Daily Archives: November 23, 2020

2020-11-23: News Headlines

Ralph Nader (2020-11-23). Trump's Massive, Lawless, and Immoral Legacy to Our Country Will Continue Unless … counterpunch.org Trump has gotten away with almost everything throughout his bankruptcy-driven business career and his corrupt, cruel, and costly political years in the White House. Things changed on November 3, when he was retired by the voters.

Never Forgive, Never Forget (2020-11-23). 57 Years Since 11/22/63 Kennedy Assassination. indybay.org We managed to get rid of the worst president in memory, Nazi Trump, in this year's election, but the nuclear holocaust threat remains. Instructive to all in public speaking and war & peace as a basic issue is Pres. John Kennedy's speech on 6/10/63 at American University, now on Youtube, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZsG4qbw_tY&feature=emb_logo

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-23). Human rights organizations condemn police repression of protests in Guatemala. peoplesdispatch.org Various national and international human rights organizations rejected the excessive use of force by the Guatemalan state security forces against protesters during an anti-government protest in the capital Guatemala City, on November 21. | The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), through a series of tweets on November 22, condemned the violent police repression of peaceful demonstration. The Family Association of the Detained Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA), Impunity Watch Guatemala, Former Guatemalan attorney general, Claudia Paz, and the Human Rights Ombudsman, Jordán Rodas, among others, also…

_____ (2020-11-22). CORE Nigeria: "We Will Fight For Our Total Liberation" popularresistance.org Nigeria – On 3 October, a young man was killed by the police in Ughelli, a town in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A video of this incidence was circulated by residents of the city on WhatsApp and also posted on Twitter. This sparked the #EndSARS revolt of youths in the country, which was drowned in blood with the massacre of at least 36 people on 20 October. The bulk of these was at the Lekki tollgate, in Lagos state — one of the two main centres of the uprising in that mega-city where one-tenth of the country's population resides.

MEE staff (2020-11-22). Outrage at 'normalisation' photo of Egyptian singer with Israeli celebrities in UAE. middleeasteye.net Outrage at 'normalisation' photo of Egyptian singer with Israeli celebrities in UAE | Egypt's Mohammed Ramadan sparks criticism after attendance at event with Israeli public figures in Dubai | Sun, 11/22/2020 – 16: 04 | (L-R) Omer Adam, Mohamed Ramadan and Hamad al-Mazrouie (Twitter) | Egyptian singer and actor Mohamed Ramadan has sparked a social media backlash after his image with two Israeli celebrities in…

repost (2020-11-22). A. Ocasio-Cortez Addresses Failure of U.S. Gov't to Address Poverty. indybay.org As New York Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated to an empty congressional room, on YouTube, the Senate broke for a holiday week while the workingclass of the USA starves. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBeI-G3eQQ&feature=emb_logo and www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/20/breaking-senate-we-are-abandoning-our-people-watch-aoc-excoriate-mcconnell-house

Jonathan Sigrist (2020-11-22). Facebook Censorship and the Atlantic Council. globalresearch.ca What very few people know is that Facebook was officially partnering with the Atlantic Council in the form of an "election partnership […] to prevent [their] service from being abused during elections." Indeed, the US midterm elections are only a couple of weeks away, so the Atlantic Council and its Digital Forensic Research Lab are now going at it with full force,…

sputniknews (2020-11-22). 'I Can't Even Be Sexy in Peace': Cardi B Daughter Kulture Crashes Her Sultry Video Moment. sputniknews.com Being a mom is not always easy. Particularly when you are a world-famous rapper and love making erotic videos in your personal alone time. The thing is, there is not always a chance to do what you love most. The baby is unlikely to accept a parent's request for a time out.

