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Monsanto paid propagandist Hollande continues to propagate poisoning of the French middle classes
NATURAL SOCIETY
By Christina Sarich
An important precedence has been set by a recent ruling in French Court. Even after an appeals court heard a case which attested that a farmer was poisoned by accidentally inhaling the fumes of an herbicide, they still sided in favor of the farmer. Considering that the herbicide, though not its best seller, was made by Monsanto – this news is even more important.
Monsanto makes an herbicide, which like Roundup, is damaging to human health. It's called Lasso, and its main ingredient is alachlor. When a farmer was exposed to this herbicide, he became grossly disabled with severe neurological disorders.
The French court in Lyon, upheld a previous ruling that the US biotech company, Monsanto, was liable for the farmers' poisoning when he inhaled the herbicide while attending to corn crops.
The case was originally heard in 2012, and the farmer, Paul Francois, was to be fully compensated for becoming disabled due to Monsanto's product when he inhaled the fumes accidentally on his farm in 2004.
Hollande nothing more than a Monsanto
shill and propagandist
The appeals ruling came this last week, when the courts condemned Monsanto, even though its lawyers argued that there was not enough evidence linking the farmer's symptoms to the herbicide.
Francois claims that after inhaling the Lasso herbicide, he became nauseated, began stuttering, and suffered dizziness, headaches, and muscular aches that rendered him unable to work for a year. The risks are not outlined on the product's label.
Monsanto also had to answer for keeping health-impairing Lasso on the market until 2007, despite bans of the product in Canada, Britain, and Belgium.
This is another nail in Monsanto's coffin in France, since just last June the French Ecology Minister, Segolene Royal, announced a ban on over-the-counter sales of the Monsanto weedkiller Roundup.
Even more recently, Russia announced a game-changing move in the fight against Monsanto's GMOs, completely banning the use of genetically modified ingredients in any and all food production. This is even more important when you consider the fact that many GMO crops are specifically made to withstand copious amounts of herbicides.
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War Is A Force That Gives Us Idiocy
The Bush/Cheney/Obama illegal wars have brought nothing but death, degeneracy and economic destitution to America - are they "good" wars?
WASHINGTON'S BLOG
By David Swanson
During this year's competition for Miss Italy, contestants were asked what historical epoch they might like to have lived in and why. The first young woman to answer said 1942. She had heard so much about World War II, she said, that she'd like to actually live it — plus, she added, women didn't have to be in the military anyway.
Is the Bush/Obama Afghan war a "good" war?
A number of people over 18, including to all appearances the judges, deemed this idiotic.
And yet that contestant won and is now Miss Italy, whose job seems to be giving sadly laughable interviews in which she says that her favorite Italian historical figure is Michael Jordan, and she can understand why refugees flee horrors but that they should really go somewhere else other than Italy.
Maybe she would have fit into 1942 better than most people imagine.
There is a World War II problem in the United States and in more of Europe than one might expect, and — in fact — in a good bit of the Hollywood-viewing world. World War II is our origin myth, our hero myth, our tragedy, our locus of meaning and justification for how we live.
Reality still registers with many to a great extent. Some realize at times that World War II was the worst thing ever to happen on earth in a relatively brief space of time — the greatest quantity of death, injury, suffering, and destruction, and also the most dramatic degeneration of morality.
Vietnam: Was it a "good" war?
This was the war that moved the whole institution of war from something that killed primarily soldiers to something that has ever since killed primarily civilians. This was the acceptance and then the glorification of all-out war, tied to technological innovation, and transformed into a project of the entire community and an imagined economic good.
Without the World War II myth of "good war" one could not justify 70 years of militarism, materialism, and mad exploitation of planet and people ever since. Without the World War II myth, the Pope's request that the United States end the wars and the arms trade could actually be heard and comprehended. An enormous percentage of stories in film, tv, books, magazines, etc., are set in or somehow connected to World War II. An 18-year-old in Italy (or the United States, for that matter) attempting in a moment of panic to think of an historical era in which something exciting occurred, could hardly answer other than World War II.
Is there such as thing as a "good" war?
That the excitement was no greater than excitement easily obtainable today is incomprehensible to people raised on the myth. That it was overwhelmed by horrific suffering gets lost in the mythologizing.
That the region Miss Italy is from was bombed, and that the bombs didn't kill only males, has been buried in a mountain of cultural rubble. That moral clarity was most notable during World War II for its absence sounds like crazy talk to a young television viewer or reader of history text books.
Will the evildoers and warmongers be punished for their crimes? Who is responsible for this?
World War II is glorified in Hollywood because the United States was on the Russian, and therefore winning, side, having entered the European war once the Germans and Russians had killed each other for years, as Harry Truman openly advocated allowing. World War II is held up as a justification for dozens of unrelated wars that lack their own justifications, because of the particular evil of the losing side — the side that, perhaps unbeknownst to Miss Italy, Italy was on.
But of course the evil of the death camps had nothing to do with the U.S. refusal to aid Jewish refugees or stop the war short of absolute devastation. The evils of eugenics and human experimentation and biological weapons and so forth were on both sides and continued by the United States using former Nazi and Japanese scientists after the war. The creation of the war was foreseen in 1918 by many wise observers, and yet the policies that led to it were never halted. The German people were not assisted until after the second war. But the Nazis were assisted by Wall Street for years and years.
A war is a human-made disaster, just like climate chaos, just like the Miss Italy competition — only just a little bit worse. A war is not an ennobling adventure. Watching lies about it on television is not the same as "living" it would be. War is, in fact, what those unwanted refugees are fleeing. They're fleeing the wreckage of completely unromantic war, created by governments in Washington, Rome, London, and Paris that pretty much view history the way Miss Italy views it.
Boehner To Resign As Speaker, Quit Congress In October
Congress traitors the likes of Boehner never resign their power for no good reason; praise from the Obama criminals confirms his place in history as nothing more than a snivelling, ass-kissing White House lackey and corporate prostitute
By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner will leave Congress at the end of October after struggling with repeated rebellions by conservatives during a tumultuous five-year reign as the chamber's top Republican.
John Boehner: Crying communist, inside trader
crook, wino, GOP Speaker
The 65-year-old Ohio lawmaker stunned Republican House members at a meeting on Friday morning with the announcement that he would leave the top job in the 435-seat chamber and resign his seat effective on Oct. 30.
U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy, 50, of California, the No. 2 House Republican, quickly became the leading contender to replace Boehner as speaker. While loyal to Boehner, McCarthy has built personal relationships with conservative groups and tacked right recently to back the shutdown of the Export-Import bank.
Boehner (pronounced BOE-ner) told reporters McCarthy "would make an excellent speaker."
Boehner has faced constant pressure from conservatives who believe he was too willing to compromise with President Barack Obama and too frequently relied on Democratic votes to pass crucial legislation.
Obama praised the speaker as "a good man" and said he hoped Boehner would be in a position to get a lot done before he leaves.
Boehner told reporters he was stepping aside to avoid another brewing House battle over his leadership. Conservatives had threatened a revolt and possible government shutdown over spending next week.
Blubbering, whining traitor a disgrace to
America and Americans
"It's become clear to me this prolonged leadership turmoil would do irreparable harm to the institution," Boehner told a news conference. He fought back tears as he thanked his family but happily sang "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" to indicate he was far from broken up about the decision. "It's the right time to do it, and frankly I'm entirely comfortable doing it," Boehner said. His move eased the threat of a federal government shutdown next week, Republicans said, freeing Boehner to forge ahead with a "clean" spending bill that funds the women's healthcare group Planned Parenthood without fear of reprisal from conservatives who object to the group's abortion services.
But the battle over Boehner's successor could coincide with fights later this year over government spending and raising the federal debt limit, complicating those battles and adding more uncertainty for financial markets.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a longtime foe of Boehner and his predecessor as speaker, said his pending departure would be "a distraction" during the spending debate and called his decision "seismic to the House."
On Thursday, Boehner, a Roman Catholic, realized a longtime goal of hosting Pope Francis for an address to Congress. As he stood with the pope to greet crowds on the Capitol's West front, he broke down in tears.
'TODAY'S THE DAY'
Boehner said he had planned to step down as speaker at the end of 2014 but changed his calculation when his No. 2 at the time, Eric Cantor, lost his seat last year in a Republican primary.
He then planned to announce in November that he would leave at the end of this year, he said, but came to the conclusion after his morning prayers on Friday that "today's the day I'm going to do this. Simple as that."
He informed staff just before the morning meeting with Republican House members.
"I saw him recently and he looked weary. Understandably, he was tired," U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona, also a Republican, told reporters. "Sometimes we fail to appreciate that these are human beings with human emotions and lives to lead."
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal opinion poll on Friday found 72 percent of Republican primary voters were dissatisfied with Boehner and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.
