Linux business72.web-hosting.com 4.18.0-553.lve.el8.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 27 15:27:34 UTC 2024 x86_64
LiteSpeed
: 162.0.229.97 | : 18.191.215.198
Cant Read [ /etc/named.conf ]
8.1.30
temmmp
www.github.com/MadExploits
Terminal
AUTO ROOT
Adminer
Backdoor Destroyer
Linux Exploit
Lock Shell
Lock File
Create User
CREATE RDP
PHP Mailer
BACKCONNECT
UNLOCK SHELL
HASH IDENTIFIER
CPANEL RESET
CREATE WP USER
README
+ Create Folder
+ Create File
/
home /
temmmp /
lscache /
9 /
3 /
3 /
[ HOME SHELL ]
Name
Size
Permission
Action
.pkexec
[ DIR ]
drwxr-sr-x
GCONV_PATH=.
[ DIR ]
drwxr-sr-x
.mad-root
0
B
-rw-r--r--
9330510e2615407e
10.65
KB
-rw-rw----
93327cc8887cffa8
468
B
-rw-rw----
9332b477c03d3128
26.85
KB
-rw-rw----
93332c0f7586128b
135.54
KB
-rw-rw----
9333b7cbe7880857
53.43
KB
-rw-rw----
9334aee42a95eced
501
B
-rw-rw----
93357f8aea14d2ee
27.69
KB
-rw-rw----
9335c063f239ff6f
78.25
KB
-rw-rw----
9336fd7e332a85cf
7.92
KB
-rw-rw----
9337abce752fc985
504
B
-rw-rw----
933ad757291b2046
1.31
KB
-rw-rw----
933b57c053bb68b4
16.67
KB
-rw-rw----
933c78c76284d2a3
504
B
-rw-rw----
933dd95f5195c791
558
B
-rw-rw----
933e1b474acbb1fb
14.42
KB
-rw-rw----
pwnkit
10.99
KB
-rwxr-xr-x
Delete
Unzip
Zip
${this.title}
Close
Code Editor : 9335c063f239ff6f
LSCHr�c�&�c �X k �5 R /wp-json/wp/v2/posts#+webp f06_HTTP.200,f06_default,f06_URL.098f7bd299dfabbad722a5b88f686a9d,f06_REST,f06_LIST,f06_x-powered-by: PHP/7.2.34 content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8 x-robots-tag: noindex x-content-type-options: nosniff access-control-expose-headers: X-WP-Total, X-WP-TotalPages, Link access-control-allow-headers: Authorization, X-WP-Nonce, Content-Disposition, Content-MD5, Content-Type x-wp-total: 208 x-wp-totalpages: 21 link: <https://mbbnews.me/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?page=2>; rel="next" allow: GET vary: Origin x-litespeed-cache-control: public,max-age=604800 x-litespeed-tag: f06_HTTP.200,f06_default,f06_URL.098f7bd299dfabbad722a5b88f686a9d,f06_REST,f06_LIST,f06_ etag: "33165-1672801394;;;" [{"id":735,"date":"2022-12-29T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=735"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:47:13","slug":"russia-fires-120-missiles-from-air-and-sea-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/russia-fires-120-missiles-from-air-and-sea-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia fires 120 missiles from air and sea – Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An air raid alert has been issued across Ukraine, as a fresh wave of Russian missiles targets major cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least three people – including a 14-year-old girl – were taken to hospital after explosions hit the capital Kyiv, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blasts were also heard in the cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regional leader of the southern province of Odesa, Maksym Marchenko, spoke of a “massive missile attack on Ukraine”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia was attacking the country from “various directions with air and sea-based cruise missiles”. It added that a number of Kamikaze drones had also been used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air raid alerts sounded in all regions of the country on Thursday morning. Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych urged civilians to seek shelter and said the country’s air defences were operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kyiv, two homes were damaged by debris from an intercepted missiles, according to the city military administration, while Mr Klitschko said “several explosions” had been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the southern region of Mykolaiv, Governor Vitaly Kim wrote that five missiles were intercepted by air defences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Marchenko said 21 missiles were shot down in the Odesa region. He added that missile fragments had hit a residential building but no casualties were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the Western city of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy said several explosions had been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Podolyak accused Moscow of seeking “to destroy critical infrastructure and kill civilians en masse”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of Russian attacks have pounded Ukraine in recent weeks, causing repeated power cuts across the country. The mayor of Lviv said on Thursday that 90% of his city was without power, while Mr Klitschko warned there could be fresh power and water cuts in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Power cuts have already been reported in Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk. “They are introduced due to the threat of missile attacks, in order to avoid significant damage if the enemy manages to hit energy facilities,” the DTEK energy supplier wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Military Administration in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, said missiles fired at his city had been launched from Russian “ships and planes from the Black Sea”. Power in the city had been switched off as a “precaution”, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine’s southern command had already issued a warning that Russian force were preparing to launch up to 20 missiles from positions in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one barrage earlier this month, Ukraine shot down 60 of more than 70 missiles fired by Russian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in its missile strikes. However, President Vladimir Putin has recently admitted that Russian troops have been hitting Ukraine’s critical energy facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The admission followed allegations from some international leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, that targeting energy facilities could amount to a war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government in Kyiv has pleaded with Western leaders to provide it with additional air defences, and US President Joe Biden recently agreed to supply its Patriot system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/ADB0\/production\/_128146444__l_hq0r9.png\" alt=\"Areas of Russian control in Ukraine\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>An air raid alert has been issued across Ukraine, as a fresh wave of Russian missiles targets major cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least three people – including a 14-year-old girl – were taken to hospital after explosions hit the capital Kyiv, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blasts were also heard in the cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regional leader of the southern province of Odesa, Maksym Marchenko, spoke of a “massive missile attack on Ukraine”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia was attacking the country from “various directions with air and sea-based cruise missiles”. It added that a number of Kamikaze drones had also been used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Air raid alerts sounded in all regions of the country on Thursday morning. Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych urged civilians to seek shelter and said the country’s air defences were operating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Kyiv, two homes were damaged by debris from an intercepted missiles, according to the city military administration, while Mr Klitschko said “several explosions” had been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the southern region of Mykolaiv, Governor Vitaly Kim wrote that five missiles were intercepted by air defences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Marchenko said 21 missiles were shot down in the Odesa region. He added that missile fragments had hit a residential building but no casualties were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in the Western city of Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy said several explosions had been reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Podolyak accused Moscow of seeking “to destroy critical infrastructure and kill civilians en masse”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of Russian attacks have pounded Ukraine in recent weeks, causing repeated power cuts across the country. The mayor of Lviv said on Thursday that 90% of his city was without power, while Mr Klitschko warned there could be fresh power and water cuts in the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Power cuts have already been reported in Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk. “They are introduced due to the threat of missile attacks, in order to avoid significant damage if the enemy manages to hit energy facilities,” the DTEK energy supplier wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Military Administration in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, said missiles fired at his city had been launched from Russian “ships and planes from the Black Sea”. Power in the city had been switched off as a “precaution”, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukraine’s southern command had already issued a warning that Russian force were preparing to launch up to 20 missiles from positions in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one barrage earlier this month, Ukraine shot down 60 of more than 70 missiles fired by Russian forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in its missile strikes. However, President Vladimir Putin has recently admitted that Russian troops have been hitting Ukraine’s critical energy facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The admission followed allegations from some international leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, that targeting energy facilities could amount to a war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government in Kyiv has pleaded with Western leaders to provide it with additional air defences, and US President Joe Biden recently agreed to supply its Patriot system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/cpsprodpb\/ADB0\/production\/_128146444__l_hq0r9.png\" alt=\"Areas of Russian control in Ukraine\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An air raid alert has been issued across Ukraine, as a fresh wave of Russian missiles targets major cities. Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure. At least three people – including a 14-year-old girl – were taken to hospital after explosions hit the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":732,"date":"2022-12-29T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=732"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:38:32","slug":"the-us-is-requiring-travelers-from-china-to-get-a-negative-covid-test-and-is-on-alert-for-new-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/the-us-is-requiring-travelers-from-china-to-get-a-negative-covid-test-and-is-on-alert-for-new-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"The US is requiring travelers from China to get a negative COVID test, and is ‘on alert’ for new variants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Travelers coming to the US from China will need to take a COVID-19 test some time during the 2 days prior to their departure. Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>US health officials are going to require negative COVID tests for travelers coming from China.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The officials are worried about a surge in COVID cases in China, and a lack of public data on variants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Testing will be required starting January 5 for everyone over age 2 coming from China, Hong Kong, and Macau.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Negative COVID-19 test results are going to be required for passengers to board flights from China to the US starting in early 2023. Almost everyone traveling to the United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-wont-use-western-covid-19-vaccines-protests-2022-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from China<\/a> will have to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test result, starting next week, federal health officials in the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/media\/releases\/2022\/p1228-COVID-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US officials cited concerns about a “lack of adequate, transparent sequencing data” currently coming out of China, and noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/chinas-zero-covid-policies-anger-protestors-and-public-health-experts-2022-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">surging COVID cases in China<\/a> may “increase” the potential for new variants to emerge, saying the US is “on alert” to the possibility that new strains of the coronavirus could surface, as restrictions ease and more and more people in China get sick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Starting at 12:01 AM Eastern time on January 5th, all air passengers two years and older originating from China will be required to get a test no more than two days before their departure from China, Hong Kong, or Macau, and show a negative test result to the airline,” a US official said during a phone call with reporters, explaining the new policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International travelers coming to the US had previously been required to show a negative COVID-19 test to enter the country, but that testing rule was dropped by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/10\/1104138168\/covid-19-negative-test-airline-travelers-lift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden Administration in early June<\/a>. The US is not implementing the new China-specific rule until next Thursday, in order to give airlines time to comply and get organized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travelers from China can use rapid antigen self-tests for the requirement, as long as the tests are “administered and monitored by a telehealth service and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/medical-devices\/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices\/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery#list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">authorized by the Food and Drug Administration<\/a>,” federal officials said. Italy’s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/italy-imposes-mandatory-covid-tests-travellers-china-2022-12-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">health minister announced<\/a> a similar testing requirement for travelers coming from China earlier on Wednesday, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insider.com\/japan-negative-covid-tests-china-travelers-2022-12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a>, India, and Malaysia have all adopted similar testing requirements, as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/25\/1145472905\/china-stops-publishing-daily-covid-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">soar in China<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“We are forecasting that there will be a large number of infections leading to hospitalizations and deaths in China,” a federal official said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers coming to the US from China will need to take a COVID-19 test some time during the 2 days prior to their departure. Getty Images Negative COVID-19 test results are going to be required for passengers to board flights from China to the US starting in early 2023. Almost everyone traveling to the United States from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":726,"date":"2022-12-26T05:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T05:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=726"},"modified":"2022-12-26T05:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T05:07:04","slug":"do-you-work-in-business-sunak-mocked-for-excruciating-exchange-with-homeless-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/do-you-work-in-business-sunak-mocked-for-excruciating-exchange-with-homeless-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Do you work in business?