The Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

January 30, 2020

The biggest indie rock gig of the year is a Bernie Sanders rally
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"And no big surprise here, but Bernie’s especially popular among millennial and Gen Z voters. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, 53% of Democrats nationwide under the age of 35 are Sanders supporters. His sudden surge has centrists suddenly feeling really nervous about nominating a Social Democrat for president — though they’d be wise to pay attention to millennial voting preferences, since young voters were crucial to 2018’s “blue wave.”"

A year on, Juan Guaidó’s attempt at regime change in Venezuela has stalled | Tony Wood | Opinion | The Guardian
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An underestimation of Chavismo’s resilience means the US-backed drive to topple Nicolás Maduro has fizzled out, says author Tony Wood

Yet another reason Canada’s oil and gas workers feel like no one cares | Terry Glavin
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A ‘scab camp’ for perhaps 500 ‘temporary replacement workers’ has been erected inside FCL Ltd.’s Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina

The Yale report: CPSC is expecting quick action by the government to regulate web giants | Canadian Union of Public Employees
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Further to yesterday’s tabling of the report from the committee of experts tasked with examining Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications legislation, the Conseil provincial du secteur des communications (CPSC) of the Canadian Union of Public Employees is hoping that the Government of Canada will act quickly to implement several of the recommendations in the report.

Kushner says he hopes Israel waits on sovereignty steps in West Bank - Reuters
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"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has hailed the U.S. proposal, told reporters on Tuesday that he would ask his Cabinet next week to approve applying Israeli law to Jewish settlements in the West Bank."

Equilibrium Theory and Near East Economics

Michael Hudson takes us deep into the economic history of the near east as a juxtaposition with current day fallacies.

Google Receives Geofence Warrants

The article is about geofence warrants, where the police go to companies like Google and ask for information about every device in a particular geographic area at a particular time. In 2013, we learned from Edward Snowden that the NSA does this worldwide. Its program is called CO-TRAVELLER.