Cyber polygon is really happening…

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District council declares Germany’s first-ever ‘cyber-catastrophe’ ‘We are almost completely paralyzed,’ says a spokesperson from Anhalt-Bitterfeld municipality in eastern Germany A district council in eastern Germany has declared a disaster after its computer systems were paralyzed by a hacker attack in what the federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed was the country’s first-ever “cyber-catastrophe.” Hackers knocked out … Read more

Australia: Cops check shopping bags to make sure your items are “essential”

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Western Sydney has been focus of a strengthened police presence since Friday  Some locals said police were checking bags at Kmart Casula for essential items  Under lockdown rules residents can only leave their house for essential reasons   Police were reportedly spotted checking customers’ bags outside a Kmart store in locked-down south-west Sydney to make sure … Read more

Confederate Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues in Charlottesville officially removed

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The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson on Saturday. Viewing areas for the removal of the statues were erected so that bystanders could watch cranes lift the statues from their plinth blocks; the process was nearly complete just before 9 a.m. https://www.foxnews.com/us/robert-e-lee-stonewall-jackson-statues-removed … Read more

This “Financial Law of Gravity” Predicts an Inevitable Market Collapse

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Photo by Muzammil Soorma   From Birch Gold Group “Brace for a significant market correction,” said Mark Zandi earlier this week. He hinted that a 10 to 20% correction was already underway. Which isn’t surprising, as manic investing behavior coupled with last year’s pandemic mitigation attempts eventually must give way to fundamental market forces. CNBC reported that a moment of clarity may have finally clicked … Read more

The New York Times Criticizes China’s Political Censorship, Have They Looked in the Mirror?

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Funny how leftists view themselves as having an awakened consciousness, even as they show no trace of self-consciousness. Case in point: The New York Times denounces China for precisely the kind of speech suppression and silencing of dissent that it openly advocates in this country. — Dinesh D’Souza is an author and filmmaker. A graduate … Read more

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson Reads Viral Thread On Why So Many Trump Supporters Have Questions About The 2020 Election & Their Distrust Of The Media

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Full Thread: https://t.co/Df6KBL84Xv — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021 https://t.co/BoFbVYp11Q — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021 https://t.co/YFOHj4bXel — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021 View post on imgur.com     h/t  dr0id

Biden’s executive order aims to increase competition; China’s tech giants face regulatory pressure

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Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the Joe Biden administration, Bharat Ramamurti, joins Yahoo Finance to discuss Biden’s new executive order centered around improving workers’ opportunities and how these three provisions will shape the labor market moving forward. Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi, Myles Udland, and Julie Hyman speak with Levi Strauss CFO Harmit … Read more

The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem

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Everything you assume about date labels is probably wrong There are two vital facts to know about date labels on foods in the US: They’re not standardized, and they have almost nothing to do with food safety. Date labels first started appearing in the decades following World War II, as American consumers increasingly moved away … Read more