In the context of the VMware takeover and the change in business #strategy, Broadcom's contempt and brutality towards its #customers are unprecedented in the recent history of the #digital #economy in #Europe.
The embarrassing #security lapse is linked to a book he published on #Amazon, which left a digital trail to a private Google account created in his name, along with his unique ID and links to the #account’s maps and calendar profiles.
#Israel #internet #Anonymity #privacy #spy #military #CyberSecurity #news #online #leak #identity
Source: https://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Mowing-the-grass-in-Gaza-368516
Instead, #Israel is acting in accordance with a “mowing the grass” #strategy. After a period of #military restraint, Israel is acting to severely punish #Hamas for its aggressive behavior, and degrading its military capabilities – aiming at achieving a period of quiet.
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Those who forlornly ask “when is this going to end?” and use the cliché term “cycle of #violence” have psychological difficulties digesting the facts that there is no solution in sight and that the violent struggle against Hamas is not going to end anytime soon (not as long as the enemy’s basic ideological motivations remain intact). But still, important periods of quiet are attainable via military action, and this is what explains Israel’s current #offensive.
This article is from 2014...
#history #conflict #war #terror #MiddleEast #warfare #politics
While Israel holds military might over Hamas, the broader consequences of their actions could reshape global perspectives. Could Hamas's tactics, even if con...#aljazeeralive #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #AlJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #aljazeeralatest #latestnews #newsheadlines #aljazeeravideo #Hamas #Gaza #IsraelGazaWar #IsraelPalestineWar #IsraelWar #Strategy #StephenWalt #Palestinian #AlJazeeraShow #Gaza2023 #Israel2023 #WarinGaza
Israel: Winning the battle but losing the war? | AJ #shorts
For those who know little about the #MiddleEastConflict, Hamas' strategy seems very irrational. Sure, they have caused a lot of deaths on both sides, spread #fear and #terror, but they cannot win and now bear the #consequence of the #destruction of the #Gaza Strip.
What we have to keep in mind is that the #peace process (if it would be successful) would make Hamas obsolete. #Israel has recently moved diplomatically closer to Saudi Arabia. This does not please #Iran, which in no way wants its #enemy #SaudiArabia to be strengthened by peace with Israel. Iran, in the other hand, is Hamas's suspected main weapons supplier. Therefore, the American aircraft carrier at the coast of Israel makes sense. This is a sign to Iran, because the aircraft carrier is useless for the pacification of Gaza.
The question remains why the Israeli ground forces have not yet stepped forward and why the aircraft carrier is useless? Gaza has multiple levels of tunnels underground, and these tunnels contain command centers, weapons, and supplies. A battle in these tunnel systems would be very costly for the Israeli army. With airplanes and bombs you can bomb the Gaza Strip (which only hits the civilians) but not the tunnel system.
Which brings us back to the Hamas strategy:
1) Preventing the #peace process.
2) Spreading terror and fear in Israel.
3) Provoking the Israeli army to cause a lot of collateral damage in order to discredit it in the world press.
4) Activating sympathizers worldwide for the supposed Palestine cause.
5) Helping states like Iran and #Russia destabilize Western democracies.
#news #conflict #war #problem #democracy #weapons #arms #CollateralDamage #crime
Want to try out some political gaming skills?
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This is hardly the first game to use history as its frame. But it’s clear that the team at developer Petroglyph Games took its setting seriously. “We wanted to create that authentic World War One experience,” says Chris Becker, The Great War’s lead designer, noting that Petroglyph worked with London’s Imperial War Museum to make their product as “plausible” as possible. This partnership can be glimpsed in the game’s canvas – and its smallest specifics. On a strategic level, players are encouraged to appreciate the attritional nature of trench warfare, each attack incrementally denting their army’s resources and national morale. Zoom in, and they’ll notice the buzzing of biplanes, and how every shell blasts soil up into the air.
The Great War: Western Front is the definitive (their claim) World War 1 strategy game from Petroglyph, the makers of Command & Conquer
Remastered & Star Wars: Empire at War. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the pivotal Western Front from 1914 to 1919.
Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory, by directing your armies in gritty real-time battles and by guiding high-level decisions in turn-based strategic gameplay. Dig detailed trenches, research new technologies such as poison gas and tanks, and make decisions that will have a profound and lasting effect on your success. Think like a Commander to either relive history – or redefine it.
As Theatre Commander, experience enthralling turn-based grand-strategy as you direct the deployment of forces, perform research and carefully consider how you disseminate your resources across the Western Front in a war won by inches. Alongside this, take up the mantle of Field Commander in dynamic real-time battles as you direct units to defeat your opponent, build trenches and perform direct assaults by sending your infantry over the top. Pick your battles and fight them your way to shape the course of history.
The video at https://youtu.be/DoZ3aKKpDvQ gives a pretty good overview of what to expect. What is clear, though, is you can play at the strategic level with some really great animations you can zoom into, but you can also play tactically by laying out trenches, defences, etc.
