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To: marcher who wrote (178225)	9/13/2021 11:10:02 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218916

Mossad may have destroyed some IAEA equipment at Iran nuclear siteIAEA chief: We do not know how much data lost from broken cameras By YONAH JEREMY BOB SEPTEMBER 13, 2021 17:14 Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali-Akbar Salehi attends the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference at their headquarters in Vienna, Austria September 16, 2019 (photo credit: REUTERS/LEONHARD FOEGER) Advertisement IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi on Monday said that an incident at Iran’s Karaj nuclear facility – attributed by many to the Mossad – may have destroyed some of the IAEA’s monitoring equipment. Grossi did not mention who caused the incident and it is possible that Iran used the incident to take action against IAEA equipment, but he did say loss of the data was a negative development and seemed to disapprove of actions against Iranian nuclear facilities. Next, he said his agency does not know how much monitoring data was lost regarding Iran’s nuclear program from its broken and damaged cameras. Latest articles from JpostContinue watchingIDF strikes targets in Gaza as rocket sirens go off in southern Israelafter the ad “We still need to see the degree of the gap,” of missing data said Grossi, qualifying that he hoped that other monitoring redundancies of the IAEA would help uncover any data missing from individual cameras. Grossi still did not explain how or why the cameras were broken or damaged. ‘THERE IS less access, let’s face it.’ Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi ahead of a virtual IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna last year. (credit: CHRISTIAN BRUNA/REUTERS) Pushed that the Islamic Republic has ignored his pressure to explain illicit nuclear material and undeclared nuclear sites for almost two years, he responded, “Tougher or less tough is in the eye of the beholder.” At the same time, the IAEA chief said that he has been frank and public about areas where he believed Tehran has failed to comply with inspection requirements or responding to clarifications. The big question remains whether the IAEA Board of Governors will take dramatic action condemning Iran and referring its non-compliance and nuclear violations to the UN Security Council, as it did in June 2020, or if it will postpone major moves for another three months to give Grossi’s latest negotiations more time. Free CBD GummiesSponsored by Medterra CBD Recommended by Late Sunday, Grossi said that he had a new deal with Iran’s new government to allow immediate “servicing” of its monitoring equipment, as well as plans for follow-up meetings for later in September with top Iranian officials. However, Grossi also acknowledged that Iran would deny access to all electronic data dating back to February 24 until all IAEA and US nuclear issues are resolved. Further, he admitted that Iran will not end its nuclear violations of the 2015 JCPOA deal until there is a deal with the US and there was no commitment to clarifying illicit nuclear material questions and undeclared nuclear sites issues. Tags IAEA Iran Mossad Sign up for The Jerusalem Post Premium Plus for just $5 Upgrade your reading experience with an ad-free environment and exclusive content Join Now >

To: marcher who wrote (178225)	9/13/2021 6:03:56 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 218916

I guess he is advising folks who wish to be leaders to act like leaders recognising that one cannot please everybody that the greater good must be served, even if at cost to lesser good, and after meritocratic deliberations, greater-good buy-ins, deliberated experimentations, more interim recalibration discussions, tweaks and tunes, and then unity-backed rollouts cannot argue with the math and am good with the logic but am cognisant that all depends on the detailing, the efficacy, and of course the point-of-destination results unclear that a 2+2 year election cycling is helpful to a scientific approach and weaponisation by freedom of whatever can certainly be harmful, especially if the greater-good is in effect in a pillow case and not in any position to deliberate within arena of one dollar one vote. in fact the approach might turn out to be dangerous to the greater-good. all governance systems have issues, and all assumptions best challenged, and of course, all gear-works depends on the people who choose to work, hopefully selected based on some merit measures. The college entrance thing is an example, with Switzerland able to afford to educate all, albeit at different levels of rigour across a small population, and with China based on scores-only or -mostly, although with plenty of technical schools for all or almost all, and other domains in between, somewhere. In Switzerland presumably most universities are nice guys. In China I am guessing that few of the universities are nice guys. Others in between and fast evolving, but generally to be nice guys I am guessing. Hard call.

To: marcher who wrote (178225)	9/13/2021 10:22:01 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218916

Re <<nice guys>> no more, and the bad guys are so enthusiastic to be good, giving the little fellows and fellowettes to be better, per common-prosperity, theoretically, lets see and wait ft.com Tencent and Alibaba pledge to open up apps to competitors Tech rivals say they will comply with Beijing’s orders to give access to ‘walled gardens’ yesterday Tencent’s payment systems cannot be used on Alibaba’s sites and vice versa © FT Montage China’s two largest tech companies promised to open up their digital empires on Monday, a move that may reshape online life for hundreds of millions of users. For the past eight years, Tencent and Alibaba have carved China’s internet into two rival camps, replicating each other’s services and blocking all interoperability between their platforms. Tencent’s payment systems cannot be used on Alibaba’s sites and vice versa. Links to Alibaba’s online shopping sites cannot be posted on Tencent’s messaging app WeChat. Short videos from ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and its Chinese sister app Douyin, also cannot be posted on WeChat. But after being summoned to a meeting with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) last week, both companies said on Monday they will allow competitors to access their “walled gardens”. The meeting was also attended by ByteDance, Baidu, NetEase, Huawei and Xiaomi. “We resolutely support the decision of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and [will] implement it in phases,” said Tencent. Alibaba said it “will fully comply” with the ministry’s?demands to end the widespread practice among large internet giants of blocking consumers from links to other web services within their apps. Under pressure from regulators, China’s Big Tech companies have already started to work more closely this year, and analysts said they were likely to accelerate their efforts to be compliant. “The companies won’t drag their feet implementing the new rules. The compliance process will be quick,” said Li Chengdong founder of Dolphin, a technology-focused think-tank in Beijing. “The platforms are very cautious given the strict regulatory climate. They don’t have any means to fight against the regulators.” Changes to the platforms should begin in the coming weeks, analysts said. In Hong Kong, Tencent shares fell 2.45 per cent, while Alibaba shares fell by slightly more than 4 per cent. Alibaba’s shares may also have been affected by a Financial Times report that Beijing wants to break up Alipay, the payments superapp owned by its sister company Ant. Analysts said the forced opening up was widely anticipated and had been priced into the company’s share prices since earlier this year. Ke Yan, an analyst with DZT Research who writes on the Smartkarma platform, suggested that the forced opening would hurt Tencent more, because its messaging app WeCh Recommended at was such a powerful driver of online traffic. But Dolphin’s Li questioned whether it would actually change consumer behaviour. “If I want to buy things online, I’ll go to Taobao or Pinduoduo. Just because I can access Taobao from WeChat, doesn’t make me more likely to use Taobao,” he said. Wong Kok Hoi, chief investment officer at APS Asset Management, said the move may eventually force tech companies to reconsider their strategy of buying up stakes in a vast swath of start-ups in order to build closed ecosystems. “You will not be able to make monopolistic profits, and more competition means lower profit margins and less business,” Wong said. Angela Zhang, an associate professor of law at Hong Kong University, said MIIT, which led this regulatory change lacks the authority to enforce anti-monopoly and competition laws. But Zhang said MIIT’s intervention could prompt action by the powerful State Administration for Market Regulation, explaining why the tech companies have been so quick to signal their compliance.