Saturday, May 3, 2025
Massive drone attack reportedly targets Russian military sites in occupied Crimea — [vlog] One night with 3rd Assault Brigade medics in a new age of war — Belgium’s Euroclear to redistribute $3.4 billion from frozen Russian assets — Azerbaijani lawmaker blames Russia for February cyberattack … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/saturday-may-3-2025/
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Confiscation des téléphones des consommateurs de drogue : Darmanin poursuit son offensive autoritaire RP #Darmanin #Confiscation #Libertés #Drogues #Répression
Confiscation des téléphones de...
' To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost. '
#Trump #Musk #DOGE #USInstituteForPeace #confiscation #theft
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/
@contreattaque
Quels objets ou propriétés de cet indiscutable agent pathogène pourraient être la cible d'une saine campagne d'assainissement ? (symbolique et pacifique pour la paix)
"C'est un début de la #confiscation de la #démocratie.
Rappelons nous qu'il nous n'aura fallu qu' 1 mois 3 semaines et 2 jours pour mettre à bas la République de #Weimar et sa #constitution"
“EI [Electronic Intifafa] hires UK lawyers after police raid targeting Asa #Winstanley”
by Ali Abunimah - From the Editors
“The #Electronic #Intifada has therefore retained the UK law firm #Bindmans to defend its interests in the journalistic material on the seized devices, w/ the aim of preventing British authorities from accessing such materials.”
“Everyone who opposes genocide is bad: But journalists who oppose genocide are the worst”
by Laura in Normal Island News on Substack
@LauraK @palestine
@israel @UKLabour @EFJEurope @BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
Ukraine Daily Summary - Friday, May 24 2024
Ukraine downs another Russian Su-25 fighter jet in second reported shoot-down in one day -- Russia 'completely bogged down' in Vovchansk street fighting, deploys reserves -- Russia’s latest offensive into Kharkiv Oblast is stretching Ukrainian defenses -- Baltic countries to push for 2.5% of GDP defense spending during NATO summit -- and more
https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20Summary%20-%20Friday,%20May%2024%202024/
Le moulin des Balkany vire au casse-tête judiciaire
La Cour de cassation a confirmé mardi la #confiscation de l’usufruit du moulin de Giverny, où vit le couple #Balkany. Mais le bien appartient à leurs enfants, et cette mesure sera difficile à appliquer.
› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/070524/le-moulin-des-balkany-vire-au-casse-tete-judiciaire
Confiscation of $320 billion of frozen Russian assets in the West could help Ukraine finance its military needs at least until 2028 - Reuters. #Ukraine #confiscation
Ukraine Daily Summary - Thursday, April 25
Explaining Washington’s REPO Act that could kick-start the confiscation of frozen Russian assets -- Russia planning to disrupt global peace summit in Switzerland -- SBU drone attack destroys 26,000 cubic meters of Russian fuel in Smolensk Oblast -- Russia to supply China with cheaper gas compared to European market at least through 2027 -- and more
https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20Summary%20-%20Thursday,%20April%2025/
Lithuanian customs detained the first car with Russian plates and may confiscate and transfer it to Ukraine. The car, an Audi Q7, was driven by a Moldovan citizen who claimed ignorance of the EU restrictions. The car's owner, a Russian citizen, was not present. The man was informed of the fines and confiscation awaiting him. The 41,690 euro car is likely to be confiscated and transferred to Ukraine. #Lithuania #confiscation
Starting today, Latvia will start confiscating vehicles with Russian license plates. Starting from February 15, vehicles registered in Russia will only be allowed to transit through the country. They can do so only once. All other vehicles with Russian license plates will be confiscated and transferred to the Ukrainian military. #Latvia #confiscation
The EU Council has taken a step towards confiscating profits from Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine. The council approved a decision allowing the transfer of profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. #EU #confiscation
Russia will be ‘dismantled’ under ‘cancerous’ leadership of Vladimir Putin | Diane Francis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gji0IzERcVo
#Reparations #Confiscation #Oil #Sanctions
#Ukraine #War #StandWithUkraine
#putin #psychopath #massmurderer
#russia #warcrimes #genocide #childabductions #kleptocrat #fascist #neocolonial #oligarch #billionaire #looter #fsb #kgb #killings #deportation #poisoning #torture #rape #terror #maffia
The #USGovernment’s Secret Inventions
Secrecy orders allow U.S. defense agencies to control patents, including those that are privately developed.
