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Judge rules FBI can withhold information about funding of 9/11 terrorists

RT
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 14:17 UTC

A South Florida judge ruled the FBI is not improperly withholding information about funding of the 9/11 attacks after journalists tried to uncover connections between the hijackers and Saudis living in Florida at the time.

Florida Bulldog, an organization of investigative journalists, has been investigating connections between Saudis living in the US and the hijackers who crashed the planes into the Twin Towers and Pentagon in 2011. In total, 15 of the 19 hijackers involved were Saudi Arabian.

Judge Cecilia Altonaga ruled the FBI could keep secret certain portions of a 60-page document - a slide show called 'Overview of the 9/11 investigation' - the Herald Tribune reports.

Florida Bulldog sued the FBI in June 2016 for records from the 9/11 Review Commission. A redacted version of the 9/11 overview was released by the FBI in February.

Blind recruitment trial to boost women backfires

Henry Belot
ABC
Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:56 UTC

A measure aimed at boosting female employment in the workforce may actually be making it worse, a major study has found.

Leaders of the Australian public service will today be told to "hit pause" on blind recruitment trials, which many believed would increase the number of women in senior positions.

Blind recruitment means recruiters cannot tell the gender of candidates because those details are removed from applications.

It is seen as an alternative to gender quotas and has also been embraced by Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Victoria Police and Westpac Bank.

In a bid to eliminate sexism, thousands of public servants have been told to pick recruits who have had all mention of their gender and ethnic background stripped from their CVs.

The assumption behind the trial is that management will hire more women when they can only consider the professional merits of candidates.

Comment: Kind of speaks for itself.

"We've Made History": Ireland follows Germany, France and Bulgaria by banning fracking

Vic Bishop
Waking Times
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC

$Ireland bans fracking$

The global movement to ban hydraulic fracturing (fracking), a method of extracting petrochemicals from shale rock deposits underneath the ground, is gaining steam as Ireland has just announced a ban on onshore fracking.

After passing the ban within the Irish parliament, The Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Prohibition of Onshore Hydraulic Fracturing) Bill 2016 is now expected to be signed into law by Irish President Michael D. Higgins, meaning Ireland will join several other European nations in the movement.

The reasons why young people should not got to college

Daniel Ameduri
Future Money Trends
Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC

As I sat down to enjoy some smoked salmon at a recent BBQ I attended, I ended up at a table with two recent high school graduates. To my disappointment, when I asked them what their plans were for the summer and beyond, both said they were heading to college.

With student loans and a wasteful four years in front of them, I couldn't help but ask why. Is there really anything that takes 4 to 8 years to learn or become an expert in?

Seriously, what a waste of time. Even Ham, the first ape that went into space, only trained for 2 years.

Colleges have convinced nearly everyone that you need a degree to be an effective employee or higher-income adult, but this is just not true.I can tell you as an employer that I've never asked a single person what their grades were and I've never asked to see a degree.

Prince Charles and wife Camilla can't contain their juvenile laughter while listening to traditional Inuit singers in Canada

Sputnik
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 19:05 UTC

On a visit to Iqaluit, Canada's Arctic capital, British royals Prince Charles and his wife Camilla were filmed laughing in the faces of skilled traditional Inuit singers, who performed for them. Footage shows the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall struggling to maintain their composure as the two throat signers performed at a ceremony.

Some pointed out that the royal couple's laughter was just a sign of deep disrespect for the culture.

India: Man 'beaten to death by mob', accused of raping and killing eight-year-old girl

Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
The Independent
Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC

Man identified as 30-year-old Mithun Hansda accused of abducting and killing girl during wedding

A man accused of raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in a village in India has reportedly been beaten to death.

The man, named locally as Mithun Hansda, died near the city of Dumka, Jharkhand, after he was tied up and beaten by a group of locals, Prabhat Khabar reports.

Free thinking needed as much as free speech

John Snobelen
Toronto Sun
Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC

There has been a lot of discussion in recent days over the issue of free speech.

The issue isn't really the ability to speak freely. Heck, lots of people seem to be able to say completely crazy stuff with impunity.

Earlier this year Syed Hassan, who apparently is a social justice activist, whipped up a Toronto crowd by screeching, "We must be the enemy that sow terror in their hearts."

At the same event Black Lives Matter co-founder Yusra Khogali called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a terrorist and a white supremacist.

As far as I know Hassan and Khogali are still free to roam the public square. Free speech seems unthreatened.

South Africa magistrate rules 'F*ck White People' art not racist

RT
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:50 UTC

South African National Gallery, Cape Town

A Cape Town magistrate's court has ruled that an art poster with the words F*ck White People scrawled all over it is not racist or that it amounts to hate speech since it seeks to address the problems caused by a white-dominated society.

The poster, covered in the words F*ck White People, all in capital letters, along with a chair and a pair of golden shoes, is on display at the Iziko South African National Gallery as part of "The Art of Disruptions" exhibit.

The artist behind the poster, Dean Hutton, a student at the University of Cape Town, is white.

Oregon becomes first US state to offer gender-neutral driver's licenses

RT
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:23 UTC

Oregon has become the first state to allow residents who don't identify as male or female to mark their gender as "not specified" on applications for learner's driving permits, identity cards and driver's licenses.

The rule went into effect on Monday and drivers now have "the option to change the sex identifier on your driver license, driver permit or identification card to M, F or X for not-specified," according to Oregon's Driver and Motor Vehicle Services (DMV) website.

The information provided to Oregon's DMV "when changing your gender designation will be kept confidential."

The change is free for those renewing their licenses, while drivers with valid licenses who want replacements will need to pay the standard fee.

Poll: French don't feel "at home" anymore - too many foreigners

RT
Wed, 05 Jul 2017 23:25 UTC

© Benoit Tessier / Reuters
Muslims pray during Friday prayers in the street in front of the city hall of Clichy, near Paris.

According to an Ipsos survey, commissioned and published by Le Monde, 65 percent of French people believe that there are "too many foreigners" in France, while 60 percent say that they "don't feel at home as they did before."

Also, over 60 percent said that migrants "in France do not make the effort to integrate," and 46 percent believe that integration isn't a complicated process.

The percentages vary depending on the political views of the respondents, with 95 percent of far-right National Front supporters saying that there are too many foreigners in France. The figure for Republicans is 83 percent (up seven percent since last year), while the left-leaning Socialists' figure is 46 percent.

Similarly, social divisions remain clear; 77 percent of laborers think that there are too many foreigners in France, compared with 46 percent of managers.

Islam also remains a hot topic for the French. Another Ipsos annual survey, 'French Fractures 2017,' indicated that 60 percent of the respondents believe Islam is incompatible "with the values of the French Republic."

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Society's Child

Judge rules FBI can withhold information about funding of 9/11 terrorists

Blind recruitment trial to boost women backfires

"We've Made History": Ireland follows Germany, France and Bulgaria by banning fracking

The reasons why young people should not got to college

Prince Charles and wife Camilla can't contain their juvenile laughter while listening to traditional Inuit singers in Canada

India: Man 'beaten to death by mob', accused of raping and killing eight-year-old girl

Free thinking needed as much as free speech

South Africa magistrate rules 'F*ck White People' art not racist

Oregon becomes first US state to offer gender-neutral driver's licenses

Poll: French don't feel "at home" anymore - too many foreigners

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