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Modern-day slavery? Prison labor equals multibillion-dollar business for US corporations

RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:27 UTC

Prisoners across the US are on a nationwide strike over inhumane living conditions. There have been violent prison riots resulting in seven deaths and dozens of injuries.

Inmates are protesting against prison labor, which is mandatory in state prisons. Most are paid as little as $1 per day, sometimes less, describing their working conditions as "modern-day slavery."

RT's Boom Bust has looked into the reports and found out that prison labor is a multibillion-dollar business for big US companies trying to cut down on labor costs.

They include McDonald's, Microsoft, Walmart, American Airlines, and many others.

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Dine-and-dash dater faces up to 13 years in prison

RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:23 UTC

A Los Angeles man faces up to 13 years in prison after he allegedly dined and dashed on the dollar of multiple women he met through dating apps and websites.

Paul Gonzales appeared in front of a LA judge on Monday charged with seven counts of extortion, defrauding an innkeeper and one count of grand theft.

According to the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, Gonzales used dinner dates to get his fill of food and alcohol before skipping out when it was time to pay the bill. Prosecutors say he collectively defrauded his dates of more than $950.

'Unsettled' special needs child seizes ambulance, crashes into police car and passing motorcyclist

RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:26 UTC

© Coventry Police Dept
CCTV footage shows the ambulance strike an unoccupied police car and causing a collision with a passing motorcyclist. Footage of the accident was also caught by the helmet cam worn by the motorcyclist at the time.

Rhode Island police are investigating how a special needs child seized an ambulance resulting in a horrific smash with a motorcyclist. The juvenile drove the vehicle after being brought to a local fire station to calm down.

The shocking incident unfolded after a mother and her son, who suffers from ADHD and autism, were transported by police to Central Coventry Fire Station after the boy became "unsettled".

According to local police, the boy had agreed to be medically evaluated at the facility and was met by fire personnel. However, upon arrival the unidentified juvenile ran into a nearby garage bay and entered a parked ambulance.

North America's first sex doll brothel opens in Toronto

RT
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:55 UTC

Toronto will soon be welcoming a brothel to the city, but the prostitutes won't have a woman's or even a human touch; instead, they'll be hi-tech sex dolls made of silicone. It's said to be the first of its kind in North America.

Aura Dolls will be opening in a strip mall in Toronto in September, with the website teasing the "world's most beautiful silicone ladies."

There are six "prostitutes" on offer, with ethnicities to fit just about anyone's taste. Among the offerings are a Korean named Yuki, an American named Scarlett, and a Colombian named Jazmine.

The brothel's marketing director Claire Lee told CityNews that guests looking for a bit of fun will have their own room where a TV will play adult entertainment.

University of Kansas to create 'feminist parenting group' to teach participants strategies for raising intersectional feminist children

Celine Ryan
Campus Reform
Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:39 UTC

This fall, the University of Kansas will be facilitating a "feminist parenting group," where participants will learn "strategies for raising intersectional feminist children."

KU's Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equality will be hosting at least three meetings this fall meant to "support student-, staff-, and faculty-parents as well as other interested individuals in exploring strategies for raising intersectional feminist children."

"At each session, participants will learn of at least one new skill or resource useful for nurturing intersectional feminist youth." Tweet This

The Center explains its purpose as practicing "intersectional trans-inclusive feminism" in order to "challenge the status quo and promote gender equity by raising awareness of critical issues related to gender and sexism, providing opportunities to translate awareness into action, and empowering individuals to advocate for themselves and others" by approaching subjects "through a social justice lens."

Comment: The feminist ideological brainwashing continues unabated in American universities.

Federal judge's ruling now makes it easier for porn industry to exploit children

The Conversation
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:04 UTC

A federal appeals court judge just made it a lot easier for the pornography industry to abuse and exploit children for profit.

The Aug. 3 legal decision, which has received far less media attention than it deserves, represents the most significant blow to opponents of child porn in decades. We believe it could lead to a sharp increase in the number of underage performers being exploited due to the removal of legal oversight and penalties for uploading or distributing images that feature minors.

We've been studying the business of porn for years, as scholars, advocates and experts in legal battles. In fact, we provided expert testimony in 2013 in a related court case and endured two hours of grilling from the judge and porn industry lawyers.

The industry is now celebrating its landmark victory. To us, it is a sign of porn's growing power to fight legal battles and free itself from regulatory constraints as its business model rapidly changes in the internet age.

Italy: Doctor lambasted for saying migrants 'should be drowned' as they have no 'human rights'

RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:27 UTC

An Italian doctor, who is reportedly facing disciplinary action after saying migrants should be "drowned," has been lambasted on social media, with furious commentators slamming her as a "hypocrite" and demanding her sacking.

