Day: July 2, 2021

Categories Shows

US Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow 2.0 & Pulse nightclub survivor speaks out on gun violence

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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a voting-rights challenge to Arizona’s election laws, ruling the state may discard legal ballots that are cast in the wrong precinct even if doing so results in throwing out a much higher percentage of votes cast by Latinos, black people, and Native Americans than whites. Five years after the shooting at Pulse nightclub that claimed 49 lives, Patience Murray still struggles physically and mentally with what happened that night. “There will never be a point where I’m done learning or done healing,” she said. “And I just have to accept that.” … Read More >US Supreme Court upholds Jim Crow 2.0 & Pulse nightclub survivor speaks out on gun violence

Categories Middle East

Turkey’s Karpowership says it’s restoring electricity supply to Lebanon in ‘goodwill gesture’ amid power shortages

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Energy firm Karpowership has said it will once again supply electricity from two of its ships to energy-threatened Lebanon, after the Turkish company stopped providing power to the Middle Eastern nation last month. … Read More >Turkey’s Karpowership says it’s restoring electricity supply to Lebanon in ‘goodwill gesture’ amid power shortages

Categories World

Beijing ‘weaponized’ roaming elephants, says Aussie newspaper… that helped deploy the ‘propaganda’ against its readers

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The media craze about a herd of elephants roaming Southern China is actually part of a “global image war” waged by Xi Jinping’s government against the free world, an Australian newspaper has suggested. … Read More >Beijing ‘weaponized’ roaming elephants, says Aussie newspaper… that helped deploy the ‘propaganda’ against its readers

Categories Shows

Total control

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Everything we associate with modern life has been digitalized. In fact, we live within ecosystems created by Big Tech. They decide what we see, what we can buy, and even what we can say. But these systems no longer serve us – they control us. So, is there a way out of this growing dystopia? … Read More >Total control

Categories Asia & Pacific

Beijing blasts ‘slanderous’ NYT report which blames China’s ineffective vaccines for resurgent Covid-19 in Chile & elsewhere

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The Chinese foreign ministry has taken aim at the New York Times after it claimed that countries that were most reliant on Chinese Covid-19 vaccines were among the most affected by the virus in recent times. … Read More >Beijing blasts ‘slanderous’ NYT report which blames China’s ineffective vaccines for resurgent Covid-19 in Chile & elsewhere

Categories Middle East

Israeli police clash with Palestinians trying to prevent demolition of Arab-owned shop in East Jerusalem

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Israeli security forces have used rubber bullets and tear gas against Palestinians, who were trying to stop the demolition of an Arab-owned shop in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Tuesday. … Read More >Israeli police clash with Palestinians trying to prevent demolition of Arab-owned shop in East Jerusalem