VIOLENCE, TEENAGERS AND GONZO PORN

By Clara Bennathan on January 8, 2014

I have seen a sixteen-year-old boy weeping in distress after getting a girl’s pube stuck in his teeth, I hear he was unshaven.

I have seen boys showing each other porn on their iPhones on the train home from school, in bars and whilst strolling along the Champs-Elyséés. 

I have had a boy ask me to text him screenshots of porn films because he was on a wifi-free family holiday. 

One boy turned to kiss his date in the cinema but not before romantically whispering ‘don’t struggle’. 

One friend drunkenly walked off into a park in the early hours of the morning and when a male friend brought her back without ‘trying anything’, he was heralded as being ‘soo nice!’ rather than ‘soo normal!’. 

I have friends whose boyfriends have posted naked pictures of them all over the Internet. 

I have heard consent described as ‘de-romanticizing’. 

I have had a shockingly sober boy say to me ‘Why can’t I just slap my dick on your arse? Doesn’t cost you anything!’. 

This just scratches the surface of my store of depressing anecdotes; the most violent of which I won’t go into out of respect for the girls involved.

2014 is not a good year to be a teenage girl.

The last of the 90’s kids are growing up and we are starting to see the effects of being raised with the Internet. 

For generations before us, hormonal teenage boys looking for sexy images of women had limited options; 

they could brave the embarrassment of going to the counter and buying Playboy, 

they could look through their sister’s Cosmo or 

they could use their imagination. 

Porn today has rid itself of the embarrassment-factor by embracing the anonymity of the World Wide Web; 

Playboy isn’t really considered to be porn anymore, the real stuff lives in your phone, on your laptop, your tablet; it is available anywhere, anytime at the touch of a button. 

In fact this very website receives a steady stream of hits that result from someone googling some combination of ‘housekeeping porn’ + ‘sex’, ‘lesbian’ and/or ‘rape’. 

As you read this, somewhere there is an eleven-year-old boy curiously typing ‘porn’ into Google, probably hoping to see some big boobies.

Fast forward a couple of years and he is masturbating to a video of a crying woman who is being tied down, simultaneously penetrated by three men, spanked, and being called a whore.

Young boys are being de-sensitized to violence and the more they consume, the more abusive, the more graphic the porn has to be to excite them.

The most popular type of porn is called ‘Gonzo’ which is essentially wall-to-wall abusive sex. 

There is no foreplay or romance; it is literally hardcore sex from the first to the last frame. 

The sex is almost always violent; spanking, gagging, anal fisting and choking are commonplace. 

A very popular image is a close-up of the woman’s face with tears streaming down caused by her being choked whilst performing oral sex, directors like to make this obvious by making her wear lots of mascara; for dramatic effect. 

There is no way that this could not have a profound effect on the consumer’s psyche specifically on their attitude towards women. 

Most boys make no secret of the fact that they watch and enjoy such porn, watching it in groups in the presence of girls or brashly and explicitly describing their fantasies. 

Girls know boys watch porn and girls know what porn stars are; they are hairless, they have hourglass figures and they never say no. 

And so a massive amount of pressure is placed on girls to live up to this. 

Shaving pubic hair is painful and unsanitary (it leaves hundreds of minute cuts which increases the risk of STDs). 

And yet girls as young as 11 are doing it. 

The porn industry is the primary source of sex ed for the boys who will grow up to be the decision-makers, thinkers, writers, husbands and fathers of tomorrow. 

A brief overview of what they are being taught/brainwashed to believe;

1. That it is their birthright as males to have sex with whichever female they want when they want regardless of consent or age.
   
   
2. That the only way to have good sex and the only way to be masculine is to be aggressive, forceful and violent
   
   
3. That they must always be in control and always want to be in control
   
   
4. That their pleasure comes first and foremost

It hardly needs stating what kind of pressures and expectations this puts on girls and women. 

They have to be living breathing sex dolls and they have to love it. 

The porn industry is women abuse.

Photo: Anthony Easton

Clara is a 17-year-old student at South Hampstead High School where she is the co-organiser of FemSoc. She is currently involved in anti-porn work with the Stop Porn Culture campaign. 

 

http://www.bad-housekeeping.com/2014/01/08/violence-teenagers-and-gonzo-porn/

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION EMBEDS "GOVERNMENT RESEARCHERS" TO MONITOR MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS

Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Last week, I highlighted the fact that the latest Press Freedom Index showcased a 13 point plunge in America’s press freedom to an embarrassing #46 position in the global ranking. If the authoritarians in the Obama Administration have their way, this country is set to fall much further in next year’s index.

Incredibly, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to roll out something called the Critical Information Needs study, which will embed government “researchers” into media organizations around the nation to make sure they are doing their job properly.

No this isn’t “conspiracy theory.” It is so real, and represents such a threat to the First Amendment, that a current FCC commissioner, Ajit Pai, recently wrote an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal, warning Americans of this scheme. He writes:

News organizations often disagree about what Americans need to know. MSNBC, for example, apparently believes that traffic in Fort Lee, N.J., is the crisis of our time. Fox News, on the other hand, chooses to cover the September 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi more heavily than other networks. The American people, for their part, disagree about what they want to watch.

But everyone should agree on this: The government has no place pressuring media organizations into covering certain stories.

Unfortunately, the Federal Communications Commission, where I am a commissioner, does not agree. Last May the FCC proposed an initiative to thrust the federal government into newsrooms across the country. With its “Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs,” or CIN, the agency plans to send researchers to grill reporters, editors and station owners about how they decide which stories to run. A field test in Columbia, S.C., is scheduled to begin this spring.

The purpose of the CIN, according to the FCC, is to ferret out information from television and radio broadcasters about “the process by which stories are selected” and how often stations cover “critical information needs,” along with “perceived station bias” and “perceived responsiveness to underserved populations.”
I have no idea what country I am living in at this point.

How does the FCC plan to dig up all that information? First, the agency selected eight categories of “critical information” such as the “environment” and “economic opportunities,” that it believes local newscasters should cover. It plans to ask station managers, news directors, journalists, television anchors and on-air reporters to tell the government about their “news philosophy” and how the station ensures that the community gets critical information.

Participation in the Critical Information Needs study is voluntary—in theory. Unlike the opinion surveys that Americans see on a daily basis and either answer or not, as they wish, the FCC’s queries may be hard for the broadcasters to ignore. They would be out of business without an FCC license, which must be renewed every eight years.

Should all stations follow MSNBC’s example and cut away from a discussion with a former congresswoman about the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records to offer live coverage of Justin Bieber‘s bond hearing? As a consumer of news, I have an opinion. But my opinion shouldn’t matter more than anyone else’s merely because I happen to work at the FCC.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-02-20/obama-administration-embeds-government-researchers-monitor-media-organizations

VIDEO CAPTURES FATAL CONFRONTATION BETWEEN POLICE OFFICER, FIREFIGHTER

Posted: Feb 26, 2014 By DeAnn Smith, Digital Content Manager By Dave Jordan, News Reporter 

 

The Kansas City Police Department's office released the 180-page case file on Tuesday in response from a Missouri Sunshine Law request from KCTV5. On Feb. 14, a grand jury cleared Officer Don Hubbard in the fatal shooting death of Anthony Bruno.

Ashley Janzen, a nurse who witnessed the fight and shooting, told police, "It is a situation that went wrong."

Bruno had been celebrating his recent nuptials during a reception that lingered into the early morning hours of Dec. 1. Bruno got into an altercation over a fare with a cab driver who had driven him, his bride and a friend from a downtown restaurant to a nearby hotel.

Hubbard, who was working off-duty security at the hotel but in uniform, responded. He chased Bruno and was in the process of putting him in handcuffs when Bruno began to pummel Hubbard, authorities said.

Police say Bruno pinned Hubbard to the ground and repeatedly punched him in the face, leaving Hubbard no choice but to fire his service weapon. The grand jury agreed.

Because he was working off duty, Hubbard was not assigned a Taser.

Hubbard suffered significant injuries including broken facial bones. Bruno was shot twice in the chest. Bruno's blood-alcohol content was .21, according to his autopsy. You are considered legally intoxicated at .08. Video taken at Anthony's restaurant where the Brunos and friends went after their hotel wedding reception showed Bruno having trouble standing up and stumbling about 1:45 a.m., according to the case file.

Stephanie Bruno told police that her husband was "somewhat intoxicated" because he had been drinking in celebration of their wedding.

"He wasn't slurring his words or falling over," she told police.

The case file shows surveillance video and cell phone video capturing the confrontation. Jason Reinhard and Janzen witnessed the actual events and Reinhard's cell phone video was provided to police. 

"That's a very aggressive stance that the cop is taking," Reinhard said as Hubbard rolls Bruno from face down to about halfway on his side as he attempts to cuff him.

The video captures the verbal exchange between the two men and the moments the arrest turned from routine to the two wrestling during the arrest.

"Don't fight the cop," Reinhard yells at Bruno.

As the two roll around, Bruno pins Hubbard to the ground and holds his head down against the ground while punching his face repeatedly.

At that point, Hubbard fires the shots, causing exclamations from the couple watching the events unfold. Janzen is a critical care nurse at a trauma unit, and she did CPR on Bruno as a bloody Hubbard put compression on his wounds.

Janzen said Bruno tried to talk, and she believes Bruno said, "Don't let me die." She told police that she believed Hubbard had no choice but to fire his weapon after he had his head repeatedly smashed against the concrete sidewalk.

"I did not see any other circumstance than to shoot him. I mean he has to do something because he was going to get a head bleed from the traumatic brain injury," she said. "And since I am a nurse and I saw the officer's head getting smashed against the cement, he was definitely going to get a subdural hematoma."

She said Hubbard didn't know that Bruno was a firefighter, and she said Bruno went into a defensive mode.

"I think it's just, you know ... not really anybody's fault. It is a situation that went wrong," Janzen said. "He had his head beaten against the cement and he had no other alternative than to react by shooting the guy and it's just a horrible kind of tragedy for both of them."

She said she wishes she could have changed the circumstances, but she said she didn't want to get in Hubbard's way. She said she did her best as a nurse to save Bruno's life.

"I did everything I could," she said, adding she hopes it gives his family peace.

Two off-duty firefighters from Nebraska heard the gunshots and they ran to give assistance. One of the off-duty firefighters took over from the woman and was giving CPR until an officer pulled him off Bruno and "frisked" the off-duty firefighter, according to the man's statement. 

Responding officers quickly determined an off-duty officer was involved and asked to have superiors alerted while ordering two ambulances to the scene. 

After calling 911, the nurse's friend began to continue to record the response on his cell phone. One of the first responding officers told Reinhard that his recordings were evidence and he should stop recording.

"He then stated to me something to the effect of, 'What I have can be used against the officer.' After he stated that to me, I then grabbed his cell phone out of his hand, closed his case on the cell phone and then placed it on the hood of my police car because I believed that it contained evidence of what occurred," Officer Jacob M. Moore said.

Reinhard told police that he initially began recording because he felt that the officer was using aggressive and unnecessary force. He said he thought it would become a legal matter and "cameras are the ultimate accountability."

He said he reviewed his video with Bruno's family, including parents. He said Bruno's family were grateful he took the video and had relief. He said they share his thoughts that Bruno did not initiate the situation. 

Reinhard said he believes Bruno was cooperating and only fought back in reaction to a blow to the head.

"I saw a man who wasn't really resisting and I saw a cop use a lot of force that caused injury. He dropped a knee on the victim's head, and at that point the victim started fighting back and that is when shots were fired," Reinhard said. "I think the cop got himself into a situation that he shouldn't have been in and wasn't prepared to deal with and then had to escape it in a means in which someone lost their life. And I don't think anyone had to die in that situation."

He said he has few regrets about his actions, and is glad he could provide an account of what happened.

