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Maybe they were thirsty? Knifepoint robbers take $7 of soda from deli, cops say
Police responded to a report of a robbery at knifepoint at a New Brighton deli on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/Irene Spezzamonte)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Five apparently-thirsty individuals entered a New Brighton deli and robbed a worker at knifepoint Wednesday afternoon, taking less than $10 worth of Pepsi, the NYPD said.
At around 6:30 p.m., police responded to a 911 call of a robbery inside of the Staten Deli Grocery Corp., located at 488 Jersey St., an NYPD spokeswoman said in a statement.
After arriving at the location, a 29-year-old employee told police five individuals entered the deli, displayed a knife and forcibly removed $7 worth of soda, the spokeswoman said.
The individuals, for whom police did not immediately have a description, fled in an unknown direction, according to the spokeswoman.
A manager for the deli was not immediately available Thursday afternoon.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, on Twitter @NYPDTips.
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Over the past year, no information security concern has demanded more media and corporate attention than ransomware. The evolution of this threat from an ineffective nuisance to a sophisticated business model generating hundreds of millions of dollars for hackers has been impressive to say the least, and the number and frequency of attacks are on the rise. Petya, Bad Rabbit, Wanna Cry, Crytolocker and other ransomware cybersecurity attack have infiltrated many company's IT systems.
Ransomware is a category of malware or malicious software that disables the functionality of a computer in some way. After infecting a computer, the ransomware program displays a screen message that demands payment, usually in bitcoin (or other cryptocurrency) in order to avoid traceability. Sometimes the scammers add pressure by including a countdown clock and threatening to destroy data unless payment is made by the deadline. Ransomware has evolved over time, using various techniques to disable a computer, but the most recent iteration either locks the computer display, disallowing any access to programs or actually encrypts and/or removes files. The malware, in effect, holds the computer captive and demands a monetary ransom as an extortion. The hackers promise to provide the "key" to unlock the computer and restore functionality once payment is made. Ransomware generally infects IT systems in a similar manner as other types of malware. Commonly, the user clicks on an infected popup advertisement or on an infected link within an email and is directed to an infected website. To provide perspective about the scope of this problem, PhishMe recently reported that a staggering 93 percent of phishing emails were infected with ransomware in Q1 of 2016. With a simple click on a link or by opening an attachment, malware can enter the network, quickly infecting files and encrypting data.
If that isn't scary enough, ransomware hacking techniques are becoming more sophisticated and dangerous. According to Bill Dean, digital forensics expert and Senior Manager for LBMC Information Security, ransomware attacks often involve encrypting with an "unbreakable" code the entire system – including local user created files, local system backups (volume shadow copies), network shares to which the infected user account has modify rights (often causing major devastation) and any locally attached USB drives. In addition, an undocumented "feature" of most current ransomware variants is that cloud-based storage is also at risk. Cloud storage solutions often synchronize the local user files to the Cloud provider. Dean warns that if the ransomware encrypts the local files that are to be synchronized, and there are not multiple versions in the cloud, the cloud-synchronized files will also be encrypted.
By performing a detailed analysis of ransomware samples, Dean and his colleagues have determined that these attacks are currently geographically focused on certain countries. Additionally, due to the price tolerance (and likelihood of payment) of different countries, the amount of ransom fee demanded will actually vary based on the location of the machine that is infected, with most ransomware attacks commanding relatively small amounts in ransom to encourage quick, no-fuss payment. Attackers also target the file types most likely to glean payment. According to Dean, ransomware is getting highly sophisticated with the ability to avoid detection and lie in wait, attack later, and extract and remove data – causing true data theft scenarios.
Train and Educate Staff. Implement education and awareness programs to train employees to exercise caution online and avoid phishing attacks.
o Assess the computers and devices connected to networks to identify proactively the scope of potential exposure to malware.
o Identify technical measures that can mitigate risk, including endpoint security products, email authentication, intrusion prevention software and web browser protection.
o Implement procedures to keep security current.
o Update and patch third-party software to eliminate known vulnerabilities.
Create Backups. Back up your data early and often. Well-prepared organizations with reliable backup systems may be able to restore systems from those backups with minimal data loss or business interruption.
o Identify business-critical data in advance and establish regular and routine backups.
o Keep backups disconnected from your primary network so that you can rely on the backup in the event of an attack.
Plan Ahead. Prepare for an attack. Develop and test incident response and business continuity plans. We recommend your response plan detail attorneys, IT and forensic vendors and experienced law enforcement agents and their 24/7 cell phone numbers - and incorporate vendors approved by your cyber insurance policy.
Additionally, in the unfortunate event of a ransomware attack, we recommend that businesses formally assess the damage after an attack by conducting a forensic examination; however, companies should not allow the IT system / logs to be wiped clean or otherwise be modified. Your business will need to preserve the firewall, network and server logs as evidence of what happened. This is critical to be able to prove whether there was or was not a breach that requires reporting to consumers, the media and state/federal government. Preparing in advance for a ransomware attack is critical to surviving and navigating a ransomware attack. An attack is not always fatal but mismanagement of an attack can be.
Preparing in advance for a ransomware attack is critical to surviving and navigating a ransomware attack. An attack is not always fatal but mismanagement of an attack can be.
For the detailed steps your organization can take to prepare for a ransomware attack, see Ransomware: What to Do When Your Files Are Held Hostage, developed by analysts at LBMC Information Security.
If you suspect you have been hacked or victimized by cybercriminals, you should immediately contact qualified counsel to assist in your investigation, resolution and in any required reporting to state or federal agencies such as the Consumer Protection Section of the Louisiana Attorney General, if the breach of the security of the computer systems includes personal data ( see LA R.S. 51:3071 et seq ).
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Exercise balls are wonderful pieces of equipment if you want to lose weight or get into shape. You can do a wide variety of exercises on them and see fast results. But what happens when these balls aren't used correctly? This video is a compilation of several of the most humorous exercise ball fails found on YouTube. Check them out.


