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5 states sue opioid maker, alleging unlawful marketing fueled epidemic

Zack Budryk
The Hill
Fri, 17 May 2019 16:37 UTC
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Five state attorneys general announced a lawsuit against the company that manufacturers OxyContin Thursday, accusing the drugmaker, Purdue Pharma, of exacerbating the opioid epidemic through illegal marketing tactics.

"This lawsuit reveals many years of painstaking investigation," West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R) said in a statement. "The senseless death and ruined lives of untold thousands must stop. Our complaint alleges that the company used false and misleading information to deceive medical personnel and patients. They must be held accountable."

Morrisey filed the lawsuit, which also names former Purdue CEO Richard Sackler, with the attorneys general (AGs) of Iowa, Kansas, Maryland and Wisconsin. The plaintiffs allege Purdue and Sackler employed deceptive marketing that misrepresented the the drug's potential for abuse, despite findings by federal regulators that its abuse-deterrent properties did nothing to prevent swallowing it, the most common form of abuse, according to Morrisey.
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Border security? Islamist fanatic boasts of sneaking into Canada to KILL 'blasphemer' Asia Bibi who fled Pakistan


Sputnik
Wed, 15 May 2019 12:58 UTC
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© Agence France Presse/Aamir Qureshi
In this file photo taken on November 2, 2018 a Pakistani supporter of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), a hardline religious party, holds an image of Christian woman Asia Bibi during a protest rally following the Supreme Court's decision to acquit Bibi of blasphemy, in Islamabad
Asia Bibi spent nine years on death row in a Pakistani prison after being falsely accused of blasphemy - a grave crime in the South Asian country. In 2018, she was finally acquitted and released to the great displeasure of many in a conservative region of the Islamic country.

An unidentified Islamist has published a video in which he claims to have followed Asia Bibi, a Christian who barely escaped hanging in her homeland of Pakistan over blasphemy accusations, to Canada with the intent to murder her. The anonymous individual insists in the video that "blasphemer" Asia Bibi would receive an award in Canada and would repeat her sacrilegious statements on Islam.

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Big brother Britain: Facial recognition cameras deployed in London, man fined for covering his face

Mark Duell
Daily Mail
Thu, 16 May 2019 11:29 UTC
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Campaigners say the use of the technology (file image) is a step too far towards a police state
Police fined a pedestrian £90 for disorderly behaviour after he tried to cover his face when he saw a controversial facial recognition camera on a street in London.

Officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a database of wanted criminals.

But one man was unimpressed about being filmed and covered his face with his hat and jacket, before being stopped by officers who took his picture anyway.

Comment: If the technology will be used openly with uniformed officers, then career criminals are likely to just avoid the area. What this is really about is acclimatizing the public to totalitarian style surveillance. Any actual rise in crime is likely caused by a decade of government 'austerity' has slashed public spending (although, obviously, taxes continue to rise) and the disparity between rich and poor continues apace. One can imagine that Macron's government in France, which has seen over 26 weeks of protests over government corruption, would find technology like this extremely useful..



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Gates Foundation funded "Fact-Checker" (POLITIFACT) censors GreenMedInfo on Facebook for reposting accurate vaccine meme

Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo
Wed, 15 May 2019 14:45 UTC
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Recently, Politifact.com, a website run by the Poynter Institute and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ran an article titled, "No, anti-vaccination meme is way off on vaccine testing," claiming that the meme below which we posted to our Facebook page on April 15th was false.

vaccine untested meme

Comment: Facebook and other social media platforms have a long history of censoring 'inconvenient truths' under the banner of 'fake news'. Labelling true claims as false is the epitome of censorship and the pushing of a preferred ideology over truth. Welcome to the dystopian future.

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TV

Actress Julianne Moore calls for gender quotas for the movie industry


Time Magazine
Wed, 15 May 2019 23:54 UTC
Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore said Wednesday that larger efforts are needed in order for the movie industry to reach gender parity, and that means implementing quotas.

"We will not have gender parity unless everybody is cooperating. Women are not a special interest group. We're 52 percent of the global population," Moore said during an event at the Cannes Film Festival. "In order to restore the balance, I do think that there will be, that we will need some measures to change our culture."

"We will have to make major changes to reach parity. That's just a fact. So, I do believe in quotas. I really do," added Moore. "I believe in trying to level the playing field for everybody regardless of their gender or their culture or ethnicity. You have to open doors."

Comment: There's nothing like an overprivileged Hollywood star claiming to be a part of the downtrodden masses.

