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Workers on Bernie Sanders, Killary Clinton campaigns claim sexual harassment

Adam Shaw
Breitbart
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:07 UTC
Bernie Sanders, Killary Clinton
© AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
Campaign workers on the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Democratic 2016 presidential campaigns alleged in a report published Friday that they were harassed while campaigning for their respective candidates and that the campaigns failed to address the claims properly - the latest sexual misconduct revelations to rock the Democratic Party.

Lilian Adams, a Clinton campaign worker, and Zoey Jordan Salsbury, who worked for the Sanders primary campaign, both told HuffPost that they were sexually harassed by fellow campaign workers and that the campaigns were "ill-equipped" to cope.

Adams, who relocated to Colorado to work for the campaign as a paid organizer, said she was subject to homophobic remarks (Adams is bisexual) which went on to comments about her body and attempts to force her into one-on-one situations and get her to drink alcohol. Adams, then 19, said her harasser also encouraged her not to wear bras.
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#NomoreTitleIX : Kangaroo courts continue to cause strife as students deface Martin Luther King Jr. chapel to protest 'rape culture'

Greg Piper
College Fix
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 13:35 UTC
Vigilante mob publishes every name accused of sexual assault, too

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
All-male Morehouse College and all-female Spelman College are sibling schools under the historically black Atlanta University Center Consortium, along with Clark Atlanta University.

They are also the joint subject of a two-year-old Title IX investigation at the U.S. Department of Education, initiated by a Spelman student who said a Morehouse student sexually assaulted her.

Comment: It would be far more fruitful if these allegations were properly handled by law enforcement agencies.

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Financial strategist says 'The Great Crash of 2018' will start in bond market


RT
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:46 UTC
savings bond
© The Herbstman Collection
Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis "very little has been really fixed," and the next bubble is about to burst, says Bill Blain, a strategist at Mint Partners. According to Blain, this time the bond markets will trigger the mayhem.

Global stocks rose in value after the People's Bank of China poured $47 billion into its financial system. That means "central banks have little to worry about in 2018 - if markets get fractious, just bung a load of money at them," said Blain.

The 2008 crisis, which was about consumer debt, was triggered by mortgages. We still have consumer debt crisis problems ahead, warns Blain, adding the next financial crisis is likely to be in corporate debt.
"More immediately, the realization a crisis is coming feels very similar to June 2007 when the first mortgage-backed funds in the US started to wobble." He said it explains why "we're seeing the highly levered sector of the junk bond markets struggle, and companies correlated to struggling highly levered consumers (such as health and telecoms) also in trouble."
Stock markets don't matter, according to the strategist. "The truth is in bond markets. And that's where I'm looking for the dam to break. The great crash of 2018 is going to start in the deeper, darker depths of the credit market," he said.
"I'm convinced bond markets are the REAL bubble we should be watching, and it's going to start in high yield..."
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One sided reporting by the media can limit critical thinking: On Jordan Peterson's website plans


The Knife
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 12:11 UTC
U of T Faculty Association requests meeting on professor's proposed website to identify 'postmodern' courses

Jordan B. Peterson
© Dave Abel/Postmedia Network
On Friday, The University of Toronto's Faculty Association requested a meeting to discuss psychology professor Jordan Peterson's idea to create a website to identify courses containing "postmodern" content. The Faculty Association's president, Cynthia Messenger, said the association had "concern[s]" about the website's "threat to our members and to the academic mission of the university." In an interview with the Toronto Star on Friday, Peterson said the website would provide people with information they could use to decide whether they wanted to take certain courses.

The meeting requested by the association would be attended by its executive members and the university's provost Cheryl Regehr.
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About that 'magic money tree': What if it were used to reclaim national sovereignty from the internationalists?

Youssef El-Gingihy
The Independent, UK
Sun, 05 Nov 2017 21:24 UTC
dirty english money
© Press AssociationModern monetary theory proposes that money is an abstract concept of ones and zeros, so why do we not just spend our way out of our problems?
As the political climate turns against the acceptance of austerity, a new book argues it is time to reject the hegemony of neoliberalism

After seven years of austerity, we are accustomed to thinking of the economy as a household with the nation's credit card maxed out, to paraphrase David Cameron. The fetishisation of debt translated into massive cuts to UK spending on public services. At the same time, there remains widespread public anger that the big banks continued to make record profits and bonuses in spite of George Osborne's assurances that we would all be in it together.

That was then though. Both Cameron and Osborne have since departed. This year, the political climate turned on its axis. The Conservative majority of 2015 gave way to a hung parliament with 40 per cent of voters opting for Corbyn's Labour. The electorate's acceptance of austerity mantras had evidently reached its limit.

Comment: Absolutely, reclaim the state; it worked for Russia and China. Get it out of the ghouls' hands and back into the hands of normal people. Compare this with former British govt minister John Redwood, now a City consultant, who recently encouraged investors to follow his example and move their money out of the UK because they'll get higher profits abroad.

