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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 21:06:23 JST 
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 20:32:06 JST
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>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told a Russian journalist that the Russian authorities will evaluate Donald Trump’s administration based on its actions. As to Trump’s talk of a swift end to the war in Ukraine, Lavrov says everything he hears is nothing more than a rehash of the Minsk agreements.
>“Among those in the Republican Party who currently put forward, as they claim, ‘revolutionary ideas’ on how to end the conflict in Ukraine, no one has ever mentioned that people in Ukraine must regain the right to speak, learn, teach their children and receive information in Russian,” Lavrov said, referencing those in Ukraine who identify as Russian and for whom the language is their mother tongue.
>The Russian foreign minister stressed that the Kremlin would not change its position. “We have spoken about this many times and will continue to do so. None of the ‘architects of the Ukrainian agreement’ in the West attach importance to this,” he added. In his opinion, the new U.S. administration also wants to benefit from “weakening Russia and its influence,” because “everything comes down to the desire to weaken Russia as a rival.”
>Lavrov argues that the change of power in the United States will not affect Washington’s attitude towards Ukraine and its European allies because the U.S. “will always want to control everything that happens in the vicinity of NATO and, of course, in the NATO space itself.”
Highly elated response, tied with Iran for enthusiasm.
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 23:19:01 JST
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 21:09:11 JST
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Saddam wept:
>Despite all the recent billions in US taxpayer monies recently sunk into Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky is fuming after key controversial aspects to his 'victory plan' pitched to Biden administration officials were leaked to The New York Times.
>The following is the leaked content made public for the first time in the Tuesday NY Times piece:
>[ibid.] "In one part not made public, Mr. Zelensky proposed a “nonnuclear deterrence package” in which Ukraine would get Tomahawk missiles, a totally unfeasible request, a senior U.S. official said. A Tomahawk has a range of 1,500 miles, more than seven times the range of the long-range missile systems called ATACMS that Ukraine got this year. And the United States sent only a limited number of those, senior U.S. officials said."
>On the whole, the NYT report comes off scathing and negative toward Zelensky, calling his recent tour to lobby Washington and the West in favor of his victory plan a failure. But then it comments that the plan was likely set up to fail.
The betrayal is palpable:
>The Times piece strongly suggests [euphemism] the whole thing is a political charade to begin with, and that Zelensky set up the 'victory plan' for failure in order to lay ultimate blame on the West for 'lack of support' when it inevitably rejects it:
>[ibid.] "But the real audience for the plan might be at home, some military analysts and diplomats say. Mr. Zelensky can use his hard sell — including a recent address to Parliament — to show Ukrainians that he has done all he can, prepare them for the possibility that Ukraine might have to make a deal and give Ukrainians a convenient scapegoat: the West."
>In the wake of this leak to the Times by Biden admin officials, Zelensky has begun lashing out directly at the White House in a rare moment.
>"And this was confidential information between Ukraine and the White House. How should we understand these messages? So, it means between partners there’s nothing confidential?” Zelensky said in a fresh media interview published Wednesday.
>According to Politico's commentary:
>[ibid.] "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Wednesday that he asked the United States for Tomahawk long-range missiles to help defeat Russia — and slammed the White House for leaking secrets to the American media.
>...Zelenskyy, though, was displeased with information about the Tomahawk request being divulged to The New York Times for a story in which an anonymous senior U.S. official described the Ukrainian request as totally unfeasible."
>[from @United24media] "⚡️ President Zelenskyy on Tomahawks: "It was confidential information between Ukraine and White House. How to understand these messages? So, it means, between partners there is no confidential things."
>Still, one Ukrainian official told the same publication, "We know the plan is realistic. U.S. own military studied it and said it is realistic." So it seems the White House is indeed throwing Zelensky under the bus, even as he tries to do the same to the White House.
Charitable predictions from Aaron Matè:
>US officials recently leaked that Zelensky's "Victory Plan" includes a request for long-range US Tomahawk missiles, which they ruled out as too escalatory. Zelensky is understandably upset that this was disclosed. He's being thrown under the bus.
>But it's worse than that. Before it invaded in Feb. 2022, Russia sought a US commitment to not place long-range missiles like the Tomahawk inside Ukraine. Biden initially said he was open to discussing that, but then backed off.
