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One of the neoliberals who ruined Russian economy in the 90s shocks MSNBC pro-war nest with his anti-war positions!

globinfo freexchange Once in a while miracles indeed happen. Lately, more and more often, even in the US corporate media. After Tucker Carlson decided that truth could be proven more profitable than lies and propaganda, it was the turn of Jeffrey Sachs, one of the early economists of the neoliberal priesthood, to shock MSNBC pro-war pundits inside their home. The most hilarious detail in the whole story, is that, apparently, the MSNBC pundits wanted another neoliberal to say that Donald Trump is dangerous, and stop there. Why did they pick Sachs? Obviously because of his past record, especially his central role in the destruction of Russian economy in the 90s through a tsunami of neoliberal policies. But Sachs had an unpleasant surprise for them. Instead of just confirming that Donald Trump is dangerous and actually 'unsuitable' to conduct wars, he went further and condemned all the devastating pro-war policies before him. Essentially, he said indirectly that Tru

48 million social media users’ data leaked by yet another analytics company

A private data search service scraped several social media sites for user information, then left that data sitting in a publicly accessible repository without a password. Some 48 million people’s personal data was leaked. LocalBlox, a data analytics company, describes on its website how it “ automatically crawls, discovers, extracts, indexes, maps and augments data” from a variety of sources, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Zillow to build a “360 Degree people view, ” that is then sold to marketers. While the comprehensive range of data is scraped from publicly accessible sources, LocalBlox left a 1.2 terabyte file containing the personal data of 48 million individuals in an Amazon ‘storage bucket,’ password unprotected and accessible to anyone. Data contained in the leak included names, physical addresses, dates of birth, scraped LinkedIn job histories, public Facebook data, and Twitter handles. Somebody with access to this data could theoreti

Containers with chlorine from Germany, smoke bombs from UK's Salisbury found in E. Ghouta

Containers with chlorine from Germany and smoke grenades produced in Salisbury, UK were found in the liberated territories of Syria's Eastern Ghouta, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has stated. “ In the liberated areas of Eastern Ghouta, Syrian government troops have found containers with chlorine – the most horrible kind of chemical weapons – from Germany, and also smoke grenades produced – please pay attention [to this] – in the city of Salisbury, the UK, ” Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday. The findings undermine " the faith in humaneness ” of some states’ leadership, who “ give such orders and make such decisions, " Zakharova added. Prior to the alleged chemical incident in Douma, which was used by the US, the UK and France as a pretext for striking Syria last Saturday, Russia had repeatedly warned about possible provocations by the militants, according to the spokesperson. Moscow had also sen

US Homeland Security to track bloggers, journalists, & editors

The US Department of Homeland Security is looking to build a media monitoring database. When some reporters objected, a DHS spokesman dismissed their concerns as fodder for “ black helicopter conspiracy theorists. ”

The White Helmets tried to recruit Roger Waters with Saudi money

During a Barcelona concert on April 13, Roger Waters denounced the Syrian White Helmets as “a fake organization that exists only to create propaganda for jihadists and terrorists.” Warning that the groups’ unverified claims about chemical weapons attacks across insurgent-held territory were aimed at triggering Western military intervention, Waters cautioned his audience, “If we were to listen to the propaganda of the White Helmets and others, we would encourage our governments to start dropping bombs on people in Syria. This would be a mistake of monumental proportions for us as human beings.” In fact, Waters had first hand experience with the powerful pro-war PR operation behind the White Helmets. Back in October 2016, a public relations firm representing the White Helmets called The Syria Campaign attempted to recruit Waters by inviting him to a lavish dinner organized by a Saudi-British billionaire, Hani Farsi. The rock legend and renowned activist was told that