[Forwarded from Monkeypox Up]
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WHO Chief “Concerned by the Scale and Spread” of Monkeypox as Cases Rise 77% in a Week

??@MonkeypoxUp: The WHO on Thursday (July 7) reported (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m....onkeypox-cases-rise- a 77% weekly increase in the number of lab-confirmed monkeypox cases, to more than 6,000 worldwide, and two more deaths in parts of Africa where the virus has circulated for years.

The U.N. health agency said the mysterious outbreak continues to mainly affect men who have had sex with men, and that other population groups showed no signs of sustained transmission.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday (July 6) he remained "concerned by the scale and spread of the virus," noting that over 80% of the cases turned up in Europe. He said he would convene the next meeting of a WHO expert panel that is monitoring the outbreak for no later than the week of July 18.

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Shocking Footage Shows Thousands of Gallons of Fuel Leak at Navy Facility Days Before Contaminating Families’ Water

New videos obtained by Civil Beat appear to show the moment that tens of thousands of gallons of fuel burst from a cracked PVC pipe at a Navy fuel storage facility in Hawaii last November, before eventually contaminating the water supply for thousands of military families.

“It was like watching a scene from Titanic,” Army Maj. Mandy Feindt, whose family was impacted by the fuel leak last year, told Task & Purpose of the videos. She specifically took issue with the fact that the videos were not released by the Navy, which she said they likely knew about months ago.

“I just think there’s been this huge game of turning a blind eye,” she said. “Like, if you don’t tell us, it didn’t happen.”

? Source: Task & Purpose

(https://taskandpurpose.com/new....s/navy-red-hill-fuel
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[Forwarded from The Free Thought Project]
What makes this admission by the mayor so shocking is the fact that just two weeks ago, he said the exact opposite; “there is no cover-up.” Now he says “At this point, I don’t know what to believe and what not to believe.”

https://thefreethoughtproject.....com/uvalde-mayor-blo

Japan to Start Jailing People for Online Insults

Posting “online insults” will be punishable by up to a year in prison time in Japan starting Thursday (July 7), when a new law passed earlier this summer will go into effect.

People convicted of online insults can also be fined up to 300,000 yen (just over $2,20. Previously, the punishment was fewer than 30 days in prison and up to 10,000 yen ($75).

The law will be reexamined in three years to determine if it’s impacting freedom of expression—a concern raised by critics of the bill. Proponents said it was necessary to slow cyberbullying in the country.

But there aren’t clear definitions of what counts as an insult, Seiho Cho, a criminal lawyer in Japan, told CNN after the law passed. The law says an insult means demeaning someone without a specific fact about them—as opposed to defamation, which it classifies as demeaning someone while pointing to a specific fact about them. “At the moment, even if someone calls the leader of Japan an idiot, then maybe under the revised law that could be classed as an insult,” Cho said.

Japanese officials pushed a crackdown on cyberbullying after the death by suicide of reality television star Hana Kimura, who was subject to online abuse. Her mother pushed for more anti-cyberbullying policies after her death.

? Source: The Verge

(https://www.theverge.com/2022/....7/6/23196593/japan-j
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