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I present to you quotes from "All Quiet on the Western Front":

“Comrade, I did not want to kill you. . . . But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. . . . I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our fellowship. Forgive me, comrade. We always see it too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony—Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?”

“The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.”

“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. And all men of my age, here and over there, throughout the whole world see these things; all my generation is experiencing these things with me. What would our fathers do if we suddenly stood up and came before them and proffered our account? What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;—it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?”

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2662852-im-westen-nichts-neues

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http://peninsulapress.com/2017/05/03/ravenswood-school-district-superintendent-and-teachers/

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a 12-yr-old boy has drives 800 miles across new south wales in an attempt to reach western australia.

he was stopped by police in Broken Hill (pic related).

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/24/asia/boy-drives-across-australia-trnd/index.html

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Pyongyang: “War Imminent” – a Rebuke of American Imperialism

>https://intelhuxley.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/pyongyang-war-imminent-my-rebuke-of-american-imperialism/

Thoughts on Trumps latest?

I'm interested to know what you think of Trumps apparent thirst for conflict

Do share...

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The head of Ucas says universities are ‘too fixated’ on careers. After obsessing about jobs in my final year, I agree

Like many students, I was fixated on careers in my final year. I had no idea what to do. My graduation photo sums it up well: “Bloody hell,” my fake smile says, “what happens now?”

Last week, Mary Curnock Cook, the head of Ucas, said universities and middle-class parents had become “too fixated” on careers and “in an ideal world, six months out is a good idea”. Looking back on a bittersweet year before I started my master’s, I’m inclined to agree.

I had visited my university’s careers department and decided, in my less-than blissful ignorance, that recruitment might be a good bet. A week after graduation, I had an interview at a recruitment firm in London. My interviewer said I had a spark about me and was interested. I could email him to confirm a second interview in a month’s time if I wanted the job. The only proviso was I cut my hair: short back and sides, like everyone else in the company. I couldn’t afford to take the offer lightly – but was this really the kind of place I wanted to work?

https://www.educnews.info/why-a-year-out-after-graduation-is-worth-the-risk/4369

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In a San Francisco federal court case, the plaintiff accused GMO giants Monsanto of hiring third-parties who hide their association with the company to respond to negative online comments, also known as ‘shills’.

The case challenges Monsanto’s corrupt relationship with members of the Environmental Protection Agency and their attempts to manipulate scientific publications and crack down on online dissent. Monsanto’s ‘Let Nothing Go’ campaign allegedly hired online ‘shills’ to quickly respond to social media chatter about the carcinogenic properties of their ‘RoundUp’ product.

The plaintiff claims to have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of exposure to glyphosate in Monsanto’s ‘Roundup’ product, and believes that Monsanto aggressively attempted to remove all warnings of the risks surrounding the pesticide.

https://leakofnations.com/monsanto-accused-in-court-of-conducting-an-army-of-shills-to-crackdown-on-negative-online-comments-monsanto-shills-roundup-cancer-link-monsanto-ghostwrite-scientific-articles/

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http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-f8-mark-zuckerberg-augmented-reality-2026-2017-4

> At this week's Facebook F8 conference in San Jose, Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on his crazy ambitious 10-year plan for the company, first revealed in April 2016.

>Here's the current version of that roadmap, revealed by Zuckerberg this week:
(pic related)

>Basically, Zuckerberg's uses this roadmap to demonstrate Facebook's three-stage game plan in action: First, you take the time to develop a neat cutting-edge technology. Then you build a product based on it. Then you turn it into an ecosystem where developers and outside companies can use that technology to build their own businesses.

>When Zuckerberg first announced this plan last year, it was big on vision, but short on specifics.

>On Facebook's planet of 2026, the entire world has internet access — with many people likely getting it through Internet.org, Facebook's connectivity arm. Zuckerberg reiterated this week that the company is working on smart glasses that look like your normal everyday Warby Parkers. And underpinning all of this, Facebook is promising artificial intelligence good enough that we can talk to computers as easily as chatting with humans.

>A world without screens

>For science-fiction lovers, the world Facebook is starting to build is very cool and insanely ambitious. Instead of smartphones, tablets, TVs, or anything else with a screen, all our computing is projected straight into our eyes as we type with our brains.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-debt-bankruptcy-idUSKBN17Z1UC

>Puerto Rico announced a historic restructuring of its public debt on Wednesday, touching off what may be the biggest bankruptcy ever in the $3.8 trillion U.S. municipal bond market.

>While it was not immediately clear just how much of Puerto Rico's $70 billion of debt would be included in the bankruptcy filing, the case is sure to dwarf Detroit's insolvency in 2013.

>The move comes a day after several major creditors sued Puerto Rico over defaults its bonds.

>Bankruptcy may not immediately change the day-to-day lives of Puerto Rico's people, 45 percent of whom live in poverty, but it may lead to future cuts in pensions and worker benefits, and possibly a reduction in health and education services.

>The island's economy has been in recession for nearly 10 years, with an unemployment rate of about 11.0 percent, and the population has fallen by about 10 percent in the past decade.

>The bankruptcy process will also give Puerto Rico the legal ability to impose drastic discounts on creditor recoveries, but could also spook investors and prolong the island's lack of access to debt markets.

>BANKRUPTCY UNDER PROMESA LAW

>The debt restructuring petition was filed by Puerto Rico's financial oversight board in the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico on Wednesday, and was made under Title III of last year's U.S. Congressional rescue law known as PROMESA.

>The Title III provision allows for a court debt restructuring process akin to U.S. bankruptcy protection. Puerto Rico is barred from a traditional municipal bankruptcy protection under Chapter 9 of the U.S. code.