Raucous cheers broke out at a gathering of religious conservatives in Washington when Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, announced that Boehner planned to step down.
Ass-licking traitor John McCain pays tribute to fellow
drunken prostitute, whining douchebag Boehner
"I'm not here to bash anyone," Rubio told the crowd. "But the time has come to turn the page." Despite their clashes, Boehner frequently had bowed to the House's conservative wing, standing by as conservatives forced a government shutdown in 2013 and abandoning comprehensive immigration reform in 2013 and 2014. Many Republican lawmakers predicted McCarthy would be the next speaker.
The five-term lawmaker has built bridges to Tea Party conservatives and bucked Boehner by abandoning support for renewing the charter of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Conservatives successfully killed renewal of the bank's charter, arguing government should not meddle by picking economic winners and losers. Ex-Im offers financing to foreign buyers of U.S. goods.
Obama will now have to procure another bitch to do his bidding in Congress
McCarthy ignored reporters' questions about his future plans as he exited the morning meeting.
"Now is the time for our (House Republican) conference to focus on healing and unifying to face the challenges ahead and always do what is best for the American people," he said in a statement.
There was no immediate market reaction.
Phil Orlando, chief equity market strategist at Federated Investors, said: "The near-term news is good in that it suggests that Boehner is going to get a clean bill through as his last act as speaker, but the question becomes what happens post-Halloween and who the new speaker is going to be."
The son of a bar owner and one of 12 children, Boehner is the only college graduate in his family. He grew up in Cincinnati and served in the U.S. Navy in 1969, then became a small businessman before launching a political career.
Boehner may still have a lot to cry about with the multiple scandals he was involved in awaiting investigation and prosecutions
On Thursday evening as Boehner left the Capitol, he told two reporters - one from Politico and another from the Washington Post - that he had nothing left to accomplish after bringing Pope Francis to the Capitol, Politico reported.
Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu and Patrick Rucker; Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Howard Goller.
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That month, Himmler ordered the evacuation of all camps, charging camp commanders with "making sure that not a single prisoner from the concentration camps falls alive into the hands of the enemy".[239] Beginning on 17 January, 56,000–58,000 Auschwitz detainees—over 20,000 from Auschwitz I and II, over 30,000 from subcamps, and two-thirds of them Jews—were evacuated under guard, largely on foot, in severe winter conditions, heading west.[240][241] Around 2,200 were evacuated by rail from two subcamps; fewer than 9,000 were left behind, deemed too sick to move.[242] During the marches, camp staff shot anyone too sick or exhausted to continue, or anyone stopping to urinate or tie a shoelace. SS officers walked behind the marchers killing anyone lagging behind who had not already been shot.[234] Peter Longerich estimates that a quarter of the detainees were thus killed.[235] Those who managed to walk to Wodzisław Śląski and Gliwice were sent on open freight cars, without food, to concentration camps in Germany: Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenburg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Dora-Mittelbau, Ravensbruck, and Sachsenhausen.[243]
By the spring of 1945, German leadership was dissolving amid internal dissent, with Goering and Himmler both seeking to distance themselves from Hitler and take power. In his last will and political testament, dictated in a German bunker that April 29, Hitler blamed the war on "International Jewry and its helpers" and urged the German leaders and people to follow "the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples"–the Jews. The following day, he committed suicide. Germany's formal surrender in World War II came barely a week later, on May 8, 1945.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination and concentration camp, located in the Polish town of Oswiecim, 37 miles west of Cracow. One sixth of all Jews murdered by the Nazis were gassed at Auschwitz. In April 1940 SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the establishment of a new concentration camp in Oswiecim, a town located within the portion of Poland that was annexed to Germany at the beginning of World War II. The first Polish political prisoners arrived in Auschwitz in June 1940, and by March 1941 there were 10,900 prisoners, the majority of whom were Polish. Auschwitz soon became known as the most brutal of the Nazi concentration camps.
The film rights to Page's story were actually first purchased by MGM for $50,000 in the 1960s after Page had similarly ambushed the wife of film producer Marvin Gosch at his leather shop. Mrs. Gosch told the story to her husband, who agreed to produce a film version, even going so far as hiring Casablanca co-screenwriter Howard Koch to write the script. Koch and Gosch began interviewing Schindler Jews in and around the Los Angeles area, and even Schindler himself, before the project stalled, leaving the story unknown to the public at large.
Under Laks' more positive leadership, the orchestra began to increase in size again. His efforts won his musicians easier work assignments and a dispensation not to play outdoors in bad weather. By the end of 1943, there were about forty members, including many Jews, from France, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Greece. They included Henry Meyer, Louis Bannet, and Jacques Stroumsa.
On October 7, 1944, several hundred prisoners assigned to Crematorium IV at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebelled after learning that they were going to be killed. During the uprising, the prisoners killed three guards and blew up the crematorium and adjacent gas chamber. The prisoners used explosives smuggled into the camp by Jewish women who had been assigned to forced labor in a nearby armaments factory.
A parallel system to the main camp in Auschwitz began to operate at the Birkenau camp by 1942. The exception, though, was that the majority of "showers" used to delouse the incoming prisoners proved to be gas chambers. At Birkenau, only about 10 percent of Jewish transports were registered, disinfected, shaven and showered in the "central sauna" before being assigned barracks as opposed to being sent directly to the death chambers.
An inmate's first encounter with the camp, if they were being registered and not sent straight to the gas chamber, would be at the prisoner reception centre, where they were tattooed, shaved, disinfected, and given their striped prison uniform. Built between 1942 and 1944, the center contained a bathhouse, laundry, and 19 gas chambers for delousing clothes. Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt write that inmates would then leave this area via a porch that faced the gate with the Arbeit macht frei sign. The prisoner reception center of Auschwitz I became the visitor reception center of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.[20]
Overy wrote that blitzkrieg as a "coherent military and economic concept has proven a difficult strategy to defend in light of the evidence".[127] Milward's theory was contrary to Hitler's and German planners' intentions. The Germans, aware of the errors of the First World War, rejected the concept of organising its economy to fight only a short war. Therefore, focus was given to the development of armament in depth for a long war, instead of armament in breadth for a short war. Hitler claimed that relying on surprise alone was "criminal" and that "we have to prepare for a long war along with surprise attack". During the winter of 1939–40, Hitler demobilised many troops from the army to return as skilled workers to factories because the war would be decided by production, not a quick "Panzer operation".[128]
Subject to harsh conditions—including inadequate shelter and sanitation—given minimal food, and worked to exhaustion, those who could no longer work faced transport back to Birkenau for gassing. German corporations invested heavily in the slave-labour industries adjacent to Auschwitz. In 1942 IG Farben alone invested more than 700 million Reichsmarks in its facilities at Auschwitz III.
Schindler's story remained largely the province of Holocaust scholars until the publication in 1982 of Schindler's Ark, a Booker Prize-winning novelization by Thomas Keneally. The novel, which became a canonical text of Holocaust literature, was later used as the basis for Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List (1993), which starred Liam Neeson as Schindler and Ralph Fiennes as Göth.
Auschwitz inmates began working at the plant, known as Buna Werke and IG Auschwitz, in April 1941, and demolishing houses in Monowitz to make way for it. By May, because of a shortage of trucks, several hundred of them were rising at 3 am to walk there twice a day from Auschwitz I.[53] Anticipating that a long line of exhausted inmates walking through the town of Oświęcim might harm German-Polish relations, the inmates were told to shave daily, make sure they were clean, and sing as they walked. From late July they were taken there by train on freight wagons.[54] Because of the difficulty of moving them, including during the winter, IG Farben decided to build a camp at the plant. The first inmates moved there on 30 October 1942.[55] Known as KL Auschwitz III-Aussenlager (Auschwitz III-subcamps), and later as Monowitz concentration camp,[56] it was the first concentration camp to be financed and built by private industry.[57]
SS officers, including the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele, would conduct selections among these lines, sending most victims to one side and thus condemning them to death in the gas chambers. A minority was sent to the other side, destined for forced labor. Those who were sent to their deaths were killed that same day and their corpses were burnt in the crematoria. Those not sent to the gas chambers were taken to "quarantine," where their hair was shaved, striped prison uniforms distributed, and registration took place. Prisoners' individual registration numbers were tattooed onto their left arm.
