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Approximately 2B people may lose their jobs in the near future due to fallout from the pandemic


RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 10:09 UTC
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© Getty Images/JJ GouinA sign of the times...
More than half of the world's workforce (nearly two billion people) risk losing their jobs or moving to part-time work in 2020 as a result of the economic fallout from coronavirus outbreak. That's according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), seen by RIA Novosti.

"It's hard to overestimate the radical changes in the global workforce due to the crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19," said the report, citing estimates by the International Labor Organization that global labor income losses will reach $3.4 trillion this year. In the next two to three months, one out of six people in the world will lose their jobs, with the unemployment rate to exceed 17 percent, said the authors of the research.

The impact of the crisis on the labor market will vary greatly across industries, with those most directly affected by quarantine measures to be hit the hardest. According to BCG analysis, more than 80 percent of all the layoffs in the world are likely to occur in the non-food retail sector, manufacturing, hotel and restaurant business, tourism and construction.
"We expect that the world's unemployment rate will start returning to balance by the end of 2020. However, [the] pandemic has already launched the process of long-term structural changes - from flexible and remote work schemes to accelerated automation - and these changes will affect up to 1.5 billion jobs over the next decade."
BCG estimates that by 2030, automation will put 12 percent of existing jobs at risk, and about 30 percent of jobs will require completely new skills.
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Hero Moscow taxi driver saves woman from capture & torture using hailing app

Jonny Tickle
RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 18:07 UTC
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A Russian taxi driver is being hailed as a hero for helping to save a woman from captivity. While en route to pick her up, the hostage relayed her story to the driver through a taxi app, he subsequently called the cops.

On the night of May 27, 49-year-old muscovite taxi driver Dmitry Filin accepted an order through Yandex.Taxi, the most popular ride-hailing app in Russia. While on his way to pick up his passenger, who was supposedly in the city of Troitsk, an hour away from the center of Moscow, he began to receive messages in the application's chat client requesting his help.

Initially, he did not answer, hoping to figure out what to do when he arrived. This quickly changed. Filin burst into action after receiving another message: "I have been forcibly detained, raped, not let go. I don't know where I am."

By that time, Filin had already arrived at the pick-up point, but nobody was there.
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Twitter's Trump 'fact check' fails to disclose company is partnered with groups pushing mail-in voting - UPDATE: Trump fires back, hints at removing Section 230 protection

Aaron Klein
Breitbart News
Wed, 27 May 2020 17:12 UTC
Jack Dorsey
© Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty ImagesTwitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Twitter for the first time put a fact-check label on tweets from President Trump, using the controversial tactic on messages in which the president complained there is "no way" that "mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent."

It may be instructive that Twitter seized on the mail-in balloting tweets as the first issue from Trump's rapid fire social media feed to slap with a fact-check label. Twitter did not disclose in its so-called fact-check it is partners with two groups financed by leftist donors that engage in voter participation efforts, including drives pushing mail-in balloting.

Twitter sits on the "Premier Partner" list of one of those groups alongside ViacomCBS, the merger of Viacom and CBS. Twitter's so-called fact-check about Trump's mail-in balloting cited CBS political reporter Grace Segers vouching for mail-in voting.

Comment: What an incredible collection of slimy swamp creatures! But this is how it's done, each group is interlocked with the other behind the scenes of "charitable organizations" pushing for the same agenda. Breitbart has done the digging to bring those connections to light.

UPDATE 28/05/2020: Trump tweets regarding mail-in ballots:
After being fact-checked by Twitter on his assertion that mail-in voting leads to fraud, President Donald Trump doubled down on his stance and directed his anger right at Twitter.


He then tagged Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of site integrity, as a "hater."

The tweet follows the social media platform flagging earlier posts about mail-in voting fraud from the president, with a notice directing users to the facts surrounding the practice.

After his spat with Twitter, Trump promised to "strongly regulate" or even "close down" social media sites that "silence conservative voices" through an executive order.


The White House press secretary attempted to clarify the president's position on mail-in voting — which has been floated by various Democrats as a way to conduct November's presidential election because of Covid-19 — in a Thursday interview with Fox News, where she said Trump is only against "mass" mail-in voting.

"What he's not for is mass, mail-in voting, what Nancy Pelosi is asking for, which is subject to fraud," Kayleigh McEnany said.

