Leftovers

• NYPost ☛ Remembering actor Matthew Perry’s life in photos

  Actor Matthew Perry died on Saturday at his Los Angeles home. He was 54.

• Matthew Perry’s Chandler Gave Hope To Friendless Weirdos Everywhere

  I had Chandler — and Chandler had friends.

• New York Times ☛ Matthew Perry, ‘Friends’ Star, Dies at 54

  Mr. Perry, who died on Saturday, was best known for his role in “Friends,” the NBC sitcom that followed a group of young professionals living in Manhattan.

• France24 ☛ 'Friends' actor Matthew Perry dead at 54

  Matthew Perry, one of the stars of smash hit TV sitcom "Friends," has been found dead at his home, US media reported Saturday. He was 54.

• Science

  • The Conversation ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Royal Charter storm of 1859: how an almighty tempest led to the birth of the UK's shipping forecast

  • The Conversation ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Physics has long failed to explain life – but we're testing a groundbreaking new theory in the lab

  • The Conversation ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] The Sun's activity cycle is reaching its peak early: knowing why could help us unlock the secrets of our star

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] China's Shenzhou-17 mission takes off for space station

• Education

  • Hackaday ☛ Impostor Syndrome: It’s Not Your Fault!

    [Crispernaki] and I have something in common. We both saw this awesome project that made a scroll wheel out of a VHS head back in 2010, and wanted to make one. We both wanted to put our own spin on the gadget, (tee-hee), discovered that it was harder than either of us wanted to commit to, and gave up.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] Germany: Students left homeless as winter semester begins

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Germany's Libraries Day tries to keep book interest alive

  • Hackaday ☛ EcoEDA Integrates Your Junk Bin Into Your Designs

    If you’re like us, there’s a creeping feeling that comes over you when you’re placing an order for parts for your latest project: Don’t I already have most of this stuff? With the well-stocked junk bins most of us sport and the stacks of defunct electronics that are almost always within arm’s length, chances are pretty good you do. And yet, we always seem to just click the button and place a new order anyway; it’s just easier.

  • Hackaday ☛ Brick-Laying Machine Builds Without Mortar

    Move over, 3D printed houses. There’s a new game in town, and it is able to use standard concrete blocks to build the walls of a house in just one day.

• Hardware

  • SparkFun Electronics ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Goodbye, Teensy 3.X!

  • Hackaday ☛ Plasma Cutting And 3D Printing Team Up To Make Bending Thick Sheet Steel Easier

    Metalworking has always been very much a “mixed method” art. Forging, welding, milling, grinding; anything to remove metal or push it around from one place to another is fair game when you’ve got to make something fast. Adding in fancy new tools like CNC plasma cutting and computer-aided drafting doesn’t change that much, although new methods often do call for a little improvisation.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Amazon Clinic Is the Latest Sign That American Healthcare Has Failed Us

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Pakistan: Skyrocketing drug prices leave patients scrambling

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] More Amazon Workers Suffer Injuries, Burnout Than Previously Thought, Study Shows

  • DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ US Government: Almost Nobody Wants the New COVID Shots and Obamacare Makes Getting One a Disaster if You Do.

    US Government: Almost Nobody Wants the New COVID Shots and Obamacare Makes Getting One a Disaster if You Do.

    According to Ars Technica, the US government says that only 7% of adults and 2% of children even got this updated “booster”.

    Those figures were current as of a few days ago.

    They say it’s “abysmal” and that if we even get to the “disappointing” figure of 17% from last year, they’ll be “amazed”, and that everything from scheduling to trying to pay for it is a disaster, if you even want one, thanks to this Obamacare nonsense.

    I mean, you don’t have to have any conspiracy theories. This is them saying that.

    [...]

    They try to conflate flu, RSV, and COVID when they’re all very different, and the flu shot has been around for about 80 years and it’s known to work, to an extent, and to not be all that dangerous.

  • Long Covid Sucks. No, Really, it Does, and if You haven’t got it by Now, You Probably Will.

