Apologizing for slavery: A Dutch way to make amends SOURCE: Christian Science Monitor

Cities Undermine the Holiday Spirit with Unconstitutional Bans on Sharing Food with the Homeless Baylen Linnekin FROM Reason.com

 "The rule would require a permit each time someone hands out food, and requires people to take food safety classes before they can qualify for a permit."

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo Was Reportedly Obsessed With Killing Assange BY Kevin Gosztola FROM The Dissenter

 

• The CIA spied on the Ecuador embassy, collected legally-privileged conversations among attorneys, and broke into the personal devices of guests visiting Assange.

• The FBI worked with an informant named Siggi Thordarson, a serial liar and sociopath who embezzled funds from the WikiLeaks store and sexually preyed on underage boys.
• The FBI seized Assange’s personal archive, confidential medical data, and legally privileged materials from the embassy following his arrest.

The nature of China’s social credit system by Dr. Junhua Zhang FROM The Cobden Center

"China’s current social credit system has three levels: one overseen by the NDRC, one created by the central bank, and the one used by private credit rating institutions for big data analysis, like Alipay’s Sesame Credit."

And according to the article, more than 170 cities have gotten in on the game too.

Revenge Porn Has Become a Political Weapon in Myanmar By Amara Thiha from The Diplomat

Tenants Aren't Waiting for the Biden Admin to Save Them by Annie Howard FROM In These Times

 

Governments Used Spyware to Surveil Journalists and Activists. Here’s Why Revelations About Pegasus Are Shaking Up the World By Billy Perrigo FROM Time

China Export is not CE: a symbol to cause confusion FROM Silos Cordoba

My uncle [not the blogger] was almost fooled by this mark many years ago when asked to approve a lighting system for a theater. Fortunately, he looked into it more carefully and found the scam.

 

"In recent years we’ve got used to the fact that if a product bears CE mark, it is safe. The reason for this assumption is the goods’ compliance with EU standards. Unfortunately, there exists a much similar mark which the majority of consumers and even sellers understand as CE mark of the European Union. However, this mark symbolizes something quite different."