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Mars Express Finally Gets Software Update From Windows 98 | NASA Mars Orbiter to Releases One of its Last Rainbow-Colored Maps – iTech Post

Posted: June 24, 2022 at 10:24 pm

ESA announced the update ofMars Express'instrument MARSIS 19 years since the orbiter's launch in June 2003.

INAF that lead MARSIS' upgrade contrives to boost the quantity and quality of Mars Express' data transmission.

Humans had been probing Mars for several years to examine its probability of carrying life. One of the European Space Agency's most inexpensive and prosperous missions, the Mars Express, the celebrated Mars orbiter that found signs of liquid water on the Martian planet, is now getting a huge software update.After 19 years, the European Space Agency finally announced this progressive movement.

The Mars Express, launched on June 2, 2003, 19 years ago, was the first mission from ESA to explore the Red Planet. The space shuttle has been revolving around the planet for nearly two decades, expanding the human understanding of liquid water on the Martian surface.

Its Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding or MARSIS is the instrument that will receive an upgrade. The device works by sending low-frequency radio waves toward the Earth through its 40-meter antenna. Through the software update, MARSIS will now acquire enhanced ease of use.

Almost two decades after its launch, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) mechanism on the Mars Express no longer performs on Microsoft Windows 98 software. Its reported system update will allow the orbiter to do a much more detailed survey of the surfaces of Mars and its moon Phobos.

In2018, MARSIS' first significant scientific finding transpired when it stood instrumental in excavating a subsurface water reservoir on Mars. The water supply was buried 1.5 kilometers underneath ice and dust.

By orchestrating low-frequency radio waves toward the planet's surface via its 40-meter-long antenna, MARSIS could travel across and disseminate data on multiple layers of Mars's crust. After such, MARSIS has located three more water sources that disclosed multitudes of information on the planet's structure and geology.

Read Also:NASA Shares Perseverance Rover Photo of the Martian Landscape

MARSIS's newsoftwarewill consist of upgrades developed to improve its data resolution and processing. These advancements were designed to boost the amount and quality of data transmitted back to our planet. This new software is developed by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) team in Italy.

According to Andrea Cicchetti of INAF, who led the upgrade's development, the team relied on an intricate technique that stored a lot of high-resolution data and immediately filled the device's onboard memory. Cicchetti is the MARSIS deputy PI and operation manager at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)

The deputy PI and operation manager also said that the updated software would enable them to switch the MARSIS on for five times as long and analyze a much more extensive area with each pass by discarding unnecessary data.

Through the upgrades, improved signal reception and onboard data processing would grow the quantity and quality of scientific data transmitted. It will also additionally scrap data that isn't required and give researchers more time and space to study the surface in every pass.

Since the previous information indicated the existence of liquid water near the south pole of Mars, the software update will have the potential to efficiently process comprehensive data that could verify the actuality of new water sources on the probed planet.

Colin Wilson, an ESA Mars Express scientist, expresses that the software upgrade seems like carrying a brand new tool on board Mars Express after almost 20 years since its takeoff.

Related Article:ESA's Mars Express Snaps Photo of a Martian Crater That Looks Like an Eyeball

As scientists get a new look at Mars because of some upgrades, the NASA orbiter will soon release itslast rainbow-colored maps.

NASA'sPlanetary Data Systemwill be the one to release the first portions of the map.

For 16 years, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been mapping minerals on Mars with the help of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, known asCRISM, which uses detectors to search for the residue of minerals that "form in the presence of water" on the Red Planet.

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Watch | ISRO`s yet another budget space trip: After moon and mars, India is going to Venus – WION

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In the past, the Indian Space Research Organization has astounded the globe by carrying out space missions at astonishingly low rates. Following in this tradition, the ISRO has now set its sights on an expedition to Venus, which will only cost between Rs 5 billion and Rs 10 billion.

The ISRO chooses budget-friendly projects compared to other international space agencies like NASA, which spend enormous sums on space missions. Costing about Rs 3.86 billion, ISRO's Chandrayan-1 was a low-cost spacecraft. While the launch of Chandrayaan-2 cost Rs 3.67 billion, the mission itself cost Rs 6.3 billion.

Following its Moon and Mars expeditions, the ISRO is currently considering a Venus trip.There are reports that the ISRO had been considering a December 2024 launch window for the Venus expedition.

It wouldn't be made public until the Union government gave it its final approval. The ISRO has been working to make sure it will be a distinctive mission.

According to sources, ISRO's "Shukrayaan-I," the expedition to Venus, has been conceptualised. The mission hopes to solve these questions in the coming years when it explores the sun's hottest planet. Several international space agencies have expressed interest in the mission and want to send payloads with "Shukrayaan."

Most likely, "Shukrayaan-I" will be launched on a GSLV (Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) Mk II, though it may potentially travel on a more potent GSLV Mk III in order to carry additional equipment or fuel.

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Why Mars vegan chocolate is disappearing from the major mults – The Grocer

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When Mars launched a vegan version of Galaxy in 2019 beating rivals Cadbury and Lindt to the punch it was met with a rapturous response. It was the first major supplier to create a vegan version of one of its biggest brands.

It followed with vegan Topic and Bounty bars, which sold well: the value of the whole range rose 11% to 3.7m in the past year alone [NielsenIQ 52 w/e 29 May 2022].

That is, until the entire lineup was delisted in Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisons over recent months. Theyre still stocked in Asda, Co-op, Boots and on Amazon, but the delistings have had a catastrophic effect on sales. In the four weeks to 28 May, sales of the range fell 61% [NielsenIQ].

So, why did three of the UKs biggest retailers ditch such a successful proposition? And what can it tell us about the challenges for vegan chocolate?

When The Grocer broke the news of the delists, Morrisons said the range did not meet the criteria of either our health & wellbeing category or our free-from one. It is understood this was because Mars couldnt state its bars were 100% dairy-free.

The packs carry a label stating while the recipes are vegan, they are made in a factory that uses milk.

A milk allergy can be just as dangerous as a peanut allergy

Its understandable why retailers might want to crack down on any product with even the slightest risk of causing an allergic reaction.

Consumers are more aware and actively looking at the back of pack, says confectionery investor and former Thorntons marketing boss Hannah Legg.

Plus three years ago you had less brands that could properly segregate the supply chain and the manufacturing so there were less to choose from.

And its important to remember that some people are really sensitive, says Moo Free founder Andrea Jessop. A milk allergy can be just as dangerous as a peanut allergy.

Why then, did Mars refuse to allow its bars to be ranged in core confectionery? After all, thats where the other big vegan chocolate players like Cadbury Plant Bars (which carry a small may contain milk warning on back of pack) are ranged.

I would imagine [Mars] see the free-from space as totally incremental to them, says Legg. [The big chocolatiers] are fighting for margin and incremental distribution all the time. This wasnt an issue in Asda, which has a dedicated vegan chocolate fixture.

Mars maintains free-from is the right place for its vegan choc. A spokeswoman says it is committed to a long-term future in the free-from range and plans to continue to build our portfolio in this space.

But these delistings suggest it might have to go back to the drawing board and potentially relaunch true free-from chocolates if it wants to regain lost shelf space.

However, removing any potential allergens completely is difficult and expensive. It requires significant investment or a third party manufacturer, which adds cost and reduces margin.

That and theres very few factories that are completely free-from, says Jessop.

Tricky, when Mars needs to be able to compete with the likes of Cadbury and Lindt.

Still, it has proved itself a pioneer in catering to health & wellness trends of late: take its recently unveiled non-HFSS Triple Treat bars, or CO2COA, the entirely vegan chocolate brand it this week launched in the US.

Who knows, Mars could be back in the UKs free-from aisles sooner rather than later.