    Long Covid. If you are at all conversant with C20 twenties and thirties detective novels, you’ll know all about the invalids, the incapabables, the chronically ill. That was the flu. Though it never is the protagonist who is suffereing, it’s always someone else.

    Well, this time it’s me. The protagonist of my own life.

    I got covid when I got jabbed, early 2022. In the vaccination centre. Not because of the vaccine, but because, for some reason, everyone was expected to sit down, in a perspex cubicle for fifteen minutes, unmasked.

    Of course, as you know, the covid virus remains infectuous for six hours and airborne, no droplets needed, in any area an infected person has been breathing for about ten minutes.

  • The Straits Times ☛ G-7 calls for immediate repeal of bans on Japanese food, pressing China

    China suspended all Japanese fish imports two months ago when Japan started the release of treated radioactive water.

  • Science Alert ☛ Do You Bruise Easily? It Could Be A Sign Of Something More Serious

    Ouch.

  • Science Alert ☛ How Old Are Your Eyes? New 'Clock' Could Reveal Disease Risk

    As old as you look.

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] 940,000 Insignia pressure cookers recalled in Canada and U.S. due to burn risk

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Scientists urge WHO to declare health emergency for planet

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] The rise of invasive fungal infections explained

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • Latvia ☛ More than 100 infrastructure workers deemed 'untrustworthy'

      This year alone, the State Security Service (VDD) has checked more than four thousand employees who work in areas concerned with Latvia's critical infrastructure, and has decided more than a hundred are "probably untrustworthy", reported Latvian Television October 28.

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Amazon Rolls Out Passkeys as Big Tech Bids Farewell to Passwords [Ed: GAFAM/outsourcing is not really security]

    • Engadget ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Amazon now supports passkey logins on browsers and iOS devices

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Amazon Reportedly Wants to Treat Your Dog via Webcam [Ed: Amazon demands more cameras inside more people's homes]

• Defence/Aggression

  • New York Times ☛ Maine Sheriff Says He Sent Statewide Alert About Gunman Last Month

    The sheriff said the gunman had made threats against the Army base where he was assigned, prompting an alert to all law enforcement agencies in the state weeks before the mass shooting.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Maine mass shooting: Manhunt underway for gunman

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] US: 18 people confirmed dead in Maine mass shooting

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] US: Multiple people killed in Maine mass shooting

  • The Straits Times ☛ China kick-starts Xiangshan security forum in absence of defence minister

    The forum is China's biggest annual show of military diplomacy.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Sweden welcomes Turkey ratifying NATO membership bid

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Sweden Welcomes Turkey Sending NATO Bill to Parliament

  • International Business Times ☛ 2023-10-20 [Older] Biden Likens Hamas To Putin In Controversial Speech And Believes the IDF Weren't Behind Airstrike

  • The Straits Times ☛ Chinese party delegation visits Solomon Islands - Chinese state media

    A Chinese communist party delegation has visited the Solomon Islands, calling the "flourishing" cooperation between China and the Pacific nation a show of how diplomatic ties were in their peoples' interest, Chinese state media said on Sunday.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Biden-Xi summit in view as US hosts China's top diplomat

  • France24 ☛ China's foreign minister says road to Xi-Biden summit will not be smooth

    China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the "road to the San Francisco summit will not be a smooth one", the foreign ministry said on Sunday, in a reference to an expected meeting between President Pooh-tin Jinping and US President Joe Biden.

  • The Straits Times ☛ China’s foreign minister suggests road to planned Xi-Biden summit in San Francisco will not be smooth

    October 29, 2023 9:36 AM
    
    

    He was referring to an expected meeting between Pooh-tin and Biden on the sidelines of an APEC forum summit.

