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Former missionary sentenced to 25 years for sexually abusing boys at children's home in Malawi

Jon Herskovitz
Reuters
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:30 UTC
Gerald Campbell
© APGerald Campbell
A Texas man who managed an orphanage in Malawi was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court to 25 years in prison for sexually abusing children in his care, U.S. prosecutors said.

Gerald Campbell, 66, of Odessa, who pleaded guilty in May, could have faced up to life in prison, according to papers filed in federal court in Texas.

Campbell reached a plea agreement and admitted to engaging in sexual acts with eight minors, all of whom were orphans living at the Victory Christian Children's Home in Malawi between 1997 and 2009, U.S. prosecutors said.

"Campbell admitted that he knew that what he was doing was wrong and that he thought nobody would believe the minors if they reported the abuse," they said in a statement.

He told U.S. investigators he lured children, including one infected with HIV, into his home to sexually abuse them. The home had more amenities than the orphanage and he used that to entice a few of the children to live with him for several months, court papers said.

(Editing by Bill Trott)

Comment: Read Dr. Anna Salter's book, "Predators, Pedophiles, Rapists And Other Sex Offenders" and learn how you can protect yourself and children. From the introduction:
This is not a book with a complete and comfortable answers. It will not finish with a checklist for identifying a sex offender: Just add up the points, and you too can spot your neighborhood pedophile or rapist. But if I do my job right, reading this book will make it harder for sex offenders to get access to you or your children. It will make it harder because knowing how they think and act and operate is the best protection that we have. Indeed, it is the only protection that is possible.
Also, listen to the SOTT editors' interview with Dr. Salter below:

Behind the Headlines: Predators Among Us - Interview With Dr. Anna Salter

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Gear

'Create bomb for Miss Universe': ISIS affiliate calls for attack on beauty pageant in Philippines


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 07:10 UTC
ISIS
© AFP
A Philippine Islamic State affiliate has posted a video calling for the 2017 Miss Universe pageant set to take place in the Philippines to be targeted, while suggesting that an explosive belt or bomb be made especially for the beauty contest, SITE reports.

"Philippines jihadi Telegram channel posted a video for making an explosive belt and suggested 'Create bomb for miss universe,'" the group wrote on a Telegram Messenger group called "IS Philippines supporters," according to SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks the online activity of jihadist organizations.



Comment: SITE is most likely a creation of Mossad, which means there is a specific reason why they created this story. Probably to underscore the "irrationality" of ISIS in targeting a beauty pageant.

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Brick Wall

University of California chancellor installs $9,000 'escape hatch' to flee rowdy student protests

Victor Skinner
EAG News
Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:07 UTC
UC Berkeley protest
© Reuters/Robert Galbraith
Student protests at the University of California Berkeley are apparently getting so out of hand that the school's chancellor recently had an escape hatch installed in his office to "provide egress" when students storm the administration building.

Workers spent last weekend installing a special $9,000 door in the hallway outside of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks' office in California Hall after a series of increasingly aggressive student protests in 2015, including one in which students commandeered the lobby outside of the office and refused to leave, Quartz reports.

University spokeswoman Claire Holmes told The Daily Californian in an email that the new escape hatch is designed to "provide egress to leave the building"as a safety precaution when student protests get rowdy.

According to the news site, "construction of the door was requested about a year ago in response to a protest in April 2015 when protesters stormed the chancellor's suite.

"During the protest, students staged a sit-in outside Dirks' office where they banged on desks and chanted loudly. They were eventually escorted out of the building, some in handcuffs, by UCPD officers." Students have also targeted Dirks' home, known as the University House, with large protests and vandalism.
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Dollars

The Refusers: 7 million Americans are defaulting on student loans

Lori Harfenist
RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 17:52 UTC
student loan debt
According to a new report by the Wall Street Journal, 7 million Americans are flat-out refusing to pay back their student loans because they feel scammed by their universities and government. They feel like they were told to go to school and are now left with worthless degrees, no jobs, and no prospects for the future. The government has tried many tactics to reach these defaulters, but their efforts have been fruitless for over a year.

Comment: More on the student loan debacle:

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Hail Mary: Guam priest molested 20 boys, told to pray


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 05:03 UTC
Reverend Louis Brouillard
© www.scmp.comReverend Louis Brouillard, pedophile
When the Catholic Church learned that a priest working at the US island territory of Guam abused some 20 children, the only suitable response it found was to advise him to pray, the cleric, now based in Minnesota, has revealed in an interview. Reverend Louis Brouillard, 95, admitted to repeatedly molesting boys while serving and teaching at Guam from the 1940s to the 1970s. Guam is an island in the Pacific known for housing a US Naval base.

After confessing his crimes to a local priest, Brouillard was not specifically told to stop, he told the AP. In fact, Brouillard was simply advised by other Church members to "do better" and repeat Hail Mary prayers. When Brouillard was pressed on about how many boys he abused, he replied: "I have no idea. Maybe 20."

Moreover, the cleric claimed he thought the boys were enjoying it: "At that time, when I was that age, I got the impression that kids liked it, so I went ahead. But now of course, I know it's wrong and I'm paying for it," he said.


Comment: This is the statement from a priest, an ordained messenger of 'the evils of sinning.'


Brouillard cannot be prosecuted for his abuses at this time due to the current statute of limitations for child molestation, which is currently at two years.

