8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (9)
#16481559 at 2022-06-21 07:44:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20851: Concise Verbal: Unselect Are Corrupt Jan 6th & Stolen Election Edition
Cloudflare outage knocks popular services offline
6:53 AM UTC-June 21, 2022
A Cloudflare outage has hit several popular services including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly. Other popular services that have confirmed they are impacted include Zerodha, Medium.com, news outlet Register, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox and Social Blade. The internet infrastructure firm said it is investigating the "wide-spread" issue.
"Users may experience errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare's network or services," said the firm, which suffered an outage in some parts of the world last week as well. John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, said on a Hacker News thread that it's not a worldwide outage, but "a lot of places" are impacted. "Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening," he said.
Users have indicated that Coinbase, Shopify, and League of Legends are also facing issues, according to DownDetector, a crowdsourced web monitoring tool that tracks outages.
Updated at 7.14am, June 21: Cloudflare says it has identified the issue and is rolling out a fix. Several businesses are confirming that they are beginning to come online.
Updated at 7.21am. June 21: Cloudflare says it has rolled out a fix and is monitoring the results.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/20/cloudflare-outage-knocks-popular-services-offline/
#14782743 at 2021-10-14 08:14:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18698: Did you know about Judge Brian Amero? Corrupt Edition
>>14782720
72. Volvo
Headquarters: Gothenburg, Sweden
Bought By: Geely Auto
Headquarters: Hangzhou
Volvo may be a Swedish-born company, but it has history in America. AB Volvo sold Volvo cars to Ford in 1999, but ten years later the business would change hands again. This time, it was Chinese company the Geely Holding Group that came knocking.
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Geely bought Volvo for $1.68 billion. The company has remained owned by them ever since. The union proved fruitful. Within 5 years, Volvo was back on top, selling 5 million cars for the first time in its operating history. Together, Geely and Volvo have continued to make strides and grow the brand.
73. Lionsgate
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Bought By: Hunan TV
Headquarters: Changsha
Lionsgate has been making movies since 1997, producing hits like The Hunger Games, What to Expect When You're Expecting, American Psycho, and more. In 2015, Lionsgate and Hunan brokered a $375 million deal that saw the Chinese company dunging 25% of Lionsgate's projects for the following three years.
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Movies that benefited from the arrangement included Now You See Me 2, Age of Adeline, Gods of Egypt, and many other titles. "This agreement reflects our strategy of teaming with entrepreneurial partners to expand our global operations in key markets while underscoring our commitment to a business model that mitigates risk," said Lionsgate in a statement.
74. TransPacific Energy Inc
Headquarters: Henderson, NV
Bought By: SunSi
Headquarters: Beijing
Energy companies are often a hot topic for Chinese investors. Back in 2012, Beijing-based company SunSi announced plans to purchase 51% of TransPacific Energy. At the time, SunSi was already involved with the industry as a maker of TCS for polysilicon in China. By buying into TransPacific, they were able to corner a larger share of the renewable energy market.
TransPacific Energy Inc @tpenergygroup / Facebook.com TransPacific Energy Inc @tpenergygroup / Facebook.com
The partnership also allowed TransPacific to bring their products into the Chinese market, something which had been closed off to them until that point. The company still holds an office in Nevada as well as another in California.
75. Studio 8
Headquarters: Culver City, CA
Bought By: Fosun International Group
Headquarters: Shanghai
American entertainment company Studio 8 was set up by Jeff Robinov, Mark Miner, and John Graham just six years ago. The production company has been behind movies like Alpha, White Boy Rick, and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. Not long after the company was launched it was announced Studio 8 had partnered with Fosun International.
Studio 8 @GCRS / Twitter.com Studio 8 @GCRS / Twitter.com
Fosun and Studio 8 have worked closely ever since to produce many different projects. "There will be more opportunities to share Chinese elements and stories in Studio 8's Chinese co-productions," said Fosun in a statement. "This investment is a significant strategic footprint for Fosun in the global movie and entertainment industry."
76. Switchbox Labs
Headquarters: Seattle
Bought By: Lenovo
Headquarters: Hong Kong
Seattle-based company Switchbox Labs was bought by Lenovo back in 2009 for an unspecified amount. The company founders stayed with the company underneath the new Lenovo leadership, providing their expertise.
