"a rendez-vous with freedom"
"a new breed of militarism"
"Let us work together in order to make our planet great again"


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Sentence for the trial of La Manada, latest news live

Sin embargo, los cinco han sido condenados por delitos continuados de abuso sexual con prevalimiento, pero no por violación, ya que el tribunal no ha apreciado el delito de agresión sexual, que implica violencia e intimidación en la perpetración del ataque, según la sentencia que ha sido leída este jueves en el Palacio de Justicia de Navarra.

File in "sociopaths teaching sociopaths manners"

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Online platforms under fire as EU pushes for ["]transparency["] on search results

CCIA, a lobby group that represents Google and other tech firms like Amazon, criticised the move. "It is hard to see how such last minute change was guided by anything other than politics," Jakob Kucharczyk, CCIA's vice president said.

Quite. The EC is a division of the EU parliament. Which is a political organization of "real" people thought to represent the political interests of "real" people in equitable division of EU member-states' common property and ah wealth.

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As it happens I accidentally hit uoon the NBC youtube live feed twenty minutes or so before the dramatic leads appeared at their podiums. The young woman charged with wrangling the herd of guests and press to their assigned seats was strident yet ineffectual. I was impressed by the translator's fluidity until I noticed, I hadn't noticed that Trump was missing an earpiece. Maybe it was very tiny instrument, or the entire event including the corpse's interlocutions was scripted. To emphasize following the elaborate reception for M Macron, business is as usual.

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I'm so sad about Amber's departure from government - she was a huge asset - brave, principled, thoughtful, humane, considerate and always thinking of the impact of policy on the vulnerable - I hope Amber will be back soon - we need her

— Michael Gove (@michaelgove) April 29, 2018

BBC
Elsewhere press is speculating that Gove is more likely May's choice to fill Rudd's slippers.

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"Eroticising and sexualising": Researcher slams Plan Finland over ad campaign featuring pregnant 12 year-old girl

Although Anttila says the campaign got an overwhelmingly positive response in Finland, and indeed won an award, not everyone was equally enthusiastic over the decision to cast a young expectant African mother in a campaign designed for a western audience - Plan Finland explained that the campaign ran in Finland only.

meanwhile ...
Report: Drug overdose leading cause of death among men under 40 in Finland

According to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction EMCDDA, there were 194 cases of death due to drug overdose in 2016 - an increase of 28 cases on the previous year. The agency has based its findings on data provided by Statistics Finland.

The agency found that men are over-represented in the proportion of deaths caused by drug overdose, which is one of the leading causes of death among men under the age of forty in Finland. In fact, fatal drug overdose cases rank alongside suicide, cancer and accidents as one of the most common causes of death in this age group. The agency reported that more than two-thirds of drug overdose fatalities - some 77 percent - involve men.

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[EC] in for clash with EU members over budget plans

The €1.279-trillion ($1.534-trillion) EU budget covering 2021 to 2027 was unveiled by the European Commission Wednesday following months of bickering and difficult consultations with the 27 members that will remain in the bloc after Britain leaves.

EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger had traveled through the bloc warning that the UK's exit would create a gap of between €12 billion and €14 billion

predictions from yesteryear ... £96 per capita, "€238.8 billion of unpaid bills", "busted flush"...

with the loss of Britain depriving the EU of one of its biggest net contributors at a time when the bloc is trying to finance new areas such as defense and tackle migration issues jointly.

Spend more to lose more

More money is to come in by taxing digital services, plastic waste and carbon emissions. The Commission wants a 3-percent consolidated corporate tax base to harmonize national rules on tax deductions. It also proposes that member states contribute a 20-percent share of revenues from national emissions trading auctions. Brussels says EU governments should also contribute 80 cents per kilogram of non-recycled platsic packaging waste. ...expected to wash €22 billion annually into EU coffers, or some 12 percent of the total EU budget revenue.
[...]
The EU executive is primarily aiming for cuts in two main areas which together account for almost three-quarters of all spending. Reductions will hit the so-called cohesion funds used for development in poorer European nations [and] the EU's Common Agricultural Policy will also be scrutinized for cuts.

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Limits apply to war criminals' right[s] to free movement, European court rules

EU states cannot automatically deny entry to a war criminal or suspected war criminal, but authorities also are not forced to accept them, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg ruled on Wednesday.

Well. That settles that!

