Originally published on A Plague on Both Houses substack. Also published on Real Left's substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already done so.Rusere Shoniwa (Real Left)
A group of 27 former EU ambassadors has urged the bloc to suspend its association agreement with Israel, citing serious violations of international law in Gaza.
In a letter published Friday by Brussels-based EUobserver, the former diplomats who previously served in the Middle East and North Africa or maintain a strong interest in the region โ expressed deep concern over the EUโs lack of concrete action.
Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer met with Israeli politician Yair Golan on Thursday, where the pair reportedly discussed the need for a "just plan for Gaza to ensure long-term security for both Israelis and Palestinians".
Yair Golan was found guilty of ordering the use of Palestinians as human shields in 2007 and has previously said that Israel's starvation of Gaza is "completely legitimate".
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A Labour minister has been pictured grinning with an Israeli politician found guilty of illegally using Palestinians as human shields ...Lucy Jackson (The National)
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Auch die Tagesschau berichtet vom Vorfall: https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-1485498.html Pro-Palรคstinensische Demonstranten sollen in Berlin im Mai 2025 einen Polizisten mit der Dienstnummer 24111 "in die Menge gezogen und halb tot โฆruhr.social
A blog about esoteric symbolism in pop culture and the media.secretsun.blogspot.com
Europe is saying no to Big Tech!
More Suppressive than Four Chemotherapy Agents including 5-FUJustus R. Hope (Repurposed Drugs: Powers & Possibilities)
Two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz beats Taylor Fritz to return to the Wimbledon final
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Israeli forces have exhumed graves and stolen bodies from the Turkish Cemetery in western Khan Younis, according to Gazaโs Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs. The incident took place at dawn on Thursday, July 10, a brutal military raid.
Tanks and bulldozers reportedly stormed Al-Mawasi area, destroying graves and desecrating the cemetery grounds.
The ministry called it โa scene that defies all humanityโ.
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Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces have exhumed graves and stolen bodies from the Turkish Cemetery in western Khan Younis, according to Gazaโs Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs. The iEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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Caster Semenya's sex eligibility battle has confounded sports for 16 years and still isn't over
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Israel has continued to assault Gaza with on onslaught of air strikes. Once again, many aid-seekers have been killed whilst queuing for food and other vital supplies.
However, such atrocities are not taking up much space in Western media outlets. As horrifying death tolls emerge daily, the scourge of the American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) continues to bring danger to a starving population.
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GHF's aid massacres are the result of a horrific core of Israel-and Trump-backed dodgy money, and deadly incompetenceMaryam Jameela (The Canary)
#Iran #US #AlUdeid #AirBase
@palestine
"Iranโs ballistic missile attack on Washingtonโs Al-Udeid base in Qatar last month resulted in a direct hit on a US communications site, according to satellite imagery reviewed by AP on 11 July"
So, the US geodesic dome housing equipment used for secure communications, got destroyed. How do you say "What a shame" in Arabic?
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A geodesic dome housing US communication equipment was struck during Tehranโs response to Washingtonโs attack on its nuclear sitesthecradle.co
The Israeli army said Friday it reinforced its forces in the occupied West Bank with two additional military battalions.
โAccording to the situation assessment, a decision was made to reinforce two battalions in the Central Command sector,โ the army said in a statement, according to the Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
The "Central Command sector" refers to the West Bank, said the newspaper.
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Reasons behind escalatory step, number of troops on ground not disclosed - Anadolu Ajansฤฑwww.aa.com.tr
En France, les exilรฉs gazaouis pourront tous prรฉtendre au statut de rรฉfugiรฉ
Une dรฉcision rendue ce vendredi 11 juillet par la Cour nationale du droit dโasile reconnaรฎt que les demandeurs dโasile palestiniens venus de la bande de Gaza sont persรฉcutรฉs en raison de leur nationalitรฉ, et peuvent donc bรฉnรฉficier dโune seule et mรชme protection.
