And blocks others tracking its mining of our data! With European Union elections months away, Facebook has announced new measures to stop election meddling across the bloc. The measures include bolstering ad transparency and establishing regional defense centers.
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The Democratic Promise of Ocasio-Cortez, Warren and Sanders
Sanders is still not a Democrat. Economic power corrupts, and absolute economic power corrupts absolutely.
Duke University Apologizes Over Professor’s Email Asking Chinese Students to Speak English
As well they should – and now move to be sure that the racists go back into their closets or hit the road! The university is conducting an internal review after a professor sent an email cautioning international students from speaking Chinese on campus.
Howard Schultz, Please Don’t Run for President
Being good at coffee does not a President make, nor does just being rich! A bid by an ex-chief of Starbucks would be reckless idiocy.
Kirsten Gillibrand Talks Immigration, Institutional Racism, And ‘Why We Need To Get Money Out Of Politics’
As Democrats jump head first into the race for the 2020 presidential nomination, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who announced her candidacy on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert earlier this month, stopped by WNYC on Friday afternoon. [ more › ]
Liberia’s eco-vigilantes score arresting success in struggle to end illegal fishing

For years, Liberia fought a losing battle against the foreign vessels plundering its coastline. Then a bold new approach sent fines – and arrests – soaring
Petty officer George Kromah, of the Liberian coastguard, slings his AK47 across his back before disappearing over the side of the Sam Simon, joining his colleagues in the rib below. The boat roars off, quickly followed by a second, speeding through the choppy Atlantic swell in pursuit of a suspected illegal fishing vessel that has crossed into Liberia’s territorial waters from Sierra Leone.
Kromah and his fellow officers are on the frontline of the little nation’s ill-matched crackdown on fisheries crime – which Interpol has linked with the trafficking of drugs and people, as well as fraud and tax evasion.
Virginia students learn in trailers while state offers Amazon huge tax breaks
And when they leave you dry for another bribe, will the kids still be in trailers?

The state’s teachers plan to strike over funding, low pay and tax breaks given to the tech firm
As freezing rain poured down on Virginia last week, a student dressed in only a light red sweater made a mad 40-yard dash from her modular trailer classroom across the parking lot into the warmth of McLean high school in Fairfax county.
Due to overcrowding, more than 22,000 students in Fairfax county receive their education in cheaply constructed plywood trailers, often with visible signs of green mold, like those parked next to the baseball fields next to McClean high school.
What has happened in Venezuela is a coup. Trump’s denial is dangerous | Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Juan Guaidó has declared himself president. Now the US and rightwing regimes may seek an excuse to intervene in support
The picture shows him in the act of swearing himself in as “interim” president of Venezuela. His right hand raised to the heavens, as is proper of one who, having no popular mandate, proclaims himself in the name of God like the kings of old. Only this is no kingdom, but a revolutionary republic born of a people’s war. It has since protected its right to self-determination by means of people power and persistent anti-colonial struggle.
In the 19th century the struggle was led by Simón Bolívar, “the liberator”. Rebelling against the laws of the time, Bolivar stood up to the might of the Spanish empire in alliance with then free Haiti. Bolivar made instant enemies of slaveholders in the newly formed US and the rest of the Americas upon embracing a universal right and call to happiness without hypocrisy. That promise was realised only in part.
Facebook to create ‘war room’ to fight fake news, Nick Clegg says
Spin, spin, lie, lie, money money money

Dublin operations centre to target political misinformation ahead of EU elections in May
Facebook will tackle political misinformation in the run-up to the EU elections this May with a new “war room” based in Dublin, the company’s incoming communications chief, Nick Clegg, has announced.
In his first speech as Facebook’s top public face, Clegg said the company would be setting up an “operations centre focused on elections integrity, based in Dublin, this spring”. The centre will build on the company’s previous experience running an “elections war room” in its US office, where it coordinated efforts to police the platform during the US midterm and Brazilian presidential elections.
Trump steps up Maduro pressure with sanctions against Venezuelan oil giant
First be cruel to refugees, and Federal workers and woman- now wag the tail rattle the tin can hats and threaten Venezuela.
Where have you been as the Sudan has suffered, elections rigged in the Congo?
This is just too easy a way to be cruel and puffed up!

- Sanctions on $7bn in assets intended to boost Guaidó
- John Bolton keen to counter ‘penetration’ from Cuba and Iran
The Trump administration has tightened the screws on Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro, announcing sanctions against the country’s state-owned oil giant PDVSA in what the US national security adviser admitted was partly an attempt to counter strategic threats from Cuba and Iran.
Related: Juan Guaidó: Venezuela has chance to leave chaos behind
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