http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=psychiatrist Sun, 19 May 2013 03:58:27 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=psychiatrist Wed, 15 May 2013 20:55:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f65_1368665342 Donegal I went visiting the filming locations of the The Howling, a 1981 horror film directed by Joe Dante. Based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner, the screenplay is written by John Sayles and Terence H. Winkless. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. Plot : After assisting the police in capturing "Eddie Quist"(Robert Picardo)., a serial killer who had been preying on the homeless, news anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace-Stone) needs a rest and at her psychiatrist's suggestion heads to The Colony, his own clinic. Her role in capturing Eddie had been quite traumatic and Karen can't picture his face. Once at the clinic however, strange events lead her to believe that her life is in danger. What she does not realize is that the clinic is located near a den of werewolves. T he Howling was also notable for its special effects, which were considered to be extremely convincing at the time. The transformation scenes were created by Rob Bottin, who had also worked with Dante on Piranha. Rick Baker was the original effects artist for the film, but left the production to work on the John Landis film An American Werewolf in London, handing over the effects work to Rob Bottin. Bottin's most celebrated effect was the on-screen transformation of Eddie Quist, which involved air bladders under latex facial applications to give the illusion of transformation. The movie was mainly shot in Mendocino, CA. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f65_1368665342 Donegal THE HOWLING (1981) - Return to Eddie Quist's cabin ( filming location video 2013) THE HOWLING, Herve Attia Wed, 15 May 2013 12:25:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75c_1368634950 Donegal Halloween is a 1978 American independent horror film directed, produced, and scored by John Carpenter, co-written with Debra Hill, and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut. The film is set in the fictional midwestern town of Haddonfield, Illinois. On Halloween, six year old Michael Myers murders his older sister by stabbing her with a kitchen knife. Fifteen years later, he escapes from a psychiatric hospital, returns home, and stalks teenager Laurie Strode and her friends. Michael's psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis suspects Michael's intentions, and follows him to Haddonfield to try to prevent him from killing. The limited budget also dictated the filming location and time schedule. Halloween was filmed in 21 days in the spring of 1978 in South Pasadena, California and Sierra Madre, California (cemetery). An abandoned house owned by a church stood in as the Myers house. Two homes on Orange Grove Avenue (near Sunset Boulevard) in Hollywood were used for the film's climax. The crew had difficulty finding pumpkins in the spring, and artificial fall leaves had to be reused for multiple scenes. Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is sometimes given the distinction of also starting the slasher craze and preceding Halloween in originating the stylistic techniques as well as the usual plot devices. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, released five years prior to Halloween, has several things in common with the film: a group of free-spirited teenagers falling into the clutches of a sadistic, weapon-wielding masked villain ( Leatherface ) with a lone heroine. The film has also gone onto significantly influence the horror genre, much like Halloween. Several subsequent films with similar stylistic elements and themes became popular with audiences, including Friday the 13th, and later, A Nightmare on Elm Street . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75c_1368634950 Donegal Halloween 1978 - How it Looks Now 2013 - Filming Location Halloween, Herve Attia Thu, 09 May 2013 06:37:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fb_1368095660 english-patriot33 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/you-remind-little-sister-back-3475958 'You remind me of my little sister back home': What doctor told student he bombarded with sleazy texts 8 May 2013 14:07 Dr Aamir Majeed faces GMC misconduct charge after admitted inappropriate behaviour towards 18-year-old girl A doctor asked an 18-year-old patient to kiss his cheek after telling her: "You remind me of my little sister back home," a hearing was told. Dr Aamir Majeed obtained the Aberystwyth University student's mobile phone number from the patient's records and sent her flirtatious texts, it was said. The medic has admitted four charges at a Medical Practitioners fitness to practise hearing in Manchester but the panel are hearing evidence to decide if his actions amount to misconduct. The woman had attended the Accident and Emergency Department at the Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth on October 8, 2010 after injuring her left ankle while out with her boyfriend. After X-rays revealed no fracture she was taken to a side room by Dr Majeed to show her how to use crutches. The teenager, referred to as Patient A, was not offered a chaperone. Dr Majeed told her she was "pretty" and that she reminded him of his little sister back home. Before she left the room, Dr Majeed stood by the closed door and pointed at his cheek, implying she could not go until she had kissed him, the hearing was told. She did so because she felt intimidated by him and wanted to go home, said Simon Jackson, QC, for the General Medical Council. "Dr Majeed said she could leave on the crutches. "He stood by the closed door and pointed to his cheek. "He was implying Patient A was expected to kiss him on the cheek before she could leave the room. "After one and a half hours in pain she was upset and wanted to go home. "At this time she did not give the doctor's actions a lot of thought. "She thought the request was over friendly but put it down to that Dr Majeed was from another country and this followed on from his earlier comment." After a follow up visit to the hospital to see another doctor, Dr Majeed obtained her mobile number without her knowledge or consent from a patient card she had filled out. The student then began to receive unsolicited text messages from Dr Majeed. In one message he said: 'Hi. How are you? "Now are you ok without crutches or still need them. "I would be happy to see you. You are very cute." The panel heard how she initially thought the text message was a joke, but replied to find out how he had got her number. In a reply he said: 'Sweetie, I'm your doctor and you know that doctors have all the details of their patients. "I'm happy to know that you are fine now. "Let's celebrate and have some fun on the weekend." The hearing was told that this text really upset Patient A and she replied that she already had a boyfriend. After this Dr Majeed left her alone, but almost a year later sent her a friend request on facebook. Dr Majeed has admitted to failing to offer Patient A a chaperone as well as inappropriate behaviour in his comments, actions, obtaining her phone number, sending texts and a Facebook friend request. Giving evidence he told the panel he now knows what he did was wrong and said he had attended a number of courses to correct his behaviour. "I think it's totally inappropriate to make these kinds of comments to a patient because personal comments can lead to the patient to have a false belief or impression that the doctor is interested in the patient or the patient has a bad impression of the doctor,' he said. "I feel very sorry for what I did. "It is totally wrong, inappropriate behaviour." Dr Majeed qualified in Pakistan in 2005 before coming to the UK in 2009. He worked as a locum in Doncaster Hospital's intensive care unit before taking a training post at the Bronglais General Hospital in August 2010. He left Bronglais in 2011 and now works as a trainee psychiatrist in North Wales. The hearing continues. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fb_1368095660 english-patriot33 You remind me of my little sister back home': What doctor told student he bombarded with sleazy texts islam, muslims, terrorists, pedophiles, outlaw islam, Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:50:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d7_1366695986 Doyle1 TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier pleaded guilty on Monday to murder for shooting dead five fellow servicemen at a military counseling center in Iraq, a plea made in a deal with military prosecutors to avoid the death penalty. U.S. Army Sergeant John Russell was accused of killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty, adjacent to the Baghdad airport, in a 2009 shooting the military said at the time could have been triggered by combat stress. Russell pleaded guilty to five counts of intentional murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of assault. The hearing was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. The presiding judge, Army Colonel David Conn, accepted the plea after a hearing that lasted several hours. Conn said Russell would still face a bench trial - replete with opening and closing statements, witnesses and evidence. That trial will determine the degree of his guilt and, crucially, whether he acted on impulse, as his defense attorneys argue, or with malice of forethought, as alleged by military prosecutors. "Your plea of guilty is provident, and I do accept it," Conn said, adding that a trial was slated for May 6. The choice would then be between a verdict of premeditated murder or the lesser offense of intentional murder to which Russell pleaded guilty. But the death penalty will be off the table under the terms of the deal explained by Russell's lawyer. Russell told Conn he understood that he was waving his right to a trial by jury and to confront and cross-examine witnesses who may be called against him. MENTAL AILMENTS Defense attorneys have said that Russell, who was attached to the 54th Engineer Battalion based in