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Alaska National Guard supports a culture of sexual assault, smuggling and theft


RT
Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:24 UTC
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© Reuters
Would you put your trust in these people?
Several leaked documents show that the Alaska National Guard's leadership supported a culture of sexual assault, theft and smuggling. The released reports coincide with the state's contentious gubernatorial election.

The May 3 Army Regulation 15-6 (AR) report obtained by The Anchorage Press alleges that Lt. Col. Joseph Lawendowski, who joined the Alaska National Guard (ANG) in 2003, promoted steroid use by recruiters, used government vehicles for strip club outings, and possibly used government-issued credit cards for improper purchases when he led the command from 2008-2009. He also created a workplace environment where three male officers - Jarret Carson, John Nieves and Shannon Tallent - repeatedly violated regulations by having consensual sex with women while working.

The papers show that Lawendowski, the leader of the ANG Recruiting and Retention command at the time, created a climate of fear and intimidation. They also reveal that he and a command sergeant allowed three officers to carry out sexual assaults, retaliate against soldiers who filed complaints, and generally feel above the law, the AR report says.

The three came to be known as the "Three Headed Monster" because of their large sizes - all over six feet tall and over 250 pounds - and intimidating behavior. Nieves is alleged to have raped the 19-year-old sister of a solider he had recruited into the guard, threatening to ruin the soldier's career if she didn't have sex with him. Tallent bragged of having sex with high school students, and possibly raping several women.

Comment: It is inconceivable to the (somewhat) normal person that politicians and other people higher up condone or are even part of this pathological culture or pathocracy:
Any leadership position - down to village headman and community cooperative mangers, not to mention the directors of police units, and special-services police personnel, and activists in the pathocratic party - must be filled by individuals whose feeling of linkage to such a regime is conditioned by corresponding psychological deviations, which are inherited as a rule. However, such people become more valuable because they constitute a very small percentage of the population. Their intellectual level or professional skills cannot be taken into account, since people representing superior abilities with the requisite psychological deviations - are even harder to find.


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Stormtrooper

'Shot in the heart': Israeli army kills 13yo Palestinian boy


RT
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:58 UTC
Israeli soldiers
© Reuters / Abed Omar Qusini
A Palestinian boy was shot in the chest point-blank and later died amid a confrontation between Israeli forces and stone-throwing youths in a village of the occupied West Bank, according to local media and medical sources.

Bahaa Badr, 13, was fatally shot by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) as the troops made their way to Beit Liqya village in the West Bank, located near the border with Israel, Reuters reported citing medical sources and local residents.

Badr was shot from a close range into the heart area and died shortly after the impact, Palestinian Ma'an news agency quoted another source as saying.

Upon entering the village, Israeli troops were met by Palestinian protesters who began throwing stones at them. It is still unclear whether the boy took part in the protest.

Israel has referred to the demonstration as an "illegal riot," saying that demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails at soldiers as they were leaving the village.

In response, troops began shooting live ammunition rounds, according to an Israeli military spokesperson, who added that the incident will be investigated.

Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been running extremely high since the start of Israel's seven-week war in Gaza in July, which took the lives of more than 2,000 Palestinians - mostly civilians - and over 70 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
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Ambulance

Passenger train collides with freight train in northwest Arkansas injuring 44, including five critically


Yahoo News
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:27 UTC
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© KNWA/KFTA
Emergency responders were at the scene in Washington County and transported 31 to local hospitals, 5NewsOnline.com reported.
A passenger train on a sight-seeing trip collided with a freight train Thursday in northwest Arkansas injuring 44, including five critically, THV11 reported. The incident occurred at about 10:30 a.m. and involved four passenger cars carrying 44 passengers and six crew members. Emergency responders were at the scene in Washington County and transported 31 to local hospitals, the report said.

Washington County Emergency Management Director John Luther said 37 people were able to walk away from the wreck. Hazmat teams were also inspecting the site. Luther told KNWA/KFTA that about 300 gallons of diesel fuel spilled near the White River.

