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5 days, 20 hours ago

Trump’s Propaganda Victory: The Rewriting Of Jan. 6

Former President Donald Trump listens as video from the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is shown while the song, "Justice for All," is played during a campaign rally at the Waco Regional Airport on Saturday, March 25, 2023, in Waco, Texas. “It is a tribute to Trump and his posse’s ability to convince half the country,” Stipanovich …

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6 days, 9 hours ago

NIA busts 'cyber slavery' racket, conducts raids in Delhi's Jamia Nagar

India TV News

The National Investigation Agency on Sunday said it has conducted searches at the home of a recently arrested accused in Delhi's Jamia Nagar as part of its probe into a human trafficking and cyber slavery case. According to the probe agency, the case involves a criminal conspiracy by Kamran Haider and other accused persons engaged in sending vulnerable Indian youth …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

‘Modern slavery’: Trapped in Iraq, Nigerian women cry out for help

Al Jazeera

Sometimes when the pain hits, Agnes* has to pause for several seconds to ride out the excruciating wave. “I just want to go home and treat myself, but I can’t do that,” Agnes said on a phone call from Basra, where she is holed up in a hostel belonging to the recruiting firm that hired her from Nigeria last year. …

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Prosecutors find workers in ‘slavery like’ conditions at Chinese car company site in Brazil

Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A task force led by Brazilian prosecutors said it rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in “slavery-like” conditions at a construction site in northeastern Brazil, where Chinese electric vehicle company BYD is building a factory. In a statement issued Monday, the prosecutor’s office said the workers had been hired in China by Jinjiang Construction Brazil, one …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

George Eastham obituary: One of England's boys of 1966 who ended football 'slavery' - today's players owe a debt of gratitude to former Arsenal, Newcastle and Stoke star

Daily Mail

Big moments – they are what every footballer wants: to be part of glory and to leave fingerprints on the days that matter. With his short, blond hair and his slender shoulders, he was a beautiful player for Newcastle and Arsenal, one of the boys of that golden summer in 1966 who went onto score the goal at Wembley in …

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4 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu: Attempt To Traffic Youth To Cambodia For 'Cyber Slavery' Foiled

ABP News

An attempt by an agent to send three Tamil Nadu youth to Cambodia for employment in "fraudulent, scam-based companies for cyber slavery" was foiled by the Protector of Emigrants, Chennai, and the Tamil Nadu Crime Branch CID, police said on Friday. The agent lured the victims with promises of well-paying jobs in Cambodia and convinced them to pay allegedly large …

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1 month ago

Opinion: Evangelical Christians once agitated for women, prisoners, the poor and ending slavery. What happened?

LA Times

Two different interpretations of the Book of Revelation help explain the political trajectory of evangelical Christians. He worked for Campus Crusade for Christ in Southern California and then, cribbing from his seminary notes, wrote what became one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the 1970s, “The Late Great Planet Earth.” Lindsey’s book popularized an approach to biblical interpretation called premillennialism, …

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1 month ago

Russia thwarts global call centre scam targeting 1 lakh people, including Indians

India Today

In a significant crackdown, Russia's Federal Security Service dismantled an international network of fraudulent call centres involved in defrauding over one lakh people across more than 50 countries, including India. The operation, which saw the detention of several key operatives behind the scam, highlights a growing concern about cross-border cybercrime targeting unsuspecting people worldwide. âáï¸BREAKING: ð·ðº Russia's Federal Security Service …

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1 month ago

NIA arrests Kamran Haider, absconding accused in human trafficking, cyber slavery case

India TV News

The National Investigation Agency in a major breakthrough in the Laos human trafficking and cyber slavery case arrested an absconding accused, who was nabbed with the support of the Delhi Police Special Cell. The agency arrested Kamran Haider, who was directly involved in arranging flight tickets and documents for the victims and in facilitating their illegal border crossings with the …

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1 month ago

'Modern slavery': Indonesians in clutches of scam syndicates

New Indian Express

JAKARTA: Indonesian fruit seller Budi was seeking better prospects when he signed up for an IT job in Cambodia. But after arriving in Bangkok, a Malaysian agent whisked him across the border with five others to the Myanmar town of Hpa Lu, where he was forced to work at an online scam compound. 'Very inhumane' Between 2020 and September this …

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1 month ago

Mixed reactions to government response to Modern Slavery Act

ABC

Sabra Lane: It's said that modern slavery exists in the shadows, but often it's hidden in plain sight. The Federal Government's quietly released its response to an independent review into Australia's Modern Slavery Act this week. While a modern slavery survivor's described that as a win, some human rights campaigners say Australia's fallen behind other countries in tackling it. Lexie …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Brits using cash-only nail bars, barbers or car washes are 'feeding the problem' of illegal migration and fuelling slavery, warns top Home Office official

Daily Mail

Britons using cash-only nail bars, barbers or car washes are 'feeding the problem' of illegal migration and could be creating more victims of slavery, a top Home Office official has warned. Mr Javid, a former top police officer and the brother of Tory ex-home secretary Sajid Javid, told the Sunday Times: 'People should recognise they are contributing to it and …

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1 month, 1 week ago

First popularly elected Black mayor in New England, Thirman Milner, has died at 91

Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England, has died, the Connecticut NAACP said on Friday. Milner was the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England. Ned Lamont praised Milner in a statement recognizing his contributions in politics and his civil rights work, which included marching with Martin Luther King, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Kick Out Zwarte Piet cancels demos as councils go "inclusive"

