Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who were allegedly sleeping and avoiding their rounds when Epstein hanged himself in his cell on August 10, 2019, received a plea deal with the Manhattan district attorney. Had they gone to trial, the two planned on pushing attention toward the prison system itself, describing …
Read More »Russia may be cut off from SWIFT banking payment system as part of West’s ‘spiral of sanctions,’ warns country’s foreign ministry
“It’s no secret that there are threats, primarily from the United States, to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT system,” said Dmitry Birichevsky, director of the Economic Cooperation Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Speaking on RIA Novosti on Monday, the diplomat noted that Russia has concerns that SWIFT could get …
Read More »‘Unfairly attacked by corrupt political system’: Trump hits back after NY AG launches criminal investigation into family business
“There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. But, make no mistake, that is exactly what is happening here,” Trump said in a lengthy written statement on Wednesday. The former Republican leader said he found out via “leaks in the mainstream media” …
Read More »Act of war? Ukraine asks EU to consider cutting off Russia from SWIFT payment system as Kiev seeks more sanctions against Moscow
Moscow has previously warned it would consider the move “a declaration of war.” Former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, has also dubbed it a “punch in the gut.” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba told Reuters on Wednesday that …
Read More »‘System irregularity’ leaves Twitter users in the dark & support accounts down as outage continues
Twitter users first experienced problems logging in and loading tweets on Friday night. Amid tens of thousands of error reports, the company’s support team said they were “working on fixing a problem,” and that users would be “back on the timeline soon.” These problems continued into Saturday morning, and affected …
Read More »‘Our system is broken’: Amazon accused of ‘illegal & egregious’ behavior as early voting results deal blow to unionizing drive
Some 463 ‘yes’ votes were recorded after ballot-counting ended on Thursday evening, far outpaced by the 1,100 in opposition, according to local media. While the count is set to resume on Friday morning, the org at the center of the battle, the Retail, Wholesale & Department Store Union (RWDSU), has …
Read More »Study reveals trick coronavirus uses to evade immune system, which may help upgrade vaccines against new variants
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, is surrounded by extended spike proteins – the primary weapon it uses to ‘pierce’ and infect human cells. Previous research produced only static models of such proteins, which failed to capture their flexibility and movement. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute …
Read More »US Federal Reserve investigating disruptions to Fedwire payment system and other services
According to updates from the Federal Reserve, the massive disruption to services was caused by an “operational error”. “We acknowledge that payment deadlines are impacted and will communicate remediation efforts to our customers when available. Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the issue,” the institution said …
Read More »Bill Gates calls for global alert system and ‘pandemic fire squads’ for post-Covid-19 world
The Microsoft co-founder, who ranks as the world’s third-richest person, took to Twitter Monday to make his pitch for a new system that he said would help prevent future pandemics. This would include “mega testing diagnostic platforms” that could test 20 percent of the population every week, Gates said in …
Read More »The GameStop gamble is a disaster. You don’t fix a broken system by playing by its rules
How does one spot a market mania? Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spent almost two decades working at the US Federal Reserve. Her failed policies created the most significant wealth-inequality gap ever, while simultaneously inflating the most grotesque asset bubbles in the stock, bond, property and credit markets in …
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