\u2019 Sunak mocked for \u2018excruciating\u2019 exchange with homeless man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rishi Sunak has been criticised over an awkward exchange with a homeless person while volunteering at a soup kitchen in front of television cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asks homeless man at shelter if he works in a business\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVHJXdcN7R0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The prime minister visited a shelter on Friday, where after a brief exchange he asked the man whether he worked in business. The man replied that he was homeless. Sunak then discussed his background in the finance industry and asked if it would be something the man would \u201clike to get in to\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man replied: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind, but I don\u2019t know, I\u2019d like to get through Christmas first.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explained that he hoped a charity would find him some temporary accommodation so he was not on the street for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labour\u2019s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the exchange as excruciating, and the Labour MP Stella Creasy said: \u201cWatching this I am concerned that the prime minister thinks homeless means \u2018doesn\u2019t have a country pile at the moment\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunak used the trip to outline that the government had pledged \u00a32bn to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 we have a small favour to ask. Millions are turning to the Guardian for open, independent, quality news every day, and readers in 180 countries around the world now support us financially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We believe everyone deserves access to information that\u2019s grounded in science and truth, and analysis rooted in authority and integrity. That\u2019s why we made a different choice: to keep our reporting open for all readers, regardless of where they live or what they can afford to pay. This means more people can be better informed, united, and inspired to take meaningful action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these perilous times, a truth-seeking global news organisation like the Guardian is essential. We have no shareholders or billionaire owner, meaning our journalism is free from commercial and political influence \u2013 this makes us different. When it\u2019s never been more important, our independence allows us to fearlessly investigate, challenge and expose those in power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rishi Sunak has been criticised over an awkward exchange with a homeless person while volunteering at a soup kitchen in front of television cameras. The prime minister visited a shelter on Friday, where after a brief exchange he asked the man whether he worked in business. The man replied that he was homeless. Sunak then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":722,"date":"2022-12-25T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=722"},"modified":"2022-12-25T08:42:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T08:42:45","slug":"a-15-metric-ton-meteorite-crashed-in-africa-now-2-new-minerals-have-been-found-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/a-15-metric-ton-meteorite-crashed-in-africa-now-2-new-minerals-have-been-found-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A 15-metric ton meteorite crashed in Africa. Now 2 new minerals have been found in it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scientists have identified two minerals never before seen on Earth in a meteorite weighing 15.2 metric tons (33,510 pounds).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minerals came from a 70-gram (nearly 2.5-ounce) slice of the meteorite, which was discovered in Somalia in 2020 and is the ninth-largest meteorite ever found, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/folio\/2022\/11\/new-minerals-discovered-in-massive-meteorite-may-reveal-clues-to-asteroid-formation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">news release<\/a> from the University of Alberta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Herd, curator of the university\u2019s meteorite collection, received samples of the space rock so he could classify it. As he was examining it, something unusual caught his eye \u2014 some parts of the sample weren\u2019t identifiable by a microscope. He then sought advice from Andrew Locock, head of the university\u2019s Electron Microprobe Laboratory, since Locock has experience describing new minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe very first day he did some analyses, he said, \u2018You\u2019ve got at least two new minerals in there,\u2019\u201d Herd, a professor in the university\u2019s department of Earth and atmospheric sciences, said in a statement. \u201cThat was phenomenal. Most of the time it takes a lot more work than that to say there\u2019s a new mineral.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One mineral\u2019s name \u2014 elaliite \u2014 derives from the space object itself, which is called the \u201cEl Ali\u201d meteorite since it was found near the town of El Ali in central Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herd named the second one elkinstantonite after Lindy Elkins-Tanton, vice president of Arizona State University\u2019s Interplanetary Initiative. Elkins-Tanton is also a regents professor in that university\u2019s School of Earth and Space Exploration and the principal investigator of NASA\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/24\/world\/nasa-psyche-mission-delay-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psyche mission<\/a> \u2014 a journey to a metal-rich asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/missions\/psyche#:~:text=About%20the%20mission-,The%20Psyche%20mission%20is%20a%20journey%20to%20a%20unique%20metal,blocks%20of%20our%20solar%20system.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to the space agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ad Feedback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLindy has done a lot of work on how the cores of planets form, how these iron nickel cores form, and the closest analogue we have are iron meteorites,\u201d Herd said. \u201cIt made sense to name a mineral after her and recognize her contributions to science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/22\/world\/nasa-russia-soyuz-spacecraft-leak-iss-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Mineralogical Association\u2019s approval of the two new minerals in November of this year \u201cindicates that the work is robust,\u201d said Oliver Tschauner, a mineralogist and professor of research in the department of geoscience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhenever you find a new mineral, it means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rock, was different than what\u2019s been found before,\u201d Herd said. \u201cThat\u2019s what makes this exciting: In this particular meteorite you have two officially described minerals that are new to science.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"paragraph-a3b10585-f2fb-124a-53d6-40b9d4f93c5f\">The role of lab-created minerals in discovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Locock\u2019s quick identification was possible because similar minerals had been synthetically created before, and he was able to match the composition of the newly discovered minerals with their human-made counterparts, according to the University of Alberta release.<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/16\/world\/space-diamond-lonsdaleite-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/16\/world\/space-diamond-lonsdaleite-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMaterial scientists do this all the time,\u201d said Alan Rubin, a meteorite researcher and former adjunct professor and research geochemist in the department of earth, planetary and space sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u201cThey can create new compounds \u2014 one, just to see what\u2019s physically possible just as a research interest, and others \u2026 will say, \u2018We\u2019re seeking a compound that has certain properties for some practical or commercial application, like conductivity or high strain or high melting temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just fortuitous that a researcher will find a mineral in a meteorite or a terrestrial rock that hasn\u2019t been known before, and then very often, that same compound will have been created previously by material scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both new minerals are phosphates of iron, Tschauner said. A phosphate is a salt or ester of a phosphoric acid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPhosphates in iron meteorites are secondary products: They form through oxidation of phosphides \u2026 which are rare primary components of iron meteorites,\u201d he said via email. \u201cHence, the two new phosphates tell us about oxidation processes that occurred in the meteorite material. It remains to be seen if the oxidation occurred in space or on Earth, after the fall, but as far as I know, many of these meteorite phosphates formed in space. In either case, water is probably the reactant that caused the oxidation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/world\/year-in-ancient-dna-discoveries-2022-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/world\/year-in-ancient-dna-discoveries-2022-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/world\/year-in-ancient-dna-discoveries-2022-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Black Death’s legacy, Neanderthal family ties, and other secrets revealed by ancient DNA in 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings were presented in November at the University of Alberta\u2019s Space Exploration Symposium. The revelations \u201cbroaden our perspective on the natural materials that can be found and can be formed in the solar system,\u201d Rubin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The El Ali meteorite the minerals came from appears to have been sent to China in search of a buyer, Herd said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the researchers are still analyzing the minerals \u2014 and potentially a third one \u2014 to find out what the conditions were in the meteorite when the space rock formed. And newly discovered minerals could have exciting implications for the future, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhenever there\u2019s a new material that\u2019s known, material scientists are interested too because of the potential uses in a wide range of things in society,\u201d Herd said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified two minerals never before seen on Earth in a meteorite weighing 15.2 metric tons (33,510 pounds). The minerals came from a 70-gram (nearly 2.5-ounce) slice of the meteorite, which was discovered in Somalia in 2020 and is the ninth-largest meteorite ever found, according to a news release from the University of Alberta. Chris Herd, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":719,"date":"2022-12-24T03:09:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=719"},"modified":"2022-12-24T03:09:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T03:09:55","slug":"senate-passes-orbit-debris-cleanup-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/senate-passes-orbit-debris-cleanup-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes orbit debris cleanup bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The Senate passed legislation that would direct NASA to establish a program to remove orbital debris, but supporters of the bill will likely have to try again in the next Congress to enact it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senate passed by unanimous consent late Dec. 21 the Orbital Sustainability, or ORBITS, Act. The bill was introduced by Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s space subcommittee, in September. The bill was co-sponsored by the ranking member of the subcommittee, Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) along with the chair and ranking member of the full committee, Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill would direct NASA, working with other government agencies and the private sector, to publish a list of debris objects \u201cthat pose the greatest immediate risk to the safety and sustainability of orbiting satellites and on-orbit activities.\u201d The bill doesn\u2019t define how to calculate that risk or how many objects to include in the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ORBITS Act would also require NASA to establish an active debris removal remediation program. It would make awards \u201cfor the development of technologies leading to the remediation of selected orbital debris\u201d identified in the list, including demonstration missions to remove the debris. The bill would allow NASA and other agencies to acquire debris removal services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides the provisions on active debris removal, the bill would require the National Space Council to update the government\u2019s existing Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices, with future updates every five years. It directs the Commerce Department to work with other agencies on standard practices for space traffic coordination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill does not authorize any specific funding for NASA or other agencies to carry out the active debris removal or other activities, beyond noting that such would work be subject to appropriations. It did have support from many companies and organizations such the satellite servicing industry group CONFERS, which said in a September statement that the bill recognized orbital debris cleanup needed to be a joint effort of government and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis bill will jumpstart the technology development needed to remove the most dangerous junk before it knocks out a satellite, crashes into a NASA mission, or falls to the ground and hurts someone,\u201d Cantwell said in a statement after the bill\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m over the moon that our ORBITS Act passed and we can start cleaning up this space junk,\u201d Hickenlooper said in a separate stating, adding that he would work to send the bill to the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That work, though, will have to start over next year. The House did not take up the ORBITS Act before passage of the fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill Dec. 23, the last bill the House is scheduled to vote on in this Congress. Proponents will have to reintroduce the bill in the next Congress that convenes in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bill on a related topic also died in the House. Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) introduced the Space Safety and Situational Awareness Transition Act of 2022 Dec. 14 that would have authorized the Commerce Department to establish a civil space situational awareness (SSA) capability, something it is in the process of doing under Space Policy Directive 3 but so far without formal congressional authorization. It would direct NASA to pursue research to improve SSA capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bill \u201cis our best attempt to direct inter-agency traffic and establish clearly defined roles for key players on space situational awareness, including the Department of Commerce and NASA,\u201d Beyer, chair of the House Science Committee\u2019s space subcommittee, said in a statement, acknowledging that this version was primarily a starting point for work in the next Congress. \u201cI hope that this legislation will serve as a strong starting place for future discussions about the way forward on space situational awareness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The Senate passed legislation that would direct NASA to establish a program to remove orbital debris, but supporters of the bill will likely have to try again in the next Congress to enact it. The Senate passed by unanimous consent late Dec. 21 the Orbital Sustainability, or ORBITS, Act. The bill was introduced by Sen. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":716,"date":"2022-12-24T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T00:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=716"},"modified":"2022-12-24T00:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T00:42:32","slug":"a-christmas-miracle-israeli-archaeologists-are-freshly-excavating-a-tomb-believed-to-hold-the-woman-who-helped-deliver-baby-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/a-christmas-miracle-israeli-archaeologists-are-freshly-excavating-a-tomb-believed-to-hold-the-woman-who-helped-deliver-baby-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Miracle? Israeli Archaeologists Are Freshly Excavating a Tomb Believed to Hold the Woman Who Helped Deliver Baby Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When looters broke into a burial cave in Israel\u2019s Judean Lowlands in the 1980s, they set off a chain of excavations that continue to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First came a prolonged dig led by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/mammoth-tusk-israel-2168477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israel Antiquities Authority<\/a> (IAA) that labelled the site as the Salome Cave, on account of the belief that it served as the resting place for Jesus\u2019s midwife. Now, the same government entity is expanding its excavation to focus on the connected 2,000-year-old tomb complex of a wealthy family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnce the restoration and development works are completed, the forecourt and the cave will be opened to the public,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/burial-cave-dedicated-to-jesus-midwife-salome-reveals-treasures-ahead-of-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Saar Ganor, director of IAA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744293-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2234439\">Saar Ganor from the Israel Antiquities Authority stands inside the Tomb of Salome. Photo by Menahem Kahana \/ AFP via Getty Images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a court spanning more than 3,700-square-foot, mosaicked floors, and cave entrances elaborately carved with rosettes and pomegranates, the burial chamber is believed to originate in the Roman period before being taken over by a Christian chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IAA has described it as one of the most impressive private burial sites uncovered in the country. The design and layout are proof, archeologists add, that the family responsible was extremely wealthy and capable of investing over a sustained period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe family tomb attests that its owners were a family of high status in the Judean Shefelah in the second temple period,\u201d the IAA said in a press release. \u201cThe cult of Salome, sanctified in Christianity, belongs to a broader phenomenon, whereby the fifth-century C.E. Christian pilgrims encountered and sanctified Jewish sites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2022\/12\/GettyImages-1245744009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2234436\">An inscription engraved in stone in Ancient Greek carrying the name of Salome inside the Tomb of Salome. Photo by Menahem Kahana \/ AFP via Getty Images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This process of sanctification has been clarified at the site through the uncovering of a small marketplace outside the cave that, among other things, sold clay lamps to visitors, ones that have been found by the hundreds in the cave. Inside, an interior chapel dedicated to Salome is riddled with crosses and inscriptions written Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, evidencing the site\u2019s importance from the Byzantine era through the Islamic period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian belief holds that Salome hailed from Bethlehem and was called to help deliver Jesus. She became a follower of Jesus and is mentioned in the gospels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The excavation is part of the Judean Kings Trail, a government-led project that brings together important archaeological sites spanning 60 miles. The endeavor, however, is controversial given it is located outside of Israel\u2019s occupied territories and the IAA has been criticized for continuing its work without consulting local Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looters broke into a burial cave in Israel\u2019s Judean Lowlands in the 1980s, they set off a chain of excavations that continue to this day. First came a prolonged dig led by Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) that labelled the site as the Salome Cave, on account of the belief that it served as the resting place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":709,"date":"2022-12-24T00:31:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T00:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=709"},"modified":"2022-12-24T00:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T00:33:39","slug":"young-people-dont-want-to-work-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/young-people-dont-want-to-work-now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people don\u2019t want to work. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New research has found that nearly one in ten young people never intend to start working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim Kardashian was right when she said \u201cnobody wants to work these days\u201d. The signs are everywhere: membership of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/antiwork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">r\/antiwork<\/a> subreddit has rocketed in recent years \u2013 at present, the group has over two million members. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jan\/04\/great-resignation-quitting-us-unemployment-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Millions of people<\/a> left their jobs in 2021 as part of \u2018The Great Resignation\u2019. By now, reams have been written about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tortoisemedia.com\/2020\/12\/02\/wing-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">death of girlboss culture<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2022\/jul\/19\/a-bigger-paycheck-id-rather-watch-the-sunset-is-this-the-end-of-ambition?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the end of ambition<\/a>. Additionally, new research from City & Guilds has found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fenews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/youth-campaign-report-pdf-compressed-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one in ten young people<\/a> who have not yet entered the workforce never intend to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While discussing this new stat on <em>Politics Live<\/em> last week, host Jo Coburn described it as \u201cshocking\u201d. But is it, really? We\u2019ve witnessed the degradation of the myth of meritocracy in real-time: house prices rose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-51022264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by 33 per cent<\/a> over the course of the 2010s, making homeownership a pipe dream for anyone without wealthy parents. Rents rose by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/2022\/05\/18\/uk-rents-risen-11-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11 per cent<\/a> between 2021 and 2022. In October, inflation hit its highest point since 1981, and as a result nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/cost-of-living-crisis-young-people-b2191378.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>half<\/em> of young people<\/a> are worried about not being able to afford essentials due to inflation. It\u2019s arguably never been more obvious that hard work doesn\u2019t pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically: there\u2019s too much stick, and not enough carrot. \u201cThe social contract is breaking down. It\u2019s not working,\u201d writer James Ball said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/podcasts\/new-statesman-podcast\/westminster-reimagined\/2022\/11\/can-politics-survive-a-post-truth-world-with-armando-iannucci-westminster-reimagined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a recent episode<\/a> of the <em>New Statesman<\/em> podcast. \u201cWork doesn\u2019t pay. You can be in professions and you can\u2019t get a house. We haven\u2019t had a pay rise, collectively as a nation, since 2007. People are doing everything \u2018right\u2019 and not getting the living standards of their parents at their age.