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| Internet outage takes down Amazon, Reddit, Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 07:36 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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Internet outage takes down Amazon, Reddit, Financial Times, Guardian, New York Times and more websites
JUNE 8 — Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe this morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites.
Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” according to its website.
Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.
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| MCO is the result of failure, not success, says ex-deputy minister |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 03:38 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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PETALING JAYA: The current movement control order (MCO) cannot be deemed a success because its mere existence is a product of the government’s failures, a former deputy health minister has said.
Dr Lee Boon Chye said the need for repeated nationwide MCOs during the Covid-19 pandemic reveals the shortcomings of public health measures, namely poor contact tracing, a lack of mass testing and inefficient isolation of cases.
“An MCO is the last resort when more targeted public health measures fail. It is the result of failure and not success,” he told FMT today.
He was responding to comments from Bersatu information chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan, who said yesterday that the recent decline in daily Covid-19 case numbers and the infectivity rate falling below 1.0 showed the effectiveness of the lockdown.
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| Vaccine on demand? No, not so soon |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 12:40 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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PETALING JAYA: With Covid-19 cases soaring last week, state governments and the private sector had no wish to wait for the slow federal government wagon and were in a rush to procure vaccines on their own.
But it’s easier said than done. They are not likely to get any vaccines any time soon.
Firstly, there is no guarantee that state governments or the private sector can get the supply when even the federal government is waiting for stock that it ordered a long time ago.
Even assuming that someone manages to strike a deal to get it in, preparing and submitting a dossier, getting it evaluated by the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) and approved by the Drug Control Authority (DCA), and then placing orders may take at least seven months, said an industry source.
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| Deutsche Bank warns of global ‘time bomb’ coming due to rising inflation |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 12:22 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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- In an out-of-consensus forecast, Deutsche Bank is warning of a potential crisis coming from inflation.
- “The effects could be devastating, particularly for the most vulnerable in society,” the firm’s economists said.
- Most on Wall Street and at the Fed see inflation is a temporary problem that will ebb as special factors fade away.
Inflation may look like a problem that will go away, but is more likely to persist and lead to a crisis in the years ahead, according to a warning from Deutsche Bank economists.
In a forecast that is well outside the consensus from policymakers and Wall Street, Deutsche issued a dire warning that focusing on stimulus while dismissing inflation fears will prove to be a mistake if not in the near term then in 2023 and beyond.
The analysis especially points the finger at the Federal Reserve and its new framework in which it will tolerate higher inflation for the sake of a full and inclusive recovery. The firm contends that the Fed’s intention not to tighten policy until inflation shows a sustained rise will have dire impacts.
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| Muslim family in Canada killed in 'premeditated' truck attack |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 10:58 AM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry
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Four members of a Muslim family were killed in a "premeditated" vehicle attack on Sunday, Canadian police say.
The attack took place in the city of London, Ontario province. A boy aged nine, the family's only survivor, is in hospital with serious injuries.
A 20-year-old Canadian man has been charged with four counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
The attack was the worst against Canadian Muslims since six people were killed in a Quebec City mosque in 2017.
"It is believed that these victims were targeted because they were Muslim," Det Supt Paul Waight told a news conference on Monday.
Police are weighing possible terrorism charges, he said, adding that it is believed to be a hate crime.
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| Mother’s last words: Take care of your siblings |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 10:41 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic
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PORT DICKSON: Muhammad Haidir Rodzi remembers his mother’s message clearly, that he should look after his four younger siblings, before being admitted to the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) due to Covid-19.
Haidir, 23, said it never crossed his mind that the message via a video call was his mother’s last words to him – to take over the responsibility of looking after his siblings – after both his parents succumbed to the virus, within a week of each other.
It was devastating for the siblings when their father, Rodzi Tahar, 55, died at the Tampin Hospital on May 31, their mother, Nazita Idris, 45, at the Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital six days later.
“We are completely heartbroken but we accept that this is the will of Allah. The saddest thing was that we could not pay our last respects to our parents, to touch and kiss them for the last time, but our prayers are always with them,” he told Bernama.
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| Obama criticizes Republicans for embracing 2020 falsehoods |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 09:56 AM - Forum: Politics
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(CNN)Former President Barack Obama said Republicans have been "cowed into accepting" a series of positions that "would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago," telling CNN's Anderson Cooper he is worried about the state of democracy in the United States in an exclusive interview that aired Monday.
Obama, in an interview that comes after his latest memoir, "A Promised Land," was published in late 2020, said he never thought some of the "dark spirits" that began rising within the Republican Party during his tenure would get this dark and reach the epicenter of the party.
"We have to worry," Obama said, "when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago."
The clearest example of this, Obama said, was the January 6 insurrection and how there are now "large portions of an elected Congress going along with the falsehood that there were problems with the election." The insurrection at the US Capitol by Trump supporters came on the same day that 147 Republican lawmakers voted not to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory in key states. The falsehood that the 2020 presidential election was stolen has been pushed by former President Donald Trump himself, who has since cheered on baseless Republican audits of elections.
Asked by Cooper about Republicans leaders briefly going against Trump following the insurrection, Obama said, "And then poof, suddenly everybody was back in line."
"Now, the reason for that is because the base believed it and the base believed it because this had been told to them not just by the President, but by the media that they watch," Obama said. He later added: "My hope is that the tides will turn. But that does require each of us to understand that this experiment in democracy is not self-executing. It doesn't happen just automatically."
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| Rulers to meet over Covid-19 crisis, says report |
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Posted by: superadmin - 06-08-2021, 09:26 AM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: The Malay Rulers are to meet in an emergency session next week to discuss the Covid-19 crisis, according to a Singapore newspaper report.
The Straits Times said the meeting will be held on June 16 after the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has had discussions with political leaders.
Barisan Nasional leaders told FMT they were unaware of any such audience with the King, but an aide to PKR president and opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was quoted by the Straits Times as saying: “Things are very fluid and it’s best to wait until Wednesday”.
The Singapore report quoted a source close to a royal family as saying the meeting was not a session of the Rulers’ Conference but “a special emergency meeting”. It would discuss the worsening Covid-19 situation, the slow roll-out of the vaccination programme and calls for the state of emergency to end and for Parliament to reconvene.
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