Authentication provider 1Password breached. Due to other authentication provider, Octa, breached. THAT IS how fragile is technology. Hand-wave policy report/advice on "supply-chain" security but at the end of the day, random npm package 0wns stuff. https://blog.1password.com/okta-incident/
Breaking: #91Felonies rapist has posted a bond of nearly $92 million in E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The posted bond is exactly $91,630,000.00, which includes a district’s courts common practice of requiring a bond of 110% of the judgement.
Insurance company Chubb underwrote the $91.63 million bond for Donald Trump, which the former president signed on Tuesday, March 5.
Under the terms of the bond, Chubb will only secure the appeal of the $83.3 million judgment, not any future appeals.
#91Felonies Rapist got someone to give him almost exactly that amount. America has no idea who that is or who he is now beholden to, and that is unacceptable as a counterintelligence matter.
The whole world wants to know where the money to purchase the bond came from.
And U.S. intelligence needs to know.
A billionaire shouldn’t need an agency to post his $90M bond. That should be chump change to a billionaire. Where’s Mr. I’m so rich when it comes to paying his bills?
📢 And just Thursday, Trump was ordered to pay $382,000 in legal fees for Orbis Business Intelligence, the consulting firm owned by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.* Trump had sued Orbis over a dossier Steele compiled in 2016 that alleged Trump and members of his inner circle had been “compromised” by Russia’s security service.
Trump has to pay Christopher Steele. Let’s examine the Verified Claims:
Some key allegations made in the dossier were later corroborated:
Russian Interference: The dossier claimed that Vladimir Putin favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton and ordered an “influence campaign” to harm Clinton’s campaign and undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process. These claims were later supported by the Mueller Report. That many Trump campaign officials and associates had numerous secretive contacts with Russian officials and agents. Some of these contacts were indeed confirmed during investigations.
Trump got $7.8 MILLION from 20 foreign governments while in office. China tops list with $5.5M at his hotels while Saudi Arabia and Qatar
The transactions are detailed in a 156-page report The 'White House For Sale'.
Other foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia also did business through four Trump entities, according to the report. The report says the foreign payments uncovered are 'likely only a fraction of the total amount of foreign payments he received during his presidency.
trump took in $7.8 million from foreign entities in 20 countries, payments to his businesses that violate a Constitutional prohibition on accepting funding from foreign governments.
The volume of #foreign payments detailed in one of the most exhaustive reviews of Trump’s business dealings with foreign governments while in office. 🚨
…#MollyMichael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from #Trump that were written on the back of notecards, & she later recognized those notecards as #sensitive#WhiteHouse materials -- w/visible #classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls w/ #foreign leaders or other #international-related matters.
Malign Russian efforts are focused on undermining U.S. support for #Ukraine while China and Russia seek to exploit societal polarization and diminish faith in U.S. democratic systems.
To Putin: We see you, war criminal Vladimir. Ukraine will win. Putin skotyna bydlo, turn yourself in to the ICC Criminal Court at the Hague. There is an arrest warrant for war criminal Putin for genocide of Ukrainians. Days are numbered for Putin. 🖕
Arizona revokes water permits for Saudi Arabia-owned alfalfa farm.
Valued at $14.3 billion, the #Almarai Co... The storehouses belong to #Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia based company Almarai.
Just 8 months ago, Arizona state agencies approved new deep-water wells in La Paz County for a Saudi-owned company to pump thousands of gallons of water per-minute.
That's not happening. Those drill permits have been revoked.
‘Gives the Game Away’: Eric #Trump Admitted to Taking #Money From #Foreign Countries, Top Dem Says
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released a report showing that during Donald Trump’s four years as president, his businesses received at least $7.8 million in payments from foreign governments and officials from 20 different countries — among them, #China, #Qatar and #Saudi Arabia.
Goodmorning lovely #fediverse friends. After having had my morning coffee and a few client calls I finally have time to say 2 things about last nights discussion on multilingualism:
why I personally don't see an issue with an English speaking server, but understand why it's important for others
more importantly, that this discussion highlights the need for a community governance initiative
I'm typing this out while at work so toots might take a while.
@Gina If everyone wants to, ok. But not everyone wants and not everybody is able to do so. I think the latter is important to really be inclusive.
(I love translation projects of the big #FLOSS projects like #LibreOffice. I find it so great, because it empowers ppl!)
I personally absolutely enjoy reading people talking in #foreign languages and I take it as a challenge to learn their #language and #culture which is always connected to each other.
Diplomats of at least two #foreign countries have told their governments to prepare for a “#doomsday” option following #intel they’ve received about #Trump’s plans if he returns to the #WhiteHouse.
One of the #diplomats told #Reuters they have kept in touch with Trump aides after he left the #presidency, and what they’re hearing has them terrified.
Two foreign volunteers were killed and two more were hospitalized when their car was struck by Russian shelling while driving through Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast on Sept. 9.
Russian agent Boris Epshteyn to be questioned for 2nd day by special counsel: Sources So that likely means he's being interviewed to avoid a grand jury appearance. It almost seems like he's doing a "Queen for a Day" interview.
I'm going to watch all the usual suspects closely. See who goes dark. With the grand jury seeming like it's getting close to the end of the line, I'm not going to be surprised if they charge soon. Smith may have gone to to the interview to assess how
Epshteyn retroactively claimed he was criminal suspect donald's lawyer when he was a campaign advisor. Back date the docs you criminal.
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Cocaine Jr has gone quiet today after a long Tweet storm of multiple posts daily. He was my contemporaneous pick for who accompanied Boris Epshteyn to Prague. The Steele dossier assumed it was Michael Cohen. I thought it was Epshteyn and that Don Jr would have accompanied him.
Cocaine jr. speaks Czech. My guess is that they have a ton of intelligence on Epshteyn and I'm also guessing that whatever #45 was planning to do with the stolen top secrets it involved the Russians and Boris got involved. If so, he's looking at life for espionage.
That would get him to take an invitation to save himself by telling Jack all his darkest secrets.
Don Jr. deserves watching. I think they got his mother who was getting talky. Epshteyn may be able to dance through the rain drops but Don Jr. going through a Cocaine withdrawal possibly in the lock up could be too unpredictable for the Kremlin to take a chance.
The Maryland Democrat said #Republicans have "used their legislative power to cover up evidence of Trump's lawlessness and to serve his demands for personal vengeance."
A report released Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee estimates that former President Donald Trump's businesses received at least $7.8 million from foreign governments
The Quincy Institute asked, and these left-flank presidential #candidates responded on how they would change America’s approach to the world.
We #received responses from Democratic candidate Marianne #Williamson as well as independent candidates Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. and Cornel #West. Biden’s campaign declined to participate, so we have aggregated relevant quotes and information about the president’s stances where possible.
The Constitution should be amended to permit foreign military bases to operate within Ukraine, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov wrote in a column for Liga.net on July 17.
The Japan Times interviewed me for a May 27, 2024 article on #bilingual#education (1st picture).
While the newspaper article is for paying subscribers, the reporter Eric Margolis agreed that the publication Bilingual Japan of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (#JALT) #Bilingualism SIG may publish the full interview. After that issue comes out next month, I will make the article available in research repositories.
The article is subtitled "Japan wants its next generation to be fluent in English. Culture and economic inequality stand in the way." What it means by #culture getting in the way is treated in my answer as to why the #English level in #Japan is relatively low (2nd picture).
The conclusion quotes part of my response to the common opinion that #foreign#languages are not needed in Japan (3rd picture). My complete answer also predicts that the increasing influx of foreign #tourists and #residents will change that complacent attitude.
The United States remains one of only half a dozen U.N. member states that have yet to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, but no steps toward ratification have ever been taken. Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the poor in this...
In lists of state parties to globally significant treaties, the United States is often notably absent. Ratification hesitancy is a chronic impairment to international U.S. credibility and influence.
Where is Qin Gang? China’s foreign minister has not been seen in public for three weeks (www.theguardian.com)
The absence of China’s foreign minister has been commented on online, where some discussion appears to have been censored
Foreign volunteers' car struck by Russian artillery in Chasiv Yar: 2 killed, 2 wounded (kyivindependent.com)
Two foreign volunteers were killed and two more were hospitalized when their car was struck by Russian shelling while driving through Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast on Sept. 9.
Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty? (www.washingtonpost.com)
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
Defense Minister: Foreign military bases should be allowed to operate in Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The Constitution should be amended to permit foreign military bases to operate within Ukraine, Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov wrote in a column for Liga.net on July 17.
The United States' Failure to Ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Must the Poor Be Always with Us. (commons.stmarytx.edu)
The United States remains one of only half a dozen U.N. member states that have yet to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, but no steps toward ratification have ever been taken. Meanwhile, the gap between the rich and the poor in this...
On International Treaties, the United States Refuses to Play Ball (www.cfr.org)
In lists of state parties to globally significant treaties, the United States is often notably absent. Ratification hesitancy is a chronic impairment to international U.S. credibility and influence.