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Bob Jones University stifled sex abuse claims: 'If you report it, you hurt the body of Christ'

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“They said if you report it, you hurt the body of Christ.”
A conservative Christian university abruptly dismissed the consulting firm it had hired to look into its handling of sexual assault investigations.

Until recently, students at Bob Jones University who sought counseling for sex abuse were told not to report their claims because turning in a fellow fundamentalist would damage Jesus Christ, reported the New York Times.

Most of the students reported sex abuse that happened when they were children but sought help later, as college students, and administrators branded the victims as liars and sinners, the paper reported.

"The person who supposedly counseled me told me if I reported (another fundamentalist Christian) to the police, I was damaging the cause of Christ, and I would be responsible for the abuser going to hell," said Catherine Harris, who attended the university in the 1980s. "He said all of my problems were as a result of my actions in the abuse, which mostly took place before I was 12, and I should just forgive the abuser."

Another former student said when she accused a graduate student of sexual assault in the 1990s, investigators asked what she had been wearing tightly fitted clothing and urged her to keep quiet to protect her reputation.

Che Guevara

Yemenis mark third anniversary of revolution calling for govt. resignation

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© ReutersPro-democracy protesters look on during a demonstration to mark the anniversary of an uprising against former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa. February 8, 2014.

Tens of thousands of people have held a demonstration in the Yemeni capital Sana'a, calling for the resignation of the government, Press TV reports.


The protest march was held on Tuesday to mark the third anniversary of the start of the 2011 revolution that forced longtime dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit in early 2012.

The protesters demanded the implementation of the goals of the revolution, vowing to continue protests until their demands are met.

Saleh, who ruled Yemen for 33 years, stepped down in February 2012 under a US-backed power transfer deal in return for immunity, after a year of mass street demonstrations demanding his ouster.

His vice president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, replaced him on February 25, 2012 following a single-candidate presidential election backed by the United States and Saudi Arabia.

Comment: The US supported the old dictator and after a brutal crackdown supported the transition to another US-puppet dictator, while the old dictator got immunity from prosecution.

No Mrs. Nuland handing out cookies to the protesters and egging them on. No McCain supporting the peoples wish for democracy and calling for an overthrow of the old regime. No EU and US delegation holding meetings with the opposition parties. In this case the US have actively participated in the suppression of the people of Yemen by calling them Al-Qaeda allies and sending drones to bomb them into silence.

U.S. drone strike kills 15 on way to wedding in Yemen
US bombs Yemen without warning
Propaganda Alert! Yemen on 'high alert' over warning of imminent al-Qaida attack
CIA using Saudi base for drone assassinations in Yemen
From Laos to Yemen to Pakistan: Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on secret U.S. dirty wars
17 killed as U.S.-backed Yemen army clash with tribesmen
Nobel Peace Laureate Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection
Propaganda Alert! Death Toll Rises to 20 in Yemen's Suspected al-Qaida Attack on Intelligence Building
Yemen government forces push back against 'al Qaeda'
Yemen Protests: Evidence Snipers Shot to Kill
Dozens murdered everyday in CIA's dirty war in Yemen
Axis of Evil drone strikes have killed over 130 in Yemen in recent weeks - Has President Saleh been ousted?


Eye 1

Americans demanding answers stonewalled by NSA‏

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© Patrick Semansky / APThe sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md.

Since last year's revelations about the National Security Agency's massive communications data dragnets, the spy agency has been inundated with requests from Americans and others wanting to know if it has files on them. All of them are being turned down .

The denials illustrate the bind in which the disclosures have trapped the Obama administration. While it has pledged to provide greater transparency about the NSA's communications collections, the NSA says it cannot respond to individuals' requests without tipping off terrorists and other targets.

As a result, Americans whose email and telephone data may have been improperly vacuumed up have no way of finding that out by filing open records requests with the agency. Six McClatchy reporters who filed requests seeking any information kept by the NSA on them all received the same response.

Comment: By "terrorists" they really mean unruly or free-thinking citizens, and by "national security" they mean only the security of the elite.


Stop

France world champion of Twitter censorship

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In 2013, Twitter received 352 removal requests, of which 306 emanated from the French authorities, in other words 87%.

