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
Nick Cave shuns Palestinians, wins praise from Israel lobby
Why?
Activists and artists respond to musician’s attack on Palestinian-led boycott campaign.
He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much It Gave Him a Code Name
#Traitor Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, has laughed off suggestions that he is a Russian asset. But investigators are calling.
Prime Minister bans female-friendly French writing from official texts
WTF is now every day I guess. What is this guy thinking> French PM Edouard Philippe has struck a blow against moves towards making French grammar and writing less macho by banning gender equal words from official government texts.
Google to “engineer” Russia Today and Sputnik out of search results
Tech giant Google is taking steps to fight fake news, with suspect content to be engineered out of search results.
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:
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.
– 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.”
Qatar’s foreign minister accuses Saudi Arabia of sparking humanitarian crisis
Saudi’s want to be biggest fish in the desert! In a DW interview, Qatar’s foreign minister has slammed Saudi Arabia, saying it was destabilizing the region. The minister said Riyadh is using what it calls security concerns as a “smoke screen” to harm Qatar’s economy.
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.
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