Huawei has patented ultraviolet light conversion technology to eliminate distortion due to interference when operating at extremely short wavelengths.
This development allows you to use the 10nm process to print microchips on its own. So it can not only circumvent US sanctions, but also challenge the entire industry for the production of these devices.
Huawei advanced cellphones, 5G systems and other advanced technology have been been largely banned and blocked by the US and its ‘allied’ states. Google, YouTube, Microsoft, Apple etc are prohibited from selling their systems to Huawei.
Just last month the US declared a new crackdown, forcing its ‘client states’ to stop all sales of advanced microchips to China.
In this context Huawei’s breakthrough has immense importance in breaking the US embargoes, which are clearly illegal under WTO trade rules.
TheEUV lithograph.
Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is so complex that it took the Dutch company ASML 17 years and more than €6 billion of investment to create a commercial facility for its application. In it, droplets of molten tin are irradiated twice with a laser, first to give them the shape of a pancake, and then to evaporate it.
The result is a microcloud of plasma that emits EUV light with the desired parameters. The process occurs at a frequency of 50,000 times per second.
Mirrors in a lithographic machine
This technology is extremely classified, only five companies worldwide have access to it: Intel and Micron in the US, Samsung and SK Hynix in South Korea, and TSMC in Taiwan.
Other manufacturers, such as Huawei, used to simply order chips from TSMC, but after the imposition of US sanctions, this option was no longer available.
It is extremely difficult to replicate the technology, because the necessary EUV radiation is balanced at the edge of the UV and X-ray spectrum.
The Breakthrough
However, Huawei engineers managed to find a way out using a mirror system to combat the effects of interference. The original beam is divided into ‘secondary beams’, which are transmitted to microscopic mirrors with individual rotation parameters.
This makes it possible to adjust the interference effects for their mutual neutralization and, as a result, to sum all the “sub-beams” into a single beam with the properties required for EUV lithography.
As the death toll rises, a dark shadow has been cast over Britain.
Official data reveals that since April 2022, 407,910 deaths have occurred, with 47,379 excess deaths against the 2015-2019 five-year average.
As the investigation deepens, it has become increasingly clear that the Covid-19 vaccines are the most likely cause of the unprecedented loss of life in Britain. The evidence is damning, with a startling correlation between the rollout of the vaccines and the spike in deaths.
We were told the vaccines would bring hope and healing in the midst of an alleged global pandemic. But now, it seems that they have instead brought even more devastation and pain.
The Office for National Statistics has released weekly figures on deaths registered in England and Wales, and the most recent data reveals a troubling increase.
In the week ending on December 11th, there were 11,694 deaths, with 687 excess deaths against the 2016-2019 + 2021 five-year average and 999 excess deaths against the 2015-2019 five-year average.
While Covid-19 is often blamed for such increases, this time the numbers tell a different story. Out of all the deaths, only 326 were attributed to the alleged disease – a mere 2.8%.
According to the Office for National Statistics, excess deaths have been occurring in England and Wales on a weekly basis since April 2022.
To uncover the full extent of this tragedy, we dug into the data, analyzing the weekly number of deaths over the past six months and comparing them to the five-year average. What we discovered was a disturbing trend, as the chart below reveals.
As we delve deeper into the mystery of the excess deaths occurring in England and Wales, a disturbing possibility comes to light: the Covid-19 vaccines may be to blame.
According to the Office for National Statistics, excess deaths have been occurring on a weekly basis since April 2022, and while the data initially seemed to point to other causes, closer examination reveals a startling correlation between the rollout of the 2021 winter “Booster” shot and the spike in fatalities.
To uncover the full extent of this tragedy, we dug into the data, analysing the weekly number of deaths over the past eight months and comparing them to the 2015-2019 five-year average.
The chart reveals a disturbing trend, with excess deaths occurring in all but two weeks since April 2022. These two exceptions, it turns out, coincide with the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and funeral, which would have caused delays in death registrations due to the bank holidays.
But even taking these weeks into account, the data shows an average of 1,268 excess deaths every single week.
Because the chart doesn’t reveal the true picture, we downloaded the death data from the Public Health Scotland Covid-19 Dashboard, which you can also do so here, and calculated the total number of deaths between week 16 and week 47 of 2022.
According to the data, there were 34,316 deaths during this period in the 2015-2019 five-year average and 38,611 deaths during this period in 2022.
Ruling is part of a package of measures designed to reduce waste and increase recycling
Cigarette manufacturers will also be responsible for educating the public not to discard their butts in the public space. Photograph: Jon Nazca/Reuters
Tobacco companies are to be forced to foot the bill for cleaning up the millions of cigarette ends that smokers discard every year under new environmental regulations in Spain.
The ruling, which comes into force this Friday, is part of a package of measures designed to reduce waste and increase recycling. It includes a ban on single-use plastic cutlery and plates, cotton buds, expanded polystyrene cups and plastic straws, as well as cutting back on plastic food packaging.
The law conforms to a European Union directive limiting the use of single-use plastics and which aims to oblige polluters to clean up the mess they create.
Political commentator Kim Iversen reviewed the top news stories in 2022 that she said the mainstream media spun as conspiracy theories “simply for saying something that went against the establishment liberal orthodoxy.”
In a recent episode of “The Kim Iversen Show,” political commentator Kim Iversen reviewed the top 10 stories in 2022 that she said the mainstream media spun as “conspiracy theories” — but turned out to be true after all.
Iversen said the conspiracy theorist label was usually given “simply for saying something that went against the establishment liberal orthodoxy — not because it was quackery rooted in falsehoods.”
“The reality is, so many that they [the mainstream media] claim to be ‘conspiracy theories’ are actually true,” Iversen said, adding:
“Anytime someone’s labeled as a conspiracy theorist, it might just mean it’s time to actually investigate and look a little deeper into whatever it is they’re claiming because so often nowadays conspiracy theorists are not conspiracy theorists at all. They’re truth-tellers — fact-tellers, researchers — and they’re connecting the dots and getting a lot of things right.”
Here are some of the news stories Iversen highlighted as examples of mainstream media mixing up fiction with truth:
According to the media, Iversen said, the Trucker Freedom Convoy was “just a bunch of racist Texas right-wing terrorists” and the protest was “filled with a bunch of Trump-loving White Supremacists.”
“In reality,” she said, “the project was about stopping vaccine mandates.”
Iversen also pointed out that the movement began in Canada — “where people can’t even vote for Trump” — and was primarily organized by a woman, and garnered widespread support from people of all political persuasions.
The “Twitter files” revealed that “shadow banning” and other censorship tactics were conspiracy facts, not conspiracy theories.
Iversen showed a video clip of Twitter CEO Elon Musk commenting that so far, all the “conspiracy theories” people had about Twitter have turned out to be true — “if not more true than people thought.”
People who in 2020 said the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates would “change the fabric of American Freedom by ushering in an unprecedented surveillance state” were labeled by the media as conspiracy theorists, Iversen said.
Yet now, Iversen pointed out, the mainstream media — such as The Associated Press — are reporting:
An @AP investigation has found that COVID-19 accelerated and normalized state surveillance and tracking tools that are now being used to investigate crime and harass marginalized communities. https://t.co/HGFpaPXQKTpic.twitter.com/IPWe2tDoR0
El año pasado, con el objetivo de generar debate, algunos miembros del Colectivo La Plebe presentaron el libro “La policía. Un análisis crítico”en varios sitios anarquistas (ver carteles abajo).
Series, películas, novelas, informativos televisivos o radiofónicos, la prensa, etc., nos bombardean con una visión idealizada de las fuerzas del orden.
carteles del 2022
Quizás no esté de más aportar un punto de vista más realista de estas instituciones.
“La policía. Un análisis crítico” es el decimocuarto título de nuestra colección central de La Neurosis o Las Barricadas Editorial.. Este texto pretende contribuir a llenar un curioso vacío: el estudio de los cuerpos policiales.
Es cierto que la cultura audiovisual, sobre todo a través del cine y las series de televisión, ha convertido a la policía en una institución con una presencia enorme en la cultura que consumimos.
Por otro lado, resulta llamativa la escasa producción de estudios científicos sociales sobre esta institución.
¿No existe interés por el estudio de los cuerpos del orden? ¿Es su hermetismo el motivo de esta escasez de estudios?
¿O es posible que se trate de un objeto incómodo de estudio por su poder? Resulta difícil saber si estas razones u otras han sido determinantes en esta sequía académica.
No obstante, el Colectivo La Plebe se ha propuesto poner un grano de arena para ofrecernos un acercamiento que combine sencillez y seriedad.
