Society and Liberty

SOURCE:  RT The Cambridge Analytica scandal put Facebook through the wringer in recent weeks, losing the company $100 billion in stock value and prompting a global debate on internet privacy. The social media giant was forced to apologize and overhaul its privacy and data sharing practices, but it still remains in the media spotlight and in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, which says it may be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines. But amid all the furor, one monolithic entity has continued to harvest data from billions of people worldwide. The data gathered includes a precise log of your every move and every internet search you’ve ever made, every email you’ve ever sent, your workout routine, your favourite food, and every photo you’ve ever taken. And you have allowed it to happen to yourself, for the sake of better service and more relevant advertising. Google is a ‘Big Brother’ with capabilities beyond George Orwell’s wilde...

Russia stated Saturday that Britain needed to decrease its own diplomatic personnel by over FIFTY additional people, since a clash among Moscow and the Western world intensified over the nerve gas assault regarding a secret agent. All this took place soon after 23 British diplomats departed Russia earlier this month and is viewed as Moscow’s punishment after Britain’s allies ejected Russian ambassadors over the March 4th poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal as well as his daughter Yulia within a English urban area. ” Russia suggested parity. The British side has more than 50 more people,” foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova pointed out. On Friday, Moscow called in English emissary Laurie Bristow, granting London 30 days in order to reduce the amount of diplomatic staff inside Russia to the exact same number Russia has within Britain. In London, an International spokesperson pointed out on Saturday: “We are considering The implication of the measures announced yest...

United States Commander In Chief Donald Trump has actually stated that American soldiers are truly going home from Syria soon. “Very soon, very soon, we’re coming out. We’re going to have 100 percent of the caliphate, as they call it – sometimes referred to as land. We’re taking it all back – quickly, quickly,” he said. Trump’s guarantee has certainly taken numerous people by surprise – including a few of his right-hand men. “We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We’ll be coming out of Syria like very soon. Let the other people take care of it now,” Trump said. But the essential specifics of this withdraw he conveniently excluded, so this led numerous to doubt if the man is actually serious. Pres. Trump: “We’ll be coming out of Syria very soon. Let the other people take care of it now…We’re going to have 100% of the caliphate, as they call it —sometimes referred to as land. We’re taking it all back.” pic.twitter.com/x8Q4wZCuxv — ABC News (@ABC) 29 March 2018...

Funeral services have started with regard to the 17 Palestinians exterminated by Israeli troops when many thousands walked close to Gaza’s borderline with Israel so as to mark the 42nd anniversary for Earth Day.. Palestinians within the blockaded Gaza Strip had the memorial service late Friday. This person was actually shot earlier on in the day shortly after Israeli soldiers shot live bullets on protesters and also made use of teargas so as to press all of them back out of a highly strengthened barricade when these people started a prepared six-week protest asking for the right for returning for refugees. The Palestinian Department of Health, say more than 1,400 were actually injured at the protest that celebrated Earth Day, which originates from March 30, 1976, whenever 6 unarmed Palestinian residents from Israel have been murdered by Israeli forces in the course of demonstrations in opposition to the Israeli authorities move to take over enormous regions from Palestinian-own...

Israeli security forces armed with riot gear this Friday confronted hundreds of Palestinians who approached the Gaza-Israel separation fence on the day when Hamas and the other factions have called for protest marches. On the Israeli side, shots are heard and smoke is seen, while on the Gaztan side, ambulances and hundreds of Palestinians are approaching the border, according to local media. Although the organizers pointed out that the tents which are being set up in preparation for the marches and camping that have begun  on the occasion of “La Marcha del Retorno” , they would maintain a distance of about 700 meters from the border, it can be seen that the Protesters are about 200 meters from the fence. According to the Israeli army,  “hundreds of Palestinians are demonstrating violently in six different places of the Gaza Strip, rolling tires burning and throwing stones at the security fence”, while the Israeli military “respond with riot gear ...

Dr. Mark McKenna’s OVME clinic in Atlanta is now open. The retail medical aesthetic company connects men and women with health care providers across the nation. Featuring retail boutiques, OVME connects patients with providers in select cities to offer high quality cosmetic services. OVME clinics provide skin health that is “age appropriate.” Dr. Mark McKenna is the former owner of ShapeMed. The chain offered cosmetic treatments to patients, including nutrition counseling, injections and hair removal. The chain, opened after Dr. McKenna lost millions after Hurricane Katrina, was sold to Lifetime Fitness in 2015. The sale of ShapeMed led Dr. Mark McKenna to start a new venture called “OVME.” The vision for the company is to offer a national chain of cosmetic offices. The offices, with the first being opened in Atlanta, will also include an app that works much like Uber. The OVME app connects customers or patients with freelance professionals. These professionals, all of which a...

