Labour admits super-rich are propping it up as member numbers collapse again | SKWAWKBOX

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is not popular. He may have won an election but he did it with fewer votes than his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn won in either 2017 or 2019, because he was lucky enough to be challenging a deeply unpopular government. And now we see that he has presided over a vertiginous drop in […]

Labour admits super-rich are propping it up as member numbers collapse again | SKWAWKBOX

Ukraine’s attack on Moscow risks wider war

Yesterday Moscow was bombarded with nearly a dozen drones – the biggest, although not the first, Ukrainian attack on Russia’s capital city.  These excerpts from an Axios news service report tell the story. Driving the news: The drone attack on Moscow was part of a broader series of overnight strikes on Russian soil. Russian air […]

Ukraine’s attack on Moscow risks wider war

Supremo de Venezuela convalida la reelección de Nicolás Maduro tras peritaje electoral

El fallo también ordena la publicación de los resultados definitivos del comicio en la Gaceta Electoral. El Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ) de Venezuela convalidó este jueves los resultados de los comicios presidenciales emitidos por el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE), tras las votaciones del pasado 28 de julio.

Supremo de Venezuela convalida la reelección de Nicolás Maduro tras peritaje electoral

Whoever is (S)Elected as the Next U.S. President, Jeffrey Epstein will be the Real Winner

Comments by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News With political campaigns in full swing now as the Democrats are currently holding their convention in Chicago, it is important to remember that national politics in the United States is a closely scripted arm of the entertainment industry, and has almost no bearing on real life, […]

Whoever is (S)Elected as the Next U.S. President, Jeffrey Epstein will be the Real Winner

Berlin’s Brave New World: Would Permit Secret Police Break-Ins

Didi Rankovic In Germany, the current authorities seem willing to dramatically depart from what have until now been Western democratic traditions, where law enforcement must have a crime to investigate, and a warrant to do so before it engages in searches and surveillance. However, the government in Berlin plans to allow the Federal Criminal Police […]

Berlin’s Brave New World: Would Permit Secret Police Break-Ins

‘Over 1,000 children and patients have died due to Israel’s continuing closure of Rafah crossing’

from thefreeonline on August 22, 2024 AlethoNews. by Palestinian Information Center ( thefree now on telegram //t.me/thefreeonline )

..Rafah crossing, Gazans’ last hope to escape the war…

GAZA – Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) has said that the Israeli occupation army’s closure of the Rafah border crossing over the past 100 days has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 children, patients and wounded civilians, warning that the humanitarian disaster in the war-ravaged coastal enclave has deepened.

Criminal Israeli Rafah massacre toll rises: 70 bodies found in Rafah

“The occupation army continues to close the Rafah border crossing between Palestine and Egypt for the 100th day running after burning and bulldozing it and putting it out of service,” GMO said in a statement on Wednesday.

Video shows Israeli destruction of Gaza’s Rafah crossing A video released by an Israeli journalist shows Gaza’s Rafah crossing burnt and destroyed, just over a month since Israel captured it. The crossing had been a vital route for aid. 21 Jun 2024 …

“This Israeli closure of the crossing continues to take place as the humanitarian tragedy has deepened at all levels and affected all aspects of life,” GMO added.

Israel Cuts Off Rafah Refugee Camp

GMO condemned the ongoing closure of the crossing as a “crime” and an “obvious legal violation of the international law, the international humanitarian law and all international conventions.”

GMO accused the Israeli occupation of preventing the entry of all sorts of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, including vital medical needs, which seriously worsened the health and humanitarian situation.

Israeli airstrikes in Rafah kill 44 Palestinians.. Palestinians inspect a car hit by an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 10, 2024. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

GMO also accused the Israeli occupation of seeking to destroy Gaza’s health system in its entirety and using the starvation policy as a tool for political pressure.

Tycoon Mike Lynch confirmed dead as ‘Act of God’ Tornado sinks his $30 million Yacht in Sicily

thefreeonline on 22nd Aug 2024 by Telegraph/ HomeNews .. .. (on telegram: t.me/thefreeonline )

‘British Bill Gates’ and Morgan Stanley chairman missing after yacht sinking

Former Autonomy Corp CEO, Mike Lynch won trial over $11BN “Scam” but a Waterspout killed him, and destroyed his £30 million luxury superyacht

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer have been found dead insidea their superyacht thatsank off the coast of Sicily on Monday, according to media report

The Guardian reported, citing the head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, that Bloomer, Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and lawyer Chris Morvillo are among the six people still unaccounted for as of late Monday. 

The yacht they were traveling on, a British-flagged, 56-meter sailboat called the ‘Bayesian’, was carrying a total of 22 people – 12 crew members and ten passengers – at the time of the incident and was anchored off the port of Porticello. 

photo of tornado hitting super yacht taken from harbour

BILLIONAIRE LYNCH

Lynch, 59, made his name as the founder and longtime leader of Autonomy, a search engine and software company that helped companies manage information. Hewlett-Packard bought Autonomy for $11 billion in 2011

UK Tech Mogul Lynch Beats HP Fraud Case in Stunning US Loss – Yahoo Finance on 7, 2024(Bloomberg) — In a staggering loss for US prosecutors, a jury found UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch not guilty of all criminal charges that he pulled off Silicon Valley’s biggest-ever fraud scam 13 years ago. In the months leading up to the 11bn deal the sale to HP Autonomy was valued at at $46 billion but a year later it was worth just 2.2bn

According to the Italian Coast Guard, the vessel was hit by a waterspout – a type of tornado that forms over water — in the early hours of Monday morning. So far, one man, understood to be the ship’s chef, has been confirmed dead.

Fifteen people have been rescued, including Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares, who owns the yacht, and a one-year-old girl who was saved by her mother.  

Eight of those rescued, including the child, have been transferred to hospitals and are in stable condition, according to The Guardian. Domenico Cipolla, the chief physician at one of the hospitals, told the outlet that most of the survivors had said they worked for Lynch. 

“They are deeply traumatized. As time passes, they realize more and more that this morning they lost many friends,” Cipolla said. 

The Coast Guard has reported that the missing include British, American and Canadian nationals. New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also confirmed that two of its nationals were on board the yacht, with one confirmed to have survived..

Lynch, a multimillionaire known for co-founding the software development company Autonomy in 1996, has occasionally been described as the ‘British Bill Gates.’ However, throughout most of the past decade, the 59-year-old has been caught up in court battles over fraud allegations related to the sale of his firm to US tech company Hewlett-Packard. In June, he was acquitted by a jury in San Francisco after spending more than a year living under house arrest. 

Coincidently, mere hours after news of the accident in Sicily, it was reported that Lynch’s co-defendant in the trial and former vice president of finance at Autonomy, Stephen Chamberlain, was killed after being fatally struck by a car while jogging in the county of Cambridgeshire, UK, on Saturday.