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Independent.ie ranks -> TOP 10 POSTS 'REACTIONS' ->How They Impact the Feed->"rise in revenue"

The company said it was increasing the amount of money authorised to repurchase shares by an additional $9bn. It had initially authorised repurchases up to $6bn

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0.005% effective rate + €13B back taxes = $285B in cash and marketable securities saved

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Teachers and transport dominates as the number of strikes hit a 29-year high

There were 32 strikes in the Netherlands in 2017, seven times the number in the previous year and the highest in 29 years, the national statistics office CBS reported on Tuesday. A total of 306,000 working days were lost due to strikes last year, compared to just over 19,000 in 2016. This was the highest number of working days lost through strike action in 20 years.  In total, 147,000 people downed tools at some point in 2017.

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Frawnce 2Q2018 interim: Material changes

Authorities blamed the violence on masked attackers from a libertarian group called the Black Blocs that numbered around 1,200 people in total and were on the margins of the 20,000-strong protest.

Several people, including a police service worker and a cameraman from Iranian state television IRIB, were injured. Collomb told France 2 Television he was pleased "no one was seriously injured."
[...]
Macron responded from Sydney: "There is a government. There is a state that's being run and it will continue to react."

Workers, students and others marched through cities around France during the May Day protests, aimed at expressing discontent over Macron's plans to overhaul some employee protections.

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caught re-tooling 2018-19-04 00:00:45

for full tabloid UX 2018-04-25 22:43:00

with the best of the rest: Cohen at Twitter Speed

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le premier / dernier arrivé - Matt 20:16

Central American 'caravan' women and children enter U.S., defying Trump

However, the U.S. Department of Justice late on Monday announced what it described as the first prosecutions against members of the caravan, filing criminal charges against 11 migrants accused of entering the country illegally about four miles (6 km) west of the San Ysidro, California, border crossing.

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Who?

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Notice from the Publisher

Today, the Authorizations tab will appear in Page settings for all advertisers, however, only advertisers based in the US who want to run political ads are currently able to complete the process. We're starting in the US and expanding to the rest of the world in the coming months.

To get authorized, advertisers will need to complete the following steps:

1. Page admins and ad account admins will submit their government-issued ID and provide a residential [?] mailing address for verification.
   
2. We'll confirm each address by mailing a letter with a unique access code that only the admin's Facebook account can use.
   
3. Advertisers will have to disclose who is paying for the ads.

Notice from the Publisher under separate cover

What is changing with political ads?

• For US advertisers and advertisers targeting the US, starting in late spring, they'll need to be authorized in order to create and run political ads targeting the US.
  
• For people using Facebook and Instagram, political ads will be seen with a new "Political Ad" header with a disclaimer showing the name of the funding source of the ad, as provided by the advertiser.
  
• This summer we'll launch the Political Ad Archive. Ads that run with a political ad disclaimer will be stored in a searchable archive for a period of 7 years.

archived
US gov "Media Monitoring Services"
Free Speech
18 USC 2,371,2349,2028A
LQD: Censorship

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compare & contrast
Two Koreas Agree to End War This Year, Pursue Denuclearization
"The announcement was followed by a tersely worded commentary from Kim's Korean Central News Agency decrying sanctions and calling on the U.S. to drop its 'anachronistic hostile policy toward' North Korea."

Trilateral agreement needed to officially end Korean War
"When asked by Abe what the prospects were for a declaration of the Korean War's end and signing of a peace agreement at the summit, Moon replied that the matter of declaring an end to the war 'will not be resolved through inter-Korean dialogue alone, but can only succeed with at least a trilateral agreement by South Korea, North Korea, and the US.'"
Examining the differences between the three inter-Korean summits
"The two leaders were also relaxed enough to break the ice by wisecracking about sensitive security issues. 'I hear you've lost a lot of sleep attending meetings of the National Security Council because of us. I guess you've gotten used to getting up in the middle of the night,' Kim said with a smile.
" 'You gave me some advance warning about that during the special delegation's visit, so I think I'll be able to rest easy from now on,' Moon replied."
President Moon expected to meet with Trump again in mid-May

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There. Fixed it. pic.twitter.com/rpNG90W9Dz

— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) April 30, 2018

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UNIVERSITY D'OH BULLETIN

If You Live in a Big City and Breathe, You Basically Smoke: "There's an app for that"

Shit, I Smoke! was created by Brazilian-born designer Marcelo Coelho and Paris-born app developer Amaury Martiny in just a week, after they read a study that analyzed air pollution and its equivalent to cigarette smoking. The article--co-written by Richard Mueller, a MacArthur fellow and physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley--explains a mathematical model that compares smoking and tobacco-related deaths to levels of PM2.5, a microscopic particle that is a dangerous, cancerous pollutant after combustion.