By Arvind Dilawar
May 09, 20189:00 AM
"Invention secrecy in the U.S. dates back to at least the 1930s, but it really took off in the ’40s, when the development of nuclear weapons was shrouded in classification. It became official policy in 1952 with the #InventionSecrecyAct, which allows USPTO to keep patents deemed ‘detrimental to the national security’ on lockdown. Under the act, USPTO’s commissioner of patents became empowered to flag patent applications—even those developed by private citizens—for review by government defense agencies, which could request that certain inventions be kept secret. Patents covered by such ‘secrecy orders’ may be restricted from export, made available only to defense agencies, or even classified. Patent holders can appeal secrecy orders, but the power to rescind those orders remains in the hands of the agencies that made the requests. While there may be a chance those agencies will reconsider, the statistics aren’t promising: According to figures from the Federation of American Scientists, from 2013 through 2017, an average of 25 old secrecy orders were rescinded each year—while 117 new secrecy orders were imposed annually. With so many inventions deemed secret, so few eventually publicized, and the entire process itself obfuscated in classifications, it’s no wonder that critics have questioned whether the current invention-secrecy regime is really working properly.
“FAS has been dogging the patent-secrecy system for three decades now. Founded in 1945 as the Federation of Atomic Scientists by the engineers of the #ManhattanProject, the organization was originally formed to promote nuclear disarmament. As time passed, it renamed itself the Federation of American Scientists and expanded its scope to address additional issues, like chemical weapons, arms sales, and government secrecy in general. In the ’80s, when the Reagan administration and the National Security Agency sought to limit discussion of cryptography using invention secrecy, FAS entered the fray, successfully fighting off government censorship and tracking the USPTO’s secrecy activity ever since."
The Mystery of #NikolaTesla’s Missing Files
The #FBI has finally declassified its files on Nikola Tesla, but questions remain.
By: Sarah Pruitt
Updated: June 1, 2023 | Original: May 3, 2018
"What happened to Tesla’s files from there, as well as what exactly was in those files, remains shrouded in mystery—and ripe for conspiracy theories. After years of fielding questions about possible cover-ups, the FBI finally declassified some 250 pages of Tesla-related documents under the Freedom of Information Act [#FOIA] in 2016. The bureau followed up with two additional releases, the latest in March 2018. But even with the publication of these documents, many questions still remain unanswered—and some of Tesla’s files are still missing.
"Three weeks after the Serbian-American inventor’s death, an electrical engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#MIT) was tasked with evaluating his papers to determine whether they contained 'any ideas of significant value.' According to the declassified files, Dr. John G. Trump reported that his analysis showed Tesla’s efforts to be 'primarily of a speculative, philosophical and promotional character' and said the papers did 'not include new sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results.'
"The scientist’s name undoubtedly rings a bell, as John G. Trump was the uncle of the 45th U.S. president, Donald J. Trump. The younger brother of Trump’s father, Fred, he helped design X-ray machines that greatly helped cancer patients and worked on radar research for the Allies during World War II. Donald Trump himself cited his uncle’s credentials often during his presidential campaign. 'My uncle used to tell me about nuclear before nuclear was nuclear,' he once told an interviewer.
"At the time, the FBI pointed to Dr. Trump’s report as evidence that Tesla’s vaunted '#DeathRay' particle beam weapon didn’t exist, outside of rumors and speculation. But in fact, the #USGovernment itself was split in its response to Tesla’s technology. Marc Seifer, author of the biography Wizard: The Life & Times of Nikola Tesla, says a group of military personnel at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, including Brigadier General L.C. Craigee, had a very different opinion of Tesla’s ideas.
"'Craigee was the first person to ever fly a jet plane for the military, so he was like the John Glenn of the day,' Seifer says. 'He said, ‘there’s something to this—the particle beam weapon is real.’ So you have two different groups, one group dismissing Tesla’s invention, and another group saying there’s really something to it.'
"Then there’s the nagging question of the missing files. When Tesla died, his estate was to go to his nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who at the time was the Yugoslav ambassador to the U.S. (thanks to his familial connection with Serbia’s most celebrated inventor). According to the recently declassified documents, some in the FBI feared Kosanovic was trying to wrest control of Tesla’s technology in order to 'make such information available to the enemy,' and even considered arresting him to prevent this.
"In 1952, after a U.S. court declared Kosanovic the rightful heir to his uncle’s estate, Tesla’s files and other materials were sent to Belgrade, Serbia, where they now reside in the Nikola Tesla Museum there. But while the FBI originally recorded some 80 trunks among Tesla’s effects, only 60 arrived in Belgrade, Seifer says. 'Maybe they packed the 80 into 60, but there is the possibility that…the government did keep the missing trunks.'
"For the five-part HISTORY series The Tesla Files, Seifer joined forces with Dr. Travis Taylor, an astrophysicist, and Jason Stapleton, an investigative reporter, to search for these missing files and seek out the truth of the government’s views on the 'Death Ray' particle-beam weapon and Tesla’s other ideas.