Seattle ?jovany ojeda / Shutterstock.com Seattle ?jovany ojeda / Shutterstock.com
"Innovation is the lifeblood of our company, and despite the current challenges in the worldwide economy and PC industry, we are committed to investing in strategies and technologies that will help deliver exceptionally engineered products and services to our customers," said CEO William Amelio in a statement. "Switchbox Labs is doing some interesting work, and we are pleased that Switchbox is joining Lenovo."
https://usagag.com/2020/11/22/list-of-us-companies-secretly-owned-by-china-tesla-microsoft-gm-uber/
#11232126 at 2020-10-23 05:18:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14348: It's Only JUST Begun Edition
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian's documents approving of council grants were shredded by her office
Documents which Premier Gladys Berejiklian signed to give her approval of millions of dollars in grants to local councils were later shredded, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Key points:
The inquiry is investigating the allocation of $250 million worth of grants to local councils across NSW
Six grants were awarded to projects in the electorate of Wagga Wagga in 2017
At the time the Premier was in a secret relationship with Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire
One of the Premier's senior policy advisers, Sarah Lau, told the inquiry she also deleted electronic copies of the notes.
The inquiry is investigating the allocation of $250 million worth of grants under the Stronger Communities Fund amid accusations of pork-barrelling in the run-up to the 2019 NSW election.
Nearly all the grants were awarded to local councils in Coalition-held seats.
The inquiry heard that $141.8 million of the grant funding was allocated by the Premier, with $61.3million allocated by the Deputy Premier John Barilaro and $48.9 million by the Minister for Local Government.
Two senior staff from the Premier's office were today called to give evidence on the process by which the grant money was allocated and approved.
Ms Lau said she prepared two working advice notes on which the Premier marked her approval of the grants.
She said she later destroyed the notes because she had sent an email recording the outcome.
"And how did you dispose of those working advice notes?" asked Labor MP John Graham.
"It's likely they would have been shredded," she replied.
The Premier's former chief of staff, Sarah Cruickshank, was asked whether it was routine practice in the Premier's office to destroy documents related to the spending of millions of dollars in public money.
"No, I would say it's not," she replied.
Ms Cruickshank was also quizzed about six grants worth just over $40,000 awarded by the Premier's Discretionary Fund to projects in the electorate of Wagga Wagga in 2017.
"Are you aware of the Premier making any disclosures about her relationship with Daryl Maguire before approving these funds?" asked Labor MP Courtney Houssos.
"No, I'm not," Ms Cruickshank replied.
She said MPs would typically write to the Premier to lobby for projects in their electorate.
But, under this particular scheme, the allocation of funding was totally at the discretion of the Premier.
Mr Graham: "If there was a decision where the Premier was making an allocation and there was any sort of conflict, there would have had to have been a conflict of interest declaration?"
Ms Cruickshank: "I'm actually not clear on whether or not if that's a requirement for the Discretionary Fund, however I accept that does sound plausible."
Mr Graham: "Are you aware of any declaration of a conflict of interest at any time in your role as Chief of Staff, for example over the Badgerys Creek deal or any other (deal)?"
Ms Cruickshank: "No, I'm not."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-23/gladys-berejiklian-approval-of-council-grants-shredded/12806962
Corrupt Jew…..but hey it's not the Jews
#10748574 at 2020-09-22 23:12:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13756: Eyes On Gaetz - Investigating Bloomberg For Vote Buying Edition
Billionaire family's windfall gain 'tip of iceberg' for land sales near new airport
A billionaire family's windfall gain from the sale of land next to Western Sydney Airport has been described as the "tip of the iceberg" for the surrounding area, sparking calls for changes to ensure a far greater slice of the market uplift is returned to taxpayers.
The federal government forked out almost $30 million for land owned by Tony and Ron Perich's Leppington Pastoral Company in 2018, only for the Commonwealth to value the 12 hectares at just $3 million less than a year later.
The government's overpayment has also led to warnings it risks forcing up the cost for taxpayers of future land acquisitions for road and rail projects in and around the new airport at Badgerys Creek.
Liberal MP John Alexander said the sale to the Perichs was the "tip of the iceberg" in terms of land holders making windfall gains from selling property around the airport at Badgerys Creek.
"These have been expensive lessons that we have been a bit slow to learn," he said.
Mr Alexander, who is chairing a parliamentary inquiry into ways to fund a bullet train on Australia's east coast, said it served as a cautionary reminder that mechanisms were needed before infrastructure was announced so that taxpayers gained from the value uplift.
