Ukrainian Arrested and Charged with Ransomware Attack on Kaseya | OPA | Department of Justice

An indictment unsealed today charges Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 22, a Ukrainian national, with conducting ransomware attacks against multiple victims, including the July 2021 attack against Kaseya, a multi-national information technology software company.

The department also announced today the seizure of $6.1 million in funds traceable to alleged ransom payments received by Yevgeniy Polyanin, 28, a Russian national, who is also charged with conducting Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware attacks against multiple victims, including businesses and government entities in Texas on or about Aug. 16, 2019.

According to the indictments, Vasinskyi and Polyanin accessed the internal computer networks of several victim companies and deployed Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware to encrypt the data on the computers of victim companies.

Source: Ukrainian Arrested and Charged with Ransomware Attack on Kaseya | OPA | Department of Justice

Texas teens defend Colleyville principal James Whitfield on critical race theory accusations – Washington Post

They were defending James Whitfield, the first Black principal ever to lead Colleyville Heritage High. His treatment by White district officials was the reason the teens had walked out of class. It was why they would stay outside for five hours in 93-degree heat that Thursday. It was why they would leave class again the next day to spend another five hours marching around campus chanting, “No more silence! No more lies! We will not be victimized!”

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Colleyville Heritage High principal James Whitfield said he believes he is being targeted for his race and for his marriage to a White woman. (Courtesy of James Whitfield)

Whitfield’s job was in danger. Over the summer, White adults had accused the principal of embracing critical race theory, a decades-old academic framework that argues racism in America is systemic. Critical race theory has become a target for conservatives around the country. Texas passed two controversial laws this year meant to ban any mention of it from public school classrooms.

Source: Texas teens defend Colleyville principal James Whitfield on critical race theory accusations – Washington Post

Danish Pumpkin Spice

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What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? The Food Whisperer: Danish Pumpkin Spice! The mere mention of pumpkin spice sends people into a tizzy. It could be simply because it signifies the turning of a new season and screams, “limited time only!”. The crisp Autumn leaves, smell of woodsmoke, and anticipation of holidays looming on the horizon resurrect desires of nostalgia. We can’t help it. Longings of yesteryear where childhood memories and romantic flashbacks are pause for distraction. Family traditions and customs return to life. This is us.

DANISH PUMPKIN SPICE

Ingredients:

2 tubes crescent rolls (8 count each)

3/4 cup pumpkin purée

1/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon allspice

1 egg, room temperature

1/3 cup pecans, chopped

2 ounces Neufchâtel cheese, room temperature

1/3 cup powdered sugar

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon chestnut praline syrup

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°. Line a baking sheet with a silicone…

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U.S. Covid Deaths Get Even Redder – The New York Times

In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was the fifth consecutive month that the percentage gap between the death rates in Trump counties and Biden counties widened.

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Data unavailable for Alaska and Washington, D.C.
Credit…Source: New York Times database, Edison Research

Some conservative writers have tried to claim that the gap may stem from regional differences in weather or age, but those arguments fall apart under scrutiny. (If weather or age were a major reason, the pattern would have begun to appear last year.) The true explanation is straightforward: The vaccines are remarkably effective at preventing severe Covid, and almost 40 percent of Republican adults remain unvaccinated, compared with about 10 percent of Democratic adults.

COP-26: ¡Los derechos a la tierra de los indígenas deben ser respetados ahora para ayudar a mitigar el cambio climático! 

Barbara Crane Navarro

Txai Suruí

«Los pueblos indígenas están a la vanguardia de la emergencia climática y nosotros debemos estar en el centro de las decisiones que se toman aquí. Tenemos ideas para retrasar el fin del mundo. »

  • Txai Suruí, 24, activista indígena brasileña

Txai Suruí agregó que los calendarios anunciados en la mesa de negociaciones de la COP-26 por funcionarios del gobierno para reducir las emisiones de carbono y recortar el uso de combustibles fósiles eran tremendamente inadecuados.

«Vamos a frenar la emisión de promesas falsas e irresponsables, acabaremos con la contaminación de las promesas vacías y lucharemos por un futuro y un presente vivibles.

No es 2030 o 2050», dijo,«es ahora. »

Petróleo del sitio de perforación de Chevron contaminando ríos en tierras indígenas en Ecuador

La selva amazónica es la selva tropical más grande de la Tierra y es esencial para regular el clima del mundo.

La Articulación de…

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COP26 headlines: 7/11/21 — DRILL OR DROP?

Barbara Crane Navarro

A counter conference started in Glasgow today to gave a voice to indigenous peoples and the most marginalised by climate change. There were also marches and demonstrations on what was planned as a rest day for COP26. Friends of the Earth Scotland protest against a new proposed oil field off Shetland.Photo: Friends of the Earth[…]

COP26 headlines: 7/11/21 — DRILL OR DROP?

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