Racism, hatred, fear, and fascism makes money for Facebook, so he tolerates it – period. He has also tolerated selling out his country to Russian trolls. He is a troll and traitor for cash. Facebook’s chief executive had said in an interview that false and “deeply offensive” conspiracy theories alone were not enough to get someone barred from the site.
America must deal with Donald Trump, the first rogue president | Simon Tisdall

His meeting with Vladimir Putin revealed the US leader to be a one-man threat to global peace and security
The contrast presented by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at their Helsinki press conference was striking. One should not judge a president by appearances, but in this case the comparison was instructive. Putin, immaculate in a beautifully tailored dark blue suit, looked sharp, cool and in control. Trump looked baggy, crumpled and out of his depth – at once baffled and sulky. This mismatch was the equivalent, in post-World Cup terms, of France v Corinthian-Casuals.
Trump was outshone, outmanoeuvred, out-thought and outwitted. Here was no Rocky Balboa, champion of the common man, running up the steps of Philadelphia’s Museum of Art: more a New York version of the ignorant, bigoted Alf Garnett, stumbling glass-jawed into a disastrous public drubbing. Trump had it coming, of course. He has been winging it ever since he took office 18 months ago. To go into a summit of such significance without preparation was the height of folly and vanity.
Zuckerberg defends Facebook users’ right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers
So, Zuckerberg does not care if users of Facebook promotes hatred genocide for Jews, Gays, Roma, those disabled in some way? Fascist have already proved they cannot be tolerated or accommodated – there were more than 20 million deaths at the hands of German, Italian, and Japanese fascists – and over 50,000 Americans in the Pacific war. Your time is up Mr. Zuckergerg.

CEO explains decision not to censor conspiracy theories but says the platform will try to ‘reduce distribution of content’
Mark Zuckerberg defended the rights of Facebook users to publish Holocaust denial posts, saying he didn’t “think that they’re intentionally getting it wrong”.
In an interview with Recode published on Wednesday, the CEO also explained Facebook’s decision to allow the far-right conspiracy theory website Infowars to continue using the platform, saying the social network would try to “reduce the distribution of that content”, but would not censor the page.
Education in Jerusalem: Where are we heading?
If you mind is free, then those who believe they enslave you are the slaves – slaves to guarding and oppressing you instead of living themselves free lives.
As the Tawjihi ( official high school examination system) finished and results were out, a nightmare ended in the lives our students, and a horrific reality awaits them when we think of the situation of education in Palestine. An education institution that are actually to cope with the emerging changes and needs of the society , yet moving towards futuristic models and however still applying the same in futile methods of teaching and education , that only results in a purging situation of people with graduate studies and inefficiency when it comes to the demand and needs of the society and its market.
those lucky, can afford to leave to study abroad, which on a personal level I strongly recommend, in order to open new horizons to our youth beyond the life of checkpoints and restrictions that are lived here, starting with movement restrictions and ending with state-violence and violations that…
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Education in Jerusalem: Where are we heading?
As the Tawjihi ( official high school examination system) finished and results were out, a nightmare ended in the lives our students, and a horrific reality awaits them when we think of the situation of education in Palestine. An education institution that are actually to cope with the emerging changes and needs of the society , yet moving towards futuristic models and however still applying the same in futile methods of teaching and education , that only results in a purging situation of people with graduate studies and inefficiency when it comes to the demand and needs of the society and its market.
those lucky, can afford to leave to study abroad, which on a personal level I strongly recommend, in order to open new horizons to our youth beyond the life of checkpoints and restrictions that are lived here, starting with movement restrictions and ending with state-violence and violations that can finish in the loss of lives either by perishing in prisons or a grave.
In Jerusalem, things can be considered worse, because the PA does not fully rule Jerusalem, and the restrictions are not completely visible, and in comparison with the peers in the West Bank, it is more of a paradise.
