Corax
21 people charged with money laundering using cryptocurrencies as part of the multi-year US investigation called Operation Crypto Runner, according to prosecutors they played a key role in international fraud, more arrests to be expected according to William Smarr, special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s Dallas field office
World
World BEYOND War launches online world map showing 867 US military bases, the tool provides detailed information about each base and can for example be filtered by country, government type, opening date and number of employees, writer David Swanson claims that the country's bases in foreign countries often increase geopolitical tensions and act as recruiting tool for anti-American militant groups
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu rejects the condolences from the United States, which he equates to murderers who are the first to arrive at the scene of the crime, Turkey blames the bombing in Istanbul on the Kurdish PKK, which both countries consider to be terrorists, but on the other hand, they do not agree on Kurdish forces in Syria from which country the arrested woman originates
The German government blocks two sales of semiconductor manufacturers to Chinese companies, one concerns Swedish Silex, a subsidiary of Chinese Sai Microelectronic, which is denied the acquisition of Elmos Semiconductor's factory in Dortmund, but the other deal, Industry Minister Robert Habeck does not comment on, citing business secrets
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits China together with business leaders such as the CEOs of Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank, Siemens and BASF, the first visit to the country by a G7 leader in three years, China's zero-tolerance policy against Covid-19 has become a major problem for German companies because the country is Germany's largest trading partner
Iran now admits after a period of denial that they supplied Russia with drones before the outbreak of war but denies that the deliveries have continued, the rumors about missile deliveries are however completely wrong, says Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, last month the EU decided on new sanctions against the country due to the drone deliveries
The US is sending an undisclosed number of weapons experts to Ukraine to inspect american-supplied weapons, among the first from the US military on the ground apart from security personnel at the embassy in Kyiv, Joe Biden pledges to not send troops into combat
The prime ministers of Finland and Sweden do not rule out nuclear weapons on the countries' territory as they do not set preconditions for joining NATO, a similar comment also comes from the Swedish Commander-in-Chief Micael Bydén, Vladimir Putin has said that he does not see the countries' joining NATO as a threat but that he would provide answers to the expansion of the alliance's infrastructure in the region
Miscellaneous
The video game I Am Jesus Christ in which you play as Jesus, explore Nazareth and perform miracles, is being released on December 1, trailer is available for viewing
The coldest days ever at the South Pole since measurements began in 1957, applies to November 16-18 compared to the same date in previous years, the winter of 2020-2021 was also the coldest ever, it has been a very bad year for climate catastrophists all round according to the writer Chris Morrison
University of Leiden first removes but then returns painting from 1974 depicting the school's board, has come under attack in recent weeks with activist academics claiming the painting shows male dominance, also three of the board members are shown smoking cigars, the painter, Rein Dool, says the university's actions are "stupid and sad"
10,000 minks released into the wild after break-in at mink farm in Ohio, USA, the animals are carnivores and eat freshly-killed animals that they often hunt themselves, several individuals are said to have destroyed the fence during the early morning
KFC apologizes for German promotion urging customers to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken, says the automated push notification was linked to calendars that include national observances and that internal processes will be reviewed
Antisemitic book series Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America is a bestseller on Amazon, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble in the US after NBA star Kyrie Irving's tweets, beats out Barack Obama's autobiography A Promised Land in the "Black & African American Biographies" category, the books include theories about Jewish control of institutions such as media and passages from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Andrew Anthony: There are many men who have functional and party-focused relationships with other men, but lasting friendships, of the kind you see between many women are not something most men over 40 see any need to have, after having married their wives start arranging dinner parties and gatherings
Kanye West refuses to walk back or apologize for his comments about Jews despite losing a dozen endorsement deals and a large chunk of his personal wealth, holds an impromptu press conference where he reads a list of names of top Jewish executives of major media and entertainment corporations from a spreadsheet, says him being burned to the flesh every single day proves what he says about Jews teaming up on him
35-year-old Russian Vyacheslav Matrosov who forced a man who sexually abused his 6-year-old daughter to dig his own grave and kill himself released after serving six months of the 18-month sentence, widespread sympathy for Matrosov where locals in his village Pribrezhnaya raised money for his initial legal fees and 2,500 people signed a petition demanding that he should be fully acquitted
Media
The creator of the US loan company SoFi's retracted advertisement says that the criticized character would not be an archetype of a Jewish banker but a professor, in the ad, a young couple is harassed by a middle-aged man who, among other things, looks for money in the woman's bag and kisses dollar bills, the company announces that the ad is now being removed out of caution given the current rise in anti-Semitism