>This likely factored into Russia's decision to impose its security demands by force. Rather than negotiate with Russia, Biden chose to encourage war -- and then leave Ukraine hanging anyway.
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 20:56:20 JST
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More cans for the can opener god:
>The Dusseldorf-based German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall this week announced that it has completed delivery of twenty more 20 Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to Ukraine.
>But its relationship with Kiev has gone much further, becoming among the very first major European arms companies to open a factory in Ukraine. This has provoked outrage among Kremlin officials, who are now warning that military action could be taken against the Rheinmetall plant.
>Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told reporters in a briefing that "A plant of Rheinmetall, a German arms manufacturer, launched in Ukraine, is a legitimate military target for the Russian Armed Forces."
>"Certainly it is," he emphasized in response to a question on whether the factory is now a target by being established inside Ukraine.
>Not only is the German company going to produce armored vehicles, and maintain and repair them from inside the war-ravaged country, but it is even seeking to develop a local gunpowder and munitions plan.
>TASS notes that Rheinmetall is NATO member Germany’s largest defense contractor. "It substantially profits from the Ukrainian conflict and anticipates further increased revenues. In 2023, its turnover went up by 12%, to 7.1 bln euros, with its net income growing by 9%, up to 0.6 bln euros," the report reviews.
Wouldn't want these new "production installations" to be foiled by Ukraine's inevitable wrapping:
>Rheinmetall has indicated it eventually plans to open no less than four military production installations inside Ukraine, with the ammo side expected to begin within the next two years.
>The company downplayed the Tuesday threat from Peskov, saying the "production of weapons in Ukraine is well protected and this is not the first time they have heard threats from the Kremlin." It plans to move forward despite the threats.
>Among Russia's key rationales for the February 2022 invasion was to 'demilitarize' Ukraine amid accusations that NATO is building up its military infrastructure inside the country which shares a large border with Russia. But now it appears the Western military alliance is rushing to do just that.
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 17:53:50 JST
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 16:44:25 JST
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>Sweden has announced plans to pay migrants 350,000 SEK (€30,809) to return to their homeland in a new voluntary remigration scheme proposed by the center-right government.
>Remix News was one of few English-language sites to report on the plans proposed last month by then Migration Minister Maria Stenergard and reviewed by the Swedish justice ministry.
>“This is one of several ways we achieve sustainable immigration that strengthens integration and reduces exclusion,” she added.
>This week, Stenergard was appointed the new foreign secretary and succeeded by Johan Forssell who announced the new policy on Thursday.
>“Migrants who voluntarily return to their home countries from 2026 onwards will be eligible to receive 350,000 Swedish kronor (€31,000),” he said. Even those with Swedish citizenship will be eligible.
>Forssell, whose appointment was backed by the right-wing Sweden Democrats who influence government policy, said upon starting his new role that the government must commit to remigration and abandon the open borders policies of the previous liberal administrations.
>“The important thing now is that we should not return to the previous policy, which after all put Sweden in a very difficult situation. A lot of people were affected by it,” he told Aftonbladet.
>“It is clear that it is an important issue for Sweden and for this government,” he added.
>Last month, Stockholm announced that for the first time in 50 years the country had seen net emigration over the past 12 months. These figures were contested, however, by some right-wing groups with some claiming the government has ramped up naturalizations to massage the figures
rmx.news/article/sweden-to-pay-migrants-whove-failed-to-integrate-nearly-e31000-to-return-home-even-those-with-citizenship/ -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 03:16:04 JST
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>This brings us to the tiny hamlet of Tipperary in Ireland (population 165), where the Gardaí assisted Department of Integration had used a manor property called the Dundrum House Hotel to bring hundreds of Ukrainian refugees into the country. Locals noted they had few problems with the Ukrainians because they seemed to easily integrate into the already existing community. However, now that the government has their foot in the door of the village, they have decided to move the Ukrainians out and replace them with third-world migrants with non-western value systems.
>Because of numerous examples of rampant criminality and violence (from rape gangs to mass stabbings) brought by such migrants to major cities throughout Europe and the UK, locals worry that same ideology of dominance and exploitation will now take over their once quiet corner of Ireland. The fact that around 80% of these migrants are single military age men gives little comfort to the residents.
