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Working until death: Retirement only a dream for low-income workers

Maria Inez Zamudio
AP
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:18 UTC

© AP / Lynne Sladky
In this photo taken Oct. 18, 2016, Gwen Strowbridge, 71, poses for a photograph wearing her work uniform at her home in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Strowbridge works six days a week caring for a 100-year-old woman. She has worked all her life and plans to work until she can't physically work anymore.

It was a striking image. A photo of an 89-year-old man hunched over, struggling to push his cart with frozen treats. Fidencio Sanchez works long hours every day selling the treats because he couldn't afford to retire. The photo and his story went viral and thousands of people donated more than $384,000 for his retirement.

His story is a window into a dark reality: Many low-wage workers say they can't afford to retire.

With no money saved for retirement, home care worker Gwen Strowbridge, 71, of Deerfield, Florida, plans to stay on the job until she can't physically work anymore.

"I can't see it in the future. I'll stop working if my health won't allow me to keep working," said Strowbridge. Now 71, she works six days per week caring for a 100-year-old woman in Florida.

Breaking: Constitutional challenge filed in Canada's Federal Court against CETA trade agreement

Hon. Paul Hellyer and Rocco Galati
Global Research
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 00:01 UTC

Lawyer Rocco Galati, on behalf of the Honourable Paul Hellyer, P.C., and others, launches a constitutional challenge against the CETA, in the Federal Court of Canada

The statement of claim challenging the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) was filed at the Federal Court of Canada on Friday October 21. This development comes at a time when the EU country of Belgium refused to sign the free trade pact citing objections from the Belgian territory of Wallonia.

There has been a lot of pressure to see this agreement ratified, and those powerful entities pushing for its passage will likely not let Wallonia's NO interrupt their ambitions. This constitutional challenge is therefore highly important, and has implications for other such international agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Canadian government is pursuing.

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Norway nuclear reactor dealing with radioactive leak

RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:44 UTC

The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) has said that one of the country's research reactors suffered a leak of radioactive iodine on Monday.

It added that the leak was small and the focus now is on fixing the problem.

"The radioactive leak was due to a technical failure during treatment of the fuel in the reactor hall. Emissions are low," a statement from the NRPA said on Tuesday.

The leak is not expected to pose a health risk or danger to the environment outside the facility, the NRPA says.

The incident happened at 1:45pm local time on Monday at the Halden Reactor, located in Ostfold county in southeast Norway.

Those working at the reactor at the time of the incident were promptly evacuated when the alarm went off.

Oklahoma, Pennsylvania recovering after weekend major oil spills

RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:03 UTC

An oil spill in Oklahoma forced the shutdown of a major, 850,000-barrel per day pipeline system that supplies crude oil to Texas refineries. The incident follows another pipeline rupture in Pennsylvania, where 55,000 gallons of gasoline poured into a river.

As of Monday, the Seaway Crude Pipeline Co. has resumed pumping at its 450,000-barrel-a-day (bpd) Loop (twin) pipeline, which was shut down "as a safety precaution" following the spill at a parallel pipeline.

"Vacuum trucks are being used to recover the crude oil and return it to storage tanks onsite," the company said in a statement Monday, as clean-up operations continued.

DNC head privately admits 'people are in despair' about the economy while publicly tweeting about economic recovery

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:30 UTC

Donna Brazile

While readers may be used to tin-foil-hat-wearing digitial dickweeds and alt-right bloggers seeing through the veil of ignorance and media hype that hides a considerably uglier economic reality than The White House (and the stock market) might suggest, many Democrats may be shocked to discover that none other than now-acting chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile agrees...

In an email to Clinton campaign chair John Podesta from February 2016, released Friday by WikiLeaks...

Explosion rocks near Chamber of Commerce building in Antalya, Turkey

RT
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:40 UTC

An explosion has rocked the Turkish resort city of Antalya outside the Chamber of Commerce building, local media reported. The blast ripped through a parking lot.

Deteriorating security situation responsible for 10% leap in Afghanistan's opium cultivation, or USA's greed?

RFE/RL
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC

Afghanistan's cultivation of opium poppy has risen by 10 percent in 2016, according to a new report released by the United Nations.

According to the key findings of its annual Afghanistan opium survey, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the total area of land devoted to poppy cultivation had risen 10 percent in 2016 to 201,000 hectares.

The jump in cultivation is due to the favorable weather, the government's loosening grip on security, and a drop in international support for counter-narcotics operation, the UN report said.

