Computers using Windows 10 OS are reportedly crashing and showing "the blue screen of death" (BSOD) after an update for a security product provided by the firm CrowdStrike.CrowdStrike! Are they joking, but it could be just incompetence. There is no evidence in a name, however in this case it is a bit funny.
Brody Nisbet, CrowdStrike's chief threat hunter, has offered a workaround to deal with what he called a "faulty channel file" related to the Falcon Sensor cybersecurity app.The suggestion was posted on X.com
Global tech outage grounds airlines, shuts down banks, hits the NHS and puts Sky News off air: Airports across the world are plunged into chaos after Microsoft crash freezes systemsThe incident gives an example of how delicate our digital infrastructure is.
A massive Microsoft outage has sparked chaos around the world - grounding flights and knocking hospitals, GP surgeries, train services, banks, stock exchanges and TV channels offline.
The technical fault has caused Windows computers to suddenly shut down, prompting departure boards to suddenly turn off at airports including Gatwick and Edinburgh on one of the busiest days for global aviation since Covid.
Britain's biggest train firm told passengers to expect delays due to 'widespread IT issues', Ryanair and Wizz Air are warning of 'disruption', and NHS staff have described logging on to find most of the non-clinical systems are down.
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"Until the world saw the truth ... [against] the 'misinformation' ... the fiction of Mr. Biden's competence ... suggests they [the Democrats] evidently thought they could get away with promoting it. [Yet] by perpetuating that fiction they were also revealing their contempt for the voters and for democracy itself".Baker continues:
"Biden succeeded because he made toeing the party line his life's work. Like all politicians whose egos dwarf their talents, he ascended the greasy pole by slavishly following his party wherever it led ... Finally — in the ultimate act of partisan servility, he became Barack Obama's vice president, the summit of achievement for those incapable, yet loyal: the apex position for the consummate 'yes man'".If so, then who actually has been 'pulling America's strings' these past years?
"But then, just as he was ready to drift into a comfortable and well-deserved obscurity, his party needed a front man ... They sought a loyal and reliable figurehead, a flag of convenience, under which they could sail the progressive vessel into the deepest reaches of American life — on a mission to advance statism, climate extremism and self-lacerating wokery. There was no more loyal and convenient vehicle than Joe".
"You [the Democratic machine] don't get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years about how this man was both brilliantly competent at the job and a healing force for national unity - and now tell us, when your deception is uncovered, that it's 'bedtime for Bonzo' - thanks for your service, and let's move on", Baker warns.Something significant has snapped within 'the system'. It is always tempting to situate such events in 'immediate time', but even Baker seems to allude to a longer cycle of gaslighting and deception - one that only now has suddenly burst into open view.
"[Now] it is going horribly wrong. Much of his party has no use for him anymore ... in a remarkably cynical act of bait-and-switch, [they are trying to] swap him out for someone more useful to their cause. Part of me thinks they shouldn't be allowed to get away with it. I find myself in the odd position of wanting to root for poor mumbling Joe ... It's tempting to say to the Democratic machine frantically mobilizing against him: You don't get to do this. You don't get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years".
Comment: The Houthi's spokesperson has commented: Further statements from the Houthis (full text below):
Some analysts have speculated that, what with Israel announcing its intentions to launch an all out war on Hezbollah in Lebanon, that some of the escalation that we're seeing from Yemen, and Hezbollah, may be to take advantage of Israel's current weaknesses, and possibly to incite Israel into acting sooner than it should.
UPDATE: Reports are coming in that Hezbollah have launched strikes of their own:
Allegedly, Yemen has given the following warning:
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This also comes just over a week after: Western Yemen comes under heavy attack by US-British warplanesMeanwhile, amidst its efforts to foment a world war, Israel continues its genocide: