>Thousands of pages of secret documents reveal how Vulkan’s engineers have worked for Russian military and intelligence agencies to support hacking operations, train operatives before attacks on national infrastructure, spread disinformation and control sections of the internet. + >The company’s work is linked to the federal security service or FSB, the domestic spy agency; the operational and intelligence divisions of the armed forces, known as the GOU and GRU; and the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence organisation.

This has been going on for a long time.

He's fine. They're just being careful.

Meanwhile, NO SMOKING IN THE VATICAN!

Wait, with the US? With the entire Western world? Can't we discuss this? The West was happy for China when the economic miracle raised people out of poverty. But there were some business deals that seemed unfair. Now China is hostile. Can't we all just take a deep breath and imagine world peace?

It's the personal stories that make this story powerful.

Trump abused Michael Cohen and we see how that turned out, so far. If Trump’s lawyers turn on him in the documents case that could be the testimony that convicts Trump on those charges.

They already held the official ceremony. The marriage is legal. Divorce is going to be expensive. Kailasa wants half of all assets and custody of all the children. /s

But seriously, how was Swami Nithyananda going to profit from this?

Responding to moves made by China. There have been increasing encroachments on international and territorial space. Did you see the reports of lasers being used to target planes and ships? Sometimes it reminds me of a school bully trying to provoke a fight.

People are still testing positive and isolating around us. Most report mild symptoms. Thing is, we don’t know about long-term effects yet. Also, some people can have more severe symptoms.

I didn't get a cold or have the flu while wearing a mask the last couple winters, so I'm going to keep wearing a mask in the grocery store.

The war against ISIS has been going since the group seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria in mid-2014.

Backed by U.S.-led coalition airpower, Iraqi security forces retook Mosul in July 2017, and the SDF captured Raqqa in October 2017.

Several thousand ISIS fighters surrendered to the SDF during its 2018-2019 offensive

Shortly before the fall of Baghouz, General Joseph Votel, the outgoing commander of U.S. Central Command, warned Congress that ISIS made a “calculated decision to preserve the safety of their families and preservation of their capabilities by taking their chances in camps for internally displaced persons, and going to ground in remote areas and waiting for the right time to resurge.”

I don't know what Jesus did. But he didn't survive 40 days in the desert without food.

Are you sure?

>Sixteen people, mostly civilians, were killed on Saturday in a similar attack targeting foragers in the same area, the Observatory said.

>Dozens of others were kidnapped in the attack, the Observatory said, adding that 25 of them were released but the fate of the others remains unknown.

>And in April 2021, the extremist group launched a similar attack, abducting 19 people, mostly civilians, in the eastern countryside of Hama province.

Seems to be a rather frequent thing.

>At the same time, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIS “killed 36 people Friday while they were truffle hunting in Sokhna in the Palmyra region.”

I'm guessing that attacks like this are one reason earthquake relief aid was not sent to rebel held northwest Syria.

He had angels taking care of him. Snacks don't count when you're fasting if they came from angels.

According to the story, Jesus fasted until he had visions. I don't know what that means. I think he was trying to have visions. He was in the desert. So even with drinking water the body gets dehydrated.

Anyway, weird story. And a pretty dumb idea to try doing a fast like that.

Today people say they are fasting, but still drink juice.

Fasting during Ramadan means abstinence from all food or drink, including water and chewing gum, from dawn to sunset.

We don't know what Jesus did. All the writings were done after he died. Also, 40 days is a symbolic number, so that could be inaccurate.

Fasting would not be a common practice if people died frequently.

Definitely suspect.

Thank you. That was interesting. I didn't know there was a capitol power plant. A project completed in 2018 replaced old coal-fired boilers dating back to the 1950s with natural gas.

https://www.aoc.gov/what-we-do/projects/cogeneration-capitol-power-plant

>... provisions allow sanctioned people to cover their "basic needs", including the ability to apply for a licence to pay for legal fees.

So, Prigozhin hired Discreet Law to sue investigative reporter Eliot Higgins who has been left with £70,000 in legal costs despite the case being dropped.

Higgins's website Bellingcat had recently published a story naming Prigozhin, aka Putin's chef, as the man behind the Wagner Group.

The cost of legal fees prevents most people from seeking justice.

Old guys rule. Some genius replaced an old guy with a contractor who was cheaper.

I think it's actually an accounting error that caused the problem. Too many damn accountants running the companies these days.

Aliaksandra Herasimenia and Alexander Oapeykin can't go back to Belarus. The largest anti-government protests in the history of Belarus and they want to single out these two. Everyone knows the election was fraudulent. The opposition candidates were arrested. A poll worker in Minsk said she was asked to sign a document summing up its result, with the vote totals left blank. Other poll workers said vote counting procedures weren't followed. It was obvious what was happening.

I'm wondering how long this can continue.

The reason people are protesting in the streets is the political ban of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu which eliminates him as a viable alternative to Erdogan.

The Turkish economy is in a downward spiral. The Turkish lira is in a devaluation slide due to inflation being 85.51% or higher. Independent analyst ENAG estimated that the annual CPI inflation was in fact 176.0%. A majority of the population.is having trouble paying bills and buying food.

Erdogan has dismissed multiple finance ministers and heads of the central bank “essentially for standing up to him” and challenging his unconventional policies.

I think it must have been Fox News. That and some influential people saying stuff. It's weird how conspiracy ideas get spread around. I'm pretty skeptical, so when someone tells me one of those ideas I tend to dismiss it. But when I start hearing that idea repeated by a lot of people I start to think there might be some truth to it.

Seems to me that wearing a face mask to reduce the spread of the Covid virus is also a good hygiene practice. Funny how many Fox News viewers didn’t see it that way. So many contradictions and unfounded assumptions!

Yes, the headline was misleading and the article lacked substance. My superficial knowledge suggests that mummification was part of an elaborate set of incantations and rituals somewhat described in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

This short video gives a brief description of what the funerary process was about. Mummification was just one element. https://youtu.be/1yv_MXNYbAo

Can we agree there is no religious authority for committing violent sexual assault?