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20th Century Fox cuts 'Predator' scene featuring registered child sex offender actor


RT
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:28 UTC
Actress Olivia Munn
© REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni
Actress Olivia Munn raised the alarm with studio executives after learning of Streigel's sex offender status.
20th Century Fox has purged one scene from its upcoming 'Predator' movie after it was discovered that one of the actors is a registered child sex offender. The director apologized when it emerged he knew about the conviction.

The scene was cut after executives were made aware that actor Steven Wilder Striegel is a registered sex offender. Striegel played a minor role in the film, featuring in only one scene.

"When the studio learned the details, his one scene in the film was removed within 24 hours," Fox said in a statement as cited by Variety. "We were not aware of his background during the casting process due to legal limitations that impede studios from running background checks on actors."

Actress and 'Predator' star Olivia Munn, who acted in the scene with Striegel, learned of the actor's conviction as a child sex offender and alerted the studio on August 15.
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Argentina: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo march for justice and safety of children after murder of boy


teleSUR
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00 UTC
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
"Who am I going to walk with now? Who will make me laugh out loud?" writes the boy's distraught older brother, Daniel Ramirez.

Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo took to the streets of Buenos Aires Thursday to demand justice for the murder of 13-year-old Ismael Ramirez who was caught in a crossfire during a failed robbery attempt when a group of some 50 people burst into a local supermarket in the city of Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, Chaco Monday evening.

Director of the 'Madres de Plaza Mayo', Hebe de Bonafini, called her fellow women to take part in the group's 2,108th march Thursday afternoon, saying that President Mauricio Macri and the Security Minister Patricia Bullrich are responsible for the youth's death.

"The young man was killed with a bullet shot in the back when he went looking for food. The mothers will march so that there are no more murdered children," Bonafini said.
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The exhorbitant cost of keeping Gaza under siege

Maureen Clare Murphy
The Electronic Intifada
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:27 UTC
Gaza Protesters
© Mohammed Zaanoun /ActiveStills
Palestinians carry posters declaring that refugee rights are a responsibility, not a gift, and that services must be continued until refugees are allowed to return to their lands of origin.
Funds to procure emergency fuel used to sustain essential services in Gaza have depleted and final stocks will be delivered this week, the United Nations warned on Wednesday.

Gaza's health ministry said on Tuesday that the fuel crisis had reached its worst phase yet, and that government-run hospitals had enough supply for only a further 10 days to three weeks, depending on the institution.

Donor-funded emergency fuel has become a lifeline in Gaza after 11 years of an Israeli blockade that has deflated the territory's economy and sharply increased residents' dependence on humanitarian aid. A chronic energy crisis resulting from the siege means Gaza households receive only four to five hours of electricity per day.

"If new funds are not received immediately, we will be facing a potentially catastrophic breakdown in essential service delivery," UN humanitarian coordinator Jamie McGoldrick stated.
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Novel hovel homes for the working poor in Spain branded unfit for humans


The Guardian
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:42 UTC
capsule home spain
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Spanish company Haibu 4.0 plans to rent out the 'capsules', which measure only 2.4 square metres, for 200 euros per month.
A Barcelona company has sparked outrage with a plan to rent out tiny pods where low income workers would live side-by-side like bees in a hive for as little as 200 euros ($232) a month.

The company argues the project, called Haibu, which means beehive in Japanese, is a solution to a shortage of affordable housing in the Catalan capital but Barcelona city hall has refused to issue a licence for it, saying such tiny accommodation is unfit for humans.

"Fortunately piling up people is prohibited. The law does not allow this type of dwelling," Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, a former housing and anti-eviction activist, told reporters on Thursday.

Comment: Many countries in the West are suffering similar problems with in work poverty and are witnessing a rapid deterioration of their economy, and 'solutions' like these only serve to mask the festering problems within the corrupt order:

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Passengers fall ill on TWO flights from Europe to Philadelphia


The Telegraph
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 23:55 UTC
An American Airlines aircraft taking off
© REUTERS
An American Airlines aircraft taking off
Passengers and crew on two flights arriving in Philadelphia from Europe on Thursday were screened by medical teams after 12 people aboard became ill with flu-like symptoms, a day after a similar outbreak on a flight from Dubai to New York.

All 250 people on separate American Airlines flights from Munich and Paris were "held for a medical review" as a precaution, and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was notified, Philadelphia International Airport spokeswoman Diane Gerace said.

Flight 717 from Munich Airport and Flight 755 from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris both arrived in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon, she said.

The CDC worked with Philadelphia health officers, emergency responders and Customs and Border Patrol agents to evaluate the sick passengers for influenza and other respiratory illnesses, CDC spokesman Benjamin Haynes said.

