Who would be foolish enough to believe that news supplied by Facebook was in any way unbiased and true?
[DAWN] Facebook on Wednesday announced its first original news shows for the social network, joining other online platforms producing video to compete with television.
The news shows will be produced for Facebook by a variety of partners including CNN, Fox News, ABC News and Univision.
The programmes are producing the social network's on-demand video service called Facebook Watch, which is part of an effort to compete with platforms such as Google-owned YouTube, and potentially develop a wider following.
Facebook said the launch of news shows was also aimed at offering its members "trusted" content following concerns that the platform was used to spread misinformation.
"Earlier this year we made a commitment to show news that is trustworthy, informative, and local on Facebook," said a statement from Facebook news partnerships chief Campbell Brown.
"As a part of that commitment, we are creating a dedicated section within Watch for news shows produced exclusively for Facebook by news publishers. With this effort, we are testing a destination for high quality and timely news content on the platform."
The first programmes include ABC's "On Location" featuring contribution from the network's journalists from around the globe; CNN's "Anderson Cooper Full Circle" featuring the popular CNN host; and "Fox News Update" hosted by chief news anchor Shepard Smith.
Facebook last week said it was getting rid of a "trending" topics feature as it tests ways for publishers to deliver reliable breaking news.
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Facebook last week said it was getting rid of a "trending" topics feature as it tests ways for publishers to deliver reliable breaking news.
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Facebook news partnerships chief Campbell Brown
On September 1, 2008, Brown conducted a controversial interview ... Brown questioned Palin's executive experience and asked for examples of decisions Palin had made as the commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard. Bounds did not name an example, but he stated that Palin had more executive experience than Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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Besides, Millennials won't read it if it ain't 'trending' -
Trending - adjective
-emerging as a popular trend: trending fashion accessories.
-widely mentioned or discussed on the Internet, especially on social media websites: trending topics on Twitter.
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Hey look! More worthless crap I'll never tune into!
[WASHINGTONTIMES] "Please sir, I want some more," is no longer a sentiment just for Oliver Twist in the orphanage. A new law in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, limits how much water can be used by each household. Now their showers, how many flushes, and how often they can do their laundry will be under the watchful eye of the state government.
This from politicians who have pushed policies creating homeless and drug abuse crises throughout the state. They have now decided to clamp down on the use of the most basic needs of civilized living.
As the blog Zero Hedge put it, "it’s now against the law to do laundry and shower on the same day in the Sunshine State," and they’re not exaggerating. Under the guise of addressing "climate change," the new bill rations water to a degree that makes it impossible to maintain a healthy home environment.
Perhaps the state wants everyone to feel like the drug addicts living in California’s ever-expanding homeless tent cities?
Zero Hedge reported, "Assembly Bill 1668 is where it gets personal. This establishes limits on indoor water usage for every person in California and the amount allowed will decrease even further over the next 12 years. ’The bill, until January 1, 2025, would establish 55 gallons per capita daily as the standard for indoor residential water use, beginning January 1, 2025, would establish the greater of 52.5 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use, and beginning January 1, 2030, would establish the greater of 50 gallons per capita daily or a standard recommended by the department and the board as the standard for indoor residential water use ...’"
How do families feel about the rationing of water? CBS-13 in Sacramento asked a few: "’With a child and every day having to wash clothes, that’s, just my opinion, not feasible. But I get it and I understand that we’re trying to preserve ... but 55 gallons a day?" said Tanya Allen, who has a 4-year-old daughter."
To give you perspective on how much water basic chores require, the station noted an eight-minute shower uses about 17 gallons of water, a load of laundry up to 40, and a bathtub can hold 80 to 100 gallons of water.
Felicia Marcus, chair of the State Water Resources Control Board, explained this is happening, "So that everyone in California is at least integrating efficiency into our preparations for climate change." That’s nice. This same bureaucrat then noted to CBS-13, "Right now we lose up to 30 percent of urban water just to leaks in the system."
As the state rations the water of the average of family, making it impossible for everyone to shower and wash clothes, let alone use water to wash the dishes, and perform any myriad of other efforts to keep a home clean and a family healthy, it’s the state itself and its crumbling infrastructure that is the biggest waster of water.