The unfortunate situation in the PA, from corruption, the absence of good governance, lack of accountability, repression of freedoms, minimal incomes that could count to poverty, while having maximal profits that are way exaggerated. All these factors, in addition to a systematic Israelization to Jerusalem, made students in Jerusalem find it more convenient to study in Israeli universities.
It sounds blurry to see how much the Israeli government is investing in recruiting Palestinians to its universities. It reminds me of the time when Palestinians in Jerusalem were allowed to report living in the outskirts of Jerusalem to cut them off the private benefits a decade later.
Another thought popped to my head was my time, when almost three decades ago, we Palestinians where considered overseas students when the luxury of accepting them occurs.
The increasing numbers of schools that belong to the Israeli government, and the unprecedented amount of new private schools that are being authorized working for the system ( it is a fact that there is a severe deficiency of classrooms\schools for Palestinians in Jerusalem ), in a time that Israel is forbidding the Palestinian ministry of education to perform in Jerusalem, which increases the complexity and the difficulties on the education to the schools in Jerusalem.
Having students going to the bigrut exams ( the Israeli high school system) can be easily related to the frustration from the Tawjihi that continues to prove its inefficiency and its unneedy amount of pressure put on the students. However, at the same time, Israel is facilitating an easy escape through the Bigrut, and by allowing all those knew emerging educational centers and colleges.
What is striking now, is that reputable private schools in Jerusalem are promoting studying in Israeli institutions and universities, and entirely ignoring Palestinian universities in an attempt that makes Israeli options as the natural outcome of being a student in Jerusalem.
Could Israel suddenly turn into a beautiful, caring occupying state and put us in what may be called internalizing colonolization? I just invented this term.)
I wrote an article about fifteen years ago under the title of ” Not have they only occupied the land but the minds.” In that article, I was reflecting on an experience I encountered in the Vanleer Institue that hosted Arabs\PAlestinians (from Israel) in a seminar to discuss the education in the Arab society inside Israel. I was appalled then by the fact that everyone was considering the future of Arab culture in Hebrew by Arabs, to a group of many Arabs and Israeli hosts. Back then I felt grateful to the fact that we live under occupation, and that the best thing that happened to us in Jerusalem is that we remain Palestinians. The non-israelization of the education system was something that by all means saved our identities from being distorted and destroyed.
From that moment on, the systematic approach to Israelizing the Jerusalem schools was running like a machine. I really (naively) believed that it could not happen because we have a living experience to what happened to our people inside what became Israel. How they strive today to attach to their Palestinian identity and Palestinian hood politically and culturally.
Sadly, disappointingly, it all happened under our noses, and we were all watching, and in our maximum efforts we condemned, and now we reached a situation where it even sounds odd to raise awareness about the situation. I feel like someone from outer space. It is not only Israeli schools in Jerusalem that mobilize for higher education institutes in Israel but also private schools that are considered historically aligned with the threats of the Israelization of the Palestinian identity.
At the same time, I am not against studying in Israeli universities. After all, they offer an excellent education. However, my worries are about how and why our students are going there. In my old time of romantic aspirations, I seriously went to the Hebrew university believing that these people occupied my land, I will regain my rights by using them in benefiting from education that can build a better Palestinian quest. Back then I also believed that it was just a matter of months when Saddam Hussein takes back Palestine to the womb of the Arabs!!!
To where is all this leading us? I cannot have any hopeful answer anymore.
I don’t throw words when I say that I am the person who strives for peace. The peace I strive for is built on justice, and justice can never be achieved as we move from the situation of being oppressed under occupation to colonize under the rule. That internalization of occupation and colonolization is only suffocating what is left in any hope for justice… justice that can only be achieved through people who can carry on for the future, and the future cannot be built by a distorted education that defames identities.
Justice needs equality ….and equal Palestinians need a long way in reclaiming their freedom and maintaining their identities, and this needs outstanding education.
White House doesn’t rule out letting Russia interrogate U.S. citizens
Via aleksey godin – it is simple – Trump is a traitor to his nation and humanity.
