The move by the Ecuadorian embassy to cut all communication for Julian Assange was triggered by his critical remark on the arrest of Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, which compared modern Germany to the Nazis, source says. The WikiLeaks founder, who is stranded in Ecuador’s diplomatic mission in London, found himself in a total communication blackout on Wednesday. The ire of the Ecuadorian government,... 

Yesterday we reported that a 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed in her Paris apartment. Her murderer, a Muslim from North Africa, stabbed her, robbed her and then set her body aflame in what the media described as a virulent act of anti-Semitism. I’m not sure how a Semite can commit an act of anti-Semitism against another Semite, but anyway, Parisians have taken to the streets to mourn it.... 

Facebook has said it will no longer offer an advertising option that exploits personal data provided by third-party aggregators. The company, still bleeding from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, said it wants to improve privacy. Among the companies that will be affected by the new measure are: Acxiom, which provides data from the US, the UK, France, Germany and Australia, Epsilon, which monitors the... 

The Swedish government is planning to put more pressure on tech giants Google, Facebook, and Twitter to end anonymity for ‘online trolls’ and those accused of posting hate speech. Minister for Housing and Digitisation Peter Eriksson said that he and Justice Minister Morgan Johansson were working together to put even more pressure on the social media companies to deal with so-called hate speech... 

At least 68 people have been killed at a Venezuela police station, where an apparent riot and escape attempt resulted in a fire. The casualties have been confirmed by the country’s prosecutor general. The fire took place in the General Command of the Carabobo Police in the city of Valencia. After the fire, dozens of relatives gathered outside the station, trying to break in to get answers, reportedly... 

The US military has admitted that the United States is lagging behind Russia and China when it comes to hypersonic weapons development, according to The Hill. “Right now we are helpless,” Republican US Senator James Inhofe, who sits on the Armed Services Committee, was quoted by The Hill as saying. He was echoed by Thomas Karako from the Center for Strategic and International Studies,... 

Blocked fire exits, a shut-down alarm system, and “glaring violations” of safety rules exacerbated the human toll of a fire that swept through a busy Siberian shopping mall, killing 64 people as panicked visitors jumped from windows and banged on doors in an attempt to escape, Russian investigators say. An Investigative Committee statement on March 26 suggested that the effects of the... 

The New York Times waited twelve paragraphs before informing their readers that the principal suspect behind the gruesome murder of an 85-year-old Jewish woman last week in Paris is “of North African origin.” From The New York Times, “She Survived the Holocaust, to Die in a 2018 Hate Crime”: PARIS — An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup... 

A new Balkan route through Bosnia has opened up for migrants: from Greece to Albania, then on to Montenegro and Herzegovina. This route, according to a western diplomatic source, matches the one taken by weapon and drug traffickers, which reveals that human smuggling networks have also been established. Paying their way to Europe One migrant, Ahmed Wessam, who spoke to AFP in Sarajevo, left the northeastern... 

Playboy is the latest company to give Facebook the boot as the tech giant continues to suffer the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the ensuing #DeleteFacebook initiative. The decision was announced late Tuesday night with the company saying it had deactivated all accounts managed by Playboy Enterprises. The move will see more than 25 million fans deprived of their Playboy chosen pages... 

H2-B Laborers from Guam are briefed before departing to the US. The new spending bill approved by the US Congress which covers the remainder of the fiscal year includes a provision to again allow the Department of Homeland Security to double the annual cap on admissions of unskilled non-agricultural workers, despite high rates of un- and under-employment for U.S. workers who could do these jobs. According... 

So Congress finally passed a budget. It’s a blockbuster—$1.3 trillion, or around four thousand dollars for every man, woman, and child in the U.S.A. Basically it is a compound made up of (a) anything Leftist Democrats could wish for, and (b) anything that the Jeb Bush wing of the Republican Party, and that wing’s Big Business donors (but I repeat myself), could wish for. But how about the things... 

In a harrowing incident that has sent shockwaves through the community, a 24-year-old woman now fights for her life after a distressing encounter with a group of Syrian child asylum seekers. The unsettling episode unfolded in the serene town of Burgwedel near Hanover, Germany, leaving the victim in critical condition and prompting an urgent and life-saving emergency operation. As the details of the... 

The controlled media mania over recently deceased British physicist Stephen Hawking—who is being treated as some type of great genius instead of the mediocre philosopher that he was—has been inadvertently exposed by the Director of the US Government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), who revealed that Hawking had in fact done nothing valuable and was only a media celebrity because of his... 

We fully regret ever supporting this clown of a man as US president. Ted Cruz was so God damn right when he called Trump “a New York liberal, clown, neocon, snake oil salesman who wouldn’t keep a single one of his promises” and “he’s not gonna build the wall, I will build the wall and make Trump pay for it”. Damn Cruz, spot on man! You were right but then again...