The Information World
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Brazil shuts down Car Wash anti-corruption squad
Brazil’s Car Wash anti-corruption unit has formally shut down, the end of an era for a team of prosecutors that helped send dozens of Latin American political and business leaders to jail, and several former presidents. The task force, which emerged from a routine money-laundering investigation into a car wash in Brasilia, ceased to exist…
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Greta Thunberg deletes her tweet made in support of causing unrest in India
The climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who has Aspergers, a mental disorder, has been exposed after tweeting not only in support of farmer protests but also sharing a manual on how to cause chaos and civil disorder in the country. Thunberg later deleted the tweet probably because it didn’t go that well for her. Recent…
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Memphis Police investigate deadly shooting near Graceland
Memphis Police said officers are investigating a deadly shooting that took place in Whitehaven, near Graceland. MPD said officers are on the scene of a shooting. The location is said to be the 3600 block of Elvis Presley. When officers arrived, they located a woman sustaining a gunshot wound and was unresponsive. Memphis Police said…
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Arkansas leaders propose a bill to repeal Confederate Flag Day
Arkansas State Representative Andrew Collins (D), together with Senator Breanne Davis (R), filed a bill on Friday to repeal Confederate Flag Day in the state. Every year, the Saturday before Easter Sunday is recognized as Confederate Flag Day in Arkansas. Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a Black man who was killed by…
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Parler CEO goes into hiding with family after receiving death threats
A new court filing on Friday from the legal team of Parler, an alternative social media platform mainly used right-wingers in the US, has revealed that its CEO John Matze and his family are in hiding as they received death threats. “Matze himself, as the CEO of the company Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to…
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Facebook to eliminate content with “stop the steal” phrase
Facebook Inc said it would remove any content containing the phrase “stop the steal” from its social media platform and Instagram. The company said it was treating the next two weeks as a “major civic event” and would take extra measures to prevent misinformation and spread of content that could incite further violence, according to…
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Narendra Modi becomes most followed leader as Twitter bans Trump
Twitter has banned the account of US President Donald Trump citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the US Capitol Hill siege and the unrest that happened afterward. Trump had 88.7 million followers by the time he got banned on Twitter. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi currently has 64.7 million followers. By 2020, Modi…
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Stolen car recovered has been stolen again from an impound lot in Ohio
Police attended Hilltop Garage at 12:09 p.m. November 9 to finish a stolen vehicle report on an SUV reported stolen a day ago. The car was recovered in a restaurant parking lot following the report. However, when the officer arrived at the impound lot at Hilltop Garage, Independence, Ohio, he was informed that the stolen…
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Gangster Bishnoi moves High Court over fears of encounter
Chandigarh-born gangster Lawrence Bishnoi moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking directions for handcuffing him if he was brought to Chandigarh on a production warrant after expressing “genuine apprehension” of death in an encounter “as done in the infamous case of Vikas Dubey”. Appearing before the Bench of Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill through video-conferencing,…
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Chinese ‘cartels’ are operating in Mexico, aiding US drug crisis
The drug crisis in the US that have been also aided by China. For years, China has been the source of fentanyl trafficked into the United States. It is a powerful prescription drug for major pain that’s made and sold unlawfully. It resulted in over 37,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2019, part of…
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