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Trump Could Use Obama’s Unilateral War Declarations As Precedent

Archives for ديسمبر 2016

Facebook Doesn’t Tell You What It Really Knows About You

The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.

Julia Angwin
Terry Parris Jr
Surya Mattu
بواسطة Julia Angwin
و Terry Parris Jr
و Surya Mattu
Facebook

(ANALYSIS) --- Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump. But the tech giant gives users little indication that it buys far more sensitive data about them, including their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even how

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The DEA Isn’t Making CBD Oil Illegal — Yet

‘People need to understand that there are federal laws that the DEA cannot bypass,’ a hemp industry professional tells MintPress News.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Marijuana Testing Labs

AUSTIN, Texas --- An administrative change by the Drug Enforcement Administration has left users of CBD oil, a popular tincture derived from agricultural hemp, fearful that they could lose access to this vital health remedy. CBD oil is currently considered legal in all 50 states, and agricultural hemp, a non-psychoactive variety of the cannabis

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Trump Selects His Anti-Peace Bankruptcy Lawyer As Ambassador To Israel

‘Trump’s approach to Israel-Palestine is going to really reinforce apartheid, promote annexation and not show any concern for the rights of Palestinians or for Israelis who really want peace,’ warned the director of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
Trump Selects Anti-Peace Religious Extremist As Ambassador To Israel

AUSTIN, Texas --- President-elect Donald Trump has selected David Friedman, a notorious opponent of the peace process in Israel and Palestine and a financial supporter of illegal Israeli settlements, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel. Trump, who officially nominated Friedman on Dec. 15, is unlikely to quell the accusations of corruption

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Peace Activists Set Out For Aleppo From Berlin, On Foot

“It’s time to act, we’ve had enough of clicking the sad or shocked faces on Facebook and writing, ‘This is terrible.'”

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Activists await the launch of the Civil March for Aleppo at the air field of the former airport Tempelhof in Berlin, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

BERLIN (REPORT) — Several hundred peace activists have started what they say will be a months-long protest march from Berlin to war-ravaged Syria to urge an end to the fighting there. The Civil March for Aleppo set off carrying white flags from Berlin's former Tempelhof Airport on Monday in cloudy, cold and blustery weather. Organizers said

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Despite Pressure From Trump, UN Votes To Demand End To Israeli Settlements

“There is an increasing understanding among U.S. political leaders, thanks to ongoing grassroots pressure, of the need to hold Israel accountable to international law. The U.S. abstention from this resolution is a welcome sign in that regard.”

Deirdre Fulton
بواسطة Deirdre Fulton
In this photo provided by the United Nations, members of the United Nations Security council vote at the United Nations headquarters on Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, in favor of condemning Israel for its practice of establishing settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. In a striking rupture with past practice, the U.S. allowed the vote, not exercising its veto. (Manuel Elias/The United Nations via AP)

(ANALYSIS) --- Despite unusual diplomatic maneuvering involving President-elect Donald Trump, Israel, and Egypt on Thursday, the United Nations Security Council passed a historic resolution on Friday demanding an end to Israeli settlements. The United States abstained, effectively allowing the measure to be approved. Egypt withdrew the original

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Watch: Are England’s Forests Disappearing?

2017 will be one to watch – and challenge – for nature.

Emma Howard
بواسطة Emma Howard
Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) bloom in an ancient woodland forest (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

(REPORT) — If has been a year of bad omens for the UK’s natural world. One in ten wildlife species are now at risk of extinction, the landmark State of Nature report announced in September. In sheer numbers, one in six of the country’s animals, birds, fish and plants have already been lost. The UK is now “among the most nature depleted

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