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Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
TikTok made a last-ditch effort in the Supreme Court aimed at stopping the app’s ban that was set to take effect in a few days – but the platform’s arguments may have ‘failed’. Most justices appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban […]
Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
Culture Travel Greece’s move against mass tourism and the increasing flow of cruise ships that dock at its shores will be finalized with the imposition of a €20 tax, which will initially apply only to the two islands, Mykonos and Santorini. The plan to impose the tax […]
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TikTok, Reddit and Imgur are to be investigated by the UK’s data protection watchdog over how they use the personal information of teenage users. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it wants to look into how video-sharing app TikTok uses information from users aged 13 […]
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Skype – once the dominant video calling service – has announced that it will shut down for good. The service boasted more than 300 million users at its peak, but the most recent figures Microsoft shared were in 2023, when it said it had more […]
Technology
The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into tech giant Google. The company is being investigated for whether it has too much power in online search. Google accounts for 90% of online searches in the UK, and the Competition and Markets Authority is looking […]
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TikTok made a last-ditch effort in the Supreme Court aimed at stopping the app’s ban that was set to take effect in a few days – but the platform’s arguments may have ‘failed’. Most justices appeared inclined to uphold a federal law that would ban […]
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Liverpool’s latest injury came as a result of a collision with Jurgen Klopp off the touchline. Liverpool are drawing 1-1 against Arsenal at Anfield, with Mohamed Salah scoring for the Reds and Gabriel Magalhaes for the Gunners. But Liverpool were forced to make a substitution […]
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The big Apple company has released a new iPhone update (iOS 17.2.1), to fix “important bugs” and prevent battery drain. When the previous update (iOS 17.2) was released with the Journal app earlier this month, the masses quickly took to social media. Users were frustrated […]
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The death of warlord Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash was an assassination attempt organized by Nikolai Patrushev, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports The Wall Street Journal. Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer told The Journal that […]
PoliticsThe death of warlord Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash was an assassination attempt organized by Nikolai Patrushev, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer told The Journal that the death of the Wagner Group boss in August was instigated and approved by the 72-year-old.
Prigozhin, who led a short-lived uprising against Russia’s Defense Ministry this year, died after his business jet crashed in a fiery crash outside Moscow. At the time, Putin suggested that a hand grenade had exploded on the plane.
In reality, the former Russian intelligence officer told Gazeta, Patrushev ordered his aide in August to design an operation that would kill Prigozhin.
A small bomb was planted under the plane’s wing during a delay when security inspectors were looking at the plane, Western intelligence officials told The Journal.
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told Reuters he would not comment on the story, adding: “Recently, unfortunately, The Wall Street Journal has been very fond of producing pulp fiction.”
Patrushev, like Putin, was a spy for the KGB intelligence agency. He later became head of its successor, the FSB. He is now secretary of Russia’s Security Council and is seen by some as a fallback option for Putin should anything happen to the president.
The paper described Patrushev as “Putin’s oldest ally and confidant,” describing him as loyal to Putin and linked to killing those who threatened Putin’s power.
Patrushev, the report says, mostly goes unnoticed during public events and is often a figure in the background. But it gives great power.
He had been telling Putin since the summer of 2022 that Prigozhin was a threat because the Wagner Group gave him too much political and military power, the report said.
Putin ignored those warnings until Prigozhin called Putin in October 2022 to complain about a lack of sufficient equipment, the former Russian intelligence officer said.
Prigozhin’s relationship with Putin and the Russian military soured: In June, Russia’s Defense Ministry said fighters in groups like Wagner had to sign official army contracts, angering Prigozhin.
In its rebellion, the Wagner Group took over a Russian military headquarters in the city of Rostov-on-Don and began marching towards Moscow, shooting down Russian planes and helicopters.
The uprising ended before it reached Moscow, with a peace deal that included Prigozhin leaving Russia for its neighbor Belarus, a Russian ally.
Patrushev came up with that deal, which also allowed his men to join him or fight in the Russian military, The Journal reported.
Prigozhin’s death was widely seen as suspicious, as it occurred two months after Prigozhin and the Wagner Group organized his rebellion. But Russia denied any involvement. The Journal report is the first to say that Patrushev was behind Prigozhin’s death.
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In the final of the World Cup for clubs that was played this evening in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Manchester City defeated the Brazilians of Fluminense with a poker of goals. Pep Guardiola’s men scored four times, opening the scoring after just 40 seconds, with Julian […]
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After the decision of the European Court of Justice, Superliga has come back to life. A22, the company behind the new football competition, says it will be “an open system with promotions and relegation”. “It will be played in two stages: the championship and the […]
SportsAfter the decision of the European Court of Justice, Superliga has come back to life.
A22, the company behind the new football competition, says it will be “an open system with promotions and relegation”.
“It will be played in two stages: the championship and the final stage. Our proposition is based on sporting merit and ensures circulation between different leagues. The matches will be played in the middle of the week and the Superliga will be perfectly integrated with the national championships”, says the video published on the official website of A22.
The Superliga will have 64 teams, divided into three leagues: Star, Golden and Blue. In the first and second leagues, Star and Golden, there will be 16 clubs divided into two groups of 8 teams each; in the last one, Blue, there will be four groups with eight teams, with a total of 32 clubs.
