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breaking…Police massacre. Ending police brutality in Nigeria: Lights Festival honors the dead before 24 hr Curfew declared

breaking>…Police massacre at least 70 people when singing Nigerian Anthem.. Resistance ongoing… see..#EndSars #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria #GenocideAtLekkiTollGate #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Protestors celebrated but don’t believe Regime promises to disband brutal Special Police killers. As demos continued a 24 hour curfew was declared ..The governor of Lagos state said the curfew would cover the entire city of some 14 million people and surrounding areas. The announcement came after a police station was burned down in the city and two people were shot dead by police. ……………….see report further down.

As protesters demand police reform, they also mourn ..Posted 20 October 2020 2:10 GMT

by Global Voices

Festival of lights to honor those killed by the SARS police unit, Lagos, Nigeria, October 17, 2020. Photo shared widely on Twitter under #EndSARS movement..

As #EndSARS protests continue to erupt across Nigeria, so does police brutality.

The #EndSARS movement began on Twitter as an outcry against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigerian police force, which later spilled onto the streets as Nigerian youth-led protests now enter their 10th day.

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Another Climate disaster. ‘Catastrophic floods’: 105 killed, 5 million affected in Vietnam as New Typhoon Looms.

from Al Jazeera English shared with thanks

At least 178,000 homes submerged, nearly 7,000 hectares of crop impacted and close to 690,000 poultry, livestock killed or swept away.

Rescue workers travel by boat on a swelling river to access a flooded area in Quang Binh province, Vietnam, on October 12, 2020 [Nguyen Van Ty/VNA via AP]

20 Oct 2020

Severe floods and landslides triggered by weeks of heavy rains have killed at least 105 people in central Vietnam and “swamped” five million, according to media reports and an aid agency.

About a third of the dead included soldiers whose barracks were buried under deadly mudslides last week, Reuters news agency reported. Keep Reading

Yet another typhoon, Saudel (Pepito), now crossing the Phillipines, is due to hit central Vietnam Sunday 25th Oct.

At least 27 people are still missing, the agency said. Among them are 15 construction workers who were also hit by a landslide.

At least 178,000 homes have been submerged and nearly 7,000 hectares (17,297 acres) of crops have been impacted.

Close to 690,000 poultry and livestock animals have been killed or swept away.

Amid devastating US fires, experts urge fire prevention rethink

Landslide hits Vietnam army barracks, 22 soldiers missing

State television showed people sitting on the roofs waiting for aid from rescuers in Quang Binh province, where floods have blocked roads and cut power.

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Google Giving ‘Keyword Searches’ of Innocent People to Cops – Court Records

by Zy Marquiez 1 shared with thanks via Matt Agorist at ActivistPost.com

at ActivistPost.com (illustrations added)

How to Permanently Delete Your Google Search History

Everyone reading this knows that there are few things on the internet more revealing than their internet search data. It is for this reason that police must seek out a warrant for an actual suspect in order to obtain said data.

Court Records Show Google Gives Keyword Searches of Innocent People to Cops | #Spying #Privacy #BigTech #SurveillanceState

However, a recently unsealed court document found that government can request such data in reverse order by asking Google to disclose everyone who searched a keyword rather than for information on a known suspect.

To spell it out more clearly, authorities can simply pick a search term and construct a warrant around it without anyone being accused of a crime or being a suspect in a crime, and then Google will simply over their data. What could possibly go wrong?

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords

The court files in question that exposed this Orwellian nightmare are from the arrest of Michael Williams, an associate of singer and accused sex offender R. Kelly, for allegedly setting fire to a witness’ car in Florida.

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Good People Aren’t Voting For Him A Second Time.. Good people don’t ……

October 12, 2020 / John Pavlovitz shared with thanks

I grew up attending Catholic School in perpetually snow-covered Central New York. One Fall morning in 9th grade, we were talking in a Religious Studies class about morality, and the priest said:

“You know that the Bible says all creation is good—but what makes a person good after being created?”

He paused and then continued. “We’ve all heard people say, ‘Well, he’s basically a good guy. Yes, he beats his wife and terrorizes his children and uses racial epithets and he lies all the time and he gets violently drunk—but he’s a basically good guy.’ “

He scanned the room and then asked the class,

“Can a ‘good guy’ do all those things and still be good?
So what does being good actually mean?
What does it look like?
How do we measure it?
Is goodness our perpetual inherent state, our do we choose goodness every day?
Can we abandon that goodness?”

I’ve never forgotten that day.

Everyone believes they’re essentially a good human being. We all tell ourselves a story, and in that story our cause is always just, our motives are always pure, our side is eternally the right one. We’ve all spent a lifetime learning how to defend ourselves against criticism, even when that criticism is justified; even in those rare moments when even we begin to wonder if we’re not who we say we are. We can gaslight the world and even ourselves, when necessary. The assumption of our own goodness protects us from accountability for thoughts and words and actions that are neither noble nor decent nor redemptive.

I often hear people say, “I’m a good person and I’m proudly voting for Donald Trump again.”

I now consider that an oxymoron.

I don’t believe any good people are voting for this president a second time—or they are in complete rebellion against goodness as they do.

I believe that act is fundamentally antithetical to anything good.

There are things good people simply don’t do:

Good people don’t ignore the assassinations of unarmed black men.
Good people don’t vilify and attack the peaceful protestors of those murders.
Good people don’t create phony ANTIFA conspiracies, just to avoid saying that Black Lives Matter.

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Abandoned Oil Tanker with 1.3m barrels Sinking due to Criminal US Sanctions

As Venezuelans starve under the illegal US blockade and petrol becomes unavailable 1.3 MILLION barrels of their oil is abandoned in a sinking tanker in a shallow coastal bay. The US blames Venezuela of course.

Locals warn derelict barge ‘Nabarima’ about to spill 55 million gallons of oil and no one is helping

October 17, 2020 by Daniel Figueroa IV A Green Road Daily News

The vessel was abandoned near capacity when U.S. sanctions prevented Citgo from purchasing the oil in early 2019, according to Reuters.

photo from 16th October 2020

The FSO Nabarima sails under the Venezuelan flag and has a capacity of 1.4 million barrels of oil. Records show its capacity was last listed at 1.3 million barrels or about 54.6 million gallons.

It’s owned in part by the state-owned energy company PDVSA and Italian oil company ENI.