Monthly Archives: Sep 2015

PressTV-Apple kills app tracking US drone strikes

Last year, the application emerged again under a new name, Metadata+, but app store removed it again after six months due to its “excessively crude or objectionable content.”The app does not provide any graphic material or release information on the victims but refers users to media reports over the matter.This is while apps, in which […]

Support grows for Renmark family’s call for meningococcal B vaccine to be added to PBS – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Last month Sarah and Adam Parkyn’s three-year-old daughter Jazmyn started showing flu-like symptoms before breaking out in a purple rash, after contracting strain B of the meningococcal virus.The family’s doctor rushed the toddler to Renmark Hospital and she was later flown to Adelaide Women’s and Children’s Hospital for intensive care after having a fit.”It’s something […]

En Ayotzinapa, CIDH promete no abandonar a papás de los 43 – Grupo Milenio

Esta mañana, estudiantes de la Normal Rural “Raúl Isidro Burgos” y padres de los 43 recibieron a la presidenta de la CIDH, Rose Marie Belle Antoine; James Cavallaro, oficial relator para México; y Emilio Álvarez Icaza, secretario ejecutivo del organismo.Luego de una reunión y recorrido por la normal, Rose Marie Belle calificó el caso Iguala […]

First Nations teen files complaint against Thunder Bay police after street check – Thunder Bay – CBC News

She asked again and the police “finally said ‘we will let you go, but this is not over,’” Moonias said. “They sounded so aggressive. I walked back to class. I felt so terrified.”A school official took Moonias to the police station to file a report about the incident.In a written response, Thunder Bay police said […]

Michigan Man Dies in Jail Over $772 Traffic Ticket

Stojcevski began his sentence on June 11, and just over two weeks later, he was dead. His entire imprisonment was captured by a surveillance camera that filmed him 24-hours a day.His death was slow, excruciating, and captured all on film. Every horrible second was preserved as he convulsed, writhing in pain, naked, alone on the […]

Airstrikes hit wedding in Yemen; as many as 135 dead

Airstrikes devastated a wedding party in southern Yemen on Monday, killing and injuring dozens, witnesses said. Medics put the death toll as high as 135, including many women and children, in the latest bombardment reported to have caused large numbers of civilian deaths and injuries. Source: Airstrikes hit wedding in Yemen; as many as 135 […]

London meeting: The media and the crisis in Ukraine | Solidarity with the Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine

A discussion for supporters of the Solidarity with Antifascist Resistance in Ukraine about the media coverage of the crisis in Ukraine. London, October 7. Speakers will be Neil Clark (journalist http://www.theguardian.com/profile/neilclark) and Roger Annis (editor of the New Cold War website http://newcoldwar.org/). Others to be confirmed. 7 October at 19:00 Marx Memorial Library 37a Clerkenwell Green, […]

A user’s manual | The Economist

Mr Ogas and Mr Gaddam also analysed all 434m searches entered into Dogpile, a site that returns results from all the biggest search engines, between July 2009 and February 2011. Almost 49m, or 11%, were of an obviously sexual nature. Another dataset containing three months’ worth of searches by 660,000 customers of AOL, which the […]

The King demanded vengeance and ‘Zarqawi’s woman’ was sent to the gallows

Now, when the warden sat her down to explain that she would die in the morning, Rishawi nodded her assent but said nothing. If she cried or prayed or cursed, no one in the prison heard a word of it, according to Jordanian officials who described the sequence of events for a new book, “Black […]

News Line — RT

US-trained Syrian rebels ‘gave 6 trucks, ammo’ to Al-Qaeda affiliate – CENTCOMThe commander of a US-trained Syrian rebel group gave military supplies, including six trucks and ammunition, to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front in exchange for safe passage, US Central Command said that it learned on Friday. CENTCOM said coalition representatives had been contacted by the […]

Russian troops in Syria could end up helping Isis, report claims | World news | The Guardian

The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani – also in New York for the UN general assembly meeting – rejected suggestions that his country was operating in concert with Russia against Isis. “I do not see a coalition between Iran and Russia on fighting terrorism in Syria,” Rouhani said.The Rusi report, titled Inherently Unresolved, assesses the global […]

huffingtonpost.com: His calls for justice and equality were unmistakable

Pope Francis Basically Just Retweeted Black Lives Matter – WASHINGTON — Pope Francis didn’t explicitly mention the Black Lives Matter movement during his speech before Congress on Thursday, but his feelings on the fight for racial equality were loud and clear. During the address — which came just days ahead of his scheduled visit to […]

Porn Site xHamster Hit by Malvertising Wave

“The SSL malvertising campaign we documented in August that affected Yahoo.com, MSN.com and several other top sites is still ongoing,” said Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura, in a blog shared with Infosecurity ahead of publication. “What allows us to differentiate [this campaign] from other malvertising attacks are some similar patterns in the infrastructure, such as the […]

Cops Brutally Beat Police Misconduct Investigator After Turning Off Dash Cam

Roberts, who is a supervisor at the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), says that after he was stopped for the minor traffic violation, police approached his vehicle with guns drawn and at least one weapon pointed directly at him, with one officer threatening, “Don’t make me fucking shoot you!” “This was wholly unnecessary and unreasonable, […]

Think Police Can’t Use Illegally Obtained Evidence Against You? Think Again. | The Nation

The Constitution be damned: This was apparently the perspective of a Detroit police officer named Jamal Good, who admitted that he routinely violated the long-standing requirement that police “knock and announce” their presence before entering a home. Good found that the Fourth Amendment—with its pesky insistence that searches be reasonable—limited his ability to obtain evidence, […]

NYC Council Adopts 8 Bills For Jail Transparency, Oversight

The city council passed a bill to expand the scope of reporting on solitary confinement required by the Department of Correction, specifically involving Enhanced Supervision Housing (also known as the ESHU) and other facilities “in which inmates are punished for committing certain infractions wile in custody” and are “regularly kept to their cells for more than the […]

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