"Washington would “never” weaponize energy exports." Yeah, right. Let's trust the word of the Epstein government.

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As in, it sync how far you are into the audiobook to the story graph every so often?

TIA.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish Air Force F‑16 fighter jet crashed near a highway in western Turkey early Wednesday, killing its pilot, officials and media reports said.
Radio and radar contact with the jet was lost shortly after midnight after it took off from the 9th Main Jet Base in Balikesir province, according to a defense ministry statement.
Search and rescue operations were immediately launched, the ministry said, adding that the wreckage was soon located and the pilot had been “martyred.”
The aircraft went down near a section of the Istanbul–Izmir highway, scattering debris across a wide area, Hurriyet newspaper reported. Security forces, firefighters, and medical teams were dispatched to the scene.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined, the ministry said, adding that an investigation would be carried out by an accident inquiry team.

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https://x.com/bookerbiro/status/2026389137385767389

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Investigations have traced the contamination of baby milk sold in the EU to arachidonic acid oil imported from China.

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The European Commission announced tighter controls on Chinese imports of arachidonic acid oil from 26 February, after identifying the ingredient as the source of toxin contamination in baby formula that triggered global recalls.

Since December, major producers including Nestlé, Lactalis and Danone have recalled infant formula in 60 countries after tests detected cereulide, a toxin produced by the bacterium Bacillus cereus.

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Notifications through the EU’s food contamination alert system (RASFF), along with investigations by national authorities, traced the contamination to arachidonic acid oil imported from China and used in infant formula production, the Commission said on Tuesday.

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EU countries endorsed emergency measures on 20 February restricting imports of the oil, a spokesperson said.

These rules, which will be implemented from Thursday, require shipments to undergo checks at EU border control posts and to be accompanied by laboratory results and certification confirming the absence of the toxin.

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Experts say the infant formula crisis throws supply chain vulnerabilities into the spotlight.

Three of the world’s largest dairy groups – Nestlé, Danone, and privately owned Lactalis – [rely on a single] supplier reported to be a Chinese company, identified by the Agence France-Presse as Wuhan-based Cabio Biotech.

But how can so many of the world’s biggest companies be dependent on a single supplier for one ingredient? And what does this mean for the future supply chain shocks?

The crisis is just the latest in a series of global supply chain disruptions to hit the sector in recent years, some leading to severe health consequences and even fatalities.

It is well established that in our vast, complex food system, a single point of failure can arise from high dependency on one place for ingredient supplies. Vietnam, for instance, supplies around 80% of the world’s black pepper; in the event of a shock, such as drought that leads to a crop failure, these supply chains collapse.

Experts argue that manufacturers should diversify and further outsource quality control and testing, especially for highly sensitive ingredients; however, research is lacking on how to improve the resilience of infant formula supply chains.

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If you were watching the State of the Union address, and you’re an iPhone user, then toward the end of the speech, during President Trump’s recounting of the story of Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, you might have had Siri triggered—assuming you have voice activation turned on.

This feature once required the user to say “Hey Siri” but now only requires “Siri.”

At least one other Bluesky user confirmed that she experienced the same thing. A user on X said the erroneous Siri trigger word was “serious” not “searing,” but the timing of the post suggests it was the same moment.

Another Bluesky user (whose posts are off-limits to those who are not logged into Bluesky), posted a Google results page Siri pulled up following the Siri-triggering line, featuring a bunch a results about bullets going through legs.

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Twenty-six civil society organisations, including the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), urged today UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk to address the Chinese government’s alleged crimes against humanity.

The groups called on Türk to use his 27 February global update at the 61st Human Rights Council session to outline his Office’s investigative efforts on the situation in China. They also urged the High Commissioner to explicitly demand that Beijing end and redress its ongoing, systematic human rights violations. The Council’s session runs from 23 February to 31 March 2026.

Inaction on atrocity crimes

Multiple UN bodies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), have documented the scale of China’s human rights violations, some reaching the conclusion that they may constitute international crimes, including crimes against humanity. However, since the OHCHR’s landmark 2022 report on the Uyghur region (Xinjiang), Türk has shared little public information on progress regarding accountability or specific steps taken by the government.

Meanwhile, Beijing’s repression remains ongoing. Since the conclusion of the previous Council session, Chinese authorities have continued to arbitrarily detain religious leaders and journalists.

They have also prosecuted defenders for free expression and subjected activists to forced disappearances, often denying them adequate medical care. Authorities continue to weaponise the vague charge of ‘picking quarrels and provoking trouble’ to silence critics, despite Türk’s prior calls to repeal the provision.

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The conspiracies are true — a small group of elites set the agenda for the country.
They're billionaires, politicians, judges and more. And they meet at private camp Bohemian Grove.
The membership is secret, but Daniel Boguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10825043

The Hungarian leader wants to portray his main rival, Péter Magyar, as a stooge of his traditional bogeymen: Brussels and Kyiv. But Magyar is proving hard to typecast.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has decided a showdown with Brussels is exactly what his flagging election campaign needs.

Orbán is on the back foot at home — trailing his rival Péter Magyar by some 8 percentage points in polls ahead of the April 12 election. So he’s gone on the attack against two of his favorite bogeymen abroad: Brussels and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

In doing so he’s trying to set a trap for Magyar, the 44-year-old member of the European Parliament who is on track to beat him.

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The escalation – now framed as “SEAblings versus K-netz” – is no longer about a single breach of concert etiquette, but about accumulated frustrations over condescension and racism within the global K-pop ecosystem and beyond.

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Indigenous leader José Albino Cañas Ramírez was recently shot and killed by two unknown individuals in Colombia’s Caldas department. Indigenous authorities suspect it was a targeted attack linked to his work in defense of one of the oldest Indigenous reserves in Colombia, the Resguardo of Colonial Origin Cañamomo Lomaprieta (RCMLP). It’s a 37.6-square-kilometer (14.5-square-mile) reserve established in 1540 but has been threatened by illegal miners and armed groups for decades. According to a statement released by the RCMLP, the two individuals arrived at the shop attached to the home of Cañas Ramírez at approximately 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 16. As Ramírez prepared to attend to them, they shot him four times and fled along the community’s roads toward Supía, a neighboring municipality.

Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/30704

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is threatening to blacklist Anthropic from working with the U.S. military over the artificial intelligence company's refusal to loosen its safety standards.

The threat came on Tuesday during a meeting between Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, according to two people with direct knowledge of the meeting who were not authorized to speak publicly.

While both sides agreed Hegseth vowed to punish Anthropic for not bending to the administration's demands, accounts of what exactly the threat was vary. One person close to the discussion said Hegseth dangled the possibility of canceling Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Defense Department, while a Pentagon official said repercussions could include forcing Anthropic to allow the federal government to use its AI tools against its will and blacklisting the company from receiving future work with the U.S. military.