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After Decades, Oil Giant Shell Agrees to Pay $111 Million for Destruction in Nigeria

Following decades of protests and demands over the damage done, Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday finally agreed to pay $111 million for oil spills that have polluted Nigerian communities for more than a half-century.

“They ran out of tricks and decided to come to terms,” Lucius Nwosa, a lawyer representing a lawyer for the Ejama-Ebubu community in Ogoniland, Rivers State, told Agence-France Presse. “The decision is a vindication of the resoluteness of the community for justice.”

A spokesperson for the oil giant’s Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, said that “the order for the payment… to the claimants is for full and final satisfaction of the judgment.”

The case dates back to 1991. A Nigerian court ordered Shell to compensate the Ejama-Ebubu people in 2010, which the company repeatedly appealed, unsuccessfully.

After losing its appeals, Shell initiated arbitration proceedings against the Nigerian government at the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes in February. Bloomberg reports that the company has not said whether it will now withdraw the claim.

Shell plans to pay out the $111 million within the next three weeks. While the settlement was seen by some as a bit of justice, it is a relatively small amount of money for an oil giant whose reported adjusted earnings for 2020 were $4.85 billion. The previous year, before the coronavirus pandemic, the British-Dutch multinational saw a profit of $16.5 billion.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2021/08/after-decades-oil-giant-shell-agrees-to-pay-111-million-for-destruction-in-nigeria.html

Minneapolis Man Charged in Child Sex Trafficking Conspiracy

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/minneapolis-man-charged-child-sex-trafficking-conspiracy

Eagle River Man Charged with Child Pornography Crimes

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/eagle-river-man-charged-child-pornography-crimes

Four Defendants Arrested in Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeit Goods Trafficking Scheme

More Than $130 Million Scheme Included Fake UGG Boots, Nike Air Jordan Sneakers, Timberland Boots and Beats Headphones

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/four-defendants-arrested-multimillion-dollar-counterfeit-goods-trafficking-scheme

>>14337498

5:5

Meet Bettina L. Love, A Critical Race Theorist Coming To A School Near You

'Love’s 2019 book, 'We Want to Do More Than Survive,' is arguably the single most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the ideology of the CRT movement in education.'

Bettina L. Love, an “anti-racist” professor at the University of Georgia, is an Ibram X. Kendi figure who is also reaching thousands of American children and paid by taxpayer dollars. In addition to preaching critical race theory (CRT) in public schools across the nation, including, as reported by The Federalist, at an Indiana conference for teachers backed by taxpayer dollars, the Biden administration quietly supported Love’s work before that became too hot to handle.

As Stanley Kurtz noted in a recent article reviewing Love’s most recent book, “Civic education that teaches children to ‘pay their taxes, vote, volunteer, and have good character’ is rejected by Love as ‘code for comply, comply, comply.’ ‘History tells us,’ Love says, ‘that dark folx’ humanity is dependent on how much they disobey and fight for justice.’”

Racism Scores Points With Biden

Back in June, top Indiana Republicans declined to condemn the state for allocating resources to a state forum that paid Love to lecture on her theories about the United States engaging in the “spirit murder” of non-white children. David Keltz, a spokesman for Republican state Attorney General Todd Rokita, who claims to oppose CRT, also declined to respond to The Federalist’s inquiry this week into whether Indiana should have allowed tax dollars to go toward the controversial event.

Something else happened in June. The Biden administration was exposed for its involvement with Love’s group, “The Abolitionist Teaching Network.”

Love’s group put out a booklet in August 2020 titled “Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning.” The 12-page manual instructs teachers to “disrupt whiteness and other forms of oppression.” Biden’s Department of Education linked to the manual as a resource in its school reopening handbook, as first reported by Fox News.

