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Parents protest alleged strip search of 4 middle school girls

Ashley Biviano
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:48 UTC
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Tuesday's Binghamton School Board meeting was standing room only as the community demanded action regarding the alleged strip search of four middle school girls last week.
A firestorm of protest erupted at Tuesday's Binghamton school board meeting over an alleged strip search of four 12-year-old girls at East Middle School.

Nearly 200 community members packed the board room, leaving standing room only, to ask the school board why no action has been taken in response to last week's alleged searches.

Members of the community charged that four black female students were questioned and strip-searched by the school nurse and assistant principal after suspicion of possessing drugs. A statement distributed by local organization, Progressive Leaders of Tomorrow, alleged the girls were searched for "appearing hyper and giddy during their lunch hour."

"The children were instructed to remove their clothing, and felt shamed, humiliated and traumatized by the experience," according to the Progressive Leaders statement.

The school district late Wednesday afternoon issued a statement that said the matter was brought to its attention and was investigated.
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NPC

Feminist charged with sexual assault after groping reporter on camera

Chris Menahan
Information Liberation
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:49 UTC
owen shroyer
A feminist filmed allegedly sexually assaulting Infowars reporter Owen Shroyer while taking part in the Women's March earlier this month has been arrested, according to Shroyer.

He shared the news Wednesday on Facebook:

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More MAGA hat madness: Restaurateur vows to refuse service to anyone wearing the 'racist' accessory

Naomi Lim
Washington Examiner
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:39 UTC
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt,
A California restaurateur will refuse service to any prospective patron donning a red "Make America Great Again" hat, according to reports.

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, the award-winning chef, cookbook author, and owner of a couple of restaurants south of San Francisco, claimed on social media over the weekend that the hats sold by President Trump's campaign were linked with racial animus.

"It hasn't happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren't getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate," Lopez-Alt wrote in a now-deleted string of Twitter posts, multiple outlets reported. "MAGA hats are like white hoods except stupider because you can see exactly who is wearing them."

Comment: Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes again.

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My mother, the psychopath: Daughter reveals how she was subject to 22 YEARS of abuse including beating and choking

Chloe Morgan
Daily Mail
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:57 UTC
British writer Olivia Rayne
A woman has revealed how she grew up in terror of her mother who appeared completely normal to the outside world, but subjected her to years of abuse in a harrowing new memoir.

In My Mother the Psychopath, British writer Olivia Rayne, now 27, reveals how she only realised the extent of her mother's issues as she entered adulthood.

Olivia, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, recalls how her French mother, Josephine, would lock her in the bathroom all night from the age of three as punishment for waking her up by crying.

Joesphine's behaviour was unpredictable and she could switch from being overly loving and generous to violent, beating Olivia, ripping her hair out, strangling her and telling her she was 'ashamed to be her mother'.

'I'm better now, it's true, but the damage done can never be undone. It's still there, itching quietly beneath the surface, like a sharp metal wire cutting into me for too long,' Olivia said.
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Record fentanyl bust on US-Mexico border used as ammunition in heated Wall battle


RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:49 UTC
Drugs
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US Customs and Border Patrol
US Customs & Border Patrol agents caught a truck at the Mexican border loaded with meth and enough fentanyl to kill 57 million Americans. The bust was used by both President Donald Trump and his critics in the border wall battle.

On Thursday, the CBP made public that its agents in Arizona had found 254 pounds (115 kg) of fentanyl and 395 pounds (179 kg) of methamphetamine on a tractor-trailer transporting cucumbers from Mexico. The contraband was discovered by a CBP canine at the Mariposa port of entry in Nogales, just past noon on Saturday.

While the fentanyl has been sent to the laboratory for detailed analysis, the substance is so lethal that this amount has been estimated as enough to kill 57 million Americans - roughly a fifth of the entire population, currently estimated at 325.7 million.

"This is the largest fentanyl seizure in any port of entry" and "in the history of CBP," Guadalupe Ramirez, acting director of field operations in Tucson told the Arizona Republic.
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'John of God' cult leader allegedly ran child sex slave farm

Nika Shakhnazarova
NY Post
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:50 UTC
Joao Teixeira de Faria
© AP
Joao Teixeira de Faria
A cult leader known as "John of God" has been accused of running a sex slave farm and selling babies to the highest bidder on the black market.

Joao Teixeira de Faria was arrested a week after over 600 allegations were made against him in what prosecutors say could be the worst serial crimes case in Brazil's history.

The 77-year-old's renowned spiritual world crumbled in December after he was accused of sexually abusing a Dutch woman on live TV.

