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Huawei to invest $1 billion over next five years to attract global developers


RT
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:43 UTC
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The Chinese tech company Huawei said on Wednesday that it will offer more than $1 billion in investment over the next five years to attract global developers.

The offer is part of the company's broader computing strategy, which includes investing in basic research around its products to support new technology such as artificial intelligence. The firm also said it will make its hardware and software more readily available to its customers and partners.

Huawei announced its developer program four years ago. The company says it has supported more than 1.3 million developers since then, as well as 14,000 independent software vendors around the world.

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'Cycle of panic and neglect': Preparedness Monitoring group calls for massive investment to prepare for 'next pandemic'


RT
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 22:00 UTC
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A sudden lethal pandemic could wipe out tens of millions of people, destroy the world's economies, and leave humanity in chaos, according to a new report from an emergency preparedness body that isn't alarmist in the slightest.

Citing a reactionary "cycle of panic and neglect" in which health emergencies are dealt with as they arise, rather than before they start, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board - an entity formed last year by the World Bank and the World Health Organization - has called for immediate and massive investment in emergency preparedness systems in its first-ever report, titled "A World At Risk."

"The world is not prepared for a fast-moving, virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic," the report, posted on Tuesday, warns, claiming that such a crisis would kill off 50 to 80 million people - 2.8 percent of the population - ravage the global economy and trade, and "destabilize national security." Countries must "be prepared for the worst," if they want to avoid getting crushed by the next pandemic.

The other six "urgent actions" governments are advised to take mostly consist of throwing money at the problem, according to the report. "Heads of government must commit and invest," "countries and regional organizations must lead by example" (so that reluctant and/or poor countries are persuaded to commit and invest), "all countries must build strong systems" with those investments, "financial institutions must link preparedness with financial risk planning" i.e. budget for spending lots of money on preparedness, "development assistance funders must create incentives and increase funding for preparedness," and "the UN must strengthen coordination mechanisms" so the money gets to the right place.

Comment: While this could be an example of fearmongering to encourage the passing of even more stringent vaccine legislation, one might wonder if there is something more sinister to these warnings:

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America Has Become One of The Most Evil Nations on The Entire Planet

Michael Snyder
End of the American Dream
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 01:12 UTC
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This is actually a thing
How will history remember us? As Americans, we like to think that we are a light to the world and that other countries should be using us as a model for how to properly do things. But the truth is that we have become unspeakably evil, and after reading this entire article I doubt that there will be anyone that will disagree with me. And while it is certainly true that there are quite a few other nations that are also tremendously evil, none have fallen harder or faster then we have. At one time America truly was "the hope of the world", but now just about every form of wickedness that you can possibly imagine is exploding all around us, and very few of our national leaders seem to care.

The first example that I would like to discuss is something that came out in court on Thursday...
The CEO of StemExpress essentially admitted in court Thursday that her biotech company supplies beating fetal hearts and intact fetal heads to medical researchers.

She also admitted at the preliminary hearing of David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress that the baby's head could be procured attached to the baby's body or "could be torn away."
This is Nazi-level evil, and it is happening all across the United States every single day.

Of course the mainstream media is completely avoiding this story, because they fully approve of what is happening and they don't want to cause any sort of an uproar. And most "conservative" media outlets are avoiding this story as well, because the truth is that they aren't actually very "conservative" at all.

Companies such as StemExpress are making a tremendous amount of money selling baby body parts to medical researchers, and the "research" that is being conducted is incredibly sick and disgusting.

Comment: Watch the full Watson video:



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Pepe Escobar: Trapped between East and West, Hong Kong protestors are really protesting hyper-capitalism

Pepe Escobar
Asia Times
Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
Hong Kong protesters
© AFP/Anthony Wallace
Protestors run past a fire during clashes with riot police in Hong Kong on Sunday, September 15. Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas and water cannon at hardcore pro-democracy protesters who were hurling rocks and petrol bombs on September 15, tipping the violence-plagued city back into chaos after a brief lull in clashes.
Fringe practicing wanton destruction for destruction's sake surely have learned tactics from European black blocs

What's going on deep down in Hong Kong? For a former resident with deep cultural and emotional ties to the Fragrant Harbor, it's quite hard to take it all in just within the framework of cold geopolitical logic. Master filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai once said that when he came up with the idea for Happy Together, he decided to shoot the story of his characters in Buenos Aires because that was as far away from Hong Kong as possible.

