2023-03-08: News Headlines

Dana Sanchez (2023-03-07). Facebook Parent Meta Announces 1000s More Layoffs As Fed Reserve Chair Says Inflation Still Higher Than Expected. moguldom.com Meta plans thousands more layoffs starting as soon as this week in its second round of job cuts in four months while Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony on Tuesday before Congress raised fears that continuing to raise interest rates would risk even more unemployment and hardship. Powell suggested before Congress on March 7 that …

Labor Video Project (2023-03-07). Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg. indybay.org One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023.

Staff (2023-03-07). Meta planea nueva ola de miles de despidos, según reporte de prensa. cubadebate.cu Meta, empresa matriz de Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp, planea eliminar miles de empleos en los próximos días, en una nueva ronda de despidos solo meses después de que la compañía redujera más de 11 000 puestos de trabajo, en medio de una ola que involucra a otras grandes compañías del sector tecnológico como Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, Google y Twitter.

Staff (2023-03-07). Confidence in Chávez Remains Unshaken (+Polls). orinocotribune.com Ten years after the passing of Commander Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan people maintain their confidence in Chávez. Chávez leads approval ratings and voting intentions in Venezuela according to a recent survey that shows his current approval at 56% and intention to vote at 48.49%. | "Today, Chávez exceeds the approval ratings and voting intention of all politicians in this country," said President Nicolás Maduro during an event with international guests commemorating 10 years since Chávez's death. | President Maduro referred to the results of a survey published on social media by polling firm Polianalitica, a new po…

Staff (2023-03-07). Rosneft's CEO in Caracas to Strengthen Venezuela — Russia Oil Production. orinocotribune.com Caracas, March 6, 2023 (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Monday, March 6, Venezuela and Russia agreed to outline a joint work agenda to increase crude oil production and advance new business opportunities. This took place during a meeting in Caracas between Venezuelan Minister of Oil Tareck El Aissami and Russia's Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. | This information was released by Minister El Aissami on social media. While in Caracas, Igor Sechin was also participating in the commemoration events marking the 10th anniversary of Hugo Chávez's death. | "Cooperation in the energy field with the Russian Federation is broad and d…

Dana Sanchez (2023-03-07). Facebook Parent Meta Announces 1000s More Layoffs As Fed Reserve Chair Says Inflation Still Higher Than Expected. moguldom.com Meta plans thousands more layoffs starting as soon as this week in its second round of job cuts in four months while Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony on Tuesday before Congress raised fears that continuing to raise interest rates would risk even more unemployment and hardship. Powell suggested before Congress on March 7 that …

Labor Video Project (2023-03-07). Facebook Unite Here Local 19 Workers Demand Justice From Billionaire Owner Zuckerberg. indybay.org One hundred Facebook service food workers who are members of Unite HERE 19 were layed off at Facebook in Menlo Park. Although engineers and others are getting severance Facebook and it's owner Mark Zuckerberg refuse to give these benefits to these service workers. Workers rallied outside Facebook headquarters on March 1, 2023.

Staff (2023-03-07). Meta planea nueva ola de miles de despidos, según reporte de prensa. cubadebate.cu Meta, empresa matriz de Facebook, Instagram y WhatsApp, planea eliminar miles de empleos en los próximos días, en una nueva ronda de despidos solo meses después de que la compañía redujera más de 11 000 puestos de trabajo, en medio de una ola que involucra a otras grandes compañías del sector tecnológico como Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, Google y Twitter.

Staff (2023-03-07). Confidence in Chávez Remains Unshaken (+Polls). orinocotribune.com Ten years after the passing of Commander Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan people maintain their confidence in Chávez. Chávez leads approval ratings and voting intentions in Venezuela according to a recent survey that shows his current approval at 56% and intention to vote at 48.49%. | "Today, Chávez exceeds the approval ratings and voting intention of all politicians in this country," said President Nicolás Maduro during an event with international guests commemorating 10 years since Chávez's death. | President Maduro referred to the results of a survey published on social media by polling firm Polianalitica, a new po…

Staff (2023-03-07). Rosneft's CEO in Caracas to Strengthen Venezuela — Russia Oil Production. orinocotribune.com Caracas, March 6, 2023 (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Monday, March 6, Venezuela and Russia agreed to outline a joint work agenda to increase crude oil production and advance new business opportunities. This took place during a meeting in Caracas between Venezuelan Minister of Oil Tareck El Aissami and Russia's Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin. | This information was released by Minister El Aissami on social media. While in Caracas, Igor Sechin was also participating in the commemoration events marking the 10th anniversary of Hugo Chávez's death. | "Cooperation in the energy field with the Russian Federation is broad and d…

americanthinker (2023-03-08). NBC Journalist tweets that life was grand before white people ruined 'this land'. americanthinker.com Did "indigenous peoples" really "emphasize" the "freedom to love who you love" for "thousands of years?"

teleSUR, nbb, JCM (2023-03-08). Terremotos en Türkiye dejan pérdidas de 100 mil millones de dólares. twitter.com Cerca de 2.7 millones de personas fueron desplazadas debido a los terremotos y cerca de 600 mil edificios colapsaron.

Editor (2023-03-07). Is Twitter Only Biased Against the RIGHT? (w/ Matt Taibbi). scheerpost.com Is it fair to characterize Twitter's bias as against the right and indifferent to the left given how little we know about which documents have been turned over by Elon Musk and why?

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