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FireEye cyber CEO: American internet users will be targeted in next war

Nicholas Johnston
Yahoo! News
Sun, 28 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
Cyber Warefare
Any future real-world conflict between the United States and an adversary like China or Russia will have direct impacts on regular Americans because of the risk of cyber attack, Kevin Mandia, CEO of cybersecurity company FireEye, tells "Axios on HBO."

What they're saying: "The next conflict where the gloves come off in cyber, the American citizen will be dragged into it, whether they want to be or not. Period."
  • "Apps won't work. Appliances may not work. People don't even know all the things they depend on. All of a sudden, the supply chain starts getting disrupted because computers don't work."

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Brick Wall

Chinese blogger charged with 'defaming martyrs' after border-clash post


Hong Kong Free Press
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00 UTC
Since last month, China has arrested at least six for allegedly defaming the dead soldiers in online comments, highlighting the political sensitivity of the border clash.
Indo-China Border
© Shayon Ghosh/Flickr.
Chinese prosecutors formally charged a popular social media influencer with "defaming martyrs" on Monday, for suggesting the death toll of the China-India border clash was higher than the official count of four.

The blogger, listed in the indictment by his surname Qiu, was charged under a newly added provision to China's criminal law that bans the "defamation of martyrs and heroes" and came into effect Monday.

Qiu had more than 2.5 million followers on the Twitter-like platform Weibo under the pseudonym "Crayon Ball".

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Syringe

No jab, no Hajj: Saudi says all Muslims will need to have Covid vaccine before they can perform annual pilgrimage to Mecca


RT
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:38 UTC
Mecca
© Reuters / Ahmad MasoodThe annual Hajj rituals normally attract 2 million pilgrims to Mecca.
Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have said that any Muslim wanting to perform the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca will first need to be provide proof that they've been vaccinated against Covid-19.

Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry confirmed the decision in a statement on Tuesday, saying that vaccination would be "the main condition for participation," after Health Minister Tawfiq Al Rabiah said "compulsory vaccination" would be required for all pilgrims.

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Life Preserver

New variant scare tactics are an own goal

Allison Pearson
The Telegraph
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:00 UTC
Van-Tam
© MATT DUNHAM/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesI used to really like Van-Tam’s homespun analogies but now I find them disingenuous and borderline unforgivable.
Our vaccine programme is world-beating and Covid-19 cases are plummeting, so why does the Deputy Chief Medical Officer keep sparking fear?

Another week, another Covid variant on the loose. Watch out! I refer, of course, to the deeply worrying Whitehall variant.

The Whitehall variant is rapidly transmitted by scientific advisers whenever there is encouraging news. The better the news, the more aggressive the variant.
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Attention

7 students fall to their deaths after balcony railing snaps at Bolivian college


RT
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:23 UTC
Bolivia
© Reuters / David MercadoA couple wait for information about the UPEA (El Alto Public University) accident, where a balcony railing collapsed and students fell, in El Alto outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia, March 2, 2021.
Seven Bolivian college students were killed and five others injured after an indoor balcony railing broke and sent them plummeting, some as far as four floors, to the ground.

As a large number of students crowded into a fourth-floor hallway at the Public University of El Alto near the Bolivian capital on Tuesday morning, the balcony railing apparently buckled and gave way. Several students lost their balance and fell to the ground 17 meters (55 feet) below.
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TV

YouTube REMOVES video of Trump's CPAC speech from RT channels - yet it's OK with the SAME video posted by Western outlets

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:16 UTC
trump cpac speech
© REUTERS/Joe SkipperFormer President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 28, 2021.
Having a video of former US President Donald Trump's speech at CPAC may get you warnings and a deletion from YouTube, but apparently only if you're RT, as the platform seems to selectively apply its arbitrary and capricious rules.

UPDATE: In the hours following the publication of this article, some of the other outlets mentioned in it have also had their videos of Trump's CPAC speech removed.

On Tuesday, RT and its German-language channel RT DE got a notice from YouTube that the video of Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida on Sunday was being flagged for a "strike" under the platform's rules on "supporting the 2020 US presidential election" announced in December.

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NPC

Attempt at civil discourse on 'Wokeism' ends in Clubhouse room 'coup,' Jewish prof shut down as 'SPICY WHITE' & demands for CASH


RT
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:59 UTC
refund the community
© REUTERS/Leah Millis
Evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein had to relive his Evergreen College moment when he was attacked from all sides in a Clubhouse room hijacked by hostile "anti-racist" mob aghast at the idea of white people discussing "wokeism."

The room, dubbed "Is Clubhouse Obsessed with 'Wokeism'?" was created by independent journalist Michael Tracey, who said he thought the Clubhouse chats "almost inevitably evolve into a discussion of 'woke-ism'... but there's seldom anyone in the room who identifies enough with the ideology to give a defense of it."

His attempt to create a safe space for a civil discourse and let both 'woke' and 'anti-woke' understand each other better was successful at first, with Tracey tweeting that it expanded into a "large multi-racial discussion." Little did he know that the title of the room was more like a foreshadowing of things to come.