>Protests have erupted in Tipperary after it was revealed that at least 265 migrants would be relocated there, greatly outnumbering the indigenous population.
>Other more discreet and suspicious migrant compounds have been cited in rural areas of Ireland, protected by government security and housing only military age males from predominantly third-world and Islamic countries. The presence of these compounds reads more like a covert invasion rather than an attempt at integration.
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 16:23:35 JST
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>AMD is warning about a high-severity CPU vulnerability named SinkClose that impacts multiple generations of its EPYC, Ryzen, and Threadripper processors. The vulnerability allows attackers with Kernel-level (Ring 0) privileges [that is, device drivers] to gain Ring -2 privileges and install malware that becomes nearly undetectable.
>Ring -2 is one of the highest privilege levels on a computer, running above Ring -1 (used for hypervisors and CPU virtualization) and Ring 0, which is the privilege level used by an operating system's Kernel.
>The Ring -2 privilege level is associated with modern CPUs' System Management Mode (SMM) feature. SMM handles power management, hardware control, security, and other low-level operations required for system stability.
>Due to its high privilege level, SMM is isolated from the operating system to prevent it from being targeted easily by threat actors and malware.
>Tracked as CVE-2023-31315 and rated of high severity (CVSS score: 7.5), the flaw was discovered by IOActive Enrique Nissim and Krzysztof Okupski, who named privilege elevation attack 'Sinkclose.'
>Full details about the attack will be presented by the researchers at tomorrow in a DefCon talk titled "AMD Sinkclose: Universal Ring-2 Privilege Escalation."
>The researchers report that Sinkclose has passed undetected for almost 20 years, impacting a broad range of AMD chip models.
>Ring -2 is isolated and invisible to the OS and hypervisor, so any malicious modifications made on this level cannot be caught or remediated by security tools running on the OS.
>Okupski told Wired that the only way to detect and remove malware installed using SinkClose would be to physically connect to the CPUs using a tool called a SPI Flash programmer and scan the memory for malware.
Access to Ring 0 on Windows is trivial:
>[...] Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors, like the North Korean Lazarus group, have been using BYOVD (Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver) techniques or even leveraging zero-day Windows flaws to escalate their privileges and gain kernel-level access.
>Ransomware gangs also use BYOVD tactics, employing custom EDR killing tools they sell to other cybercriminals for extra profits.
>The notorious social engineering specialists Scattered Spider have also been spotted leveraging BYOVD to turn off security products.
>These attacks are possible via various tools, from Microsoft-signed drivers, anti-virus drivers, MSI graphics drivers, bugged OEM drivers, and even game anti-cheat tools that enjoy kernel-level access.
Whose lucky Russian \ Chinese state APT group will pounce on this to create another bootkit?
bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-amd-sinkclose-flaw-helps-install-nearly-undetectable-malware/ -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 13:02:35 JST
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>Germany’s liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), the smallest party in the governing coalition, is proposing that law enforcement authorities should be obliged to disclose the nationality of suspected criminals throughout the country.
>The initiative has been endorsed by the opposition CDU/CSU, while the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), although supportive of it in theory, believes it does not go far enough.
>According to the FDP, the initiative aims to ensure “transparency and credibility,” adding that in the wake of the 2015/2016 refugee crisis and the subsequent rise in foreign crime in Germany, there have been various questions regarding how to achieve this. For example, at which stage of the investigation should the nationality of suspects be formally declared, which cases may demand greater transparency, and what should be done when there is a greater risk that disclosure of the suspect’s citizenship will lead to general prejudice?
>According to Die Welt newspaper, the FDP and the parliamentary group of the conservative CDU/CSU coalition are calling for a uniform approach by law enforcement authorities nationwide, including mandatory disclosure.
>In an interview with the newspaper, FDP Secretary-General Bijan Djir-Sarai argued that this would increase public confidence in law enforcement agencies. According to him, people should have confidence that politicians “take the problem of foreign crime seriously.”
>While the left-wing SPD, the largest party in the three-party governing coalition, has not yet taken a position on the initiative, the Green Party has rejected it, saying it would deprive authorities of the discretion they need to do their job successfully.
