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A group of young Turks stage an anti-US protest outside the Parliament before a visit by US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in Ankara, Turkey, Frday, Oct. 21, 2016. Carter met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other top leaders and defense officials in Ankara amid escalating tensions between Turkey and Iraq over Turkish military operations in northern Iraq as allied forces move to retake Mosul from ISIS.

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Archives for octubre 2016

UK Police Six Times More Likely To Stop And Search Black People

Black people in Britain are more likely to be stopped and searched by police than white people, according to new official figures.

Sputnik News
Por Sputnik News
Assange

Stop and search has always been a controversial method used by police officers in England and Wales and has always disproportionately targeted black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in Britain. According to official figures released in 2013, 27 percent of stop and searches were not based on reasonable grounds for suspicion and concerns,

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Evidence Reveals Possible Link Between Voting Machines And Clinton Foundation

According to OpenSecrets, the company who provided the alleged glitching voting machines is a subsidiary of The McCarthy Group, a major donor to the Clinton Foundation.

Stefanie MacWilliams
Por Stefanie MacWilliams
election results

Could these connections be enough to implicate the Clinton Foundation in the alleged early vote rigging in Texas? As usual, the internet has come through as the ultimate watchdog while the supposed safeguards of our democracy have failed. A Gab user by the name “Special Prosecutor Will Logan” has found some stunning information.  Note: as

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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race

Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.

Julia Angwin
Terry Parris Jr
Por Julia Angwin
Y Terry Parris Jr
Image credit: David Sleight/Pro Publica/CC

Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays. The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by their interests or background, it also gives advertisers the ability to exclude

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CETA: Canada Has Challenged The EU’s Chemical Regulations 21 Times

Canada – like the United States – takes issue with the European approach to regulation, which is described as the ‘precautionary principle’.

Zachary Davies Boren
Por Zachary Davies Boren
A man protests against international trade agreements TTIP and CETA in front of EU headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016.

The Canadian government raised concerns over the European Union’s regulations on chemicals on more than 20 occasions over the course of a decade, according to a letter seen by Energydesk. In a note sent to the Belgian government on October 19, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) claims that the Canadian state challenged the

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US Sent Huge Weapons Shipments To Saudi Arabia Weeks Before Yemen Funeral Bombing

Without U.S. support there’s no way Saudi coalition could wage the war at this level.”

Paul Gottinger
Ken Klippenstein
Por Paul Gottinger
Y Ken Klippenstein
spain

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. The United States shipped hundreds of millions of dollars in weapons to Saudi Arabia just weeks prior to the Saudi-led coalition’s funeral bombing in Sanaa, Yemen, according to a new analysis of U.S. government data conducted by Shadowproof. The October 8 bombing killed 140 and wounded over 500. It

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Green Party Senate Candidate Margaret Flowers Crashes Two-Party Debate

Both of Flowers’ opponents agreed to debate the Green Party candidate, but she was still excluded from the debate televised by CBS Baltimore.

Kit O'Connell
Por Kit O'Connell
Margaret Flowers, center, the Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, is escorted off stage after interrupting a televised Senate debate between Rep. Kathy Szeliga, R-Baltimore County, left, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., in Baltimore, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016

BALTIMORE --- Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Green Party candidate for Senate from Maryland, interrupted a televised debate to protest her exclusion from the forum on Wednesday. “I’m a candidate on the ballot. I have a statewide campaign. I don’t understand why I’m not up here,” Flowers declared as she briefly occupied the debate

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