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How China Used Social Media to Spread Disinformation About the Hong Kong Protests (DonkeyHotey)

From Vox: “There have long been concerns about China’s social media disinformation capabilities, but we haven’t really seen them put them into action until now.”

For Americans, the Fourth of July is a day filled with fun, family barbeques, poolside parties, fireworks, and overt displays of patriotism. For Iranians, however, it is a solemn day, a day of mourning, and a day of remembrance.

President accuses American Jews who vote for Democrats of “disloyalty.”

Just a few weeks after the devastating shooting in El Paso, Democrats in the Florida House of Representatives have called for a special session to deal with the issue of gun control — and they think the votes could be there to finally see action by state lawmakers to address mass shootings.

Experts have warned that Georgia’s newly purchased hybrid voting system can be hacked — and can add fake votes to the machine-marked “paper ballots” — after they have been cast.

Source : Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 03-06-2019

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Par Chris Hedges

le 3 juin 2019

Source : Le Figaro, Pierre Péan, Par Eugénie Bastié, Alexandre Devecchio, Vincent Tremolet De Villers, 28-03-2014

Party must stop using membership suspension in an attempt to silence journalists.

Inside the Prison Where Inmates Set Each Other on Fire (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “At South Mississippi Correctional Institution, inmates have been on perpetual lockdown for seven months and gangs enforce rules. With frequent beatings, burnings and escapes, the prison has become a violent tinderbox.”

Hollywood actor refuses to audition for Israel-American TV series.

Amid growing concerns that Georgia’s new voting system does not address the security flaws discovered during the 2018 midterm elections, a group of activists is demanding a review of newly purchased electronic voting equipment.

Source : LVSL, 19-07-2019

Par Rédaction – 19 juillet 2019

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Source : Proche & Moyen-Orient, Hedy Belhassine, 15-07-2019

Que peut-il y avoir de commun entre le Prince Mohamed ben Salman d’Arabie, le Christ Sauveur du Monde et Donald Trump ? Un tableau à 450 millions de dollars pardi.

Senior official says government is seeking host countries to absorb emigrants.

Fracking in US and Canada Linked to Worldwide Atmospheric Methane Spike (Mili)

The author writes, “Levels of methane — the second biggest contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide — have spiked in the atmosphere in the past decade. And a study says fracking in North America could be partly to blame.

Move amounts to an undemocratic limitation on media freedom.

La femme de ménage est une légende vivante de l'autre côté de la Méditerranée.

Elle balaye, balaye, balaye devant chez elle, depuis qu'elle est née...

Condamnée comme toute âme bien née à nettoyer, à faire place nette devant son foyer.

The initials FEC stand for Federal Election Commission but the “F” might as well stand for “feckless.” The agency, according to its own words, is supposed to “promote confidence and participation in the democratic process.” It seems to be failing at its core mission.

Source : Consortium News, Johanna Ross, 06-06-2019

Le 6 juin 2019

Les élections européennes soulèvent des questions sur l’intégrité territoriale du Royaume-Uni, écrit Johanna Ross.

Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’

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Source : René Naba, 29-07-2019

When Stacey Abrams “lost” Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election, a lot of Republicans were probably breathing sighs of relief. While the result was close, their strategy of rigging the state’s election laws to keep minorities from voting had paid off once again.

Source : NOP, Youtube, 19-07-2019

Source : René Naba, 02-08-2019

Récit d’une singulière lune de miel à l’origine de la «transaction du siècle».

Pur hasard ou fâcheuse coïncidence qui masque une intention provocatrice ?

After pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan prison cell, news reports said that his guards falsified their logs to show that they had checked on him when, in fact, they had been sleeping.

A new report on airborne pollution found that plastic waste is literally falling from the sky.

Ground zero for the study — titled “It is raining plastic” — is the state of Colorado. A group of scientists from the US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey discovered so-called “microplastics” in 90 percent of the samples taken in Denver-Boulder ”urban corridor.”

Source : Truthdig, Chris Hedges, 13-05-2019

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Source : Strategic Culture, Alastair Crooke, 01-07-2019

Alastair Crooke

1er juillet 2019

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“The occupation is real. Barring members of Congress from seeing it does not make it go away.”

The post EXCELLENT commentary on Bernie and the Corporate Media appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

Heureux ceux qui en ont plus que deux... car ils finiront par braver les cieux... les étoiles et tout ce qu'il y a au-dessus d'eux.

Avec trois couilles, ils réaliseront tôt ou tard tous leurs vœux.

