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Harvard's fake guide to fake news is America's 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum'

Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:14 UTC
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The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was a list of publications deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious, and banned by the Catholic Church. ( See Grendler, Paul F. "Printing and censorship" in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, Charles B. Schmitt, ed, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 45 - 46. Quoted by Wikipedia.

Is this what parents pay $63,000 annually for tuition, room, board and fees - so their children can be ill-served and ill-taught?

Following the 2014 Obama administration Kiev coup, replacing democracy with a "democratic dictatorship" integrated by two neo-nazi parties, Harvard expressed concern about alleged "Russian aggression." Some faculty members called for US military intervention.

Not a word about US-supported putschists seizing power. Nothing about the most brazen European coup since Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome.

No explanation about a scheme orchestrated in Washington. Silence about a major crisis in Europe's heartland still ongoing. Trump inherited Obama's mess, so far not indicating clearly where he stands on Ukraine.

Harvard is at it again. It's University Library published a fake guide to "fake news, misinformation, and propaganda."

Comment: See also:

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Teens who use fake weed engage in more risk-taking behavior

Stephanie Bucklin
Live Science
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:55 UTC
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Teens who use "fake weed," or synthetic cannabis, may be more likely to engage in risky behaviors than those who use only marijuana, a new study finds.

High school students in the study who used synthetic cannabinoids had a much greater likelihood of using other drugs and engaging in risky sexual behaviors compared to high school students who had used only marijuana, researchers found.

"The findings illustrate a dramatic difference in the association with risky health behaviors by type of marijuana use," Heather Clayton, first author of the paper and a health scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Live Science.

For example, the researchers found that students who had used synthetic cannabinoids were more likely to have also used substances like alcohol, heroin and ecstasy than individuals who used marijuana but not synthetic cannabinoids. In addition, those teens who used synthetic cannabinoids were more likely to report having engaged in injury- or violence-related behavior, including physical fights or riding with a driver who had been drinking.

Comment: Translation: risk-taking teens are more likely to risk taking synthetic drugs - big surprise.

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eChirp, the Twitter for spies, has over 60K users

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Motherboard
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 19:22 UTC
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Data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request reveals just how popular the NSA's social network for spies called eChirp really is.

Last week, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks made headlines once more for publishing a large cache of alleged secret files about the CIA's hacking operations. Those files apparently came from a little-known service for the US intelligence community known as Intellipedia.

Many probably still don't know of the "Wikipedia for spies," as Wired called it. And many probably don't know that there's also a Twitter for spies, called eChirp.

The service, which was originally pitched as a "microblogging application" that provides "a fast, informal messaging system to enhance and promote information sharing and collaboration," is widely used among American spies. In fact, thanks to data obtained by a Motherboard through a Freedom of Information Act request, we now know just how many people, and how many posts, there were on eChirp.
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Three primary school children kick flamingo to death at Czech Republic zoo

Thomas Burrows
Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:03 UTC
Flamingos at Jihlava Zoo
Three primary school children kicked a flamingo to death at a zoo in the Czech Republic after throwing rocks at the birds in their enclosure.

The boys, aged five, six, and eight, attacked a flock of the American flamingos at Jihlava Zoo, in the Vysočina Region. After scaling a fence, they hurled wood and stones at the birds and then kicked two of them.

One of the male birds was killed while the other received serious injuries. The dead flamingo had been a survivor of the floods at Prague Zoo in 2002. He was 16 years old and father to eight babies. Flamingos tend to live to around 30-40.

After the shocking incident, the boys fled into a nearby woodland but were caught as one was wearing a distinct yellow jumper. One managed to escape. The boys were detained in Jakubské Square.