Elon Musk says he has resolved the misunderstanding with Tim Cook that Apple could consider removing the Twitter app from the App Store since the two met in Cupertino, Twitter's new owner criticized the mobile company in a series of tweets, claiming that their control of the app store violates free speech
The CEO of Kering, the fashion house Balenciaga's parent company, François-Henri Pinault owns the auction site Christie's, which auctions disturbed so-called art of young children in sexual situations, including a work called F*ck Face with a toddler with an erect penis instead of a nose and anus instead of mouth
Kanye West once again suspended from Twitter after having posted image of swastika inside Star of David, platform's owner Elon Musk says that controversial rap star thereby committed incitement to violence
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton tells Elon Musk that Twitter must significantly increase efforts to protect users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content to avoid violating the new Digital Services Act regulations that come into force next year
Twitter users vote to restore all suspended accounts in poll on the platform by Elon Musk, the amnesty that applies to all users who have not broken the law or spammed is to begin this week
Elon Musk tweets that publicizing Twitter's internal discussions surrounding the censorship of Hunter Biden's computer news just before the 2020 US election is necessary to restore public trust in the social media platform, at the time users were banned from sharing the article and The New York Post's account was locked for more than two weeks
Fashion house Balenciaga replaces its criticized campaign that shows small children holding teddy bears wearing bondage accessories and poorly hidden excerpt from Supreme Court ruling on child pornography with campaign that uses books with pedophile and occult undertones as props
Elon Musk reinstates Donald Trump's Twitter account after poll shows users voting 51.8% yes and 48.2% no on the matter, Trump has said he will stay on his social media platform Truth Social instead of returning to Twitter as it is doing phenomenally well
Banned right wing groups return to Twitter immediately after Musk's takeover, Britain First who was banned in 2017 after posting inflammatory anti-Muslim videos among the returnees which worries the Center for Countering Digital Hate who fears the group might spread divisive hate and racism, Musk writes that anyone suspended for minor and dubious reasons will be freed from Twitter jail which is interpreted as indicating that Jordan Peterson's suspension for using transgender actress Elliot Page's former name is to be examined
Politics
Jordan Bardella, 27, succeeds Marine Le Pen as leader of the National Assembly, says he wants to maintain continuity and build on the legacy of his predecessor
Vandals in New Zealand write LABOUR on election posters during local elections in the country last week to smear candidates from the party represented by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, party members call it an attack tactic, the right gains ground in most cities while the incumbent government plans to tax farmers for their climate impact
Greta Thunberg says that it would be a very bad idea for Germany to focus on coal power when the nuclear power plants are still in place, would be shut down this year but is still being debated within the German government, she also says that it is completely forbidden in Sweden to talk about reducing energy use and that people then say ‘Oh no, this is communism and so on’, which she says is completely insane
Liz Truss wins race to be elected leader of the ruling Conservative Party and the new UK prime minister, defeated former finance minister Rishi Sunak by 57% to 43% in the final runoff which was a smaller margin than opinion polling had suggested, the 47-year-old foreign minister campaigned as a tax-cutting, anti-woke candidate who would take a hard line on post-Brexit dealings with the EU
The European parliament votes to end sale of petrol and diesel car by 2035 in EU, MEPs still have to negotiate the final law with ministers from the 27 national governments, the proposed law is part of a broader climate crisis response with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade
Boris Johnson calls for a return to the workplace to drive up productivity and revive Britain's town and city centres, says his experience of working from home involves spending an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and walking very slowly to hack off a small piece of cheese before forgetting what it was he was doing when returning to the computer
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the idea of defunding the police is not the position of the Democratic Party as community safety is their oath of office, the slogan was frequently used during the 2020 elections but Pelosi now quotes her far left colleague Ritchie Torres' statement that "defund the police" is dead
Joe Biden calls Fox News journalist a stupid son of a bitch after being asked if he thinks inflation will be a political liability ahead of the midterms
Joe Biden reassures his allies that he plans to run for 2024 reelection, the message follows six-month stretch where his national approval rating has plummeted more than a dozen points into the low 40s amid growing inflation concerns, top donor John Morgan says he is unsure regarding Biden's future health despite recent health checkup showing the 79-year-old to be healthy and vigorous
Opinion
Ewen Stewart: The real cause of today's problems lies in the Mark Carney-led Bank of England's money printing between 2013 and 2020, and the quintupling of the national debt in the last 15 years, not the latest budget proposal by Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng which has been condemned with almost religious conviction by a host of commentators from the IMF to the Chancellor of Germany and from the old regulars like the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the BBC, what they all parrot is that things were OK until these two philistines ran the good ship Britannia aground, do they really believe that?
