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Cruel: Video of shark tied to boat and dragged to its death angers public and leads to investigation by Fish and Wildlife Commission

Eugene Ramirez
CBS Miami
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:20 UTC
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Video of a shark, tied to a boat, and dragged-to-death, is angering tens of thousands of people on social media and has caught the attention of state investigators.

The video appears to show a shark, tied by its tail, dragged by a speeding boat. The image then moves to show three men on that boat, laughing as they look back at the shark.

"When I first saw it I almost, like, threw up. It was so horrifying," said the South Florida shark hunter known as Mark The Shark. He claims a social media admirer sent him the video looking for praise.

"They said 'Oh, this is pretty cool, look what we did to the shark' and I go 'Are you kidding me man?' and that's when I instantly reposted it and that's when all the feedback started coming out. All the people started going crazy and it went viral."

Comment: Investigators have since identified the individuals involved. It remains to be seen if any of them will face charges for their disturbingly cruel behavior.

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7 injured 1 killed, after Ohio State Fair ride malfunctions (GRAPHIC VIDEO)


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:02 UTC
Fire Ball
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An 18-year-old man has died and at least seven other people aged 13 to 41 are injured, some critically, following a disaster aboard the Fire Ball "thrill ride" at the Ohio State Fair.

As many as five of the injured are in critical condition, according to local media. Columbus Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin confirmed that the deceased victim was thrown from the ride, Fox News reported. He was 18 years old and died on impact 50 feet from the ride after being thrown into the air at about 7:20pm Eastern on Wednesday, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The fire department confirmed that an 18-year-old was killed, WTTE reported.

The Ohio State Fair opened Wednesday and is set to last until August 6, but other rides were shut down Wednesday.
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'International criminal mastermind' who ran Bitcoin exchange charged with laundering $4 billion


RT
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 12:57 UTC
Alexander Vinnik Bitcoin laundering BTC-E
© Alexandros Avramidis / ReutersAlexander Vinnik, a 38 year old Russian man (2nd L) suspected of running a money laundering operation, is escorted by plain-clothes police officers to a court in Thessaloniki, Greece July 26, 2017.
Cryptocurrency exchange platform BTC-E has gone on "maintenance" after the arrest of alleged Bitcoin "crime mastermind" Aleksandr Vinnik in Greece. Vinnik has been indicted by a grand jury in California, reportedly on charges of laundering $4 billion.

"An internationally sought 'mastermind' of a crime organization has been arrested," said a statement from Greek law enforcement officials.

"Since 2011, the 38-year-old [Vinnik] has been running a criminal organization which administers one of the most important websites of electronic crime in the world," the statement said, adding that "at least" $4 billion is believed to have been laundered.
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New study confirms big pharma & federal govt root cause of opioid epidemic

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:38 UTC
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A new study published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review painstakingly describes how Big Pharma deception and federal government patenting have brought about the current U.S. opioid epidemic. As lawsuits pile up against pharma companies, this study confirms that for 20 years, the American public has served as the victim in a gargantuan scheme of money and power.

The study, titled The Opioid Epidemic: Fixing a Broken Pharmaceutical Market, gets right to the point in the introduction.
"In this article, we argue that non-rigorous patenting standards and ineffectual policing of both fraudulent marketing and anticompetitive actions played an important role in launching and prolonging the opioid epidemic. We further show that these regulatory issues are not unique to prescription opioids but rather are reflective of the wider pharmaceutical market."
Researchers follow with a primer on the rise of opioid prescriptions and how pain became "the fifth vital sign." By the 1990s, doctors realized that chronic pain was often ignored, and pain management became a hot topic. Physicians were urged to make greater use of opioids, with experts in the field downplaying the potential for misuse and addiction - a view largely based on experience with morphine.
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Charges filed against teen accused of livestreaming deadly car crash

Emily Shapiro
ABC News
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:22 UTC
Obdulia Sanchez
Obdulia Sanchez
A California teenager accused of driving while livestreaming on social media and causing a car crash that killed her sister made her first appearance in court today, and her attorney later told reporters that she is "absolutely broken apart."

The driver, Obdulia Sanchez, 18, of Stockton, California, is accused of driving under the influence when she crashed on July 21 in Los Banos, California, about 80 miles southeast of San Jose, the California Highway Patrol said. The car went through a barbed wire fence and overturned in a field, ejecting Sanchez's two passengers, the highway patrol said.

The passengers were both 14 years old and were not wearing seat belts; one was killed and the other suffered a major injury, the highway patrol said.
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Pakistani cops arrest 14 village council members after teenage girl raped in 'honor revenge'


RT
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:28 UTC
Pakistani women protest violence against women
© Faisal Mahmood / Reuters
The Pakistani police have arrested more than a dozen members of a village council in the eastern province of Punjab after they ordered the "honor revenge" rape of a teenage girl as punishment for a rape allegedly committed by her brother.