Ils voudront toujours plus, ils chercheront toujours mieux  car ils ne sauront pas se contenter de peu.

Pour survivre, ils feront feu de tout bois sans se préoccuper de l'état des lieux.

Rien ne les affecte, rien ne les émeut... ils ne seront ni affectueux, ni peureux mais impétueux, belliqueux, victorieux.

Focus on ban on Omar and Tlaib misses bigger picture of subjugation of Palestinians.

When Ken Cucinelli spoke this week about Emma Lazarus’s words on the Statue of Liberty being meant “only for Europeans,” he was signaling both ignorance of history and a reminder that distrust of the “other” runs deep in the American psyche.

As bad as the pushback against Latin American immigration is today, opposition to immigration of the poor and oppressed from southern Europe in the mid-19th century was even more virulent.

Just Two Degrees of Warming Could Bring Ice-Free Septembers to the Arctic (Mili)

The author writes, “Arctic sea ice could disappear completely through September each summer if average global temperatures increase by as little as 2 degrees, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati.”

Source : Le Comptoir, Jean-Claude Michéa, 20-06-2019

Source : François-Bernard Huyghe, 13-08-2019

Six Palestinians have been slain by Israeli forces this week.

Report: Navy Altered Hunters Point Cleanup to Cover, Not Remove, Toxic Soil (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “In its cleanup of the tainted former Hunters Point shipyard, the Navy pledged to use the strictest standards and scrub the site of contamination.

The Israel Project’s fatal funding crisis was worsened by an undercover Al Jazeera expose.

Vu d'en bas, le mal est infini... vieillesse, sècheresse, détresse... Mais vu d'en haut, le mal est fini, circonscrit, bien réparti. Voltaire n'a rien compris. Leibniz a lui, tout compris : que le mal existe pour celui qui a une vision locale des choses, mais n'existe pas pour celui qui en a une vision globale.

Two years ago, on the first day of DEF CON 25, the world’s largest hackers conference, computer security experts discovered the private information of more than 650,000 Tennessee voters on a decommissioned electronic poll book (e-poll book).

Source : Le Comptoir, Jean-Claude Michéa, 18-06-2019

Source : Facebook, Jacques Sapir, 10-08-2019

Madame Lacroix-Riz a adressé à Olivier Berruyer une « réponse » après la publication sur le site « Les Crises » de ma recension du livre Moscou-Caucase, été 1934. Je publie donc ici sur facebook le texte de Madame Lacroix-Riz et ma propre réponse à ce texte.

TEXTE DE MADAME LACROIX-RIZ

“The Israeli weapons that India uses to oppress Kashmiris have been ‘field-tested’ on Palestinian bodies.”

One of the great mysteries so far in the fascinating Jeffrey Epstein saga is one that doesn’t seem to have gotten the kind of prime attention it deserves: What exactly do the cameras show? Where were they positioned? And who has examined the footage? 

Occupation authorities exploit Palestinian laborers to promote false image of coexistence.

“Thirst for strength” is one driver of Israeli ethnonationalist expansionism.

Facial Recognition Misidenitified 26 California Lawmakers as Criminal Suspects (Reader Steve)

The author writes, “Matt Cagle, a technology and civil liberties attorney at the ACLU, said the organization ran [an] experiment using Amazon’s Rekognition software and screened 120 lawmakers’ images against a database of 25,000 mugshots.”

Massive grassroots support for socialist lawmaker.

In an attempt to balance Alaska’s books, Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) cut the University of Alaska system’s 2020 budget by an astonishing 41 percent, to the tune of $130 million dollars. Thus far, the Alaska legislature has failed to overturn this drastic measure.

Source : Lobe Log, Paul R. Pillar, 16-07-2019

16 juillet 2019

Mike Pompeo

par Paul R. Pillar

Source :René Naba, 31-07-2019

Arms from companies owned by Warren Kanders have almost certainly been used in attacks against Palestinians.

UN using biased anti-Semitism definition that targets supporters of Palestinian rights.

US Government Weakens Application of Endangered Species Act (DonkeyHotey)

The author writes, “The Trump administration moved on Monday to weaken how it applies the 45-year-old Endangered Species Act, ordering changes that critics said will speed the loss of animals and plants at a time of record global extinctions. The action, which expands the administration’s rewrite of U.S.

The recent decision not to charge the New York police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner is a good opportunity to examine the related Black Lives Matter movement and the potential power of online social movements generally. How can they mobilize so many people and yet be so ineffective when it comes to influencing policy and decision making?