David Miller: Those who took advantage of the situation in the UK and caused the pound to fall make George Soros look like an amateur, it is said that the markets did not like Kwasi Kwarteng's budget and of course this is the case since market manipulators have become so intoxicated with quantitative easing and artificially low interest rates that the realization about having to get off your lazy fat backsides and start doing a real job was like a curse to them
Peter Hitchens: All parties have been captured by deadly dogmas of equality and diversity, living in fear of the BBC, which – like the medieval church – decides which ideas are acceptable and which are heretical, and will seek to destroy anyone who steps outside its chosen limits, so there is nothing left for the ambitious politician but stunts, gimmicks and silly initiatives that come to nothing
Jeffrey Tucker: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is given to Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig for their research on banks and financial crises while we live in an inflationary hell with an energy crisis caused by the responses they advocate, we are now forced to watch as laboratory intellectuals give awards to each other for a job well done while the life expectancy declines dramatically and families worry about heating their homes this winter
Kevin Barrett: When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the destruction of Nord Stream led to enormous opportunities, he assumed that the entire operation was out of order, but according to Gazprom, one in four pipelines should still be intact, so Germany can still ask Russia to turn the tap back on, and also if not, the plan to sell overpriced gas to Europe could backfire on the US itself which could have thrived in the post-Cold War era but instead has managed to alienate most of the world through psychopathic arrogance and blood-spattered vandalism
Scott Shackford: Black people represent less than 15% of the US population but account for more than half of all exonerations with 55% of the ones due to murders, 59% of the sexual assaults and 64% of the robberies, the reasons are more complicated than racism even though a factor in the rape exonerations is misidentification by the mostly white victims
Ryan McMaken: States have surpassed and replaced the monarchs and expanded their powers far beyond what even the most ambitious monarchs of centuries past dreamed about, monarchies of today should not be confused with the pre-state 16th and 17th century monarchies where monarchs' income depended largely on rents collected from their private estates in essentially a system of private law where the king often tended to business personally and feudalism otherwise kept things local, rising wealth then enabled decentralization and a growing bureaucracy leading to the state overwhelming the monarchs
Vladimir Putin: For 30 years we have tried to come to an agreement with Nato regarding equal and indivisible security in Europe but have faced a continued military expansion despite our protests and concerns, a hostile anti-Russia fully controlled from the outside is taking shape in territories adjacent to Russia and this crosses the red line which we have spoken about on numerous occasions, we are acting to defend ourselves from the threats created for us and from a worse peril than what is happening now
Jeffrey Tucker: The world seemingly forgetting about natural immunity despite it being documented since the Peloponnesian War might constitute what Murray Rothbard called "lost knowledge" where known truths are forgotten and have to be rediscovered, remarkable that the hysteria keeps festering when everyone carries access to nearly all the world's information in their pockets
Peter Hitchens: Just like the Red fanatics, the Green fanatics think they're too good and noble to possibly be wrong, but just like Soviet Union the UK will begin to get colder and darker as efficient nuclear and coal-fired power stations are dismantled and the country is made hopelessly reliant on expensive non-green gas and by autumn all will be paying hard cash to sustain the dogmatic lunacy of a power elite wholly gripped with Green zealotry
Europe
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen opens up for Russian confiscated funds to be used to rebuild Ukraine, refers to 300 billion euros from Russia's central bank reserve and 19 billion euros from Russian oligarchs, also suggests setting up court to prosecute the country
Lufthansa reaches settlement with group of Orthodox Jews who were denied boarding on connecting flights because some of them refused to wear masks upon entry, the airline apologizes for the incident on May 4 this year when, according to German media, staff denied all passengers who were visibly identifiable as Jews to board their connecting flight, Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal says German companies should be sensitive to possible antisemitism in light of the country’s Nazi past
Nurse Antje T, 39, in Germany who injected salt water instead of the covid-19 vaccine into 8,600 elderly is sentenced to six months of probation for six counts of intentional assault, expressed vaccine skepticism on social media during the pandemic and apologized during the trial
