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'I Was in One Mode: Protect Keith': NXIVM Member testifies about her time in the sex cult

EJ Dickson
Rolling Stone
Tue, 21 May 2019 13:00 UTC

In March 2018, Lauren Salzman, a high-ranking member in the self-empowerment organization NXIVM and a so-called "master" in the alleged sex cult DOS, was making a smoothie in the kitchen of a house outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, when her friend Loreta Garza, another NXIVM member, burst into the room. She told Salzman that cops had just arrived at the house to arrest Keith Raniere, the group's charismatic head, and Salzman's on-off lover of nearly 20 years.

Salzman flew into a panic. Raniere had fled to Mexico the year before, following a damning New York Times report that he was the grandmaster of DOS, a NXIVM offshoot and secret all-female sorority of "masters" and "slaves." Allegedly run by Raniere, the group reportedly had branded women, forced them to provide "collateral" in the form of explicit naked photos, and coerced them into having sex with him. Salzman and other DOS "masters," including Garza, Smallville actress Allison Mack, and Battlestar Galactica actress Nicki Clyne, had flown to Mexico to visit Raniere. Despite the negative media attention swarming around the group, the understanding among DOS members was that they would participate in a "recommitment ceremony," pledging their allegiance to Raniere - which, as Salzman later testified, was assumed to mean group sex.

Unfortunately for Raniere, however, the ceremony never happened, as authorities arrived at Raniere's home on March 25 to arrest him on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. When the police showed up, "I was in one mode: protect Keith," Salzman testified on Tuesday at the Brooklyn federal courthouse where Raniere is currently standing trial.

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Vegan activist manifesto: extreme group's 40-year 'roadmap to animal liberation'

Sarah Ison
The West Australian
Tue, 21 May 2019 20:00 UTC

© Facebook / Direct Action Everywhere
The West Australian obtained a how-to guide drawn up by animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere that tells members they should “openly enter farms” at night, “document the conditions” and “rescue animals”.

Vegan activists trespassing on WA farms and harassing Perth restaurant diners are being told they are following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr and that "activism, not veganism" is the only way to give animals "autonomy over their own bodies".

The West Australian has obtained a how-to guide drawn up by animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere that tells members they should "openly enter farms" at night, "document the conditions" and "rescue animals".

The global movement call the tactic "open rescue", but what they are describing is the illegal trespass on private property and theft of livestock.

Comment: These people are delusional, illustrated by the fact that they want animals to receive 'personhood' status. Animals aren't people, and while all should be appalled at subjecting any being to unnecessary suffering, and fighting to end such suffering is a worthy goal, granting our food the same rights as a person is simply crazy. The fact that a bunch of spoiled middle-class kids feel they have the right to interfere with the livelihood of the working class simply because it conflicts with their ideological view of the world is the height of privilege.

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Sri Lanka attackers used 'Mother of Satan' bombs favored by ISIS, pointing to outside help

RT
Tue, 21 May 2019 16:50 UTC

A month after deadly terror attacks in Sri Lanka killed over 250 Christians celebrating Easter, investigators have revealed that the bombs used in the attack show the attackers had direct contact with Islamic State terrorists.

The backpack bombs detonated in three churches and three hotels across Sri Lanka on April 21 were constructed by local jihadists from the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) group, but utilized the expertise of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, investigators told AFP.

The link was established after the probe found triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, present at the attack sites. Due to its extreme volatility, IS militants call the explosive, which can be produced from readily available ingredients, the "Mother of Satan."

Comment: We can hazard a guess who the outside help was:

Monsanto spied on friend and foe alike in several countries to steer opinion about GMO and herbicides

RT
Wed, 22 May 2019 12:55 UTC

The recently exposed illegal dossier US herbicide maker Monsanto, now owned by German pharmaceutical firm Bayer, apparently compiled to influence public opinion, included people from seven European states and maybe beyond.

Monsanto files listing prominent pro- and anti-herbicide public figures, initially revealed by French media, included "stakeholders in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as regarding stakeholders related to EU institutions," AFP reported citing Bayer's statement on Tuesday. The company added that it is currently trying to determine whether similar lists exist in other states and hired a law firm for this purpose.

Earlier in May, French media reported that around 200 journalists, politicians, and scientists were named in the filing, created by PR firm FleishmanHillard on behalf of Monsanto. The list, which covered the personalities' views on herbicides and GMO, whether they could be further influenced and reportedly included a lot of personal data, was initially thought to exist only in France, before Bayer admitted that people in other countries might also have been targeted.

92 percent of sex-specific scholarships are reserved for women, study finds

Greg Piper
The College Fix
Tue, 21 May 2019 20:24 UTC

University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry has company in his one-man crusade to expose scholarships that exclude men from consideration in possible violation of the law.

Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, which advocates for the due process rights of accused students, has added fair treatment in scholarships to its earlier agenda of fair treatment in sexual misconduct proceedings for both men and women.

The group analyzed sex-specific scholarships at "115 of the nation's largest universities" and found fewer than 10 percent reserved for men. To be specific, fewer than 100 out of nearly 1,200. The rest were reserved for women.

The Financial Times' editorial board warns Washington's 'coercive steps' against Huawei are 'seriously misguided'

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 21 May 2019 18:44 UTC

The FT's editorial board rarely agrees with the Trump administration, and when it comes to Washington's decision to blacklist Huawei, the paper's editors believe Trump is making a massive miscalculation.