Comment: Pedophilia has long been associated with the Catholic Church. Like the three monkeys who speak, see and hear no evil, it is only recently any movement to address this problem has surfaced. Too little, too late, too holy to fail.

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Attention

Traveler FYI: Under its emergency declaration Turkey can detain American nationals for 30 days


Sputnik
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 01:24 UTC
Istanbul travelers police
© www.ooyuz.comUS embassy issues traveler warning for Turkey.
US citizens should be aware that they could be detained for up to 30 days under the current state of emergency in Turkey, the US Embassy in Ankara said in a routine travel message.

"The first decree issued by the government of Turkey under the state of emergency increases legal detention periods without charge from a maximum of four days to a maximum of 30 days," the Embassy stated on Monday. "If you are arrested or detained, ask police or prison officials to notify the US Embassy or Consulate immediately."

The Turkish government imposed a three-month state of emergency following a failed military coup in the country on July 15.

Anyone who cannot provide identity documents when requested by police is subject to a fine or imprisonment, the Embassy explained and advised US citizens to carry identity documents and cooperate with Turkish authorities.

The state of emergency also imposes restrictions on public gatherings. The Embassy encouraged US citizens to be aware of local events and large demonstrations or rallies.
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Pistol

'Case of the shooting soldier': The shot heard throughout the country

Uri Avnery
CounterPunch
Mon, 08 Aug 2016 00:00 UTC
Palestinian shot
© www.crescent-online.net'Cold-blooded execution' of unconscious Palestinian. Shot heard throughout the country.
On June 28, 1914, the Austrian heir to the throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, visited Sarajevo, the main town of Bosnia, then an Austrian province. Three young Serbian inhabitants of Bosnia had decided to assassinate him, in order to achieve the attachment of Bosnia to Serbia. They threw bombs at the car of the archduke. All three failed to harm him.

Later on, one of the assailants, Gavrilo Princip, chanced upon his intended victim again. The archduke's car had made a wrong turn, the driver tried to reverse, the car stalled, and Princip shot the duke dead.

That was "the shot heard around the world". This small incident led to World War I, which led to World War II, with altogether some 100 million dead, to Bolshevism, Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust. Yet, while the names of Lenin, Stalin and Hitler will be remembered for centuries, the name of Gavrilo Princip, the most important person of the 20th century, is already forgotten. (Because he was only 19 years old, Austrian law did not allow him to be sentenced to death. He was sent to prison, where his death from tuberculosis went unnoticed in the middle of World War I.)

For some reason, this insignificant person who made history reminds me of an insignificant young Israeli named Elor Azaria, whose act may well change the history of the State of Israel. The facts of the case are quite clear.

Comment: See also:

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Christmas Tree

United stoners of America: More than 33 million U.S. citizens smoke pot


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:24 UTC
weed smoking
© Amir Cohen / Reuters
A very dank Gallup poll found that 13 percent of American adults currently smoke marijuana. That comes out to 33 million Americans, meaning if they all gathered to make their own state, it would have a higher population than Texas - probably chiller, too.

The percentage of Americans who smoke weed has nearly doubled in the past three years, according to a recent Gallup poll. In 2013, the pollster found 7 percent of Americans were actively toking. By July, that number had increased to 13 percent.

A large part of this increase may be due to the decriminalization of marijuana on a state level. While the federal government still considers marijuana to be a Schedule 1 drug - grouped with heroin, date rape drug GHB and bath salts, nearly half the states have legalized medicinal use of pot.

The Gallup poll confirmed that legalization does play a part in the increase, noting that residents of the Western states where four states have legalized marijuana were significantly more likely to smoke than in the rest of the country.
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Robot

Home set ablaze, 13 hurt when IDF drone crashes in Arab village


Xinhua News Agency
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 22:20 UTC
Drone crash in Israel
© Via YouTube/Times of Israel
A drone belonging to Israel's Aerospace Industries crashed on Tuesday in an Arab village in northern Israel, lightly wounding at least 13 people and setting an empty home ablaze, officials said.

A spokesman for Israel's emergency medical teams said that all of the injuries suffered from breathing difficulties after the drone crashed into a home in Zalafa, an Arab village north of the city of Umm al-Fahm.

Nearly a dozen of firefighting crews struggle to quell the fire, which severely damaged the house, said Yoram Levi, a spokesman for the fire service, adding that the house was still under construction and empty at the time of the crash.

The reason of the accident was still unclear, according to a statement released by the Aerospace Industry, Israel's government-owned manufacturers of weapons and civil aviation products, saying that the accident happened "during a training flight."

Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper reported that the drone was a Heron 1 type, which has been in service of the Israel Defense Forces for over a decade.

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Pistol

Reckless Tennessee man charged with killing 11 year old daughter after first day at school


RT
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:14 UTC
Timothy Batts
© Sumner County Sheriff's Office
The father of an 11-year-old girl was arrested after she was reportedly shot and killed at their Hendersonville, Tennessee home when she came back from her first day at school.

On Monday, Timea Lashay Batts got off the school bus at her house and told her dad that she had been shot, her father told police, as reported by local media.

The 29-year-old father, Timothy Batts, now faces charges including reckless homicide, false reporting, possessing a firearm as a felon and tampering with evidence.

Comment: In 2012, Batts was charged with attempted criminal homicide for allegedly shooting a driver in Nashville, the Nashville City Paper reported.

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