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Global survey reveals modern slavery is shockingly high in developed world


Press TV
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:51 UTC
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This undated file photo purportedly shows daily laborers in Britain.
Britain is home to about 136,000 modern slaves, a global survey found on Thursday - a figure 10 times higher than government estimates that points to emerging forms of slavery, police and campaigners said.

About one in 500 people in Britain were trapped in modern-day slavery in Britain on any given day in 2016, according to the 2018 Global Slavery Index (GSI) by rights group Walk Free Foundation, which says the crime affects 40 million globally.

The government estimated in 2013 that only about 13,000 people in Britain were modern-day slaves - trapped in forced labor, sexual exploitation and domestic servitude - while the police have said there are likely to be tens of thousands.
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Vancouver college maps thousands of attacks by crows

Ashifa Kassam
The Guardian
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:23 UTC
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The college launched CrowTrax to document attacks by the bird in Vancouver, Victoria and beyond.
It was a crow fiercely protecting its nest - and repeated complaints of it dive-bombing and swooping - that prompted the idea.

"Just about every day someone would come in and say: 'I got smacked in the back of the head,' or 'Mary got smacked in the back of the head,'" said Jim O'Leary, a teacher at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada.

"I was thinking to myself: I know crows are smart but we're pretty smart too. Isn't there something that I can do about this?"

The result was CrowTrax, an online tool that since 2016 has documented about 2,500 crow attacks in the Metro Vancouver region, nearby Victoria and around the world.

O'Leary, who teaches a course on geographic information systems (GIS), initially envisioned the site as a way to show his students how such systems could be used to map and store spatial data.

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Time magazine's 'creepy' Putin-Trump cover: This is what media subversion looks like

Simon Rite
Time
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:18 UTC
Trump-Putin hybrid
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Staring out from the front cover of this week's 'Time' magazine is a striking, unsettling picture of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump morphed into one. The hidden, yet unsubtle messaging behind the image is equally unsettling.

Time describes the image as "meaning to represent this particular moment in US foreign policy, following the pair's recent meeting in Helsinki, Finland." However, what it really represents is the way that a major US media outlet wants its readers to see these two men. As strange and creepy figures who are in some way linked.

Comment: Well, Time magazine has always been a ridiculous propaganda machine, so it's little wonder they would jump on the hysterical narrative bandwagon and stoke the fires of outrage. They're selling magazines more than anything else, and likely have little interest in actual journalism, so this was probably a good move on their part if judged by that metric.

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Living the high life: Toronto residents smoke nearly 1.42 million joints a year


RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:19 UTC
Toronto CN Tower
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CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Canadians are preparing for the day when they can smoke cannabis without breaking the law, but some of them have not been shying away from it as it is: Torontonians already light the equivalent of 141.7 million joints a year.

While the recreational use of cannabis will become legal all over Canada only on October 17, it's not stopping residents of Toronto, Canada's most populous city, from smoking it like there's no tomorrow.

A survey published by Environics Analytics on Thursday pointed out that, supposing all the weed consumed by the respondents came in joints, Torontonians smoke the equivalent of a mind-boggling 141.7 million per year. If the figure is too colossal to embrace, the researches give a more tangible equivalent - stacked up, they'd be as tall as 2,050 CN Towers, assuming an average roll is 8mm thick

Comment: Since they were ousted in 2010 as the city with the tallest freestanding structure, it seems Torontonians are trying to be the highest by a different means.

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Russia World Cup fan zones saw 7.7mn visitors - 2.5mn more than Brazil in 2014


RT
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:15 UTC
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The official Russia World Cup Fan Fest zones welcomed 7.7 million visitors during the tournament, FIFA has announced. The number is 2.5 million higher than at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

The Fan Fest zones were located in each of the 11 World Cup host cities in Russia. They were open to visitors on match days, when fans could watch games on giant screens and enjoy other cultural and musical entertainment

Perhaps surprisingly, the peak daily attendance at the fan zones came at the group stage of the competition on June 25, the day hosts Russia faced Uruguay. That day saw 499,000 fans across the 11 official zones.