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From Autonomous Cities to US Presidency: The Future Is Now Film Shows What Blockchain Leaders Think About Governance – Geeks World Wide

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The first cinematographic NFT project The Future Is Now Film shows what blockchain leaders think of future governance systems: will there be even tighter centralization, a symbiosis of traditional and new methods of control or do we need a totally new governance system to replace the old one? Answers to these questions can be found in the two latest episodes, Transforming The Future and Aligning The Future, which were filmed at the AIBC Summit UAE 2021 in Dubai and Blockchance EU conference in Hamburg. Lets dive deeper and see what futurists think. Blockchain Is Getting Closer to Traditional Institutions Several years ago, it would have been a bombshell to see government officials at a blockchain conference. Now, in both the AIBC Summit in Dubai and Blockchance EU conference in Hamburg, government officials are among honorable guests for two reasons. First of all, the scale of the change made them notice the inevitable. Secondly, some of the decentralized futurists have joined the ranks of centralized organizations in hopes of making a difference. For example, H.E. Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, recently became an ambassador to the World Trade Organization on behalf of Grenada, a country in the Caribbean. In his view, cryptocurrency projects today are way more efficient than the financial infrastructure that we have today and now he plans to pave the way for mass adoption. According to Fabian Friedrich, the founder of Blockchance Group, one of the reasons for the Blockchance EU conference to exist is the need to bring together different market players especially the decision-makers who currently govern traditional systems to take the fear away and show them how positive this movement is, how many chances are in the movement for a better future. Some have already achieved tangible progress in establishing the dialogue. Fabian Vogelsteller, co-founder of ERC20 Protocol, shared that negotiations with regulators despite the back and forth nature of the process, have already brought positive results because everybody sees the benefits of this technology while of course the old has always had the interest to survive. Will Governments Have a Saying? According to His Excellency Justin Sun, decentralized currencies are more advanced not only on the technological side but also on the philosophical side as they drive the inclusion of smaller countries. That is why it will be only natural for countries to start to diversify the countries reserves also by building the central bank digital currencies but the philosophy behind CBDCs will determine their results: they could either join a competitive system or undermine the reputation and the influence in the market in the first place if they are made to be an appealing asset to use next to cryptocurrencies, for example by simply functioning as a financial tracking tool. Justin Sun believes that when the barriers of the traditional financial system go down, everyone benefits. But according to Brock Pierce, the 2020 US Presidential candidate from the Bitcoin Foundation, there will be beneficiaries and losers. In his view, Dubai, for example, will be the beneficiary of change because it is doing a good job recognizing the change and adapting to it but those who resist the change will suffer: Look at Florida and Miami, they are doing a good job They are the beneficiary of the change. That is what happens when you embrace the future. You get to be part of it. Resist it and it runs you over. The future is coming Prominent venture capitalist Tim Draper whose Dad fought in the Korean War has shared a vision of what resistance to change could look like by giving a historical example of North and South Korea as a full government control system versus a free and open society with democracy 70 years later: Average South Korean now makes 430 times what the average North Korean makes in a year, and that is when you adjust for purchasing power. And the average South Korean is 4 inches taller than an average North Korean. It is pretty clear to me which system works better Dubai: Safe Harbor for Innovations One of the biggest gatherings in the blockchain community held by Eman Pulis & SIGMA Group AIBC Summit UAE 2021 has been held in Dubai a few months prior to Blockchance EU. Dubai is among the first cities that are taking a tangible stand into abundance and allowing decentralization to flourish as it is stated by Miguel Francis-Santiago, the Founder of The Future is Now DAO and the mastermind behind #TheFutureisNowFilm, with initiatives like the UAE Crypto Map. Dubai is on its way to becoming self-sustainable by leveraging the power of innovative-based ecosystems. Under the leadership of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, with a plethora of initiatives headed by Dubai Blockchain Center and the work of its CEO Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, creating a safe harbor of innovation. And the safe harbor has already brought some fresh fruits. Matthias Mende has launched an innovative celebrity marketplace Bonuz Market just after a couple of years of residency in Dubai and now the project allows celebrities around the world to engage with fans within an NFT and Metaverse platform. Sergej Kunz with 1inch Network bridges the crypto world with traditional banking by working with such regulated institutions like Sygnum Bank. The 1inch Network solution became the deepest liquidity aggregator in the DeFi space: the platform reached over $120 billion in transaction volume since its inception by solving the problem of high entry point and barrier to use cryptocurrencies. Salim Ismail of OpenExO, former CEO of Singularity University, by creating pilots with such traditional businesses like Procter & Gamble, Gucci and KPMG, created a space where new transformational methods of running a company between exponential organization structure and traditional businesses can now pave the way for preserving synapses of the human brain. The US Presidency: to the Belly of the Beast According to Ilya Churakov of the decentralized ecosystem Global Digital Club, such bridges need to be built in the right way so big opportunities could scale fast and reach mass adoption. But to learn the right way we need to study the old one, believes Brock Pierce, the 2020 US Presidential candidate from the Bitcoin Foundation. He dedicated his utmost energy to running the US presidential campaign during the 2020 Year of COVID, in order to understand the mechanics of the political system better and get ready for the next stage in making actionable change: Why would I subject myself to such a thing [as a Presidential Campaign] if I was not committed to following all the way through Lets say it was an exploratory mission. To understand the mechanics of the system, you need to go inside the belly of the beast, to learn how to run a national campaign without any of the existing infrastructure without any of the funding mechanisms that allow politicians to run for office, without a political platform and to do it in the midst of COVID. My basic training is complete According to Crystal Rose Pierce of Sense.Chat, only by creating the bridge between traditional systems and the decentralized world can we explore how the interests of different people can be put together for mutually beneficial growth. For the Pierce couple, there is no goal to simply replace the old with the new, there has to be a dialogue. El Salvador: Dreamland for All Nations El Salvador has been creating this bridge perhaps like no one else in the current political system, while becoming the first country to make this brave step towards economic freedom. As a country, they seek to voice their opinion, and make their opinion visible despite the pandemic crisis that was happening in the world at the time and a very clear recommendation from the International Monetary Fund in November of 2021 not to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender. Nevertheless, they are going forward with the Bitcoin infrastructure in the country as they are seeking economic freedom, the dream of all nations. William Soriano, a congressman from El Salvador and a prominent Bitcoin advocate, explained how Bitcoin can help other countries by sharing how his homeland plans to achieve the next level of prosperity. The first benefit is cutting the unnecessary costs: Civil war led to 3 million people leaving the country to the US. Those people send 7000 million dollars yearly of remittances. That makes them pay 400 million dollars in fees to companies such as Moneygram Ria etc. And this is just El Salvador, a small country The second step is financial inclusion. In just 3 months, financial inclusion reached 80% in El Salvador, rising from 1.2 million to 3.8 million people having access to a financial system. Finally, the country set up a plan to use natural resources like volcanoes and geothermal energy with the use of volcano bonds, a decentralized financial UBI-type instrument. According to an SDG advocate at the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, Marc Buckley, all countries should follow the example to stop recreating a cycle of insanity that leads to financial bubbles following a downturn, on constant repeat a model Marc believes the world has been viciously revolving around. His Excellency Justin Sun is confident that countries in the Caribbean region will certainly follow the El Salvador example. But we can hardly expect all governments to act and follow this example, so what are the alternatives? Dying Animal vs. Autonomous Private Cities Dr Wolfgang Pinegger, founder of GLBRAIN and CEO of GAMB, believes that centralization is everywhere: from social media to banking and governments, the only light at the end of the tunnel being cryptocurrencies which might be the only way to escape the centralization step by step with a proper use-case. That is why GAMB Power To The Merchants has developed a solution that solves a major issue in the crypto space high transaction fees for day-to-day operations. The company has presented a coin with zero transaction fees that will work also in countries where 1$ is a substantial sum for a crypto transaction. This will consequently bring cryptocurrencies closer to mass adoption, and therefore reduce the centralization. In Wolfgangs view the change might happen quite naturally with a mindshift that is already happening in the younger generation: But the young generation has already realized that they do not want to be part of this game (ed. centralization) and the young generation in itself will just change it. Many people from the centralized world will not even realize until it has happened Veronika Kuett, who works on autonomous systems with Tripolis Corp., thinks that centralized money is the most powerful tool that the government would not wish to lose, since it allows them to inflate and debase the money of everyone else. Governments might react with tightening centralization and they might even succeed in the short term. Of course, printing money helps governments pull resources together which means attracting people to set up control structures. But in the end, this animal has cancer and therefore it will die. That is why there is no need to waste energy on reforming central banking when we need to rethink governance to set up new systems instead: The strategy is to spend the least amount of energy focusing on old systems but rather build the future, educate people and make them join the new system One of the solutions according to Veronika is to have many thousands of smaller entities where we have bonded communities, where we know each other, we trust each other to get rid of this anonymity that we have as residents in a very large nation. The demand for autonomous private cities is already there with many innovative libertarian thinkers facing the limitations of governments ever-changing rules. Irina Litchfield of the Global Autonomous Network also shares an opinion that we need to create new models of living through autonomous lands, agrotech and regenerative farming, blockchain, new space and beyond. If Mars colonization would make us rethink governance, why should we not start now? Whats Next? What does the future hold? What sort of future can help humanity reach sustainable goals and how? Follow new episodes of #TheFutureisNowFilm and dont miss the future through the thoughts and accomplishments of the most innovative minds in the industry. TFIN DAO team and the shows creator Miguel Francis-Santiago are already working on new episodes filmed in Dubai surrounding the WoW Summit and a 2nd edition of AIBC Summit Dubai 2022 with the support of the NFT-vehicle that will allow for this roving crypto documentary to be featured on such platforms as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. To see the retrospective of the blockchain worlds progress, watch the film series 5 year trailer that sums up the last 5 years with over 20 gatherings around the world that Miguel Francis-Santiago and the team have attended, over 19 episodes have been filmed so far and over 15 countries explored through the lens of The Future is Now Film. Join the conversation and become a part of the community by supporting TFIN DAO. Be part of the #TheFutureisNowFilm movement Website | Telegram | Twitter

Answers to these questions can be found in the two latest episodes, Transforming The Future and Aligning The Future, which were filmed at the AIBC Summit UAE 2021 in Dubai and Blockchance EU conference in Hamburg. Lets dive deeper and see what futurists think.

