Trump says Joe Biden ‘is on some kind of enhancement’

https://nypost.com/2020/09/02/trump-says-biden-is-using-enhancement-drug-based-on-performance/

President Trump on Tuesday night said he believes Joe Biden “is on some kind of enhancement” based on the former vice president’s previous debate performances.

The president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that Biden “was horrible” in the Democratic debates, except for the final one when he squared off against Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“I watched Biden in the Bernie debate and he was normal. That was a different guy,” Trump said.

Trump has previously called for Biden to be drug-tested ahead of the presidential debates, noting the same perceived differences in Biden’s debating.

“He’s on some kind of an enhancement in my opinion,” Trump told Ingraham when she asked him what he thinks Biden is taking.

The president maintained that he would also undergo a drug test before the debates, a statement he has made before.

“I want to take one. I’ll take one, he’ll take one. We should both take a drug test.”

The first debate between the two candidates is scheduled for Sept. 29 in Cleveland; followed by an Oct. 15 debate in Miami. and an Oct. 22 debate in Nashville, Tennessee.

Trump unsuccessfully sought a fourth debate against Biden, arguing it was unfair for mail-in ballots to be distributed before the candidates face off. The Commission on Presidential Debates rejected Trump’s request.

>>10501469

>already notabled

not a problem, o7

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Facebook and Google want to protect data secrecy and use of news media but the Government has other ideas

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-02/google-facebook-protect-business-model-data-secrecy-share-news/12620184

This is what Facebook and Google are really fighting for.

With the rest of the world watching, Google and Facebook do not want a precedent set in Australia over access to the data they gather on users. And it's too late for the Government to back down now, writes David Speers.

A couple of weeks ago, Google started bombarding users with a pop-up yellow alert every time they clicked on the search engine.

It wasn't a warning about offensive content, cyber security or online privacy. Rather, it was about rallying its millions of users to help protect the company's business model and data secrecy.

The Australian Government is boldly going where no other country has gone in taking on tech giants Google and Facebook. It has proposed a new "Mandatory News Media Bargaining Code" which would require these two tech giants to do two things.

One, they would have to pay Australian media companies a fair amount for the use of their journalism.

Two, they would have to hand over a lot more information about the data they collect on their prized algorithms.

Around the same time as these pop-up warnings began to appear, Google quietly reached out to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Government sources say the tech giant signalled a preparedness to pay up. Exactly how much it was willing to offer media companies is unclear, but somewhere in the "tens of millions of dollars per year".

Money, it seems, wasn't the main concern.

The red line for Google was apparently the data sharing.

Under the mandatory code proposed by the competition regulator, Google and Facebook would be required to provide media companies with "clear information about the data they collect through users' interactions with news on digital platforms; for example how long users spend on an article, how many articles they consume in a certain period, and other information about user engagement with news content across digital platform services".

They would also have to give "28 days' notice of algorithm changes likely to materially affect referral traffic to news, algorithm changes designed to affect ranking of news behind paywalls, and substantial changes to the display and presentation of news, and advertising directly associated with news".

This information about which news stories and ads appear in your Facebook feed or Google search goes to the heart of the business models of these technology companies.

It's the "special sauce" they will guard jealously to the end. This is what the fight is really about. With the rest of the world watching, Google and Facebook do not want a precedent set here in Australia.

The nuclear option

Facebook has now upped the ante, joining the Google approach of trying to harness its millions of users to pressure the Government. It's threatening to ban Australian users from accessing news content from its site completely to avoid having to comply with this new law.

This is the nuclear option.

Stopping users sharing legitimate news content may not necessarily be easy, but it can be done.

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If Facebook does pull the trigger and block all news content, the company's Australian boss Will Easton reckons media companies will be worse off. "During the first five months of 2020 Facebook sent 2.3 billion clicks from Facebook's news feed to Australian publishers," he says, suggesting this traffic was worth about $200 million to the media companies.

The companies themselves scoff at this, arguing it's Facebook making far more by using and monetising their journalism.

Some fear a threat to democracy too if Facebook carries out its threat. Roughly one third of Australians access their news via the social media platform and if trusted journalism disappears from the site, fake news and all manner of conspiracies could prosper.

A high stakes stand-off

This is a high stakes stand-off. If Facebook is right, it won't end well for media companies, millions of loyal users or the Government.

Crushed: Digital giants vs Australian media

Within a couple of years the likes of Google and Facebook will devour more than half local ad revenues, leaving only crumbs for traditional media players.

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher casts doubt on the Facebook threat, pointing out "it's not without precedent for (the tech giants) to make heavy-handed threats".

Privately though, senior government figures don't think Facebook is bluffing at all.

Given what's at stake globally for the tech giants, few doubt they will go ahead with sacrificing the quality of their Australian operations to avoid this law.

So, will there be much political blowback for the Coalition from angry Facebook and Google users? The calculation within the Government is "not much". The view is Australians will support this new law in the interests of "fairness" and will simply seek their news content elsewhere. We'll see.

The reality is, the Government can hardly back down now. To do so, particularly when media companies are cheering it on, would be a humiliating capitulation.

As the Treasurer has said, "we don't respond to coercion or heavy-handed threats". That means no retreat in the big tech battle.

Khmer Rouge prison commander Comrade Duch dies in Cambodia at 77

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-02/khmer-rouge-prison-commander-duch-dies-in-cambodia/12620486

Comrade Duch, the senior Khmer Rouge figure who ran Cambodia's most notorious prison during the genocidal regime, has died, a spokesman for the tribunal that convicted him of war crimes says.