Porque cuanto más poder acumula una institución más necesario es poner sobre ella la lupa de la crítica para dejar al descubierto la realidad:
Chunks of meat from huge lizards that still have their scales, pairs of tropical birds in cages and large live turtles can be found easily in the crowded Iquitos market, in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, a sign of how normalized illegal wildlife trade is in the world .
«The Amazon region of Peru is a source of extraction of animals that reach the coast and the Andean zone and abroad. There is an existing demand and precisely from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) the strategy we have is to be able to make efforts so that authorities increase detection, “the specialist in the initiative and work on species trafficking of the organization Rosa, told EFE.
Daily commercialization of wild species
The commercialization of both live and dead species of wild fauna influences the loss of biodiversity, but, like any illegal traffic, it is a problem with many sides that include administrative and legislative spheres.
There is also a health affairs front, knowledge of ancestral customs, as well as international cooperation and customs, come into play.
In the middle of the jungle, from his office in the Regional Government of Loreto, the coordinator of the Functional Unit of the National Forestry and Wildlife Service (Serfor), Paul Aróstegui, tells EFE that part of the traffic sails in boats to Brazil or Colombia by the infinite and porous Amazon borders.
But the greatest traffic occurs on the coast of Lima, that is, it travels kilometers by river from remote points in the Amazon, where there is not even land access, to towns in the interior of the country where there are already highways.
From the Peruvian capital, the animals normally re-embark in the port of Callao heading to other continents. “The coast is the strong market, and from the coast to the world,” said Aróstegui.
Two turtles in the market of Iquitos (Peru). EFE / Paula Bayarte Dos tortugas en el mercado de Iquitos (Perú). EFE/ Paula Bayarte
The experts consulted explain that, on the one hand, there is an illegal trade in live species that are traded for alleged benefits, beliefs or their use in rites. On the other hand, the meat of certain animals is consumed by communities, but its sale is not sustainable and can be dangerous to health.
The traffic is also due to the great demand, especially from Asian countries that buy large quantities of reptiles, whose trade is sometimes illegal.
The national and international market for exotic pets, fangs, shells and skins also survives.
“Para la olla!”(For the cooking pot!) shouted a vendor at the Belén de Iquitos market when asked if the large live turtles turned upside down were to become pets or to eat.
Among vegetables, toys or cleaning products, there are pieces of lizards, deer, rodents such as the common guagua or paca, or peccary and peccary (mammals similar to wild boars), which are the animal meats with the greatest demand in the populations of the Peruvian Amazon.
Sometimes, the trafficking of species is linked to customs and myths that are born in communities and that later, both due to the subsequent migration of its inhabitants to other cities and to legends that spread, cause the animals to be the object of mafias.
Vento explained that, for example, the Titicaca frog, native to the lake of the same name, is illegally traded in Lima, Arequipa and Tacna.
“Healing properties are attributed to it, such as the recovery of sexual vigor, it heals asthma and bronchial problems, or it increases the proportion of iron, but none of these properties have been confirmed, it is only known that, given its high pathogenicity in its content, it causes intestinal problems,” said the specialist regarding this critically endangered frog.
Driver of emerging diseases
A few parakeets for sale in the market of Iquitos (Peru). EFE / Paula Bayarte
To fight against this illegal business, Aróstegui points out that coordination with neighboring countries is essential, especially with Brazil and Colombia.
“Wildlife trafficking could be working as a driver of emerging diseases in new regions with susceptible human and animal populations. Peru needs to develop coordinated planning between various sectors involved in the prevention, inspection and control of wildlife trafficking in order to combat it”, reads the 2017-2027 national strategy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Peru.
Vento explains that both in Peru and in countries in the region there is a common “postponement” of the importance of wildlife conservation, which is reflected in the budget that the State allocates to the Ministry of the Environment.
“It is important that authorities understand the strong link between conservation of wildlife and the future generations.
Biodiversity is a provider of food, of ecosystem services, of the quality of clean air, of the conservation of the oceans and of the forests”, he indicated.
In any case, he considers it impossible to combat the trafficking of species if there is not an informed civil society aware of both the importance of preserving the environment, as well as crimes and infractions against wildlife.
We’ve survived 2022—and with it, the ebb tide following the upheavals of 2019 and 2020. Both in the United States and around the world, this has been a year of challenges and reversals. In the following overview, we revisit how we got here, explore the events of the past twelve months, and review our own efforts to contribute to movements for liberation.
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