FT reporters warned yesterday that Google's decision to cut Huawei off from most Android-related offerings represented a "hammer blow" to the telecoms giant's rapidly expanding smartphone business.

Analysts quoted by the South China Morning Post on Tuesday warned that "as far as overseas markets go, this move just turned Huawei's upcoming phones into paperweights."

Beijing, for its part, has sworn to cultivate whole supply chains and app-based ecosystems out of nothing to insulate Huawei from Washington's blacklisting. In this, the FT editors apparently believe the Chinese might succeed.

Oddly enough, study says the US has become LESS racist under Trump - Anti-black, anti-Hispanic prejudice declining

Ross Clark
Spectator
Thu, 16 May 2019 01:08 UTC

The election of Donald Trump has, of course, unleashed the latent racist which lurks within millions of Americans. We know this because enlightened opinion keeps telling us so. The New Yorker, for example, ran a piece in November 2016 declaring 'Hate on rise since Trump's election', and quoting a list of incidents collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center - including the experience of a girl in Colorado who was allegedly told by a white man: 'Now that Trump is president I am going to shoot you and all the blacks I can find'. TIME magazine, too, ran a story in the same month announcing 'Racist incidents are up since Donald Trump's election'. In March 2017 the Nation asserted 'Donald Trump's rise has coincided with an explosion in hate groups', claiming that 100 racist organizations had been founded since Trump began his presidential campaign.

And so it goes on. Just as with Britain's vote for Brexit, Trump's strident language and his concentration on issues such as migration is supposed to have coarsened political discourse - legitimizing racist and xenophobic opinions in people who might otherwise have been shamed into silence. By this narrative, even slightly immoderate speeches, posters and campaigns by politicians become magnified through the lens of public opinion into something much more sinister. A speech on migration, goes the theory, can all too easily erupt into bar room arguments and end with a Muslim or a black man having his head kicked in.

It sounds vaguely plausible, but is it true?

Comment: Or maybe Obama was just a sh*t president who was a vacuous yes-man for the deep state, whereas Trump has integrity and is popular.

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Middle schoolers allegedly feed bodily fluids to teachers during gourmet cooking competition

Chris Perez
New York Post
Mon, 20 May 2019 18:32 UTC

Worst class ever?

A group of middle school students in Ohio allegedly served urine-and-semen-filled crepes to their teachers during a "gourmet" cooking competition - and are now being investigated by the local authorities, a report says.

The stomach-churning meal went down Thursday at Hyatts Middle School in Powell, according to WBNS.

The teachers involved were reportedly judges for the cooking contest, which happened during a "Global Gourmet" class and was captured on video. Several students allegedly put urine and/or semen onto the crepes and fed them to faculty members, the local sheriff's office reports.

Investigators were probing the incident on Monday and weighing felony assault charges.

Study reveals many Dems, claiming mental distress after Trump won the election, were faking it

Matt Margolis
PJ Media
Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00 UTC

© AP/Tamir Kalifa
Anne Devlin, from Plano, Texas, cries in the gallery of the House of Representatives after the Electoral College voted at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.

In the wake of the 2016 election, liberals nationwide were claiming significant mental/emotional distress. Last month so-called comedian Chelsea Handler claimed Trump's election drove her to drugs and to seek psychiatrist help for anxiety relief, yada, yada, yada.

But, according to a new study published in SAGE Open (an open-access, peer-reviewed, academic journal), many registered Democrats were embellishing their mental anguish "as a means to back their party."

"Our research suggests that for many Democrats, expressing mental distress after the election was a form of partisan cheerleading," write researchers Masha Krupenkin, David Rothschild, Shawndra Hill and Elad Yom-Tov in their findings. "Clearly, many Democrats were, and are, upset about the Republican victory in 2016; these findings do not invalidate those feelings but put their depth and related actions into perspective."

Private contact information of millions of Instagram influencers found in a Mumbai database

Zack Whittaker
Tech Crunch
Mon, 20 May 2019 18:22 UTC

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online.

The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside. At the time of writing, the database had over 49 million records - but was growing by the hour.

From a brief review of the data, each record contained public data scraped from influencer Instagram accounts, including their bio, profile picture, the number of followers they have, if they're verified and their location by city and country, but also contained their private contact information, such as the Instagram account owner's email address and phone number.

Security researcher Anurag Sen discovered the database and alerted TechCrunch in an effort to find the owner and get the database secured. We traced the database back to Mumbai-based social media marketing firm Chtrbox, which pays influencers to post sponsored content on their accounts. Each record in the database contained a record that calculated the worth of each account, based off the number of followers, engagement, reach, likes and shares they had. This was used as a metric to determine how much the company could pay an Instagram celebrity or influencer to post an ad.

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Society's Child

'I Was in One Mode: Protect Keith': NXIVM Member testifies about her time in the sex cult

Vegan activist manifesto: extreme group's 40-year 'roadmap to animal liberation'

Sri Lanka attackers used 'Mother of Satan' bombs favored by ISIS, pointing to outside help

Monsanto spied on friend and foe alike in several countries to steer opinion about GMO and herbicides

92 percent of sex-specific scholarships are reserved for women, study finds

The Financial Times' editorial board warns Washington's 'coercive steps' against Huawei are 'seriously misguided'

Oddly enough, study says the US has become LESS racist under Trump - Anti-black, anti-Hispanic prejudice declining

Middle schoolers allegedly feed bodily fluids to teachers during gourmet cooking competition

Study reveals many Dems, claiming mental distress after Trump won the election, were faking it

Private contact information of millions of Instagram influencers found in a Mumbai database

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