Daily Archives: June 4, 2020

2020-06-04: News Headlines

Eds. (2020-06-04). Capitalism, Climate Change, and Pandemic: Rob Wallace, Mike Davis, and Sabrina Fernandes. mronline.org Join us and Fórum Popular da Natureza on Friday, June 5, at 6 pm ET/5 pm CT, for a conversation with Monthly Review author Rob Wallace, Mike Davis, and Sabrina Fernandes about capitalism, climate catastrophe, and pandemics. The event will be in English with simultaneous translation in Portuguese. To find out more, check out the Facebook …

Thom Hartmann (2020-06-04). How Immunity for Cops and Facebook Kills Americans. counterpunch.org When you tell people they won't be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That's what's happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today. Removing those dual immunities could dramatically change—for the better—the lives of millions of Americans. For police, the

Rev Dr Liz Theoharis (2020-06-04). Organizing the Rich or the Poor? commondreams.org Those of us in the welfare rights movement always saw our work as the kindling for a wildfire of organizing by the poor and dispossessed. (Photo: Poor People's Campaign/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ppc_0.jpg

John Davis (2020-06-04). Our History is Our Future. counterpunch.org We can be sure that the public grandiloquence of Barack Obama grated mightily on at least half of the country during his eight years in the Oval Office. Now, we Libtards find every Trump tweet excruciatingly inane — or horrifyingly inflammatory. As ever, it is the style, not the content, of American political leadership that

Alan Macleod (2020-06-03). Attorney Resigns From Use of Force Committee After Being Shot, Gassed by Denver Police. mintpressnews.com Elisabeth Epps, a Colorado-based attorney and bail activist, publicly resigned from the Denver Police Department's Use of Force Committee last night after being shot and tear gassed by the same force she was trying to regulate. "Plenty of Black folks will shuck & jive for ya, it just can't be me anymore," Epps said via Twitter, sharing pictures of the welts across her body and legs from police gunshots. | Dear After 3 years working on your Use of Force committee, I hereby resign. | We met last Thursday with Chief Pazen. Hours late…

_____ (2020-06-03). My white friend asked me to explain white privilege, so I decided to be honest. truepublica.org.uk By Lori Lakin Hutcherson: Yesterday I was tagged in a Facebook post by an old high school friend asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful …

Fight Back (2020-06-02). Jax Fraternal Order of Police president threatens local teacher. fightbacknews.org Jacksonville, FL – Just hours after 3500 people rallied for police accountability in downtown Jacksonville on May 30, the president of the city's police union took to Facebook and threatened a local teacher and community activist. | The target of these threats was Christina Kittle of the Jacksonville Community Action Committee (JCAC), who helped co-organize and lead the massive May 30 peaceful protest. Kittle also teaches middle school civics in Jacksonville, where she serves as her school's union representative. | "This is Christina Kittle, one of the organizers of the so-called peaceful protest today in Jackson…

Shenali D Waduge (2020-06-02). George Floyd Murder Enflames US. America Is a Failed State. globalresearch.ca On 26 May 2020 social media watched a black man (George Floyd) handcuffed and pinned to the pavement pleading to the 4 white American police officers — 'I can't breathe'. Onlookers watching George, whose neck was being pressed …

Flanagin A, Bauchner H, Fontanarosa PB. (2020-06-02). Patient and Study Participant Rights to Privacy in Journal Publication. jamanetwork.com Personal health information is defined as identifiable data related to the past, present, or future health status of an individual. Personal health information has been considered protected health information, which is governed by ethical principles and laws to shield against intrusions into an individual's rights to privacy. However, rapid growth in the volume of electronic health records, access to other health information, and increasing use of personal health data by artificial intelligence, social media, technology, and other companies are threatening the traditional tenets of privacy protections for persona…

Michael T. Hertz (2020-06-02). Tribe Thumps Trump's Tweet. nationofchange.org Trump uses tweets as a means of keeping his image out in the public without paying a dime.

RT (2020-06-04). 'I love to hate-f*ck': Sex worker offers to SLEEP with any officer who hangs up badge at Houston protest (VIDEO). rt.com As thousands take to the streets in cities across the US to protest police brutality, one sex worker in Texas sought to sacrifice her night's pay for the cause, offering to spend the night with any cop who quits in viral video.

RT (2020-06-04). 'FAKE WOKENESS': Video game firm Bethesda switches profile images to LGBT pride flag… but NOT on Middle East account. rt.com The Bethesda video game company has drawn the ire of netizens who noticed that it had changed its Twitter profile logos to a rainbow flag to celebrate LGBT Pride Month, but made an exception for its Middle East account. | The American firm has been flooded with comments accusing it of insincerity and meaningless virtue signaling in its quest to appear woke. Many angry gamers suggested that the only thing Bethesda cared about was money — and that if LGBT rights were truly high on its agenda, the Middle East account would also display the pride flag. | it's 100% real. | Been laughing for a good 3minutes st…