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Golf courses exempt? What about large to very large swimming pools? Oh, wait, sorry! Those are symbols of the elite. They mustn't be bothered, these rules are for the little people.
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It's a G*D* desert. They've failed to treat it as such while importing millions and millions of people. Consider its natures take with water on Adam Smith's invisible hand with capital.
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Way back when, sewers were designed for 120 gal per person, per day, IIRC.
Next thing that will happen is the sewers will clog, because there is not enough flow to move the waste downstream.
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Watch them continue to encourage "affordable housing" for immigrants, legal and otherwise. It seems their solution for the so-called housing crisis™ is to turn the whole state into a slum.
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California's new water restrictions send residents fleeing to saner states
Almost every one of them taking bits of that insanity along with them. Ugh.
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In Southern California golf courses, public parks, and whatever you call the vegetation on the sides of roads and such the city is responsible for all use recycled water. That water doesn't count so cutting it is pointless.
Southern California went deep with their water cuts long ago and Northern California did not. Now Sacramento is demanding the same percentage cuts from all areas.
Someone needs to ask Gavin Newsom his opinion before the Nov election. If he sides with Gov Brown on this he'll lose Southern California and the election.
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What CA can do about our water crisis:
(1) Stop building and building and building and building new homes. increased population sharing the same amount of water is unsustainable.
(2) Allow central valley farmers to sell off unused water without losing their allotments. That way they would be encouraged to save water instead of growing rice and other water-rich crops (that pay back well).
(3) Put in laws that new homes have to have non-potable water directed into toilets.
(4) Realize that these things go in cycles and we will likely have a lot of water next winter.
As I remember, Arizona families had the habit of pouring white gravel across their front yards, then spray painting them bright green.
Is this habit going to spread to California?
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From a dystopian novel I am reading and it fits the California worldview:
“In my timeline, marijuana was legalized,” Jack said. “Other drugs remained illegal, but enforcement of the drug laws usually was limited to the junkie who had run out of money. Dealers could afford the bribes necessary to keep law enforcement off their backs. Enough politicians and government lackeys were involved that no one tried to enforce the law.”
“Why would they legalize marijuana?”
“It makes people easier to control. You don’t want to rule over an alert and mentally active person who is capable of asking embarrassing questions about your activities. You want someone stoned out of his mind and who could care less about what you’re doing,” Jack answered.
The initial legalization of marijuana was for medicinal purposes only. After a while it was proscribed for headaches. Anyone could claim a headache and it wasn’t long before nearly everyone had prescriptions for marijuana. Rather than incur the healthcare costs of dealing with prescriptions, marijuana was relegated to an over-the-counter drug. After a while, all pretense of it being for medical purposes was abandoned.
The use of marijuana was almost universal in Jack’s timeline. A carton of marijuana cigarettes was half the price of a single serving of stew. The quality of life was so poor that the average person chose to blunt their consciousness with drugs rather than face a dull gray world.
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Boggles that no one is looking at water rights upstream, the likes of Saudia Arabia have bought up thousands of acres to grow crops that need lots of water, gaining water rights of the Colorado River and other ground water aquifers. SA has learned that it's more profitable besides saving THEIR OWN fresh water to grow alfalfa here and ship it back to their country rather than use their water in SA.
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[PRESSTV] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rejected a proposal by Washington to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and adopt a bilateral trade pact.
"We have, on various occasions, heard the president speak about his interest or his musings about a bilateral deal instead of the trilateral NAFTA that we have," said Trudeau on Wednesday.
"Canada's position is, and always has been, that the trilateral approach is actually better for Canada, for Mexico and for the United States," he added.
On Tuesday, the White House announced that US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... wishes to engage in separate agreements with Canada and Mexico instead of remaining in the trilateral deal.
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..except it allows any member to opt out. Socialist never really understood economics.
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Darth Vader Trump : I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further...
Seriously, does Trudeau understand the meaning of the word 'scrapped'?
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The Canadians have long standing trade "issues" with the US: fishing rights, wood products, durum wheat, and recently oil exports. Trudeau has plenty of Canadian issues to worry about before even thinking about Mexico's issues.
