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Universal income doesn't lead to employment but it does make recipients less stressed

Jan M. Olsen
AP
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:42 UTC
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A nationwide experiment with basic income in Finland has not increased employment among those participating in the two-year trial, but their general well-being seems to have increased, a report said Friday.

The Social Insurance Institution of Finland, or Kela, said "it was not yet possible to draw any firm conclusions" from the first half of the experiment, where about 2,000 randomly selected, unemployed people aged 25-58 got tax-free income of 560 euros ($636) a month with no questions asked.

Finland is looking into ways to reshape its social security system and became in January 2017 the first European country to launch the trial, which will end in 2020.

Critics say universal basic income reduces incentives for people to look for work.

Proponents say it can empower people to start new businesses, knowing that they would continue to receive monthly income no matter how well their new venture does. It can also encourage people to try a new job without the fear of losing their unemployment checks or having to go through the paperwork of reapplying for benefits.

Comment: They really needed to conduct a study to come to this conclusion?

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Mumbai: 5 y.o. girl abducted, raped and murdered

Sugam Pokharel & Helen Regan,
CNN
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:30 UTC
Crime scene
A five-year-old girl has been abducted, raped and murdered in the Indian city of Mumbai -- the latest in a series of sexual attacks on women and young girls to shock the country. The girl was abducted in the city's Mahim neighbourhood early Thursday while sleeping with her parents and three siblings in a pavement shack.

Mumbai Police Deputy Commissioner Vikram Deshmane told CNN her parents approached officers after realizing their daughter was missing. Her body was found shortly afterward on the roadside nearby.

An autopsy confirmed she had been raped. Deshmane said initial investigations suggested only one person was involved. Police are checking CCTV footage of nearby buildings.
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Utah cop charged with assault after punching a high, 16 y.o. boy in the face

Jessica Miller
The Salt Lake Tribune
Wed, 06 Feb 2019 19:20 UTC
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High on spice, a 16-year-old boy had fallen asleep along a busy street in Murray in June. Someone tried to roust him by rubbing his chest, then grabbing his wrists. The boy felt pain, so he swung his leg at the stranger and slurred, "Please go."

"Hey, a--hole!" the stranger said as he punched the teen in the face. "What's wrong with you, huh?"

That's when the teen realized that the person trying to wake him up was a police officer, who, after punching him, pressed his face into the ground.

"I was in shock," the boy testified at a recent trial for Murray Police Sgt. Luis Argueta-Salazar. "Like who was hitting me? I don't know who it is."

At first, the boy didn't tell anyone he had been punched. And Argueta didn't inform his supervisors that he had used force against the teen as he responded to a report of an unconscious person who may need help.

But two people waiting in a nearby tire shop saw what Argueta did and called the Murray Police Department two days later.
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'Racist to its sole': Adidas capitulates to SJWs, removes all-white cotton sneakers created for Black History Month

Samantha McDonald
Footwear News
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:00 UTC
adidas
© REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
Adidas is removing a pair of shoes intended to honor Black History Month following backlash on social media.

The sportswear giant's exclusive Ultra Boost sneakers, named "Celebrating Black Culture," has been pulled after the brand received criticism for its design - particularly the all-white color.

Built with the classic uncaged variation of Adidas' lifestyle runner, the shoes come in a simplistic, almost monochromatically white colorway - with subtle purple, black and red accents applied onto the eyelets on the medial sides. A socklike upper also boasts off-white hues minus the signature Three Stripes lacing cage, with a custom insole bearing the letters CBC - an emblem paired with an orange basketball graphic at the center.
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Minneapolis school bus shooter charged with attempted murder

Sarah Horner
Duluth News Tribune
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:59 UTC
Kenneth Walter Lilly

Kenneth Walter Lilly
Kenneth Walter Lilly walked in front of a school bus his vehicle had collided with on Interstate 35W Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 5, and repeatedly shot at the driver inside, authorities say.

His gunfire grazed the side of the driver's head and struck his left arm. The bus driver was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center. His wounds were not considered life-threatening. An 8-year-old child also on the bus was not injured.

That's the account detailed in a criminal complaint filed against Lilly in Hennepin County District Court Thursday.

The 31-year-old St. Paul man was charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder as well as a second count of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon.

Law enforcement authorities responded to a report of a shooting on the interstate at Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis at 2:14 p.m. Tuesday. They arrived to find a school bus and black sedan parked in a lane of traffic, according to the charges.
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Yellow Vests won't give officials advance notice of Paris protests 'due to police brutality'


RT
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:39 UTC
Jerome Rodrigues yellow vest injury
© Reuters / Philippe Wojazer
Injured Yellow Vest protester Jerome Rodrigues
The Yellow Vests will no longer inform officials about their Paris rallies, citing severe injuries sustained by dozens of French protesters in clashes with police. The movement says it won't be "complicit in government violence."

In a statement tweeted by prominent Yellow Vest Jerome Rodrigues, who himself had an eye injured by a riot control grenade, the rallies' organizers say they don't want to have to carry the "moral responsibility" and be "complicit in sending Yellow Vests to be mutilated by the government."

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'The View' host Joy Behar under fire for use of blackface

Mark Kennedy
Associated Press
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:49 UTC
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Joy Behar and ABC were silent Thursday after an old photo resurfaced of "The View" co-host using makeup to darken her skin for a Halloween costume, the latest flashpoint in a series of blackface scandals making national headlines.

The 76-year-old didn't mention the clip on Thursday's show, one day after an editor for the entertainment website The Wrap tweeted the three-year-old segment of Behar discussing a resurgence of curly hair.

During the 2016 segment, Behar displayed a 1970s-era photo of herself at a Halloween party when she was 29. She says that the hair was her own and that she had dressed as a "beautiful African woman."

Co-host Raven-Symone asked whether she had on tanning lotion. Behar, an outspoken liberal, said she wore makeup "that was a little bit darker than my skin."
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'Suspension no longer necessary': International Paralympic Committee votes to reinstate Russia


RT
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:45 UTC
Russian and Paralympic flags

Russian and Paralympic flags at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Games
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has decided to conditionally reinstate the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), ending a near three-year suspension over alleged doping violations.

The decision was made Friday at an IPC Governing Board meeting in Bonn, Germany.

IPC President Andrew Parsons stressed that the ban will be fully lifted by March 15 if Russia meets certain conditions outlined by the Paralympic governing body.

The IPC Taskforce which was appointed to assess Russia's progress said that 69 of the 70 reinstatement requirements had been successfully met, except for publicly addressing the findings of the McLaren Report.
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Stormtrooper

'Hits like Tyson': 'Flash-Ball' guns became symbol of police brutality against Yellow Vests


RT
Fri, 08 Feb 2019 18:30 UTC
flash ball guns
© AFP / Zakaria Abdelkafi
Human rights activists have renewed efforts to ban 'less-lethal' guns that riot police use against protesters in France. Known as 'Flash-Balls,' they grew to symbolize the weapon of choice in the fight against the yellow vests.

"The lack of sufficient guarantees in the French law undermines the constitutional right of life and the respect for physical safety," the Human Rights League wrote in an appeal to the Council of State this week. The nonprofit seeks to ban the use of controversial 'defense ball launchers' (LBDs), commonly known as 'Flash-Balls,' by police against protesters.

The Council, which acts as the nation's highest administrative court, had earlier dismissed the call to ban the device, saying that LBDs are "necessary" and "particularly appropriate" for tackling violence during rallies. The human rights campaigners, appealing this decision, argue that 'Flash-Balls' are dangerous as they often cause serious injuries.

Such weapons are prohibited in riot control in most Western European countries, but French law enforcement had been equipped with them for decades.
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No Entry

Mexican border state governor: 'No more migrant caravans allowed'

Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby
Breitbart News
Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:10 UTC
mexican border patrol
© Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles
Mexico border patrol agents keep watch over the Piedras Niegras caravan
The Mexican governor who recently ordered 1,700 Central American migrants bused to the border with Texas claims he will not allow more caravans into his state. In recent days, the number of migrants grew to approximately 2,000.

After dealing with the first caravan currently in Piedras Negras, Coahuila Governor Miguel Angel Riquelme said his state is at capacity and will not be allowing any more groups, Zocalo reported.
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