In the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, operations involved some aspects of what would later be called blitzkrieg.[38] Key elements in the "blitzkrieg warfare" at the decisive Battle of Megiddo included concentration, surprise and speed; success depended on attacking only in terrain favoring the movement of large formations around the battlefield and tactical improvements in the British artillery and infantry attack.[39][40] General Edmund Allenby used infantry to attack the strong Ottoman front line in co-operation with supporting artillery, augmented by the guns of two destroyers.[41][42] Through constant pressure by infantry and cavalry, two Ottoman armies in the Judean Hills were kept off-balance and virtually encircled during the Battles of Sharon and Nablus (Battle of Megiddo).[43]
The Auschwitz concentration camp (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) and administrative headquarters, in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II–Birkenau, a combined concentration/extermination camp three kilometers away in Brzezinka; Auschwitz III–Monowitz, a labor camp seven kilometers from Auschwitz I, set up to staff an IG Farben synthetic-rubber factory; and dozens of other subcamps.[2]
One element that was lacking from the German army in 1914 was the ability to move long distances quickly. Had the German army been mechanised at the outbreak of World War One, it is likely that the outcome of the war would have been very different. As things were then, the German army was unable to defeat its enemies decisively in the war's early battles, and reluctantly settled into trench warfare in late 1914.
Military trucks loaded with bread arrived on 28 January, and volunteers began to offer first aid and improvised assistance the following week.[249] The liberation of the camp received little Western press attention at the time. Laurence Rees attributes this to three factors: the previous discovery of similar crimes at the Majdanek concentration camp, competing news from the Allied summit at Yalta, and the Soviet Union's Marxist presentation of the camp "as the ultimate capitalist factory where the workers were dispensible", combined with its interest in minimizing attention to Jewish suffering.[252]
Eventually the studio bought the rights to the book, and when Page met with Spielberg to discuss the story, the director promised the Holocaust survivor that he would make the film adaptation within 10 years. The project languished for over a decade because Spielberg was reluctant to take on such serious subject matter. Spielberg's hesitation actually stopped Hollywood veteran Billy Wilder from making Schindler's List his final film. Wilder tried to buy the rights to Keneally's book, but Spielberg and MCA/Universal scooped them up before he could.
When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, it gained control of about 2 million Jews in the occupied territory. The rest of Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union, which had control of the rest of Poland's pre-war population of 3.3–3.5 million Jews.[141] German plans for Poland included expelling gentile Poles from large areas, confining Jews, and settling Germans on the emptied lands.[142] The Germans initiated a policy of sending Jews from all territories they had recently annexed (Austria, Czechoslovakia, and western Poland) to the central section of Poland, which they called the General Government. There, the Jews were concentrated in ghettos in major cities,[143] chosen for their railway lines to facilitate later deportation.[144] Food supplies were restricted, public hygiene was difficult, and the inhabitants were often subjected to forced labor.[145] In the work camps and ghettos, at least half a million Jews died of starvation, disease, and poor living conditions.[146] Jeremy Black writes that the ghettos were not intended, in 1939, as a step towards the extermination of the Jews. Instead, they were viewed as part of a policy of creating a territorial reservation to contain them.[147][l]
Between April and June of 1940, Germany invaded Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg consolidating power across neutral Western Europe. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice with Germany, which divided France between the German-occupied territory in the north and the Vichy regime in the south. Although officially neutral, the French state during this time was generally pro-Nazi and cooperated with Germany's racial policies.
Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in the city of Svitavy [Zwittau], in the Sudetenland, now part of the Czech Republic. The eldest of two children, Oskar's father, Hans Schindler, was a farm-equipment manufacturer, his mother, Louisa, was a homemaker. Oscar and his sister, Elfriede, attended a German-language school where he was popular, though not an exceptional student. Forgoing the opportunity to attend college, he went to trade school instead, taking courses in several areas.
A Jewish skeleton collection was obtained from among a pool of 115 Jewish Auschwitz inmates, chosen for their perceived stereotypical racial characteristics.[b] Rudolf Brandt and Wolfram Sievers, general manager of the Ahnenerbe (a Nazi research institute), delivered the skeletons to the collection of the Anatomy Institute at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg in Occupied France. The collection was sanctioned by Himmler and under the direction of August Hirt. Ultimately 87 of the inmates were shipped to Natzweiler-Struthof and killed in August 1943.[135] Brandt and Sievers were executed in 1948 after being convicted during the Doctors' trial, part of the Subsequent Nuremberg trials.[citation needed]
Companies operate in a very similar fashion to military units when it comes to org structures. The army has specialized divisions. Businesses have departments. But instead of focusing on infantry, air or supplies, companies focus on engineering, product, marketing and so on. And the core thing that an executive needs to learn from the application of Blitzkrieg is that all departments need to be synchronized in order for the maneuver to succeed. It may sound obvious considering most executives are familiar with agile methodologies, and more than 70% of companies consider themselves nimble in their approach. Often, however, the actions taken by these same companies contradict how they perceive themselves.
In 1939, shortly after the war began, the Germans initiated the T4 Program—framed euphemistically as a "euthanasia" program—for the murder of intellectually or physically disabled and emotionally disturbed Germans who by their very existence violated the Nazi ideal of Aryan supremacy. They were termed "life unworthy of life." An economic justification was also employed as these Germans were considered "useless eaters." The Nazis pioneered the use of gas chambers and mass crematoria under this program. The murder of the disabled was the training ground for key personnel who were to later staff the death camps of Aktion Reinhard. The German public protested these murders. The Roman Catholic bishop of Münster, Clemens August, Graf von Galen, preached against them, and the T4 program was formally halted. Nonetheless, the murder and sterilization of these German "Aryans" continued secretly throughout the war.
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Now Albert Goering, who died in 1966, is being considered for an honour given to those who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. A file is being prepared at Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, the Holocaust memorial and research centre in Israel, to put Albert Goering forward for the Righteous Among the Nations award. A campaign to honour him follows growing recognition of his efforts to save victims of the Nazis.
By the end of 1934 Hitler was in absolute control of Germany, and his campaign against the Jews in full swing. The Nazis claimed the Jews corrupted pure German culture with their "foreign" and "mongrel" influence. They portrayed the Jews as evil and cowardly, and Germans as hardworking, courageous, and honest. The Jews, the Nazis claimed, who were heavily represented in finance, commerce, the press, literature, theater, and the arts, had weakened Germany's economy and culture. The massive government-supported propaganda machine created a racial anti-Semitism, which was different from the longstanding anti-Semitic tradition of the Christian churches.
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^ Now came the riposte - a counter-attack [...] from the forest of Villers-Cotterets [...]. The French had developed a light and fast-moving tank. Two generals, Debeney on the British right, and Mangin, to his right, began the tactics that were to become famous in 1940 as Blitzkrieg - tanks, fast-moving infantry, and aircraft flying low to keep the German gunners' heads down. Three hundred tanks (Renault) and eighteen divisions, two of them American, struck in open cornfield, entirely by surprise, and went five miles forward. With the whole of the German force in the Marne salient threatened by a cut-off, Ludendorff pulled back from it, back to Chemin des Dames. By 4 August the French had taken 30,000 prisoners and 600 guns.[46]
Almost all Jews within areas occupied by the Germans were killed. There were 3,020,000 Jews in the Soviet Union in 1939, and the losses were 1–1.1 million.[400] Around one million Jews were killed by the Einsatzgruppen in the occupied Soviet territories.[401][402] Of Poland's 3.3 million Jews, about 90 percent were killed.[369] Many more died in the ghettos of Poland before they could be deported.[403] The death camps accounted for half the number of Jews killed; 80–90 percent of death-camp victims are estimated to have been Jews.[394] At Auschwitz-Birkenau the Jewish death toll was 1.1 million;[286][404] Treblinka 870,000–925,000;[405] Bełżec 434,000–600,000;[406][287] Chełmno 152,000–320,000;[407][288] Sobibór 170,000–250,000;[408][291] and Majdanek 79,000.[289]
Auschwitz, perhaps the most notorious and lethal of the concentration camps, was actually three camps in one: a prison camp (Auschwitz I), an extermination camp (Auschwitz II–Birkenau), and a slave labour camp (Auschwitz III–Buna-Monowitz). Upon arrival, Jewish prisoners faced what was called a Selektion. A German doctor presided over the selection of pregnant women, young children, the elderly, handicapped, sick, and infirm for immediate death in the gas chambers. As necessary, the Germans selected able-bodied prisoners for forced labour in the factories adjacent to Auschwitz, where one German company, IG Farben, invested 700 million Reichsmarks in 1942 alone to take advantage of forced labour, a capital investment. The conglomerate presumed that slave labour would be a permanent part of the German economy. Deprived of adequate food, shelter, clothing, and medical care, these prisoners were literally worked to death. Periodically, they would face another Selektion. The Nazis would transfer those unable to work to the gas chambers of Birkenau.
