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top of the heap to third world status in one generation
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An immense mystery older than Stonehenge
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/...lder-than-stonehenge?utm_source=pocket-newtab
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/...lder-than-stonehenge?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Apple’s Double Agent
He spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqyz8/apples-double-agent?utm_source=pocket-newtab
He spent years inside the iPhone leaks and jailbreak community. He was also spying for Apple.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3aqyz8/apples-double-agent?utm_source=pocket-newtab
if Biden does NOT let them in, he will be cast as a villain of monumental proportions, using them & tossing them aside when he takes his ball & goes home. if he DOES let them in (as a human with a conscience would do) then he is further stressing our nation with yet MORE immigrants. the right wing of GOP politics will not allow him to be seen as correct, regardless of his decision. obvious even to a child... Fox sees it as a no-win situation for POTUS.
Bad News
Selling the story of disinformation
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09...y-of-disinformation/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Selling the story of disinformation
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09...y-of-disinformation/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I see woman and children suffering and walking many miles from El Salvatore. I see a bunch of men trying to beat each other to the plane in Afghanistan.
Things that make you go hmmm.
25 Words That Are Their Own Opposites
Stumble into the looking-glass world of contronyms.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/2...=pocket-newtab
Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behavior was sanctioned.” Does that mean, "Because the agency oversaw the company’s behavior, they imposed a penalty for some transgression," or does it mean, "Because the agency was inattentive, they overlooked the misbehavior and gave it their approval by default"? We’ve stumbled into the looking-glass world of contronyms—words that are their own antonyms.
1. Sanction (via French, from Latin sanctio(n-), from sancire ‘ratify,’) can mean "give official permission or approval for (an action)" or conversely, "impose a penalty on."
2. Oversight is the noun form of two verbs with contrary meanings, “oversee” and “overlook.” Oversee, from Old English ofersēon ("look at from above") means "supervise" (medieval Latin for the same thing: super-, "over" plus videre, "to see.") Overlook usually means the opposite: "to fail to see or observe; to pass over without noticing; to disregard, ignore."
3. Left can mean either remaining or departed. If the gentlemen have withdrawn to the drawing room for after-dinner cigars, who’s left? (The gentlemen have left and the ladies are left.)
4. Dust, along with the next two words, is a noun turned into a verb meaning either to add or to remove the thing in question. Only the context will tell you which it is. When you dust are you applying dust or removing it? It depends whether you’re dusting the crops or the furniture.
5. Seed can also go either way. If you seed the lawn you add seeds, but if you seed a tomato you remove them.
6. Stone is another verb to use with caution. You can stone some peaches, but please don’t stone your neighbor (even if he says he likes to get stoned).
7. Trim as a verb predates the noun, but it can also mean either adding or taking away. Arising from an Old English word meaning "to make firm or strong; to settle, arrange," trim came to mean "to prepare, make ready." Depending on who or what was being readied, it could mean either of two contradictory things: "to decorate something with ribbons, laces, or the like to give it a finished appearance" or "to cut off the outgrowths or irregularities of." And the context doesn’t always make it clear. If you’re trimming the tree are you using tinsel or a chain saw?
8. Cleave can be cleaved into two homographs, words with different origins that end up spelled the same. Cleave, meaning "to cling to or adhere," comes from an Old English word that took the forms cleofian, clifian, or clīfan. Cleave, with the contrary meaning "to split or sever (something)"—as you might do with a cleaver—comes from a different Old English word, clēofan. The past participle has taken various forms: cloven, which survives in the phrase “cloven hoof,” “cleft,” as in a “cleft palate” or “cleaved.”
9. Resign works as a contronym in writing. This time we have homographs, but not homophones. Resign, meaning "to quit," is spelled the same as resign, meaning "to sign up again," but it’s pronounced differently.
10. Fast can mean "moving rapidly," as in running fast, or "fixed, unmoving," as in holding fast. If colors are fast they will not run. The meaning "firm, steadfast" came first; the adverb took on the sense "strongly, vigorously," which evolved into "quickly," a meaning that spread to the adjective.