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Navigating Identity and Boundaries: Challenges in Post-Colonial State Formation in the Horn of Africa

  • Defence Web ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Africa’s three waves of coups

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] Beijing, Manila spar over ship collisions in South China Sea

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Manila summons China envoy over South China Sea collisions

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Maine governor confirms death of Lewiston mass shooter

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Germany: More bomb threats against schools and public sites

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Germany: ZDF broadcaster building evacuated amid bomb threat

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] EXCLUSIVE: In the ’80s, Joe Biden Speculated to Israel’s PM About Wiping Out Canadians

  • RFERL ☛ Hamas Reportedly Looking To Track Down Eight Russian-Israeli Hostages

    The Hamas militant group -- which is holding more than 200 hostages seized in its October 7 attack on Israel -- is attempting to locate eight Russian-Israeli dual citizens following a request from Moscow to free them, Russian news agencies reported on October 28.

  • YLE ☛ Russian Embassy won't accept applications to renounce citizenship; Finnish pols weigh dual nationality

    National Coalition Party presidential candidate Alexander Stubb has expressed concerns about the rights of dual citizens in Finland.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Live updates | Israel pounds Gaza strip, dismissing calls for cease-fire

    Israel has launched an expanded ground operation after knocking out communications and creating a near-blackout of information in the Gaza Strip with increased bombardment and artillery fire. Israel says infantry and armored vehicles were backed by massive strikes from the air and sea overnight Friday into Saturday, including the bombing of Hamas tunnels. Other countries, United Nations officials and aid agencies described a dire situation on the ground in Gaza. Palestinian health officials say 377 people were killed in the latest barrage, bringing the 3-week death toll in Gaza to 7,703. More than 1,400 people in Israel were killed and 229 people were taken hostage during an Oct. 7 incursion by Hamas militants.

  • The Kent Stater ☛ IDF announces expanded ground operation in Gaza, amid communications blackout in the enclave

    CNN — Israeli airstrikes rocked Gaza during a night of heavy bombardment after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday it is “expanding ground operations” in the besieged enclave, where communications links have reportedly been severed.

  • France24 ☛ 🔴 Live: Israeli military increases troop numbers inside Gaza amid air strikes

    The Israeli army said on Sunday that it will be increasing troop numbers inside the Gaza Strip and reiterated calls for civilians in Gaza to move to the south of the besieged enclave, where it said humanitarian efforts will be increasing. The news came as internet and mobile services are gradually being reestablished after being cut off on Friday during intense Israeli bombardment.

  • New York Times ☛ Israel-Hamas War: Israel Says It Is ‘Expanding’ War Operations in Gaza

    Two days after sending soldiers into Gaza, Israel’s military warned residents to head south with increasing “urgency.” Internet connectivity was being restored in parts of the strip after a near-total blackout.

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • Meduza ☛ Russian Foreign Ministry says Ukrainian drone hit nuclear waste storage facility in October 26 attack — Meduza

    • Meduza ☛ Redeploying troops Meduza updates its Ukraine combat map with the latest developments in Avdiivka, Orikhiv, and the Dnipro — Meduza

    • New York Times ☛ In Ukraine, 3 Childhood Friends Became Brothers in War Against Russia

      Three friends met as boys in western Ukraine. When Russia invaded, they enlisted in the same unit. There was comfort, and dread, in serving together.

    • France24 ☛ Belarus's Lukashenko says Ukraine-Russia conflict at stalemate, urges talks

      Russia and Ukraine are locked in a stalemate on the frontlines of their war and the two sides need to sit down and negotiate an end to the conflict, Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian leader of Belarus and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said over the weekend.

    • RFERL ☛ Moscow Will Confiscate EU Assets If Brussels 'Steals' Frozen Russian Funds, Putin Ally Threatens

      Russia will confiscate assets belonging to European Union states it deems unfriendly if the bloc "steals" frozen Russian funds in a drive to fund Ukraine, an ally of President Vladimir Putin said on October 29.

    • Meduza ☛ Former Wagner Group mercenaries are joining Chechnya’s Akhmat battalion, says Chechen commander — Meduza

    • France24 ☛ Talks on Ukraine's peace plan open in Malta

      A third round of Ukrainian-backed peace talks opened in Malta Saturday with representatives from more than 60 countries but without Moscow, which condemned it as a "blatantly anti-Russian event".