>The AfD, which has been the most vocal in the fight against illegal immigration, has, on the other hand, “slammed” the FDP’s proposal, to the extent that the party believes that it is not enough to disclose nationality, but that the migration background of suspects, convicts and detainees should also be made public.
rmx.news/crime/germany-considers-reform-to-publishing-nationalities-of-criminals-amid-spike-in-migrant-crime/ -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 15:50:18 JST
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>In March, Nvidia Corp. disclosed that CEO Jensen Huang's Rule 10b5-1 trading plan included selling 600,000 shares (or about 6 million shares accounting for the 10-for-1 stock split) by March 31, 2025. He has already sold millions of shares, effectively top-ticking the market. This news should have served as a clear warning sign to investors that the AI bubble was approaching a peak.
>Data from Bloomberg shows Huang's daily sale of 120,000 shares began on June 13. The selling was indiscriminate. Most of it was sold between $135 and $109 from June through July. The selling continued into the downward draft in recent days.
>Since the beginning of June, Huang dumped millions of shares.
>"While the June and July sales were executed under a 10b5-1 trading plan adopted in March, the timing proved fortunate," Bloomberg noted, adding, "Huang has personally sold about $1.4 billion in shares since the start of 2020, including this summer's sales."
>Meanwhile, The Information recently reported that Nvidia has informed Microsoft and other cloud providers that its most advanced AI chip models in the Blackwell series (B200 AI chip) face three months of delays following the discovery of a design flaw "unusually late in the production process."
>This is troubling news for Nvidia and the AI bubble, especially after Goldman's head of research admitted just weeks ago that AI is indeed a bubble. Compound this all with global stock market turmoil - and the AI bubble faced more unwinds today.
>Another stock market omen of insider dumping was billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, disposing of 90 million Bank of America shares in recent weeks.
>We called Buffett's selling a 'dump-a-thon' last week. It was a warning sign that the billionaire saw trouble ahead.
>Furthermore, Buffett quietly dumped half of Berkshire's Apple shares in the second quarter while increasing the company's cash pile by a record $88 billion to an all-time high of $277 billion at the end of last quarter.
zerohedge.com/markets/nvidia-ceo-warren-buffett-insider-stock-selling-was-ominous-warning-ahead-market-swoon -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 05:41:40 JST
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@Shlomo I stand by this statement. -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 10:35:10 JST
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>Former residents and descendants of those who grew up in the historic Black community of Africville are incensed after five people were shot on Saturday during the community’s annual reunion in Halifax.
>“I’m furious. I’m hurt. I’m sad. I’m upset … In 40 years we’ve never had a problem and last night here was like a war zone,” said Paula Grant-Smith, who lived in the community until she was 15 years old, and was camping with family and friends Saturday night at Africville Park.
>This weekend marked the 41st annual Africville Family Reunion, which aims to bring together former residents and their descendants. The community was uprooted in the 1960s when the City of Halifax demolished homes in the neighbourhood and residents were displaced.
>Halifax Regional Police said Sunday that five people in attendance were shot Saturday night when two men exchanged gunfire and the bullets went into the crowd.
And, if you were wondering:
>One victim, in their late teens, is believed to have life-threatening injuries while the other four, all in their 20s, were also sent to hospital with injuries, police said.
amren.com/news/2024/07/africville-community-members-furious-after-five-shot-during-annual-reunion/ -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 06:23:07 JST
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How are these Olympics real?
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:21:31 JST
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>One of Donald Trump’s closest campaign operatives says she is re-aligning the Republican party and working to help Trump beat Biden by largely dispensing with the ‘Karens’ and appealing more to people called ‘Jamal’ and ‘Enrique’.
>66-year-old Susie Wiles is described as a “somewhat mysterious figure” by USA Today who has “helped lead Trump’s political operation for three years” as a senior campaign manager.
>According to the Atlantic, Wiles thinks Trump can return to the Oval Office by putting less focus on his core voter base and appealing more to ethnic minorities.
>“For every Karen we lose, we’re going to win a Jamal and an Enrique,” Wiles told a reporter.
>“That’s a fact. I believe it. And I so believe we’re realigning the party,” she added.
>Trump won 35% of Hispanic voters and 8% of Black voters in 2020, and an AP analysis of polls suggests he is still very unpopular with those groups.
