“I have come to learn,
that when people of money and power organize
to set upon to break a person they seek to silence,
and the person seems but a shadow of what they were,
under the endless barrage,
in the end when laid to rest,
the dignity, compassion and presence of the person
somehow endures,
and their words awaken to speak clearer than before.
As if torches ignite, when their flame is gone,
and the light of their truth,
Is brilliantly lit and once more born.”
―
China increases its stake in Australian land
The Bahamas have also rocketed up the standings after the mysterious purchase of more than 2 million Australian hectares.
'Shocking, outrageous': Chinese hackers called out for industrial-scale theft
China's intelligence services have hacked Australia's biggest providers of software services in an extraordinary penetration that the west is now calling out.
New questions over Elon Musk’s use of SpaceX resources for Boring Co. MarketWatch. We have entirely too many squillionaires doing stupid things with our capital, even putting looting and fraud to one side.
Now we know: Air Pollution Makes You Stupid Asia Sentinel
How Huawei’s ‘wolf culture’ helped it grow, and got it into trouble
As the Chinese tech giant expanded around the globe, its employees were urged on by a culture that celebrated daring feats in pursuit of new business.
The Pentagon Failed Its Audit Amid a $21 Trillion Scandal (Yes, Trillion) TruthDig. Lee Camp
Scott Morrison's fixer offered Craig Kelly's challenger a $350,000 party job to drop out
The PM's fixer tried for weeks to convince Kent Johns to drop out of the race, warning News Corp and 2GB would "destroy" him.
Scott Morrison picks a fellow Sydneysider as the next Governor-General. The opposition is miffed he didn't consult them so close to an election.
Using indicators to uncover ‘toxic’ workplace for women
FLEXIBLE WORK: Disproportionately small numbers of women in an office can be an indicator of deeper problems, says the man leading Victoria Police's response to a review of discrimination and sexual harassment.
Driverless and zero emissions vehicles – driving transport, energy and government closer
TRANSPORT & ENERGY: With new vehicle technologies such as driverless and zero emissions vehicles on our roads, it's increasingly important for governments -- at all levels and across states -- to work together.
British Security Service Infiltration, the Integrity Initiative and the Institute for Statecraft Craig Murray and British Spies Infiltrated Bernie Sanders’ Campaign? Moon of Alabama (pjay).FBI Files Show Agents Tracked Non-Violent 350.org Climate Activists as Part of ‘Domestic Terrorism CaseCommon DreamsTaylor Swift secretly used facial recognition technology at concert to find stalkers Kansas City Star. As long as she doesn’t sell the data…
The French Protests Do Not Fit a Tidy Narrative Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
The Yellow Jackets Versus the European Empire The American Conservative
Macron Should Take a Page From Obama to Deal With ProtestsLeonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg (CO). Macron (and Bershidsky) should look into the Domestic Security Alliance Council, which is how Obama “dealt with” Occupy.
The New York Times: As We Forge the Web of Tomorrow, We Need a Set of Guiding Principles That Can Define the Kind of Web We Want
There’s Really No Such Thing As “Male” Brains Or “Female” Brains
Although
there are sex differences in brain and behavior, when you move away
from group-level differences in single features and focus at the level
of the individual brain or person, you find that the differences,
regardless of their origins, usually “mix up” rather than “add up.”Peter Brook On The Meaning Of Theatre
“And that to me is pure theater: the sharing through the imagination of something down to earth and concrete and appealing for the imagination, so that there’s always that sense of “and then what?”—that sense of wonder, which one needs so badly, and one has so little of in everyday life.” – ArtForum
Climate Change Report On Heritage Sites: Goodbye Venice
The
map reveals the degree of threat to one evocative name after another:
the Amalfi coast, the Roman city of Arles, the Greek temples at Paestum
south of Naples, the crusader city of Acre, the ancient shrine of
Ephesus, even the Modernist architecture of Tel Aviv. – The Art NewspaperFacebook’s Existential Crisis: What To Do When You’re Not “Making The World A Better Place?”
More
than other tech companies, Facebook has insisted that its commercial
success benefits the world. There are examples of the wealth from a tech
business being used by its founder to support a grand project like
space exploration, as Tesla’s Elon Musk or Amazon’s Jeff Bezos do.
Alphabet harnesses the money from the Google search engine to support
expensive, speculative “moon shot” engineering projects with the
potential to change the world. Facebook’s point is more direct: The
business goals of Facebook are simply good for the world. – Wired