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Senior Facebook engineer: Company deserves criticism, suffers from liberal mob-rule


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:57 UTC
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© Eric Gaillard / Reuters
A Facebook employee has warned that the company's liberal culture is becoming increasingly intolerant, going so far as to say that Donald Trump and other critics are right to accuse the social media giant of political bias.

Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, vented his frustration over the company's liberal conformity in a message posted on an internal message board. His post, titled "We Have a Problem With Political Diversity," sparked a company-wide debate and was later leaked to the New York Times.

"We are a political monoculture that's intolerant of different views," Amerige wrote in the post.

"We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack - often in mobs - anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology."

He said that employees "tear down posters welcoming Trump supporters" and are quick to call for the firing of anyone believed to be a bigot, lamenting that over-zealous political correctness was damaging the company's "internal culture" and "viability."
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Fire breaks out on Greek ferry with over 1,000 passengers prompting massive evacuation, no injuries reported


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:05 UTC
The Eleftherios Venizelos ferry fire

Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated early Wednesday from the Greek ferry after a fire broke out in the car deck.
Over a thousand people on a Greek ferry lived through a sea-traveler's worst nightmare - being on board a smoke-filled vessel at sea. They had to flee the cabins and remain on deck as the smoke-covered ferry tried to reach land.

The Greek vessel Eleftherios Venizelos belonging to ANEK Lines was heading to Chania, Crete in the early hours of Wednesday, when it notified the Greek coast guard that a car deck, which had more than 200 vehicles, had caught fire. The distressed ship, which was carrying 875 passengers and 141 crew members, was safely escorted to the mainland port. A Navy frigate, nine boats, and other vessels assisted the rescue operation, according to the coast guard.
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Russian authorities arrest two prison guards involved in torture-video case


RFE/RL
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:33 UTC
yaroslavl prison

A screen grab from a video released by Novaya Gazeta showing several Russian prison guards forcing inmates to run a gauntlet.
Two Russian prison guards have been detained in an alleged torture case at a notorious penal colony in the city of Yaroslavl.

The Investigative Committee said in its statement on August 29 that Sardor Ziyabov and Dmitry Nikitinko were detained on suspicion of involvement in the beating of inmates.

The statement also said that investigators were trying to identify other possible suspects in the case.

The announcement comes six days after videos published online by Novaya Gazeta newspaper revealed fresh evidence of inmates being tortured and abused by guards at Corrective Colony No. 1 to the northeast of Moscow.

One of the videos shows several guards forcing inmates to run a gauntlet. The guards are also seen kicking inmates and beating them with their fists and rubber batons.

Comment: See also:

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Wolf

Syrian asylum seeker on trial for attempted murder of German woman claims avenging insults by stabbing people 'acceptable in my culture'

Chris Tomlinson
Breitbart
Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:19 UTC
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© INA FASSBENDER/AFP/Getty Images
A 17-year-old Syrian asylum seeker has admitted to stabbing a 24-year-old German woman, claiming that stabbing and potentially killing someone who insulted him is acceptable in his culture.

Syrian asylum seeker Abdullah A. is currently on trial in Hanover for stabbing 24-year-old Vivien K. at the end of March after the young German woman got involved in a fight between the Syrian, her cousin, and brother at a local supermarket, Bild reports.

The four-inch-long blade used by Abdullah A. caused severe injuries to Ms K. including breaking her ribs and injuring several vital organs including her liver, stomach, kidney, and intestine.

After being rushed to hospital after the attack, the victim was put into an induced coma and had her spleen and parts of her pancreas removed. She now has a 16-inch-long scar from her breastbone to her abdomen.

Vivien K. appeared in court earlier this week to confront the asylum seeker who came close to killing her.

Comment: Clearly a psychopath or character-disturbed individual attempting to beguile his German hosts: stabbing someone because they offended you is universally unacceptable. Yes, including in Syria.

We hope all the 'cultural relativists' are happy now: they're using your arguments to justify criminal behavior.

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Not just one bad apple: Two-thirds of Texas police force indicted on corruption charges

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:55 UTC
texas police
All too often those who continuously apologize for crimes committed by police officers are able to justify some of the most egregious instances of outright murder by claiming the officer was a bad apple. Almost as often, however, as TFTP has shown numerous times, the bad apple theory is exactly that-a theory-with no evidence to support it.