Terrible proposals.
amren.com/news/2024/07/top-trump-campaign-operative-wants-to-appeal-to-jamal-and-enrique-not-so-much-karen/ -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 13:26:02 JST
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>Residents of the west-central town of Springfield, Ohio, are demanding that their city council do something to stem the tide of the Haitian immigrants that have flooded the city, especially in the aftermath of the death of a child in a school bus accident caused by a migrant driving illegally.
>The town situated just west of the state capitol in Columbus has been a target of Haitian immigrants at least since 2014, and in the ensuing years, some ten thousand had moved to the Rust Belt town. But in the last four years alone, that population has ballooned to more than 20,000. The influx is causing serious pressures to mount on the town.
>The explosion of immigrants — many of whom do not speak English — has placed serious burdens on the town. Town services are being stretched thin, and costs for translating services, housing, and legal services have become a major expense.
>For a few years, longtime residents were unbothered by the growing Haitian community, but over time, clashes have begun to occur as Haitians have become more obtrusive by driving illegally, piling into apartments and homes by the dozens, filling local schools with children who need special care in education and language services, and increasingly becoming a focus for government spending.
>Residents are becoming uneasy as their town becomes increasingly decorated with Haitian flags, for instance. And some expressed concern when the Haitian flag was raised at City Hall instead of the U.S. flag during the city’s flag day celebrations.
>But that uneasiness turned to outright anger when an 11-year-old child paid the price with his life for all this immigration. The incident occurred in August of last year when migrant Hermanio Joseph drove a 2010 Honda Odyssey into oncoming traffic causing a school bus filled with children on their way to their first day of school to spin out of control and flip over.
>The accident left 11-year-old Aiden Clark dead and a dozen other children injured, some seriously.
>The migrant, who had only been here a bit longer than a year, did not have a driver’s license and had never passed any state driving exams to obtain one.
>Migrants are claiming that some unscrupulous property owners are gouging them for rent and allowing a dozen or more to move into buildings and apartments where residency laws state that fewer than ten may reside.
Biden's going to the ninth circle of hell with the dead apes in the Mediterranean sea for this affront.
amren.com/news/2024/07/biden-floods-ohio-town-with-20000-haitian-migrants/ -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 15:24:03 JST
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@Shadowman311 The 2024 panicked version of "it's like Handmaid's Tale." -
:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 15:20:06 JST
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>Following a growing wave of stabbing attacks across Germany perpetrated by migrants, a Nigerian migrant has added to the growing toll of victims, this time stabbing three officers in 16 hours in the city of Karlsruhe.
>The 36-year-old Nigerian is still at large after three different attacks, targeting various officers in the span of 18 hours. Despite the serious crimes, the man is still at large.
>On Friday, at 12:45 p.m., the man grabbed a 9-year-old boy at the main station in Karlsruhe in the state of Baden-Würtemberg, located in the southwest of Germany. Police intervened to save the boy, and the African man bit one of the officers, while three police suffered abrasions during the scuffle.
>Then, 13 hours later, the same man wanted to travel without a ticket and got on a night train at 1:50 a.m. When police officers confronted him over his illegal action, the situation quickly escalated.
>“The man put up considerable resistance and repeatedly stabbed the officers from behind with the blade of a cutter knife,” said a police spokeswoman. One of the officers was stabbed in the head, arm and hand, while another officer was cut on his leg. Both police officers were treated in the hospital and are unable to work while they recover from their injuries.
>Despite attempts to charge the man, the public prosecutor released the Nigerian.
>He immediately went back to riding the train without purchasing a ticket, and on Saturday at 7 a.m., a police spokeswoman described how he once again attacked a federal police officer when he was stopped.
>"During the police check, the 36-year-old suddenly attacked a federal police officer, grabbing him by the arm. The suspect was brought to the ground and temporarily arrested.”
>The man was simply released by a public prosecutor even after the officers applied for an arrest warrant twice. Both requests were rejected for unknown reasons. Attempts by Bild newspaper to reach the prosecutor’s officer to explain why the man was not held in custody and charged were unsuccessful.
>The man remains on the streets despite the crime spree. According to BILD information, the federal police officers in Karlsruhe informed their superiors. Now they hope that another public prosecutor will take on the case on Monday.
>Shortly after that attack, Germany’s governing left-liberal government signaled they want to bring in more migrants from Syria and Afghanistan at a summit on migration.