Bamberg, Germany, suffered a host of mental ailments after several combat tours and was suicidal prior to the attack. An independent forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Sadoff, has concluded that Russell suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis at the time of the shootings. Sadoff suggested Russell was provoked to violence by maltreatment at the hands of mental health personnel he sought for treatment at Camp Liberty. Wearing a green military dress uniform, Russell listed a history of health problems he has faced - such as sleep deprivation, depression, and brain trauma - and spoke in calm low tones as he chronicled the chilling events on the day of his shooting spree. Russell repeatedly said he was suicidal prior to the attacks and acted "out of rage" when he returned to the clinic where he "intended to kill" the two medical staff officers and three soldiers who happened to be there. Russell's memory was patchy at times but he said evidence he has been presented with convinced him of his guilt, such as the deadly placement of bullets he fired, among other findings from the investigation. "It's never right to kill somebody, sir," Russell told Conn. "You knew you had no lawful reason to kill them?" Conn said. "Yes, sir," Russell said. Family members of Russell's victims were in court, too. Shawna Van Blargan, the mother of Private First Class Michael Yates, broke down as Russell calmly told the court how he ran after and shot him. Russell's sentence will be determined by the presiding judge, who said he could receive a sentence of life in confinement without the possibility of parole, as well as forfeiters of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Conn called Russell's plea "momentous" and asked if he pleaded guilty to receive a lighter sentence and whether he believes in his own guilt. Russell replied: "Yes, si http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d7_1366695986 Doyle1 U.S. soldier pleads guilty to murdering fellow servicemen in Iraq soldier, Iraq. murder Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:39:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3b6_1365402836 SAPD_HRT TheBlaze.com A psychiatrist who treated James Holmes told campus police a month before the Colorado theater attack that Holmes had homicidal thoughts and was a danger to the public, according to documents released Thursday. Dr. Lynne Fenton, a psychiatrist at the University of Colorado, Denver, told police in June that the shooting suspect also threatened and intimidated her. It was more than a month before the July 20 attack at a movie theater that killed 12 and injured 70. In the days after the attack, campus police said they had never had contact with Holmes, who was a graduate student at the university. But campus police Officer Lynn Whitten told investigators after the shooting that Fenton had contacted her. Whitten said Fenton was following her legal requirement to report threats to authorities, according to a search warrant affidavit. "Dr. Fenton advised that through her contact with James Holmes she was reporting, per her requirement, his danger to the public due to homicidal statements he had made," the affidavit said. Whitten added that Fenton said she began to receive threatening text messages from Holmes after he stopped seeing her for counseling, the documents said. Whitten did not immediately respond to messages left at her home and office. University spokeswoman Jacque Montgomery said she could not comment because the school had not reviewed the court records. The indication that a psychiatrist had called Holmes a danger to the public gave momentum to Democratic state lawmakers' plans to introduce legislation to further restrict mentally ill people from buying guns. State Rep. Beth McCann initially cited the information Thursday as a reason she would introduce a bill as soon as Friday, but quickly backed off and said no date has been set. The theater massacre already helped inspire a new state ban on large-capacity firearm magazines. Prosecutors have suggested Holmes was angry at the failure of a once promising academic career, and had stockpiled weapons, ammunition, tear gas grenades and body armor. Chief Deputy District Attorney Karen Pearson said Holmes failed a key oral exam in June, was banned from campus and began to voluntarily withdraw from the school. Holmes last week offered to plead guilty in the attacks. Prosecutors rejected that offer and announced Monday they would seek the death penalty. The new details were in previously sealed documents that the new judge overseeing the case ordered released Thursday. Media organizations, including The Associated Press, had argued that a "wealth of information already made public in the proceedings thus far," so there was no basis for the documents to remain sealed. The document that included the threats to the psychiatrist was filed to obtain the contents of a package Holmes sent to her before the attack. That package included a notebook that the newly released documents describe as like a "journal." The package was dated July 12 - eight days before the massacre - but was found four days after the attack, in the university mail room. It included a note with an "infinity design" and burnt $20 bills. Other court documents described Holmes' behavior after police found him, still clad in ballistic gear, leaving the theater after the attack. After Holmes' arrest, one officer asked if anyone was with him. Holmes, who was carrying $280 in cash and credit cards, replied: "It's just me." He warned detectives that his apartment had booby-traps, which took days for authorities to disarm. When police informed Holmes of his rights to an attorney, he asked for one, ending their interview with him. The records show that police collected more than 100 items of evidence from the apartment, including included 50 cans and bottles of beer, a Batman mask, paper shooting targets and prescription medications to treat anxiety and depression. Holmes' attorneys have said he is mentally ill. The documents - including arrest and search warrant affidavits - were unsealed Thursday by District Judge Carlos Samour, who took over this week after the previous judge, who had sealed the documents, removed himself. Judge William Sylvester had said prosecutors' decision to seek the death penalty against Holmes meant the case would take up so much time that he couldn't carry out his administrative duties as chief judge of a busy four-county district. Both prosecutors and defense attorneys had raised concerns about releasing the documents. Prosecutors said they were worried about the privacy of victims and witnesses if the records were released. Attorneys for Holmes said they didn't want to hurt his chances for a fair trial. Sylvester had said he was reluctant to release the documents before the preliminary hearing, when prosecutors laid out evidence on whether Holmes could be brought to trial. After that hearing occurred in January, Samour said lawyers failed to show that releasing the records would cause any harm, or that keeping the documents sealed would prevent any harm. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3b6_1365402836 SAPD_HRT <span class="highlight">Psychiatrist</span> Warned Police a Month Before Colorado Theater Shooting That James Holmes Was a Threat James Holmes, Psychiatrist, Mental Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:56:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=da4_1365216424 jaydenfre A psychiatrist treating James Holmes warned police her patient was dangerous 38 days before he opened fire in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, documents show. The court documents unsealed Thursday by Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. revealed Dr. Lynne Fenton told police officer Lynn Whitten that Holmes had confessed homicidal thoughts and was a danger to the public, The Denver Post reported. Fenton also informed the officer Holmes had ended his appointments with her and had been sending her threatening text messages and emails, the documents say. Search warrant affidavits reveal Whitten deactivated Holmes' key-card access to secure areas of University of Colorado medical campus buildings where he had been a student, the newspaper said. The documents give no indication that any further action was taken, however, and on July 20 Holmes entered the movie theater and killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. "Dr. Fenton advised (Whitten) that through her contact with James Holmes she was reporting, per her requirement, his danger to the public due to homicidal statements he had made," one search warrant affidavit states. The Post said a source told it Fenton had declined to order Holmes detained on a 72-hour psychiatric hold. http://www.gopusa.com/news/2013/04/05/psychiatrist-warned-police-about-aurora-theatre-shooter/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=da4_1365216424 jaydenfre <span class="highlight">Psychiatrist</span> warned police about Aurora theatre shooter James,Holmes,Aurora,Colorado,theater,massacre Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:06:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=753_1363885125 Donegal In the current environment in America responsible Gun owners are being made to feel like Pariahs because of the actions of a few Lunatics. People and opinions are polarized and extremists from both sides of the question are coming out with more and more outlandish claims and arguments to justify their position. But how does the media figure in these mass shootings?... ...Here is what Forensic Psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz has to say, and has been saying for decades, about the media's culpability in these crimes. Also please view this video: The Epic Gun Control Testimony You've Been Waiting For: 'The Constitution Did Not Guarantee Public Safety, It Guaranteed Liberty' http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=27a_1363878664 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=753_1363885125 Donegal Responsible Gun Owners +1 Media 0 Gun Control, Dr. Park Dietz, Forensic Psychiatrist, Mass Shootings, Charlie Brooker, Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:08:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9e_1365613466 Nuclear A psychiatrists (and Charlie Brooker's) insightful perspective on news coverage's perpetuation of mass shootings in schools. Stop blaming guns. Stop blaming Shakespeare. Stop blaming video games. Start holding the media accountable for what they are doing to our children. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f9e_1365613466 Nuclear How to Cover a Mass Murder Mass Murder, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Shooting, Psychiatrist, Media Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:48:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f41_1365774393 back4epsilon All across the war-torn country, regime soldiers are said to be sexually violating women and men from the opposition, destroying families and, in some cases, taking lives. --- One day in the fall of 2012, Syrian government troops brought a young Free Syrian Army soldier's fianc'ee, sisters, mother, and female neighbors to the Syrian prison in which he was being held. One by one, he said, they were raped in front of him. The 18-year-old had been an FSA soldier for less than a month when he was picked up. Crying uncontrollably as he recounted his torture while in detention to a psychiatrist named Yassar Kanawati, he said he suffers from a spinal injury inflicted by his captors. The other men detained with him were all raped, he told the doctor. When Kanawati asked if he, too, was raped, he went silent. Although most coverage of the Syrian civil war tends to focus on the fighting between the two sides, this war, like most, has a more insidious dimension: rape has been reportedly used widely as a tool of control, intimidation, and humiliation throughout the conflict. And its effects, while not always fatal, are creating a nation of traumatized survivors -- everyone from the direct victims of the attacks to their children, who may have witnessed or been otherwise affected by what has been perpetrated on their relatives. In September 2012, I was at the United Nations when Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide shook up a fluorescent-lit room of bored-looking bureaucrats by saying that what happened during the Bosnian war is "repeating itself right now in Syria." He was referring to the rape of tens of thousands of women in that country in the 1990s. "With every war and major conflict, as an international community we say 'never again' to mass rape," said Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, who is co-chair of the International Campaign to Stop Rape &amp; Gender Violence in Conflict. "Yet, in Syria, as countless women are again finding the war waged on their bodies--we are again standing by and wringing our hands." We said after the Holocaust we'd never forget; we said it after Darfur. We probably said it after the mass rapes of Bosnia and Rwanda, but maybe that was more of a "we shouldn't forget," since there was so much global guilt that we just sort of sat back and let similar tragedies occur since and only came to the realization later -- we forgot. Could we have forgotten that the unfolding human catastrophe in Syria exists before it's even over? *** Using a crowd-sourced map for the last year, our team at the Women's Media Center's Women Under Siege project, together with Columbia University epidemiologists, the Syrian-American Medical Society, and Syrian activists and journalists, has documented and collected data to figure out where and how women and men are being violated in Syria's war. And, perhaps most important, by whom. We've broken down the 162 stories we've gathered from the onset of the conflict in March 2011 through March 2013 into 226 separate pieces of data. All our reports are currently marked "unverified" (even those that come from well-known sources like Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, and news outlet such as the BBC) because we have not yet been able to independently confirm them. Eighty percent of our reports include female victims, with ages ranging from 7 to 46. Of those women, 85 percent reported rape; 10 percent include sexual assault without penetration; and 10 percent include detention that appears to have been for the purposes of sexualized violence or enslavement for a period of longer than 24 hours. (We generally use this category when we hear soldiers describe being ordered to detain women to rape them; we're not guessing at intent.) Gang rape allegedly occurred in 40 percent of the reports about women. In mid-March, I was in Michigan, surrounded by Syrians who live here but are helping out their fellow citizens in refugee camps and health centers. Kanawati, the psychologist, told me that day that she had visited with a refugee family in Jordan and listened to one of three sisters describe how a group of Syrian army soldiers had come to their house in Homs, tied up their father and brother, and raped the three women in front of them. The woman cried as she went on to describe how after raping them the soldiers opened their legs and burned their vaginas