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Call it a coincidence, but during this morning's commute, I saw on the BNSF spur to the Anacortes refinery an oil unit train powered by CN locomotives. First time in over 20 years I have seen foreign (non BNSF) power on that line.
Leased units or what???
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Coincidence. The major railroads swap power (locomotives) all the time - a CN train might cross the border without switching locos. At the train's terminal, the locos are cut off and sent back north. Also when railroad 'balance' the power in other deals, the railroad that 'owes' the other so many horsepower-hours may see their locos running all over the place.
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[FOXNEWS] The curious case of Imran Awan, which sounds like an international spy thriller, is entering its third act. Awan was a congressional IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... , D-Fla., and he was finally fired just after he was jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! trying to fly to Pakistain last summer.
Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were charged last summer with bank fraud. They now appear poised to strike a plea deal with the Department of Justice. A plea agreement hearing is set for July 3 before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, Fox News reported Wednesday.
As I’ve dug deep into this case for my book "Spies in Congress" (out later this year), sources have made it clear that the bank fraud charges in this case, though very real, are just a way to hold the defendants.
Alleged theft of congressional equipment, massive data breaches of Congress members’ emails, likely espionage and more are all wrapped up in this case that involves data from 40 or more Democratic members of Congress.
Sources tell me that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has been looking into this matter since well before Awan and his crew of Pak congressional IT aides were booted off the House computer network in February 2017.
Sources also say that Sherlocks were particularly interested in whether anyone else in the congressional offices that all of these IT aides worked for was involved in alleged improper activity. This might include Rep. Wasserman Schultz, who was the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair when she employed Awan. It might also include former Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., who employed Awan when Becerra was chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Becerra is now Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, attorney general.
"The House Office of Inspector General tracked the Awans network usage and found that a massive amount of data was flowing from the (congressional) networks," said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. "Over 5,700 logins by the five Awan associates were discovered on a single server within the House, the server of the Democratic Caucus Chairman, then Rep. Xavier Becerra of California. Up to 40 or more members of Congress had all of their data moved out their office servers and onto the Becerra server without their knowledge or consent."
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"....over 5,000 logins by 5 Awan assoc....."
....er uhhhh, 5,000 third party somebodies with Awan provided login passwords.
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That is 'the' question, isn't it? Did Imran Awan try to set the IT Service as his 'One-Stop Bazaar' for US Government secrets and was such an amateur that everybody could come in for free?
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My fear is foreign money may have been provided for net access, which may have included a bit more than DNC data. Those funds then transferred to the Clinton effort or some equally nefarious entities.
McCabe tells the truth and throws all of the the Obama/Clïnton mob into prison or he uses the deal to lie again to prevent his own alledged Alpha Jollah/MS13 scenario coming down on his next of kin.
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In the plea deal we'll find out that the Awan's were running a lemonade stand in Peshawar when they were kidnapped by Russians who used the name 'Trump' a lot and were made to do nefarious activities with Stormy Daniels and then SHUT UP!!!
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Ed has the CNN proof copy of the story, I see.
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Two preliminary conclusions drawn from this story:
1. The 'Johnny English' and 'Austin Powers' franchises are more realistic in their depiction of real life spying than the John le Carre or Ian Fleming novels/films.
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Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were charged last summer with bank fraud. They now appear poised to strike a plea deal with the Department of Justice.
I couldn't care less about Awan and his cohort. Scorpions do what scorpions do. Whomsoever left the keys to the kingdom in the gate lock on purpose, that is another story. Go after anyone who knew about this and stick them in jail for a looooong time.
Oh, and just in case, prepare for nekkid pics of DWS with a goat to show up as evidence. I just cannot figure out why she was so helpful to these guys.
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Gotta wonder if Wasserman Shultz wasn't involved in selling access somehow. I have little respect for her but being so stupid seems impossible, she had to be part of the grift.
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When I was little I was standing next to one in an enclosure with wooden slats. It butted the slat as hard as it could and it flexed and nailed me in the head. I think in the same place I was dropped when I was born.
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This is starting to have a bad odor."On December 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Chutkan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a new seat created pursuant to 104 Stat. 5089, on July 1, 2013.[5] ".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAWN] Facebook on Wednesday announced its first original news shows for the social network, joining other online platforms producing video to compete with television.
