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Penis and butt surgeries gone very wrong - and the fake doctor who'll pay dearly for it

David Ovalle
Miami Herald
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 13:32 UTC
Mark Schreiber
© David Ovalle - Miami HeraldMark Schreiber, a former doctor with a sordid history of practicing medicine, pleaded guilty to the illegal procedure that left a man with a mangled penis.
Former South Florida plastic surgeon Mark Schreiber, notorious for botched plastic surgeries over decades, is headed back to prison - this time for butt enhancement and penis enlargement procedures gone awry in Miami.

Schreiber agreed to spend 44 months behind bars on two counts of practicing medicine without a license.

When he gets out, the 62-year-old ex-doctor will also have to pay $145,000 in restitution to the victim of the butt implant, according to the plea deal struck last week in Miami-Dade Circuit Court.

South Florida has long been a hub for troubled cosmetic procedures in both legal and illegal clinics.
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Gold Coins

Goldman Sachs considers trading in bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies


RT
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:27 UTC
Bitcoin
© Benoit Tessie / Reuters
A new trading operation dedicated to digital currencies is being explored by Goldman Sachs, sources told the Wall Street Journal. It could be the first blue-chip Wall Street firm to deal directly in the growing yet controversial cryptocurrency market.

"In response to client interest in digital currencies, we are exploring how best to serve them in this space," said an unnamed Goldman spokeswoman.

According to people familiar with the matter, Goldman's effort involves both its currency trading division and the bank's strategic investment group. The firm sees bitcoin's future more as a payment method rather than a store of value.

Sources also said Goldman's effort is in its early stages and may not proceed. The firm's interest, however, could strengthen bitcoin's position as digital currencies were initially viewed as havens for illicit activity.

Big banks such as UBS, Barclays, ING, Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon have recently announced ventures into the blockchain technology that allows digital currencies to function and be transferred safely.

BNP Paribas has said it is looking to add bitcoin to one of its currency funds and has been doing "beta testing" involving the cryptocurrency.

Societe Generale and JPMorgan even published job offers for an IT developer and technician on bitcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrencies.
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Snowflake

Berkeley snowflakes protest mid-term tests, demand 'take-home' exams instead

Kyle Perisic
Campus Reform
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:13 UTC
student
Leftist students at the University of California, Berkeley recently attempted to shut down their own mid-term exam, demanding a take-home exam in its place. As seen in a video posted on YouTube, four students demanded a "take-home essay with significant time to prepare" instead of the scheduled in-class exam, though Professor Harley Shaiken adamantly refused their request.

"This is a campus that is truly related throughout Latin America to the notion of free speech," Shaiken said, followed by laughter from the protesters, who went on to claim that their "well-beings are being put on the line because of the emotional, mental, and physical stress that this university is compounding with what is already going on in [their] everyday lives."

"Have you ever checked 'unlisted' or 'undocumented immigrant'? I don't think so!" one protester shouted at Shaiken, who wrote about and advocated for improved workers' rights in Mexico, specializes in labor issues, and was presented in 1991 with the Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of California, San Diego.

Comment: The video documents how the instructor had to handle this group of spoiled brats with kid gloves, while trying negotiate for his serious students to have a chance to complete their testing.

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Bad Guys

YouTube removes SYRIANGIRL's video about her Facebook ban - because of 'hate speech'

Charles Bausman
Russia Insider
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:01 UTC
Syriangirl
SYRIANGIRL participating at the prestigious 'Central Peace Policy' conference in Eschwege, Germany in 2016
Last Thursday, we were the first to report that the Syrian/Australian YouTuber and activist, SYRIANGIRL, had her entire Facebook account suspended without warning.

It had 75,000 followers and she had built it up over 5 years. I spoke with her the next day in an exclusive interview.

That day she put a video on her excellent Youtube channel (73,000 subscribers, 5 yrs old, 5 million views) arguing that this was absurd.

Well, now, YouTube has removed that video, claiming that it is 'hate speech', and threatening to shut down her whole channel. To protect herself from another 'community guideline violation', which could lead to all her videos being deleted, she has made all of the videos on the channel 'private', unavailable to the public - so now her YouTube channel is effectively silenced too.

She's left with her Twitter account, (67,000 followers).

Here's a screenshot:
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Gold Coins

The Dollar is Going to Zero

Egon von Greyerz
Gold Switzerland
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:30 UTC
Dollar printing press
For news to be read and understood by a great number of people, it must be simple, sensational and forgettable. Most individuals are not interested in "heavy" news or complicated issues. Just compare television and newspapers today to say 50 years ago. At that time, newspapers had very few pictures but instead covered serious matters with in depth analysis. Same with television. In the 1960s there was serious news and many programmes which raised important issues in society or politics, which many people listened to and grasped.

Today everything must be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator of readers or viewers. For a paper to sell or a television station to receive advertising revenue, any news must be superficial and short. Most content must have an entertainment or gossip value. Same with television. All serious matters are either left out or covered very briefly. We are now in the age of instant gratification. Viewers' interest can only be kept by short superficial language, lots of big images and constant change of focus. On television, no camera position must remain on one subject for more than a few seconds because people's attention span only lasts for a brief moment.
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Pistol

Cop resigns after getting caught assaulting handcuffed suspect


RT
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:33 UTC
cop bodycam footage
© MLive / YouTube
A police officer who pressed a muzzled rifle against the head of a handcuffed suspect has resigned after an Internal Affairs investigation found he used "unreasonable force."

