Facebook executive in India files police complaint after report on content practices

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A top Facebook executive in India has filed a police complaint in New Delhi saying she is receiving death threats following a media report that said she and the U.S. social network company allegedly favoured Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party.

Ankhi Das, Facebook's top public-policy executive in India, in her complaint to Delhi police said some individuals online had "intentionally vilified" her due to their political affiliations and were engaging in abuse, Indian media reported.

Das has said the threats followed a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report last week that said she opposed applying Facebook's hate-speech rules to a member of Modi's party and some other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups "flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence".

"I am extremely disturbed by the relentless harassment meted out to me," Das said in her complaint, according to India's Hindu newspaper.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2020/08/17/facebook-executive-in-india-files-police-complaint-after-report-on-content-practices

Iran Paid Bounties to Taliban-Linked Terrorist Group after Attack on U.S. Base in Afghanistan: Report

Iran paid Taliban fighters to attack American soldiers and other coalition forces in Afghanistan, CNN reported on Monday.

U.S. intelligence has assessed that a foreign government paid fighters who took part in at least six attacks over the past year, including a December 2019 suicide bombing at the U.S. Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, that left two dead and over 70 injured. Four American servicemen were among the injured, while the remainder were Afghan civilians.

While the name of the foreign government remains classified, two intelligence officials told CNN that the nation behind the payments is Iran. The Bagram attack was carried out by fighters from the Haqqani network, led by the Taliban second-in-command Sirajuddin Haqqani.

National Security Council officials recommended in March of this year that the Trump administration not take action against the Iran-Haqqani collaboration because the move would likely jeopardize peace talks with the Taliban, according to an internal memo.

https://news.yahoo.com/iran-paid-bounties-taliban-linked-132733288.html

Iran Will Export Weapons After U.S. Fails to Secure U.N. Arms Embargo

Iran's defense minister has said the country plans to export weapons as soon as sanctions preventing such sales are lifted, following the U.S. failure last week to extend a United Nations arms embargo on Tehran.

Brigadier General Amir Hatami told reporters Sunday that sanctions have been unable to stifle Iran's arms industry, and vowed that the country "will use all capacities in the world to meet its arms requirements, selling and exporting weapons after sanctions removal," according to the Mehr News Agency.

Hatami was one of several Iranian officials to celebrate the American failure to convince the U.N. Security Council to extend the arms embargo, which is due to expire in October.

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-will-export-weapons-after-us-fails-secure-un-arms-embargo-1525515

Deadly clash reported between U.S. and Syrian forces

A clash between Syrian forces and U.S. troops has reportedly left at least one Syrian dead — a rare confrontation on a battlefield confused by a surplus of foreign intervening forces in the protracted civil war. Some local media outlets said an American service member was wounded in the incident near a Syrian air base, but there was no immediate confirmation from the U.S. military.

An independent war monitoring organization and Syrian state media spoke only of Syrian casualties.

The incident occurred Monday south of Qamishli, a city in northern Syria near the Turkish border, when Syrian troops refused to allow a U.S. patrol to cross a checkpoint near Qamishli air base, according to the Syrian regime and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitoring group.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-war-deadly-clash-between-us-and-syrian-forces-qamishli-checkpoint-airstrike-today-2020-08-17/

Christian teacher facing execution in Syria after refusing to give school to Islamist group

The headmaster of a school in the city of Afrin in northern Syria has been accused of apostasy and arrested by an Islamist group loyal to Turkey, which wants to punish him for refusing to convert the school into an Islamic educational institution, according to reports.

Forty-year-old Radwan Muhammad, a Kurdish Christian who teaches English, is being held at the headquarters of Failaq Al-Sham, an Islamist group affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, in Afrin, according to the U.K.-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide.

“We are extremely worried about Radwan’s life and wellbeing," Pastor Nihad Hassan, who leads a Kurdish church in Beirut, Lebanon, told CSW. "[T]hey may execute him.”

The group had ordered Muhammad to turn over his school so they could turn it into an Islamic educational institution, but the Christian teacher refused, saying, “I will hand you the building in one case only: if Jesus Christ comes down to earth again,” CSW reported. He was arrested on July 30.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-teacher-facing-execution-in-syria-after-refusing-to-give-school-to-islamist-group.html

2nd man sentenced in human trafficking case

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A second man has been sentenced for his role in a prostitution ring in southeastern Pennsylvania.

After several delays, Barry Schiff was sentenced last week to a minimum off 55 1/2 years in state prison, state police said in a news release.