Hubbard submitted a three-page written statement on Dec. 11. 

He said he pleaded with Reinhard and the nurse to call for help since he was alone battling Bruno.
Hubbard said Bruno got him in "an extremely vulnerable position," and he was hit in the face so many times that he began to black out.

"He continued to strike me and I started to lose consciousness and I believed the suspect was not going to stop hitting me until he killed me," Hubbard said. "I feared for my life and I drew my weapon, fired two shots center mass, I believe on his left side, because he was on top of me," he said.

Hubbard said after firing his weapon he reholstered it and then blacked out for a few moments.

In her statement, Stephanie Bruno, who was still wearing her wedding dress as the tragedy unfolded, said her husband hit the taxi driver after the driver flung the $20 for a fare back in her face and called her a noun commonly used in the most derogatory of circumstances to refer to a woman's anatomy.
The taxi driver said Anthony Bruno hit him without mercy and he felt like Bruno wanted to kill him. He said he believed Stephanie Bruno told her husband to run when those who watched the altercation said the police were on their way. 

Anthony Bruno was rushed to the hospital where he would be pronounced dead within an hour of the shooting. Fire Chief Paul Berardi was at the hospital and identified the body.

KCTV5 is reviewing the file. Refresh this page for updates.

Copyright 2014 KCTV (Meredith Corp.) All rights reserved.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/24820327/video-captures-firefighter-attacking-police-officer

MIKIVERSE POLITICS SELF CONGRATULATORY MILESTONE POST

Mikiverse politics trickled over the 100k viewers sometime last night whilst i was dreaming.

This is the second of my web pages to attain this number after Mikiverse Law, so, hopefully, somewhere along the line, an article here has assisted someone, somewhere along the line as they go about their research.

Please bear in mind, that i am not in this for the paper, ego etc, i make no money from this, it is about the communication of information, opportunities for people to learn about themselves, the intentions of others

Thank you for your patronage. Hopefully i can post the odd relevant article moving forward and make enough money to get me some land with a spring, a garden and no close neighbours. :)

More importantly, lets all make 2014 a year where we take great strides toward reclaiming our community from these barbaric terrorists that plague our ability to live with abundance and tranquility.

Love & Peace

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GIRL, 17, CHARGED OVER THE ATTACK OF MAN ON GOLD COAST BUS

by Jaydan Duck on February 28, 2014

 

UPDATE: A 17-YEAR-OLD girl has been placed into the back of a police van in handcuffs and transported to the Southport Watch-house after being charged over the vicious attack of a 77-year-old man on a Gold Coast bus earlier this week.
 

A 17-year-old girl is charged over the sickening attack. Transported to Southport watch-house. Image: Channel Nine

She handed herself into Coolangatta Police shortly before 2pm where she was quizzed over her involvement.
The teenager was heard screaming “I don’t want to go,” as she was placed in the back of a police van outside of the police station to be transported to the watch-house shortly after 4pm.
A second 21-year-old woman is also in police custody after handing herself in to that Southport Police Station this afternoon.
Specific details of the charges are yet to be released with both expected to face Southport Magistrates Court tomorrow.
There are reports the 17-year-old girl is already on bail for a separate offence where it’s alleged she robbed a Surfers Paradise convenience store at knife-point earlier this month to fund one nights luxury accommodation in a Gold Coast highrise.
She appeared before Southport Magistrates Court on February 13 where she was bailed to reappear on April 2.
EARLIER: POLICE say they have identified two girls who they believe are responsible for the sickening attack of an elderly man on a Gold Coast bus earlier this week and are hunting them down.

The 77-year-old Tweed Heads man came forward on Friday morning and provided a statement to police. Officers said he still had bruising to his arms from the attack.
Acting Superintendent Brian Swan of the Gold Coast police briefed the media on the developments shortly after 11am.
He said officers were in the process of attempting to locate the suspects, believed to be aged 17 and 21, so they can be interviewed after being inundated with information from the public.

