HP Enterprise Stock Slides After WSJ Report Company Was “Overrun” With Chinese Hackers…
December 30, 2019
WSJ notes that cybersecurity investigators first identified aspects of the hack, called Cloud Hopper by the security researchers who first uncovered it, in 2016, and U.S. prosecutors charged two Chinese nationals for the global operation last December. The two men remain at large. A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that the attack was much bigger than previously known...
IRS Goes After Hunter Biden For Over $112,000 In Unpaid Taxes…
December 30, 2019
- The IRS placed a tax lien on Hunter Biden for $112,805 in unpaid taxes from 2015, according to records the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
- Biden served on the boards of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners in 2015.
- Biden has been accused of refusing to provide basic information about his finances in an ongoing paternity case in Arkansas.
Japan low altitude satellite registered in Guinness World Records…
December 30, 2019
Tsubame maintained the record-low altitude for a period of seven days by using its ion engine system -- cultivated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA -- and gas-jet thrusters, successfully taking high resolution images and acquiring data on atmospheric and atomic-oxygen density...
Archaeologists in Mexico have unearthed the remains of a huge Mayan palace that’s estimated to be more than 1,000 years old…
December 30, 2019
“This is just the start of the work. We are only just uncovering one of the largest structures on the site," the archaeologist added... "In its time, the finishes of this temple would have given the impression of being snake scales; this is known because the stone reliefs that the property has in its accesses, resemble the jaws of a 'monster of the earth,'"
First Generation Trump-Supporting, Hirsh Singh, Challenges Cory Booker For His Senate Seat…
December 30, 2019
The successful businessman and engineer was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, as the son of Indian immigrants who came here legally... Getting right into the issues, Singh said, “my number one agenda is infrastructure. But number two is definitely illegal immigration.” Singh says that for Democrats to be supportive of illegal immigration, “It’s like poking [legal immigrants] in the eye.
Russiagate Investigation Now Endangers Obama…
December 30, 2019
The biggest crime that a US President can commit is to try to defeat American democracy (the Constitutional functioning of the US Government) itself, either by working with foreign powers to take it over, or else by working internally within America to sabotage democracy for his or her own personal reasons. Either way, it’s treason (crime that is intended to, and does, endanger the continued functioning of the Constitution itself*), and Mr. Obama is now being actively investigated, as possibly having done this. The Russiagate investigation, which had formerly focused against the current US President, has reversed direction and now targets the prior President. Although he, of course, cannot be removed from office (since he is no longer in office), he is liable under criminal laws, the same as any other American would be, if he committed any crime while he was in office..
China approves two new genetically modified US crops for import…
December 30, 2019
Decision by agriculture ministry to allow GM soybean and papaya to be sold could pave the way for further agriculture imports. China has committed to buy more US farm produce under phase one trade deal...
South Korea will Pardon over 5,000 People on New Year’s Eve…
December 30, 2019
A significant proportion of them - 1,879 people - are people who have refused to serve in the military on religious or personal grounds...
Putin thanks Trump for intel that foiled attack in Russia…
December 30, 2019
Russian officials offered few details about the intelligence they said they received through U.S. Special Forces. Russia’s Federal Security Service, FSB, detained two Russian citizens on Friday who the agency said intended to carry out terrorist attacks in crowded places in St. Petersburg during the New Year, RIA Novosti, one of Russia’s official news agencies, reported.
Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt…
December 30, 2019
First Big Pharma fled the field, and now start-ups are going belly up, threatening to stifle the development of new drugs...
MSNBC poll wants to know if we should be able to carry guns in public. You know what to do…
December 30, 2019
Hong Kong will end 2019 with multiple protests planned for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day aimed at disrupting festivities and shopping in the Asian financial hub, which has seen a rise in clashes between police and protesters since Christmas…
December 30, 2019
Events dubbed “Suck the Eve” and “Shop With You” are set for New Year’s Eve on Tuesday in areas including the party district of Lan Kwai Fong, the picturesque Victoria Harbour, and popular shopping malls, according to notices on social media.
Joe Biden Says He Would Nominate Barack Obama to the Supreme Court…
December 30, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden, the former United States vice president, said over the weekend that he’s willing to nominate his former boss to the Supreme Court if he’s elected to the Oval Office — provided that Barack Obama would accept the nomination.
All eyes on ‘new way’ in Kim Jong Un’s New Year speech
December 30, 2019
Addressing the officials, Kim stressed the need "to take positive and offensive measures for fully ensuring the sovereignty and security of the country," the state news agency KCNA reported Monday... The North has not so far specified the "new way" it would adopt if the US does not offer fresh concessions by the end of the year, and Kim is expected to make it clearer on Wednesday.
A big number of Indian students deported from Pearson International Airport after their IELTS test results were found to be fake…
December 30, 2019
A big number of Indian students deported from Pearson International Airport after their IELTS test results were found to be fake. #HappeningNow #Toronto pic.twitter.com/vwjT3qyGTV
— Tameem Zaqtan (@theTameemZaqtan) December 29, 2019
Indian tech startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019…
December 30, 2019
Tech startups in India this year participated in 1,185 financing rounds — 459 of those were Series A or later rounds — from 817 investors... Overall, there were 81 financing deals of size between $25 million and $100 million, up from 56 last year and 36 the year before, and 27 rounds above $100 million, up from 17 in 2018 and and 9 in 2017, Tracxn told TechCrunch.
U.S. Army releases top 10 list of coolest science, technology advances…
December 30, 2019
A Titanic story about the Federal Reserve Bank – ROBERT SEPEHR…
December 30, 2019
British woman found guilty of lying about Cyprus gang rape…
December 30, 2019
She had told the court she had been in the room with one of the Israeli youths who she said she was in a relationship with. She said the others then appeared, and she was pinned down and attacked. After withdrawing her accusation, she was charged with public mischief. She claimed she was forced into making a confession, following persistent questioning without a lawyer...
Wyze data leak may have exposed personal data for millions of users. They blame employee error for weeks-long data leak…
December 30, 2019