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A third of American workers' pay is stolen...here's how

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If you're a member of the working class, 1/3 of your pay has been stolen from you.

You would think this would be front page news every day until the problem is fixed. Not only is that a huge amount of money for a huge portion of the country, but you would expect our left leaning media to be all over this. There is no better evidence that capitalism, at least in its current state, is failing. If the left actually cared about the working class, if the wave of cultural Marxism that has spread through academia and the media was actually about the plight of workers oppressed by a distant and uncaring elite, no fact would be repeated more often than this.

And yet, aside from a handful of articles - such as one from the New York Times in 2011, and another from The Atlantic in 2015 - the issue hardly gets mentioned by the media. And even when it is mentioned, it is often editorialized in a way that distorts the problem and hides its root cause, if not outright lied about by a media with an agenda that has little to do with helping actual workers.

Health

Cuba: Diplomats' mysterious illnesses may have been a neurotoxin used in fumigation for Zika carrying mosquitos

Evacuation of Cuba embassy
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Evacuation of US embassy in Cuba
Fumigation against mosquitoes in Cuba and not "sonic attacks" may have caused some 40 U.S. and Canadian diplomats and family members in Havana to fall ill, according to a new study commissioned by the Canadian government.

The incidents took place from late 2016 into 2018, causing the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to charge that diplomats were attacked by some sort of secret weapon. Canada has refrained from such charges. The United States in 2017 reduced its embassy staff to a minimum and Canada followed more recently, citing the incidents and the danger posed to staff from what has become known as the "Havana Syndrome."

Various scientific studies have yet to identify the cause of the diplomats' cognitive ailments, ranging from dizziness and blurred vision to memory loss and difficulty concentrating.

The Canadian study by a team of researchers affiliated with the Brain Repair Centre at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Health Authority studied Canadian victims and even the brain of a pet dog after its demise in Canada.

The study was the first to include diplomats for whom there was baseline medical testing from before their postings in Havana, so as to better compare with the tests from afterwards. Canada started implementing the practice after diplomats first started complaining of sickness.

Handcuffs

13 US Marines charged in human smuggling case

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Thirteen Marines have been formally charged with playing a role in the smuggling of undocumented immigrants into the U.S., the Marine Corps announced Friday.

In addition to the smuggling charges, the Marines will face military court proceedings for charges including failure to obey an order, drunkenness, endangerment, larceny and perjury, according to a statement from the 1st Marine Division Press Office.

Two of the Marines were specifically named -- Lance Cpls. Byron Law and David Salazar-Quintero -- but the other names were withheld. These two have also been charged federally with transporting and conspiring to transport illegal immigrants into the country for financial gain. Both were based at Camp Pendleton, in California.

According to a criminal complaint filed in July, Border Patrol agents were making normal rounds when they saw a black car pull off the road around seven miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. They pulled the vehicle over and found Law driving and Salazar-Quintero in the front passenger seat. They had three undocumented immigrants in the back seat; the three reportedly told the agents they were Mexican citizens and did not have documents to enter the U.S. legally.

Star of David

Dutch court: War crimes accusations against Israeli Benny Gantz presented

Ziada family
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Ismail Ziada is suing two Israeli generals for the deaths of six relatives during Israel’s 2014 attack on Gaza.
As Israelis went to the polls on Tuesday, one of the leading candidates for prime minister was fending off war crimes accusations in a court in The Hague. Palestinian-Dutch citizen Ismail Ziada is seeking justice for Israel's killing of six members of his family during its 2014 assault on Gaza.

Ziada holds Benny Gantz, the Israeli army chief at the time, and Amir Eshel, then the air force chief, responsible for the decision to bomb his family's home in al-Bureij refugee camp. The 20 July bombing that year reduced the three-floor building to rubble, killing Ziada's 70-year-old mother Muftia Ziada, his brothers Jamil, Yousif and Omar, sister-in-law Bayan, and 12-year-old nephew Shaban. A seventh person visiting the family was also killed. Ziada is suing the Israeli generals for more than $600,000 in damages plus court costs.

Gantz is now leader of Israel's Blue and White coalition. After this week's inconclusive election result, he is seeking the support of other parties to put together a government.

In Tuesday's session, the Dutch court heard arguments about whether it has jurisdiction over the case. Lawyers for Gantz and Eshel tried to frame Ziada's legal action as part of "an anti-Israel campaign." Earlier this year, Israel urged the Dutch court to dismiss the war crimes case against Gantz.

This video shows part of Ziada's statement in court:


UFO

A 2M no-show! Area 51 raid flops! Group of YouTubers chat up guards instead

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Alienation?
A viral prank that promised to see two million alien hunters breach the gates of Area 51 has ended with a whimper instead of a bang, drawing only a few dozen enthusiasts for the much-anticipated 'raid.'

