[MOVIEWEB] Porn legend Ron Jeremy is the subject of some new sexual assault allegations. The allegations are currently "under review" by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office. Jeremy found himself back in the public eye recently by trying to save a tree in Bayside, Queens, which he claims his father planted on the day he was born. Suddenly, the adult star, nicknamed the "Hedgehog," was trending all over the world on social media, bringing his name back into the headlines and into many alleged bad memories.
Ron Jeremy has been accused of sexual assault by over a dozen women, which includes ten adult performers and two journalists. Out of 11,292.5 women he's doinked. (One was a midget.)
With Jeremy's name trending, it was easily discovered that he has some current allegations out there. "Sexual assault allegations against Ron Jeremy are under review by our office. No filing decision has been made," said Greg Risling, a Los Angeles District Attorney's Office public information officer. Another recent allegation allegedly took place at the Rainbow Bar and Grill on the Sunset strip in 2018.
During the height of the #MeToo movement, Ron Jeremy's past sexual assault allegations became public news again. At the time, Jeremy called those allegations, "pure lies or buyer's remorse." After years of thinking their stories wouldn't be taken seriously, women started coming forward about Jeremy and his actions over the years, which seems to have been a well-known secret in porn circles, like a lot of others who have been accused of sexual assault over the years. "He tried to forcefully kiss me on the lips and he grabbed my ass," one woman wrote on Twitter. Others had stories that were a lot worse than that.
Since Ron Jeremy's sexual assault allegations became public news back in 2017, he has been banned from a lot of adult entertainment events, including the AVN Awards, which are considered to be the Academy Awards of porn, along with the XBIZ Awards, and Exxotica conventions. Now that saving the trees has found the porn star back in the headlines, people have been bringing up his allegations on social media in response. Porn actress Janice Griffith responded to Jeremy's original tree-saving tweet by asking, "Did Ron tweet this in between bouts of sexually harassing people? he's banned from almost all adult industry events for groping people without consent."
Janice Griffith also claims that Ron Jeremy groped her without consent when she was a teenager. Jeremy has not responded to the latest round of sexual assault allegations and the Los Angeles District Attorney's office has yet to reveal any further details. At this time, they will only confirm that he is under investigation. As with most cases like this, Jeremy will more than likely deny the allegations, though it's unclear what will happen with the LAPD after their investigation. The Daily Beast was the first to report on Ron Jeremy's latest sexual assault allegations.
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[ ] Get paid to boink super-hot women
[ ] Grope and rape and risk jail with mundane women
Normally the only thing stopping the average joe from selecting the first option is being camera shy and that the industry would't want them. Both are not factors with Mr Jeremy so if true this really have crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
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Frank - I used the word 'p0rn' in a post about an hour ago and it got deleted; it's funny how the word can be used in the article but not in a comment.
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just put a zero in place of the O? That usually works for me
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Pr0n is the internet approved™ filter beater.
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We say all kinds of crazy stuff here, but a post was deleted just for the word pee-oh-arr-enn? If there was a URL or something, sure, but just the word? Come on....
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It removes Pr0n spam, Clem. Along with other s3xual and online C@sinos. You haven;t been here, long enough, apparently, to remember the bad old days. Check the O-Club late at night, before we sweep the spam
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but a post was deleted just for the word pee-oh-arr-enn?
You clearly don’t remember when a major time suck for the moderators was to delete the spams that arrived over the course of every single day, Clem. Most of the moderators have day jobs — they can’t take a half hour or an hour just to delete stuff here. So Fred wrote a little routine that automatically deleted anything that contained the most common spam terms. If you want to see what it looks like, hang out in the O Club chat room for a few days — he turned off the routine there, and as a result the moderators poke our heads in several times a day to delete the accumulation, trying not to delete the comments buried among them.
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Yes. How much spittle can forever quarantine fanatics produce over this?
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Neither Gov. Cooper nor the Alamance County Sheriff's Department has returned a DailyMail.com request for comment.
*hits goggle translates*
"Piss off."
Love the headlining; yeah they hit the track about 1:00 and by 4:00, boom, huge increase in cases.
/puts chips on If Its That Bad, Why Shady Reporting? venn circle.
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Oh-ho. The research was performed by Drs Jayanta Bhattacharya (left), John Ioannidis (center) and Eran Bendavid (right), who are now under investigation by the university for making the virus appear more widespread but less deadly than believed.
Not 50-80 times more, but only 54 times more. Didn't follow the narrative!
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Obviously a politically motivated persecution. The clique decided to eliminate the one voice of Truth and Scientific Integrity in Corona-hoax.