Screenshot of alleged attackers. Source: Channel Nine

“Inquiries are underway as I speak now to locate those persons and interview them,” he told reporters.
The offenders could face charges of serious assault which carries a maximum penalty of up to seven years in prison.
It’s alleged the man, from the West Tweed Heads area, was punched, kicked, spat on and sprayed with racial abuse by two teenage girls while on a bus in Kirra at around 3.45pm last Tuesday afternoon.
Channel Nine aired footage of the incident on Thursday night. It shows two young women, believed to be sisters, both verbally and physically assaulting the man in what appears to be a racist driven attack.
Video of the incident has gone viral overnight and attracted thousands of comments, with dozens naming and shaming the alleged girls believed to be responsible.
Police are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident on the bus to please contact Crime Stoppers anonymously via 1800 333 000 or crimestoppers.com.au 24hrs a day

http://www.mygc.com.au/news/girl-17-charged-over-the-attack-of-a-man-on-gold-coast-bus/

THE BUTCHER OF CONGO: KING LEOPOLD II OF BELGIUM

By Andre C James Posted Apr 4, 2011

King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800’s. The spoils of modern day Belgium owes much to the people of the Congo River Basin. In a testament to the hideous brutality of the European colonial era and imperialism in its finest form, during the 1880s, when Europe was busy dividing up the continent of Africa like a vast chocolate cake, King Leopold II of Belgium laid personal claim to the largely uncharted Congo Free State. The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held a vast fortune in rubber plantations, a commodity in high demand in late 19th century industrial Europe. Dark hearted Leopold II In 1876, Leopold formed the philanthropic organisation “Association Internationale Africaine“ (International African Association) and became its single shareholder. Under the guise of missionary work and westernisation of African peoples, Leopold II used the International African Association to further his ambitions of empire building in the hope if bringing international prestige to relatively small Belgium. In reality, the International African Association was a vehicle to enslave the people of the Congo River Basin and enrich Leopold II. In the 23 years (1885-1908) Leopold II ruled the Congo he massacred 10 million Africans by cutting off their hands and genitals, flogging them to death, starving them into forced labour, holding children ransom and burning villages. The ironic part of this story is that Leopold II committed these atrocities by not even setting foot in the Congo. It must be noted however, that whilst much attention has been given to Leopold’s atrocities in the Congo, in the same period acts of brutality were being committed on native peoples elsewhere in the world. Britain on the Aborigines in Australasia, the United States on native Americans and Pilipino , French on Northwest Congolese, Spanish on the north and central native Americans, Portuguese on the Angolans and Amazonians and Germans on Southwest Africans. However, so severe was the brutality of the genocide in Leopold’s Congo that many a European visitor publicly condemned Leopold and the Belgium government. The veracity of the crimes was so well known that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle penned the book, “The crime of the Congo” in 1909, highlighting the plight of the Congolese. Leopold’s contract Unable to read or write, the Congolese tribal Chiefs, unwittingly sold their tribe members into a lifetime of slavery for pieces of cloth. In return for "one piece of cloth per month to each of the undersigned chiefs, besides present of cloth in hand, they promised to freely of their own accord, for themselves and their heirs and successors for ever...give up to the said Association [set up by Leopold] the sovereignty and all sovereign and governing rights to all their territories...and to assist by labour or otherwise, any works, improvements or expeditions which the said Association shall cause at any time to be carried out in any part of these territories... All roads and waterways running through this country, the right of collecting tolls on the same, and all game, fishing, mining and forest rights, are to be the absolute property of the said Association." Severed hands Such was the brutality of Leopold’s Congo that those who failed to meet the rubber quotas set by the Belgian officers, were routinely flogged with the chicote or had their hands severed (the chicotte was a whip made out of raw, sun-dried hippopotamus hide, cut into a long sharp-edged cork-screw strip. It was applied to bare buttocks, and left permanent scars. Twenty strokes of it sent victims into unconsciousness and a 100 or more strokes were often fatal. The chicotte was freely used by both Leopold's men and the French). 

