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April 5, 2018
This whistle blower, christopher wylie testified that these people had all of their data and all of their online behavior on facebook taken without permission by this company, and thats the data used to build their business. today facebook published a new blog post that acknowledged quietly in the 11th paragraph of a 12-paragraph blog post that in fact it wasnt 50 million americans who had their information stolen, it was more like 87 million. starting on monday facebook says those 87 million pe...
April 5, 2018
Those 87 million people are going to start receiving notifications that cambridge analytica improperly took their information and records of their online behavior. if thats going to make this scandal a less abstract issue about privacy and make it a personal affront to tens of millions of americans who are about to start getting personal notifications within a few days that yeah, your data was taken by them. your online behavior was monitored and stolen and used for profit by that company, run a...
April 4, 2018
Animal rights to veganism to fitness. if you want to call these videos bizarre, you can, if it you want to call them provocative, you can do that too. youtube took at least one of those videos down because they violated the terms of service. aghdam took this as a personal affront and said youtube was trampling on her free speech. we know as of late she was using the platform more to demonstrate against youtube than to espouse her own views. this seems to gel with what the father of aghdam said i...
April 1, 2018
House has agreed with the position youre take, what do you think is the motive of the trump administration to do this? >> it seems to be another part of their overall attack on immigrants and on jurisdictions that are more welcoming to immigrants. they said the justice departments letter said we need to do this to enforce section two of the voting rights act. >> using the voting rights act? >> this is not something that anyone views as high up on jeff sessions list of things to do. the same day ...
March 29, 2018
Republic of korea we have a tradition of paying high level visits such as the photo op whats important is not dialogue for dialogue sake but to achieve nuclear and missile dismantling in a completely verifiable and irreversible way but then again i think improvements in the north korea china relationship will be helpful in solving the problem in the korean peninsula. also coming up tonight australias ball tampering cricket crisis feeling let down down under. this cheating is is a disgrace look w...
March 27, 2018
This administration. but this is exactly the sort of thing, so not only can putin retaliate in kind. he can play the west and the united states in particular are against us. this is the latest affront to russian dignity and standing. they singled us out. i would have come up with a response that would have made him much harder to do that. go to his inner circle financially. putins achilles heel is the fact theres no economic policy. his economic policy the essentially the price of oil and gags t...
March 22, 2018
They will have to bear a significant part of responsibility that when they had a chance to push back and prevent the crisis, they didnt act. >> both democrats and republicans could have forced the manner by putting something into the spending bill, right? why didnt that happen? >> democrats sought to. republicans resisted it. they viewed it as basically an affront to the president p, and they were not willing to do it. they were more willing to risk a constitutional crisis than include this, so ...
March 14, 2018
It is an affront to the program on the use of chemical weapons and it is an affront to the rule space system on watch which we and our international partners depend we will work with our allies and partners to confront such actions wherever they threaten our security at home and abroad and i commend this statement to the house . thank you mr speaker i would like to thank the prime minister for advance of his statements and echo absolutely her words about the service of our and if youre just join...
March 12, 2018
Education for a year. >> that wasnt the question. >> the idea that she -- >> that wasnt the question. stop right there -- >> let me finish. why are you filibustering me? >> when she was in michigan did she visit the schools and thats what she responded to. >> she could have gone and visited them in the year since shes been secretary of education. >> that wasnt the question. >> the particular line on school choice thats unvalidated by fact. she should be visiting these low performing schools befo...
March 10, 2018
Announcement to challenge the law, it says that floridas ban is an affront to the second amendment, law abiding adults between ages of 18 and 21 to keep and bear arms. swift action is needed to prevent young adults in florida from being treated as second class citizens when it comes to the right and keep and bear arms. its a diversion from federal law, generally doesnt allow handguns until 21, but does allow rifles and shotguns at 18. the governor was clear, while the new gun control measure isn...