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Except that, Ioannidis himself publicly stated that he welcomed critiques of the study and even invited people to suggest changes -- which he and Bhattacharya and Bendavid quickly adopted and put forth in a revised version.
As Ioannidis has repeatedly said - about not just this study but every biomedical researcher's studies: "this is exactly how science should work. … Preprints are not immutable final versions.”
Compare his and Bhattacharya and Bendavid's openness, honesty and humility with Neil Ferguson's behavior. Ask yourself who deserves more trust.
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This is no doubt revenge against Ioannidis for calling BS on fake causality that is rife in medical studies - most notoriously with hormone therapy prescribed to women as a heart disease preventive and arterial stents.
Each was a fraud that cost billions; it was Ioannidis and his crusade for transparency and opening research to critique who exposed these frauds. Obviously the man has many enemies - despite (or maybe also because of) his honesty and humility.
"John P.A. Ioannidis, chief of the Stanford Prevention Research Center, works with colleagues around the globe to scrutinize treatments that account for huge chunks of the health- care tab but that are, he says, virtually worthless and sometimes harmful.
"Ioannidis says financial influence is one of several factors that can, deliberately or unintentionally, skew study design and methodology and undermine the validity of published research findings. His extensive publications pointing out these problems are reverberating throughout the scientific community—and threaten entire medical specialties that have organized themselves around big-ticket, but low-value, interventions.
"'Fixing this involves a rethinking of the process that won't happen overnight and is not very cheap,' Ioannidis says. 'However, if we continue in the same path we will run out of money, as a country, even the whole world . . . there is a cloud of ineffective interventions, or minimally effective interventions that are extremely expensive and therefore not worth it. We need to sort out that mess.' "
Regarding the hormone therapy and heart stent debacles:
"Those two treatments 'cost billions of dollars and supported the existence of entire specialties for many years,' Ioannidis and his co-authors wrote in January in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ioannidis says the data clearly show that patients were subjected to risk with no chance of benefit. ..."
There is no 'blame' here. As Ioannidis wrote in his response to critiques of his famous 2005 paper, biomedical research errors are to be expected. Ioannidis called then and now for openness, humility and honesty: "having many teams with transparent availability of all results and integration of data across teams leads to genuine progress. We need replication, not just discovery."
Above all, humility and respect for uncertainty:
"Scientific investigation is the noblest pursuit. I think we can improve the respect of the public for researchers by showing how difficult success is. Confidence in the research enterprise is probably undermined primarily when we claim that discoveries are more certain than they really are, and then the public, scientists, and patients suffer the painful refutations."
Your snark needs to be re-directed toward the likes of Neil Ferguson.
Just admit it, g: This was vastly overhyped, it created extraordinary damage to the world beyond your little garden, and now the tide is turning and leaders are recognizing - though they'll never ever admit - that they f'ed up royally.
It is becoming obvious with every week that the lockdown will cause more deaths than it sounds ared. So foolish.
For these reasons the lockdown is collapsing in the red states. Democrats have taken notice and are now scrambling to come up with a new narrative. Even Pomade Boy in California is starting to feel the heat.
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The freudian projection from you regarding the catastrophically wrong projections (and not for the first time either) of Fergusson are detected by those who quickly worked out lockdown was a mistake.
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While the entire Accela corridor is trying to figure out if / when you can get a manicure or a haircut, we here in Florida are having a manned space flight this week.
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And, none of you are helping that poor, sick "it's just starting" guy by baiting him. Just ignore him. He's happy with his delusion. The rest of you, get back to work. America needs your effort directed to constructive pursuits.
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The New York Timesgets it: even as sensibly-managed state Florida rebounds under Gov. DeSantis, the NYT concludes that locked-down California has been well and truly fooked:
"Across California there is a growing sense that the pandemic will reshape the state’s economy, with long-lasting pain. ...
"In Los Angeles...the jobless rate has reached 24 percent, roughly equal to the peak unemployment of the Great Depression, in 1933.
“Economic free fall,” is how Tom Steyer, the former presidential candidate, described it . He is heading the state’s economic recovery task force, a group of business leaders, labor activists, economists and former governors who have begun meeting to plot a way out. California faces a daunting budget deficit of $54 billion, which could force painful cuts to schools, social programs, health care and road building. ...
"As the debate on reopening is increasingly shaped by the country’s partisan divide, many conservative states are moving more quickly to restart their economies and many liberal states, like California, are taking more precautions. According to location data compiled by Google, Californians have more strictly abided by stay-at-home orders than people in other states..."