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Institut superieure de management et de technologies ISMT is a private university in Republic of benin West Africa .The university is established to accomplish its objectives by embracing rigorous academic activities through research, inquiry, flexibility, adaptability, innovation, community involvement and faculty and staff team work with a constant awareness that focus on students. Vital to our success is to establish for faculty, staff and students high standards in teaching, learning, language competence, research and publication, community and university service, and citizenship in a complex world.
To foster qualities that are prerequisite for personal fulfillment, career success, and responsible citizenship in a culturally diverse, rapidly changing and increasingly global society.
To develop a holistic educational approach which integrates various areas of knowledge and to establish viable working relationships with related University departments and programs
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The Library is the central focus of any educational institution. It is the basic and central bibliographical organ of support to the academic programmes of the University. It serves as a support not only to teaching but also to research and development activities. Consequently, ISMT is constructing a user-friendly Library. In the meantime, the main Library is housed in a building located beside the Multipurpose Auditorium.
About 10% of the recurrent revenue of the University is devoted to the Library. This is to ensure that very current books and journal titles are available to satisfy major research interests of Faculty members and provide suitable reading materials for students. An electronic library has been installed and is being upgraded.
The proposed main Library is designed to incorporate an electronic library. When completed and fully developed, it would have a capacity for about one million volumes of books in the various subjects and about 1000 periodical titles. The electronic library section will have a reference collection of CD-ROMs for easy access to current library information and audio-visuals as well as Internet facility to provide access to the National Virtual Library, National Universities Commission (NUC) Abuja, and Libraries in other Institutions. The reading rooms of the proposed new Library are designed to be opened to students for 24 hours. The new Library is a topmost priority project of ISMT. Some of the key facilities such as Internet facility proposed for the new Library are being provided in the temporary Library.
Fresh students are normally introduced to the Library as part of the Orientation week activities. They are also required to take a course in the 'Use of Library'.
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PowerA's Nano Enhanced is a smaller, mostly great take on the Switch Pro controller
Nintendo's Switch Pro controller is fantastic, but it's also kind of big. If you struggle to get a good grip on it or if you simply want a smaller controller to tuck into your bag, PowerA's new Nano Enhanced wireless controller for the Switch (also compatible with Windows 10) is a good solution. It's a more compact version that shaves about a third off the size of Nintendo's official controller. Most of its design and features are faithful, including USB-C charging, motion controls, and LED lights on its bottom to indicate connectivity status. On the downside, it lacks rumble support and NFC for Amiibo.
The Nano comes in two colorways: black with gray details around the sticks and triggers or gray with neon blue and red details sprinkled in.
Even though the controller is shrunken, the analog sticks, face buttons, and triggers are large and easy to find. With the exception of the directional pad, each of those elements matches the responsiveness of Nintendo's own controller. That's not to say the D-pad isn't serviceable, but it requires a more concerted effort to press each direction, almost as if the membrane isn't properly aligned under the plastic. Small children might struggle to easily press it, and I would rule out this model if you primarily play classic games that rely on the D-pad.
This small controller has two mappable buttons on its rear that you won't find on the Switch Pro, and they allow you to remap, say, a trigger and a face button to the rear, which might be more convenient for you if you play games that require holding down a button to sprint or something else equally tedious. It's sort of like having a more limited version of Sony's Back Button attachment on a Switch controller. This feature doesn't really do much for me, as I've just gotten accustomed to using the standard face buttons, but it adds ease of use and some extra value.
Controls aside, you'll find a USB-C charging port on the Nano's top, and PowerA claims that it can last 20 hours between each charge. Many third-party Switch controllers use replaceable batteries, so it's great that this one's built in and rechargeable. It also lasts for a few weeks at a time if you only play for a little while each day. There's an LED near the port that indicates when the battery level is critically low. In the box, PowerA includes a 10-foot USB-C to USB-A cable along with a drawstring pouch for the controller.
In terms of reliability, it's up there with the Switch Pro, which is to say it's excellent. I found it just as easy to connect to the Switch, requiring just a press of the pairing button near the USB-C port for it to be connected. (The process for pairing it to a Windows 10 PC with Bluetooth is the same.) It never dropped signal with the console, and PowerA's 20-hour battery life claim holds up well. The Nano's build quality is great. It has a rugged, matte-textured feel around the controller's body that really works for a smaller controller. I have no problem finding a comfortable grip with the standard Switch Pro, though I found myself gravitating toward this one half of the time when I just wanted something a little more low-profile to hold.
The PowerA Nano is a good complement for the Switch Pro. Depending on your hand size, it could easily be your main Switch controller. Though, for me, I'm less enthused to make it my main because it lacks the HD rumble feedback. Still, I can imagine bringing this with me on the go or keeping it handy for either my partner or me to use during a multiplayer game so that neither of us is stuck with the maligned (at least in my home) Joy-Con grip. So long as you can look past the omission of rumble, this shrunken controller is a solid addition to your Switch setup.
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This is in response to Karen Deatherage's article. ("Alaskans don't want aerial wolf hunts," May 20) Her article missed the whole point on wolf control. First off, it's the Outside interests that are controlling our wildlife programs for their own viewing benefit. The greenies of San Francisco and beyond want Alaska managed for their narrow personal use. Forget the residents of our beautiful state; they want it for themselves.
Just because my husband and I hunt and fish for the food we eat, does that make us extremist hunters? Our governor caved in on one small experiment to help build moose populations. Wake up, folks: We have an excess of wolves. Maybe we can get these meddling greenies to visit Alaska and take one home.
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Rosslyn Chapel is unique and famed world wide for the beauty of its carvings and for the aura of mystery and magic that surrounds it.
Built in 1446 by William St. Clair, third and the last Prince of Orkney, Rosslyn Chapel conforms neither to contemporary architecture nor to any fashion. Rich in ornament, its exact place in the creation of mankind still remain difficult to estimate. The carvings themselves, including the famous "Apprentice Pillar", are endless in variety and full of symbolism. Many of the Biblical stories and portrayed, and there are frequent references for those interested in the Knights Templar and Freemasonry, equally there are Pagan symbols and Rosslyn Chapel has the largest number of "Green Men" found in any Medieval building. There are also carvings pf plants from New World which pre-date the discovery of the land by Columbus by one hundred years. There is no doubt that Rosslyn Chapel has a place in history, not just of Scotland, but the wider world.


