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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey maxed out his donation to Tulsi Gabbard after the first debate

Alison Durkee
Vanity Fair
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
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The first night of the June Democratic debates gave some of the lower-polling candidates the chance to break out on the national stage — and apparently, one of them made quite the impression on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. A FEC filing first reported Tuesday by Buzzfeed News revealed that Dorsey made a contribution of $5,600 — the maximum amount legally allowed — to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard the day after the first debate. The Twitter CEO has also donated to candidate Andrew Yang, donating $1,000 on April 30. ("We don't comment on Jack's personal giving," a Twitter spokesperson told Buzzfeed.)

The donations offer a rare glimpse of Dorsey's political leanings, which have remained somewhat inscrutable amid criticism from the left for going easy on President Donald Trump and from the right for supposedly "silencing" conservatives. (The CEO has admitted Twitter's biases are "more left-leaning" and has donated to Democrats in the past.) But given the candidates he's supporting, it's still hard to glean where exactly Dorsey's political views lie.


Comment: Not really. He's probably on the increasingly shrinking anti-war, anti-interventionist left. That's what his support for Gabbard and Yang would indicate.


Comment: While the political leanings of big tech CEOs is hardly newsworthy, it is interesting that Dorsey is showing support for sensible democratic candidates who have been maligned by the MSM. It seems the Twitter head isn't completely brainwashed by the liberal screeching on his platform and is at least somewhat capable of independent thought.

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Google admits workers listen to private audio recordings from Google Home smart speakers

Anthony Cuthbertson
Independent
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC
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© Getty ImagesAn attendee passes a display of Nest products during Google I/O 2016 at Shoreline Amphitheatre on 19 May, 2016 in Mountain View, California.
Google employees listen to customers' audio recordings on Google Home smart speakers, the technology giant has admitted.

Language experts are employed to analyse "snippets" of recordings made by users, which Google claims helps improve its voice recognition technology.

This is then used to develop the Google Assistant artificial intelligence system, which is used in its Google Home smart speakers and Android smartphones.

Comment: These big tech companies are always finding bigger and better ways of spying on all of us. Buying a 'home assistant' from them and expecting your home activities will remain private seems totally naive at this point.

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'Prepping for his assassination': Correa blasts CNN claim that Assange made embassy into 'command post for meddling


RT
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:13 UTC
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Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has lashed out at CNN over a report claiming whistleblower Julian Assange turned the country's embassy in London into a "command post for election meddling," branding the story "rubbish."

In a Monday report, CNN alleged that the WikiLeaks founder had used the Ecuadorian embassy, where he lived under asylum for seven years, as a base from which to help Russia "undermine" the 2016 US presidential election. CNN claimed Assange received "in-person deliveries" of potentially "hacked materials" and held "suspicious meetings" with "Russians and world-class hackers."

A day later, CNN published comments from an interview with Correa in which he said that since Assange was posting information about Hillary Clinton and not Donald Trump, his whistleblowing amounted to "manipulation." This is why Ecuador eventually cut off Assange's internet access in the embassy, Correa said — but he denied there was any cooperation between Assange, Russia and Ecuador to interfere in the US election.

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Right Sector veteran's funeral reveals Neo-Nazi symbolism


Fort Russ
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:10 UTC
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Ever since the 2014 Western-backed coup, Ukraine has been in a state of perpetual decline. In every way. Ukraine's economy has been experiencing a double-digit recession every year since 2014. According to some estimates, Ukraine lost a staggering sum of up to $80 billion due to the 2014 coup which stopped its trade with Russia, the country's main trading partner up until that point.

The country has been facing shortages, which probably hit the health sector the hardest, but there's definitely no shortage of two things - shelling of unarmed Donbass civilians, and Neo-Nazis.

But just as we thought there couldn't possibly be a more blatant display of Neo-Nazism than the infamous "Azov" Battalion, this happened:
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Pew report: Illegal alien population booming in red states ahead of 2020 election

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:10 UTC
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The illegal alien population has boomed in at least three red states won by President Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, new analysis reveals.

Pew Research Center analysis finds that in Louisiana, North Dakota, and South Dakota — three states that went overwhelmingly for Trump over failed Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election — the illegal alien population has increased over the last ten years.