The Klondike Highway is one of the most epic routes in the world, a memory of that gold rush that put Yukon on the map for the first time in history, and where it is easy to find moose and bears along the way. The Klondike Highway really starts in Alaska, in Skagway, by the sea and ascends to the port of Chilkoot to cross alpine landscapes on the way to Carcross, in the land on which Jack London wrote so much. Much of the route coincides with the Gold Rush Trail , the route of the gold prospectors. The road leads to Whitehorse , which offers art and organic bakeries, and continues to the eccentric Dawson City where it is convenient to stay a few days. From here you can take a day trip to the Tombstone Territorial Park to contemplate its grandeur. If we follow the Top of the World Highway (Hwy 9), we will cross the mountains to the Alaska border, and continue through the United States and up the Alaska Highway to Beaver Creek in Yukon. The ro...

Dawson City is probably the most authentic city of Canada. With its brightly colored buildings it has attracted thousands of Klondike gold seekers in the past, but today it attracts mostly artists and travelers who feel at home in the open-door environment that runs through the town. You can sift gold in the frigid rivers or play poker in the historic saloon , where the cancan is still danced, before soaking up the spectacular landscape that surrounds it. Located on a narrow platform of the Yukon and Klondike rivers, 240 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, its streets are still full of old buildings with insecure permafrost foundations that harbor a rich cultural life. It is easy to relive the gold rush in the many restored historical sites, such as the Palace Gran Theater, the Residencia del Comisionado or the City Museum and up to 26 restored  buildings where the past was and is recreated.   The post Dawson City, the city of gold appe...

If anyone thinks there are no virgin territories left, maybe he or she should travel to Yukon , a territory almost as big as Spain but with only 34,000 inhabitants.   This corner of the northwest of Canada , bordering Alaska, is still in the XXI century a wild land, where almost all animal species outnumber humans and landscapes of a majesty and beauty that can only be appreciated in person.  Few corners have remained so unchanged over time.  The aborigines, who have managed to survive here for thousands of years, continue to hunt and set traps as always and there is only a brief period in history when the area rose to world fame: with the Klondike gold rush, in 1898 , which marked the maximum population level although it left an ephemeral heritage. Yukon is a destination for nature lovers and outdoor sports: the five highest mountains in Canada and the largest subarctic ice fields in the world are in the virgin and imposing Klua...

President Donald Trump is on revamp mission, replacing David Shulkin as secretary of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday and nominated Ronny Jackson, the head of the medical team of the last three leaders. The departure joins the stream of casualties in the last month within Washington, which have included the national security adviser , HR McMaster, Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, and chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn. The White House did not specify whether Shulkin resigned or was fired. For days, the head of the department that coordinates medical and social assistance to retired military veterans had lost the support of Donald Trump. He suffered an internal war in the department and had been the object of an investigation into the misuse of public funds. In a statement, Trump said he “appreciates” the “great things” that Shulkin did for veterans. And he defined Jackson, who is a retired military man, as a “highly qualified” specialist and knowledgeable ...

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un  , was on Monday and Tuesday in Beijing for a surprise visit in which he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, before the summits he has planned in the coming weeks with Donald Trump.  A visit that adds to the frantic diplomatic activity around those meetings that are promised historical and that seals the return to normality of the cold relations between Beijing and Pyongyang. This visit is Kim’s first abroad since he was appointed as leader of his country six years ago. It also represents the first time he meets with a foreign head of state. “There is no doubt that my first visit abroad had to be to the Chinese capital,” the North Korean leader was quoted as saying by the KCNA news agency. “It is my solemn duty, as someone who must value the ties over generations.” China is the main political ally and great economic partner of North Korea, since the time when it sent troops to support Pyongyang in the Korean War (1950-19...

