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Companies are so desperate to fill jobs they're getting rid of drug tests

Julia Glum
Money
Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:01 UTC
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The global labor shortage has made work perks all but essential for companies scrambling to fill open roles. But in addition to promises of higher wages, flexible schedules and free college tuition for workers, one hurdle to getting a job is disappearing.

In a survey out Tuesday from staffing firm ManpowerGroup, 9% of employers worldwide said they are eliminating job screenings or drug tests in order to attract and retain talent.

Some 69% of employers worldwide are having trouble finding the people they need, with countries like India, Romania and Singapore reporting a particularly difficult time hiring. The poll results, which include data from over 45,000 employers from 43 countries and territories, underscores just how desperate companies are getting. While half of them are dangling monetary incentives, 20% are offering non-financial benefits like extra vacation days or, yes, the ability to do (certain) drugs in the employee's free time without worrying about repercussions.

Comment: See also: Employers are foregoing drug tests due to tight job markets and legalized pot

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Brick Wall

'Torture machine': Russian rights defender shares shocking prison videos


RFE/RL
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:50 UTC
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Prison No. 19 in Russia's Irkutsk region.
A prominent Russian human rights defender says his team has obtained a large batch of videos that he claims show prison inmates being tortured by agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).

Vladimir Osechkin wrote on Facebook on October 4 that the videos "prove" that FSB and FSIN members are using rape and other forms of torture to force inmates to cooperate with them and that they "themselves become part of the torture machine" by snitching on other inmates or by signing false testimonies prepared by investigators.

Russian prosecutors said on October 5 that they had launched a preliminary investigation into the videos already released by Osechkin, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov promised a "serious" probe if the incidents depicted in the clips turn out to be genuine.
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Attention

Woman charged with attempted murder in Times Square subway shove

Amanda Woods
New York Post
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 07:07 UTC
Anthonia Egegbara arrest
© Robert MillerAnthonia Egegbara allegedly shoved a straphanger from behind as a No. 3 train approached the platform.
A woman with a lengthy rap sheet is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly shoving a female straphanger into the side of an arriving train at Times Square, authorities said Tuesday morning.

Anthonia Egegbara, 29, was taken into custody at the same station where she allegedly pushed the 42-year-old victim from behind just as a No. 3 train pulled in a day earlier, police said.

Surveillance footage released by the NYPD late Monday shows the bandanna-wearing suspect sitting on a bench on the platform just after 8 a.m. — and getting up to perfectly time her push as the train rolled in.

Comment: This woman is clearly mentally unstable and a danger to the general public. Why is she still on the streets?

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Hardhat

Why people don't want to go back to work anymore

Tim Burke
Pahrump Valley Times
Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:00 UTC
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© Getty Images"The closing of public schools during the pandemic has also affected the labor market," writes Pahrump Valley Times freelance columnist Tim Burke. "For many families, school closures, hybrid models of partial in-person schooling and partial virtual learning, and limited day care options have necessitated at least one adult home to supervise and care for children."
"No one wants to work anymore" is what employers are saying in response to a large number of job openings with no takers. Businesses from small "mom and pop" establishments to major hotel/casino corporations are having difficulty filling open jobs.

I walked into a family-owned restaurant in Las Vegas last week, and half of the dining room was closed off. I asked why and was told, "we can't get anybody in here to wait on tables and bus dishes."

Many businesses in Pahrump have help wanted signs prominently displayed at their business entrances. Some Pahrump businesses have decreased their hours open to the public to offset their labor shortage.

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Snowflake Cold

Gender pay gap results from women choosing wrong degrees, heavily-criticized British report claims


RT
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:49 UTC
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A report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) was condemned by Twitter users on Tuesday after it blamed the gender pay gap on women picking the wrong degrees despite female graduates being more likely to gain a better result.

Ahead of the deadline for big UK companies to report their gender pay gaps, the London-based IFS argued that "men and women choose to study very different subjects at university, with men being more likely to study subjects which lead to highly paid jobs," blaming that on the growing gap in annual earnings.


Social media users were quick to slam the report, claiming that it "feels ludicrous" to suggest women are simply "unequipped to choose the 'right' degree," rather than addressing "the house of issues that discourage women from going into those degrees."

