Japanese Government Admits First Fukushima Radiation Death
Over seven years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that crippled Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant, the Japanese government has admitted that a former plant worker has died as a result of radiation exposure.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-06/japanese-government-admits-first-fukushima-radiation-death
US Opioid Magnate Poised to Get Richer With Patent on Addiction Treatment Drug
Billionaire drug baron Richard Sackler, whose family has enriched themselves with the help of a widely abused opioid, is expected to get even richer off a drug used to help wean people off of opiates.
That's because in January he was awarded a patent for a new kind of buprenorphine, the most popular brand of which is Suboxone, which is used to help opiate addicts deal with cravings but is also abused recreationally. The new drug is said to be more "abuse-resistant" in its dosage form in the patent application. Suboxone manufacturer Indivior made $887 million from the drug in 2017 alone, according to the Financial Times, so Sackler's replacement in expected to rake in some serious cash.
Sackler and his family own Purdue Pharma, which manufactures a popular form of Oxycodone called OxyContin, an opiate that is one and a half times as powerful as morphine. In 2007, as the opioid epidemic wreaking havoc across the United States was in its early stages, the company and three of its executives pleaded guilty to charges of defrauding customers and regulators by downplaying the addictiveness of the drug.
They have also faced more than 1,000 lawsuits over allegations that the pill helped foment the opioid crisis. Many of of the lawsuits against the company are ongoing.
https://sputniknews.com/us/201809071067848834-Opioid-Magnate-Patent-Drug/
Yahoo email caught secretly scanning user emails to build psych profiles to sell to advertisers
We all know that tech companies collect our data and use it to make money through advertising. In fact, it’s gotten to the point where we pretty much expect the things we search for and the sites we visit to be used for these purposes. However, if you use Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail, even your email is no longer off limits.
The owner of Yahoo Mail and AOL mail, Verizon, is offering a new service for advertisers that involves constantly scanning the 200 million inboxes of those who use Yahoo Mail. Verizon reportedly told advertisers they search people’s emails to find clues about the goods and services they might be interested in buying.
PJ Media reports that those are the only two email services that are selling their users out in this way at the moment. Gmail used to scan emails but stopped doing so entirely last year. That might make them sound superior somehow, but the reality is that Google is getting more than enough of our personal data through other means, so it has no need to scan emails, too.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo reached a settlement in a federal class-action lawsuit in 2016 that claimed its email scanning was a violation of federal wiretap laws. They paid out $4 million and although they did not admit to any wrongdoing, they were forced to make a technical change wherein people’s emails would be scanned once they’ve arrived in their inbox instead of while in transit.
According to communications between Verizon and advertisers, they placed their users in different categories according to the mail they receive. For example, getting car loan notifications makes people part of the car owner group, brokerage trade confirmations earn someone the investor label, and flight confirmation emails mean a user will be considered a frequent traveler. Taking it one step further than Google did in the past, they then create interest profiles of each user, follow them across the Internet, and deliver appropriate ads when they visit other sites.
Doug Sharp, the Vice President of Data, Measurement and Insights for Oath – the Verizon brand that acquired Yahoo Mail – stated: “Email is an expensive system. I think it’s reasonable and ethical to expect the value exchange, if you’ve got this mail service and there is advertising going on.”
While you could argue that users can’t expect to get something like email without paying for it in some way or another, this practice is even used in Yahoo’s premium email service, which users shell out $3.49 per month to use. There is a way for these users to opt out of the analysis, but it isn’t immediately obvious as the setting is listed under Ad Interest Manager rather than Settings.
It isn’t just an algorithm that is scanning through people’s emails; human readers are also used to look at AOL and Yahoo emails. This is outlined in Oath’s privacy policy, but few readers actually take the time to look at the fine print.
Yahoo doesn’t know how to hold on to users
Yahoo Mail has seen its popularity dwindle in recent years as people flock to Gmail despite Google’s abhorrent practices. These days, a lot of people use Yahoo email as a spam account to collect unwanted emails sent out by retailers, and this is what the advertisers are hoping to capitalize on. Nevertheless, just 19 percent of people aged 18 to 29 use Yahoo Mail, whose reputation has also been hurt by several high-profile data breaches. It’s unlikely that this approach will help them earn back any of the goodwill they’ve lost in recent years.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-09-07-yahoo-email-caught-secretly-scanning-user-emails-to-build-psych-profiles.html
Turkish Filmmaker Gets 6-Year Prison Sentence For Depicting Execution Of Erdogan
This about summarizes the true state of Turkish politics today: a Turkish filmmaker was given a lengthy prison sentence after being convicted Friday for producing a film that included a scene depicting President Tayyip Erdogan with a gun pointed at his head as his family lay dead all around him.
The filmmaker, Ali Avci, had been arrested last year immediately after the release a trailer for his new movie, called "Awakening", based on the failed military putsch that captured world headlines in 2016, in which over 250 people were killed, and in which Erdogan was nearly overthrown. At the time Erdogan had to vacate his residence and office and Skype messages to his supporters while temporarily deep in hiding.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-07/turkish-filmmaker-gets-6-year-prison-sentence-depicting-execution-erdogan
364 Illegal Alien Arrests in Six-State ICE Raid, 187 Repeat Felons
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has brought countless criminal enterprises to an end after it successfully completed a 30-day long, six-state raid arresting a whopping 364 illegal aliens - 187 were previously convicted felons.
http://www.thegoldwater.com/news/36410-364-Illegal-Alien-Arrests-in-Six-State-ICE-Raid-187-Repeat-Felons
17 vector.
17 years of dark soon to be turned back to light.
17 = Q
I keep hearing song 'Edge of 17' as we are on the edge of the 17 year end?
Set up for September done for this reason?