Trump is set to introduce an executive order on Thursday that he promises will bring "fairness" to social media platforms like Twitter.

UPDATE 29/05/2020: Twitter BLOCKS Trump tweet, then unblocks but adds warning:
The social media platform warned that the president's message to Democratic governor Tim Walz about sending in the National Guard "violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence."

The tweet, posted from the @WhiteHouse account, repeated the content of an earlier tweet Trump had posted from his personal account (which was also covered by the censorship message about "glorifying violence").
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The White House account responded to the censorship by slamming Twitter's "biased, bad-faith 'fact-checkers'," arguing that Trump had not glorified violence but condemned it. Hinting at further enforcement to be leveled against the social media behemoth, it observed that such censorship was the act of "a publisher, not a platform" - i.e. a site that doesn't qualify for the protection from legal liability Twitter currently enjoys.

Twitter replied with a statement explaining its enforcement decision was apparently triggered by "the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today." The White House tweet, the platform said, was censored because it was "identical" to the original Trump post.

Trump has threatened to take on Twitter and other social media platforms over their censorship of conservative voices, and his war on Big Tech arguably began on Thursday when he signed an executive order aimed at stripping the platforms of their Section 230 liability protection.

Some have speculated Trump's intention was to lure Twitter into making unenforceable or clearly biased content-moderation decisions - i.e., that the president had set a trap for the censor-happy platform. Its promise not to interfere with the tweets of world leaders has already fallen by the wayside.




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Pennsylvania officials admit duplicate ballots were mailed to voters

John Binder
Breitbart
Thu, 28 May 2020 17:14 UTC
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© Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via AP
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, officials have admitted that duplicate ballots were mailed out to registered voters, though they are not sure how many.

Last week, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania's top election official admitted that duplicate ballots had been sent to registered voters but said he did not know how many were sent, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
In a conference call with reporters, Dave Voye, who manages the division that's had to process a massive influx of vote-by-mail applications and ballots as voters look for an alternative to in-person voting amid COVID-19, said the department started to notice there was a problem with duplicate ballots at the end of April. [Emphasis added]

Several voters told the Post-Gazette this month that they had applied for a mail-in or absentee ballot and received more than one in the mail. The county released a statement on the issue Thursday, and said it was the result of a bug in the state's voter registration system. [Emphasis added]
Still, Allegheny County officials have said the problem has been resolved and that duplicate ballots marked as such will not be counted in the state's primary election on June 2.

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Mental toll: Heartbroken dad reveals son took his own life days before 13th birthday after struggling with coronavirus lockdown

Fionnuala O'Leary
The Sun
Thu, 28 May 2020 02:47 UTC
Hayden's dad is devastated by his loss
Hayden's dad is devastated by his loss and spoke out in an 11-minute video
A GRIEVING dad revealed his son took his own life after struggling with the coronavirus lockdown - just days before his 13th birthday.

Brad Hunstable from from Aledo, Texas, said Hayden, 12 "wasn't depressed" or "someone who moped around" before the COVID-19 pandemic.

But his young son suffered during as a result of the emergency stay home orders and school closures.

Reflecting on his loss, Hunstable refuted people's claims that the lockdown was "just like summer" for kids like Hayden, who were stuck at home and isolated from their peers.

"It's not like summer," an Hunstable said in an emotional YouTube video, where he describes how coronavirus killed his son "but not in the way you think."

"We have a social and emotional bubble that's about to burst," he said "I hope nobody ever feels this way, to see what I saw, and to feel this pain."

Comment: We have only just begun to see the detrimental effects on the mental health of millions because of the unnecessary lockdown. But that we would already see such despair from a child is tragic beyond words. One wonders, also, just how much of a negative effect being so focused on gaming might have had on this child.

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Coincidence? George Floyd and now-former officer Derek Chauvin worked overlapping security shifts at south Minneapolis club

Ana Lastra and Eric Rasmussen
ABC
Thu, 28 May 2020 18:21 UTC
George Floyd and Derek Chauvin
George Floyd and Derek Chauvin
A former club owner in south Minneapolis says the now-fired police officer and the black man who died in his custody this week both worked security for her club up to the end of last year.

George Floyd and now-former Officer Derek Chauvin both worked security at the El Nuevo Rodeo club on Lake Street, according to Maya Santamaria. Santamaria owned the building for nearly two decades, but sold the venue within the last few months.