Key points:

Duch oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians

In 2010, a UN-backed tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity

He was serving a life sentence

Duch, 77, whose given name was Kaing Guek Eav, was the first Khmer Rouge commander convicted of crimes against humanity.

Warning: This story contains details and images which may disturb some readers.

Between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge regime presided over the deaths of at least 1.7 million people who were starved, tortured, and executed in Cambodia's "killing fields".

Duch was known as leader Pol Pot's premier executioner and security chief, and oversaw the mass murder of at least 14,000 Cambodians at the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh.

In 2010, a UN-backed tribunal found him guilty of mass murder, torture and crimes against humanity at Tuol Sleng, a former high school which still stands as a memorial to the atrocities committed inside.

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NOTABLE

China’s capability to invade Taiwan analyzed in US defense report

>>10501759 Hi Baker :)

>>10501502, >>10501504 Facebook and Google want to protect data secrecy and use of news media but the Government has other ideas

could probably better read as;

>10501502, >>10501504 Test Case: Facebook and Google want to protect their data secrecy and use of news media but the (Australian) Government has other ideas

Charlie Hebdo: Fourteen suspects face trial over Paris massacre

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53975350

Fourteen people are on trial in France over the deadly attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo more than five years ago.

Most of the alleged accomplices are in court in Paris, but three are being tried in absentia.

They are accused of helping the militant Islamist attackers who shot dead 12 people in and around Charlie Hebdo's Paris office in January 2015.

A third gunman shot dead a policewoman and attacked a Jewish supermarket.

In total, 17 people were killed in a period of just three days. The killings marked the beginning of a wave of jihadist attacks across France that left more than 250 people dead.

In the days following the attacks, millions of people took part in solidarity marches across France and around the world under the slogan "Je suis Charlie" (I am Charlie).

The magazine has marked the start of the trial by reprinting controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests in several Muslim countries. President Emmanuel Macron has since defended the freedom of the press and the French "freedom to blaspheme, which is linked to freedom of conscience".

What is happening at the trial?

Eleven of the defendants were present in the courtroom on Wednesday. They gave their names and occupations, and all confirmed they intended to answer questions from the court.

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Honeybee venom 'kills some breast cancer cells'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53994058

Australian scientists say the venom from honeybees has been found to destroy aggressive breast cancer cells in a lab setting.

The venom - and a compound in it called melittin - were used against two cancer types which are hard to treat: triple-negative and HER2-enriched.

The discovery has been described as "exciting", but scientists caution that further testing is needed.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women around the world.

While there are thousands of chemical compounds which can fight cancer cells in a lab setting, scientists say there are few which can be produced as treatment for humans.

Bee venom has previously been found to have anti-cancer properties for other types of cancer such as melanoma.

The study by the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Western Australia was published in Nature Precision Oncology, a peer-reviewed journal.

What did the researchers find?

It tested venom from over 300 honeybees and bumblebees.

The honeybee extracts were found to be "extremely potent", said Ciara Duffy, a 25-year-old PhD researcher who led the study.

One concentration of the venom was found to kill cancer cells within an hour, with minimal harm to the other cells. But the toxicity

increased for other dosage levels.

The researchers also found the melittin compound on its own was effective in "shutting down" or disrupting cancer cell growth.

While melittin naturally occurs in honeybee venom, it can also be synthetically produced.

Traditionally, triple-negative breast cancer - one of the most aggressive types - has been treated with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. It accounts for 10-15% of breast cancers.

Could it be used in the future?

On Wednesday, Western Australia's chief scientist described the research as "incredibly exciting".

"Significantly, this study demonstrates how melittin interferes with signalling pathways within breast cancer cells to reduce cell replication," said Prof Peter Klinken.

"It provides another wonderful example of where compounds in nature can be used to treat human diseases."

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>>10501911 NOTABLE expanded

>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/us-aiming-for-nato-like-alliance-with-india-australia-japan-to-counter-china/articleshow/77867159.cms?from=mdr

Synopsis

US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun made the comments while speaking with former US ambassador to India, Richard Verma in an online discussion organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.

WASHINGTON: The United States seeks to formalise its closer defence ties with countries of the India-Pacific region India, Japan and Australia similar to something like the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) with an aim to counter China, US Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun said on Monday.

He said that Washington's aim is to get the grouping of four countries and others in the region to work together as a bulwark against "a potential challenge from China", and "to create a critical mass around the shared values and interests of those parties in a manner that attracts more countries in the Indo-Pacific and even from around the world … ultimately to align in a more structured manner", South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

Biegun made the comments while speaking with former US ambassador to India, Richard Verma in an online discussion organised by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum.

"The Indo-Pacific region is actually lacking in strong multilateral structures. They do not have anything of the fortitude of NATO or the European Union. The strongest institutions in Asia oftentimes are not, I think, not inclusive enough and so … there is certainly an invitation there at some point to ormalise a structure like this," Biegun said.

"Remember, even NATO started with relatively modest expectations and a number of countries (initially) chose neutrality over NATO membership," he added.

However, he cautioned that the US would keep its ambitions for a Pacific NATO "checked", asserting such an alliance "will happen only if the other countries are as committed as the US".

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>>10502035

>>10502117

It's good that you are thinking, but no.

It is like >>10502086 was saying "Q was talking about people 'lost' as in 'never realizing or refusing to realizing' the truth"

see >>10501886 again

>>10502129

Yes.

>>10502253

People will work it out.

Better to have too many, than miss the important Notable.