French baguettes are included in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, had a fixed price until 1986 and are standardized at 80 cm and 250 grams, exact origin still unclear
The Russian Foreign Ministry summons Norway's ambassador Robert Kvile over Norway's arrest of Russian citizens for drone flights, which have been illegal for Russians since the outbreak of war, particularly Andrey Yakunin, the son of Putin-allied oligarch Vladimir Yakunin, who was arrested in October after the crew of his yacht flew drones at Svalbard
The white proportion of the population in England and Wales is falling from 86 percent in 2011 to 81.7 percent in 2021 and the first time ever that less than half of the population describes themselves as Christian, according to new statistics from the UK's Office for National Statistics, and in the cities of Leicester , Luton and Birmingham the whites are now in the minority
Belgian cities rocked by mass riots after Morocco’s fans took to the streets to celebrate their team’s victory over Belgium in the World Cup, the country hosts over 500,000 people of Moroccan descent, scenes of violence quickly spread with them burning vehicles, looting shops, and attacking a police station
Germany will, according to a proposal from the government, recognize the Holodomor as genocide, about 3.5 million died in the 1930s famine in the Soviet Ukraine under Josef Stalin, will be debated on Wednesday in the German parliament
6 million Ukrainian households without power on Friday according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, half compared to Wednesday, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says that despite the attacks, almost all of the country's critical infrastructure has been reconnected including waterworks, heat generation plants, hospitals and emergency services
North America
Asian college applicants in the US avoid telling about typically Asian interests such as chess, violin and piano to avoid being rejected because of their race, according to a 2009 study, Asians need to score 140 points higher than whites on the SAT and 450 points higher than blacks to have the same chance of being admitted
21 people charged with money laundering using cryptocurrencies as part of the multi-year US investigation called Operation Crypto Runner, according to prosecutors they played a key role in international fraud, more arrests to be expected according to William Smarr, special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s Dallas field office
Milo Yiannopoulos says he was the architect behind having Kanye West bring Nicholas Fuentes to Donald Trump's dinner party and that he wanted to send a message to the former president that he has systematically repeatedly neglected, ignored, abused the people who love him the most, the people who put him in office, and that kind of behavior comes back to bite you in the end
All five cars rented by Joe Biden during Thanksgiving catch fire a day after they were returned, still unclear what caused the fire in the airport parking lot, the president spent the holiday on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, which the family has done for more than 40 years
Kanye West brings young controversial nationalist Nicholas Fuentes to dinner with Donald Trump, an activist profile the former president claims he doesn't know and later distances himself from, the incident appears to have put the Trump campaign in damage control mode as it took several hours to issue a public response after media reporting started
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pardons an estimated 45,000 convicted of minor possession of marijuana, applies to cases before 2016 where the person was at least 21, the crime was the only charge and where there were no victims, expunges 47,144 convictions from records and $14 million in fines
Walmart employee Andre Bing shoots dead six co-workers and then takes his own life, previously unknown to police and no clear motive at this time
Five dead and 18 injured in shooting at gay club in Colorado Springs, USA, 22-year-old alleged perpetrator Anderson Lee Aldrich in custody and is being treated for injuries
The white population in the United States has decreased by 9 percent between 2010 and 2020 while the Hispanic population has grown by 23 and the black population by 5.6 percent, the entire population since 1901 has increased from 77 to 330 million
82-year-old Nancy Pelosi is not running for re-election as the leader of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, while Republican Kevin McCarthy is expected to take over as speaker after securing a majority in the House of Representatives, she remains as a member, which she has been since 1987, and says that the time has come for a new generation to take over
Latin America
Venezuela claims the English-speaking area of Essequibo in Guyana with 125,000 inhabitants, insists that the 1777 border of the Essequibo River is the more natural one as opposed to current borders established by an arbitration court in Paris in 1899, now instead of refugee flows from Guyana, instead people flee to the country, including Anneris Valenzuela, 23, who says life is better than in Venezuela, although it is quite tough as they use lanterns since there is no electricity.
