Nasrin Mohamed Ibrahim , la directora de Bilan, el primer medio de comunicación en Somalia, con su cámara. EFE/Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD)
Mogadiscio | 7 may 2022
Información por y sobre mujeres a pesar de todos los obstáculos que se cruzan en el camino de las periodistas en Somalia: ese es el objetivo de Bilan, el primer medio de comunicación del país con una redacción enteramente de género femenino.
“Ahora tenemos la confianza para ejercer nuestro trabajo y cambiar la percepción de la sociedad hacia las mujeres periodistas”, asegura con firmeza la directora de Bilan, Nasrin Mohamed Ibrahim, en una entrevista con Efe en las instalaciones del medio en Mogadiscio.
Este nuevo proyecto, impulsado por el Programa de Desarrollo de las Naciones Unidas (PNUD), nació el pasado 11 de abril para abrir un espacio seguro frente a todas las formas de acoso que las mujeres…
Of course, it must be disappointing to the developers and then the buyers of magnificent new toys, to know that those toys cannot actually be really played with. I mean, they did have a couple of little real games in 1945, and that was fun.
Since then, they’ ve had some sort of second-rate games – testing the toys on indigenous lands, and in the oceans, I mean, tough luck that this destroyed environments, brought cancer and death and dislocation to indigenous communities.
\And heck, even some white communities were damaged! Also, just building the toys caused thousands of workers to be made ill, and many to die.
But we knew that it was all in a good cause – didn’t we?
And now, many voices, especially some powerful and oh-so-knowledgeable voices, are calling for getting serious with these toys…
– time to nuke the Russians to bring peace and democracy to them?
And, time for the Russians to nuke us in the interests of getting in first?
But the trouble is, some thoughtful people think that it might not work out so well.
Apparently, even a very clever computer worked it out that no-one could win in a nuclear war.
Indeed, the computer thought that the only way to win – is not to play.
To write seriously – it would be an awful pity if we let those oh-so-knowledgeable voices pass their thinking on to us all, or to enough people – so that using nuclear weapons whether bombs or ”tactical” is accepted as an OK thing to do.
We talk about the increasing push towards criminalization, how an overturning of Roe V Wade could play out in the courts, and how various states doubling down on protecting or outlawing reproductive rights could possibly impact the wider terrain.
The fight for free and accessible abortions has always required solidarity, risk, and cunning. To keep reproductive justice alive, we must fight beyond the law, in contravention of certain laws, or in post-Roe legal gray areas, writes @natashalennard. https://t.co/zHAXwEUuKM
During our discussion we also touch on the poverty of liberalism, the inability of the Democratic Party to do anything but contain people’s anger and push people to vote, and the need to both mobilize in the streets and also organize on the ground; expanding and strengthening existing mutual aid networks, community health initiatives, and grassroots support projects.
by Alan Macleod at mintpressnews.com/ shared with thanks..NOTE: as you are reading this it got through the censorship. Perhaps because this is a small anti commercial marginalized blog.Having triumphed with the coverup of the Covid and Vaccine mega-crimes the MSM is wallowing in nationalistic war hysteria.
In Odessa they burned the anti fascists alive and celebrated. Now they use a grieving victim’s photo to attack Russia
Old propaganda, new Cold War
“Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia.” –Help us fight the decline of internet freedom
– Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
reporting on Bucha ‘massacre’
In April, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us that, “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” This content, it went on to say, “includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or similar instances of victim-blaming, such as claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.”
Shadowbanning, suspension, DDoS attacks, and online content manipulation: independent news media is fighting a rise in attacks on internet freedom. We’re in a time where it is increasingly difficult to have your voice heard. Mint Press News is always adapting to find the best way to be there for you.
This builds on a similar message Google’s subsidiary YouTube released last month, stating, “Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy.” YouTube went on to say that it had already permanently banned more than a thousand channels and 15,000 videos on these grounds.
Journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin was deeply troubled by the news. “It is really disturbing that this is the trend that we are on,” she told MintPress, adding:
It is a preposterous declaration considering that the victim is whoever we are told by our foreign policy establishment. It really is outrageous to be told by these tech giants that taking the wrong side of a conflict that is quite complicated will now hurt your views, derank you on social media or limit your ability to fund your work. So you have to toe the line in order to survive as a journalist in alternative media today.”
The most prominent victim of the recent banning spate has been Russian state media such as RT America, whose entire catalog has been blocked throughout most of the world. RTAmerica was also blocked from broadcasting across the U.S., leading to the network’s sudden closure.
“It is all staged,” Füllmich stressed. “It is all part of the Great Reset.” At some point, a solution will be offered: the United Nations as a world government.
A German study has found that the number of serious side effects after Corona vaccines was 40 times higher than previously reported. The Charité, a well-known hospital in Berlin, interviewed 40 000 vaccinated people after they had received their mandated jabs.
