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03/16/2024

03/12/2024

According to many US and Canadian synagogue members, for-profit companies have been renting out synagogues for the Israeli sale of stolen Palestinian Real Estate across the world.

These particular pieces of property being marketed are in West Bank settlements. The majority of international bodies, including the United States, consider these settlements illegal under international law.

Rich Siegel, a New Jersey resident, spoke out in condemnation of the sales at a Township Council meeting stating, "Hi, my name is Rich Siegel. I'm a 25 year homeowner here in Teaneck. I'm Jewish. The reason that I'm telling you that I'm Jewish is because I have a concern about something that's going on in the Jewish community. On March 10th, there is scheduled to be an Israeli real estate sales event at the Keter Torah synagogue. That event violates both domestic law and international law. It violates domestic law because we had a Civil Rights Act in 1965 and a Fair Housing Act in 1968. We don't allow real estate events to be for whites only or Jews only... for anybody only. Now, as Jews, we don't get to fly under the radar and break the law and hide it in the synagogue. It violates international law because West Bank settlement homes are going to be available for sale at this real estate event. On the website, it lists three different West Bank settlements. Those settlements are in and of themselves illegal by international law. If we allow this sale to go through, we are enabling a local synagogue to violate both domestic anti-discrimination laws and international law. Now, there's other reasons we shouldn't allow it, okay. There's a genocide going on right now. I don't care who that offends. More than 35,000 people have been killed, more than 13,000 children have been killed. People in this community are in deep mourning. People in this community are angry. I'm angry. What this real estate event is going to do is it's going to fan the flames."

Canadian Rabbi David Mivasair, a member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada, claimed in a video, "I'm here today outside a synagogue where they're selling properties built on land stolen from Palestinians. There's a real estate agency that's come here today to Toronto to sell properties built on stolen Palestinian land. It's kind of unbelievable that Canada permits this. It's clearly illegal. So we're here today to call that out and God willing to make it stop."

03/12/2024

John Barnett, who worked for Boeing for 32 years, had been providing evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the aircraft giant, Boeing. According to the Charleston County Coroner's Office in South Carolina, Barnett died on March 9 of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was found dead in his truck in a hotel parking lot.

Boeing claimed faulty parts had been installed in some of the planes, and metal shavings were often left inside the jets. Barnett said he found clusters of metal slivers hanging over the wiring that commands flight controls. His claims were back in the spotlight after the Jan. 5 blowout of a door plug on a 737 Max 9 operated by Alaskan Airlines shortly after take off.

Barnett had been staying at the hotel in CHarleston to provide his second testimony via deposition in the whistleblower lawsuit against the company. His attorney said he had been calling him all day with no response the day prior. “We then asked the hotel to check on him,” he said. “They found him in his truck dead from an ‘alleged’ self-inflicted gunshot. We drove to the hotel and spoke with the police and the coroner.”

Barnetts death is currently under investigation.

03/08/2024

Intrusive harvesting.

"Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a next-generation of AirPods Sensor System wherein the housing and tips of AirPods could include a number of active and reference electrodes configured to measure biosignals and electrical activity of a user's brain. The biosignals measured by AirPods could include, but are not limited to, an electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG) and more.

In Apple's patent background they note that brain activity can be monitored using electrodes placed on the scalp of a user. The electrodes may in some cases be placed inside or around the outer ear of the user.

Measuring of the brain activity using electrodes placed in or around the outer ear may be preferred due to benefits such as reduced device mobility and decreased visibility of the electrodes when compared to other devices that require electrodes to be placed on visible areas around the scalp of the user."