(2019-11-18). Czech govt approves digital tax aimed at internet giants — ministry. rt.com 
The Czech government approved a seven percent digital tax proposal on Monday aimed at boosting state coffers by taxing advertising by global internet giants like Google and Facebook, the finance ministry said. | The proposed tax, which still must make it past lawmakers in parliament, covers revenue gained from targeted advertising, providing digital marketplaces, and user data sales, Reuters said. It will be aimed at services provided to Czech users. | The tax would apply to companies with global revenue over €750 million ($826.5 million) annually, 100 million crown ($4.32 million) turnover in the Czech m…
(2019-11-18). 'Meth. We're on it': Oddly-worded South Dakota drug awareness campaign 'breaks bad' on social media. rt.com 
South Dakota has rolled out a new anti-drug campaign warning about the dangers of substance abuse and costing taxpayers almost half a million. But its wording, "Meth. We're On It," has drawn ridicule online. | Taking a bizarre twist on "I am Spartacus," the ads portray average South Dakotans — a kindly old farmer, a churchgoing grandma, high school football players — sternly telling the camera "I'm on meth," with a narrator cutting in with the standard anti-drug PSA: "meth is not someone else's problem." | While the ads attempt to take a serious tone to address a crisis "growing at an alarming rat…
(2019-11-18). Are we the baddies? NBC chief foreign correspondent tweets amazement to find US foreign policy not always great. rt.com 
Hearing that the Americans "have become the bad guys" on the world stage was a "gut punch" to NBC News reporter Richard Engel, but Twitter quickly set the astonished journalist straight with some history and facts. | Engel, NBC's chief foreign correspondent, was informed of this shocking news via various "sources" who complained to him about the Trump administration's recent betrayal of the Kurds in northern Syria and the alleged "misogynistic" firing of the US ambassador to Ukraine. | Such politically motivated actions "m…
(2019-11-18). Another Death Penalty Horror: Stark Disparities in Media and Activist Attention. counterpunch.org 
On November 12, intrepid abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean tweeted to her legions of followers: "What do Sen. Ted Cruz, Gigi Hadid, Kim Kardashian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and me all have in common? We're among a growing local and national movement asking Texas @GovAbbott to stop the scheduled Nov. 20 execution of #RodneyReed[.]" But for Twitter's More
(2019-11-18). Gunman opens fire at backyard party in Fresno, California, 4 people killed. rt.com 
At least 10 people were shot in California after a gunman opened fire at a family gathering, police say. Four people have been killed while others have been taken to hospital. | Family and friends were watching football in the backyard when someone started shooting at them. No one has been arrested so far, with no information on a suspect realeased. | #BREAKING MASSIVE police response in a neighborhood by Peach/Pine in Fresno. Streets clogged with cars/ambulances…a lot of people being put on stretchers. Waiting to learn more. …
(2019-11-18). Trump 'likes the idea' of testifying in impeachment 'hoax' to get Congress 'focused'. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump may testify in impeachment hearings after all, he tweeted, calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's bluff after she broached the idea – though he also deemed the proceedings a "no due process hoax." | The president has warmed to the idea of testifying in the "phony impeachment Witch Hunt," he tweeted on Monday, explaining that "even though I did nothing wrong, and don't like giving credibility to this No Due Process Hoax, I like the idea & will, in order to get Congress focused again, strongly consider it!" | Crediting his change of mind to "Crazy, Do Nothing Speaker of the House, Nervous…
(2019-11-18). Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent. globalresearch.ca It's an open secret. The deep state is working hand in hand with Silicon Valley social media giants like Twitter, Facebook and Google to control the flow of information. That includes suppressing, censoring and sometimes outright purging dissenting voices — …
(2019-11-18). Establishment press attacks against Corbyn have sunk even further into the gutter. thecanary.co One week into the general election, new research shows that Jeremy Corbyn's Labour is getting more "press exposure" than any other party. But there's a huge issue with this. Because it isn't positive coverage. In fact, the establishment press is pushing a strong anti-Labour stance, and backing the Conservatives all the way. Again. So even given its history, the gutter press j…
(2019-11-18). Yes, Something Stinks about the State Takeover of the Houston Independent School District. commondreams.org "Something stinks in Texas," writes education historian Diane Ravtich. (Photo: United Federation of Teachers/ Facebook) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/hisd-ravitch.jpg …
(2019-11-18). Trump Sycophant Jon Voight to Receive National Medal of Arts. truthdig.com Jon Voight thinks Donald Trump is "the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln," which is probably reason enough for the praise-hungry president to give the star of movies like "Midnight Cowboy," "Coming Home" and "Deliverance" the National Medal of Arts. Once an annual tradition, Trump hasn't found anyone he deems sufficiently worthy (or suffici…
(2019-11-18). Bolivia: More Than 68,000 Fake Twitter Accounts Supported Coup. telesurenglish.net More than 68,000 fake Twitter accounts were created to support the coup d'état in Bolivia, revealed a recent study by Julián Macías Tovar, head of social networks for the Spanish party Podemos. | RELATED: | Thousands March in Response to Cochabamba Massacre: Bolivia | The specialist found that these false accounts used several labels to try to legitimize…
(2019-11-18). Anti-terror measures against youngsters' online posts 'linked to spike in child detention globally'. un.org More than 5.4 million children are detained around the world, rights experts said on Monday, highlighting "aggressive" State counterterrorism measures for the spike in youngsters held for alleged links with armed conflict or national security concerns based on their social media posts.
