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Internal document details Google retaliation against employees who reported abuse


RT
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:35 UTC
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© Reuters/Stephen Lam"Women's Walkout" at Google in protest over alleged sexual misconduct at the company in Mountain View, California, U.S. November 1, 2018.
A leaked document tells 45 stories of Google employees who claim they've experienced sexual harassment, personal insults, and racism, and were then sidelined and denied promotion for being "too much of an activist."

Apparently a product of the company's campaign to uncover cases of retaliation, the document is a cache of personal accounts submitted by Google employees to an internal company forum.

The document was first revealed by Recode earlier this month, but Motherboard published it in full.

Comment: Google left their "Don't be evil" motto behind long ago.

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Hypocritical NYT publisher declares Trump a threat to journalism; doesn't mention Obama's war on whistleblowers or Julian Assange's detention

Danielle Ryan
RT
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:24 UTC
assange New York times
© (L) AFP / Angela Weiss; (R) AFP / Daniel Leak-Olivas
The Trump administration is admonished as a threat to journalism worldwide in a new oped penned by New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger. It's just a pity that in the 3,200-word screed, he found no time to mention Julian Assange.

Perhaps a worse sin than his purposeful omission of Assange's pertinent case, though, is Sulzberger's utterly disingenuous claim that before Donald Trump came along, the US government was "the world's greatest champion of the free press."

Readers who make it to the end of the piece would be none the wiser as to the fact that Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, waged a war on whistleblowers, prosecuting more of them than all previous US administrations combined and paving the way for Trump's further attacks.
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Tech firms to bolster efforts to censor extremists content online


RFE/RL
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:48 UTC
social media companies
© Reuters
Leading tech companies have joined world leaders to bolter efforts to drive extremist content off on the Internet, as social-media firms come under increased scrutiny in the wake of deadly incidents.

Facebook on September 23 announced the initiative at the United Nations, where French President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern led a meeting concerning online extremist risks.

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube in 2017 formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, an informal alliance to deal with the most dangerous material on social media.

But tech companies came under increased scrutiny since a white supremacist in March killed worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The shooter live-streamed the deadly rampage and posted an online manifesto filled with racist conspiracy theories.

Comment: You'll be forgiven for being skeptical. For years these very companies have been facilitating groups like ISIS, Antifa, and alt-right ethnostate promoters in their online propaganda, while banning and blocking moderate voices who simply criticize war criminals like the Israeli state, or pro-censorship SJWs. Facebook's "expanded definition" of terrorist organizations is unlikely to be any better than their previous definitions.

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'IMF must DIE!' Leading Russian banker says International Monetary Fund should be put to rest


RT
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:51 UTC
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo
© Reuters / Yuri Gripas
The CEO of Russia's Sberbank, Herman Gref, has taken aim at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), saying the organization should cease to exist.

"I don't have much to say about higher audit institutions, but as for international organizations like the IMF, they must die," Gref said on Wednesday as he addressed the 23rd Congress of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI).

"I think that the IMF is absolutely dead," Gref added.

Comment: Yet another way that Russia has bucked the West's systems of control - that seeks to subjugate and diminish the wealth and life's blood of sovereign nations.

See also: Russia refuses to comply with IMF's demands to put surplus money into other countries' financial systems

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Why the heck isn't Greta and the UN talking about world peace - something that IS man made?

Peter Koenig
Dissident Voice
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:00 UTC
UN Secretary General, António Guterres and Greta Thunberg
UN Secretary General, António Guterres and Greta Thunberg
Monday, 23 September, the UN in New York hosted a special meeting on Climate Change. There were massive predominantly youth demonstrations of tens of thousands around the globe, many of them in New York, one of them led by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish 16-year-old climate activist, who is sponsored mostly by Soros and his clan to travel around the world and address world leaders to act on climate change - preventing climate change, stop climate change. Others with the same objective, called "Friday's for the Future", originated in Germany, students striking every Friday - meaning literally not going to school, on behalf of stopping climate change.

And there is yet another international group, the "Extinction Rebellion" (ER). They all are against the use of hydrocarbons as a major energy resource. Me too. But what's the alternative? Do they promote and push for active research in, for example, solar energy? Not that I have heard of. There is no viable revolution without a viable alternative that has ever been successful.

The worldwide spill-over is apparently enormous. On Saturday some youth groups met with UN Secretary General, António Guterres, telling him that Climate Change is the world's political issue number ONE. Mr. Guterres did not contradict, yes, it was a key problem and had to be addressed and world leaders needed to commit to take actions. The UN General assembly will further dedicate part of its program to Climate Change.
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Long-lost $6.5M Renaissance masterpiece called "Christ Mocked" found in kitchen of elderly French woman

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 04:15 UTC
© AP"Christ Mocked" by Florentine master Cenni di Pepo, or Cimabue, is expected to fetch millions of Euros at auction.
An elderly French woman in the northern town of Compiegne didn't realize she had long had a Renaissance masterpiece hanging on her kitchen wall, but just thought it was a random religious icon.