Staff (2020-06-02). Headlines for June 2, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Threatens to Send Military into Streets to Crack Down on Nationwide Uprising, Protests Spread Around the U.S. and the Globe as Autopsies Confirm George Floyd Died of Homicide, Louisville Police Chief Fired After African American Man Shot and Killed Monday, 15,000 People Attend Youth Rally in Oakland, CA; Police Continue Attacks on Protesters, Outrage After White Bar Owner Who Shot and Killed 22-Year-Old James Scurlock Dodges Criminal Charge, Facebook Workers Stage Virtual "Walkout," Call Out Inaction on Trump's Posts Inciting Violence, Iranian Scientist Who Contracted COVID-19 in ICE Jail Is Deported, First…

Andrey Areshev (2020-06-02). Many US Journalists Arrested After New York Times Falsely Claims That Doesn't Happen In America. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | arrested a CNN reporter named Omar Jimenez the other day while he was live on air covering the protest of George Floyd's murder by police in Minneapolis. | The arrest was preceded by hours of sycophantic police-worshipping CNN coverage and followed by days of self-righteous preening by the entire corporate media machine about the crucial role of journalism in a free society, with Zachary Evans (2020-06-03). Susan Rice Blames Russia for George Floyd Riots: 'Right out of the Russian Playbook'. anti-empire.com Editor's note: So is CNN's Chris Cuomo (of the twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1267987525198585856 |
| Former Obama adviser Susan Rice has blamed the violent protests that rocked major American cities over the weekend on "foreign actors," and even suggested that Russia could be involved in stirring them up. | "I'm not reading the intelligence today, or these days — but based on my experience, this is right out of the Russian playbook," Rice, who served as national-security advise…

Tom Coburg (2020-06-04). UK government wants your credit details and more, with some help from Cummings's pals. thecanary.co The artificial intelligence (AI) firm employed by Dominic Cummings on the Vote Leave project is now working directly with the government on a highly sensitive data-matching project. | The Canary has obtained a partly redacted version of the project's In short, according to the contract, the government will be able to match someone's credit details with their social media accounts and their utilities payments. All, apparently, to assist in coronavirus (Covid-19) intelligence gathe…

RT (2020-06-04). 'Kiss my shoes': Two British teenagers arrested after video showing pair racially abusing black boy goes viral. rt.com Two teenagers have been arrested in England after a shocking video went viral on social media, showing a young man and woman racially bullying a black boy and telling him to get on his knees and kiss their shoes. | Footage of two youths in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire abusing the boy was shared on Snapchat on Wednesday night. West Yorkshire Police confirmed on Thursday morning that the two teenagers had been arrested in connection with the racially aggravated incident. | Chief Superintendent Julie Sykes of Kirklees Police said a 17-year-old male had been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated common assa…

RT (2020-06-04). Gandhi statue near Indian Embassy in US capital 'desecrated' by vandals amid ongoing police brutality protests (PHOTOS). rt.com A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been defaced in the US capital, with vandals spray-painting obscenities on the monument as heated protests carry on in the city. Police have yet to identify the culprits. | Photos of the statue circulated on social media on Wednesday, some appearing to show the words "rapist" and "racist" scrawled on its base in bright orange paint. The DC Park Police have launched an investigation, though few other details were made public, according to ANI. | Walked by

RT (2020-06-04). The Great Screen Robbery: Chicago looters make off with TVs & other expensive goods from MOVING TRAIN in broad daylight (VIDEO). rt.com Video has emerged online purporting to show looters audaciously stealing flat screen TVs and other electronics from a slow-moving freight train in Chicago, as mass protests raged across the US. | As the wave of peaceful anti-police brutality protests continue across the US — along with violent and chaotic rioting — in the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, reports of looting have been widespread. | Unverified footage posted to YouTube showing screen recordings of a Facebook Live, allegedly taken in Chicago on Sunday, shows dozens of people pilfering a moving…

RT (2020-06-04). Facebook selectively slaps 'state-controlled media' warning on some government-funded outlets ahead of 2020 US elections. rt.com Facebook is labeling content posted by state-funded media outlets and plans to bar them from running ads in a conveniently loophole-packed effort to prevent "foreign influence" in the 2020 US presidential election. | Russian and Chinese media outlets' pages have already been graced with the new warning labels, which Facebook announced on Thursday in a

RT (2020-06-04). 'Practice the eye gouge': Project Veritas claims to have INFILTRATED ANTIFA, will 'expose its violent nature'. rt.com Conservative investigative website Project Veritas claims it has "infiltrated" the controversial Antifa movement to expose its "violent nature," days after Donald Trump said he would declare it a "terrorist organization." | Project Veritas' James O'Keefe tweeted a five-minute teaser clip of its investigation into the Antifa (anti-fascist) movement on Thursday, promising more would be revealed on Friday. | One alleged Antifa organizer caught on camera said the "whole goal of this is to get out there and do dangerous things as safely as possible." Another suggested practicing "things like the eye gouge," because…

