DECEMBER 5, 2018


NEWS AND VIEWS


THIS SIXTEEN YEAR-OLD ATTACKER IS BEING CHARGED CRIMINALLY WITH ASSAULT ON A FIFTEEN YEAR OLD SYRIAN BOY. THE TERM HATE CRIME WAS NOT MENTIONED. NO COMMENTS ABOUT WHAT PRECEDED THE ASSAULT ARE EITHER, AND IT MAY NOT BE KNOWN. THIS STORY COMES FROM THE FILMING OF THE CRIME BY ANOTHER STUDENT ON THE SCHOOL GROUND. WHETHER WE CALL THIS A HATE CRIME OR NOT, THE OTHERNESS IS A FEATURE IN IT, ALMOST CERTAINLY.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMYmzeZXxMM
Huddersfield video: Syrian boy fundraiser 'spent on relocation'
DECEMBER 5, 2018 3 hours ago

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Image caption -- The video was filmed in a lunch break at Almondbury Community School on 25 October

Money raised for a Syrian boy who was filmed being attacked at a school will be spent on relocating his family, a solicitor said.

The online appeal raised more than £158,000 for the 15-year-old refugee who was dragged to the ground at Almondbury School in Huddersfield.

Tasnime Akunjee, his family's lawyer, said they would stay in West Yorkshire.

Remaining funds will be given to charity or used to set up a foundation to help other refugees, he added.

GoFundMe said the appeal was one of its most widely shared and fastest growing of 2018, with donations made from 50 countries.

Organiser Mohammed Tahir thanked everyone for their contributions and said it represented a "life-changing" amount for the family.

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Mr Tahir said: "The donations have slowed down and I feel we are in a position where we can close the campaign.

"The donations have now been turned off and I personally would like to thank everyone who supported the cause."

Footage of the boy being pushed to the ground and having water poured in his face at the school on 25 October was shared widely on social media last week.

A 16-year-old boy has been interviewed by police and reported for summons for an offence of assault ahead of a youth court appearance.


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46425044
Sajid Javid: I was bullied at school for being Asian
3 December 2018

AUDIO -- Sajid Javid tells Today he was "punched to the ground" because he was Asian

Sajid Javid has revealed that he was a victim of racist bullying at school.

The home secretary* said he had been targeted and "punched to the ground" at the age of 11 because he was Asian.

He said he had been "reminded" of his ordeal by an attack on a 15-year old Syrian boy in West Yorkshire, footage of which emerged last week.

"Obviously I hated it and I thought how that young boy must feel," Mr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "Those memories flooded back for me."

Video images of the Syrian refugee, identified in newspaper reports as Jamal, being pushed to the ground and having water poured in his face in a school playground were widely shared on social media.

The video, filmed in a lunch break at Almondbury Community School, in Huddersfield, on 25 October, has been condemned by leading politicians, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn.

Mr Javid said he had been upset by the footage and dismayed that racist bullying of the kind he had experienced nearly 40 years ago was still going on in British society.

Media captionVideo shows "assault" on boy at Huddersfield school

"I saw the video like anyone else and part of me I was clearly absolutely outraged and, to be frank, it reminded of an incident I had myself when I was 11 at school."

"That's the immediate memories that came back to me. And obviously I hated it and I thought how that young boy must feel."

He said his first reaction to the attack had been "How can this kind of thing still be going on in our country?" he said.

Mr Javid, whose parents emigrated to the UK from Pakistan in the early 1960s, said he had been involved in a "very similar" incident shortly after he had started at a comprehensive school in Bristol, where he grew up.

"Those memories flooded back for me," he said. "Because I was Asian, I was punched to the ground."

An online fundraising page set up to help the 15-year-old boy and his family has so far raised more than £50,000.

Mr Javid said the public's response to the attack had been "heart-warming". He said he had written to the boy's family to express his sympathy and hoped to arrange a meeting in future.

A 16-year-old older boy is to be charged with assault in connection with the incident. The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will appear at youth court "in due course".


THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WORDS THAT I'VE SEEN A NUMBER OF TIMES, AND DIDN'T LOOK IT UP. SO, HERE IT IS FROM WIKIPEDIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Secretary
Home Secretary
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office. It is a British Cabinet level position.

The Home Secretary is responsible for the internal affairs of England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the United Kingdom. The remit of the Home Office also includes policing in England and Wales and matters of national security, as the Security Service (MI5) is directly accountable to the Home Secretary.[1] Formerly, the Home Secretary was the minister responsible for prisons and probation in England and Wales; however in 2007 those responsibilities were transferred to the newly created Ministry of Justice under the Lord Chancellor. A high profile position, it is widely recognised as one of the most prestigious and important roles in the British Cabinet.

