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- The Croatian Journalists’ Association, HND, strongly condemned on Thursday the draft media law. According to the HND, the draft law aims to legalise censorship because it gives publishers the right not to publish a journalistic piece without an explanation. They also condemned a proposal that journalists would have to reveal their sources of information as “dangerous“ and “death for journalism“. The president of the HND, Hrvoje Zovko, said the working draft of the Media Act was “dangerous and its initial intention is to undermine journalistic freedoms in Croatia, what little is left”.
- A systematic review of 325 autopsies showing that COVID-19 vaccination caused or significantly contributed to 74% of deaths was removed from The Lancet’s preprint SSRN server within 24 hours, adding to a growing number of censored studies on the potential harms of COVID-19 vaccines. The study, released July 5, looked at all autopsies published in the peer-reviewed literature to determine whether the COVID-19 vaccination caused or contributed to the person’s death. The researchers searched all published autopsy and necropsy reports related to COVID-19 vaccination up to May 18, 2023, resulting in 678 studies. After implementing the inclusion criteria, they chose 44 papers containing 325 autopsy cases and one necropsy case. A panel of three expert physicians independently reviewed each case to determine whether the COVID-19 vaccination was a direct cause or a significant factor in each death. Of the 325 autopsies examined, 240 deaths, or 74%, were independently judged as “directly due to or significantly contributed to COVID-19 vaccination.” ~ Megan Redshaw, JD
- China will “take all necessary measures to safeguard national security” against American spy networks, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a press briefing on Monday. More than a decade after its Chinese operations were blown, the CIA is currently active in the country once again. “The US on the one hand keeps spreading disinformation on so-called ‘Chinese spying and cyber attacks’, and on the other hand tells the public about its large-scale intelligence activities targeting China,” Mao told reporters. “This in itself is quite revealing. China will take all measures necessary to safeguard national security.” Four days earlier, CIA Director William Burns told a security conference in Colorado that his agency was currently running agents in China.
- Digital ID verification startup Worldcoin, which purports to distinguish real humans from AI by scanning their irises with a futuristic ‘Orb’ and storing their identities on the blockchain, launched a crypto token by the same name on Monday. The project’s website describes it as a “digital currency received simply for being human,” claiming it could “drastically increase economic opportunity, scale a reliable solution for distinguishing humans from AI online while preserving privacy, enable global democratic processes, and eventually show a potential path to AI-funded UBI.” Despite these goals, the Worldcoin token’s usage appears to currently be limited to rewarding people for signing up to Worldcoin.
- Papua New Guinea is a gateway between continents. The island, being effectively cut in half, demarcates an artificial boundary between Asia and Oceania. In the past several centuries, the broader island has been carved upon between almost every colonial power going, having been ruled at various points by the Dutch, Spanish, German, Japanese and British empires. Even after gaining its formal independence from Australia in 1975, these legacies continue to scar the island, with half of it still belonging to Indonesia, known as West Papua, which is now a source of unrest and insurgency. It is one of the world’s poorer nations, and is in desperate need of infrastructure to develop itself. Thanks to PNG being part of the Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing has built airports, highways, sea ports, and telecommunications infrastructure across the country. While China seeks to bolster economic relations with the country, the US has other ideas; that is, to forcibly transform Papua New Guinea into a military outpost for the purpose, of course, of containing China. Recently, Washington was able to pry a Defense Cooperation Agreement out of the country, which will give the US access to its bases.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday that introduces a digital ruble. According to the document published on the official government portal, the electronic currency will become operational on August 1. The digital currency will be issued alongside the traditional ruble – both cash and non-cash. It will be used to make transfers and payments and will be kept in digital wallets on a platform operated by the central bank. It will not be possible to open a deposit, take out a loan, or receive interest on the digital currency. The president also introduced relevant amendments to the Civil Code to enable the digital ruble to be bequeathed and inherited.
- U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville, says he is “100%” convinced the federal government and Pentagon officials are covering up information about unidentified flying objects and unidentified aerial phenomena, known as UFOs and UAPs. Burchett and colleagues hope to shed more light on the issue Wednesday during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on anomalous phenomena and its implications on national security, public safety and government transparency. “We’ve requested documents, we’ve gone to interview pilots and been stonewalled by our Pentagon. It’s ridiculous. It’s been going on since the ’40s,” Burchett said Saturday in a Fox News interview. “We are taking the gloves off. … We’re done with the coverups.”
- Other polls have found that most Americans believe in intelligent life beyond Earth. Indeed, poll data shows an uptick in thinking over the years that there is an off-Earth population of aliens frolicking about out there in the extraterrestrial ether. “Quite a bit of work has been done on the societal impact of discovering radio signals from extraterrestrials beaming a message from a planet circling a distant star,” said Steven Dick an American astronomer and author noted for his work in the field of astrobiology. ” Science fiction tends toward the dramatic,” Dick told Space.com. “I find it unlikely that the U.S. Government could keep a secret of this magnitude for this long.”
- The desert is the oldest on Earth, the most arid, and peradventure offers the most advantageous site for viewing the alluring night sky. Situated on the scorched tableland close to the Chilean Andes is the Altiplano of the Atacama Desert, a place scientists have designated as the hottest site on Earth, with sufficient sunlight comparable to Venus, the second planet from the Sun. The Altiplano is usually dehumidifying and chilly, and rests approximately 13,120 ft (4,000 meters) above sea level. This spot receives more sunshine than other locations near the equator or at a higher altitude, science journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society revealed.
- India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is continuing its circuitous journey to the moon with a series of burns to raise its orbit. Chandrayaan-3 launched on July 14 into an orbit around Earth and has been slowly boosting its orbit ahead of a final shot toward the moon. The lunar spacecraft’s propulsion module completed a fourth orbit-raising maneuver on Thursday (July 20), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated. The engines fired at the spacecraft’s closest approach to Earth, raising its apogee, or the farthest point from Earth of its orbit.
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