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Christian cake bakers and gay coffee shop owners: Freedom of association should be for everyone

Scott Shackford
Reason
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:59 UTC
Ben Borgman
A gay coffee shop owner in Seattle is getting viral attention for loudly ejecting a group of aggressive anti-abortion Christian activists from his business.

Members of Abolish Human Abortion had been handing out rather vivid posters outside the shop that seem to link gay acceptance to the prevalence of abortion. They then came inside Bedlam Coffee and received service-until shop owner Ben Borgman angrily threw them out, declaring their views and their posters offensive. Watch his profanity-laced tirade below:

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Second mom in a week facing possible jail time for refusing to vaccinate her child

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:33 UTC
Lori Matheson
Only days after Judge Karen McDonald sentenced Rebecca Bredow to jail for choosing not to vaccinate her son, another mother is facing the same potential fate. Lori Matheson is now facing the same court who, only days earlier, sent a mom to jail for refusing to vaccinate.

According to WXYZ:
Lori Matheson is objecting to a friend of the court order that found her daughter should get vaccinated.

She argues her family is pre-disposed to auto-immune injuries and a "23 and Me" genetic test will show that, and that the test should have been done before the referee made their determination.

The attorney for her daughter's father says the daughter's doctor recommended the vaccines and said her church allows them.
Matheson is now facing the same potential fate as Bredow and it's all over the court's decision to punish those who refuse vaccinations.

It is important to note that Matheson is not yet at the point to which Bredow had made it. Right now, she is only in court because she is choosing not to vaccinate their two-year-old while the father is.

The fact that this is the second case in only a couple of weeks, however, unfolding in the exact same manner, indicates where this could end up. It is indeed likely that the court will again side with the father.

Comment: Court decree of criminal charges: Refusal to vaccinate child gets mom jail time - a deeper analysis

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2 + 2 = 4

Texas high school senior expelled for sitting during the pledge


The Free Thought Project
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:21 UTC
kids saying pledge
A black Texas high school student and her mom claim in a federal lawsuit that the principal expelled her last week for sitting through the Pledge of Allegiance, after which the school secretary told her, "This is not the NFL."

Kizzy Landry sued Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District and Windfern High School Principal Martha Strother on behalf of her daughter India Landry, a senior at the school, on Saturday in Houston federal court. They are represented by prominent Houston civil rights attorney Randall Kallinen.

With more than 115,000 students spread over 91 campuses in suburban Houston, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD is the third largest school district in Texas. Its student body is 44.8 percent Hispanic, 24.6 percent white, 17.8 percent African-American and 9.3 percent Asian, according to the district.

The Landrys say in the lawsuit, which identifies India by her initials, that India had sat through the Pledge of Allegiance around 200 times in the district's classrooms without incident before Oct. 2.

According to the complaint, she was sitting in Strother's office at 9:30 a.m. that day with Strother and the school secretary Mrs. Walters when the pledge was recited over the school intercom.

"I.L. continued to sit. Principal Strother upon seeing this immediately expelled I.L. from school saying 'Well you're kicked outta here,'" the lawsuit states. (Emphasis in original.)
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Airplane

Palestinian students sue Israeli airline for ethnically profiled strip searches


RT
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:17 UTC
tel aviv airport
© Siegfried Modola / Reuters
Passengers queue for security control, Tel Aviv.
Three students have sued two Israeli airlines over what they claim was an ethnically profiled strip search amounting to sexual assault.

The three masters students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are Palestinian citizens of Israel and were on their way back from Belgrade in October 2016 when they were told they couldn't board the plane to Tel Aviv unless they agreed to be strip-searched.

"I overheard the chief security officer tell [a woman officer] that if I did not take off my bra I will not get on the plane," one of the girls told Al Jazeera. "I couldn't speak. It was a shock. I completely undressed the upper part of my body. It was painful."

One of the women fainted during the screening, which lasted two hours and was conducted by Israeli security personnel.
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Attention

Death by overwork: Japanese Olympic stadium construction worker commits suicide after logging over 190 hours of overtime

Shoko Oda and Katsuyo Kuwako
Bloomberg
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:04 UTC
olympic stadium construction
© AFP via Getty Images
Ongoing construction at Japan's National Stadium in April 2017.
Japan's unforgiving work culture has claimed another life, this time at the new Tokyo stadium for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

A 23-year-old worker killed himself after disappearing from the work site in March, according to his lawyer and employer, Sanshin Corp. He had logged more than 190 hours of overtime in February at the construction company, a builder of foundations for large structures and subcontractor for Taisei Corp. The Tokyo Labor Bureau confirmed the suicide was linked to overwork, the Nikkei newspaper reported.

"Karoshi," or death-by-overwork, is a serious social issue in Japan, with little evidence of improvement since the term first came into use in the 1970s. The report of the construction worker's demise emerged just a week after broadcaster NHK disclosed that the death of a 31-year-old reporter in 2013 was also due to overwork. She succumbed to congestive heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime a month. The suicide of a 24-year-old Dentsu Inc. employee last year was also ruled as karoshi.


