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Even the darkest of nights will eventually turn into a golden morning — joypassiondesire

Even the darkest of nights will eventually turn into a golden morning. It always seems hopeless right before hope returns. Be patient and trust that this too shall pass. There is always hope, hope of a better tomorrow.

Even the darkest of nights will eventually turn into a golden morning — joypassiondesire

US Teens Are Being Paid to Spread Disinformation on Social Media – Slashdot

Source: US Teens Are Being Paid to Spread Disinformation on Social Media – Slashdot

“Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages…” The campaign draws on the spam-like behavior of bots and trolls, with the same or similar language posted repeatedly across social media. But it is carried out, at least in part, by humans paid to use their own accounts, though nowhere disclosing their relationship with Turning Point Action or the digital firm brought in to oversee the day-to-day activity. One user included a link to Turning Point USA’s website in his Twitter profile until The Washington Post began asking questions about the activity. In response to questions from The Post, Twitter on Tuesday suspended at least 20 accounts involved in the activity for “platform manipulation and spam.” Facebook also removed a number of accounts as part of what the company said is an ongoing investigation…

End to Sri Lanka’s Democracy: Shouldn’t it be Resisted? – Groundviews

Source: End to Sri Lanka’s Democracy: Shouldn’t it be Resisted? – Groundviews

  • Creation of a new office of Executive Presidency and granting to the holder to that office unfettered and unchecked powers over the Cabinet, the legislature, the judiciary, the political system and society. The office of the President will once again be, as it was in 1978 and 2009, the central institution of state power which will stand above, and superior to, everything, and everybody, else in our society and polity.
  • Assigning and securing to one ruling family the monopoly of political power in Sri Lanka.

Why Boris Johnson is constantly surprised when his government fails | Opinion | The Guardian

Source: Why Boris Johnson is constantly surprised when his government fails | Opinion | The Guardian

Multiple debacles, rebellions and reverses have even some of those who were once Boris Johnson’s most fervent cheerleaders in despair. This persistent blundering has flowed from a fundamental inability to read the public mood or get on top of events. Throughout the coronavirus crisis, the government has been constantly behind the curve. How did Mr Cummings put it? “We bumble along making the same sort of errors repeatedly.”

They are no better in their specialist subject of Brexit. When Mr Johnson signed the withdrawal agreement with the EU that he sold to the British public as “fantastic”, he failed to foresee that he would soon afterwards describe the agreement as so dreadful that he would have to threaten to break it. When he made the declaration that he was ready to violate international law, he failed to foresee that this would trigger condemnation from every living former prime minister and many senior Brexiters.

Hackers leak data on 1,000 Belarusian police officers

“As the arrests continue, we will continue to publish data on a massive scale,” said a statement distributed by the opposition news channel Nexta Live on the messaging app Telegram. “No one will remain anonymous, even under a balaclava.”

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Security forces will not remain anonymous, anti-Lukashenko protesters say

Anonymous hackers leaked the personal data of 1,000 Belarusian police officers in retaliation for a crackdown on street demonstrations against the veteran president, Alexander Lukashenko, as protesters staged another mass rally.

“As the arrests continue, we will continue to publish data on a massive scale,” said a statement distributed by the opposition news channel Nexta Live on the messaging app Telegram. “No one will remain anonymous, even under a balaclava.”

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NY synagogue cries out ‘Black lives matter’ in Rosh Hashanah sermon – The Jerusalem Post

Source: NY synagogue cries out ‘Black lives matter’ in Rosh Hashanah sermon – The Jerusalem Post

“Racism subverts every principle of religious thought,” said Hirsch. “Dehumanization is the ultimate logic of racism. Jews know this. The road to Auschwitz was paved with the sediment of supremacy, centuries of scorn spread on the highways, byways and railways of Europe.
“The custom of venerating leaders of the Confederacy is maddening. I will never forget my feelings of revulsion in Kiev seeing a statue of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, the Cossack leader who massacred tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews,” Hirsch said. “Custom must be transformed and Judaism commands us to take sides. For these reasons, I state proudly and without reservation, that Black lives matter.”
Addressing pushback that the Movement for Black Lives receives from right-wing politics, Hirsch clarified: “When we say Black lives matter, we do not mean the condescending accusation that white lives, Native American lives, Jewish lives [and] Asian lives do not matter, or matter less. We do not mean that we support the small minority of activists who perpetrate violence. To the contrary, we mean that we are on the side of those who seek – and are prepared to work for – a more perfect union.”