The world is talking about the Migration Compact, but the UN says its Refugee Pact is just as important. The agreement is up for a vote this week at a conference in Marrakesh. Can it win over the United States?
As Churchill saw, Britain’s glory is not found in isolation | David Lammy | Opinion | The Guardian
In recognising Britain’s story of renewal through Europe, I do not forget that our country is crying out for change. A decade of austerity, of extremity and division has left us as broken as after Suez, but leaving the EU will not help. After Theresa May’s deal is voted down, MPs from all parties have a responsibility to begin a new politics of hope. We need to build a new consensus around pride in our role shaping a peaceful and more prosperous Europe. One hundred years after the end of the First World War, we should celebrate Europe again. To do this we have to offer the public a chance to right the wrong of 2016 – another chance to vote for Britain at its best and another shot at the audacious, if imperfect, European dream.
Source: As Churchill saw, Britain’s glory is not found in isolation | David Lammy | Opinion | The Guardian
Can’t Afford My Memories #poetry #photography
Memories are priceless

I drove by grandma and grandpas place
so many changes hard to trace
a little girl where flowers bloom
eating ice cream by the light of the moon
music played all the seasons
I loved Rudolph for many reasons
love there didn’t need yeast
family gathered for every feast
today the house I cant afford
rich with memory’s golden cord

Responding to the prompt Afford at The House of Bailey
Zuckerberg must end far right’s fundraising on Facebook – Tom Watson | Technology | The Guardian
The deputy Labour leader, Tom Watson, has demanded that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg never again allows far-right activists to fundraise on the network, criticising him for having a “contempt for social responsibility”. A Guardian investigation on Friday found that a hidden global network of US thinktanks, rightwing Australians and Russian trolls were providing financial, political and moral support to Tommy Robinson, who has more than 1 million followers on Facebook – his main social network after Twitter suspended him for claiming “Islam promotes killing people” in March.
Source: Zuckerberg must end far right’s fundraising on Facebook – Tom Watson | Technology | The Guardian
Plan to outsource Australia’s visa processing would be dumped under Labor

“It shouldn’t be done for private profit,” Labor’s immigration spokesman says, as the party reveals it would ditch plans to offload Australia’s visa processing system to the private sector, potentially worth more than $3 billion to the winning company.
What These Medical Journals Don’t Reveal: Top Doctors’ Ties to Industry
Academic research publications rely on doctors to voluntarily disclose their payments from drug and health companies in a lax reporting system some say is broken.
Inoreader – Prominent Doctors Aren’t Disclosing Their Industry Ties in Medical Journal Studies. And Journals Are Doing Little to Enforce Their Rules
“The system is broken,” said Dr. Mehraneh Dorna Jafari, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine. She and her colleagues published a study in August that found that, of the 100 doctors who received the most compensation from device makers in 2015, conflicts were disclosed in only 37 percent of the articles published in the next year. “The journals aren’t checking and the rules are different for every single thing.”
Undocumented Trump golf club employee doesn’t regret speaking out

Victorina Morales said she felt she had to stand up for co-workers without legal documents who have been ridiculed by a supervisor
A Guatemalan living in the US without documentation who says she faced abusive working conditions as a maid at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club does not regret speaking out, even though she might lose her job and be deported.
Related: Court refuses to allow Trump asylum ban for immigrants entering illegally
Social media sites should focus less on nipples and more on Nazis | Arwa Mahdawi

Tumblr, long known as a safe space for sexual subcultures, has a new policy on ‘female-presenting nipples’. Maybe it should rethink its priorities
Keep your breasts off the internet, please! This week the social networking site Tumblr announced it was banning adult content. Starting December 17, porn is not permitted on the platform. The adult content ban also extends to images of “real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples.”
New documents show that Facebook has never deserved your trust – IFEX
A collection of newly released documents suggests that the company adopted a host of features and policies even though it knew those choices would harm users and undermine innovation.
Source: New documents show that Facebook has never deserved your trust – IFEX
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