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UK teacher found guilty on 13 counts of sexual assault, victims were girls as young as 7


northyorkshire.police.uk
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 19:49 UTC
Jonathan Philip Clayton
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A supply teacher has been sent to prison for eight-and-a-half years for sexually assaulting six girls at a North Yorkshire school.

Jonathan Philip Clayton, aged 27, from Carlton, Stockton-on-Tees, was found guilty on all 13 sexual touching charges on 4 February 2020 following a trial at Teesside Crown Court.

At the sentencing today (Monday 27 April 2020), Clayton also received an indefinite Sexual Harm Prevention Order and was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.

Comment: Learning how sexual predators think and operate is vital in protecting yourself and your children. You can listen to (or read) the Sott editors' interview with Anna Salter, PhD, author of Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders, Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children to learn more.

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Virgin Media internet & TV services down across whole of the UK

Andrew Griffin
Independent
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:25 UTC
Virgin media
Virgin Media's broadband and TV service appears to have stopped working properly.

The outage comes as huge numbers of people across the country rely on their internet connections to help them study and work from home.

Affected users complained on Twitter and other social networking sites that their broadband connections had gone down or they were unable to watch television.

Outage tracking website Down Detector saw a huge surge in reports of people struggling to use their TV and internet connections.

The problems appeared to be affecting users all across the UK, the site showed.

Comment: Billionaire bail out beggar and tax evader Richard Branson set up Virgin Media, however it is not clear who the current owners are. On Wikipedia we find:
Virgin Media's UK operations are ultimately controlled by a US Delaware organisation named Virgin Media (UK) Group Inc.[98] Interested stakeholders cannot confirm who actually owns and controls Virgin Media due to Delaware company law not requiring disclosure of controlling ownership in annual reports made to the state.[99]. The company named Virgin Media (UK) Group LLC was closed and dissolved in 2016. [100]
See also: £7.5 billion bailout needed by UK airlines, carriers throughout EU & US to appeal for aid

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Briefcase

Coronavirus has forced a delay in US extradition case against Assange


Reuters
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 06:01 UTC
Julian
© Keystone/Facundo ArrizabalagaJulian Assange
Hearings in the U.S. extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not go ahead next month as scheduled because of the coronavirus lockdown which prevents lawyers from attending court, a British judge decided on Monday.

The 48-year-old is held at London's Belmarsh Prison where he is fighting a request by the United States to send him to stand trial for conspiring to hack government computers and espionage.

Assange was dragged from the Ecuador embassy in London last year after a seven-year stand-off. He says he could spend decades in prison if convicted, and calls the case against him political and a threat to free speech. The United States says he put the lives of informants in danger by publishing secrets.

In February, hearings took place for a week and the case was adjourned until May 18 for a further three weeks of arguments. However, in the meantime, Britain imposed restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which have made it difficult to hold normal court proceedings.

Comment: Irony here! What informants were harmed in the service of truth and knowledge? Will taking Assange to trial protect those informants, given likely questions asked and answered? It is Assange's life that is endangered by neutering his rights and liberties in a disproportional lockup of staggering severity.

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First Amendment violations: 77% of colleges use secret social media blacklist to censor public


FIRE
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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  • Colleges block over 1,800 unique terms on their social media pages
  • Secret filters automatically remove comments mentioning political figures, corporate partners, sports teams, faculty members, and even an emoji
  • 87% of colleges block users on Facebook or Twitter
  • Administrators abuse social platform tools to quietly censor posts and users — transforming their pages from public forums into vehicles for positive publicity
The majority of top public colleges and universities use a blacklist of secret words, created by Facebook, to automatically censor comments on university social media pages, according to a new survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. As campuses sit empty and much of student life moves online, this censorship has an amplified importance.

Colleges also compile custom lists collectively banning more than 1,800 words and phrases: from profanities to posts referencing matters of local and national concern, campus controversies, criticism of colleges' corporate partners or sports teams, and even the weather. The findings, gleaned from public records from nearly 200 top institutions, show that public universities — bound by the First Amendment — are impermissibly censoring public dialogue.

Comment: See also:

Pre-crime goes to school: University campus police are monitoring students' social media accounts

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Two hair salon owners in California defy stay-at-home orders, both reopen to pay bills

Bridgette Bjorlo
Fox 40
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:37 UTC
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Hair salons and barbershops across the state have been closed since March under the state's stay-at-home order.

After more than a month without income, two business owners in Auburn have decided to defy that order and reopen their doors to customers anyway.

For Clip Cage owner Breann Curtis, it was either defy the state's stay-at-home order or face collections. "I have to do what I have to do. I'm fighting to provide for my children and myself and my family right now," explained Curtis.

