2020-02-07: Social Media Postees

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Who is Behind "Fake News"? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-02-07
The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which they categorize as "fake news". Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down.
globalresearch.ca/who-is-behind-fake-news-mainstream-media-use-fake-videos-and-images/5557580

Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-07
With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)–more commonly known as the Iran accord–we all enter into a heightened zone of danger. Trump is threatening a war on Iran through his statements and tweets, and now by his actions, assassinating serving Iranian and Iraqi generals on Iraqi soil. Assassinations…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/libya-is-being-torn-apart-by-outsiders/

Libya is Being Torn Apart By Outsiders
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-02-07
With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)–more commonly known as the Iran accord–we all enter into a heightened zone of danger. Trump is threatening a war on Iran through his statements and tweets, and now by his actions, assassinating serving Iranian and Iraqi generals on Iraqi soil. Assassinations…
counterpunch.org/2020/02/07/libya-is-being-torn-apart-by-outsiders/

Well known Russian journalist Milashina & lawyer Dubrovina brutally attacked in Chechnya
rt.com | 2020-02-07
Gruesome details have emerged of an assault on a Russian journalist and her lawyer colleague after they arrived in Chechnya ahead of the high-profile local trial of a local activist. | Elena Milashina claims that she was attacked on Thursday evening, along with her companion Marina Dubrovina, in the local capital Grozny. According to Milashina's Facebook page, they were beaten by a large group of people inside the Kontinent Hotel, where they were was staying. | The group, numbering at least 15 members, approached the pair and, after a short verbal confrontation, brutally beat them for about a quarter of an hou…
rt.com/russia/480362-russian-lawyer-journalist-attacked-chechnya/

Climate protesters take a literal TROJAN HORSE to British Museum (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-02-07
Climate activists have wheeled a real-life Trojan Horse into the courtyard outside the British Museum to protest oil and gas giant British Petroleum's (BP) sponsorship of a new exhibition about ancient Troy. | The activist theater group 'BP or Not BP' built a replica of the Trojan Horse, built from reclaimed timber and discarded rope, which can seat 10 people. | @BBCNews Protestors breaking into The British Museum with a Trojan horse…..BP seemingly the target of their attention pic.twitter.com/qteYb8cIVs[mdas…
rt.com/uk/480307-climate-protesters-trojan-horse-bp/

Xi says China 'confident & capable' of beating coronavirus outbreak in phone call with Trump
rt.com | 2020-02-07
China has taken aggressive measures to combat a lethal viral outbreak sweeping the country, enacting the most comprehensive and strict efforts to contain the illness, President Xi Jingping told his American counterpart in a phone call. | Having declared a "people's war" on the fast-spreading coronavirus, Xi told President Donald Trump that China was "fully confident and capable" of overcoming the epidemic and was already seeing positive results, adding that Beijing's long term economic prospects would not change. | Trump responded by expressing confidence in Beijing's "strength and resilience" in confronting t…
rt.com/newsline/480282-xi-trump-call-coronavirus/

Laurie Garrett: World Can't Let Racist Attitudes Impact Handling of Coronavirus Outbreak
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-02-07
The Chinese doctor who warned the government about a possible coronavirus outbreak has died after contracting the virus while working at Wuhan Central Hospital. Thirty-four-year-old ophthalmologist Li Wenliang warned his fellow medical workers about coronavirus on December 30. He was then investigated by police and accused of "making false comments." His death has sparked a wave of anger and outrage in China, where the hashtag "We want freedom of speech" went viral on Chinese social media site Weibo this week. The death toll from the coronavirus has now topped 630 people in China, with more than 31,000 confirmed…
www.democracynow.org/2020/2/7/laurie_garrett_china_coronavirus_response

'Exposure incident': Police investigate Newcastle fan after viral 'willy windmill' celebration
rt.com | 2020-02-07
Police are investigating a Newcastle United fan who performed a 'willy windmill' on live TV as he celebrated his team's extra-time winner against Oxford United in the FA Cup earlier this week. | The fan was seen pulling down his jeans and swinging his penis around excitedly after Newcastle's Allan Saint-Maximin scored a 116th-minute stunner to hand his team a 3-2 win and send them into the fifth round of the competition on Tuesday. | The action

