Germany has failed to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) secured 104 votes in the General Assembly, falling 23 short of the required two-thirds majority. It is the first time Germany has missed out on a rotating seat.
They removed CD/DVD drives from devices.
They made physical media tougher to find and use.
They ditched the expandable storage in phones.
They steered us into streaming subscriptions.
They made always-online the norm.
They turned unlimited internet into a necessity.
Then, they slowly upped the price on everything.
Ownership quietly became renting.
YOU WERE NOT MENT TO SEE THIS VIDEO.
THEY THOUGHT THEY ERASED IT.
I FOUND IT.
Watch it before it is taken down! This is “The Midas Plague,” the 12th episode of Series 1 of the BBC sci-fi anthology series Out of the Unknown (BBC2).
It is an adaptation of Frederik Pohl’s 1954 satirical short story (sometimes referenced with a 1956 date in secondary sources) about a future automated society where robots produce endless goods, forcing humans into a cycle of overconsumption with social status ironically tied to how much one must consume (the poor are burdened with the most).
It originally aired on 20 December 1965. The original videotape masters were wiped in the early 1970s as part of the BBC’s routine they claimed as a cost-savings measure.
Many programmes were routinely erased or discarded once their immediate repeat especially ones that offered “too much thinking”. The wiping policy officially ended around 1978 as home video and archival value became clearer and erasure memory holes became harder until our moment where we assume all is saved.
It was long believed lost by many, but the telerecording preserved it. I located and shared a copy as part of my work on the “Great Forgetting” and You Have 5,000 Days series.
Some think this is from fan-assembled retelling. But it is not.
Read the article and surmise why this video was deemed to be erased.
Watch the clip and read the article now, the BBC does not want you to see this. There is a very high chance this Internet Archive will be deleted...
The following is my keynote speech at a conference organised by General Michael Flynn (former US National Security Advisor) at the Gold Institute in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska. My argument: Unipolar policies in a multipolar world is destroying the West. https://t.co/U5KqR9fZ8b
While The New York Times attempts to whitewash Nazi leaders from the Second World War who massacred Poles, Poland appears to be much less understanding of Zelensky honoring these Nazi leaders.
Distinguished UChicago Prof. John Mearsheimer on the US-Israeli war on Iran:
“[The Iran war is] one of the great disasters in American foreign policy… the greatest foreign policy disaster the US has ever engaged in.”
Since the NATO bombardements of 1999 Serbs in #Kosovo, a part of #Serbia, have lived under constant fear, isolation and displacement.
Entire communities have vanished. This is not coexistence — this is erasure and this ethinic cleansing happens untill today and continues with the help of the EU and the US.
This is not coexistence; it is erasure of Christian Serbs. The targeting of Christian Serb communities continues to this day as you can see it even today by erasing signs at something basic llike the railways. #KosovoJeSrbija🇷🇸
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Even though Ukraine’s deep-strike drone attacks in Russia are formally being carried out by Ukraine, the reality is that Ukraine could never carry out these attacks on Russian territory without intelligence and satellite support from NATO — and from the US specifically. Despite Trump’s peace overtures, his administration has continued providing Ukraine with intelligence to carry out long-range drone attacks against Russian energy infrastructure, according to multiple US and Ukrainian officials. The intelligence helps Ukraine “shape route planning, altitude, timing and mission decisions, enabling Ukraine’s long-range, one-way attack drones to evade Russian air defenses”. One source described Ukraine’s drone force as the “instrument” the US is using to achieve the goal of undermining the Russian economy and pushing Putin toward a settlement. The CIA has also been involved in building up Ukraine’s drone programme.
The degree of US involvement goes further than mere intelligence-sharing. While one US official said Ukraine selects the target and the US provides information on its vulnerabilities, other officials said the US has actually been setting target priorities for the Ukrainian military — meaning the US is in effect choosing what to strike.
The US also provides satellite support — both in the form of real-time GPS guidance (particularly over Ukrainian and Russian-annexed Ukrainian territory via Elon Musk’s Starlink) and through the provision of geospatial data that allows drones to operate without a real-time GPS signal, such as in areas where the signal is jammed: pre-loaded terrain maps, route data, target coordinates and air-defence evasion profiles, all of which depend on American satellite reconnaissance and intelligence.
This means that Ukraine’s deep-strike operations against Russia are functionally a US-NATO operation wearing Ukrainian colours.
Read my latest article here: https://t.co/QEhwknVxzJ
I find it fascinating that the same climate activists screaming about cow flatulence, forcing us to eat bugs or lab-grown meat, are completely silent about thousands of massive data centers pumping out actual toxic chemicals and diesel exhaust.
The selective outrage is truly amazing. 🤔