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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money – The New York Times – money before morals is Facebook’s mantra

The desire by Chinese companies and other entities to get in front of people internationally has unexpectedly turned China into one of Facebook’s largest sources of advertising revenue, even though the social network itself is not available in the country. Charles Shen, chief executive of Meet Social, said his company anticipated doing $1 billion to $2 billion in ad sales on Facebook and Instagram this year. Each day, he added, Meet Social’s software puts up about 20,000 Chinese ads on Facebook.

“I owned a frame shop in Atlanta for thirty years.  But every…

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“I owned a frame shop in Atlanta for thirty years.  But every time I went to a theater and sat in the audience, I got the feeling that God had come and left without me.  I just knew that I was meant to perform.  Then one day a woman walked up to me in a health food store, and asked:  ‘Do you always talk like that or do you have a cold?’  I said: ‘Excuse me?’  And she told me that she wanted to cast me in a BMW commercial.  I thought it was a freebie.  But on the way out of the studio, they asked for my social security number.  $750 for three minutes on the mic!  I thought: ‘I need more of this.’  I started taking acting classes.  I got cast in a few local plays.  I moved to New York on my 50th birthday.  I wasn’t about to sit around in my later years wondering if my soul had gotten what it needs.  I drew unemployment for the first time in my life.  But by 2003 I was a member of SAG.  By 2005 I had a speaking part on Law and Order SVU.  And at the age of 62 I was given a full scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.  Things have dried up a bit since then.  I had to take care of my mother for six years.  And it’s hard for women of a certain age to get cast.  But it ain’t over yet.  Things happen when they’re supposed to happen.  And I’m a firm believer that nobody can get what is yours to have.  And I will tell you this: I’ve already envisioned what I’m wearing the first time I get invited to the Oscars.  Red mermaid dress, fitted from the waist to the knees, and flaring out at the bottom.  A stand-up collar that frames the back of my head.  Stunning neckline.  And a king’s ransom of rubies on loan from Harry Winston.”

Matt Gaetz Tried To Eject Parkland Parents From Congressional Gun Hearing

On Wednesday, during the House’s first gun violence hearing in eight years, Florida Representative Matt Gaetz tried to remove Parkland parents from the audience. The parents took issue with Gaetz’s derision of H.R. 8, an act that would require background checks for every gun purchase in America. Gaetz asserted that Donald Trump’s proposed border wall should be a primary focus in the gun violence debate instead.

Source: Matt Gaetz Tried To Eject Parkland Parents From Congressional Gun Hearing

Hindu nationalist leader Pooja Pandey arrested for shooting an effigy of Gandhi – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Pooja Pandey’s stunt with an air pistol was the latest in a string of her group’s attempts to glorify Nathuram Godse, the man who gunned the independence leader down in 1948.

Source: Hindu nationalist leader Pooja Pandey arrested for shooting an effigy of Gandhi – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Religious fanaticism at worst that has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with autocrats and neo-fascism.

Amid Uptick In Cyclist & Pedestrian Deaths, NYPD Is Ticketing Cyclists In Bike Lanes

Why does NYC hate people who walk or bike? Amid Uptick In Cyclist & Pedestrian Deaths, NYPD Is Ticketing Cyclists In Bike Lanes

On Tuesday night, an 80-year-old woman was killed and an 84-year-old man was badly injured by a driver making a left turn onto a residential street in Little Neck, Queens. As of this morning, no arrests were made. On Monday morning, an elderly cyclist was fatally struck by a driver while riding in the Eighth Avenue bike lane near Times Square. The driver fled the scene, and has not been located. Two days earlier, a 62-year-old woman died from injuries suffered when an SUV driver ran her over as she was riding her bike on Kings Highway in Brooklyn a week earlier. The investigation into that incident was concluded without any arrests, police said. [ more › ]

Metropolitan Republican Club’s New President Provided Services To ‘Nazi-Friendly,’ Far Right German Political Party: Gothamist “Typical of full of themselves young GOPers who have real ego problems and wanna look cool and tough – but are just racists and fascists!

Reilly’s campaign to be president of the club was supported by far-right figurehead Milo Yiannopoulos—which concerns other New York Republicans. J.C. Polanco, a Republican party strategist, told NY1, “We’re going to be pushing voters away… Someone who has their endorsement should not be leading any Republican organization in New York City. Our party needs to get away from that and be inclusive.”

Source: Metropolitan Republican Club’s New President Provided Services To ‘Nazi-Friendly,’ Far Right German Political Party: Gothamist

NYC Plan For Safe Injection Sites Faces Resistance From Cuomo, Trump

Guess he does not know of connection with HIV transmission of the words in State of Union were just fluff NYC Plan For Safe Injection Sites Faces Resistance From Cuomo, Trump

Supervised injection sites are poised to face their first legal test in the United States in a case that could set a precedent for New York and other states considering whether to allow places where people can inject heroin and other drugs in the care of medical professionals. [ more › ]