Новости за 12.03.2024

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim spoke up in defence of ties with China and denounced the “China-phobia” sentiment among the West and the pressure to take sides in recent weeks and most recently in Australia during the Australia-ASEAN Summit.

Day by day, tyranny is rising as freedom falls.

The U.S. military is being used to patrol subway stations and police the U.S.-Mexico border, supposedly in the name of national security.

The financial sector is being used to carry out broad surveillance of Americans’ private financial data, while the entertainment sector is being tapped to inform on video game enthusiasts with a penchant for violent, potentially extremist content, all in an alleged effort to uncover individuals... Читать дальше...

I chose the word nauseous over cautious because my stomach is churning at the very possibility Trump could get a second term. But I don’t believe that will happen. The progressive forces in America are overtaking the regressive. 

America is aggressively pursuing “green” electricity and actively phasing out of crude oil to reduce emissions generated in America by deliberately increasing worldwide exploitations of humanity, environmental degradation, and increased emissions. 

With the army engineered ‘General’ Elections in Pakistan ensuring that Shehbaz Sharif emerged as Pakistan’s newly ‘selected’ prime minister, Rawalpindi would have certainly celebrated its great success. However, with euphoria of having politically ‘neutered’ the one who gave Pakistani Generals the ungainly moniker of “neutrals” over, it’s time for Pakistan’s real kingmaker Gen Syed Asim Munir [who also doubles up as its army chief] to get down to serious work and take stock of the chaotic situation... Читать дальше...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 completed the agency’s seventh commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday after splashing down safely in a Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The international crew of four spent 199 days in orbit.

The Tsom/Swam of the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur is the oldest monotheistic fast; and the Tsom/Swam of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan [now in action] is the most widespread; as the Qur’an states, “Oh you who believe! Fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may (learn) self-restraint.” (2:183) Yet the world seems to be in terrible shape.

On March 8, 2024, the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates emphasized the need to elevate bilateral relations to a heightened level of economic partnership. The Honorable Foreign Minister, Dr. Hasan Mahmud, MP, engaged in a bilateral meeting with his counterpart, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at the royal palace in Al Ain city of Abu Dhabi Emirates.

Stock exchanges, in the world of economic dynamics, are used as a thermometer. The control the temperature of risks and the actual position of the sol entity of the country. The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remains the critical player in the complex line-up of geopolitics, economic policies, and global market conditions, thus providing a continual demonstration of resilience and endurance under the trying circumstances of political turbulence. 

The occurrence of a terror attack, whose toll of dead and injured represents an irreparable human loss and a gross human rights violation, should encourage everyone, from the media to government representatives, to refrain from an ideological reading of the facts, and to examine instead the circumstances, the reasons and the motives behind it, in order to understand the root causes and thus help to prevent future strikes. 

Videos have emerged on social media in recent days that appear to show junta personnel providing military training to ethnic Muslim Rohingyas at a site in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, amid reports of forced recruitment around the country.

By Per Bylund

Artificial intelligence (AI) cannot distinguish fact from fiction. It also isn’t creative or can create novel content but repeats, repackages, and reformulates what has already been said (but perhaps in new ways).

I am sure someone will disagree with the latter, perhaps pointing to the fact that AI can clearly generate, for example, new songs and lyrics. I agree with this, but it misses the point. AI produces a “new” song lyric only by drawing from the data of... Читать дальше...

By Dave Patterson

Despite the US and its allies attempting to provide safe passage in the Red Sea, the international waterway simply is not safe. In fact, it’s quite deadly – as the crew of the Barbados-flagged True Confidence unfortunately discovered Wednesday, March 6. The merchant vessel was set ablaze by a terrorist attack by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, and three sailors were killed.

The highly touted Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) is a US-sponsored effort to coordinate... Читать дальше...

It was praised to the heavens as a work of negotiated and practical genius when it was struck.  The then Australian treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had finally gotten those titans of Big Tech into line on how revenue would be shared with media outlets for using such platforms as supplied by Facebook and Google.  

By Baria Alamuddin

US Central Command’s leader Gen. Michael Kurilla warned senators last week that Tehran had “every proxy operationalized” across the region, creating “a convergence of crises” and “the most volatile situation in 50 years,” with US forces and global shipping among the primary targets of these “resistance” factions.

When figures such as Hassan Nasrallah, Qais Al-Khazali and Abdulmalik Al-Houthi hold forth about the “Islamic resistance,” who are they resisting? Читать дальше...

Fresno County, California, “will receive a $125,000 settlement from the owner of the building where an illegal biological lab with links to China” was recently uncovered in the city of Reedley. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed a cleanup of “hazardous chemicals” on the property, a dangerous site not detected by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).