New J.B. Pritzker and Rod Blagojevich audio from FBI wiretaps sheds light on race issue in Illinois 2018 Democratic governor contest.
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Daily Archives: February 5, 2018
Half of Iran wants to drop headscarf laws: government report
President Rouhani released a study showing how drastically public attitude towards mandatory Islamic dress has changed in the past decade. Nearly half of Iranians believe that wearing a hijab should be a private choice.
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Sessions Silent as Trump Attacks His Department, Risking Independence and Morale
The silence by Jeff Sessions breaks with a long tradition of attorneys general protecting the Justice Department from political interference.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Commercial for Ram Trucks Is Swiftly Criticized
A Super Bowl ad by Ram had viewers openly wondering whether the company really used Dr. King’s words about the value of service to sell vehicles.
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After Religious Clash in India, Rumors Create a False ‘Martyr’
Fascism hide behind false-religious fervor Rahul Upadhyay, 24, took to social media to declare, “I have not even received a scratch.”
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Holocaust denier to become Republican nominee for Illinois congressional seat
- Art Jones the sole GOP candidate for third congressional district
- Anti-Defamation League calls Jones ‘a long-time neo-Nazi’
A neo-Nazi Holocaust denier is set to become the Republican nominee for a congressional seat in Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Sunday.
Related: Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town
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Ryanair chief: we won’t bow to laughable demands from pilots
Huh? The boss is calling his employees laughable – he is the laughable one!
Michael O‘Leary warns that strikes are likely over Easter as talks with unions break down
Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O‘Leary, has warned that the airline will not bow to “laughable” demands from pilots and would rather see strikes or disruptions than undermine its productivity.
O’Leary said Ryanair was not as optimistic as some of its rivals that it would be able to push through fare rises this summer. Last year, the average fare was €41 (£36), down 13% from the year before. This year, fares will be cut by about 3%, Ryanair said.
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Senator warns YouTube algorithm may be open to manipulation by ‘bad actors’
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia warns of ‘optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content’ amid 2016 election concerns
The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has warned that YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content” or susceptible to “manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities”.
Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election.
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Theresa May rebukes Donald Trump over NHS comments
British PM rejects US president’s claim that pro-NHS marches showed universal healthcare did not work
Theresa May has rebuked Donald Trump over his claim the NHS is failing, publicly backing her health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, after he tweeted disagreement with the US president’s view.
The response from May – who generally seeks to avoid criticising Trump – came after the president condemned Democrat plans for a universal healthcare system by noting in a tweet Saturday’s protest march in London demanding more NHS funding.
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Researchers find direct correlation between residential segregation and police shootings of unarmed Black victims
LatinaLista — Go to most towns and cities in the country and you’ll most probably find one section where whites live, another for Blacks and still another for Latinos or other residents of color. Some small towns were even known as Sundown Towns, meaning that if you were a person of color, you better not be seen outside after the sun went down.
This kind of racial segregation and outright threatening discrimination underscores the long history US society has with structural racism.
Also known as societal racism, it’s defined in Wikipedia as referring “to racist attitudes within a society…because, according to Carl E. James, society is structured in a way that excludes substantial numbers of people from minority backgrounds from taking part in social institutions.”
It’s against this backdrop that gives greater validity to new findings coming from a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) study that discovered that states that had a greater degree of structural racism, especially residential segregation, were also more likely to have fatal police shootings of unarmed minority victims.
Believed to be the first study of its kind to look at data on the state level of structural racism and fatal police shootings of Black victims, researchers created an index of structural racism indicators, such as residential segregation, economic inequality, employment status, education levels, and incarceration rates.
Researchers surprised themselves at the strong correlation revealed in their analysis — the greater the score in any of the index indicators, especially residential segregation, the greater the increase in the state’s ratio of shootings of unarmed black victims to unarmed white victims.
“This research should change the conversation about the problem of police shootings,” said senior author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH. “Part of the resistance to openly discussing this issue is that many people feel offended by criticism of people who are risking their lives to protect all of us. Our study suggests that this problem is not simply about the actions of individuals, but about the actions of all of society. Hopefully, reframing this from an individual to a societal problem will pave the way for a meaningful discussion about institutional racism.”