Brazil's incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro breaks the 45-hour silence after the election loss with a two-minute speech without mentioning his opponent Lula da Silva, does not mention confirming the election results but says he will follow the constitution, regarding his supporters' truck blockades, he says the popular movements are a result of indignation at the way the electoral process was conducted and peaceful protests are always welcome but the methods of the left should not be used
Truck drivers block roads in Brazil after incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro's election loss, truckers were one of candidate's staunchest supporters, union president distances himself, saying group of participating drivers is small, isolated and linked to far-right
Brazilian politician Roberto Jefferson resists federal police arrest at his home, fires rifles and throws grenades during hours-long siege, injures two police officers, announces on Whatsapp that he refuses to surrender but he could later be taken into custody, former ally of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has now distanced himself from him
Presidential candidate Lula accuses soccer star Neymar of only supporting incumbent President Bolsonaro because of a previous debt pardon from his income tax debt, saying he believes the soccer player is afraid that if he wins the election he will find out how much
Federal police in Brazil launch investigation into whether pollsters have formed a cartel to manipulate election results, polls ahead of the country's election early October greatly underestimated the support for the incumbent president Bolsonaro, current legislation prohibits the publication of fake polls
EU Ambassador in Nicaragua Bettina Muscheidt is asked to leave the country and is declared persona non grata according to diplomatic sources, the decision follows a statement by the EU in which it urged president Daniel Ortega to "restore democracy", no official comments from the government yet
20 members of the Jewish cult Lev Tahor detained in massive raids by law enforcement authorities in Mexico, the group who claims everyone had the necessary permits and paperwork to stay in the country practices a fundamentalist version of hassidism where women are required to cover themselves in black from head to toe and young girls are forcibly wed to older men
Asia
Thai police raid 50 crypto miners due to theft of electricity, the cyber crime department under the operation codenamed Electric shock investigated 40 buildings in Bangkok and Nonthaburi, each building used electricity for 300 to 2,000 baht per month when the real cost was 500,000 bah
Videos show hundreds of protesting workers at the world's largest iPhone factory in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou appearing to be confronted by riot police and people in protective suits, company Foxconn says some workers had doubts about pay but that the firm would fulfil pay based on contracts
South Korea and the United States are extending their joint air exercise as North Korea fired more than 30 missiles this week, in a show of military might two American B-1B bombers flew over South Korea, North Korea's foreign ministry says the countries have created instability in the region and that the sustained provocation will be followed by sustained countermeasures
Korea's police chief Yoon Hee-keun bows his head during press conference on the deadly disaster in Seoul and says he feels a great responsibility for the people who must be in great shock, apologies also came from the interior minister, the mayor of Seoul, who said he feels an infinite responsibility, and from the head of Yongsan district who has been criticized for deleting his social media accounts after the accident
Journalist killed after being hit by convoy of Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan en route to Islamabad to pressure government to call new elections, march suspended for the day due to the accident
At least 146 dead after stampede during Halloween festivities in Seoul as a large crowd pushed forward on a narrow street, around 100,000 people is reported to having headed to Itaewon for the festivities which were the biggest in years following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in recent months
Chinese archaeologist Shi Xingbang dies aged 99, key figure in Terracotta Army excavations and best known for the 1953 discovery of the 6,000-year-old village of Banpo, the first Neolithic settlement ever found in the country, devoted his life to the profession except during the ban during the Cultural Revolution 1966 to 1977, became a member of the Communist Party in 1984
MIDDLE EAST
Turkey launches airstrikes over northern Syria and Iraq, targeting Kurdish groups it holds responsible for last week's bomb attack in Istanbul, Turkish defense ministry tweets picture of military aircraft taking off and that the hour of reckoning has come
Protesters in Iran set fire to Ayatollah Khomeini's childhood home, where founder of Islamic republic said to have been born, according to social media, regional authorities deny arson, has been a museum celebrating the late leader's life
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi responds to Joe Biden's statement on freeing Iran by saying during a speech that the country was liberated 43 years ago and is determined not to be occupied by the United States, pro-government demonstrations were held during November 4th, which marks the anniversary of the takeover of The American Embassy in Tehran in 1979
Benjamin Netanyahu is heading towards victory in the Israeli election and towards becoming prime minister for a third time, his Likud party is expected to form a majority in the Knesset together with ultra-Orthodox parties and the far right, including the Otzma Yehudit party with the anti-Arab and nationalist Itamar Ben-Gvir as party leader
Fire, gunfire and explosions at Evin prison in Iran, four dead and 61 injured, known to house political prisoners