(Translation Alizée Ville)

Comment: The land of so-called "liberte, egalite, fraternite..."

France orders Twitter to identify racist users

France's censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than "hate speech"

Twitter's New Censorship Plan Rouses Global Furor

French court orders Google to censor previously published images taken at disgraced ex-Formula 1 boss Max Mosley's five-hooker S&M orgy


Black Magic

EU to approve new GM crop, ignoring majority members' opposition

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The European Commission is set to authorize the growing of genetically modified maize on European soil, despite 19 member states voting against the move, highlighting the "absurd" rules of weighted votes in the EU.

In a debate on Tuesday, 19 EU member states indicated that they would vote against the authorization of genetically modified maize because of health and environmental concerns and opposition in the European Parliament.

But because of the so-called comitology rules of the EU, their votes will be insufficient to overturn the decision of bigger member states that support the introduction of insect resistant Pioneer 1507.

The UK and Spain are both in favor of GM crops, while Germany abstained and France is staunchly against their introduction.

European health Commissioner Tonio Borg said on Tuesday that the commission is now legally bound to approve the crop. Borg insisted that extensive research since 2001 had shown the crop was safe.

Britain has argued that without GM crops, Europe risks becoming "the museum of world farming," and that there is a clear scientific case for GM, while Spain has said that its farmers need to be able to compete with non-EU nations that can grow GM produce.


Comment: Perhaps Ukraine should pay a little attention to how the EU actually works. Democracy is not at work in the EU and Ukraine which is a massive agricultural country will not be able to get a special status in the EU if it ever joins there. They will be forced to accept frankenfoods and a destruction of their lands, as the unelected eurocrats kowtow to Monsanto and BigAg.

Other countries are less enthusiastic about GM:
China to US: 'Take your 60,000 tons of GMO-Contaminated corn and shove It'
People power! Zambia, strongest anti-GMO stance in Africa
Russia And Poland Say "NO" To GMO's


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Nothing personal? Obama says no nation avoids US spying

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© Reuters / Kevin LamarqueU.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcome French President Francois Hollande to the White House for a State Dinner in Washington February 11, 2014

Ally or not, the US does not have an agreement with any country that would prevent espionage in light of national security concerns, President Obama said on Tuesday, prior to an official state dinner with a European head of state.

During a joint press conference with French President Francois Hollande, Obama was asked whether his selection of France for the first state visit of his second term as president signalled a post-spying agreement with America's European ally. Through documents supplied by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, it was revealed that the NSA spied on French citizens and the internal communications of France's foreign ministry and diplomats.

"There's no country where we have a no-spy agreement," Obama answered.

Comment: So mutual trust is restored. How lovely. Obama promised not to reveal any of Hollande's night escapades in exchange for Hollande sending troops and support to wherever the US want, whether that be Mali, Somalia, Syria or ???


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BBC Propaganda: "Why I want a microchip implant"

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Would you like to have an RFID microchip implanted under your skin? If you are anything like me, you would never allow such a thing to be done. But many others, especially among the younger generations, see things very differently. RFID microchip implants and other forms of "wearable technology" are increasingly being viewed as "cool", "trendy" and "cutting edge" by young people that wish to "enhance" themselves. And of course the mainstream media is all in favor of these "technological advancements".

For example, the BBC just published a piece entitled "Why I Want A Microchip Implant". We are told that such implants could solve a whole host of societal problems. Identity theft and credit card fraud would be nearly eliminated, many other forms of crime would be significantly reduced, children would never go missing and we wouldn't have to remember a vast array of passwords and PIN numbers like we do now. We are told that if we just adopted such technology that our lives would be so much better. But is that really the case?

