Monthly Archives: July 2023

2023-07-06: News Headlines

Staff (2023-07-06). Headlines for July 6, 2023. democracynow.org IAEA Sees No Evidence of Explosives Planted at Russian-Held Nuclear Plant in Ukraine, Belarus President Says Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin Is in Russia, Biden Welcomes Swedish PM to White House, Pressing NATO Membership for Sweden, U.S. Judge Restricts Biden Administration's Ability to Stem Misinformation on Social Media, Meta Launches Twitter Competitor "Threads"; Canada Blocks Facebook and Instagram Ads, Biden Nominates Elliott Abrams, Death Squad Backer Convicted of Lying to Congress, to Gov't Commission, Hunger and Malnutrition Surge in Ethiopia's War-Torn Tigray After U.S. and…

Ann Brown (2023-07-06). KeKe Palmer's Child's Father Called 'Crusty' And 'Kept Hoe' For Speaking Out Against Twerky Dress: 'I Have Standards And Morals'. moguldom.com New mother KeKe Palmer went out for a night on the town to take in a performance by Usher. Nationally, the actress had to dress to impress. But, according to her boyfriend, the father of her six-month-old son, Palmer was giving off the wrong impression—and he took his opinion to social media. Commenting on a Twitter …

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2023-07-06). US Court Victory Against Online Censorship. popularresistance.org A judge in Louisiana has barred the F.B.I. and other government agencies from asking social media companies to suppress free speech, reports Joe Lauria. | A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday issued a temporary injunction against a number of government agencies preventing them from talking to social media firms for "the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech." | Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana ruled that the agencies couldn't identify specific…

Zero Hedge (2023-07-06). Judge Blocks "Egregious" Biden Officials, Academic Watchdogs From Manipulating Social Media Narratives. globalresearch.ca

Media Lens (2023-07-05). "I Hope To God I Am Wrong": Climate Change "Going Through The Roof" dissidentvoice.org Why are we at Media Lens utterly terrified by climate collapse while other people we know are mildly concerned, blithely indifferent or cockily contrarian? The simple answer is that we are doing this full-time and 'doing this' includes reading the unfiltered reports and thoughts of top climate scientists on social media all day, every day. …

Alina Ramos Martin (2023-07-06). Haitian police to receive armored vehicles. plenglish.com The vehicles are expected to arrive in the coming weeks to help the National Police fight gangs and recover areas under the control of armed groups. | The change of supplier comes after the Canadian company Inkas was criticized by non-governmental organizations and political figures who questioned the defects of their devices, after images went viral of the cars advancing with difficulty while emitting a large column of smoke during operations carried out by the police in the vicinity of the Varreux terminal. | Former Senate President Joseph Lambert demanded explanations and the coordinator of the National Netwo…

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2023-07-04: News Headlines

greenleft.org.au (2023-07-04). NSW hospital workers strike over wages. greenleft.org.au

Ann Brown (2023-07-04). Twitter's Problems Create Opportunity For Spill, New Signups Crash Servers. moguldom.com Black Twitter has a new place to go. The new Black-owned social media platform Spill is getting such a migration of people from Twitter that its server crashed. Spill had to send out a tweet on July 2 saying, "Hey #SPill fam — for folks signing up and getting an "SWS" error, y'all maxed out …

Erin Reed (2023-07-04). DeSantis's New Anti-LGBTQ+ Ad Draws Concern Among Gay and Trans Republicans. truthout.org Gay and Trans Republicans expressed dismay after the DeSantis campaign's rapid-response Twitter account, DeSantis War Room, recently released an attack ad that unabashedly promotes what it calls the "most extreme slate of anti-LGBTQ+ laws in history" and claims its policies "threaten trans existence." The ad also goes after former President Trump, critiquing him for his purported support of Pride… |

Oraily Madruga Rios (2023-07-04). Venezuelan Foreign Minister attends NAM's meeting in Azerbaijan. plenglish.com On his Twitter account, the head of Venezuelan diplomacy indicated that the NAM is "the largest movement of countries that maintains its struggle for a new fair world order." | In the audiovisual accompanying the message, Gil pointed out that this will be the last encounter of the Bolivarian Republic as a member of the troika, unfolding that in 2024 Uganda will assume the pro tempore presidency of the bloc. | Accompanied by the Caracas' Ambassador to Azerbaijan Christopher Martinez, the minister explained that the delegation he presides will fulfill a work agenda within the NAM and another parallel agenda with b…

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