Iraq's parliament votes for the 78-year-old Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid as president and who in turn appointed Mohammed Shia al-Sudani as prime minister, the first step in forming a new government which has not been successful since the election last October, the vote took place shortly after nine rockets landed in the capital
Agreement between Israel and Libanon on disputed maritime border opens up for offshore energy extraction, final draft from US envoy Amos Hochstein satisfied Lebanese President Michel Aoun, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid says it is a historic achievement that will strengthen the country's security, inject billions into the economy and ensure stability on the northern border
Africa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa faces threat of impeachment after undeclared cash is stolen from president's farm and the theft was not reported to police, independent panel appointed by parliament claims gross misconduct and a breach of the constitution
Ugandas first satellite will among other things carry out 3D printing of human tissue in space and investigate how weightlessness affects the function of the ovaries, PearlAfricaSat-1, which is a joint project with the Japanese university Kyushu Institute of Technology, was postponed on November 7th from NASA facility in Virginia, USA
Cameroon's President Paul Biya celebrates 40 years in power but has not appeared in public since July this year, the second longest-serving leader in Africa after Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo who has been in office since 1979
Ethiopian government forces have reached a ceasefire with regional forces from Tigray, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken praises the efforts of African Union mediators and the hosting of South Africa and US Special Envoy Mike Hammer, the conflict has been ongoing for two years
63-year-old man in Zambia stoned to death on suspicion of being a sorcerer, found partially burned in a pool of blood with deep wounds on his face, ten arrested, six of whom women
Misuzulu kaZwelithini, 48, crowned new king of the Zulu people, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hands over formal certificate during ceremony at football stadium in Durban, has no formal power, first coronation in South Africa in more than 50 years
Peace talks between the Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray take place in South Africa, comes are after two years of war which has left thousands dead, the delegation from Tigray arrives in a US military plane along with the US special envoy to the Horn of Africa
Economy
H&M to lay off 1,500 employees, applies worldwide but will not affect store employees, has closed 200 stores during the year
Quoth the Raven: Sam Bankman-Fried is still not in handcuffs despite everything pointing towards him committing fraud of 30 billion dollars, is being compared to Enron and Bernie Madoff, instead of being brought to justice now he will be questioned in congressional hearing in US in December, while The New York Times and The Washington Post write laudatory articles downplaying his responsibilities and Democrats and their friends in the media are clearly taking it easy on him despite their loathing of billionaires
Sam Bankman-Fried admits that the ethics were only a surface and feels guilty for those who are deceived by the stupid game of saying the right thing just to be liked that he says is played by woke westerners with whom he associates himself, regrets that he filed for bankruptcy for his crypto exchange FTX and says his goal is now to raise $8 billion within two weeks
Crypto exchange FTX's liquidity crisis and loss of confidence probably mean that the Democratic Party will miss out on further donations from founder Sam Bankman-Fried, 30, who was the party's second largest donor after Georg Soros, the company is threatened with bankruptcy, possible investigations by regulatory authorities and on Sunday, customers made withdrawals of USD 5 billion
Meta announces layoff of 11,000 employees, NBC News reviews posts that appear to be from recently fired employees including senior researcher Alex Leavitt, who uses the plural pronouns they/them and, according to LinkedIn, helped lead research on hate speech, misinformation and trust, who says that they might write a book after a trip abroad
India's central bank launches a pilot study of the e-rupee, allows nine banks to carry out interbank transactions with the digital currency, said to have the same value and legitimacy as a note or coin except that it does not take physical form, stresses that while the currency will be controlled by the central bank, it unlike cryptocurrencies which are decentralized and difficult to control
Croatia will adopt the euro on January 1, 2023, joined the EU nearly ten years ago, had an inflation rate of 13 percent in September compared to the euro zone's 10, the Croatian central bank's Ana Sabic says the currency provides resilience and claims that they now will have access to more favorable loan terms
Eurozone inflation reaches new record high of 10.7% in October, up from 9.9% in September, 41.9% increase in energy prices and 13.1% in food, alcohol and tobacco, Estonia worst hit with a 22.4% estimate and France least impacted with 7.1%
Egypt's central bank Governor Hassan Abdalla wants to break the peg against the US dollar, which has caused high interest rates, will let the Egyptian pound be valued against a basket of other currencies including gold, says the US is not a major trading partner and does not understand why people are so fixated on the dollar, the country's currency has lost 20 percent against the USD due to devaluation following capital flight as a result of the Ukraine war