Par Nejma Brahim โบ mediapart.fr/journal/france/11โฆ
Une dรฉcision rendue ce vendredi 11 juillet par la Cour nationale du droit dโasile reconnaรฎt que les demandeurs dโasile palestiniens venus de la bande de Gaza sont persรฉcutรฉs en raison de leur nationalitรฉ, et peuvent donc bรฉnรฉficier dโune seule et mรชmโฆNejma Brahim (Mediapart)
What Leaders Miss When They Trade Judgment for OpticsMark McGrath | OODA Strategist (The Whirl of ReOrientation: Escape the Script. Win the War.)
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How Big Pharma's PR machine neutralizes cheap competition to keep the profits flowingPairodocs (Pairodocsโ Collection of Heresy)
Israeli civilians operating heavy machinery in Gaza can earn as much as $9,000 per month, TheMarker reported on Thursday.
Since the start of the war on Gaza, the Israeli military has been systematically demolishing homes and civilian infrastructure across the Palestinian enclave.
Heavy machinery has played a central role in this destruction, operated both by soldiers and civilians.
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ฮคฮทฮฝ ฮ ฮฑฯฮฑฯฮบฮตฯ ฮฎ 25 ฮฮฟฯฮปฮท ฯฯฮนฯ 21.30 ฯฯฮทฮฝ ฮฑฯ ฮปฮฎ ฯฮฟฯ ฮฮฟฯ ฯฮตฮฏฮฟฯ ฮธฮฑ ฮปฮฌฮฒฮตฮน ฯฯฯฮฑ ฮท ฮบฮตฮฝฯฯฮนฮบฮฎ ฮตฮบฮดฮฎฮปฯฯฮท ฯฮฟฯ Eresos Free Beach Festival.
ฮ ฯฮตฯฮนฮฝฮฎ ฮผฮฑฯ ฮตฮบฮดฮฎฮปฯฯฮท ฮธฮฑ ฯฯฯฮนฯฯฮตฮฏ ฯฮต ฮดฯฮฟ ฮผฮญฯฮท.
ฮฃฯฮฟ ฮ' ฮผฮญฯฮฟฯ ฮธฮฑ ฮณฮฏฮฝฮตฮน ฯฮปฮฎฯฮท ฮตฮฝฮทฮผฮญฯฯฯฮท ฮณฮนฮฑ ฯฮฟฮฝ ฮฑฮณฯฮฝฮฑ ฯ ฯฮตฯฮฌฯฯฮนฯฮทฯ ฯฮทฯ ฯฮฑฯฮฑฮปฮฏฮฑฯ ฮผฮฑฯ. ฮฃฯฮทฮฝ ฯฯ ฮฝฮญฯฮตฮนฮฑ ฮท ฮฟฮผฮนฮปฮฎฯฯฮนฮฑ, ฮบฮฑ ฮฯฮฑฮฒฮญฮปฮฑ ฮฮฟฮฝฮนฮฟฯฮดฮท, ฮฮตฯฮฑฮดฮนฮดฮฑฮบฯฮฟฯฮนฮบฮฎ ฮฯฮตฯ ฮฝฮฎฯฯฮนฮฑ ฯฯฮฟ ฮคฮผฮฎฮผฮฑ ฮฉฮบฮตฮฑฮฝฮฟฮณฯฮฑฯฮฏฮฑฯ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฮฑฮปฮฌฯฯฮนฯฮฝ ฮฮนฮฟฮตฯฮนฯฯฮทฮผฯฮฝ, ฮ ฮฑฮฝฮตฯฮนฯฯฮทฮผฮฏฮฟฯ ฮฮนฮณฮฑฮฏฮฟฯ , ฮธฮฑ ฮผฮฑฯ ฯฮฑฯฮฟฯ ฯฮนฮฌฯฮตฮน ฯฯ ฮฝฮฟฮปฮนฮบฮฌ ฯฮฟ ฮถฮฎฯฮทฮผฮฑ ฯฮทฯ ฮดฮนฮฌฮฒฯฯฯฮทฯ ฯฮทฯ ฯฮฑฯฮฑฮปฮฏฮฑฯ ฮฯฮตฯฮฟฯ.
