NGOs are typically used to funnel money to friends and relatives. The contracts are awarded secretly and kept hidden to hide the fact that no bidding was required to get them, and to prevent the public finding out. They are also hidden to prevent the public from following the money-trail after they have been awarded. ABN
Signal networks should be conceived of as dynamic patterns that change over time.
A psychological example of this might be a short exchange between two people during which one person interprets a small signal coming from the other.
The signal might be a fleeting expression. The person who sees this signal is likely to interpret it and remember (weakly or strongly, for some period of time) what that interpretation is.
As something held in memory—short or long term—that interpretation of the fleeting expression has become both itself a signal and part of a signal network that is changing over time, changing in part due to that new signal.
Of great importance psychologically for both persons described above is the fact that neither knows how the other interpreted the fleeting expression or if it was interpreted or sent or received. Or remembered or for how long. And almost never do they know how to get that information.
This is a micro example of human communication as it happens in time.
If this micro signaling network is held in the mind and analyzed correctly by the two persons described above, much will be revealed to both of them about how their psychologies actually function in real life and real-time.
Lithuania has no intention of meeting China’s conditions related to the Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius, President Gitanas Nausėda’s chief foreign policy adviser said Tuesday, signalling continued deadlock in efforts to restore diplomatic representation.
Asta Skaisgirytė told the radio Žinių Radijas that there has been no “significant progress” in talks with Beijing.
“There has been no significant progress, because the Chinese side is making a certain demand regarding the Taiwanese office, and I do not think this is a demand that can be easily met,” she said. “It seems that as long as this demand remains in place, such relations will not be viewed from the Chinese side in the same way as elsewhere.”
A Colorado university’s medical school has been ordered to pay a $10.3 million settlement to staff and students who said they were forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine despite requesting religious exemptions.
The University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz, located in Aurora, was sued in 2021 by 18 anonymous plaintiffs, including physicians, medical students, nurses, researchers and administrative staff, who argued the school’s mandate violated their First Amendment rights.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately ruled that Chancellor Donald Elliman and other university officials acted with ‘religious animus’ when they rejected all requests for religious exemptions.
Under the settlement, the university must now allow students to request religious accommodations on equal terms as employees, and grant religious exemption requests the same consideration as medical exemptions, a reversal of its policy during the pandemic.
The school also agreed to stop questioning or investigating the supposed legitimacy of students’ and employees’ religious beliefs, a process the lawsuit claimed was used to automatically deny every exemption request.
The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed a lower court decision against a group of Amish parents and school leaders who challenged the state of New York’s vaccine mandates for schools, ruling that the appeals court must reconsider the case. Today’s ruling could have implications for other states that don’t allow religious exemptions, attorneys said.
The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed a lower court decision against a group of Amish parents and school leaders who challenged the state of New York’s vaccine mandates for schools, ruling that the appeals court must reconsider the case.
Today’s ruling is a win for health and religious freedom advocates — one that could have implications for other states that don’t allow religious exemptions from school vaccine mandates, attorneys said.
Attorney Sujata Gibson told The Defender today’s Supreme Court decision is “checkmate” for states that refuse to accept religious exemptions. “It means we’re almost certainly getting the religious exemption back, not only in New York, but across the country,” Gibson said.
Today’s decision stems from a lawsuit filed on June 2, 2023, against the New York State Department of Health and New York State Education Department, alleging they violated the U.S. Constitution by preventing the plaintiffs from exercising their religion.
As military tensions between China and Japan reach the highest level in more than a decade, the sparsely populated island of Yonaguni finds itself right on the front lines.
Sitting just 110 kilometers (68 miles) east of Taiwan, Yonaguni marks the tail end of an archipelago stretching north to Japan’s main islands, a distance roughly equivalent to the length of the California coastline. Ever since former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taipei in 2022 prompted China to fire missiles that landed near Yonaguni, Japan has accelerated plans for its largest military buildup in at least four decades.
Up and down the 160-strong Ryukyu island chain, Japan is quickly putting in place missile batteries, radar towers, ammunition storage sites and other combat facilities. It’s also beginning to deploy major military assets on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, including F-35 fighter jets and long-range missiles, as well as expanding its version of the US Marine Corps, known as the Amphibious Rapid Deployment Brigade.
Japan Races to Fortify Southern Islands
The nation’s largest military buildup in decades aims to counter China’s territorial ambitions
Sources: Ministry of Defense, Japan; satellite image from Bing. Note: Bases include camps, air bases, submarine bases and signals-intelligence sites
Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang
Yao Zhang says she doesn’t have any friends, yet every week, thousands of her 175,000 YouTube subscribers tune in to her channel to listen to her live takes on Chinese current affairs.
“China isn’t a democratic country. Everyone suffers in that regime,” Zhang told Radio-Canada during an interview held somewhere between Montreal and Quebec City.
Concerned for her safety, the 39-year-old guards any information that could give away her location.
And for good reason: the Quebec YouTuber, who refuses to be silenced, has been the target of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government for over a year.
“I have to be very, very careful,” she said. “I stopped all communications with the Chinese community because I don’t know who I can trust.”
This was one of my favorite interviews. Radar engineer Filippo Biondi just dropped the most explosive finding ever reported at Giza: eight clearly man-made, tube-like structures plunging more than a kilometer beneath the Khafre Pyramid and ending in huge 80-meter chambers. The structures are obviously artificially engineered and the synthetic aperture radar Doppler tomography technique he used has precedent in accurately predicting underground structures (in both commercial and defense use cases). The Egyptian ministry of culture is extremely afraid this finding might rewrite their history.
In just last year alone they’ve laundered tens of millions of property tax dollars to hundreds of NGOs
“Ramsey County has the highest property tax rate in the whole state. So we decided to file an information request at the Ramsey County office asking how many NGOs each year receive property tax money.
— Two months of repeatedly being ignored, stonewalled, and it was only after we went directly to one of the Ramsey County commissioners where we finally got at least some of the information that we requested.
— Turns out that last year, Ramsey County gave a whopping $38.4 million to a total of 213 NGOs.
And this is happening at a time when there is a 9.75% property rate increase in property taxes there in Ramsey County as well. They proposed that for the next year’s budget to increase property taxes by 9.75%.
So they’re spending $38.4 million dollars on 213 NGOs and now they want more.”
I guarantee this is happening all over the country in Democrat states
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