First a quick update about this series 'This
Week with Stupid'; this will be the last episode
in this series.
Oh no, it's not like we all became not stupid;
far from that. In fact, there are so much
stupidity going on that if I wait until weekend,
there are way too many stories. Which leads
to longer videos and worst: stale news.
Instead, I will be following this in 'I am
with Stupid' series. Those would mostly be
single news story that I can focus better.
That being said, during This Week With Stupid,
we have:
some really serious;
Genocide in Xinjiang by Chinese Communist
Party
WHO reports record single-day global increase
in cases
Update on Twitter Bitcoin Scam
and finally on a light-easy note,
Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies
act or 'Caren' act for short introduced in
San Francisco.
Let's jump into it.
Genocide in Xinjiang by Chinese Communist
Party
'Two recent disturbing events may finally
awaken the world to the scale and horror of
the atrocities being committed against the
Uighurs, a mostly secular Muslim ethnic minority,
in Xinjiang, China. One is an authoritative
report documenting the systematic sterilization
of Uighur women. The other was the seizure
by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of 13
tons of products made from human hair suspected
of being forcibly removed from Uighurs imprisoned
in concentration camps. Both events evoke
chilling parallels to past atrocities elsewhere,
forced sterilization of minorities, disabled,
and Indigenous people, and the image of the
glass display of mountains of hair preserved
at Auschwitz,' according to a report published
in The Foreign Policy, one of world's renowned
foreign affairs magazine.
The report titled 'The World's Most Technologically
Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in Xinjiang'
has been co-authored by one of Uighurs in
exile. 'The Genocide Convention, to which
China is a signatory, defines genocide as
specific acts against members of a group with
the intent to destroy that group in whole
or in part. These acts include (a) killing;
(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm;
(c) deliberately inflicting conditions of
life to bring about the group's physical destruction;
(d) imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group; and (e) forcibly
transferring children of the group to another
group. Any one of these categories constitutes
genocide. The overwhelming evidence of the
Chinese government's deliberate and systematic
campaign to destroy the Uighur people clearly
meets each of these categories,' Foreign Policy
claimed.
"Over a million Turkic Uighurs are detained
in concentration camps, prisons, and forced
labor factories in China. Detainees are subject
to military-style discipline, thought transformation,
and forced confessions. They are abused, tortured,
raped, and even killed. Survivors report being
subjected to electrocution, waterboarding,
repeated beatings, stress positions, and injections
of unknown substances. These mass detention
camps are designed to cause serious physical,
psychological harm and mentally break the
Uighur people. The repeated government orders
to 'break their lineage, break their roots,
break their connections, and break their origins';
'round up everyone who should be rounded up';
and systematically prevent Uighur births demonstrate
a clear intent to eradicate the Uighur people
as a whole," the report claimed.
Critics are of opinion that China wants to
Hananise the Uighurs and destroy the community.
Over a million Han Chinese watchers have been
deployed in Uighur households.
In 2017, Xinjiang waged a brutal "Special
Campaign to Control Birth Control Violations,"
along with specific local directives. By 2019,
the government planned to subject over 80
percent of women of childbearing age in southern
Xinjiang to forced intrauterine devices (IUDs)
and sterilization. The goal is to achieve
'zero birth control violation incidents.'
Government documents reveal a campaign of
mass female sterilization supported by state
funding to carry out hundreds of thousands
of sterilizations in 2019 and 2020. This goes
far beyond the scale, per capita, of forced
sterilization inflicted on women throughout
China under the past one-child policy.
To implement these policies, the Xinjiang
government employed 'dragnet-style' investigations
to hunt down women of childbearing age.
Once apprehended, these women have no choice
but to undergo forced sterilization to avoid
being sent to an internment camp. Once detained,
women face forced injections, abortions, and
unknown drugs.
What makes this genocide so uniquely dangerous
is its technological sophistication, allowing
for efficiency in its destruction and concealment
from global attention. The Uighurs have been
suffering under the most advanced police state,
with extensive controls and restrictions on
every aspect of life... religious, familial,
cultural, and social. To facilitate surveillance,
Xinjiang operates under a grid management
system. Cities and villages are split into
squares of about 500 people. Each square has
a police station that closely monitors inhabitants
by regularly scanning their identification
cards, faces, DNA samples, fingerprints, and
cell phones. These methods are supplemented
by a machine-operated system known as the
Integrated Joint Operations Platform. The
system uses machine learning to collect personal
data from video surveillance, smartphones,
and other private records to generate lists
for detention. Those Han Chinese watchers
in Uighur households renders even intimate
spaces subject to the government's eye.
