Now an Online Action: Women Appeal to Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: Lean in to Stop the Lies
DLFUOD | indybay.org | 2020-03-09
This action is moving online! | To adapt to the call from public health officials for Bay Area gatherings to be canceled or postponed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, we are moving the Sheryl Sandberg protest online. Description below explains how to participate.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/06/18831347.php

Upcoming event March 12th – Homelessness, Gentrification and Counterinsurgency in Oakland
Uhuru Movement | indybay.org | 2020-03-09
There are tens of thousands of African and Mexican people living in tents, under tarps and overpasses in California, the richest state in the US. | But these conditions can change rapidly with resources invested in programs in the hands of the African community like the Black Power Blueprint – www.facebook.com/BlackPowerBlueprint/ | Attend the event – Homelessness, Gentrification and Counterinsurgency, in Oakland on Thursday, March 12 at 7 pm. | Akwaaba Hall / 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland CA (take the 57 bus, only blocks away from Eastmont Mall)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/08/18831367.php

Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
Rob Larson | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-09
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies. Facebook in particular is associated with this, especially after a series of major scandals involving…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/09/cookie-monster-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-online-tracking/

Upcoming event March 12th – Homelessness, Gentrification and Counterinsurgency in Oakland
Uhuru Movement | indybay.org | 2020-03-09
There are tens of thousands of African and Mexican people living in tents, under tarps and overpasses in California, the richest state in the US. | But these conditions can change rapidly with resources invested in programs in the hands of the African community like the Black Power Blueprint – www.facebook.com/BlackPowerBlueprint/ | Attend the event – Homelessness, Gentrification and Counterinsurgency, in Oakland on Thursday, March 12 at 7 pm. | Akwaaba Hall / 7911 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland CA (take the 57 bus, only blocks away from Eastmont Mall)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/08/18831367.php

Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
Rob Larson | counterpunch.org | 2020-03-09
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies. Facebook in particular is associated with this, especially after a series of major scandals involving…
counterpunch.org/2020/03/09/cookie-monster-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-online-tracking/

'Additional push to the wheel of change': Sudan's PM tweets that he is fine after surviving assassination attempt
rt.com | 2020-03-09
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has confirmed that he is safe and well after a blast shook the capital city, Khartoum. Officials confirmed it was an attempt on the leader's life. | "I assure the Sudanese people that I am well and completely healthy," Hamdok wrote in a tweet shortly after the attack on Monday. | I would like to assure the people of Sudan that I am safe and in good shape. Rest assured that what happened today will not stand in the way of our transition, instead it is an additional push to the wheel of change in Sudan. pic.twitter.com/zeC2A4k2N0–…
rt.com/news/482644-hamdok-tweet-assassination-attempt/

Trump says crashing markets good for consumers, blames Russia, Saudi Arabia and Fake News
rt.com | 2020-03-09
US President Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether a sudden, massive drop in oil prices is good or bad for the country, so he's hedged his bets on Twitter, suggesting it's "Good for the consumer" but bad for markets. | Blaming the "market drop" on "Saudi Arabia and Russia…arguing over the price and flow of oil" in a Monday morning tweet, the president whipsawed around and – within the same minute! – bragged that the resulting chaos was "good for the consumer," because gas prices would go down. | Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil. That, and the Fake News, is the reason for…
rt.com/usa/482671-trump-schizo-oil-markets-drop/

Trump says crashing markets good for consumers, blames Russia, Saudi Arabia and Fake News
rt.com | 2020-03-09
US President Donald Trump can't seem to decide whether a sudden, massive drop in oil prices is good or bad for the country, so he's hedged his bets on Twitter, suggesting it's "Good for the consumer" but bad for markets. | Blaming the "market drop" on "Saudi Arabia and Russia…arguing over the price and flow of oil" in a Monday morning tweet, the president whipsawed around and – within the same minute! – bragged that the resulting chaos was "good for the consumer," because gas prices would go down. | Saudi Arabia and Russia are arguing over the price and flow of oil. That, and the Fake News, is the reason for…
rt.com/usa/482671-trump-schizo-oil-markets-drop/

Afghan president Ghani displays nerves of steel as EXPLOSIONS interrupt his swearing-in (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-03-09
Afghanistan's newly re-elected president, Ashraf Ghani, was nonchalant as the sound of explosions interrupted his inauguration speech in the Afghan capital, Kabul. | Hundreds of people gathered for the event at two venues inside the presidential palace. Ghani was inaugurated for his second term as Afghanistan's president. His ceremony was attended by foreign officials, including US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and NATO forces commander Scott Miller. | At one point, however, something clearly went wrong. A video published on social media by India's ANI news agency shows Ghani's inauguration speech interrupted…
rt.com/news/482668-afghan-ghani-swearing-in-explosions/

