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First ship carrying Ukrainian grain reaches Turkey

The Panama-flagged ship Navistar, carrying around 33,000 tons of Ukrainian corn to Ireland, has reached Turkeyโ€™s Bosphorus Strait and dropped anchor in Istanbul, according to officials.

The vessel is now expected to undergo a Joint Coordination Center inspection within โ€œhours.โ€ The Navistar left the port of Odessa on Friday.

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โ€ŠThe Deep Causes of the War in Ukraine: The World as Imagined by John Lennon About Fifty Years Ago
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The possibilities of non-confrontation arrangements among nations lie more on diplomatic engineering of checks and balances that are able to tie up and suppress the violent behaviors of the countries than on the real possibility of eliminating religion, geopolitics, and capitalism.

Recent events concerning some speeches of international authorities might help to understand heavier social dynamics regarding the reasons for the war in Ukraine.

Firstly, in March 2022, Pope Francis, head of the Catholic church, stated that the crisis in Ukraine was not a โ€œmilitary operationโ€, but a war triggering โ€œdeath, destruction and miseryโ€, contrasting the narrative of Moscow. Moreover, the pontiff asked the Russian president to โ€œstop the massacreโ€, ascribing responsibility to the Russian leader for the situation. On the other hand, some days after, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church said that โ€œevery person should have the right to freely practice their faith and speak their native language, without being subjected to political persecution.โ€ Actually, as an answer to Rome, the Patriarch referred in particular to the population of Donbas in southeastern Ukraine, pointing out the violence of the Ukrainian government and the western countries, since 2014, against those which have historical and cultural ties with Russia.

These controversies between religious authorities from Rome and Moscow, and their different forms of understanding of the same event, indicate divergences rooted in quite distant times. In the limit, it would not be wrong to connect these religious contentions to the times of the Great Schism of 1054 between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, when inaugurated the dispute between Rome and Constantinople for the status of the true heir of Christian Civilization. Some centuries later, after the Great Schism, the clashes took a different path due to the independence of the Russian Orthodox Church from Constantinople in 1448 and the very end of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. In other words, to figure out the different approaches regarding the recent events in Ukraine, one must look carefully at how these events dialogue with other times.

In the second place, another speech to understand the heavier social dynamics of war and peace took place in June 2022. The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, provided some pieces of information to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK Parliament about foreign policy. At a particular moment, the Labour MP Chris Bryant grilled her to account for the support and partnerships between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, described by him as an authoritarian regime, responsible, for example, for 81 executions on a single day and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian journalist.

After some attempts to provide nothing but protocol answers and, maybe, due to her clear unease with the questions, secretary Liz Truss revealed the main objectives and geopolitical nature of British foreign policy. In her words, โ€œWhat I am focused on is making sure that we are dealing with the major threats to the world. The number one threat we are dealing with at the moment is the threat from Russia. To do that, we need to make sure that we have alternative energy sources. One of the key sources of energy is the Gulf region. We are not dealing in...

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Why Did Nancy Pelosi Go to Taiwan?
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W.J. ASTORE

House Speaker Nancy Pelosiโ€™s trip to Taiwan was a disaster. It angered China, provoking a military response (missile firings and the like) that could escalate into something far worse. It interfered with cooperative efforts between China and the U.S. on vitally important fronts such as climate change. And it featured a startlingly incoherent speech by the Speaker in which she implied Benjamin Franklin was an early U.S. president as she proceeded to misquote and butcher his sentiment on liberty and security. Jimmy Dore does an excellent job here of allowing Pelosi to slay herself with her own words:

So, why did she go to Taiwan? Putting...

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โ€ŠTop Recruits Refuse to Work for Google or Amazon Over Involvement in Israeli War Crimes
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By Jessica BUXBAUM

As Google and Amazon employees fight back against the tech giantsโ€™ Israeli military contract, college graduates have also joined the resistance.

Amid Israelโ€™s assault on Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem in May 2021, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google signed a $1.22 billion contract to provide cloud technology to Israelโ€™s public sector and its military, known as Project Nimbus.

In response, Google and Amazon workers formed a coalition opposing Project Nimbus as well as strategizing against the technologyโ€™s implementation.

While just over a year old, Google and Amazon have not addressed the Workers Against Nimbus and #NoTechForApartheid campaigns publicly, but the activist network has had success in cutting the corporationsโ€™ power โ€”  even if only slightly.

โ€œThe students who are graduating from university and who have applied to Amazon and Google are turning down all of these interview requests,โ€ an anonymous Amazon employee told MintPress News, describing how it makes them hopeful to see that kind of community support. โ€œTheyโ€™re specifically telling Amazon and Google, โ€˜Weโ€™re not going to these interviews because of Project Nimbus.โ€™โ€™โ€™

Earlier this month, activists disrupted the keynote speech at an AWS summit in New York City, drawing attention to the tech behemothโ€™s controversial contract with the Israeli government.

โ€œBy doing business with Israeli apartheid, Amazon and Google will make it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians and force them off their land,โ€ a website for the #NoTechForApartheid campaign says.