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The Graham-Stephenson House in Irivington – Photo by Ryan Hamlett
As the nights grow crisp and cool, the coming fall always reminds me of my childhood in Irvington. Though the October festivities at Connor Prairie are always a favorite, for me, Irvington has the market cornered in the Halloween department. And in an area with its fair share of history and haunts, there is a single building that stands alone in my mind as an example of something both beautiful and ominous. Riding in the back seat to pick up my father from work on Downey Ave., I always craned my neck to catch a glimpse of the giant house with the imposing white columns. It was only later that I would learn the history of the house on University Avenue and understand that my misgivings were correct. I speak, of course, of the Graham-Stephenson House.
The grand house at 5432 University Avenue was built in 1889 by Kentland, Indiana attorney and Civil War Veteran William H. H. Graham for he and his wife Ellen. However, he would only enjoy his mansion a short while before passing away in 1906, leaving Ellen alone in the huge home. With William gone, Ellen invited her sister to live with her and rented out the occasional room, but the house was simply too big for her to handle. Now in her 70s, in 1920 Ellen decided to rent out her stately mansion to the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and later Phi Delta Theta Fraternity of Butler University, then, a half-block away.
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma pose on the Graham House's original one story columned porch. Their greek lettered sign hanging over the porch seems to foreshadow the house's future owner. – photo from vintageirvington
After only five years of housing students, Mrs. Graham finally opted to sell the mansion, a decision that would seal its infamy and add a second surname to the house's identity. While its uncertain that she knew the background or character of the Texan who bought her house, she did live long enough to see his misdeeds play out in the papers, passing away in 1940 at 93 years old.
David Curtiss Stephenson – photo wikipedia
The house's new owner, one David Curtiss Stephenson was born in Houston, Texas in 1891, worked as a printer's apprentice as a youth, enlisted in the Army and served as a Second Lieutenant during World War I and moved to Evansville, Indiana in 1920, working with a retail coal company. While in Evansville, Stephenson was recruited by fellow Texan Joseph Huffington to join the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacy organization that had died off since its post Civil War origins but was re-founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons and again grown in power by 1920.
Stephenson relocated to Indianapolis in 1922, where he helped to grow the scope of the Indiana Klan, offering Protestant ministers free membership and helping to create the Klan newspaper The Fiery Cross. When Klan recruiter Hiram Evans unseated Simmons as the Imperial Wizard (national head) of the national KKK, in a ceremony attended by 100,000 people, Evans appointed Stephenson as the Grand Dragon (head) of the Indiana Klan. As the Klan grew in Indiana, Stephenson's power began to extend both to the Statehouse and City Hall, backing the elections of Governor Edward Jackson and Mayor John Duvall.
Stephenson funded Governor Ed Jackson and Mayor John Duvall – photos from wikipedia
At the height of his power in Indianapolis, Stephenson bought Mrs. Graham's mansion on University Avenue and immediately renovated it. Stephenson tore down the one story columned porch and added a two story ionic portico, its grand columns portraying the sense of power that D.C. had come to enjoy. However, his time in the mansion would be even shorter lived than Mr. Graham's.
The Graham Stephenson House in 1925, after the construction of the new portico – photo from vintageirvington
Though Stephenson was an outspoken Prohibitionist and defender of "Protestant womanhood" behind closed doors he was an alcoholic and sexual predator, reportedly hosting booze-filled orgies in his new mansion. Twice divorced (he abandoned his first wife, while pregnant, in 1917 and beat his second, divorcing in 1922), Stephenson gave a glimpse of what was to come in Columbus, Ohio where he was establishing Klan offices. At the Deschler Hotel, a whiskey fueled Stephenson had offered the staff manicurist a hundred dollars to have sex with him. When she refused he said "You will or I'll kill you." The manicurist escaped his room. Stephenson escaped prosecution.
Madge Oberholzer
Returning to 1925, while attending the January 12th inauguration party for the Klan supported Governor Edward Jackson, Stephenson met 28 year-old Madge Oberholzer and immediately began to pursue her. She had attended Butler, worked with the Indiana Department of Public Instruction and lived with her parents. She and Stephenson began dating, she served as his aide, and helped him to pen a book on nutrition titled One Hundred Years of Health.
On March 15th, she received a message that Stephenson was leaving for Chicago and needed to see her at once. She was picked up by one of his body guards and taken to University Avenue. Stephenson, roaring drunk, forced her to drink as well and insisted she travel to Chicago with him. She was taken to Union Station, forced into his private compartment and suffered a northbound trip of nightmares. "Bitten, chewed and pummeled", the two never made it to Chicago, instead staying in Hammond, Indiana, where they checked into a hotel. The next morning, under the pretense of purchasing a hat and makeup at a drug store, Oberholzer instead bought mercury bichloride tablets, intended to take the entire box, but only managed to choke down three.
Upon discovering what she had done, Stephenson panicked and had the two of them driven back to Indianapolis and had her dropped off by his bodyguards, telling her parent's she had been in a car accident. Summoning their family doctor, she told him she didn't expect nor did she want to get well. After some time, she related the whole terrible event.
One month later on April 14, 1925, Madge Oberholzer died, officially, from mercury poisoning, though her doctor later testified that the injuries inflicted by Stephenson were enough to be fatal on their own. County prosecutor William Remy, one of few public officials not in Stephenson's pocket, charged the Klansman with rape, kidnapping and second-degree murder for which he was convicted after an ugly trial. Abandoned by the very city officials he helped elect, Stephenson released records on public officials who had been on the Klan payroll to the Indianapolis Times (who recieved a Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into Klan corruption). Stephenson's trial and the ensuing political scandal was the death knell for the Klan in Indiana, its membership dwindling as fast as it had swelled throughout the 20s.
The University Avenue mansion once again housed fraternities until Butler's relocation in 1928 and stayed in Stephenson's ownership until 1943. It has passed through a few sets of hands since Stephenson (who finally died in Tennessee in 1966, but only after he tried to assault a 16 year old girl while in his 70s) and while all kinds of morbid lookie-loos (such as myself) would love to tour the house, Irvington Historical Society President, Steve Barnett says that the current owners are intensely private. So while stopping by the 65th Irvington Halloween festival, a quick pause to check out this piece of dark Indianapolis history is highly recommended, an unsolicited knock on the door is not.
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Michael	on September 24, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Great story Ryan! I remember, as a child, walking past the Stephenson home and being told by other kids that the people there kidnapped children and baked them in the oven…
Thanks to for the reference to the Indianapolis Times. Their historic marker on Maryland Street will be returning this Fall.
Tom Davis	on September 24, 2013 at 3:10 pm
In a mostly unrelated footnote, Frank Prince, the reporter who wrote much of the Prize winning expose on the Klan for the Indianapolis Times, married the widow of William E. English, Helen. In fact, they married, divorced, and remarried before she committed suicide.
Madge is buried with her family in Memorial Park Cemetery on the east side of town. As I remember, she is along the the east side of the road just a little past the office near the entrance.
Ann Stewart	on September 24, 2013 at 9:16 pm
I grew up in Irvington too. Used to ride my bike past that home all the time, even though it was far from my home on East Washington Street, it was close to my cousins' home on Burgess.
John Kingsbury	on September 28, 2013 at 10:19 am
My great grandfather was the doctor that helped Oberholzer and later testified against Stephenson. I left Indy for about 15 years, and when I came back I decided to live in Irvington because my family roots were here and I felt a connection to the area. I love Irvington for its rich history as well as the new development, a great place to call home.
Charlotte Ottinger	on February 25, 2015 at 10:19 pm
John – I am currently working on a presentation on Madge Oberholtzer for the Irvington Historical Society and the Alumnae Club of Pi Beta Phi (Madge's sorority). Would you be willing to meet and answer some questions about your grandfather's involvement? I live in Irvington, too, and can be reached at Cottinger@iuhealth.org or 509-8577. Thank you.
Charlotte Ottinger
Courtney Stephenson	on August 12, 2014 at 8:13 pm
I recently was in the house, and I can tell you its beautiful yet strange. I cannot describe it. I did not grow up in Indianapolis however I have always heard the stories of what happened.


