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Accessing porn on the job: Bill approved to stop feds watching porn on taxpayers' dime


RT
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:47 UTC
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A House committee on oversight has approved prohibiting federal employees from using government computers and devices to watch pornography on the job.

On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee unanimously approved House Resolution 680, entitled the "Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act."

The legislation, sponsored by Congressman Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina), would require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to issue new guidelines within 90 days to "prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit web site from a Federal computer."

During a debate over the new legislation, Meadows called the bill a "no-brainer," and said that watching "egregious" amounts of porn at work "creates an unhealthy work environment that must be addressed."

Comment: Meadows called the bill a "no-brainer," and said that watching "egregious" amounts of porn at work "creates an unhealthy work environment that must be addressed." Well yeah.. a no brainer for sure! Will the the new legislation really address the "egregious" amounts of porn being viewed in the nation's capital?

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Wealthy elites are chartering getaway boats in case of a of Manhattan Emergency

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 17:08 UTC
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There is an inherent dilemma for most of the people living in cities.

Even those who are aware of the extremely fragile fabric of society are often stuck living urban lives. Perhaps they plan to retire to a country abode, or construct a hideaway to escape to if the need ever arises, but for now, they are stuck in the city making a living.

This is true even for the rich, but now, they have a back-up plan.

The biggest of American cities, and one of the most gridlocked, is New York City, with Manhattan and Long Island both isolated islands - trapped during emergencies from the rest of the world.

That's why those with means, and forethought, are now chartering emergency charters to get out of the city - probably a good idea, especially if the helicopter is out of your price range.

via NY Post:
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The Grand Canyon State is fine the way it is: Why Arizona doesn't observe daylight-saving time

Scott Craven
USA Today
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:10 UTC
Daylight-saving time
On Sunday, America moves its clocks forward in an effort to save daylight.

But not here in Arizona. Clocks will remain untouched as daylight-saving time officially starts.

The Grand Canyon State is just fine where it is as the nation springs ahead.

That's because this state already has plenty of daylight. And when temperatures climb above 100, we'll wish we had daylight-spending time, urging the world to spin faster and return to the more comfortable dark side of Earth.

Comment: See also:
  • Why daylight saving time is bad for you
  • It's time to do away with daylight saving time


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Flashback School to prison pipeline: New hysterical Missouri law makes schoolyard fights a felony

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:00 UTC
School to prison bus
On January 1, 2017, the state of Missouri will implement a public school policy sure to accelerate the descent into police state dystopia.

The Hazelwood School District put out a memo to parents and guardians stating that, according to Missouri statute, fights at school or on buses will be treated as felonies — which can result in up to four years of prison, fines or probation.
Dear Parents/Guardians:

We want to make you aware of a few new State Statutes that will go into effect on January 1, 2017, which may have a drastic impact on how incidents are handled in area school districts.The way the new statue reads, if a person commits the offense of an assault in the third degree this will now be classified as a Class E Felony, rather than a misdemeanor. If he or she knowingly causes physical injury to another person (hits someone or has a fight with another individual and an injury occurs) - one or both participants may be charged with a Felony.
Gone are the days when teachers broke up fights and sent the kids home, calling the parents and perhaps suspending the kid if it was a serious incident. "School Resource Officers" or local cops now arrest the kids and, if there is any perceived injury (an arbitrary judgment), will charge them with third-degree assault - treating children cooped up in school as if they are violent adults on the streets.
What does this mean for students? For example, if two students are fighting and one child is injured, the student who caused the injury may be charged with a felony. Student(s) who are caught fighting in school, bus or on school grounds may now be charged with a felony (no matter the age or grade level), if this assault is witnessed by one of the School Resource Officers/police officers (SRO) or if the SRO/local law enforcement officials have to intervene.

Comment: Prison Industrial Complex: American Schools Criminalizing Childhood Behavior

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Wall Street millennials living hard and fast


Barron's
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 13:15 UTC
Millennials
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Many young Wall Streeters are turning to drugs and paying for sex to deal with the demands of their careers, a therapist tells ThinkAdvisor.

"In an effort to cope with job stress and self-imposed pressure, these Type A's are working murderous hours while relying on prescription medication and—primarily among the men—street drugs, such as cocaine and crystal meth, to help them focus and reach peak job performance," the publication writes.

That's the word from, Jonathan Alpert, a mental health professional known as "The Wall Street Therapist," whose clientele includes young traders, analysts, bankers and financial advisors.