Paul Haeder (2020-11-21). Active Shooter in the Brain. dissidentvoice.org Oh, the act of deactivating, the process of disconnecting, the very process of uncluttering the brain — bye-bye Facebook — Emancipation! Some might say we are caught in a fun-house . . . or caught in a psych ward. I have more and more people in my sphere — work, friends, email world, Facebook world, …

RT (2020-11-21). Canada's Trudeau calls Great Reset a CONSPIRACY THEORY after video of him promoting the globalist initiative went viral. rt.com Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who brought an avalanche of attention to the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' when a video of him talking about the plan surfaced earlier this week, now says it's a "conspiracy theory." | Asked at a press conference Friday about concerns raised by conservative lawmakers about his use of the term 'Great Reset', Trudeau said, "We're in a time of anxiety, where people are looking for reasons for things that are happening to him, the difficult moments we're in. It's nice to be able to find someone to blame, something to point to, something to get mad at. | "We're seeing…

MEE correspondent (2020-11-21). Egypt: Female political prisoners beaten during inspection mission. middleeasteye.net Egypt: Female political prisoners beaten during inspection mission | Rights group says Qanatir prison security force attacked number of female prisoners during inspection by a newly appointed official | Sat, 11/21/2020 – 14: 33 | The Qanatir women's prison in Qalyubia governorate holds dozens of female political prisoners (Twitter) | Egyptian officials physically assaulted a number of f…

Protest Facebook Coalition (2020-11-21). Saturday 11/21: Wake the ZUCK up! We won't let Facebook destroy our democracy. indybay.org Please join us outside Mark Zuckerberg's house in San Francisco. Facebook needs to stop election lies from running rampant on its platform. 3450 21st Street, San Francisco, CA 94110…

MEE staff (2020-11-20). US senators urge Egypt to take action in case of detained Christian activist. middleeasteye.net US senators urge Egypt to take action in case of detained Christian activist | Legislators ask Cairo to allow fair trial for Ramy Kamel or drop charges and release him | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 19: 02 | Ramy Kamel is prominent Coptic Christian activist and founder of rights group Maspero Youth Union (Twitter) | A pair of bipartisan senators called on the Egyptian government to take action in the case of an imprisone…

RT (2020-11-20). 'Privacy' or 'profit'? Giant corporations Apple & Facebook clash over collecting people's personal data. rt.com Apple has slammed Facebook over indiscriminately syphoning users' personal data as it pushed for its own latest privacy feature. The social media giant, in turn, said Apple's update is about market dominance, not privacy. | "Facebook executives have made clear their intent is to collect as much data as possible," Apple's director for global privacy, Jane Horvath, said in a

sputniknews (2020-11-20). PTA Claims That Parler is 'Dangerous' For Children as Users Flock to Alternate Media. sputniknews.com As conservative figures increasingly report acts of censorship by large platforms, alternate social media website Parler has begun to make significant inroads in the virtual information environment.

Great Game India (2020-11-20). Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests as Unreliable & Unlawful to Quarantine People. globalresearch.ca The court stated, the test's reliability depends on the number of cycles used and the viral load present. Citing "if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of …

Wendy Snyder (2020-11-19). Saturday 11/21: Learn about and support the Amah Mutsun Tribal Land Trust. indybay.org Virtual event on Zoom and Facebook…

2020-11-23: Social Media Postees

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Trump's Massive, Lawless, and Immoral Legacy to Our Country Will Continue Unless
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-23
Trump has gotten away with almost everything throughout his bankruptcy-driven business career and his corrupt, cruel, and costly political years in the White House. Things changed on November 3, when he was retired by the voters.
counterpunch.org/2020/11/23/trumps-massive-lawless-and-immoral-legacy-to-our-country-will-continue-unless/

Human rights organizations condemn police repression of protests in Guatemala
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-23
Various national and international human rights organizations rejected the excessive use of force by the Guatemalan state security forces against protesters during an anti-government protest in the capital Guatemala City, on November 21. | The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), through a series of tweets on November 22, condemned the violent police repression of peaceful demonstration. The Family Association of the Detained Disappeared of Guatemala (FAMDEGUA), Impunity Watch Guatemala, Former Guatemalan attorney general, Claudia Paz, and the Human Rights Ombudsman, Jordán Rodas, among others, also…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/23/human-rights-organizations-condemn-police-repression-of-protests-in-guatemala/