Between 2007 and 2017, Louisiana — which went nearly 60 percent for Trump in the 2016 election — has an illegal alien population that has grown by 15,000.
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Against Oslo accords Israel is planning on demolishing dozens of homes in East Jerusalem

Yumna Patel
Mondoweiss
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:00 UTC
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© Saleh ZghariThe Wadi al-Hummus area of Sur Bahir, East Jerusalem
In less than 24 hours, 42-year-old Ismail Obeidiya, his wife Nida, and their six kids, could be made homeless. It's a terrifying reality that Obeidiya is struggling to grapple with, his unease and frustration more palpable with every word.

"We fought so long and so hard, for years, to try to save our home. But in the end, the Israeli courts, the 'High Court of Justice' as they say, could not offer us any justice," Obeidiya told Mondoweiss from the front yard of his home.

The Obeidiyas' home is one of 10 buildings slated for an unprecedented mass demolition by Israeli authorities in the occupied East Jerusalem town of Sur Bahir.

While Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem are commonplace, typically under the pretext that the homes were built without Israeli-issued permits, the homes in question stand on 'Area A' and 'Area B' land under the control of the Palestinian Authority (PA), as designated by the Oslo Accords.

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AgeChallenge is a 'Russian' spying plot? Media reports feed conspiracy frenzy


RT
Thu, 18 Jul 2019 08:28 UTC
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© InstagramBritish celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, "aged" through a photo filter on FaceApp. Instagram
"The Russians" are at it again, it seems. Reports in the mainstream press suggesting a popular photo editing app could be a Moscow data-grabbing plot have spread like wildfire online, where skeptics and believers had it out.

As social media users left and right used FaceApp to post their "aged" photos online, media reports posited that the program - rolled out in 2017 by Russian developers - may pose a danger to users' privacy.

The first report appeared in Forbes, and while dismissing virtually all of the concerns raised, concluded the privacy issue may be nothing more than a "storm in an internet teacup." That didn't stop much of the MSM from picking up the story, putting the "Russia" angle front and center.

In order from top left: © New York Post, Fox Business, Newsweek, Daily Mail, NPR, Forbes

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In order from top left: New York Post, Fox Business, Newsweek, Daily Mail, NPR, Forbes

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At least 33 dead after arson attack at anime studio in Japan - UPDATE

Motoko Rich
New York Times
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:42 UTC
kyoto fire anime
© Kyodo News, via Associated PressAt Least Smoke billowed from Kyoto Animation's building in the Japanese city of Kyoto on Thursday.
A man ignited a flammable liquid around a Japanese animation studio in Kyoto on Thursday, the police said, killing at least 13 people — with many more feared dead — in a devastating morning blaze.


Comment: The latest is that 33 people are dead.


About 70 people were inside the offices of Kyoto Animation when the blaze started at about 10:30 a.m., the police said.

The Kyoto Fire Department confirmed that 13 people had died in the blaze and that 11 more were feared to have been killed. At least 36 others were injured and several remained missing on Thursday.


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13,400 of Chicago's homeless were employed as recently as 2017, 18,000 had a college education

Emma Fiala
The Mind Unleashed
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 10:55 UTC
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The new report challenges long held stereotypes concerning homeless people in the US.

A report published on Tuesday by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, revealed that 13,400 of the city's homeless population had jobs in 2017 while another 18,000 had a college education. The report challenges long held stereotypes concerning the homeless that include the false idea that anyone with a steady job or college education is immune from one of life's most difficult experiences.

After examining 2017 census data, the Chicago Coalition of the Homeless (CCH) found that about 86,000 people experienced homelessness in the city at some point during the year.

The coalition's policy director, Julie Dworkin, said:
"Now we have a way to talk about the full scope of homelessness in Chicago. The point-in-time count doesn't capture the way most people experience homelessness. Being able to quantify that has really pushed the envelope in Chicago in terms of the city thinking about what resources are necessary to address it."
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First NYC, then DC... more power outages loom amidst high energy consumption and degrading infrastructure

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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Anyone reading this probably knows that our American electrical grid is like a groaning, arthritic old man who just keeps on pushing through. We've had more than just this one article about massive grid failure.

It seems like we're seeing more and more power outages this summer for "no reason."

Last week there was a blackout in NYC.

Last week, New York City suffered a blackout in the heat of summer. Con Edison, the city's power provider said:
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