Energy trading in London and Singapore was affected on Friday morning by a massive worldwide outage, which also affected banks, airlines, airports, and media organizations. The news services platform of the London Stock Exchange, airlines, banks, and media organizations went down in the early hours of Friday, reportedly due to a failure in Microsoft 365 and Azure services. NN: Our trading platform are up and running.
Air France joined American carriers on Friday in the global airline ground stop seemingly triggered by a software outage linked to Microsoft systems. Similarly, the Berlin airport encountered disruptions across all its services due to an IT failure. “We’re investigating an issue impacting users’ ability to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services,” Microsoft 365 Status posted on X. The cyber outage affected businesses worldwide, including airlines, banks, supermarkets, media outlets and even the London Stock Exchange, which faced disruptions in its regular trading activities. Major companies, such as McDonald’s Corp., reported various communication issues in their customer service departments and 911 emergency services were affected in multiple states in the US. NN: This is a global cyber attack on the world wide web. Of course they will not admit it. I caution you it may effect the electric grid… Unless your smart enough to have your own grid as in solar and generators.
A global technical outage impacted computers running Microsoft Windows across the world on Friday. According to several media, airline operations, terminal services, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, supermarkets and other critical infrastructure have been taken offline after all Windows machines suddenly BSoD’d (Blue Screen of Death). Cybersecurity company Crowdstrike added that the cause is currently under investigation. “Our current information is this outage relates to a technical issue with a third-party software platform employed by affected companies,” the office of Australia’s National Cyber Security Coordinator said in a statement. concurrently, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded all flights from major US airlines, including Delta, United and American Airlines due to communication issues, CNN added. It remains unclear how long the ground stop will last and if it is somehow related to the Microsoft cloud outage. NN: We got rid of our microsoftieee servers years ago. And we don’t store our data in the fog of the China based cloud servers…. Knock on wood all our severs and services are working with the exception of Silent Circle. That is why we host BlackCryptoPhone on our servers which is working fine.
American political commentator and writer Tucker Carlson said at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Thursday that former United States President Donald Trump surviving an assassination attempt on July 13 in Pennsylvania was “divine intervention.” Carlson argued that the incident that left Trump wounded and one person killed changed everything, including Trump himself: “He was no longer just a political party nominee, or a former president or a future president; this was a leader of a nation,” he said. Applauding the former president’s bravery and commitment to his people and America, Carlson also lauded Trump for his choice of J.D Vance as his running mate, stating he has “views that are closer to Trump’s voters than anyone else in Washington in office.” NN: Trump got a wake up call. Nothing like a bullet within a half inch of your brain to change your life. epically when you believed you have the “best security” in the world. A epiphany for Trump a sudden grasp of reality of what he needs to change in his life. And i see a changed man. Now he is ready to lead America out of the great evil out of the WOKE LGBT LIBERAL COMMIES CLIMATE CHANGE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA.
The Yemeni militant group Houthis said on Friday they targeted a building less than 100 meters away from a US consulate facility in Tel Aviv with a new drone they named “Yafa.” “The Air Force of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of Allah, carried out a special military operation targeting one of the important targets in the occupied Yafa area, referred to by the ‘Israelis’ as ‘Tel Aviv,” the militia wrote on Telegram. Earlier, the Jerusalem Post reported a “loud explosion” in the Israeli city. The attack reportedly killed one person and injured 10. NN: Iron Dumb Dumb has been defeated.
Donald Trump has doubled down on his vow to stop illegal migration by closing America’s borders should he win the presidential election in November. The entire world is pouring into our country, thanks to this very foolish administration,” he told a rapt audience at the Republican National Convention on Thursday after he accepted the party’s nomination as presidential candidate. NN: If Trump is related and my belief is after some time passes oil will be $40 a barrel. But between now and the end of the year $100 oil is possible.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, the would-be assassin who attempted to kill former United States President Donald Trump during his rally on Saturday, was allegedly identified as “suspicious” by law enforcement more than an hour before the shooting, Fox News reported. “He was identified as a character of suspicion because [he had] a rangefinder as well as a backpack. And this was over an hour before the shooting actually occurred,” Senator John Barrasso told the news agency after a briefing between Senate lawmakers and the Secret Service. “So, you would think over the course of that hour, you shouldn’t lose sight of the individual. Somebody ought to be following up on those sorts of things. No evidence of that happening at all,” Barrasso added. A previous report claimed that Crooks was seen on top of the rooftop from which he opened fire on Trump, half an hour before his assassination attempt.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (pictured) told Fox News on Wednesday that he will seek the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle in response to the attempted assassination of ex-United States President Donald Trump. Trump, who had Secret Service protection, was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania and one rally attendee was killed at the event. Johnson said that what happened was “inexcusable” and that he would assemble a task force to investigate Trump’s security at the event. Earlier, Cheatle rejected the possibility of stepping down but insisted the Secret Service needs to take measures to ensure something similar does not happen again. Meanwhile, Trump’s son Donald Jr. claimed there must have been “a serious breach of something” that allowed the shooter to climb onto a roof with a gun amid such security presence.
United States President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19, UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguia announced, explaining his absence from the organization’s event. “I was just on the phone with President Biden and he shared his deep disappointment for not being able to join us this afternoon,” Murguia said, adding that he “just tested positive for COVID.” .”He is vaccinated and boosted and he is experiencing mild symptoms. He will be returning to Delaware where he will self-isolate and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time,” the White House said in a statement.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi supposedly told United States President Joe Biden in private that polling shows he can’t come out on top in the country’s presidential race, CNN reported, citing four sources briefed on the call. In the “recent” conversation, Pelosi told Biden that he could destroy Democrats’ chances of winning the House in November if he sticks to seeking a second term, according to the report. This in turn prompted Biden to push back by telling Pelosi he had seen polls that indicated he could win, according to one of the sources, while another source described him as “defensive” about the matter. None of the quoted sources indicated to the news agency whether Pelosi told Biden that he should drop out of the race.
