Month: October 2020

Despite the millions owed by commercial properties in overdue water payments, the city of Baltimore has strictly targeted its residents and in the past 6 weeks has shut off the water supply to more than 1,600 households, reporting reveals. According to an investigation by the Baltimore Sun, since the Department of Public Works began shutting…

With strained negotiations between Greece and its European lenders at a seeming impasse—and the prospect of a Greek exit from the euro zone, or “Grexit,” looming large—thousands rallied in central Athens on Wednesday night, in a show of support for the leftist Syriza party and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who has so far resisted the…

Racing Point’s Lance Stroll has pulled out of Saturday’s free practice session at the Eifel GP after feeling unwell, with the team assessing whether the Canadian will be fit for this afternoon’s qualifying. At the outset of of FP3 – the single practice session scheduled for teams after yesterday’s wash out – Racing Point issued…

Prominent national security whistleblowers are calling for the full repeal of the USA Patriot Act, charging that under that legislation the federal government has decimated the U.S. Constitution and warning that unless action is taken, there is no end in sight to government secrecy and manipulation. The group, which included former National Security Agency (NSA)…

As an investigation into an oil spill along the California coast continued on Thursday, environmentalists described a “nightmare” scenario in the area and new details emerged about the pipeline operator’s long history of generating similar disasters. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency late Wednesday over the oil spill near Santa Barbara that…

Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified NSA documents. In mid-2012, Justice Department lawyers wrote two secret memos permitting the spy agency to begin hunting on Internet cables, without a…

Tens of thousands gathered in Athens on Monday night, adding their voices to the ranks of the Syriza government officials and international observers who are urging Greek citizens to act boldly and reject the terms of an aid deal offered by Greece’s austerity-loving international creditors. While numerous governments and financial institutions warned Monday that the…

92-year-old Violet Palmer of Denton, Texas said she was moved to act after the state, overriding the will of the people, passed a law forbidding municipalities from enacting fracking bans. On Tuesday, Palmer, her 64-year-old son Theron, and a small group of activists were arrested for protesting at the gates of the first new drilling…

Canada on Tuesday filed charges against a Syrian intelligence officer for torturing Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen who was handed over to the Syrian government in 2002 by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The whereabouts of the officer, Col. George Salloum, are unknown and it is unlikely that he will be arrested and extradited…

EU Confidential #171, presented by Shell: Commissioner Reynders on rule of law — Brexit crunch time — Coronavirus surge By Cristina Gonzalez 10/8/20, 6:14 PM CET Updated 10/8/20, 6:35 PM CET Listen to the podcast on Spotify | Apple | Google | Stitcher | Simplecast | Amazon Rule of law in the EU, mounting coronavirus concerns and Brexit brinksmanship are all up for debate on the…