The woman's claims prompted over 600 similar allegations to arise from around the world from countless women - all of which Faria has denied.
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Black Magic

Blood chilling 'vampire' caught posing as doctor in Russian city of Chelyabinsk


RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:12 UTC
Vampire
© Global Look Press / Rosseforp
A man was caught posing as a doctor in a clinic in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Obtaining a fake diploma turned out to be the least of his crimes, however, as he had committed a blood-chilling murder two decades ago.

The man, identified as Boris Kondrashin, had been working in one of the city's state clinics as a GP since November. He was arrested this week for producing fake documents in relation to his medical training, as well as storing a large stash of illegal drugs in his apartment, according to Russian investigators.

While this part of the story was scandalous enough on its own, it turned out to be only the tip of the iceberg, and the fake doctor had a blood-chilling background. When he was just 16, he murdered a classmate in a vicious ritual killing.

Back then, he was a rather strange schoolboy, who was keen on exploring the occult and black-magic rituals, according to an article by a local newspaper dating back to 2000. Kondrashin identified himself as 'Baron fon Ginczel' - and apparently did actually have links to nobility - and lived with his father, who was a psychiatrist.
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People

Racism, re-examined

Coleman Hughes
Columbia Daily Spectator
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:26 UTC
Coleman Hughes
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In the spring semester of my first year, I experienced racism on campus.

I was in the Writing Center at Philosophy Hall, waiting outside my professor's office while he finished meeting with another student. As I sat there wearing a plain white tee, ratty black jeans, and a pair of worn leather shoes with mismatched laces, I noticed a pair of eyes glaring at me from across the room. Eventually the owner of those eyes walked over and asked, with barely concealed suspicion, "Who are you here to see?" I said my professor's name and pointed to his office. But my answer didn't seem to satisfy the man, so he entered the office and spoke with my professor to verify that I was telling the truth. No other student in the Writing Center was subjected to any scrutiny whatsoever.

Whether it's driving while black, barbecuing while black, or swimming while black, many black people can recall a similar experience--a time when a white person treated them with suspicion because of their skin color. In those moments, when the sting of racism is fresh, it's easy to become pessimistic about the state of racial progress in America. After my experience in the Writing Center, for instance, it might have been tempting to conclude that Columbia, for all its pretension to diversity and inclusion, functions, in effect, as a vessel for systemic racism.

But I didn't come to that conclusion, and here's why.
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Handcuffs

Five IDF soldiers indicted for beating Palestinians and filming it


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:50 UTC
Israeli soldier
© Flickr/ Israel Defense Forces
IDF soldiers during Operation Protective Edge
An Israeli military court indicted five members of the Israel Defense Forces hailing from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, a unit intended to foster participation of Orthodox Jewish men in the IDF, for assaulting handcuffed Palestinian prisoners, the Jerusalem Post reports.

The IDF troops captured two Palestinians - a father and his son - and detained them on the grounds they helped Asam Barghouti, a man wanted for carrying out two shooting attacks outside Jerusalem, flee the police.

The indictment alleges that IDF personnel snapped photos and recorded videos as they beat the daylights out of the handcuffed and blindfolded prisoners.

The indictment further alleges that the son's blindfold was removed as IDF troops beat his father.
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NPC

'Beware the ideologues': Jordan Peterson responds to the APA's distortion of masculinity

Jordan Peterson
jordanbpeterson.com
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 11:12 UTC
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Beware the Ideologues in Psychologists' Clothing

The American Psychological Association (APA) recently released their Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men (paralleling, in principle, their 2007 guidelines for girls and women). It manages to be simultaneously predictable, reprehensible, infuriating and disheartening - no mean feat for a single document. Make no mistake about it: this document constitutes an all-out assault on masculinity, as such - or, to put it even more bluntly, on men. The coup of the APA undertaken by the ideologues and the second-raters is now complete. The field has been compromised, perhaps fatally. And the unforgivable Guidelines provides sufficient but by no means exhaustive evidence of that. The document opens with a series of terminological definitions. These serve perfectly to indicate the nature of the ideological substructure that constitutes the true motivation of the writers. Only a small number of words or phrases were chosen for definition, which means that it is those words that are of prime import. The intent is that the Guideline's readers will understand, assimilate and come to regard as self-evident the conceptual structure that both selected the words and defined them - and these, by the way, could not possibly be clearer indicators of the post-modern/victimhood ideology.

Here are the words and phrases: Gender, Cisgender, Gender Bias, Gender Role Strain, Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Conflict, Oppression, Privilege, Psychological Practice, and Gender Sensitive. These are all presented, along with their interpretations and definitions (available here for your detailed perusal: https://bit.ly/2Miaj05). Here's two, just for the flavor:

Comment: Also see: Stoicism is needed more than ever: A response to the APA's distortion of masculinity

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