The doctor, from the central Italian region of Umbria, shocked the public when she posted on the 40,000-strong Facebook page 'Doctors Without Escape' the incendiary comments. Her profile name appeared as 'Gloria Burini'.

She called for migrants landing on Italy's coasts to be "drowned" as they do not have any "human rights," unlike, she noted, "abandoned elderly people and poor children from Africa who are starving to death."

The comments were made as authorities in Italy and the EU tried to put an end to the odyssey of 177 migrants who had been stranded for six days off on a rescue boat off the coast of Italy. The 100-meter vessel Ubaldo Diciotti had been in the Sicilian port city of Catania since being rescued off the coast of Italian island Lampedusa on August 15 after being turned away by Malta. Italy has now relented and will take in the migrants after Ireland and Albania agreed to process 39 of them.

Russia willing to lift ban on Telegram if company gives access to its encrypted messages to FSB

RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:54 UTC

Russia's telecom watchdog has reiterated its willingness to consider lifting a ban on popular messaging app Telegram if it agrees to follow a court order to give access to the content of its encrypted messages.

Telegram was ordered last year by a court in Russia to provide decryption keys that would allow law enforcement to read messages of suspected criminals sent through its service. It failed to comply, saying that the order is impossible to follow, since the encryption and decryption of messages is done on user devices. Roscomnadzor (RKN), the Russian telecommunication watchdog, was subsequently authorized to block the service in Russia until it changes its policy.

On Tuesday RKN reiterated its position, saying the ban - the enforcement of which was an ordeal for the office - may be lifted once Telegram gives assurances it follow court decisions.

Telegram does not appear to be changing its stance. A lawyer representing it reiterated that it can only go as far as providing limited data on its individual users, if a court orders it necessary.

Amazon is banning revisionist history books

Michael Hoffman
The Unz Review
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 16:50 UTC

On August 13, 2018 Amazon banned Judaism's Strange Gods: Revised and Expanded, which was published in 2011 and sold by Amazon for the past seven years. Along with the much larger study, Judaism Discovered, (sold by Amazon since 2008), it has had an international impact both as a softcover volume as well as a digital book circulating on the Amazon Kindle.

Sales to India, Japan and the Middle East were rapidly growing. The digital Kindle format is particularly important for the free circulation of books because it bypasses borders and customs and hurdles over the prohibitive cost of shipping which the US Postal Service imposed on mail to overseas destinations several years ago (eliminating economical surface mail).

Amazon has also banned The Great Holocaust Trial: The Landmark Battle for the Right to Doubt the West's Most Sacred Relic (sold by Amazon since 2010).

These volumes maintain a high standard of scholarly excellence, had a majority of favorable reviews by Amazon customers, are free of hatred and bigotry and have sold thousands of copies on Amazon. Out of the blue we were told that suddenly "Amazon KDP" discovered that the books are in violation of Amazon's "content guidelines." Asking for documentation of the charge results in no response. It is enough that the accusation has been tendered. The accused are guilty until proved innocent, although how proof of innocence is presented is anyone's guess. There is no appeals process. This is what is known as "Tech Tyranny."

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Russia plans to increase military roles available to female cadets

RT
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 16:46 UTC

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has disclosed plans to expand the list of military roles that can be undertaken by female cadets and students - both in military schools and universities with military education centers.

"Every year we receive hundreds of letters and inquests, we are facing the same question over and over again: why young men can undergo military training and girls cannot? I want to say that since recently the girls also can do it. We will do everything for them to undergo military training, though, naturally, not in all military professions," Sergey Shoigu said on Tuesday as he met with the head of the Khakassia region and the heads of civilian universities in Abakan, South Siberia.

The statement came after one of Shoigu's deputies, Nikolai Pankov, said that, at the moment, a very large number of young Russian women wanted to enter military service and receive military education. He added that competition among women to enter existing military schools is "beyond all limits."

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Society's Child

Modern-day slavery? Prison labor equals multibillion-dollar business for US corporations

Dine-and-dash dater faces up to 13 years in prison

'Unsettled' special needs child seizes ambulance, crashes into police car and passing motorcyclist

North America's first sex doll brothel opens in Toronto

University of Kansas to create 'feminist parenting group' to teach participants strategies for raising intersectional feminist children

Federal judge's ruling now makes it easier for porn industry to exploit children

Italy: Doctor lambasted for saying migrants 'should be drowned' as they have no 'human rights'

Russia willing to lift ban on Telegram if company gives access to its encrypted messages to FSB

Amazon is banning revisionist history books

Russia plans to increase military roles available to female cadets

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