https://www.dallasnews.com/news/haltom-city/2019/02/05/amtrak-train-kills-pedestrian-trinity-railway-express-tracks-haltom-city
The woman who has accused Virginia Lieutenant Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexually assaulting her over a decade ago released a statement Wednesday afternoon.
Dr. Vanessa Tyson, a fellow at Stanford University, claims that she met Fairfax at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. After meeting a couple times, she alleges the two of them wound up going back to Fairfax’s hotel room on the pretense of getting some paperwork he needed. She then described the alleged assault. (RELATED: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine Will Wait On Fairfax Accuser To Step Forward Before Considering Charge)
Her statement reads, in part:
What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault. Mr. Fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch. Only then did I realize that he had unbuckled his belt, unzipped his pants, and taken out his penis. He then forced his penis into my mouth. Utterly shocked and terrified, I tried to move my head away, but could not because his hand was holding down my neck and he was much stronger than me. As I cried and gagged, Mr. Fairfax forced me to perform oral sex on him. I cannot believe, given my obvious distress, that Mr. Fairfax thought this forced sexual act was consensual.
A colleague of Tyson’s at Stanford, Jennifer Freyd, told the Bay Area News Group that Tyson told her and a couple others about the alleged 2004 encounter last fall.
Fairfax has denied the allegations.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/fairfax-virginia-assault-northam/
Business Insider reports that the social media giant Facebook plans to offer bonuses to employees that help the firm achieve “social good.” Previously, employee bonuses were linked to measurable metrics such as user growth rate; now it appears that the company plans to use the relatively theoretical metric of “social good” to reward their employees.
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer admitted that the company has not figured out how they’re going to measure employees contribution to “social good,” stating in an interview with Fortune: “This is going to be our first time figuring this out.” Currently, Facebook uses four metrics to judge employee bonuses, these include eligible earnings, individual bonus target, individual performance, and company performance.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly views social good as “Fixing Facebook’s problems, like election interference; building products that improve people’s lives; supporting small businesses; and being more transparent,” according to Business Insider. A Facebook spokesperson commented on the new bonus criteria stating: “Over the past two years, we’ve fundamentally changed how we run Facebook. This particular change is designed to ensure that we are incentivizing people to keep making progress on the major social issues facing the internet and our company.”
This appears to be part of Zuckerberg’s plans to focus Facebook in a more socially aware direction. On the company’s recent fourth-quarter earnings call, Zuckerberg stated that the company was going to concentrate on fixing social issues in the future; these include addressing the issues of “fake news”, “hate speech,” and election interference. He further added that he hoped to further promote “meaningful interaction” on the social network.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/06/facebook-will-award-employees-bonuses-to-help-the-company-achieve-social-good/
David Malpass, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the position of World Bank president, said he intends to implement reforms that he helped convince the international institution to accept.
Trump announced Malpass’ nomination on Feb. 6 in the White House, calling him “the right person to take this incredibly important job.”
Currently the Treasury’s Under Secretary for International Finance, Malpass is responsible for maintaining relations with nearly 100 international organizations and working groups.
Together with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Malpass made it his priority to get the World Bank to accept a number of reforms, including an increased focus on helping poorer countries and reducing lending to richer countries. The Trump administration has also secured a $13 billion funding increase for the bank.
“There’s a great opportunity now to implement these constructive reforms that will lead to faster growth and greater prosperity,” Malpass said.
The World Bank serves to lend and grant money to poor countries for development projects as well as help the countries set up institutions to reduce poverty.
The organization is owned by its nearly 200 member countries but the United States holds a controlling stake of about 16 percent, which grants it veto power.
The member countries give the World Bank initial capital that it leverages to borrow more money to lend under favorable terms to countries that would otherwise have trouble getting a loan. If the investment falls through, the member countries are on the hook to cover the losses exceeding the bank’s capital.
China
However, in practice, the bank has been lending to a number of middle-income countries. One of the largest recipients of World Bank capital has been China, which not only has ready access to capital markets but also runs an international development project of its own—the One Belt, One Road initiative.
“It doesn’t make sense to have money borrowed in the U.S., using the U.S. government guarantee, going into lending in China,” Malpass said in November 2017 during a Council on Foreign Relations event.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-pick-would-commit-world-bank-to-reforms-may-cut-off-china_2792896.html
moojoo shills highly triggered since POTUS butthurt them last night
sound encouraging, 4 sure