The first part of the Superliga will take place from September to April, with the return matches between teams from the same league: so 14 matches for each team. Next will be the final stages of the three leagues, which will be held separately, starting with the quarterfinals: the best four of both groups of the Star League and the best four of the Golden League qualify. In the end, the top two from each Blue League group qualify.
The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played in a round-robin format, while the final will be a singles match, played on a neutral court.
Thus, three champions will be announced: the champions of the Star League, the Golden League and the Blue League. The bottom two of the Stars League will be relegated to the Golden League and the top two of the Golden League will be promoted to the Stars League. The same applies to relegation and relegation from these two leagues.
Each year, 20 of the 32 Blue League teams will leave the Super League and be replaced by twenty teams, selected based on the results obtained in the national championships.
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The European Court of Justice has held on Thursday, December 21, starting at 9:30, the court session for the lawsuit brought by the super league regarding the rule of UEFA and FIFA in the world of football in violation of the laws. The Court of […]
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In the world of European football, there are high expectations about what will be the decision of the European Court of Justice regarding the Super League issue. Today, this will be called to make a decision on the existence or not of the competition in […]
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Former Greek economy minister Yanis Varoufakis thinks capitalization is in decline and claims it is already dead. According to Varoufakis, we have returned to feudalism. Not the kind of feudalism left behind by the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the middle class, but a […]
LifeStyle PoliticsFormer Greek economy minister Yanis Varoufakis thinks capitalization is in decline and claims it is already dead. According to Varoufakis, we have returned to feudalism. Not the kind of feudalism left behind by the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the middle class, but a new form: “techno-feudalism”.
Feudalism is a system characterized by a hierarchical structure of land ownership and obligations, where lords granted land to vassals in exchange for military service and other duties.
According to him, now the masters are the owners of the big technology, and the users are the vassals. Vassals surrender their data in exchange for their service.
This is the death of capitalism that Varoufakis describes in his new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
“My assessment, and this is a controversial hypothesis, is that capitalism has already ended,” Varoufakis asserts.
Varoufakis points to online retail giant Amazon as an example of a gentleman: he says it may look like a market, but it functions more like “a manor belonging to a man whose accumulation of wealth is based on a form of lease”.
He adds: “Every time you buy something on Amazon, 30-40% of the price goes to Mr. (Jeff) Bezos, not the market.”
Greece’s former Economy Minister is not optimistic about ‘techno-feudalism’. He believes it won’t end well.
“The exponential concentration of income in the hands of people who produce nothing but the right and opportunity to extract income from others, while the world is headed for disaster. Our technologies are a force for good and evil. And if the evil prevails, it’s our fault,” says Varoufakis, who maintains that technology is only a tool.
He sees two solutions and they are not technological, but sociopolitical. One is to end free services to break the tyranny of big tech.
“So if you’re an app, you get paid directly by the person using the app, not indirectly through advertising.”
The second is changing corporate law to make companies more democratic. He envisions a scenario where every employee at a company, especially large ones, would have a share that cannot be traded, similar to a library card given to a student. This share would not represent equality in terms of money, but would give each employee a vote in company decisions. The idea is that those who contribute significantly to the company’s success can receive more financial rewards.
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On October 18, 2023, Brazil faced Uruguay for the World Cup qualifiers and just before the end of the first half came the hard blow for Neymar, which also marked the end of the season for the Al-Hilal star. Neymar found himself lying screaming on […]
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Our mouth looks like a warm, moist cave full of carbon dioxide and steam. The claim that each of us swallows an average of eight spiders in our sleep during the year is so well-established that no one questions whether it is true. However, the […]
LifeStyleOur mouth looks like a warm, moist cave full of carbon dioxide and steam.
The claim that each of us swallows an average of eight spiders in our sleep during the year is so well-established that no one questions whether it is true.
However, the reality is quite different, we do not swallow spiders at all.
There are several reasons why spiders do not disturb our sleep.
First of all, we are extremely large compared to them, so they see us as just part of the landscape.
Equally important, a spider wandering around a room perceives a sleeping person as an absolutely terrifying phenomenon, because usually when we sleep we make a lot of noise when we breathe.
These sounds create vibrations that spiders are extremely sensitive to. As a result, they will try in every way to avoid us.
While you think of the horrifying image of a spider entering your mouth, consider that for a spider to end up in our mouths, some almost unbelievable things would have to happen. The chances of a spider attacking or entering your mouth, even once, are almost zero.
There are thousands of different species of spiders and very few live in our homes. The ones that weave a web in our walls are mostly small and completely harmless. Our open, wet mouths are not attractive to spiders at all. They need oxygen too, so our open mouth would seem to them like a warm, humid cave full of carbon dioxide and steam.
If this ever happens, take comfort in the knowledge that the ingested spider will pass into stomach acid and die almost immediately, with no consequences for us. In fact, we would get a little more protein,” says Bill Scheer, professor emeritus of biology and past president of the Arachnological Society of America.
Experts admit that it is possible for a spider to enter our mouth while we sleep, but the chances are so small as to be negligible. If a spider were to climb onto your face while you were sleeping, the shock of eight tiny legs would surely wake us up very quickly.
They live in nets in quiet corners or inhabit areas where people spend little time, such as basements and attics. Unless spiders in your home are a nuisance or you suffer from severe arachnophobia, entomologists recommend leaving them alone.
Spiders are very useful because they eat smaller pests that can make our lives boring.
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