During the first White House press briefing in more than two weeks, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders didn’t rule out the possibility that President Trump will allow the Putin regime to question U.S. citizens — including a former American ambassador — whom Putin has accused of being involved in crimes.
“Russian authorities yesterday named several Americans who they want to question whom they claim were involved in Bill Browder’s quote unquote crimes, in their terms, including former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul,” Maggie Haberman of the New York Times began during Wednesday’s briefing. “Does President Trump support that idea? Is he open to having U.S. officials questioned by Russia?”
Sanders demurred.
“The president’s gonna meet with his team and we’ll let you know when we have an announcement on that,” she said.
Haberman followed up, asking whether allowing Russia to interrogate Americans was “a topic that came up” during Trump’s secret meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.
Sanders confirmed it was.
“There was some conversation about it but there wasn’t a commitment made on behalf of the United States,” she said. “The president will work with his team and we’ll let you know if there’s an announcement on that front.”
During his joint press conference with Putin on Monday, Trump described a proposal from Putin to allow Americans to be involved in Russia’s questioning of Russian hackers charged with interfering in the 2016 presidential election, in exchange for Russian involvement in the investigations of Americans allegedly involved in unspecified crimes in Russia, as “an interesting idea.”
Later, Trump described idea as “incredible.”
“What he did is an incredible offer — he offered to have the people work on the case, come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people,” Trump said. “I think that’s an incredible offer.”
As Politico detailed, at one point during the presser, Putin “pointed specifically to the case of American Bill Browder, an investor whose anti-corruption attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, was arrested and detained in Moscow and died after being held without trial for almost a year.”
Despite Magnitsky’s reportedly violent death and the Putin regime’s alleged role in recent murders and attempted murders on foreign soil, Trump seems unconcerned about the prospect of letting Russia question U.S. citizens — including former government officials and investigators who are working to shed light on the Kremlin’s attack on American democracy.
During an interview with Sean Hannity following the news conference, Trump went even further and said he was “fascinated” by Putin’s proposal.
“I was fascinated by it,” Trump said. “His prosecutors would prosecute it, and he said that Robert Mueller’s people could go with them.”
Later, Trump said Putin is “willing to take those 12 people… willing to let Robert Mueller’s people go over there, and bring a big investigation of those people, working together with Russian investigators.”
The only reservation Trump expressed is that the “12 angry Democrats” on Mueller’s team “probably won’t want to” travel to Russia and work with Putin.
Since Mueller has already charged more than two dozen Russian government agents with crimes, and the U.S. government does not typically allow its ambassadors to be interrogated by foreign investigators, suffice it to say that Trump’s interest in Putin’s offer is highly unusual.
At other points during Wednesday’s briefing, Sanders was evasive when pressed about what agreements, if any, Trump and Putin reached during their secret meeting.
Sum summer time 🤗
Keep in jail – no bail?
Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data was accessed from Russia, MP says
via aleksey godin
“Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Kogan, who says he was born in the former Soviet Union before moving to the United States, lamented what he described as the current climate of “Russophobia” in America.”
Let’s see if he misspoke too – lol

The now infamous Facebook data set on tens of millions of Americans gathered by a Cambridge University scientist for a firm that went on to work for Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was accessed from Russia, a British member of parliament tells CNN.
Damian Collins, the Conservative MP leading a British parliamentary investigation into online disinformation, told CNN that a British investigation found evidence that the data, collected by Professor Aleksandr Kogan on behalf of Cambridge Analytica, had been accessed from Russia and other countries. The discovery was made by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Britain’s data protection authority, Collins said.
“I think what we want to know now is who were those people and what access did they have, and were they actually able to take some of that data themselves and use it for whatever things they wanted,” Collins said.
Kogan, a psychology professor at Cambridge University, started working with Cambridge Analytica in 2014, building a personality app on Facebook that gathered data from its users, and all the users’ friends as well. Data on tens of millions of Americans was gathered.
Revelations about the collection and use of the data threw Cambridge Analytica and Facebook into crisis earlier this year.
