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Google pushes artificial intelligence for upgraded news app | AFP

May 20, 2018 (AFP) -- For its updated news application, Google is doubling down on the use of artificial intelligence as part of an effort to weed our disinformation and help users get viewpoints beyond their own "filter bubble." Google chief Sundar Pichai, who unveiled the updated Google News earlier this month, said the app now "surfaces the news you care about from trusted sources while still ...

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Does Our National News Media Mislead Us About The Value Of Exit Polls In Monitoring Our Elections? | Dale Tavris

Map of red states and blue states in the U.S. Red=The Republican candidate carried the state in all four most recent presidential elections (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016). Pink=The Republican candidate car ...

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The mind-boggling corruption of Trump Inc. | Ryan Cooper

"Trump." By IoSonoUnaFotoCamera. Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)May 18, 2018 (The Week) -- Another week in the Donald Trump presidency, another handful of days so stuffed full of sordid and highly complicated ...

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Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as ‘Liberals’ and ‘Progressives’ Go Mute | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 1, 2018 Three more Palestinians were killed and 611 wounded Friday, when tens of thousands of Gazans continued their largely non-violent protests ...

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Ghost Signs in New York City (part 1) | Mickey Z.

Credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 4, 2018 These days an advertisement can load a discount coupon onto your smartphone as you walk past. But not that long ago, ad men needed paint, s ...

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The Original Donald Trump | Frank Rich

Roy Cohn in 1986, a few months before he died. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark The New York Establishment will ignore unscrupulous acts to serve its interests -- just look how it treated Roy Cohn, onet ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- May 1, 2018 Friends Committee On National Legislation April 23-May 4 2nd Preparatory Committee Session for 2020 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. Re ...

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Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising | Ellen Brown

The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150 percent of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what ...

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The public perception of Stormy Daniels, “porn stars” and “hookers.” | Mickey Z.

By DonkeyHotey (Stormy Daniels - Caricature) , via Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust April 19, 2018 “The reasons a woman only has to make one porn film to be a ‘porn star’ are similar t ...

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Nuclear Calendar -- April 17, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation April 17, 2018 April 17 8:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m, "China and North Korea: Past, Present, and Future," with multiple speakers, United States Ins ...

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The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet | Ellen Brown

April 4, 2018 (Web of Debt) -- Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitor ...

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