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Vodafone launches first 5G network in Spain in cooperation with Huawei

Mu Xuequan
Xinhua
Sun, 16 Jun 2019 22:32 UTC
5G wireless
© Peter Hartenfelser
In cooperation with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Vodafone Espana on Saturday rolled out the first commercial 5G mobile services in Spain, making it one of the first European countries with the ultrafast mobile network in Europe.

According to Vodafone Espana, the 5G mobile network covers 15 major Spanish cities including Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Seville. Around half of the residents in these cities will able to enjoy the cutting-edge high-speed network service, which will be expanded in the future.

With 5G mobile phones, 5G customers in Spain will experience download speeds of up to 1Gbps at launch and up to 2Gbps by the end of the year, which means it could be 10 times faster than that of the 4G network, said Vodafone.

Comment: Despite sabotage attempts by the US it seems 5G is making headway into Europe, which is a win for international business relations, but a serious threat to the health of citizens: Also check out SOTT radio's: Objective:Health #15 - The Dangers of 5G & WiFi - With Scott Ogrin of Scottie's Tech.Info

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YouTube removes journalist Tim Pool's video about Pinterest's censorship of Christian, pro-life content—without explanation

Aaron Colen
The BlazeThe Blaze
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:01 UTC
Tim Pool
© YouTubeIndependent journalist Tim Pool.
The battle for freedom of speech online continues to escalate, with the latest development being YouTube censoring a journalist's video about Pinterest's censorship of Christian and pro-life content.

Earlier this week, Pinterest placed the pro-life organization Live Action on a list of blocked pornography sites. Later, Live Action was blocked from the platform altogether.

A representative for Live Action said Pinterest notified the organization that they had been "permanently suspended because its content went against our policies on misinformation." In a statement to Fortune, Pinterest cited misinformation and health-related conspiracies as the reason.

Comment: Tim Pool on his video being censored:

So not only is Pinterest censoring right/Christian content, YouTube is also censoring people who are talking about that censorship, despite the fact that multiple mainstream news sites are reporting on the same thing. It doesn't get more Orwellian than this.

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5 die in UK listeria outbreak linked to hospital food


ABC News
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:42 UTC
Hospital beds
The British government has ordered a review of hospital food after five patients died in a listeria outbreak linked to sandwiches and salads.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Saturday he wants "a radical new approach" to the food served in hospitals.

Officials have linked the outbreak to food from the Good Food Chain, which supplies dozens of U.K. hospitals, and to a meat supplier for the company.
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Radical feminism overtakes UK advertising industry, bans 'harmful gender stereotypes' in ads


RT
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:38 UTC
old advertisement with woman
© Pixabay / ArtsyBee
The UK has officially banned "harmful gender stereotypes" in advertising over concerns it could contribute to societal inequality. But is this political correctness run amok, or long-overdue reform?

The UK Advertising Standards Authority has banned "harmful gender stereotypes" likely to cause "serious or widespread offense" from all ads in a ruling that takes effect Friday. The rule springs from a 2017 review that found absorbing gender stereotypes through advertising could limit people's potential and play a part in "unequal gender outcomes."


Comment: These terms are so vague as to be essentially meaningless, in particular with regards to the law, where things need to be clearly and precisely defined so people can understand them and, thus, both obey and enforce the law. What is a 'harmful gender stereotype', exactly? Is there a way to measure how 'serious' or 'widespread' the offense would have to be for the advertisement to be against the law?


Complaints will be dealt with on a case-by case basis, examining the "content and context" to assess whether the rule had been broken, as using non-offensive gender stereotypes - such as women shopping, or men doing work around the house - is still OK under the new rules, as is using stereotypes to subvert expectations.


Comment: Who's going to be examining these ads, exactly, and how are they going to determine if the 'rule' has been broken? Will it be a jury, or an un-elected committee? If it's a committee, who will be on it, what will their biases and agendas be, and who will be selecting the members of the committee?


Comment: Laws like this set very dangerous precedents: that we need to legislate to prevent people from being offended, that the rule of law can be so vague that no one can be clear on when they're breaking it, and that we essentially need thought police to tell us how to think. It opens the gate to anyone with an agenda being able to charge others with crimes, simply because they don't like what they're doing, and further expands the government into the private sphere, eroding the balance of power between the government and private life.

Issues like this are largely self regulating in a very simple way: if people don't like the advertising, they won't buy the products and the company will either change its tactics, or fail. If you were an advertiser in the UK, how would you respond and what would you do if you could be held criminally or financially liable for offending people with 'harmful gender stereotypes'?

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Oberlin College to pay bakery the now-massive sum of $44M over racism dispute


Fox News
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
Gibson’s Bakery
© AP
A jury has awarded $33.2 million in punitive damages to Gibson's Bakery, whose owners claimed Ohio's Oberlin College and an administrator hurt their business and libeled them during a dispute over a shoplifting episode that triggered protests and allegations of racism.

The Chronicle-Telegram reported the same jury awarded Gibson's business and family members more than $11 million in actual or compensatory damages, bringing the total award to more than $44 million.

The Lorain County jury Friday awarded David Gibson $5.8 million, son Allyn Gibson $3 million and Gibson's Bakery $2.2 million.

The protests occurred after Allyson Gibson, who is white, confronted a black student who'd shoplifted a bottle of wine. Two other black students joined in and assaulted Gibson.