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Steyer no doubt has big plans to remake Cali's economy making Greta love dolls and Trump voodoo dolls.
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And where are the glowing stories about how dope kept Colorado afloat thru the lockdown scam?
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The people have decided the scientists had their chance. We listened early not to wear masks or be afraid to go to china town for New Years or Mardi Gras. Then we listened to various projections and mixed messages. Now folks are using their own experience to make decisions. They do not see Walmart or supermarket employees dropping like flies or home delivery people dying daily or front line workers giving up.... but they see way more people bothered with the lockdown and shutdown.
This article is just another distraction; the masses have stopped listening to the ‘scientists’ and politicians.
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Read Tim Dorsey. The Thirst Mutilator from Addiction World.
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Read Randy Wayne White too.
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Never met him. He used to be a reporter, IIRC, so being a jerk is highly possible.
His books make me laugh out loud (literally), even if they tend towards being formulaic.
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I used to be a reporter. Instawhoever called me a jerk. So I guess that's how it is. I'm cool with that.
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Read Thomas McGuane.
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"How are you doing today?"
"I'm dying."
"How do you feel about that?"
"Don't know. Never done it before."
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I used to be a reporter.
That’s an actual Rantburger category that includes at least two moderators, along with programmer/systems analyst, military, mechanic, lawyer, engineer, and professor. Also housewife. And Steve, Army of. ;-)
[New York Post] Hundreds of publicly traded companies appear to be keeping government-backed loans meant to help small businesses weather the coronavirus crisis.
Only 68 of the 424 public firms that disclosed receiving $1.3 billion in loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program had pledged to return them as of early Monday morning, according to regulatory filings compiled by data-analysis company FactSquared.
That suggests 356, or roughly 84 percent, of those companies are holding onto the money amid the Trump administration’s pledge to crack down on abuse of the $659 billion program. Officials gave firms until May 18 to repay loans without facing further scrutiny.
Some 76 of those companies had enough cash and cash equivalents on hand to cover operating expenses until at least June, a Reuters analysis found.
The firms keeping loans include upscale restaurant operator ONE Group Hospitality, which got $18.3 million from the pool of money meant to help small businesses cover payroll and overhead costs, FactSquared’s database showed. There’s also Hallador Energy, a coal firm that got $10 million, and high-end hotel company Sotherly Hotels, which got nearly $10.4 million, according to the data.
Fawziya Abikar, health minister, said 31 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 235.
The minister said five patients succumbed to the disease, raising the total number of deaths to 66.
Somalia has taken urgent measures to counter the effects of COVID-19 and contain the spread of the virus, including closing schools, banning large gatherings, and suspending both international and domestic passenger flights.
Active Cases: 2,873,549 Currently Infected Patients
2,820,382 (98%) in Mild Condition
53,167 (2%) Serious or Critical
Hackers tried to sabotage Israeli anti-coronavirus efforts — report
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 news reports that among the cyber attacks on Israeli websites last week was an attempt to break into the computer system of institutes working to find a cure for the coronavirus.
According to the report, which does not cite a source, hackers attempted to break in, not to steal information, but to sabotage the research being done. It says the attempts were unsuccessful.
The report does not say what institutes were hacked. Israel’s military bio-defense institute is thought to be leading efforts for a vaccine, and has announced a possible breakthrough. A number of other Israeli bodies, both private and government-run are also doing research into how the disease develops and spreads in the hopes of stemming it.
Sudan coronavirus death toll rises to 382
[Sudan Tribune] Sudan on Monday reported 19 more coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... deaths, bringing the country’s corpse count from the epidemic to 165, the federal health ministry said in a statement.
According to a daily news bulletin, the health authorities dated 23 May 2020 but released on Monday due to the Eid holidays, five death were recorded in Khartoum state, six in Gezira state, one in North Kordofan state, one in Gedaref state and six in North Darfur state.
Also, on Saturday, the authorities recorded new 192 confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 3820.
According to the report, 124 new cases were registered in Khartoum state, 30 Gaderef state, 7 in North Kordofan state, 11 in Sennar state, 11 West Kordofan and 2 in the Blue Nile state.
In comparison with neighbouring countries, Sudan comes after Egypt, which recorded (17825) cases, but it is ahead of Æthiopia (655), South Sudan (655), Chad (687), Libya (75) and Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... (39).
The report said that 34 patients recovered from the respiratory disease bringing total recoveries to 458.
But with the number of UK coronavirus cases dropping every day, there may not be enough people to test it on, according to the institute's director Professor Adrian Hill.
He told The Sunday Telegraph: "It's a race against the virus disappearing, and against time. We said earlier in the year that there was an 80% chance of developing an effective vaccine by September.