11. Off means "deactivated," as in to turn off, but also "activated," as in the alarm went off.
12. Weather can mean "to withstand or come safely through" (as in the company weathered the recession) or it can mean "to be worn away" (the rock was weathered).
13. Screen can mean to show (a movie) or to hide (an unsightly view).
14. Help means "assist," unless you can’t help doing something, when it means "prevent."
15. Clip can mean "to bind together" or "to separate." You clip sheets of paper to together or separate part of a page by clipping something out. Clip is a pair of homographs, words with different origins spelled the same. Old English clyppan, which means "to clasp with the arms, embrace, hug," led to our current meaning, "to hold together with a clasp." The other clip, "to cut or snip (a part) away," is from Old Norse klippa, which may come from the sound of a shears.
16. Continue usually means to persist in doing something, but as a legal term it means stop a proceeding temporarily.
17. Fight with can be interpreted three ways. “He fought with his mother-in-law” could mean "They argued," "They served together in the war," or "He used the old battle-ax as a weapon." (Thanks to linguistics professor Robert Hertz for this idea.)
18. Flog, meaning "to punish by caning or whipping," shows up in school slang of the 17th century, but now it can have the contrary meaning, "to promote persistently," as in “flogging a new book.” Perhaps that meaning arose from the sense "to urge (a horse, etc.) forward by whipping," which grew out of the earliest meaning.
19. Go means "to proceed," but also "give out or fail," i.e., “This car could really go until it started to go.”
20. Hold up can mean "to support" or "to hinder": “What a friend! When I’m struggling to get on my feet, he’s always there to hold me up.”
21. Out can mean "visible" or "invisible." For example, “It’s a good thing the full moon was out when the lights went out.”
22. Out of means "outside" or "inside": “I hardly get out of the house because I work out of my home.”
23. B**ch can derisively refer to a woman who is considered overly aggressive or domineering, or it can refer to someone passive or submissive.
24. Peer is a person of equal status (as in a jury of one’s peers), but some peers are more equal than others, like the members of the peerage, the British or Irish nobility.
25. Toss out could be either "to suggest" or "to discard": “I decided to toss out the idea.”
The contronym (also spelled “contranym”) goes by many names, including auto-antonym, antagonym, enantiodrome, self-antonym, antilogy and Janus word (from the Roman god of beginnings and endings, often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions). Can’t get enough of them? The folks at Daily Writing Tips have rounded up even more.
Stumble into the looking-glass world of contronyms.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/2...=pocket-newtab
Here’s an ambiguous sentence for you: “Because of the agency’s oversight, the corporation’s behavior was sanctioned.” Does that mean, "Because the agency oversaw the company’s behavior, they imposed a penalty for some transgression," or does it mean, "Because the agency was inattentive, they overlooked the misbehavior and gave it their approval by default"? We’ve stumbled into the looking-glass world of contronyms—words that are their own antonyms.
1. Sanction (via French, from Latin sanctio(n-), from sancire ‘ratify,’) can mean "give official permission or approval for (an action)" or conversely, "impose a penalty on."
2. Oversight is the noun form of two verbs with contrary meanings, “oversee” and “overlook.” Oversee, from Old English ofersēon ("look at from above") means "supervise" (medieval Latin for the same thing: super-, "over" plus videre, "to see.") Overlook usually means the opposite: "to fail to see or observe; to pass over without noticing; to disregard, ignore."
3. Left can mean either remaining or departed. If the gentlemen have withdrawn to the drawing room for after-dinner cigars, who’s left? (The gentlemen have left and the ladies are left.)
4. Dust, along with the next two words, is a noun turned into a verb meaning either to add or to remove the thing in question. Only the context will tell you which it is. When you dust are you applying dust or removing it? It depends whether you’re dusting the crops or the furniture.
