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Cease-fire in Hodeida

lundi 18 mars 2019 à 01:00

The UN envoy says that the cease-fire in Hodeida is holding.

Line 3 oil pipeline

lundi 18 mars 2019 à 01:00

Enbridge is preparing in advance to crush protests against the Line 3 oil pipeline — using surveillance to identify possible organizers, and lining up thugs to attack them.

Can anyone estimate the death toll from the added greenhouse gases that will be emitted due to use of this pipeline?

Effect of tax giveaway

lundi 18 mars 2019 à 01:00

The Republican tax giveaway to corporations had very little positive effect — few corporations did more hiring or investment. They simply passed on the giveaway to executives and stockholders.

Apps reporting to Facebook

lundi 18 mars 2019 à 01:00

Around 40% of gratis Androids apps report on the user's actions to Facebook.

Often they send the machine's "advertising ID", so that Facebook can correlate the data it obtains from the same machine via various apps. Some of them send Facebook detailed information about the user's activities in the app; others only say that the user is using that app, but that alone is often quite informative.

This spying occurs regardless of whether the user has a Facebook account.

Elimination of science

lundi 18 mars 2019 à 01:00

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports on the bullshit administration's systematic elimination of science from the US government.