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Not just sexist, Fox News now facing lawsuits alleging racism


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:42 UTC
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© Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters
The shameful legacy left by former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is proving hard to overcome for the company, which is already embroiled in multiple sex scandals. Now, several employees are adding a racial discrimination suit to the litany of alleged abuses.

Fox payroll manager Tichaona Brown and payroll coordinator Tabrese Wright have accused co-worker Judy Slater of making "racially charged comments, including suggestions that black men were 'women beaters' and that black people wanted to physically harm white people," reports Think Progress, citing The New York Times.

The lawsuit also alleges that Fox's accounting director, Tammy Efinger, participated in, or tacitly approved of, the ongoing racist behavior.

Slater was dismissed in February once litigation against the network began.

An additional seven employees are now expected to join the racial discrimination lawsuit this coming week.

However, even more damning claims have since come to light in a letter to the network's attorneys from the plaintiffs' legal team, reportedly seen by New York Magazine.

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Dashcam video mysteriously malfunctions just as cops start beating an 83 y.o. man

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:35 UTC
Larry Sevenski
A community is outraged after "the grandpa that everyone loves" suffered a shattered elbow and bloody nose at the hands of State Police, and is now facing a felony charge of resisting and obstructing police. Cops are telling a different story than the account given by 83-year-old Larry Sevenski, and the truth could easily be known - except that the police cruiser dashcam had a mysterious "malfunction" during Sevenski's arrest.

Sevenski is the owner of the only bar in the town of Warner Township, population 410. Larry's Seven-ski Inn was full on the night of St. Patrick's Day, with happy customers enjoying Irish food and music. Someone informed Sevenski that State Police were parked on his property waiting to harass people leaving the bar in hopes of collecting some revenue, so Sevenski decided to have a word with them.

After driving around and looking for the cops, Sevenski made a U-turn, and that's when a patrol vehicle pulled him over. Sevenski acknowledges getting out of the car and approaching the cops, but Michigan State Trooper Brock Artfitch tells a tale of this 83-year-old man making threatening statements and attacking the officers.
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Navy SEAL faces felony charges of molesting girl on camera, raping a woman and keeping stash of child porn

Carl Prine
Los Angeles Times
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:30 UTC
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A Navy SEAL stationed in San Diego filmed himself molesting a sleeping girl, raped a woman in Virginia and kept a stash of child porn on his cellphone that included footage involving an infant having sex with a dog, according to allegations unsealed in federal court in Virginia Beach, Va.

Arrested in San Diego by federal marshals more than two weeks ago, SEAL Team One Petty Officer 1st Class Gregory Kyle Seerden, 31, faces felony child pornography and child sex assault charges in Virginia following an investigation by Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Norfolk field office.

Agents investigating the reported rape of an unconscious Virginia woman uncovered the child sex crimes.
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RT crew & civilians tear-gassed during Paris protests


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:42 UTC
Paris French elections protest
Protests in Paris as Unions Term Elections 'Political Masquerade'
RT correspondent Charlotte Dubenskij and her crew were tear-gassed while reporting on the violent protests that erupted just minutes after polling stations closed at the Place de la Bastille in central Paris.

Riot police were on the scene and tear gas was deployed as protesters, many of them young people, turned up to demonstrate against the French presidential elections. Reporting from the scene, Charlotte Dubenskij got caught up in the violent commotion that followed, which saw chairs, firecrackers, bottles and other projectiles hurled at police.

Comment: Further reading: Establishment Shunts Establishment Puppet into the Élysée: More Warmongering To Follow

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Palestinian officials call for 'day of rage' for hundreds held without trial in Israeli prisons


Sputnik
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:42 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit
More than 100 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons are reported to have quit their hunger strike, according to Israeli officials. These reports are challenged by Palestinian organizations.

At least 84 Palestinian inmates held in Israel's Gilboa prison are reported to have quit their hunger strike, a protest against what they claim to be inhumane detention conditions, according to an Israeli Prisons Service (IPS) spokesman.

IPS earlier reported 100 hunger-strikers held at various other facilities had quit their protest.