The position of Home Secretary has been held by Sajid Javid since 30 April 2018.[2]


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https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mueller-says-ex-trump-adviser-michael-flynn-cooperated-in-russia-probe/
MUELLER RECOMMENDS NO JAIL TIME IN RETURN FOR “SUBSTANTIAL COOPERATION.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/special-counsel-robert-mueller-s-office-recommends-little-no-jail-n943446
RUSSIA INVESTIGATION
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office recommends little to no jail time for Michael Flynn in exchange for assistance
Flynn "provided firsthand information about the content and context of interactions between the transition team and Russian government officials," the memo says.
Dec. 4, 2018 / 8:47 PM GMT-5 / Updated 9:58 PM GMT-5
By Tom Winter, Ken Dilanian, Rich Schapiro and David K. Li

PHOTOGRAPH -- Michael Flynn resigned as national security adviser on Feb. 13, 2017, less than month into the Trump administration.Carlos Barria / Reuters file

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn provided "substantial assistance" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference, according to court papers filed Tuesday.

Prosecutors described Flynn's cooperation with federal prosecutors in a sentencing memo filed by Mueller that offered few new details of the Russia probe.

Noting that Flynn met with Mueller's team 19 times, the memo says a sentence that includes no prison time is "appropriate and warranted."

"The defendant provided firsthand information about the content and context of interactions between the transition team and Russian government officials," reads the heavily redacted memo.

The memo says Flynn began providing information to investigators "not long after the government first sought his cooperation."

"His early cooperation was particularly valuable because he was one of the few people with long-term and firsthand insight regarding events and issues under investigation by (Mueller's office)," the memo says.

Flynn's cooperation extends to a "criminal investigation" that is separate from Mueller's probe, according to the court documents. But the federal prosecutors released no details on that investigation, redacting nearly the entire section devoted to it.

Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's outside attorney, told NBC News Tuesday night that he's not concerned that Flynn shared anything with the special counsel that could implicate Trump.

"If he had information to share with Mueller that hurt the president, you would know it by now," Giuliani said. "There's a Yiddish word that fits," Giuliani said, in a brief phone interview. "They don't have bupkis."

Giuliani insisted that "maybe this will convince all of America there was no collusion."

Mueller releases Michael Flynn sentencing memo
DEC. 4, 201805:02

The sentencing memo also says that Flynn lied to the Justice Department about his ties to Turkey. He made the false statements in documents that he filed to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department. In the documents, Flynn disclosed that in August 2016 he began working on a project that benefited Turkey and paid his company $530,000, the memo says.

But Flynn left out that Turkish government officials were in charge of the project, according to the court papers. On election day, he wrote an op-ed article that called for the removal of Fethullah Gülen, an exiled Turkish cleric living in Pennsylvania, but failed to disclose that the column was motivated by his lobbying work on behalf of the Turkish government, the memo says.

Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to a charge of lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the weeks before President Donald Trump took office.

The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, but his plea agreement says he's eligible for a sentence of six months or less. Flynn's sentencing is set for Dec. 18.

In his plea, Flynn admitted to discussing U.S. sanctions with Kislyak in a phone call in late December 2016 and said senior members of the incoming Trump administration were aware of his efforts, which undermined the policies of the outgoing Obama administration. Flynn had urged Kislyak not to overreact to sanctions imposed by the Obama White House in response to Russian meddling in the presidential election the month before.

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Flynn had earlier made "material false statements and omissions" when confronted by FBI agents about the conversations, according to court papers.

The Flynn-Kislyak phone call created turmoil in the early days of the Trump administration and sparked fresh questions about its ties to Russia.


THERE WAS A LULL IN THE ACTIVITY AROUND THE RUSSIA MESS FOR AWHILE, BUT I THINK IT IS ROLLING FORWARD AGAIN. THERE WAS A REPORT IN THE LAST WEEK THAT MUELLER MAY BE ALMOST READY TO "WRAP IT UP," BUT WILL THAT INCLUDE THE PRESIDENT AS WELL? I HOPE IT DOES, BECAUSE THAT MAN IS NOT INNOCENT, AND THE CRIME CLOSELY RESEMBLES TREASON.

What's happening this week in the Mueller investigation?
DEC. 4, 201803:47
The White House denied that Flynn had discussed sanctions with Kislyak during the call, and Vice President MIke Pence later said that Flynn had assured him that sanctions never came up.

On Jan. 26, 2017, then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates told White House counsel Don McGahn that sanctions had in fact been discussed in the call and warned that Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by the Russians.