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Corrupting the youth: California approves radical sex ed program despite parent and teacher protests

Kate Hardiman
Washington Examiner
Mon, 13 May 2019 23:28 UTC
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California's Board of Education approved the final version of its radical sex education framework for public schools last week, amid great protest from parents and teachers.

The curriculum encourages discussions about a wide range of progressive social issues, including gender identity, LGBT relationships, and transgenderism in classrooms.

Two of the recommended books drawing the most ire from parents were Changing You, which includes cartoon illustrations of female and male genitalia for young children, and S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties, which provides high schoolers with descriptions of how to perform anal sex and bondage.

Over 200 parents protested Wednesday in Sacramento holding signs reading "stop sexualizing my kids" and "respect parental rights." A Change.org petition in the Fremont School District garnered more than 8,000 signatures.

Comment: This is little more than child abuse on a global scale and the perpetrators don't even flinch when normal people show their disgust.

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Info

ACLU sues school district after teen is arrested for making 'Walking Dead' zombie video

Lucas Aulbach
Louisville Courier Journal
Tue, 14 May 2019 23:14 UTC
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The American Civil Liberties Union has sued a school district, a sheriff and several others over the arrest of a teen who was expelled after uploading a "Walking Dead" video showing him shooting virtual zombies in his Southern Indiana high school.

Sean Small's First and Fourth Amendment rights were violated in the arrest and in the aftermath, when he was taken to jail and later expelled from Scott County High School, the lawsuit says. Small also has suffered emotional and reputational harm, it says, and the expulsion and disciplinary record are likely to cause him harm in the future.

Lawsuits represent only one side of a case. Scott County School District 2 did not immediately have a comment Tuesday afternoon.

Small, 18, was arrested in August 2018 after using the "Walking Dead: Our World" smartphone app and video game to create a first-person computer-generated video of himself walking through the halls of the school while shooting virtual zombies. The video was posted with the caption, "Finally something better than pokemon go," a reference to the popular Pokemon GO smartphone game that uses a similar first-person location-based interface.
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Austrian rightwing government approves headscarf ban in primary schools

Philip Oltermann
The Guardian
Thu, 16 May 2019 21:44 UTC
headscarf
© Alamy
The ban was proposed by the ruling rightwing government.
Austrian MPs have approved a law aimed at banning the headscarf in primary schools, a measure proposed by the ruling rightwing government.

The text refers to any "ideologically or religiously influenced clothing which is associated with the covering of the head".

Representatives of both parts of the governing coalition, the centre-right People's party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom party (FPÖ), have made it clear that despite its wide description, the law is targeted at the Islamic headscarf.

The FPÖ education spokesman, Wendelin Mölzer, said the law was "a signal against political Islam" while the ÖVP MP Rudolf Taschner said the measure was necessary to free girls from subjugation.

The government said the patka head covering worn by Sikh boys and the Jewish kippa would not be affected. Medical bandages and protection from rain or snow are also not covered by the law approved on Wednesday.
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Judge condems the 'wickedness' of woman who falsely accused a man of rape

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Thu, 16 May 2019 21:30 UTC
justice scales
Margaret Weldon, 43, met a man at a bar in Sheffield city in South Yorkshire on April 1, 2017. The two returned to his home and had consensual sex. She left the next morning. She returned to his home that evening and the two had consensual sex again.

When the man said he no longer wanted to see her, she overdosed on an unspecified substance and claimed to have been raped as her husband and paramedics rushed her to the hospital, according to local newspaper The Star. She would later change her story before surveillance video and witnesses proved she lied.

Sheffield Crown Court Prosecutor Ian Goldsack said during a hearing Thursday that Weldon had offered to drive the man home the night they met.

"She said she had a car and would drive them there. They spent the night together. The complainant went on to tell the police they had intercourse on two or three occasions," he said, The Star reported.
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Airplane

Moscow crash-landing: New video shows plane undergo RIDICULOUS bounces on runway


Sky News
Thu, 16 May 2019 21:19 UTC
moscow plane crash Sheremetyevo
New video has emerged of a plane making a very bumpy emergency landing before it burst into flames in Moscow, killing 41 people on board.

The CCTV footage from Sheremetyevo airport shows the Aeroflot jet bouncing several times on and off the runway as it tries to land.


Comment: So the approach was normal. But then, right as the landing gear makes contact with the runway, the plane speeds up, lifts, then dives... again, and again. No wonder the rear of the jet burst into flames on the third bounce.

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