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UK woman killed autistic teen to cross murder off 'bucket list'


RT
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:33 UTC
Aaron Pajich
© FacebookAaron Pajich
A British woman has been convicted of murdering an autistic teenage boy in Australia in order to feel "euphoric." Jemma Lilley, originally from Lincolnshire, UK, killed Aaron Pajich at her home in Perth, burying him in a shallow grave.

Prosecutor James McTaggart told the Supreme Court of Western Australia that Lilley killed 18-year-old Pajich to cross 'murder' off her "bucket list," adding that she was so "full of herself and euphoric" that she boasted about the act to a colleague.

During the four week trial, the court heard how Lilley, along with her accomplice and housemate, 42-year-old Trudi Clare Lenon, had lured Pajich to their house on June 13 last year. Once there, the pair brutally garrotted and stabbed the young man before disposing of his body in their Orelia home.
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Dollar

Finland gives citizens $660 a month in universal income experiment


Vice News
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:21 UTC
Finnish man
Two thousand unemployed people in Finland are part of an experiment that could shape the future of the West. For the next two years, the government will give them the equivalent of $660 a month - for free, no strings attached. It's an idea called Universal Income and though it has a lot of politicians and economists excited, others are worried about creating a society of freeloaders.

But what does it look like? VICE News traveled to deepest, darkest, coldest part of Finland to speak to critics of the trial - and to meet with a father of six to see how the experiment has changed his life.

Comment: A boon for personal creativity or a means of making populations so reliant on the state they'd never think of revolting?

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Attention

Jesus Campos to receive subpoena to testify in civil lawsuit filed by Las Vegas shooting victim


Fox News
Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Jesus Campos
The Mandalay Bay security guard who is being eyed as a key witness in the Las Vegas shooting will receive a subpoena to testify on the timeline and other circumstances surrounding the attack, according to local media.

Jesus Campos will be given the subpoena by an attorney for Rachel Sheppard, a 26-year-old from California who was shot three times in the attack, KSNV reported Monday.

The station also reported that a judge ruled Monday that lawyers in civil lawsuits will be allowed to inspect the grounds of the Route 91 Harvest music festival, where the attack occurred.


Comment: This should be interesting, considering the apparent efforts to keep Campos from answering too many inconvenient questions:

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Attention

UK: Theresa May's 'delayed' report on shocking facts of deaths in custody

Eric Allison and Simon Hattenstone
The Guardian
Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:14 UTC
UK deaths in custody Theresa May delayed report England
United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) Injustice Demo 2015
A report commissioned by the prime minister herself highlights the breadth of the problems and makes sound recommendations. She should follow them

It was many months ago that Dame Elish Angiolini completed her review into deaths and serious injuries in police custody, which was commissioned by Theresa May when she was home secretary. It was finally made public this week.

During the unacceptably long delay, the charity Inquest reported at least eight deaths involving restraint or Taser and other use of force, and five deaths of other people who "became unwell" or were found unresponsive while in police custody. During the same period, a number of critical conclusions in police misconduct hearings and trials have, yet again, questioned the ability of the police to police themselves.


Comment: The release of the report was delayed by 15 months.


Comment: Inquiries over deaths in police custody need to involve family

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Mr. Potato

Politicians' hysteria over 'Russian disinformation' echoed by social media executives

Jacob Sullum
Reason
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:05 UTC
Facebook Twitter Google Counsel
© Jonathan Ernst / ReutersFacebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's acting General Counsel Sean Edgett and Google's Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security Richard Salgado during a U.S. Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee hearing , U.S., October 31, 2017
Yesterday representatives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter testified before a Senate subcommittee about online "Russian disinformation," sounding a note of alarm that echoed legislators' concerns and therefore grossly exaggerated the threat. "When it comes to the 2016 election," said Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, "the foreign interference we saw is reprehensible and outrageous and opened a new battleground for our company, our industry, and our society. That foreign actors, hiding behind fake accounts, abused our platform and other internet services to try to sow division and discord - and to try to undermine our election process - is an assault on democracy, and it violates all of our values."

The idea that Russian ads on Facebook, Russian tweets on Twitter, and Russian videos on YouTube "undermine our election process" and constitute "an assault on democracy" (let alone that such propaganda "violates all of our values") is hard to take seriously given what we know about the nature and scale of this operation. Social media platforms have every right to insist that users follow their terms of service, which in Facebook's case ban phony source descriptions (falsely identifying a Russian's posts as an American's, for example). But the expectation that Facebook, Twitter, and Google will police political discourse to minimize "Russian influence" is not just impractical but, if backed by the threat of legislation, contrary to the First Amendment.

Comment: See also:

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Bullseye

Panic hits Hollywood and media elite: Who's head will be next?

Mary Pilon, Marisa Guthrie
The Hollywood Reporter
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:51 UTC
Bill O'Reilly, Chris Savino and Leon Wieseltier
© From left to right: Sonia Moskowitz, Vivien Killilea, Brooks Kraft/Corbis, all Getty ImagesFrom left: Bill O'Reilly, Chris Savino and Leon Wieseltier
Near-daily disclosures of misconduct from N.Y. and L.A. men - as outlined in a since-deleted spreadsheet of "Shitty Media Men" - have blanketed the landscape with a palpable unease: "We all wake up thinking, 'Who's next?'"

Dayna Evans, a freelance writer in Brooklyn, was working at her apartment on Oct. 11 when she received a link to a Google spreadsheet curiously titled "Shitty Media Men."

"When I first got it, there were 12 or so names on it, and you could see people editing it," says Evans. "I still remember even then thinking how few men there were on it considering how many of them have power." She left her computer for a few hours, and when she returned, the number had ballooned to more than 50 (a version obtained by The Hollywood Reporter includes 72 names), covering an array of outlets, including The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, Harper's, Mother Jones, BuzzFeed and New York.
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Agenda-pushing NYT columnist gets torched for tweeting gun control talking points after NYC terror attack

Matt Vespa
Townhall
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 07:30 UTC
home depot truck NYC terror attack
Nicholas Kristof stepped on a rake last night-and it wasn't pretty. The New York Times columnist decided to go there on gun control when it was wholly unnecessary to do so. On Tuesday, 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov drove a rented Home Depot pickup truck through a bike path in lower Manhattan and plowed through bystanders and cyclists. Eight people are dead, close to dozen more injured and you're going to give New York a pat on the back for having strict gun laws. This was possibly in response to Saipov exiting his truck holding fake guns. He was obviously trying to commit suicide by cop, but martyrdom was denied; the NYPD shot him but he's alive (via CBS News):

Comment: Nothing like a good old-fashioned terrorist attack to reignite the hysterical gun-control debate - even if it didn't involve guns! See:

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Family

DNC: 'Straight white males' need not apply for tech jobs

Barnini Chakraborty
Fox News
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:00 UTC
DNC tech jobs white males men need not apply meeting Tom Perez
© REUTERS/Chris BerryDemocratic National Chair candidate, Tom Perez, addresses the audience as the Democratic National Committee holds an election to choose their next chairperson at their winter meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. February 25, 2017.
That's the message from a Democratic National Committee data services manager, currently on the hunt to filll multiple vacancies in the tech department.

The political organization, which routinely makes grand statements about inclusion, recently sent an email to its employees looking to recruit people for eight open spots including IT Systems Administrator, Product Manager and Chief Security Officer.

Though the Oct. 30 email says that the DNC is looking for a "staff of diverse voices and life experiences," it apparently doesn't mean white men.

Comment: This is simply pathological negative selection, as described by Andrew Lobaczewski in Political Ponerology. Newsflash to Leader: Discriminating against a majority based on unimportant things like skin color and sexual orientation, means discriminating against a majority that includes the things that actually matter, like intelligence and competence. There are simply more straight white males than there are gay colored males. Therefore, there will also be more competent straight white males than competent gay colored males. The opposite would be true if gay colored males were more numerous than straight white males.

Enough with the identity politics. It only leads to disaster. How about just saying, "Hire whoever is best qualified for the job, whatever biological category they happen to fall under"?

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Attention

Smear-ad backfire: Virginia gubernatorial nominee sees donations triple after opponent's ad goes viral

Sarah Taylor
The Blaze
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:08 UTC
Ed Gillespie smear ad
© TwitterVirginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie said he's "disgusted" by the inflammatory campaign ad against him, but campaign donations have tripled as a result of it.
Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie revealed Tuesday that his campaign donations have tripled since progressive political organization Latino Victory Fund released an inflammatory ad targeting his campaign.

The ad featured a white man driving a Ford pickup truck bearing a Gillespie bumper sticker and license plates reading "Don't tread on me."

In the video, the vehicle's driver drove the truck directly at a group of fleeing minority children.
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Cloud Precipitation

Majority of Americans say that now is the worst point in US history that they can remember

Julia Conley
Common Dreams
Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00 UTC
lowest point in U.S. history
© NoHoDamon/Flickr/ccFifty-nine percent of Americans surveyed in a new poll say the present-day is the lowest point in U.S. history, with many pointing to issues impacted by the Trump administration.
In new poll, a majority say they can't remember a time when their levels of stress over healthcare, the economy, and social divisions were higher

A majority of Americans surveyed in a study of stress levels, released on Wednesday, said they consider the present day to be the lowest point in U.S. history, and indicated that the future of the nation is a major source of stress in their lives.

Out of 3,440 respondents surveyed in August by the American Psychological Association, fifty-nine percent said they can't remember a worse time in the nation's history. The people surveyed included Americans who had lived through World War II, the Vietnam War, the September 11 attacks, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Poll-takers asked respondents to describe the issues that have caused them to feel this way, and found that 59 percent were most anguished about "divisiveness" in U.S. society.

Comment: Though this article has an 'anti-Trump' slant, it's clear that most Americans correctly perceive that things are wildly off kilter in the US, and not likely to get any better. What does make matters worse, however, is that many don't know that they are being gaslighted by pathological people in positions of power - through many different spheres of influence. It's very difficult to solve the many serious problems of the US if you don't know what the real problem is and suffering from cognitive dissonance.

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