Comment: 'Karoshi': 20% of Japanese employees risk death from overwork, survey shows


"The grief we feel over not being able to see the smile on our son's face again, will never go away," the worker's parents said in a statement released by his lawyer, Hiroshi Kawahito. "We want to make sure that this kind of tragedy will never happen again, and that the utmost effort will be made to improve working conditions for employees."
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Dollars

Clinton agrees to pay $850K to Paula Jones to end sexual harassment lawsuit

David G. Savage
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:00 UTC
Bill Clinton Paula Jones

Courts: Agreement settles 4-year-old sexual harassment case that threatened his presidency. As part of deal, he admits no wrongdoing and offers no apology.
President Clinton agreed Friday to pay $850,000 to Paula Corbin Jones to end her sexual harassment lawsuit, finally settling a case that began as an embarrassing nuisance for the former Arkansas governor but later sparked a criminal investigation that threatened to topple him from office.

In settling the case, Clinton did not apologize to the former Arkansas state clerk or admit wrongdoing.

Fifteen months ago, well before the name Monica S. Lewinsky became public, lawyers for the president and Jones nearly reached a settlement. But the deal fell apart when Jones insisted on an apology.

And although the president now will pay more in damages than the $700,000 Jones originally sought in her 1994 complaint, the amount is less than the $1 million she had demanded in recent settlement talks.

Rarely does a defendant in a civil suit offer to pay more than the amount initially requested, particularly when the lawsuit already has been thrown out of court.

Comment: Birds of a feather: Sex crackpot, liberal left Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's close connection to the Obamas and Clintons

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Fireball 3

Apocalypse rescheduled: Biblical doomsayer predicts 7 years of 'great tribulation' after Planet X smashes into earth


RT
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:49 UTC
apocalypse, asteroid crash
© Getty
A Biblical doomsayer has predicted that Earth is entering seven years of "tribulation" which will see a third of the planet destroyed in an "Elysian war." NASA isn't so sure though.

Author David Meade has predicted that the 'End of Days' will begin later this month as the Earth moves into a seven-year period called the "great tribulation."

Meade says that as part of the great tribulation there will be a heavenly war on Earth which will see the Antichrist rise out of the new world order.

The author shot to worldwide prominence last month when he was associated with a theory that stated the world was going to end on 23 September.

Meade maintains, however, that he never made that claim and, indeed, that is borne out in an interview he carried out with American talk show host Glenn Beck on September 21 in which he clearly explains that he doesn't believe the world will end on that day.
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Health

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico's health care infrastructure is in dire condition

Frances Robles
New York Times
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:17 UTC
medical patient
© Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo for The New York Times
Medical associations and private relief agencies have been conducting missions throughout Puerto Rico to bring medical care to areas in need. In Caguas, some patients received care in a hospital tent.
Harry Figueroa, a teacher who went a week without the oxygen that helped him breathe, died here last week at 58. His body went unrefrigerated for so long that the funeral director could not embalm his badly decomposed corpse.

Miguel Bastardo Beroa's kidneys are failing. His physicians at the intensive care unit at Doctors Hospital in Carolina are treating him for a bacterial disease that he probably caught in floodwaters contaminated with animal urine.

José L. Cruz wakes up in the middle of the night three times a week to secure a spot in line for dialysis. His treatment hours have been cut back to save fuel for the generators that power the center.

"Because of the electricity situation, a lot of people died, and are still dying," said Mr. Figueroa's daughter, Lisandra, 30. "You can't get sick now."

Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, many sick people across the island remain in mortal peril. The government's announcements each morning about the recovery effort are often upbeat, but beyond them are hidden emergencies. Seriously ill dialysis patients across Puerto Rico have seen their treatment hours reduced by 25 percent because the centers still lack a steady supply of diesel to run their generators. Less than half of Puerto Rico's medical employees have reported to work in the weeks since the storm, federal health officials said.
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Pirates

Hostility toward Russian-based cyber security firm within US undermines global efforts to fight crime, says Interpol official


RT
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 13:57 UTC
Kaspersky
© Kirill Kallinikov / Sputnik
Efforts to squeeze Russian-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab out of the United States are a sign of infighting within the cyber security community, an Interpol official has said, adding that the company actively combats cyber criminals.

Interpol, which coordinates international efforts to fight cyber and other crime, has not received any information from the US about Kaspersky Lab, Noboru Nakatani, executive director of Interpol's Global Complex for Innovation, told Reuters on the sidelines of a cyber crime conference in Moscow on Tuesday.

"Kaspersky is fighting against cyber criminals, it is very clear. Kaspersky is working with governments and companies across the world," Nakatani said. "We should work together."
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Bell

Terrorism victims looking to sue multinational corporations, case being pursued in U.S. Supreme Court

Ariane De Vogue
clickorlando.com
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:05 UTC
US Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will tackle a question it has struggled with but never resolved: Can corporations be sued in US courts for human rights abuses that occurred abroad?

The case pits human rights groups and victims of terrorism against multinational corporations that argue they should not be sued in US courts, especially because the allegations lack the necessary nexus to the United States.

The justices dodged the corporate liability question back in 2013, and now will take up a case brought by some 6,000 foreign citizens who were victims of terrorist attacks and seek to sue the Arab Bank, the largest bank in Jordan. Lawyers for the victims alleged the bank "knowingly and willingly" used its New York branch to transfer millions of US dollars that were used to finance terrorist attacks.

Comment: Suing the daylights out of banks and corporations for abetting terrorism, drug money laundering, etc. would seem to be the only language these companies understand...

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