(2019-11-18). GRAPHIC VIDEO of lifelong smoker's black lungs goes viral. rt.com 
In what has already been dubbed the "best anti-smoking advert ever," a Chinese transplant surgeon has shared a video of his team removing a blackened pair of lungs from a failed organ donor. | Doctor Chen Jingyu, head surgeon of the transplant team at Wuxi People's Hospital in the Jiangsu Province, said the patient had died at just 52 years of age, after chain-smoking for 30 years. The man wanted his organs donated, but Jingyu's team quickly discovered that the blackened lungs were not remotely suitable for transplantation, as the graphic video shows. | The former heavy smoker's lungs showed all the signs of c…
(2019-11-17). A secretive propaganda unit is manipulating our social media. But it's not Russian. thecanary.co The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) dossier on Russian meddling into UK politics remains unpublished. But Britain has its own meddling 'agency' — a designated brigade of the British army. Moreover, it has a connection with Twitter management.Exclusively, The Canary can also reveal that one of the brigade's forerunners was a British army 'psyops' division linked with the parent body of discredited data miners Cambridge Analytica.Small world.Inside the 77th: In Ma…
(2019-11-17). Jeremy Corbyn says Labour will protect EU nationals who've 'made their homes in this country'. thecanary.co Jeremy Corbyn has remained tight-lipped about the contents of his party's general election manifesto but has insisted migration into Britain is vital to maintain the economy. | Labour met on 15 November, to hammer out the final details of the manifesto, which will be unveiled on 21 November | Corbyn refused to confirm whether free movement of people would end if the UK leaves the EU under a Labour government. | Shadow chancellor John McDonnell tweeted: "We just saw a Prime Minister on Marr and his name is Jeremy Corbyn". | We just saw a Prime Minister on Marr and his name is Jeremy Corbyn. Displaying the confiden…
(2019-11-17). Prince Andrew's BBC interview likened to 'a plane crashing into an oil tanker'. thecanary.co 
Prince Andrew's interview with the BBC's Newsnight may not have been the reputation saver he expected, but it gave people on social media plenty to talk about.BBC presenter Jeremy Vine spoke for many when he asked if anyone else was "struggling with the Woking angle?"Andrew said he could not have been at a London nightclub on March 10, 2001, as he had been at a Pizza Express restaurant in Woking, Surrey that evening and went home afterwards.Virginia Guiffre has claimed the prince had sex with her after they were introduced in…
(2019-11-17). CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying. peoplespolicyproject.org 
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
(2019-11-16). Venezuela Rejects Coup-Mongering Calls From the US. telesurenglish.net The Venezuelan government rejected Saturday a statement from United States Vice President Mike Pence, who called on the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to carry out a coup d'etat in the country. | RELATED: | 'The March Against Fascism' To Defend Venezuela and Latin America | 'We urge the Venezuelan military to join the Venezuelan people, not a despot. The Venezuelan army should be a force of good, the…
(2019-11-16). Trump's Ukraine Phone Call 'Unusual, Inappropriate': VP Aide. telesurenglish.net As public hearings continue part of the Congress' impeachment inquiry, a foreign policy aide to Vice President Mike Pence told lawmakers, according to a transcript released Saturday that the phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart was "inappropriate." | RELATED: | Trump's Tweet May Cause Him Charges for Obstruction of Justice | Jennifer Williams, who was listening to the call on July 25, testified that Trump's insistence that Ukraine carry ou…
(2019-11-15). Ex-Ukraine envoy's feelings that Trump 'threatened' her & his 'real-time attacks' on Twitter are IMPEACHABLE, Democrats say. rt.com 
Ex-ambassador Marie Yovanovitch feeling "threatened" by President Donald Trump and his tweet criticizing her "in real-time" during her testimony amount to new grounds for impeachment, Democrats and their media proxies claimed. | During Friday's impeachment hearing, Yovanovitch complained that she's been the victim of a "smear campaign" by the Trump administration, carried out particularly by the president's personal counsel Rudy Giuliani — and Trump himself. | The former ambassador recalled her reaction to the transcript of the phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a testi…
(2019-11-15). Western Media Whitewash Bolivia's Far-Right Coup. fair.org 
The phrase AP (Chattanooga Times Free Press, 11/13/19) is looking for is "self-declared." | Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation. | Jeanine àÅñez declared herself "interim president" in a near-empty Senate chamber on November 12, proceeding to don the presidential sash with the assistance of uniformed soldiers. Despite a lack of quorum rendering the move nakedly unconstitutional, àÅñez was immediate…
(2019-11-15). Whistleblowers Are Public Servants. We Must Protect Them. aclu.org President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke on the phone. The president insists the call was " perfect." Others are concerned that, during the call, the president intimated he would withhold financial aid appropriated to Ukraine unless the Ukrainian president agreed to investigate former-Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival of the president. | How do we even know about any of this? A…
(2019-11-14). Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent. mintpressnews.com 
| | It's an open secret. The deep state is wo…