"But at the moment, there's a 50% chance that we get no result at all. We're in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay, at least for a little while."
Mink pass coronavirus to humans in the Netherlands
[DW] At least two people have caught the coronavirus from mink in the Netherlands, in probably the first mink-to-human transmission cases. The risk of infection outside mink farms is "negligible," Dutch officials said.
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@ #9 That is incredible...and outright fraud. Disgusting. Gotta have a reason to inflate the numbers. Meanwhile, millions are unemployed because of this disgusting farce.
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The Billy Jeff Clinton regime counted 25 year old drug soldier gang bangers as "child victims of gun violence," so this sort of intentional misrepresentation is not new. In Sweden, a newborn that never leaves the hospital is not counted as ever having been alive. Welcome to Gerbil Health Statistics Land™
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Now the New York Times and Politico are coming out with stories that show elite Democrats starting to panic over the economic devastation they've wrought as they see the red states starting to reopen while California and New York remain locked down.
Watch the narrative start changing as we get closer to the Democratic Convention.
[Sky News (AUS)] EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus that has become a world-wide pandemic may have been created in a "cell-culture experiment" in a laboratory, according to prominent scientists who have conducted ground-breaking research into the origins of the virus.
Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky has completed a scientific study, currently undergoing peer review, in conjunction with La Trobe University in Victoria, which found COVID-19 was uniquely adapted for transmission to humans, far more than any other animal, including bats.
Professor Petrovsky, from the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University who has spent the past 20 years developing vaccines against pandemic influenza, Ebola and animal SARS, said this highly unusual finding left open the possibility that the virus leaked from a laboratory.
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The last statement found from the Office of Natl Intelligence: ODNI News Release No. 11-20, April 30, 2020. Intelligence Community Statement on Origins of COVID-19
WASHINGTON, D.C. “The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to U.S. policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China. The Intelligence Community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.
“As we do in all crises, the Community’s experts respond by surging resources and producing critical intelligence on issues vital to U.S. national security. The IC will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
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Heard Carrie Lam (Chinese stooge and official Mom of Honk Kong) on the Beeb saying how the National Security law is no big deal because it will only be used against evil-doers and other nasty people. No doubt, the citizens of Hong Kong felt as reassured as I did.
[Jpost] Paul Whelan, a US national who also holds British, Canadian and Irish passports, has been in jug since he was detained in a Moscow hotel room in December 2018.
Russian prosecutors asked a court on Monday to sentence former US Marine Paul Whelan, who is on trial accused of spying for the United States, to 18 years in a maximum security prison, his lawyer said.
Whelan, a US national who also holds British, Canadian and Irish passports,
...a pretty selection, but we’ve not seen any indication of interest by any of them in this case...
has been in jug since he was detained in a Moscow hotel room in December 2018. He says he was set up in a sting and has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charge.
"The prosecution has made a very harsh demand, it's absolutely unjustified and groundless. To be honest, we're in shock," Whelan's lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov told news hounds after Monday's hearing.
The court will announce its verdict on June 15, he said.
The trial, which began on March 23, has been closed to the public as its content broaches classified information. Many of the case's details have emerged through his lawyer.
US Ambassador in Moscow John Sullivan said the proceedings amounted to a "secret trial" and a "mockery of justice."
"There is no legitimacy to a procedure that is hidden behind closed doors. It is not transparent, it is not fair, and it is not impartial," he said.
The prosecution accuses Whelan of being at least a ranking US military intelligence colonel and that he was caught red-handed trying to obtain secrets, his lawyer said.
Contrariwise, the Marine Corps was under the impression they’d given him a bad conduct discharge in 2008 for larceny from the USMC. It has been suggested he is but a simple con man, which would explain the Russian prosecutor’s confusion...
The defense said Whelan had only believed he was receiving photographs of a trip that he and an acquaintance had been on, not classified material, and that he had been tricked, Zherebenkov said.
...apparently not even a good con man...
"This was a game by Russia's Federal Security Service ... the successor to the KGB... ...," he said.
US authorities have called the charges against Whelan spurious and have called on Russia to release him, describing the case as a "significant obstacle" to improving bilateral ties.
Whelan, 50, has used his appearances at hearings to allege he has been ill-treated by prison guards and been denied medical attention. Russian authorities have accused him of faking health problems to draw attention to his case.
[ALMASDARNEWS] The South Korean intelligence agency continues to monitor a new missile submarine that is set to enter the service of the North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n Navy, the Yonhap Agency said.
