Yeah…. that part where covid can't live above 80F?
How about that bit where kids are less likely to get this phantom bug (you have to get tested to know you have it?)
Oh, and the 98% Recovery Rate? (or was it 99%?)
Who is using crypto?
World Bank Issues New Update on the Palestinian Economy
WASHINGTON, May 23, 2024 – The World Bank has issued its latest update on The Impact of the Conflict in the Middle East on the Palestinian Economy. The report draws on the latest available data and analysis to assess the ongoing impact of the conflict to the Palestinian economy.
It finds that the fiscal situation of the Palestinian Authority has dramatically worsened in the last three months, significantly raising the risk of a fiscal collapse. Revenue streams have largely dried up due to the drastic reduction in clearance revenue transfers payable to the Palestinian Authority and a massive drop in economic activity. The rapidly widening gap between the amount of revenues coming in, and the amount needed to finance essential public expenditure, is driving a fiscal crisis.
As of the end of 2023, this financing gap reached US$682 million. This gap is projected to double within the coming months, reaching up to US$1.2 billion. Increased foreign assistance and the accumulation of further arrears to public employees and suppliers are the only available financing options for the Palestinian Authority.
The overall poverty rate of Palestinians stood at 32.8% in mid-2023. Wide differences are found between the West Bank and Gaza. In Gaza, the poverty rate stood at close to 64%. In the West Bank, it was around 12%. Compared to the last poverty analysis conducted in 2017, poverty in the Palestinian territories had increased by 3.7 percentage points. At present, nearly every Gazan lives in poverty.
The research also looked at GDP per capita. In 2023 it stood at $3,360, a 12% drop from 2022. For Gaza alone, there was a 28% drop. The per capita income in Gaza was about a fifth of that in the West Bank. In 2023 Gaza’s per capita real income was the lowest ever recorded.
More:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/05/23/world-bank-issues-new-update-on-the-palestinian-economy
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Canada knows
Austal USA Pleads Guilty to Accounting Fraud, Agrees to Pay $24 Million Settlement
Mike Schuler August 27, 2024
Austal USA, a Mobile, Alabama-based shipbuilder for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud and obstruction of a federal audit.
The company has agreed to pay $24 million to resolve a Justice Department investigation into an accounting fraud scheme and efforts to obstruct the Defense Contract Audit Agency during a financial capability audit.
Austal USA is a subsidiary of Austal Limited, an Australian-based global shipbuilder and defence prime contractor.
The scheme, which ran from 2013 to 2016, involved artificially suppressing an accounting metric known as “estimate at completion” (EAC) for multiple Littoral Combat Ships being built for the U.S. Navy. The manipulation falsely overstated Austal USA’s profitability and Austal Limited’s earnings in public financial statements.
“Austal USA, a shipbuilder for the U.S. military, engaged in a years-long scheme to illegally inflate its profits on ships the company was building for the U.S. Navy, reporting false financial results to investors, lenders, and its auditors,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri.
Under the plea agreement, Austal USA will pay a $24 million criminal fine and up to $24 million in restitution to Austal Limited shareholders. The company will also retain an independent compliance monitor for three years and serve three years of probation.
In a related development, three former Austal USA executives were indicted on March 30, 2023, on charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud affecting a financial institution. They are currently awaiting trial.
The case is being investigated by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, with assistance from international authorities and the Defense Contract Audit Agency’s Office of Investigative Support.
https://gcaptain.com/austal-usa-pleads-guilty-to-accounting-fraud-agrees-to-pay-24-million-settlement/
Ground Control to Captain Loqueesha, I have my helmet on
FAA hiring workers with ‘severe intellectual’ disabilities
January 19, 2024 Timothy Frudd
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is receiving backlash after a new report highlighted the government organization’s “National Outreach Program for Diversity and Inclusion,” which is a hiring program designed to push the recruitment of individuals with “severe intellectual” disabilities, “psychiatric” disabilities and other disabilities.
Fox News reported on the FAA’s “Diversity and Inclusion” hiring initiative earlier this week; however, the outlet noted that the initiative has been active for a considerable length of time, as it was last updated on March 23, 2022.
The FAA’s website notes that individuals with “targeted or ‘severe’ disabilities” are currently under-represented in the federal government’s workforce.
“Targeted disabilities are those disabilities that the Federal government, as a matter of policy, has identified for special emphasis in recruitment and hiring,” the FAA’s website states. “They include hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism.”
The Cleveland Clinic defines a severe intellectual as a disability that causes an individual to “use single words, phrases and/or gestures to communicate.” The Cleveland Clinic’s definition adds, “People with severe intellectual disability have an average mental age of between 3 and 6 years.”
According to Fox News, the FAA is responsible for the employment of approximately 45,000 in the aviation industry and is supervised by President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation, which is currently directed by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Rep. Jeff Van Drews (R-N.J.), who is a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told Fox News, “All I ask is that the FAA hire individuals based on who is most qualified for the position and who will best protect our airspace, ensuring that we are all safe. That is the job of the FAA; it is not their job to be politically correct.”
In addition to lawmakers questioning the FAA’s diversity hiring initiative, social media users, including Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, have publicly criticized the FAA over the past week.
“Do you want to fly in an airplane where they prioritized DEI hiring over your safety?” Musk tweeted. “That is actually happening.”
When approached by Fox News regarding the controversial diversity initiative, the FAA explained that it “seeks qualified candidates from as many sources as possible.” The agency also claimed that all of its employees are required to meet “rigorous qualifications.”
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/01/faa-hiring-workers-with-severe-intellectual-disabilities/
Way too early for the nightly religious "arguments"