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GOP tax bill persuasion: AT&T, Boeing, Comcast reward employees with cash

Thomas Barrabi
Fox Business
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 19:47 UTC
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Some of America's biggest companies are launching new initiatives to benefit employees after the GOP-led House of Representatives approved the largest tax reform bill in three decades this week.

The $1.5 trillion tax bill reduces the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% and changes the way the U.S. government taxes companies that also operate internationally. The new plan, which is expected to be signed by President Donald Trump by January at the latest, is being hailed as a major victory for corporations and wealthy Americans.

FOX Business breaks down how employees at some major companies are benefitting from the corporate world's good fortune.

AT&T

The telecom giant said Wednesday that more than 200,000 of its employees, including union-represented and non-management workers, will be eligible for a $1,000 bonus. The checks will be in the mail in time for the holidays if Trump finalizes the tax bill with his signature before Christmas. AT&T (T) also said it will invest $1 billion more than expected in the U.S. in 2018, once the cuts are final.

"Congress, working closely with the President, took a monumental step to bring taxes paid by U.S. businesses in line with the rest of the industrialized world," AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said in a statement. "This tax reform will drive economic growth and create good-paying jobs."

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Street artist erects Meryl Streep #SheKnew posters in LA amid backlash over Weinstein statement by actress

Caitlyn Hitt
NY Daily News
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 19:41 UTC
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A street artist is calling Meryl Streep on her bluff.

Posters showing the "The Post" actress standing with disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein have been popping up across Los Angeles, Twitter posts indicate. The artist, who has yet to be identified, placed a red banner with the words, "She knew," over Streep's eyes.

The images began appearing around the City of Angels following a Monday statement from the 68-year-old actress in which she claimed Weinstein "made sure" she didn't know about his perverted antics.

She went on to claim that he used his association to her "to lure young, aspiring women into circumstances where they would be hurt."
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Fish and chip restaurant owner arrested in Christmas terrorism probe was 'radicalized overnight'


RT
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:34 UTC
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The owner of a fish and chip restaurant arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack became a Muslim fundamentalist "overnight," his ex-girlfriend has claimed. Three other men were also arrested on Tuesday.

Andy Sami Star, 31, is among four men being held by police on suspicion of preparing or instigating acts of terrorism. They were arrested by the North-East Counter Terrorism Unit (NECTU), which worked with MI5 to foil the suspected Christmas attack.
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Arrow Down

Illinois governmental mismanagement leading to state of collapse

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:24 UTC
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Illinois is drowning under a mountain of debt, unpaid bills and underfunded pension liabilities and it's largest city, Chicago, is suffering from a staggering outbreak of violent crime not seen since gang wars engulfed major cities from LA to New York in the mid-90's. Here is just a small taste of some of our posts on Illinois' challenges:
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SOTT Focus: The IDF vs The Teenage Girl: Palestinian Activist Ahed Tamimi Arrested For Slapping Soldiers Who Shot Boy

Andrés Perezalonso
Sott.net
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:37 UTC
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© Asra VoiceAhed Tamimi in Ofer Military Court, 20 December, 2017.
Ahed Tamimi lives in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. She has literally been fighting tooth and nail against Israeli occupation soldiers since before she was a teenager. In the 2015 video above, we see her fighting off a soldier who was trying to take away her then 11 year-old brother Mohammed. Since the video, she became both a symbol of Palestinian resistance and an easily recognizable target for Israelis, both civilian and military.
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Lawyer warns police too easily believe rape accusers


RT
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:27 UTC
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A top barrister has warned that police readily taking rape accusers at their word could be adding to the police disclosure scandal. Her comments come days after a second man in just one week was released due to police errors.

Alison Levitt QC, who is a former adviser to the Director of Public Prosecutions, warned that the 'rigid mindset' of believing every accusation could lead police to overlook or miss significant evidence that could clear defendants.

"It is their duty to investigate anything that leads towards the suspect or leads away from the suspect," she said. "There are individuals here, both complainants and suspects, who deserve these cases to be given the careful scrutiny they require. In recent years the police have revised their policy and made it clear that their starting point for their investigation in these sort of cases is that they believe the victim. The criminal justice community has a lot of concerns about that."