RT (2020-06-04). CANDACE OWENS slammed as 'WHITE SUPREMACIST' and 'RACIST' for declaring George Floyd 'not a martyr or hero'. rt.com Candace Owens is being called a racist by supporters of the protests over George Floyd's death for simply highlighting his criminal past and arguing against him becoming a "martyr" to black Americans. | "I do not support George Floyd and a media depiction of him as a martyr for black America," Owens said in a video that has now gone viral. | Owens acknowledges Floyd should not have died in police custody — the four officers involved in the incident are now being charged — and she hopes his family "gets justice." | She added the response to Floyd's death shows a "broken black culture" in America, on…

RT (2020-06-03). OBEY! NY Governor Cuomo's curfew billboard spawns dystopian memes. rt.com Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken over a billboard in New York City's Columbus Circle to give updates on the curfew. Its eerie aesthetic drew dystopian comparisons and fueled a lot of memes. | In addition to the curfew schedule, the billboard features a variety of changing text messages, which for whatever reason seem to be designed to look like the governor's tweets: "DO NOT BE A CRIMINAL," "LOOTING INSULTS GEORGE FLOYD'S MEMORY," "HELP ME RESTORE CALM." | The dystopian aesthetic has been widely panned on social media, prompting horrified reactions like "We are living in a dystopian nightmare. Please tell me th…

sputniknews (2020-06-04). Searching 'Racist' on Twitter Yielded Donald Trump's Profile as Top Result. sputniknews.com Typing "racist" into Twitter's people search yielded US President Donald Trump as the first suggested account on Wednesday, the British news outlet The Independent first reported.

sputniknews (2020-06-02). Trump Faces New Lawsuit Over Executive Order Targeting Twitter – Advocacy Group. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump faces a new lawsuit accusing him of breaking the First Amendment to the US Constitution by issuing an executive order targeting Twitter and other social media platforms as they seek to counter misinformation, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said in a news release.

_____ (2020-06-04). Millions Of Tenants Are Ready For A Rent Strike Revolution. popularresistance.org Calls to "cancel rent" are catching fire. First came a couple of tweets on Twitter. Then progressive firebrands like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed the #CancelRent movement. Now, millions are on a rent strike. Even presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has declared his support for rent and mortgage forgiveness. As millions of tenants mobilize to cancel rent, they are not asking nicely or relying on lip service from politicians. Rather, millions of tenants are taking action by using a powerful time-tested strategy: rent strikes. | As the desperation builds and another month of bill…

_____ (2020-06-04). LA City Council President Introduces Motion To Cut LAPD Funding. popularresistance.org The president of Los Angeles's city council introduced a motion Wednesday that would direct officials to identify millions of dollars' worth of funding cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) following criticism of the department's treatment of protesters. | Councilwoman Nury Martinez (D) said in a statement released on Twitter that the move was about resetting the city's priorities in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody last week. Video of Floyd's arrest and death sparked protests around the country, including in Los Angeles. | "Today we intrdcd a mo…

_____ (2020-06-04). As Protests Rage Over George Floyd's Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice. popularresistance.org Friends of the Earth tweeted #BlackLivesMatter, and the head of the NRDC promised: "to be fully and visibly committed to the fight against systemic racism." | When New York Communities for Change helped lead a demonstration of 500 on Monday in Brooklyn to protest George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, the grassroots group's activism spoke to a long-standing link between police violence against African Americans and environmental justice. | Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization, said she considers showing up to fight police brutality and racial vi…

_____ (2020-06-02). Extremists Are Among Those Fomenting Violence In Twin Cities. popularresistance.org Protesters and onlookers have posted numerous videos and accounts of confrontations with white men on social media, sometimes including symbols associated with fringe groups that originated online. | Many people have also told MPR News reporters of witnessing armed men in Minneapolis. | Bridget Schumann was out for a run near Calhoun Square in south Minneapolis on Friday night when she saw a truck that was being driven aggressively, honking and intimidating other drivers. The truck had a big white sticker on the back of the cab with the OK sign symbol associated with white supremacists. | "There were two men in t…

_____ (2020-06-02). Trump Labels Anitfa As A Terrorist Organization Without Any Basis In Fact. popularresistance.org United States President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that the U.S. will go ahead and label Antifa as a "terrorist organization," raising serious concerns about the unconstitutionality of such a threat if carried out. | "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization," Trump said, as protests over the murder of the black man, George Floyd, continued in at least 30 cities in the United States on Sunday, with Minneapolis as the epicenter. | Without evidence, Trump and several top officials from his administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, have blamed Antifa an…

ahtribune (2020-05-30). Lenses on Riots, Murder, and Racism in the US and Hong Kong. ahtribune.com The despicable police murder of a person, another Black person, who allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill has caused widespread revulsion among Americans. This time, however, authorities acted relatively quickly calling in the FBI and firing all four police officers at the scene — Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, Tou Thao, and J Alexander Kueng. | http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCqRY562XQs | George Floyd, who did not resist, was forcibly extricated from his vehicle by police, handcuffed, whereupon officer Derek Chauvin knelt for 8 minutes on Floyd;s neck while he pleaded that he was unable to breathe. Floyd's…

