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Pay rates for bosses at top firms drop - still more than 100 times average salary

South Wales Argus
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:19 UTC

The London Stock Exchange

Bosses at Britain's biggest firms are taking home smaller pay packages on average, but their remuneration still massively outstrips that of the average worker, new research has shown.

Chief executives at FTSE 100 companies were paid £3.46 million in 2018 on a median basis, down 13% compared with £3.97 million the previous year, according to the latest CIPD and High Pay Centre analysis.

This means CEO pay is round 117 times that of the average UK full-time worker, who makes £29,574 per year.

New 'cultural norm': Child sex-trafficking more common in US than people realize, government dedicates few resources to combat it

Mary Margaret Olohan
Daily Caller
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:56 UTC

Anti-trafficking activist Jaco Booyens said President Donald Trump has done more to fight child sex-trafficking than any other world leader, but the United States has a long way to go in protecting American youth.

Sex-trafficking has been a major issue recently as financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was charged with sex-trafficking and conspiracy, died Saturday in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial. Alleged victims are coming out with their stories and lawsuits against his estate.

Booyens is the founder of SHAREtogether, a non-profit that fights child sex-trafficking around the world. He is also the president and CEO of film company After Eden Pictures, and director of the movie "8 Days," which tells the story of a young girl who fell victim to trafficking. Booyens has been part of the effort to conquer sex-trafficking since 2001, he said.

Comment: It's an outright crime that governmental resources aren't seriously dedicated to fighting against child sex trafficking. It's indicative of the types of people who occupy seats of power. Sexual predation is indeed much, much worse than most people realize. See Anna Salter's work here and here to get an idea of just how bad it is.

School forced black student to 'Sharpie in' his haircut: lawsuit

Hannah Sparks
New York Post
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:50 UTC

Another black student has been humiliated by school faculty over hair.

Pearland Independent School District in Texas is being hit with a lawsuit by parents Dante Trice and Angela Washington, who say faculty at Berry Miller Junior High School disciplined their son, J.T., by using a black Sharpie marker to color in the boy's fade haircut, which staffers allege violates the school's dress code.

According to the suit, the 13-year-old got a "fade haircut with a design line" on April 16, featuring a track — like an artificial hair part — resembling the letter M.

"The haircut did not depict anything violent, gang-related, obscene or otherwise offensive or inappropriate in any manner. J.T. did not believe the haircut violated any school policy," the suit stated, according to NBC News.

Comment: We're living in an age where teachers act just as cruel as some of the children in their charge. That said, the callous and inappropriate punishment doesn't automatically translate into racism. These school officials would likely do better with basic discipline training and relationship building over 'discrimination training' to know what to do and when it should be applied.

Trump administration sets new rules that could hold undocumented families detained together indefinitely

Fox News8
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:26 UTC

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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens during a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 11, 2019.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans that could hold undocumented families detained together indefinitely, replacing the agreement that set a 20-day limit for holding children.

The rule unveiled by acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is part of the administration's aggressive effort to revamp immigration laws as the number of families and unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexico border has increased.

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Philadelphia's police commissioner resigns as bias suit roils the department

Mark Scolforo
AP
Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC

Philadelphia's police commissioner resigned Tuesday amid allegations that members of his department engaged in sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination against two women serving in the ranks.

Mayor Jim Kenney said in a news release he was disappointed to lose Commissioner Richard Ross Jr., but in light of the new allegations, he said Ross' "resignation is in the best interest of the department."

Kenney spokeswoman Deana Gamble said Ross offered his resignation after Kenney learned details of the allegations by the women, including one who says she once had an affair with Ross.

The corporal and patrol officer made the allegations against several department employees. Gamble said Ross knew about the alleged harassment and failed to respond adequately.

Willful ignorance or complicity? Newly released video shows Prince Andrew inside pedophile Epstein's mansion in 2010 - UPDATES

Caroline Graham
Daily Mail
Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:00 UTC

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On December 6 2010, paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was seen leaving his home on New York's East 91st Street before Prince Andrew was also spotted inside

Standing by the towering 15ft-high solid oak front door, Prince Andrew gives a nod and a cheery wave to the pretty brunette as she leaves the £63 million Manhattan mansion.

He appears entirely at ease but then, for a split second, glances around the door as if to check that no one had witnessed the brief encounter.

As well he might.

For these exclusive pictures come from a never-before-seen video of the Duke of York staying at the New York home of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And some of the other images caught on camera make for disturbing viewing.

Comment: UPDATE: Reportedly the brunette has been identified as Katherine Keating daughter of former Aussie PM Paul Keating.

