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Broadband Providers Are Complicit In Fraud Over Speed Claims, Says Mp

... those advertised. However, he said this is not a bad thing if it encourages the rollout of more fibre-to-the-premises and cable. Virgin Media is among the companies to back calls for the reform of broadband advertising rules, as it believes the current system is "outdated". Kerris Bright, Chief Marketing Officer at Virgin Media, said: "The advertised speed should be available to the majority of consumers - plain and simple.    "Government has been clear about the need for a majority rule and today MPs are examining the issue in parliament - the regulator should act now.". According to research carried out by Ipsos MORI for Virgin Media, three-quarters of consumers feel misled if broadband advertisements do not include speed and usage claims. This sentiment is particularly strong among 55 to 75-year-olds, 82 per cent of whom feel this way. Figures also showed that nine out of ten people consider this information important in broadband ...

Inaction Makes Government Complicit In Political Killings

... Incorporated (MAFAI) was shot by suspected members of the Bagani paramilitary group. According to Cristina Palabay of human rights organization Karapatan, “There is a consistent pattern in these killings. Every political killing is justified by the military with claims that victims are members of the New People’s Army (NPA), and have been killed during ‘legitimate’ encounters’. In the cities, we are being fed a similar narrative - with the police justifying drug-related killings during ‘legitimate’ police operations. These killings are perpetrated by state security forces who seem to think that they have been granted the right to kill indiscriminately.”. President Duterte has encouraged the killers and must be held responsible for his actions. The international community must challenge President Duterte’s endorsement of murder. Failure to do so will send a signal to dictators everywhere that they can wage war on their own people with impunity. The number of killings is not just a measure of entrenched violence, but an indicator of the failure of successive Philippine governments to deal with issues of poverty, corruption and ...

Saturday Night Live' Makes The Case That Ivanka Is 'complicit

... took advantage of the fact that it was hosted by Scarlett Johannson to cast its guest star as yet another iteration of Ivanka. In this case, the Johannsonized Ivanka was starring in her own perfume ad—such an ad being a classic target of SNL satire. The perfume in question? A fragrance named Complicit. If much of SNL’s treatment of Trump-world women has amounted to progressive fan-fiction—they must be trapped; why else would they be there?—“Complicit” provides a much more realistic take. The title of the sketch (which doesn’t much matter in the live-aired TV version of the show, but matters a lot when the sketch is shared on You Tube and NBC’s site and Twitter and other social platforms) acknowledges what news reports long have: that Ivanka Trump is part of her father’s administration, directly if unofficially. The decisions the White House has made about women’s health care and immigrant families ? Trump the daughter, as a seemingly trusted advisor to her father, has been part of them. It’s an argument SNL makes, cannily, via the less political side of ...

Left Complicit In Violence Ripping Through Migrant Neighbourhoods

... [the state].”. Driving this destruction, Mr. Moutouh insists, is “the laxity of the criminal justice system, which enables thugs to act with impunity”. Liberal responses such as “providing more care and support to juvenile delinquents” have “proved ineffective”, according to the author. He warns that “voters will no longer be satisfied with the same old policies”. Instead, if the establishment is serious about preventing the populist Front National candidate from gaining power, it must work to restore authority to police and “counter the relativistic ideology” of the left. “The best way to prevent Madame Le Pen from reaching the Elysee one day, is to deal with the problem which nourishes her popularity,” Mr. Moutouh concludes. French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen accused the government of inaction in the face of the wave of destruction in Paris, which she said has put France “in a state of ...

She's Complicit' Johansson Spoofs Ivanka On Snl

... 'She's complicit' Johansson spoofs Ivanka on SNL. 10:07 AM, Mar 12, 2017. 10:09 AM, Mar 12, 2017. Share Article. Ivanka Trump, left, and first lady Melania Trump listen as President Donald Trump speaks before signing two executive orders aimed at supporting women in STEM fields, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Evan Vucci. Copyright 2017 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. US Attorney Preet Bharara is pictured in November 2016 in New York City. © 2017 Cable News Network, Inc. Show Caption. (KGTV)—U. S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara was fired yesterday after President Donald Trump requested the resignation of 46 U. S. attorneys. Bharara refused to resign. "The Sheriff of Wall Street" on Twitter: "I did not resign". CNN calls him the most high-profile U. S. Attorney in the nation, but Bharara, 48, is best known for taking on Wall Street corruption and white collar crime in high-profile ...

Un Complicit In Saudi War Crimes In Yemen

... thrown to the fires of war and the world has looked on without so much of a whisper of condemnation, all for the sake of money. Tasnim: As Saudi Arabia and its staunch allies bury Yemeni civilians under the rubble of their airstrikes, some Western states, which claim to defend human rights across the world, not only are keeping silent but also supporting the coalition’s genocide in Yemen. The United States has backed the Saudi-led war with weapons, logistics, and political support. What do you think about the role of the US and some other Western countries in the Saudi war crimes. Shakdam: Western capitals have a lot to answer to in Yemen. If not for their willingness to turn a profit on the back of innocent civilians Yemen would not have suffered the injustices it has suffered. Yemen’s civilian ...

U.n. ‘complicit’ In Hundreds Of Millions Of Abortions In Communist China

... (R-N. J.) accused the United Nations ( UN ) of being “complicit” in “crimes against humanity,” alleging that the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA ) “whitewashes” millions of abortions in Communist China, many of them forced abortions. Rep. Smith’s remarks came in the context of a discussion on China’s population-control policy , which he described as “the longest running and most far-reaching violations of human rights the world has ever seen.”. “In China today,” the congressman said, “abortion has been used as a weapon of mass destruction. Hundreds of millions of lives have been exterminated.”. (Photo: Center for Medical Progress, screenshot). The U. S. Department of State estimates that roughly 23 million abortions are performed in China annually. As of 2013, 336 million abortions and 196 million sterilizations occurred in China since the implementation of population-control policies in 1971, ...

Politicized Intelligence Reporting And A Complicit Media

... presidential executive order suspending visas and travel don't pose any particular risk. It is likely a politicized "intelligence product" that should never have seen the light of day. The document is undated, unsigned, not on official letterhead, extends only as far as 2015, and appears incomplete. What is more, the definition of "terrorist" that it hews to is so narrow as to be downright bizarre: "[a] U. S. based individual who died in the pursuit of or was convicted of any terror related federal offense inspired by a foreign terror organization". Why would they need to be "U. S. based", for instance? Was not the bombing of the USS Cole in the waters off Aden, Yemen, evidence of ill will by Yemeni jihadists? What about the murders at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by Libyan jihadists? The list could go on and on, but you get the point. Ironically, though, as my colleague Jessica Vaughan has pointed out, even with this eye-of-a-needle constriction, a few terrorists from the ...