Staff (2020-05-29). Twitter Warns Trump Tweet Glorifies Violence as He Signs Executive Order to Weaken Social Media. democracynow.org As President Trump calls Minneapolis protesters "THUGS" and tweets, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," Twitter flags the tweet with a warning it glorifies violence, just as Trump signs an executive order to punish social media companies for how they monitor content. "Trump has prospered through his use of social media and its attention-hoarding algorithms to basically disinform and misinform people," says Ramesh Srinivasan, professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Staff (2020-05-29). Headlines for May 29, 2020. democracynow.org Protests Rage After Minneapolis Prosecutor Does Not Bring Charges Against Officers Who Killed George Floyd, Scores Tear-Gassed, Arrested as Protests Against George Floyd's Killing Spread to Other Cities, Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Glorifying Violence After President Attacks Minnesota Protesters as "THUGS", Trump Executive Order Threatens to Punish Social Media Companies over Fact-Checking, U.S. Economy Sheds Another 2.1 Million Jobs, Leaving 40.7 Million Unemployed Since Start of Pandemic, Pennsylvania Democratic Lawmakers Accuse Republicans of Knowingly Exposing Them to Coronavirus, Protesters Demand ICE Empt…

news.un (2020-05-29). UN human rights office welcomes moves to curtail spread of hatred and violence online. news.un.org The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has welcomed steps taken by social media companies to prevent their platforms from being used to promote hatred, violence and misinformation, Spokesperson Rupert Colville said on Friday.

Ryan Cristián (2020-05-29). James Corbett Interview — The Social Media Regulation Psyop. thelastamericanvagabond.com Originally Published August 26 2018 In a time of such obvious deceit and aggressive manipulation, not only by those who once sought our votes or our subservience but today even by each other, unwittingly doing the bidding of those who seek to control our every purchase, our every click, view and action, one would think …

Kate Ruane (2020-05-29). President Trump has No Idea How Online Speech Works. aclu.org Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at bullying social media companies and online platforms into changing how they moderate content online. The order came the day after President Trump tweeted that Republicans feel that social media platforms silence conservative voices. And, notably, just days after Twitter's decision to place a fact-checking

Staff (2020-05-28). "No Justification": Minneapolis Demands Murder Charges for Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd. democracynow.org Parts of Minneapolis erupted into flames Wednesday night as residents again took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. A viral video shows Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for a number of minutes as Floyd repeatedly says "I cannot breathe." Three other officers stood by as George Floyd suffocated. They have been identified as Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng. All four officers were fired on Tuesday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called on prosecutors to file criminal charges against Derek Chauvin. We speak wit…

Nathan Freed Wessler (2020-05-28). We're Taking Clearview AI to Court to End its Privacy-Destroying Face Surveillance Activities. aclu.org For several years, a little-known start-up based in New York has been amassing a database of billions of our faceprints — unique biometric identifiers akin to a fingerprint or DNA profile — drawn from personal photos on our social media accounts and elsewhere online. The company has captured these faceprints in secret, without our knowledge, much less our consent, using everything from casual selfies to photos of birthday parties, college graduations, weddings, and so much more., , Unbeknownst to the public, this company has offered up this massive faceprint database to private companies, police,…

Weston Struwe, Edward Emmott, Melanie Bailey, Michal Sharon, Andrea Sinz, Fernando J Corrales, Kostas Thalassinos, Julian Braybrook, Clare Mills, Perdita Barran, COVID-19 MS Coalition (2020-05-27). [Correspondence] The COVID-19 MS Coalition—accelerating diagnostics, prognostics, and treatment. thelancet.com Rapid and comprehensive genetic sequencing has shed light on the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and allowed timely implementation of PCR tests to determine the presence of viral RNA. PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 are some way from being reliably qualitative and will never indicate how the disease might progress in an individual. As COVID-19 becomes endemic, there is a concomitant need for accurate serological assays to detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 antigens and ultimately tests for prognostic markers to target treatment options.

Charles Hugh Smith (2020-05-26). An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks to Decline Is Too Fragile to Survive. anti-empire.com Feast your eyes on the chart below of the Nasdaq 100 stock market Index, which is dominated by the six FAAMNG (rhymes with "famine") stocks: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix and Google which now account for over 20% of the entire U.S. stock market's capitalization. | Notice that despite the global economy sliding into a debt-bust depression, the NDX is within kissing distance of new all-time highs. You're joking, right? Sales and profits won't slide as the depression steps on the neck of hundreds of millions of households? | As you've probably heard by now, sales don't matter, profits don't matter, cos…

Elizabeth M. Hechenbleikner, Daniel V. Samarov, Ed Lin (2020-05-23). [Commentary] Data explosion during COVID-19: A call for collaboration with the tech industry & data scrutiny. thelancet.com The volume and speed of data generation in biomedical literature, social media, and other resources during the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. This mountain of data is growing daily across PubMed, Twitter, Google Scholar, and the World Health Organization's COVID-19 database [1], naming a few. The recently published COVID-19 Twitter dataset may offer insights into multiple topics from compliance with social distancing to assembling homemade masks and mental health tips [2]. Beyond social media, the massive COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) has been assembled from tech giants like Microsoft, the Allen I…

Annika Stechemesser, Leonie Wenz, Anders Levermann (2020-05-19). [Commentary] Corona crisis fuels racially profiled hate in social media networks. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic has the world firmly in its grip with more than 2.5 million confirmed cases worldwide [1] and over 100 countries in full or partial lockdown [2] (as of April 24th, 2020). Although political leaders call for solidarity and people all over the world have started support initiatives, various incidents prove that the corona outbreak has also given rise to a series of discrimination and racist attacks against Chinese people and people with Asian looking features [3—5]. These attacks are not restricted to the physical space but pertain to social media networks as well.

