Monthly Archives: June 2020

Science And Technology

FBI Warn of Cybercriminals and Fake Banking Apps

As the Coronavirus pandemic has caused banks to shut down, more customers are using mobile banking apps to conduct their business. However, the FBI have warned there is an increase in the number of fake banking apps and other malware. Cyber criminals are seeking to steal personal data and gain access to bank accounts

Trojan banking apps have also been created. These apps masquerade as games or utilities which activate when a user opens their banking app. The trojan then takes over showing a fake log in screen.

Read More: AppGate

 

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Over $1 Billion Corporate Cash Floods Social Justice Casues

In recent weeks corporations have given over $1 billion dollars to social justice causes. Many businesses have given to Black Lives Matter. Corporations are also  encouraging their employees to do the same.

Pepsi—to lift up Black communities and increase Black representation at PepsiCo—$400 million

Sony Music—a fund “to support social justice and anti-racist initiatives around the world”—$100 million

Walmart—a new racial equity center—$100 million

Warner Music—campaigns against violence and racism and social justice causes related to music industry—$100 million.

Apple—a “racial justice initiative,” details to come—$100 million.

Nike—“Organizations that put social justice, education and addressing racial inequality in America at the center of their work”—$40 million

Alphabet/Google—various organizations, starting with $1 million each to Center for Policing Equity and Equal Justice Initiative—$12 million

Amazon—American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation, Brennan Center for Justice, Equal Justice Initiative, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Bar Association, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Urban League, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Year Up—$10 million

Facebook—$10 million in grants to “groups working on racial justice” and a $200 million commitment to Black-owned businesses and organizations—$210 million

General Electric—“organizations that promote inclusion and racial justice; An initial $1 million will go to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund—$10 million

Target—long-standing partners such as the National Urban League and the African American Leadership Forum in addition to adding new partners in Minneapolis-St. Paul and across the country—$10 million

For the full list see: Breitbart

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Dalai Lama to Release First Album

Next month the Dalai Lama will release his first album. The album will be a collection of his mantras and teachings set to music. The project was the brain child of musician Junelle Kunin, herself a practising Buddhist.

“I’d never heard him speak like this. He really was so excited … he actually proceeded to explain to me how important music is,” Kunin said. “He leaned forward and his eyes were sparkling, and his fingers were rubbing together and he (talked) about how music can help people in a way that he can’t; it can transcend differences and return us to our true nature and our good heartedness.”

Read More: AP News

Connecting The Dots, Opinion

Black Lives Matter Cashes in From Liberal Foundations

As Black Lives Matter appears to be a grass roots, street based group, it has highly influential supporters with deep pockets. In 2016 The Washington Times reported on the millions of dollars in funding flooding into the organization:

Black Lives Matter has seen more than $100 million from liberal foundations and donations.

The Ford Foundation and Borealis Philanthropy recently announced the formation of the Black-Led Movement Fund [BLMF].  The $100 million fund is in addition to $33 million funding from George Soros.

“The BLMF provides grants, movement building resources, and technical assistance to organizations working advance the leadership and vision of young, Black, queer, feminists and immigrant leaders who are shaping and leading a national conversation about criminalization, policing and race in America,” said the Borealis announcement.

However, the foundation has also aligned itself with the staunch far-left group Movement for Black Lives. The group has called Israel an “apartheid state” guilty of “genocide.”

Their goals include defunding police departments, race-based reparations, voting rights for illegal immigrants, fossil-fuel divestment, an end to private education and charter schools, a “universal basic income,” and free college for blacks.

Read More: The Washington Times

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Ex MI6 Boss Says Coronavirus “Likely” to have Escaped from Lab

A former boss of the UK intelligence agency MI6 told The Telegraph he believes the Coronavirus was engineered and  escaped from a lab in Wuhan.

“I do think that this started as an accident,” Sir Richard Dearlove told the Telegraph, citing a peer-reviewed paper by Professor Angus Dalgleish of St George’s Hospital at the University of London, and the Norwegian virologist Birger Sorensen.

The authors say hey believe the virus has been engineered to bind to humans.

“We are aware that these findings could have political significance and raise troubling questions.”

Dearlove added: “[A]s this debate about the virus develops, I think all this material is going to be in print and is going to embarrass a number of people, I think. Let’s suggest that the Chinese maybe have too much say in their journals, in what appears and what doesn’t.”

He added: “Look, the Chinese understand us extremely well. They have made a study of us over the last decade or longer, particularly through attending our universities. We understand the Chinese very poorly. It’s an imbalanced relationship in that respect.”

Read More: Fox News

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DE Blasio Claims Covid-19 Spike in New York Unlikely to be Casued by Protesters

New York has seen a spike in Covid 19  hospitalizations in the last 24 hours. The 75% increase in new admissions is still below the limit to halt the reopening of the city.

De Balsio, when asked if he thought the spike was caused by the protests around  George Floyd’s death said, “I would be surprised if that’s what’s causing it,” de Blasio said Friday of the sustained demonstrations that have broken out in the Big Apple and cities throughout the world. “I think we’re much more likely in the next week [or] 10 days to see a manifestation, if there is one.”

However, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been unhappy with the mass gatherings of people protesting, saying, “If you were at one of those protests, I would, out of an abundance of caution, assume that you are infected, …..One person, one person can infect hundreds if you were at a protest.”

Read More: Fox News

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Officials Who Pushed for Strict Lockdown say Protests Exempt

Officials who for weeks urged the nation to Stay Home to Save Lives, and demanded strict lockdown rules, now say protesters are exempt.

Cities across the nation have seen protests over the death of George Floyd. Protesters in their millions have gathered to march over police brutality and racism. However, officials are saying these protesters are exempt for the lockdown regulations to stay home.

In Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who’s State had some of the strictest lockdown rules said, “Persons may engage in expressive activities protected by the First Amendment within the State of Michigan but must adhere to social distancing measures recommended by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, including remaining at least six feet from people from outside the person’s household.”

However, Whitmer said protesters who had gathered outside the Capitol, to protest the lockdown regulations, were risking lives, and should stay home.

Read More: Fox News

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UK Opens Door to Hong Kong Citizens

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will change immigration rules to allow Hong Kong citizens to come to the UK if China pushes ahead with imposing new security laws.

Johnson said the immigration changes “would amount to one of the biggest changes in our visa system in British history”.

“If it proves necessary, the British government will take this step and take it willingly.

“Many people in Hong Kong fear their way of life, which China pledged to uphold, is under threat.

“If China proceeds to justify their fears, then Britain could not in good conscience shrug our shoulders and walk away; instead we will honour our obligations and provide an alternative.”

Read More: BBC