currents), and seismic noise tomography (measuring the progress of seismic waves).
20:07
Russia Confirms BRICS Will Create A Gold-Backed Currency "IndyWatch Feed War"
The news regarding the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) implementing their plan to create a new international currency has gained momentum. The currency will be backed by gold, as announced on July 7, 2023. In a recent meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, the foreign ministers of the BRICS countries, along with Continue reading Russia Confirms BRICS Will Create A Gold-Backed Currency
14:59
On some aspects of the latest SCO summit "IndyWatch Feed Asia"
On July 4, the 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) since its founding in 2001 took place in New Delhi via video conference. Following is a list of the participating countries in the order that their heads of state signed the final Declaration, which was adopted at the start of the event: India, []
On some aspects of the latest SCO summit New Eastern Outlook.
11:45
Whats in the placebo? "IndyWatch Feed War"
We tried to find out what was in the placebo pill of one of the most controversial statin trials ever conducted
BY MARYANNE DEMASI, PHD AND TOM JEFFERSON | JULY 17, 2023
A recent conversation between popular podcaster Joe Rogan and presidential candidate, Robert F Kennedy Jr ignited an international discussion about placebos in clinical trials. Here, we document the difficulty in determining the details (formulation and testing) of the placebo used in a controversial cholesterol-lowering trial of Crestor (rosuvastatin) adapted from our earlier publication in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The basis for a placebo controlled trial is to reliably assess the safety and efficacy of a therapeutic drug or vaccine against a placebo they can be active or inactive placebos.
An active placebo can be used to mimic the side effects of the intervention, with no therapeutic effects on the condition being treated. For example, atropine may be used as a placebo in antidepressant trials to mimic the symptoms of dry mouth often experienced after using antidepressants, with no therapeutic effect on depression. The aim is to mitigate the risk of unblinding trial participants.
More commonly, placebos are intended to be inactive or inert. Inactive placebos should match the sensory and visual aspects of the experimental drug to maintain blinding throughout the trial. In other words, a placebo needs to be equal in shape, size, colour, texture, weight, taste, and smell.
Drug companies will often manufacture their own placebo for use in clinical trials. The technical data and analytical methods used for the placebo are detailed in the certificate of analysis (CoA), which is part of the dossier submitted to the relevant drug regulator as part of a licensing application.
Drug regulators are expected to analyse the CoA to ensure the placebo and the experimental drug are appropriately matched, to eliminate an unknown variable. However, the details relating to the contents of a placebo are often unknown to independent researchers and remains proprietary information of the drug manufacturers. For example, the in trials of Gardasil (HPV vaccine), the manufacturer often used a placebo containing amorphous aluminium hydroxyphosphate sulfate (AAHS) an adjuvant to enhance immune response and has kept the formulation a proprietary secret.
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10:24
IPAN welcomes India's withdrawal from forthcoming Talisman Sabre war exercises in Shoalwater Bay, Queensland "IndyWatch Feed World"
In
a media release on 17 July 2023, Annette Brownlie of the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network
(IPAN) welcomed the decision by India not to particpate in the
'Talisman Sabre military exercises which were scheduled to be held
from 22 July in Queensland's Shoalwater Bay. Other participants are
New Zealand, Australia and the United States.
Indias withdrawal from the Talisman Sabre war exercises welcomed
Indias withdrawal from the Talisman Sabre war exercises is a very welcome announcement, according to Ms Annette Brownlie, spokesperson for the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN).
United States and Australian government hopes for India joining the Quad and making it a military alliance have been dashed by Indias withdrawal from the Talisman Sabre war games, said Ms Brownlie.
Cancellation of this practice for a war against China would be in the best interest for peace in our region, she said.
The Talisman Sabre exercises are set to commence in Queensland, Northern Territory and other states on 22nd July. 30,000 troops primarily from the US and Australia with smaller number from other countries will participate in the largest-ever joint war exercises to develop the coordination between forces under US command in preparation for war. Every indication is that the preparation is for a war against China.
IPAN believes it is highly significant that India has recognized the purpose of this war exercise and decided to pull out of it, said Ms Brownlie.
IPAN supports the call by the Pacific Peace Network for cancellation of this war exercise which does nothing to promote peace in our region. To the contrary, it heightens tensions and raised the risk of an error or mishap that could trigger a break-out of hostilities in our region.
US Army: Exercise Talisman Saber Amphibious Assault
Below is a Youtube Video which promotes the forthcoming 22 July practise invasion of China by the armed forces of Australia, the United States and New Zealand:
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05:07
Interest in Zuckerberg's Twitter rival collapses "IndyWatch Feed World"
Threads reached 100 million sign-ups within just five days of launch, with Mark Zuckerberg celebrating every step of the way, but the actual usage of Meta's Twitter clone appears to have fallen off the proverbial cliff, data analysis has shown. Zuckerberg chose to launch Threads as an Instagram spinoff, prompting the photo platform's user base to register for the text app when it launched on July 6. The cross-promotion helped the new platform reach ten million users in just seven hours, with Zuckerberg excitedly live-posting the growth. Within a week, Threads made it to 150 million downloads globally, with India accounting for 33% of the new users and Brazil another 22%, according to Data.ai. Americans made up just 16% of downloads, with Mexico (8%) and Japan (5%) following suit. In the same time frame, however, Threads saw its daily active users (DAU) collapse by 40% and the average daily time per user dropping fourfold, according to data from SensorTower. Only 16% of users came...
04:50
Most of the world is tired of war PM Orbn touts Hungary and Latin Americas pro-peace stance at EU-CELAC summit "IndyWatch Feed War"
Hungary has found allies outside of Europe for its pro-peace position
BY JOHN CODY REMIX NEWS JULY 18, 2023
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn took to Facebook on Tuesday to proclaim that Hungary and Latin America both have a pro-peace stance regarding the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and want the war to end as soon as possible.
Most of the world is tired of war. Today, we argued for an immediate ceasefire and peace, and this time the leaders of Latin America joined us! wrote Orbn on Facebook following the meeting of the leaders of the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (EU-CELAC) summit in Brussels.
Although Orbns pro-peace stance is a minority position in Europe, he has found broad support from nations with a similar outlook toward the war elsewhere in the world, including India, China, and countries in Latin America. China, for example, has put forward a peace plan that Hungary has backed.
Within Latin America, there are a number of nations directly aligned with Russia, including Venezuela and Cuba, but more broadly speaking, there are many more nations skeptical of the Western war effort in Ukraine that have called for an immediate ceasefire. Countries like Brazil and Mexico have also refused to back sanctions against Russia, arguing it is not in their economic interest. Full article