Although the reviews on Steam Games are mostly positive, there are some issues, especially with the AI. Some lengthy reviews give some detail on some shortcomings, so it is always worth reading through the reviews before buying. A couple of game reviews have also started appearing on YouTube, for example, this popular one at https://youtu.be/z0or9cqxp10.
See https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230404-the-great-war-the-ww1-video-game-thats-eerily-accurate
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#reminder #WARNING! #Police #Provocateur #strategy - to Undermine and Frame any Peaceful Protest
https://odysee.com/@ShockingDocumentaries:2/Police_Provocateurs-to_Undermine_and_Frame_any_Peaceful_Protest:6
This is an excerpt from the feature film ‘You, Me and the SPP’. This scene shows the footage of police provocateurs shot at the anti-SPP protest in Montebello 2007, explains the context and contains the police admission that these were “on duty police officers performing their duties.”
source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/19/johnson-johnson-and-a-new-war-on-consumer-protection
Johnson & Johnson’s most recent quarterly report shows $24 billion in sales, and in the 11 months since it filed for bankruptcy, an average of one woman a day has died waiting to find out if her case would ever be heard. Read about the brazen #legal #strategy that may allow corporate #America to evade accountability.
#justice #USA #law #health #death #problem #humanRights #economy #news
Western #civilization is under attack using #migration as a #weapon. This is not the first time in #history such a #strategy has been deployed.
The likely culprit is #China / #CCP, working with #Western traitors who are likely to be mostly #IndoEuropean, #Afroasiatic & #Chinese.
The #West is unassailable by #military force, so alternative forms of #warfare have been formulated & deployed.
In my opinion #Russia isn't a primary actor, but is keen to take advantage of the situation & capitalise on Western #weakness.
Domestic #traitors are very likely among the wealthiest people, who benefit most from China, are most insulated from #migrants & feel they are above the #law. #Government employees and #politicians are highly #suspect; many are likely #puppets.
“This project fulfills the commitment made in our Army #Climate #Strategy to increase resilience while delivering clean #energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions,” said Jacobson. “When we collaborate with local utilities and #industry to promote energy resilience while powering the local grid, it is a winning solution across the board.”
The following is not irony but pure cynicism. I am glad that the U. S. will be able to wage #war in a more environmentally friendly way. An important tribute to the #future for #survival of #mankind and our #civilization on this planet.
#solar #Pentagon #dod #USA #politics #environment #co2 #news #humanity #conflict #military
The Prime Minister’s #Energy #Security #Strategy will not work. It’s a strategy for boosting #UK energy #supply. Of course, the UK needs a plan for where our energy should come from. But any effective strategy also has to address how much energy we use and how to reduce it. Indeed, it should start from there. A “supply strategy” for energy is like a “medicines strategy” for health – it misses the key options.
This is not an academic debating point. Just building more supply has never worked as an energy strategy. And it does not need to – reducing #demand works. Over the last 30 years, energy #efficiency improvement has contributed more to our energy security than the nuclear and renewables programme combined. And the potential for reducing energy demand further remains very large. This week’s IPCC report confirms such changes can be very large and need to be central to an effective climate policy. CREDS research shows that we could halve UK energy demand by 2050, whilst still improving our quality of life.
Electrifying transport and heating alone will achieve a lot, as electric vehicles and heat pumps are many times more efficient than the fossil fuel technologies they replace. And our buildings could and should be better insulated. But the message from recent research is more fundamental – we need also to think more broadly about what we use energy for. Reducing car use can play a major role, as can the reuse and substitution of energy intensive materials.
Time and money
Of course, much of this will require investment and take time. But that is even more true of the measures set out in the PM’s strategy. Changes in the way that we use energy are generally quicker than major supply side investments, especially options like new nuclear reactors, which are the most expensive option and cannot make any contribution for well over a decade. Saving energy provides more diverse, resilient, cleaner and cheaper options. The proposed support for heat pump innovation is only a tiny fraction of what is required.
Sadly, the ‘strategy’ continues a trend of going in the wrong direction. Energy saving policies have been dismantled over the last decade. Vehicle efficiency improvements have stalled and new building standards delayed. In David Cameron’s haste to ‘cut the green crap’ in 2012, building energy saving programmes were reduced by 90%. This outcome was not an unfortunate accident; it was a deliberate choice by a minister, who then went to work for Russian oligarch. The result is that a typical household uses 10% more energy for space heating and now pays £100 per year more for household energy than if previous programmes had been continued.
Some households have high car dependency and therefore will be doubly disadvantaged. But most people on low incomes do not drive long distances, and so rising transport fuel costs are less regressive. The recent reduction in road fuel duty is a diversion from the key problem that, unless urgent action is taken, rising household fuel bills will mean people die from living in cold homes next winter.
Professor Nick Eyre, based at the University of Oxford, is the Director of CREDS and a Professor of Energy and Climate Policy.