Martin Maláč, a spokesman for the zoo, told Czech media the boys had expressed no remorse for what they had done to the birds.
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Fascist Israel detains one activist, deports another over alleged BDS advocacy

Phillip Weiss
Mondo Weiss
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 18:18 UTC
Jeff Halper
© David KattenburgJeff Halper
Two accounts have come in today about Israeli law enforcement actions against activists accused of fostering boycott. At least one is directly related to the law against visitors who support boycott that the Israeli parliament passed last week.

The longtime Israel activist Jeff Halper was detained for allegedly sharing pro-boycott materials during an occupation tour of East Jerusalem. And the head of the British Palestine Solidarity Committee, Hugh Lanning, was reportedly deported from Israel last night when he tried to enter.

From Haaretz this afternoon on the detention of Jeff Halper, the human rights activist who grew up in Minnesota:
'Police detained Israeli American left-wing activist Jeff Halper on Monday at the Ma'aleh Adumim settlement, for suspected incitement, saying they acted on a complaint he had "materials related to BDS" in his possession.

Halper, picked up after leading a tour of foreigners to the E1 site across the road from the settlement, was transported by police van to a nearby station then released without being placed under arrest.

Police officers photographed the posters and maps he was holding before freeing him. Halper denies handing out any material related to BDS during the tour, or even discussing the boycott movement.

Handing out such materials would not have been in violation of the law, even a 2011 anti-boycott law according to which a person or an organization calling for the boycott of Israel, including the settlements, can be sued by the boycott's targets without them having to prove that they sustained any damage.

The law also denies a person or a company that declares a boycott of Israel or the settlements eligibility to bid for government tenders. A separate law passed this month entitles Israel to deny entry to pro-BDS activists.

Halper, cofounder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, told Haaretz he was on a tour with foreign visitors in the territories last Wednesday. He took the group of 15 to a lookout over Area E1, near Ma'aleh Adumim.

Comment: Andrew Lobaczewski describes Israel's attitude quite well when he wrote about schizoidal psychopathic traits in Political Ponerology.
[Schizoids] are hypersensitive and distrustful, while, at the same time, pay little attention to the feelings of others. They tend to assume extreme positions, and are eager to retaliate for minor offenses. Sometimes they are eccentric and odd. Their poor sense of psychological situation and reality leads them to superimpose erroneous, pejorative interpretations upon other people's intentions. They easily become involved in activities which are ostensibly moral, but which actually inflict damage upon themselves and others. Their impoverished psychological worldview makes them typically pessimistic regarding human nature." (Lobaczewski, 123-4)

Emotional Unreality: The main features of schizoidia (or schizoid personality disorder) are dull emotions and a lack of feeling for psychological realities, and it is probably inherited autosomally. Their lack of emotion allows them to develop their speculative reasoning, which is useful in non-humanistic disciplines (e.g., economics and political theory).

Psychotic States: Under experiences of extreme stress, schizoids collapse into a state closely resembling schizophrenia, stifling their capacity for thought.

Schizoidal Declaration: Schizoids often betray their characteristic view of human nature in their statements and writings. "Human nature is so bad that order in human society can only be maintained by a strong power created by highly qualified individuals in the name of some higher idea." Ironically, normal people, under the influence of schizoids and their twisted view of reality, will tend to fulfill such a view of human nature. Such open schizoidal declarations are apparent in the works of Marx and Engels, Hobbes, and various leading neoconservative intellectuals.
See also: Israel: Chronicle of a Disease

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14yo sex slave sues motel for knowingly facilitating sex trafficking


RT
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:39 UTC
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A teenage girl in Philadelphia is suing a motel for more than $50,000 for knowingly facilitating sex trafficking, after she was allegedly forced to have sex with more than 1,000 men as a 14 year old.

The Roosevelt Inn in northeast Philadelphia, described by prosecutors as the "local epicenter of human trafficking," is the target of the lawsuit, which alleges the motel allowed the pimping of the young girl.

"This child was forced into sex slavery, paid to do things with men double, triple, quadruple her age," Nadeem Bezar, a lawyer at the Kline & Specter law firm bringing the suit, said.
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UK department store takes down erotic ad that sexualizes children


RT
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 16:50 UTC
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An advert featuring a young girl posing in an "erotic" way has been taken down at a UK department store called House of Fraser over concerns it "sexualizes" children.

The Calvin Klein ad was removed from a store in Cheltenham due to complaints that the featured underwear model, who is known simply as Lulu, looks more like a child than a grown woman and therefore promotes child "sexualization."

The "offensive" ad was reported by a mother who came across it while shopping with her 11-year-old daughter and her friend. Rachel Ashby initially took to social media to express her concern. She later added, "this is an advert for women's lingerie, not children's underwear."

"While I realize it is likely she is probably of legal age to appear, the fact that she looks underage in terms of body shape and somewhat vulnerable facial expression combined with the fact that she is wearing very little and is adopting a strangely provocative pose means it could be deemed to sexualize children," Ashby told the Daily Mail.

Comment: Rape Culture in America - How the system protects the rapists and fails the victims

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'Hero' Sheriff Clarke sued for dehydrating man to death despite inmate's desperate pleas for water

Claire Bernish
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:12 UTC
Terrill Thomas
© Family photoTerrill Thomas (left) poses with his son Terrill at his son’s high school graduation in 2014.
Terrill Thomas' life gradually slipped away as he languished behind the bars of a solitary confinement cell begging guards for water after they shut it off — a request repeated vociferously by fellow inmates nearby — but for at least six days, at least ten jailers ignored his cries for the most basic human need.

"Prisoners confined near Terrill Thomas's cell overheard his cries for water for days," court documents state, "yet correctional, medical and psychological personnel ignored those cries and never gave Terrill Thomas water, presumably as some misguided form of punishment or retribution for the alleged crimes that brought him to the justice facility."

Thomas eventually succumbed to dehydration — he died because guards in the Milwaukee County jail never bothered to turn the water that had stopped flowing to the 38-year-old's cell back on.
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Death penalty in Florida now to require unanimous jury agreement


RT
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:02 UTC
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© Jenevieve Robbins / Reuters
Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed new legislation requiring a unanimous decision by a jury in order to impose the death penalty. The state previously allowed judges to recommend capital punishment even if a jury was not of single mind on the verdict.

The new law puts the state in compliance with a 2016 state Supreme Court ruling, which struck down a previous law that allowed judges more leeway to impose the death penalty.

Alabama is now the only US state that still allows a judge to impose the death penalty without a jury's unanimous recommendation, according to Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center.
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CNN report: ISIS destroyed replica artifacts in Mosul museum, sold genuine ones on black market


Sputnik
Tue, 14 Mar 2017 15:43 UTC
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Iraqi officials are reporting that Daesh destroyed fake artifacts in Mosul in order to sell genuine relics abroad.

According to CNN, experts examined the March 2015 videos purportedly showing the militants destroying artifacts, and ultimately concluded that some of the pieces and statues were replicas made of gypsum, and that the real artifacts were smuggled out of Iraq and sold.

One the ancient artifacts supposedly destroyed was a statue of Assyrian winged bull called Lamassu, which met its end with a sledgehammer in Nimrud. The figure was a prominent symbol of the Assyrian Empire dating back to the seventh century, B.C.E.

The fundamentalist militants considered the relics an affront to their version of Islam, and against the background of religious music one man is heard saying, "O Muslims, these statues behind me are idols of people from previous centuries who worshiped them instead of God almighty. If God has ordered their destruction, they become worthless to us, even if they are worth billions of dollars."

Comment: Seems probable. ISIS has no doubt destroyed and damaged plenty of genuine artifacts and historical sites (e.g. Palmyra). But they're not above catapulting the propaganda and making a pretty penny on the side. For all the fanatics, there are also plenty of opportunistic psychopaths who don't really care one way or the other about the public ideology. The only thing that matters to them is power.

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