Blockchain Is Getting Closer to Traditional Institutions

Several years ago, it would have been a bombshell to see government officials at a blockchain conference. Now, in both the AIBC Summit in Dubai and Blockchance EU conference in Hamburg, government officials are among honorable guests for two reasons. First of all, the scale of the change made them notice the inevitable. Secondly, some of the decentralized futurists have joined the ranks of centralized organizations in hopes of making a difference.

For example, H.E. Justin Sun, the founder of TRON, recently became an ambassador to the World Trade Organization on behalf of Grenada, a country in the Caribbean. In his view, cryptocurrency projects today are way more efficient than the financial infrastructure that we have today and now he plans to pave the way for mass adoption.

According to Fabian Friedrich, the founder of Blockchance Group, one of the reasons for the Blockchance EU conference to exist is the need to bring together different market players especially the decision-makers who currently govern traditional systems to take the fear away and show them how positive this movement is, how many chances are in the movement for a better future.

Some have already achieved tangible progress in establishing the dialogue. Fabian Vogelsteller, co-founder of ERC20 Protocol, shared that negotiations with regulators despite the back and forth nature of the process, have already brought positive results because everybody sees the benefits of this technology while of course the old has always had the interest to survive.

Will Governments Have a Saying?

According to His Excellency Justin Sun, decentralized currencies are more advanced not only on the technological side but also on the philosophical side as they drive the inclusion of smaller countries. That is why it will be only natural for countries to start to diversify the countries reserves also by building the central bank digital currencies but the philosophy behind CBDCs will determine their results: they could either join a competitive system or undermine the reputation and the influence in the market in the first place if they are made to be an appealing asset to use next to cryptocurrencies, for example by simply functioning as a financial tracking tool.

Justin Sun believes that when the barriers of the traditional financial system go down, everyone benefits. But according to Brock Pierce, the 2020 US Presidential candidate from the Bitcoin Foundation, there will be beneficiaries and losers. In his view, Dubai, for example, will be the beneficiary of change because it is doing a good job recognizing the change and adapting to it but those who resist the change will suffer:

Look at Florida and Miami, they are doing a good job They are the beneficiary of the change. That is what happens when you embrace the future. You get to be part of it. Resist it and it runs you over. The future is coming

Prominent venture capitalist Tim Draper whose Dad fought in the Korean War has shared a vision of what resistance to change could look like by giving a historical example of North and South Korea as a full government control system versus a free and open society with democracy 70 years later:

Average South Korean now makes 430 times what the average North Korean makes in a year, and that is when you adjust for purchasing power. And the average South Korean is 4 inches taller than an average North Korean. It is pretty clear to me which system works better

Dubai: Safe Harbor for Innovations

One of the biggest gatherings in the blockchain community held by Eman Pulis & SIGMA Group AIBC Summit UAE 2021 has been held in Dubai a few months prior to Blockchance EU.

Dubai is among the first cities that are taking a tangible stand into abundance and allowing decentralization to flourish as it is stated by Miguel Francis-Santiago, the Founder of The Future is Now DAO and the mastermind behind #TheFutureisNowFilm, with initiatives like the UAE Crypto Map. Dubai is on its way to becoming self-sustainable by leveraging the power of innovative-based ecosystems. Under the leadership of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, with a plethora of initiatives headed by Dubai Blockchain Center and the work of its CEO Dr. Marwan Alzarouni, creating a safe harbor of innovation.

And the safe harbor has already brought some fresh fruits. Matthias Mende has launched an innovative celebrity marketplace Bonuz Market just after a couple of years of residency in Dubai and now the project allows celebrities around the world to engage with fans within an NFT and Metaverse platform.

Sergej Kunz with 1inch Network bridges the crypto world with traditional banking by working with such regulated institutions like Sygnum Bank. The 1inch Network solution became the deepest liquidity aggregator in the DeFi space: the platform reached over $120 billion in transaction volume since its inception by solving the problem of high entry point and barrier to use cryptocurrencies.

Salim Ismail of OpenExO, former CEO of Singularity University, by creating pilots with such traditional businesses like Procter & Gamble, Gucci and KPMG, created a space where new transformational methods of running a company between exponential organization structure and traditional businesses can now pave the way for preserving synapses of the human brain.

The US Presidency: to the Belly of the Beast

According to Ilya Churakov of the decentralized ecosystem Global Digital Club, such bridges need to be built in the right way so big opportunities could scale fast and reach mass adoption.

But to learn the right way we need to study the old one, believes Brock Pierce, the 2020 US Presidential candidate from the Bitcoin Foundation. He dedicated his utmost energy to running the US presidential campaign during the 2020 Year of COVID, in order to understand the mechanics of the political system better and get ready for the next stage in making actionable change:

Why would I subject myself to such a thing [as a Presidential Campaign] if I was not committed to following all the way through Lets say it was an exploratory mission. To understand the mechanics of the system, you need to go inside the belly of the beast, to learn how to run a national campaign without any of the existing infrastructure without any of the funding mechanisms that allow politicians to run for office, without a political platform and to do it in the midst of COVID. My basic training is complete

According to Crystal Rose Pierce of Sense.Chat, only by creating the bridge between traditional systems and the decentralized world can we explore how the interests of different people can be put together for mutually beneficial growth. For the Pierce couple, there is no goal to simply replace the old with the new, there has to be a dialogue.

El Salvador: Dreamland for All Nations

El Salvador has been creating this bridge perhaps like no one else in the current political system, while becoming the first country to make this brave step towards economic freedom. As a country, they seek to voice their opinion, and make their opinion visible despite the pandemic crisis that was happening in the world at the time and a very clear recommendation from the International Monetary Fund in November of 2021 not to adopt Bitcoin as a legal tender. Nevertheless, they are going forward with the Bitcoin infrastructure in the country as they are seeking economic freedom, the dream of all nations.

William Soriano, a congressman from El Salvador and a prominent Bitcoin advocate, explained how Bitcoin can help other countries by sharing how his homeland plans to achieve the next level of prosperity. The first benefit is cutting the unnecessary costs:

Civil war led to 3 million people leaving the country to the US. Those people send 7000 million dollars yearly of remittances. That makes them pay 400 million dollars in fees to companies such as Moneygram Ria etc. And this is just El Salvador, a small country

The second step is financial inclusion. In just 3 months, financial inclusion reached 80% in El Salvador, rising from 1.2 million to 3.8 million people having access to a financial system. Finally, the country set up a plan to use natural resources like volcanoes and geothermal energy with the use of volcano bonds, a decentralized financial UBI-type instrument.

According to an SDG advocate at the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, Marc Buckley, all countries should follow the example to stop recreating a cycle of insanity that leads to financial bubbles following a downturn, on constant repeat a model Marc believes the world has been viciously revolving around. His Excellency Justin Sun is confident that countries in the Caribbean region will certainly follow the El Salvador example. But we can hardly expect all governments to act and follow this example, so what are the alternatives?

Dying Animal vs. Autonomous Private Cities

Dr Wolfgang Pinegger, founder of GLBRAIN and CEO of GAMB, believes that centralization is everywhere: from social media to banking and governments, the only light at the end of the tunnel being cryptocurrencies which might be the only way to escape the centralization step by step with a proper use-case.

That is why GAMB Power To The Merchants has developed a solution that solves a major issue in the crypto space high transaction fees for day-to-day operations. The company has presented a coin with zero transaction fees that will work also in countries where 1$ is a substantial sum for a crypto transaction. This will consequently bring cryptocurrencies closer to mass adoption, and therefore reduce the centralization. In Wolfgangs view the change might happen quite naturally with a mindshift that is already happening in the younger generation:

But the young generation has already realized that they do not want to be part of this game (ed. centralization) and the young generation in itself will just change it. Many people from the centralized world will not even realize until it has happened

Veronika Kuett, who works on autonomous systems with Tripolis Corp., thinks that centralized money is the most powerful tool that the government would not wish to lose, since it allows them to inflate and debase the money of everyone else. Governments might react with tightening centralization and they might even succeed in the short term. Of course, printing money helps governments pull resources together which means attracting people to set up control structures. But in the end, this animal has cancer and therefore it will die. That is why there is no need to waste energy on reforming central banking when we need to rethink governance to set up new systems instead:

The strategy is to spend the least amount of energy focusing on old systems but rather build the future, educate people and make them join the new system

One of the solutions according to Veronika is to have many thousands of smaller entities where we have bonded communities, where we know each other, we trust each other to get rid of this anonymity that we have as residents in a very large nation. The demand for autonomous private cities is already there with many innovative libertarian thinkers facing the limitations of governments ever-changing rules.

