Bill Gates: If you don’t like what I’m doing, give away your money too

For a man giving away all his money, Bill Gates gets people angry. Some are angry for microchips-in-vaccines reasons. Some are angry for perhaps more reasonable reasons. They claim that he has too much power; that he has swapped a monopoly in computing for a monopoly in health; that he is, still, an unaccountable billionaire controlling lives.

Happily there is, he says, a cunning way of rectifying that. Gates sits, rocking slightly disconcertingly back and forth in his chair, in a side room at London’s Science Museum, and outlines his solution. To dilute his power, he explains, other people can just give away money too.

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Nothing Better To Do? 360 German Police Investigations Over Anti-Migration Song

Official figures show that German police have launched a minimum of 360 separate investigations into the singing of a right-wing rendition of DJ Gigi D’Agostino’s “L’amour toujours”—or, with the new lyrics, “Ausländer Raus!” (Foreigners Out)—since last October. The figures do not include the states of Bavaria and Saxony.

The song first came to prominence when it was sung in a viral video by young German partygoers in May, resulting in participants being fired and facing up to five years in prison, courtesy of tough hate speech legislation.

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Biden DHS Panel Focused on Perceived Terror Threat from Pro-Trump, Religious Americans, Meeting Notes Show

A now-shuttered intelligence expert panel convened by the Department of Homeland Security focused its domestic-terrorism prevention discussions on supporters of former president Donald Trump, religious Americans, and members of the military community, according to a tranche of newly released internal documents.

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The Pandemic Excuse for a Corporatist Coup

We’ve just come across a document hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, posted March 2023 but written in 2007, that amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the U.S., abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional law. It is right there in plain sight for anyone curious enough to dig.

There is nothing in it that you haven’t already experienced with lockdowns. What makes it interesting is the participants in the forging of the plan, which is pretty much the whole of corporate America as it stood in 2007. It was a George W. Bush initiative. The conclusions are startling.

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‘Rust’ Case Against Alec Baldwin Is Dismissed Over Withheld Evidence

SANTA FE — The involuntary manslaughter case against “Rust” star Alec Baldwin was dismissed by a judge Friday after the actor’s defense attorneys raised new questions over how New Mexico law enforcement officers and prosecutors handled evidence.

The decision ends a nearly three-year-long ordeal for the “30 Rock” and “Hunt for Red October” star, which began in October 2021 when he accidentally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop revolver during a rehearsal for the low-budget western.

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Letby case ‘has echoes’ of wrongly accused Canadian nurse, says expert

The Lucy Letby case bears striking similarities to a Canadian nurse wrongly accused of poisoning babies, an eminent neonatologist has said.

Dr Desmond Bohn, who spent 35 years as a paediatric intensive care specialist, was working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto when nurse Susan Nelles was blamed for the deaths of four infants in her care.

Between June 1980 and March 1981, there was an alarming increase in cardiac deaths on two neonatal wards at the hospital.

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Canadian tech worker sues Google, claiming she was fired for being pregnant

A lawsuit against Google claims the global tech giant suddenly and wrongfully fired a female employee after she told the company she was pregnant and planning a maternity leave.

Sarah Lilleyman filed a statement of claim against Google in Toronto’s Superior Court of Justice on Friday, saying her joyful news was not greeted with the same enthusiasm by Google Canada, and she was given notice of termination within days of her telling her bosses.

I predict an out of court settlement. She had a pretty sweet WFH gig.

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Manhunt continues after body parts found in suitcases

A manhunt is continuing after a suitcase containing human remains was found on Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge.

The historic bridge reopened on Friday after Avon and Somerset Police closed its roads in both directions to investigate the area the day before.

Officers are still looking for a man who was seen with a suitcase acting suspiciously on the bridge just before midnight on Wednesday.

England is so diverse.

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The German conspiracists yearning for a king

The rise of the Reichsbürgers tells an alarming tale

“The socks and cars wouldn’t stink / Every morning, champagne I’d drink / I’d be slicker than Schmidt, and fatter than Strauß / And my records would sell out!” In 1987, West Berlin punk singer Rio Reiser sang these words about becoming king of Germany. A lark and a way to mock the stuffy leaders of the Federal Republic at the time.

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