After an expert came to the home to take a look at it, it was discovered to be by the hand of a 13th-century Florentine artist widely recognized as the father of Western painting, and is expected to sell at auction for between €4m and €6m⁠, or 6.5 million dollars.

The painting is said to be by Florentine artist Cenni di Pepo, known as Cimabue, who was so famous even in his own day as to get a mention in Dante's Divine Comedy: "Cimabue thought to lord it over painting's field; and now the cry is Giotto's and his name eclips'd."

Experts have claimed of the piece, known as "Christ Mocked," that there's "no disputing" its origins, after infrared light tests as well as an examination of damage to the wood panel. Analysis of the wood revealed it to be the same as two other panels confirmed to be by Cimabue's hand.
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Best of the Web: A line-by-line response to Greta Thunberg's UN speech

Jacques Voorhees
Watts Up With That
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:32 UTC
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Greta Thunberg speaking at the UN
Note: Greta's speech is reprinted below. Her quotes are in italics, mine follow each quote. If it turns out there were errors in transcription — as seems likely — I'll try to update with corrections. I apologize for the snarky tone, but if a 17-year-old can dish it out, I think she can take it.
"My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong, I shouldn't be up here, I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."
So in your first paragraph you confess that what you're doing is wrong, and you shouldn't be doing it. You note you should be back home and in school. OK, so far we're 100% in agreement. Next?
"Yet, you all come to us young people for hope, how dare you?"

Comment: See also:

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Arrow Down

Think twice before calling the cops to do welfare checks on the disabled

John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 02:03 UTC
"Anyone who cares for someone with a developmental disability, as well as for disabled people themselves [lives] every day in fear that their behavior will be misconstrued as suspicious, intoxicated or hostile by law enforcement."

Steve Silberman, The New York Times
Police Handling Disabled!
© YouTube
Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one.

Especially if that person is autistic, hearing impaired, mentally ill, elderly, suffering from dementia, disabled or might have a condition that hinders their ability to understand, communicate or immediately comply with an order.

Particularly if you value that person's life.

At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people are being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something — anything — that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer's mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences.

Unfortunately, police — trained in the worst case scenario and thus ready to shoot first and ask questions later — increasingly pose a risk to anyone undergoing a mental health crisis or with special needs whose disabilities may not be immediately apparent or require more finesse than the typical freeze-or-I'll-shoot tactics employed by America's police forces.

Just recently, in fact, Gay Plack, a 57-year-old Virginia woman with bipolar disorder, was killed after two police officers — sent to do a welfare check on her — entered her home uninvited, wandered through the house shouting her name, kicked open her locked bedroom door, discovered the terrified woman hiding in a dark bathroom and wielding a small axe, and four seconds later, shot her in the stomach.

Four seconds.

That's all the time it took for the two police officers assigned to check on Plack to decide to use lethal force against her (both cops opened fire on the woman), rather than using non-lethal options (one cop had a Taser, which he made no attempt to use) or attempting to de-escalate the situation.
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Mr. Potato

Kabbalist mystic Rabbi predicted Bibi-Gantz showdown would end in politicians 'fighting in heaven'


Sputnik
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:36 UTC
Netanyahu Kaduri
© 'CC BY-SA 3.0 / Avi OhayonP.M. Netanyahu and Rabbi Kaduri
Negotiators from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party are set to meet with their Blue and White Party counterparts Tuesday, with Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz set to meet President Reuven Rivlin later this week to try to hammer out a unity government, including the possible rotation of the prime minister's post.

The late renowned kabbalist rabbi and mystic Yitzhak Kaduri may have predicted the current political impasse between Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Blue and White opponents, Israeli media have reported, citing a growing wave of messages on the subject being spread on social media.

According to the reports, Kaduri, whose advice, blessings and amulets were widely sought after during his lifetime, wrote a "hidden book" of prophesies in his youth.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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No Entry

Daesh terrorist brags about receiving medical treatment in Sweden before returning to Syria


Sputnik
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:40 UTC
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© CC0
By the terrorist's own admission, upon his temporary return "home", he was greeted and given a lift by none other than the Swedish Security Police: SÄPO. Still, this didn't save him from Kurdish prison in Syria.

Swedish Daesh* terrorist and former resident of Gothenburg Khaled Shahadeh has claimed he received medical treatment from the Swedish state after being wounded in a clash with the Syrian army in 2014.

By his own admission, he was badly wounded and could hardly move his arm. As Daesh's own healthcare was lacking and the option of buying private healthcare in Turkey also a dubious prospect, he returned "home" for treatment.

Comment: See also:

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