Gizmodo – by Eve Peyser

After it was widely reported that the first Google search result for “Did the Holocaust happen?” was from Stormfront, a white supremacist website, Google decided to alter its algorithm to remove Holocaust denial sites all together.

When the news first broke, Google said it would not remove the article — titled “Top 10 reasons why the holocaust didn’t happen” — from its results because the company does “not remove content from [its] search results, except in very limited cases such as illegal content, malware and violations of our webmaster guidelines.”   Continue reading “Google Changes Algorithm To Remove Holocaust-Denying Results”

Gizmodo – by William Turton

Dov Katz, the head of computer vision at Oculus VR, was arrested near Seattle on December 21 for allegedly soliciting sex from an underage girl. According to charging records, Katz allegedly attempted to pay $350 to have unprotected sex with someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl.

Katz, 38, has been charged with attempted commercial sexual abuse of a minor. According to the charging documents, Katz wasn’t actually texting a 15-year-old girl, but an undercover agent from the Tukwila Police Department. Katz, an Israeli citizen living in America, has since been released on $125,000 bail according to the King County jail website.   Continue reading “Senior Facebook Employee Arrested For Allegedly Soliciting Unprotected Sex From Underage Girl”

CBC News

A man stormed into a Zurich mosque on Monday evening and opened fire on people praying, injuring three, Swiss police said.

They said they had collected evidence inside the building and would make more details available on Tuesday. They declined to comment on the potential motive.   Continue reading “Zurich police search for gunman who wounded 3 at mosque”

The Intercept – by Jon Schwarz

IT’S NOW TIME for us, as a nation, to come together and congratulate the winner of the 2016 presidential election: Goldman Sachs.

Many Donald Trump voters likely believed his victory would be a loss for Goldman. At the Republican convention, a man who seemed to take Trump’s twitter attacks on Goldman seriously screamed “Goldman Sachs!” at Ted Cruz’s banker wife as she fled the convention floor. Trump’s own final campaign video declared that he would do battle against the “global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations” — as personified on screen by Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.    Continue reading “Trump Makes America Goldman’s Again! #MAGA”

BBC News

A majority of Australian MPs want to break ties with the British monarchy, the nation’s republican lobby claims.

The Australian Republican Movement says 81 of 150 MPs and 40 of 76 senators favour the move, citing public statements from the politicians.

Monarchists have disputed the figures, insisting more support the status quo.   Continue reading “Australian republicans claim majority of MPs oppose monarchy”

US Department of State

John Kerry, Secretary of State
Rosa Kempinski Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya
August 22, 2016

FOREIGN MINISTER MOHAMED: I am delighted to welcome Secretary John Kerry back to Nairobi, and for a second visit in the last, I think, one year. The last time you were here was in May.   Continue reading “John Kerry to Kenyan President – “You gave us a president of the United States””

BBC News

US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen right-winger David Friedman as America’s next ambassador to Israel.

The 57-year-old lawyer is strongly critical of the long-held US goal of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.   Continue reading “Trump chooses pro-settlement hardliner as Israel envoy”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in April, when we first reported that Deutsche Bank had agreed to settle allegations it had rigged the silver market in exchange for $38 million, we revealed something stunning: “in a curious twist, the settlement letter revealed that the former members of the manipulation cartel have turned on each other“, and that Deutsche Bank would provide docments implicating other precious metals riggers. To wit: “In addition to valuable monetary consideration, Deutsche Bank has also agreed to provide cooperation to plaintiffs, including the production of instant messages, and other electronic communications, as part of the settlement. In Plaintiff’s estimation, the cooperation to be provided by Deutsche Bank will substantially assist Plaintiffs in the prosecution of their claims against the non-settling defendants.”   Continue reading “Deutsche Bank Provides “Smoking Gun” Proof Of Massive Rigging And Fraud In The Silver Market”

CBC News

In a small neighbourhood on the unfashionable outskirts of Tijuana, three kids are having a tea party in the dust.

The tea is imaginary. And so is the food, even at lunch time, when most other kids in this city are eating a real meal.

The relatively recent arrivals who built this community and named it Nueva Esperanza — New Hope — came from parts of Mexico that are even more bleak than this. Continue reading “Mexicans fear they’ll pay for Trump’s wall ‘one way or another’”

CBC News

Federal Conservative leadership hopeful Chris Alexander said he felt “uncomfortable” during a rally at the Alberta Legislature this weekend as the crowd chanted “lock her up” in response to his comments about Premier Rachel Notley’s leadership.

The former immigration minister was a speaker at the rally on Saturday, which was hosted by the right-wing Rebel Media group to protest the NDP government’s plan to impose a carbon tax in January.    Continue reading “Albertans chant ‘Lock her up’ about Rachel Notley at rally against carbon tax”

Talking Points Memo

Trump supporter and CNN commentator Scottie Nell Hughes posited Thursday that, as a result of the fractured media and current political environment, there is no such thing as facts anymore.

As a call-in guest to WAMU’s “The Diane Rehm Show” Thursday, Hughes was asked about the work of James Fallows, who has maintained a blog on Trump’s rise to the presidency on The Atlantic’s website.
Continue reading “Trump Surrogate’s Jaw-Dropping Claim: ‘No Such Thing’ As Facts Anymore”

RT

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Turkish Army entered Syria to end the rule of President Bashar Assad, whom he accused of terrorism and causing the deaths of thousands.

“We entered [Syria] to end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad who terrorizes with state terror. [We didn’t enter] for any other reason,” the Turkish president said at the first Inter-Parliamentary Jerusalem Platform Symposium in Istanbul, as quoted by Hurriyet daily.   Continue reading “Erdogan: Turkish forces are in Syria to end Assad’s rule”

CBC News

A CF-18 pilot died Monday when a fighter jet crashed near Cold Lake, Alta.

The CF-18 from 4 Wing Cold Lake went down just after 11 a.m. local time on the Saskatchewan side of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range, said Capt. Mat Strong, public affairs officer with 4 Wing Cold Lake.   Continue reading “Pilot dies in CF-18 crash near Cold Lake, Alta.”

Reuters

German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch will no longer sign contracts to supply countries outside of NATO’s influence because it has become too difficult to obtain government approval for such deals, news agency DPA reported on Monday.

The company, one of the world’s best-known gunmakers, will in future only sell to countries that are democratic and free from corruption and that are members of NATO or NATO members’ partners, DPA said, citing company sources.   Continue reading “Heckler & Koch to stop doing deals with non-NATO countries: DPA”

The Sun – by Jon Lockett

CALIFORNIANS are dreaming of ditching the US and joining CANADA as backing grows for some American states to pull off  ‘their own Brexit’.

Momentum is building for a proposal which would see California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington state ditch a USA run by Donald Trump.   Continue reading “Renegade states plan to pull off their own Brexit and ditch the US for Canada”

CBC News

The federal government is preparing for a potential surge in Mexican migrants coming to Canada after Donald Trump’s election victory, CBC News has learned.

Sources confirm high level meetings took place this week with officials at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and in other departments.

The news comes as Canada prepares to loosen rules for Mexicans to enter the country by lifting a visa requirement on Dec. 1. That restriction has been in place since 2009.   Continue reading “Canadian officials preparing for potential flood of Mexican migrants after Trump wins presidency”