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This goes to access, influence and whether you can separate donations from lobbying; where lobbyists, an individual, an industry or an organisation on one hand puts their case to a government or opposition member of Parliament — who should be making decisions based on merit, the public interest or their values — and on the other hand there is also a donation involved funding their political campaigns and helping them get elected. This goes to access to power and then influence over what decisions are made, particularly where there is a clear conflict of interest. You have just got to look at Labor's Progressive Business, where the day after the budget the Treasurer was out there fundraising off the back of the budget, or in the last term of government when you had the unseemly spectacle of that government holding a fundraiser attended by the same companies that were benefiting from their infrastructure projects. It is unacceptable, it is unseemly and it is right that we have donations law reform now to change that.
Specifically around donations, this bill puts a cap on donations of $4000 over four years where currently there is no cap. It lowers the disclosure threshold to $1000. That is down around $14 000 from the current figure, and it reduces those reporting times down to around 28 days. It is not exactly real-time disclosure — I think in Queensland it is seven days — but it certainly is an improvement on what we have had previously, where the public did not even know until, often, a year and a half after an election who had donated to political parties. There are reforms that increase public funding provided to political parties and place administrative requirements on those parties to administer this scheme. There are changes in terms of associated entities and third parties, and there are also a number of changes to the Electoral Act 2002.
This is something the Greens have been pushing for years and it is an absolutely essential reform to clean up politics and help restore trust. When we look at who has donated to political parties, these are people from highly regulated industries that are seeking to influence government where governments are making decisions that affect their profits. You just have to look at Crown Casino and the Australian Hotels Association, which are lobbyists on behalf of the gambling, alcohol and the tobacco industry. You have got Transurban and Tabcorp. It is made all the more unseemly by some of these sweetheart deals that successive governments have done for these companies where there is a clear conflict of interest.
You have just got to look at Crown Casino, seemingly a favoured client of the state. We have had their extraordinary licence extension to 2050, which includes the provision that the state has to pay up if measures are enacted to address problem gambling that could affect their profits. It is extraordinary. In this term, we have seen them be exempted from the planning scheme on what is, I think, the tallest building in Australia, slashing the public benefit contribution. We have got today's news, where they are clearly breaching what should be appropriate action around pokies, but we know that they have got exemptions from the law that other pokies operators do not have.
Look at what is happening with Transurban now. Essentially they have been put in charge of planning, designing, building and operating transport infrastructure in this state. With the West Gate tunnel, what started out as $500 million of off-ramps to the port from the West Gate Bridge has turned — morphed — into this $6.7 billion project, with off-ramps now going straight into the CBD. It is funnelling thousands of cars into the CBD, paid for by toll extensions on CityLink, an incredible sweetheart deal. It is hard to see how anyone looking at this objectively could not see anything but a cash cow for Transurban.
We have got some great deals done for property developers. The one I am probably most familiar with is what has happened in South Yarra at 661 Chapel Street, where we had a tower. The Leader of the Opposition, when he was the Minister for Planning, stepped in and changed local planning laws to allow a building that was more than double in height what the planning laws allowed. This was after, mind you, he told councillors face to face that he did not do planning scheme amendments on individual sites — that was in regard to Orrong Towers. This was on behalf of a property developer who was a donor to the Liberal Party, a clear conflict of interest.
Ms Asher — On a point of order, Acting Speaker, whilst I understand that the member for Prahran has some latitude in this, in my opinion he is moving to impugn the motives of the Leader of the Opposition when he was Minister for Planning. It is only available to the member for Prahran to do that by way of substantive motion. I would ask that you please direct him to get on with his comments about the bill before the house and cease reflecting on the Leader of the Opposition.
Mr HIBBINS — On the point of order, Acting Speaker, I clearly in my remarks referred to the conflict of interest in making those decisions and the donation received. I do not think calling out a conflict of interest is in any way doing what the member is suggesting.
The ACTING SPEAKER (Mr Dimopoulos) — Order! Because I have only just assumed the chair, I am going to take some advice from the Clerk. I advise the member for Prahran to be cautious not to impugn members and to get back to the contribution.
Mr HIBBINS — Just to conclude these remarks, what we found out was that this developer eventually — immediately — sold that land for a massive profit of $36 million. I mean, this is just one of those examples where there is a clear conflict of interest with governments making decisions and people donating to political parties. It shows why this reform is absolutely necessary.
Now, as I said, the Greens have a long history of calling for this reform, probably from when we first entered this place over 10 years ago. In 2008 we succeeded in getting an inquiry into Victoria's donation laws established, and in setting up that inquiry the same points that were made then are still relevant today: the fact that we rely on weak federal laws, the fact that it takes a year and a half after an election to find out who donated to political parties, unless of course they choose to disclose earlier like ourselves, and the fact that there are very few restrictions on who can actually donate to political parties. I think in Victoria only Tabcorp and Tatts have caps of around $50 000, but there is nothing in other highly regulated industries. These problems have not changed in 10 years.
Mr HIBBINS — Well, I would make the point — I agree with you. I would make the point, and I am glad the member has raised this — that it is the political pressure that the Greens have brought to bear that has played a very significant role in bringing about this reform.
Australia's flawed political donations system, which can mask the real source of money pouring into politics, is vulnerable to influence by this highly determined criminal organisation.
At the time, even the federal Labor leader was prepared to say we needed to reform donations laws, but again the Premier was not interested and in one of his usual responses called us 'commentators' and said they were 'delivering' — not on donations reform, just 'delivering'.
A push for a national overhaul of political donation laws appears to have stalled, with the Andrews government showing no interest in campaign funding reform or even greater transparency.
It went on to say that Labor in Victoria had repeatedly sought to block reform.
Victoria, along with the Commonwealth, is amongst the least regulated jurisdictions in the western world in terms of political finance law.
b. whether details of all donations to a candidate or political party should be required to be published on a publicly available register within 30 days of the relevant election.
All of us will have lots of different views. I believe that the current arrangements are adequate. That is not to say that they could not be improved at some point in the future.
the Leader of the Opposition's campaign.
… caught him plotting to split the promised donations into smaller amounts to avoid disclosing the source of the funds to authorities.
Clearly we have had over years reasons to see why the current disclosure and donations system is incredibly broken. It undermined the integrity of our political system, and there was the need for change, but this government and governments preceding it had resisted calls for change until two months out from the Northcote by-election, when they announced that they were going to strengthen donations laws to be the toughest in the country.
I am sure Labor members would like to believe that the Premier and the cabinet just woke up one day and decided suddenly that after all this, after all that has happened over the years — despite the scandals, the resistance, the recommendations and the work by committees and academics — donations reform was a good idea. I have got a different view. I would put it that the political pressure that the Greens brought to bear on this issue over years — over a decade — has brought this result. Make no mistake: this is a Greens achievement.
Mr HIBBINS — I think the message is loud and clear: Greens in Parliament fighting for change, sometimes for years, get results. This gets results, even more so when you have a political contest that pits the Greens against the Labor and Liberal parties. There is absolutely no doubt.
Mr HIBBINS — Perhaps we can check the record to see what the member for Essendon has ever said about donations law reform. What has the member for Essendon ever said about this? Absolutely nothing. I know it is a difficult day. It is a difficult day for the member for Essendon when he knows that something that the Greens have been fighting for for years finally the government has actually seen the light of day to adopt what is a great Greens policy — donations law reform. In fact if we check the record, no doubt the member for Essendon was heckling when I questioned the Premier on donations reform all those times. It is a tough day for him, I am sure.
I will go on to other measures in this bill, firstly around how donations reform will be administered.
Mr HIBBINS — I tell you what: you bring in more bills like donations law reform and other Greens achievements, and I will keep speaking for them, because finally we have a bill before this place that is actually worth speaking on for 20 minutes. I know the member for Essendon did about 5 minutes on changing a font in a bill once. I probably do not have that sort of expertise. I tell you what: we have got a few to go after their promises in the Northcote by-election. We have still got renters reform to go. We have still got banning the plastic bag. They did everything, so we are still waiting. There could be hope.
Just touching on the other parts of this bill, obviously there is the increased public funding to go along with donations law reform. I think it is at $6 per lower house vote and $3 per upper house vote as well as some administration funding for parties — $40 000 per annum. Certainly with these figures I cannot imagine political parties would be crying poor, but I would hope that the taxpayer, in return for the increased funding, can now get a political system and a democracy with far more integrity than we previously had.
I will touch on one of the final changes, and that is to the elections, around bunting. I certainly know the local Prahran RSL is going to be very happy that their RSL is no longer going to be covered in bunting during election time.
Mr HIBBINS — I would love to think that this was because of their care about the environment. The Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change is at the table and is, I am sure, a strong advocate for getting rid of bunting, but really this is because the Labor Party cannot control Bill Shorten's mates — it cannot control former ministers from tearing down other parties' bunting. It is very unfortunate, and unfortunately it is now time that the bunting wars are over. We started winning the bunting laws, and now they are suing for peace. We are the party of peace, so we will go in for this one.
We are really pleased to finally see donations law reform in this state. This has been a long time coming. It is a credit to my colleagues who have fought for this since well before I came here. It is a change that is absolutely needed, and more than ever given the ongoing series of scandals that have overshadowed this Parliament and the previous Parliament. Now more than ever we need to clean up politics in this state. We need to clean up this Parliament. It is absolutely needed. That is what the Greens are fighting for, and that is what the Greens are achieving in this bill.


