Cybersecurity Is Passe for Many 8200 Grads; Today Health Tech Is Hot
World-famous for their hacking skills, many of the IDF’s tech elite see the convergence of biology and data as Israel’s next new industry, and want in.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-cybersecurity-is-passe-for-many-8200-grads-today-health-tech-is-hot-1.8589683
Transhumanism anyone? How very cabal of them
US Military in South Korea Registers First Soldier Coronavirus Case
The first case of the novel coronavirus among the US armed forces has been registered in South Korea, according to the United States Forces Korea (USFK).
"A USFK soldier stationed at Camp Carroll tested positive for COVID-19, marking the first time a U.S. service member has tested positive for the virus. We’re implementing all appropriate control measures to protect the force", USFK tweeted.
Camp Carroll is located 30 kilometres north of Daegu, the city that is the epicentre of the outbreak in South Korea.
According to the latest data, there are 1,146 cases of COVID-19 in South Korea, along with 11 fatalities.
COVID-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan, located in Hubei Province, in late December and has spread around the world since then. The outbreak has resulted in more than 78,000 people being infected.
https://sputniknews.com/asia/202002261078406164-us-military-in-south-korea-registers-first-soldier-coronavirus-case/
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PRAY FOR EACH OTHER
Jesus loves (You)
God Wins
Blame the Virus not the Central Bank Okay shhhh
More than $130 billion wiped off ASX 200 as coronavirus bloodbath deepens
Australia's share market has been rocked for the third day in a row, shedding around $50 billion in value as investors spook over fears the coronavirus will halt global trade.
As of 15.30 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 had dropped 2.47 per cent or 169.8 points.
Since the market opened on Monday morning more than $130 billion has been wiped off local stocks.
For context, during the Global Financial Crisis in October 2008, the ASX200 lost 8.3 per cent in a single day and a staggering 16 per cent in a single week.
At the time, that equated to around $80 billion – although the market capitalisation of the local market has grown considerably since that day 12 years ago.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/asx-200-coronavirus-bloodbath-continues-130-billion-lost/416ca4be-0436-4299-a5d7-d270d8972a08
The Nobel Peace Prize Is A Sick Joke
It’s very simple. The Nobel Peace Prize is just like most other awards. Sometimes its distributors get it right and sometimes they get it wrong. The people that win awards do not win them based off of objective scorecards about morality. They win these awards based off of media narratives.
The Nobel Peace Prize was founded in 1901 by Alfred Nobel, an arms manufacturer. His family factory first gained notoriety for producing weapons for the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite and various other powerful explosives. These explosives were used to devastate people in conflicts such as the Spanish-American War.
After Nobel’s brother died, because of a journalistic error, the public believed that Alfred Nobel had died. In his obituary, he was portrayed as an amoral businessman who made millions of dollars off of the deaths of others. His critics declared that “the merchant of death is dead” and that Alfred Nobel “became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before.”
According to Live Science, this discovery shocked Nobel, and to improve his legacy, “one year before he died in 1896, Nobel signed his last will and testament, which set aside the majority of his vast estate to establish the five Nobel Prizes, including one awarded for the pursuit of peace.” This may very well have been a genuine act, but it is important to draw parallels between the origin of the award and its not so peaceful recipients. Here are three of the Nobel Peace Prize winners that turned out to be war criminals.
Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger won the award in 1973 for his “efforts” to conclude the Vietnam War. What a joke. In 1968, Kissinger helped tank President Johnson’s peace talks on behalf of the Nixon campaign for political gain. Kissinger helped orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia. These bombing operations were known as Operation Menu and Operation Freedom Deal.
The carpet bombing of Cambodia led to the deaths of 10,000s, if not 100,000s, of Cambodian civilians. The total death count has been estimated to be as high as 500,000 (most estimates range between 150,000-300,000 deaths). The vast majority of these deaths are considered to be civilians because of the indiscriminate nature of the carpet bombing. These bombings also destabilized Cambodia and allowed for the rise of the genocidal ruler, Pol-Pot. The bombing campaign was so gratuitous that it made Congress pass the War Powers Resolution in 1973, in an attempt to curb the bombing campaign.
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https://off-guardian.org/2020/02/24/the-nobel-peace-prize-is-a-sick-joke/
Pipelines Produce Peace and Prosperity So Why Oppose Them?
Pipelines convey fluids and gas within and between many countries and continents and in addition to making a profit for producers indubitably benefit those for whom the raw materials are destined. In India, for example, the most recent gas pipeline project is going to bring comfort to the neglected peoples of the north-east, as part of the grid being constructed to reach remote locations — which is expensive. So the government has stepped in with hundreds of millions of dollars to help complete the programme.
There are many other success stories about pipelines, but also some controversial instances of construction, as in Canada where some indigenous communities are objecting to a 600 km natural gas line in which some $5 billion is being invested. The benefits to Canada as a whole are potentially immense, but the Wet’suwet’en indigenous people of British Columbia are attempting to shut down the operation and have been joined by activists whose motives may not be altogether benign. These protestors have imposed a blockade of railways that has caused grave disruption to a vast number of passenger and freight services, thereby posing a serious threat to Canada’s overall economy. The protestors’ actions are in essence blackmail, and have wide-ranging effects including the inability of farmers to get their goods to domestic and international markets.
For Canada’s sake it is hoped that the difficulties will be resolved — but at least there is movement because the country’s elected government is determined to act for the people as a whole. There will always be objections to pipelines, and although Canada appears to be especially affected, the sanity of national benefit will probably prevail.
But when it comes to international benefit, notably when Russia is involved, the word sanity does not come readily to mind. Rather, the description of Washington’s moves to block the vastly important Nordstream 2 pipeline could involve such qualifiers as petulant, spiteful and malevolent.
Nordstream 2 is a series of lines intended to convey natural gas from Russia to Germany. It is a logical development stemming from the facts that Russia wants to provide gas and Germany wants to buy it, which led to a mutually acceptable agreement and commitment of many billions of dollars, largely by the firms Uniper and Wintershall of Germany, Royal Dutch Shell, Austria’s OMV and Engie of France in association with Russia’s Gazprom — an impressive example of European pragmatism. Economic benefits to both countries are potentially immense, and in addition the very existence of such a significant collaborative enterprise is an indicator that both nations recognise the advantages of cooperation and economic partnership as against the drawbacks of confrontation and antagonism.
Unfortunately, Washington has a history of preferring confrontation to economic cooperation that might benefit other countries, and has imposed sanctions on Nordstrom 2 with the aim of preventing its completion, which in normal circumstances would have taken place by now. Of the some 1200 kilometres of line underneath the Baltic Sea about 160 km remain to be laid, but for the moment construction has had to be halted.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/02/25/pipelines-produce-peace-and-prosperity-so-why-oppose-them/