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Robot revenge: 24 Amazon workers hospitalized after machine accidentally releases bear repellent spray at NJ fulfillment center

Soo Youn
ABC
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:37 UTC

"Amazon's automated robots put humans in life-threatening danger today, the effects of which could be catastrophic and the long-term effects for 80 plus workers are unknown," union president Stuart Appelbaum said.

Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey have been hospitalized after a robot accidentally tore a can of bear repellent spray in a warehouse, officials said.

The two dozen workers were treated at five local hospitals, Robbinsville Township communications and public information officer John Nalbone told ABC News. One was in critical condition while 30 additional workers were treated at the scene.

All of the workers were expected to be released from the hospital within 24 hours, WABC reported Thursday.

The official investigation revealed "an automated machine accidentally punctured a 9-ounce bear repellent can, releasing concentrated Capsaican," Nalbone said. Capsaicin is the major ingredient in pepper spray.

The fulfillment center was given the all clear by Wednesday evening.

Comment: Welcome to Amazon: The Guardian starts a new column from inside Amazon: 'They treat us as disposable'

ISIS member on trial in Lebanon for plotting to kidnap diplomats' kids in Sweden

Sputnik
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 16:06 UTC

A series of arrests in Lebanon has unveiled a low-profile Daesh arm operating in Sweden, where terrorist attacks remain the biggest threat due to thousands of Islamist extremists permeating the country, according to official estimations.

A military court in Lebanon has accused a 20-year-old Swedish citizen of Arab origin of preparing terrorist acts on behalf of Daesh. According to the Lebanese intelligence services, the man was part of the group that plotted to kidnap children of diplomats together with fellow Daesh supporters in Sweden, the daily newspaper Expressen reported.

The Swedish citizen was detained earlier this year in the Palestinian refugee camp Nahr al-Bared in northern Lebanon. After interrogations with three Lebanese intelligence services, the man, residing in the town of Bromma west of Stockholm, was subsequently accused of having sworn allegiance to Daesh and identified as possessing valuable information about the terrorist group's activities in Europe, Expressen reported.

According to the Lebanese intelligence service, the man, who was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp al-Yarmouk south of Damascus, spent a month in the Lebanese camp, supposedly to meet his relatives. Inside the camp, though, he contacted a local Daesh leader, whom he had known since 2013 and who was also arrested in Lebanon. During interrogation, the 20-year-old admitted having travelled to Syria to further plot terrorist attacks in Sweden.

Pedophile US priest arrested for sexual abuse in the Philippines had child rape den

RT
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:37 UTC

A Catholic priest arrested and charged with sexual abuse of children during his longtime residency in the Philippines lived with numerous underage boys, prosecutors say.

The US and the Philippines announced the arrest of Rev. Kenneth Hendricks, 77, on charges of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, a federal crime that could result in up to 30 years in prison. The Catholic priest had been residing in the Philippines for almost 40 years, receiving some funding for missionary work from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.

This case is sadly far from isolated in the majority Catholic Philippines. In 2002, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines' President Orlando Quevedo estimated that in the course of last 20 years, some 200 of the 7,000 priests in the country may have been involved in illicit sexual activity.

Many disturbing details came to light during the investigation, such as the prosecutor's claim that Hendricks had multiple children living at his residence: "It is alleged he insisted they take baths together and would molest the victims alone or with other boys. The priest allegedly warned the victims that if they told anyone they would all go to prison."

Lawsuits filed after cops strapped man to chair & tortured him with pepper spray

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:18 UTC

Charles Wade arrested tortured police cops

A federal judge this week refused to dismiss excessive-force claims against Montgomery County, Ohio, and a jail officer who was seen on video torturing a man pepper spray who was suspected drunk driving and strapped in a restraint chair.

When pepper spray was invented, it was, in the words of one of its creators, to be "used to avoid confrontation or injury." But in the hands of so-called law enforcement, it is increasingly being used as a device of torture, especially when the subject getting pepper sprayed is already in four-point restraints to a chair.

Increasingly, it seems, law enforcement feels it is within their rights to pepper spray individuals who are already restrained. But one victim of apparent police brutality isn't taking the abuse sitting down. Charles Wade, a resident of Montgomery County, in Dayton Ohio, was arrested in October 2016, on drunk driving charges.

Dr. Tim Anderson, long-time critic of US foreign policy, suspended from University of Sydney

Pranay Jhaand & Liam Thorne
Honi Snoit
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 12:18 UTC

Dr. Tim Anderson

In a public Facebook post made today, University of Sydney academic Dr Tim Anderson announced that he has been "suspended from [his] position as a senior lecturer and banned from entering the university." The decision follows a long-standing series of investigations made by the University's Review Committee into Anderson's public conduct, chaired by Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Stephen Garton.

In a letter addressed by Garton to Anderson, shared with Anderson's Facebook post, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor explains that Anderson was in breach of his contract of employment and several University policies through the distribution of certain lecture materials.

