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

Judge Orders Extension of FEMA Aid for Puerto Rican Storm Evacuees

President Clown does not care – good thing a judge does Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria will be able to remain in hotels paid for by the government for another three weeks as a legal case continues.

Facebook reveals it gave 61 companies access to widely blocked user data

they were shooting for 100/

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Company tells Congress it provided Nike, Spotify, a dating app and other services with special rights to information

Facebook gave 61 businesses including Nike, Spotify, UPS and dating app Hinge special rights to access user data after blocking such access more broadly.

In written responses to the US Congress on its operations, the social network revealed it granted numerous extensions to access a user’s public profile as well as some data from their friends.

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Matteo Salvini backed by politician ‘with links to mafia’

Just like fascists of old

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Interior minister won senate seat with backing of Giuseppe Scopelliti, who is accused of having ties to ‘Ndrangheta

Matteo Salvini’s electoral victory in the southern region of Calabria during the Italian general election this year was supported by a former politician who law enforcement authorities have claimed has close ties to the ‘Ndrangheta, the criminal organisation that controls most of the cocaine trade in Europe.

The far-right interior minister and head of the League party, who has emerged as a de facto prime minister, won his senate seat in the region with the backing of a former mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, with whom Salvini had a political alliance and who was arrested weeks after the March poll for forging documents while he was mayor.

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Brazil: measles outbreak that infected 500 may devastate indigenous people

Collapse in Venezuela has god awful consequences

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Outbreak could be catastrophic for the Yanomami people living in remote areas who are not protected from the disease

An outbreak of measles that has infected nearly 500 people in northern Brazil could prove catastrophic for indigenous Yanomami people in remote areas along the Venezuelan border who are not protected from the disease, according to the not-for-profit group Survival, which warned that hundreds could be killed if emergency action was not taken.

“This disease is a potentially devastating one,” said Jonathan Mazower, Survival’s communications director. “It is extremely likely that people will die unless medical care is provided urgently and it is very likely that people in the forest have already died.”

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Doug Ford scraps carbon tax plan and sets up climate fight with Trudeau

#CanadianTraitor

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Decision to end program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions puts Ontario in line for showdown with federal government

Ontario’s new rightwing government has ended a carbon pricing policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Canada’s most populous province.

The move to scrap the cap-and-trade program puts the provincial Conservative government – led by Doug Ford – directly at odds with the federal government’s bid to ensure provinces have a price on carbon in place by the end of 2018.

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US officials told to ask migrant parents: will you leave with or without children?

Child theft!

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Form gives parents two options, prompting objections from immigration advocates who say families are being misled

US immigration officials have been instructed to ask parents separated from their children under Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy to choose whether to return to their countries with – or without – their offspring.

The instructions, laid out in a government form, come one week after a judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite the roughly 2,300 migrant children who were ripped apart from their parents at the border.

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