.CBS reported that the team that took down Crooks had initially been directed to focus on another area of the venue, which meant the snipers had to reorient themselves before taking the shot. A local tactical team sniper photographed Crooks looking through a rangefinder, CBS reported, noting that cellphone video showed rallygoers tried to alert authorities that Crooks was on a rooftop with a rifle about two minutes before shots were fired. I just got off a briefing with the Secret Service and FBI. I am appalled to learn that the Secret Service knew about a threat prior to President Trump walking on stage. I have no confidence in the leadership of Director Cheatle and believe it is in the best interest of our…
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 17, 2024
On Wednesday, Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming confirmed that Crooks had caught the attention of law enforcement more than an hour before he wounded Trump, killed one attendee and wounded two other people, according to Fox News
“He was identified as a character of suspicion because [he had] a rangefinder as well as a backpack. And this was over an hour before the shooting actually occurred,” Barrasso said.
“So, you would think over the course of that hour, you shouldn’t lose sight of the individual. Somebody ought to be following up on those sorts of things. No evidence of that happening at all,” he said.
Barrasso said the Secret Service was aware of the threat that Crooks potentially represented before Trump took the stage.
Barrasso said a Secret Service agent he described as in charge of security for the rally was on the phone with local authorities when Trump was shot. Someone has died. The President was almost killed. The head of the Secret Service needs to go. pic.twitter.com/Bed6NnuS00
— Sen. John Barrasso (@SenJohnBarrasso) July 17, 2024
Barrasso said Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle must resign.
“The American people shouldn’t feel comfortable with this,” Barrasso said, according to Fox News. “This is a total failure [on behalf of] the Secret Service. We need replacement at the top.”
The rooftop where a gunman shot at former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally was identified by the Secret Service as a potential vulnerability in the days before the event, two sources familiar with the agency’s operations told NBC News. The building, owned by a glass research company, is adjacent to the Butler Farm Show, an outdoor venue in Butler, Pennsylvania. The Secret Service was aware of the risks associated with it, the sources said. “Someone should have been on the roof or securing the building so no one could get on the roof,” said one of the sources, a former senior Secret Service agent who was familiar with the planning. Understanding how the gunman got onto the roof — despite those concerns — is a central question for investigators scrutinizing how a lone attacker managed to shoot at Trump during Saturday’s campaign event. The Secret Service worked with local law enforcement to maintain event security, including sniper teams poised on rooftops to identify and eliminate threats, Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. But no officers were posted on the building used by the would-be assassin, outside the event’s security perimeter but only about 148 yards from the stage — within range of a semiautomatic rifle like the one the gunman was carrying. The Secret Service had designated that rooftop as being under the jurisdiction of local law enforcement, a common practice in securing outdoor rallies, Guglielmi said.Butler County District Attorney Richard Goldinger said his office maintains an Emergency Services Unit team, which deployed four sniper teams and four “quick response teams” at the rally. But he said the Secret Service agents were in charge of security outside the venue. “They had meetings in the week prior. The Secret Service ran the show. They were the ones who designated who did what,” Goldinger said. “In the command hierarchy, they were top, they were No. 1.”Goldinger said the commander of the Emergency Services Unit told him it was not responsible for securing areas outside the venue. “To me, the whole thing is under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service. And they will delineate from there,” he said. The former senior Secret Service agent also said that even if local law enforcement “did drop the ball,” it’s still the agency’s responsibility “to ensure that they are following through either beforehand or in the moment.” “Just because it is outside of the perimeter, it doesn’t take it out of play for a vulnerability, and you’ve got to mitigate it in some fashion,” the source added. A volley of shots rang out minutes into Trump’s speech. He reached for his right ear — he said later it was pierced by a bullet — then dropped to the ground as Secret Service agents rushed to shield him. Trump emerged with blood on his ear and his face.
Emilio T. Gonzalez, a former Army intelligence officer and Homeland Security official, said the shooting revealed flagrant flaws in the Secret Service’s planning and resources. He said he thought much of Trump’s security detail should be replaced since the shooting.
“This was terribly, terribly organized from a security perspective,” Gonzalez, who supports Trump, said in an interview.
“This guy should never have been that close to President Trump. His Secret Service protection should have been airtight, and it wasn’t,” he added. “Then the question is: Why wasn’t it?”
NN: Let answer this question. It is obvious that Bullseye Biden wants Trump stopped. A guy runs around with latter, range finder, and a sack with a rifle inside. They spot him take a picture…… lose him nd still let Trump get shot. And when they spot him on the roof they hold fire so he can shoot first.. Surely you can connect the dots.
American, Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials met in secret last week to discuss the reopening of the Rafah crossing as part of a hostage and ceasefire deal between the warring sides, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing three Israeli and United States officials. According to the report, the meeting marked the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials since their ongoing conflict began on October 7. American officials said that the reopening of the crossing between Gaza and Egypt could be the first step toward the reconstruction of Gaza after the war is over. Earlier in the day, an Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo for talks on the ceasefire and hostage deal. The negotiations stalled after Israel targeted a Hamas military commander in a strike, but the Palestinian group insisted it is still committed to dialogue.