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(CNN) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Saturday for the withdrawal of Eritrean and Ethiopian regional forces from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, and an end to killings and human rights violations there. His call came a day after investigations by CNN and Amnesty International into the massacre of civilians in two separate assaults in the northern Tigray region late last year. Thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military operation against leaders in the Tigray region. CNN has previously reported that soldiers from neighboring Eritrea have perpetrated many of the extrajudicial killings, assaults and human rights abuses in the Tigray region. "The United States is gravely concerned by reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia," Blinken said in a statement Saturday. Massacre in the mountains "We strongly condemn … [Read more...] about US calls for withdrawal of Eritrean forces in Ethiopia following investigation into massacre

Unquestionably, the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected all aspects of our lives. In the business community, revenues, earnings and valuations have plummeted affecting governments, most businesses and individuals alike. As both public and privately held companies search for additional debt capacity and/or potential buyers, the COVID-19 pandemic has and is affecting debt terms and availability, company valuations, and purchase prices paid for companies. As a result of this current environment, a new financial metric for measuring financial performance has been created. It is called EBITDAC (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization, COVID-19) or Adjusted EBITDA. Companies have always tried to flatter their financial performance and earnings by using various accounting treatments. So, creating a new financial performance metric, EBITDAC, is no surprise. Currently, a great deal of discussion and controversy among the largest investment banks, accounting firms and … [Read more...] about Gary Miller: Companies valuing their businesses with a new performance metric during COVID-19

Twitter acknowledged that hackers who penetrated the accounts of former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden gained access to internal company tools through social engineering attacks on employees. News of the attack comes several months after the Department of Justice accused former Twitter employees of using internal tools for the purpose of spying on Saudi dissidents and American citizens. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wednesday after the attack, urging him to ask the DOJ to take “any necessary measures” to secure the platform. News of hackers carrying out a massive operation targeting several high profile Twitter accounts Wednesday comes months after the FBI charged former company employees of using the system to spy on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The Department of Justice accused former Twitter employees Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo in November 2019 of using their access to the company’s … [Read more...] about FLASHBACK: Twitter Employees Indicted For Using Company’s Internal System To Spy On Behalf Of Saudi Arabia

The same Washington establishment that championed the Common Core standards and encouraged more federal involvement in education has endorsed a civics initiative that seeks to indoctrinate K-12 students into woke “action” political organizing, under the guise of restoring “unity.” In an op-ed Monday in the Wall Street Journal , six former U.S. education secretaries, three Democrats and three Republicans, endorsed a civics initiative that, they claim, will help instill in American students an understanding of U.S. History that is “complete and honest.” Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who extensively investigated the Common Core standards and the revised Advanced Placement U.S. History curriculum, wrote at National Review, the “Educating for American Democracy” (EAD) initiative is essentially “dominated by the woke Left, with a sprinkling of conservatives designed to create the illusion of bipartisanship.” Kurtz said the adoption … [Read more...] about Woke K-12 ‘Action Civics’ Initiative Called ‘GOP Suicide’

PARIS — In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. But that knowledge belongs to the large pharmaceutical companies who produce the first three vaccines authorized by countries including Britain, the European Union and the U.S. — Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca. The factories are all still awaiting responses. Across Africa and Southeast Asia, governments and aid groups, as well as the World Health Organization, are calling on pharmaceutical companies to share their patent information more broadly to meet a yawning global shortfall in a … [Read more...] about COVID-19 vaccine: Countries call on drug companies to share know-how