"A jirga [village council] had ordered the rape of a 16-year-old girl as punishment, as her brother had raped a 12-year-old," Allah Baksh, a local police official, told AFP. The incident occurred more than a week ago in the Muzaffarabad region of the Punjab province, according to Pakistani media.

According to the police, a man approached the local elders' council earlier in July and said that his sister, 12, was raped by his cousin. The council then ordered the complainant to rape the alleged perpetrator's sister, who is 16 years old, as revenge.


Comment: The punishment is completely barbaric! The so called "elders' council" should be locked up in jail and the key thrown away.

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Massachusetts court rules immigrants cannot be detained solely on ICE requests without pending criminal warrants


RT
Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:37 UTC
ICE detainees, immigration arrests
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
The top court in Massachusetts has ruled that authorities have no right to hold an immigrant after they have been released for a crime. However, some on the federal level disagree.

The state's Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled Monday after the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement requested a court order that illegal immigrants facing deportation be held for up to 48 hours after their initial cases are resolved.

That amounts to a new arrest of a person, the state court found, which is not authorized by the laws of Massachusetts. This is the first ruling of this situation that applies to an entire state, according to Massachusetts' attorney general, Maura Healey, Reuters reported.
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Making your flying experience more miserable: TSA now requires separate screenings for all electronics 'larger than a cell phone'

Andrew J. Hawkins
The Verge
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:10 UTC
TSA screening
© Scott Olson / AFP
The Transportation Security Administration, the only line of defense between us and an influx of Satanic fidget spinners, just announced new airport screening policies that are designed to make your life a living hell.

The TSA will now require "all electronics larger than a cell phone" to be removed from carry-on bags and placed in their own separate bin for X-ray screening with nothing on top or below, similar to how laptops have been screened for years. So if you've ever gone through security and thought, "Gee, just my laptop, shoes, belt, and coat? I wish I had to remove more items for separate screening," you're in luck!

The TSA has been piloting (no pun intended) the new screening policies at 10 airports, and is now ready to expand them to all US airports in the weeks and months ahead. In standard screening lanes, TSA agents will be stationed in front of X-ray machines to verbally assist passengers with the new screening procedures.
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Grocery stocking robot is about to eradicate thousands of minimum wage jobs

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 00:58 UTC
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Amazon wiped out billions of dollars worth of grocery store market cap last month when they announced plans to purchase Whole Foods. The announcement sent shares of Kroger, Wal-Mart, Sprouts, and Target, among others, plunging... (WMT -4%, TGT -5.5%, SFM -7.6%, KR -12%).
grocery store stocks plunge july 2017
But, as we pointed out back in May, well before Amazon's decision to buy Whole Foods, Amazon's success in penetrating the traditional grocery market was always a matter of when, not if. Concept stores, like Amazon Go, already exist that virtually eliminate the need for dozens of in-store employees which will allow them to generate higher returns at lower price points than traditional grocers. And, with grocery margins averaging around 1-2% at best, if Amazon, or anyone for that matter, can truly create smart stores with no check outs and cut employees in half they can effectively destroy the traditional supermarket business model.

And while the demise of the traditional grocery store will undoubtedly take time (recall that people were calling for the demise of Blockbuster for nearly a decade before it finally happened), make no mistake that the retail grocery market 10-15 years from now will not look anything like the stores you visit today.

Comment: Disturbing statistics: How quickly robots can replace human workers
A pair of economists from MIT and Boston University have published a report at the US National Bureau of Economic Research outlining the cost of swapping human labour for programmed machines in areas such as manufacture, agriculture, research and development, and even education.

The results aren't exactly great for workers in those labour markets. "Robots, in particular industrial robots, are anticipated to spread rapidly in the next several decades and assume tasks previously performed by labour," the researchers claim in their report.

Each additional robot was determined to reduce employment by 5.6 workers. Not only that, but for every 1,000 workers, one robot could reduce wages by between one-quarter and one-half of a percent.


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Mc-Disgusting: More reasons to avoid McDonald's as former employee shares nauseating photos


Sputnik
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 01:14 UTC
McDonald's LaPlace Louisiana
Photos posted online by a former McDonald's employee have cast the fast food chain in a whole new light. Be prepared, Big Mac fans.

Earlier this month, a former McDonald's employee identified only as Nick lost his job and no, it wasn't because he took too long getting hungry diners their McNuggets.

It was due to the Mc-Disgusting behind-the-scenes images he tweeted about the ice cream machine from his LaPlace, Louisiana, McDonald's locale.

Comment: And Russia is repulsed as well: Moscow's reaction to new sanctions may be banning McDonald's if it is violating sanitary norms

More reasons to ditch McDonald's less than appetizing fare:

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