Afghan president Ghani displays nerves of steel as EXPLOSIONS interrupt his swearing-in (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-03-09
Afghanistan's newly re-elected president, Ashraf Ghani, was nonchalant as the sound of explosions interrupted his inauguration speech in the Afghan capital, Kabul. | Hundreds of people gathered for the event at two venues inside the presidential palace. Ghani was inaugurated for his second term as Afghanistan's president. His ceremony was attended by foreign officials, including US Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and NATO forces commander Scott Miller. | At one point, however, something clearly went wrong. A video published on social media by India's ANI news agency shows Ghani's inauguration speech interrupted…
rt.com/news/482668-afghan-ghani-swearing-in-explosions/

Many New Voting Systems Aren't Ready for Prime Time
Staff | truthdig.com | 2020-03-09
Put aside, for now, foreign meddling in U.S. elections, social media propaganda and partisan voter suppression. The newest emerging threat to elections in 2020 is new voting systems that have been insufficiently tested and phased in, but have been debuting in many of 2020's presidential primaries and caucuses. | Since the Iowa Democratic Party's presidential caucuses, there has been a string of new technology-based failures and frustrations–despite officials' and voting system designers' intentions. The failures share some common elements, from data connectivity issues to machinery breakdowns to poor planni…
truthdig.com/articles/many-new-voting-systems-arent-ready-for-prime-time/

Woody Allen, we will publish your book
rt.com | 2020-03-09
We will publish your book – if you wish – because we believe no one's life story should be silenced, and that all sides deserve a fair hearing. | We will publish your book because we trust that adults should have a free choice whether to read it or not. | We will publish your book because we are against corporate cowardice that becomes corporate censorship. | We will publish your book because we do not endorse Twitter mob justice and blacklists. | We will publish your book because you were not found guilty of any crime before the law, but that has counted for nothing. | We will publish your book because we sti…
rt.com/news/482654-woody-allen-autobiography-free-speech/

2 US troops killed in Iraq during anti-IS operation
rt.com | 2020-03-09
Two US military service members have been killed while accompanying Iraqi security forces during a mission targeting a stronghold of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), the US-led coalition confirmed in a statement. The deaths occurred last Sunday in a mountainous area of north-central Iraq, the statement said. | Coalition confirms US service members were killed during a mission with the Iraqi Security Forces to eliminate an ISIS terrorist stronghold near Makhmour yesterday pic.twitter.com/tAK7oPQyXa– Joanne Stocker ÿ¨Ÿàÿ¢ŸÜ (@…
rt.com/newsline/482660-us-troops-killed-iraq/

Facebook controlled by right-wing echo chamber, Clinton claims, accusing social media of bias against her
rt.com | 2020-03-08
Despite numerous accusations of censorship from conservatives, Hillary Clinton is claiming right-wing outlets have "mastered" Facebook and use it against her. | In a Sunday interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Clinton was asked about a Vox article presenting research claiming the story on Facebook to receive the most interactions on Super Tuesday was one about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. | "Fox and the sort of right-wing echo chamber has mastered Facebook, aided and abetted, might I say, from Facebook," Clinton responded. | She claims "algorithms" used by Facebook are ke…
rt.com/usa/482630-hillary-clinton-facebook-trump/

Saudi Arabia MBS Aims at the Throne Before Nov. G20 Summit
telesurenglish.net | 2020-03-08
After Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) arrested Friday his uncle, the brother of King Salman, Prince Ahmed bin Abdelaziz, as well as two other prominent members of the House of Saud, sources told the Middle East Eye he plans to become king before the G20 summit in Riyadh in November. | RELATED: | 2 Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying for Saudi Arabia | The sources said that MBS will not wait for the death of his father since the latter's presence grants him leg…
telesurenglish.net/news/Saudi-Arabia-MBS-Aims-at-the-Throne-Before-Nov.-G20-Summit–20200308-0008.html

One tweet shows exactly why Dominic Raab shouldn't be foreign secretary
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-03-08
One country is showing its intent to create chaos in the Middle East. From sparking conflict in the one area in Syria where there was previously peace, to creating a humanitarian crisis in an attempt to bribe Europe to support its war in the region, Turkey is engaged in a dangerous power game that is killing people and putting lives at risk. | But Turkey is a NATO ally. And the UK is desperate for post-Brexit trade partners. So it's perhaps no surprise that foreign secretary Dominic Raab is sucking up to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And in one tweet, Raab showed dangerous contempt for the thousands of…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/03/08/one-tweet-shows-exactly-why-dominic-raab-shouldnt-be-foreign-secretary/

One tweet shows exactly why Dominic Raab shouldn't be foreign secretary
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2020-03-08
One country is showing its intent to create chaos in the Middle East. From sparking conflict in the one area in Syria where there was previously peace, to creating a humanitarian crisis in an attempt to bribe Europe to support its war in the region, Turkey is engaged in a dangerous power game that is killing people and putting lives at risk. | But Turkey is a NATO ally. And the UK is desperate for post-Brexit trade partners. So it's perhaps no surprise that foreign secretary Dominic Raab is sucking up to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And in one tweet, Raab showed dangerous contempt for the thousands of…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/03/08/one-tweet-shows-exactly-why-dominic-raab-shouldnt-be-foreign-secretary/

