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'Where does the line get drawn?' Fans baffled as footballer is charged over social media post made NINE years ago when he was 14


RT
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 20:02 UTC
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Marc Bola has been charged by the English FA.
A 23-year-old footballer has been charged over an alleged sexual orientation insult he made on social media when he was 14 - leaving many fans questioning whether 'cancel culture' is causing senseless disciplinary decisions.

Defender Marc Bola, of Championship side Middlesbrough, has been charged with misconduct over the nine-year-old social media post, the English FA announced on Friday.

Bola was a child in Arsenal's academy at that point, three years away from receiving the scholarship he earned among the Premier League club's youth ranks around the time he turned professional.

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Cancel culture insurance? Twitter plans to let you hide old tweets

Lucas Nolan
Breitbart
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 06:13 UTC
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© REUTERS/Dado Ruvic
Social media giant Twitter reportedly plans to introduce a number of new privacy-related features, including one that would allow users to hide their old tweets. Twitter's privacy changes come on the heels of the increasingly common scenario in which a user of the platform is canceled for posts made up to a decade ago on the platform.

MacRumors reports that Twitter is introducing new privacy-related features to its platform that will give users greater control over their follower lists and who can see their profile. One option planned for the platform is a feature that allows users to archive old tweets so that other users are unable to see them after a period of time set by the account holder.

The new features are reportedly part of the platform's efforts to make users more comfortable and secure sharing content on the platform. The privacy initiatives are related to what Jack Dorsey's company calls "social privacy," which includes how users manage their online identities and public image.
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Flip-flop Fauci says he wouldn't be surprised if Covid vaccines require three shots for full regimen, instead of two

Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
CNBC
Thu, 02 Sep 2021 15:50 UTC
Fauci
© Unkown
White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday he would not be surprised if the recommended full regimen for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines in the U.S. becomes three doses, instead of two.

Giving people an additional dose, or perhaps a final dose, several months after they've received their initial vaccination helps the immune system mature, said Fauci, also the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

"I must say from my own experience as an immunologist, I would not at all be surprised that the adequate full regimen for vaccination will likely be three doses," Fauci told reporters during a White House Covid briefing.
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Yes three can! Russian opposition candidate cries foul as duo with same name & appearance run for his St. Petersburg council seat

Jonny Tickle
RT
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 15:41 UTC
Boris Vishnevsky
© Twitter / @visboris
Boris Vishnevsky (right), the leader of the opposition Yabloko party in Saint Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly.
A liberal political candidate in Saint Petersburg, Russia's second city, has taken to Twitter to complain after two other people with his name and similar appearance turned up on the ballot to try and take his local council seat.

Boris Vishnevsky, the leader of the opposition Yabloko party in the city's Legislative Assembly, has held his seat since 2011. In July, ahead of upcoming elections later this month, he cried foul after noticing two 'spoiler candidates', both of whom share his name to confuse those wishing to re-elect him. Now, their pictures have been published, and they look uncannily similar to the incumbent.

Posting on his Twitter account on Sunday, the original Boris Vishnevsky accused two men of changing their names and growing facial hair to confuse the electorate, which could potentially lead to the veteran Saint Petersburg politician losing his seat. The photos of the men hang in the polling station to aid voters.

The easiest way to tell the difference between the three is their patronymics, all of which are different.
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Large protest in Brussels against mandatory vaccination

Alan Hope
Brussels Times
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 10:35 UTC
Brussels protest
© Twitter
Several hundred people gathered yesterday in the Cinquantenaire park in Brussels to protest at the prospect of a Covid-19 vaccination being a mandatory requirement to take part in certain activities.

Police reported at one point that the crowd numbered 1,500. Those taking part marched from the park to the entrance to the French-speaking broadcaster RTBF in Schaerbeek, carrying placards with slogans like "Save our democracy" and "Protect our children".

The two French-speaking broadcasters, RTBF and RTL, were accused of presenting a one-sided picture of the vaccination issue, and of being a mouthpiece for the government and the pharmaceutical industry.

Comment: The injection ID is being rolled out across Europe, but there's also increasing pushback. Its enforcement has been ruled as unconstitutional in some regions, various establishments refuse to enforce it, citizens reject its usage, and, as the establishment tightens the screws, now threatening the health of children, the numbers protesting are growing:

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BBC admits Syria gas attack report had serious flaws - a 'victory for truth' after complaint by Peter Hitchens

Padraic Flanagan
Daily Mail
Sat, 04 Sep 2021 03:31 UTC
Douma
© AFP/Getty Images
Douma, Syria in 2018
The BBC has admitted that a Radio 4 documentary on an alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria contained serious inaccuracies.

The Corporation's Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) upheld a protest from Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens following last November's broadcast of Mayday: The Canister On The Bed.

Adjudicators agreed that the programme by BBC investigative journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou failed to meet the Corporation's editorial standards for accuracy by reporting false claims.

The programme, part of a series on aspects of the conflict in Syria, dealt with an attack at Douma in 2018 and included an account of the role later played by 'Alex', a former inspector with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the poison gas watchdog.