While also working at Cambridge University, Kogan held a professorship at St. Petersburg State University.
He made multiple visits to Russia but, as of the time of publication of this story, he said, he was still working with his legal team to confirm the dates of the visits.
Shortly after this article was published, Kogan told CNN he could confirm that he visited Russia in May 2014, before he began collecting data for Cambridge Analytica.
He said his next visit to Russia was in April 2016. By that time, he said, he had begun to delete most of the Facebook data he had gathered for Cambridge Analytica and that any of the data on his device had been anonymized — meaning he had stripped away personally identifying information.
Kogan denies handing over the Facebook data he gathered for Cambridge Analytica to any Russian entity, saying it is possible that someone in Russia could have accessed data from his computer without his knowledge. “On my side, I am not aware of any Russian entity with access to my data,” he added. He didn’t rule out that he may have inadvertently exposed the data while in Russia.
Responding to Collins’ comments, Kogan told CNN, “I don’t know what could have happened to the data once I handed it over to Cambridge Analytica so it is difficult for me to speculate.”
Kogan said he would need to see more information before commenting further, adding, “This could be really innocuous, it could be as simple as an SCL (Cambridge Analytica’s British parent company) representative was in Russia and they remotely access the server to see some of the files.”
“It could have nothing to do with the Russian authorities, it could just be someone checking their mailbox.”

Collins couldn’t say specifically how the data was accessed, what was in it, and how it may have been used, if at all, saying, “…there will be a lot of interest now to see to what extent were people in Russia benefiting from the work Kogan was doing with his colleagues in Cambridge in the U.K.,” Collins said.
Adding, “So is it possible, indirectly, that the Russians learned from Cambridge Analytica, and used that knowledge to run ads in America during the presidential election as well.”
Related: Russian company could have accessed Facebook data on millions of Americans, source says
The ICO did not comment on Collins’ remarks, but the British newspaper The Observer on Sunday quoted an ICO official as saying, “some of the systems linked to the investigation were accessed from IP addresses that resolve to Russia and other areas of the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States]”.
The official did not appear to specify in the report what data was accessed.
Last week, the ICO released an interim report on its investigation into the misuse of user data in which it said Facebook had broken British law by failing to safeguard user data, and that it intended to fine the company £500,000, the largest amount allowed under data protection law.
The ICO said in its report that Kogan had refused to attend interviews with them. Kogan told CNN he and his legal team are considering formally speaking to the ICO.
The ICO said it intends to audit The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge, where Kogan is currently on the academic staff.
Cambridge University said in a statement, “We acknowledge the interim report from the Information Commissioner’s Office. We will continue to cooperate fully with the Commissioner and will work with Universities UK as it explores the issues within the Higher Education sector around the emerging field of research using social media data.”
The university would not comment on the specific claim that the data Kogan gathered had been accessed from Russia.
Facebook has asked the ICO what evidence there is the Facebook data was accessed in Russia, CNN understands. Facebook agreed to stand down its audit of Cambridge Analytica in March when the ICO began investigating the company.
Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Kogan, who says he was born in the former Soviet Union before moving to the United States, lamented what he described as the current climate of “Russophobia” in America.
“It’s just disappointing that we have moved away from an era of growing tolerance to an era of lessening tolerance,” he said.
“I am an American citizen, I grew up in the United States, but at the same time I have no ill-will to my Russian roots.”
Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified when Kogan made his 2014 trip to Russia.
Donald Trump says there is ‘no time limit’ for North Korea to denuclearise
huh?

Amid increasing doubts over the prospects of the regime giving up its nuclear weapons, US president says there is ‘no rush for speed’
Donald Trump has eased pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons quickly, conceding there is no deadline for a breakthrough.
Amid increasing doubts over the prospects for denuclearisation, North Korea moved a step closer to fulfilling one of the more specific commitments from the Singapore summit: the repatriation of the remains of US military personnel killed in the Korean War.



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