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Universal health care, worldwide, is within reach - The Economist

Universal basic health care is also affordable. A country need not wait to be rich before it can have comprehensive, if rudimentary, treatment. Health care is a labour-intensive industry, and community health workers, paid relatively little compared with doctors and nurses, can make a big difference in poor countries. There is also already a lot of spending on health in poor countries, but it is often inefficient. In India and Nigeria, for example, more than 60% of health spending is through out-of-pocket payments. More services could be provided if that money--and the risk of falling ill--were pooled.

The evidence for the feasibility of universal health care goes beyond theories jotted on the back of prescription pads. It is supported by several pioneering examples. Chile and Costa Rica spend about an eighth of what America does per person on health and have similar life expectancies. Thailand spends $220 per person a year on health, and yet has outcomes nearly as good as in the OECD. Its rate of deaths related to pregnancy, for example, is just over half that of African-American mothers. Rwanda has introduced ultrabasic health insurance for more than 90% of its people; infant mortality has fallen from 120 per 1,000 live births in 2000 to under 30 last year.

And universal health care is practical. It is a way to prevent free-riders from passing on the costs of not being covered to others, for example by clogging up emergency rooms or by spreading contagious diseases. It does not have to mean big government. Private insurers and providers can still play an important role.

When The Economist writes sensible things twice in a row, is it time to start worrying?

How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban "Sonic Weapon" Attack - IEEE Spectrum

One thing we knew going into this investigation is that acoustic interference can occur where you least expect it. Several years ago, Fu became annoyed by an ear-piercing sound coming from a lightbulb in his apartment. He took spectral measurements and noticed that the lightbulb tended to shriek when the air conditioner turned on. He eventually concluded that the compressor was pumping coolant through its pipes at the same resonant frequency of the filament in the bulb. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. But in this case, the coolant pipes ran through the ceiling and mechanically coupled to the ceiling joist supporting the lightbulb. The superintendent opened up the ceiling and separated the joist from the pipe with a piece of duct tape, to dampen the unwanted coupling. The sound stopped.

There's also some fun experiments with covert rickrolling exfiltration.

A ather long but insightful and non judgemental portrayal of 4chan.
Dale Beran

Viewed through the lens of the people first posting him, Pepe makes nothing but sense. The original comic panels from which Pepe is excerpted feature him getting caught peeing with his pants pulled all the way down, his ass hanging out. Surprisingly, he is unashamed of this, "feels good man" he tells his roommate.

The grotesque, frowning, sleepy eyed, out of shape, swamp dweller, peeing with his pants pulled down because-it-feels-good-man frog is an ideology, one which steers into the skid of its own patheticness. Pepe symbolizes embracing your loserdom, owning it. That is to say, it is what all the millions of forum-goers of 4chan met to commune about. It is, in other words, a value system, one reveling in deplorableness and being pridefully dispossessed. It is a culture of hopelessness, of knowing "the system is rigged". But instead of fight the response is flight, knowing you're trapped in your circumstances is cause to celebrate. For these young men, voting Trump is not a solution, but a new spiteful prank.

Amid all the talk about Facebook and troll farms we shouldn't forget about the social base described here.  

Last human on planet earth cautions child to keep hands to self.

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Republican social media ["]bias["] hearing overshadowed by disputes over 'Diamond and Silk': The Hill grapples "intersectionality" and "transgressions", loses what's left of the plot of The American Dream.

Democrats ... hammered Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson -- better known as "Diamond and Silk" -- over inconsistencies in their claims that Facebook had censored their content or downplayed their reach on the platform. The duo answered "yes" to lawmakers' questions about whether or not they were blocked on the platform, although Facebook never suspended their profile.
[...]
Diamond and Silk have a very large profile on social media, with 1.5 million Facebook followers and almost 150,000 YouTube subscribers.

One could imagine the pair would know, better than any Big Data poseur or partisan "surrogate", their own cash flow position. To the penny. COME TO FIND OUT, the "act" has been running on YouTube since at least 2015. Check out early reveiws by Politico and Rolling Stone docents who've never been told, "That's none of your business."


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