The agency quoted today, a South Korean intelligence source: "According to our information, the submarine is ready to enter the service of the North Korean naval forces. We are closely following the process of entering the combat service."
According to South Korean intelligence, a new non-nuclear missile submarine has been built in military shipbuilding yards in Sinbu, on the country’s east coast. "Intelligence believes that the displacement of the new submarine water is 3,000 tons, and it is armed with three medium-range ballistic missiles of the Bukchksong type. -3.
In October 2019, the first test of this missile, with a range of 450 km, was carried out.
The Yonhap agency indicated that the new missile submarine might become part of North Korea’s strategic forces.
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It has 4 150mm cannon, a catapult, and a corvus.
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Taiwan to fire up missile programme as Tsai puts focus on asymmetric warfare against mainland China https://t.co/9R0AUIrfmY Boost to weapons would allow island to brace for PLA’s first advance before an ally stepped in to help, analyst says
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Strategic targets - that's like dams and such, right?
Ports, ammo dumps, etc. Anything that causes significant amounts of civilian death would be a mistake. It would open the door to a nuclear attack on Taiwan, unless Taiwan reveals a hitherto unknown missile-borne nuclear capability as a deterrent.
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If Taiwan ever does unveil such a missile defense capability, China's plans for invasion are over. At least until their navy and air force are built up massively (or if they ever are, at this rate).
[Jpost] In addition to their study, the researchers also contacted Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon, Dyn (now owned by Oracle), Verisign, and Quad9, leading them to update their DNS software.
Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya have discovered a previously unknown Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) exploit, potentially thwarting future attacks using this DDoS technique, according to a blurb from TAU on Thursday.
As part of a new study, Prof. Yehuda Afek of TAU’s Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center and the Checkpoint Institute and Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr, Vice Dean of IDC's Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, with the help of TAU doctoral student Lior Shafir, provide an in-depth description of the new technique that may have allowed a small number of computers to carry out a DDoS attack on a massive scale, which is dangerous for critical infrastructure.
In addition to their study, the researchers also contacted Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon, Dyn (now owned by Oracle), Verisign, and Quad9, leading them to update their DNS software in response to the threat. Consequently, , Prof. Afek and Prof. Bremler-Barr have been responsible for stopping hundreds of cyberattacks.
Referencing a major cyberattack in 2016 that crippled Amazon, Reddit, Spotify and Slack along the US east coast, the researchers suggest the cause may have been due to the weakness within the DNS.
"The DNS is the essential Internet directory. In fact, without the DNS, the Internet cannot function. As part of a study of various aspects of the DNS, we discovered to our surprise a very serious breach that could attack the DNS and disable large portions of the network," Prof. Bremler-Barr explained.
"The attack in 2016 used over 1M IoT devices, whereas here we see the same impact with only a few hundred," added Prof. Afek. "We are talking about a major amplification, a major cyberattack that could disable critical parts of the internet."
Dubbed "NXNSAttack" (Non Existent Name Server Attack), the newly discovered technique takes advantage of exploits in common DNS software that converts the domain names you click or type into the address bar of your browser into IP addresses. The NXNSAttack may lead a DNS server to do hundreds of thousands of requests based on the hacker's one request, crashing the system.
"To mount the NXNSattack," Prof. Afek notes, a hacker acquires for a price or simply penetrates, an authoritative server, redirecting the resolver to send hundreds of thousands of requests to the servers.
"The attacker sends such a request multiple times over a long period of time, which generates a tsunami of requests between the DNS servers, which are subsequently overwhelmed and unable to respond to the legitimate requests of actual legitimate users."
"A hacker that discovered this vulnerability would have used it to generate an attack targeting either a resolver or an authoritative DNS server in particular locations in the DNS system. In either case, the attack server would be incapacitated and its services blocked, unable to function due to the overwhelming number of requests it got. It would prevent legitimate users from reaching the resources on the Internet they sought," Shafir described.
"Our discovery has prevented major potential damage to web services used by millions of users worldwide. The 2016 cyberattack, which is considered the greatest in history, knocked down much of the Internet in the US, but an attack like the one we now prevented could have been more than 800 times more powerful," concludes Prof. Afek.
[CNBC] Stock futures traded sharply higher early Tuesday to begin a holiday-shortened week, as optimism grew about the reopening of the economy and a potential coronavirus vaccine.
Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average pointed to an implied opening gain of about 516 points. Dow futures added 513 points or 2.1%. S&P 500 futures gained 1.9%. Nasdaq-100 futures also rose 1.9%. U.S. markets were closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
Here’s what the markets were watching:
American biotech company Novavax said Monday it started the first human study of its experimental coronavirus vaccine. The company said it expects initial results on safety and immune responses in July. Last week, another biotech Moderna reported positive development on its vaccine trial where all 45 participants had developed coronavirus antibodies. There are 10 vaccines in clinical evaluation and 114 in pre-clinical evaluation, according to a running tally by Fundstrat.