Driven millennials are suffering from stress-related headaches, sleep disorders, sexual performance disorders and other problems, he says.

To help deal with demanding work, they use legal drugs for ADHD, but also street drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. Dabbling in drug use has become "a little more socially acceptable" as long as it doesn't hurt performance, Alpert tells ThinkAdvisor.

Males are also compulsively paying for sex at local massage parlors. Their drug use and paid sex can be part of thrill-seeking behavior, Alpert says.
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Intel Security releases new detection tools following WikiLeaks' CIA revelations


RT
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 14:02 UTC
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In the wake of WikiLeaks' revelation that the CIA has developed malicious malware that allows them to take over computers, Intel Security, the world's largest security technology firm, has released new toolkits that can detect rogue software.

The malware, or 'rootkit', is designed to allow access to parts of a computer where it typically wouldn't be allowed and can hide the existence of other activities.
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Researchers: As many 15% of Twitter accounts aren't people

Michael Newberg
CNBC
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:54 UTC
Twitter
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A big chunk of those "likes," "retweets," and "followers" lighting up your Twitteraccount may not be coming from human hands. According to new research from the University of Southern California and Indiana University, up to 15 percent of Twitter accounts are in fact bots rather than people.

The research could be troubling news for Twitter, which has struggled to grow its user base in the face of growing competition from Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and others.

Researchers at USC used more than one thousand features to identify bot accounts on Twitter, in categories including friends, tweet content and sentiment, and time between tweets. Using that framework, researchers wrote that "our estimates suggest that between 9% and 15% of active Twitter accounts are bots."

Since Twitter currently has 319 million monthly active users, that translates to nearly 48 million bot accounts, using USC's high-end estimate.

The report goes on to say that complex bots could have shown up as humans in their model, "making even the 15% figure a conservative estimate."

At 15 percent, the evaluation is far greater than Twitter's own estimates. In a filing with the SEC last month, Twitter said that up to 8.5 percent of all active accounts contacted Twitter's servers "...without any discernable additional user-initiated action."

Comment: Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter

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Swiss pedophile accused of sexually abusing 80 boys in Thailand and pushing some into prostitution


RT
Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:10 UTC
Child behind door
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A Swiss man has been accused of abusing more than 80 boys in Thailand, some of whom were as young as nine, authorities said, adding that he had recruited the children to make pornographic photos, while molesting and pushing some into prostitution.

The man from Bulle municipality in the canton of Fribourg is "suspected of having sexually abused more than eighty boys in Thailand, some of them for several years, by recruiting them for making child pornographic photos," Fribourg authorities said, as cited by La Gruyere magazine.

He is also suspected of having sexually assaulted several of these children, as well as pushing some into prostitution.

"Some of the children who were allegedly abused were nine or ten years old, most of them were young adolescents," prosecutor Yvonne Gendre said on Friday.

The accused left Switzerland in 1991 to settle in Thailand, but returned to Switzerland in November of 2014.
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Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse - but the rest of the world isn't listening

Emma Young
ABC
Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:40 UTC
Iceland teens
It's a little before three on a sunny Friday afternoon and Laugardalur Park, near central Reykjavik, looks practically deserted. There's an occasional adult with a pushchair, but the park's surrounded by apartment blocks and houses, and school's out - so where are all the kids?

Walking with me are Gudberg Jónsson, a local psychologist, and Harvey Milkman, an American psychology professor who teaches for part of the year at Reykjavik University. Twenty years ago, says Gudberg, Icelandic teens were among the heaviest-drinking youths in Europe. "You couldn't walk the streets in downtown Reykjavik on a Friday night because it felt unsafe," adds Milkman. "There were hordes of teenagers getting in-your-face drunk."

Comment:
What is the root cause of addiction, and how do you heal it?

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How controversial U of T prof Jordan Peterson became a lightning rod

Tom Spears
Ottawa Citizen
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:23 UTC
Jordan Peterson says he never set out to be a centre of controversy. But when that controversy came, he also didn't turn away.

Jordan Peterson
© Michael Peake / Michael Peake/Toronto SunUniversity of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson.
The University of Toronto psychology professor has found himself at the centre of a firestorm involving, depending on whom you ask, gender identity and freedom of speech — the result of his now-famous/infamous declaration to only call students "he" and "she," and not "they" as some individuals in the transgender community prefer to be known. He also announced he was steadfastly opposed to Bill C-16, federal legislation that seeks to add gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination.

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