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Actor Mark Duplass faces the ire of PC Twitter mob for daring to say nice things about conservative pundit Ben Shapiro


RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:26 UTC
Mark Duplass actor
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Liberal actor Mark Duplass has been forced to apologise for a tweet praising conservative commentator Ben Shapiro as a "nice" person whose "intentions are good."

'The Mindy Project' star directed his tweet to "fellow liberals" and advised them to follow Shapiro if they were interested in "crossing the aisle" and hearing opinions from those who disagree with them politically.

"I don't agree with him on much but he's a genuine person who once helped me for no other reason than to be nice. He doesn't bend the truth. His intentions are good," the since-deleted tweet read.

Comment: This is truly unbelievable. The guy said specifically in his original tweet that "I don't agree with him on much," so why the outrage? The fact that he would back peddle, delete the tweet and apologize just shows how much he values Shapiro's help "for no other reason than to be nice". That he'd side with the mob over someone who actually helped him is seriously low. It seems that Hollywood is now ruled by the PC Twitter mob and no one is willing to stand up to them.

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UK police want more leeway to use child informants against gangs, terrorists


RT
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 05:49 UTC
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© Nigel Roddis / Reuters
A 12 year-old boy leaves Manchester magistrates' court after admitting burglaryon August 11, 2011.
British law enforcement wants more leeway over how they are allowed to deploy underage sources during an investigation. A House of Lords committee believes that children's well-being may be at risk.

The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act of 2000 defines how British police can use covert human intelligence sources, or CHIS, during an investigation. A CHIS may be younger than 18, but in that case, special restrictions apply. For example, a kid under 16 may not be deployed to investigate his parents or guardians. Also, an authorization for the deployment of a juvenile informant may only last a month rather than 12 months for an adult.

The Home Office believes one month is too short and is seeking to extend the period to four months. The suggested amendment was laid before the House of Lords' Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, which is chaired by Lord Trefgarne, a former Tory government minister, and they believe the ministry's justification for the change is skewed. Their concerns were outlined in a report published on Thursday.
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Last residents evacuated from towns under siege in Northwestern Syria


Sputnik
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 05:49 UTC
Fua and Kefraya siege Syria
© REUTERS / Ammar Abdullah
The evacuation from two militant-besieged towns in northwestern Syria ended on Friday after the last 22 buses with residents were allowed to leave for Aleppo, a security source told Sputnik.

"This is the fourth motorcade carrying Fua and Kefraya residents to checkpoints in Al-Hadher and Al-Eis in Aleppo province and on to a temporary residential center in Jibrin," the source said.

Comment: The Guardian reports that nearly 7,000 people have completed the journey to safety, but not without attempting to whitewash the terrorists by claiming it was a 'rare example of a siege carried out by rebels', and that "sieges have been used as a weapon of war most frequently by the Assad regime."

They're simply lying, as usual:

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Man says he's sacrificed 675 people, mostly children, and literally stayed with Satan


Ghana Web
Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:17 UTC
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YEN.com.gh has sighted a video of a young man telling a horrible story of how he has used 675 people for rituals and literally staying with Satan for 17 years.

In the video, the man who looks like someone in his 30s is heard saying that he has served in the dark world his entire life.

17 years of which, he added, was spent at the level where Satan himself was. According to the man who was wearing a mask to disguise his identity, he was born with the dark spirits because his family is a "fully spiritual family."

To sustain his power, he had to offer sacrifices and he did so 675 times.

He explained that the 675 people he sacrificed were mostly children given to him by some doctors and nurses who were members of an occult group.
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Facebook forced to remove page inciting violence against Republicans after being exposed in congressional hearing

Juliegrace Brufke
The Hill
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:45 UTC
Matt Gaetz
Facebook on Tuesday removed a page for inciting violence against Republicans after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) brought it up in a hearing.

Gaetz said his office previously brought the page to Facebook's attention and the social media giant dismissed the concerns. But he presented the page to Facebook's head of global policy management directly during the House Judiciary Committee's hearing examining how social media companies filter content.

However, on Wednesday Facebook disputed that it removed the page, which is no longer online.

During the Tuesday hearing, the Florida Republican had highlighted content posted on a page titled "Milkshakes against the Republican Party" that called for "crazed shooters" to target the GOP's congressional baseball team and attack the National Rifle Association.
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