As our society becomes "digitally integrated", technologists tell us that it is "inevitable" that wearable technology will become as common as smart phones are today. And the BBC article that I just mentioned is very eager for that day to arrive...
Ultimately, implanted microchips offer a way to make your physical body machine-readable. Currently, there is no single standard of communicating with the machines that underpin society - from building access panels to ATMs - but an endless diversity of identification systems: magnetic strips, passwords, PIN numbers, security questions, and dongles. All of these are attempts to bridge the divide between your digital and physical identity, and if you forget or lose them, you are suddenly cut off from your bank account, your gym, your ride home, your proof of ID, and more. An implanted chip, by contrast, could act as our universal identity token for navigating the machine-regulated world.
And for some people, that day is already here. In fact, at some technology conferences people actually line up to get chipped...
This month at the Transhuman Visions conference in San Francisco, Graafstra set up an "implantation station" offering attendees the chance to be chipped at $50 a time. Using a large needle designed for microchipping pets, Graafstra injected a glass-coated RFID tag the size of a rice grain into each volunteer. By the end of the day Graafstra had created 15 new cyborgs.
How creepy is that?

Stock Down

Scary 1929 market chart parallels current stock market behavior

There are eerie parallels between the stock market's recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash.

That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market's recent performance on top of a plot of its gyrations in 1928 and 1929.

The picture isn't pretty. And it's not as easy as you might think to wriggle out from underneath the bearish significance of this chart.

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Janet Yellen taught to revere capitalism, but it's a failing system

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The growing disconnect between the Fed's policies and people's lives means we need to start exploring economic alternatives

Janet Yellen, the United States' Federal Reserve's new Chair, and I were graduate economics students around the same time at Yale University. The professor who shaped the macroeconomics we learned was James Tobin. He taught us to be Keynesian economists: that is, to accept capitalism as the sole object and focus of our studies, to celebrate it as the best possible system, and to preserve it against its own serious faults. Keynesian economics teaches that to secure capitalism's blessings requires systematic government intervention in the workings of the economy.

Yale doctorates during those years certified that we had learned how the monetary and fiscal policies offered by Keynesianism comprised the government's optimum tools of economic intervention. Central banks (in the US, this meant the Federal Reserve) would administer monetary policy. This meant manipulating the quantity of money in circulation and interest rates. Legislatures and executives would administer fiscal policies, namely, manipulating tax rates and government expenditures. The goals of both monetary and fiscal policies would be to prevent private capitalism's instability (its recurring swings between sharp upturns and downturns), or at least to ensure the downturns were short and shallow (unlike the long and deep 1930s Great Depression that inspired Keynes's work).

Successive Chairs of the Federal Reserve sought to manipulate the nation's monetary system to those ends, so far as possible. Whatever their party affiliation (Bernanke is a Republican, while Yellen is a Democrat) they coordinate their monetary policies with the fiscal policies pursued by the sitting president and Congress. Indeed, policy differences have been limited and rarely arose among them in their shared quest to manage capitalism's inherent and immensely costly instability. Thus, from the standpoint of economics, the two parties are better understood as two wings of one capitalist party in the US sharing virtually dictatorial political influence.

Comment: Capitalism is a control system. It was created by psychopaths for psychopaths. As long as the average person remains ignorant of the 'almost human' creatures (posing as leaders) among us, our society will continue its downward spiral.


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SOTT Focus: Psychopaths in Power and the Imminent Collapse of Global Society (It's all your fault!)

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I can't really comment in any informed way on societies in the East, except to point to the Chinese slave workers who produce mountains of plastic crap for Western nations to use and then dump in the ground and oceans; the Middle East's role as a bombing target, 'terrorist' recruiting ground and civil war factory for Western warmongers, and South East Asia and Africa as a block of new 'nations' born out of the 'white man's burden' to civilize their people via brutal colonization and then grant them 'independence' in the form of never-ending debt to Western banks.

In the West, on the other hand, where I live, I can say with confidence that our modern society, its political and social conventions, customs and morality, has passed its expiry date and is well and truly moribund. If I were a political or social cartoonist, the image would be a giant rotting corpse plastered in thick make up and doused in cheap perfume with a greedy banker's hand up its ass making it move and talk to fool the public into thinking that they actually have a future to look forward to.

Leading the cast in this tragicomedy (heavy on the tragi) we find our psychopathic leaders and their media whores trying extra hard to convince us that everything is just fine. But that smell, that stench of lies and the screaming contradiction between what they say and what we can all see (if we look) is making it increasingly hard to believe them, and even our own wishful thinking.