Outside the summitโ€™s venue, Google employee Gabriel Schubiner addressed protesters. โ€œAs tech workers we need to ask ourselves: do we want a world where militaries around the world are training AI [artificial intelligence] for surveillance and targeting on our hardware?โ€ Schubiner said. โ€œDo we want to give nationalist armies of the world our technology?โ€

Google and AWS beat out IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft for an Israeli government tender last year to jointly build and provide cloud-based regional data centers within Israelโ€™s borders and under Israeli law. Project Nimbus will allow Israeli ministries and other public entities to transfer servers and services into the cloud. Local data centers are expected to be completed within two years. Until then, cloud services will be provided by Google and AWS data centers in Ireland, the Netherlands, and Germany.

The contract also includes a provision stipulating Amazon and Google cannot shut down operations and deny services to certain government entities, effectively barring the tech firms from engaging in a boycott of Israel or stopping the technology from being used to enact human rights abuses.

The Workers Against Project Nimbus campaign described how they felt during the Israeli 2021 attacks and why they were compelled to join together.

โ€œ[W]e had to face the fact that those of us Palestinian tech workers with family and loved ones in Gaza or the West Bank, those of us living in diaspora, would now be enabling violence and oppression against our own communities โ€“ all while professing the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,โ€  The Workers Against Project Nimbus said in a July 26 Tech Workers Coalition (TWC)...

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IAEA โ€˜alarmedโ€™ over shelling at Europeโ€™s largest nuclear power plant
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A potential nuclear disaster at the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye could threaten public health in Ukraine and beyond, the IAEA has said

The International Atomic Energy Agency said on Saturday it was โ€œextremely concernedโ€ by the shelling on Friday of the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant. The risk of a potential nuclear disaster at what is Europe's largest nuclear power station is โ€œvery real,โ€ it warned, adding...

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White House condemns โ€˜devastatingโ€™ abortion ban
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Indianaโ€™s near-total ban is the first enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned

The White House on Saturday described a new ban on almost all abortions in Indiana as โ€œdevastating,โ€ and called on Congress to make abortion access a legal right nationwide.

Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed the ban into law on Friday, after it passed both chambers of the Republican-controlled state legislature. The law, which takes effect on September 15, outlaws all abortions except in cases of rape and incest, where the motherโ€™s life is in danger, or if an unborn baby is diagnosed with a fatal abnormality.

Hospitals will be the only locations allowed t...

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Aircraft with cocaine worth โ‚ฌ8.4 million believed to have travelled to France and Belgium
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Gardaรญ say they are trying to establish the links between Ireland and continental Europe in the drug-trafficking operation, including whether the aircraft had been used for similar purposes previously
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Bells toll in Hiroshima on 77th anniversary - UN gives nuclear warning

Thousands packed into Hiroshima's Peace Park to mark the 77th anniversary of the US bombing that killed 140,000 people in 1945.

Antonio Guterres was in attendance, making it only the second time a UN Secretary General has taken part in the annual commemoration.

At the event, Guterres called nuclear weapons โ€˜nonsenseโ€™ and warned of a new arms race.

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Twitter Admits to Being Hacked

Twitter has informed users of a security bug that had allowed โ€œa bad actorโ€ to obtain and sell the personal data of account holders. The tech giant didnโ€™t provide the number of compromised accounts, but media reports state that more than 5 million users could have been affected.

A company statement said that the system vulnerability, which resulted from a June 2021 code update, made it possible to enter an email address or phone number and learn if either was linked to a specific account.

Twitter fixed the bug in early 2022. In July, however, the company saw a press report suggesting that โ€œsomeone had potentially leveraged this and was offering to sell the information they had compiled.โ€

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Erdoganโ€™s diplomacy with Russia alarms West โ€“ FT
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While Turkey is a NATO member, its president has walked a middle path on Ukraine

Western officials are โ€œincreasingly alarmedโ€ that Turkey, a NATO ally and prospective EU member, is deepening its cooperation with Russia, the Financial Times has reported. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently returned from Sochi vowing to boost trade after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Six unnamed Western officials told the newspaper that they were โ€œconcernedโ€ about the plans of Russia and Turkey to cooperate on trade and energy. One...

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Biden remains isolated despite negative Covid test
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The US leader will abide by the โ€œstrict isolation measuresโ€ until a second negative result, his doctor said

President Joe Biden tested negative for Covid-19 on Saturday, but โ€œin an abundance of cautionโ€ will remain in strict isolation under daily monitoring until a second negative result confirms he has beaten his โ€œreboundโ€ infection, according to White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor.

โ€œThe President continues to feel very well,โ€ Oโ€™Connor wrote in his daily update on Biden's condition.

The US leader initially tested po...

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Aug 7 - COVID 19 "Vaccine" is a Human Pesticide
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("Effective" at killing and maiming. Trials convinced Lucifer to go ahead.)

Please send links and comments to hmakow@gmail.com

Disclaimer - While I believe the "vaccine" is intended to debilitate or kill people, I am not seeing a lot of first-hand evidence of this here in Winnipeg.
While 85% of Canadians have received one vaccination, and 82% of those, two, people I see seem pretty normal. I'd like to receive more personal accounts of vaccine damage.

Father of child who developed myocarditis after the Covid-19 vaccine calls the pharmacy that administered it

"This
is heartbreaking to hear. This man's wife...

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