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Australia VPN Boom as “Age Verification” Law Takes Effect
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Australia VPN Boom as "Age Verification" Law Takes Effect
The law successfully drove millions of Australians to VPNs and unregulated sites.
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Dont let anyone convince you otherwise, there will ALWAYS be a workaround (and more often than not it will be as simple as a VPN and/or Tor). Might not always be a simple one, but there will always be one. No matter what they impose on us.
Dont let anyone convince you otherwise, there will ALWAYS be a workaround (and more often than not it will be as simple as a VPN and/or Tor). Might not always be a simple one, but there will always be one. No matter what they impose on us.
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Case in point to above. The ToS will say Cali residents can't use this distro. But a team of devs doing this for the cause ( #principlesoverprofit ) sure as hell aint taking anyone to court over this. If there is some geolocation block on Cali IP addresses, tor or a VPN connected elsewhere solves the problem. These ass clowns passing these laws dont know a fucking thing about tech, especially in the open source world.
MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act - OSTechNix
https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/
MidnightBSD Excludes California from Desktop Use Due to Digital Age Assurance Act - OSTechNix
https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-excludes-california-digital-age-assurance-act/
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The last image of Iranian teacher Neda Amini-Azar, before being martyred in the US-Israeli attack on her school
The devoted Iranian teacher was severely injured in the american-Israeli airstrike on her school on march 4th. After enduring days of pain, she attained martyrdom on march 11th.
American and Israeli regimes have attacked many schools across Iran in their war on the Iranian nation, murdering hundreds of children and teachers.
@PressTV
The devoted Iranian teacher was severely injured in the american-Israeli airstrike on her school on march 4th. After enduring days of pain, she attained martyrdom on march 11th.
American and Israeli regimes have attacked many schools across Iran in their war on the Iranian nation, murdering hundreds of children and teachers.
@PressTV
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) Report: The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market
Just published today. Highlights:
The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
With crude and oil product flows through the Strait of Hormuz plunging from around 20 mb/d before the war to a trickle currently, limited capacity available to bypass the crucial waterway, and storage filling up, Gulf countries have cut total oil production by at least 10 mb/d. In the absence of a rapid resumption of shipping flows, supply losses are set to increase.
The conflict is also having a significant impact on global product markets, with export flows through the Strait at a near standstill. Gulf producers exported 3.3 mb/d of refined products and 1.5 mb/d of LPG in 2025. More than 3 mb/d of refining capacity in the region has already shut due to attacks and a lack of viable export outlets. Runs elsewhere will be increasingly limited due to feedstock availability.
Widespread flight cancellations in the Middle East and large-scale disruptions to LPG supplies are expected to curb global oil demand by around 1 mb/d during March and April compared to previous estimates. Higher oil prices and a more precarious outlook for the global economy pose further risks to the forecast.
Full report.
Just published today. Highlights:
The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.
With crude and oil product flows through the Strait of Hormuz plunging from around 20 mb/d before the war to a trickle currently, limited capacity available to bypass the crucial waterway, and storage filling up, Gulf countries have cut total oil production by at least 10 mb/d. In the absence of a rapid resumption of shipping flows, supply losses are set to increase.
The conflict is also having a significant impact on global product markets, with export flows through the Strait at a near standstill. Gulf producers exported 3.3 mb/d of refined products and 1.5 mb/d of LPG in 2025. More than 3 mb/d of refining capacity in the region has already shut due to attacks and a lack of viable export outlets. Runs elsewhere will be increasingly limited due to feedstock availability.
Widespread flight cancellations in the Middle East and large-scale disruptions to LPG supplies are expected to curb global oil demand by around 1 mb/d during March and April compared to previous estimates. Higher oil prices and a more precarious outlook for the global economy pose further risks to the forecast.
Full report.
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U.S. Corporate Media Changes the Narrative on Iranian School Girls Mass Executions from "Iran did it" to "Bad Intel"
The U.S. and Israel, with Mossad and the CIA backed by Big Tech, have the largest and most modern intelligence network in the world, and now they want us to believe it was "bad intel" that led to the slaughter of innocent school girls??
From AP:
Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident.