Irina Litchfield of the Global Autonomous Network also shares an opinion that we need to create new models of living through autonomous lands, agrotech and regenerative farming, blockchain, new space and beyond. If Mars colonization would make us rethink governance, why should we not start now?

Whats Next?

What does the future hold? What sort of future can help humanity reach sustainable goals and how? Follow new episodes of #TheFutureisNowFilm and dont miss the future through the thoughts and accomplishments of the most innovative minds in the industry. TFIN DAO team and the shows creator Miguel Francis-Santiago are already working on new episodes filmed in Dubai surrounding the WoW Summit and a 2nd edition of AIBC Summit Dubai 2022 with the support of the NFT-vehicle that will allow for this roving crypto documentary to be featured on such platforms as Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

To see the retrospective of the blockchain worlds progress, watch the film series 5 year trailer that sums up the last 5 years with over 20 gatherings around the world that Miguel Francis-Santiago and the team have attended, over 19 episodes have been filmed so far and over 15 countries explored through the lens of The Future is Now Film.

Join the conversation and become a part of the community by supporting TFIN DAO. Be part of the #TheFutureisNowFilm movement Website | Telegram | Twitter

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Chennai Chess Olympiad and AI – Analytics India Magazine

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In 2021, Nikhil Kamath, founder of Zerodha, defeated five-time world champion Vishwanathan Anand in chess with the help of computers (he confessed later on) at a celebrity fundraiser. The controversy sparked discussions around the use of AI in the game of chess.

As India is all set to host the 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad in Mahabalipuram starting on July 28, lets look at how AI has impacted the game of chess.

The earliest mention of technology in chess can be traced back to the 18th century when Austrian empress Maria Theresa commissioned a chess-playing machine. Many players competed against the Mechanical Turk, thinking it was an automated machine. However, it turned out to be a scam. A human hidden inside the machine was operating it.

In the mid-1940s, British mathematician Alan Turing began theorising how a computer could play chess against a human. In 1949, Claude Shannon published a seminal paper describing a potential program to do exactly that. In 1950, Alan Turing created a program capable of playing chess. Soon after, the Dietrich Prinz and Bernstein chess program burst into the scene.

Computer chess appeared for the first time in the 1970s. MicroChess, the first commercial chess program for microcomputers, in 1976; Chess Challenger in 1977; and Sargon, which won the worlds first computer chess tournament for microcomputers, in 1978.

The robotic chess computers came about in the 1980s. Boris Handroid, Novag Robot Adversary and Milton Bradley Grandmaster are some examples. The most popular was Chessmaster 2000, which ruled the chess video and computer games industry for the next two decades.

As chess computers were gaining popularity in the 1980s, Gary Kasparov, the then world chess champion, claimed AI-driven chess engines could not defeat top-level chess grandmasters. However, in 1989 and 1996, Kasparov beat IBMs powerful chess engines, Deep Thought and Deep Blue.

Things started to change in the late 1990s. In 1997, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov. A year later, Kasparov came up with the idea of Cyborg chess or centaur chess, in which human and computer skills are combined to up the level of the game. The first cyborg chess was held in 1998.

In 2017, AlphaZero, a computer program developed by DeepMind, defeated the worlds strongest chess engine Stockfish. AlphaZero used the reinforcement learning technique in which the algorithm mimicked humans learning process to train its neural networks.

In 2018, TalkChess.com released Leela Chess Zero, developed by Gary Linscott (who also developed Stockfish). Without having any chess-specific knowledge, Leela Chess Zero learned the game based on deep reinforcement learning using an open-source implementation of AlphaZero.

In 2019, DeepMind came up with another algorithm based on reinforcement learning called MuZero.

Chess players use AI-driven chess engines to analyse their and competitors games. As a result, AI has helped in improving the quality of games.

Post pandemic a lot of chess competitions were moved online. In the European Online Chess Championship, as many as 80 participants were disqualified for cheating. FIDE, the international chess body, has approved an artificial intelligence-driven behaviour-tracking module for the FIDE Online Arena games. Chess.com, an internet chess server, uses a cheat detection system to assess the probability of a human player matching the moves of a chess engine or surpassing the games of some of the greatest chess players with the help of a statistical model. DeepMind is also working to develop a new cheat detection software.

AI has also brought down the cost and effort of training and helped develop new chess strategies.

AI has indeed changed the dynamics of the game. However, using AI in chess has raised a few issues. Computer chess engines have significantly improved gameplay. However, people have also raised concerns that players of this age depend too much on machine-driven analysis.

Even when it comes to detecting cheating, AI poses a few issues. First, there is a possibility a player might be wrongly red-flagged by AI. For example, a Chess.com player and grandmaster, Akshat Chandra, was banned after a win against Hikaru as his moves supposedly matched Komodo, a strong positional chess engine. Though Chandra has been proved innocent, his reputation took a hit.

Chess engines and deep learning-based neural networks present enormous possibilities. Moreover, the complex nature and the strategic orientation of the game have provided a ground for assessing any progress in the field of artificial intelligence. They (games) are the perfect platform to develop and test ideas for AI algorithms. Its very efficient to use games for AI development, as you can run thousands of experiments in parallel on computers in the cloud and often faster than real-time, and generate as much training data as your systems need to learn from. Conveniently, games also normally have a clear objective or score, so it is easy to measure the progress of the algorithms to see if they are incrementally improving over time, and therefore if the research is going in the right direction, said DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis.

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Bartholomew County Public Library is the hub for many free events for all ages and interests.

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Kids and teens

BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 536 Fifth St., Columbus. Scheduled: Library Babies, 10 a.m., June 23, 30; Block OClock, 11 a.m., June 23, 30; Storytime: Ages 1-5, 1 p.m., June 23, 30; Teen Thursgame: Pirate LARP, 3 p.m., June 23; Reading with Lottie, 3:45 p.m., June 23, July 7; Paint Along with Greg Potter, 6 p.m., June 23; Kids Art Studio, 12:30 p.m., June 24, July 1, 8; Teen DIY: Sea Slime, 3 p.m., June 24; Origami Workshop, 4 p.m., June 24; Bermuda Triangle Escape Room, 10 & 11:30 a.m., June 25; Teen Bermuda Triangle Escape Room, 2 p.m., June 25; Mondays at Mill Race Storytime, 10 a.m., June 27; D.I.G. Time, 2 p.m., June 27; Teen Poetry Workshop: Zines!, 3 p.m., June 27; Drama Club, 4 p.m., June 27; Storytime, 6 p.m., June 27; Toddler Time, 10 a.m., June 28; Storytime, 11 a.m., June 28; Patio Playdate, 11:30 a.m., June 28; Teen Pride Month Book Club, 4 p.m., June 28; Game Time, 12:30 p.m., June 29, July 6; Cardio Drumming, 4 p.m., June 29; Watch-It WednesGAY: Heartsopper, 4 p.m., June 29; Teen Thursgame: Happy Little Dinosaurs, 2 p.m., June 30; Teen DIY: Moss Ball Habitats, 3 p.m., July 1; Builders Guild, 4 p.m., July 1; Artistic Tuesday, 12:30 p.m., July 5; Teen STEAM: Gardening, 4 p.m., July 5; Watch-It Wednesday: Jaws, 4 p.m., July 6; French Storytime, 4 p.m., July 7: Thursgame: Casino Nite, 4 p.m., July 7; Table Toppers, 4 p.m., July 8; Stitching is Fun for Everyone, 10 a.m., July 9; Teen Pro Gamer Club, 3 p.m., July 9.

STORYTIME WITH MR. DAVE!, 10 to 10:30 a.m., Thursdays, June 23, 30, Hope Town Square, 635 Harrison St., Hope. Call Mr. Dave at 812-546-5310 for more information.

THE GREAT BRICKISH MAKE-OFF CHALLENGE, through June 25, Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St., Columbus. Its time for the Summer 2022 Great Brickish Make-Off Challenge! We invite you to use brick-style blocks to create an original design inspired by this years theme: oceans! You can use your own bricks at home, or you can use Legos provided at the library. Entries will be displayed in the library where they are submitted, and a fan favorite and up to three entries per age group will be chosen to win a new Lego set! Pick up an information sheet and a registration form at the library. Submissions accepted through June 25. Voting period June 27-July 9. Prize winners notified July 15.

STONE BELT ART DISPLAY, all day, to July 31, Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St., Columbus. Come and enjoy artwork created by artists at Stone Belt Disability Services by visiting an ocean- and environmental-themed exhibition at BCPL.

Music and theater

STELLAR SUMMER NIGHTS, 6 p.m., June 24 and the fourth Friday of July and August, Stellar Plaza, downtown North Vernon. Live music, entertainment and more sponsored by Main Street North Vernon. Free and open to the public.

Educational

FOUNDERS FRIDAYS, 8 to 9 a.m., Fridays through Aug. 29, Lucabe Coffee Co., 310 4th St., Columbus. Each week, one business founder shares the ups and downs of his or her entrepreneurial journey. The free event is held each Friday (with the exception of July 1) in the meeting room at Lucabe Coffee Co. Coffee will be provided. The event is open to the public. Participants enjoy the opportunity for questions and answers from the areas leading innovators in a relaxed environment.