'Just in time for St. Patrick's Day!' Trump appoints Mark Meadows as new chief of staff, 'banishes' Mulvaney to Northern Ireland
rt.com | 2020-03-07
President Trump has selected North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows to be the new White House chief of staff, making the former acting chief, Mick Mulvaney, the special envoy to Northern Ireland. | "I am pleased to announce that Congressman Mark Meadows will become White House Chief of Staff. I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one," Trump said in a tweet on Friday night announcing the move. | ….I want to thank Acting Chief Mick Mulvaney for having served the Administration so well. He will become the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland. Thank you!– Donald…
rt.com/usa/482545-trump-chief-staff-meadows-mulvaney/

'Come and take it!' GOP congressman triggers left with AR-15 gun-wielding message to Biden & Beto
rt.com | 2020-03-07
Colorado Congressman Ken Buck proved just how easy it is to trigger the left by posting a video of him wielding an AR-15 in his office and daring Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke to try to "come and take it." | "I have a message for Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke," Buck says in the video, which was posted to Twitter on Friday. | If you want to take everyone's AR-15s in America, why don't you swing by my office in Washington DC and start with this one? | I have just one message for Joe Biden and Beto O'Rourke, if you want to take everyone's AR-15s, why don't you swing by my office in Washington, D.C. and start with thi…
rt.com/usa/482538-ken-buck-ar15-biden-beto/

Democrat outrage forces Facebook to remove Team Trump's 'misleading' Census ads
rt.com | 2020-03-06
Social media giant Facebook said it will remove certain ads by President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, after Democrats and media activists complained they would confuse Americans about the upcoming population census. | The ads were titled "Official 2020 Congressional District Census," but they directed respondents to a website used by the president's re-election campaign. The text of the ads, however, made it clear they were requesting data so the campaign could better formulate the election strategy in November: | "This survey is ESSENTIAL to our team's 2020 campaign strategy. We need Patriotic Americans like…
rt.com/usa/482452-facebook-removes-trump-census-ads/

Former Nobel Peace Prize Nominates Morales for 2020 Distinction
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-03-06
"It is an honor for me to inform you that I have nominated comrade Evo Morales Ayma for the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2020," the Argentinian Adolfo Perez Esquivel announced on his Twitter account. | *** | The Argentinian activist …
globalresearch.ca/former-nobel-peace-prize-nominates-morales-2020-distinction/5705700

Math is hard when counting millions? MSM makes a blooper figuring out how much Bloomberg spent on his campaign
rt.com | 2020-03-06
An MSNBC host made the "disturbing discovery" that Michael Bloomberg could afford to give "each American $1 million" from his presidential campaign fund. If only their production team had used a calculator before going on air. | MSNBC's Brian Williams was talking to NYT board member Mara Gay when he cited a tweet by a Washington Post contributor, Mekita Rivas, who literally claimed the former New York mayor and billionaire could present every single American with a whopping $1 million

Boosting Morale: Iranian medical teams launched a "dancing challenge"
The Iranian | iranian.com | 2020-03-04
Iranian medical teams launched a "dancing challenge" in social media, especially on Instagram, to revive morale in combating the Corona Virus outbreak.
iranian.com/2020/03/03/boosting-morale-iranian-medical-teams-launched-a-dancing-challenge/

Death Toll Rises in Iran, Middle East Epicenter of Coronavirus, Amid U.S. Sanctions & Gov't Negligence
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-02
The official coronavirus death toll in Iran, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, has risen to at least 54

Death Toll Rises in Iran, Middle East Epicenter of Coronavirus, Amid U.S. Sanctions & Gov't Negligence
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-03-02
The official coronavirus death toll in Iran, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, has risen to at least 54

Canadians Furious At Trudeau As Government Refuses To Stop Travelers From Iran
Zero Hedge | iranian.com | 2020-03-02
Furious Canadians slammed the government for failing to cancel flights from Iran, presently the country with the worst outbreak outside China, and other policies that suggest a dangerously blithe response from the government, perhaps as a consequence of PM Trudeau's commitment to 'woke' policies (many have slammed travel bans as racist). twitter.com/DrJacobsRad/status/1234139825722273793 One critic even accused …
iranian.com/2020/03/02/canadians-furious-at-trudeau-as-government-refuses-to-stop-travelers-from-iran/

In the Midst of Infighting, Anti-LGBTQ Church Network's Website and Social Media Disappear
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2020-02-21
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist network, most prominently associated with anti-LGBTQ pastor Steven Anderson, appears to be in turmoil as infighting again erupts, this time between Anderson and fellow pastors in the network.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/02/21/midst-infighting-anti-lgbtq-church-networks-website-and-social-media-disappear