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Congolese posing with the severed hands of those who failed to make the daily rubber sap quota

Leopold used a private mercenary force, Force Publique (FP), to do his terrorising and killing. White Officers commanded black soldiers many of whom were cannibals from tribes in the upper Congo and others had been kidnapped as children during raids on surrounding villages and raised in missionaries. A FP junior officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested, in the following words. “The commanding officer ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades, also their sexual members, and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross."

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Some survived their hands being hacked off

Leopold's fortune Leopold II was at one stage reputed to be the richest man in the world with a personal fortune somewhere between $100 million and $500 million dollars (US). Most of his wealth was handed over to the Belgian government after his death. Present day Congo Present day Democratic Republic of Congo is estimated to hold $24 trillion (US) in untapped minerals, mostly diamonds. Following the independence of The Congo from Belgium in June 1960, Patrice Lumumba, leader of the Mouvement National Congolais (MNC), was elected Congo’s first democratically elected president. Ten weeks later following a coup de tat headed by General Mobutu Sese Seko, Patrice Lumumba was murdered by firing squad. Evidence has recently emerged that shows the US and Belgian government’s involvement in his murder. Mobutu who institutionalised corruption in the country apparently looted up to $4 billion (US) before he was subsequently ousted by rebel leader Laurent Kabila. Kabila was assassinated in 2001 and after a brief return to civil war, his son, Joseph Kabila became democratically elected president in 2006.

Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/blog/11297#ixzz2ucJfirIe

BRITISH SPY AGENCY COLLECTED IMAGES OF YAHOO WEBCAM CHATS, SAY REPORTS

February 28, 2014 - Julia Fioretti 

Te surveillance program saved one image every five minutes from randomly selected webcam chats. Photo: Reuters

London: Britain's spy agency GCHQ intercepted millions of people's webcam chats and stored still images of them, including sexually explicit ones, an English newspaper has reported.

GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 provided to The Guardian by the former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the surveillance program, codenamed Optic Nerve, saved one image every five minutes from randomly selected Yahoo webcam chats and stored them on agency databases.

Optic Nerve, which began as a prototype in 2008 and was still active in 2012, was intended to test automated facial recognition, monitor GCHQ's targets and uncover new ones, the newspaper reported on Thursday.

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Photo: AP/The Guardian

Under British law, there are no restrictions preventing images of US citizens being accessed by British intelligence, it added.
 

 GCHQ collected images from the webcam chats of over 1.8 million users globally in a six-month period in 2008 alone.

"It is a long-standing policy that we do not comment on intelligence matters," a GCHQ spokesperson said.

In another sign of the widespread information-sharing between US and UK spy agencies which has riled public and politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, the webcam information was fed into the NSA's search tool and all of the policy documents were available to NSA analysts, the paper said.
However it was not clear whether the NSA had access to the actual database of Yahoo webcam images, it added.

Mr Snowden, now in Russia after fleeing the United States, made world headlines last year when he provided details of NSA surveillance programs to The Guardian and The Washington Post.
For decades, the NSA and GCHQ have worked as close partners, sharing intelligence under an arrangement known as the UKUSA agreement. They also collaborate with eavesdropping agencies in Canada, Australia and New Zealand under an arrangement known as the "Five Eyes" alliance.

Under Optic Nerve, GCHQ tried to limit its staff's ability to see the webcam images, but they could still see the images of people with similar usernames to intelligence targets, The Guardian said.
GCHQ also implemented restrictions on the collection of sexually explicit images, but its software was not always able to distinguish between these and other images.

"Discussing efforts to make the interface "safer to use", GCHQ noted that current "naïve" pornography detectors assessed the amount of flesh in any given shot, and so attracted lots of false positives by incorrectly tagging shots of people's faces as pornography," the newspaper said.

The spy agency eventually excluded images in which the software had not detected any faces from search results to prevent staff from accessing explicit images, it added.

Reuters

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/security-it/british-spy-agency-collected-images-of-yahoo-webcam-chats-say-reports-20140227-hvfic.html