    • JURIST ☛ Ukraine’s Black Sea export pathway disruption raises concerns amid conflicting reports

      Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov on Thursday refuted reports that Ukraine is halting the usage of its newly established Black Sea grain export pathway.

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] Lukashenko's personality cult: anything but humble

• Environment

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Ancient Amazon River Rock Carvings Exposed by Drought

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Carbon tax exemption on home heating oil sets climate policies back, advocates say

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Did Trudeau just undermine his signature climate policy, or save it?

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Alberta premier tells climate conference renewable-powered grid by 2035 'fantasy thinking'

  • Vox ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] How China is designing flood-resistant cities

  • The Kent Stater ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Conversations on climate: Stephen Markley’s “The Deluge” informs readers of climate change issues

  • NL Times ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] "Unrealistic" that Netherlands will achieve climate goals: Council of State

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] The Pope Leads 1.4 Billion Catholics. Getting Them to Care About the Climate Is Harder Than He Thought

  • Truthdig ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] The Pope Wants Catholics To Care About Climate Change

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Headed to 'Potential Collapse': Alarm Bells Are Blaring in New Climate Report

  • University of Michigan ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] UMich student climate groups gather for fourth annual sustainability summit

  • The Age AU ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Global fossil fuel subsidies double as 2023 expected to be hottest in 100,000 years

  • Truthdig ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] We Must Protect America’s ‘Last Climate Sanctuary’

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Prince William to Travel to Singapore for Earthshot Prize Announcement on Climate Projects

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] California Gov. Gavin Newsom Is Traveling to China to Talk Climate Change

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] China Says It Wants to Bolster Climate Cooperation With US as California Gov. Newsom Visits Beijing

  • Vox ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] How Hurricane Otis defied forecasts and exploded into a deadly storm overnight

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] 'Nightmare' Hurricane Otis wreaks havoc on Mexican coast

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Mexico: Category 5 Hurricane Otis touches down near Acapulco

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse is 'unavoidable' — study

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] With growth in clean energy 'unstoppable,' fossil fuels will peak by 2030, energy agency says

  • Creative Commons ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] A Year in the Open Climate Campaign

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] This First Nation in Alberta is fighting climate change with rows and rows of trees

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Hurricanes are getting stronger

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Can dangerous environmental tipping points be averted?

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] B.C. rivers are drying up due to drought. Could beavers, AKA 'nature's engineers,' have the solution?

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-10-21 [Older] No, Israel Is Not Making the Desert Bloom

  • Federal News Network ☛ Mexico security authorities raise Hurricane Otis death toll to 39

    Mexico’s security authorities have raised the death toll from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39. Mexico's security secretary said Saturday that the probable cause of death for the 39 was “suffocation by submersion.” But she added that investigations continue and that the victims had not yet been identified. The increase comes after the initial death toll of 27 had not changed since it was announced Thursday. In Acapulco on Saturday, government workers and volunteers cleared streets, gas station lines wrapped around the block, and some lucky families found food essentials as a more organized relief operation took shape.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Fossil fuel demand 'far too high,' IEA says

    • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Michigan Senate approves 2040 deadline for carbon-neutral energy

    • NL Times ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Shell cuts 200 jobs in renewable energy branch

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Senate Energy Panel Leaders From Both Parties Press for Gulf Oil Lease Sale to Go On, Despite Ruling

    • Bridge Michigan ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Opinion | In Michigan, clean energy and agriculture are allies, not enemies

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] US energy giant Chevron to acquire Hess

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • The Conversation ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] People in Europe ate seaweed for thousands of years before it largely disappeared from their diets – new research

    • The Conversation ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Wild animals that survive limb loss are astonishing – and a sign of the havoc humans are wreaking on nature

  • Overpopulation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-20 [Older] Antarctica: What's the big deal over resource exploitation?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Global efforts to halt deforestation falling short — report

• Finance

  • New York Times ☛ Halloween Shoppers Not Spooked as Economic Slowdown Remains Elusive [Ed: Wall Street Times hypnosis, as if buying some plastic mask is a major expenditure]

    From apple picking to skeleton cows, early seasonal spending seems solid. It’s the latest sign that Federal Reserve policy to combat inflation hasn’t tanked growth.

