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

Tusk criticizes Myanmar over plight of Rohingya minority | News | DW | 06.10.2017 But cares for naught about killing and repressing Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia and Gulf states? Oil talks and buys get out of genocide jail card?

The EU’s Donald Tusk called on the South Asian country to meet its human rights obligations. Meanwhile, the UN fears things will get worse in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh before they get better.

Source: Tusk criticizes Myanmar over plight of Rohingya minority | News | DW | 06.10.2017

Police chief disregarded IT security regulations

Hire under 30s to run things dummies!

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IT storm: Sweden’s national police chief Dan Eliasson appears to have flouted security protocols.

Sweden’s national police chief flouted IT security protocols just months after being directed not to do so by the Swedish Armed Forces, according to fresh information uncovered by Swedish Radio.

Speaking to Swedish Radio, IT security expert Patrik Fältström described national police chief Dan Eliasson’s apparent disregard for Swedish Armed Forces’ security regulations as “clearly highly unusual.”

“For the Swedish Armed Forces to so clearly explain [this] to the police, and for Eliasson to take such a decision just a few months later is clearly highly unusual,” Fältström said.

Experts say that Eliasson did not have the right to select an encryption system not passed by the armed forces.

Eliasson has defended his actions, saying that existing rules permit the use of encryption systems other than those approved by the Swedish Armed Forces.

Eliasson first came under pressure over what he knew and when in September after Swedish Radio revealed that he had decided, in the spring of 2015, to forgo using approved encryption programmes, required by law, to keep personnel data safe.

Eliasson faced questioning from the parliamentary justice committee over the allegations last month.  

The police requested permission from the Swedish Defence Forces to use an unapproved encryption programme in August 2014. The programme was to be used for back-up copies the police wanted to make of an IT system.

Sources within the police have confirmed to Swedish Radio that this request was firmly rejected.

Several months later, when the police needed support from a private IT provider for maintenance of its payrole system, the directive was ignored and Eliasson selected an alternative encryption programme that was not approved by the Swedish Armed Forces.

Egypt: Mass Arrests Amid LGBT Media Blackout

Cannot hide your shame dummies – governments still want to believe they can control hide what they please – wrong! [HRW] Nairobi -The Egyptian government has intensified its campaign against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their supporters, arresting dozens of people in less than two weeks, Human Rights Watch said today. A media regulatory body has also banned all “positive” reporting on homosexuality.

Namibia: Skulls in U.S. Museum Must Lay Foundation for a Genocide Section

[New Era] Namibians living in the United States of America (USA) last month announced the discovery of eight skulls, which have been identified as of Namibian origin, in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The eight skulls are only a drop in the ocean of thousands of human remains in this museum. Can this discovery really be surprising in view of the fact that human remains in their thousands and thousands have already been discovered in museums in the Federal Republic of Germany, a number of th

Trump disapproval hits 67% in poll | The minute

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• As numbers plunge… Trump warns of ‘calm before the storm’… attacks contraception coverage… moves to nix banking regulations

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Only 24% of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, according to an AP poll. That’s a 10-point drop since June. 67% of Americans disapprove of the job Donald Trump’s doing, including about a third of Republicans.

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Trump was expected to withdraw his endorsement of the nuclear deal with Iran next week, and used a group photograph before a dinner with military leaders and their spouses to warn cryptically that the evening represented “the calm before the storm”.

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‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

A guy writes about guys only who are building new careers by being anti-addicted to tech and offering nothing. Typical editorial ploy to try to stay in the game by being anti-game. And then some editor or writer will suggest being anti-anti-game as a new ploy to get eyes on page and ad dollars/euros… puleeze!

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Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet. Paul Lewis reports on the Silicon Valley refuseniks alarmed by a race for human attention

Justin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook. But even that wasn’t enough. In August, the 34-year-old tech executive took a more radical step to restrict his use of social media and other addictive technologies.

Rosenstein purchased a new iPhone and instructed his assistant to set up a parental-control feature to prevent him from downloading any apps.

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Cam Newton dropped by sponsor over sexist remark to female reporter

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Cam Newton’s sexist comment to a female reporter has cost the Carolina Panthers quarterback a side gig as a yogurt pitchman amid national backlash.

Dannon, the maker of Oikos yogurt, has dropped Newton from all advertising campaigns following what the company perceives as “sexist” remarks he made on Wednesday to Jourdan Rodrigue, a beat reporter with the Charlotte Observer.

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