Economic activity continued to pick up as states begin opening up their economies. The biggest gainers in the premarket were directly tied to the reopening. Carnival shares jumped 11%. MGM Resorts climbed 9%. United Airlines and Southwest Airlines rose 7% each.
The S&P 500 was set to meet or exceed its 200-day moving average after the open Monday. The benchmark needs to gain 1.8% to reach the milestone. Many technical analysts look at that moving average as a sign of the long-term trend. Rising above it could signal a change in long-term trend from bearish to bullish.
"Next month we will know Bank stress test results; whether oil prices are a bounce or something more sustained; and if we have moved out of COVID season or into a second wave," Christopher Harvey, Wells Fargo’s head of equity strategy, said in a note. "If things break positively, we would expect to see a healthy rotation toward cyclicals, smaller caps, and value stocks."
The moves in stock futures followed a solid week for Wall Street that saw the 30-stock Dow rise 3.3%, posting its best weekly performance since April. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also climbed more than 3% last week.
The number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. topped more than 1.6 million as deaths rose to more than 97,000, a tally from Johns Hopkins University showed as of Monday.
Meanwhile, investors kept an eye on the U.S.-China tensions, which showed signs of escalation over the weekend. White House National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said Sunday the U.S. will likely impose sanctions on China if Beijing implements national security law that would give it greater control over autonomous Hong Kong.
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'pump-n-dump' is how they make their money.
There won't be a vaccine (soon), and business won't be able to reopen because they can't recall their help fast enough.
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The stupidly large injection of unnecessary money to the usual suspects will keep the stock market over pumped. It will all be about getting out at the right time. As always.
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It's a stock-picker's market. Aside from buying Skid's favorite hooch-maker, there are plenty of good picks out there. Southwest is a top pick.
If a company is priced as if it's going bankrupt but in fact has plenty of cash in the bank and zero risk of going bankrupt, then its stock is a Buy.
For example, Buffett may be right about the airlines with weak balance sheets, mediocre management and lots of international exposure, but none of that applies to Southwest. That well-managed and lean airline doesn't need to completely fill its planes with passengers in order to keep going. Last I checked they have s.t. like $12 billion in cash reserves (including a recent infusion of $3B from Uncle Mnuchin) -- so even at 50-60% passenger capacity they could keep on burning $20m per day and stay afloat for years. In the meantime they can offset the lost passenger revenue with new cargo revenues.
"You could easily have 1 to 2 million jobs created a month in the four [jobs and unemployment] reports before November,” he said.
“And then toward the end of October, we will get GDP growth for the third quarter, at an annualized rate, and it could be double-digit positive economic growth. So these will be the best jobs and growth numbers ever.”
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I would expect the never-Trump brigade of Socialist and Rino econofreaks to try and talk up expectations so Trump's recovery can't possibly make them. Then they blame him for the failure to meet "their" ridiculous predictions.
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I had one yesterday, on Memorial Day. Probably still get two or three per week. And how they spoof the phone number to closely resemble yours. Annoying scum bags.
[The News (Pak)] KARACHI: Three warnings issued by the air traffic control to lower the altitude were ignored by the pilot of the ill-fated PIA plane that had crashed on Friday.
The PK-8303 tragedy has become the third most-catastrophic aviation disaster in Pakistain's history.
The plane crashed into a narrow residential street in Bloody Karachi thereby lowering the altitude to zero, happy? Continued on Page 49
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"A dream of competence, too closely confronted"___ Somebody or another
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#1 First off all, Israel is not a sit of holy - we have our share (maybe more than our share) of rug-merchants. But, you can have agricultural machinery, or you must have braceros.
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Wait, we've invented a missile that runs on food, as opposed to cheap, readily available hydrocarbons?
And while I admire genius, I can't help thinking that greenhouse gas emissions would be way down on my List of Worries if I were in a situation where deploying Tomahawks was the thing to do.
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What makes JP-10 attractive? Specifically, it has 11 percent higher density than conventional JP-8 (Jet A) fuel – clocking in at 142,000 BTUs per gallon compared to 125,000 for jet fuel (gasoline, by the way, has 115,000 BTUs).
What makes it unattractive? Well consider the problem that Raytheon faced, when it saw JP-10 prices soar from $13.09 per gallon to $25 per gallon between 2006 and 2010.
