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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back by Oliver Bullough

Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland - the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich.
Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations, undermining the foundations of Western stability.

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#nonfiction
#corruption
#DirtyMoney

Proactive policing

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-17/nsw-police-shot-western-sydney-man-bradley-balzan-inquest/103592578

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#ProactivePolicing

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next flagship astrophysics mission, set to launch by May 2027.

Once #Roman launches, it will allow astronomers to observe the universe like never before. In celebration of Black History Month, let’s get to know some Black scientists and engineers, past and present, whose contributions will allow Roman to make history.

https://www.tumblr.com/nasa/743419658577821696/black-scientists-and-engineers-past-and-present

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#AfricanAmericans

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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times greater than Hubble, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/roman-space-telescope/

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In this map of a celestial hemisphere — compiled from data from the #eROSITA telescope — the colours reflect the wavelengths of X-rays. Hot gas haloes surrounding galaxy clusters have broad-band emissions (white), as do black holes (white dots); diffuse emissions have long wavelengths (red); and in the central regions of the Milky Way, dust blocks longer-wavelength emissions, so that only short-wavelength X-rays are visible (blue or black).

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00489-8

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Good news stories of 2023 in Australia

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/2023-good-news-wrap-up/103269772

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Kawadji Wimpa dance team at the Laura Quinkan dance festival in far north Queensland.

Photograph: Wayne Quillam/The Guardian

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#Queensland
#FirstNations

Matt Bruce, who was in dispute with Byron Shire council over his tiny home near Lismore, NSW.

Photograph: Tajette O’Halloran/The Guardian

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#NSW
#TinyHomes

Ajahn Appicchato at his monastery south of Perth. The monks of the Bodhinyana monastery are fighting the WA government over a minerals exploration application in the jarrah forests that overlap the monastery and retreat.

Photograph: Tony McDonough

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#WA
#Bodhinyana
#conservation

A local resident leaves her apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

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Ukrainian serviceman launches a kamikaze FPV drone at a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Inna Varenytsia

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#drones

Drying field, Shandong province, China
Kelp is an important marine vegetable and has long been cultivated in coastal areas as a part of human diets. This photo in June 2023 shows a clearing in the forest which is used for drying kelp

Photograph: Chunshui Yu/EPOTY23

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#China
#forests
#kelp