Illustrating the nature of the bad apple theory is the fact that grand jury indictments against officers in Llano Police Department, including their Police Chief Kevin Ratliff, have nearly wiped out the entire department.

There are eight law enforcement officers employed by the Llano Police Department, according to the LPD's website, and now, as of August 13, two thirds of the entire police force has been indicted.

Does that seem like "one bad apple," or a potentially much greater problem?

The indictments stem from a massive civil rights violation of a single person but have led to investigators uncovering a cesspool of bad cops.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General: Vatican helped cover up dozens of sex crimes against children


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:22 UTC
the Vatican
© Vatican Media / Reuters
The Pennsylvania attorney general has revealed that the Vatican was aware of the massive cover-up of dozens of sex crimes against children in the state's dioceses, since the bishops shared their secret archives with Rome.

In another twist in the widening Pennsylvania church scandal, state Attorney General Josh Shapiro told CBS' This Morning show that while keeping the public and the police in the dark about child abuse by Catholic priests, the bishops documented all the cases and handed the damning evidence over to the Vatican.

"There are specific examples where when the abuse occurred, the priests would go, the bishops would go and lie to parishioners, lie to law enforcement, lie to the public, but then document all the abuse in secret archives that they would share oftentimes with the Vatican," Shapiro said, noting that the papers show that the Vatican was not only aware of the wrongdoings of the Pennsylvania priests but "were involved in cover-up."

When asked if the cover-up goes "all the way up to the Pope," Shapiro shied away from implicating Pope Francis or any of his predecessors in sweeping the potentially bombshell revelations under the rug for over 70 years. The transgressions were studied in a 900-plus-page report by a grand jury, the redacted version of which was made public by Shapiro on August 14.

Comment: The grand jury report about Catholic priest abuse in Pennsylvania shows the church is a criminal syndicate: 'It is time to face the horrible truth: The Catholic church is a pedophile ring'.

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Fire

Texas cop's bodycam footage shows him rescuing five children from a house fire


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:14 UTC
burning house
© Rodrigo Garrido / Reuters
A Texas police officer is being hailed a hero after he saved five young children from a raging house fire. The death-defying rescue was captured on the officer's bodycam.

Officer Sam Click was on patrol Thursday morning when he came across a home engulfed in flames on Casa Grande Drive, the Seagoville Police Department said in a statement. The officer's bodycam captures the extent of the fire which appears to have completely engulfed the front of the duplex family home.

After calling the fire department and his fellow officers for backup, Click ran to speak to residents standing outside, where he learned there were people still inside the burning home.

"I was just in the right place at the right time and I had to take action," Click later told KTVT.
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'Addicted' Americans now harming their pets to get opioids

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:03 UTC
dog at vet
In a recent statement by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., he said the opioid epidemic and the misuse and abuse of these drugs remains his highest priority. As the crisis evolves, he said it is vital that the agency take an in-depth look at all the access points where these medications can be purchased.
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Fire

Video shows e-cigarette suddenly exploding in man's pocket


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:59 UTC
ecigarette
© Toby Melville / Reuters
The health risks of vaping are up for debate but at least one California e-cigarette owner might think twice about puffing on one in the future after his device suddenly exploded inside his pocket.

Surveillance footage posted online by a television outlet in Anaheim shows a man at the store almost going up in smoke when an e-cigarette in his pants malfunctioned.

The incident occurred at Anaheim's HDTV Outlet. The store's manager said he feared the burning vape machine might start a fire and he had to rush to extinguish the device.

It's not known what caused the tobacco alternative to spark and explode. According to ABC News, the victim did not suffer serious injuries and he treated his burns at a local pharmacy.

But judging by the CCTV imagery the unidentified male was lucky not to have come to serious harm as flames could be seen rising up his leg and burning a hole in his trousers.

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Arrow Up

Report finds 'steep and sustained' increase in STDs in US


RT
Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:52 UTC
legs
© Christophe Gateau/Global Look Press
Health officials have issued stark warnings as data reveals that sexually transmitted infections are soaring in the US. A report has found that cases of syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea have spiked for the fourth year in a row.

In preliminary data showing sexually transmitted disease trends over the last five years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that there is evidence of a "steep and sustained" increase in certain diseases.

The data reveals that there were nearly 2.3 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis last year. The CDC say gonorrhea diagnoses have jumped 67 percent in four years, while the prevalence of syphilis increased by approximately 76 percent between 2013 and 2017.
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