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Eye 2

Sickening: As many as 6 assistant coaches witnessed Jerry Sandusky abusing children and did nothing

Tom Winter, Hannah Appleye, Tracy Connor
NBC News
Fri, 06 May 2016 20:17 UTC
sandusky
© Gene J. Puskar / APFormer Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, center, leaves the Centre County Courthouse after a hearing of arguments on his request for an evidentiary hearing in Bellefonte, Pa., Monday, May 2, 2016
As many as six assistant coaches at Penn State witnessed "inappropriate behavior" between Jerry Sandusky and boys, stretching as far back as the 1970s, NBC News has learned.

It is unclear if any of the men reported what they saw to higher-ups at Penn State before the sex-abuse scandal erupted in 2011.

The information, which comes from court documents and multiple sources with direct knowledge of legal proceedings, raises new questions about how long the abuse went on, why no one stopped it and whether there could be even more victims than previously known.

Sandusky — who worked in the football program at Penn State under legendary head coach Joe Paterno for three decades — is serving 30 to 60 years in prison after being convicted of molesting 10 boys he met through a charity starting in 1994.

But sources told NBC News that one former Penn State assistant coach witnessed an incident in the late 1970s. Three other coaches — who have gone on to work in the NFL and at Division I colleges — allegedly saw inappropriate conduct between Sandusky and boys in the early and mid-1990s.

Comment: See also: Sandusky victim claims Joe Paterno told him to drop rape accusation

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Arrow Up

Survey: Support for Palestinians triples among youth in US

Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifida
Thu, 05 May 2016 00:00 UTC
Clinton Bibi
© US Embassy Tel AvivHillary Clinton’s hardline support for Israel has never been more out of step with the base of her Democratic Party.
If you look at the headline numbers, Israel should not have too much to worry about: 54 percent of Americans sympathize more with Israel, while 19 percent sympathize more with the Palestinians.

About 17 percent say they stand with neither or equally with both.

Strong public support is seen by Israel backers as an essential guarantee that the US will remain Israel's biggest financier and arms supplier long into the future.

These numbers come from a new national survey by the Pew Research Center.

According to Pew, the number of Americans sympathizing with the Palestinians has gone up by five percentage points since July 2014 - the beginning of Israel's 51-day assault on Gaza that killed more than 2,200 people, including 551 children.

Pew calls that a "modest" increase - though across the country it would represent millions of people changing their views.
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Eye 2

Sandusky victim claims Joe Paterno told him to drop rape accusation

Sara Ganim
CNN
Fri, 06 May 2016 19:59 UTC
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© Paul Vathis/Associated Press
After four years of feuding over the legacy of Joe Paterno, with a few vague details about what he may have known about allegations of sexual abuse by one of his coaches, it is becoming clear there may be much more.

There are now two allegations by men who say they were sexually abused by Jerry Sandusky, who also say they reported their abuse to the legendary coach in the 1970s.

One of those allegations was made public in a court order related to a lawsuit Penn State University filed against its former insurer over who should have to pay settlements to the more than 30 men who have come forward as victims of Sandusky. The victim was not identified, and the details come from a deposition that is sealed.

The other has spoken to CNN, in great detail, explaining how he was a troubled young kid in 1971 when he was raped in a Penn State bathroom by Jerry Sandusky. Then, he says, his complaint about it was ignored by Paterno.

Comment: See also:

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Radar

South Carolina high school administrator puts 15-year-old girl in chokehold until she passes out


RT
Sat, 07 May 2016 03:17 UTC
SC staff chokehold
© Via YouTube/WCBD News2
A South Carolina high school administrator has been placed under investigation after putting a teenage female student in a chokehold until she passed out. His actions were recorded by students, who shared the video online.

It appears Kingstree Senior High School Assistant Principal Mack Burgess and another man intervened in a fight between two teenage girls on Monday. In a move to restrain the two girls, Burgess, 69, grabbed one of them from behind and placed her in a chokehold. His grip was tight enough to render her unconscious.

The incident was caught in a video recorded by the school's students, who then shared it online.

As the 15-year-old falls to the ground, a voice in the background is heard yelling, "She out! She out!" The girl's mother, Yalonda Nesmith, shared her frustration over how school authorities handled the situation with the media. "She could have died from this," Nesmith told the Kingstree News newspaper.


Comment: How horrifying for this young lady. We hope they sue.

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7-year-old girl without hands wins national penmanship award among 50 contestants


RT
Fri, 06 May 2016 22:51 UTC
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© ABC News / YouTube
Young Anaya Ellick "stunned" the judges with her handwriting — especially since she has no hands. Using her forearms to write, Ellick won an award for top penmanship among 50 contestants from around the US.

Ellick, 7, won the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellence in Manuscript Penmanship at the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest. The Maxim award is reserved for children with physical or developmental challenges. A judge for the contest said the panel marveled at Ellick's penmanship.
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Eye 1

Overcooked: Police use Stingray technology and subject entire town to warrantless surveillance to investigate $50 chicken wing theft

Claire Bernish
Free Thought Project
Sat, 07 May 2016 00:00 UTC
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Evidencing extreme overuse of controversial cell site simulator technology, Annapolis police deployed Stingray for the all-important purpose of catching a thief who'd stolen $50 ... in chicken wings.