ฮฃฯฮทฮฝ ฮตฮบฮดฮฎฮปฯฯฮท ฮธฮฑ ฯฯ ฮผฮผฮตฯฮญฯฮตฮน ฮบฮฑฮน ฮผฮญฮปฮฟฯ ฯฮทฯ ฮตฯฮตฯ ฮฝฮทฯฮนฮบฮฎฯ ฮฟฮผฮฌฮดฮฑฯ, ฮฟ ฮบฮฟฯ ฮฆฯฯฮทฯ ฮจฮฑฯฯฯฯ, ฮฅฯฮฟฯฮฎฯฮนฮฟฯ ฮฮนฮดฮฌฮบฯฮฟฯฮฑฯ ฯฯฮฟ ฮคฮผฮฎฮผฮฑ ฮฉฮบฮตฮฑฮฝฮฟฮณฯฮฑฯฮฏฮฑฯ ฮบฮฑฮน ฮฮฑฮปฮฌฯฯฮนฯฮฝ ฮฮนฮฟฮตฯฮนฯฯฮทฮผฯฮฝ, ฮ ฮฑฮฝฮตฯฮนฯฯฮทฮผฮฏฮฟฯ ฮฮนฮณฮฑฮฏฮฟฯ .
ฮฃฯฮฟ ฮ ฮผฮญฯฮฟฯ ฮธฮฑ ฮฑฮฝฮฑฯฮตฯฮธฮฟฯฮผฮต ฯฮต ฮฌฮปฮปฮฟฯ ฯ ฯฮตฯฮนฮฒฮฑฮปฮปฮฟฮฝฯฮนฮบฮฟฯฯ ฮฑฮณฯฮฝฮตฯ ฯฯฮทฮฝ ฮฮญฯฮฒฮฟ ฮบฮฑฮน ฯฮฟ ฮฯฯฮตฮนฮฟ ฮฮนฮณฮฑฮฏฮฟ. ฮคฮฟฯฮฟฮธฮญฯฮทฯฮท ฮธฮฑ ฮบฮฌฮฝฮตฮน ฮตฯฮฏฯฮทฯ ฮท ฮบฮฑ ฮฯฮผฮนฯฮฝฮท ฮฆฯฮตฮถฮฟฯฮปฮท, ฮผฮญฮปฮฟฯ ฯฮฟฯ ฮฮฟฮนฮฝฯฮฝฮนฮบฮฟฯ ฯฯฯฮฟฯ ฮฮฝฯฮฏฮฒฮฑฯฮฟ ฮฑฯฯ ฯฮทฮฝ ฮงฮฏฮฟ ฯฯฮตฯฮนฮบฮฌ ฮผฮต ฯฮฟฮฝ ฯฮฟฯฮนฮบฯ ฮฑฮณฯฮฝฮฑ ฮตฮฝฮฌฮฝฯฮนฮฑ ฯฯฮทฮฝ ฮตฮพฯฯฯ ฮพฮท ฮฑฮฝฯฮนฮผฯฮฝฮนฮฟฯ ฯฮฟฯ ฮปฮฑฮผฮฒฮฌฮฝฮตฮน ฯฯฯฮฑ ฯฯฮทฮฝ ฮณฮตฮนฯฮฟฮฝฮนฮบฮฎ ฮงฮฏฮฟ.
ฮ ฮฟฮปฯ ฮตฮฝฮดฮนฮฑฯฮญฯฮฟฮฝ ฮตฮบฮดฮฎฮปฯฯฮท ฮฑฮพฮฏฮถฮตฮน ฮฝฮฑ ฯฮทฮฝ ฯฮฑฯฮฑฮบฮฟฮปฮฟฯ ฮธฮฎฯฮตฯฮต!