2020-06-04: Social Media Postees

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How Immunity for Cops and Facebook Kills Americans
Thom Hartmann | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-04
When you tell people they won't be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That's what's happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today. Removing those dual immunities could dramatically change–for the better–the lives of millions of Americans. For police, the…
counterpunch.org/2020/06/04/how-immunity-for-cops-and-facebook-kills-americans/

How Immunity for Cops and Facebook Kills Americans
Thom Hartmann | zcomm.org | 2020-06-04
When you tell people they won't be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That's what's happened with our police and our social media…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-immunity-for-cops-and-facebook-kills-americans/

Tales from the Fakebook
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-06-04
What does facebook actually represent? An artistic depiction contrary to how Facebook depicts itself.
dissidentvoice.org/2020/06/tales-from-the-fakebook/

Capitalism, Climate Change, and Pandemic: Rob Wallace, Mike Davis, and Sabrina Fernandes
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-06-04
Join us and Fórum Popular da Natureza on Friday, June 5, at 6 pm ET/5 pm CT, for a conversation with Monthly Review author Rob Wallace, Mike Davis, and Sabrina Fernandes about capitalism, climate catastrophe, and pandemics. The event will be in English with simultaneous translation in Portuguese. To find out more, check out the Facebook …
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Organizing the Rich or the Poor?
Rev Dr Liz Theoharis | commondreams.org | 2020-06-04
Those of us in the welfare rights movement always saw our work as the kindling for a wildfire of organizing by the poor and dispossessed. (Photo: Poor People's Campaign/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ppc_0.jpg
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Our History is Our Future
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-06-04
We can be sure that the public grandiloquence of Barack Obama grated mightily on at least half of the country during his eight years in the Oval Office. Now, we Libtards find every Trump tweet excruciatingly inane

Attorney Resigns From Use of Force Committee After Being Shot, Gassed by Denver Police
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-06-03
Elisabeth Epps, a Colorado-based attorney and bail activist, publicly resigned from the Denver Police Department's Use of Force Committee last night after being shot and tear gassed by the same force she was trying to regulate. "Plenty of Black folks will shuck & jive for ya, it just can't be me anymore," Epps said via Twitter, sharing pictures of the welts across her body and legs from police gunshots. | Dear @DenverPolice, | After 3 years working on your Use of Force committee, I hereby resign. | We met last Thursday with Chief Pazen. Hours late…
mintpressnews.com/attorney-elisabeth-epp-resigns-use-of-force-committee-shot-denver-police/268223/

My white friend asked me to explain white privilege, so I decided to be honest
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-06-03
By Lori Lakin Hutcherson: Yesterday I was tagged in a Facebook post by an old high school friend asking me and a few others a very public, direct question about white privilege and racism. I feel compelled not only to publish his query but also my response to it, as it may be a helpful …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/my-white-friend-asked-me-to-explain-white-privilege-so-i-decided-to-be-honest/

Jax Fraternal Order of Police president threatens local teacher
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-06-02
Jacksonville, FL – Just hours after 3500 people rallied for police accountability in downtown Jacksonville on May 30, the president of the city's police union took to Facebook and threatened a local teacher and community activist. | The target of these threats was Christina Kittle of the Jacksonville Community Action Committee (JCAC), who helped co-organize and lead the massive May 30 peaceful protest. Kittle also teaches middle school civics in Jacksonville, where she serves as her school's union representative. | "This is Christina Kittle, one of the organizers of the so-called peaceful protest today in Jackson…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/6/2/jax-fraternal-order-police-president-threatens-local-teacher

Patient and Study Participant Rights to Privacy in Journal Publication
Flanagin A, Bauchner H, Fontanarosa PB. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-06-02
Personal health information is defined as identifiable data related to the past, present, or future health status of an individual. Personal health information has been considered protected health information, which is governed by ethical principles and laws to shield against intrusions into an individual's rights to privacy. However, rapid growth in the volume of electronic health records, access to other health information, and increasing use of personal health data by artificial intelligence, social media, technology, and other companies are threatening the traditional tenets of privacy protections for persona…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2766612

George Floyd Murder Enflames US. America Is a Failed State
Shenali D Waduge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-06-02
On 26 May 2020 social media watched a black man (George Floyd) handcuffed and pinned to the pavement pleading to the 4 white American police officers

Tribe Thumps Trump's Tweet
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2020-06-02
Trump uses tweets as a means of keeping his image out in the public without paying a dime.
nationofchange.org/2020/06/02/tribe-thumps-trumps-tweet/