Stingray devices mimic cell towers, pinging phones in the area until they connect with it, instead of an actual tower. This allows whoever deploys it to collect not only metadata, but as was recently revealed, the content of voice and text communications. Even worse, Stingray cannot specifically target one subject's phone — so, when in use, the content of an entire area's electronic devices will also be collected.

Though legally that extraneous information must be discarded, the government's track record in frivolous surveillance leaves that legal restraint quite an open question, if not downright unlikely. Indeed, what we know about Stingray technology is the result of years of legal battles between privacy advocates and a government so secretive, police and prosecutors sign non-disclosure agreements in order to use it.

Prosecutors, even in serious criminal cases, astonishingly "have agreed to drop cases rather than disclose information about the technology." This practice has done nothing to quell suspicions Stingray might be collecting more information than is understood — or that it may be used more frequently than strictures of law allow.
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Megaphone

Aleppo Citizens Describe Real Situation on the Ground Following Truce


Sputnik
Sat, 07 May 2016 13:17 UTC
War torn Aleppo
© Reuters/Hosam Katan/File Photo
Militants of the terrorist group al-Nusra Front have continued to bombard areas of Aleppo. Previously, due to the joint efforts of Russia and the United States the city was able to establish a "silent mode."

RT correspondent Abu Taleb Al Buheyya visited Syria's largest city and spoke to some of the citizens of Aleppo.
"Where is the truce? It was announced at one and at two firing started. We do not need such a truce. We stand for a full settlement in Aleppo! We are tired," local resident said.
In Aleppo the period of "silence," was introduced thanks to the efforts of international negotiators and first of all, Russia and the United States.

Lately there has been fierce battles taking place in the city and civilians were caught in the firing line. The situation was worsened by the fact that part of Aleppo is still controlled by rebels of al-Nusra Front, and to them the truce does not apply. The extremists have continued to shell the residential areas.


Comment: To al-Nusra front, the truce does not apply, much to the annoyance of the USA, who tried their best to have them included in it. We must understand, al-Nusra front is ostensibly the Syrian arm of al-Qaeda.

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Fire

Pakistani teenage girl burned alive in 'honour killing' after helping friend elope

Katie Forster
The Independent
Fri, 06 May 2016 17:02 UTC
At least 13 members of the traditional tribal council known as the jirga are being held over the killing

Blindfolded men
© ReutersMembers of a tribal council accused of ordering the burning death of a 16-year-old girl are shown to the media after they were arrested by police in Abbottabad, Pakistan
A teenage girl was kidnapped, drugged, put in a van and set alight in an alleged "honour killing" by a tribal council in a Pakistani village after helping a friend elope, police have said.

At least 13 elders in the village near the north-western city Abbottabad have been arrested over the death - along with the girl's mother, who is said to have agreed to the sentence.

The traditional jirga assembly of elders ordered the girl be put to death last week as punishment for helping a couple leave the village to marry.
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Gear

Schlock therapy: Self-administered $200 shock bracelet supposed to zap away bad habits

Melissa Dykes
Activist Post
Sat, 07 May 2016 16:31 UTC
Shock bracelet
We are not only becoming techno zombies in this society, but now, people are lining up willingly to pay $200 to get their own shock collar bracelet that will help them "retrain" their behaviors with a few (hundred) painful zap treatments (oh, and mild vibrations). It's even actually called the The Pavlok, named after you guessed it, Ivan Pavlov, the Russian physiologist who came up with Pavlovian conditioning.

The aversion (shock) will program a person to avoid whatever bad habit they are being trained against, and the company claims it works in five days or less to "delete temptation" by associating a zap with a person's bad habit, training their brain to dislike said habit. No, they don't know what the long-term effects to wearing the Pavlok are, but the local news station below calls it "340 Volts of Wearable Willpower".

Comment: You know that Western Civilization is in trouble when individuals would consider using this "shock therapy" to assist them in getting over bad habits. What's worse it that this new product, the Pavlok, seems to just be a reflection of how many have come to accept and acquiesce to external conditioning.

For the larger implications of this, see the SOTT Focus piece: Transmarginal Inhibition

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How El Chapo's Sinaloa drug cartel used gold to move money out of the U.S.

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Fri, 06 May 2016 14:16 UTC
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
With blue lights flashing and a SWAT team in front of the warehouse, a black sedan pulled up. A man got out, popped the trunk, grabbed a briefcase and headed for Natalie Jewelry. Once there, the man was heard to say "I just need to drop off this gold and get a receipt. I need a receipt."

That's a first hand account of how gold was delivered to a Miami jewelry store by drug cartels, to later be melted down and sold for cash.

As Bloomberg reports, court documents from a federal court case in Chicago allege that El Chapo's Sinaloa drug cartel laundered tens of millions out of the U.S. not through secret shell companies wiring funds from bank to bank, but by simply buying gold and selling it.

Here's how the money laundering process allegedly worked. When the Sinaloa cartel needed to get the proceeds from its drug activities in the U.S. back to Mexico, it would first go buy up gold bars and other scrap gold pieces (sometimes silver as well) from jewelry stores and other businesses in the Chicago area. Then, the gold would be put into boxes, and under the name "Chicago Gold", or on occasion "Shopping Silver", would ship the boxes via FedEx to a company near Miami called Natalie Jewelry.
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