ฮฮน ฮฮนฮณฮนฮฑฮปฮฟฮฏ ฮฑฮฝฮฎฮบฮฟฯ
ฮฝ ฯฮต ฯฮปฮท ฯฮทฮฝ ฮบฮฟฮนฮฝฯฮฝฮฏฮฑ!
ฮฮงฮ ฯฯฮนฮผฮญฮฝฯฮฑ ฯฯฮทฮฝ ฯฮฑฯฮฑฮปฮฏฮฑ!
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ฮ ฯฯฯฮฟฮฒฮฟฯ ฮปฮฏฮฑ ฮฯฮตฯฮฟฯ - ฮ ฮตฯฮนฮฒฮฑฮปฮปฮฟฮฝฯฮนฮบฯฯ ฮฮฟฮนฮฝฯฮฝฮนฮบฯฯ ฯฯฮปฮปฮฟฮณฮฟฯ.
I developed a nasty paronychial abscess which turned into a rapidly expanding cellulitis. Here I present a pictorial case report on my response to over-the-counter products from my medicine cabinet.Pierre Kory, MD, MPA (Pierre Koryโs Medical Musings)
"ฤฐnsan zihni, gรถrmek istemediฤi ลeyleri engellemenin bir yolunu bulur."
How DMSO treats Asthma, COPD, Pneumonia, ARDS and Pulmonary FibrosisA Midwestern Doctor (The Forgotten Side of Medicine)
AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks
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"Kendilerinin hรผkรผm sรผrmek, baลkalarฤฑnฤฑn da itaat etmek iรงin doฤduฤunu dรผลรผnen insanlar kฤฑsa sรผrede kรผstahlaลฤฑr; insanlฤฑฤฤฑn geri kalanฤฑndan seรงilen zihinleri รถnemle erkenden zehirlenir; ve iรงinde hareket ettikleri dรผnya genel dรผnyadan o kadar farklฤฑdฤฑr ki, onun gerรงek รงฤฑkarlarฤฑnฤฑ bilmek iรงin รงok az fฤฑrsatlarฤฑ olur ve yรถnetime geรงtiklerinde รงoฤu zaman egemenliklerdeki en cahil ve en uygunsuz kiลiler olurlar."
The US has removed Syriaโs Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlinโs Newsletter)
The US has removed Syriaโs Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlinโs Newsletter)
Chinese gangsters indicted for alleged drug and human trafficking were reading my investigative reports on their activities in Maine.The Robinson Report
Please click on the Title to view the whole article.Dr Margaret Aranda (The Rebel Patientโข)
Wind turbine maker to pay settlement after blade broke apart and washed up on Nantucket beaches
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Elon Musk's X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud
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Jefferson Morley Responds To Gerald Posner On The New CIA JFK EvidenceJefferson Morley (Public)
Do you have good engineers yet in America?
I was listening to a compilation of old top gear episodes where they talk about American cars.
Only slightly interested in cars at all but the 3 guys are good.
I notice a theme off American cars having shit handling around corners and bends. Fair enough. You havenโt got any.
But then also the theme of massive big motors, and then you get less horsepower than a small European city car. 6L V8 motor and it makes like 180 horsepower.
Right
"Mr. President has had quite a week this week:
- Covering up Epstein.
- Arming Ukraine.
- Approving more Covid fake vaccines for kids.
- And endorsing Lindsey Graham."
From Chris Rossini on X
The EPSTEIN AFFAIR:
This isnโt going away.
video.nostr.build/dc6fdc7f6f78โฆ
And itโs not about some pig watching pornography, itโs about CHILD VICTIMS beings enslaved and sexually abused by sick disgusting elite pigs AND further loss of trust in our government.
Sorry, it needs to be said.
Iโm not believing what weโve been told. If TRUE, then why is Maxwell in Prison?
And using our money to do it
Between 2021-2025, five major reports from major, influential global institutions outlined a remarkably similar vision for how the world should be governed.esc (The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.)
Who was paying for this surgery?