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Families of slain South Boston doctors file wrongful death lawsuit alleginginadequate building security
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The families of the two doctors who were murdered in their South Boston home in May have filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
Lina Bolanos and Richard Field were found with their hands bound and throats slashed at their luxury South Boston condo in May.
Bampumim Teixeira, a 30-year-old man from Chelsea, was charged with their murders and recently ordered held without bail.
Teixeira also has two larceny convictions on his record from 2014 and 2015, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. He was released from prison after serving nine months a short time before this incident.
Officials believe the doctors let Teixeira into their home, which was located with the Macallen Building, as he once worked at the condo building as part of its concierge and security services.
Palladion Services, the company that provides concierge and security workers to the Macallen Building, said after the incident that it hired Teixeira in Oct. 2015 "after we performed background and reference checks, which were clean."
Now, the families of Bolanos and Field have filed a lawsuit against the trust that owns the building, the building's management and security companies and the company that formerly provided security and employed Teixeira, according to the Boston Globe.
The wrongful death lawsuit alleges that "a 'veneer' of security" allowed Teixeira to enter the doctors' home and that Palladion Services never informed the building's management company that Teixeira was a convicted bank robber.
The complaint also alleges that a security guard working at the front desk when the murders occurred "took about 20 minutes to call 911 after receiving a call about a gunman in the doctors' condo," the Globe reports.
"Despite the appearance of operating a secure property, in fact, the defendants provided virtually no security for its residents whatsoever," the attorneys say the complaint, per the Globe. "For example, one can enter the garage with ease by simply walking from the street when the garage door is opened by a resident who is either entering or leaving the [b]uilding's garage in their vehicle."
The Macallen Building bills itself as "one of Boston's most luxurious, amenity filled, loft-style luxury properties," with two-bedroom units selling for upwards of $1 million.
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A group of tourists arrive at Velana International Airport. -- PHOTO/MIHAARU
Maldives has banned the entry of people from seven countries as a first precautionary measure against the new Covid-19 variant Omicron.
The countries included South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Eswatini.
The travel ban will come into effect from November 28 midnight.
Those who have been in transit for more than 12 hours and those who have been in transit for more than 14 days in these countries will be banned from arriving in the Maldives for the time being.
Maldivians who have transited in the country for more than 12 hours and those with a work visa are required to complete a 14-day quarantine period. They will be released from quarantine after testing negative for COVID-19.
Maldives has also ordered people who have already started the journey to Maldives and those who have already arrived from those countries in the past 14 days to do a PCR test. Those who spend 14 days or more in the Maldives requires, an additional PCR test after 14 days and those who leave before 14 days also have to do a PCR test before the departure.
Several countries have imposed travel restrictions after the discovery of a new coronavirus variant in South Africa. Scientists have expressed concerns that the new strain – identified as B.1.1.529 – could be more resistant to vaccines and could spread more easily. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) has cautioned against imposing new travel restrictions.


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Q: How can I list and print files in a directory? I'm trying this but it doesn't print anything:
Dir -Recurse "C:\temp" | Select Fullname

Looks like this command just selects file names. I want to see them in console.

A: Concerning your code in the question.
Your command should have worked as is. You are, in fact, already calling Get-ChildItem. If you check Get-Alias you will see what I'm trying to tell you.
PS C:\users\Cameron\Downloads> Get-Alias dir

CommandType     Name                                               ModuleName
-----------     ----                                               ----------
Alias           dir -> Get-ChildItem

You code translates to
Get-ChildItem -Recurse "C:\temp" | Select Fullname

Again,  I'm not sure why your code does not generate output since that is perfectly fine on a folder that contains files or directories. Might be an issue with the positional parameter maybe? What is your PowerShell version? ( Use Get-Host).
The code you have would send all file paths to console. Did you want that output somewhere else?
About the accepted answer
Pretty sure this code will double up output if you have folders in the path since directory will output to the second Get-ChildItem
Dir -Recurse c:\path\ | Get-Childitem

Consider the following folder tree
C:\TEMP\TEST
│   File1.txt
│   File2.txt
│
└───Folder1
        File3.txt

Consider the two command run against that folder tree.
PS C:\users\Cameron\Downloads> Dir -Recurse c:\temp\test | Select Fullname

FullName
--------
C:\temp\test\Folder1
C:\temp\test\File1.txt
C:\temp\test\File2.txt
C:\temp\test\Folder1\File3.txt

PS C:\users\Cameron\Downloads> Dir -Recurse c:\temp\test | Get-Childitem | Select Fullname

FullName
--------
C:\temp\test\Folder1\File3.txt
C:\temp\test\File1.txt
C:\temp\test\File2.txt
C:\temp\test\Folder1\File3.txt

The second command shows two files called File3.txt when in reality there is only one.

A: get-childitem | format-list > filename.txt

This will give you a text file with name, size, last modified, etc.
if you want specific parameters from the item... such as name of the file only the command is
get-childitem | format-list name > filename.txt

this is give you the same text file, but with just the name of the files listed.

A: Take a look at Get-Childitem
Dir -Recurse c:\path\ | Get-Childitem

A: It might also be worth mentioning the -force switch which is required to see hidden items.