Comment: Bullshit. "The Police" did not revise their policies. Feminist politicians and activists forced them to revise their policies.

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Former journalist sentenced to 5yrs for Jewish center bomb threats made during campaign to terrorize ex-girlfriend


RT
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:46 UTC
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A former journalist has been sentenced to 60 months in prison after admitting to terrorizing Jewish groups with bomb threats in a campaign to intimidate his ex-girlfriend. She says the NYPD ignored her calls for help.

Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced former Intercept journalist Juan Thompson, 32, of St. Louis, Missouri Wednesday, and labeled the man's actions as domestic terrorism. Thompson was also sentenced to three years supervised release after he serves his sentence, according to a press release sent out by the US Department of Justice.

The former journalist's sentence is a year longer than the federal sentencing guidelines recommended by law.

Over a period of several months in 2016 and 2017, Thompson "communicated at least 12 threats to Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) and other Victim Organizations" in ex-girlfriend Francesca Rossi's and his name. He also "made false allegations" about Rossi to her employer, according to the DOJ press release.
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Facebook ditches 'disputed article' tag after research shows it to be ineffective


RT
Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:45 UTC
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Facebook will ditch its controversial "disputed" article tag after research showed the fact-checking initiative to be ineffective. Undeterred, the tech giant has adopted a new strategy in its crusade against fake news.

Under the old system that was introduced last year, Facebook partnered with signatories of Poynter's International Fact Checking Code of Principles - including ABC News, FactCheck.org, the Associated Press, Snopes and Politifact - to comb through the social media platform in search of fake news.

The third-party fact-checkers would review and mark offending articles with a red "disputed" tag - a process that now appears to have been unpersuasive. Facebook says it will turn instead to its "related articles" feature to help users decided what is true. First launched in 2013, related articles will suggest related content that could help users judge the accuracy of what appears in the news feed.
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London's Sex Robot Conference: Child sex dolls, human-bot babies and the end of society


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:02 UTC
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© Vincent Kessler / ReutersA silicone dream doll
Will it be possible for humans and robots to procreate? Could bots see the demise of female humans? And what about pedophiles - should they be given child sex dolls? RT went to the Love and Sex Robots Conference to find out.

The event, which had its venue changed from Goldsmiths University to a secret north London location following "threats from Islamic extremists," saw ethicists, computer scientists, and sex toy developers discuss how robots are set to affect our intimate lives. It was previously banned in Malaysia for being "too extreme."

The ethics of robot sex is hotly debated. But with 'digisexual' now an accepted sexual preference, the world's first robot brothel opening in Barcelona, and buyers able to customize sex dolls to an extreme level - nipple color, body shape, and breast size - there's no denying the rise of sex bots is inevitable.

Comment: After reading an article like this, one might come to the conclusion that there is not much hope for the human race.

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Chechen leader Kadyrov sanctioned by U.S. under Magnitsky Act - Kadyrov responds by mocking US


RT
Wed, 20 Dec 2017 17:02 UTC
Kadyrov
© RIA Novosti/Said TsarnaevHead of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov
Five Russian nationals, including the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov, have been placed on the US sanctions list under the Magnitsky Act.

The leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, is on the list alongside the following names: Ayub Kataev; Yulia Mayorova; Andrey Pavlov; and Alexey Sheshenya.

Adopted by the US Congress in December 2012, the Magnitsky Act allows the United States to withhold visas and freeze financial assets of Russian individuals and companies over alleged human rights violations. The law is named after Sergey Magnitsky, a Russian auditor who died in a pre-trial detention center while under investigation for major tax fraud.


Comment: A fraudulent act based on a fraudulent tale:


Comment: Kadryov responded with some expert level trolling of the US:
"I can be proud that I'm displeasing for the US intelligence agencies," he said. "They say that sanctions are somehow linked to human rights abuses. Well, then why look for people to fill the list on the other side of the world, when they are right in the White House and in the Pentagon?"
"Poor Americans! One small but proud Chechen republic haunts an entire country."
"Have you forgotten about the massacred Indigenous Americans, millions of African slaves, victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, millions of the Vietnamese, the Son My village, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Belgrade... My list contains thousands of bloody deeds of the US"


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