from Freedom News…. shared with thanks.

• deaths in custody
• This article discusses racist police violence and deaths in custody.

As readers are doubtlessly aware: in the early hours of last Friday morning a police officer was shot and killed in Croydon custody centre. While the details surrounding the incident are still unclear, cops and their right wing cheerleaders are already using it as an opportunity to demand greater police powers as well as harsher punishments for those who allegedly do them harm.

People attend a demonstration in Parliament Square in central London, on June 6, 2020,

Indeed, one retired officer, former Detective Chief Inspector Chris Phillips, has sought to blame the incident on critics of the systematic racist violence known as stop-and-search. Asked about how someone could enter the custody centre while armed, Phillips said: “I think police officers are probably less likely to search people now with all the furore that goes on”.

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Scientists have managed to isolate a natural and ‘universal’ antibiotic

from Sputnik Mundo shared with thanks

A team of Russian scientists has managed to find a substance with revolutionary anti-tumor and antibacterial properties: it is emericellipsina A, a peptide that the researchers isolated from fungi.

The study has been conducted by researchers at Tyumen State University together with other Russian colleagues, and was published in the journal Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology.

This natural antibiotic is universal and overcomes the resistance of pathogens to drugs. The study authors maintain that the substance found will help to effectively fight most infectious diseases of humans and animals caused by bacteria and fungi.

The good news was published in Russia at 11:48 GMT 23.09.2020 but was little covered in the Western media, where there is a US boycott of Russian news and allied threats.

russkiymir.ru Russian scientists discovered universal natural antibiotic

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‘one of the first acts of liberation of a people is the destruction of monuments to heroes and caudillos’

Knocking down statues by Raúl Zibechi in Revista de prensa — Alternativas.

shared with thanks ..translation by TheFreeOnline

Riot police guard a statue of the Spanish conqueror Sebastián de Belalcázar, in the face of recent threats from certain groups to demolish it, in Cali, Colombia. Afp photo Follow @lajornadaonline

“The risk of a destroyer of statues is of becoming one”, Carlos Monsiváis quotes Jean Cocteau at the end of his essay ‘On civic monuments and their spectators’.

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He also wrote that one of the first acts of liberation of a people is the destruction of monuments to heroes and caudillos, who thus ceased to exist.

As a result of the wave of demolitions of monuments, multiplied after the murder of George Floyd by the police in the United States, critics of such demolitions appeared, who tear their clothes because, they say, the statues are part of the public space.

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The most recent episode happened in Popayán, capital of Cauca, in southern Colombia. On September 16, a group of Misak and NASA demolished the monument to Sebastián de Belalcázar, founder of the city and of Guayaquil, Quito and Cali. He received the royal title of governor for life of Popayán, in addition to other decorations.

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from Stockholm Center for Freedom Tweets/photos added

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the detention of 82 prominent pro-Kurdish politicians, with some of them detained as of Friday morning in police raids, Turkish Minute reported, citing the state-run Anadolu news agency (AA).

Kevok Foundation@FoundationKevok·11hThe ‘Garden’ where Middle East Terrorism grows from is the Sultan Palace in Ankara, where Erdoğan lives with all his stolen money. ISIS and the other jihadi groups are his personal toys for murder and conquest. #BoycottTurkey

According to AA, the detention warrants were issued over the politicians’ alleged role in protests in Kurdish majority cities against what is seen by many as the Turkish government’s tacit approval of the Kobane siege in 2014, when the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants laid a prolonged siege to a Kurdish town in northern Syria.

Our former executives have been detained on the pretext of the 2014 Kobani protests. We proposed many motions for a parliamentary inquiry on this issue but they were all turned down by AKP&MHP. We will continue our struggle for justice. We will not be silenced! #HDPSusturulamaz pic.twitter.com/XW3olF3OwM

— HDP English (@HDPenglish) September 25, 2020

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