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Twerking leads to suicide? Russian propaganda break down
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A recent claim by the face of Russian domestic propaganda that twerking contributes to teenage suicide brings to the fore Moscow's not so subtle attempt to employ failed American-style strategies of female subjugation to tackle very real social ills.
It all started with the apotheosis of political kitsch and trailer park sexuality. A bunch of white girls in a transcontinental city, provocatively dressed in the two-tone colors of Russian military valor and Ukrainian invasion, twerking around Winnie the Pooh and his honey pot.
At around the 0:37 mark, a horrified mother and her child can literally be seen doing their best imitation of the San Diego illegal alien crossing sign.
Yes, this video pulled off a trifecta of Post-Soviet trash; a veritable hat trick of 'This is Russia bitch' if you will.
And in a time when Russia's ruling class is excessively fond of aping the histrionics of American far right moralists to decry the morally decedent West, Russia's spin doctor in chief Dmitry Kiselyov didn't miss a beat in his most recent condemnation of the twerking bees.
"We're not going to dwell on this for long, but we simply need to ask ourselves one question: are we for or against early sex," he asks in his all to familiar rhetorical style.
True to Kiselyovian theatrical form, the presenter then purposes a false dilemma, whereby those who are "for" minors having sex need to put an end to the "persecution of pedophiles", purge the legal codex of corresponding laws, and "close your eyes to the obvious harm of early sex, which is accompanied by a crippled life…teenage abortions and suicide."
That's right, this isn't just about girls in a provincial town expressing themselves in a manner that some might find distasteful. No, this is the decline of Western civilization, and Russia risks becoming America's decedent watershed least they built up their moral defenses.
A few issues are at play here. One, the false equivalency Kiselyov makes between sexually charged dancing and actually engaging in sexual activity, or the ungrounded claim that the former is a slippery slope to the latter, is glaring.
Secondly, Kiselyov assertion that sex among teens leads to depression and suicide is contingent on a 12-year-old study from the right-wing Heritage Foundation, whose methodology leaves much to be desired.
Thirdly, seeing that Russia has a lower age of consent than the US (16 vs. 18), some of the girls portrayed in the clip are (by the country's own standards) not likely minors to begin with. Not that any of this matters. The manufactured scandal which has led to a criminal investigation being launched by the Russian equivalent to the FBI is merely another form of public theater, whereby the government feigns religiosity for the sake of consolidating political power and further carving out a few slivers in that artificial East Vs. West divide.
When it comes to issues of sexuality, Russia is a patriarchy, but certainly not a theocratic one. Due to deep societal atomization and a politically apathetic culture which embraced rampant consumerism as the only truly binding national ideology, "unchaste" women are part and parcel of the everything is possible playground of the Third Rome. Sex has been more commodified in Russia than possibly any other place on Earth, and this is not a ruling class that has any interest in rolling back its access to pleasure.
Rather, any attempts to "chasten" Russian women will likely have little to do with limiting the actual availability of willing sexual partners for men in the country, but rather change the social dynamic which gives women (at least limited) control over their own sexuality. Despite all its faults, after all, the Soviet Union (sometimes out of pure necessity) did a lot to empower women regarding employment, maternity benefits, and control over their own bodies (though, in one of those perfect Soviet contradictions, it never found a need to manufacture tampons for them.)
There are more than a few men who would be more than happy to roll those rights back. This is, after all, a country where a politician can threaten a pregnant female journalist with rape and see no consequences (he also blamed the Ukrainian revolution on "female hysteria.")
Add to that a political need to vilify the West and you find the government investigating the activities of a provincial dance studio. But there are real issues as well. Rampant rates of substance abuse, STD transmission (particularly HIV), high abortion rates and relatively low birth rates have led many a pundit to declare Russia a dying nation.
The problem with these moral crusades (manufactured or not), however, is that they rarely examine the actual issues in good, scientific faith. Rather, they engage in a form of bait and switch, whereby one proposes an ineffectual, ideologically-driven solution to a real problem.
This, of course, is a tactic borrowed from the American right, which sought to tackle the issues of teen pregnancy, abortion and the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases with curtailment on women's reproductive rights, the repression of sexual education, and a war on sex itself. This cultural war continues to be waged, despite all available evidence pointing towards higher rates of the above mentioned social maladies in those avowedly more religious states which embraced the abstinence only ethos.
Evangelical teens, in fact, have sex at the same rates as their non-religious peers, and no amount of guilt or slut shaming actually stops this biological drive, though it might adversely affect their self-esteem (see the Heritage study) and, with a lack of education, leave them needlessly exposed to unwanted pregnancy and preventable diseases.
On the abortion front, Russia has seen a dramatic drop from the shockingly high rates of the 90s, when the number of live births were often doubled by the number of terminated pregnancies.
As Mark Adomanis recently pointed out, the ratio of abortions to births has actually flipped, with roughly two pregnancies being carried to term for every termination.
Despite these positive trends which had nothing to do with religious influence, The Russian Orthodox Church, which recently framed the country's demographic crisis within the false dichotomy between "free choice" and "moral norms," is similarly using genuine social maladies to artificially insert itself into what is ultimately a public health issue.
Likewise, if Kiselyov is really worried about teenage suicide, instead of fretting about "morally decedent" western cultural imports, perhaps he should do something useful, like rally the government to both destigmatize therapy (which was deeply damaged by Brezhnev's use of psychiatry as a weapon against political dissidents), and to make counseling available to at-risk kids. Of course, Kiselyov does not care about twerking. His primary goal is to besmirch the West via its "moral decadence", even if manifestations of that moral decadence (substance abuse, rates of STD transmission, abortion rates) are actually more prevalent in Russia.
But to talk about Russia's issues honestly, to view them as public health problems that need solutions which might not be beneficial to an authoritarian government seeking "tradition" as a means of further consolidating and controlling the population, is to defeat the great point of this mad metanarrative. Why talk about introducing comprehensive sex education throughout all Russian schools when you can just decry the West for teaching Russian girls to dance like sluts (which makes them become sluts, and sluts, as we all know, get abortions and then kill themselves.)
Why talk about a culture that has made it impossible for children to openly express their feelings or grapple with issues of sexuality, when it is much more politically expedient to create citizens who lock up their spirits and embrace conformity at all costs, even if it is killing them inside?
As for Russian women and sex, perhaps the perfect example of where all of this twerking nonsense could be going if the country's real nationalists ever ascend to the throne came in October, when Aleksandr Mozgovoi, leader of the quasi-rogue pro-Russian 'Ghost Brigade' in Luhansk, Ukraine, announced (an ultimately unenforced) ban on women going to bars and clubs. In his own words, they should instead "sit at home and embroider."
In a coup of poetic justice, it was Anastasiya Pyaterikova, a high-profile Luhansk separatist (and one-time stripper), who put Mozgovoi in his place.
"You've gone too far, Mozgovoi!," she wrote on VKontakte, Russia's answer to Facebook.
"What right have you got to arrest women, and, what's more, establish order in this way??? Have you got women troubles? That's how it looks."
It is not difficult to imagine that Russia's steadily growing chorus of "traditionalist" voices have a lot of women troubles, none of which involve twerking. But as history has borne out time and time again, when men have problems with women, it often spells trouble for "the fairer half."
Soviet ghosts and dead politicians: Ukraine is on the brink
April 18, 2015 August 29, 2015 / Russian Avos	/ Leave a comment
At least eight former government officials dead in two months, two journalists killed in Kyiv since Monday, another pro-Russian former deputy shot dead outside his home this week, controversial laws meant to whitewash history, and a shaky ceasefire in a civil war that risks engulfing the entire nation — Ukraine is on the brink, and no one appears willing or able to stop the descent into disintegration.
Whatever you think of the Putinbots, vatniks, trolls, or true believers caught up in the digital miasma regarding the Ukrainian crisis, on one point they appear to be correct — a spat of mysterious and not so mysterious deaths to befall Ukraine since late January appear to have been underreported in the Western press.
Within a day's time, 45-year-old Oles Buzyna, a journalist-cum-pro-Russian activist who made an unsuccessful 2012 parliamentary run on the Russian Bloc ticket, was the victim of a brazen drive-by shooting in the courtyard of his apartment building in Kyiv on Thursday afternoon.
On Wednesday, 52-year-old Oleg Kalashnikov, a former deputy in ousted president Viktor Yanukovich's Party of Regions, was shot dead on the landing of his apartment in the Ukrainian capital. And on Monday, Serhiy Sukhobok, a journalist who covered business affairs in eastern Ukraine, reportedly died during a fight with neighbors within whom he had a history of bad blood.
Between January 29th and March 14th, eight former government officials are alleged to have committed suicide, though theories have emerged that some were forced to take their own lives. Many were former political allies of Yanukovich and under investigation for a litany of crimes. Members of the marginalized pro-Russian opposition claim the mysterious deaths have followed a wave of intimidation employing the judicial branch as a punitive organ against former regime elements. Those swept into power following the 2014 revolution say they are merely "cracking up" at the prospect of prison time given the impunity with which they acted while in power. Those two interpretations are not mutually exclusive.
Following the deaths of Buzyna and Kalashnikov, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered an investigation into the killings, saying it was clear "these crimes have the same origin."
"Their nature and political sense are clear," Poroshenko said. "It is a deliberate provocation that plays in favor of our enemies."
Provocation, of course, is the carpet under which all evils are swept under in the post-Soviet world.
Following the February 27 assassination of former statesman and oppositionist Boris Nemtsov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary similarly said the murder was "100 percent provocation."
Putin for his part had earlier employed the phrase "sacrificial victim" in 2012 to describe an alleged plot by the opposition to kill one of their own merely to tarnish his regime.
It came as little surprise that Russia's Investigative Committee would employ the same language three years later, saying Nemtsov was a "sacrificial victim for those who do not shun any method for achieving their political goals."
It is not to say "provocations" do not take place. But to insinuate motive without evidence is irresponsible, especially from a head of state. Poroshenko, however, isn't the only one to to fit the killing into a politically expedient narrative.
Parliamentarian Sergei Leshchenko wrote on Twitter that the murders looked like an FSB "provocation", referring to Russia's principle security agency, the Guardian reported.
Another deputy, Volodymyr Ariev, told the daily that "an FSB shooting brigade" was picking people off on the streets of Kiev.
"It easily fits into the Russian narrative that Ukraine is all about fascists, a country where even basic right for life is violated," he said.
Walking right into Russia's trap
When it comes to this admittedly false Russian narrative that the Ukraine is "all about fascists", the Ukrainian government is doing itself no favors in promoting a more democratic image.
First, there was the so-called Ministry of Truth.
Then, on April 9, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada (parliament) adopted four laws, one of which recognizes the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) as veterans of the Second World War. The law further says that "public denial of the legitimacy of the struggle for Ukraine's independence", and by extension, criticism of those who fought for said independence, is "unlawful."
The following day, three Soviet-era statures were toppled in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv.
The UPA cannot simply be written off as Nazi-collaborators, though they did in fact collaborate with German forces (only to fight against them later, albeit as a "secondary" enemy).
They were also involved in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against Polish civilians in Volhynia and Galicia, killing up to 100,000 people. The UPA's alleged role in massacring Jews in Western Ukraine is historically more contentious.
At the very least, any laws which could curtail criticism of such a group at a time when Russian propaganda explicitly called the Ukrainian revolution a fascist coup shows a shocking lack of political astuteness on behalf of the Ukrainian parliament.
It does not help that the black and red UPA flag, as well as their slogan "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" were staples of the Euromaidan movement that prompted Yanukovich to flee the country. In reality, many democratically-minded young people in Ukraine merely view the UPA as 20th century freedom fighters, without themselves having any Nazi sympathies. That fact alone demonstrates why any laws attempting to curtail historical discourse are especially dangerous for a country in the midst of an identity crisis. That the government would act to whitewash history in the middle of a civil war fueled in part by these very controversial issues seems like madness.
Likewise, a similar February 2014 attempt to repeal the Yanukovich-era minority language law, which approved the use of so-called "regional languages" (primarily Russian) in courts, schools and other government institutions, showed a staggering lack of priorities and a grave misreading of the Russian propaganda onslaught to follow. For Ukrainian nationalists to confuse distancing themselves from the political entity known as the Russian Federation with purging themselves of a very real Russo-Ukrainian cultural tradition was a recipe for disaster, which has deftly been exploited by Russian forces which ignited the civil war in Ukraine's east.
Simply put, Ukraine does not risk becoming a failed state because it is lacking a coherent ethnolinguistic identity, and any attempts at forcing a sense of Ukrainian identity on the masses rather than letting it develop organically is counterproductive on every front. For Ukraine, the question of identity is deeply wrapped up in the necessity of political pluralism; a prerequisite for any institutionally solvent state. Laws such as those passed last week are not only an attack on freedom of speech, they are chipping away at a cornerstone of any viable Ukrainian state.
Amidst a backdrop where oligarchs control private armies and the government seems incapable of providing security in those parts of the country not ravaged by war, Ukrainian institutions appear to be in free fall. Meanwhile, every layer of society is cannibalizing itself as a means of survival as Ukraine has slipped to 142nd place (out of 175) on Transparency International's latest corruption index.
All the while, Russia is betting on (if not fueling) this national death spiral.
In March, Ukrainian Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko told Bloomberg that Russian President Vladimir Putin in fact hopes to turn Ukraine into a failed state, adding that war in the east was likely to reignite as a result.
Amid escalating violence in the region, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic recently threatened to take control of the strategically important coastal town of Mariupol if Ukrainian "aggression" did not cease, signaling that Jaresko's fears may in fact be justified.
Jaresko, meanwhile, warned creditors on Wednesday that a lack of willingness to restructure $40 billion in Ukrainian debt could signal untold peril down the road.
Ukrainians have already seen their living standards plummet over the past year, making the consequence of an actual default socially untenable.
"If, God forbid, there is another revolution" Jaresko said, "it won't be of the same kind [as 2014]."
With a wave of high-profile suicides and murders, a ceasefire drenched in gasoline, a government facing insolvency and a political class more capable of tackling Soviet ghosts than modern day robber barons, Jaresko's words may prove eerily prescient. And however the next revolution ends if it comes to pass, one thing is certain: modern Ukraine is unlikely to survive it.


