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HX5 Encrypted explain how a simple check can stop a $240 Billion money laundering scandal

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Monday, November 27, 2023

Andy Parr, the company's, founder explains what checks HX5 do to stop money laundering.

Key Points: 
  • Andy Parr, the company's, founder explains what checks HX5 do to stop money laundering.
  • This is because while those places must adhere to international standards in place to stop money laundering, they rarely use them to do so.
  • The US regulators have eventually caught up with Binance and fined them over $4 billion for facilitating money laundering on an industrial scale globally.
  • The lax way Binance have implemented (or not dependent on your viewpoint) money laundering controls has been an issue for some time.

HX5 Encrypted explain how a simple check can stop a $240 Billion money laundering scandal

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Monday, November 27, 2023

Andy Parr, the company's, founder explains what checks HX5 do to stop money laundering.

Key Points: 
  • Andy Parr, the company's, founder explains what checks HX5 do to stop money laundering.
  • This is because while those places must adhere to international standards in place to stop money laundering, they rarely use them to do so.
  • The US regulators have eventually caught up with Binance and fined them over $4 billion for facilitating money laundering on an industrial scale globally.
  • The lax way Binance have implemented (or not dependent on your viewpoint) money laundering controls has been an issue for some time.

Hidden tunnels, ambushes and explosives in walls: the Israel-Hamas war enters a precarious new phase

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Sappers are the soldiers who clear paths through obstacles with machines and explosives, enabling other troops to overwhelm the enemy.

Key Points: 
  • Sappers are the soldiers who clear paths through obstacles with machines and explosives, enabling other troops to overwhelm the enemy.
  • They also create such obstructions and lay traps and mines when trying to defend a position.
  • Some tunnels may also be set as traps to entice Israeli soldiers to enter as they search for hostages.

Urban warfare is excruciatingly slow

  • As the war enters a new phase, it is pitting a grimly determined Israeli Defence Force (IDF), with the world’s best capabilities for urban warfare, against a force ready for martyrdom that has prepared for this fight for years.
  • Progress was equally slow in Marawi, where it took five months for Filipino forces to defeat ISIS-Maute fighters.

Three layers of challenges


Urban war presents armies with compounding challenges. The first layer is perceptual. There is a cognitive dissonance between a liberal society’s beliefs around the need for restraint in conflict and the primordial demands of urban war with its high costs in blood, destruction and legitimacy. Armies are averse to preparing for such horror. Second, there are tactical challenges with fighting among buildings:
the threat of remote attack by drones or IEDs
the uncertainty created by hidden adversaries
the extreme exposure of forces as they advance
the dilution of combat power as forces are channelled, isolated and dispersed among buildings, with very restricted views
the degrading of sensors and communications systems.

  • Third, and critically, the presence of civilians in urban war zones imposes moral and ethical challenges.
  • They suffer disproportionately and catastrophically, both as immediate casualties and from displacement and disease following the destruction of cities.


the obligation of forces to provide security and logistical support to noncombatants
the security threat from phone and social media usage by civilians
civilians who are hostile, obstructive or offer unarmed resistance
the psychological and political burden on commanders that may distort their decision-making.

How Israel has been preparing for this moment

  • After Israeli occupation ended in 2005, militant attacks prompted major incursions by the army in 2008 and 2014.
  • From a political standpoint, Israel realised the importance of winning the contest of international and domestic public opinion.
  • From a military and operational standpoint, the IDF learned that precision air power alone could not eliminate the threat from Hamas.
  • Some may also have the THOR system, which uses lasers to explode IEDs.
  • Soldiers are also trained to find, operate in and destroy tunnels.
  • They include elements of the Sarayet Yahalom, a special forces unit that uses specialised demolition charges, subterranean drones and robots.
  • Given the Hamas advantage of home terrain and the advanced technology deployed by Israel, both sides will likely inflict bloody surprises on one another.


Charles Knight does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

MoloLamken Adds Accomplished Federal Prosecutor

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MoloLamken LLP, a premier national litigation boutique, today announced that Jennifer (Sasso) Schubert, an accomplished federal prosecutor in New York, has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MoloLamken LLP, a premier national litigation boutique, today announced that Jennifer (Sasso) Schubert, an accomplished federal prosecutor in New York, has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office.
  • "Jenn is an accomplished trial lawyer," said partner and firm co-founder Steven Molo .
  • Recently, MoloLamken won major recoveries for the Cherokee Nation against opioid manufacturers, shareholders of Alibaba, and bond holders of Avaya.
  • More importantly, the firm takes a tremendously thoughtful approach to developing talent and maintaining a highly collaborative culture that embraces diversity.

100+ COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE NATION FORM COALITION STANDING WITH ISRAEL AGAINST HAMAS

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Thursday, October 26, 2023

NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A broad coalition of more than 100 institutions of higher education, including public and private, faith-based, and historically Black colleges and universities today issued a statement standing with Israel, the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' cruel rule in Gaza and all people of moral conscience.

Key Points: 
  • There is unparalleled strength in presidents joining together to lay the moral groundwork on which all civil dialogue is naturally based.
  • The members of the coalition urge presidents and chancellors of all U.S. and global colleges and universities to join the effort – by sending an e-mail directly to [email protected] .
  • Murdering innocent civilians including babies and children, raping women and taking the elderly as hostages are not the actions of political disagreement but the actions of hate and terrorism.
  • The basis of all universities is a pursuit of truth, and it is times like these that require moral clarity.