"Despite John G. Trump’s dismissive assessment of Tesla’s ideas immediately after his death, the military did try and incorporate #particlebeam weaponry in the decades following World War II, Seifer says. Notably, the inspiration of the 'Death Ray' fueled Ronald Reagan’s #StrategicDefenseInitiative, or 'Star Wars' program, in the 1980s. If the government is still using Tesla’s ideas to power its technology, Seifer explains, that could explain why some files related to the inventor still remain classified.
[...]
"Although some of his more sensitive innovations may still be hidden, Tesla’s legacy is alive and well, both in the devices we use every day, and the technologies that will undoubtedly play a role in our future. 'Tesla is the inventor of #wireless technology. He’s the inventor of the ability to create an unlimited number of wireless channels,' Seifer says of the inventor’s lasting impact. 'So radio guidance systems, #encryption, remote control robots—it’s all based on Tesla’s technology.'"
Read more:
https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi
Novel Means of #Hydrogen Production Using Dual Polarity Control and #WalterRussell's Experiments with #ZeroPointEnergy
1992-08-03
"This paper is a report on an experimental re-examination of the data reported by #WestinghouseLaboratories on the work of Walter Russell. #NikolaTesla was so impressed with the theories and experiments of Walter Russell that he advised Russell to lock his knowledge in the Smithsonian for 1,000 years until mankind was ready.
"Recent research has been conducted by the authors in order to verify Russell's theories and experiments. The experiments that Russell conducted in 1927, which were verified by Westinghouse laboratories have been repeated. Russell reported at that time that he had found a novel way to change to ratio of hydrogen to oxygen in a sealed quartz tube containing water vapor. The use of magnetic fields was shown to produce this effect. The end result of the experiments was to demonstrate a cheap and efficient method of hydrogen production for a hydrogen based fuel economy. Experiments performed to repeat these results have met with some success. This paper will present the theory and results of experiments performed in an attempt to duplicate these tests.
Russell's work also involved the assembly of a device to produce energy from the background flux of fields designated by some researchers zero point energy.
"Recent research has uncovered experiments that were conducted by Walter and #LaoRussell in conjunction with #Raytheon Corporation in Colorado Springs and General Chapman of #NORAD. The blue prints were discovered to still exist in Colorado Springs and the “#RussellOpticalDynamoGenerator” was found last fall in a basement, intact after 30 years. Documents to be presented will show that Russell reported anomalous effects generated as a result of his circuit configuration and magnetic field interaction."
https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/929470/
Inventor, artist, philosopher, #WalterRussell -- along with his wife #LaoRussell -- were also #Antinuclear activists. They came up with a device that could generate energy, and of course the #USGovernment confiscated it -- and that was the end of that!
Russell Optic Dynamo-Generator
"This new power and light generator employs a multiplication principle of nature which has not yet entered within the realm of human consciousness... It is the principle of growth in nature which multiplies one kernel of corn into thousands... or multiplies the cold of space into hot stars and novas of incredibly high temperature... Power multiplication is the most conspicuous characteristic of nature. It is amazing to me that it has never yet been discovered."
(Walter Russell’s memo from 1961)
via Philosophy.org
"In the fall of 1959, General Chapman, Colonel Fry, Major Sargent, Major Cripe, and others from NORAD in Colorado Springs, attended a meeting at Swannanoa, Virginia (University of Science and Philosophy) at the invitation of #WalterRussell. At this meeting Russell explained the workings of a device he proposed to build to take advantage of the vacuum state energy, and the two directional movement of energy from gravitation, (generation), to radiation, (degeneration). During the following year Russell, his wife, #LaoRussell, and their assistants built the device. The prototype that was built consisted of two sets of dual and magnetically-sexed coils. On September 10, 1961, Walter and Lao Russell reported to their contacts at NORAD, that the coils had worked and that the President of the United States could announce to the world that a 'greater, safer power than #AtomicEnergy' could be provided for industry and transportation. After giving the device over to the U.S. Government, Dr. Russell refolded a year and a half later on May 19, 1963. The #RussellOpticDynamoGenerator was never released to the public."
https://www.philosophy.org/russell-optic-dynamo-generator.html#/
The family of Grinkevich has started hiding elite property from confiscation. Svitlana Grinkevich, the wife of Lviv businessman Ihor Grinkevich, has transferred four elite apartments in Kyiv and Lviv as collateral for loan agreements, making confiscation impossible in the future. According to the Ukrainian mortgage law, the property secured by a mortgage cannot be seized. #Grinkevich #confiscation