'I love to hate-f*ck': Sex worker offers to SLEEP with any officer who hangs up badge at Houston protest (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-04
As thousands take to the streets in cities across the US to protest police brutality, one sex worker in Texas sought to sacrifice her night's pay for the cause, offering to spend the night with any cop who quits in viral video. | …
rt.com/usa/490702-sex-worker-houston-protest/

'FAKE WOKENESS': Video game firm Bethesda switches profile images to LGBT pride flag… but NOT on Middle East account
rt.com | 2020-06-04
The Bethesda video game company has drawn the ire of netizens who noticed that it had changed its Twitter profile logos to a rainbow flag to celebrate LGBT Pride Month, but made an exception for its Middle East account. | The American firm has been flooded with comments accusing it of insincerity and meaningless virtue signaling in its quest to appear woke. Many angry gamers suggested that the only thing Bethesda cared about was money

Susan Rice Blames Russia for George Floyd Riots: 'Right out of the Russian Playbook'
Zachary Evans | anti-empire.com | 2020-06-03
Editor's note: So is CNN's Chris Cuomo (of the it's-illegal-to-read-Wikileaks fame) Russian? | twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1267987525198585856 | | Former Obama adviser Susan Rice has blamed the violent protests that rocked major American cities over the weekend on "foreign actors," and even suggested that Russia could be involved in stirring them up. | "I'm not reading the intelligence today, or these days

UK government wants your credit details and more, with some help from Cummings's pals
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-06-04
The artificial intelligence (AI) firm employed by Dominic Cummings on the Vote Leave project is now working directly with the government on a highly sensitive data-matching project. | The Canary has obtained a partly redacted version of the project's contract, and the details are scary. | In short, according to the contract, the government will be able to match someone's credit details with their social media accounts and their utilities payments. All, apparently, to assist in coronavirus (Covid-19) intelligence gathe…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/06/04/uk-government-wants-your-credit-details-help-cummings-pals/

Gandhi statue near Indian Embassy in US capital 'desecrated' by vandals amid ongoing police brutality protests (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-06-04
A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been defaced in the US capital, with vandals spray-painting obscenities on the monument as heated protests carry on in the city. Police have yet to identify the culprits. | Photos of the statue circulated on social media on Wednesday, some appearing to show the words "rapist" and "racist" scrawled on its base in bright orange paint. The DC Park Police have launched an investigation, though few other details were made public, according to ANI. | Walked by @IndianEmbassyUS staff reporti…
rt.com/usa/490703-gandhi-statue-defaced-protests/

The Great Screen Robbery: Chicago looters make off with TVs & other expensive goods from MOVING TRAIN in broad daylight (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-06-04
Video has emerged online purporting to show looters audaciously stealing flat screen TVs and other electronics from a slow-moving freight train in Chicago, as mass protests raged across the US. | As the wave of peaceful anti-police brutality protests continue across the US

CANDACE OWENS slammed as 'WHITE SUPREMACIST' and 'RACIST' for declaring George Floyd 'not a martyr or hero'
rt.com | 2020-06-04
Candace Owens is being called a racist by supporters of the protests over George Floyd's death for simply highlighting his criminal past and arguing against him becoming a "martyr" to black Americans. | "I do not support George Floyd and a media depiction of him as a martyr for black America," Owens said in a video that has now gone viral. | Owens acknowledges Floyd should not have died in police custody

'Kiss my shoes': Two British teenagers arrested after video showing pair racially abusing black boy goes viral
rt.com | 2020-06-04
Two teenagers have been arrested in England after a shocking video went viral on social media, showing a young man and woman racially bullying a black boy and telling him to get on his knees and kiss their shoes. | Footage of two youths in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire abusing the boy was shared on Snapchat on Wednesday night. West Yorkshire Police confirmed on Thursday morning that the two teenagers had been arrested in connection with the racially aggravated incident. | Chief Superintendent Julie Sykes of Kirklees Police said a 17-year-old male had been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated common assa…
rt.com/uk/490789-teenagers-arrested-abuse-black-holmfirth-video/

Facebook selectively slaps 'state-controlled media' warning on some government-funded outlets ahead of 2020 US elections
rt.com | 2020-06-04
Facebook is labeling content posted by state-funded media outlets and plans to bar them from running ads in a conveniently loophole-packed effort to prevent "foreign influence" in the 2020 US presidential election. | Russian and Chinese media outlets' pages have already been graced with the new warning labels, which Facebook announced on Thursday in a blog post. The social media behemoth claimed it is taking other factors into account besides government ownership, explaining "if we determine that there ar…
rt.com/usa/490823-facebook-warning-state-owned-rt/

'Practice the eye gouge': Project Veritas claims to have INFILTRATED ANTIFA, will 'expose its violent nature'
rt.com | 2020-06-04
Conservative investigative website Project Veritas claims it has "infiltrated" the controversial Antifa movement to expose its "violent nature," days after Donald Trump said he would declare it a "terrorist organization." | Project Veritas' James O'Keefe tweeted a five-minute teaser clip of its investigation into the Antifa (anti-fascist) movement on Thursday, promising more would be revealed on Friday. | One alleged Antifa organizer caught on camera said the "whole goal of this is to get out there and do dangerous things as safely as possible." Another suggested practicing "things like the eye gouge," because…
rt.com/usa/490804-project-veritas-infiltrated-antifa/