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] It's no trick — the cost of Halloween treats is creeping over inflation. But not enough to scare shoppers

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Costa Rica investigates biggest national bank heist

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] ECB leaves interest rates unchanged as markets falter

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Vancouver tenants confront building owners at rally protesting poor living conditions

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Bank of Canada holds rate steady but warns more increases are possible — even as markets bet they're done

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Bank of Canada governor won't say when interest rates will drop, but insists it won't take a recession

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] She worked full time and after monthly bills, there was $9 left for food

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Engadget ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Meta Gets That You Hate Seeing Threads on Facebook, Instagram. End of Communication

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Facebook Workers in Kenya Say Meta Hasn’t Paid Them for 6 Months Amid Legal Case

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Meet the ‘New Elites’ Who Control Twitter's Israel-Hamas News

  • Engadget ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Twitter clone Pebble is shutting down just five weeks after a rebrand

  • Vox ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Elon Musk didn’t kill Twitter

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Twitter: How Elon Musk changed X in one year

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Elon's X Rolls Out Voice and Video Calls [Ed: People could do this in the 90s; why choose something controlled by a fraud?]

  • International Business Times ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] X (Twitter) Rolls Out Video, Audio Calls, Here's How To Use It [Ed: Why use social control media for this?]

  • Engadget ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] What we got right (and wrong) about Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] One Year On: The 12 Worst Moments of Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Happy Twitter Anniversary, Elon Musk! Your Platform Is Dying

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Twitter Takeover: 1 Year Later, X Struggles With Misinformation, Advertising and Usage Decline

  • Federal News Network ☛ The campaign spotlight this weekend is on Nevada, where dueling elections could confuse GOP voters

    Nevada is a pivotal early state on the 2024 election calendar, but it’s gotten much less attention than leadoff Iowa and New Hampshire. Not this weekend. Most of the Republican presidential candidates are in Las Vegas for the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual meeting. That event has taken on greater significance this year because of the Israel-Hamas war. Donald Trump will follow his speech before that group with an evening appearance at a campaign organizing event. Nevada will have a primary election Feb. 6, as state law requires, and party-run caucuses two days later. That setup has drawn criticism about potential voter confusion and concerns the state party is attempting to tilt the scale for Trump, who's skipping the primary.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] India Says Relations With Canada Passing Through Difficult Phase

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Why is India boosting its diplomatic workforce?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] Polls open in Argentina election amid severe economic crisis

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Partial results: Argentina heads to presidential runoff

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Canada Says China-Linked 'Spamouflage' Campaign Targeted Lawmakers, PM Trudeau

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Scheerpost ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Prison as Censorship: Exhibition Curated by Mariame Kaba Serves as an Abolitionist Call to Action

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Noah Feldman: Israel-Hamas war tests left’s views on cancel culture

    Most canceling initially came from the left. So most leftists thought there was nothing wrong with the practice or it was just free speech.

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] A Canadian Politician Has Been Sacked for Calling for a Cease-Fire in Palestine

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • BIA Net ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] MFRR report highlights press freedom challenges in Turkey

  • ANF News ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] MFRR report: Journalists in Turkey are faced with trumped-up charges

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Iranian regime cranks up intimidation of journalists

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Iran: Teen dies weeks after alleged brush with morality police

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Germany: A hotbed of Vietnamese dissidents

  • Federal News Network ☛ AP Sources: Auto workers and Stellantis reach tentative contract deal that follows model set by Ford

    Jeep maker Stellantis has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that follows a template set earlier this week by Ford, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday. The deal, which still must be ratified by members, leaves only General Motors without a contract with the union. The agreement could end a six-week strike by more than 14,000 workers at Stellantis assembly plants in Michigan and Ohio, and at parts warehouses across the nation. Like workers at Ford, the strikers at Stellantis are expected to take down their picket lines and start returning to work in the coming days, before 43,000 union members vote.