Coronavirus infections TRIPLE on cruise liner quarantined in Japan with thousands of passengers stuck in 'floating prison'
rt.com | 2020-02-07
Dozens of additional passengers aboard a cruise liner in Japan have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections on the ship to 61 as 3,700 people remain trapped on the quarantined vessel. | Stuck at the port of Yokohama since earlier this week, the ship's 3,700 passengers and crew face weeks of quarantine as medical workers test for signs of the deadly contagion. The ship is now like a "floating prison," one passenger said on social media, where haunting images have emerged showing its abandoned halls, once bustling with activity. | Of the thousands of passengers on board, 273 h…
rt.com/news/480277-japan-diamond-princess-coronavirus/

Oops! He Did It Again: Pakistani Science Minister Trolled Over 'Thong for RSS/BJP Extremists' Gaffe
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-07
New Delhi (Sputnik): Pakistan's Science and Technology Minister Chaudhry Fawad Hussain often becomes the target of trolls either for misspelling words or factual errors and is often lampooned by netizens.
sputniknews.com/viral/202002071078245326-oops-he-did-it-again-pakistani-science-minister-trolled-over-thong-for-rssbjp-extremists-gaffe/

Show Stopper: Busty Woman Flashes Breasts At Golf Tournament, Riles Up Social Media – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-02-07
The sudden display of female frontal nudity seemed to elicit cheers from some members of the audience, though it wasn't clear whether it managed to affect the game itself.
sputniknews.com/viral/202002071078255472-show-stopper-busty-woman-flashes-breasts-at-golf-tournament-riles-up-social-media—video/

Trump says 'great discipline' in China to tackle coronavirus outbreak
yenisafak.com | 2020-02-07
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday after a phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping that Beijing is showing "great discipline" in tackling the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 600 people in China."Nothing is easy, but he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone," Trump said on Twitter."Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!" ….he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm…
yenisafak.com/en/world/trump-says-great-discipline-in-china-to-tackle-coronavirus-outbreak-3511495

Facebook faces a lawsuit in Canada over refusal to do more to protect users' data
rt.com | 2020-02-06
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has brought the US company to court after it refused to take measures to protect personal information following a probe that showed it virtually shunned responsibility over users' data. | Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien now seeks Facebook to be declared in violation of Canada's privacy law and legally obliged to rectify "major shortcomings" in its privacy practices. | The lawsuit filed with Canada's Federal Court demands Facebook "implement effective, specific and easily accessible measures to obtain, and ensure it maintains, meaningful consent from all users." It also se…
rt.com/news/480269-canada-lawsuit-facebook-user-data/

Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
The Recombinant Interferon Alpha 2B (IFNrec), an antiviral produced by the Cuban biotech industry, is being used by Chinese doctors to treat patients infected by the 2019-nCoV coronavirus, which has affected more than 28,000 people and has killed 564 patients worldwide. | RELATED: | China Tests Russian Vaccine to Combat New Coronavirus | Since Jan. 25, the ChangHeber Company located in Changchun city has been producing the famous Cuban antiviral, which is one of 30 medicines chosen by…
telesurenglish.net/news/cuban-antiviral-used-against-coronavirus-in-china-20200206-0005.html

Chinese Slams "Racist" Reports by German Media over Coronavirus
telesurenglish.net | 2020-02-06
The Chinese embassy in Germany on Wednesday slammed reports by a German magazine over the outbreak of the new coronavirus in China, saying they are racist and xenophobic. | RELATED: | Chinese Doctors Are Using Cuban Antivirals Against Coronavirus | The Chinese embassy in Germany denounced in a statement media outlets in Germany "that are self-claimed to objectivity an…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chinese-Slams-Racist-Reports-by-German-Media-over-Coronavirus-20200206-0012.html