57 Years Since 11/22/63 Kennedy Assassination
Never Forgive, Never Forget | indybay.org | 2020-11-23
We managed to get rid of the worst president in memory, Nazi Trump, in this year's election, but the nuclear holocaust threat remains. Instructive to all in public speaking and war & peace as a basic issue is Pres. John Kennedy's speech on 6/10/63 at American University, now on Youtube, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZsG4qbw_tY&feature=emb_logo
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/22/18838615.php

CORE Nigeria: "We Will Fight For Our Total Liberation"
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-22
Nigeria – On 3 October, a young man was killed by the police in Ughelli, a town in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A video of this incidence was circulated by residents of the city on WhatsApp and also posted on Twitter. This sparked the #EndSARS revolt of youths in the country, which was drowned in blood with the massacre of at least 36 people on 20 October. The bulk of these was at the Lekki tollgate, in Lagos state — one of the two main centres of the uprising in that mega-city where one-tenth of the country's population resides.
popularresistance.org/core-nigeria-we-will-fight-for-our-total-liberation/

A. Ocasio-Cortez Addresses Failure of U.S. Gov't to Address Poverty
repost | indybay.org | 2020-11-22
As New York Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated to an empty congressional room, on YouTube, the Senate broke for a holiday week while the workingclass of the USA starves. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBeI-G3eQQ&feature=emb_logo and www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/20/breaking-senate-we-are-abandoning-our-people-watch-aoc-excoriate-mcconnell-house
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/21/18838601.php

Outrage at 'normalisation' photo of Egyptian singer with Israeli celebrities in UAE
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-22
Outrage at 'normalisation' photo of Egyptian singer with Israeli celebrities in UAE | Egypt's Mohammed Ramadan sparks criticism after attendance at event with Israeli public figures in Dubai | MEE staff | Sun, 11/22/2020 – 16: 04 | (L-R) Omer Adam, Mohamed Ramadan and Hamad al-Mazrouie (Twitter) | Egyptian singer and actor Mohamed Ramadan has sparked a social media backlash after his image with two Israeli celebrities in…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/outrage-normalisation-photo-between-egyptian-singer-and-israeli-celebrities-uae

Facebook Censorship and the Atlantic Council
Jonathan Sigrist | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-22
What very few people know is that Facebook was officially partnering with the Atlantic Council in the form of an "election partnership […] to prevent [their] service from being abused during elections." Indeed, the US midterm elections are only a couple of weeks away, so the Atlantic Council and its Digital Forensic Research Lab are now going at it with full force,…
globalresearch.ca/facebook-censorship-and-the-atlantic-council/5656896

'Letter to Corbyn' mesmerised us. Now, he's responded
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-11-22
A tribute song to Jeremy Corbyn has officially entered the UK top 25 of the download charts. Its success shows several things — not least among them being the strength of public feeling towards the former Labour leader. And now, Corbyn himself has responded to the song. | Corbyn on Letter to Corbyn : | Poet and rapper Craft-D released his track Letter to Corbyn on 14 November. The track started life as a straight to social media upload. But as Letter to Corbyn quickly engaged people, Craft-D decided to rele…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/11/22/letter-to-corbyn-mesmerised-us-now-hes-responded/

57 Years Since 11/22/63 Kennedy Assassination
Never Forgive, Never Forget | indybay.org | 2020-11-22
We managed to get rid of the worst president in memory, Nazi Trump, in this year's election, but the nuclear holocaust threat remains. Instructive to all in public speaking and war & peace as a basic issue is Pres. John Kennedy's speech on 6/10/63 at American University, now on Youtube, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZsG4qbw_tY&feature=emb_logo
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/22/18838615.php

A. Ocasio-Cortez Addresses Failure of U.S. Gov't to Address Poverty
repost | indybay.org | 2020-11-21
As New York Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stated to an empty congressional room, on YouTube, the Senate broke for a holiday week while the workingclass of the USA starves. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNBeI-G3eQQ&feature=emb_logo and www.commondreams.org/news/2020/11/20/breaking-senate-we-are-abandoning-our-people-watch-aoc-excoriate-mcconnell-house
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/21/18838601.php