Details of the crash remain unclear. An official from the county told the station that the passenger train, which left from Springdale and en route to Van Buren, a 134-mile trip, stalled and the other train was sent to assist. But somehow the assisting train collided with the stalled one, the source said.
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Arrow Down

Arkansas juvenile detainees locked in controversial device 'when verbal deescalation is not working'


Police State USA
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 22:00 UTC
WRAP restraint system
© Photos obtained via Freedom of Information Act
Scott Tanner, Juvenile Detention Ombudsman, experiences the WRAP restraint system in the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center in Danville, AR.
Juvenile detention facilities across the state are coming under fire for using a disturbing restraint device that some are calling "torture."

The device is known as the "WRAP" system. According to state officials, the device is used to restrain minor detainees "when verbal deescalation is not working" - sometimes for hours on end.

The system involves binding a child's arms and legs together using straps and handcuffs, and sometimes involves shrouding the child's face with a hood or a helmet. Photos from the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center in Danville, Arkansas, have raised eyebrows following their exposure through a FOIA request. Questions are being raised about whether the treatment is ethical or humane.

The Danville facility has been shown to strap detainees with a mask which appears to be covered with duct tape and decorated as a cartoonish, dehumanizing cross-eyed effigy.
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The psychopathy virus is spreading: Rape, sex offenses spike in England and Wales


RT
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:37 UTC
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© Reuters / Navesh Chitrakar
The number of recorded rapes and sexual offences has dramatically risen in the past 12 months, despite overall crime levels in the UK falling to their lowest since the 1980s.

Data recorded by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) showed a 29 percent increase in the number of recorded rape cases last year, while the number of overall crimes filed as sex offences rose by 21 percent to 22,116.

Additionally, the ONS data showed the number of rape attacks carried out at knifepoint had risen by 48 percent, from 199 to 294. Sex offences committed at knifepoint similarly rose by 22 percent, from 91 to 111.

The ONS said the rise may be due to a growing willingness among victims to report attacks to the authorities. They also said police forces may be increasingly open to investigate such cases fully.
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Ambulance

Spain imposes health emergency at Madrid airport after passenger shows symptoms of Ebola


RIA Novosti
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:30 UTC
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© AP Photo/ Daniel Ochoa de Olza
The pilot of the plane alerted the airport administration to the chill, headache and malaise of one of the passengers after which a doctor examined the passenger and prescribed hospital tests for possible Ebola virus contraction.
The government of Spain imposed a health emergency situation on Thursday afternoon in Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport after a passenger flying from Paris to Madrid was suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus, El Mundo reported.

The newspaper stated that the pilot of the plane alerted the airport administration to the chill, headache and malaise of one of the passengers after which a doctor examined the passenger and prescribed hospital tests for possible Ebola virus contraction.

The worst Ebola epidemic in history began in southern Guinea at the end of 2013 and soon spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

The death toll is estimated to be over 4,400. A vaccine against the disease will reportedly be available in the summer of 2015, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Recently, cases of the Ebola virus have been reported in the Unites States as well as in a number of European countries in addition to those reported in West Africa.
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Bullseye

New legal precedent? Parents may be liable for children's defamatory social media posts


RT
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
child at computer
© Reuters / Jorge Silva
The parents of two children who posted defamatory comments about a fellow student in a fake Facebook account are heading to court, which will determine whether parents should be liable for their children's internet activity.

The parents of seventh-grade students Dustin Athearn and Melissa Snodgrass learned this the hard way after their children created a fake Facebook page under the name of fellow student Alexandria (Alex) Boston. Dustin and Melissa, with the help of a "Fat Face" app, distorted Alex's features, while also making offensive comments about the girl.

According to the court document, "After Dustin created the account, both Dustin and Melissa added information to the unauthorized profile, which indicated inter alia, racist viewpoints and a homosexual orientation. Dustin and Melissa also caused the persona to issue invitations to become 'Friends' to many of Alex's classmates, teachers, and extended family members," wrote the Georgia Court of Appeals in its opinion.

The court described the content on the false Facebook page as "graphically sexual, racist or otherwise offensive."

Comment: Cyber-bullying has become epidemic and is damaging to the millions of children and teens who are targeted. Perhaps if parents are held liable for their children's online activities, that might stem the tide of this behavior. However, these behaviors are merely a symptom of a society that has become infected with the disease of psychopathy. Until this underlying problem is understood and steps are taken to combat this predatory mind-set, there is little hope for change. This process of infiltration of society by psychopaths is called ponerization and is well described by Dr. Andrzej M. Łobaczewski in his book Political Ponerology: The Scientific Study of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes. The book can be acquired here.

See also:
Psychopathy: What you probably don't know about it
Psychopaths in power: The Parasite on the Human Super-organism

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Ice Cube

Corporate craziness: Apple and Facebook will pay female employees to freeze their eggs

Danielle Friedman
NBC News
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:52 UTC
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© Ben Birchall/PA Wire via AP File
Embryos placed onto a CryoLeaf ready for instant freezing
Two Silicon Valley giants now offer women a game-changing perk: Apple and Facebook will pay for employees to freeze their eggs.

Facebook recently began covering egg freezing, and Apple will start in January, spokespeople for the companies told NBC News. The firms appear to be the first major employers to offer this coverage for non-medical reasons.

"Having a high-powered career and children is still a very hard thing to do," said Brigitte Adams, an egg-freezing advocate and founder of the patient forum Eggsurance.com. By offering this benefit, companies are investing in women, she said, and supporting them in carving out the lives they want.


Comment: In reality, this "perk" is really about supporting the company. By keeping women from having children, they don't have to worry about maternity leave or losing women who decide to raise their child instead of work, and also offering the carrot of job promotion over raising a family. Plus, they gain the competitive advantage over competing companies. It's not about supporting women, it's a cynical, bottom-line inspired decision from a tone-deaf corporation that doubles as a not-so-subtle message that the company would prefer its female employees to freeze their eggs instead of having a child. Because having as many wage-slaves as possible is really all that these corporations really care about.


When successful, egg freezing allows women to put their fertility on ice, so to speak, until they're ready to become parents. But the procedure comes at a steep price: Costs typically add up to at least $10,000 for every round, plus $500 or more annually for storage.

With notoriously male-dominated Silicon Valley firms competing to attract top female talent, the coverage may give Apple and Facebook a leg up among the many women who devote key childbearing years to building careers. Covering egg freezing can be viewed as a type of "payback" for women's commitment, said Philip Chenette, a fertility specialist in San Francisco.

The companies offer egg-freezing coverage under slightly different terms: Apple covers costs under its fertility benefit, and Facebook under its surrogacy benefit, both up to $20,000. Women at Facebook began taking advantage of the coverage this year.

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Eye 1

Racism continues to ruin lives in Illinois: Man stabs elderly woman 'because she was black'

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Tue, 14 Oct 2014 14:00 UTC
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© Homewood police
Pol Danilov
Police are investigating the stabbing of an elderly woman in a Chicago-area grocery as a hate crime.

The 79-year-old victim was hospitalized after witnesses said another shopper attacked her Friday morning near the pharmacy inside Walt's Food Center in Homewood.

The assailant, identified by police as 26-year-old Pol Danilov, stabbed the woman four times in the neck and chest, puncturing her lung, with a five-inch steak knife.

Comment: See:

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Umbrella

U.S. response to Ebola: In idiocy we trust

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge.com
Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:51 UTC
Phoenix Air has released a statement explaining why the now infamous non-HazMat-wearing 'clipboard man' seen in close proximity to Dallas Ebola patient Amber Vinson (while the rest of the members of staff are fully protected) was unprotected... and it will blow your mind.
Dallas ebola victim transport
© Unknown
Why is "Clipboard Man" not wearing protective gear?

Phoenix Air responds (via ABC News)...
The airline confirmed to ABC News that the man was their medical protocol supervisor who was purposefully not wearing protective gear.

"Our medical professionals in the biohazard suits have limited vision and mobility and it is the protocol supervisor's job to watch each person carefully and give them verbal directions to insure no close contact protocols are violated," a spokesperson from Phoenix Air told ABC News said.

"There is absolutely no problem with this and in fact insures an even higher level of safety for all involved," the spokesperson said.
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So - in summary - due to the restrictive vision when wearing an Ebola-protective suit, one member of staff must be sacrificed/exposed to ensure no one trips?

And these are who we are supposed to trust?

Comment: So maximum safety for all involved except for the guy who pulled the shortest straw. With that level of stupidity at display, the virus has all the chances in the world to make it a real depopulation pandemic, which has been the desire for a long time by the Powers that Be.

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