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Syringe

Double-vaccinated Emmy award winning artist dies after contracting Covid

Samantha Ibrahim
NY Post
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:48 UTC
Marc Pilcher
Hair and makeup artist Marc Pilcher died of COVID-19 on Sunday at the age of 53. He was double vaccinated and had no underlying health conditions, according to his agency Curtis Brown.

"It is with the deepest of hearts we confirm that Marc Elliot Pilcher, Academy Award Nominee and Emmy Award winning hair and makeup designer/stylist, passed away after a battle with Covid-19 on Sunday 3rd October 2021," his family told Variety in a statement via Curtis Brown.

Pilcher recently scored the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling on Sept. 11 for his work on Netflix's "Bridgerton."

Comment: Listen to this talk by Peter McCullough, who goes into great detail on the state of Covid treatment plans and how totally backwards it is to rely on a vaccine that's novel and experimental, all the while ignoring and shutting down the use of more robust, longstanding and grounded treatment plans which includes certain drugs and supplementation to fight the infection and recover.

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Best of the Web: YouTube changes policy and deletes Mercola.com channel within HOURS

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:21 UTC
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© Infowars.comYouTube has banned and deleted Dr. Joseph Mercola's channel
September 29, 2021, YouTube banned and deleted our channel, and the channels of several others, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for violating its community guidelines. This despite the fact that much of our content has been up for over a decade and never had any complaints from YouTube.

As you will see below, this is a blatant example of how government, technocratically-led nongovernmental organizations, social media platforms and media collude and coordinate attacks to censor people and organizations with whom they do not agree, or who pose a threat to their highly effective propaganda narrative.
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No Entry

'Who broke the internet?!' Major outages hit Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, Zoom, Snapchat & others following FB crash


RT
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:35 UTC
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© Reuters / Dado Ruvic; Reuters / Carlo Allegri; Reuters / Loren ElliottFILE PHOTOS.
Many of the world's largest apps and websites, including for banks and airlines, faced a cascade of outages all in the space of a few hours, prompting panic among netizens as some demanded to know who broke the internet.

While the glitches affected a number of popular social media platforms - among them Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat - other more significant institutions also faced major tech issues on Monday, such as Bank of America, Southwest Airlines, the professional networking site LinkedIn and the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, all according to outage tracker DownDetector.

The tracking website noted that the problems at Facebook marked the "largest outage we've ever seen on DownDetector," with more than "10.6 million problem reports from all over the globe." However, the platform and Facebook-owned Instagram appear to have come back to life since, having been down for around six hours.

Comment: It's rather curious that just over a year ago at the World Economic Forum's Cyber Polygon 2020 event, the Great Reset pushers were warning of a 'cyberpandemic', and, since then, there's been a surge in ransomware attacks, hacks against infrastructure and major business systems; and note that these are just the ones that have been reported:

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Yoda

Project Veritas Part 4: Pfizer scientist says 'your antibodies are probably better than the vaccination'


Project Veritas
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:18 UTC
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Project Veritas released the fourth video in its COVID vaccine investigative series today which exposed three Pfizer officials saying that antibodies lead to equal, if not better, protection against the virus compared to the vaccine.

Nick Karl, a scientist who is directly involved in the production of Pfizer's COVID vaccine, said that natural immunity is more effective than the very vaccine he works on, and Pfizer produces.

"When somebody is naturally immune -- like they got COVID -- they probably have more antibodies against the virus...When you actually get the virus, you're going to start producing antibodies against multiple pieces of the virus...So, your antibodies are probably better at that point than the [COVID] vaccination," Karl said. Notwithstanding, Karl still believes that vaccine mandates are positive for society.

Comment: James O'Keefe follow up:

Project Veritas' ongoing series on the Covid vaccine parts 1-3:

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Attention

Drones begin falling from sky onto audience below watching synchronized light show in China

James Robinson
Daily Mail
Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:07 UTC
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Other drones begin to descend slowly, seemingly still under control from their operators
Brightly lit flying machines descending from the sky as people below scatter in panic is the sort of scene you might expect from a sci-fi film.

However the pedestrians seen running in fear in this video aren't escaping from invading aliens. Instead, they are running from falling drones.

The bizarre footage, taken from the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, shows the machines, lit up with bright blue lights, plummeting from the sky to the streets below.

Comment: This is at least the third time that this has happened, with another incident reported in June 2021 in Shanghai.

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