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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 ImagesOngoing 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

Flashback 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 TimesMedical 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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USA

More gender madness: California healthcare workers who use the wrong gender pronoun can face jail time and fines

Katherine Rodriguez
Breitbart
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 13:19 UTC
transgender man
© ALEX HALADA/AFP/Getty
A newly signed law signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown last week states that health care workers who choose not to address transgender patients by their preferred pronouns could face fines or jail time.

The bill, which was signed into law Wednesday, is designed to protect transgender and LGBT individuals in hospitals, assisted living facilities, long-term care facilities, and retirement homes from discrimination and ensure their needs are met, such as letting them use the bathroom of their preferred gender.

"It shall be unlawful for a long-term care facility or facility staff to take any of the following actions wholly or partially on the basis of a person's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status," the bill reads.

The law states that health care workers who "willfully and repeatedly" fail to address transgender people by their "preferred name or pronouns" if they were "clearly informed of the preferred name or pronouns" would be in violation of the law.

Comment: For more on these bizarre laws sweeping the nation:
Policing of speech: NYC to fine businesses for not using the correct gender pronoun
Compelled speech comes to Canada: Citizens using the 'wrong' gender pronoun could be accused of hate crimes
And the following bill is even worse. The government can remove the children of parents who don't accept and their kid's preferred 'gender expression'.
Bill 89: Canada's newest gender revisionism laws target children and parents

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Sherlock

Hollywood's sudden exposure of Weinstein: Why now?

Prep For That Staff
Prep For That
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:36 UTC
Weinstein
© Photo by GabboT
  • Suddenly exposing Weinstein after decades of cover-ups seems absurd
  • Weinstein deployed the same tactic as De Niro when ousted
  • What happened to Weinstein and De Niro's vaccine safety documentary?
The 15th annual Tribeca Film Festival was one to remember. It will long be remembered as the one whereas Tribeca co-founder and Hollywood legend, Robert De Niro, was condemned for attempting to show Andrew Wakefield's vaccine safety documentary, Vaxxed. Filmmakers threatened to remove their films from Tribeca's lineup if De Niro didn't comply with the removal of the screening. And he most certainly complied.

Comment: While Weinstein's actions are inexcusable, the question of why this information comes out now may be something to consider. DeNiro vaccine coverage:

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People

Healing the past: 84% of Russian students want a public debate about the Red Terror

Ruslan Ward
Russian Faith
Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:09 UTC
They want to know what happened and what that means for today's Russia
Russian revolution 1917 graffiti
© Unknown
Recently, a fascinating trend in Russian society has emerged: a peaking, nation-wide interest in history, especially post-Revolution history and, even more so, the (in)famous Stalin years.

This year, on the centennial of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Russians are finally ready to grapple with the countless ghosts of the victims of Soviet purges and repressions: the Christians, the liberals, the peasants, the nobility, the foreigners, and so many other random "counterrevolutionaries."

This is the first large organized social attempt to address the brutal historical reality. Russians are discussing, debating, organizing exhibitions, building memorials and walls of tears for the victims. RGRU, the official Russian government publication of historical documents has created an official page called "reconciliation" for materials and news related to the memorialization and discussion of the Revolution and the Red Terror.
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Bad Guys

NYPD says Harvey Weinstein evidence was presented to Manhattan DA

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:51 UTC
Ambra Battilana Gutierrez_Harvey Weinstein
Ambra Battilana Gutierrez and Harvey Weinstein
It appears that the first casualty of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal, may be none other than the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr.

According to an explosive new article published by the New Yorker on Tuesday, Vance had evidence of Weinstein's sexually predatory behavior toward a woman, but didn't pursue the case. The story describes how model and former Miss Italy contestant Ambra Battilana Gutierrez accepted a meeting with Weinstein in March 2015. During the meeting, she told New Yorker that Weinstein groped her breasts and put his hands up her skirt.

After the encounter, Gutierrez went to the New York Police Department, which counseled her to wear a wire and meet with Weinstein the next day at his hotel. The New Yorker published the recorded audio of their exchange.
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