“The commercial real estate sector is facing the possibility of a substantial number of bankruptcies that could ultimately hamper economic recovery and threaten the wounded banking industry, according to experts who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Japan faces a significant economic shift as bankers grapple with the challenge of learning to raise rates, prompted by a back-to-back wage bonanza. 

Viral ads promoting HeatFlow Heater portable heaters are spreading across social media and inboxes using dubious claims, fake reviews and fake endorsements to lure in consumers. But disappointed buyers report these heavily marketed HeatFlow Heater units fail to live up to the hype. This article will uncover how this prevalent heating scam works and provide tips to avoid getting ripped off.

I saw this garbage advertised on the platform that's trying to ban ad-blockers [YouTube]. I suggest you use Firefox & uBlock Origin to avoid being scammed.

Axios notes that it would require substantial measures, equivalent to $2,400 per American per year, in either spending cuts or tax increases to stabilize the national debt.

While premiums and benefits have improved for beneficiaries, the financial mechanisms behind these plans raise concerns. Medicare Advantage companies, funded by the federal government, are incentivized to manage policyholders’ risks, potentially leading to overspending and profit-driven practices.

The potential legal claim against Media Matters by X could include Tortious interference, a common law tort that allows for damages when a defendant wrongfully interferes with the plaintiff’s contractual or business relationships. 

Top generals warn that allies — Canada included — are running dangerously low on artillery shells.

 A pair of women who recently completed the first all-female spacewalk, considered "historic," made a boo-boo when they accidentally released a bag of equipment into orbit.

 For the first time since the October 7 incident, Russia is making its position known without any doubt, siding with Gaza and the Palestinians rather than Israel, their aggressor.

The Mohave County Board of Supervisors in Arizona is scheduled to vote today on an agenda item to, “approve and direct the Mohave County Elections Department to carry out hand tabulation of ballots for the 2024 elections.” 

The agenda item packet includes a letter from Kari Lake attorney Bryan Blehm vowing to defend the decision and cover all legal expenses, a letter from Arizona State Senator Sonny Borrelli, and a notification that the County has received “written commitment” covering the volunteers required to carry this out.

However, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, who stole her election by 280 votes, sent a letter to the Board yesterday, threatening prosecution, “for conducting an illegal hand count” and labeling people advising this hand count as, “bad-faith actors.” 

The Lumma information-stealing malware is now using an interesting tactic to evade detection by security software - the measuring of mouse movements using trigonometry to determine if the malware is running on a real machine or an antivirus sandbox.

Lumma (or LummaC2) is a malware-as-a-service information stealer rented to cybercriminals for a subscription between $250 and $1,000. The malware allows the attacks to steal data from web browsers and applications running on Windows 7-11, including passwords, cookies, credit cards, and information from cryptocurrency wallets.

The Kinsing malware operator is actively exploiting the CVE-2023-46604 critical vulnerability in the Apache ActiveMQ open-source message broker to compromise Linux systems.

The flaw allows remote code execution and was fixed in late October. Apache’s disclosure explains that the issue allows running arbitrary shell commands leveraging serialized class types in the OpenWire protocol.

Researchers found that thousands of servers remained exposed to attacks after the release of the patch and ransomware gangs like HelloKitty and TellYouThePass started to take advantage of the opportunity.

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To mitigate the threat, system administrators are recommended to upgrade Apache Active MQ to versions 5.15.16, 5.16.7, 5.17.6, or 5.18.3, which address the security issue.

Facepalm: While Western Digital is facing a class action lawsuit over failing SanDisk SSDs, a new report coming from a data recovery company has seemingly discovered the real issue within the defective drives. According to Attingo, the entire hardware design is flawed and no firmware update will solve this kind of problem alone.

Joe Biden’s poll numbers are so bad that NBC’s hosts were stunned as they reported on a new left-leaning NBC poll that shows Biden’s approval rating is just 40% – the lowest Biden “has ever measured in our poll.”

A homeowner who was forced to pay the local government a $23,000 fee for the “traffic” impact of his new, modular retirement home is going to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging its constitutionality.

City officials who just a week ago had outlined exactly what they would allow for Christmas decorations – “non-religious” snowflakes, greenery and northern lights – abruptly now are claiming that was not intended to be a ban on religious items.

 This weekend Donna Brazile, the DNC Chair who famously leaked debate questions to Hillary Clinton in 2016 and was later fired, went on with Bill Maher on HBO.

In 1988, in an elevator at a film festival in Havana, the director Oliver Stone was handed a copy of On the Trail of the Assassins, a newly published account of the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Stone admired Kennedy with an almost spiritual intensity and viewed his death on November 22, 1963 — 60 years ago this month — as a hard line in American history: the “before” hopeful and good; the “after” catastrophic. Yet he had never given much thought to the particulars of the assassination. “I believed that Lee Oswald shot the president,” he said. “I had no problem with that.” On the Trail of the Assassins, written by the Louisiana appellate judge Jim Garrison, proposed something darker. In 1963, Garrison had been district attorney of New Orleans, Oswald’s home in the months before the killing. He began an investigation and had soon traced the contours of a vast government conspiracy orchestrated by the CIA; Oswald was the “patsy” he famously claimed to be. Stone read Garrison’s book three times, bought the film rights, and took them to Warner Bros. “I was hot at the time,” Stone told me. “I could write my own ticket, within reason.” The studio gave him $40 million to make a movie.

The resulting film, JFK, was a scandal well before it came anywhere near a theater. “Some insults to intelligence and decency rise (sink?) far enough to warrant objection,” the Chicago Tribune columnist Jon Margolis wrote just as shooting began. “Such an insult now looms. It is JFK.” Newsweek called the film “a work of propaganda,” as did Jack Valenti, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, who specifically likened Stone to the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. “It could spoil a generation of American politics,” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote in the Washington Post.

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton pushed the panic button on Monday over black voters ditching Democrats, warning the Biden Administration to take it more seriously.

The massive lack of enthusiasm among black voters, specifically young minority voters for the Biden Administration has become more apparent in the wake of indictments against Donald Trump.

“How do you see it, and what do you see can be the remedy?” MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire asked Al Sharpton.

“I think that the fact that there is a lack of enthusiasm among young voters, particularly young black voters, the Biden campaign needs to take seriously because you need to really build a ground game movement from the bottom-up, rather than just poo-poo it and be in denial,” Sharpton said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that deliveries of artillery shells from the US have "decreased" since Israel unleashed its relentless bombing campaign in Gaza following the October 7 Hamas attack.

The US has provided Ukraine with a huge amount of artillery ammunition since Russia launched its invasion last year, including over 2 million 155mm shells. But supplies are strained as Ukraine is using ammunition at a much faster rate than can be produced by the entire NATO alliance.