Last week - nearly ten months after the broadcast - the ECU delivered its finding that the BBC was wrong to insinuate that 'Alex' was motivated to go public about his doubts over the attack by the prospect of a $100,000 (£72,000) reward from the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

No such reward was ever paid, according to WikiLeaks.

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Florida diner owner who banned Biden supporters says other businesses want to 'put the same sign on their doors'


RT
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:14 UTC
Ugarte Biden
© RT/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
Restaurant owner Angie Ugarte • US President Joe Biden
The Florida restaurant owner who barred supporters of Joe Biden from her diner told RT that there are other business owners who want to follow her lead. Still, she insists that her decision was "not political."

Following the recent death of 13 US service members in Afghanistan in a suicide bombing attack that killed almost 200 people, DeBary Diner owner Angie Ugarte placed a sign outside her Florida establishment reading
"If you voted for and continue to support and stand behind the worthless, inept and corrupt administration currently inhabiting the White House...please take your business elsewhere."
Business boomed, and customers who shared Ugarte's sentiment showed up in droves to support her. Such was the demand that the restaurant was forced to close last week when it ran out of food.

Ugarte claims she's also had other business owners reach out to her wanting to copy her partisan admissions policy. She told RT on Sunday:
"At this point I'm hearing a lot of people calling me asking for permission to put that same sign on their business doors. I think that's freaking great, because more people need to stand up and more people need to make this president be accountable."
Ugarte is not the first restaurant owner to boot patrons out over their politics.
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ISIS attack kills 13 policemen in Iraq: Medical and security sources report


Alarabiya News
Sun, 05 Sep 2021 11:26 UTC
ISIS flag
© AP
Iraqi soldier discovers train tunnel adorned with ISIS flag.
Thirteen Iraqi policemen were killed in an ISIS attack against a checkpoint in the country's north early Sunday, security and medical sources said. The attack, in the region of al-Rashad around 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Kirkuk city, took place just after midnight, a senior Iraqi police officer told AFP.

"Members of [ISIS] targeted a federal police checkpoint," said the officer, who did not want to be named. "Thirteen were killed and three wounded" among the security forces, the officer added. A medical source based in Kirkuk confirmed the toll.

Extremist cells regularly target the Iraqi army and police in northern Iraq, but this attack was one of the most deadly this year. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Comment: Another deadly blast, this time in Pakistan:
Four Pakistani paramilitary guards were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in the southwestern city of Quetta, police said.

The bomber targeted Frontier Constabulary guards in the Mian Ghundi neighbourhood of the city -- around 140 kilometers (87 miles) from the frontier with Afghanistan -- where Hazara Shiite merchants were trading vegetables. Three died immediately in the blast, with another officer dying later of his wounds, said Azhar Akram, a deputy inspector general of police.

Akram told AFP that 17 guards and two civilians were wounded in the blast. Three are in a critical condition, he said. A spokesman for the police's Counter-Terrorism Department confirmed the attack.

Quetta is home to approximately 500,000 Hazaras, who mostly live in an ethnic enclave on the edge of the city. The community has long been targeted by the Islamic State and other militant Sunni groups, who see them as a heretical sect.

A series of bombings carried out by a Pakistani sectarian militant group in 2013 killed over 200 Hazaras in the city. Frontier guards have also been targeted by Baloch insurgents, who have been waging a simmering insurgency for greater autonomy.


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Isis 'Beatle' pleads guilty in court to helping kidnap, behead and murder American and British hostages

Andrew Buncombe
Independent, UK
Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:37 UTC
Alexanda Kotey
A British member of an Isis cell that was nicknamed "the Beatles" and was notorious for its brutal kidnapping and beheading of hostages, has pleaded guilty in an American court.

Alexanda Kotey, 37, pleaded guilty to federal charges of hostage-taking resulting in death, conspiracy to commit murder against US citizens abroad, and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.

Reports said that family members of many of the victims killed by the cell of British jihadis - nicknamed "the Beatles" because of their accents - were in court to watch the proceedings in Alexandria, Virginia.

"Alexanda Kotey, an avowed member of Isis, pleaded guilty today to all charges that were brought against him in the United States for his participation in a horrific hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four US citizens, as well as the deaths of British and Japanese nationals, in Syria," acting United States attorney and one of the lead prosecutors on the case, Raj Parekh, said in a statement. "He has agreed to spend the rest of his life in prison."

Mr Parekh added: "The four American victims in this case — James Wright Foley, Kayla Jean Mueller, Steven Joel Sotloff and Peter Edward Kassig — were journalists and humanitarian aid workers, pillars of courage and kindness on the front lines of a perilous conflict.
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A doctor speaks out: My message to anyone who thinks it's OK to deny medical treatment to the unvaccinated

R. M. Huffman
RT
Mon, 06 Sep 2021 17:20 UTC
vaccine injection shoulder
© Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images
Some doctors are openly discussing refusal to treat patients who decline, for whatever reason, to get the jab. This would set a dangerous precedent and shatter fundamental tenets of medical practice.

An insidious sentiment has begun metastasizing throughout the United States and Britain, expressed by politicians, pundits, and - most disturbingly - by physicians themselves: that the unvaccinated who contract Covid-19 should be denied medical care.
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