\u201d As Ball suggests, the financial crash has had long-lasting consequences: as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resolutionfoundation.org\/press-releases\/the-crisis-cohorts-pay-and-career-prospects-have-been-scarred-for-up-to-a-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Resolution Foundation reported in 2019<\/a>, young people\u2019s pay and prospects have been forever \u201cscarred\u201d by the events of 2008. Additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thersa.org\/reports\/young-peoples-health-and-economic-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new research from the RSA <\/a>has found that 63 per cent of young people in full-time work experience financial precarity, rising to 79 per cent of those receiving universal credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eve Livingston is a journalist and author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plutobooks.com\/9780745341620\/make-bosses-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions<\/em><\/a>. \u201cThroughout young people\u2019s lifetimes, work has paid less and less and conditions have worsened as successive governments have cut protections and dismantled union power,\u201d she says. \u201cIn that context, it\u2019s no surprise that young people are questioning the value of work or don\u2019t see the point in doing it at all \u2013 if you know that work won\u2019t pay for you to have any quality of life then there might seem to be little point in doing it just for the sake of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not always been this way. As anthropologist David Graeber pointed out in <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/david-graeber-on-jeremy-corbyn-the-most-unlikely-leader-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one interview<\/a>, \u201cthe sort of 60s counterculture, the sort of wild and the swinging London of the time was totally a product of the welfare state. All those bands, you know, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles \u2013<em> <\/em>all those guys had been on the dole and been on relief.\u201d Even middle-class creatives were able to sign on without too much trouble up until the mid-1980s. In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2010\/mar\/23\/dole-queue-jobseekers-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Guardian<\/em><\/a> article, Tim Lott recalls that his cousin, despite living in a city with myriad job opportunities, chose to sign on: \u201cWhen I asked her why, she said simply that it was because she liked it,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tide only started to turn in the mid-1980s with the rise of Thatcher, and by now the benefits system is totally decimated. Working age benefits are 7.5 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/63304224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">per cent lower<\/a> than they were in 2009, and anyone who\u2019s tried to access Universal Credit will know that it\u2019s a bureaucratic nightmare with countless hoops to jump through. The idea that swathes of people are \u2018scroungers\u2019 who \u2018choose\u2019 to sign on is now ludicrous: for a single person living outside London, your benefits are capped at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensadvice.org.uk\/benefits\/help-if-on-a-low-income\/housing-benefit\/help-with-your-housing-benefit-claim\/check-if-the-benefit-cap-will-affect-your-housing-benefit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a3257.69 a week<\/a> \u2013 an unlivable amount. This attitude which pours scorn on people who admit to not wanting to work is also part of the problem: by now, the idea of the \u2018Protestant work ethic\u2019 is so deeply ingrained in our society that a person\u2019s self-worth is bound up in their employment status and job title. Thankfully, there are signs this is beginning to change as Gen Z reaches working age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@varietymagazine\/video\/7073128967535922475\" data-video-id=\"7073128967535922475\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;\" > <section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@varietymagazine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@varietymagazine?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@varietymagazine<\/a> <p>The Kardashians share their advice for women in business \ud83d\udcbc @kimkardashian @Kris @Kourtney \u2764\ufe0f @Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian<\/p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Variety\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7073128952159652654?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound – Variety<\/a> <\/section> <\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Evidently, though, while anti-work sentiment is growing, surviving without a job is virtually impossible unless you have very rich parents. \u201cThe dismantling of the welfare state alongside the weakening of unions and the slashing of protections has led to a situation where young people are looking around them and seeing very few options \u2013 work doesn’t pay, but there\u2019s also no safety net for those who can\u2019t or don\u2019t do it,\u201d Livingston adds. \u201cIn that context, it\u2019s no wonder that many land on disillusionment and apathy about work and about their ability to progress and succeed in life more generally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arguably, \u2018work\u2019 itself isn\u2019t the issue. We will always need to work: the pandemic highlighted the indispensability of \u2018key workers\u2019, after all. Instead, the problem lies in the way work is currently structured. There\u2019s a dearth of \u2018good\u2019 \u2013 well-paid, secure, and fulfilling \u2013 jobs, and a surfeit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/may\/25\/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-by-david-graeber-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018bullshit jobs\u2019<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jan\/31\/young-people-lost-jobs-pandemic-uk-returning-insecure-work-resolution-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Research<\/a> published at the start of this year found that a third of the 18- to 34-year-olds who reentered the workforce post-lockdown took up insecure gig work, which has previously been linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/businessreview\/2020\/01\/18\/the-gig-economy-is-taking-a-toll-on-uk-workers-mental-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poor mental wellbeing<\/a>. Since the invention of the weekend in the early 20th century, we\u2019ve witnessed huge technological advances which have bolstered efficiency and productivity, and yet seen no reduction in working hours. In 2019, the World Health Organisation reclassified workplace burnout as a syndrome \u201cresulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed\u201d. Maybe it\u2019s not that young people don\u2019t want to work \u2013 it\u2019s that they don\u2019t want to work in these conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what\u2019s to be done about this? Join a union, Livingston suggests. \u201cYoung people who are disillusioned with work should look to unions for solidarity and to channel their energy into something positive that can actually change things for the better,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are certain policy changes that could help make work better, and give us more control over our lives \u2014 a four-day week, stronger protections in the workplace, more regulation of the gig economy, for example. All of those are best fought for and most achievable by acting collectively with the weight of a union behind you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has found that nearly one in ten young people never intend to start working. Kim Kardashian was right when she said \u201cnobody wants to work these days\u201d. The signs are everywhere: membership of the r\/antiwork subreddit has rocketed in recent years \u2013 at present, the group has over two million members. Millions of people left their jobs in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":706,"date":"2022-12-23T16:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=706"},"modified":"2022-12-23T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T16:15:00","slug":"putin-says-russia-wants-end-to-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/putin-says-russia-wants-end-to-war-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin says Russia wants end to war in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia wants an end to the war in Ukraine and that this would inevitably involve a diplomatic solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin made the comments a day after U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/putin-says-situation-extremely-difficult-several-ukrainian-regions-2022-12-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House and promised him continued and unwavering U.S. support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war,” Putin said. “We will strive for an end to this, and the sooner the better, of course.