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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is losing friends in Silicon Valley

Sara Todd
Quartz
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Mark Zuckerberg selfie
© AP Photo/Jeff Roberson
Finding some new friends.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is among the most prominent of Silicon Valley's billionaires. Now, his peers seems to be turning against him.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, tech titans like Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk and Apple CEO Tim Cook have taken shots at Zuckerberg and his social media empire. The tight-knit tech industry's willingness to openly criticize Zuckerberg marks a turning point in Silicon Valley culture, according to Leslie Berlin, author of Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age.

"Until very recently, it was taken as a given that tech equaled progress and tech equaled good and tech equaled economic strength," Berlin told the New York Times. Now, the idea that tech can do no wrong seems to be changing-at least when it comes to Facebook. Here are a few of the voices within the Valley that have spoken out against Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Zuckerberg's stewardship of Facebook in recent days.

Comment: Are these psychos turning on each other after failing to find the common enemy in Putin or is it just a typical personality clash between these leaders?

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Massive Baltimore police corruption trial reveals cops carried toy guns to plant on people they shot

Drew Schwartz
Vice
Wed, 31 Jan 2018 11:49 UTC
toy gun
© Flickr user James Case
One officer involved in the city's massive corruption scandal said officers kept the replicas "in case we accidentally hit somebody or got into a shootout, so we could plant them."

Last week, the beginning of an explosive corruption trial involving eight members of Baltimore's elite Gun Trace Task Force revealed that a handful of Baltimore cops allegedly kept fake guns in their patrol cars to plant on innocent people-a failsafe they could use if they happened to shoot an unarmed suspect, the Baltimore Sun reports.
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Pro-Trump author detained by FBI, subpoenaed to testify in Mueller special counsel

Jim Hoft
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 00:00 UTC
Ted Malloch
Ted Malloch is the author of the upcoming Pro-Trump book: The Plot to Destroy Trump - How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President.

Dr. Malloch, an author, intellectual, political consultant, and Infowars contributor was detained by the FBI shortly after his plane arrived at Logan Field on Tuesday.

According to conservative Jerome Corsi Malloch was reportedly detained for "making false statements." He was in the US to give a talk and to come home for Easter.

Comment: Ted Malloch is the latest intimidation victim in the long 'War on Trump' saga perpetuated by deep state in a hope to find any illegal doings. See also:

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Prison riot in Mexico leaves at least 7 security officers dead


Sputnik
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 19:41 UTC
Prison
At least seven police officers died as a result of a prison riot in the Mexican state of Veracruz, local media reported on Sunday.

According to the Universal news outlet, security authorities were trying to reinstate order in the La Toma prison after unrest broke out among inmates late on Saturday, with prisoners demanding the resignation of the prison security chief official. The inmates were armed with carpenter tools and set several mattresses on fire.
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New poll: Republican voters aren't moving away from Trump, they moving away from the Republican party

Eric Zuesse
The Duran
Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:50 UTC
Trump supporters
© REUTERS/Christopher Aluka Berry/Files
People listen as Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in Macon, Georgia, in this file photo taken November 30, 2015.
The Morning Consult poll released on March 30th headlines "Republicans Drive Biggest Decline in Voter Optimism Since Trump Took Office: Record drop isn't matched by a similar decrease in president's approval rating."

The U.S. budget-bill and its soaring federal deficits and debt, are driving this, as I pointed out on March 23rd, but I was mistaken at that time to interpret the data as showing more of a Republican disenchantment with Trump than a Republican disenchantment with congressional Republicans. It now seems clear that Republican voters aren't moving away from Trump; they're instead moving away from the Republican Party. Basically, there are as many Republicans as before, but their intensity of support for their Party is diminishing, and this declined voter-intensity will probably show up in November's elections by a decreased voter-turnout at the polls in the mid-term elections.

