Leftovers

• Science

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Germany: Bavarian pterosaur fossil gives evolutionary clues

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Toxic smog engulfs northern India, Pakistan

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Nigeria acquires $134 million loan for farming investment

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Prague battles with the consequences of overtourism

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] The facts on fluoride in tap water, salt and toothpaste

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-16 [Older] Germany's health-care sector hit by skilled labor shortage

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] 8 most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the world

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] A brief history of the toilet

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] Winnipeg hospital apologizes after patient says wrong leg amputated

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] French farmers protest EU-Mercosur trade deal

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] 1st case of avian flu in Canada confirmed. Health Canada says there are vaccines [Ed: But do people still trust vaccines promoted by the government after the blunders of 2021?]

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Former Lake Louise resort CFO sent to prison, fined total of $775K after convictions for fraud, tax evasion

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] B.C. police foil $12,800 cheese heist at Whole Foods

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] COP29: Governments, industry must up action on methane

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Croatian PM fires health minister amid corruption scandal

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Deadly E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots sold in U.S., Canada, officials say

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Quebec launches action plan to improve access to abortion, protect women's right to choose

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • San Fancisco ☛ LinkedIn lays off more than 200 workers in latest round of employee cuts

  • San Fancisco ☛ Is Outlook down? Thousands of Microsoft 365 users report outage issues

    Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers worldwide reported having issues with services like Outlook and Teams on Monday.

• Security

  • Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Ontario Taylor Swift fans 'crushed' after losing thousands of dollars in alleged Eras Tour ticket scam

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] S.Africa's Vodacom Eyes Taking Cloud-Based Phone to Other African Markets

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-20 [Older] Haiti: Doctors Without Borders halts work in Port-au-Prince

  • Defence Web ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] EU funds to help Rwandan peacekeeping efforts in Cabo Delgado

  • Counter Punch ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] “We Will Smoke Them Out!” Escalating Xenophobia in South Africa

  • Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] A Refuge in the North? How Trump’s Immigration Policies Could Create a Crisis in Canada

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] India announces successful hypersonic missile test

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] India says Nigeria is 'natural' partner as Modi visits

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Germany to enforce strict knife ban at Christmas markets

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Germany relies on immigrants to ease child care crisis

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Israeli strike on Beirut kills Hezbollah spokesman Afif

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Japanese troops to start deployments in Australia

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Kianoosh Sanjari: Iran's prisons 'disturbed my soul'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Gabon votes on post-coup constitutional referendum

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] German trial opens over alleged Islamist Sweden attack plot

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Is Italy's model for offshoring migrants doomed to fail?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Middle East: Airstrike levels Beirut multi-story building

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] Bangladesh: How inclusive is the democratic restart?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] China: Dozens dead as car rams crowd in Zhuhai

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] China: Vigil site at site of car mass killing cleared

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Malawi's judiciary faces corruption investigation

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Is North Korea's war rhetoric backed by real threats?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Middle East: Lebanon cease-fire 'in our grasp' — US envoy

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Slovaks recall Velvet Revolution with pro-democracy protest

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] In last stand, EU's Borrell takes aim at Israel

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Mozambique protests: Can SADC resolve the political impasse?

  • Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine

    • JURIST ☛ Putin signs law providing debt relief for new military recruits serving in Ukraine

      Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Saturday a bill that provides debt relief to recruits who sign up to fight in Ukraine, and their spouses. Federal law No. 391 was previously passed by the State Duma, lower house of the Russian parliament, on Tuesday November 19, and comes into force in December. 

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Fact check: Is Putin threatening to use nuclear weapons?

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Georgia: Police break up election protest camp

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Fact check: Has NATO chief Rutte threatened to expel the US?

• Environment

  • New York Times ☛ Spain Flooding: Why Did It Take So Long to Warn Residents?

    Torrential rains in Valencia, in eastern Spain, caused flooding that killed more than 200 people. The deluge started inland. It took the authorities hours to warn those downstream.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Spain evacuates thousands after new flood warning

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] COP29: World leaders meet in Baku, with big names missing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] COP29: What is holding back negotiations so far?

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Students stranded, thousands without power as 'bomb cyclone' hits B.C. coast

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] 'Bomb cyclone' set to bring strong winds to B.C.'s coast, forecasters say

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-16 [Older] Amid landslide warning, Swiss village prepares to evacuate

  • Energy/Transportation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Germany: Police remove Tesla protesters from forest camp

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Germany's VW and Rivian launch joint electric car venture

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Alberta to lift auto insurance rate cap, axe right to sue in crashes: Sources

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-20 [Older] COP29: Renewables boom, but countries cling to fossil fuels

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Regulator orders Alberta oilsands site to shut down following string of alleged infractions

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Vancouver airport runway to be closed for 'a few days' after cargo plane overruns landing

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Transport Canada to increase screening for travellers to India

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] IAEA chief says German return to nuclear power is 'logical'

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Why the EU might delay a law to slow deforestation

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Ecuador: Wildfires trigger national emergency

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Researchers urge federal government to halt macaque imports to Quebec for medical research

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Ontario father and son pilot duo fly over 1,300 km for emergency rescue of bald eagle

    • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] EU Parliament delays, waters down law to slow deforestation

  • Indigenous Rights

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Indigenous governments in the N.W.T. sign $375M deal to protect their land

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] N.B. First Nation chiefs claim 'enormous victory' in pursuit of land title claim

