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43% of unaccompanied 'underage' migrants turn out to be adults in Germany

RT
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:53 UTC

Some 43 percent of migrants in Germany who claim to be underage are actually adults, local media reports, citing official data. The figures for one of Germany's major cities, Hamburg, are even higher.

Out of a total of 55,890 asylum seekers claiming to be under the age of 18 and being treated as such by German authorities, 24,116 were officially of adult age, Die Welt newspaper reported, citing the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs. The media outlet claimed the data was valid as of November 8.

In some German cities, the proportion of false "underage"migrants appears to be even higher. In 2016 in Hamburg, for example, 47 percent of 1,813 migrants claiming to be minors turned out to be legally of adult age, according to official statistics. The same pattern persisted this year, as 49 percent of newly arrived 485 "unaccompanied minors" were actually adults.

Slave labor: Amazon workers in UK treated like 'animals' in exhausting working conditions

RT
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:41 UTC

Demonstration against Amazon workers' conditions in Germany.

Amazon workers are being treated like "animals," forced to work to the point of physical collapse, it has been revealed. An undercover reporter for the Daily Mirror laid bare the working conditions at the world's largest retailer.

Daily Mirror reporter Alan Selby found that workers at the Amazon plant in Tilbury, Essex, were so tired that they "fell asleep on their feet" while working a 55-hour week.

Selby spent five weeks as an undercover worker at the warehouse, which is said to be as big as 11 football fields, and where employees have to walk up to one third of a mile in order to reach the toilets.

Thanks Obamacare! The IRS won't process tax return unless you tell them you have health insurance or not

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:07 UTC

Yes, this is a true story. I was completely shocked when I learned about this too, and this just underscores the importance of repealing the individual mandate immediately. Shortly after taking office, President Trump issued an executive order which was intended to move the IRS away from enforcing Obamacare's individual mandate, but now the IRS has found a way around that executive order. According to the official AARP website, the IRS has announced that it will not process any tax returns from individuals that are not willing to disclose whether they currently have health insurance or not...

The Internal Revenue Service won't process individual tax returns in 2018 unless taxpayers indicate whether they have health insurance coverage or an exemption.

The move, announced last month, reverses course from this year, when the IRS said it would not require filers to indicate on 1040 tax forms whether they had health insurance. Filers were still required to have medical insurance or pay a penalty, but the IRS accepted and processed returns even if taxpayers didn't indicate coverage status.

So what this means is that you will not get your refund until you tell the IRS if you have health insurance.

And if you don't have health insurance and you don't qualify for an exemption, you could be hit with a very painful financial penalty.

Of course purchasing health insurance in some parts of the country is enough of a penalty as it is. For example, I recently wrote about a family of four in Virginia that is now facing the prospect of paying $3,000 a month for health insurance.

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place.

Spineless German public broadcasters cancel support of Roger Waters' tour after anti-Semitism complaints

RT
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 11:20 UTC

Two regional state-funded German stations will no longer promote and cover local concerts of Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, known for his anti-Israel views, after public complaints and a petition.

Malca Goldstein-Wolf, a Jewish resident of Cologne, wrote to WDR, the regional subsidiary of national broadcaster ARD, critiquing Waters' support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which aims to isolate Israel through economic and political means over its treatment of Palestinians.

"Will WDR actually support the new 'Do not buy from Jews'? [a Nazi-era slogan] And use state money to do so?" wrote Goldstein-Wolf, who also started an online petition that gathered 1,500 votes.

Comment: What a retarded and manipulative way of putting it. BDS targets specifically Israel due to its apartheid practices. It has nothing to do with "Jews". Does she realize that thousands of Jews around the world do not approve of what Israel does in their name?

Comment: Lets hear it from Roger himself:

Humanitarian Roger Waters on Palestine

California Democrat Raul Bocanegra will resign 'effective immediately' after sexual harassment allegations

Mallory Shelbourne
The Hill
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:57 UTC

The Democratic majority whip of the California State Assembly on Monday announced that he will immediately resign following allegations of sexual harassment.

In a statement posted to his Facebook page, Raul Bocanegra said he has decided to resign "effective immediately" instead of waiting until September of 2018, as he had originally announced.

"Upon further reflection during the recent holiday weekend, and conversations with family, friends, supporters, I have decided to resign earlier from the State Assembly effective immediately, which was my original intention," Bocanegra said in the statement.

Bocanegra cited "persistent rumors" of sexual misconduct in a statement last week to the Los Angeles Times in which he initially announced his plans to resign.

The Times earlier this month said it had contacted Bocanegra's office in reporting a story about six women who claimed they had been sexually harassed by the state lawmaker.

#MeToo hashtag spawns #ChurchToo; blows up on social media exposing rampant abuse by religious leaders

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:01 UTC

The "ChurchToo" Hashtag has been used to call out sexual predators disguised as trustworthy religious leaders who have been protected by the church system.

While the Catholic church is no stranger to sexual abuse scandals, victims from other religious communities have recently taken to social media with the hashtag #ChurchToo, to call out the predators who were disguised as trustworthy Christian leaders.

As Twitter user Elizabeth Halford noted, after the hashtag "MeToo" went viral, several of the nearly 2 million users from around 85 countries who shared their stories, were sharing account of sexual abuse that occurred at the hands of religious leaders.

"Following the #ChurchToo hash with interest. Many #MeToo stories at the hands of the church," Halford wrote. "And me? I was made to sign a purity contract at age 11. And witnessed a man confess from the pulpit having sex w/a child. Praised for his bravery. No further action."