It's also been revealed that flight logs show that Prince Andrew flew with one of Epstein's victims, 'sex-slave' Virginia Roberts, to London, New York and the Caribbean in 2001. At this point the royal family has yet to answer questions regarding just what the Duke of York was doing flying around in Epstein's rape jet with teenage girls.

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US-trained Honduran police get brutal as political prisoner Edwin Espinal is released

Adrienne Pine
MintPress News
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:34 UTC

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Riot police run in front of a cloud of tear gas during a protest against Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Tegucigalpa, August 6, 2019.

"It's sad how the United States is supporting this corrupt government," Honduran political prisoner Edwin Espinal told MintPress News immediately after his release from prison, where he had spent 19 months.

Edwin's case — and the medieval violence to which U.S.-trained police in Honduras tried to subject me — perfectly illustrate the often lethal repression that has fueled the migrant crisis. After hours of police hurling stones and tear gas at student protesters last week, young children gathered the aluminum scraps from the ground to sell, underscoring that the poverty brought on by U.S.-backed neoliberal measures has gone hand-in-hand with police violence in fueling the human-rights catastrophe at the heart of the central American exodus.

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Death toll from IS-claimed wedding attack in Afghanistan rises to 80

RFE/RL
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:54 UTC

Prayer for victims of wedding bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan August 17th 2019

The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in Kabul last week has risen to 80, two senior Afghan officials said on August 21.

The initial death toll after the August 17 explosion was 63, but some of the wounded had died in hospital, said Nasrat Rahimi, an Interior Ministry spokesman.

"Seventeen others have succumbed to their injuries in hospital and over 160 are still being treated either in hospitals or at home," Rahimi said.

The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for the attack on a huge wedding reception at a hotel in western Kabul.

Comment: The school shootings the U.S. has been subjected to even just this year pale in comparison to what Afghanistan has suffered - going on 18 years. If Trump can succeed in ending this war, that alone will be something worth celebrating about his presidency. But we'll just have to wait and see what actually happens. See also:

Afghan president vows to eliminate Islamic State havens after wedding attack kills 63

Profit before safety? Walmart sues Tesla, claims solar panels caused fires at several stores

RT
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:48 UTC

Retail giant Walmart is suing Elon Musk's electric car maker and energy company Tesla, accusing it of "gross negligence" and blaming Tesla's rooftop solar panels for fires at seven of its stores.

In a lawsuit filed in the New York State Supreme Court, Walmart said that it faced massive losses after the solar panels supplied by Tesla allegedly caught fire at the stores last year. Much of the merchandise was burnt or damaged, the facilities required substantial repairs, and damages totalled millions of dollars, according to Reuters citing the court papers.

The suit claims that Tesla failed to hire qualified workers to install the equipment, and its own inadequate inspections could have threatened the safety of Walmart customers and employees.

Mexico: Judge approves recreational cocaine use in landmark ruling, 'war on drugs has failed'

Ewan Palmer
Newsweek
Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:36 UTC

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A Colombian drug dealer prepares cocaine for street sale in Bogota, on September 20, 2013. A Mexican judge has granted two people the right to recreational cocaine use.

A judge in Mexico has approved two people to use cocaine recreationally in what has been described as a historic step toward ending the country's deadly "war on drugs."

In the first ruling of its kind, the district court in Mexico City granted permission for the pair to "possess, transport and use cocaine" — but not sell it — following an injunction request by Mexico United Against Crime.

"We have been working for a safer, more just and peaceful Mexico for years, and with this case we insist on the need to stop criminalizing users of drugs other than marijuana and design better public policies that explore all available options, including the regulation," Lisa Sánchez, director of MUAC, said in a statement.

Comment: It is true that the war on drugs has failed and drastic shifts in policy need to be implemented:

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Society's Child

Pay rates for bosses at top firms drop - still more than 100 times average salary

New 'cultural norm': Child sex-trafficking more common in US than people realize, government dedicates few resources to combat it

School forced black student to 'Sharpie in' his haircut: lawsuit

Trump administration sets new rules that could hold undocumented families detained together indefinitely

Philadelphia's police commissioner resigns as bias suit roils the department

Willful ignorance or complicity? Newly released video shows Prince Andrew inside pedophile Epstein's mansion in 2010 - UPDATES

US-trained Honduran police get brutal as political prisoner Edwin Espinal is released

Death toll from IS-claimed wedding attack in Afghanistan rises to 80

Profit before safety? Walmart sues Tesla, claims solar panels caused fires at several stores

Mexico: Judge approves recreational cocaine use in landmark ruling, 'war on drugs has failed'

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