With the passing of the Uyghur Human Rights
Policy Act, the U.S. government has begun
to take steps in the right direction to avoid
another human catastrophe. Seventy-eight members
of Congress have followed up with a call for
the administration to impose Magnitsky sanctions
on the responsible Chinese officials and issue
a formal declaration of the atrocity crimes,
including genocide.
A formal declaration of genocide is not simply
symbolic. It will catalyze other countries
to join in a concerted effort to end the ongoing
genocide in Xinjiang. It will also prompt
consumers to reject the over 80 international
brands that profit off genocide.
In UK, Maajid Nawaz, an anti-extremist activist
and London Broadcasting Company host, is currently
on a hunger strike. He will continue to do
so until he has gathered enough support for
the United Kingdom Parliament to have a debate
about human rights violations against Uighur
Muslims by the Chinese Communist Party.
"I declare a hunger strike in meditative silence
for #STOPUigurMuslimGenocide," Nawaz wrote
on Twitter on Wednesday. "In protest against
CCP enslavement, rape & harvesting of my Uigur
Muslim, Falun Gong, Buddhist or Christian
brethren's organs, I'm on hunger strike until
the UK Parliament agrees to formally debate
acknowledgment of the Uigur genocide."
Please show him support; Links would be in
the description below.
In our modern lifestyle: well, we care more
about globalised supply chains, cheap labour
and greed than fairness and respect for fundamental
human rights. And this is the result.
We can do better, right? Can we please be
better?
WHO reports record single-day global increase
in covid cases.
The number of new cases of coronavirus rose
by almost 260,000 in 24 hours - the largest
single-day increase since the pandemic began.
This is the first time the number of new daily
infections has surpassed a quarter of a million.
The biggest increases were in the US, Brazil,
India and South Africa.
The global death toll from coronavirus also
rose by 7,360 - the largest daily increase
since 10 May.
The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus
passed 14 million on Saturday, with over 600,000
recorded deaths, according to the tally kept
by US-based Johns Hopkins University.
Cases are surging in several US states, particularly
in southern states that were initially reluctant
to enforce lockdowns or mandate the wearing
of masks. Florida, Texas and Arizona have
seen particularly high surges.
Florida is currently the epicentre of the
US epidemic. The state recorded more than
10,000 new infections and 90 more deaths on
Saturday, bringing its total number of cases
to more than 337,000 and its death toll to
more than 5,000.
In Corpus Christi, Texas, eighty-five infants
under age 1 have tested positive for coronavirus.
Annette Rodriguez, director of public health
for Corpus Christi appealed with "These babies
have not even had their first birthday yet.
Please help us stop the spread of this disease.".
She did not provide additional details on
their conditions.
Measures to stem the spread of the virus,
including wearing masks, have become highly
politicised in the US.
In Brazil, where the coronavirus and measures
to contain it have been highly politicised,
cases continue to surge - although the WHO
announced earlier this week that cases were
no longer increasing exponentially.
Scientists have also warned that India could
still be months away from the peak of its
outbreak - despite the country already having
the third-highest number of confirmed cases.
Hospitals in the worst-hit cities, including
Mumbai and Bangalore, have been overwhelmed
with patients.
India recorded another 34,884 infections in
a 24-hour period on Saturday, and another
671 deaths linked to coronavirus.
And South Africa, which saw one of the largest
single-day rises in cases, has the highest
number of confirmed infections on the African
continent.
Western European countries, which have managed
to largely contain the spread of the virus,
are now beginning to reopen their borders
and businesses.
However, there are localised surges across
Spain - the worst being in the country's north-eastern
Catalonia region, that has again recorded
a daily increase in confirmed cases of more
than 1,000, and about four million people
in 'Barcelona', 'La Noguera' and 'El Segri'
have been ordered to stay at home for 15 days.
Spain only ended its tough national lockdown
about four weeks ago and was hoping to kick-start
the economy, particularly with tourism numbers.
