September 6, 2018 – Bridge Agents

PRISON LABOR IS SLAVE LABOR, AND WE SHOULD GET RID OF IT

September 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

US (OW) – As wildfires rage across California, some of the people risking their lives to fight them are paid only a few dollars a day. They’re part of a 2.3 million-strong underclass of American employees making sweatshop wages: incarcerated workers. Slave wages are just one of the many reasons why incarcerated people around the U.S. on strike. The strike was organized in response to deadly violence at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina earlier this year, a result of the prison’s abysmal living conditions. Organizers have a list of 10 demands, which include the…

Why there’s so much inconsistency in school shooting data

September 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

United States (Conversation) – How many school shootings happen in the U.S. in a single school year? The answer is surprisingly hard to figure out. In April, the U.S. Department of Education released a report on the 2015-2016 school year, stating that “nearly 240 schools (0.2 percent of all schools) reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” However, the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety’s database lists only 29 school shootings for the same period. When National Public Radio investigated the inconsistency, they found that 161 of the Department…

‘Cancer on Steroids’ 15 Men Exposed to 9/11 Wreckage Now Have Breast Cancer

September 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

New York, NY (Sputnik) – Over a dozen men who were in the vicinity of the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001, attacks destroyed the towers have acquired breast cancer – a statistical rarity for men, of whom only 1 percent nationwide will get the illness, the New York Post reported. When the two 110-story World Trade Towers collapsed after airliners smashed into them on the morning of September 11, 2001, the huge pile of rubble and building debris blew an enormous cloud of dust into the sky, and the fires at Ground Zero burned for months,…

Why Chromebooks are decent, cheap, and versatile machines

September 6, 2018 Bridge Agents

US (PT) – After the purchase of an ACER Chromebook 15, which came equipped with 16GB eMMC storage and 4GB of DDR3 ram. In this article I’m going to explain the benefits and versatility of this machine. General Chrome OSIn the very basics, the chrome Operating System (OS) is actually extremely effective and secure. All Chromebooks past 2016 have a bounty of 50k if you can effectively hack and install a modified APK without google catching it. Since in the first year the bounty was not claimed they doubled it. On another…