Saturday 11/21: Wake the ZUCK up! We won't let Facebook destroy our democracy
Protest Facebook Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-11-21
Please join us outside Mark Zuckerberg's house in San Francisco. Facebook needs to stop election lies from running rampant on its platform. 3450 21st Street, San Francisco, CA 94110…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/19/18838579.php

Canada's Trudeau calls Great Reset a CONSPIRACY THEORY after video of him promoting the globalist initiative went viral
rt.com | 2020-11-21
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who brought an avalanche of attention to the World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' when a video of him talking about the plan surfaced earlier this week, now says it's a "conspiracy theory." | Asked at a press conference Friday about concerns raised by conservative lawmakers about his use of the term 'Great Reset', Trudeau said, "We're in a time of anxiety, where people are looking for reasons for things that are happening to him, the difficult moments we're in. It's nice to be able to find someone to blame, something to point to, something to get mad at. | "We're seeing…
rt.com/news/507436-trudeau-denies-great-reset/

Egypt: Female political prisoners beaten during inspection mission
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-21
Egypt: Female political prisoners beaten during inspection mission | Rights group says Qanatir prison security force attacked number of female prisoners during inspection by a newly appointed official | MEE correspondent | Sat, 11/21/2020 – 14: 33 | The Qanatir women's prison in Qalyubia governorate holds dozens of female political prisoners (Twitter) | Egyptian officials physically assaulted a number of f…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-female-political-prisoners-beaten-inspection-officials

Active Shooter in the Brain
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-21
Oh, the act of deactivating, the process of disconnecting, the very process of uncluttering the brain — bye-bye Facebook — Emancipation! Some might say we are caught in a fun-house . . . or caught in a psych ward. I have more and more people in my sphere — work, friends, email world, Facebook world, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/active-shooter-in-the-brain/

'Privacy' or 'profit'? Giant corporations Apple & Facebook clash over collecting people's personal data
rt.com | 2020-11-20
Apple has slammed Facebook over indiscriminately syphoning users' personal data as it pushed for its own latest privacy feature. The social media giant, in turn, said Apple's update is about market dominance, not privacy. | "Facebook executives have made clear their intent is to collect as much data as possible," Apple's director for global privacy, Jane Horvath, said in a letter to a coalition of eight civil and human rights organizations. She accused the social media giant…
rt.com/news/507345-facebook-apple-collecting-personal-data/

Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests as Unreliable & Unlawful to Quarantine People
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
The court stated, the test's reliability depends on the number of cycles used and the viral load present. Citing Jaafar et al. 2020, the court concludes that | "if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of | …
globalresearch.ca/portuguese-court-rules-pcr-tests-unreliable-unlawful-quarantine-people/5730027

US senators urge Egypt to take action in case of detained Christian activist
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
US senators urge Egypt to take action in case of detained Christian activist | Legislators ask Cairo to allow fair trial for Ramy Kamel or drop charges and release him | MEE staff | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 19: 02 | Ramy Kamel is prominent Coptic Christian activist and founder of rights group Maspero Youth Union (Twitter) | A pair of bipartisan senators called on the Egyptian government to take action in the case of an imprisone…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-senators-egypt-coptic-christian-take-action

Saturday 11/21: Wake the ZUCK up! We won't let Facebook destroy our democracy
Protest Facebook Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Please join us outside Mark Zuckerberg's house in San Francisco. Facebook needs to stop election lies from running rampant on its platform.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/19/18838579.php

PTA Claims That Parler is 'Dangerous' For Children as Users Flock to Alternate Media
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-20
As conservative figures increasingly report acts of censorship by large platforms, alternate social media website Parler has begun to make significant inroads in the virtual information environment.
sputniknews.com/us/202011201081227940-pta-warns-that-parler-is-dangerous-for-children-as-users-flock-to-alternate-media/