long-running saga of the ex-president s legal woes, with donald trump taking the stand in a civil lawsuit today and facing the prospect in taking the stand in the congressional investigation into january 6th, as well. and his private club and residence, donald trump sat for a sworn deposition in the defamation lawsuit brought by e.g. carol, who has accused donald trump of rape. the associated press reports this, the deposition will give her lawyers a chance to interrogate trump about the assault allegations, as well as statements he made in 2019, when she told her story publicly for the very first time. trump says the rape allegation is a hoax and a lie. his legal team has worked for years to make this day never come, to delay the deposition that was filed when he was still president. and the january 6th select committee is set to ask for the same thing, trump s testimony as soon as today. the vice chair liz cheney said last night the panel s decision to issue a subpoena to
After four straight three-quarter-point interest rate hikes, the Federal Reserve is set to announce a smaller half-point increase in its key rate Wednesday, a first step toward dialing back its efforts to combat inflation. At the same time, the Fed is expected to signal that it plans more hikes next year than it had previously forecast to try to conquer the worst inflation bout in four decades.
2021 OCT 27 By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Vaccine Daily Staff editors report on the newly launched clinical trial, NCT05075941, which has the following summary description:“ The main objective of the study is to assess the level of vaccination coverage against COVID-19 among migrants, homeless and travelling community, according to their living.
VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative 2019-04-08
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great YouTube video, touching technical, political, and philosophical questions around the whole “who controls the algorithm” topic, from one of those multi-million subscriber channels, spending lots and lots of time and resources on researching and producing. The video was perfect, but the end did upset me slightly. In the end, the sponsoring message was read, and the sponsor was one of those VPN companies, with their usual marketing lingo. You surely know what I am talking about, but let me quote the sponsoring message here for context:
Your internet connection, right now, is broadcasting your IP address, which is the way people track you online. Check this out [shows a screencap of a website displaying the IP and GeoLocation information], when I go to this website, it tests everything that my internet connection is leaking. You can see my IP address, but you can also see where I am. Your internet connection is
certainly confusing to us over here when we hear it s safe, it s tremendously dangerous, it s safe, it s tremendously dangerous. what s the general feeling on the ground in japan? first of all there remains some degree of disorientation because of the continuing shakes and aftershocks. is there some sense this is getting better or it s still very precarious? reporter: very precarious. you know, you are dealing with multiple events here. of course the earthquake, the tsunami, devastation, relief effort, rescue effort, now the nuclear crisis as well. many foreigners just had enough and they ve headed for the exit. they ve gone to the airports. we ve seen long queues there. they don t trust the information they re getting. they don t know whether they re being lied to, they just don t know. that s the question, you just don t know. all day i ve tracked this well into the night. sometimes in one hour you can get two or three different briefings from different agencies. sometimes they con