PRESERVE IT NOW ENJOY IT LATER, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., July 8, Columbus East High School, 230 S. Marr Road, Columbus. Learn the basics of safe home canning: pressure canner & boiling water canner. Lecture/resources with hands-on practice and take home product. Presenters are Purdue Extension Mastering Home Food Preservation Instructors. Cost is $50. Register online by July 5 at cvent.me/kagOyz. For registration questions, contact [emailprotected]

Sports, exercise, wellness

FAMILY FUN RUN/WALK, 6 p.m., June 23, White River Running, 325 Fifth St., Columbus. Choose from a one- or three-mile loop. Summer raffle entry available. More information: flourishcolumbus.com.

AMERICAN RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE, 1 to 6 p.m., July 5, Bartholomew County Public Library, 536 Fifth St., Columbus. Your blood donation matters. Register at redcrossblood.org.

BLACKWELL PARK STORYWALK, Blackwell Park, 1550 Whitney Court, Columbus. Enjoy some fresh air while strolling the Bartholomew County Public Librarys StoryWalk. Together with the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department, the library is excited to bring you Dont Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton in June and Marlo by Christopher Browne in July. The StoryWalk is located along the People Trail near the Pollinator Park in Blackwell Park.

LEARN TO PLAY HOCKEY, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m., most Saturdays through Oct. 1, Hamilton Community Center and Ice Arena, 2501 Lincoln Park Dr., Columbus. A noncompetitive environment in which children ages 4 to 10 can learn the basic skills of hockey without distractions that are often associated with an overemphasis on winning. Free equipment is available to use. Cost is $5 per child. Arrive 30 minutes early to get fitted for equipment.

GIRLS HOCKEY, 6 to 7 p.m., Mondays, through Oct. 10, Hamilton Community Center and Ice Arena, 2501 Lincoln Park Dr., Columbus. Are you a girl interested in hockey? Come join us for a girls-only hockey class and learn the fundamentals and basic skills of hockey. For ages 7-16. $10 drop in fee.

SWIMMING FOR EXERCISE, Foundation for Youth, 405 Hope Ave., Columbus. Lap swimming, water aerobics and public swim are available. You must preregister for current swim sessions. Information: foundationforyouth.com.

Seasonal

COLUMBUS FARMERS MARKET, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturdays through Sept. 17, south of Columbus City Hall, 123 Washington St., Columbus. The market averages more than 100 full- and part-time vendors offering a range of plants, made-to-order food, lotions/soaps, coffee, honey, crafts, meats, eggs, baked goods, produce and more! More details can be found at columbusfarmersmarket.org or follow on Facebook for weekly entertainment updates.

JENNINGS COUNTY FARMERS MARKET, 8 a.m.-noon, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays through mid-October, North Vernon City Park, 604 N. State St. More information is available on the Jennings Countys Farmers Market Facebook page.

Miscellaneous

BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 536 Fifth St., Columbus. Scheduled: Paint Along with Greg Potter, 6 p.m., June 23; Bermuda Triangle Escape Room, 3:30 p.m., June 25; Adult Craft Night, 6 p.m., June 27; All Bookd Book Club, 5:30 p.m., June 28; Dementia Friends Information Session, 2 p.m., July 1; Cbus Chess Crew, 2 p.m., July 2; Stitching is Fun for Everyone, 10 a.m., July 9.

STATE STREET TACO TOUR, 5 to 8 p.m., June 25, State St., Columbus. Are you ready for cilantro, onion, and your favorite Mexican meat all bundled up in a warm tortilla drizzled with your favorite salsa topped with a fresh juicy lime? Join us this year as we host the third annual Taco Tour on State Street! More details will be added to the Facebook event site so stay tuned for more info at facebook.com/events/332477205448914/.

PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE BREAKFAST, 6 to 11 a.m., July 4, North Vernon Fire Department, 2000 N. Madison Ave., North Vernon. North Vernon/Center Township Fire Department is hosting an annual pancake & sausage breakfast with a free will donation.

ELKS LODGE BINGO, 6:30 p.m. Friday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Elks 521 Lodge Bingo Hall, 4664 Ray Boll Blvd., Columbus. Doors open at 5 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. The first game is at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. Open to the public. Information: 812-379-4386.

VFW POST 1987 BINGO, 215 N. National Road, Columbus. Monday and Wednesday from 5 to 9:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.), second Saturday of the month from 2 to 6 p.m. (doors open at noon). Open to the public.

AMERICAN LEGION BINGO & KARAOKE, American Legion Post 25, 2515 25th St., Columbus. Bingo is on Tuesdays starting at 6 p.m. Karaoke is on Wednesdays starting at 6 p.m.

COLUMBUS CHESS CLUB, 5 to 9 p.m., Thursdays, Lewellen Chapel, corner of Middle Road and Grissom Street, Columbus. Equipment is furnished. Open to chess players 16 and older. Information: 812-603-3893.

COLUMBUS AREA RAILROAD CLUB OPEN HOUSE, noon to 4 p.m. July 16 and the third Saturday of each month. Trains will be operating layouts in four scales HO, N, O, and On30. The club is located at the Johnson County Park headquarters building adjacent to Camp Atterbury. Information: Greg Harter, 812-350-8636, columbusarearailroadclub.com, or on Facebook at Columbus Area Railroad Club.

AMERICAN SEWING GUILD NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING, 9 to 11:30 a.m., July 2 and the first Saturday of each month, Bartholomew County REMC, 1697 W. Deaver Road, Columbus. Each monthly meeting focuses on learning a new sewing/creative skill or group sewing on a philanthropic project. Sewing enthusiasts of all ages and skills are welcome. Contact Marilyn at [emailprotected] with questions.

GRACES TABLE DRIVE-IN FREE MEAL, 5 p.m., second Sunday of each month, East Columbus United Methodist Church, 2439 Indiana Ave., Columbus. Drive-in free meal as well as music and storytelling. Enter the church parking lot on Indiana Avenue. Tables are available for walk-ups.

Galleries, museums, exhibits

BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 524 Third St., Columbus. The museum is open Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. BCHS hosts two permanent exhibits that share the history and heritage of Bartholomew County. Learn about our county through interactive, hands-on exhibits that include a map table, notable people, county timeline, Then and Now, Did You Know, early industrialists and videos of Reeves steam engines. The historical society also hosts rotating exhibits throughout the year featuring items from their extensive collection. Information: 812-372-3541, bartholomewhistory.org.

GALLERY 506, Columbus Indiana Visitors Center, 506 Fifth St., Columbus. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

YELLOW TRAIL MUSEUM/VISITOR CENTER, west side of Hope Town Square, 644 Main St., Hope. The museum is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from Noon to 4 p.m. or by appointment. Cruise-ins will be July 1 and the first Friday of August and September. The Research Center is open on Monday and Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon or by appointment. Contact the museum at 812-546-8020. Follow the Facebook page Yellow Trail Museum/Hope Visitors Center for updated information.

ATTERBURY-BAKALAR AIR MUSEUM, located at Columbus Municipal Airport, 4742 Ray Boll Blvd., Columbus, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Special tours may be scheduled by calling 812-372-4356. The museum preserves the history of the former Atterbury Army Air Field, later named Bakalar Air Force Base. Free admission. Visit the museum online at atterburybakalarairmuseum.org and on Facebook.

T.C. STEELE STATE HISTORIC SITE, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, 4220 T.C. Steele Road, Nashville. Staff is offering special indoor tours each with a limited number of people. Tours are included with site admission, but preregistration is recommended by calling 812-988-2785. Information: indianamuseum.org/tcsteele.

TRI-STATE ARTISANS, 422 Washington St., Columbus. Handmade retail gallery of more than 60 local artisans. Unique gifts, fine art, art classes for youth and adults, youth art programs, art parties and home parties. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays. Information: tsartisans.com.

JENNINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM, 335 Brown St., Vernon. Museum hours are Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. or by appointment. Information: 812-346-8989, jenningscounty.org.

BROWN COUNTY ART GUILD, 48 S. Van Buren St., Nashville. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Featuring Art in the Garden, 5-8 p.m. June 25, a fundraiser benefitting Brown County Art Guild. Enjoy an evening of live music, heavy hors doeuvres, drinks and plein air painting and fine art demonstrations in the gardens of a longtime Brown County resident. Tickets are $100 per person. More information and tickets are available at browncountyartguild.org/product/art-in-the-garden-ticket.

THE REPUBLIC BUILDING GALLERY, 333 Second St., Columbus. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

411 GALLERY, 411 Sixth St., Columbus. 411 is a community arts gallery and cultural space for exhibitions, events and collaborations with Columbus arts and cultural organizations. Learn more about the current exhibition and artists at http://www.artsincolumbus.org/411.

