Stuck in a Bottleneck: Mercy of Occupation and Cruelty of a Corrupt leadership?

When I first started blogging, I thought I will be reflecting on personal issues related to a divorced woman living under occupation. The …

Stuck in a Bottleneck: Mercy of Occupation and Cruelty of a Corrupt leadership?

Dataminr helped police surveil BLM protestors using their tweets

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AI startup Dataminr helped law enforcement surveil the ongoing protests against police violence by analyzing tweets about the demonstrations, the Intercept reports. The company accessed the data through Twitter‘s “firehouse,” a real-time stream of all tweets on the platform that’s rarely provided to tech firms. The alerts were sourced from both news reporters and bystanders watching or attending the rallies. According to internal documents reviewed by the Intercept, Dataminr also kept records of upcoming protests to help staff prepare their monitoring plans. Twitter prohibits the use of its data and APIs for surveillance, but it appears that Dataminr has exploited a semantic loophole…

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Leading German Economist: “The Virus Must Be Contained Before the Economy Can Recover” – DER SPIEGEL

DER SPIEGEL: When the virus began spreading, the government froze large parts of the economy. Was the lockdown excessive?

Fuest: No. Experience from previous pandemics like the Spanish flu suggest that the economic damage will be smaller if the disease is fought with determination. As long as the spread of the virus continues, people reduce their economic activities on their own. They consume and produce less because they are afraid of infection. The virus must be contained before the economy can recover. The contradiction between health and economic interests, which has been frequently discussed in the corona crisis, doesn’t really exist.

Source: Leading German Economist: “The Virus Must Be Contained Before the Economy Can Recover” – DER SPIEGEL

Pelvic mesh scandal is what happens when men with power ignore women | Richard Vize | Society | The Guardian

At the heart of these scandals is a refusal to listen to the people who were suffering. Doctors simply would not believe women with mesh implants were enduring excruciating pain and many other consequences, including contemplating suicide. Much of this revolved around male doctors dismissing the concerns of middle-aged women.

This left the patients feeling belittled, ignored and above all disempowered. Any notion of shared decision-making was destroyed. This same dismissal of the voice of the patient is evident in the repeated failures uncovered to obtain anything approaching informed consent for treatment, with little or no information provided on options or risks. Astonishingly, Lady Cumberlege reports that even now hundreds of women are becoming pregnant and taking sodium valproate while unaware of the risks.

 

Source: Pelvic mesh scandal is what happens when men with power ignore women | Richard Vize | Society | The Guardian

‘Wildly inappropriate’: VOA purge continues as foreign journalists’ visas not renewed | Media | The Guardian

Pack fired all the station directors who had not already resigned, and dissolved the bipartisan managing boards of the broadcasting organisations, replacing them with himself and five other Trump loyalists.

Source: ‘Wildly inappropriate’: VOA purge continues as foreign journalists’ visas not renewed | Media | The Guardian

China points to shrimp as coronavirus carrier after salmon debacle, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

The virus tested positive on both the inside and outside of the shrimp packaging, said China’s General Administration of Customs. The samples were from three Ecuadorian plants, and imports from those processors will be halted, it said.

“The test result doesn’t mean the virus is contagious, but reflects the loopholes in companies’ food safety regulations,” said Mr Bi Kexin, director of the food import and export safety bureau in the customs department.

 

Source: China points to shrimp as coronavirus carrier after salmon debacle, East Asia News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

Why Trump’s White Grievance Message Strikes a Sour Note in the Suburbs – The New York Times

From North Carolina to Pennsylvania to Arizona, interviews this week with more than two dozen suburban voters in critical swing states revealed abhorrence for Mr. Trump’s growing efforts to fuel white resentment with inflammatory rhetoric on race and cultural heritage. The discomfort was palpable even among voters who also dislike the recent toppling of Confederate statues or who say they agree with some of Mr. Trump’s policies.

As the president increasingly stakes his candidacy on a message of “law and order,” casting himself as a bulwark against “angry mobs” and “thugs,’’ there are signs that he is alienating voters in bedroom communities who approach the debate over racial justice with a far more nuanced perspective than the president does.