It couldn't be more Weimarisch even if Anglin were to write this article ex nihilo as a parody.
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 22:31:35 JST
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>A Clarify Capital survey of more than 1,000 hiring managers showed that, beyond fake growth metrics and productivity drivers, one third of professionals claimed they used ghost posts to placate overworked employees.
>The phenomenon has caused universal frustration on both the applicant and hiring side. On average, it can take up to eight weeks for a job seeker to receive an offer after submitting an application online, according to job listing site Indeed. The process often includes resume tailoring, lengthy applications, and multiple rounds of interviews. That means applicants are wasting hours trying to get hired by companies that aren’t actually looking.
>Consequently, it’s not surprising that 55 percent of Americans say they’re “completely burned out” from job hunting, according to staffing company Insight Global.
>Many hiring professionals say ghost posting hurts businesses that are actually trying to recruit new talent. Creating a pre-qualified pool of candidates for future openings is why 37 percent of surveyed hiring managers say they ghost post, but some argue it'll have the opposite effect.
>“Ghost job postings are definitely problematic for companies legitimately trying to hire people,” Ben Lamarche, general manager at Lock Search Group, told The Epoch Times. “Not only do these clutter job boards and make it more difficult for candidates to find and apply to genuine job openings, they also cause frustration and mistrust among candidates.”
>Working at a recruitment and consulting agency, Mr. Lamarche has witnessed the rise of fake job posts. A former recruiter friend of his confessed to posting “ghost jobs” to impress clients and boost his performance metrics. Mr. Lamarche noted the recruiter didn’t seem concerned about the candidates’ quality or level of interest, he was just looking for contact information.
>He’s also seen incidents where professional candidates with perfectly matched skills suddenly face radio silence from hiring managers, only to find the exact job with the same ad posted on repeat every few weeks.
>Tech companies, recruiters, and staffing agencies are among the biggest ghost posters, according to Stephen Greet, the CEO of BeamJobs.
>“Tech companies are often cited as major users of ghost postings,” he said. “With how fast the industry moves, maintaining a pool of potential candidates ready to go is key. That way if a new project pops up or someone leaves, they’ve already got qualified people to consider.”
>The fake job listing trend isn’t limited to applicants with a broad range of expertise. Mr. Lamarche recalled the case of a colleague with a niche skill set who also fell into this trap. The colleague worked with X-ray systems on machines to determine metal fatigue.
>“The company scheduled an interview but then ghosted, and the job posting is still up over a year later,” Mr. Lamarche said. “It’s possible that these fake job postings are used for internal purposes, such as keeping the HR department busy or to avoid discrimination liabilities.”
>Some evidence supports this claim. A 2023 Visier analysis of 1,000 full-time U.S. employees revealed nearly half spend more than 10 hours per week trying to look busy instead of being productive. Eighty-three percent of respondents admitted to engaging in busy work over the past 12 months. This is something Visier calls “productivity theater.”
Do people wonder why young men drop dead from fentanyl abuse, enter in militias or check out of society entirely?
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:afire: Third Man :afire: (anonaccount@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 11:31:19 JST
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>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says asylum seekers from Syria and Afghanistan who commit serious crimes will be deported to their home countries, in a significant change of policy that comes days after a policeman was killed by a suspected Islamist extremist.
>The announcement came four days after a police officer succumbed to wounds sustained during a knife attack by an Afghan national in the south-western city of Mannheim last Friday.
>German authorities have so far been reluctant to send back Syrians and Afghans whose asylum claims were rejected in view of the dire security situation in both countries.
>But the mood in Germany has hardened significantly in the wake of the Mannheim attack, which has dominated the last days of campaigning for the European elections. The far-right Alternative for Germany party has seized on the attack to criticise what it sees as the government’s lax immigration policies.
>The suspected perpetrator is a 25-year-old man who came to Germany from Afghanistan as a teenager in 2013. His initial asylum claim was rejected, but he subsequently married a German national and was allowed to stay. Authorities said he had integrated well into German society but media reports suggested he had built up ties to Islamist groups.
>Scholz said the interior ministries of Germany’s 16 states were exploring “legally and practically sustainable ways” to allow authorities to deport convicted criminals and terrorism suspects to Afghanistan.
Scholz's verbal acrobatics won't defuse the situation.
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