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UsToo! Google staff stage worldwide walkouts over sexual harassment, forced arbitration, mistreatment of female employees


RT
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:14 UTC
google walkout sexual harrassment metoo
© Reuters / Clodagh KilcoyneWorkers stand outside the Google offices in Dublin, Ireland.
Despite the tech giant framing itself as a champion of the #MeToo movement thousands of Google employees have staged a walkout to protest the company's failure to address sexual harassment and gender inequality issues.

Google employees from offices in Berlin, Dublin, Haifa, London, Singapore, Zurich, and other cities staged walkouts at 11am, starting with the Tokyo office. Other offices around the world will follow suit at 11am local time.

The Walkout for Real Change was reportedly sparked by the New York Times revelation that the company gave Android creator Andy Rubin a $90 million severance in 2014 after he was accused of sexual harassment, despite Google finding the allegations credible. The New York Times article revealed a number of instances where senior executives at the company were paid millions in exit packages after being accused of sexual misconduct, while Google kept silent about their reported behavior.

Comment: Google seems to be having a tough time 'not being evil'. Poor Google. Life's hard when you've swallowed 25% of the Internet!

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Bullseye

British baroness to RT: 'Stop intervention & proxy wars, let Syrians decide their future'


RT
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 18:31 UTC
War torn Duma, Syria
© Reuters/Marko Djuria (file photo)People ride on a motorcycle in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus, Syria.
Baroness Cox, who recently took a fresh portion of criticism over her view of Syria - which doesn't fit into mainstream narrative - told RT that it's time for the West to stop its "interventionist" and "proxy wars" politics.

Caroline Cox, a baroness and Life Peer in the House of Lords who visited the war-ridden Syrian on numerous occasions, came under fire this week for her speech on Syria, which some mainstream media deemed "pro-Syrian." Earlier this year, she was also slammed for travelling to the war-torn state to meet with local establishment, but also with ordinary civilians.

That meeting, touted as a sign of solidarity with the country's Christian community, was also criticized in an internal Foreign Office memo, according to the Times. The visit was "used by the regime as propaganda to undermine the UK's position on Syria," the FCO alleged.

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Question

Mystery as 1,000 human teeth found hidden inside wall during renovation of former dentist's building in Georgia

Guy Birchall
The Sun
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:18 UTC
Teeth found in the wall of a dentists office
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Builders were baffled after cracking open a wall to find around 1,000 human teeth inside.

The workers were renovating an old building in Valdosta, Georgia, when they came across the stash of gnashers.

They found them in the Converse building in the city's downtown area when they began to knock down a wall on the second floor.

As they struck the wall around a thousand human teeth spilled out.

City staff have been digging into the building's history to find an explanation as to why they were there and believe they may have come up with part of an answer.
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Political analyst says 'New Age' beliefs more popular as fewer Americans follow traditional religions

Julia Manchester
The Hill
Wed, 31 Oct 2018 17:24 UTC
New Age beliefs more popular
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The growing popularity of "New Age" beliefs likely stems in part from fewer Americans following traditional religions, according to political analyst Ruy Teixeira.

"The data suggests this is the fastest growing religious group in America, are people who don't hold any firm religious beliefs," Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said Wednesday on Hill.TV's "What America's Thinking."

"Perhaps these New Age beliefs are in a sense, at least partially, a reflection of more and more people not having an orthodox religious set of beliefs," he added.

Teixeira was discussing a recent Pew Research Center poll that found 62 percent of Americans hold New Age beliefs, such as astrology and the presence of spiritual energy in trees or mountains.
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Attention

'Bigger threat than terrorism' - NCA reveal rapid rise of organized crime


RT
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 17:23 UTC
UK organized crime members
© Police ScotlandClockwise from top left: Gerard Docherty, Steven McCardle, Francis Mulligan, David Sell, Barry O'Neill and Martyn Fitzsimmons
Serious and organized crime "kills more of our citizens than terrorism" and any other threat combined, which costs the UK economy £37bn a year, The National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed.

The head of the NCA, Lynne Owens, has told senior police chiefs at a conference in central London, the threat of serious and organized crime has rapidly increased, which cause more deaths than any other national security threat, The Independent reports.

Owens told those assembled: "The threat from serious and organized crime has changed rapidly, increasing in both volume and complexity. We know that it now affects more UK citizens, more often, than any other national security threat.

"We know that it leads to more deaths in the UK each year than all other national security threats combined. It kills more of our citizens than terrorism, war and natural disasters combined."
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Propaganda

Americans think the media has done more to divide the US than Trump - poll


RT
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 17:03 UTC
media white house politics
© Reuters / Eric Thayer
Since he became president, many in the media have blamed Donald Trump for stoking division in the United States, but a new poll shows that while many agree that Trump deserves blame, more point the finger at the media itself.

The Politico/Morning Consult poll, released on Thursday, showed that 56 percent of Americans felt Trump had done more to divide people, with just 30 percent feeling like he had acted to unite the country.

But the news was worse for the media. A significant majority, 64 percent of Americans surveyed said that the media had done more to divide people - with only 17 percent believing the media had been a force to unite people.
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Pistol

Gunman in 'Scream' mask shoots 2 in New York City

Katherine Creag
NBC News - New York
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 03:28 UTC
Gunman in Scream mask shoots 2
© NBC News
Somebody wearing a "Scream" mask is on the loose after shooting a teenage girl and a man in Manhattan, cops say.

Gunshots rang out just before 2 a.m. Thursday on 163rd Street in Washington Heights right as Halloween festivities were winding down, the NYPD said.

Police initially said the gunman had definitely been wearing a Michael Myers mask, the trademark of the villain in the "Halloween" slasher films, but later said it could have been confused for the villain from "Scream."

Witnesses confirmed the mask was "Ghostface," the longfaced, sunken-eyed haunt adopted by several characters of the cult horror series "Scream."
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Satellite

Space cooperation persists despite political row: US takes delivery of 4 Russian built rocket engines, with more to follow


RT
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 11:45 UTC
Atlas V rocket on liftoff
© United Launch Alliance / FlickrAtlas V rocket on liftoff
Despite political tensions here on Mother Earth, Russian-American cooperation in space still persists. The US will take delivery of four Russian-built engines crucial for its Atlas rockets, with several more to come.

Four RD-180 rocket engines built by Russia's NPO Energomash have been commissioned for the US buyers, the manufacturer said in a news release. "On October 26, 2018, Pratt & Whitney, United Launch Alliance and RD AMROSS singed the engine log books," it reads.

Prior to the handover, Pratt & Whitney and United Launch Alliance (ULA) checked the engines along with NASA and US Air Force experts to ensure they are of good quality. The RD-180s are now ready to be shipped out, and this is not a one-of-a-kind purchase.
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Bad Guys

Afghan government struggling to regain control from territory lost to Taliban militants


RFE/RL
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 16:56 UTC
Afghan National Army soldiers
Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on October 31.
The Afghan government is struggling to recover control of districts lost to Taliban militants while casualties among security forces have reached record levels, a U.S. government watchdog says.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) highlighted in its latest quarterly report on October 31 the heavy pressure on the government in Kabul.

"The control of Afghanistan's districts, population, and territory overall became more contested this quarter," the agency said.
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Paul Joseph Watson: Halloween is Racist!

Paul Joseph Watson
Sott.net
Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:24 UTC
not okay
Just when you thought joyless, whining social justice warriors couldn't possibly ruin anything else, they've now set their sights on Halloween.

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