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Islamist Terrorist Attack in Nice, France

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54742403

The man who stabbed two women and a man to death in a church in France arrived from Tunisia days ago, officials say.
The suspect, 21, had an Italian Red Cross document, issued after he arrived by a migrant boat to Italy's Lampedusa island last month. He was shot by police and is in a critical condition.
One of the victims of Thursday's attack at the Notre-Dame basilica in the city of Nice was "virtually beheaded".
President Emmanuel Macron said it was an "Islamist terrorist attack".
Mr Macron said the number of soldiers being deployed to protect public places - such as churches and schools - would rise from 3,000 to 7,000. The country's security alert has been raised to the highest level.

Just in case you ever thought that was all this terrorist had planned to do against French people, let me tell you that you're totally wrong!  

A Koran, two telephones and a 30cm (12-inch) knife were found on the attacker.
We also found a bag left by the attacker. Next to this bag were two knives that were not used in the attack.

But this wasn't the only attack that took place this Thursday.  

A man was shot dead in Montfavet near the southern French city of Avignon after threatening police with a handgun.
A guard was attacked outside the French consulate in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. A suspect was arrested and the guard taken to hospital.

Twitter takes action as Ex-Malaysian PM’s claimed

that Muslims have right to kill millions of French people

Mohamad can't tweet until he deletes the hateful message

https://www.foxnews.com/media/twitter-ta...nch-people

Twitter took action against a message from the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, on Thursday that declared, “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”
The post violated Twitter's glorification of violence policy, which requires the violator to remove the tweet before they’re able to tweet from the account again.

No politician should ever become this extremist, especially those that have millions of followers like this former PM currently has.

India: Brands + TV + Hatred

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54688795

Mr Bajaj - who runs Bajaj Auto, India's biggest motorcycle manufacturer - was speaking to CNBC-TV18 in the wake of a police investigation into three TV news channels who were accused of manipulating ratings and spreading fake news.
Reports said Mr Bajaj's company had blacklisted three TV news channels, though he has not named any publicly.

I know TV stations do need an audience. Still, depending on fake news a la New York Times or MSNBC alias "MSDNC" who hardly apologize after being busted is a terrible misdeed.

Moving out during Pandemic

https://www.foxbusiness.com/luxury/milli...s-pandemic

In San Francisco, the price of a one-bedroom apartment fell more than 24% in September. In Manhattan, prices fell by 15.4%.
Overall, in the 100 largest U.S. cities, average one-bedroom rents fell 1% year-over- year during the same time period.

It seems telework has radically changed some people's lives as to convince them to move to a house that might not even be located in the suburbs of any big city.

State trooper dates Cuomo’s daughter

Gets transferred close to Canada
The dramatic change in his commute is an informal form of punishment called 'highway therapy'

https://www.foxnews.com/us/state-trooper...ter-canada

A state trooper assigned to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s security detail got hot and heavy with one of New York’s first daughters — and was soon transferred to a post near the Canadian border, The Post has learned.
Trooper Dane Pfeiffer, 35, met Cara Kennedy-Cuomo, 25, through his job as one of her dad’s bodyguards, sources said.
Pfeiffer’s relationship with Kennedy-Cuomo mandated his removal from her dad’s protective detail due to “the protocol of dignitary protection,” according to a law enforcement source familiar with the matter.
Pfeiffer wasn’t found to have committed misconduct and his transfer to a state police station in Plattsburgh — about 160 miles north of the state capital, and about 25 miles south of the Canadian border — didn’t go on his record as official discipline, sources said.

Well, guys, now you are fully aware of the consequences of dating Cuomo's daughter. Take in consideration he had told news media that he wouldn't oppose his daughters' boyfriends as not to trigger the Natural Defiance Syndrome that would eventually made them like their partners even more than ever before.

Lawmakers want to protect

local newspapers from Google, Facebook

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/law...e-facebook
Why do they ask for a change? Well, you see, Google can easily let you access a news article's content without necessarily leading you to the medium's website because, err, you've already read the heading and the short description. Even so they also claim that Google and other companies should pay the local newspapers for their contents. Google's terms and conditions don't let them benefit from Google's use of their data, plus its AMP system for mobile devices deprives them of customer data and hurts subscription rates.
Google fully disregarded those claims.

Citing multiple Wall Street Journal articles on the topic, the report notes that while Facebook has made deals to pay license fees to some publishers, they only cover about a quarter of the local news services whose content Facebook displays in its news tab.

Sen. Mike Lee: Big Tech companies falsely claim

No bias against conservatives — they may be violating law
Tech giants must be held accountable so they don't act deceptively or unfairly

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/big-teac...n-mike-lee

On August 30, 2019, Facebook notified Lila Rose, the president of the pro-life group Live Action, that an independent fact-checker had rated two of her group’s videos as “false.” Facebook said it would therefore suppress the videos and notify all users who shared the videos that they had shared “false news.”
 The videos suppressed by Facebook claimed that “abortion is never medically necessary” — a claim that two pro-abortion activists said had been labeled as “false” by a group called “Science Feedback.”
After The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists came to Live Action’s defense, writing that fact-checkers “are in error to claim that elective abortion is medically necessary to save the life of the mother,” Facebook removed the “false” label from the videos and stopped suppressing their distribution.

Yes, Facebook does hate conservative organizations. They automatically tag their feeds as false without conducting a proper research first. Nope, this isn't an exception at all.  

Just last month, Facebook banned pro-life ads from Susan B. Anthony List exposing former Vice President Joe Biden’s support for late-term abortion, this time relying on a “fact-check” from The Dispatch, a self-appointed fact-check organization. The Dispatch eventually retracted its fact-check, admitting it was completely wrong, and Facebook then reinstated the ads.

They even block public institutions' posts or tweets like in the following example:

And the suppression of conservative ideas is continuing right through to Election Day. Just this week, Twitter suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan for 20 hours for updating the American people on the construction of the southern border wall. The moderators at Twitter said the tweet violated their rules regulating “hateful conduct.” This is completely unacceptable. Fortunately, Morgan announced in a tweet Thursday night that Twitter had unlocked his account.

So according to Twitter's initial posture, the American people isn't entitled to learn about how advanced the construction of the border wall is. Unbelievable!