The technicians, to their credit, only jumped a little when Mica started speaking. Ranjit must have briefed them well, but perhaps not completely.
Recent searches
Search options
#transmigration
0 posts0 participants0 posts today
CHAPTER 5
Reconnection
“It appears that our friend has passed a critical test,” said Ranjit. I raised my eyebrow. “She displayed initiative.”
“Ah,” I said, “an implied part of a Turing Test.”
West Papua and the Sweet Taste of Murder (Counterpunch)
The total area of Indonesian palm oil cultivation is about 25 million hectare.
In West Papua this destructive extractivism also entails violent social change for the country’s Indigenous peoples.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/08/west-papua-and-the-sweet-taste-of-murder/
#West Papua #West Papoea #New Guinea #indonesia #Nieuw Guinea #colonialism #papua #papoea #deforestation #palm oil #indigenous people #human rights #prabowo #transmigration
CounterPunch.org · West Papua and the Sweet Taste of MurderIn its increasingly militarised torture mode of governance, the Indonesian regime—now headed by Prabowo Subianto, notorious for his war crimes in East Timor—is the world’s biggest palm oil exporter, to the tune of 47 million tonnes of crude palm oil in 2023, and 54% of global exports. The industry accounts for 4.5% of Indonesian GDP and directly or indirectly employs 16.2 million people. The total area of Indonesian palm oil cultivation is about 25 million hectares (out of 29 million hectares globally, which amounts to approximately 6.7% of the size of the European Union), and plantations covering many million more hectares are planned. In 2023, industrial oil palm plantations in Indonesia expanded by 116,000 hectares, a 54% increase compared with 2022.
I drove to my office at 560 Westmount. I had a small office in the Quantum Investments building. Many years earlier, one of my investments had eventually led to some significant returns, and a solid relationship with the founders of QI. I checked to see if Neil, one of the founders, was in. He was, and we settled into one of the meeting rooms.
"Once she’s here we’ll set up a direct fibre connection to the machine’s interface board. It can handle several Gigabits bidirectionally. Any bottlenecks will be elsewhere in the communications chain. And the Research Accelerator Centre of course has main-trunk connections to the backbone.”
We both said we would try a half. She quickly poured our glasses and set them in front of us. After we took our first appreciative sips and expressed our impressions to Helen, we got back to the subject at hand. There was no-one else in the bar, it being past the lunch rush. Helen had retreated to the other end of the bar to work on her order planning.
(SRJ) 
"There is no ignorance (avidya) outside the mind.
The mind alone is avidya,
cause of the bondage of transmigration
When that is destroyed, all else is destroyed.
And when it is manifested,
everything else is manifested."