The most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death", who worked in Auschwitz II from 30 May 1943, at first in the gypsy family camp.[127] Particularly interested in performing research on identical twins, dwarfs, and those with hereditary disease, Mengele set up a kindergarten in barracks 29 and 31 for children he was experimenting on, and for all Romani children under six, where they were given better food rations.[128] From May 1944, he would select twins and dwarfs during selection on the Judenrampe,[129] reportedly calling for twins with "Zwillinge heraus!" ("twins step forward!").[130] He and other doctors (the latter prisoners) would measure the twins' body parts, photograph them, and subject them to dental, sight and hearing tests, x-rays, blood tests, surgery, and blood transfusions between them.[131] Then he would have them killed and dissected.[129] Kurt Heissmeyer, another German doctor and SS officer, took 20 Jewish children from Auschwitz to use in pseudoscientific medical experiments at the Neuengamme concentration camp.[132] In April 1945, the children were killed by hanging to conceal the project.[133]
The first "bunker," with two sealed rooms, operated from January 1942 to the end of that year. The second, with four air tight rooms, became redundant in the spring of 1943, but remained standing and was used again in the autumn of 1944 when extra "capacity" was needed for the murder of Hungarian Jews and the liquidation of the ghettos. The second measured about 1.134 square feet. The victims murdered in the "bunkers" were first obliged to undress in temporary wooden barracks erected nearby. Their bodies were taken out of the gas chambers and pushed to pits where they were burned in the open.
Schindler Ahead LogBook is the digital document repository to ease the handling of building equipment documents. Having one central place to compile technical and legal documents or user guides ends the need for exhaustive searches and paper copies. Everything is digital, easy to navigate and accessible from any device. The web-based system also allows file sharing with residents and partners. Paperless and stress less.
Soviet civilian populations in the occupied areas were heavily persecuted.[438] Villages throughout the Soviet Union were destroyed by German troops.[439] Germans rounded up civilians for forced labor in Germany and caused famine by taking foodstuffs.[440] In Belarus, Germany imposed a regime that deported some 380,000 people for slave labor and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. Over 600 villages had their entire populations killed, and at least 5,295 Belarusian settlements were destroyed by the Germans. According to Timothy Snyder, of "the nine million people who were in the territory of Soviet Belarus in 1941, some 1.6 million were killed by the Germans in actions away from battlefields, including about 700,000 prisoners of war, 500,000 Jews, and 320,000 people counted as partisans (the vast majority of whom were unarmed civilians)".[441] The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has estimated that 3.3 million of 5.7 million Soviet POWs died in German custody.[442] The death rates decreased as the POWs were needed to help the German war effort; by 1943, half a million had been deployed as slave labor.[409]
The complex, which divided into three main areas, was established by the Nazi's in 1940 and was in use until its Allied liberation in 1945. Historians and analysts estimate the number of people murdered at Auschwitz somewhere between 2.1 million to 4 million, of whom the vast majority were Jews. The majority of prisoners held at Auschwitz were killed in the various gas chambers though many died from starvation, forced labor, disease, shooting squads, and heinous medical experiments.
The logistics of the mass murder turned Germany into what Michael Berenbaum called a "genocidal state".[34] Eberhard Jäckel wrote in 1986 that it was the first time a state had thrown its power behind the idea that an entire people should be wiped out.[h] Anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was to be exterminated,[36] and complex rules were devised to deal with Mischlinge ("mixed breeds": half and quarter Jews).[37] Bureaucrats identified who was a Jew, confiscated property, and scheduled trains to deport them. Companies fired Jews and later used them as slave labor. Universities dismissed Jewish faculty and students. German pharmaceutical companies tested drugs on camp prisoners; other companies built the crematoria.[34] As prisoners entered the death camps, they were ordered to surrender all personal property, which was catalogued and tagged before being sent to Germany for reuse or recycling.[38] Through a concealed account, the German National Bank helped launder valuables stolen from the victims.[39]
September 21, 1939 - Heydrich issues instructions to SS Einsatzgruppen (special action squads) in Poland regarding treatment of Jews, stating they are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal." He also orders a census and the establishment of Jewish administrative councils within the ghettos to implement Nazi policies and decrees.
In fall 1941, the Nazis began transporting Jews out of the ghetto. Most of them were sent to the Bełżec extermination camp and killed.[45] On 13 March 1943, the ghetto was liquidated and those still fit for work were sent to the new concentration camp at Płaszów.[46] Several thousand not deemed fit for work were sent to extermination camps and killed. Hundreds more were killed on the streets by the Nazis as they cleared out the ghetto. Schindler, aware of the plans because of his Wehrmacht contacts, had his workers stay at the factory overnight to prevent them coming to harm.[47] Schindler witnessed the liquidation of the ghetto and was appalled. From that point forward, says Schindlerjude Sol Urbach, Schindler "changed his mind about the Nazis. He decided to get out and to save as many Jews as he could."[48]

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EUR/USD: The trend remains positive after the rally of the last week
After having already increased sharply last week, the EUR/USD pair maintains a positive orientation on Monday, managing to score new heights.
Recall that the EUR/USD took advantage of the weakness of the Dollar, mainly because of the meeting of the Fed's dovish tone that has the eyes of the market increased the likelihood the Fed will lower soon its rates.
This morning, the Euro-Dollar marked the end of a peak at 1.1392 , almost reaching the next goal of the psychological threshold of 1.14.
The IFO index in line with expectations, with remarks optimistic of the IFO institute, who declares that he does not expect a recession in Germany also seems to have supported the Euro.
It should be noted, however, that it was the one and only statistics, potentially influential expected in the economic calendar of the day.
The news, however, could still bring volatility, with tensions still bright between the USA and Iran, and with the resumption of talks on China-USA in view of the encounter Trump-Xi scheduled this week.
From a graphical point of view, we could meet this morning an important bullish signal, with the crossover of the moving average 100 hours above the moving average 200 hours.
The psychological threshold of 1.14 in which the pair approach more and more, is the next resistance to be taken into account. Beyond, 1.15 will be considered as a key objective.
Has the downside, a first support intraday lies to 1.1370, before another higher level of support around 1.1340, and then on the psychological threshold of 1.13.


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Graves moved in Northeast cemetery to make way for parking lot
Once an estate owned by Declaration of Independence signer Benjamin Rush, the Knights of Pythias Greenwood Cemetery was chartered in 1869 as an inviting burial park with rolling hills and tree-lined paths.
Archaeologists from Louis Berger Group dig at a grave site. (Akira Suwa / Staff Photographer )Read more
by By Sam Wood, Inquirer Staff Writer
This story was originally published Dec. 7, 2009
Scores of veterans of the Civil War and Spanish American War are interred at the 44-acre burial ground in the Northeast. Perhaps its most famous residents are W.C. Fields' parents, James and Kate Dukenfield.
Now, on six muddy acres, archaeologists are digging up the remains of thousands of people. Since July, more than 1,500 bodies have been disinterred to make way for the Cancer Treatment Center of America's need for 200 parking spots.
But this, as the song says, is more than paving paradise and putting up a parking lot.
Greenwood, on Adams Avenue near Castor Avenue, has languished in rack and ruin for decades. Dump trucks piled millions of tons of industrial waste onto family plots, burying many under an additional 20 feet of debris.
The trade-off for disturbing the eternal rest of nearly 3,000 souls, some of whom have lain in plots for 150 years?
The cemetery gets $1.2 million to renovate the crumbling Rush house and restore the grounds to their former glory. The remains, which are being moved at a cost of $3 million, will be reinterred in concrete vaults and topped with a new memorial.
The project has been described as a win for both hospital officials and cemetery supporters.
Back in the 1930s, when Elizabeth and Ralph Clare were buried at Greenwood, families still gathered there to have picnics and tend to the graves of loved ones.
But like scores of historic cemeteries in the region, the grounds fell into decline as the dead were forgotten and families stopped paying for upkeep.
Joanne Clare, 57, grew up making regular visits to her grandparents' plot. As the years passed, she watched as the cemetery went to seed. Junked cars were abandoned near her ancestors' graves. Weeds and saplings grew unchecked.
Vandals toppled her family's tombstones. Her father struggled with cemetery managers to right them.
"He couldn't get them to do anything," Clare said.
Clare was horrified when she visited in 2001, she said.
"It looked like an overgrown forest with tires, steel-mill slag, and cement chunks littered all over the place," she said. "You could only get back there in the winter, and even then it was like taking your life into your own hands."
She joined the Friends of Greenwood, a volunteer organization that maintains the cemetery's records, helps families look up burial sites, and stages periodic cleanups of the grounds, which hold more than 28,000 graves.
"I was sick to my stomach and very aggravated on why and how it got this way," said Clare, who became a member of the group's board of directors the next year.
In 2005, the Cancer Treatment Centers of America took over vacant Parkview Hospital, next to the cemetery.
The cancer center, which opened with 160 employees, expects to have more than 1,000 on staff by 2010. With more employees comes a need for more parking, marketing director John Goodchild said.