Comment: See also: Get woke, go broke: Jury rules Oberlin College to pay $11 million to bakery over racism accusations

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A man is suing a Scottsdale cryonics company for $1M — and the return of his dad's frozen head

Karl Puckett
Az Central
Wed, 12 Jun 2019 01:17 UTC
Kurt Pilgeram
© RION SANDERS/GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE)Kurt Pilgeram of Dutton, Mont., is in a legal battle with a cryonics company that he claims mishandled his father's remains. He would like his father's head returned after the company seperated it from and creamated his father's body, which Pilgeram says is a violation of the agreement between the company and his father.
Laurence Pilgeram, who grew up on a farm south of Great Falls, agreed to pay Alcor Life Extension Foundation $120,000 to preserve his body indefinitely at a temperature of minus 196 degrees Celsius, in the outside hope that some future technology would restore his life.

It's called cryonics.

In April 2015, about a month after Pilgeram died in California, a box containing his ashes arrived at the home of his son, Kurt Pilgeram, 1,300 miles away, outside of Dutton, Montana, population 300.

It contained Pilgeram's body from the shoulders down, but his head had been separated and placed in a vat of liquid nitrogen in Arizona, where it presumably will remain forever, or at least until Mr. Pilgeram is restored.

"They chopped his head off, burned his body, put it in a box and sent it to my house," Kurt Pilgeram said recently at his Dutton-area home, where the Rocky Mountains were visible in the distance, and a tractor seeding spring wheat in a field kicked up dust.
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Flashback Auschwitz survivor: "Call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals"

Dr. Denis G. Rancourt
Activist Teacher
Sun, 17 Jun 2018 00:00 UTC
HAJO MEYER
Auschwitz survivor, Dutch theoretical physicist and human rights activist HAJO MEYER (died at 90 in 2014, both his parents were killed at Auschwitz):
<< "If we want to stay really human beings, we must get up and call the Zionists what they are: Nazi criminals," Meyer said. The hate of the Jews by the Germans "was less deeply rooted than the hate of the Palestinians by the Israeli Jews," he observed. "The brainwashing of the Jewish Israeli populations is going on for over sixty years. They cannot see a Palestinian as a human being."

While discussing Europe's response to Israel's policies, Hajo said that Europe should respond with "a much more large scale boycott of Israel" than a ban on settlement products. If we Europeans pretend to hold high the flag of humanity with what is happening in Gaza, Israel should be outcasted by us."

I asked him if he had a message for the Palestinians, Israelis or human rights activists.

"My message for the Palestinians is that they should not give up their fight," he replied. "If they give up, they might lose their self-esteem with the ongoing humiliations by the Israeli Nazis. Fight with human means. It is justified to show to the Israeli Zionists that you are a force to reckon with. Fight with stones, with weapons. Yes, also with weapons. If you don't fight, you lose your self-esteem and will not be respected by the Israelis."

"If we Western democratic societies don't support the Palestinians in their fight, we must feel ashamed if the Palestinians are annihilated. The US and the European Union must show their teeth," he added. >> --LINK
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US 'deaths of despair' reach record levels: Suicides, alcohol and drug overdoses

Erika Edwards
NBC
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:10 UTC
us decline
West Virginia and Ohio far outpace other states in drug overdose death rates.
Rates of deaths from suicides, drug overdoses and alcohol have reached an all-time high in the United States, but some states have been hit far harder than others, according to a report released Wednesday by the Commonwealth Fund.

The report examined data in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., taking an in-depth look at 47 factors that have an impact on health outcomes, including insurance coverage, access to doctors, obesity, smoking, even tooth loss, and ultimately assigning each state a score. The data are from 2017.

Although the rates of the so-called deaths of despair are up nationally, the report's investigators were particularly struck by regional differences in the rates.

Comment: The situation in the US is critical in the US, and this could be due to vast swathes of the population having inadequate access to healthcare, but since we are seeing similar deterioration in living standards throughout the Western world the blame lies within the system itself which is utterly ponerized:

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Staten Island police officer commits suicide, making him the 3rd NYPD suicide in 2 weeks


CBS News
Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:48 UTC
NYPD New York police
An NYPD officer has reportedly shot himself on Staten Island.

According to police sources, the 29-year-old officer was found behind the 121st Precinct in a locked car and he was found by an off-duty officer who immediately called 911.

The NYPD said the officer had only been on the job for six years.

The incident is the third in a disturbing series of events involving NYPD officers and apparent suicides this month.
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Extreme weather sends energy demand growth to 9-year high

Anjli Raval and Leslie Hook
Financial Times
Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:12 UTC
Power station
© APOil, gas and coal accounted for nearly three-quarters of the growth in energy demand last year
BP warns of 'vicious cycle' as use of heating and cooling systems boosts emissions

Extreme weather drove growth in energy demand last year to its highest level since 2010, triggering warnings of a "vicious cycle" fuelled by reliance on heating and cooling systems that could worsen the world's carbon emissions crisis.

Energy group BP said in its closely watched annual market review that energy consumption grew 2.9 per cent in 2018, led by China and the US, despite modest economic growth and strengthening oil and gas prices.

The rise spurred a 2 per cent increase in carbon emissions, the fastest since 2011 and equivalent to increasing the global passenger car fleet by a third, or just under 400m. "If there is a link between the growing levels of carbon in the atmosphere and the types of weather patterns observed in 2018, this would raise the possibility of a worrying vicious cycle," Spencer Dale, BP's chief economist, said in a speech on Tuesday afternoon.

The US saw an unusually high number of very hot or cold days last year, the most since the 1950s. China and Russia also saw greater fluctuations in temperature in 2018. Such patterns could cause stronger growth in energy demand and carbon emissions as households and businesses seek to offset the effects, Mr Dale warned.

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect, trapping heat and increasing average global temperatures. Changes in atmospheric currents linked to climate change are also thought to contribute to extreme cold weather snaps in some areas.


Comment: The Dark Story Behind 'Man-Made Global Warming', Those Who Created it - And Why

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