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California surgical center staff confronted ICE agents attempting to arrest a Honduran landscaper, with video showing employees blocking officers.Greg Norman (Fox News)
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Pennsylvania man who posted video of fatherโs severed head online is found guilty of murder
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Small acts of rebellion to give you back a sense of control
- Ride your bike
- Shop local and independent
- Use a website instead of an app
- Find a more ethical brand of an everyday item
- Repair something instead of replacing it
- Buy direct from an artist whose work you love
- Turn your phone off for 1 hour
- Block ads with uBlock Origin and Firefox
- Make an actual phone call to a loved one
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Key Markets report for Friday, July 11, 2025Alex Krainer (I-System TrendCompass)
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"Never a dull moment on this platform," Elon shrugs.Jenna McCarthy (Jennaโs Side)
_'Tis but thy name that is my Enemy:
Thou art thy selfe, though not a Mountague,
What's Mountague? it is nor hand nor foote,
Nor arme, nor face, O be some other name
Belonging to a man.
What? in a names that which we call a Rose,
By any other word would smell as sweete,
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo cal'd,
Retaine that deare perfection which he owes,
Without that title Romeo, doffe thy name,
And for thy name which is no part of thee,
Take all my selfe.._1
But when it comes to class and class interest, and acts in those interests, Shakespeare's no help.
_The Ladson were large plantation owners and wealthy merchants in Charleston, and owned hundreds of slaves until slavery was abolished in 1865. James Ladson served in the American Revolutionary War and became lieutenant-governor of South Carolina, while his son James H. Ladson was part of the Charleston oligarchy that was influential in launching the American Civil War. The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, who lived under the name Rose Ladson in her 20s, is a descendant of the family through her American great-grandmother._2
And then there's the Bremen branch and the Hanse3..
_son of the wealthy cotton merchant George Alexander Albrecht (1834โ1898) and Louise Dorothea Betty Knoop (1844โ1889). His father was the owner of the company Johann Lange Sohn's Wwe. & Co.; his mother was the daughter of the major industrialist, Baron Ludwig Knoop, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century Russian Empire.... From 1896 to 1901, he lived in London, Moscow and the United States.... In 1902, he married the American Mary Ladson Robertson (1883โ1960), who belonged to a prominent planter class and slave owner family from Charleston_4
No, the EU does not represent ordinary europeans.
#uvdl #vdl #eu #ue #hanse #oligarchy
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White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations have documented how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doubling down on dog and cat testing while it's been eliminated by agencies like the Navy and Dept. Of Veterans Affairs.Allison McDonald (White Coat Waste)
We're trapped in a structure. We named the Structure 'Jeffrey Epstein'." โ Eric WeinsteinJames Howard Kunstler (Clusterfuck Nation)
Muslims support the perpetrators ๐ก
A trial is underway of two violent Muslim male suspects in Manchester, England who attacked and injured police in July 2024. They argue it was self-defense.
One unarmed female officer was beaten in the face, having her nose broken. Police body camera footage shows the officer bleeding and screaming as backup arrived.
Left-wing politicians and Muslims expressed support for the Muslim family at the time. Some Muslims even rioted outside a police station in Rochdale. minds.com/newsfeed/17903306801โฆ
I have no idea what you are trying to interpret - the event was real.
It's the one that led to the arrest of those Muslim men with a video that has been spread as "violence against Muslims" ๐ก
And those colors are just what they actually use in that airport. They could not just cut them out of the picture.
I really don't get your point...
"Suyu derin gรถstermek iรงin bulandฤฑrฤฑrlar."
Are all #ISO #auditors this fucking dumb or is it an act, to lure you into oversharing, revealing your process dirty laundry?
Srsly this guy (once again, 4/4 new auditor in as many #certification audits/inspections) is asking fundamentally basic questions that make me think "have you... ever... engineered anything in your life before? why are you an auditor."
Like explaining what a jira workflow is... or what a branch/merge strategy is. Fuck's sake.