Long-range plans for the center also include a guesthouse for patients' families and additional clinical buildings, Goodchild said.
The only place to expand was into the cemetery.
The center's parent company created an affiliate that bought a majority of the cemetery's shares and to which it then paid $1.2 million for nine acres.
The parent firm also agreed to cover the cost to move the remains to vaults at the better-preserved northern end of the necropolis.
"We've had a handful of cases where cemeteries have been reborn," said Thomas Keels, author of Philadelphia Graveyards and Cemeteries. "This is one of the first cases where a corporation has stepped in and said, 'If we can make this trade, we will help restore the cemetery.' "
The project began in June, and archaeologists started removing remains July 15.
Last month, Roderick Brown, principal archaeologist for the Louis Berger Group, ambled down a path littered with broken concrete and black foundry sand.
"Six months ago, this was a jungle," he said. "When the project began, there were archaeologists swinging machetes just to clear it."
The end of the trail opened onto one of two dig sites at the cemetery's south end. Two archaeologists watched as an excavating machine scraped the earth.
"They're looking for soil discolorations that are indicative of a grave," Brown said. Around him, hundreds of pink ribbons fluttered from stakes that marked formerly occupied plots. "We're finding people where they're not supposed to be."
Of the 3,000 graves, only 230 had tombstones, Brown said.
"Most of the folks just couldn't afford them. That's my guess," he said. "Others had metal markers. Some may have had wooden crosses that just deteriorated."
In most cases, the archaeologists have unearthed full skeletons. But some exhumations have been trickier.
"If bodies remain under the water table or above it, they're usually well-preserved," Brown said. "Those people buried in an area with a fluctuating water table, going from wet to dry, are completely dissolved."
Wooden coffins are rarely in good enough shape to remove intact.
"Sometimes all we see is a stain. There's no actual wood there," Brown said. "Very few of the coffins were placed in protective vaults, and some bodies were never placed in coffins."
A few people have volunteered to help disinter relatives. Among them was Clare, who in late August helped an archaeologist remove the grandparents she never met.
"It was an emotional experience," Clare said. "Before we started, I introduced myself to them and apologized for what we had to do."
The remains were moved to a plot in the northern end of the cemetery.
"Now," she said, "they're in an area we can visit and honor them."
By Sam Wood, Inquirer Staff Writer


Museums and D.C. just seem to go together. In fact, D.C. currently has more than 70 museums to choose from, with varieties ranging from the Smithsonian museums to the Brewmaster's Castle. Which begs the question: With all the variety, how can you possibly choose what to see?
Everyone knows about the National Air and Space Museum in D.C.—but, truth be told, it's in desperate need of a renovation. In fact, it's slated for one in 2018. Until then, a branch of the NASM called the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is an amazing site to behold. Not only is it significantly newer, but it has some features that the D.C. NASM doesn't (and probably won't ever) have—since it's enormous, it features not only loads of aircraft and spacecraft, but an actual space shuttle—the Discovery. Plus, the Observation Tower is a fun airport simulator, and offers nice views of airplanes taking off from Dulles.
This may seem a little out of left-field, but trust us—it's definitely worth a visit. Nestled inside the National Arboretum (a huge, gorgeous collection of trees, shrubs, flowers, and more) and past the nest of baby eagles is the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum. This museum has more than 150 plants—some of which are hundreds of years old. One bonsai in particular is nearly 400 years old and actually survived the blast at Hiroshima before being donated to the museum as a gift of friendship during the U.S. bicentennial. Considering the fact that bonsai require daily care (across hundreds of years) and are a true art form in and of themselves—deep significance can be found layered within each plant—this is a truly fascinating stop.
This museum is a rollicking good time, for sure. Besides detailing the history of spycraft, everyone who makes their way through the museum gets to be a spy, with a fake identity and all. Plus, the current exhibition is certain to thrill Bond fans. Titled "Exquisitly Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains," all visitors get to see more than 100 artifacts from the movies, all tied into audio and film clips. Plus, you get to play around in a couple different activities, including one involving diffusing an atomic bomb.


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Best Buy, Amazon and Walmart Leading Retail's Race into Home-Based Care
By Bailey Bryant | September 29, 2019 September 29, 2019
The race to move health care into the home is on, and a growing number of major retailers are officially in the running.
In just about a week's time, news broke that Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Amazon (NYSE: AMZN) and Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) are all separately making moves in the space. As the federal government continues to incentivize home- and community-based care, these big businesses and others are betting those will be the care settings of the future.
Most recently, Best Buy officials announced Wednesday that the electronics company is looking toward in-home senior care as a large source of future growth. Specifically, leadership announced its goal to provide 5 million seniors with health monitoring services in five years.
Morgan Stanley hinted at the news in a recent research report even before it was announced.
"We don't think the market fully grasps Best Buy's commitment to health," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in the report.
Potentially, Best Buy could eventually be bringing in a whopping $46 billion in long-term revenues, the firm contends. Currently, the company only posts about $43 billion in overall annual revenues.
Best Buy's interest in home-based care isn't new. In 2018, it purchased GreatCall, which develops and sells smartphones, medical alert devices and other tech products that help seniors age in place.
Then, earlier this year, the Richfield, Minnesota-based company also acquired Critical Signal Technologies, a company that makes remote products, also designed for aging in place.
"In our view, Best Buy is assembling what could prove to be a formidable ecosystem focused on senior health, which it can use its nationwide footprint to scale over time," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in the report. "Looking ahead, we believe Best Buy's deeper push into health monitoring, related efforts to reduce medical expenses for insurers, and right to share in the cost savings represent a significant revenue and profit opportunity in the long term."
Meanwhile, Amazon and Walmart have taken a different approach.
When it comes to in-home care, Amazon is getting its toes wet with employees first. Last week, the company announced the rollout of Amazon Care, a new virtual care clinic pilot available to Seattle-based employees and their dependents.
Users can chat with a doctor remotely via text or video. They also have the option to receive in-home follow up care and get prescriptions delivered to their door, according to Amazon.care.
And the online retail giant has expressed interest in expanding the pilot if things go well — something we've seen the Seattle-based company do in the past with other employee benefits.
Finally, Walmart is getting in the home-based care game with a prototype of its new Walmart Health clinic, which features an Amedisys Inc. (Nasdaq: AMED) kiosk designed to help educate customers and potential patients on home health services.
The first location opened earlier this month in Dallas, Georgia, adjacent to a Walmart store. Inside the 10,000 square-foot facility, patients can access a "variety of services," a Walmart spokesperson previously told Home Health Care News.
"Among them is home health, hospice and personal care, so if a customer has questions or needs information, they can discuss with the on-site partner, Amedisys." the spokesperson said.
On top of that, Sam's Club — which is owned by Walmart — announced a new health care pilot, Sam's Club Care Accelerator, in partnership with 98point6 and Humana.
The goal is to reduce health care costs by giving members access to bundled healthcare services and text-based doctors who are available 24/7 for just $1 per session. The pilot is set to test in Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, with the potential for a larger rollout later.
While efforts from all three big-name retailers are in their early stages, they have the potential to disrupt the home-based care industry. Plus, these moves and incentives from the federal government to transition more care into the home will undoubtedly inspire more large corporations to join the home-based care race in the months and years to come.
Amazon, Amedisys Inc., Best Buy, Critical Signal Technologies, GreatCall, Sam's Club, Walmart
Bailey Bryant
When she's not reporting, Bailey likes exploring Chicago for brunch spots and workout classes. Previously, she worked in book and magazine publishing before becoming a tv reporter.