Jan Nieuwenhuijs: European countries have been preparing for return to gold standard since the 70's by having an even distribution of gold reserves between them, in relation to GDP and to major economies outside, the US exerted pressure not to return, by threatening Germany to stand alone against the Soviet Union and instead the euro was created and they made sure to equalize the ownership in preparation and have continued to do so, the reset will happen when all major economies find themselves in an insurmountable crisis
Technology
Mullvad VPN launches hardware product Tillitis Key, a programmable USB key with enhanced security features, both software and hardware are open source
Teenager hacks Uber and announces it in company Slack channel, poses as IT worker from corporate in text message and convinces employee to send password giving him access, enabling him to access company VPN, scan the intranet, and find Powershell scripts containing credentials for multiple services, Uber warnes employees to stay away from Slack, but many keep logging back on to check out everyone's joke responses
Google fires engineer Blake Lemoine who despite lengthy engagement from the company maintained that the AI language technology Lamda is sentient, Google comments that Lemoine's claims are wholly unfounded and that they take the responsible development of AI very seriously, Lemoine who tested if the program used discriminatory or hate speech found that it showed self-awareness and could hold conversations about religion and emotions
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requests information from Tesla after 758 complaints regarding vehicles braking for no reason, demands access to all consumer and field reports about false braking as well as reports of crashes, injuries, deaths and property damage claims, also wants to know whether the Full Self-Driving system was active during any of the incidents, the problem reportedly might be connected to last year's decision to remove radar sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asks Tesla Inc for information about a recent 2021 Tesla Model Y fire in Vancouver where the driver had to smash a window to exit the vehicle as the doors did not open and the windows did not go down when the power stopped working
Hyundai and Kia tell owners of almost 500,000 cars and SUVs in the United States to park outside and away from buildings due to a possible anti-lock brake defect caused by foreign contaminants that can cause the vehicles to spontaneously catch fire, owners can safely continue driving the vehicles according to company info
Science
Birth control can affect sexual preferences, says psychologist Sarah Hill at Texas Christian University, hormones affect our preferences and can sometimes cause a different direction than what brain would normally do, support from scientific studies as well as anecdotal evidence from online forums
More than 70 percent of children between the ages of 7 and 12 are concerned about climate change, according to a survey of 1,000 participants by eco-grocery start up Modern Milkman, 85 percent think it's everyone's responsibility to address the issue and 91 percent believe personal actions can have an impact
Second-generation immigrants in European countries are much more left-wing than their host-nation peers, comparable to the urban-rural discrepancy, in European study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research, using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017
Illumina announces a machine that will be able to do a full genome sequencing for around USD 200 per human, the company has 80% of the market globally, CEO Francis deSouza believes we’re entering the era of genomic medicine going mainstream, Stacey Gabriel, chief genomics officer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard says that researchers will be able to apply added sequencing power through increasing the diversity of genomic datasets since it is a problem for medicine that the vast majority of DNA data has come from people of European descent because different populations might have different disease-causing genetic variations
Nasa spacecraft Dart to crash into asteroid Dimorphos almost 10 millions of kilometers away head-on at 22 500 kph on Monday to nudge it into slightly tighter orbit around companion space rock, demonstrating humans would stand a fighting chance of diverting any future killer asteroid heading towards Earth
150 million-year-old marine invertebrate with ten arms named Ausichicrinites zelenskyyi to honor the Ukraine president's courage and bravery in defending the country, the well-preserved fossil that was unearthed in Ethiopia is a feather star which are spectacularly colored and let nutrients moved by the current come to them as they wave their arms, the feather star also have the ability to shed an arm as anti-predator response
Covid-19 variant Omicron BA.5 which accounts for 54% of the US cases is claimed to pose the biggest threat yet to immune protection as it along with BA.4's 17% is four times more resistant to antibodies from vaccines than BA.2, Pfizer says it can have an updated vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 ready to be distributed in October, the most common symptoms in the UK where the variants also dominate is a runny nose, sore throat, headache, persistent cough and fatigue with less than one in three reporting fevers
50 mg intravenous vitamin C per kilogram of body weight every 6 hours for up to 96 hours resulted in 17% increased risk of dying, according to Canadian randomized and placebo-controlled trial on 872 adults with sepsis who were receiving vasopressor therapy in the intensive care unit
Low butyrylcholinesterase levels linked to 1.3 times increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome according to Australian study comparing blood samples from 655 healthy children, 26 who died of Sids and 41 who died of other causes, the enzyme plays a major role in the brain's arousal pathway and a deficit might reduce an infant's ability to wake or respond to the external environment such as overheating or a blanket over the face