>The filing includes only Puerto Rico's central government, which owes some $18 billion in debt backed by the island's constitution.
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"The political turmoil comes against the backdrop of a worsening economic crisis. Despite having the largest proven oil reserves in the world, Venezuela is fast running out of cash, and its people have struggled for years with food and medical shortages, coupled with skyrocketing prices."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/18/americas/venezuela-protest-explainer/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36319877

All I can think about is wishing I had Iron Man's suit so I can go help these poor people ...

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https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/05/02/2017-05-02-tracing-spicer/

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An Indian state has handed out hundreds of wooden bats to newly married women to use as a weapon if their husbands become abusive.

>Gopal Bargava, a Minister in the state of Madhya Pradesh, handed out the paddles, traditionally used to get dirt out of clothes in old-fashioned laundries, to around 700 brides at a mass wedding.

>The nearly foot-long paddles have messages on them that read “For beating drunkards” and “Police won’t intervene”.

>Mr Bhargava told Agence France Presse he wanted to draw attention to the domestic abuse of rural women receive from their alcoholic husbands.

>He said: "Women say whenever their husbands get drunk they become violent. Their savings are taken away and splurged on liquor.

>"There is no intent to provoke women or instigate them to violence but the bat is to prevent violence."

>He has ordered nearly 10,000 bats to distribute to newly wed women.

>The governor said he decided on the move after a woman asked him if she should beat her husband with a bat to stop him drinking.

>In the state a group of feminist vigilantes called the Gulabi Gangs, who wear pink saris and carry wooden sticks, have started a campaign to stop vendors selling alcohol and to shut down illegal moonshine operations, the Daily Telegraph reported.

>Many Indian states have launched crackdowns on alcohol in recent years by banning or restricting its sale in an attempt to prevent violence.

>In 2016 the government of Tamil Nadu state said they would introduce a ban during a state election campaign after the measure proved popular with women voters who blame alcohol for much of the state’s domestic and sexual violence.

>The has been increasing concern about widespread misogyny across India.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-domestic-violence-women-drunk-alcohol-abuse-husbands-madhya-pradesh-gopal-bargava-a7711056.html

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Is she guilty?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4463832/Australian-woman-likely-face-jail-cocaine-smuggling.html

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>Facebook's secretive advertising practices became a little more public on Monday thanks to a leak out of the company's Australian office. This 23-page document, discovered by The Australian (paywall), details in particular how Facebook executives promote advertising campaigns that exploit Facebook users' emotional states—and how these are aimed at users as young as 14 years old.

>According to the report, the selling point of this 2017 document is that Facebook's algorithms can determine, and allow advertisers to pinpoint, "moments when young people need a confidence boost." If that phrase isn't clear enough, Facebook's document offers a litany of teen emotional states that the company claims it can estimate based on how teens use the service, including "worthless," "insecure," "defeated," "anxious," "silly," "useless," "stupid," "overwhelmed," "stressed," and "a failure."

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/05/facebook-helped-advertisers-target-teens-who-feel-worthless/

Original, behind a paywall:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/digital/facebook-targets-insecure-young-people-to-sell-ads/news-story/a89949ad016eee7d7a61c3c30c909fa6

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-opposition-protests-idUSKBN17V0A8?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

>Several hundred Russians lined up in central Moscow on Saturday under the gaze of riot police to hand over handwritten appeals for President Vladimir Putin to quit, as similar protests took place in other cities.

>Putin, who has dominated Russian politics for 17 years, has not said whether he will run in presidential elections in March 2018. But the 64-year-old politician, who enjoys high popularity ratings, is widely expected to do so.

>Saturday's protest in the capital -- called "We're sick of him" -- was organized by the Open Russia movement founded by Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Once Russia's richest man, he was freed by Putin in 2013 after spending a decade in jail for fraud, a charge Khodorkovsky said was politically-motivated.

>One of hundreds shepherded into a queue behind metal barriers by police before handing over their petitions one-by- one, Anna, a 16-year-old Moscow schoolgirl, said she hoped Putin would get the message and not run again.

>"Nothing positive has happened in our country on his watch and I have the sense that things are getting worse, and that the main problem is the fact that those in power are the same," she told Reuters.

>Her preference for president was opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who spent 15 days in jail last month after helping organize the biggest anti-government protests since 2012, which ended with over 1,000 arrests.

>Saturday's event, held in bright sunshine, was more modest, though authorities were taking no chances. A Reuters reporter counted at least 30 police buses and coaches in the area, packed with hundreds of riot police.

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President Donald Trump invited the controversial leader of the Philippines to the White House in a phone call Saturday.

The two leaders had "a very friendly conversation" in which they talked about the North Korea threat, according to the White House's readout of the call. The two men, who have drawn comparisons for their tough rhetoric, also discussed the Philippine government's fight against drugs.

What remained unmentioned, however, are the extrajudicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users as part of the government's drug war. Thousands have been killed by police and vigilantes since Duterte took office and vowed to eradicate his country's massive drug problem. The rising death toll has drawn criticisms from international human rights groups, at least one of which, the Human Rights Watch, has made the case for a criminal investigation of the Duterte administration.

The relationship between the United States and the Philippines soured under President Barack Obama, who criticized Duterte's bloody war on drugs. Not one to take criticism lightly, Duterte snapped at Obama on a few occasions, telling him to "go to hell" and, at one point, using the Tagalog phrase for "son of a bitch" or "son of a whore" when addressing the then-U.S. president. In September, Obama canceled a meeting with Duterte, whom he called a "colorful guy."
https://youtu.be/cGc6pgSnNUQ?list=RDcGc6pgSnNUQ