The just-released MC poll was taken during 26-27 March, which was after my analysis on March 23rd, "Trump's Base Abandoning Him", had pointed out (correctly) that, "Increasing the size of the U.S. Government's debt is, to Trump's main base of political support (as reflected by the biggest online news-site that informs his electoral following), absolutely unacceptable. ... The federal-debt issue is killing Trump politically. His voters don't much care whether he starts World War III by his respecting and appointing such people as the super-neoconservative John Bolton. Bolton's being loathed by 'The libbys' (liberals) convinces Trump's followers that Bolton is 'the right man for the job.' By stark contrast, they're rabid against Trump's signing the Government's budget bill. And, to them, that's a much bigger issue than whether there will soon be a WW III."
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'Humanitarian Crisis in Hollywood': Chronic homelessness vs. the American Dream as an illusion


RT
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:32 UTC
Homeless
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Tents line the sidewalk on downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row.
Thousands of people in one of America's richest cities live on sidewalks infested with flesh-eating bacteria and tuberculosis. A Redfish Media report looks at the chronic homelessness crisis in Los Angeles.

Homelessness in Los Angeles has increased 43 percent in just four years. Skid Row, the epicenter of homelessness in the City of Angels, is home to approximately 2,500 people who live on the streets in a 49 square block area. It is the biggest concentration of homeless people in the United States. Overall, a staggering 60,000 people live without shelter in LA county.

Reverend Andy Bales is the CEO of the Union Rescue mission, which provides shelter to 1,000 people on any given night. He told Redfish Media about the appalling conditions in Skid Row, which, according to the most recent Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council action letter, is 80 restrooms shy of satisfying the minimum standards of a long-term refugee camp. It has nine permanent restrooms for 1,777 people, or one for every 197 homeless people, compared to the UN refugee camp standards of 20 per person.
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Laura Ingraham advertiser boycott fueled by Soros-funded groups

Aaron Klein
Breitbart News
Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:32 UTC
Laura Ingraham
© Associated Press/J. Scott Applewhite
The George Soros-financed Media Matters for America progressive activist group has been helping to fuel an advertising boycott targeting Laura Ingraham's Fox News show following Twitter comments the media star made about Parkland shooting survivor and antigun activist David Hogg.

Think Progress, the media project of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress, has also been using its platform to hype the boycott.

On Thursday, Ingraham tweeted an apology to Hogg, expressing her regret "for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland."

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After Aeroflot search Russian embassy warns citizens traveling to UK about possible provocations, entrapment, or even detention


RT
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:21 UTC
russian embassy london
© Alex McNaughton / Sputnik
The Russian embassy in London has warned citizens traveling to Britain that they may face possible provocations, such as the "insertion of foreign objects" into their luggage, seizure of electronic equipment, and even detention.

The warning reflects "the anti-Russian policy, the growing threatening rhetoric of the British side [and] selective actions of the UK government against Russian individuals and legal entities," the embassy said in a statement on Saturday.

Russian citizens must keep an eye on their bags to avoid intrusion, such as the "insertion of foreign objects" into their luggage, the embassy warned in the statement. British authorities may detain Russian nationals under "far-fetched pretexts," seize their passports, or conduct interrogations and searches, the embassy added, advising citizens to record any dispute with UK officials, if possible.
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Champagne tastes on a beer budget: UK customer orders finest drinks, dodges bills


Sputnik
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:23 UTC
whiskey
© CCO
A fearless Briton has been arrested for the seventh time on suspicion of ordering the most expensive drinks and dining at the best hotels in Washington then vanishing as soon as it was time to pay the bill.

A 21-year-old man, Nick Cooper was detained after requesting a $1,200 glass of the finest 34-year-old Teeling Irish single malt whiskey, which is usually locked in a vault. The man reportedly signed the bill with a fake name then immediately disappeared, although the police managed to capture him.
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10 killed, 2 injured after car crash triggers Indian hotel collapse


RT
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 14:13 UTC
Indian hotel collapse
© Reuters
Ten people have been killed and two others injured after a hotel collapsed near a bus station in the central Indian city of Indore.

Local officials told the Times of India that the collapse happened after a car rammed into the building at around 9:20pm local time on Saturday night, trapping at least 20 people under the rubble. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene, where they set up a cordon and began pulling people from under the debris. The bodies of 10 people had reportedly been removed by 11:30pm.
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