RationalWiki:What is going on in the world?/November 2021

November 2021
Jack Dorsey is no longer CEO of Twitter. He has been replaced by Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal. British Neo-nazi Ben Raymond is convicted of membership of a proscribed organisation as head propagandist for NS131 (National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action) descended from the proscribed National Action. The first complaint filed under Tennessee's anti-critical race theory law was over a book teaching about Martin Luther King Jr. “The conservative group specifically protested a photo of segregated water fountains and images showing Black children being blasted with water by firefighters. The group claimed that an accompanying lesson plan showed a "slanted obsession with historical mistakes" and argued it shouldn't be taught.” Elizabeth II is no longer head of state of Barbados which has become the world's newest republic. How far-right extremist groups face exposure from an army of hacktivists El Salvador's president is offering to create a fantasy bro city funded by dodgy volcano Bitcoin treasury bonds, despite the country having large gaps in its finances. Fake profiles of Sikh influencers were created to discredit farmer protests in India as “Khalistani” QAnon member declares herself Queen of Canada and calls for US supporters to invade the country and execute "traitors" The Guardian has discovered that the new headquarters for the tax office in Newcastle, is leased from a tory-connected company based in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. In Thanksgiving news, Turkey suffers a historic currency collapse due to idiotic policy decisions by president Erdogan. The three men who killed Ahmaud Arbery guilty of murder The United States, promoter of backsliding democracies, is added to list of backsliding democracies Tragedy in Wisconsin, as a red SUV plows into a Christmas parade, injuring 3 dozen and killing at least 5. It appears the driver was attempting to flee the scene of a fight, and oddly, has previously attacked someone with a vehicle. Kamala Harris has become the head of the free world for 85 minutes, after the POTUS was put under general anaesthetic in a medical operation. After 4 days of deliberation, juries finds Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges. Dickhead appears on BBC's Question Time, and makes a holy show of himself. Seemingly, “‘Racism’ is a global and vague term.” that's "indicative of low-resolution thinking.” Whatever the hell that means.   United States Rep. Paul Gosar is censured over an anime video showing him killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.   "Qanon Shaman" Jacob Chansley sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in US Capitol riot.   Extra! Extra! Geordie Greig who three years ago replaced Paul Dacre, has been forced out as editor of the Daily Mail. He is replaced by the Mail on Sunday's Ted Verity who be editor of both newspapers. InfoWars' Alex Jones has been found liable for defamation in the Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ case. Steve Bannon charged with contempt of Congress after his failure to appear for a deposition and hand over documents to the January 6 Attack House Select Committee. Britney Spears' nearly fourteen-year-long conservatorship has officially ended. MPs must be paid more to prevent lobbying scandals, says Tory MP Why have I never read "welfare must be increased to prevent fraud"? "Had you gone to trial, I don't think there's any jury that could have acquitted you." Judge hands down 41-month sentence to capitol rioter, the stiffest sentence yet imposed. Trump releases statement trashing McConnell for not passing infrastructure while he was president. But it was Trump who walked away from a $2 trillion deal in 2019. And they mocked Biden for being old and supposedly forgetful, baah. The US is fucked. In a strategic acquisition the Australian government and the incumbent telco Telstra has purchased the Pacific telco Digicel for A$2.1 billion (US$1.6 billion), in a move to prevent it being taken by the Chinese state-owned telco China Mobile. One of the reasons for the purchase is Digicel’s ownership of major telecommunication lines in the Pacific. The largest delegation at the COP26 summit that outnumbers all other countries? Isn't even a country, it is the fossil fuel industry. Only a week after investigating the connection between Uyghurs and tomatoes, CBC has now found that indebted North Korean labourers in Chinese factories have been used to make clothes for a major Canadian clothing retailer. Since the report, the retailer in question has removed all the stock from that supplier. Assisted dying becomes legal in New Zealand - over 60% of eligible voters voted in favour of legislation allowing it in a referendum a year ago. Former newspaper proprietor and pornographer is suing Wikipedia so that in his profile it doesn't say "pornographer", despite formerly owning several soft porn magazines such as Asian Babes and Horny Housewives. A disturbing read about an ultraconservative evangelical church Christ Church, trying to build a theocratic fundamentalist Christian city in Idaho. Studies in the UK has shown that the vaccine campaign aimed at teenage girls with the HPV vaccine, has dramatically cut the rate of cervical cancer by as much as 62%. The United States has blacklisted the Israeli spyware company NSO Group over its program Pegasus, which was used by foreign governments to “maliciously target” government officials, activists, journalists, academics and embassy workers around the world. QAnon rally fails to resurrect JFK jr. QAnon believers gather in AT&T Discovery Plaza in Dallas expecting an announcement - JFK is still alive and will "hand over" to Trump, and/or JFK Jr will be Trump's running mate in 2024 Afghan families are selling their children so they can eat as the economy crumbles They say you get wiser as you get older. The same cannot be said, however, for the centenarian and arch woo-meister “Dr.” James Lovelock, who continues to push his pseudoscientific, new age, “Gaia Hypothesis” ad nauseum: “Covid-19 may well have been one attempt by the Earth to protect itself. Gaia will try harder next time with something even nastier”. Whether this a damning indictment of the Guardian’s editorial standards will be left to the reader to decide. Keeping it classy Meta, with the popularity of Facebook dropping among teens, the company according to newly revealed documents is trying to push its services like Messenger to elementary kids. With no sense of irony, The Guardian suggests that Heinz's "Christmas Dinner in a Can" could be the answer to supermarket shortages this festive season. The article also mentions that only 500 cans will be made...