There would be important details to work out along the way of course; capital controls, for example, often don't work as intended - they just increase incentives to hoard and hide cash. But the basic sentiment - taking back control of the country from disloyal 'internationalists' who couldn't care less about said country - is spot on.

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Echoes of Catalonia: 60,000 rally in Spain's Valencia to demand better funding


Press TV
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:33 UTC
Valencia demonstration manifestación
© RuptlyAn image grab from a video by Ruptly shows protesters in the Spanish city of Valencia on November 18, 2017.
Tens of thousands of people have staged a protest rally in the Spanish city of Valencia, calling on the central government in Madrid to allocate more funding to the autonomous community of the same name.

More than 60,000 demonstrators took to the main streets of the city on Saturday, expressing discontent with what they called the unfair distribution of budget to Valencia.

Waving Valencia's regional flags, the protesters demanded that the Spanish government revise the country's financial system in order for a fairer distribution of funding to autonomous communities.

Comment: Surely the people of Valencia are mistaken! There is no underfunding of the region - it's just those Russian and Venezuelan hackers implanting strange ideas in their innocent minds again!

It's not our fault: Spain claims 'hackers' from Russia and Venezuela influenced Catalonia's independence

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Rat soup, anyone? Mexican politician bids to restore delicacy to the menu

David Agren
Guardian
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:23 UTC
caldo de rata Mexico rat soup Zacatecas
© Guadalupe FloresGuadalupe Flores tries some of the local caldo de rata.
Guadalupe Flores, of the Zacatecas state legislature, wants to 'demystify the consumption of field rats' by encouraging people to eat caldo de rata

As policy platforms go, it is unlikely to become mainstream. But a local politician in the Mexican state of Zacatecas is promoting the consumption of rat soup in an attempt to rescue a local tradition and remove the stigma of eating rodents.

"The idea is to demystify the consumption of field rats, a clean animal, which is not related in any way to the species in the sewers," said Guadalupe Flores, a member of the state legislature.

The consumption of caldo de rata - rat soup - goes back to colonial times in Zacatecas, a state set on the high altiplano in the heart of the country.

Comment: Does this mean that Mexicans will be eating their own politicians now? We suppose that's one way to deal with corruption.

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At least 12 killed, 2 others seriously injured in car crash at Salgaa area, Kenya


Sputnik
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:20 UTC
Ambulance in Kenya
© AP Photo/ Sayyid AzimAmbulance in Kenya
A car crash at Salgaa area along Nakuru-Eldoret highway in western Kenya left at least 12 people dead and two others seriously injured, local media reported on Sunday.

The accident, involving a shuttle bus and a truck, occurred around 03:00 a.m. local time (00:00 GMT), Daily Nation newspaper reported.


"All the 11 passengers and the driver of the shuttle died on the spot," Japheth Kioko, Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) of the nearby Rongai town, told the newspaper.

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Cultural support: Russia gives unique 3D Palmyra model to Syria to help restore ancient city


RT
Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:05 UTC
The Roman Theatre at Palmyra
© Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of SciencesThe Roman Theatre at Palmyra
Russian researchers have created a model of the ancient city of Palmyra, based on thousands of drone images. Unveiled at the St. Petersburg cultural forum, it will be given to Syria to help restore and preserve the UNESCO World Heritage site ravaged by ISIS.

The 3D model has been created by scientists from the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with the help of experts from the Hermitage Museum. As part of their work on the project, which features both landscape and architectural designs of Palmyra, Russian researchers visited the Syrian city in September 2016. During their special expedition, some 20,000 drone images were taken.


Based on the aerial footage, the detailed copy has been created, which will allow observers to track the state of the World Heritage Site by simply comparing new images to the 3D model. It will also help restore the ancient city, which has been largely destroyed by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.

Comment: See also:

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Florida ignores escalating hepatitis C cases in prisons; may cost taxpayers millions

Mary Ellen Klas
Miami Herald
Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:30 UTC
Julie Jones visits with inmates
© Florida Department of CorrectionsFlorida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones visits with inmates at the Wakulla Correctional Institution on March 8, 2016.
The state of Florida may have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in treatment costs to as many as 20,000 sick inmates after a federal judge ruled Friday that prison officials had failed to properly care for felons infected with the hepatitis C virus.

The ruling, by U.S. District Court Judge Mark Walker, requires the Florida Department of Corrections to immediately treat a significant portion of the state's 98,000 inmates who test positive for the viral infection with direct acting antiviral drugs, a 12-week treatment that now costs about $37,000 per patient.

"FDC has a long and sordid history of failing to treat HCV-infected inmates," Walker wrote in his 32-page ruling. "And this court finds as a matter of fact that FDC's failure to treat was due to a lack of funding."

Comment: Mistreatment of prison inmates is nothing new in the US. When costs associated with medical treatment, basic nutrition and other forms of care escalate, the bottom line wins out over basic human decency. See:

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