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Biden's final message second-guessed by Democrats before election
November 7, 2022 by Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON – Joe Biden crisscrossed the stage for a half-hour before he delivered his gravest warning yet.
The president – his right hand holding a microphone, his left casually in his suit pocket – returned to the podium and paused.
"This is really deadly earnest, man," Biden told the Florida Memorial University crowd during a campaign rally last week in Miami. "Democracy is on the ballot this year. Along with your right to choose and the right to privacy."
Biden has spent the final days of an uphill midterm campaign for Democrats imploring that modern-day Republicans are uniquely dangerous – willing to destroy democracy to gain power, ban abortion nationally, cut Social Security and Medicare and, if they don't get their way on entitlements, crash the economy by forcing the government into default.
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In his closing argument to halt Republican momentum before Tuesday's election, Biden has painted a dark picture of a possible "mega MAGA Republican" Congress. "This ain't your father's Republican Party," he's stressed repeatedly, focusing less on his own accomplishments and more on the intentions of his opponents.
Yet there are serious doubts, including among Democrats, whether Biden's doomsday portrayal of Republicans has broken through as stubborn inflation and pocketbook issues weigh on voters. Some in the party say Democrats should have touched more on economic concerns earlier in the campaign and less about restoring abortion rights, which dominated Democratic ads for much of the race, in part on the advice of the "governing consulting class."
"That was a mistake," said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., arguing Democrats should compare Biden's efforts to bring manufacturing jobs home versus Republicans who want tax cuts for corporations. "I've been saying for months that we need to frame this election as an economic choice."
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To defy headwinds of 40-year high inflation and the historical trend of midterm losses for the party in the White House, Biden has tried to appeal to undecided voters by arguing "this is no ordinary year."
"So, I ask you to think long and hard about the moment we're in," Biden said in a primetime speech last week. "In a typical year, we're often not faced with questions of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put us at risk."
But there's an underlying challenge with Biden's depiction of a Republican takeover, according to Lynn Vavreck, professor of American Politics and Public Policy at UCLA: many voters remember previous periods of Republican power in Congress not being especially catastrophic.
"It's sort of like saying, 'Trust me, this time it'll be really different if they take over. The country will never be the same,'" Vavreck said. "It's a lot of hyperbole. And you're asking voters to believe something that the past suggests may not be true."
How Biden has tried to defy midterm gravity
Republicans are widely favored to gain control of at the House, according to most analysts, and have an increasingly stronger outlook to take the Senate, with races in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and a few other battlegrounds deciding control. Some Democrats have openly discussed fears of a "red wave" election that would deliver a party still dominated by Donald Trump sweeping victories.
Republican control of even one legislative body would be enough to block Biden's legislative agenda on taxes, abortion, voting reforms and other priorities. If Republicans take over both chambers, only Biden's veto pen would stand in the way of the GOP passing a host of conservative laws.
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Republican candidates have focused their attacks against Democrats on crime in cities, migrants at the southern border and, above all, inflation that's at 8.2% over last year – even as corporate profits hit a 70-year high. Robert Gibbs, who served as press secretary in the Obama White House, said the "here and now" of inflation has made Biden's warnings about a GOP takeover hard to stick.
"It's just tough to make the argument of 'if these guys get into power, here's the things they'll end up doing' versus, 'hey, bread was really expensive in Aisle 4,'" said Gibbs, speaking on the podcast hosted by former Obama advisor David Axelrod.
Tuesday's election is the first national election since the Jan.6 assault on the U.S. Capitol led by Trump supporters. It's also the first election since the Supreme Court's decision in June that struck down abortion rights.
"This election is not a referendum. It's a choice," Biden has said frequently in a push to make the race not about his popularity, with approval ratings in the low 40s, but instead Democrats' vision versus Trumpism.
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In a final gasp to blunt Republicans' polling edge on the economy, Biden has taken aim at House Republican leaders who have suggested they might use the debt ceiling as "leverage" to achieve their goals on Social Security and Medicare.
"Now they've come forward with a real ticking time bomb. This one is outrageous, " Biden said in Hallandale Beach, Florida. "Nothing will create more chaos and do more damage to the American economy than playing around with whether we pay our national bills."
Second-guessing begins
For much of the summer, Democrats outperformed expectations in midterm polling and in congressional special elections, a sign that women and suburban voters were motivated by restoring abortion rights.
But the dynamics appeared to shift about a month ago. A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll taken Oct. 19 to Oct. 24 found 37% of likely midterm voters ranked inflation as their top concern, compared with 18% who said abortion.
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Democratic ads haven't reflected that trend, however. Democratic candidates and the party's outside groups have spent a combined $424 million in advertising this election cycle focused on abortion, about eight times the $53 million spent on economic-themed ads, according to AdImpact, a media tracking firm.
Some Democrats are second-guessing that decision.
"We're getting crushed on narrative," California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said in an interview with CBS, arguing Democrats leaned too much into abortion rights, allowing Republicans to win the "messaging war." He said he worries about a red wave Tuesday. "You feel it," Newsom said.
Craig Varoga, a longtime Democratic strategist for congressional races, said, "If we have made any kind of mistake, it's the fact that we haven't talked about all of these assaults on American freedom." He pointed to Democrats' siloed messages on abortion, the economy, and threats to democracy. "We probably should have done a better job of pulling it all together."
Biden's speech on democracy at risk was widely viewed as a play to the Democratic base.
"Number one, he absolutely believes it. And number two, it's a motivator to get Democrats out to vote," said veteran Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.
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But some progressives questioned whether another speech on democracy – his second on the topic in two months – was the right move.
"If you're going to vote on democracy and the frailty of democracy, if you're going to vote on abortion, a lot of those people have made their decision," Faiz Shakir, an adviser to independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, said in an appearance on MSNBC. "The persuasion audience, the people who haven't decided, they are all in on economy."
Sidelined from most battlegrounds states
Biden is a full-contact campaigner, known for hugging supporters, telling stories about life in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and giving fiery speeches about the little guy.
But he's not been at the center of action this cycle.
"Hello, New Mexico," Biden said last week from a community in Albuquerque New Mexico, hardly ground zero for the midterm campaign despite having one competitive congressional race.
Saddled by low approval ratings, Biden has avoided most battleground Senates states, making no trips in the final weeks to Georgia, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona and New Hampshire or appearances with its Democratic Senate nominees. An exception is Pennsylvania, where Biden has roots and Senate nominee John Fetterman has needed help to turn out Black voters.
Biden and former President Barack Obama joined Fetterman for a rally Saturday in Philadelphia. But typically, it's just been Obama, alone, as Democrats' chief-stumper in the bulk of states that will decide Senate control.
Obama, speaking Wednesday in Phoenix, lambasted the Republican "cast of characters" running in Arizona.
"If you've got an election denier serving as your governor, as your senator, as your secretary of state, as your attorney general, then democracy, as we know it, may not survive in Arizona," Obama said.
Biden's 2024 planning underway
A Republican takeover of the House would significantly impede what the White House can pass legislatively for the next two years, perhaps forcing Biden to turn more to executive authority on climate, guns and other areas.
It could also open the door to investigations into the business dealings of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, which House Republicans have openly discussed, and build pressure from Trump-aligned House Republicans to impeach Joe Biden.
Democrats dread the thought.
"There will be no governing in the House if Republicans take over," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Chris told Politico. "I'm pretty apocalyptic about what the House will look like if Marjorie Taylor Green is in charge. It's an absolute nightmare if Republicans win."
A Republican takeover of the Senate and House would be widely interpreted as a repudiation of the Biden presidency, fueling more questions about whether Biden will seek reelection in 2024. Biden has said it's his "intention" to run but hasn't formally announced a bid.
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Behind the scenes, the president has started to prepare for a reelection campaign in meetings this fall with a small team of his most trusted aides, according to a Biden adviser. Preliminary work, which has explored a Trump rematch and other potential Republican nominees, has included outreach to veterans of Obama's and Bill Clinton's reelection campaigns.
"If we weren't engaged in planning in November of this year, we should be in the political malpractice hall of fame," Anita Dunn, one of Biden's closest advisers, said at a recent discussion hosted by Axios.
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It's unclear when Biden will make a decision on 2024, but Biden could face pressure from Democrats to announce his intentions quickly if Democrats lose Congress and Trump enters the race, as he's indicated he will.
Associates of Trump said they expect the former president to announce his candidacy shortly after Tuesday's Election Day.
An early announcement this month by Trump wouldn't affect Biden's timing on a 2024 decision, according to people in Biden's orbit.
Although a midterm loss for a second-year president would follow the historical norm, Biden's circumstances are different than his predecessors: Biden, already the oldest serving president, will turn 80 on Nov. 20. Some members of his own party have said he should serve only one term. And Biden himself has left the door open that he might pass on another run.
Still, those who know Biden insist Democratic losses Tuesday wouldn't influence his decision.
"Look, I've known him for almost 50 years. And he wanted to be president when he was young. It just took him a long time to get in (office)," said Shrum, a past consultant for Biden and senior adviser advisor for the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry. "Assuming he's healthy, I don't think he's going to walk away."
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Reach Joey Garrison on Twitter @joeygarrison.
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