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White House spokesman John Kirby said Putin has “shown absolutely zero indication that he’s willing to negotiate” an end to the war, which began when Moscow sent troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Quite the contrary,” Kirby told reporters during an online briefing. “Everything he (Putin) is doing on the ground and in the air bespeaks a man who wants to continue to visit violence upon the Ukrainian people” and “escalate the war.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirby reiterated that Biden was open to talks with Putin, but only after the Russian leader “showed a seriousness about negotiations” and after consultations with Ukraine and U.S. allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia has persistently said it is open to negotiations, but Ukraine and its allies suspect a ploy to buy time after a series of Russian defeats and retreats that have swung the momentum of the 10-month war in favour of Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com\/reuters\/2IOWNON3YRMW7ADMRIFPACMQ7E.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Putin attends a news conference in Moscow\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>[1\/2] <\/strong>Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a news conference after a meeting of the State Council on youth policy in Moscow, Russia, December 22, 2022. Sputnik\/Sergey Guneev\/Pool via REUTERSRead more12<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I have said many times: the intensification of hostilities leads to unjustified losses,” Putin told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“All armed conflicts end one way or another with some kind of negotiations on the diplomatic track,” he added. “Sooner or later, any parties in a state of conflict sit down and make an agreement. The sooner this realization comes to those who oppose us, the better. We have never given up on this.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia says it is Ukraine that is refusing to talk. Kyiv says Russia must halt its attacks and give up all territory it has seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin also played down the significance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/what-is-patriot-missile-defense-system-2022-12-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patriot air defense system<\/a> that Biden agreed to supply to Zelenskiy, saying Russia would find a way to counter it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was “quite old” and did not work like Russia’s S-300 system. “An antidote will always be found,” he said, boasting Russia would “crack” the Patriots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“So those who do it are doing it in vain. It’s just prolonging the conflict, that’s all.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putin also said a price cap imposed on Russian oil by Western countries, designed to limit its ability to fund the war, would not damage the Russian economy. He said he would sign a decree early next week to set out Russia’s response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia wants an end to the war in Ukraine and that this would inevitably involve a diplomatic solution. Putin made the comments a day after U.S. President Joe Biden hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House and promised him continued and unwavering U.S. support. “Our goal is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":701,"date":"2022-12-22T01:10:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=701"},"modified":"2022-12-22T01:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T01:10:10","slug":"the-first-gen-z-member-of-congress-was-denied-a-d-c-apartment-due-to-bad-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/the-first-gen-z-member-of-congress-was-denied-a-d-c-apartment-due-to-bad-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"The first Gen Z member of Congress was denied a D.C. apartment due to bad credit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congressman-elect Maxwell Frost was excited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thought that for the first few months of living in DC, he’d be couch surfing to save money. But as luck would have it, he found an apartment in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood with monthly rent he figured he could swing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, he went to view the apartment and spent about an hour filling out the application and providing information for a credit check. He also submitted a $50 application fee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was one thing he was worried about, though. After a year and half of campaigning (and winning, which, having been born in 1997, made him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/08\/1134743908\/maxwell-frost-calvin-wimbish-florida-10th-house-midterms-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Congress’s first elected Generation Z lawmaker<\/a>), Frost had gotten himself into debt. And, as a result, he had a low credit score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite his low credit, Frost, said, the apartment representative said he’d be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wasn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Just applied to an apartment in DC where I told the guy that my credit was really bad. He said I’d be fine. Got denied, lost the apartment, and the application fee. This ain’t meant for people who don’t already have money,” <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxwellFrostFL\/status\/1600890367586406400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frost tweeted Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landlords often use credit checks to approve a tenant’s rental application.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/urban-wire\/credit-scores-perpetuate-racial-disparities-even-americas-most-prosperous-cities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0But research has shown<\/a>\u00a0that credit scores actually perpetuate racial disparities. Sometimes the information provided in a credit check is even wrong, unfairly costing people an opportunity at housing,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/files.consumerfinance.gov\/f\/documents\/cfpb_consumer-snapshot-tenant-background-check_2022-11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frost told NPR that he posted his tweet in a moment of frustration, but also to highlight this serious problem of affordability and accessibility in the D.C. political world for people who don’t come from wealth. While Frost dealt specifically with a credit rejection, other incoming lawmakers and politicians \u2014especially younger members \u2014 have dealt with Washington’s lack of affordable housing in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“[Frost] just stating this publicly is kind of saying the quiet part out loud and shining a light on a reality that it’s incredibly expensive to live in D.C., to be young in D.C., and then maintain it even for members of Congress,” Casey Burgat, the legislative affairs program director at George Washington University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lack of affordability has a trickle-down effect, Burgat said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“It makes Congress exactly what it’s been for so long: A disproportionately wealthy, disproportionately white institution,” Burgat said. “This is a main contributor for why people can’t afford to run for office. It’s not seen as a viable path. And though we’re getting a little bit better at our diversity, we still have a long way to go and the cost of it is not getting cheaper.