    • CBC ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Sask. waiter learning Cree to bridge barriers with Indigenous customers

• Finance

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Canada Shares U.S. Concerns About Mexican Trade With China as Possible Trade Talks Loom

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Germany, France struggle to secure budgets, risk uncertainty

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] South African Communications Minister Say Smartphone Tax Talks 'Encouraging'

  • NL Times ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] African aid organization calls Dutch aid cuts a "catastrophe"

  • HRW ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Africans and People of African Descent Call on Europe to Reckon with Their Colonial Legacies

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] How a rising dollar could hurt African economies

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] Canada Moves to End Labor Disputes at Port, Cites Economic Damage

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Former Lake Louise resort CFO sent to prison, fined total of $775K after convictions for fraud, tax evasion

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] Canada Moves to End Port Lockouts and Orders Binding Arbitration

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] Food bank use in Toronto breaks records — again

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] Canada Post workers give 72-hour notice to strike as company warns of financial impact

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Canada's digital services tax set for a reckoning with U.S.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] G20 summit: Brazil's billionaire tax plan faces pushback

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Germany approves more professional visas amid labor shortage

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Automatic deposits, payments delayed at credit unions across Prairies due to network outage

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Claims open in $12.5M class-action settlement over WestJet baggage fees

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Canada Post workers go on strike, negotiations still underway

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] With Canada Post strike underway, small business owners scramble to make other arrangements

  • Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Canadian Postal Workers Have Hit the Picket Lines

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] EU forecasts 'steady' eurozone growth despite 'uncertainty'

  • Yahoo News ☛ Prudential Financial announces 108 layoffs, bringing total announced this year to 634

    Newark-based Prudential Financial embarked on its fourth round of layoffs of 2024, according to state filings with the New Jersey Labor Department, for a combined total of 634 people being let go through the end of next year.

    The move comes as Prudential, a Fortune 500 company, faces increased risk in the commercial real estate lending sector, said a note by Wall Street ratings agency Moody’s.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese docu-drama ‘An Unfinished Film’ tops Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards amid political tensions

    A Chinese film set during the Covid-19 pandemic won the top prizes in Taiwan’s prestigious Golden Horse Awards, which saw the highest number of entries from China in recent years despite political tensions.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] The Guardian newspaper quits 'toxic' X

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Another X-odus is underway as users grow on other social media platforms

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Fact check: How suspicious accounts are influencing COP29-debates

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Fact Check: Elon Musk's criticism of the German judiciary is unfounded [Ed: Fascistic pig interfering in other countries' affairs via social control media]

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Musk met Iran ambassador to UN to defuse tensions: report [Ed: This should put him under detention; this isn't an allowable intervention by oligarchy]

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] What role will social media play in German election campaigning? [Ed: Just election interference by oligarchs in their social control media]

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Germany: Scholz urges cooperation ahead of snap elections

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Germany's election campaigning kicks off in parliament

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] Elon Musk's grip on politics is stronger than ever

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] G20 summit: What can Brazil learn from India and Indonesia?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-20 [Older] Peru: President's brother sentenced to pre-trial detention

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] G20: Germany's Scholz voices regret over final communique

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Germany's Scholz, China's Xi hold talks at G20 summit

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Iraq's census: Most dangerous in the world or sign of hope?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Is Boris Pistorius the man for the job of German chancellor?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] China seeks deeper ties with Brazil as G20 kicks off in Rio

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Could Marco Rubio champion human rights in Southeast Asia?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] EU ministers reject suspending dialogue with Israel

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Expect delays: German politics stall DB's punctuality drive

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Rwanda plans church tax to stop 'rogue' pastors

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Senegal's new president seeks majority in parliamentary vote

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-16 [Older] Abkhazia: Leader ready to quit if protesters exit parliament

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] What can Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz still get done?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Afghanistan: Is India warming up to Taliban?

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Netherlands: Police investigating brutality allegations

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] New Zealand: Maori MPs disrupt parliament with haka

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-18 [Older] Tottenham's Rodrigo Bentancur banned for racist comment

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Dutch coalition survives crisis talks over offensive remarks

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Germany: Greens' Habeck presses charges over online insult

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-15 [Older] Mozambique releases Nigerian outlet's detained journalists

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Bangladesh: What's behind the spike in journalist killings?

  • CBC ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] Rogers Sports & Media lays off dozens of workers in audio business

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-20 [Older] Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai testifies at 'foreign collusion' trial

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] Infowars conspiracy website bought by The Onion

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-13 [Older] India: Supreme Court bans 'bulldozer justice'

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-19 [Older] France: Gisele Pelicot calls for change in 'macho' society

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-17 [Older] Indonesia's male-dominated government stokes gender debate

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Michael Geist ☛ 2024-11-12 [Older] How the Online Streaming Act Misdiagnosed Canada’s Broadcasting Woes

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-11-14 [Older] EU fines Meta €797 million over antitrust breaches

• Patents

  • Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ The Art of Attribution and Three Unlikely Theories of Hey Hi (AI) Authorship

    In 2018, Dr. Stephen Thaler, creator of the ‘Creativity Machine’ Hey Hi (AI) system, sought copyright monopoly registration for an AI-generated image, listing the Creativity Machine as author. The Copyright Office rejected the application, citing the necessity of a human author under copyright monopoly law. After two failed requests for reconsideration, Thaler sued to compel registration. United States District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against Dr. Thaler. The case is now pending before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal,