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Online porn watchers hacked, filmed, and threatened into paying ransom

Ali Raza
The Issue
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 15:20 UTC
computer code, malware
© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
In case you're a fan of online porn, you might want to make sure that the next time you watch it, and every time after that, you make sure that your webcam is covered. This is because hackers can spy on you through webcams, record videos of you and then blackmail you for cash.

There has been a rise in numbers of reports about hackers who say they possess footage of people in compromising situations (watching porn) and are now demanding a ransom that goes up to $500, security experts at Netsafe and CERT say.

The way the hackers sneak into your computer and record you is by tricking you into installing a malicious software, usually deployed through links on unsecured adult websites or hiding in malicious links on phishing emails.

And then, once you go onto the adult website, the scammer turns on your webcam and records what is happening to then threaten you to release it to all your contacts if you don't pay the requested ransom.
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Propaganda

Prediction of a 'RIOT' as dissent in American media becomes illegitimate

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 16:57 UTC
graphic of Putin and Twitter
© dashboard.securingdemocracy.org
Since the German Marshall Fund of the United States unveiled its "Alliance For Securing Democracy (AFSD)," I've resisted commenting, simply because the lobby group's "Hamilton 68 dashboard" is too preposterous to merit serious analysis.

It has rightly been ridiculed by journalists and activists who never tire of knocking the Kremlin.

The portal purports to use "600 Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence efforts online" to prove how Moscow is trying to sow seeds of doubt in the Western political system, via the social network. However, the creators won't reveal the users concerned, and results seem to suggest they are mostly members of the US alt-right and alt-left. Meaning this is yet another attempt to pass off American dissent as some Kremlin "Psy-op." Which is beyond ridiculous.

Furthermore, the names behind AFSD betray the project's real purpose: to shift blame from internal American and European factors to the convenient Russian bogeyman. Which, of course, suits its financial backers, including the State Department, NATO, and the ubiquitous weapons maker Raytheon. All of whom benefit commercially and politically from strained ties between Moscow and Washington.
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Bullseye

100 suspected sex slaves stopped & turned back at Glasgow airport


RT
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:41 UTC
Sex slave
© Channel Ten / Getty Images
Almost 100 potential victims of human trafficking have been blocked by Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport and returned to their countries of origin since last November, figures show.

More than 300 men and women were interviewed by Safeguarding and Trafficking (SAT) officers on suspicion of being targets of modern slavery.

Over 80 percent of those interviewed were Romanian and fewer than 50 were men.

The Border Force, which conducted the interviews as part of a crackdown on gangs selling victims into brothels, said many victims had no clue they were destined to be sold into prostitution.

One case was that of an 18-year-old girl who had just left school, had no money on her and was convinced she would be employed at a hotel in Edinburgh.

Comment: See also: Rescued woman: Sexual slavery is part of "home service" in Saudi Arabia

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Dominoes

Over two-thirds of Brits don't support Camilla taking the title of Queen due to recent documentary on Diana's death

CAMILLA TOMINEY
Express
Sun, 13 Aug 2017 15:12 UTC
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Our exclusive poll found 67 per cent do not support the Duchess of Cornwall taking the title when Charles becomes king, with just 19 per cent believing she is fit for the role.

In a sign of the heir to the throne's fragile popularity, more than a quarter, 27 per cent, said they thought less of Charles following the recent documentary about his ex-wife.

Just eight per cent thought more of him.

The poor rating comes despite Clarence House's efforts to rehabilitate the couple in the eyes of the public since they wed in 2005.

Princes William and Harry proved far more popular in the survey, with Harry's American actress girlfriend Meghan Markle regarded by most as a breath of fresh air for the monarchy.
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Heart - Black

Disturbing video emerges of high school cheerleading coach forcing student to perform splits despite pleas to stop


RT
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:33 UTC
ally wakefield
Disturbing footage has emerged of a US high school cheerleading coach forcing a 13-year-old student to perform the splits despite repeated pleas from the girl for him to stop.

The video, obtained by American news channel 9Wants to Know, shows bulky East High School, Denver, Colorado, cheerleading coach Ozell Williams forcing his weight down on the slight frame of cheerleader Ally Wakefield.

Whimpering, Wakefield begins to cry and pleads with Williams to "please, stop" nine times in less than 24 seconds on the cell phone video.

Instead, Williams pushes down further on her shoulders, increasing the apparent agony for Wakefield, whose legs are all the time being locked by teammates, who can be heard giggling.

Comment: Police have announced they are investigating this incident. Another news site reported that parents have sent complaints for months to school administrators and the coach himself. It was only when this video emerged that the school put the coach on leave.