Dutch News

Campaign group Kick Out Zwarte Piet is calling a halt to its demonstrations at Sinterklaas parades this year, after reaching an agreement with almost 30 local councils on making changes to their plans. In total, 28 local councils have now agreed “to move to an inclusive Sinterklaas parade,” the organisation said, after contacting towns and villages which still had blackface …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Cyber slavery': The new job con trapping Indian youth abroad

India Today

Indian youth seeking jobs abroad have good reason to be very cautious. Close on the heels of recruitment agencies, on the promise of overseas employment, being found to have misled aspirants to battle frontlines in Russia and Israel, a new scam of ‘cyber slavery’ has gained ground over the past few months. Assured IT jobs in Asian countries, such as …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Cyber slavery threat looms over TN jobseekers’

New Indian Express

COIMBATORE: M Rajkumar, the Protector of Emigrants for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry said that a trend of cyber slavery is posing a significant risk to educated job seekers from Tamil Nadu. They lure job seekers through phone calls, and WhatsApp interviews, promising positions in data entry, customer care, and computer-related work. They offer attractive benefits such as high salaries, and …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Cyber slavery poses a significant risk to educated job seekers from TN: Protector of Emigrants

New Indian Express

COIMBATORE: M Rajkumar, the Protector of Emigrants for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry said that a trend of cyber slavery is posing a significant risk to educated job seekers from Tamil Nadu. They offer attractive benefits such as high salaries, and free accommodation, and do not require prior experience, which makes these offers appealing to many educated job seekers. Some are …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Nevada just banned ‘slavery and involuntary servitude’ in prisons. Why didn’t California?

LA Times

A progressive prison reform that was on the ballot in California and Nevada this month met drastically different outcomes after the votes were counted: In California, voters chose to keep the status quo, allowing “involuntary servitude” to remain legal in prisons. On the other side of the state line, Nevada voters overwhelmingly passed a measure to ban “slavery and involuntary …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Sinterklaas and his sooty Piets arrive in Vianen on Saturday

Dutch News

Vianen in Utrecht is hosting this year’s official arrival of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands on Saturday, the kick-off for three weeks of festivities ahead of the main December 5 present-giving event. Nevertheless, although the debate about Sinterklaas’s traditional helpers who used to be portrayed by a white person in blackface makeup has abated somewhat, it has not gone away. KOPZ …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

STEPHEN GLOVER: I believe Welby is a good man. But what kind of person rails against slavery while staying silent about a monstrous abuser?

Daily Mail

Witch hunts are ugly things, and whenever you spot one the best thing to do is usually to walk in the opposite direction. Let us therefore give Mr Welby the benefit of any doubt, and settle on the fact that he was told allegations about Smyth in 2013, and failed to notify the police. As the report puts it: 'In …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

California voters reject measure that would have banned forced prison labor

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor. Abolish Slavery National Network co-founder Jamilia Land, who advocated for the initiative targeting forced prison labor, said the measure and similar ones in other states are about “dismantling the remnants of slavery” from the books. …

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2 months ago

Racist texts invoking slavery sent to Black men, women across US, probe on

India Today

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies. The Clemson Police Department said in a statement that it had been notified of the “deplorable racially motivated text and email messages” and encouraged anyone who received …

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2 months ago

How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations: Former PM told aide: 'I went in pretty hard'

Daily Mail

Boris Johnson clashed with the King over the issue of slavery, fearing he had been captured by 'woke ideology', a new book reveals. It came after Charles had described the Tory government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda as ‘appalling’, according to political journalist Tim Shipman In his account of Brexit – Out – he revealed Charles feared the …

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2 months ago

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson's "Dark Age"

Salon

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since. Roy focuses in particular on how these Black writers responded to the experience of the Middle Passage — the traumatic journey from Africa to America made by newly enslaved people — which he describes as “cheating social death,” and on …

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Trump’s Propaganda Victory: The Rewriting Of Jan. 6

NIA busts 'cyber slavery' racket, conducts raids in Delhi's Jamia Nagar

‘Modern slavery’: Trapped in Iraq, Nigerian women cry out for help

Prosecutors find workers in ‘slavery like’ conditions at Chinese car company site in Brazil

George Eastham obituary: One of England's boys of 1966 who ended football 'slavery' - today's players owe a debt of gratitude to former Arsenal, Newcastle and Stoke star

Tamil Nadu: Attempt To Traffic Youth To Cambodia For 'Cyber Slavery' Foiled

Opinion: Evangelical Christians once agitated for women, prisoners, the poor and ending slavery. What happened?

Russia thwarts global call centre scam targeting 1 lakh people, including Indians

NIA arrests Kamran Haider, absconding accused in human trafficking, cyber slavery case

'Modern slavery': Indonesians in clutches of scam syndicates

Mixed reactions to government response to Modern Slavery Act

Brits using cash-only nail bars, barbers or car washes are 'feeding the problem' of illegal migration and fuelling slavery, warns top Home Office official

First popularly elected Black mayor in New England, Thirman Milner, has died at 91

Kick Out Zwarte Piet cancels demos as councils go "inclusive"

'Cyber slavery': The new job con trapping Indian youth abroad

‘Cyber slavery threat looms over TN jobseekers’

Cyber slavery poses a significant risk to educated job seekers from TN: Protector of Emigrants

Nevada just banned ‘slavery and involuntary servitude’ in prisons. Why didn’t California?

Sinterklaas and his sooty Piets arrive in Vianen on Saturday

STEPHEN GLOVER: I believe Welby is a good man. But what kind of person rails against slavery while staying silent about a monstrous abuser?

California voters reject measure that would have banned forced prison labor

Racist texts invoking slavery sent to Black men, women across US, probe on

How Boris Johnson and King Charles clashed over slavery reparations: Former PM told aide: 'I went in pretty hard'

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson's "Dark Age"