OBEY! NY Governor Cuomo's curfew billboard spawns dystopian memes
rt.com | 2020-06-03
Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken over a billboard in New York City's Columbus Circle to give updates on the curfew. Its eerie aesthetic drew dystopian comparisons and fueled a lot of memes. | In addition to the curfew schedule, the billboard features a variety of changing text messages, which for whatever reason seem to be designed to look like the governor's tweets: "DO NOT BE A CRIMINAL," "LOOTING INSULTS GEORGE FLOYD'S MEMORY," "HELP ME RESTORE CALM." | The dystopian aesthetic has been widely panned on social media, prompting horrified reactions like "We are living in a dystopian nightmare. Please tell me th…
rt.com/usa/490698-cuomo-dystopian-billboard-curfew/

Searching 'Racist' on Twitter Yielded Donald Trump's Profile as Top Result
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-04
Typing "racist" into Twitter's people search yielded US President Donald Trump as the first suggested account on Wednesday, the British news outlet The Independent first reported.
sputniknews.com/society/202006041079521638-searching-racist-on-twitter-yielded-donald-trumps-profile-as-top-result-/

Trump Faces New Lawsuit Over Executive Order Targeting Twitter – Advocacy Group
sputniknews.com | 2020-06-02
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump faces a new lawsuit accusing him of breaking the First Amendment to the US Constitution by issuing an executive order targeting Twitter and other social media platforms as they seek to counter misinformation, the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) said in a news release.
sputniknews.com/us/202006021079503104-trump-faces-lawsuit-over-executive-order-targeting-twitter-advocacy-group-says/

Millions Of Tenants Are Ready For A Rent Strike Revolution
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-04
Calls to "cancel rent" are catching fire. First came a couple of tweets on Twitter. Then progressive firebrands like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed the #CancelRent movement. Now, millions are on a rent strike. Even presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has declared his support for rent and mortgage forgiveness. As millions of tenants mobilize to cancel rent, they are not asking nicely or relying on lip service from politicians. Rather, millions of tenants are taking action by using a powerful time-tested strategy: rent strikes. | As the desperation builds and another month of bill…
popularresistance.org/millions-of-tenants-are-ready-for-a-rent-strike-revolution/

LA City Council President Introduces Motion To Cut LAPD Funding
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-04
The president of Los Angeles's city council introduced a motion Wednesday that would direct officials to identify millions of dollars' worth of funding cuts to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) following criticism of the department's treatment of protesters. | Councilwoman Nury Martinez (D) said in a statement released on Twitter that the move was about resetting the city's priorities in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in Minneapolis police custody last week. Video of Floyd's arrest and death sparked protests around the country, including in Los Angeles. | "Today we intrdcd a mo…
popularresistance.org/la-city-council-president-introduces-motion-to-cut-lapd-funding/

As Protests Rage Over George Floyd's Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-04
Friends of the Earth tweeted #BlackLivesMatter, and the head of the NRDC promised: "to be fully and visibly committed to the fight against systemic racism." | When New York Communities for Change helped lead a demonstration of 500 on Monday in Brooklyn to protest George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, the grassroots group's activism spoke to a long-standing link between police violence against African Americans and environmental justice. | Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, Brooklyn's oldest Latino community-based organization, said she considers showing up to fight police brutality and racial vi…
popularresistance.org/as-protests-rage-over-george-floyds-death-climate-activists-embrace-racial-justice/

Extremists Are Among Those Fomenting Violence In Twin Cities
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-02
Protesters and onlookers have posted numerous videos and accounts of confrontations with white men on social media, sometimes including symbols associated with fringe groups that originated online. | Many people have also told MPR News reporters of witnessing armed men in Minneapolis. | Bridget Schumann was out for a run near Calhoun Square in south Minneapolis on Friday night when she saw a truck that was being driven aggressively, honking and intimidating other drivers. The truck had a big white sticker on the back of the cab with the OK sign symbol associated with white supremacists. | "There were two men in t…
popularresistance.org/extremists-are-among-those-fomenting-violence-in-twin-cities/

Trump Labels Anitfa As A Terrorist Organization Without Any Basis In Fact
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-06-02
United States President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday that the U.S. will go ahead and label Antifa as a "terrorist organization," raising serious concerns about the unconstitutionality of such a threat if carried out. | "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization," Trump said, as protests over the murder of the black man, George Floyd, continued in at least 30 cities in the United States on Sunday, with Minneapolis as the epicenter. | Without evidence, Trump and several top officials from his administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, have blamed Antifa an…
popularresistance.org/trump-labels-anitfa-as-a-terrorist-organization-without-any-basis-in-fact/

Lenses on Riots, Murder, and Racism in the US and Hong Kong
ahtribune.com | 2020-05-30
The despicable police murder of a person, another Black person, who allegedly used a counterfeit $20 bill has caused widespread revulsion among Americans. This time, however, authorities acted relatively quickly calling in the FBI and firing all four police officers at the scene