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package codejudge.compiler;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.Socket;

import codejudge.compiler.languages.C;
import codejudge.compiler.languages.Cpp;
import codejudge.compiler.languages.Java;
import codejudge.compiler.languages.Language;
import codejudge.compiler.languages.Python;

public class RequestThread extends Thread {

	Socket s; // socket connection
	int n; // request number
	File dir; // staging directory

	public RequestThread(Socket s, int n) {
		this.s=s;
		this.n=n;
		dir = new File("stage/" + n);
	}

	public void run() {
		dir.mkdirs(); // create staging directory
		try {
			BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(s.getInputStream()));
			PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(s.getOutputStream(), true);
			// read input from the PHP script
			String file = in.readLine();
			int timeout = Integer.parseInt(in.readLine());
			String contents = in.readLine().replace("$_n_$", "\n");
			String input = in.readLine().replace("$_n_$", "\n");
			String lang = in.readLine();
			System.out.println("Compiling " + file + "...");
			// create the sample input file
			PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream("stage/" + n +"/in.txt"));
			writer.println(input);
			writer.close();
			Language l = null;
			// create the language specific compiler
			if(lang.equals("c"))
				l = new C(file, timeout, contents, dir.getAbsolutePath());
			else if(lang.equals("cpp"))
				l = new Cpp(file, timeout, contents, dir.getAbsolutePath());
			else if(lang.equals("java"))
				l = new Java(file, timeout, contents, dir.getAbsolutePath());
			else if(lang.equals("python"))
				l = new Python(file, timeout, contents, dir.getAbsolutePath());
			l.compile(); // compile the file
			String errors = compileErrors();
			if(!errors.equals("")) { // check for compilation errors
				out.println("0");
				out.println(errors);
			} else {
				// execute the program and return output
				l.execute();
				if(l.timedout)
					out.println(2);
				else {
					out.println("1");
					out.println(execMsg());
				}
			}
			s.close();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	// method to return the compiler errors
	public String compileErrors() {
		String line, content = "";
		try {
			BufferedReader fin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(dir.getAbsolutePath() + "/err.txt")));
			while((line = fin.readLine()) != null)
				content += (line + "\n");
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return content.trim();
	}

	// method to return the execution output
	public String execMsg() {
		String line, content = "";
		try {
			BufferedReader fin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(dir.getAbsolutePath() + "/out.txt")));
			while((line = fin.readLine()) != null)
				content += (line + "\n");
		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return content.trim();
	}
}

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Alternatives to Google Products — The Big List
October 3, 2022 By Sven Taylor — 517 Comments
This guide aims to be the most exhaustive resource available for documenting alternatives to Google products. It has become one of the most popular guides on Restore Privacy and is now updated for 2021.
With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products.
After all, Google's business model essentially revolves around data collection and advertisements, both of which infringe on your privacy. More data means better (more targeted) ads and consequently, more revenue for Google. The company pulled in over $146 billion in ad revenue in 2020 — and that number climbs higher every year.
But the word is getting out. A growing number of people are seeking alternatives to Google products that respect their privacy and data. Since you are reading this, we assume you are one of them.
Small steps to restoring your privacy
Before we dive in, a brief word of encouragement.
When beginning the journey of restoring digital privacy, some people get overwhelmed with all the work involved, and perhaps give up. Don't let that be you. Understand that you don't need to do everything right away. Instead, start small and go step by step at your own pace. With each step in the process, you get more security and control over your personal data, which is a small victory.
So don't be overwhelmed and remember that there's no "one size fits all" with this process. Even small changes, such as using a private search engine and a privacy-focused browser, are victories. So push on in your quest for more privacy and celebrate each step of the journey.
Note: The lists below are not necessarily in rank order. Choose the best products and services based on your own unique needs.
Google search alternatives
When it comes to privacy, using Google search is not a good idea. When you use their search engine, Google is recording your IP address, search terms, user agent, and often a unique identifier, which is stored in cookies.
Here are eight Google search alternatives to consider:
MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany.
SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure.
Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that's also open source.
Qwant – A private search engine based in France.
DuckDuckGo – A private search engine based in the US.
Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK).
YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine.
Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charitable donations.
Note: With the exception of Mojeek, all of the private search engines above are technically metasearch engines, since they source their results from other search engines, such as Bing and Google.
See the new and updated best private search engines guide for additional information. Here we also explain that some "private search engines" are actually owned by advertising companies. Three examples of this are Startpage, Search Encrypt, and Ghostpeek.
Gmail alternatives
Gmail may be convenient and popular, but there are three major problems:
Your inbox is used as a data collection tool. (Did you know Google tracks your purchasing history using the receipts in your inbox?)
Rather than seeing just emails, your email inbox is also used for ads and marketing.
The contents of your inbox are being shared with Google and other random third parties.
When you remain logged in to your Gmail account, Google can easily track your activities online as you browse different websites, which may be hosting Google Analytics or Google ads (Adsense).
Here are twelve alternatives to Gmail that do well in terms of privacy:
ProtonMail – based in Switzerland; free accounts up to 500 MB
Mailfence – based in Belgium; lots of features; free accounts up to 500 MB
Tutanota – based in Germany; very secure and private; free accounts up to 1 GB
Mailbox.org – based in Germany; €1/mo with 30 day free trial
Posteo – based in Germany; €1/mo with 14 day refund window
Runbox – based in Norway; lots of storage and features; $1.66/mo with 30 day free trial
CounterMail – based in Sweden; $4.00/mo with 7 day free trial
CTemplar – based in Iceland; free accounts up to 1 GB
Kolab Now – based in Switzerland; €4.41/mo with 30 day money-back guarantee
StartMail – based in Netherlands; $5.00/mo with 7 day free trial
Soverin – based in Netherlands; €3.25/mo with partial 30 day refund window
Thexyz – based in Canada; $1.95/mo with 30 day refund window
More information on these providers is available in the secure and private email services guide.
We also have a guide on the best Gmail alternatives.
Google Chrome alternatives
Google Chrome is a popular browser, but it's also a data collection tool. Even major media outlets are starting to take notice, with the Washington Post stating that "Google's web browser has become spy software" with 11,000 tracker cookies observed in a single week.
Recently, Google has announced that it will ditch cookies in favor of a new tracking and data collection system called FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). And as you would expect from the world's largest advertising company, this new systems also comes with privacy problems.
Here are seven alternatives that offer more privacy while still being secure against hackers and other miscreants:
Firefox browser – Firefox is a very customizable, open-source browser that is popular in privacy circles. There are also many different Firefox modifications and tweaks that will give you more privacy and security. Check out Firefox Focus for a strong mobile privacy option.
Brave – Brave is a user-friendly, Chromium-based browser that is growing in popularity. It blocks trackers and ads by default while also implementing browser fingerprinting protection.
Tor browser – A hardened and secured version of Firefox that runs on the Tor network by default. (It also does a good job against browser fingerprinting.)
Ungoogled Chromium – Just as the name says, this is an open source version of Chromium that has been "ungoogled" and modified for more privacy.
Bromite (for Android) – For those who are still using Android devices, the privacy-focused Bromite browser is a great alternative to Chrome. It has ad-blocking and other privacy enhancements by default, but no support for desktop operating systems.
Of course, there are other alternatives to Chrome. These include Safari (from Apple), Microsoft Internet Explorer/Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi among others. But each of these comes with privacy drawbacks. More discussion on this topic can be found in the guide on secure and private browsers.
Google Authenticator alternatives
Google Authenticator makes it easy to use 2FA (two factor authentication) on sites and services that support it. But it only works on your smartphone, and doesn't save backups of your authentication keys. If your mobile device is lost or stolen, regaining access to all your sites and services can be a real headache. There are a number of alternatives out there, including:
Authy – The main competitor to Google Authenticator. Can back up your authentication keys making it much easier to recover after a problem. Includes versions for iOS, Android, and desktops and can sync your keys between all of them.
There's only one drawback to Authy for us privacy types – it is not open source.
FreeOTP – A free and open source replacement for Google Authenticator on iOS and Android devices. Attractive and easy to use, but features are limited.
AndOTP – Another free and open source authenticator with backup/restore capability. Only works on Android devices.
Other alternatives to Google Authenticator include the authenticator built into some password managers (LastPass, for example) and hardware security keys like the Yubikey line of products.
If you're looking for a private, secure cloud storage option, you can check out these Google Drive alternatives:
Tresorit – A user-friendly cloud storage option based in Switzerland.
Sync.com – Based in Canada, Sync offers a secure, encrypted cloud storage solution for businesses and individuals.
MEGA – Based in New Zealand, MEGA offers very affordable plans and lots of secure cloud storage space.
NordLocker – From the team behind NordVPN and also NordPass comes NordLocker. NordLocker is a hybrid encryption tool and secure cloud storage.
Nextcloud – Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sharing and collaboration platform, based in Germany.
There are many other well-known Google Drive alternatives like Dropbox, but they don't score high marks in the privacy category.
Check out our roundup of the best cloud storage solutions for more info on these and others.
Google Calendar alternative
Here are some Google Calendar alternatives:
Lightning Calendar – An open source calendar option developed by Mozilla. It is compatible with the Thunderbird email program and the Seamonkey software suite.
Etar – An open source, basic calendar option for Android and iOS.
If you are looking for a solution that includes both email and calendar functionality, these providers offer that:
Mailfence
Kolab Now
Posteo
Tutanota
Google Docs / Sheets / Slides alternative
There are many solid Google Docs alternatives available. The largest offline document editing suite is, of course, Microsoft Office. As most people know, however, Microsoft is not the best company for privacy. Nonetheless, there are a few other good Google Docs alternatives:
CryptPad – CryptPad is a privacy-focused alternative with strong encryption, and it's free.
Etherpad – A self-hosted collaborative online editor that's also open source.
Mailfence Documents – From the Mailfence team, this is a secure file sharing, storage, and collaboration tool.
Zoho Docs – This is another good Google Docs alternative with a clean interface and good functionality, although it isn't the best choice if privacy is your top priority.