"Twelve passengers from the two flights reported sore throat and cough, none were identified with fever. None of the passengers are severely ill, and they will be released and informed of test results in 24 hours," Mr Haynes said.

Comment: Also yesterday passengers on a flight to France were held on board after a child displayed signs of cholera. Is something strange occurring with air travel these days?

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Propaganda

Conservative Freakout: Right ignoring how Gov't disgraced Pat Tillman's death as they call for him to replace Kaepernick

Matt Agorist
The Free thought Project.com
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 04:00 UTC
Colin Kaepernick & Pat Tillman
© TheFreeThoughtProject.com
Hypocritically choosing to ignore the injustice and the lies told by the government after the death of Pat Tillman, many have taken to social media using his name for their cause.

On Monday, Nike made headlines and created a massive controversy when it announced Colin Kaepernick is one of the new faces in its "Just Do It" campaign. The move by Nike caused people to take to social media and burn their Nike gear, call for a boycott, and many began calling for Kaepernick to be replaced in the campaign by seventh-round NFL draft pick turned soldier, Pat Tillman.
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USA

Coast Guard intercepts 'narco-submarine' carrying more than two tons of cocaine


Breaking911.com
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 02:31 UTC
narco sub
© CBP
September 6, 201801869This low profile vessel was smuggling 4215 pounds of cocaine when a CBP Air and Marine Crew lead USCG to intercept it.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) P-3 Long Range Tracker (LRT) crew worked with the U.S. Coast Guard to seize over two tons of cocaine valued at nearly $55 million.

The crew was patrolling the Eastern Pacific Aug. 3 in coordination with the Joint Interagency Task Force South when they detected a Low Profile Vessel (LPV).
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Bad Guys

Latest Skripal development adds fuel to existing anti-Russia fever in London's politicos

John Wight
RT
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 01:38 UTC
skripal investigation
© Global Look Press
Forensic officers in Gillingham, Dorset, United Kingdom following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal , March 14, 2018
The recent development in the Skripals poisoning case is guaranteed to plunge already dire relations between Moscow and London through the floor.

At a set-piece press conference in London, Neil Basu, head of the London Met's counter-terrorism police force, positively identified two Russian suspects in the case. He produced CCTV images of the two individuals along with their names and details of their movements from Russia to the UK and back again. He also alleged that according to a "working hypothesis" the suspects smuggled the Novichok substance used in the attempt on the lives of former Russia intelligence office and British spy Sergei Skripal, and daughter Yulia, into the country with them from Russia.

Comment: There is more to the Skripal case, if one knows which nooks and crannies to check. Sergie Skripal was known to have stayed in close contact with his MI-6 handler, who has been connected to the Steele dossier.

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Attention

Study finds pricey 'diversity bureaucrats' don't improve diversity on campus

Greg Piper
The College Fix
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 01:06 UTC
college diversity administration
© Shutterstock
'The proportion of diverse tenured faculty hired' is lower with an 'active CDO'

Chief diversity officers at major educational institutions are known for their enormous salaries. One eye-opening example is the University of North Carolina's CDO, who earns substantially more than the governor.

Colleges might want to revisit these salaries in light of new research that finds no"significant statistical evidence" that CDOs do anything to improve "preexisting growth" in the academic hiring of "underrepresented" racial and ethnic groups on campus.

The National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, which has not been peer reviewed, said more than two-thirds of "major" American universities (classified as "Carnegie R1, R2, or M1" with at least 4,000 students) had CDOs in place in the 2016 academic year.

Comment: Gender studies (of all stripes) and racial studies have been a multi-generational boondoggle. From being a fringe "academic" field it has metastasized into a multi-billion dollar business in the administrations of the corporate world and universities alike.

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Handcuffs

South Sudan cracks down on military lawlessness, jails 10 soldiers for rape and murder


teleSUR
Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:48 UTC
South Sudan soldiers
© Reuters
The case was widely seen as a test of will by the government of President Kiir to bring accountability to the military.
The jail terms range from seven years to life and have been ascribed in cases involving the murder of a journalist and the rape of foreign aid workers.

A South Sudanese Military Court sentenced ten soldiers to various jail sentences Thursday. The court also ordered South Sudan's government to pay US$4,000 to each rape survivor in compensation, and said the government should give the family of a local journalist, John Gatluak, 51, material compensation.

Two soldiers were convicted of his murder and sentenced to life. Three others were found guilty of raping aid workers, while four were convicted of sexual harassment and one of theft and armed robbery. They have all been given seven to 14-year jail terms. Eleven soldiers were tried, but one was freed due to lack of evidence against him.
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