- Annals of Fascists: Turkey's Erdogan takes legal action after lawmaker calls him 'fascist dictator'
Responding like a fascist dictator, President Tayyip Erdogan filed a criminal complaint against a prominent opposition lawmaker, the spokesman for the main opposition Republican People's Party, Bulent Tezcan,who said the…
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- Tamilnadu activist charged with sedition for writing against the river-linking project
While in Tiruchy jail for 42 days for leading the Anti-Methane Project, T Jayaraman wrote a small 48-page book against river-interlinking, titled 'Nadhigal Inaippum Aarugalai Pidingi Virkkum India' (Interlinking of river…
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- Annals of Subroto Roy's Foreign Investments
Sushanto Roy, Subroto Roy's Son, has reportedly taken up residence in Macedonia. It is well known that Subroto Roy is facing a long time in jail for his alleged financial frauds in India under the Sahara name...
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- Parliamentarians Gone Wild: UK Tory aides are circulating a list of accused sexual predators and harassers in UK Parliament
From Guido Fawkes, a redacted version of a list of 36 MPs and Ministers in UK parliament accused of engaging in inappropriate behaviour towards women - among them 18 ministers who are said to have engaged in sex…
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- A List of Automation Proof Jobs: Physical Therapists And Nurses Are The New Call Center Workers
Don't worry about losing your job to robots and other machines. Because physical therapists and nurses are the new call center workers, where many jobs will be.
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- Post Phone World #1: Kill off The News Feed
Facebook started as a tool to share and look at images shared by your circle of friends. In 2017, it has deteriorated to a place where your feed is polluted with great opinions of your friends and clickbait news articles…
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- Humans of Hindutva: Don't Use Facebook To Publish News
The creator of the popular 'Humans of Hindutva' page pn Facebook, has finally decided to create her/his own news website, having tired of Facebook's arbitrary ways, accusing that Facebook removes / brings back f…
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- ISPs Gone Wild: This Happens When You Don't Have Net Neutrality
A US politician tweets about the 'net packages' of internet service providers in portugal, which doesn't support net neutrality. In absense of net neutrality, new startups will find it difficult to find an audience, …
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- How to leave a toxic Whatsapp group / Whatsapp university / Whatsapp echo chamber
A young Indian woman posts her letter to her family members in a Whatapp group, saying 'In today's personal victory, I quit my extended-family WhatsApp group. I cannot fully express the relief I feel.' There is just …
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- Word of the day: Fatberg
In Many countries, restaurants deposit the fat from all the cooking in barrels. UK, it seems, is still behind in this. Restaurants dump the fat straight down the drains, many have no working grease traps, leading to …
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- Annals of good news: Italian woman granted sick pay for time off to look after her ill dog
A teacher in Rome, won her case against the university where she teaches, with the help of lawyers from the Italian Anti-Vivisection League (LAV), a big animal rights groups in Europe. They used a provision in Italy’s pe…
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- Orange is the new black: Yogi Adityanath launches saffron buses for rural routes in UP
In the United States, orange is the color of many prison uniforms. In India, bhagwa, an orangish color, is the color of dress of people who want to imprison India under one religion...and a host of other ones.
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- Nagpur Municipal Corporation allots Rs. 1 crore for beautification of RSS premises
The BJP-led Nagpur Municipal Corporation has allocated Rs. 1 crore for beautification of RSS premises. The RSS has its headquarters in Nagpur.
The beautification is for the Smruti (Memory) Mandir premises, which cover…
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- 'Sex with minor wife is to be considered rape', rules Supreme Court of India: 3 Things to know
The Supreme Court ruling closes a loophole in Sec. 375 of "The Child Marriage Restraint Act" (passed way back in 1929) which people used to exploit the law.
1. For this law to be effective, like other laws, it require…
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- The Wire defamation case: Jay ShahâEUR(TM)s lawyer doesnâEUR(TM)t turn up, says wasn't prepared
They thought they would silence the media just by threatening and then suing for defamation. But when lawyers for The Wire were ready in court, Jay Shah's lawyers were not prepared. His lawyer SV Raju was busy in the hig…
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- The Plight of Bidi Workers in India: Gig Economy's Dark Side
The gig economy is almost 100 years old in India, long before the rise of the freelancers in the IT industry and beyond. Thanks to Indian politicians, Indians continue to smoke cheap, unfiltered cigarattes, aka bidis, …
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- How to save our cities from rising sea levels: Landscape architect Kate Orff wins $625,000 MacArthur fellowship award fro her plans
Landscape architect Kate Orff just won $625,000 to save cities from rising sea levels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (United States) says in its recent report that by 2100, there is a 90% chance…
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- Amitabh Bachchan: One More That 70s Hero Who Failed Us
The mid 70s was the age of angry young men in India. JP led angry young students and others against Indira Gandhi's authoritarian ways. Amitabh Bachhan became the 'angry man'...of the movies, via films like ‘Zanjeer’, Sh…
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- Annals of good news: An inspiring 'wheelchair dance' company for adults and kids
Marisa Hamamoto founded 'Infinite Flow' in 2015 by. She is a professional ballroom dancer who became temporarily paralyzed, then later regained the full use of her body. 'Infinite flow' is claimed to be America's fir…
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- Trump has lied or misled over 1300 times since taking office (How many times has Modi lied in his 3+ years?)
The Washington Post summarizes from its ongoing year-long Trump facts check / flip flap tracking:
As of our latest update Oct. 10, 2017, or his 264th day in office, the president has made 1,318 claims over 263 day…
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