The bombing of the school and its casualties involving children has become a focal point of the war, and if ultimately confirmed to be at the hands of the U.S., would also stand among the highest civilian casualty events caused by the American military operations in the last two decades.
President Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the attack, later said he wasn’t certain who was to blame, and then said he would accept the results of the Pentagon’s investigation. The issue took on added urgency on Wednesday after the New York Times first reported that a preliminary investigation found that the U.S. was responsible.
The U.S. and Israel, with Mossad and the CIA backed by Big Tech, have the largest and most modern intelligence network in the world, and now they want us to believe it was "bad intel" that led to the slaughter of innocent school girls??
From AP:
Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident.
The bombing of the school and its casualties involving children has become a focal point of the war, and if ultimately confirmed to be at the hands of the U.S., would also stand among the highest civilian casualty events caused by the American military operations in the last two decades.
President Donald Trump initially blamed Iran for the attack, later said he wasn’t certain who was to blame, and then said he would accept the results of the Pentagon’s investigation. The issue took on added urgency on Wednesday after the New York Times first reported that a preliminary investigation found that the U.S. was responsible.
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Outdated intel likely led US to carry out deadly strike on Iranian elementary school, AP sources say
Outdated intelligence has likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second…
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Houthi Maritime Drone and UAV Strike Hits US-linked Oil Tanker in Red Sea
It looks like the Houthis are back to attacking ships in the Red Sea.
The Houthis just struck the US owned / linked oil tanker "Chios Lion" in the Red Sea.
This war is quickly spiraling out of control for Israel and the U.S. They certainly did not anticipate such a strong response from Hezbollah, which is ignoring their Israeli-chosen puppet government in Lebanon and continually bombing Israel in the north.
Article.
It looks like the Houthis are back to attacking ships in the Red Sea.
The Houthis just struck the US owned / linked oil tanker "Chios Lion" in the Red Sea.
This war is quickly spiraling out of control for Israel and the U.S. They certainly did not anticipate such a strong response from Hezbollah, which is ignoring their Israeli-chosen puppet government in Lebanon and continually bombing Israel in the north.
Article.
Garowe Online
Houthi Maritime Drone and UAV Strike Hits US-linked Oil Tanker in Red Sea
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Iran War: We Follow The Money (To Mar-A-Lago)
This is, by far, the BEST analysis of who is behind the Iran war in the U.S., and how this has been planned for years. It reveals who the Zionists and Jews are that are profiting from this war.
From The Democracy Defender's Substack
How the Mar-A-Lago Gang is Cashing In On The Iran War
Excerpts:
Approximately 70% of Trump’s cabinet and more than 50 government officials have direct prior roles with the Heritage Foundation or its Project 2025 partner groups.
That is not a statistic that gets enough attention.
The Heritage Foundation — through Project 2025 and the subsequent “Project 2026” — didn’t just publish a policy wish list. It built a personnel pipeline that placed hundreds of vetted loyalists into the federal bureaucracy, each one committed to a specific task: centralize executive power, dismantle regulatory oversight, and an “America First” foreign policy that treats military force as the default instrument of statecraft.
The Iran war is what that pipeline was built to produce.
Discussions began with Colin Powel addressing Heritage in 2018 and actionable “maximum pressure” policy was drawn up in 2022-2023.
For decades, Heritage has advocated for the destruction of the Iran nuclear deal, for “maximum pressure” campaigns, and for the explicit position that the Iranian regime cannot be negotiated with — only confronted.
Their scholars have called the current moment a “golden window of opportunity.” Their policy papers called for “sustained operations involving weeks of bombing.” Their Sentinel Action Fund — a Super PAC — lobbied for the exact defense appropriations now funding the carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf.
This was not a reaction to events. It was a strategy waiting for the right President and the opportunity to execute it.
And the personnel is now in place — not just ideologues, but billionaires with portfolios that rise and fall with every decision they make from inside the government.
The Pentagon as a Private Equity Portfolio: Stephen Feinberg
The Department of Defense now officially goes by a secondary title: the “Department of War.” The name change is telling, but the real transformation is structural in a financial sense.
