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Masking tape or gum Global effects of Twitter's errors

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 Twitter is a powerful tool for spreading messages quickly, effectively, and directly. This is true for fire departments, governments, corporations, school districts, local utilities, and grassroots organisations all around the world. In a shocking whistleblower revelation, Twitter's former head of security claims that the social media firm has long been carelessly neglectful in protecting its users' privacy and cybersecurity. While troubling for anybody using Twitter, the disclosures may be especially troubling for people who use it to communicate with constituents, disseminate information in times of crisis, and political dissidents and activists targeted by hackers or their own governments. The Internet Freedom Foundation, an Indian nonprofit that promotes digital rights, has a policy director named Prateek Waghre. "We tend to view these companies as large, well-resourced organizations that know what they're doing, but you realize that a lot of their actions are ad ...

Due to the national and international media's lack of focus, Pakistan's growth-stimulating factors and a significant source of foreign exchange gains are currently falling.

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Abstract The market dynamics and climate hazards are causing rural populations, especially those in emerging nations, to experience continuous losses in income and crop output. In Punjab, Pakistan, farmers' views of market and climate risks and their coping mechanisms are the focus of this study's special investigation. According to a recent global assessment, Pakistan is one of the ten nations with the highest risk of natural disasters for its citizens, mostly as a result of its corrupt government, poor infrastructure, and failure to successfully execute risk-reduction measures. Verisk Maplecroft, a risk management company with offices in the UK, ranked the world's riskiest countries, with Pakistan coming in at number seven with 136 million (or 70%) of its population at risk. Keywords :  Monsoon Rains' Disaster relief Situation, Consequences of Flooding on Economic Growth, Role of Digital Media in Flood Situations Background Pakistan is situated in a dangerous area and...

The autumn and winter flight schedules of airlines are being drastically reduced.

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British Airways has said it will eliminate approximately 10,000 flights, or about 8%, of its winter schedule, in yet another indication that airlines expect choppy skies to last beyond this summer. The flag carrier airline for the United Kingdom said in a statement: "We're providing passengers traveling with us this winter notice of certain alterations to our schedule, which will involve combining some of our short-haul flights to destinations with multiple services." According to data from Cirium, American Airlines cut nearly 31,000 flights, or about 16%, from its November schedule last week. This is a significant increase over the 19,000 flights the Texas-based carrier already canceled this summer. This preemptive rightsizing for the fall and winter follows a summer in which air travelers faced an unparalleled amount of flight delays, with 20,000 delayed flights and a few thousand canceled every day, according to tracking data from FlightAware. Over a third of all delay...

Regarding the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, Trump has launched a lawsuit against the US government.

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Abstract The "deep state" of career federal workers, according to President Donald Trump, is actively working to obstruct his presidency, a complaint he frequently made. But the ones who openly defied his orders were his own presidential appointees. Political appointees are typically the most devoted defenders of a president's policy objectives, leading the charge through the several executive branch bureaucracy. The White House, Cabinet, Military, and Intelligence Community's opposition to Trump's policy orders is examined in this article. The report comes to the conclusion that the presidency has never faced this amount of opposition before. Keywords: Current Situation, Government and Security Authorities,Vice President Pence Current Situation Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the US government on Monday regarding the FBI's search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, requesting a temporary halt to the reading of materials collected until a special court official ...

Second-richest citizen and real estate magnate Manuel Villar has aspirations to construct one million new homes and grow his media business into the equivalent of Disney in the Philippines.

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Introduction Businessman and politician Manuel Villar lost his election quest for president twelve years ago after receiving only 15% of the vote. He didn't let that setback stop him, though. He put himself back into his profession and expanded his primary industry, real estate development. With a fortune of $7.8 billion, he is still ranked No. 2 among the Philippines' 50 richest people as of 2018, thanks to share price increases for his publicly traded enterprises. Even though one of his career's major deals—the June listing of his first real estate trust on the Philippine exchange—delivered a lackluster performance, he was still able to reach that position. The VistaREIT, which included office buildings and shopping centers worth 36 billion pesos ($639 million) from Villar's flagship Vista Land & Lifescapes, was intended to fund 9.15 billion pesos, but only managed to raise 4.8 billion pesos. A 30% price reduction and a 25% reduction in the number of shares were m...

Farmers in all parts of Pakistan are having inertia issues as a result of irrigation flow from Indian channels.

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Abstract  Farmers that receive water from India through irrigation channels worry about losing their land, and there are ongoing issues related to the large amounts of water that are distributed, stored, and simulated in conjunction with the economic downturn, business losses, and crop damage and animal deaths. Given that it contributes 20% of the province's GDP and employs more than 50% of its workforce, irrigated agriculture is a key factor in determining the potential for economic growth. In Punjab, farmlands watered by one of the biggest continuous irrigation systems in the world account for more than 50% of the agricultural output. The enormous irrigation conveyance network provides cultivation intensities between 120 and 150 percent over a cultivable command area of 21.71 million acres (8.79 million hectares). In semi-arid environments, effective conjunctive use can prevent soil salinization and waterlog caused by excessive recharge from irrigation return flows or other sourc...