The interviews showed that the number of serious side effects was 40 times higher than previously reported by medical supervisors at the Paul Ehrlich Institute, according to MDR, the public broadcaster of the states of Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony. The number of side effects resulting from normal vaccines, such as those against polio or measles, is considerably lower, researchers pointed out.
A new report from the Bank of International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the planning stages for launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC):
Nine out of 10 central banks are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more than half are now developing them or running concrete experiments. In particular, work on retail CBDCs has moved to more advanced stages
This echoes a March report from the IMF, which claimed over one hundred nations are at least in the planning stages of releasing their own CBDC.
You can read the entire IMF report here, or a summary published by Bloomberg here.
It seems programs of government-issued digital money have been gaining momentum all around the world since at least 2020, and apparently, now they exist in over half the countries on the planet.
The newest of these – Brazil and Namibia – announced their plans only last month.
As with all globalist agendas, the push for CBDCs is always part of “the current thing”.
Using that method they have moved from a barely-discussed fringe idea to regular mainstream coverage and 90% of the world trying them out, all within the space of a couple of years (as we predicted they would in our New Years post)
Interestingly, while CBDCs are being talked about more and more, there is one specific feature of them which is being talked about less and less: Programmability.
Regular readers will be more than familiar with this concept – we discussed it in detail in our previous articles on CBDCS (here and here).
For those new readers: programmability is a hypothetical feature of digital currency which would allow the issuer to set limits and controls over its use.
Essentially, any CBDC would give either the state, the central bank or the corporation issuing the money as wages the power to control how and where the money is spent.
Any CBDC amounts to potential third-party control of your money.
It’s that simple.
This has massive implications for the very idea of individual liberty. Given how the last two years have gone, it’s not at all hard to imagine how such a system could be abused.
Halting payments to “protect the NHS”, garnishing wages to “fight climate change” or individual financial sanctions because you aren’t vaccinated.
One need look no further back than the Canadian truckers’ protest to see a state financially unpersoning those who express dissent. A CBDC would make that process both easier for the state to enforce and harder for an individual to avoid.
It is, quite obviously, the biggest ethical and societal issue in any potential system of digital currency.
And yet, neither the BIS report nor the IMF report nor Bloomberg’s summary discusses the idea of “programmability” in any detail at all. The word is used precisely once across all three documents, and they never explain what it actually means
OffG has covered CBDCs in detail before, and the press has never been shy in talking up the “benefits” of such strictly controlled money in the past. On the contrary, it has always been treated as a major selling point.
Agustin Carstens, the head of the Bank of International Settlements discussed the idea in detail in a video in the summer of 2021:
The key difference [with a CBDC] is that the central bank would have absolute control on the rules and regulations that will determine the use of that expression of central bank liability, and then have the technology to enforce that.”
A Telegraph article from June 2021 again raved about the possible benefits of programmable currency:
Digital cash could be programmed to ensure it is only spent on essentials, or goods which an employer or Government deems to be sensible […] There could be some socially beneficial outcomes from that, preventing activity which is seen to be socially harmful in some way.
They were never reluctant to talk up programmability before, so it’s noteworthy they should suddenly shut down that avenue of discussion.
Perhaps a sign they over-estimated what people would accept, and are already experiencing more pushback on the idea than they expected.
That’s a comforting thought.
But don’t be fooled: Just because they stop mentioning it, doesn’t mean they’re letting it go. They just want you to forget about it.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering, the list of countries trialling digital currencies includes Ukraine and Russia, the United States and China, Britain and the EU.
My worldview – how I think and what I believe – is a purely personal matter. The Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus applies so far only to actions.
But let’s get back to anarchism. What does the public prosecutor mean by it? The overthrow of the state system, inciting social hatred, riots, extremist destructive activity.
What do I mean by it? Solidarity and mutual aid, personal and collective freedom and responsibility, rejection of oppression in its many forms.
As an anarchist, for 10 years I’ve been cooking for the homeless and poor people on the streets of Minsk, which the “welfare state” does not care about, unlike military parades.
As an anarchist I have been involved in various educational, social and environmental projects.
As an anarchist, I contributed to the preservation of the Kotovka Square in Selkhozposelok.
As an anarchist, I do not consider it acceptable to kill and exploit animals.
As an anarchist, I am ready to simply help a person in any way I can.
To the wild celebrations in the public gallery, the presiding judge rejected the application for anarchist comrade Toby Shone’s Serious Crime Prevention Order, declaring there were no grounds for it to be applied under the circumstances. Shouts of ‘Not one step back!’ were responded to with Toby shouting ‘The Revolution is inevitable!’ The result of the court means that comrade Toby will now be released at the latest in August of this year, without the extreme conditions of surveillance and control, that would have led to him not only being cut off from his comrades, but his family, friends and partner.