Love’s group was launched in 2020. Other board members include: Brandelyn Tosolt, associate professor of education at Northern Kentucky University; Chelsey Culley-Love, a middle school teacher in Atlanta; Martha Allexsaht-Snider, a University of Georgia professor for women’s studies; Farima Pour-Khorshid, an education professor at the University of San Francisco; and David Stovall, a University of Illinois at Chicago professor of African-American studies and criminology, law, and justice.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/12/meet-bettina-l-love-a-critical-race-theorist-coming-to-a-school-near-you/

Military Situation In Afghanistan On August 12, 2021 (Map Update)

On August 12, Taliban captured Ghazni city the capital of Ghazni province

On August 12, clashes between the Afghan Army and Taliban continued inside the city of Lashkar Gah

On August 12, clashes between the Afghan Army and Taliban continued to the west and south of Herat city

On August 12, clashes between the Afghan Army and Taliban continued inside the city of Farah

On August 11, Taliban captured Kandahar prison in west of the city

217 Taliban militants were killed as a result of Afghan Army operations in Nangarhar, Ghazni, Farah, Herat, Faryab, Balkh, Helmand, Kunduz and Kapisa provinces during the last 24 hours, according to the Afghan MOD

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-afghanistan-on-august-12-2021-map-update/

Following 15-hour filibuster Texas Senate passes elections legislation

State Senate Democrat Carol Alvarado talked through the night in an attempt to filibuster the bill.

The Texas Senate on Thursday morning passed the elections bill that state Democrats have attempted several times to prevent from becoming law.

Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Carol Alvarado filibustered the bill for 15-hours in the latest long shot attempt to prevent its passage, but the chamber endured and passed the legislation by a vote of 18-11 this morning. Filibuster rules required Alvarado to remain standing, addressing the chamber on exclusively the subject of the bill, without bathroom breaks or food.

The attempt came one day after Dade Phelan, the Republican Speaker of the Texas House authorized arrest warrants for the 52 Democrats who have failed to show up for the second special session this summer of the Texas legislature, thereby denying the chamber a quorum.

The bill, which state Senator Bryan Hughes (R) says contains "simple, common sense reforms," like preventing 24-hour drive through voting, has met ample opposition from the Democratic party, who say it is a restrictive bill meant to suppress and intimidate marginalized voters.

https://justthenews.com/government/state-houses/following-15-hour-filibuster-texas-senate-passes-elections-bill

>>14337672

they are all Chinese

>>14337502 Four Defendants Arrested in Multimillion-Dollar Counterfeit Goods Trafficking Scheme

Mesa County Elections Decertified

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo – Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced during a zoom Thursday, her office would be decertifying Mesa County elections immediately.

The Secretary of State’s office found enough evidence during its investigation of a recent security breach in which passwords to elections systems were posted on social media.

This is a breaking news story and more details will come as they are made available.

https://www.westernslopenow.com/news/local-news/mesa-county-elections-decertified/

>>14337793

agreed

Google bans another 9 Android apps, now you must delete them from your phone

MALICIOUS apps containing the Android Trojan "Flytrap" are causing havoc for thousands of victims lured in by free coupon codes and football voting. Google has now banned 9 of them and you must delete them from your phone.

Experts have warned this week of nine rogue Android apps which are a danger to your phone and could even allow your Facebook account to be hacked. Google has already removed them from the Google Play store but they can still be downloaded from third-party app stores – or might already be lurking on your phone.

It’s all because of FlyTrap, an Android virus, which has infected over 10,000 victims since at least March this year. Trojans are a type of malware that pretend to be an ordinary program but have nasty code hiding inside them, much like the mythical horse.

Cybersecurity researchers Zimperium’s zLabs revealed yesterday that FlyTrap has already reached 140 countries. It works by hiding inside normal-seeming apps that victims download onto their Android device.

Once installed, FlyTrap hijacks any Facebook accounts on the phone. It can collect personal information including Facebook ID, location, email address, IP address and any cookies associated with the account.

Even worse, your Facebook account could be used to spread the virus further – sending out messages to your friends or family asking them to download the apps, or even posting fake news to your profile.

The harmful apps offer fun services like coupon codes for Netflix and Google Ads as well as voting for football teams and players. Zimperium named the ones to avoid:

GG Voucher (com.luxcarad.cardid)

Vote European Football (com.gardenguides.plantingfree)

GG Coupon Ads (com.free_coupon.gg_free_coupon)

GG Voucher Ads (com.m_application.app_moi_6)

GG Voucher (com.free.voucher)

Chatfuel (com.ynsuper.chatfuel)

Net Coupon (com.free_coupon.net_coupon)

Net Coupon (com.movie.net_coupon)

EURO 2021 Official (com.euro2021)

When users log into the apps, all seems well until they enter their Facebook login details to cast a vote or unlock coupon codes. The app will not show real codes, but instead say they are expired. This is when the malicious code will take over your account.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1475031/Google-bans-Android-apps-delete-FlyTrap-trojan-virus