Headlines for May 29, 2020
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-29
Protests Rage After Minneapolis Prosecutor Does Not Bring Charges Against Officers Who Killed George Floyd, Scores Tear-Gassed, Arrested as Protests Against George Floyd's Killing Spread to Other Cities, Twitter Flags Trump Tweet for Glorifying Violence After President Attacks Minnesota Protesters as "THUGS", Trump Executive Order Threatens to Punish Social Media Companies over Fact-Checking, U.S. Economy Sheds Another 2.1 Million Jobs, Leaving 40.7 Million Unemployed Since Start of Pandemic, Pennsylvania Democratic Lawmakers Accuse Republicans of Knowingly Exposing Them to Coronavirus, Protesters Demand ICE Empt…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/29/headlines

Twitter Warns Trump Tweet Glorifies Violence as He Signs Executive Order to Weaken Social Media
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-29
As President Trump calls Minneapolis protesters "THUGS" and tweets, "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," Twitter flags the tweet with a warning it glorifies violence, just as Trump signs an executive order to punish social media companies for how they monitor content. "Trump has prospered through his use of social media and its attention-hoarding algorithms to basically disinform and misinform people," says Ramesh Srinivasan, professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/29/trump_tweets_social_media_regulation

UN human rights office welcomes moves to curtail spread of hatred and violence online
news.un.org | 2020-05-29
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has welcomed steps taken by social media companies to prevent their platforms from being used to promote hatred, violence and misinformation, Spokesperson Rupert Colville said on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/05/1065092

President Trump has No Idea How Online Speech Works
Kate Ruane | aclu.org | 2020-05-29
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at bullying social media companies and online platforms into changing how they moderate content online. The order came the day after President Trump tweeted that Republicans feel that social media platforms silence conservative voices. And, notably, just days after Twitter's decision to place a fact-checking label on one of Trump's tweets for the first time, calling out his blatantly false tweets about mail-in ballots and directing users to trusted journalistic so…
aclu.org/news/free-speech/president-trump-has-no-idea-how-online-speech-works

"No Justification": Minneapolis Demands Murder Charges for Police Officer Who Killed George Floyd
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-05-28
Parts of Minneapolis erupted into flames Wednesday night as residents again took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by white police officer Derek Chauvin on Monday. A viral video shows Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for a number of minutes as Floyd repeatedly says "I cannot breathe." Three other officers stood by as George Floyd suffocated. They have been identified as Tou Thao, Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng. All four officers were fired on Tuesday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has called on prosecutors to file criminal charges against Derek Chauvin. We speak wit…
www.democracynow.org/2020/5/28/george_floyd_death_minneapolis_protests

We're Taking Clearview AI to Court to End its Privacy-Destroying Face Surveillance Activities
Nathan Freed Wessler | aclu.org | 2020-05-28
For several years, a little-known start-up based in New York has been amassing a database of billions of our faceprints

[Correspondence] The COVID-19 MS Coalition–accelerating diagnostics, prognostics, and treatment
Weston Struwe, Edward Emmott, Melanie Bailey, Michal Sharon, Andrea Sinz, Fernando J Corrales, Kostas Thalassinos, Julian Braybrook, Clare Mills, Perdita Barran, COVID-19 MS Coalition | thelancet.com | 2020-05-27
Rapid and comprehensive genetic sequencing has shed light on the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and allowed timely implementation of PCR tests to determine the presence of viral RNA. PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 are some way from being reliably qualitative and will never indicate how the disease might progress in an individual. As COVID-19 becomes endemic, there is a concomitant need for accurate serological assays to detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 antigens and ultimately tests for prognostic markers to target treatment options.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31211-3/fulltext?rss=yes

An Economy That Cannot Allow Stocks to Decline Is Too Fragile to Survive
Charles Hugh Smith | anti-empire.com | 2020-05-26
Feast your eyes on the chart below of the Nasdaq 100 stock market Index, which is dominated by the six FAAMNG (rhymes with "famine") stocks: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix and Google which now account for over 20% of the entire U.S. stock market's capitalization. | Notice that despite the global economy sliding into a debt-bust depression, the NDX is within kissing distance of new all-time highs. You're joking, right? Sales and profits won't slide as the depression steps on the neck of hundreds of millions of households? | As you've probably heard by now, sales don't matter, profits don't matter, cos…
anti-empire.com/an-economy-that-cannot-allow-stocks-to-decline-is-too-fragile-to-survive/

[Commentary] Data explosion during COVID-19: A call for collaboration with the tech industry & data scrutiny
Elizabeth M. Hechenbleikner, Daniel V. Samarov, Ed Lin | thelancet.com | 2020-05-23
The volume and speed of data generation in biomedical literature, social media, and other resources during the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. This mountain of data is growing daily across PubMed, Twitter, Google Scholar, and the World Health Organization's COVID-19 database [1], naming a few. The recently published COVID-19 Twitter dataset may offer insights into multiple topics from compliance with social distancing to assembling homemade masks and mental health tips [2]. Beyond social media, the massive COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) has been assembled from tech giants like Microsoft, the Allen I…
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30121-8/fulltext?rss=yes