Schiff and his co-conspirator, Kenneth Crowell, were convicted of human trafficking and prostitution charges in the ring operation that spanned Lancaster, Montgomery, Philadelphia and York counties and southern New Jersey.

A grand jury concluded both men recruited young women for the commercial sex trade, and Crowell was responsible for posting advertisements while Schiff used drugs to lure some of the victims into prostitution, authorities said.

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/2nd-man-sentenced-in-human-trafficking-case/article_989ec8de-e086-11ea-897b-37ef9fcb5e8e.html

Cannon's Life Matters: Mural honors 5-year-old boy shot and killed while riding bike

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LEE COUNTY, North Carolina – A North Carolina man has taken it upon himself to memorialize 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant who was tragically shot and killed last weekend.

"Cannon's Life Matters," a mural reads. On Friday, just one day after Cannon's funeral, "Skeeter" Tulloch painted the mural in remembrance of the 5-year-old.

"I just wanted everybody to have something to see," Tulloch said. He says the mural served nothing more than a tribute to the little boy and nothing else.

Due to the fear of public scrutiny, Tulloch did not want to disclose the street name or where the mural was placed.

Tulloch says in the next couple of days he plans to go over the mural with another layer of brightly colored paint.

https://abc13.com/cannon-hinnant-cannons-life-matters-mural-north-carolina/6373956/

=Cyborg technology: Researchers take new step toward integrating electronics with the body=

Although true "cyborgs" -; part human, part robotic beings -; are science fiction, researchers are taking steps toward integrating electronics with the body.

Such devices could monitor for tumor development or stand in for damaged tissues. But connecting electronics directly to human tissues in the body is a huge challenge. Now, a team is reporting new coatings for components that could help them more easily fit into this environment.

The researchers will present their results today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo. ACS is holding the meeting through Thursday. It features more than 6,000 presentations on a wide range of science topics.

"We got the idea for this project because we were trying to interface rigid, inorganic microelectrodes with the brain, but brains are made out of organic, salty, live materials," says David Martin, Ph.D., who led the study. "It wasn't working well, so we thought there must be a better way."

Traditional microelectronic materials, such as silicon, gold, stainless steel and iridium, cause scarring when implanted. For applications in muscle or brain tissue, electrical signals need to flow for them to operate properly, but scars interrupt this activity. The researchers reasoned that a coating could help.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200817/Cyborg-technology-Researchers-take-new-step-toward-integrating-electronics-with-the-body.aspx

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8635211/Cyborg-Human-organs-soon-merge-computers-monitor-health.html

>>10317542

red text fail..kek

>>10317603

Would 2nd but, seems like too much speculation…but not entirely impossible

‘Witchcraft’ Teacher Reportedly Arrested in Disappearance of Missing Mother Leila Cavett

Where is Leila Cavett, 21, and what happened to her? Authorities have said that they don’t know, but they do have an arrest emerging from her disappearance. Shanon Ryan, 38, was arrested Saturday in connection to the case, according to The South-Florida Sun Sentinel. He was a man who previously commented on the case in a Facebook post, saying he met the missing woman, but she went off in a car with other men.

Cavett was last seen on July 26, hours before her 2-year-old son was found wandering in an apartment complex parking lot in Miramar, Florida. Family members said they had no idea why she–a Georgia resident with family there and in Alabama–went down the Sunshine State, though her mother and brother suggested it could’ve been that she met somebody online. Cavett is single.

She was in the cities of Hollywood, Miramar, and Ft. Lauderdale before she went missing, the FBI said. Her white Chevy Silverado was found on July 28th in Hollywood, two days after she went missing, investigators said.

Keep all that in mind because it has a quite bit to do with Ryan. The defendant, who teaches “witchcraft” according to his Magnetic Kundalini Facebook page, posted a video on August 9 in which he claimed Cavett went down the Florida to sell him her truck. They met at a Walmart in Hollywood, went to a nearby gas station,and hung out for the day, according to his account detailed by WSVN. He claimed that Leila was speaking to some men, and then she brought her son into their car with her. Ryan asserted he attempted talk her out of it, but she went anyway. Cavett never returned, he said. Ryan said officers searched his vehicle, and he told them everything he knew. He denied wrongdoing.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/witchcraft-teacher-reportedly-arrested-in-disappearance-of-missing-mother-leila-cavett/ar-BB181WNd?ocid=iehp

>>10317851

It's not the police's fault, they have their hands tied due to lack of leadership…Remember the politics involved with Vietnam?

SSDD

>>10317864

Totally agree…UN is anti-America and we should have nothing to do with their corruption and disrespect

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