HOOSIER ARTIST GALLERY, 45 S. Jefferson St., Nashville. Hoosier Artist Gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Masks are required. Information: hoosierartist.com.

BROWN COUNTY ART GALLERY, 1 Artist Drive, Nashville. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. COVID-19 protocols are in place, with masks required. Information: 812-988-4609, [emailprotected], browncountyartgallery.org.

CHARLENE MARSH STUDIO & GALLERY, 4013 Lanam Ridge Road, Nashville. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Monday, noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, please call the studio/gallery at 812-988-4497 or visit charlenemarshstudio.com.

Ongoing

FABULOUS FIRST FRIDAYS WITH MISS POLLY, 12:15 p.m. the first Friday of each month. Viewpoint Books, 548 Washington St., Columbus. Information: 812-376-0778.

FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, 405 Hope Ave., Columbus. The Boys & Girls Club is open to children ages 5-18. Information: 812-372-7867.

KIDSCOMMONS, 309 Washington St., Columbus. Ongoing activities are all free with museum admission. Information: 812-378-3046.

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Trotskyists in France Are Reconstituting a Fighting Revolutionary Left. There Are Important Lessons for the United States – Left Voice

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In the aftermath of Emmanuel Macrons reelection as Frances president, a process of reestablishing a genuine revolutionary perspective and practice has taken an important turn in the country. It has the potential for tremendous historical significance. And it offers some important lessons for activists about what to do and what not to do including for activists in the United States.

The lesson of what not to do can be found in an article by Marlon Ettinger in Jacobin, a magazine close to a significant section of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leadership. It sings the praises of the electoral alliance created for the legislative elections that took place this month in France an alliance of what the French call la gauche institutionelle, the institutional Left, to build what Ettinger calls a counterpower to the monarchical executive branch led by Macron. The leader of the coalition, known as the NUPES (Nouvelle Union Populaire cologique et Sociale), is Jean-Luc Mlenchon of the social-democratic populist party La France Insoumise (LFI, France Unbowed). The fools errand of NUPES was to force Macron to name Mlenchon as his governments prime minister by winning the most seats in Frances National Assembly.

Mlenchon was LFIs presidential candidate earlier this year, and came in third thus failing to make it to the second round. The NUPES coalition includes LFI, the Greens, remnants from the Socialist and Communist Parties, and others that have long been committed to the institutions of Frances Fifth Republic and in some cases have constituted governments that have done the capitalists bidding. The NUPES campaign, at one end of the French Left spectrum, has had Mlenchon and his partners engaged in a wholesale capitulation to upholding the institutions of the French bourgeoisie in a quest for some ephemeral power which Mlenchon argues for in exchange for becoming the managers of capitalism on behalf of the ruling class, but ostensibly with more of an eye to representing the interests of workers.

The coalition secured a virtual tie with Macrons candidates in the first round of the legislative elections on June 12. The following Sunday, in second-round voting, Macrons party lost its majority in the legislature but still secured the most seats. The NUPES delegates will be the second-largest grouping.

At the other end of the French Left spectrum lies the revolutionary perspective the fight not to manage but to destroy the capitalist system of exploitation and oppression along with the bourgeois state organized to serve and preserve that systems interests. Along that spectrum can also be found the traditional organizations of what the French call lextrme-gauche, the Far Left, including those who can trace the origins of their organizations back to the very beginnings of the Left Opposition to Stalinism led by Leon Trotsky, a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and to the founding of the Fourth International in 1938.

History shows that to be between these poles is to tend strongly toward or in many cases to be explicitly supportive of the capitulation end of the spectrum. In France, we can see this in a brief history of the countrys Trotkyist Far Left since the 1960s.

As happened in the United States, organizations identifying as Trotskyist surged in membership beginning in the late 1960s and well into the 1970s. In France, what became the Ligue communiste rvolutionnaire (LCR, Revolutionary Communist League) emerged in this period; it was the French section of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USec), one of the main international organizations of the world Trotskyist movement. Officially founded with the LCR name in 1974, it was the product of an upsurge in the class struggle that brought France to the brink of a revolutionary situation in MayJune 1968. Many of the LCRs key leaders were products of that uprising and then became a major component of the countrys Far Left for several decades. In February 2009, however, after a process of the USec moving further and further away from the core principle of building independent, revolutionary Marxist parties rooted in the working class and based on the historical program of Trotskyism, the group voted overwhelmingly to dissolve itself into the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) a broad anticapitalist party that the LCR was a leading force in creating. A major factor in the LCRs thinking was the vote for Olivier Besancenot, a member of the LCR, in the first round of the French presidential elections of 2002 and 2007: 1.2 million votes (4.25%) and nearly 1.5 million votes (4.08%), respectively.

The NPA project involved creating what is essentially a federation of currents from other Left organizations besides the LCR, along with groupings around feminist, alter-globalism, environmentalism, and so on that is, around movementism, a focus on popular social and economic movements as the main force for societal change rather than on the role of the working class as societys main revolutionary force. The NPA began with 9,200 members a significant number. That the LCR should end up helping create the NPA makes perfect sense given its long-term orientation to social movements and its focus on recruiting youth rather than workers a remnant of its origins in the student component of the MayJune 1968 events. It presented its own liquidation into the NPA as a new schema for building a revolutionary party based on movements; in fact, it was a total abandonment of the central task of Trotskyists to build a revolutionary party.

That said, its important to note that at the NPAs inception, its future was not cast in stone: it was certainly possible then that it could evolve into a mechanism for aiding the construction of a revolutionary organization. That would, of course, depend on its program, its activities, its engagement with the class struggle, and the assurance of democratic internal debate.

The two other main Trotskyist currents in France Lutte Ouvrire and the Lambertists never embraced the NPA project.

The Lambertists today are organized in two groups, the result of a 2015 split: the Parti ouvrier indpendant (POI, Independent Workers Party) and the Parti ouvrier indpendant dmocratique (POID, Democratic Independent Workers Party). Prior to that, this current of the French Far Left could be found in a series of organizations that went through several names and then, beginning around the commencement of the First Gulf War in 1990, tried on both a national and international scale to do something somewhat like the LCR tried with the NPA: regroupment of Left forces within a broad front.

For the Lambertists so known because of the central role played by Pierre Lambert (19202008), a French Trotskyist who led an organization that had refused to join a 1963 reunification of worldwide Trotskyist forces that had split 10 years earlier this effort revolved around the founding of the Parti ouvrier (PO, Workers Party) in France and the International Liaison Committee for a Workers International (ILC). The PO was a fusion of sorts with some members of the trade union bureaucracy organized in Force Ouvrire (FO, Workers Force), one of the countrys five major union confederations; this broad party had tendencies that included former members of the Communist and Socialist parties as well as anarchists, but was dominated by the orthodox Trotskyists of the Lambert current. Among its founding principles was recognition of the class struggle, but it focused on secularism and the fight against the institutions of the Fifth Republic, not on putting forth an actual revolutionary struggle. In essence, Trotskyism largely disappeared. Meanwhile, the ILC sought to engage movements and left-leaning union bureaucrats from across the globe, particularly in less-developed countries. Its focus was on national sovereignty against imperialism.

Then theres Lutte Ouvrire (LO, Workers Struggle), the third leg of the old Trotskyist stool in Frances Far Left. It traces its origins to a small group with a different name founded in 1939. Over the decades, it has grown to play a very key role in Far Left politics, thanks in part to its presidential candidates typically getting a very wide hearing. In 2002, LO candidate Arlette Laguiller eclipsed LCR candidate Besancenots good showing, garnering more than 1.6 million votes (5.72%), In 2007, though, Laguillers vote total dropped precipitously to only a third of that total: 487,857 votes in the first round, or 1.33 percent.

LO is distinguished by its deep orientation to workplaces, its semi-clandestine functioning, and its nearly complete eschewal of involvement in any struggles of working-class people and oppressed communities that isnt based on economic struggles in the unions and their bureaucracies which LO refuses to criticize. LO is held in high regard by many workers in France, and yet the organization has never used this regard to initiate or help lead a struggle against racism, police violence, or anything. Put simply, it has failed to find a way or, more accurately, refused to find a way to engage with radicalizing young workers in France who have been waging profoundly important class struggles over the past five years and longer.

Where have these currents ended up today? The NPA (that is, the ex-LCR) has endorsed Mlenchons ridiculous scheme to become prime minister while refusing to sign an agreement to join the NUPES (which didnt want the NPA to join, anyway). As the comrades of Left Voices sister organization in France put it, the NPA has shown it is willing to sacrifice political and programmatic independence for an electoral union and a few possible deputy positions. The POI has openly endorsed the NUPES. The POID mounted no presidential campaign, but ran some candidates in the first round of the legislative elections while at the same time claiming it is preparing the conditions for the class struggle that will arise and calling on French workers not to divide the vote and to hold their noses while they vote for the parties that have historically come out of the workers movement.

