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Bayer mediator denies rumors of 8 billion dollar settlement

Jonathan Stempel and Ludwig Burger
Reuters
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:48 UTC
Roundup
© Mike Blake/Reuters
Bayer AG has not offered to pay billions of dollars to settle claims in the United States related to the Roundup herbicide, mediator Ken Feinberg said, dismissing a report to that effect which drove its shares as much as 11% higher.

"Bayer has not proposed paying $8 billion to settle all the U.S. Roundup cancer claims. Such a statement is pure fiction," Feinberg said in an email on Friday. "Compensation has not even been discussed in the global mediation discussions."

Bayer shares, which had shed some of their gains before Feinberg's statement, retreated further and closed up 1.7% at 64.63 euros.

Bayer, which acquired Roundup and other glyphosate-based weedkillers as part of its $63 billion takeover of Monsanto last year, declined comment on the initial Bloomberg news report and on Feinberg's response.

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Pistol

Paranoia is in bloom: Off-duty fireman almost shoots dead armed man at Springfield, Missouri Walmart


Fox 16
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:42 UTC
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The Springfield Police Department says they responded to a call of an active shooter at the Walmart: Neighborhood Market at Republic Rd., near Golden Ave., Thursday evening.

The Springfield Police Department arrived on scene within three minutes of the call. Police stated that a young white male, appearing to be in his twenties, pulled up to the Walmart, where he donned body armor and military fatigues. Police say the man had tactical weapons.

Police then say the man walked into the Walmart: Neighborhood Market where he grabbed a cart and began pushing it around the store. Police say the man was recording himself walking through the store via a cell phone.


Comment: What's so strange about that?


The store manager at the Neighborhood Market pulled a fire alarm, urging people to escape the store.


Comment: In other words, people there freaked out because of the Texas mass shooting.


Police say the man then made his way out an emergency exit where a firefighter held the man at gunpoint. At that moment Springfield Police arrived on scene and detained the man.


Comment: His stunt was ill-conceived, given what had just happened at a Walmart in Texas. But, technically, what he did is still legal in the open-carry state of Missouri...

This is precisely what organized mass shootings are designed to do: alter mass perception of reality, and prime people to alter/enforce 'the law' accordingly.

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People 2

Oops! Security breach exposes sensitive data of 1.5 million users on group dating app

Zack Whittaker
Tech Crunch
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:35 UTC
feet in bed
More than 1.5 million users of a group dating service had their personal data exposed — including their real-time location — because of a vulnerability in the app.

The dating site, 3Fun, bills itself as a "private space" where you can meet "local kinky, open-minded people." But the data wasn't private at all. Ken Munro, founder of Pen Test Partners, which published its findings Thursday and shared its findings with TechCrunch, said it was "probably the worst security for any dating app we've ever seen."

Pen Test Partners researchers found the app was leaking the precise location, photos and other personal details of any nearby user.

Worse, because the app wasn't properly secured, the researchers found they could plug in any coordinates they wanted to spoof their location, revealing sensitive information on anyone within any location of their choosing, including government buildings, military bases and even intelligence agencies.

TechCrunch ran the same tests as Pen Test Partners and confirmed its findings. We were able to modify our current geolocation to any set of coordinates we wanted — including the White House and the headquarters of the CIA.
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Eye 1

'Don't go out alone': Swedish police warn women after four rapes in four days in town of Uppsala


RT
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:09 UTC
Police
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Police in the Swedish city of Uppsala have warned women to walk in groups and to "think how to behave," after four women were raped in as many days.

A sleepy college town of 170,000 people, Uppsala is more usually known for its universities and cathedral than for violent crime. However, police are investigating a series of sex crimes in recent days.

Two "completed rapes" took place last weekend, with another attempted rape on Saturday night, and another sexual attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning. All four attacks took place at night, and all four victims were walking alone. Police are treating the incidents as unconnected and no descriptions of the suspects have been released.

Police did, however, release a warning. Not to any would-be rapists, but to their potential victims. "Women in town should not be worried, but must think how to behave," the city's police force said in a statement to newspaper Expressen.
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Black Magic

Get them early: Sixth grader dragged out of class for saying gender-confused boy 'is a boy'

Greg Piper
The College Fix
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:55 UTC
sad child
© Thomas Eisenhuth / Global Look Press
'Temporary removal' is not discipline?

The school district claims he wasn't punished. But it dragged him out of class for the day and warned him not to correctly identify the biological sex of a classmate again.

Liberty Counsel said an Ohio school district backed down after the religious liberty law firm warned that it could not punish a sixth grader for disagreeing with classmates who said a boy with gender dysphoria was actually a girl.

According to the narrative by Liberty Counsel in a press release and subsequent fundraising pitch, the school uniformly referred to the gender-confused male ("Boy A") as a girl and used female pronouns for him.

Comment: The infiltration of radical postmodern thought throughout the educational system is proceeding as warned.

