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Hysteria: 12-year-old Virginia girl charged for emoji choices to combat bullying on Instagram


RT
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 01:46 UTC
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It may already be hard enough to figure out someone's tone on the internet, but emoji are now adding a whole new layer of complexity. In Virginia, a middle school student is currently facing charges after punctuating an online post with guns and a bomb.

Although first reported by the Washington Post over the weekend, the case actually dates back to December 14, 2015. At the time, a resource officer at Sidney Lanier Middle School in Fairfax, Virginia was tipped off to a potentially threatening post that was made on Instagram.

The post itself featured the word "killing," followed by a gun emoji. It also stated, "meet me in the library Tuesday," which was in turn followed by emojis of a gun, a knife, and a bomb.

Afterwards, an emergency request was issued and investigators discovered that the IP address for the Instagram account belonged to a 12-year-old female student at Sidney Lanier Middle School. According to a search warrant from the case, the girl admitted that she made the post and used another student's name to do so.

Police ended up charging her with threatening the school and computer harassment, though the threat. While the case is currently on track for juvenile court later this month, the Washington Post said that it is not certain whether the girl will still appear or if the case has been resolved.

The student has not been identified, but the girl's mother did tell the newspaper that the student created the post as a result of bullying, that the girl has "never been in trouble before," and that she believes the charges were unwarranted.


Comment: America's Children: The trials of growing up in a police state

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How your car could replace your credit card


Credit.com
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 05:18 UTC
Honda and Visa showed the ability to pay for gas and parking in-car and without a credit card.
© Matt HamblenHonda and Visa showed the ability to pay for gas and parking in-car and without a credit card.
Get ready for a whole new type of "auto" pay. Visa announced earlier this week that it is developing new technology that would effectively turn your car into a credit card — at least when it comes to paying for gas and parking.

The issuer is currently teaming up with Honda and Park Whiz to test out two apps that allow for car-based commerce via your vehicle's dashboard. Its Fuel App is designed to notify drivers when they're running low on gas, direct them to a nearby station and pay for the exact amount of fuel needed once they're next to the pump. Drivers also would potentially be able to pay for convenience store items with the app.

Visa's Parking App similarly allows people to pay the exact amount they owe at parking meters, eliminating annoying overpayments as well as the need to race back to your car if your shopping trip runs a bit longer than expected. The app, instead, would keep of track of how much time you were spending at a spot and pay once the parking session was through.

Comment: Consumers would be wise to use such technology sparingly, or not at all.

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With manure from 15 cows and bulls, fed up Ohio farmer expresses his feelings for Donald Trump

Amanda Froelich
True Activist
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:18 UTC
Trump is BS
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Sick of Donald Trump and politics, this farmer spelled out his feelings with manure from 15 cows and bulls.

Most people use social media to express their favor or disdain for certain candidates, not manure from the barnyard. But, then again, Jerry Slankard of Strasburg, Ohio, is not most people.

The farmer, who feels very strongly about the upcoming presidential election, used the manure of 15 cows and bulls to spell out a message on his land.

As is revealed in the video above, the message "No Trump" is splayed across his property.

Certainly, you have to be very passionate about a topic to invest the amount of time and skill required to send a message to air travelers... in manure.

According to Daily KOS, it took Slankard four hours to haul enough manure to finish his Donald-is-full-of-sh*t message.

Where candidate he's hoping makes it in the White House, we're not sure. But what is clear, is that he's hoping Trump - or Drumpf - stays as far away from office as possible.

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American family values: Fox host Bill O'Reilly loses custody of children over domestic abuse allegations


RT
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:49 UTC
Bill O'Reilly
© Brendan McDermid / Reuters
Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly lost custody of his teenage children over allegations of domestic abuse by his ex-wife.

The New York Appellate Division unanimously ruled that O'Reilly's 13- and 17-year-old children should live full time with their mother, Maureen McPhilmy, who was married to the conservative commentator for 15 years.

A 1,400 word opinion using anonymous names was issued by the court last week, but the media only figured out who it was this week.

The ruling states it was the "clearly stated preferences of the children" to live with McPhilmy, citing their "age and maturity"as well as "the home environment provided" by her.

Comment: Will Fox News give this slimy creature the boot? O'Reilly has been Fox's "Lewis Prothero" (from V for Vendetta), spouting his disease-ridden degeneracy for years. The day he's no longer on the air will be one for celebration.

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'Fessing up: IRS now admits hackers targeted 1.2 million Americans


RT
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 18:54 UTC
Irs hackers
© Dado Ruvic / Reuters
Hackers may have compromised more than 700,000 taxpayer accounts, the Internal Revenue Service revealed, more than doubling the number it first reported in May 2015. Another 300,000 IRS accounts were targeted, but hackers failed to steal any data.

On Monday, the IRS started notifying the taxpayers whose accounts at "Get Transcript" application were targeted by hackers.

"The IRS is moving immediately to notify and help protect these taxpayers, including through free identity theft protection services as well as Identity Protection PINs," the IRS said in a statement.