Odd that a drug approved in America in 1955, and subsequently approved for the treatment of rheumatic disease during pregnancy, among other purposes, would suddenly develop safety concerns.
[Jpost] The World Health Organization has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.
Hydroxycholoroquine has been touted by Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... and others as a possible treatment for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... . The US President has said he was taking the drug to help prevent infection.
"The executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the Solidarity trial while the safety data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board," Tedros told an online briefing.
He said the other arms of the trial - a major international initiative to hold clinical tests of potential treatments for the virus - were continuing.
The WHO has previously recommended against using hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent coronavirus infections, except as part of clinical trials.
Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies program, said the decision to suspend trials of hydroxychloroquine had been taken out of "an abundance of caution."
#5
Early in this Jacobean revenge play, the word was that HOCQ was used in conjunction with an antibiotic
, Azo-something-something, but that the antibiotic had some serious side effects...like heart failure. So there were treatments using a different unpronounceable antibiotic. I wonder if WHO-dat is using the nasty stuff in their experiment in order to get the "correct" result.
#6
Part of their payback to Trump for 'disrespecting' them.
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BP, China and WHO are inseparable.
This is all just a kabuki dance by the Globalist anti-Trumpers.
Mercutio; you were thinking of Zithromax (azithromycin), also known as Z-Pak, is an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections such as bronchitis, pneumonia, and infections of the ears, lungs and other organs.
An Israeli scientist has invented technology that aims to make face masks clean themselves using power from a phone charger.
Yair Ein-Eli has applied for a US patent for his innovation, which he says will boost hygiene and mitigate mask shortages. A poll just conducted by the Washington Post found that some 66 percent of American health workers surveyed said their workplaces face shortages of the masks that are most suitable for protection from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
He estimated that his cleaning mechanism can be added at around 90 cents (3 shekels) per mask.
"Our idea could change masks from disposable items into gadgets that people clean, meaning they wouldn’t need replacing so regularly and hospitals wouldn’t need such large supplies," said Ein-Eli, dean of the faculty of materials science and engineering at the Technion — Israel Institute for Technology. He estimated that his cleaning mechanism can be added at around 90 cents (3 shekels) per mask.
The self-cleaning masks will look like regular face coverings, apart from an input for a USB cable. This is to power the heating element inside the mask, which gets it hot enough to kill germs. This is the only modification needed to regular masks to make them self-cleaning, Ein-Eli said.
"We have inserted a heating element of carbon fibers, and connected it to a USB input like one used to charge cellphone," Ein-Eli told The Times of Israel. "The element can heat the mask to 65 to 70 degrees Celsius (149°-158° Fahrenheit), and it heats anything absorbed in the layers of the mask."
He said that a 15- to 30-minute heating cycle would be enough to clean a mask. "If you are in your car and take your mask off, you can simply connect it to your cigarette lighter charger, and then put it back on as if it’s a new mask," said Ein-Eli.
He is hoping to license the technology to companies that will introduce it to their designs, initially for masks of the N95 grade and higher, which are intended for health professionals. "We’re aiming initially at medical staff who need masks and need to know that they are well-cleaned and working and functioning," he said, adding that he then envisages it being marketed to the general public.
Ein-Eli got interested in masks by accident, in March. "I received a shipment via UPS, and asked the delivery man why he’s wearing a mask," he recalled. "Then I asked how long he’s been wearing it for, and he said four days. I could see it had been used lots — it was really dirty, and that’s clearly a problem."
[Jpost] Sonovia developed an almost-permanent, ultrasonic, fabric-finishing technology for mechanical impregnation of zinc oxide nanoparticles into textiles.
Sonovia’s Sonomask has been recognized by the US Food and Drug Administration as "Registered for Marketing," the company told The Jerusalem Post.
An Israeli start-up, Sonovia developed an almost-permanent, ultrasonic, fabric-finishing technology for mechanical impregnation of zinc oxide nanoparticles into textiles. The company sped up efforts to manufacture masks using its anti-pathogen fabric at the start of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) crisis in Israel. Now, three months later, it has undergone extensive tests that showed positive results, including its latest filtration results — inhalation and exhalation — which showed a 98% success rate for stopping aerosols that are less than five microns in diameter, the size of the droplets that World Health Organization officials think are transmitting the contagion. Typical respiratory droplets exceed this size.
Other tests showed that it has a 99.8877% viricidal effect, meaning the fabric works to deactivate viruses so that they cannot enter host cells, after an exposure time of 24 hours.
It was these results that helped enable the company to receive its FDA status.
The company launched commercial sales earlier this month.