A few weeks ago I was walking the streets of far away Buenos Aires dreaming of Hong Kong. That Hong Kong that Wong Kar-Wai refers to in his masterpiece no longer exists. Unfortunately deprived of Christopher Doyle's mesmerizing visuals, I ended up coming back to Hong Kong to find, eventually, that the city I knew also no longer exists.
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USA

Caitlin Johnstone: Stop telling veterans that they are heroes

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 19:28 UTC
Crenshaw Sanders
Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw has a popular post going around on Twitter at the moment admonishing Senator Bernie Sanders for saying that the US government should not go to war if it can't afford to take care of its veterans.

"Watching Bernie pander to different groups to get their vote has always disgusted me, but now it's personal," Crenshaw tweeted. "I didn't go to war so that you would take care of me, Bernie. I went because I wanted to serve and our country needed it."

This "look at me, I'm a veteran" song and dance is par for course with Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye to an improvised explosive device on his third deployment in America's evil and unjustifiable Afghanistan occupation. When Crenshaw says "I went because I wanted to serve and our country needed it," he is being delusional, and feeding into his delusion allows him to continue dominating public discourse with obnoxiously propagandistic takes like the notion that the US should continue its forever war without even so much as ensuring that it can take care of the people whose lives are chewed up and spat out by the imperial war machine.

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30-year mystery solved as South Korea's worst serial killer likely identified through DNA evidence


RT
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:37 UTC
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© Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency
Sketch of the suspect in the Hwaseong murders.
South Korea's worst serial killer looks like he has finally been identified after his violent crimes inspired a hit movie and confounded investigators for more than 30 years.

After decades of unsuccessful searching, police believe they have finally made a breakthrough in the infamous "Hwaseong murders" case, announcing that the prime suspect is a man in his 50s who is currently serving a prison sentence for another rape and murder, the Yonhap news agency reports.
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BRICS countries will soon account for over half the global economy


RT
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:40 UTC
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© Pexels / Valentin Antonucci
The combined economies of the BRICS member states - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - are set to expand by about 20 percent in roughly a decade, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has announced.

"The BRICS countries' economy today accounts for a third of the global economy. According to our conservative estimates, by 2030 our economies will make up more than half of the entire world economy," Siluanov said at the BRICS International Competition Conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

Members of the alliance continue to work on eliminating trade barriers between them and can set an example for other counties, the minister added.

BRIC was established in 2006 by Brazil, Russia, India and China, before South Africa joined the bloc in 2010, adding the "S" to the acronym. As of 2018, combined nominal GDP of these five emerging economies amounted to $18.6 trillion.

In line with efforts to boost trade, members are working on the integration of payment systems, increasing payments in national currencies, as well as the establishment of an independent channel on information exchange. It was earlier reported that BRICS states are set to create a new joint payment system called BRICS Pay that will be similar to existing Apple Pay and Samsung Pay services.

"Cooperation in terms of developing the use of our national currencies in international settlements seems very promising," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in June as he met BRICS leaders ahead of the G20 summit.

Comment: As the unipolar hegemon crumbles, the multipolar world is rising. The West can try to stop it, but it doesn't look like they'll succeed.

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Mea culpa: Social Constructionist confesses 'I basically just made it up'

Christopher Dummitt
Quillette
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:05 UTC
gender roles identity politics
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If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic. Back then, I spent many evenings at the pub or at dinner parties debating gender and identity with other graduate students; or, really, anyone who would listen — my mother-in-law, my relatives, or just a random person unlucky enough to be in my presence. I insisted that there was no such thing as sex. And I knew it. I just knew it. Because I was a gender historian.

This was, in the 1990s, the thing to be in history departments across North America. Gender history — and then gender studies, more generally, across the academy — was part of a broader group of identity-based sub-disciplines that were taking over the liberal arts. History departments across the continent were transformed. When the American Historical Association surveyed the trends among major fields of specialization in 2007, and then again in 2015, the single largest field was women's and gender history. This was right up there with social history, cultural history, and the history of race and sexuality. Each of these fields shared the same worldview as I did — that just about every identity was a social construction. And, that identity was all about power.