Finland outraged by migrant gang's child rape ring, calls for tougher sentencing and deportation laws

Sputnik
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:06 UTC

A series of sexual attacks against teenage and even preteen schoolgirls, with the suspected involvement by migrants from the Middle East, has shaken Finland, prompting condemnation from top-ranking politicians including Prime Minister Juha Sipilä and President Sauli Niinistö.

A group of eight immigrants suspected of brutally raping and sexually assaulting schoolgirls over a prolonged period of time have been arrested in the Finnish town of Oulu. According to the police all the men came to Finland as asylum seekers or refugees, some from the Middle East, national broadcaster Yle reported.

The alleged abusers are aged 18-40, whereas their victims were all aged under 15, with the youngest only 10 years of age. At least some of those detained have already received Finnish citizenship.

"We are talking about a period several months", police commissioner Markus Kiiskinen told the newspaper Kaleva. "The suspected crimes are extremely violent and are exceptionally high-level", Kiiskinen added.

Oulu deputy police chief Arto Karnaranta admitted that he has never seen anything similar in his nearly 38-year-long career as a police officer.

Comment: While harsher sentences are an encouraging sign that the government is taking the issue seriously, clearly, since most of the criminals were migrants, there's also the the glaring issue of how uncontrolled mass migration contributed. Because similarly horrific cases have been reported in pretty much every European country since the migrant crisis began.

Finally, as has been exposed with other child rape ring cases around the world, often those at the lower levels were trafficking children to those in positions of influence and government, and so it remains to be seen whether they were operating:

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The Creepy Line: New documentary on the immense power of Facebook and Google - where your information IS the product

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

The Creepy Line, a new documentary by director M.A. Taylor, is now streaming at Amazon Prime. It provides an interesting and revealing look at how Google and Facebook influence their users' view of the world, and how the users we often presume to be the customers of these companies aren't really the customers. The users are, in fact, the product being sold to third parties.

The Creepy Line takes its title from a description of Google once uttered by Google executive Eric Schmidt who said Google's mission was to "get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

In truth, though, by pioneering the "surveillance business model," Google has arguably been stepping over "the creepy line" for years. Not that this has been much of a problem for the company. Few users seem motivated to stop using Google products.

It is perhaps in its basic explanations of how this surveillance model works that The Creepy Line is most interesting: the filmmakers explain in simple terms how a small number of companies have come to compile extensive data profiles of many hundreds of millions of human beings, and how that user data is the real product being sold by the companies that compile it.

French jihadi planned to kill men after luring them on gay dating apps

Chris Tomlinson
Bretbart
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00 UTC

One of a pair of Islamic State supporters arrested in 2018 for plotting terrorism allegedly planned to lure homosexual men to their deaths using dating websites.

The pair of jihadis, a 23-year-old of Pakistani origin and a 21-year-old Chechen, who have been friends since high school, were arrested on June 9th, but newly released information has shown the extent of their planning, Le Parisien reports.

The 23-year-old Pakistani, identified only by his initials AB, came on the radar of the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) intelligence agency in early 2018 belonging to Salafist circles online. The intelligence agency also noted the use of gay dating websites which he used to contact young men.

France's Yellow Vest movement strikes a victorious blow for working people across the EU

John Wight
RT
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 23:46 UTC

Though the Gilet Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement in France may appear to have erupted from nowhere, its arrival has been a long time coming.

"Men make their own history," Karl Marx reminds us, "but not of their own free will; not under circumstances they themselves have chosen but under the given and inherited circumstances with which they are directly confronted."

And confronting the thousands of Yellow Vest protesters who've been laying siege to central Paris these past few weeks - along with millions of ordinary working people across France - have been and are the deepening consequences of a broken and defunct neoliberal economic model, compounded by the refusal of its prime movers, chief among them French President Emmanuel Macron, to wake up to the deepening dystopia fashioned in its name.

Half of US adults have had family member in prison

Rachel Weiner
Washington Post
Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:48 UTC

Nearly 1 in 2 adults in the United States has seen an immediate family member go to jail or prison for at least one night, according to a new study from Cornell University.

One in 7 adults has had an immediate family member behind bars for at least a year; for 1 in 34 adults that relative has been behind bars a decade or longer.

The study estimates that 6.5 million adults, 1 in 38, currently have an immediate family member incarcerated.

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Society's Child

Robot revenge: 24 Amazon workers hospitalized after machine accidentally releases bear repellent spray at NJ fulfillment center

ISIS member on trial in Lebanon for plotting to kidnap diplomats' kids in Sweden

Pedophile US priest arrested for sexual abuse in the Philippines had child rape den

Lawsuits filed after cops strapped man to chair & tortured him with pepper spray

Dr. Tim Anderson, long-time critic of US foreign policy, suspended from University of Sydney

Finland outraged by migrant gang's child rape ring, calls for tougher sentencing and deportation laws

The Creepy Line: New documentary on the immense power of Facebook and Google - where your information IS the product

French jihadi planned to kill men after luring them on gay dating apps

France's Yellow Vest movement strikes a victorious blow for working people across the EU

Half of US adults have had family member in prison

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