"Chauvin was our off-duty police for almost the entirety of the 17 years that we were open," Santamaria said. "They were working together at the same time, it's just that Chauvin worked outside and the security guards were inside."

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Minnesota Police arrest CNN reporter and crew covering George Floyd protests live on air

Chantal Da Silva
Newsweek
Fri, 29 May 2020 06:51 UTC
CNN journalist Omar Jimenez arrested
© CNNCNN journalist Omar Jimenez was taken into police custody during a live broadcast at protests in Minneapolis over George Floyd's death.
CNN journalist Omar Jimenez was arrested and taken into Minnesota State Patrol custody during a live broadcast on Friday covering protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

In the live broadcast, the journalist could be seen reporting on protests before pausing as state patrol officers appeared to pursue a demonstrator.

The journalist could then be seen speaking with state patrol officers directly, as he identified himself and his crew — including a producer and a camera operator — as journalists.
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Bizarro Earth

Minneapolis 'war zone': Rioters take over police station amid clashes, fires & tear gas - UPDATES


RT
Fri, 29 May 2020 03:15 UTC
Minneapolis
Minneapolis
Demonstrators have broken into a Minneapolis police headquarters, setting fires and destroying everything in sight amid unrest unleashed by the killing of a local black man at the hands of law enforcement.

The Minneapolis Police Department's 3rd precinct headquarters was breached late on Thursday night, with a raucous crowd of protesters seen filing into the building, smashing windows and some attempting to set it ablaze.

While the police presence in the area was heavy earlier in the day, it appears officers have since retreated, putting up no resistance to the break-in.

Comment: The FBI and local prosecutors are dragging their feet - according to residents - by saying they need more evidence to file charges against the officers who killed Goerge Floyd. A "robust and meticulous" investigation is reportedly underway, but Hennepin County attorney Mike Freeman added,
"I will not rush to justice, I'm going to do this right," Freeman said, adding that the footage of Floyd's last moments alive in police custody is "graphic and horrible," but that investigators must "prove [the officer] violated a criminal statute, and there's other evidence that does not support a criminal charge."
According to MSNBC host Ali Velshi, the protests/riots were "not, generally speaking, unruly", despite arson fires raging behind him:


Candace Owens is blaming Soros and agents provocateurs for the looting and vandalism:



Shots were fired in Louisville while rioters tried to flip a police van; seven were reportedly injured, one critically. Police deny they were the ones who opened fire, saying that arrests had been made in connection to the shooting.


Gunfire was also heard in Denver.


At least 30 protesters were arrested in New York City.


Mayor de Blasio is fueling the racial tension with his crystal ball-reading abilities:



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The way 'Covid deaths' are being counted is a national scandal

Dr John Lee
The Spectator
Fri, 29 May 2020 10:19 UTC
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We have no idea how many lives have really been lost to the disease

As a pathologist, I'm used to people thinking that my job mainly involves dealing with death. But nothing could be further from the truth. That is why I and many of my colleagues are so dismayed by changes introduced during the coronavirus epidemic which mean that pathology has not been able to play the role that it should have in helping to understand this new disease.

The word 'pathology' tends to conjure up images of body bags, mortuaries and murder investigations. 'Ho ho,' people say, 'your patients can't answer back.' They imagine days spent trudging across fields to reach murder scenes, Silent Witness-style, and nights sifting through arcane evidence to catch the perpetrators. And a rare type of pathologist — the forensic pathologist — does indeed do that.

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French gov't submitting to pressure from pharma labs by banning hydroxychloroquine, politician claims


Sputnik
Fri, 29 May 2020 06:13 UTC
Hydroxychloroquine
© REUTERS / Yves Herman
The French government's decision to ban anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for use in COVID-19 cases goes against French people's interests and rights to get an inexpensive and effective medicine to treat coronavirus, suggests Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, the leader of Debout la France party.

The French government has revoked a decree authorising the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients two days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) halted clinical trials of the drug citing potentially dangerous side effects which overweigh the supposed benefits.

The country's health officials approved prescribing the anti-malarial drug, in some coronavirus cases, in late March 2020, when a study by microbiologist Didier Raoult suggested that a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin would be efficient in fighting COVID-19. However, the recent research by The Lancet has found that the medicine in question could also cause cardiac toxicity especially if administered with azithromycin.

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