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Eye 2

Man arrested after Garden Grove, California stabbing spree: 4 dead, 2 wounded


CBSLA
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 15:39 UTC
garden grove stabbing suspect arrested
© OnScene TVOfficers arrest the suspect outside a 7-Eleven store in Santa Ana on Aug. 7, 2019.
A 33-year-old man has been arrested in a violent stabbing and robbery spree that started in Garden Grove and ended at a 7-Eleven in Santa Ana Wednesday evening, leaving four people dead and two more critically wounded.

The entire incident began a little after 4 p.m. and ended at around 6:30 p.m. Cameras captured footage of the suspect being apprehended by police.

Two men were stabbed to death at a Garden Grove apartment complex, a man was stabbed and killed at a Subway restaurant in Santa Ana and a security guard was stabbed and killed at a 7-Eleven in Santa Ana. A woman who was stabbed at a Garden Grove insurance business and a man who was stabbed and nearly had his nose severed off while pumping gas at a Chevron station survived, but are both in critical condition.

Comment: More reporting from RT:
The murderous chain of events started on Wednesday afternoon when the suspect attempted to rob a bakery on Chapman Avenue. The assailant then drove to an apartment complex nearby, where two more people were attacked and murdered. Later, more robberies were reported in the vicinity, leaving two people dead.


The 33-year-old suspect, whose name was not released, was finally arrested in the evening outside of a 7-Eleven convenience store with a knife and a handgun. He is being questioned by the authorities, as the motive of the attacks remains unclear. In total, law enforcement are investigating at least eight crime scenes in the area.


"These are all random acts of violence," Garden Grove Lt. Carl Whitney told the journalists. "Our suspect was not associated with any of our victims."

The incident comes in the wake of a series of deadly shootings which reignited a fierce gun control debate in the US. The stabbing spree, however, strengthened the argument of the pro-gun crowd, with dozens immediately noting that banning firearms, knives, vehicles and everything else remotely dangerous would not solve the underlying crime and violence problems.


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Bullseye

German precision: WATCH controlled DEMOLITION of Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear plant tower


RT
Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:51 UTC
controlled collapse of nuclear power plant
© RuptlyThe controlled collapse was carried out on Friday.
An explosive-free controlled demolition of the cooling tower at the Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power plant in Germany was successfully carried out Tuesday.

Built between 1975 to 1986 and situated on the river Rhine, the plant's 80-metre (262-foot) high cooling tower, which had been a local landmark for decades, disappeared into dust in a matter of seconds.
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Red Flag

'Human rights crisis': Amnesty issues US travel warning, advocates for gun control after mass shootings


RT
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 01:14 UTC
gun control
© Reuters / Jose Luis Gonzalez
Amnesty International has dived headlong into the US gun control debate, urging travelers to be cautious amid a "human rights crisis" they blame on "ubiquity of firearms" and government reluctance to confiscate them.

Visitors to the US "cannot reasonably expect to be free from harm," Amnesty International USA's Ernest Coverson said in a statement on Wednesday, advising people that "the country does not adequately protect people's right to be safe."
A guarantee of not being shot is impossible.
The group specifically warned racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities to be on their toes due to "recent attacks linked to white supremacist ideology" - though only one of the weekend's mass shootings was 'linked' to white supremacy through his manifesto, and the other shooter's allegedly far-left leanings were not mentioned anywhere in Amnesty's alarming message.

Comment: Through their language it sounds very much like Amnesty has drunk the left-leaning ideologically-induced kool-aid by seeing the boogeyman of white supremacy under every rock.

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Attention

Oops! Twitter 'sorry' for sharing user data with advertisers without permission. What's new?


RT
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 08:12 UTC
twitter eye
© Reuters / Dado Ruvic
Another day, another social media platform issuing an apology for sharing users' data without permission. Twitter is the latest to "discover" that some of its settings went awry and shared private information for ad targeting.

In a blog post on Tuesday, Twitter admitted that it had recently "found issues" which meant that users' settings choices "may not have worked as intended" and personal data was consequently shared with advertisers. But since it was kind enough to apologize, it looks like Twitter thinks it should all just be water under the bridge.
You trust us to follow your choices and we failed here. We're sorry this happened, and are taking steps to make sure we don't make a mistake like this again.

The company said it resolved the issue on August 5, but didn't mention when exactly it "realized" that it was sharing its users data without consent, only saying that it had been "recently." That's a crucial point, because according to TechCrunch, it may indicate that Twitter is in breach of Europe's GDPR framework, which came into effect in May 2018 (around the same time Twitter says the issues occurred), and which mandates disclosure of data breaches.

Uh oh.
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Fire

Trouble in Belfast as police break up bonfire event commemorating British government's mass internment of Irish nationals


RT
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:20 UTC
new lodge bonfire
© Getty Images/PA Images/Liam McBurneyPSNI officers faced a barrage of missiles in New Lodge on Thursday, FILE PHOTO.
Police officers were forced to abandon efforts to demolish a bonfire structure in north Belfast after facing a barrage of bricks, bottles and fireworks during a violent standoff.

Violence erupted in the predominantly nationalist New Lodge area of the city on Thursday, as the police attempted to allow private contractors to dismantle the towering bonfire.

Missiles rained down on the officers before a group of protesters charged at police lines, attacking them with pieces of metal fencing. One witness said that children as young as 10 were among the crowds clashing with police, The Irish News reports.

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