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UK police say young children are being pressured daily into 'sexting' by online predators

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Children as young as 10 are being pressured into sharing explicit images of themselves "virtually every day," police say, with many not reporting such requests because it has become so common.

Detective Superintendent John Macdonald, from Scotland Yard's Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse Command, says "any child is vulnerable" to online predators, who target victims by showering them with compliments then quickly resorting to threats if they don't comply.

"Before the internet was mainstream, it was dangerous for an offender to try and target a child because they would have to have that physical face-to-face contact, whereas now all they've got to do is sit in the comfort of their own home and do it relatively safely," Macdonald told the Press Association.

"They've got access to any kid."

Comment: Children don't understand the dangers because of their increased exposure to sexual imagery at early ages, which literally teaches them to be prey for pedophiles. Many have access to pornography at a very young and impressionable age, further pressuring them to live up to unrealistic interpretations of sex. Not only are they being targeted online, but face out of control sexual harassment in schools.

Internet has become a 'pedophile playground': Sexual predators targeting increasing number of children online


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When the next economic crisis occurs two-thirds of the country will be out of cash almost immediately

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Did you know that almost 70 percent of the U.S. population is essentially living paycheck to paycheck? As you will see below, a brand new survey has found that 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. Of course one of the primary reasons for this is that most of us are absolutely drowning in debt. In fact, the total amount of household debt in the United States now exceeds 12 trillion dollars. So many Americans are so busy just trying to pay off their existing debts that they can't even think about saving anything for the future. If economic conditions remain relatively stable, the fact that so many of us are living on the edge probably won't kill us. But the moment the economy plunges into another 2008-style crisis (or worse), we could be facing a situation where two-thirds of the country is in imminent danger of running out of cash.

If you are living paycheck to paycheck, you live under the constant threat of your life being totally turned upside down if that paycheck ever goes away. During the last crisis, millions of Americans lost their jobs very rapidly, and because so many of them were living paycheck to paycheck all of a sudden large numbers of people couldn't pay their mortgages. As a result, multitudes of American families went through the extremely painful process of foreclosure.

Unfortunately, it appears that we have not learned anything from the last go around. According to the brand new survey that I mentioned above, 69 percent of all Americans have less than $1,000 in savings...

Life Preserver

Hurricane Matthew brings biggest humanitarian crisis to Haiti 'since 2010 earthquake'

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© Andres Martinez Casares / ReutersHaitians load supplies delivered by a Marines helicopter after Hurricane Matthew in Les Anglais, Haiti, October 11, 2016.
Haiti is a tiny island nation that can't seem to catch a break. Hurricane Matthew devastated the nation, propelling concerns of impending famine and cholera outbreaks into its remote, hard-to-access regions.

As of Tuesday, Haiti's death toll reached at least 1,000 people as a result of being hit by Hurricane Matthew, but the worst could be yet to come, according to some experts. The United Nations has appealed for $120 million for three months of emergency funding, $70 million of which would go to water, sanitation and medical efforts.

On Tuesday, Haiti's interim president Jocelerme Privert confirmed the need for emergency, calling the loss "amazing," and adding, "the concern is if we don't take action now for the longer impact ... three to four months when the foods stop coming we are going to have a real famine."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Monday that "some towns and villages have been almost wiped off the map. Crops and food reserves have been destroyed."

Comment: Great. So now between the Clinton Foundation's financial rape of Haiti and the two disasters that have befallen this country, the WHO is planning to to further injure these people with what is, in all probability, a dangerous cholera vaccine.


Brick Wall

Thinking of participating in the holy sacrament of voting?

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Colin Kaepernick has been abstaining from standing for the national anthem. Self-styled patriots have been losing their minds over it. That is because they are true believers in a cult. The cult is the State.

All states are cults: religions. And like all religions, states have sacraments, including holy rituals. The national anthem is one of the holy ritual sacraments of the cult of the American State. Those fully initiated and indoctrinated in that cult have been programmed to go into attack mode when divergent cult members (heretics) fail to observe such sacraments, like the national anthem or the pledge of allegiance to the holy pole cloth. Such peer pressure is how cults maintain their numbers.

Voting is another one of those sacramental rituals. As with the national anthem and pledge of allegiance, true believers are aghast when you advocate abstention from voting. School, which is our chief initiation into the State cult, thoroughly and universally indoctrinates its initiates into the sacrament of voting and democracy. We've all been brainwashed from the time we were tiny children into the holy myth of democracy: that democracy is what makes us special, what makes America exceptional; that patriots suffered and died for democracy, from the Suffragettes to the Civil Rights movement, from the Revolution to the Civil War to World War II to the War on Terror; that through voting we are empowered to fight for what's right, to make our country, our very lives, better. You can see how important this sacrament is to the State cult from all of the voting propaganda pushed by the government and the establishment media.