Neighbouring France is now considering closing
borders with Spain in response to the surge.
On Saturday, discussions in Brussels over
a huge post-coronavirus economic recovery
plan ground on. Some "frugal" northern nations
like the Netherlands and Sweden have balked
at the 750bn Euro package, arguing it should
be loans not grants.
A revised plan would tone down the level of
grants but there appears to be a long way
to go. The talks are now going into a third
day on Sunday.
Earlier this week, many prominent Twitter
accounts were hacked; these accounts sent
out Dms that they would double any bitcoin
amount you would send to a particular bitcoin
address.
Somehow way too many people fell for this
scam, and in total over 80,000 GBP were transferred
to that address. I have already made a video
on this event, and you will find it in my
channel.
Since then, Senator Josh Hawley drafted a
letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey calling
for answers to questions about the scope of
the breach, the possibility of personal data
loss as a result of the breach, and the sorts
of protections Twitter has in place to prevent
"system-level hacks." Dorsey has not publicly
responded to these questions.
Beyond individual members of government, Twitter
also faces heightened scrutiny from trade
regulators and governing bodies. CNN Business's
Brian Fung pointed to the possibility that
Twitter would become the subject of a Federal
Trade Commission investigation, citing comments
from two former directors of the FTC's Bureau
of Consumer Protection. Meanwhile, the BBC
notes that the European Union will likely
take an interest -- despite the fact that
the hack's victims were largely American -- because
of what the situation says about the company's
security practices. If EU regulators find
that Twitter was lax in its efforts to protect
its users, the social media giant could face
a hefty fine.
At this time, Twitter's investigation is still
ongoing, and there is little in the way of
conclusive information. The guess so far is,
maybe an employee got compromised and then
used Twitter's internal tool to change account
contact and then reset the password; this
would then allow the contact to change the
password and access the account.
It is worth noting, however, that one source
claims that a Twitter rep did "all the work"
for the hackers, suggesting a level of cooperation
that isn't directly addressed in Twitter's
statements.
Two San Francisco lawmakers have a proposed
a bill which would make it a hate crime to
call 911 to file a false report against a
person of color.
Shamann Walton and Matt Haney, who both serve
on the city's Board of Supervisors, announced
their plans to push through the legislation
on Tuesday.
The pair have called their proposal the Caution
Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergences
Act, or the CAREN Act.
The acronym is a play on the name Karen - which
has recently become used as a slang term for
a white woman who is perceived to be entitled,
demanding or racist.
While filing a false police report is already
a crime, the CAREN Act would add a 'hate crime'
extension to the offence, according to The
Daily Beast.
In the past two months there have been a number
of high-profile incidents involving so-called
'Karens' calling the cops on people of color
and accuse them of bogus offences.
Racially motivated 911 calls aren't a new
occurrence across the country, in spite of
a recent uptick following the death of George
Floyd, an unarmed black man killed in police
custody.
Just a few weeks ago, a White hotel employee
in North Carolina called the police on a guest,
a Black woman and her children, who were using
the hotel's swimming pool. And in May, a White
woman called 911 on a Black man who was birdwatching
in New York's Central Park.
Bonta said the intent of AB 1550 isn't to
discourage Californians in real danger from
calling 911.
Currently, there is immunity from civil defamation
lawsuits for reporting a crime. It has been
held that someone who makes a statement to
the police about a suspected crime is protected
by qualified privilege; he or she is discharging
their social duty to help in the detection
of criminal activity. A police officer receiving
the report has an interest in receiving the
information because they can investigate.
Although giving a false police report is criminal
under California law, there is no punishment
for people who call the police due to a perceived
threat, based solely on one's race, ethnicity,
or religious affiliation.
So what do you think of this act? Is this
stupid? This sounds dangerous to me: perceived
threat is as the name suggest 'perceived';
I have a neighbour who keep threatening me
that he would shot my drone down. As I am
in UK, I am not taking his threats seriously.
Thankfully as I am not white, if CAREN act
was applied in UK, I would still be okay for
calling the police on this guy, right?
Bloody hell. Blathering idiots these people.
In these videos, we have seen chart for corona-virus
deaths in UK.
Thankfully the chart now is showing a steady
decline. As this is the last episode, maybe
I'll take the chart to other videos.
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