And he warned that, if so-called value-capture mechanisms - such as a levy on gains - were not instituted, the number of billionaires created was likely to increase as large land holders benefited from governments boosting spending on infrastructure to stimulate the economy in coming years.
"The number of billionaires that will be created will be embarrassing," he said.
Auditor-General Grant Hehir released on Monday a damning report into the federal Department of Infrastructure's handling of the purchase of the Perichs' land in 2018. He found that aspects of the agency's operations "fell short of ethical standards".
The Commonwealth ended up paying 22 times more per hectare than what the NSW government shelled out for another 1.36-hectare slice of the Perichs' dairy farming property at Bringelly for a road.
Labor's roads spokesman John Graham said his main concern was that the purchase would lead to an escalation in the cost of acquiring land for major transport projects and potentially delay them. "One ill-advised purchase could have ripple effects throughout the western Sydney basin around the airport and that could have implications for infrastructure," he said.
The estimated cost of the M12 motorway to the new airport has already risen by more than $400 million to $1.8 billion due to an increase in land values around the area.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/billionaire-family-s-windfall-gain-tip-of-iceberg-for-land-sales-near-new-airport-20200922-p55xz4.html
#7275178 at 2019-07-31 13:33:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9308: 24 Hr Notice Edition
>>7275153
>Lenny Bruce
"I talk about a John Graham. He blew up a plane with forty people and his mother and for that the States sent him to the Gas Chamber proving, actually, that the American people are losing their sense of humor… You just think about it, anybody who blows up a plane with forty people and his mother can't be all bad."
#6898648 at 2019-07-02 19:06:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8824: July 4th tanks in a row! Edition
Cloudflare Worldwide Outage Caused by Bad Software Deployment
loudfare experienced a worldwide outage today for about 30 minutes, with network performance issues that brought down a multitude of websites and web services all around the world, and triggered "502 Bad Gateway" errors.
While various speculations said that the provider of content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services was being under attack, Cloudfare's John Graham-Cumming says that the 502 errors seen by visitors of Cloudfare sites were actually caused by a spike in CPU utilization on the provider's network.
"This CPU spike was caused by a bad software deploy that was rolled back," adds Graham-Cumming. "Once rolled back the service returned to normal operation and all domains using Cloudflare returned to normal traffic levels."
"This was not an attack (as some have speculated) and we are incredibly sorry that this incident occurred," also stated Graham-Cumming in a post on the company's official blog.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-worldwide-outage-caused-by-bad-software-deployment/
#5987486 at 2019-03-31 04:58:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7658: FAKE NEWS IN FULL PANIC Edition
Another group representative at the December 1980 Washington meetings with "observer status" was John Graham, also known as "Irwin Suall," head of the fact-finding committee of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The ADL is an outright British intelligence operation run by all three branches of British intelligence, that is, M16 and the JIO. Suall's extensive bag of dirty tricks was garnered from the sewers of the East End of London. Suall is still a member of the super-secret SIS, an elite James Bond type of operation. Let nobody underestimate the power of the ADL, nor its long reach. Suall works closely with Hall and other Fabianists. He was singled out as useful to British intelligence while at Ruskir Labour College at Oxford University in England, the same communist education center that gave us Milner, Rhodes, Burgess, McLean and Kim Philby. Oxford and Cambridge Universities have long been the province of the sons and daughters of the elite, those whose parents belong to the "upper crust" of British high society. While at Oxford, Suall joined the Young People's Socialist League, and was recruited by British intelligence shortly thereafter.
#3553547 at 2018-10-21 18:20:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4507: Cory 1/1024th Straight Male Booker Edition
>>3553486
Queen or Queensbury?
Marquess of Queensberry Rules
The Marquess of Queensberry Rules are a code of generally accepted rules in the sport of boxing. Drafted in London in 1865 and published in 1867, they were named so as John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry publicly endorsed the code, although they were written by a Welsh sportsman named John Graham Chambers. The code of rules on which modern boxing is based, the Queensberry rules were the first to mandate the use of gloves in boxing.