Comment: Given the sheer number of people who have been abused by Church leaders over the years, we could be looking at a total sh*tstorm if this hashtag really ramps up. How easy will it be for the Catholic church, or any other church for that matter, to ignore this? See also:

31 migrants dead in rescue operation in the Mediterranean - some bitten by sharks

Sophie Inge
Mail Online
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 09:37 UTC

© AFP / Getty Images
African migrants are seen aboard a rescue ship as they arrive at a naval base in Tripoli on November 25, 2017, after their rubber boat was rescued off the coast of Garabulli

At least 31 migrants died and 200 were rescued by the Libyan coastguard
When the Libyan navy arrived, they spotted 'four or five' large blue sharks
Some of the bodies had been bitten when they brought the bodies on board

At least 31 migrants died and 200 were rescued after they were set on by sharks during a perilous crossing from Africa to Italy, Libya's navy has said.

Some 18 women and three children were among the dead, while 40 people were still missing.

When Libyan coastguard boats arrived at the scene, they spotted large blue sharks swimming around the boat, according to Italian media.

'When we arrived in the area, off the town of Garabulli, [one] dinghy was semi-submerged and still had 44 people clinging on to it, whom we saved,' Libyan patrol boat commander Nasser al-Ghammoudi told Italian newspaper Il Giorno.

Comment: A view on Europe's migrant crisis:

The Truth Perspective: Weapons of Mass Migration: Interview with Michael Springmann on Europe's Migrant Crisis

Threat to net neutrality: Breitbart, Kim Dotcom, Julian Assange, and Trump's right-wing base reject FCC's ominous plan

Zaid Jilani
The Intercept
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:02 UTC

© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Proponents of net neutrality protest against Federal Communication Commission Chair Ajit Pai outside the American Enterprise Institute before his arrival May 5, 2017 in Washington.

Federal Communications Commission Chief Ajit Pai has announced that on December 14, the body will vote to pare back net neutrality rules. Internet freedom activists and progressive organizations immediately responded to the announcement with a wave of opposition, as was expected.

But more interestingly, in some of the most right-wing and Trump-supporting corners of the internet, there is a rebellion brewing.

Take, for instance, Breitbart News. The popular right-wing website has been a loyal ally to President Donald Trump, perhaps more devoted to his cause than any other.

Comment: As a commenter asked in the above article, "How does anyone think this is a good idea?" It is crystal clear that only the ISPs and mainstream narrative controllers will benefit from this. Forcing people to pay more for less options and giving away the freedom to control what you can see online is clearly not in the best interest of anyone who uses the internet (ie. everyone). How accessible will SOTT.net be in this new controlled information age?

Justices to decide on limits of cell phone privacy in landmark case

Lydia Wheeler
The Hill
Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:06 UTC

The privacy of emails, photos stored in the cloud, even heart rate history from a smartwatch could be at stake, according to civil libertarians, as the Supreme Court takes up a potential blockbuster case after Thanksgiving.

When they return to the bench after the holiday, the justices will weigh whether the history of cell phone locations stored by a phone service provider is searchable without a warrant.

The case, Carpenter v. U.S., centers on Timothy Carpenter, who argues the government violated his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure when it obtained his cell phone location records from MetroPCS and Sprint without a warrant. Authorities then used that data as trial evidence to convict him of a string of robberies at Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores in Michigan and Ohio from December 2010 to March 2011.

The government argues that it was well within its rights under the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to get a court order for the records. The law allows this type of data to be searched if the government can show reasonable grounds to believe it will be relevant to a criminal investigation.

To obtain a warrant, law enforcement officers, however, must show there is probable cause.

Facebook rolls out skynet observatory... we mean AI to detect suicidal thoughts

True Pundit
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:47 UTC

Soon the cops will be kicking in your door because Facebook says you're a danger to yourself ... or others.

This is software to save lives? Facebook's new "proactive detection" artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders. By using AI to flag worrisome posts to human moderators instead of waiting for user reports, Facebook can decrease how long it takes to send help.

Facebook previously tested using AI to detect troubling posts and more prominently surface suicide reporting options to friends in the U.S. Now Facebook is will scour all types of content around the world with this AI, except in the European Union, where General Data Protection Regulation privacy laws on profiling users based on sensitive information complicate the use of this tech.

Comment: Considering how much information is sold to third party organizations, this AI could be easily used for the push for full censorship.

Facebook abusing monopoly of power for profit and working with US Deep State to censor news

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Society's Child

43% of unaccompanied 'underage' migrants turn out to be adults in Germany

Slave labor: Amazon workers in UK treated like 'animals' in exhausting working conditions

Thanks Obamacare! The IRS won't process tax return unless you tell them you have health insurance or not

Spineless German public broadcasters cancel support of Roger Waters' tour after anti-Semitism complaints

California Democrat Raul Bocanegra will resign 'effective immediately' after sexual harassment allegations

#MeToo hashtag spawns #ChurchToo; blows up on social media exposing rampant abuse by religious leaders

31 migrants dead in rescue operation in the Mediterranean - some bitten by sharks

Threat to net neutrality: Breitbart, Kim Dotcom, Julian Assange, and Trump's right-wing base reject FCC's ominous plan

Justices to decide on limits of cell phone privacy in landmark case

Facebook rolls out skynet observatory... we mean AI to detect suicidal thoughts

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