  • JURIST ☛ Canada passes sexual offender registry amendments

    An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act (SOIGA) and the International Transfer of Offenders Act (ITOA) received Royal Assent on Thursday in Canada, thereby becoming law.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] Anti-immigration SVP secures gains in Swiss elections

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Migration: Germany to deport rejected asylum seekers faster

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] German government mulls limiting migrant remittances

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Germany leads rising anti-Black racism in the EU — study

  • New York Times ☛ From Smugglers and TikTok, Migrants Get a Message: Go to New York

    Many migrants entering the U.S. southern border have been steered to New York City by relatives, politicians and smugglers, in part because of the city’s right-to-shelter policy.

  • JURIST ☛ UNHCR spokesperson expresses alarm about Pakistan’s mass deportation plan of ‘undocumented foreign nationals’

    Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), on Friday, said that Pakistan’s plan to deport the “undocumented” remaining foreign nationals in the country after November 1 should be suspended as it disproportionately impacts more than a million undocumented Afghans who will remain in Pakistan post the final deadline.

  • New York Times ☛ Halloween Celebrations Subdued in Itaewon One-Year After Tragedy

    The authorities in Seoul were out in force over the weekend, but the crowds in the typically bustling neighborhood were sparse.

  • New York Times ☛ Blue-Collar Workers Are the New Social Media Stars

    A new crop of popular social control media personalities includes a trucker, a shepherd and a commercial fisherman. What they earn from sponsorships is just a nice bonus.

  • Federal News Network ☛ Former NYC jail guards avoid prison time for 8-minute delay in helping inmate who attempted suicide

    Two former New York City jail guards won’t serve any prison time in connection with a teenage inmate’s suicide attempt in 2019. The Daily News reported Friday that Daniel Fullerton and Mark Wilson received conditional discharges after pleading guilty to misdemeanor official misconduct in May and September, respectively. Prosecutors say Fullerton, Wilson and two other officers who were charged failed to help 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano for nearly eight minutes during his suicide attempt at the Rikers Island jail complex.

  • The Straits Times ☛ Saying ‘I do’ to themselves: Why some South Koreans throw ‘sologamy’ weddings

    While marriage rates in the country continue to fall, the number of individuals committing to themselves is on the rise.

  • International Business Times ☛ 2023-10-20 [Older] Tourists Face £950 Fine Or Prison Time Over Strict Rule In Turkey, Dubai And India

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Canada's chief accessibility officer 'furious' after Air Canada forgets her wheelchair

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Passenger forced to drag himself off Air Canada flight after airline failed to provide wheelchair assistance

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Air Canada apologizes after British MP questioned 'because his name is Mohammad'

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Feds need to address impact of St. Lawrence seaway strike, stakeholders say

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Autoworkers reach a deal with Ford, a breakthrough toward ending strikes against Detroit automakers

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Striking St. Lawrence Seaway workers, management called back to negotiation table

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] St. Lawrence Seaway strike leaving goods, ships stranded at Port of Thunder Bay

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] What to know about the St. Lawrence Seaway strike

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-22 [Older] St. Lawrence Seaway workers begin strike action, union says

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-24 [Older] Iceland: Women hold all-day strike for gender equality

  • CBC ☛ 2023-10-26 [Older] Iceland strike: 24 hours without women working

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-25 [Older] Were women key to voting out Poland's ruling conservatives?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-23 [Older] Germany's largest trade union elects first ever female chair

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-28 [Older] Qatargate: A 'murky' prosecution case, says former suspect

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] FTX's Bankman-Fried acknowledges 'mistakes,' denies fraud

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Spanish clergy sexually abused 200,000 children: report

• Monopolies

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    • Ruben Schade ☛ Seeing Paul McCartney live in Sydney! ♡

      Clara and I booked tickets to see Paul McCartney’s sold-out Friday show in Sydney, and deliberately avoided reading about his US tour so as much of it would be a surprise as possible.

      It was… I can’t summon the words. Even Clara’s bear cat came!

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-10-27 [Older] Kenya: New tax frustrates digital content creators