5. Seed can also go either way. If you seed the lawn you add seeds, but if you seed a tomato you remove them.
6. Stone is another verb to use with caution. You can stone some peaches, but please don’t stone your neighbor (even if he says he likes to get stoned).
7. Trim as a verb predates the noun, but it can also mean either adding or taking away. Arising from an Old English word meaning "to make firm or strong; to settle, arrange," trim came to mean "to prepare, make ready." Depending on who or what was being readied, it could mean either of two contradictory things: "to decorate something with ribbons, laces, or the like to give it a finished appearance" or "to cut off the outgrowths or irregularities of." And the context doesn’t always make it clear. If you’re trimming the tree are you using tinsel or a chain saw?
8. Cleave can be cleaved into two homographs, words with different origins that end up spelled the same. Cleave, meaning "to cling to or adhere," comes from an Old English word that took the forms cleofian, clifian, or clīfan. Cleave, with the contrary meaning "to split or sever (something)"—as you might do with a cleaver—comes from a different Old English word, clēofan. The past participle has taken various forms: cloven, which survives in the phrase “cloven hoof,” “cleft,” as in a “cleft palate” or “cleaved.”
9. Resign works as a contronym in writing. This time we have homographs, but not homophones. Resign, meaning "to quit," is spelled the same as resign, meaning "to sign up again," but it’s pronounced differently.
10. Fast can mean "moving rapidly," as in running fast, or "fixed, unmoving," as in holding fast. If colors are fast they will not run. The meaning "firm, steadfast" came first; the adverb took on the sense "strongly, vigorously," which evolved into "quickly," a meaning that spread to the adjective.
11. Off means "deactivated," as in to turn off, but also "activated," as in the alarm went off.
12. Weather can mean "to withstand or come safely through" (as in the company weathered the recession) or it can mean "to be worn away" (the rock was weathered).
13. Screen can mean to show (a movie) or to hide (an unsightly view).
14. Help means "assist," unless you can’t help doing something, when it means "prevent."
15. Clip can mean "to bind together" or "to separate." You clip sheets of paper to together or separate part of a page by clipping something out. Clip is a pair of homographs, words with different origins spelled the same. Old English clyppan, which means "to clasp with the arms, embrace, hug," led to our current meaning, "to hold together with a clasp." The other clip, "to cut or snip (a part) away," is from Old Norse klippa, which may come from the sound of a shears.
16. Continue usually means to persist in doing something, but as a legal term it means stop a proceeding temporarily.
17. Fight with can be interpreted three ways. “He fought with his mother-in-law” could mean "They argued," "They served together in the war," or "He used the old battle-ax as a weapon." (Thanks to linguistics professor Robert Hertz for this idea.)
18. Flog, meaning "to punish by caning or whipping," shows up in school slang of the 17th century, but now it can have the contrary meaning, "to promote persistently," as in “flogging a new book.” Perhaps that meaning arose from the sense "to urge (a horse, etc.) forward by whipping," which grew out of the earliest meaning.
19. Go means "to proceed," but also "give out or fail," i.e., “This car could really go until it started to go.”
20. Hold up can mean "to support" or "to hinder": “What a friend! When I’m struggling to get on my feet, he’s always there to hold me up.”
21. Out can mean "visible" or "invisible." For example, “It’s a good thing the full moon was out when the lights went out.”
22. Out of means "outside" or "inside": “I hardly get out of the house because I work out of my home.”
23. B**ch can derisively refer to a woman who is considered overly aggressive or domineering, or it can refer to someone passive or submissive.
24. Peer is a person of equal status (as in a jury of one’s peers), but some peers are more equal than others, like the members of the peerage, the British or Irish nobility.
25. Toss out could be either "to suggest" or "to discard": “I decided to toss out the idea.”
The contronym (also spelled “contranym”) goes by many names, including auto-antonym, antagonym, enantiodrome, self-antonym, antilogy and Janus word (from the Roman god of beginnings and endings, often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions). Can’t get enough of them? The folks at Daily Writing Tips have rounded up even more.
‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots
The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...cide-use-sustainable?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...cide-use-sustainable?utm_source=pocket-newtab
The Spy in Your Phone | Al Jazeera World
In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used. Pegasus is manufactured by an Israeli technology company called the NSO Group and is among the most advanced spyware in the world. It can access and infiltrate a smartphone without the owner clicking a link, opening an email or even answering their phone - meaning it can go undetected. This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware and how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” - including to target journalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfOgm1IcBd0
Run time 47 minutes
In mid-2020, a mobile phone belonging to an Al Jazeera Arabic investigative team was hacked. Over the next few months, reporter Tamer Almisshal and the Canadian research group Citizen Lab investigated Pegasus, the sophisticated spyware used. Pegasus is manufactured by an Israeli technology company called the NSO Group and is among the most advanced spyware in the world. It can access and infiltrate a smartphone without the owner clicking a link, opening an email or even answering their phone - meaning it can go undetected. This investigation exposes how Pegasus works, how governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE have bought the hugely expensive spyware and how it has been used beyond the stated intentions of the NSO Group of “developing technology to prevent and investigate terror and crime” - including to target journalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfOgm1IcBd0
Run time 47 minutes
He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?
Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, was prescient about many of the ways technology would impact the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...agre-ai-disappeared/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Philip Agre, a computer scientist turned humanities professor, was prescient about many of the ways technology would impact the world
https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...agre-ai-disappeared/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
On a very different level altogether:
‘We Are the World’: Inside Pop Music’s Most Famous All-Nighter
On a night over three decades ago, during another world health crisis, 45 artists gathered for one of the most extraordinary recording sessions in music history.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...t-famous-all-nighter?utm_source=pocket-newtab
‘We Are the World’: Inside Pop Music’s Most Famous All-Nighter
On a night over three decades ago, during another world health crisis, 45 artists gathered for one of the most extraordinary recording sessions in music history.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...t-famous-all-nighter?utm_source=pocket-newtab
funkyhorse
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Poland just passed a law prohibiting non-european ownership of national media. I figured that is why Applebaum was so upset with the Evil Empire of Poland. As for Cheney, I’d say the swedish girl Greta look like a prime example of what he was bragging about. Remember she sailed to New York on a Rothschild boat and was greeted by every journalist in the city, and not one of them cared to ask why her jaw was all going sideways.
My perspective rest on the realization that marxism is a false construct and tool of the capitalist banking caste. This criticism is not new. Bakunin called them out at the International when he realised that Marx was an agent of the Rothschilds. Marxists pretend to hold a patent on socialism. And as a ”socialist” then, you are expected to follow this so called hero of the working class: a cousin of the Rothschild bankers who did not have an honest job even for a day in his life. And his doctrine that says you are not allowed to own anything, but promise that they will let you ”own the means of production”.
I see the political system as a construct intended to produce pre-determined outcomes by the use of controlled opposition. Overarching the political structures is the masonic super structure and every politician of influence belong to the lodges, regardless of party affiliation. The hidden hand, as it is called. And if you check it you will see that every leading communist has been a freemason, the same goes for US presidents like Roosevelt, Bush and Trump. It was of course under Roosevelt, being an ally of his ”brother” Joseph Stalin, that the Frankfurt school was saved after it was cancelled by the germans.
This cultural marxism was never implemented in Sovjet, it was developed as an export to the west. In Sovjet, Stalin instead made homosexuality a crime. It has taken them far more than one generation to create theses condition that you see in society today, closer to four generations. The reason why it appears to be only one generation is that the effects of their subversion is just now becoming so obvious that you can no longer ignore it.
Going Barefoot Is Good for the Sole
Walking without shoes builds calluses, but that does not limit sensation.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/going-barefoot-is-good-for-the-sole
Walking without shoes builds calluses, but that does not limit sensation.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/going-barefoot-is-good-for-the-sole
