Google reportedly runs two “blacklists,” one allowing staff to remove “fringe” websites from search results and another for filtering out opinion articles, according to conservative news outlet the Daily Caller. The lists allow Google employees –who CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress in December never “manually intervene on any particular search result”– to suppress certain addresses…
Month: June 2019
Trump says he’ll meet Putin at G20, but Moscow hasn’t heard a thing about it
US President Donald Trump said he intended to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Japan. The Kremlin says they have not heard from the White House about the preparations, however. “I’ll be meeting with Putin at the G20,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, as he…
US threats over F-35 program dishonor NATO alliance, Ankara says
Turkey has criticized a letter from Washington warning about Ankara’s removal from the F-35 fighter jet program, describing the language used in the message as unbecoming of a NATO ally. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan wrote a letter to his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, outlining how Ankara would be excluded from the F-35 program unless…
Trump threatens China with $325 bn in extra tariffs if no trade deal reached
President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on a further $325 billion-worth of Chinese goods if Washington and Beijing cannot come to a trade agreement. Speaking at a White House press conference after meeting with the president of Poland, Trump said that he predicts a deal will be reached, but warned that, failing this,…
Brexit may expose Britons to cancer-causing chemicals as EU pesticide regs rolled back, experts warn
Researchers have warned of possible “significant departures” from EU regulations on harmful pesticides once Brexit is enacted, which may cause chaos between British territories but open up trade with US and Canada. The EU provides some 80 percent of the UK’s environmental laws which must now all be converted by each devolved territory, which may…
US Treasury Dept imposes new Iran-related sanctions on 2 individuals and a company in Iraq
The US Treasury Department announced sanctions on Wednesday against two Iraq-based persons and one company, for their alleged links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Makki Kazim and Mohammed Hussein, along with the South Wealth Resources Company have all been hit with secondary sanctions, according to the Treasury Department website. Secondary sanctions form a major part of…
UK report on ‘human rights’ forgets to mention Saudi Arabia in section on Yemen war
The UK has published its annual human rights report, but with some notable omissions in its section on Yemen’s war – namely the identity of the country bombing its civilians, and the UK’s own involvement in the conflict. The 2018 “Human Rights & Democracy”report from the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) includes an almost…
Vietnam to crack down on Chinese goods illegally relabeled as ‘Made in Vietnam’ to avoid US tariffs
Chinese goods illegally labelled “Made in Vietnam” will risk penalties by Vietnam, the latter said on the government website, Reuters reports. Click Here: cheap kanken backpack “The faking of origin and the illegal transhipment of goods happens most often in the sectors of textiles, seafood, agricultural products, tiles, honey, steel and iron, aluminium and timber…
Is Keanu Reeves refusing to touch people in photos because of #MeToo? Should we as well?
We can’t know for certain if Keanu Reeves is just shy, or wary of potential sexual harassment accusations – but that both are equally plausible is a terrifying indictment of the state of relations between the sexes. A tweet has gone viral with a compilation of photos featuring the Hollywood actor posing together with women,…
4-day week may be future of labor in technology-changed world – Russian PM
New technologies make jobs less labor-intensive and the labor market more global. Employers who benefit from it should be prepared to make concessions to their workers in return, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said. “It’s quite possible that the future belongs to the four-day week as the foundation of the social labor contract,” Medvedev…