Initially a mock Facebook event, "Storm Area 51" quickly became a phenomenon that garnered interest from hundreds of thousands of netizens, who signed up to blaze past police and military guards to "see them aliens" at the top-secret Nevada facility. Some celebrities who'd promised to join in heated up the memeful event even more, while the authorities tried to pour cold water on even the idea of a peaceful alien-themed festival, calling it unsustainable.

So what epic action unfolded in the middle of the Nevada desert on Friday morning as the pulled-in reinforcements readied their rifles and K9 guards stood poised at the perimeter? Well, you guessed it - none of it.

Comment: And these from RT, 21/9/2019: No aliens, no party!
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Part of the 'crowd'







Pills

Jeffrey Epstein paid doctors to medicate 'sex slaves' with tranquilizers

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Victims of Jeffery Epstein said multimillionaire financier and convicted pedophile paid doctors and psychiatrists to prescribe them tranquilizers and anti-depressants.

Virginia Giuffre, who was recruited by Epstein at the age of 16, told the Miami Herald that doctors prescribed her Xanax for the three years, as well as several other victims through recommended doctors.

"There were doctors and psychiatrists and gynecologist visits. There were dentists who whitened our teeth," she told the newspaper. "There was a doctor who gave me Xanax. What doctor in their right mind, who is supposed to protect their patients, gives girls and young women Xanax?"

Sarah Ransome, who was 22 when she was trafficked by Epstein from her native South Africa, said she was taken to a psychiatrist and prescribed Lithium while being on the verge of a mental breakdown.

Comment: See also: Thousands implicated in secret Jeffrey Epstein files, Ghislaine Maxwell fighting to keep them sealed


Arrow Down

No one likes Chelsea Handler's Netflix screed on 'white privilege' - savaged by critics and audiences alike

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Chelsea Handler
Chelsea Handler's Netflix documentary on white privilege - Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea - has been panned by critics, who say it amounts to a "misguided reckoning" and note that she is actively "exploiting her wokeness" and "profiting off a film about her white privilege."

Handler's Netflix special, which dropped last week, centers around the left-wing comedienne's exploration of "white privilege" in an attempt to "be a better white person to people of color, without making it a thing."

"I'm clearly the beneficiary of white privilege. And I want to know what my personal responsibility is moving forward in the world we live in today where race is concerned," Handler says in the documentary.

However, the documentary has not been well received, with critics pointing out that she is, in fact, benefiting from white privilege by participating in a "white privilege" documentary and ultimately making money from the project.

Comment: What does it say when even ultra-lefty sites like Vice turn on one of their own? Get the popcorn ready. The Woke are imploding.


Star of David

Israeli agression, social stigmas contribute to Palestine's growing suicide epidemic

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Palestinians face a brutal occupation
A recent report showed that cases of suicide in Palestine have increased by 14 percent and there are many complex reasons behind this harrowing statistic.

For decades, Palestinians have been at the face of violence in the Middle East. They endured being expelled and murdered during a mass exodus in the late 1940s, to being subject to brutal occupations, sieges and forced into refugee camps under abhorrent conditions. It's no secret that the creation of Israel has stunted and even deteriorated Palestinian development.

First hand violence isn't the only form of aggression Palestinians face - as conditions for Palestinians worsen, more people in the occupied territories are resorting to taking their own lives.

X

Facebook blocks tens of thousands of apps hoarding your data, admits 'won't catch everything'

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Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps for improperly using users' personal information - orders of magnitude larger than the 400 they'd previously acknowledged - but they've promised to do better next time. Again.

Some 69,000 apps were suspended by Facebook for potentially slurping up users' personal info without their knowledge or consent, according to a court filing unsealed in Boston on Friday. While 59,000 of those ended up on the chopping block merely because their developers refused to comply with Facebook's investigation, 10,000 set off alarm bells for the likelihood they misappropriated data, according to the documents, whose release triggered a damage-control blog post from the company.

The apps were suspended "for a variety of reasons," Facebook pleaded - they weren't necessarily "posing a threat to people." Wherever the company found wrongdoing - such as a pair of apps that infected users' phones with malware in a lucrative fraud scheme - they insist they've put a stop to it, bragging they've even hauled the app developers into court. Facebook has even hired more people to sniff out bad actors, so they can "review every active app with access to more than basic user information."

Pocket Knife

'I just wanted the day off': School children admit they used climate change protests as an excuse to skip class

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A young girl sits on a man's shoulders during the Sydney protest on Friday. She held a sign which read: 'There is no planet B'
More than 300,000 people have flocked to climate change rallies in 110 towns and cities across Australia, calling for governments and businesses to act immediately.

The Global Strike 4 Climate, held across the world on Friday, was the biggest climate mobilisation in Australia's history, with more than double the turnout of the March protest.

A whopping 100,000 protesters flooded the streets in Melbourne, while Sydney saw 80,000 people march through the CBD to the Domain.

Comment: A sea of indoctrinated children protesting something that doesn't exist. Welcome to planet Earth.