Before I retired my coworker and I used to love our auditors. Love fucking with them, that is. Seriously, made our day sometimes, and we especially loved fucking with the new greenhorn auditors that just graduated college and got hired by Toilet & Douche (Deloitte & Touche) and we were their first assignment.
We didn't have ISO audits but we did have SOx-404 audits. (Sarbanes-Oxley.)
So many auditors were left crying and questioning their life's choices after we got done with them.
We never had a deficiency in the 17 years I was in my position, even after Deloitte (and their auditors) were told to find deficiencies that it looked bad that we never had any.
Then there was the time Compliance wanted to audit my PKI so they brought in some auditors from E&Y. Supposedly their top PKI people. Brought on a consultant for that since I was confident in my practices and implementation but I didn't have the same air of "authority" as someone who made a living doing PKI audits and PKI consulting.
Still passed with flying colors even after the E&Y auditors tried to claim that everything we were doing was bullshit.
I hate auditors. Love fucking with them, but hate them none the less.
Edit:
AND YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT THE OVERSHARING. I used to tell new employees when they came into our group: Treat the auditors like you would the Police.
Never divulge ANY information unless specifically asked for.
Never lie, but don't tell them anything.
And never let them take your evidence away with them. They want to see evidence, they can look at it on your screen in your cube. They can take notes. But they can't take anything physical.
@gme Damn, sounds like fun.
I would love messing with our auditors, but save for the one guy we had up to 3 yrs ago when he retired who actually _knew_ shit, it seems like we always get idiots.
Or maybe they're experienced in a hardware engineering concern and know what a BOM is, might know what "change control" means, but start talking software development and its like you're speaking martian. And heaven help you if you're an agile shop, it breaks their brains.
For us, most of our important backend systems were UNIX, Linux, and Mainframe. When I retired in 2022 we were well on our way to moving stuff to Windows but we would never be able to get completely off *NIX or the Mainframe and it was fun to see these auditors that had no idea was a Mainframe was, what an LPAR was, JCLs, /etc/sudoers, or *NIX permissions for files and directories, trying to make their square pegs fit into our round holes.
They'd come at us and tell us they've found all these deficiencies and we'd show them how their methodology was flawed and how there weren't any deficiencies, or they were inserting control parameters into our SOX controls where none existed.
Every year we got audited. Sometimes the same auditor would come back for a couple of years but the vast majority were stupid greenhorns who couldn't navigate the command line.
The fact that all of our processes were automated (and auditable) really made things simple for us too.
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BOM? Going to take a wild guess but is that a Bill of Materials?
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And oh doggy did we have change control. Ran the complete gamut where every tiny change had to be documented and approved. Which naturally slowed everything down and made the entire department less productive.
To when I left minor changes still needed to be documented but the approvals were much more streamlined. It was mainly honor system but everyone knew if you implemented a change and marked it as minor and it took something down or caused an outage you were going to have to get in front of the entire change advisory board the following week and explain why your "minor" change caused the outage (with the idea being that maybe it shouldn't have been a minor change to begin with.)
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Time runs out for nearly century-old Michigan clock company due to tariffs, other factors
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I wrote recently about the chilling jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has drawn the ire of colleagues in opinions for her rhetoric and extreme positions. Many have expressed alarmโฆJONATHAN TURLEY
House with Pro-Trump Display Targeted by Shooter for Second Time
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In the early morning hours on Sunday, a woman's house was the target of a shooting, and the homeowner believes it was political in nature.The Western Journal (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Analysis: The GHF distribution sites are positioned to aid Israel's ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
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Israel says it aims to move 2 million Gazans into a tiny area in the south. Levy says it can't accommodate them & it's not Israel's real intention.
โThe intention is to use this as a staging post to ethnically cleanse, physically remove, as many as possible Palestinians from the landscape."
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EPA Releases New Online Resources Giving Americans Total Transparency on the Issues of Geoengineering and Contrails.US EPA
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says Iran threatens her life after its war with Israel
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