Premier Kathleen Wynne revealed the most recent free offer Tuesday, certified preschool childcare to toddlers aged 2 1/2, beginning in 2020. Everyone in Ontario will discover Wednesday just how much the provincial federal government’s so called “free for all” spending will actually cost them in the long run. The federal government has currently introduced cost-free prescriptions intended for youths below 25, as well as totally free post-secondary fee for low-income households. Ontario Financing Minister Charles Sousa implied broadly Tuesday that the federal government’s not done yet. The 2018 budget plan– to be announced Wednesday- is anticipated to come with a shortage, potentially as substantial as $8 billion dollars, in order to taken care of the assured expenditures. ” Last year’s Budget had a surplus, but families are struggling to make ends meet,” Wynne tweeted. “It’s time to decide if we’ll keep going & make it more affordable to raise a child in Ontario– or go back...

Commander in chief Donald Trump obtained his very first overhaul of a UNITED STATE trade deal, recently with Southern Korea which will permit American car manufacturers better accessibility to that nation’s local market, top governing body representatives pointed out on Tuesday evening. Seoul has consented to doubling the amount of vehicles any UNITED STATE car manufacturer could sell within the Asian country to 50,000, without meeting regional safety requirements, stated the representatives, that informed press reporters on condition of privacy. “He’s resurrecting the 1980s – a series of political compromises, mostly with Japan, to deal with U.S. concerns,” said Edward Alden, a trade expert with the Council on Foreign Relations. “That was the Reagan playbook. The reason it hasn’t been used in a long time is the U.S. made a decision that binding dispute settlement was better than tariffs as a weapon.” On the other hand, this is unclear just how this move will profit United States pr...

Keith Raniere, the leader of the obscure Nxivm group (nexium), was deported to the United States this Sunday by Mexican authorities after being detained in a luxurious villa on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta and accused of trafficking women. “During the branding ceremonies, slaves were required to be fully naked, and the master would order one slave to film while the other held down the slave being branded,” the complaint says. The head of the alleged self-help organization was sought by the US authorities for the crimes of trafficking in women and criminal association for forced labor. Last fall, The New York Times revealed that some women were forced to have sex and marked as cattle with the initials of the guru held over the weekend in the western Mexican resort. Vanguardia, as Raniere is known within the structure, faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. “Raniere created a secret society of women with whom he had sex and who were marked with thei...

Austin, Texas – Iraqi parents threw boiling oil and brutally assaulted their youngest daughter for refusing an arranged marriage with a man 12 years older than her in San Antonio, Texas , authorities said Monday. “We became aware of the fact that mid-last year, mid-2017, there had been a marriage arrangement made between the family of this young lady and an adult male living in another city, whereby approximately $20,000 (£14,000) was going to exchange hands,” Sheriff Salazar said.  Maarib Alhishmawi , 16, fled the family home at the end of January and was found on March 23rd at the premises of an organization that helps battered women in Bexar County, where she was recovering from several injuries suffered in her home in the last six months. The county sheriff, Javier Salazar, explained in a press conference that the parents of the minor, Abdulah Fahmi Al Hishmawi, 34, and Hamdiyah Sabah Al Hishmawi, 33, were arrested and charged with family violence, alt...

For the chemical attack in the United Kingdom 48 employees of the embassy and 12 of the UN mission in New York have seven days to leave the country. The United States on Monday ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats accused of espionage for the attempt to assassinate spy Sergey Skripal in the United Kingdom, which  attributes the attack to Moscow  . It is the hardest measure ever pushed against the Kremlin by the Donald Trump Administration, with a coordinated action between allied countries, and in the midst of a climate of tension reminiscent of the Cold War. The alleged intelligence agents and their families have a period of seven days to leave US soil.  In particular, the expulsion affects 12 employees of the Russian anvoy in the United Nations, located in New York, and 48 of the embassy in Washington.  The government has also asked Moscow to close its Seattle consulate in the northwest of the country, citing its proximity to the Boeing aircraft fa...

Porn actress Stormy Daniels , 39, says that the people of President Donald Trump physically threatened her in front of her young daughter in a parking lot in Las Vegas, saying to “leave him alone.”   It happened in 2011, when she had given an interview to  InTouch  magazine about her affair with Trump. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, recounted the sexual adventure, with morbid details, this Sunday on television, in a highly anticipated interview.  It is the first time she has spoken in public since she exposed the president and his lawyers, who deny the facts. These are the main passages of the Stormy Daniels interview.  The meeting with Trump The scene is a celebrity golf tournament held on Lake Tahoe (on the California-Nevada border) in 2006. Stormy Daniels says she was introduced to Trump, he invited her to dinner and they ended up in his room.  Trump did not stop talking about himself and said: “...