LO claims to have as many as 8,000 adherents, a combination of perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 formal members and a loyal periphery. They are mostly implanted in the trade unions. At times, the organization does play a leading role in workers struggles in workplaces, and demonstrates principle, militancy, and class independence when it does so. The group abstains, though, from political and social struggles, and in that respect largely watches the French class struggle pass it by.

The NPAs membership today is an estimated 2,000 a massive decrease from its size when it was founded, and a reflection of its failure to become the force it claimed it set out to create. The two Lambertist groups each have 1,000 or so members, with many in the unions. But such numbers and in a country of 68 million people, the numbers are not insignificant are meaningless if those militants are not playing a revolutionary role in moving the class struggle forward. The crisis of the French Far Left Trotskyism being the continuity of revolutionary Marxism from the Bolshevik revolution is a crisis of absenteeism and abstention in a context of centrism run amok.

Centrism is a wide-scale phenomenon among nominally revolutionary organizations in which they vacillate between revolutionary and reformist politics. It has long been a feature of the world Trotskyist movement, and none of its main currents whether known as Mandelism (the USec variant), Lambertism, or Morenoism (another important current from which Left Voice traces its origins) have been immune. The broad front approach, which waters down revolutionary politics and practice to focus on slogans rather than action, is part and parcel of this phenomenon. Today, it has become one of the key features.

In his 1932 work Whats Next?: Vital Questions for the German Proletariat, Trotsky offered a detailed characterization of centrisms content and purpose. In general, he wrote, centrism fulfills ordinarily the function of serving as a left cover for reformism and to smear over the contradictions between the various tendencies on the Left. In short, whereas centrism is content with trifles the revolution demands a great deal. The revolution demands absolutely everything. And it allows for no shortcuts like those that have been sought in France.

In France today, this centrism has led to a point where the old Trotskyist organizations of the Far Left just discussed even with their (relative) strength in numbers have largely defanged themselves. They are divorced from the real battles of the French class struggle that have taken place over the last five years in particular. The NPA has crossed the class line; the Lambertists are two organizations of declarations and conferences, but little else; LO continues with its clandestine approach as it fails to engage with the growing number of French workers and youth who are seeking a revolutionary path forward to confront the misery of capitalism and the increasing attacks against them by the French state.

Some years back, members of the sister organization of Left Voice in France (which publishes Rvolution Permanente) joined the NPA precisely because of the potential mentioned earlier. As a public current within the NPA, those comrades waged a fight to keep the party independent and advance it along a path toward steadfast revolutionary politics. Over time, though, the NPA shrank rather than grew, and the NPA leadership the old LCR leaders moved further and further away from such a perspective. It became a terminal crisis. Eventually, our comrades were undemocratically excluded from the NPA a de facto expulsion.

That moment in June 2021 was a realization that created an opportunity to reconstitute a genuine, fighting, revolutionary Far Left in France. The terminal crisis of the NPA and the ongoing crisis of French centrism would need to be confronted head on, both programmatically and organizationally.

Over the past year, our comrades began to create the conditions for taking on this challenge. They used their strong links with, and in some cases leadership positions in some of the most important struggles in France over the past five years the Yellow Vests movement, the strikes against pension reform, the rail strike and the Grandpuits refinery strike, anti-racist mobilizations, demonstrations protesting violence against women and rights for LGBTQ+ people, the environmental movement, and so on to encourage the activists theyd been working with to join in a process of creating a new revolutionary organization. Such an invitation made perfect sense; after all, what these comrades brought to every one of these struggles, beyond their involvement in the day-to-day activities, was the class-independent, revolutionary perspective that they shared with those they met and worked with. They explained, for instance, that the only way to end racism is to end capitalism. The only way to win the comfortable retirement pensions are supposed to provide is to destroy the system of exploitation that puts profits before human needs.

One of the most important elements of this yearlong process was the presidential campaign of Anasse Kazib, a 34-year-old railway worker from a family of Moroccan immigrants who had become politicized in 2016 as part of the movement to resist changes to the French labor law, and who joined Rvolution Permanente as well as the NPA the next year. He became a well-known symbol in France of a new generation of revolution-minded activists who rejected the complacency of the centrist Trotskyists. As Rvolution Permanente explains in a balance sheet:

The idea of running Anasse Kazib as a candidate for the French presidency began as a proposal during the debates within the NPA He had close links with the anti-racist movement, the struggle against police violence, and so on. He had also made his presence known on television, as a commentator onLes Grandes Gueulespodcast for two years, and through his many confrontations with bourgeois politicians around Macrons various counterreforms.

The NPA leaders, unfortunately, had the opposite view. In a party in which all debates are public, they treated the proposal for Kazibs candidacy as an attack on the party. It served as a pretext forpushing the 300 militants and sympathizers of Rvolution Permanente out the door two months later.

Once we were kicked out of the NPA, we decided to formalize the candidacy of Kazib, convinced that it would be a profound step to take that would carry the seed of a necessary revitalization of the Far Left in France, which had almost universally missed the boat with the wave of struggles that began in 2016.

The campaign was an uphill battle, given the requirement in France of obtaining 500 sponsorships from mayors and other elected officials just to get on the ballot a burden the Kazib campaign could not overcome. But the campaign essentially blacked-out from the French media persisted as long as possible, galvanizing activists and directly confronting the Far Right, which launched racist, violent threats against the candidate at every turn. Those attacks ended up winning part of the French anti-fascist movement to the campaigns side.

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Interest in the campaign was striking among workers, youth, and residents of working-class neighborhoods throughout the six months of campaigning. Attendance at rallies and meetingseven though they took place several months before the elections themselvestestify to this: 500 people in Paris, 350 in Toulouse, 400 at the Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux, 400 at the University of Paris 8, and 250 in Marseille, to name only the largest turnouts. Driven by the candidates charisma and fiery speech, these figures speak to a very militant campaign that involved more than 500 people, across the country, who helped organize rallies and public meetings, distributed leaflets, put up posters, and went on the road to meet public officials to encourage them to become sponsors.

Through this process, we want to beginwith many of those who worked with us in the presidential campaignto build an instrument that can be used by workers, youth, and working-class neighborhoods to wage a social revolution, one that will put an end to capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and the destruction of the planet. We envision an organization that can intervene in the next explosions of the class struggle

As we have reported in the pages of Left Voice, the process of creating that organization has shifted into high gear. At a conference held earlier this month, 100 delegates gathered to discuss the next steps. They issued a call for the construction of a new revolutionary organization, one that is equal to the urgent task of ending the capitalist system and laying the foundations of a communist society. And they addressed the call both to those searching for a revolutionary home who have found the old Far Left unwelcoming, as well as to the militants of those Far Left organizations that have turned away from the revolutionary struggle:

We address this call to all those who share our perspective and who do not see themselves in todays Far Left, particularly the workers who have taken part in the working-class struggles of the last few years, the anti-racist, anti-fascist, LGBTQ+, feminist, and environmental activists who are convinced of the need for revolution, and the youth who know that this society has nothing to offer them. It is also addressed to those revolutionaries who seek to learn from the failure of the Far Left, even including militants still in the NPA, and who reject the turn taken by the leadership of that party, or that of Lutte Ouvrire.

To be sure, resuscitating the French Far Left is a much larger task than simply launching a new organization. It will require a relentless effort to establish a revolutionary pole of attraction within every struggle the French working class will be mounting as it confronts the new attacks sure to come in a second Macron presidential term. It will require an uncompromising program built on revolutionary practice and the approach of the Transitional Program that has guided revolutionaries in the Trotskyist movement since it was accepted as the founding document of the Fourth International in 1938. It will mean never forgetting why that program exists, as expressed in its subtitle: Prepare the Conquest of Power.

In taking this step, Rvolution Permanente is accepting the responsibility implied in the Transitional Programs very first line: The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat. Resolving that crisis has always posed the need for building an organization of the working class that refuses to cross the class line, that is resolutely anti-capitalist, that is committed to the self-organization of the working class and the most marginalized in society, and that has as its ultimate objective to help lead the great majority of people to wrest genuine power from their oppressors and transform society from one based on exploitation to one based on meeting human needs and freeing people from wage slavery a communist society.

The forces of Rvolution Permanente today are small, but the ideas are big. This step our French comrades are taking matters because others calling themselves Trotskyists have essentially neutered, if not completely liquidated, a revolutionary pole. Opening a path to its reconstitution is what our comrades are all about. At the very moment that the centrists have abstained from the movements, the comrades of RP are presenting a perspective for the movements to come together as component parts not of some amorphous broad front but of a revolutionary organization with a broadened focus one that recognizes that the only real solutions will come in overthrowing capitalism.