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Padlock

New Jersey: 87.6% of juveniles tried as adults are Black or Hispanic

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© The Atlantic
Since 2011, prosecutors in New Jersey requested that 1,251 minors be tried for crimes as adults. Of that amount, 87.6 percent of the juveniles were black or Hispanic, according to a new report.

Of the total 1,251 requests for a minor to be tried as an adult in New Jersey from July 1, 2011 to May 19, 2016, 692 of those requests were granted by judges. Those minors were 87.4 percent black or Hispanic, WNYC reported in a new series, 'Kids in Prison.'

"There are obvious disparities and gross disparities in the exercise of discretion to seek a waiver," Laura Cohen, director of the Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic at Rutgers Law School, told WNYC.

According to a 2011 report by the US Department of Justice National Institute for Corrections, black youth constitute about two-thirds of minors in the adult criminal justice system and are about nine times more likely than white youth to receive adult prison sentences.

Comment: It seems that the prison system in the US has to change. The impetus behind transferring kids to the adult system is depicted as a service to public safety, but research has shown the exact opposite. Kids who are placed in the adult system are 34% more likely to re-offend than their counterparts in the juvenile system. This practice places youth at extreme jeopardy for rape, psychological harm, suicide - especially related to practices of solitary confinement, limited exercise, lack of educational programs, institutions inaccessible by family due to cost and distance, substance abuse and physical, emotional, mental deprivation.


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ISIS propaganda crippled by military defeats, study finds

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Islamic State's online media output has dropped drastically as advertising a viable caliphate becomes harder amid military defeats, US scholars found. Another reason for it is that many propagandists were killed in airstrikes, becoming "media martyrs."

Once notorious for inspiring thousands of foreign fighters to wage jihad in Syria and Iraq, Islamic State's (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) online propaganda coverage is now shrinking, according to a study released by Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy West Point.

Last August, the terrorist group produced over 700 media items in its "official" outlets in Syria and other countries, the research says. In August this year, there were only 200.

"It's not just the numeric decline," Daniel Milton, who authored the report, told the New York Times. "The caliphate was their big selling point. Now there's an inability to say we're doing the things that make us a state. And that was behind their broad appeal."

Ambulance

Man drives pickup truck through Columbus Day protest, hits 5

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© Camera with the band/YouTube
A man rammed his pickup truck through a group of activists protesting Columbus Day in Reno, Nevada. The driver hit five people, sending an elderly woman to the hospital.

The incident was captured on video and shows a rally held by 40 people protesting the observance of Columbus Day - also in solidarity with the fight against the controversial Dakota Access pipeline.


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Creepy 'new girlfriend' video probed as lead in 7-yo missing teen case

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© Altered Dimensions/YouTube
Police are investigating a possible lead relating to a 2009 missing person case after a disturbing video featuring a screaming tied up teenager introduced as the author's "new girlfriend" went viral seven years after it was first posted on YouTube.

The video was originally posted in 2009, but has only recently gained popularity and many believe it is connected to missing Wisconsin teenager Kayla Berg. Titled "Hi Walter! I got a new GF!" the video was uploaded in October 2009, two months after Berg disappeared.

In it, a man talks about his new girlfriend before leading the camera to a basement bathroom. "I know she hates cameras, Walter, but I'm going to show you her anyway. You ready?" he asks, before opening the door to reveal a girl tied up on the floor, screaming.


Che Guevara

Malcolm X had it right: 'Psychological warfare' tactics used against African-Americans and Muslims

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© Malcolm X Network / YouTubeMalcolm X in 1963
Muslims were a polarizing subject in the United States long before the 2016 presidential race.

In a 1963 interview at the University of California, Berkeley, Malcolm X discussed the nature of Islam and African-American rights with sociology graduate student Herman Blake and professor John Leggett. The civil rights leader explained why he did not believe in racial integration and condoned violence for African-Americans in the name of self-defense.

HAL9000

The dangerous and growing corporate monopoly on artificial intelligence by tech giants

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In a race to corner the artificial intelligence market, the world's largest tech companies are in a frenzy to buy out smaller AI companies at an alarming rate, heading toward what could potentially be the most dangerous monopoly in history. According to a report by CB Insights updated on October 7, close to 140 private artificial intelligence companies have been consolidated in the last five years.

Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, is in first place with 11 acquisitions, the most notable being DeepMind Technologies, which Google purchased for $600 million in 2014. The British startup was just four years old at the time of the acquisition and has been used to create free apps with the National Health Service and conserve energy by controlling the air conditioning units at Google's data centers. Deepmind made headlines in March 2016 when AlAlphaGo became the first computer program in history to beat a top-level Go player.