Comment: Mr. Dummitt is courageous in admitting his part in the current societal disaster, but the fallout is everywhere. Will Dummitt continue to raise his voice against the poisonous ideology he helped spread?

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Ed Buck, prominent Democrat donor, arrested, charged with running drug den after latest 'guest' overdose

Edmund DeMarche
Fox News
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:45 UTC
Ed Buck drug dealer dead black gay men
© Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images
Ed Buck, shown in 2010, was charged with one count each of battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house, according to L.A. County prosecutors.
Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic Party donor, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house after a third man reportedly suffered an overdose inside his West Hollywood home last week and survived.

Buck has faced public scrutiny after two black men died from overdoses 18 months apart inside his home. He was not charged in those cases.

Buck is due in court Wednesday to respond to three counts of battery and injecting the alleged third victim with methamphetamine on Sept. 11, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Comment: More from the Los Angeles Times:
Moore's mother, LaTisha Nixon of Texas, has questioned whether Buck's ties to elected officials and differences in race and class influenced the investigation. Buck, who is 65 and white, is a longtime political donor, onetime West Hollywood City Council candidate and a well-known figure in LGBTQ political circles. Moore had been homeless and had worked as an escort.

In February, Nixon filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Buck, alleging he was a drug dealer who injected her son with a fatal dose of crystal methamphetamine.

"If the dead body of a blond-haired, blue-eyed white man was found in the home of an older black man, he'd be lucky to even make it to the police station alive," Hussain Turk, an attorney for Nixon, said in a statement at the time of the lawsuit's filing.

About 9 p.m. Tuesday, about a dozen onlookers gathered across the street from Buck's apartment building, as police redirected cars on the blocked street. It was a quiet scene, with no protest chants or signs.

"Today is like a celebration for us," said Jasmyne Cannick as she spoke to those gathered.

Cannick, a political consultant and spokeswoman for Moore's mother, said she was giving a speech in Leimert Park on Tuesday evening when she started getting calls from Buck's neighbors saying he was being arrested.

She pulled up to Buck's West Hollywood apartment building just as a police car was driving away.

Cannick has said she believed Buck got special treatment because of his political activism and fundraising for Democratic candidates, a charge officials have denied, and because he was white and Moore and Dean were black.

"I feel vindicated for all the people who said it was never going to happen," she said. "I feel really good for all the young men he took advantage of because they didn't feel like anyone took them seriously, like their lives weren't important enough for anyone to really care about."

Cannick said she called Moore's mother and Dean's sister to tell them about the arrest, and "we were all crying."

"We're just completely ecstatic," she said. "Black gay men's lives matter. The whole black LGBT community is going to be celebrating this evening because our lives matter, and people need to know that. Even if we're sex workers, even if we're on drugs, even if we're homeless, we're still part of the black community, still part of the LGBT community."
How is it that this screamingly obvious predator was allowed to roam free for so long? Did Democrat party connections have something to do with it?
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Ed Buck, 62 (pictured, right, with Hillary Clinton in June 2015)


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Only 38% of Americans believe in man-made climate change, 48% of Norwegians believe there are other factors

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:21 UTC
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You will find more infographics at Statista
By now, most people have accepted that climate change is real, and that it is happening. What we can't all agree on though, is what the main cause is. As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, close to an absolute majority of the world's scientists are adamant that we as humans are the main factor behind the speed and extent to which our climate is changing.

When though, like YouGov, you ask the people what they think, the picture becomes a bit cloudier.

As this infographic shows, of the countries surveyed, India has the largest share of people that think human activity is mainly responsible for climate change (71 percent).

Comment: Despite the relentless propaganda campaigns, it seems much of the planet is still questioning the official, unsupported government narrative - which is hopeful. And, in recent years, it has been shown there are other drivers which have much more of an impact on our planet's climate: Although there is some truth that human's are responsible, just not in the way we think, for more on that, check out SOTT radio's:

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