Coronavirus kills 69 more people in China's Hubei as total cases soar beyond 31,000
rt.com | 2020-02-06
China's Hubei province, the epicenter of a lethal viral outbreak, has reported just shy of 2,500 additional cases of the illness and 69 new deaths, bringing the worldwide disease toll to over 31,000, with at least 639 fatalities. | As the spread of the novel coronavirus begins to slow in Hubei, the World Health Organization said on Thursday that it was too early to conclude that the outbreak had reached its peak, with the executive director of the agency's Health Emergencies Program, Mike Ryan, telling a conference in Geneva it was "too early to make predictions on numbers." The day before marked one of the de…
rt.com/news/480272-coronavirus-hubei-death-toll/

DNC Calls for a 'Recanvass' of Iowa Results After Delays
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-02-06
"Enough is enough," party leader Tom Perez writes on Twitter, after days of chaos; Buttigieg and Sanders are nearly tied for first.
truthdig.com/articles/dnc-calls-for-a-recanvass-of-iowa-results-after-delays/

'Must have studied theology at Trump University': Donald Jr. schooled after trying for Pelosi diss with Bible reference
rt.com | 2020-02-06
Donald Trump Jr. got an unexpected Bible lesson when going after Nancy Pelosi with a Satan reference and learned that he didn't know the holy text well enough. | Don Jr. has plenty of reasons to insult Pelosi, but his latest diss didn't really hit the mark. | "Likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trump is about the same as the likelihood of Satan running around quoting the Scriptures," Trump Jr. tweeted in response to a video of his father at the National Prayer Breakfast criticizing people who "use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong." | Likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trum…
rt.com/usa/480264-donald-trump-jr-satan-pelosi/

Can the U.S. and Iran Avoid a Disastrous Collision?
Prabir Purkayastha | zcomm.org | 2020-02-06
Source: Independent Media Institute With the United States walking out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)–more commonly known as the Iran accord–we all enter into a heightened zone of danger. Trump is threatening a war on Iran through his statements and tweets, and now by his actions, assassinating serving Iranian and Iraqi generals Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/can-the-u-s-and-iran-avoid-a-disastrous-collision/

Pelosi the paper (ripping) tiger: Pro-wrestling theatrics at SOTU fail to pull the wool in latest divide & conquer move
rt.com | 2020-02-05
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's speech-ripping performance at President Donald Trump's SOTU isn't fooling disaffected Democrats, who want a leader who actually stands up to the president, rather than #Resistance theatrics. | Pelosi's if-looks-could-kill glare and paper-tearing finale at the president's yearly address to Congress on Tuesday may have dominated the discussion on social media through the night, but for every blue-check cheering for "Nancy the Ripper," there was a jaded progressive wondering what happened to genuine opposition. | Democrats handed Trump a blank check to make war, a massive military bud…
rt.com/usa/480162-pelosi-ripper-theatrics-wrestling-fail/

Unleash the meme war! Pompeo mocks Pelosi's speech-tearing stunt with 'Simpsons' screenshot
rt.com | 2020-02-05
The grandstanding between President Trump and Speaker Pelosi during the State of the Union address has triggered an avalanche of memes online, with Mike Pompeo taking part among others. | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted a 'Simpsons' meme showing a tearful Lisa Simpson tearing papers into shreds in season 3 of the popular series. | pic.twitter.com/AaopLt8f9f– Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) February 5, 2020 | The obvious dig at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who tore in half her…
rt.com/usa/480107-pompeo-mocks-pelosi-meme/

Coronavirus: UN health agency moves fast to tackle 'infodemic'; Guterres warns against stigmatization
news.un.org | 2020-02-04
The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken steps to ensure that the coronavirus epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in central China does not spark a dangerous social media "infodemic" fuelled by false information.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/02/1056672

US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi's Facebook and Instagram…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/social-media-giants-disappear-popular-iranian-venezuelan-accounts/

US government censorship? Social media giants disappear accounts of Iranian and Venezuelan academics, journalists
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-01-30
Red Lines host Anya Parampil talks with Professor Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran. Professor Marandi's Facebook and Instagram…
thegrayzone.com/2020/01/30/social-media-giants-disappear-popular-iranian-venezuelan-accounts/