Why does this matter here, and what lessons might we draw in this country? Of course, France and the United States have many differences. But revolutionaries here face many of the same challenges. Notably, in the aftermath of the French legislative elections, the Macron government is confronting what Rvolution Permanente is calling a crisis of ungovernability that will create openings for the mass movements. In this country, we have some of those same features, especially with an ineffective Congress and a president sinking in his favorability ratings at a moment when the Supreme Court is attacking long-held rights.

We also have an organization with significant impact on the Left that serves the explicit function of derailing the independence of working-class struggles and channeling them into one of the two parties of our class enemy, the Democratic Party. That organization is the DSA, and just like the NUPES in France, it is wedded to the institutions of the bourgeois state. Our French comrades, with the Anasse Kazib campaign, demonstrated that there is an alternative as long as becoming the managers of capitalism isnt your objective.

We saw an increase in strikes late last year, and today there are major union organizing drives across the United States. These struggles come up against the limitations of relying on bureaucrats tied to the Democratic Party. Our French comrades have demonstrated how the self-organization of rank-and-file union members can keep strikes going and force the retreat of the class enemy. This will be at the center of their new revolutionary organization.

As in France, we have anti-racist, feminist, environmental, LGBTQ+, and other movements that wax and wane, sometimes growing to historical levels (as the Black Lives Matter demonstrations did in the aftermath of the cop murder of George Floyd). What has been missing in these movements is a revolutionary pole aimed at transforming them from their narrow focus to a perspective aimed at uniting all the struggles against oppression into one aimed at taking power away from the oppressors and exploiters. Our French comrades are beginning the process of making that revolutionary pole a permanent feature of class struggle in their country.

None of this is hyperbole. No one is claiming that the process beginning in France or a similar process in the United States puts revolution on the agenda. No, what is posed right now is the question of surpassing the absenteeism, abstentionism, and liquidationism that are features of centrism features of the absence of a genuine revolutionary pole committed to action and taking whatever steps we can to offer an alternative.

A central task today for revolutionaries whether there are 10 of us, 100 of us, or thousands is to find a way to intervene with the perspective of building an independent working-class part with a revolutionary perspective. That also means recognizing the importance to building that party of struggles based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and other elements because resolving the issues that confront people and force them into the streets to fight for their rights is impossible without revolution.

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White Child Adopted by Black Reality TV Star Beaten to Death

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LOCAL NEWS are covering the story, along with a few celebrity-oriented Web sites. But the Jewish-controlled national networks, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, will say nothing absolutely nothing about the beating death of a White child adopted by a Black couple in South Carolina, even though the Black female arrested along with her Black husband was a reality TV star.

According to Greenville County, South Carolina coroner Kent Dill, three-year-old homicide victim Victoria Rose Smith had been a foster child. Just a few months after being adopted by a Black couple, little Tori was found in the couples home beaten to death.

Smith died Thursday, according to the coroner. Jerry and Ariel Robinson would be charged with homicide by child abuse five days later. Warrants stated they were responsible for the victims care and welfare.

Ariel Robinson had posted about her adoptive White childrens White privilege shortly before Toris being beaten to death in her home.

She was sweet as could possibly be, so it makes no sense how somebody could hurt her in any kind of way, said Alan West. West said his (White) aunt was the babys foster mother for nearly a year before she went to live with the Robinson family.

West and his wife Ashley West said they last saw the little girl known to them as Tori about a year ago. They described her as fun, funny, sassy, and affectionate.

They were shocked when they learned Tori was murdered her new caregivers, Jerry and Ariel Robinson, charged with homicide by child abuse.

The coroner said she died of multiple blunt force injuries.

I still cant believe that its true, Ashley West said. I just feel like maybe well all wake up and itll be a bad dream.

You could not be mad at that girl just by how she looked and how sweet she was, so I dont understand how this man and woman would have done this to her, Alan West said.

Ariel Robinson achieved fame last year as the winner of a $25,000 worst cooks prize on a reality TV program on the Jewish-run Food Network. Food Networks only response has been to wipe all episodes of the show featuring Robinson from their archives. Ariel Robinson had also worked for as teacher in Greenville County from 2016 to 2017. She was also an employee of Laurens County School District 55 during the 2018 to 2019 school year.

The tabloid Sun reported on the murder, even posting pictures of the Black adoptive parents and White child, then ludicrously stated It is not yet known if the victim was one of the couples biological or foster children.

The Daily Beast carried a one-paragraph notice of the crime without telling us that the dead child was White or that this was an interracial adoption.

And get this it is reported that those on social media trying to bring awareness of this horrific crime were posting using the hashtag #justiceforvictoriarose and some Twitter users now state that the platform has blocked new posts using that hashtag.

One observer said:

I was posting about this recently but I gave up because it seemed no one was interested. You JUST KNOW that had the races had been reversed, this would be receiving widespread media coverage across all the main big newspapers and half the celebrities and blueticks on Twitter would be going nuts about it on their timelines. But a little White girl beaten to death by Black celebrities and silence across the board. I feel livid about the injustice of this.

A local reporter asked the Department of Social Services about the process for vetting the Robinsons and whether they had received any complaints about them. DSS responded with a statement, saying they are investigating along with law enforcement. They also said The agencys standard procedures in a case like this involved taking appropriate action with any children remaining in the home after evaluating safety and risk.

Unasked was the crucial question: Should non-Whites ever be entrusted with the care of a White child, particularly in the extremely anti-White atmosphere created by the Jewish media recently?

Jerry and Ariel Robinson are being held in South Carolinas Greenville County Detention Center.

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Source: WSPA and National Vanguard correspondents

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National Car Rental – Wikipedia

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American car rental agency

National Car Rental is a private American rental car agency based in Clayton, Missouri, United States. National is owned by Enterprise Holdings, along with other agencies including Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and Alamo Rent a Car. National typically caters to business travelers through its Emerald Club loyalty program that allows frequent customers to pick their own vehicles without stopping to fill out forms or deal with customer representatives.[1][2]

National was founded by 24 independent rental car agents on August 27, 1947. It had grown from 60 locations in the United States in 1947 to over 2000 locations internationally as of 2005[update].

In 1987, Paine Webber, a historical American brokerage firm, gained majority ownership of National.[3]

In 1995, National was owned by an investment group containing William Lobeck of Tulsa, Alvin Swanner of New Orleans, and Archer McWhorter of Houston.[4] Lobeck was a former president of Chrysler's car rental unit and a former owner of Thrifty Rent A Car, a competitor of National. It was later sold in 1995 at an estimated price of $1 billion.[4]

In 1996, National acquired the Canadian fleet and operations of Tilden Rent-a-Car.

In 1996, National was acquired by Republic Industries (later renamed AutoNation).[5] AutoNation spun off its car rental properties as ANC Rental in 2000.[6] ANC filed for bankruptcy a year later; its properties were sold to Vanguard Automotive Group (controlled by Cerberus Capital Management) in 2003.[7] On August 1, 2007 Enterprise Rent-A-Car assumed control of Vanguard Automotive Group.[8]

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Down 15% in 2022, is it time to jump on Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF? – The Motley Fool Australia

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The Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF (ASX: VAS) has suffered in 2022, just like many other investments.

However, compared to some individual ASX shares and sectors, this exchange-traded fund has fared better with a decline of just 15%. The Xero Limited (ASX: XRO) share price is down 48% and the Vanguard US Total Market Shares Index ETF (ASX: VTS) is down by 19%, as two examples.

The performance of its underlying holdings dictates the performance of an ETF.

For the Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF, it means names such as BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA), and CSL Limited (ASX: CSL) have the biggest influence.

The VAS ETF tracks the S&P/ASX 300 Index (ASX: XKO), meaning the overall ASX 300 group of shares has fallen by 15%.

The fall in the VAS price means investors with a regular investment plan for this ETF can dollar-cost average at a lower price.

The VAS ETF also has a few attractive features, such as its low management fee of just 0.10%. Thats one of the lowest fees for an investment portfolio focused on ASX shares. Low fees are good because it means more of the investment returns are left in the hands of investors.

Another attractive element is its relatively high dividend yield for an ETF.

Many of the biggest positions in the ETFs portfolio have quite high dividend yields, such as BHP, CBA, Westpac Banking Corp (ASX: WBC), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (ASX: ANZ), National Australia Bank Ltd (ASX: NAB), Fortescue Metals Group Limited (ASX: FMG), and Rio Tinto Limited (ASX: RIO).

These high dividend-paying shares significantly influence the dividend yield of the overall Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF.

According to Vanguard, the dividend yield of the VAS ETF, excluding franking credits, is 4.1%.

I do like to invest in assets at lower prices, so the current price of this ETF seems better.

However, I personally dont invest in the Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF or index funds in general. Id only want to buy it for my portfolio if there was a painful sell-off for the banks and the large ASX mining shares, as these two areas make up a significant part of the ETFs holdings.

In my opinion, other ETFs have been sold off more heavily that could make better long-term buys because of the underlying quality, global nature (and therefore bigger addressable market), and higher tech focus. One idea is Betashares Nasdaq 100 ETF (ASX: NDQ), which I recently covered.

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