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

CDC issues raw milk Brucella warning for 4 states

Raw milk in barn
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
Nov 21, 2017

The CDC says everyone who consumed milk from Udder Milk in the past 6 months should receive antibiotics.

Brian Eno and Roger Waters scorn Nick Cave’s ‘principled stand’ to play in Israel

Cave is a “purist-libertarian” who plays into hands of oppressors.

Australian labelled ‘naive’ and ‘arrogant’ after he accused pro-boycott campaigners of trying to bully and censor musicians

High-profile artists including Brian Eno, Roger Waters and Ken Loach have hit back at Nick Cave after the musician defended his tour of Israel as a “principled stand” against people trying to “bully” and “censor” musicians.

Eno, Waters and Loach are among a group of artists who have joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a global campaign that aims to increase pressure on Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories, and lobbies artists, academics and businesses to refrain from engaging with or touring in Israel. U2, Björk, Elvis Costello and Lauryn Hill are among the high-profile artists who have joined the boycott.

Related: Radiohead are wrong to play in Israel. Here’s why | Dave Randall

Nick, with all due respect, your music is irrelevant to this issue, so is mine, so is Brian Eno’s, so is Beethoven’s

Related: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds review – joyous and unexpectedly triumphant

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This paper shows how employees are forced to write down their passwords to their accounts in social media and to their emails. They also have to fill out their family members passwords.

IPS Inter Press Service posted a photo:

This paper shows how employees are forced to write down their passwords to their accounts in social media and to their emails. They also have to fill out their family members passwords.

Turkish Surveillance Invades Social Media Privacy

By Esref Okumus

State employees in Turkey have been forced to participate in a restriction of their own freedom of thought and expression. State authorities, as employers, have demanded that their employees report their own and their whole family’s passwords to all of their social media accounts. Holding back information could lead to imprisonment.

Nov 20 2017 (IPS) – ”The present government has taken measures that go beyond anything the previous military juntas did”, according to legal expert Sercan Aran of the trade union confederation KESK. The army has previously registered personal data and the private political opinions of suspected dissidents, but always under secrecy.

Now there is a form to be filled in: ”Personal details on employees”. The 22 000 employees of the State Hydraulic Works (DSI), which is the state agency responsible for national water resources, are required to share details that include their newspaper subscribtions, which unions and associations they are or have been members of, which bank accounts they have, and which NGOs and charity trusts they contribute to.

Further questions are directed at social media use. Yet not only on their own use, but also of their family members, such as husband/wife and children. Even their passwords are demanded.

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– 5 years of ‘foreign agents’ law devastates environmental groups in Russia

What us worried about climate? Nah, we have plenty of space and once it’s beyond our borders… who cares? Interviews with directors of current or defunct environmental organizations across Russia reveal that at least 14 environmental nongovernmental organizations have stopped work rather than continue to operate while labelled a “foreign agent.”

Indian Automaker’s Plant Is Latest Sign of Detroit Comeback

Huh? Indian auto company moving to Detroit indicates a comeback for the city – region? Ah, err, um if Ford, Chrysler, or GM was building new plants that would be news of a comeback. Mahindra will open the area’s first new vehicle assembly factory in 25 years, building off-road vehicles. The move may signal larger ambitions in the American market.