Body camera footage showed Grand Rapids, Michigan police officer Kevin Penn press his rifle against the head of a suspect - who had been tasered and handcuffed on the ground - during his arrest late on the night of August 19.

On the night in question, police were responding to a report of an armed robbery, and believed the suspect may have been in possession of a handgun. The suspect was tasered by two officers after reportedly failing to comply with their orders.
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No Entry

Belgium revokes 'radicalized' Saudi imam's stay permit


RT
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 19:30 UTC
Saudi Arabia Muslim Islam Imam
© Getty Images
The Belgian immigration minister is set to cancel a residence permit for a Saudi imam at Brussels' Grand Mosque for preaching hatred. The decision could lead to a strain in relations with Riyadh, the official acknowledged.

"There is a problem with the Grand Mosque... I have taken the decision to withdraw the residence permit of the imam of that mosque," the secretary of state for asylum and migration, Theo Francken, said Tuesday in an interview with BelRTL.

"We have had some very clear indications that he was very radicalized, Salafist and conservative," the official added. "He was dangerous for our society and national security." However, Francken stressed that there is "no problem with Islam but with radical Islam and Salafism."
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Nuke

Three US congressmen demand inquiry into claims of secret Cold War radiation testing on US citizens


RT
Tue, 03 Oct 2017 14:44 UTC
Lisa Marino-Taylor
© The Japan TimesLisa Marino-Taylor, author
Three US Congress members have demanded answers from Washington after a new book claims to reveal details of how the government secretly sprayed, injected, and fed radiation and other hazardous materials to "vulnerable" people during the Cold War.

The congressmen's outrage comes in response to the book Behind the Fog: How the US Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans, which is said to have revealed the practices when it was published in August.

Author Lisa Martino-Taylor, an associate professor of sociology at St. Louis Community College, said the radiological weapons program was a top priority for the government at the time.

According to the author, unsuspecting people across the United States - and even in England and Canada - were subjected to potentially deadly material through open-air spraying, ingestion, and injection. "They targeted the most vulnerable in society in most cases," Martino-Taylor said, as quoted by AP.

"They targeted children. They targeted pregnant women in Nashville. People who were ill in hospitals. They targeted wards of the state. And they targeted minority populations." The testing took place in various locations throughout the United States.

Comment: The US's secret history of using citizens as guinea pigs...the details are in the evidence and someone has finally connected the dots. (So...to whom and what are they doing now?)

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Fire

Trial begins for alleged mastermind of Benghazi attack


RT
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:47 UTC
Benghazi fire
© AFPInside the US consulate compound in Benghazi, September 11, 2012.
The trial of the man accused of planning the attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi in 2012, killing the US Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans is underway at a US federal court. The once anti-Gaddafi militia leader Ahmed Abu Khatallah hates America "with a vengeance" and played a leading role in organizing the September 11, 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, federal prosecutor John Crabb said in his opening statement.

Khatallah "didn't do the killing by himself," he said. "He didn't light the fires and he didn't fire the mortars but you will hear he is just as guilty as the men who lit those fires."

Crabb told the jury they would hear from witnesses who heard Khatallah discuss his plans. One of them heard Khatallah say he "would have killed all of the Americans that night," Crabb said. That witness was later paid $7 million to help the United States lure Khatallah to the spot where he was captured, Reuters reported.

Comment: The US government had Mr. Khattala in custody two months after the attack in 2012. A set-up?

From RT:
"Mr. Abu Khattala insisted that he had not been part of the aggression at the American compound," The Times reported then. "He said he had arrived just as the gunfire was beginning to crackle and had sought to break up a traffic jam around the demonstration. After fleeing for a time, he said, he entered the compound at the end of the battle because he was asked to help try to rescue four Libyan guards working for the Americans who were trapped inside."
See also: Benghazi, the CIA, and the War in Libya

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Pistol

5 things don't add up about the Las Vegas shooting


Realfarmacy.com
Mon, 02 Oct 2017 00:02 UTC
Mandalay hotel
© fox5vegas.com
Although the news reporting on this shooting is still in its early stages, there are five strange things that just don't add up about this massacre (so far). I run through them below.

#1) Dozens of concert-goers reported the presence of multiple shooters

Although law enforcement says there was only one shooter, multiple witnesses are openly reporting the presence of multiple shooters. This could reasonably be the result of confusion and chaos, but it's also highly suspicious that the shooter had "full auto" weapon which is usually limited to law enforcement or military personnel.

This question about multiple shooters was also raised after the Aurora, Colorado "Batman movie theater" shooting, in which numerous witnesses reported the presence of multiple shooters.

If this shooting was carried out by multiple shooters, it would obviously indicate planning and coordination among a group of people who sought to carry out the shooting for a political purpose of some kind.

Comment: There are many observations, so far without investigation, that make quick answers inconclusive, nor, at this point, have all the questions been asked.

See also: More than 50 dead, 500 wounded in Las Vegas concert shooting - UPDATES

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