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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Chicken meat rife with antibiotic-resistant superbugs

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A study has found half of chicken meat at discount supermarkets is contaminated with antibiotic resistant germs that pose a major health risk. The results indicate antibiotics are overused at industrial poultry farms.

Wednesday Open Thread | NOW, They Want to LITERALLY Dump Asylum Seekers Like They Are Bags of Garbage😠😠😠 | 3CHICSPOLITICO

I will remind people that the United States of America is the country that CREATED THE ASYLUM RULES. WE DID. And, we got the REST OF THE WORLD TO AGREE TO THEM. This is about NON-White people. Period. We don’t see this kind of franticness with our NORTHERN Border.

Source: Wednesday Open Thread | NOW, They Want to LITERALLY Dump Asylum Seekers Like They Are Bags of Garbage😠😠😠 | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Women in Media Are Reportedly Getting Blacklisted for Filing Sexual Harassment Suits

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It’s been nearly three years since Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment suit against then-CEO Roger Ailes, prompting a slew of similar high-profile suits and executive oustings both at Fox and at other major networks. Media’s MeToo moment is as visible as Hollywood’s, toppling giants like CBS’s Les…

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If you believe in human rights, Madonna, don’t play Tel Aviv | Roger Waters

Until the Israeli government recognises the Palestinians’ right to self-determination, artists should stay away

Madonna’s acceptance of an invitation to perform in Tel Aviv at the Eurovision song contest finals in May raises, yet again, fundamentally important ethical and political questions for each and every one of us to contemplate.

In Paris in 1948 the then fledgling United Nations drafted and subsequently adopted a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which enshrined in international law that all our brothers and sisters all over the world, irrespective of their ethnicity or nationality or religion, have certain basic human rights, including but not limited to the right to life, liberty and self-determination.

Related: Madonna to perform at Eurovision song contest in Israel

Related: Lana Del Rey pulls out of Israeli festival after backlash

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Facebook allowed violent posts by man charged with Ilhan Omar death threat

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Site took no action to remove posts by Patrick Carlineo alluding to violence against Muslims and US officials, until Guardian review

Facebook allowed a man charged with threatening to kill congresswoman Ilhan Omar to post violent and racist content for years, and took no action to remove his posts when he was arrested.

Patrick Carlineo, of upstate New York, posted several entries to his Facebook page alluding to violence against Muslims and US officials including former president Barack Obama, a Guardian review found.

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How Home Office used terror law on highly skilled migrants

Tory government is terror government

Hundreds of people who worked and lived in UK for years were told they had 14 days to leave

They are teachers, doctors, scientists and engineers. Most have British-born children. Many have lived legally in the UK for a decade or more, but all are now on the verge of destitution, forbidden from working, using the NHS, renting property or receiving benefits.

Their offence? To have made legal amendments to their tax returns. For that, the Home Office has fought – often for years – to force them to leave the UK under a law designed, in part, to tackle terrorism and people judged to be a threat to national security.

Related: A life ‘completely destroyed’ by one paragraph of immigration law

Related: ‘I feel like I’m drowning’: healthcare inspector faces deportation by Home Office

Related: Engineer deemed security threat over tax error gets visa in Home Office U-turn

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