#1948066 at 2018-06-28 23:49:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2455: Qrisis Mode
Janice John Graham
@StratComGal
Janice John Graham Retweeted Wendi Winters
I just heard Wendi is missing. I hope she is found and ok. She worked for @OPP_LLC freelance, covered local kids, and was a friend to all. She indeed spread beauty. #Annapolis
https://twitter.com/StratComGal/status/1012481667934584832
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (1)
#15033302 at 2021-11-19 12:54:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition
'Tough cop on the beat': Anti-slavery commissioner to investigate unethical practices
Tom Rabe - November 19, 2021
An independent anti-slavery commissioner will be created in NSW to crack down on any unethical government supply chain practices after landmark modern slavery laws passed the state Parliament.
After more than three years of delay, the new laws will come into effect in 2022 after they passed the state's Legislative Council on Friday and will apply to the NSW government, councils as well as state-owned entities.
The state and local governments will be required to report on their mammoth supply chains, though amendments for the laws to apply to seasonal agricultural workers were unsuccessful.
The original legislation also sought to require businesses with an annual turnover of more than $50 million be required to report on their supply chains, but the provision was removed by the state government.
The laws had been stalled for three years due to legal and constitutional concerns within the Coalition, with anti-slavery campaigners earlier this year accusing the Berejiklian government of moving to water down the legislation.
NSW Special Minister of State Don Harwin said government agencies would be required to take reasonable steps to ensure that the goods and services they procured were not the product of modern slavery.
"The NSW government is leading by example to require itself - by law - to take action against possible modern slavery in its supply chains. The government can achieve this by maximising transparency in its procurement practices," Mr Harwin said.
More than 10 faith leaders wrote to the newly appointed Premier Dominic Perrottet last month, urging him to act on the legislation
International Justice Mission Australia chief executive Steve Baird praised Mr Perrottet after the laws were passed on Friday with the support of the government, opposition and Greens.
"While it is disappointing that the NSW government retreated from the strength of its initial commitment, Premier Perrottet has redeemed his government by ensuring key measures have been included," Mr Baird said.
"The law now establishes a strong Anti-Slavery Commissioner who is properly resourced and truly independent of government - a tough cop on the beat, educating business and shining a light on this issue."
Analysis of 36,000 supply chains to 60 Australian businesses by consultancy SD Strategies found close to 50 per cent were at "high risk" of modern slavery.
Deputy leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council John Graham said the laws would apply to the state's largest employer: the NSW government.
"After more than three years, NSW will act on modern slavery," he said.
Federal modern slavery laws already require companies with a turnover of more than $100 million to report the risk of slavery in their supply chains.
"But even if they have questionable supply chain practices, there are no penalties and little regulatory oversight. This must change," Mr Baird said.
The state government has committed to lobbying Canberra to tighten the Commonwealth laws.
Greens MP David Shoebridge said he was disappointed the amendment to allow the anti-slavery commissioner to investigate seasonal workers was rejected, the party would continue to push for the laws to be strengthened.
"There are an estimated 40 million people in modern slavery around the world, and this law will ensure we are not contributing to this with public spending," Mr Shoebridge said.
The International Justice Mission estimated 18 per cent of referrals regarding the online sexual exploitation of children in the Philippines comes from Australia - many of whom are residents of NSW.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/tough-cop-on-the-beat-anti-slavery-commissioner-to-investigate-unethical-practices-20211119-p59ah4.html
8chan/8kun QResearch GERMANY Posts (1)
#16647346 at 2022-07-06 18:08:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #97: Mit Vollgas an die Wand - Edition /4
Cloudflare outage knocks popular services offline
6:53 AM UTC-June 21, 2022
A Cloudflare outage has hit several popular services including Discord, Omegle, DoorDash, Crunchyroll, NordVPN, and Feedly. Other popular services that have confirmed they are impacted include Zerodha, Medium.com, news outlet Register, Groww, Buffer, iSpirt, Upstox and Social Blade. The internet infrastructure firm said it is investigating the "wide-spread" issue.
"Users may experience errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare's network or services," said the firm, which suffered an outage in some parts of the world last week as well. John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, said on a Hacker News thread that it's not a worldwide outage, but "a lot of places" are impacted. "Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening," he said.
Users have indicated that Coinbase, Shopify, and League of Legends are also facing issues, according to DownDetector, a crowdsourced web monitoring tool that tracks outages.
Updated at 7.14am, June 21: Cloudflare says it has identified the issue and is rolling out a fix. Several businesses are confirming that they are beginning to come online.
Updated at 7.21am. June 21: Cloudflare says it has rolled out a fix and is monitoring the results.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/20/cloudflare-outage-knocks-popular-services-offline/