Comment: While Clubhouse is an app that has been touted as having some potential, it sounds like they have some bugs to work out if conversations you start can seemingly quickly be taken over by crazed ideologues. It's amazing Weinstein lasted as long as he did.

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Cult

Head of French church child abuse probe says there may be 10,000 victims


France 24
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 08:12 UTC
Jean-Marc Sauve France church abuse
© Jacques Demarthon, AFP(From L) Members of the French Independent Commission on sexual abuse in church (Commission independante sur les abus sexuels dans l'Eglise - CIASE), psychanalyst Jean-Pierre Winter, judge Antoine Garapon, former State Council deputy-president and CIASE president Jean-Marc Sauve and CIASE general secretary Sylvette Toche pose for a photograph as they attend their first meeting on February 8, 2018, in Paris.
The head of an independent enquiry investigating church child abuse in France said Tuesday that there might have been up to 10,000 victims since 1950.

Jean-Marc Sauve, head of a commission set up by the Catholic church, said that a previous estimate in June last year of 3,000 victims "is certainly an underestimate."

"It's possible that the figure is at least 10,000," he added at a press conference where he delivered an update on the commission's work.

Comment: Sexual child abuse in the Catholic church (and any other organized religion) is happening constantly all over the world. Top positions in organized religions are very attractive for people with psychopathological traits because from these positions they can control and manipulate people. Cases of child sex abuse should be prosecuted in courts, as any other criminal case, and not dealt within the church bureaucracy itself.

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NPC

'I'd rather be called a b**ch': Twitch unites commenters in disgust with tweet celebrating 'Womxn's History Month'

Graham Dockery
RT
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 21:55 UTC
trust womxn
© Wikipedia'Womxn' march in Seattle, 2018.
Streaming platform Twitch is so woke that it managed to enrage women, conservatives and the transgender, all in a bid to celebrate "Womxn's History Month."

UPDATE: Twitch reverts back to 'women' after tweet celebrating 'Womxn's History Month' savaged online

March is Women's History Month, and Twitch wants its users to celebrate. It's putting female streamers on its front page, showcasing female musicians, and dishing out thousand-dollar grants to deserving female students and entrepreneurs. Oh, and it's also spelling "Women's History Month" as "Womxn's History Month."

Unlike women, who have been around as long as men, the word "womxn" has been around for 10 years or so, with the "x" denoting transgender, non-binary and other deviations from the standard "woman." Its predecessor, "womyn," is a word cooked up by radical feminists in the 1970s to eliminate the words "man" and "men" from their gender.

Comment: Update: After getting savaged online, Twitch has reverted back to 'women'. From RT:
Streaming platform Twitch has returned to the conventional spelling for "women" after its social media post hailing "Womxn's History Month" - avoiding any "gender-binary language" - backfired and angered critics on all sides.

Though the company took to Twitter on Monday to inform users that "March is Womxn's History Month," using an alternative styling of "women" in a bid to include non-binary gender identities, it made an abrupt about-face just a few hours later, announcing that it would revert back to the standard spelling.

"While we originally wanted to use a word that acknowledges the shortcoming of gender-binary language, after hearing directly from you, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community on Twitch, we will be using the spelling 'women' moving forward," the platform said in a tweet, adding that the company is "still learning."

It isn't clear what prompted the sudden reversal, but the company's initial, now-deleted post quickly triggered backlash, including from those identifying as transgender. Some argued that few actually refer to themselves as "womxn" and that the term instead makes "most trans women feel othered" rather than included.

"No one who's a woman wants to be called a womxn just like no Latinos want to be called Latinx. White liberals know what's best for us tho," wrote trans YouTuber Blaire White, referring to another attempt to de-genderize the words "Latino" and "Latina" favored by many American progressives.


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Star of David

Freedom? Israel launches Covid-tracking 'FREEDOM BRACELET' as alternative to quarantine


RT
Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:45 UTC
covid tracking bracelet israel
© Reuters / Amir CohenA traveler shows off an electronic bracelet as Israel introduces them to enforce Covid-19 quarantines, at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv, Israel March 1, 2021
While courts reins in spy agency' Shin Bet contact tracing

Israel has unveiled a coronavirus-tracking bracelet as an alternative to a two-week quarantine for incoming travelers, sparking privacy concerns as a top court moved to curb the Shin Bet spy agency's role in contact tracing.

A pilot program for the tracking bracelet kicked off at Ben Gurion Airport on Monday, where 100 devices were doled out to arriving travelers as a way to avoid a stay at a military-administered quarantine hotel. Instead, those opting for the bracelet system - which features the electronic wristband, a smartphone app and a wall-mounted tracking device - will be free to return home to wait out the two-week isolation period.

While the device will alert authorities if participants venture too far from the wall-mounted tracker, Ordan Trabelsi, the CEO of SuperCom, the company behind the bracelet, said it does not collect any other information, insisting the tech is minimally intrusive.

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