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Sheriff

Young woman who was sex trafficked by police officers as a child is now bringing depts down as an adult

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:51 UTC
police child abuse
The men wearing badges were supposed to be protecting her. Instead, they were pimping her out to other officers within their own police department, and to policemen from nearby departments. It may sound like the subject of a fiction novel, but it is far from fiction, and it happened here in America, according to one woman who says the officers involved are nothing less than sexual predators who trafficked a teenage girl for sex and cash.

Jasmine Abuslin already won a nearly $1 million settlement from the City of Oakland for its officers' role in using her for sex as a "modern-day sex slave," according to her lawyer. Abuslin was being pimped out from the time she was just 12 years old. Soon, police officers got in on the action and the chance to have sex with a minor. Word got out among many of the officers and she was passed around like a rag doll within the department.

Now, her lawyers have set their sights on the next police department implicated in sex trafficking the teenaged girl. Police in Richmond, California, are now in Absulin and her lawyers' proverbial crosshairs. According to a report from the Independent:
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Briefcase

California ruling opens floodgates for cancer lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson


RT
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:34 UTC
Johnson & Johnson talcum powder cancer lawsuit
© Rick Wilking / Reuters
The $417 million California ruling against Johnson & Johnson (J&J), which concluded one of the company's talc-based powder products caused cancer, has opened a new front in litigation with thousands of lawsuits pending.

The verdict drastically reversed the corporation's hopes that the cases were picking up steam only in Missouri, where four decisions against J&J totaled $307 million.

The pharmaceutical company is facing more battles in US courts with nearly 4,800 outstanding talc lawsuits.

Earlier this week, a California jury awarded $417 million to a woman who claimed the talcum baby powder being produced by the company for more than 120 years caused her ovarian cancer.
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Padlock

What price 'safety'? One flyer questions intimate pat-downs vs the lost privacy and dignity that comes with it

Bruce Henderson
The Charlotte Observer
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:52 UTC
Angela Rye pat down
CNN political commentator Angela Rye getting a pat down
Jenna MacFarlane was on the way to visit a friend in Baltimore in April when her carry-on bag triggered an alarm at Charlotte's airport.

A Transportation Security Administration screener told MacFarlane she would have to undergo a full-body pat-down by a female officer. Late for her flight and with no option other than to be searched in private, MacFarlane agreed.

The pat-down, done over her clothes, explored her breasts, crotch and buttocks.

"I did not imagine that she would ask me a few times to spread my legs wider and in fact touch my vagina four times with the side of her hand," MacFarlane later wrote in a complaint to the TSA.

The experience humiliated MacFarlane, 56, a Charlotte graphic designer and part-time teacher who flies several times a year. It also left her with a nagging question that millions of fellow travelers could ask: How much privacy must Americans give up in order to fly safely?

Comment: Of course it bears reminding ourselves that none of this would be occurring if elements of the US gov hadn't permitted and facilitated the horrific events of 911 16 years ago.

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Attention

City of corpses: Hundreds of bodies under rubble in Mosul, many women and children


RT
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:21 UTC
dead civilians in Mosul
© RT
A large number of bodies, many of them women and children, are still buried under the rubble in Mosul after the months-long operation to retake the city. RT's Murad Gazdiev saw the gruesome aftermath of the battle declared a major success by the US-led coalition.

Multiple corpses of suspected Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants - but also civilians - are still lying under the rubble in the sweltering August heat.

Rescuers are working to retrieve corpses buried under collapsed houses, with many buildings literally reduced to ashes - possibly in the aftermath of bombings or artillery strikes. Parts of Mosul that were once residential areas are now ruins.
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Briefcase

Kentucky court orders new trial in satanic sacrificial murder case


RT
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 14:09 UTC
gavel judge court
© Global Look Press
Kentucky's highest court has ordered a new trial in the infamous satanic killing case in which two men were convicted of sacrificing a 19-year-old woman and spent some 22 years in prison.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Kentucky vacated Jeffrey Dewayne Clark and Garr Keith Hardin's convictions, ordering a new trial after DNA evidence from the 1992 murder was tested with modern technology.

The new DNA analysis showed the single hair found on Rhonda Sue Warford wasn't Hardin's and the blood-stained rag found in Hardin's room, wasn't from a sacrificial ritual, but rather from Hardin cutting himself on a chalice's jagged edge.

"This is such a glorious day," said Vickie Howser, Hardin's sister, to AP. "After 22 years, it is so about time for him to have a decent life. They took his life away from him for something he did not do."
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