But it wasn't until 18 days later, on Feb. 13, that Flynn was forced to resign. The White House said Flynn, a decorated retired Army lieutenant general, was fired for misleading Pence and other senior officials about his discussions with Kislyak.

Flynn, who was forced out after just three weeks on the job, is so far the only member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a charge brought by Mueller as part of his probe into Russian election interference and potential ties to the Trump campaign.

As part of the investigation, Mueller's prosecutors have been trying to piece together what happened inside the White House over that 18-day period, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

Meanwhile, the filing of the Flynn sentencing memorandum came amid a flurry of activity in the Mueller investigation.

Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty last Thursday to lying to Congress about plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Cohen admitted that he was not being truthful when he told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Moscow project "ended in January 2016 and was not discussed extensively with others" in the Trump Organization.

Court documents filed by Mueller's office said the talks continued into June 2016 — in the heat of the presidential race — and for a time included discussions with Trump, his children and Russian government officials.

On Friday, Mueller's office is expected to file court papers detailing why the special counsel is withdrawing a plea agreement with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors say Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to federal prosecutors after agreeing to cooperate in the Russia probe.

And on Dec. 12, Cohen is expected to be sentenced in federal court in New York.


Tom Winter
Tom Winter is a producer and reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit based in New York, covering crime, courts, terrorism, and financial fraud on the East Coast.


Ken Dilanian
Ken Dilanian is a national security reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

Rich Schapiro
Rich Schapiro is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.

David K. Li
David K. Li is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.

Hallie Jackson contributed.


ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE, WAR AND THE INCREASING OF WEALTH – A BASIC REPUBLICAN CREED; AND YES, I MEAN CREED AS IN A DOCTRINE OF RELIGIOUS FAITH. WE HAVE COME TO THAT POINT IN A WIDESPREAD WAY IN THIS COUNTRY. THAT’S WHY IDEALISM IS TO BE SCORNED AND DESTROYED. IT IS DANGEROUS. READ THESE TWO ARTICLES FOR OVERLAPPING INFORMATION. FACEBOOK IS BEGINNING TO RESEMBLE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WHACK A HORNETS’ NEST WITH A STICK.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/british-parliament-seizes-facebook-docs-that-american-court-had-ordered-sealed/
By GRAHAM KATES CBS NEWS November 25, 2018, 10:37 AM
British Parliament seizes Facebook docs that American court had sealed

Last Updated Nov 25, 2018 2:47 PM EST

British Parliament has seized a cache of documents that Facebook has spent months fighting in a California court to keep sealed, the latest effort by the U.K. to force the social media company to answer questions over privacy and the spread of "fake news." The documents are part of a lawsuit in which a small app developer is suing Facebook.

The app developer, Six4Three, and media outlets have long sought to make the documents public. A San Mateo, California Superior Court judge has ruled the documents sealed. Now a Parliament committee has them, and will decide soon what to do with them.

The founder of Six4Three, Ted Kramer, was in London last week when Parliament asked for the documents in a letter from Damian Collins, Chair of Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

"We are requesting these documents because we believe that they contain information that is highly relevant to our ongoing investigation into disinformation and fake news," read the letter. "In particular, we are interested to know whether they can provide further insights to the committee about what senior executives at Facebook knew about concerns relating to Facebook users' data privacy, and developers' access to user data."

Collins said in an email to CBS News that Kramer didn't comply with Parliament's request at first.

"We did not threaten him with fines or imprisonment but reminded that failure to comply could lead to him being investigated for being in contempt of parliament," Collins wrote. "I have reviewed the documents and the committee will make a statement next week on how we intend to proceed," Collins said.

In a tweet Sunday, Collins noted that his committee has the right to publish the documents.


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The @CommonsCMS has received the documents it ordered from Six4Three relating to Facebook. I have reviewed them and the committee will discuss how we will proceed early next week. Under UK law & parliamentary privilege we can publish papers if we choose to as part of our inquiry

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The Observer newspaper in London first reported on the document seizure Saturday. It is not clear what the documents show.

Before suing Facebook, Six4Three created an app called Pinkini, which allowed Facebook users to search their friends' photos for them wearing bikinis. The company sued Facebook after the social media site changed its policies in 2015, effectively eliminating the Pinkini app's access to data it needed to operate.

In the lawsuit, Six4Three claims Facebook threatened to shut down data access to companies unless they complied with tough demands. Among them: That they purchase "advertising services from Facebook" or that a developer feed "all of its data back to Facebook."

A Facebook spokesperson called the lawsuit "entirely meritless" when asked to comment on Parliament's decision to seize the documents.