At the center of it sits Stephen Feinberg, co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management — a private equity firm with approximately $70 billion dollars in assets — who serves as the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
While Pete Hegseth plays the role of ideological figurehead, talking “warrior ethos” to the cameras, Feinberg is the one actually running the Pentagon’s $900 billion-plus budget. He manages it, according to observers, with the “terrifyingly intense scrutiny” of a corporate turnaround specialist. Which is exactly what he is.
The June 2025 strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility weren’t just military operations. They were live-fire demonstrations for hypersonic weapons systems developed by private equity-backed firms. Every successful strike is a proof of concept. Every proof of concept drives up the portfolio value. And the man overseeing Pentagon procurement is financially connected to the firms doing the selling.
The Commerce Secretary’s Insider Bet: Howard Lutnick
If the Feinberg story is about slow structural corruption, the Howard Lutnick story is about something faster and more breathtaking: a sitting cabinet member’s firm betting against his own policies — and winning.
Full Article
This is, by far, the BEST analysis of who is behind the Iran war in the U.S., and how this has been planned for years. It reveals who the Zionists and Jews are that are profiting from this war.
From The Democracy Defender's Substack
How the Mar-A-Lago Gang is Cashing In On The Iran War
Excerpts:
Approximately 70% of Trump’s cabinet and more than 50 government officials have direct prior roles with the Heritage Foundation or its Project 2025 partner groups.
That is not a statistic that gets enough attention.
The Heritage Foundation — through Project 2025 and the subsequent “Project 2026” — didn’t just publish a policy wish list. It built a personnel pipeline that placed hundreds of vetted loyalists into the federal bureaucracy, each one committed to a specific task: centralize executive power, dismantle regulatory oversight, and an “America First” foreign policy that treats military force as the default instrument of statecraft.
The Iran war is what that pipeline was built to produce.
Discussions began with Colin Powel addressing Heritage in 2018 and actionable “maximum pressure” policy was drawn up in 2022-2023.
For decades, Heritage has advocated for the destruction of the Iran nuclear deal, for “maximum pressure” campaigns, and for the explicit position that the Iranian regime cannot be negotiated with — only confronted.
Their scholars have called the current moment a “golden window of opportunity.” Their policy papers called for “sustained operations involving weeks of bombing.” Their Sentinel Action Fund — a Super PAC — lobbied for the exact defense appropriations now funding the carrier strike groups in the Persian Gulf.
This was not a reaction to events. It was a strategy waiting for the right President and the opportunity to execute it.
And the personnel is now in place — not just ideologues, but billionaires with portfolios that rise and fall with every decision they make from inside the government.
The Pentagon as a Private Equity Portfolio: Stephen Feinberg
The Department of Defense now officially goes by a secondary title: the “Department of War.” The name change is telling, but the real transformation is structural in a financial sense.
At the center of it sits Stephen Feinberg, co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management — a private equity firm with approximately $70 billion dollars in assets — who serves as the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
While Pete Hegseth plays the role of ideological figurehead, talking “warrior ethos” to the cameras, Feinberg is the one actually running the Pentagon’s $900 billion-plus budget. He manages it, according to observers, with the “terrifyingly intense scrutiny” of a corporate turnaround specialist. Which is exactly what he is.
The June 2025 strikes on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility weren’t just military operations. They were live-fire demonstrations for hypersonic weapons systems developed by private equity-backed firms. Every successful strike is a proof of concept. Every proof of concept drives up the portfolio value. And the man overseeing Pentagon procurement is financially connected to the firms doing the selling.
The Commerce Secretary’s Insider Bet: Howard Lutnick
If the Feinberg story is about slow structural corruption, the Howard Lutnick story is about something faster and more breathtaking: a sitting cabinet member’s firm betting against his own policies — and winning.
Full Article
Substack
Iran War: We Follow The Money (To Mar-A-Lago)
How the Mar-A-Lago Gang is Cashing In On The Iran War
How Linux and BSD Distros Are Responding to the New Age Verification Laws
https://itsfoss.com/news/distros-response-age-verification-laws/
https://itsfoss.com/news/distros-response-age-verification-laws/
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How Linux and BSD Distros Are Responding to the New Age Verification Laws
Age verification laws could change how operating systems work. See how major Linux and BSD distributions are reacting to the new regulations.