Woman arrested trying to take 'deteriorating' 97-year-old mother out of care home
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-05
A woman was temporarily arrested and restrained by police after she attempted to take her 97-year-old mother out of a care home. | Video footage shared on social media by former Coronation Street actress Leandra Ashton appeared to capture part of the incident in a car park in Market Weighton in East Yorkshire on Tuesday. | In the two clips an upset Ashton claims she and her mother had taken her grandmother out of the home where she is "deteriorating" because they had not seen her for nine months. | The 97-year-old woman could be seen sitting in the passenger seat of a stationary car with a police vehicle parked i…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/11/05/woman-arrested-trying-to-take-deteriorating-97-year-old-mother-out-of-care-home/
Senior Prevent official accused of 'doxxing' over deleted tweet
Simon Hooper | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-05
Senior Prevent official accused of 'doxxing' over deleted tweet | Will Baldet, a regional Prevent coordinator, published photo of man he misidentified as anonymous critic of UK government's contentious counter-terrorism strategy | Simon Hooper | Thu, 11/05/2020 – 12: 53 | William Baldet, pictured here on the BBC's Newsnight in 2017, is a prominent advocate for Prevent (Screengrab) | A senior Prevent official has bee…
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Terrorist attack at Kabul University
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-04
TEHRAN, Nov. 04 (MNA) — ISIL, the Zionist-backed terrorist group has announced in a statement on social media that it takes responsibility for the attack on Kabul University which claimed the lives of 35 and wounded 50 people.
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Turkey slaps social media networks with millions of dollars' worth of fines
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-04
Turkey slaps social media networks with millions of dollars' worth of fines | Ankara took the step after companies such as Facebook and Twitter failed to assign a legal representative in the country as new law requires | Ragip Soylu | Wed, 11/04/2020 – 10: 21 | The Turkish government believes the social media network providers would eventually submit papers to assign legal representatives (AFP) | The Turkish governmen…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-slaps-social-media-networks-millions-dollars-fine
Capitalism's Worst Nightmare
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-04
On this week's show, Prof. Wolff explores what major social changes will flow from today's combination of major economic crash and the viral pandemic (capitalism's worst nightmare). To answer, we consider how European feudalism changed after its 14th century combination of economic decline and the bubonic plague. The two big changes then were (1) switching from a decentralized to a strong state, monarchical feudalism and (2) transition from feudalism to capitalism. The two big parallel changes now are…
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NZ publication rejects 'cancel culture' demand to fire columnist who called Maori MP's face tattoo 'ugly and uncivilized'
rt.com | 2020-11-04
A New Zealand news organization has rejected calls to fire one of its writers after she posted a series of tweets insulting the new foreign minister's Maori facial tattoo. | Olivia Pierson, author of 'Western Values Defended: A Primer' and a columnist at New Zealand media outlet the BFD, posted tweets criticizing the appointment of Nanaia Mahuta as the country's new foreign minister. Pierson made a number of derogatory remarks about Mahuta's Maori facial tattoos, calling them "ugly" and "uncivilized." | She als…
rt.com/news/505601-maori-tattoo-minister-author-supported/
France bans Turkish right-wing 'Grey Wolves' group for inciting 'discrimination and hatred'
rt.com | 2020-11-04
The French interior minister has announced that the Turkish nationalist group 'Grey Wolves' has been dissolved, adding that the organization was responsible for violent acts and incited discrimination and hatred. | On Wednesday, the Council of Ministers approved the dissolution of the Turkish nationalist group Grey Wolves in France. | The outcome of the meeting was announced by Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. He shared a photo of the decree on Twitter, adding that the group "was dissolved… in accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic." | It [the Grey Wolves group] incites discrimin…
rt.com/news/505593-france-islam-turkey-crackdown-greywolves/
Iran's Foreign Minister Starts Latin American Tour in Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-04
Iran's foreign minister began his trip to Latin America in Venezuela, where he arrived on Wednesday to promote a strategic alliance. | RELATED: | Like Old-Time Piracy: The US Seizes Venezuelan Oil and Sells It | "At 3: 45 am today [Wednesday], we welcomed the brother foreign minister of Iran, (Mohamad Yavad) Zarif. Each high-level visit deepens our strategic alliance, our brotherhood," announced Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza in a message posted on his Twitter accoun…
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US Elections: The essential numbers
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-03
The US elections that are being held today are not only about who becomes the next president but who also controls the Houses of Congress. Equally significant is the question of whether results will come out on time. We look at the key numbers in question. | To understand the basic issues in this election, we talked to Ben Becker of BreakThrough News. Do watch the interview at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeVIbT4KcEU…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/03/us-elections-the-essential-numbers/
'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-03
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which you can watch free on Youtube here or on Vimeo here. | "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…
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Newly Discovered Cellular Protection Pathway Blocks Ebola, COVID-19 Viruses
Hampton T. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-03
Faced with the urgent need for new antiviral strategies, investigators recently uncovered a surprising pathway that host cells use to protect against diverse viruses, including those that cause Ebola and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The findings, published in Science, point to a potential novel treatment target.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2772474
Pai's Destroying Internet Adoption, Not Just Net Neutrality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-03
Washington, DC (October 29, 2020) – During Tuesday's FCC open meeting, I was tweeting about the failures and falsehoods in the agency's latest open-internet vote — a decision that involves so much more than just Net Neutrality rules, and that's all about the Trump FCC's unlawful abdication of its responsibility for broadband policy. | The agency just released the final order, so this explainer recaps that Twitter thread and the Free Press research it came from. | During tumultuous times it can be hard to focus on internet and media policy issues like these.
popularresistance.org/pais-destroying-internet-adoption-not-just-net-neutrality/
Manu Koenig has not been honest about Civinomics
Santa Cruz News Network | indybay.org | 2020-11-03
In campaign materials, Manu Koenig has misrepresented his experience as CEO of Civinomics. Koenig, who is running for Santa Cruz County Supervisor in the First District, has stated on his campaign website that Civinomics was an "online voting platform" and that the company was retained in the past by the City of Santa Cruz simply to "conduct surveys". The truth is, the company was hired by the City in 2011 to actively market and promote a proposal to build a water desalination plant on the westside. Additionally, social media posts show that Civinomics, which was originally named Greenocracy, had advocated for de…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/02/18838018.php
Personal data of 1 million Swedes leaked to Facebook, Google & Microsoft by country's biggest insurer
rt.com | 2020-11-03
Sweden's largest insurer, Folksam, has revealed that it accidentally leaked sensitive private data from one million of its customers to some of the world's biggest tech companies. | Folksam confirmed on Tuesday that its information had been handed to "digital partners" including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Linkedin and Adobe. | The leaking of Folksam's data, including customers' social security numbers, has been going on as far back as 2005, according to local
rt.com/news/505424-sweden-data-leak-insurance-tech-giants/