"Facebook has never traded Facebook data for anything and we've always made clear that developer access is subject to both our policies and what info people choose to share. We operate in a fiercely competitive market in which people connect and share," the Facebook spokesperson wrote. "For every service offered on Facebook and our family of apps, you can find at least three or four competing services with hundreds of millions, if not billions, of users."

On Tuesday, Collins will lead an unprecedented "international grand committee" of lawmakers from seven countries investigating Facebook and the spread of "fake news."

The group, which includes representatives from the U.K., Canada, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Latvia and Singapore will question Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president of policy solutions, before signing a set of "International Principles for the Law Governing the Internet."

The lawmakers have repeatedly tried to get testimony from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has steadfastly refused to appear before Parliament. Facebook has pointed to Zuckerberg's appearances before Congress and the European Union Parliament, arguing that he can't visit every legislature investigating Facebook.

Allan noted in a letter to Collins Sunday that Six4Three is challenging Facebook's efforts to restrict access to user data. Facebook provided his letter to CBS News.

"We have faced extensive criticism over the last few months for the fact that the app ThisIsYourDigitalLife, which your committee has looked at extensively, was able to access data shared with an installer of the app by their friends. We explained that we moved to restrict such access to friend data when we updated the API used by 3rd party developers over the period 2014 to 2015," Allan wrote. "This change was a significant one affecting thousands of applications and was communicated to them clearly and in advance. On earlier occasions, your Committee appeared to endorse this more restrictive approach. If this has now changed, it would be useful to understand why."

Allan said in the letter that while he expects to be questioned about Six4Three files during the "grand committee" hearing Tuesday, he is "also mindful that this matter is sub judice* before a court in California," meaning that it is under judicial consideration.

Collins responded to Allan's letter in an email, which was also provided to CBS News.

"As you know, we have asked many questions of Facebook about its policies on sharing user data with developers, how these have been enforced, and how the company identifies activity by bad actors. We believe that the documents we have ordered from Six4Three could contain important information about this which is of a high level of public interest," Collins wrote. "We are also interested to know whether the policies of Facebook, as expressed within these documents, are consistent with the public statements the company has made on the same issues."

The seizure of documents and "grand committee" hearing comes just weeks after a Nov. 5 report in which Britain's Information Commissioner concluded "Facebook... failed to keep [users'] personal information secure because it failed to make suitable checks on apps and developers using its platform."

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Graham Kates
Graham Kates is an investigative reporter covering criminal justice, privacy issues and information security for CBSNews.com.


YES, I DO THINK IT IS TIME FOR ZUCKERBERG TO STEP DOWN, AND OTHERS ALONG WITH HIM; THEN CHANGE THESE POLICIES, RESTORE OUR DATA, WRITE THE USER AGREEMENTS IN PLAIN ENGLISH AND IN A SHORTER FORM, AND ISSUE A NOTICE WITH A REQUEST FOR PERMISSION, BEFORE THINGS LIKE THIS ARE DONE WITH OUR DATA IN THE FUTURE. OH, YES, AND DON'T MESS WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND ELECTIONS AGAIN, OR SPONSOR ANY RUSSIAN PUPPET LEADERS EITHER. THE PENALTY SHOULD BE 20 YEARS IN PRISON, INCLUDING FOR CEOS OF CORPORATIONS. I HAVE NO OTHER WORDS FOR THIS -- WHAT HAPPENED WAS NOT FORGIVEABLE TO ME.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-gave-some-companies-preferential-user-data-according-to-uk-parliament/
By IRINA IVANOVA MONEYWATCH December 5, 2018, 12:40 PM
Facebook let some companies exploit users' friends data, U.K. email dump alleges

Facebook gave some companies preferential access to user data -- including invites to friends in users' networks -- without clearly getting permission, according to excerpts from emails released by the U.K. Parliament Wednesday. The social media giant and its founder Mark Zuckerberg also mulled ways to charge outside companies for user data, the email excerpts show.

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Apps from companies including Airbnb, Netflix and Lyft were "whitelisted"* -- allowing full access to users' friends -- even after Facebook said in 2015 it had phased out that feature. "It is not clear that there was any user consent for this, nor how Facebook decided which companies should be whitelisted or not," wrote Damian Collins, a Conservative MP leading Parliament's major Facebook investigation, in a preamble to Wednesday's release of Facebook emails.

The emails also show CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussing ways to encourage users to share more on Facebook in a way that would "increase the value" of the network.

"We're trying to enable people to share everything they want, and to do it on Facebook," he emailed on Nov. 19, 2012, according to the documents. "Sometimes the best way to enable people to share something is to have a developer build a special purpose app or network for that type of content and to make that app social by having Facebook plug into it. However, that may be good for the world but it's not good for us unless people also share back to Facebook and that content increases the value of our network."