OnlyOffice – OnlyOffice feels a bit more restricted than some of the other options in terms of features.
Cryptee – This is a privacy-focused platform for photo and document storage and editing. It's open source and based in Estonia.
LibreOffice (offline) – You can use LibreOffice which is free and open source.
Apache OpenOffice (offline) – Another good open source office suite.
Google Photos alternative
Here are a few good Google Photos alternatives:
Piwigo – Piwigo is a great option that you can self-host. It is also free and open source.
Lychee – Lychee is another self-hosted, open source photo management platform.
Cryptee – Mentioned already above, Cyrptee is also a great option for securely storing photos.
PhotoPrism – is an open source photo app that can be self-hosted, or run on a private server.
Note: In November 2020, Google announced major changes to their policy of free, unlimited photo storage. These changes go into effect June 1, 2021, making now the time to move to an alternate service.
YouTube alternatives
Unfortunately, YouTube alternatives can really be hit or miss, with most struggling to gain popularity.
DTube
Bit.tube
Hooktube
Note: Invidio.us was one of our favorite Youtube alternatives. It worked as a proxy, allowing you to watch any Youtube video without logging in, even if the video is somehow restricted. Unfortunately, Invidious.us shut down on September 1, 2020. There are some alternative sites out there, but we can't vouch for their security, privacy, or anything else. If you want to give one or more of them a try, you'll find a list of alternate Invidious instances here.
Google Translate alternative
Here are a few Google translate alternatives I have come across:
DeepL – DeepL is a solid Google Translate alternative that seems to give great results. Like Google Translate, DeepL allows you to post up to 5,000 characters at a time (but the pro version is unlimited). The user interface is good and there is also a built-in dictionary feature. Additionally, DeepL offers a Pro version that supports an unlimited number of characters. They also offer apps for Windows and Mac that are faster and easier to use than the web app.
Linguee – Linguee does not allow you to post large blocks of text like DeepL. However, it will give you very accurate translations for single words or phrases, along with context examples.
dict.cc – This Google Translate alternative seems to do a decent job on single-world lookups, but it also feels a bit outdated.
If you want to translate blocks of text, check out DeepL. If you want in-depth translations for single words or phrases, then Linguee is a good choice.
Note: Swisscows used to offer a good translation service that supported many languages, but that has been discontinued.
For website admins, there are many reasons to use an alternative to Google analytics. Aside from privacy concerns, there are also faster and more user-friendly alternatives that will respect your visitors' privacy.
Clicky – A great alternative to Google Analytics that truncates and anonymizes visitor IP addresses by default. It is lightweight, user-friendly, and fully compliant with GDPR regulations.
Matomo (formerly Piwik) – An open-source analytics platform that respects the privacy of visitors by anonymizing and truncating visitor IP addresses (if enabled by the website admin). It is also certified to respect user privacy.
Fathom Analytics – An open source alternative to Google Analytics that's available on Github here. It's minimal, fast, and lightweight.
Get Insights – Another privacy-focused analytics platform, with a full analytics suite. The front-end client is open source and available here.
AT Internet – A France-based analytics provider that is fully GDPR compliant, with all data stored on French servers, and a good track record going back to 1996.
Many websites host Google Analytics because they run Google Adsense campaigns. Without Google Analytics, tracking the performance of these campaigns would be difficult. Nonetheless, there are definitely better options for privacy.
Google Maps alternative
A map alternative for PCs is OpenStreetMap.
A few Google Maps alternatives for mobile devices include:
OsmAnd – a free and open-source mobile maps app for both Android and iOS (based on OpenStreetMap data).
Maps (F Droid) – uses OpenStreetMap data (offline).
MapHub – based on OpenStreeMap data and it does not collect locations or user IP addresses.
Here WeGo – a free (ad supported) service that complies with GDPR privacy requirements for all users worldwide.
Note: Waze was a popular alternative to Google Maps until it was acquired by Google.
Google Play Store alternative
Currently the best Google Play Store alternative is to use F-Droid. As explained on the official site, F-Droid is an installable catalog of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform.
See the F-Droid website or the official GitHub page for more info. Other alternatives to the Google Play Store include:
Aptoide – An independent marketplace for Android apps. Be aware that Aptoide suffered a major hack in 2020, exposing more than 20,000,000 accounts. You'll have to decide for yourself whether you are willing to use this service.
APKMirror – This is a large library of APK files uploaded by different users (be careful).
Aurora Store – A fork of the Yalp Store.
Google Chrome OS alternative
Want to ditch the Chromebook and Chrome OS? Here are a few alternatives:
Linux – Of course, Linux is arguably the best alternative, being a free, open-source operating system with lots of different flavors. Versions of Linux are available for virtually any computing platform. We're talking supercomputers (all of the top 500 supercomputers run Linux), standard desktops, Chromebooks, even tiny single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi.
Tails – Tails is a free, privacy-focused operating system based on Linux that routes all traffic through the Tor network.
QubesOS – Recommended by Edward Snowden, free and open source.
The two operating systems most popular with the general public are Microsoft Windows and Apple's operating system for MacBooks – Mac OS. Techies have voiced privacy concerns about Windows for many years. For various reasons, Windows has earned a bad reputation for protecting your privacy. Windows 10, the newest version of the product, is also the worst when it comes to violating user privacy.
While slightly better than Windows, Apple uses Mac OS to collect user data and has partnered with government agencies for surveillance.
Android alternatives
The biggest alternative to Android is iOS from Apple. But iOS is no big winner when it comes to privacy either. Here are a few Android OS alternatives that can really boost your mobile privacy:
LineageOS – A free and open-source operating system for phones and tablets based on Android.
Ubuntu Touch – A mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system.
Plasma Mobile – An open source, Linux-based operating system with active development.
Sailfish OS – Another open source, Linux-based mobile OS.
Replicant – A fully free Android distribution with an emphasis on freedom, privacy, and security.
/e/ – This is another open source project with a focus on privacy and security.
Purism is addressing the issue of mobile phone privacy by bringing out their own phone, called the Librem 5.
Google Hangouts alternatives
Here are some Google Hangouts alternatives:
Wire – A great all-around secure messenger, video, and chat app, but somewhat limited on the number of people who can chat together in a group conversation via voice or video.
Signal – A good secure messenger platform from Open Whisper Systems.
Telegram – A longtime secure messenger app, formerly based in Russia, now in Dubai.
Element.io – A privacy-focused encrypted chat service that is also open source. Formerly known as riot.im.
To learn about these and other Google Hangouts alternatives that protect your privacy, check out our guide to the best secure messenger apps available.
Google Domains alternative
Google Domains is a domain registration service. Here are a few alternatives:
Namecheap – I like Namecheap because all domain purchases now come with free WhoisGuard protection for life, which protects your contact information from third parties. Namecheap also accepts Bitcoin and offers domain registration, hosting, email, SSL certs, and a variety of other products.
Njalla – Njalla is a privacy-focused domain registration service based in Nevis. They offer hosting options, too, and also accept cryptocurrency payments.
OrangeWebsite – OrangeWebsite offers anonymous domain registration services and also accepts cryptocurrency payments, based in Iceland.
Other Google alternatives
Here more alternatives for various Google products:
Google forms alternative – JotForm is a free online form builder.
Google Keep alternative – Below are a few different Google Keep alternatives:
Standard Notes is a great alternative for a note-taking service. It is secure, encrypted, and free with apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android (web-based also available).
Joplin is another great option that is open source and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android.
Zoho Notebook from Zoho, with apps for desktop and mobile devices.
QOwnNotes is an open source file editor with Nextcloud integration.
Google Fonts alternative – Many websites load Google fonts through Google APIs, but that's not necessary. One alternative to this is to use Font Squirrel, which has a large selection of both Google and non-Google fonts which are free to download and use.
Google Voice alternatives – JMP.chat (both free and paid), Line2 (paid)
G Suite alternative – Zoho is probably the best option
Google Firebase alternative – Kuzzle (free and open source)
Google Blogger alternatives – WordPress, Medium, and Ghost are all good options.
Do you care about your privacy?
Most people looking for Google alternatives have woken up to the fact that they are paying for free products with their private data.
But what about your internet service provider?
In the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, internet service providers are also recording your online activity. This information can be legally sold to third parties (in the US), or saved in government databases (UK, US, and Australia).
Aside from government surveillance agencies, there are many private companies tracking your data (in addition to Google, Facebook, and the other usual suspects).
To retain a basic level of privacy and security online, you need three tools:
1. Private and secure browser
We covered seven Chrome alternatives above, but the secure and private browser guide dives into this issue more intensely. Your browser can reveal lots of private and sensitive data to third parties; be sure to choose carefully.
2. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
A VPN will encrypt and anonymize your online activity from third parties, while also hiding your true IP address and location. Simply install the VPN app on your device, connect to a VPN server, then go about your business as normal. This effectively solves the ISP spying problem.
A VPN will effectively block your internet provider and third parties from snooping your activity and tracking you by your real IP address. In the best VPN services list, I examine some of the top VPN providers while also looking at a few direct comparisons. Here are my favorites:
NordVPN – A privacy-focused VPN with no logs, user-friendly apps, fast servers, and many privacy features [68% discount coupon]
Surfshark – This VPN is user-friendly and also fully-featured with good speeds and support
ExpressVPN – A reliable and secure VPN, also works well for streaming and general privacy
3. Ad blocker
Many ads also function as tracking for large advertising networks. A good ad blocker is an important privacy tool that will also improve page load speeds and de-clutter your browser. For a good understanding of the issues along with recommended products, check out this ad-blocker guide.
The privacy tools guide discusses other solutions as well, including password managers, secure messenger services and more.
Do you have any other tips or suggestions for Google alternatives?
Feel free to drop a comment below. This guide will be regularly updated to reflect the latest information and user feedback.
Stay safe and secure in 2021 and beyond!
Related guides on Restore Privacy:
How to Secure Your Android Device and Have More Privacy
Change These Windows 10 Settings Right Now to Protect Your Privacy
This Alternatives to Google Products guide was last updated on August 24, 2021.
Is it possible for the Restore Privacy team to do a report on web hosts for small business and solopreneurs? especially for changing APIs of known data collecting tools
@Courage if you look above there are 3 listed in the "Google Domains Alternatives" section. Among them is Njala that provides domain registration and hosting services. They seem fairly reasonably priced.
https://njal.la/
Shelter is a very interesting Android app that enables Android patrons to utilize their device's work profile to isolate or even copy apps on an Android user's device.
https://www.makeuseof.com/shelter-sandbox-android-apps/
Listening in on conversations is what Google Assistant, Siri, etc. are all about.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-home-speakers-allowed-hackers-to-snoop-on-conversations/
Unfortunately, the 2FA app andOTP has been abandoned by its creator.
https://github.com/andOTP/andOTP
Therefore, for Android users who would like an open source 2FA app, Aegis is the way to go.
https://getaegis.app/
In the past I have recommended downloading CalyxOS to replace the Android operating system. However, I have just learned that updates to the OS have been infrequent.
https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/578
https://review.calyxos.org/q/project:CalyxOS/platform_prebuilts_calyx_chromium_arm64
Until this is rectified, for now, the best alternative OS is Graphene.
https://grapheneos.org/
Also, Simple Mobile Tools is selling smartphones called Simple Phone with an Android-based operating system preinstalled. YMMV.
https://simplephone.tech/
iOS users need not feel left out when it comes to open-source apps, especially those that are alternatives to Google applications. Wikipedia has a list of some and many of the open-source apps for Android have iOS versions. Two other apps not on the Wikipedia list are for 2FA: they are Tofu and Raivo OTP (links below).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_iOS_applications
https://www.tofuauth.com/
https://github.com/raivo-otp
Here is an even bigger list of iOS apps.
https://github.com/dkhamsing/open-source-ios-apps
Simple Mobile Tools is a suite of open-source apps that can replace most of Google's core Android applications. Some of the SMT apps cost a little over $1US to use and, best of all, they do not have tracking and unnecessary permissions built in.
https://www.simplemobiletools.com/
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools
To my pleasant surprise, some people have created an unofficial F-Droid app for DeepL:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.deeplviewer/
Other good open source translation apps are:
Lingva: https://lingva.ml/
Language Tool: https://languagetool.org/
Simply Translate: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplytranslate_mobile/
Libre Translate: https://libretranslate.com/
Translate Shell is an open source terminal-based translation program available for mobile or desktop:
https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/
Thanks for this article. It's really helpful. I'm trying to get away from Google with my new phone and it's proven very difficult .
Anyone have a good tip on how to get away from Google Location Services ?
@Roald for now, shut them all off. If you own an Android phone, consider replacing its OS with a new one like Calyx or Ubuntu touch.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/is-google-tracking-you-heres-how-to-check-and-stop-it/
tired …. of Google, been using duck duck go. and Vivaldi, this is not enought .. got everything of Google turn off. thanks for the read here. slow is the key. I have over 100 passwords I save on my devises.. it's the email change..it's going to be a long process for me.. but it will get done.. again thanks
"Google announced today that they will begin rolling out the Privacy Sandbox system on a limited number of Android 13 devices starting in early 2023."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-to-roll-out-privacy-sandbox-on-android-13-starting-early-2023/
"Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle a privacy lawsuit filed by a coalition of attorneys general from 40 U.S. states."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-will-pay-391m-to-settle-android-location-tracking-lawsuit/
Google FI alternatives ? Looking at my choices for cell service again…
FI says my Samsung phone is designed to work at peak performance on Fi.
Calls, texts, and 4G LTE data:
Includes 24/7 human-to-human support. Nationwide 5G included for supported phones.
Data & texts included in 200+ destinations.
Enjoy coverage abroad for the same price as home.
Extra privacy & security:
Get a built-in VPN, spam detection and blocking, and more.
Network switching:
Automatically switch among networks for an even more reliable connection.
Learn more about Network Management with Google Fi Network Policy, more about network policies for our carrier partners T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular. https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6343762
This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information
Google Fi Privacy Notice
https://fi.google.com/about/tos/#project-fi-privacy-notice
Many of the best Android phones will work with Fi's combined network and 5G however some less popular models will fall back to the T-Mobile network. In many ways, and for many people, it's the ideal network provider.
Is Visible better as a prepaid phone carrier from Verizon that has left analog connectivity in the past and offers just one plan. Visible originally had hard speed limits, but it now offers the full speed of the Verizon network as long as the tower isn't congested. Visible has also added some new features to lower the cost of the service and make it easier to sign up and use.
Visible uses Verizon's LTE and nationwide 5G network for coverage, with no 3G or roaming options. While this won't be an issue for many, rural coverage may suffer. Still, for most people, Visible will be fast enough for day-to-day usage and many people may not notice a difference compared to their old carrier.
https://www.androidcentral.com/visible-review
Which would you go with of the two?
Well I've had a horrid experience with Visible by Verizon probably because I used the e-sims service option instead of them mailing me a regular sim card to use. Anyone calling my Visible # got hung up on. Texts worked both ways fine though and outgoing calls seemed to work too. I liked for 45.00 you got 50GB of Premium data unthrottled, 5G Ultra Wideband Access. Premium data is data that doesn't slow down when compared to other customers on the same network when the network is busy with traffic.
[https://bestmvno.com/view-cell-phone-plans-comparison-results/?post_ids%5B%5D=36770&post_ids%5B%5D=61073]
Visible is not actually an MVNO but is a prepaid wireless brand owned by Verizon. It was launched in 2018. Visible's privacy policy is something you may want to be aware of if you are considering signing up for service. The privacy policy states:
"We collect information when you use our service. This includes information about the calls you make and receive, text messages you send and receive, websites you visit, mobile applications you use, and wireless network and device information, including location, Internet protocol (IP) address and connection speed, mobile telephone number, device and advertising identifiers, browser type, and operating system." [https://bestmvno.com/mvnos/visible/]
* Visible by Verizon customer support is chat/text based and why I asked for refund besides dropping incoming calls.
** Google Fi is an MVNO of T-Mobile and US Cellular.
*** I've herd one can call 844-Talk-2-F and speak to a human but following link has a past lowdown… ( https://support.google.com/fi/search?q=talk+in+person+to+a+FI+repersentative&from_promoted_search=true)
The best way to maintain some semblance of privacy is to use pre-paid plans. Otherwise, the best one can do in terms of cellular service is to see about opting out of a lot of the ways Verizon, T-Mobile or AT&T collect data and be aware of any apps that might compromise it. When it comes to cellular service, expectations in terms of privacy should be low.
I recently looked over Mint Mobile's privacy policy and it isn't too shabby. They are a T-Mobile MVNO and transparent about what information they collect and explain why. Mint Mobile might be worth a look.
https://www.mintmobile.com/privacy-policy/
One other option I forgot to mention is using burner phones too. They are limited in their abilities, but can be handy tools to protect your identity.. No guarantee of anonymity, however.
https://www.howtogeek.com/712588/what-is-a-burner-phone-and-when-should-you-use-one/
Thank you for the article.
Privacy is such an important topic.
I'm using [https://bitdomain.biz] as an alternative for domain services. It's completely anonymous as well.
Terrific! A father took pictures of his son at his doctor's request as a way for the doctor to make a diagnosis of a medical condition the son had and Google labeled the father as a sex offender.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html


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