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Study claims medical marijuana program could save US taxpayer $1bn


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:55 UTC
bag of marijuana
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
A new study claims that medical marijuana use directly correlates with a decline in prescription drug use, which could save the US taxpayer up to $1.1 billion a year on Medicaid prescriptions.

The research follows up on another study carried out last year by Ashley Bradford and W. David Bradford which found that taxpayers would save half a billion dollars each year through the provision of medical marijuana.

"Patients and physicians in the community are reacting to the availability of medical marijuana as if it were medicine," the father-daughter team wrote in their latest findings, published online this week in the Health Affairs publication. Medical marijuana is legal in 28 states and in Washington DC.

"Using quarterly data on all fee-for-service Medicaid prescriptions in the period 2007 - 14, we tested the association between those laws and the average number of prescriptions filled by Medicaid beneficiaries," the researchers wrote.
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Common sense not so common? 1 in 5 adults in the UK can't change a lightbulb or boil an egg


Studyfinds.org
Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:15 UTC
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Are you handy enough that if a lightbulb went out in your home you'd be able to change it? Believe it or not, one in five people aren't so skilled. In fact, a new survey of people in the United Kingdom finds not only do about 20 percent of people not know how to change a bulb — the same number aren't sure how to boil an egg, either.

The British insurance company Aviva recently released their annual Home Report which detailed, among numerous findings about how people do work around the house, relatively common tasks that people encounter. The company surveyed 2004 people across the UK in February and March about their habits and roles at home.
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Burned-out cars & police brutality: Videos show violence amid French election


RT
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 05:23 UTC
paris riots
© Ruptly
Protests, violence and vandalism flared up in Paris as results of the first round of the tight presidential race were being counted, footage captured by RT's Ruptly agency shows. Disillusioned French youth protested what many of them see as a political "masquerade."

One disturbing scene captured by Ruptly shows a young woman scuffling with a police officer, and being forcefully thrown on the asphalt face-down. Others rush to help the woman, who cries in pain and struggles to get up, but eventually remains helplessly lying on the ground. An ambulance crew then arrives to take away the young protester, who seems to have suffered serious injuries.

Comment: "Night of the Barricades": Protesters clash with riot police at post-vote demonstration in central Paris

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'This is your brain on drugs' actress has something to say about the 'war on drugs' in epic new video

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
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If you're old enough to remember Fat Albert, Happy Days, and School House Rock, you'll probably be able to recall Partnership for America's propaganda video attempting to equate the taking of drugs with the frying of an egg. Here's the 1987 segment, which relied heavily on the sensation of burning, to communicate its message.


Fast-forward to the twentieth century, to 1998, and the organization was still attempting to scare people out of doing drugs. "Generation X" as they were known, the first generation of kids whose parents had gone through the 70's drug craze, seemed to be more scared of AIDS than they were of drugs, but the ad campaigns continued nonetheless.

Comment: Cook's assertions are backed up with many facts about the ineffective, hypocritical and criminal 'war on drugs':

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March in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers turns violent after IDF fires steel-coated rubber bullets on protesters


RT
Sun, 23 Apr 2017 19:14 UTC
protest march ramallah palestinian hunger strike
© Ruptly
Fights have broken out between Israeli soldiers and protesters outside the city of Ramallah in the West Bank as a small procession marched in support of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike across Israeli jails.

The small protest march set off from Yasser Arafat Square in central Ramallah on Sunday, but got into trouble when it reached the Beit El checkpoint to the north of the city, which was manned by soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).

According to the Palestinian news agency Ma'an News, events took a violent turn when the IDF soldiers fired rubber-coated steel bullets on the protesters, injuring three. The protesters responded by setting bins on fire and hurling stones at the Israeli soldiers.
Tear gas was also used, but Ma'an News reported that the wind blew it back toward the IDF.


Comment: The IDF never misses an opportunity to bait Palestinians into 'conflict' that can be turned to Israel's advantage in their war against Palestine.

Israel cracks down on thousands of hunger strikers, Palestinians take to the streets in mass solidarity

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