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Colonial pipeline ransom payment gives Biden instant relief but long term headaches.

Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers

The payment clears the way for gas to begin flowing again, but it risks emboldening other criminal groups to take American companies hostage by seizing control of their computers.

Light volume of fire for now but watch this space.

Three rockets launched from Syria toward Israel

Three rockets were launched from Syria toward Israel Friday, expanding the battlefield as Israel faces off against militants in the Gaza Strip.

New at the Belmont Club. If problems come at you fast is it bad luck?

Waking Up in the Wrong Movie

Something is wrong with my bloody ships today.

Our dire dietary prospects.

Maggots must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition, study says

Traditionally-eaten plant and animal-based foods, like meat and barely, are ‘innately exposed to various acute and chronic stresses’, experts at the University of Cambridge reveal in a new report.

Covid didn’t spread where it was expected to. Public health needs better tracking data to hit a moving virus.

Where COVID-19 has and hasn’t spread since states reopened: Analysis

A look at public health data in several states by ABC News revealed the locations of the most COVID-19 outbreaks following their reopenings.

The system on the left has more information.

But yeah. Rand Paul cites Wuhan admission of NIH funding

No one is exactly covered in glory. Yet it is somehow fitting tidings for a shabby, blustering time.

Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction.

The protests took place as new MSPs were sworn in to what has been described as Holyrood’s most diverse parliament, taking their oaths is British Sign Language, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Welsh and Orcadian, and after an election in which refugees had voting rights for the first time in Scotland.

Guardian

Protesters block immigration van from leaving after Glasgow raid

Standoff unfolds after detentions during Eid al-Fitr in apparent escalation of hostile environment policy

I tell my friends the doctor has finally treated my parents.

I Tell My Patients Not to Mask Their Kids Outside

For most young people, the social and emotional benefits of taking masks off outdoors greatly outweigh the personal and public-health advantages of keeping them on.

Ocasio-Cortez hits Biden for taking ‘the side of occupation’ in Mideast violence

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) criticized President Biden for “taking the side of occupation” amid escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians in recent weeks.

The progressives are hoping that the administration’s current woes are caused by misfortune and soon end. If on the other hand they are the product of policy error they will persist.

Fossil fuel punishment soon to resume.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/colonial-announces-pipeline-restart-says-normal-service-will-take-seve-rcna917

Ray Harryhausen did this already.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a36383243/russia-wants-to-clone-ancient-army/

Fossil fuel shortage hits DC