"The survey shows a worrying reversal in efforts to combat the persistent problem of illicit drugs and their impact on development, health and security," UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said in a statement.

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Fukushima radiation has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean - and it's only getting worse

Whitney Webb
True Activist
Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:00 UTC

The nuclear disaster has contaminated the world's largest ocean in only five years and it's still leaking 300 tons of radioactive waste every day.

What was the most dangerous nuclear disaster in world history? Most people would say the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, but they'd be wrong. In 2011, an earthquake, believed to be an aftershock of the 2010 earthquake in Chile, created a tsunami that caused a meltdown at the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. Three nuclear reactors melted down and what happened next was the largest release of radiation into the water in the history of the world. Over the next three months, radioactive chemicals, some in even greater quantities than Chernobyl, leaked into the Pacific Ocean. However, the numbers may actually be much higher as Japanese official estimates have been proven by several scientists to be flawed in recent years.

If that weren't bad enough, Fukushima continues to leak an astounding 300 tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean every day. It will continue do so indefinitely as the source of the leak cannot be sealed as it is inaccessible to both humans and robots due to extremely high temperatures.

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Newsweek and the Dark, Dark Media Wonderland

Phil Butler
Russia-Insider
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:07 UTC

Newsweek protected sources, alleged Kremlin tampering, threats and big-mouth romping and stomping by a Newsweek "operative".

All this and more illuminates the darkest alleyways of controlled western media.

A nasty backlash from Vanity Fair/Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald, over a Sputnik author's innocent mistake heralds a media circus act gone bad.

My report today is first and foremost, an effort to let new readers in on the kinds of mudslinging that goes on at Newsweek.

By way of background, when a young journalist named Bill Moran was duped into making use of a doctored WikiLeaks cable, Newsweek and Kurt Eichenwald leaped into action capitalizing on the mistake. Moran used a misattributed Sidney Blumenthal note, in order to refute clearly manipulative western mainstream rhetoric, and his mistake backfired loudly. The crap-storm that ensued began with the Newsweek piece; 'Dear Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: I Am Not Sidney Blumenthal', and was fueled by sheer meanness, arrogance, and buffoonery. Moran's over-enthusiasm led to a media maelstrom, but it also cost him his job. What ensued is right out of a carnival freak show. It's a story of a young writer caught in between a holy or unholy rock and a hard place, and the darkest media wonderland you ever imagined.

Sott.net's Joe Quinn: "France ignoring cause of Calais 'jungle': Western military intervention in countries of origin"

PressTV
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 20:37 UTC

The Calais 'Jungle' now has some 10,000 refugees/immigrants

Hundreds of refugees carrying their possessions are queuing outside a hangar with armed police fanning out around the shanty-town. Officials are planning to dismantle the controversial camp after relocating some 10-thousand occupants from there. Most refugees in the camp want to get into Britain, but Paris wants to send them to other centers across the country.

Last month, President François Hollande vowed to tear down the camp, populated with people fleeing conflict zones of Africa and the Middle East. The idea of relocation has angered many refugees who want to travel to Britain. The French government's preference is to let them go where they want to go - the UK - but the British government won't let them in.

We spoke with editor of Sott.net, Joe Quinn, about how Europe is struggling to deal with its biggest influx of asylum seekers since World War Two.

'Pfizer Shares Surge After Release Of 'Miracle' COVID Pill That Is 89% Effective At Preventing Hospitalization' [Link] * 'Take four red capsules....

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Jibrish

"Although there isn't a currently known asteroid that's on an impact course with the Earth,…..” They might just fix that next October.

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Society's Child

Working until death: Retirement only a dream for low-income workers

Breaking: Constitutional challenge filed in Canada's Federal Court against CETA trade agreement

Norway nuclear reactor dealing with radioactive leak

Oklahoma, Pennsylvania recovering after weekend major oil spills

DNC head privately admits 'people are in despair' about the economy while publicly tweeting about economic recovery

Explosion rocks near Chamber of Commerce building in Antalya, Turkey

Deteriorating security situation responsible for 10% leap in Afghanistan's opium cultivation, or USA's greed?

Fukushima radiation has contaminated the entire Pacific Ocean - and it's only getting worse

Newsweek and the Dark, Dark Media Wonderland

Sott.net's Joe Quinn: "France ignoring cause of Calais 'jungle': Western military intervention in countries of origin"

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