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are the first set of twins to be billionaires in bitcoin as they invested $11 million in the cryptocurrency in 2013. In the same vein, Tarik Freitekh spent a lesser sum of cash in 2013 when the value of bitcoin was $120. Tarik made a massive profit in December 2017 when he sold his total investment in bitcoin when the value of each bitcoin was $17,000. The Winklevoss brothers and Tarik Freitekh became reputable advocates of the digital currency. There has been a sharp decline in the price of Bitcoin since the beginning of the year 2018, and the Winklevoss brothers have reiterated their commitment to keeping their bitcoin as they are not willing to sell their investment like Tarik as they are long-term investors not minding the inconsistency in the price of the digital currency. While speaking to Forbes recently, Tarik, a United Nations goodwill ambassador confirmed that he has launched the Gemini exchange last year and also proposed an exchange-trade...

The Wechat application has become indispensable on a day-to-day basis in China. Created in 2011 by Chinese Internet giant Tencent, Wechat has recently reached one billion user profiles. That app, which joins the social networking and digital wallet functions, is used in the Asian country to shop, by reading the QR code, calling a taxi, taking the subway, or paying for light and water or taxes. Pilot project A pilot project launched last month by the government of Guangzhou, the country’s third largest city, allows citizens living in one of the city’s districts to create a virtual identity card through the application that replaces the physical document. However, in an Amnesty International (AI) ‘ranking’ on online privacy protection, Wechat app is at the bottom of a list of 11 instant messaging applications with zero points out of a possible 100. Data from Wechat users, including consumer habits, photographs, videos, location, contacts, or personal conversations, are “vul...

Portugal is already the fourth European supplier of wines imported by China, which in a few years is expected to become t of the sector, a trend that Portuguese wine companies are trying to follow. “We are trying to follow and catch this train, which is an important convoy,” Lusa Dora Martins, export manager at Real Companhia Velha, told a news conference organized by the Portuguese embassy in Beijing, with the participation of Jose Maria da Fonseca. China is expected to surpass Britain and France in the coming years as the world’s largest market for wine in terms of value, according to International Wine & Spirit Research (IWSR). In the list of European countries in 2017 exported more wine to China, led by France, Portugal ranked 4th, behind Spain and Italy, according to data from the European Union small and medium-sized business center. Last year, the country bought more than 18 million euros of Portuguese wine, according to the same source, representing 2.6% in volume a...

Carried out in a thousand battles within corridors of in Washington,  Nancy Pelosi  , the head of the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives, believes that the winds have changed in the entrenched debate over weapons in the United States.  Pelosi is confident that there are enough legislators who would support a package of deep restrictions on arms sales.  “All we need is a vote. I think there are enough Republicans who would vote with us, “ s he said o n the eve of marches against guns in the US  by students from the school in Parkland (Florida), where 17 people died in a shooting in February . “We have about 90% of Democrats and all we want is 10% of Republicans. We believe we could win the vote, “says Pelosi. Parkland activists The congresswoman from California, who has supported  Parkland activists  and participated in Saturday’s demonstration in Washington, is “disappointed” by President  Donald Trump’s st...

Barack Obama seems to be in the corner of students fighting against gun control. Former President used Twitter to show backing of those students marching in protest all around the USA. Using civil war terminology, Obama said “That they are leading the charge.” The protest are a direct result of from the senseless shooting a month ago in Parkland, Florida leaving 17 dead. This shooting has sparked the hearts and voices of million all over the nation, wanting more gun control action by the Government, something that President Donald Trump is against. “Michelle and I are so inspired by all the young people who made today’s marches happen,” the tweet said. “Keep at it. You’re leading us forward. Nothing can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change.” EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the letter @BarackObama and @MichelleObama wrote to the #ParklandShooting survivors. In it, the former president and first lady tell the teens that they’ve “inspired” them, and commend them on “awak...

Despite the fact that bad news seems to overshadow the good news, and at a time when division and polarization seem to gangrene the society every time, at least in Canada one point seems to be clear: we are a country open to immigration. That is the conclusion of the most recent immigration and refugee survey of the Environics Institute. Despite the impact of the arrival of 30,000 Syrian refugees , or the wave of people crossing the border on foot , or the constant debates on the integration of immigrants and “values”, Canadians continue to have a stronger opinion. Positive than negative about those who decide to start a new life in Canada. High levels of Immigrants 60% of Canadians disagree with the statement: “Overall there are many immigrants in Canada”, while 35% do believe that the levels are very high. The percentage of people who believe that Canada receives to many immigrants has been falling in the last 10 years. The 45%...