Dr. Jason Migdal, a research scientist with Sonovia said that, "now armed with FDA approval, it’s our objective to completely replace the wasteful and non-viricidal disposables and proceed to compare efficiency overall against largely impractical medical respirator" masks.
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Wanted to send a pic of various far and or scary health officials, but the system ain't having it today.
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Fat and or scary. Even spelchek is against me today.
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Sent a picture titled HealthExperts.jpg to Pix. Is it there? not that I can see.
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I think a lot of the over-reach we are seeing is from folks that ignored the thing early and are now over-compensating or simply in love with the power.
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Sent a picture titled HealthExperts.jpg to Pix. Is it there?
I don’t see it, M. But I think image submissions go into a separate hopper for Fred to approve personally. In the meantime, check out Health Care: Grandma under Pix. I had no idea that was there.
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Certainly a church is not the building, but that doesn't mean churches need to be singled out for special regulatory attention. We've seen a number of governors take action like ticketing people listening to a church service over the radio. Governors have issued orders that treat building capacity differently depending on whether it is a store, restaurant or a church. That sure looks like hostility to religion to me.
The ChiCom virus isn't evenly distributed. Your exposure is different in a crowded city vs rural America. Everything is a situation. One size fits all isn't going to work.
No one remembers, but once upon a time, a President and a Governor had a disagreement over civil rights that lead to a troop deployment and some dramatic news footage. I believe the President (and America!) came out on top in that one.
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“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea."
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[LidBlog] President Trump directing the federal government to cut more regulations. The most visual of which will be in the medical field.
The Trump administration is looking to slice through the occupational regulations permanently that hinder doctors and other medical professionals to help spur on economic growth in recovery throughout the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic. Many of these same regulations were initially suspended to help with the COVID-19 cases swamping hospitals.
Tomas Philipson, acting chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said, "The White House has a great interest in further cutting down occupational regulations or state licensing requirements that are unnecessary. Obviously, we want to have exams for medical doctors, etc., but that’s something that I think is very valuable in terms of an overall economic agenda."
It’s more than only medical regulations, however.
President Trump signed a new executive order last Tuesday that directs the heads of all federal agencies to "identify regulatory standards that may inhibit economic recovery," if they don’t impair public health or safety. He added, "Agencies should address this economic emergency by rescinding, modifying, waiving, or providing exemptions from regulations and other requirements that may inhibit economic recovery."
Deregulation has been a big part of President Trump’s economic agenda. It’s incredible what can be accomplished when you slash the red tape. People forget that tax cuts were not the only reason the economy got hot before the CoronaVirus shutdown. A considerable part of the recovery was the cutting of government regulations and red tape that tied the hands of businesses and empties their wallets.
During his first year as POTUS, the Trump administration got rid of twenty-two regulations for every one added, and the regulation removal has continued throughout his administration. "President Trump is achieving more on regulatory reform than many thought possible," Anthony Campau, a visiting fellow in regulatory policy at The Heritage Foundation, said in an October 2009, written statement.
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Probably the most important reason to vote to reelect him. When I was working (in a bank), the number of employees we had just to fill out government paperwork was staggering.
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And here they thought that they are the only ones who know how not to waste a crisis.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[MOVIEWEB] Porn legend Ron Jeremy is the subject of some new sexual assault allegations. The allegations are currently "under review" by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office. Jeremy found himself back in the public eye recently by trying to save a tree in Bayside, Queens, which he claims his father planted on the day he was born. Suddenly, the adult star, nicknamed the "Hedgehog," was trending all over the world on social media, bringing his name back into the headlines and into many alleged bad memories.
[New York Post] Hundreds of publicly traded companies appear to be keeping government-backed loans meant to help small businesses weather the coronavirus crisis.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
[Sky News (AUS)] EXCLUSIVE: The coronavirus that has become a world-wide pandemic may have been created in a "cell-culture experiment" in a laboratory, according to prominent scientists who have conducted ground-breaking research into the origins of the virus. 
[Jpost] Paul Whelan, a US national who also holds British, Canadian and Irish passports, has been 
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[Jpost] In addition to their study, the researchers also contacted Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon, Dyn (now owned by Oracle), Verisign, and Quad9, leading them to update their DNS software.
[CNBC] Stock futures traded sharply higher early Tuesday to begin a holiday-shortened week, as optimism grew about the reopening of the economy and a potential coronavirus vaccine.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
[The News (Pak)] KARACHI: Three warnings issued by the air traffic control to lower the altitude were ignored by the pilot of the ill-fated PIA plane that had crashed on Friday.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