After losing thousands of dollars, Curtis told FOX40 that it was time to take a chance and reopen. "It's been very hard. I'm pregnant. I have children at home," said Curtis.

Comment: A salon owner in Dallas, Texas has reopened despite a county order that says her business is "non-essential." She said she has missed a mortgage payment and has 19 employees who are out of work.

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The geopolitical operation of the 'global elite' should be named 'a crime against humanity'

Dr. Rudolf Hänsel
Global Research
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
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What do we want to call the geopolitical operation of the "global elite" with its real "depopulation agenda" currently taking place before our very eyes?

The consequences of this gigantic, frightening swindle are being experienced by everyone personally at the moment. Both the young and the old are deprived of their freedom and driven into despair, hopelessness and ultimately death. Is this geopolitical operation a "crime against humanity" as outlined under Nuremberg (1945/46 Trials)? I hereby publicly denounce the "main actors" and institutions who know what they are doing ("J'accuse...!")

Comment: You can call it what you will; the results will be the same. Globalization is a mechanism to threaten every bit of the essence we know as 'being human'.

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New York required nursing homes to admit 'medically stable' coronavirus patients. The results were deadly

Ashe Schow
The Daily Wire
Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:32 UTC
andrew cuomo
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On March 25, New York's Health Department issued a mandate that state nursing homes could not refuse COVID-19-positive patients who were "medically stable," meaning facilities that housed the most vulnerable populations were forced to introduce the virus into their midst.

A nursing home in Queens received two coronavirus patients who had been discharged from a hospital (but were still contagious and in need of care) - along with a box containing body bags, The New York Post reported. An executive at the facility told the Post it had been free of the coronavirus prior to accepting those two patients. The executive also said that along with the two patients arrived a shipment of personal protective equipment and the body bags.

"My colleague noticed that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. Curious as to what could possibly be making that particular box so much heavier than the rest, he opened it," the executive told the Post. "The first two coronavirus patients were accompanied by five body bags."
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Bad Guys

Global military expenditure sees largest annual increase in a decade


SIPRI
Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:49 UTC
World military expenditure
World military expenditure, by region, 1988–2019
Total global military expenditure rose to $1917 billion in 2019, according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The total for 2019 represents an increase of 3.6 per cent from 2018 and the largest annual growth in spending since 2010. The five largest spenders in 2019, which accounted for 62 per cent of expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia. This is the first time that two Asian states have featured among the top three military spenders. The comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database is accessible from today at www.sipri.org.

Global military spending in 2019 represented 2.2 per cent of the global gross domestic product (GDP), which equates to approximately $249 per person. 'Global military expenditure was 7.2 per cent higher in 2019 than it was in 2010, showing a trend that military spending growth has accelerated in recent years,' says Dr Nan Tian, SIPRI Researcher. 'This is the highest level of spending since the 2008 global financial crisis and probably represents a peak in expenditure.'
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'We scatter like cockroaches': US troops describe Pentagon's anti-coronavirus measures


Sputnik
Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:00 UTC
US troops and coronavirus
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About 4,000 of the nation's 1.4 million active duty troops have come down with COVID-19, with testing of personnel, plus the entire National Guard and reserve forces expected to take months to complete.

Pentagon Joint Chiefs vice chairman Gen. John Hyten believes that the pre-coronavirus
"We have to figure out how to operate and fight through a world where coronavirus exists. If we just wait for what, you know, everybody hopes is gonna happen, which is"2019 normal will never exist again" for the military, and that means the US's fighting forces will have to prepare to fight in a coronavirus world. the disease goes away, and it doesn't, and we haven't planned for the - for the other case, we're in a bad situation," Hyten said, speaking to CBS News.
The senior officer admitted that despite twice daily briefings of the Pentagon's crisis management team, the military "still don't fully understand the virus...We had so many assumptions of what a virus would do, what a pandemic flu would do. And then when you actually see what coronavirus does, what COVID-19 does, it's completely different," he complained.

Comment: What dramatic measures for a nothing-burger virus. See:

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Beaker

Antibody testing proves we've been had!

Kevin McCullough
Townhall
Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:57 UTC
Gov Cuomo
There is simply no other way to state this.

Nearly everything we've been told about models, rates of infection, deaths, and recoveries was inaccurate.

I'm not here to argue that it was malfeasance or ignorance — both are unacceptable. But the one thing that Governor Andrew Cuomo's stunning announcement made clear on Thursday is that there are some pretty shocking — and what should be — reassuring truths.

Cuomo announced that antibody testing in New York state, which only began four days previous, was already demonstrating that at minimum 13.9% of New Yorkers, had COVID-19 late stage antibodies.

The implication of this is a shockwave to the system.
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