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Matthew Perry: Los Angeles police launch investigation into actor’s death
www.theguardian.com Matthew Perry: Los Angeles police launch investigation into actor’s death

LAPD and DEA begin joint criminal inquiry into how Friends star, who died of acute effects of ketamine, got the prescription drug

Matthew Perry: Los Angeles police launch investigation into actor’s death
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The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy?
www.theguardian.com The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy?

Jeff Bezos’s $10bn climate and biodiversity fund has garnered glittering prizes, but concerns have been voiced over the influence it can buy – and its interest in carbon offsets

The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy?
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Attacker of Slovakia's prime minister may not have acted alone, says minister
tvpworld.com Foreign intelligence likely active in Slovakia, says intelligence chief

Juraj C.’s social media accounts were deleted after the attack, which the authorities interpret to be evidence of outside assistance.

Foreign intelligence likely active in Slovakia, says intelligence chief
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Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder can challenge US extradition
www.bbc.com Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder can challenge US extradition

The decision means Mr Assange will remain in the UK and be able to challenge US assurances over his prospective trial.

Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder can challenge US extradition
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Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters

>Kelly O’Connor, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, said she gasped out loud when she saw the text. Any medical worker who denies care to someone hurt in a war zone is committing a “serious breach of the Geneva Convention,” she said in an interview. > >“It’s completely outrageous that the government would ask these kinds of questions because it’s trying to promote that someone would violate the Geneva Conventions in wartime, which is really not something that the Canadian military stands for,” O’Connor said.

>Vancouver-based immigration lawyer Randall Cohn said the questions in the letter are “patently illegal and absolutely egregious.” He has seen two such letters asking about medical treatment of Hamas members — sent to a doctor and a nurse — and he is aware of two more, he said in an interview. > >The people who received these letters and brought them to lawyers were afraid to do it, Cohn said, because they worried they would be penalized by Canadian immigration officials. He wonders how many other people have received similar letters but haven’t shown them to anyone out of fear.

>The federal Immigration Department said that an interview with its minister, Marc Miller, was not possible.

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CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand ⋆ The Breach
breachmedia.ca CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand ⋆ The Breach

Working for five years as a producer at the public broadcaster, I witnessed the double standards and discrimination in its coverage of Palestine—and experienced directly how CBC disciplines those who speak out

CBC has whitewashed Israel’s crimes in Gaza. I saw it firsthand ⋆ The Breach
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Quebec court rejects McGill injunction request to remove encampment
montreal.ctvnews.ca Quebec court rejects McGill injunction request to remove encampment

A Quebec judge has rejected McGill University's request for an injunction to remove the pro-Palestinian encampment on the university's campus in downtown Montreal.

Quebec court rejects McGill injunction request to remove encampment
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U of A associate dean resigns over removal of student protesters from campus
edmonton.ctvnews.ca U of A associate dean resigns over removal of student protesters from campus

University faculty members in Alberta are roasting decisions by their respective institutions to have police forcibly remove student protesters from campus, with one professor quitting a leadership role over the matter.

U of A associate dean resigns over removal of student protesters from campus
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US commander appeared to suggest UK special forces were operating in Ukraine
www.businessinsider.com US commander appeared to suggest UK special forces were operating in Ukraine

A UK Ministry of Defence spokesperson said, "It is the long-standing policy of successive governments not to comment on UK Special Forces."

US commander appeared to suggest UK special forces were operating in Ukraine
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‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age
www.theguardian.com ‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age

Enthusiasts are customising their favourite works and being rewarded with wide social media following

‘They made it look so easy’: traditional craft of bookbinding rejuvenated for the TikTok age
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Canada pitches in $76 million for 'faster' German air-defence systems in Ukraine

>In January 2023, Canada spent $400 million to send an American air-defence system to Ukraine, which Blair says is still being manufactured.

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Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare
  • Are there any problems with this particular story? I found it to be mostly collating current thought about BCI and its applications.

  • DND ignores requests to release information, undercutting federal law, MPs are told
  • National Defence is continuing to ignore requests to release government records as required under law and in the process is undermining a watchdog agency that reports to parliament, members of Parliament have heard.

    The House of Commons Committee on National Defence is conducting hearings into the lack of openness and transparency within the department and the Canadian military. So far it has heard that National Defence violates the law in almost 40 per cent of the requests it receives to produce records under the Access to Information Act.

    In an increasing number of cases, the department is claiming that records don’t exist, the committee heard.

    At times such responses strain credibility. For instance, National Defence claimed not a single document or any information whatsoever was sent to Anita Anand, then the defence minister, throughout the four-month period covering the selection and announcement of the F-35 fighter jet in a $19-billion procurement deal.

  • Covid-19 social distancing was not based on scientific data, Fauci admits
  • This article is literally quoting the official press release of the committee's chairman:

    https://oversight.house.gov/release/wenstrup-releases-statement-following-dr-faucis-two-day-testimony/

    Dr. Fauci claimed that the “6 feet apart” social distancing recommendation promoted by federal health officials was likely not based on any data. He characterized the development of the guidance by stating “it sort of just appeared.”

    Dr. Fauci acknowledged that the lab leak hypothesis is not a conspiracy theory.

    Dr. Fauci admitted that America’s vaccine mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic could increase vaccine hesitancy in the future.

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