Here’s some amazingly good news amidst all of the nonsense of late. On Thursday, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) at the White House announced that they were updating policy guidance to mandate that all taxpayer-supported research should be immediately available to the public at no cost. According to the actual policy guidelines, US departments and agencies have until the end of 2025 to make this change (though, it’s not clear that there’s any remedy if they don’t). This is really huge — and it seems to have come out of nowhere.
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Of course, it also wouldn’t surprise me if Congress comes back with bills to lock up such research again — or a future administration flip flops on this. But… for now… good news!
Huge News: Biden Administration Announces All Publicly Funded Research Should Be Available For Free To The Public
Month: August 2022
“Tsunami Of Shutoffs”: 20 Million US Homes Are Behind On Power Bills
At least 20 million households — or about 1 in 6 American homes — are behind on their power bills as soaring electricity prices spark what is said to be the worst-ever crisis in late utility payments, according to Bloomberg, citing data from the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (Neada).
“Tsunami Of Shutoffs”: 20 Million US Homes Are Behind On Power Bills
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West’s neoliberal ‘age of abundance’ is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home
Aug 27, 2022 — France’s President Emmanuel Macron, a former banker, warned “we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance.” Western wars and sanctions are boomeranging back at home. The neoliberal phase of capitalism is collapsing.
Neoliberalism has lost the key pillars it was built on: cheap energy and raw materials from Russia, cheap labor and consumer goods from China, an unsustainable bubble of household debt, low to zero interest rates, and Washington’s ability to organize regime-change operations in any country where a government tried a socialistic or state-led economic model.
West’s neoliberal ‘age of abundance’ is over, as war and sanctions boomerang home via Multipolarista
Arabic press review: Lawsuit filed against Iran president in US over 1988 executions
Arabic press review: Lawsuit filed against Iran president in US over 1988 executions
According to the Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) accused Raisi, president since August 2021, of committing crimes of “torture and murder” against Iranian opponents in the late 1980s when he was at the Public Prosecutor’s office.
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The NCRI, which says it has support from 50 members of Congress*, called on the US administration to prevent Raisi from visiting the US and delivering a speech before the United Nations General Assembly next September.
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The National Council of Resistance of Iran is an Iranian political organization based in France and Albania. The organization is a political coalition calling to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran. The coalition is made up of different Iranian dissident groups, with its main member being the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK).
— Wikipedia
The People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO).
— Wikipedia
What Should MeK’s Supporters Know about Operation Forough-e Javidan? (archived)
For first time, Iran releases name of martyrs killed by MKO terrorists during 1988 ops
Israeli Defense Minister in US to Discuss Iran Nuclear Talks
Israeli Defense Minister in US to Discuss Iran Nuclear Talks
Experts say Iran has enriched enough uranium up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90% — to make one nuclear weapon should it decide to do so. However, Iran still would need to design a bomb and a delivery system, which would likely take months.
Hungary, Russia to speed up construction of Paks II nuclear power plant
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has agreed with Russia’s state nuclear construction company Rosatom that work on Hungary’s new nuclear plant at the central Hungarian Paks site would be accelerated in the autumn.
Hungary, Russia to speed up construction of Paks II nuclear power plant
MIT professor wrongfully accused of spying for China helps make a major discovery
Months after an MIT professor was cleared of spying for China, he helped make a major scientific discovery. But he says the success has been bittersweet.
MIT professor wrongfully accused of spying for China helps make a major discovery
Scott Ritter talks about the Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine
US accused over huge ‘covert pro-Western’ digital campaign targeting Middle East
Dozens of social media accounts operating for years in an attempt to influence people in the Middle East and Asia have been shut down. Now a major new study believes the US is likely behind it
US accused over huge ‘covert pro-Western’ digital campaign targeting Middle East
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Evaluating Five Years of Pro-Western Covert Influence Operations
The US government got caught using sock puppets to spread propaganda on social media
The data analyzed came from 146 Twitter accounts (which tweeted 299,566 times), 39 Facebook profiles, and 26 Instagram accounts, along with 16 Facebook pages and two Facebook groups. Some of the accounts were meant to appear like real people and used AI-generated profile pictures. Meta and Twitter didn’t specifically name any organizations or people behind the campaigns but said their analysis led them to believe they originated in the US and Great Britain.
For anyone who’s ever been within 15 feet of a history book, the news that the US is using covert action to push its interests in other countries won’t come as a surprise. It is, however, interesting that these operations were uncovered just as social media companies are gearing up to deal with a wave of foreign interference and misinformation in our own elections.
The report also comes right on the heels of a bombshell whistleblower report from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, which accused the company of lax security practices and misrepresenting the number of bots on its platform (something the US government is investigating and that Twitter has strongly denied).
The Global War on Terror Gave Us Student Debt ‘Forgiveness’
Yesterday President Joe Biden announced he’s “forgiving” up to $20,000 of student loan debt per student, totalling over $300 billion dollars.
Poof, it’s gone!
And where does the president find the authority for such a large, spontaneous action?
Well, it’s another gift from the National Security State.
The Global War on Terror Gave Us Student Debt ‘Forgiveness’
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