According to Collins, Facebook also sought to minimize the fact that its Android app was able to gather users' call and text histories, knowing that feature would be controversial.

The release comes as part of a lawsuit by Six4Three, a small developer, against Facebook. Six4Three sued Facebook after the 2015 changes effectively eliminated the access that Six4Three's app, called Pinkini, needed to operate.

In a statement Wednesday, Facebook called the case "baseless" and said the email documents "are only part of the story and are presented in a way that is very misleading without additional context."

"We stand by the platform changes we made in 2015 to stop a person from sharing their friends' data with developers. Like any business, we had many internal conversations about the various ways we could build a sustainable business model for our platform. But the facts are clear: We've never sold people's data," the statement said.

According to Collins, the Facebook emails show it aggressively went after competitor apps, "with the consequence that denying them access to data led to the failure of that business." At the same time, the emails appear to show Facebook accommodated large companies that could become paying customers.

The emails also indicate that Zuckerberg considered charging for data access at least as far back as 2012. An email from Zuckerberg on Oct. 7, 2012, five months after the company went public, spelled out some possibilities for charging developers:

“I've been thinking about platform business model a lot this weekend...if we make it so devs can generate revenue for us in different ways, then it makes it more acceptable for us to charge them quite a bit more for using platform. The basic idea is that any other revenue you generate for us earns you a credit towards whatever fees you own [sic] us for using plaform. For most developers this would probably cover cost completely. So instead of every [sic] paying us directly, they'd just use our payments or ads products. A basic model could be:

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Pushing content to Facebook is always free

Reading anything, including friends, costs a lot of money. Perhaps on the order of $0.10/user each year.

For the money that you owe, you can cover it in any of the following ways:

Or if the revenue we get from those doesn't add up to more that [sic] the fees you owe us, then you just pay us the fee directly.”

Facebook maintains that it never sells user data, but many data-privacy advocates say the distinction between selling data and charging companies to access users based on their data is a rather fine line for practical purposes.

-- CNET's Dan Patterson and CBS News' Graham Kates contributed reporting. This is a developing story.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/05/icelands-anti-trump-prime-minister-joins-sanders-varoufakis-open-call-global
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Iceland's "Anti-Trump" Prime Minister Joins Sanders-Varoufakis Open Call for Global Progressive Alliance
The Progressive International's open call was just revealed at the first-ever Sanders Institute Gathering
byAndrea Germanos, staff writer

PHOTOGRAPH -- Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir. (Photo: Herve Cortinat/OECD via flickr)

Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir this week announced her support for Progressive International—the just-launched global movement calling for all progressives to fight together for a "shared vision of democracy, prosperity, sustainability, and solidarity."

A brainchild of the U.S.-based Sanders Institute and Europe's DiEM25—groups founded by Jane O'Meara Sanders and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, respectively—the Progressive International's open call was unveiled Friday at the inaugural Sanders Institute Gathering, a three-day congregation of hundreds of progressive leaders tackling issues including "full-throated economic populism," Medicare for All, and a vision "for a world that works for the children of this world, not for a handful of billionaires."

The feminist and environmentalist Jakobsdóttir, who's been described as "the anti-Trump," wrote on her Facebook page that the Progressive International represented "the struggle for general welfare, security, and dignity for all people," and that a trans-border network of those on the left would help "alleviate social and economic inequality, make changes to the global financial system, turn away from the arms race, and stop climate change," according to a Google translation of her post.

The open call from the Progressive International warns of a "network of right wing factions [that] is spreading across borders, working to erode human rights, silence dissent, and promote intolerance."

"Not since the 1930 has humanity faced such an existential threat," it continues. "To defeat this Nationalist International, we cannot simply go back to the failed status quo." Rather, "The time has come for progressives to form a grassroots movement for global justice: to mobilize workers, women and the disenfranchised all around the world behind a shared vis ion of democracy, prosperity, sustainability, and solidarity."

To hear more about the Progressive International, watch the following video released by the group, which declares, "It is time for progressives of the world to unite. Let us begin today building a better tomorrow."


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WATCH THIS VIDEO, ANOTHER ASPECT OF GLOBAL WARMING – FLORIDA IS WELCOMING PYTHONS AND OTHER INVASIVE TROPICAL SPECIES, AND THE US STATES TO THE NORTH ALSO. IT’S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE IMPERTINENT AND PLAYFUL FACE OF JEFF CORWIN AGAIN. HE’S SERIOUS IN THIS, THOUGH.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/wildlife-biologist-jeff-corwin-on-growth-of-invasive-species/