BROAD COALITION OF COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES AND HIGHER EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS STAND WITH ISRAEL AGAINST THE TERRORISM OF HAMAS

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

NEW YORK , Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A broad coalition of institutions of higher education, including public and private colleges and universities, faith-based colleges and universities, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) today issued a statement standing with Israel, the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' cruel rule in Gaza and all people of moral conscience.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK , Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A broad coalition of institutions of higher education, including public and private colleges and universities, faith-based colleges and universities, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) today issued a statement standing with Israel, the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' cruel rule in Gaza and all people of moral conscience.
  • We are horrified and sickened by the brutality and inhumanity of Hamas.
  • The basis of all universities is a pursuit of truth, and it is times like these that require moral clarity.
  • We, the presidents and chancellors of universities, colleges and higher education associations across the United States of America and the world, stand with Israel, with the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas' cruel rule in Gaza and with all people of moral conscience.

A reflexive act of military revenge burdened the US − and may do the same for Israel

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

In the wake of the shocking invasion of southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas.

Key Points: 
  • In the wake of the shocking invasion of southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas.
  • On that same day, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant went further, stating, “We will wipe this thing called Hamas, ISIS-Gaza, off the face of the earth.
  • The immediate goals were to force the Taliban from power and destroy al-Qaida.
  • Very little thought or resources were put into what happened after those goals were attained.
  • That’s what happened in Afghanistan, and that is what could happen in Gaza.

A war of weak results

    • The U.S. invasion toppled the Taliban from power by the end of 2001, but the war did not end.
    • Nongovernmental and international relief organizations began to deliver humanitarian aid and reconstruction support, but their efforts were uncoordinated.
    • U.S. trainers began creating a new Afghan National Army, but lack of funding, insufficient volunteers and inadequate facilities hampered the effort.
    • The Taliban entry into Kabul in August 2021 merely put an exclamation point on a campaign the United States had lost many years before.

A goal that’s hard to achieve

    • An Israeli invasion of Gaza could well lead to an indecisive quagmire if the political goal is not considered ahead of time.
    • Israel has invaded Gaza twice, in 2009 and 2014, but quickly withdrew its ground forces once Israeli leaders calculated they had reestablished deterrence.
    • The newly declared goal of destroying Hamas as a military force is far more difficult than that.
    • Israel has the capacity to level Gaza and round up segments of the population, but that may not be wise.

Foley Foundation to launch a new Journalist Safety Task Force at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Monday, Oct. 16

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Friday, October 13, 2023

As war rages in the Gaza region and correspondents are working at risk in active war zones, this timely panel on reporting in conflict zones will address journalist safety training.

Key Points: 
  • As war rages in the Gaza region and correspondents are working at risk in active war zones, this timely panel on reporting in conflict zones will address journalist safety training.
  • He had been covering the Syrian civil war for Global Post and Agence France Presse at the time of his capture.
  • The Foley Foundation advocates for the safe return of all Americans held hostage and provides journalist safety education.
  • The National Press Club is located on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.
    PRESS CONTACT: Cecily Scott Martin for the National Press Club; [email protected] ; (202) 662-7525
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Gal Gadot, Jerry Seinfeld, Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Pine, Mayim Bialik, Liev Schreiber, Amy Schumer, Michael Douglas, Debra Messing, Among 700+ Entertainment Leaders Standing With Israel

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Thursday, October 12, 2023

LOS ANGELES , Oct. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 700 leaders from the entertainment industry have signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace in support of Israel. The open letter calls on the entertainment community to speak out forcefully against Hamas, to support Israel, to refrain from sharing misinformation about the war, and do whatever is in their power to urge the terrorist organization to return the innocent hostages to their families.

Key Points: 
  • Gal Gadot shared, "My heart is aching for the lives lost and families shattered.
  • And I hope that the world remains steadfast in their support of the Israeli people."
  • The statement is the first of its kind – a call from the entertainment industry unequivocally voicing support for Israel and condemning Hamas' terrorism.
  • ** Note - The signers of this statement do so as individuals on their own behalf and not on behalf of their companies or organizations.

On 20th Anniversary of the Iraq War, Zaid Brifkani Releases Waters Under Baghdad, An Exploration of Iraqi Resilience and Transformation Over Four Generations

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As we mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, author Zaid Brifkani is proud to announce the release of his poignant new novel Waters Under Baghdad. This powerful story explores the political, social, and personal evolution of Iraq over four generations, encapsulating the rich history and resilient spirit of the Iraqi people amid adversity.

Key Points: 
  • This powerful story explores the political, social, and personal evolution of Iraq over four generations, encapsulating the rich history and resilient spirit of the Iraqi people amid adversity.
  • This is not just a story about survival but also about the power of human connection and resilience in the most challenging times.
  • Together, they bear witness to their homeland's upheavals, embodying the resilience that has come to define the people of Iraq.
  • As we remember the beginnings of the Iraq War in 2003, Brifkani reminds us of the power of stories to heal, unite, and inspire.