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A major cyberattack has reportedly crippled the world’s largest meat processing company, JBS. The company reports an “organized cybersecurity attack” has severely hampered its operations in the U.S. and Australia.NBC News reports that thousands of meat workers in Australia are out of work for a second day this week after a cyberattack has crippled the largest meat supplier in the world, JBS. The company is also Australia’s largest meat and food processing company with 47 facilities across the country including abattoirs, feedlots, and meat processing sites. JBS employs around 1,100 people.JBS USA said in a statement from Greeley, Colorado, on...

It has been known for a long time that Dr. Anthony Fauci has supported the gain-of-function research conducted by the EcoHealth Alliance about bat coronaviruses in China. While Fauci has been attempting to distance himself from having any knowledge of EcoHealth Alliance’s projects, including those of Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of the organization, newly released emails detail the praise Daszak heaped upon Fauci for his dismissing of the lab-leak theory. Daszak, who seems to have his thumb in all of the pies surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (more on that later), sent an email to Fauci on April 18th,...

The link provides updated election results every 5 minutes. This is the only slated special election for a House seat between now and 2022.Feel free to jump in and discuss.

Amazon customers have one week to opt out of a plan that would turn every Echo speaker and Ring security camera in the US into a shared wireless network, as part of the company’s plan to fix connection problems for its smart home devices. The proposal, called Amazon Sidewalk, involves the company’s devices being used as a springboard to build city-wide “mesh networks” that help simplify the process of setting up new devices, keep them online even if they’re out of range of home wifi, and extend the range of tracking devices such as those made by Tile. But Sidewalk...

SAN DIEGO, CHINA—Conquered Americans laboring away among other undesirables in a Chinese prison camp remember fondly how the American military, when it was still around, was a fully inclusive institution. The camp known as Happy Democratic People’s Sunshine and Happy Exercise Wellness Center, set up at the former grounds of Navy Base San Diego, is billed as a top notch resort to get plenty of sunshine and exercise as well as a top notch education in Communist Party fundamentals. Many prisoners have noticed however that the Chinese officers staffing the gulag were not very diverse or concerned with things like...

In today's episode of Cocktails with Ciara, I'm making a classic Singapore Sling! A beautiful summery gin-based cocktail, this drink was requested by my lovely Patreon supporter James Spreacher. I was excited to try it myself for the first time, so let's see how I got on.Cocktails at home Ciara O'Doherty - Making A Singapore Sling For The First Time (video)

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In his homily on Pentecost, May 23, Bishop Michael C. Barber of Oakland recounted how terrified he was when he was robbed at gunpoint the afternoon before while out walking, but he also said he had to look beyond the fear to forgive the suspect. "The only way we defeat evil and crime and hatred is to pour out the love of Jesus wherever we find evil and crime and hatred..." he told the congregation... In an interview with ABC7 News in the Bay Area, Barber said he was talking a walk and praying the rosary near the cathedral when...

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Says Semi Shortage Could Last “A Couple Years” Brace for more pessimistic news about the global semiconductor shortage…Intel is now going on the record and doubling down on statements that its CEO made on 60 Minutes earlier this year, stating that it could take “several years” for the current supply shortage of semiconductors to be resolved. CEO Pat Gelsinger said that the pandemic-inspired “work from home” trend caused a “cycle of explosive growth in semiconductors”, according to Reuters. “But while the industry has taken steps to address near term constraints it could still take a couple...

An FBI agent who shot a fellow passenger onboard a Washington, DC, Metro train line in December was arrested on Tuesday for attempted murder, prosecutors announced. Eduardo Valdivia was indicted with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree assault, use of a firearm and reckless endangerment charges, Montgomery County Circuit Court records show. Judge Joan Ryon ordered Valdivia to be released on personal bond, and he must turn over all his firearms and his passport. A plea was not entered. Valdivia's attorney Robert Bonsib told CNN over the phone Tuesday that the charges in the indictment are "very unfortunate and ill founded." Valdivia,...

It is once again with great regret that I take issue with my friend of more than 40 years, George Will. From my perspective of unambiguous admiration and personal liking for him, I am distressed that on the subject of President Trump, he seems to have taken complete leave of his senses. Last week, he said on television that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 should be seared into the minds of Americans as 9/11 was, as the two are equally profound assaults on the country. Let us examine that statement. On September 11, 2001, four airliners...

Only one Pennsylvania county is demonstrating substantial spread of COVID-19, Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said Tuesday. Wyoming County is the only county in the commonwealth with high transmission of the coronavirus, according to Wolf’s office. The number of counties with high transmission has dropped dramatically in recent weeks. Last week, five counties showed substantial spread of the coronavirus, Wolf’s office said. Just three weeks ago, 40 of the state’s 67 counties were still showing substantial transmission. The percentage of positive COVID-19 tests dropped to 3.8% for the week of May 21-27, down from 4.5% the previous week. It’s the sixth...

A series of laws and procedures promulgated by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI and, especially, by Pope Francis to protect children, promote the investigation of allegations of clerical sexual abuse and punish offenders are included in a heavily revised section of the Code of Canon Law. "Book VI: Penal Sanctions in the Church,"... ...the revision addresses a host of issues that have come up in the life of the church since St. John Paul II promulgated the code in 1983. The descriptions of crimes of sexual abuse, including child pornography, are more explicit, and the required actions of a bishop or...

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What would you give to have a college professor begin a course in the following way: Welcome to Political Science 101. You may have heard I do things a bit differently from your other professors, but you should know that my way was the “normal” way till … around five years ago. I’ve simply returned this course to “normal,” as opposed to the “new normal” — that is not lightyears close to “normal.” You will first notice that a return to “normal” connotes a return to meritocracy. In this world, grades (regardless of one’s race, ethnicity, gender, national origin or...

CNN's Brianna Keilar describes herself on Twitter as an "anchor." The more honest description would be "left-wing activist." Keilar twice fretted to her Democrat-consultant guests that President Biden isn't doing enough. As Keilar first put it to Hilary Rosen: "Is Biden doing enough to combat the war on voting rights? Because clearly, some folks do not think so." Moments later, Keilar expressed the same concern to Bernie bro Chuck Rocha: "I wonder, Chuck, what you think in the near term if Biden waits too long to combat this assault on voting rights because he’s looking at his legislative priorities the...

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas officially ended the “Remain in Mexico” program, which sought to cut asylum fraud by preventing the release of migrants into the United States. Immediately after taking office, Biden suspended the Remain in Mexico program, nearly two years after it was implemented by the Trump administration to reduce asylum fraud. Days later, Biden instructed top DHS officials to strategize a plan that would release at least 25,600 migrants enrolled in the program into the U.S. interior. On Tuesday, Mayorkas announced the official end of Remain in Mexico, despite its highly...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is intending to press U.S. President Joe Biden on human rights violations that are being perpetrated against Trump supporters who attended the mostly-peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has pointed out in recent weeks how U.S. authorities are violating human rights of their dissidents, which is a criticism frequently leveled against the Kremlin by Washington D.C. elites. “We are ready to talk, we have no taboo topics. We will discuss whatever we think is necessary. We will be ready to answer the questions that the American side will...

Male teachers across Spain have joined a unique movement to fight stereotypical gender norms and promote tolerance in the country after a boy was expelled from school last year for wearing a skirt. Male teachers across the country are now wearing skirts to classes as a form of protest to fight the gender norms, according to a Metro.co.uk report.

SIX SECONDS to switch out a fribble bearing while we all contemplated suicide !THANK YOU, JOHN.