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Lawmakers have long struggled with D.C. housing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/12\/08\/gettyimages-1058491018-778643b3f4bced7b54e207dc5b59d62f6f0c41d6-s1100-c50.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won in 2018, she also had trouble finding a way to afford an apartment in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Rick Loomis\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zillow reports that, in Washington, D.C.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/rental-manager\/market-trends\/washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0the median rent is $2,600\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 up $350 from last year’s number. The lack of affordable places to rent in major cities is a huge problem nationwide. Rental prices are up 15% from a year ago,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/09\/1103919413\/rents-across-u-s-rise-above-2-000-a-month-for-the-first-time-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redfin reported in June.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talked about her own trouble with affording housing when she was elected in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/07\/nyregion\/ocasio-cortez-congress-washington.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She told <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> that year, “I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frost said he’s spoken to other members of his freshmen class who similarly have had a hard time finding a place to live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“It’s unfortunate. It’s a known issue, especially amongst the more working-class members,” he said. “It’s definitely a problem.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of members of Congress have even turned their Capitol Hill offices into <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/05\/01\/these-politicians-are-sleeping-in-their-dc-offices-to-save-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their makeshift apartments<\/a>. This practice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/13\/852359650\/pandemic-revives-calls-to-ban-lawmakers-from-bunking-in-their-offices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been criticized<\/a> as an inappropriate use of taxpayer money \u2014 and potentially uncomfortable for staffers who may catch their bosses in pajamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>The financial load of campaigning is intimidating<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On paper, being a politician pays incredibly well, Burgat said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rank-and-file <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congressionalinstitute.org\/2019\/02\/21\/how-much-do-members-of-congress-get-paid-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">members make a $174,ooo salary<\/a>, though there are rules surrounding their investments and how much they can make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Burgat noted the election season is longer than it used to be, and that it makes it nearly impossible to have a regular full-time job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Frost’s part, he said he had to quit his full-time gig and take up Uber driving to make some money while he campaigned for a year and a half. Even that wasn’t enough to keep him out of debt, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“There’s no career that supports this type of campaigning, particularly for young people,” Burgat said. “It’s for people that are able to withstand that financial burden for the amount of time that they have to, and just as we see with Congress itself, the people that are able to do that are disproportionately wealthy and disproportionately white.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2022\/12\/08\/gettyimages-1244091678-7db214d122ecf85c34514ea85a7fd7252135da52-s1100-c50.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Congressman-elect Maxwell Frost, while he campaigns in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>GIORGIO VIERA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frost noted he’s in a privileged place now that he is about to<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>join Congress and will<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>eventually make a good salary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“In two years, my credit won’t necessarily be a huge problem. But, you know, right now it is, and so many people go through this,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His personal experience has encouraged him to look into solutions for other people in the same boat once he joins Congress in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Bad credit alone shouldn’t mean that people have problems finding places to live,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the things he’s hoping<strong> <\/strong>to tackle include pushing the federal government to invest in affordable housing in areas of opportunity and to end rental application fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“It’s known that a lot of these big leasing companies and management companies will tell people with bad credit that it’s okay to apply because these application fees for a lot of these companies are actually a source of revenue. And that should not be allowed,” Frost said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come January, Frost said he<strong> <\/strong>won’t be caught sleeping in his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>“I think self preservation is important,” he said. “I think it’s important that we have spaces we can go to outside of work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman-elect Maxwell Frost was excited. He thought that for the first few months of living in DC, he’d be couch surfing to save money. But as luck would have it, he found an apartment in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood with monthly rent he figured he could swing. This week, he went to view the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":694,"date":"2022-12-22T00:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/?p=694"},"modified":"2022-12-22T00:16:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:16:03","slug":"smoke-weed-everyday-message-flashes-on-mumbai-display-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/smoke-weed-everyday-message-flashes-on-mumbai-display-board\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smoke weed everyday\u2019 message flashes on Mumbai display board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A video from Monday evening shows commuters driving past the LED display that flashed a \u2018smoke weed everyday\u2019 message. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commuters on Worli-bound road from Haji Ali were witness to a rather unusual visual message on Monday. The drivers and motorists driving on the road came across a ‘smoke weed everyday’ message flashing on the LED display board, one that was allegedly caused due to \u2018technical glitch\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Haji Ali, Mumbai – diversion sign now says "smoke weed everyday" <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ivdTItelUY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ivdTItelUY<\/a><\/p>— Akshat Deora (@tigerAkD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tigerAkD\/status\/1605153227565305856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a few meters away from the junction starting from Haji Ali dargah towards the city bakery\/ Worli Naka junction, the LED display is operating during the evening hours by L&T (Larsen and Toubro), who are also engaged in the construction of MCRP (Mumbai Coastal Road Project) that will seamlessly connect South Mumbai to the North part of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video from Monday evening shows commuters driving past the LED display that flashed a \u2018smoke weed everyday\u2019 message. The commuters on Worli-bound road from Haji Ali were witness to a rather unusual visual message on Monday. The drivers and motorists driving on the road came across a ‘smoke weed everyday’ message flashing on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbbnews.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]
Close