The agency announced on Friday that its "expanded review" revealed that 390,000 more users might have been compromised by hackers, bringing a total number to 724,000 Americans.

Comment: "We are moving quickly to help these taxpayers." How nice of them. Why design a better system in the first place? Or better yet, how about the IRS stop collecting every single scrap of personal information they can get their hands on?

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Fed fraud charges over food stamp program could topple Warren Jeffs's polygamous Utah sect

Yanan Wang
Washington Post
Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:57 UTC
polygamy Jeff food stamps scandal
© Rick Bowmer/Associated PressIn this Jan. 21, 2015, file photo, Lyle Jeffs leaves the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has found itself in dire straits.

Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamist sect on the Utah-Arizona border, is currently serving a life sentence for child rape. The self-described "prophet" is associated with a slew of accusations, from exerting tyrannical control over his numerous wives to molesting underage girls.

With Jeffs behind bars as of 2011, however, his brother Lyle Jeffs has taken over FLDS. But the church's legal tangles didn't end after their leader's imprisonment.

The community of Hildale in Utah once run by jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is split between loyalists who still believe Jeffs is a victim of religious persecution and defectors who are embracing government efforts to modernize the town.
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Protecting teens or aiding predators? US teens can be sent to jail for sexting

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
sexting, teenagers
Did you know that if you are an American under 18 years old and you use your cell phone to send a nude "selfie" of yourself to a friend, you can be convicted of manufacturing and distributing "child pornography" and sent to prison? In case you are too old to be in the loop, a "selfie" is a photo that one makes of oneself.

This is how expansively prosecutors, whose main purpose in life is to ruin as many people as possible, interpret laws passed to protect children from sexual exploitation.


Comment: The for-profit prison industry is quite lucrative, but needs a steady supply of inmates, thus it appears the laws are being widely interpreted to insure their revenue streams and perhaps to enrich local officials as well.


Sexting—the exchange of nude photographs—is now a big thing among the 14-17 year old set, especially among females. They have transitioned from children to women and find the extraordinary change in their bodies an interesting phenomenon. Under the expansive interpretation of child pornography laws, for an under 18-year old to even possess a nude photo of herself or himself is a violation of the law. Thanks to the illegal, unconstitutional surveillence of every communication of every American sanctioned by the US government and the corrupt Supreme Court that serves the government and not the Constitution, a naked photo sent by an under-18 year-old can be intercepted and the sender prosecuted for possessing, manufacturing, and distributing child pornography.

Teenagers can have their life ruined by the government "protecting" them.

Comment: A perfect example of the ponerization of society, where children are subjected to a continuous bombardment of sexual messages from early ages, making them perfect targets for pedophiles, and then further endangering them by throwing them in jail. Since many of these predators are in positions of power, it's becoming clear that the intent is to victimize as many children as possible, while protecting the pedophiles.

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Circus atmosphere at Trump rally: Secret Service agent chokes photographer


RT
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:08 UTC
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© Still from Twitter video
A Secret Service agent pushed a Time magazine photographer to the ground on Monday during a rally for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

After stepping out of the designated press area at a Trump rally in Radford, Virginia to take photographs of people protesting the event, Christopher Morris of Time got into an altercation with a Secret Service agent.

The dispute turned violent when Morris bumped up against and said "f*ck you" to the agent, who then grabbed the photographer by the neck and slammed him onto the nearby table.

Comment: Imagine this atmosphere -- and much worse -- on a country-wide scale if Trump makes it to the White House.

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5 signs of a decaying society

Paul Buchheit
Wake Up World
Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
Dying society
While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who conspired with Goldman Sachs to make billions of dollars on the planned failure of subprime mortgages was honored by New York University for his "Outstanding Contributions to Society."

Comment: See more: A time bomb waiting to explode: U.S. collapse will be swift, unstoppable and devastating

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Porn 'turning kids into copycat sexual predators'

Natasha Bita
The Australian
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:10 UTC
Emeritus professor Freda Briggs
© Noelle BobrigeEmeritus professor Freda Briggs says some schools and childcare centres have ignored a spate of ‘child-on-child abuse’.
Online pornography is turning children into copycat sexual predators, doctors and child abuse experts warned yesterday as they demanded tighter supervision of school toilets, playgrounds and internet use.

A four-year-old boy has ­required a chaperone to stop him assaulting other children in "sex games" at a South Australian ­kindergarten, The Australian can ­reveal.

And doctors are treating more girls in their mid-teens for pregnancy, sexually transmitted ­infections and physical injuries resulting from "aggressive sex'' inspired by online porn.

Emeritus professor Freda Briggs, who has advised federal and state governments, police and church groups on child safety for 30 years, has accused schools and childcare centres of ignoring or covering up a spate of "child-on-child abuse''.

Comment: Children engaging in or forcing others to engage in 'sex games' is not normal behavior, and one shudders to think of the type of parent that watches porn with their children. Clearly we live in a profoundly sick and morally depraved society.

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