And Trump’s trademarks in China? U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration would investigate whether Alphabet Inc’s Google supports the Chinese government, following accusations that a company official refuted hours later at a Senate hearing.
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Bullies told me to ‘go home’. Now, Trump is making me relive those moments | Marie Myung-OK | Opinion | The Guardian – Racist and traitor says anyone who disagrees with him is attacking the America that he has laid open to Russian hacking!
I grew up in northern Minnesota, where our family was the only family of color in a small mining town. It was a town rich with immigration – its “ethnic days” boasted more than 100 nationalities (but always somehow forgot us) – all European. I still subscribe to our hometown paper and see that now, as then, a Finnish club continues to meet at the public library every week, the Sons of Norway (yes, still “sons”) club is so active it has won national awards from its main organization.
Trump fires again at congresswomen, accusing them of ‘spewing vile things’
Racist and traitor says anyone who disagrees with him is attacking the America that he has laid open to Russian hacking!

President also accused Democrats of giving them a ‘free pass’ as House will vote tonight to condemn Trump’s initial remarks
Donald Trump fired another volley in what has become an all-out rhetorical war between the president and four progressive Democratic congresswomen Tuesday morning, accusing them of “spewing some of the most vile, hateful, and disgusting things ever said by a politician in the House or Senate”.
He also accused the Democratic leadership of giving them a “free pass”.
Italy’s far-right Salvini moves to round up Roma, Sinti
F#cking Fascist!

Interior Minister Salvini has asked regional officials to draw up maps of “illegal settlements.” Non-Italians are to be sent back to their countries of origin.
bellingcat – Ukrainian Far-Right Extremists Receive State Funds to Teach “Patriotism” – bellingcat
Authored and researched by Oleksiy Kuzmenko, Michael Colborne Ahead of Ukrainian parliamentary elections on July 21, it is clear from polling data that Ukraine’s far-right groups and their ideas enjoy little popular support among its citizens. Despite this, Ukraine’s government continues to provide funds to notorious far-right extremist groups and their affiliates — including two…
Source: bellingcat – Ukrainian Far-Right Extremists Receive State Funds to Teach “Patriotism” – bellingcat
“Nationalist hate group” gets state project funding
For 2019, the government of Ukraine has earmarked eight million hryvnias (over $300,000 USD) for what it calls “national-patriotic education projects” aimed at Ukrainian youth, including children. Of these 845,000 hryvnias — over $30,000 — apparently go to programs that are run by a number of branches of Ukrainian far-right groups, including National Corps, the political wing of the Azov movement. National Corps has been implicated in numerous incidents against minorities, activists and police. This 845,000 hryvnias figure also includes state funding for “national-patriotic education projects” by organizations that are not only arguable fronts for another notorious far-right organization — C14 — but are also led by the accused murderers of Ukrainian reporter Oles Buzyna.
E.P.A. Broke Rules in Shake-Up of Science Panels, Federal Watchdog Says
The Government Accountability Office found that the administration “did not consistently ensure” that appointees to E.P.A. advisory boards met federal ethics requirements.
#RIPBianca: How a Teenager’s Brutal Murder Ended Up on Instagram
The images stirred an outcry about the spread of violent content on social media and the inability by tech companies to police it.
Ebola spread to Goma triggers new emergency talks, cases top 2,500
‘Police officers demanded to see my books’: Elif Shafak on Turkey’s war on free-speech

The author once put on trial for ‘insulting Turkishness’ explains why writers, academics and especially women, face escalating hostility in Erdoğan’s Turkey
One day two months ago I woke up to thousands of abusive messages on Turkish social media, many of them generated by bots and trolls. Sentences had been plucked from one of my novels, The Gaze, and were being circulated by people demanding fiction writers be put on trial for “obscenity”. My new novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, was also targeted. Both books explore difficult subjects – sexual harassment, gender violence and child abuse – and I was far from the only writer targeted in this way. Soon the hysteria turned into a kind of digital lynching of Turkish authors who had even slightly touched on similar issues in their novels and short stories.
I received a distressed call from my Turkish publisher the same week, informing me that civilian police officers had come to the office demanding to see a number of books. Not only my fiction but titles by Duygu Asena, a leading feminist who died in 2006. The books were taken to the prosecutor’s office to be investigated.
Donald Trump’s grandfather wrote letter begging not to be deported. Here it is | The Independent
More than a 100 years later, his grandson, Donald Trump, imposed new immigration rules that would have kept his grandfather out of the US. The Trump administration’s hardline immigration stance has also set precedent for the First Lady Melania Trump to be deported. Meanwhile, deportation raids in the US which are part of a crackdown by the Trump administration on all undocumented immigrants have led to a increase in arrests of immigrants who do not have criminal records. In the latest deportation sweep, immigration officers arrested 650 people in communities across the US over a four-day span in July. Among them, 520 had no criminal records. In June, President Trump reversed on his campaign promise to deport immigrants’ children, known as “Dreamers”, but their parents could still be sent back to their home countries.
Source: Donald Trump’s grandfather wrote letter begging not to be deported. Here it is | The Independent
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