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Met police accused of targeting pro-Palestine protesters for stop and search
Big Brother Watch finds 40 of 47 uses of new power were at Gaza protest, with zero arrests suggesting ‘no justification’
 The cops of metropolitan London appear to be using new "stop and search" power to harass and intimidate protests on behalf of Palestinians' rights. The nominal purpose of this power is to catch people who are carrying knives. However, it appears that none of the protesters they searched had a knife.
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Trump’s shuttering of the National Center for Atmospheric Research is Stalinist | Michael Mann and Bob Ward
This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry
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 The magats plan to eliminate the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Its climate modeling demonstrates the danger of greenhouse gas emissions, so planet roasters want to put an end to honest climate modeling. When only fossil fuel companies do climate modeling, they will be able to conceal some
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Billboards aimed at troops ask 'is this what you signed up for?'
The signs went up in D.C. and near two North Carolina bases amid the Trump administration’s surge in domestic deployments.
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 Win Without War has put up billboards near some US military bases to remind troops of the laws that say they can and should refuse illegal orders. The article shows that the persecutor has renamed Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg, to bear once again the name of a Confederate general who fought to continue slavery. I suppose that shows the persecutor's
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The Brazen Cruelty of the Trump Regime
Its plan to warehouse immigrants has shades of Nazi concentration camps and America's shameful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
 The persecutor's henchmen plan to store prisoners for deportation in warehouses, literally. Up to around 10,000 people in each. In effect, concentration camps. Warehouses are not designed to provide water, toilets or even air ventilation for so many people, let alone keep the temperature warm enough for people with little clothing.
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UK spying laws could result in overreach and real harm, says review
Jonathan Hall KC warns of people being wrongly investigated and of impact on journalists and thinktanks
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 The UK government's new "national security" law prohibits a broad range of political activities that might aim for results that benefit a foreign power. In some cases, even in the absence of any contact between the people doing them and any representative of that country They *could extend into politics, journalism, protest and other
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‘An air of repression’: Cop City case hangs over heads of 61 defendants
US government continues holding on to huge amounts of seized personal property, from diaries to cellphones
 The persecution of Cop City protesters continues as the US Department of Injustice retains seized property (letters, phones, etc) of many protesters for years.
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US drops plan to deport Chinese man who helped expose abuse of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, say activists
Decision comes amid growing public support for Guan Heng – who secretly filmed detention facilities in China – after he illegally entered US by...
 The US has dropped its politically-motivated plan to deport whistleblower Guan Heng to China.
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Trump and Putin share a craving for status. That’s why they both want to destroy Europe | Henry Farrell and Sergey Radchenko
Liberal democracies view Putin’s Russia as a bully – and Trump’s US as an angry drunk with a bazooka. The response is pure venom, say Henry F...
 *Trump and Putin share a craving for status. That's why they both want to destroy Europe.*
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Why are drug prices so high in America? Trump doesn’t have the right answer | Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron
Americans are not paying high prices because of other western countries. Pharmaceutical companies are to blame
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60 Minutes episode on brutal El Salvador prison, pulled from air by CBS, appears online
Segment that Bari Weiss had removed provides in-depth look at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo prison
 *60 Minutes episode on brutal El Salvador prison, pulled from air by CBS, appears online.* This article summarizes much of its description of the torture in the Cecot prison. It is clearly meant to destroy the prisoners' bodies and minds, though not quickly.