with cigarettes. They allegedly told the women during this: "You want freedom? This is your freedom." The psychiatrist asked one of the three sisters, who was holding a baby, "Is that baby from the rape?" The woman changed the subject. All the women are having nightmares, Kanawati said; all have PTSD. Now, she said, the two sisters are employed in Amman, but the mother, who does not work, is "consumed by the baby." The brother will not speak. This family is quietly living with trauma that reaches across generations. Men are more than just witnesses to sexualized violence in Syria; they are experiencing it directly as well. Forty-three of the reports on our map - about 20 percent -- involve attacks against men and boys, all of whom are between the ages of 11 and 56. Nearly half of the reports about men involve rape, while a quarter detail sexualized violence without penetration, such as shocks to the genitals. Sixteen percent of the men who have been raped in our reports were allegedly violated by multiple attackers. Government perpetrators have allegedly committed the majority of the attacks we've been able to track: 60 percent of the attacks against men and women are reportedly by government forces, with another 17 percent carried out by government and shabiha (plainclothes militia) forces together. When it comes to the rape of women, government forces have allegedly carried out 54 percent these attacks; shabiha have allegedly perpetrated 20 percent; government and shabiha working together 6 percent. Overall, the FSA has allegedly carried out less than 1 percent of the sexualized attacks in our total reports. About 15 percent of the attacks have unknown or other perpetrators. When it comes to men, more than 90 percent of the reports of sexualized violence have been allegedly perpetrated by government forces, which can perhaps be explained by the fact that most of these attacks occurred in detention facilities. Long used as a weapon against prisoners in Syria as in much of the world, rape appears to be utilized during this conflict in horrifyingly soul-crushing, creative ways. Beyond simply raping detainees, shabiha members or Syrian army soldiers have reportedly carried out the rapes of family members or other women front of prisoners. Atrocities are inevitably muted when victims die, and perpetrators worldwide know this. Part of the reason we've chosen to live-track sexualized violence in Syria is because so much evidence is lost in war. Consider that 18 percent of the women in our reports were allegedly witnessed killed or found dead after sexualized violence. Look at this report from Beirut-based news site Ya Libnan, which describes a confession from a defected Syrian Army soldier who said he was ordered "to rape teenage girls in Homs at the end of last year." "The girls would generally be shot when everyone had finished," the soldier said. "They wanted it to be known in the neighborhoods that the girls had been raped, but they didn't want the girls to survive and be able to identify them later." Because there is a deleterious and under-documented personal aftermath of sexualized violence, we are also tracking its mental and physical health fallout. Ten percent of the women in our reports appear to suffer from anxiety, depression, or other psychological trauma, and that's clearly a low estimate considering the acts described. Three percent of the women have reportedly become pregnant from rape, and 2 percent suffer from a chronic physical disease as a result of the violence. When I asked Kanawati how many women she's spoken to and treated who have survived rape, she said it's impossible to know. She has interviewed dozens of refugees who may have been raped or otherwise sexually tortured, mostly in Homs. Originally from Damascus, she is currently the medical director of Family Intervention Specialists in the Atlanta area and has been working with Syrian refugees in Amman with the support of the Syrian-American Medical Society. "Syrian families are very conservative and I always tell them: ' Rape is a way to break the family. The easiest way,'" Kanawati said. "I tell them, 'Don't let this break you--this is what they're trying to do.' When I tell that to the women, however, they say, 'Tell that to our husbands.'" She described how women have repeatedly told her that their neighbors were raped, usually by more than one man, and how each time the extraordinary detail the women give and the trauma they exhibit tells her that the story isn't actually about a "neighbor," but the woman herself. More than that, the storytellers usually go on to describe how the "neighbor's" husband then left this woman. Sex outside of marriage, let alone the violation of a woman in an act of rape, said Kanawati, is "completely taboo." Erin Gallagher, a former investigator of sexual and gender-based violence for the UN's Commission of Inquiry on Syria (and before that on Libya), spent months speaking with Syrian women and men in camps in Jordan and Turkey. She said it's very difficult to get an accurate idea at this point of the scope of sexualized crimes in Syria and that "there are more victims out there than what we are finding." Getting a true idea of the scope, she said, "is going to take time, trust building, and a broader, holistic approach." Kanawati said her sister, an ob-gyn who lives in Damascus, has carefully told her (for fear of eavesdropping), "You would not believe how much rape there is." Her sister has treated women who say they have been raped by soldiers or shabiha militia members in the rural areas around the city. Gallagher explained why so few victims of sexualized violence in Syria are coming forward publicly. "The reality is that they have much to lose and little to gain by doing so at this point in time, for many reasons," she said. "It takes a lot of courage and strength for a victim to speak up and they may be on their own with little support as they do it. In addition to the shame and isolation a victim may feel, they now are in an insecure environment due to the war. They may now be living in a large refugee camp with no privacy, surrounded by people they don't know or trust." With no clear future for Syria in sight, refugees are understandably cautious about who they speak to and trust with sensitive and personal information. "If they tell someone, to whom and where does that information go?" Gallagher said. It may be hard to put their trust in a stranger when, time and again, there has been little justice for victims of wartime rape. Add to all that the physical, psychological, and emotional trauma that victims are suffering from the war and displacement, and "it's not surprising that victims are reluctant to come forward," she said. Hearing this I can't help but think of the preface to Night, in which Elie Wiesel writes: "For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and the living... .To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive." "The security forces and the shabiha took whole families outside after destroying their homes," a woman named Amal told the pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat in June 2012. "They stripped my girls from their clothes, raped them then killed them with knives. They were shouting: 'You want freedom? This is the best brand of freedom.'" It's nearly word-for-word the sentences spoken in the story above about the women raped and then burned with cigarettes. Coincidence? Maybe. But repeated phrasing is exactly the kind of thing that helps build international cases for human rights violations. Language can indicate whether mass rape has been coordinated and systematic. Recently, a U.S.-based group called AIDS-Free World successfully petitioned to have South Africa investigate mass rape allegedly carried out by the ruling ZANU-PF party in Zimbabwe against opposition supporters in 2008. Part of their case was built on the fact that they heard that similar phrases were being uttered during rapes across the country--women were called "traitors to Zimbabwe" or told they were being "sent a message," according to Paula Donovan, co-director of AIDS-Free World. Gallagher, who also investigated rape in Libya, said she's heard about such phrases being used during rape in both countries. "I don't think it necessarily means it was an order," she said of Libya, "but certainly a common belief among the soldiers. They knew they had free reign. I can't conclude if Assad and his command ordered it or have just given his men free reign. What is clear is that he and his commanders are doing nothing to stop their soldiers from committing such crimes." For a year, I've sat in circles of high-level advisors from the International Criminal Court and elsewhere debating what might tip Russia's hand and prevent it from vetoing a vote to send Syria's human rights crimes to the court. But now with the success of AIDS-Free World's use of a concept called universal jurisdiction, which crosses borders to try crimes that are so heinous that they call for a sense of greater justice, perhaps it is time to consider alternatives to the ICC. Jody Williams, known for rousing the slumbering world when it came to banning landmines, has some ideas. "We don't need more research or more proof, we need a plan," said Williams. "And the plan should be to ensure that there is coordinated international action to ensure survivors get help, justice is served against those perpetrating the sexualized violence, and we are all working together to prevent further rape. This will take men, women, communities, national governments, and the international community--everyone." Personally, I'm hoping this is the last report I'll have to write parsing data from a map that shouldn't have to exist in the first place. Somehow, though, I don't think that will be the case. Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/syria-has-a-massive-rape-crisis/274583/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f41_1365774393 back4epsilon Syria Has a Massive Rape Crisis Rape, Syria, Assad, SAA, shabiha, FSA, sexual, abuse Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:21:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a30_1365207865 trialdog By LiveLeak member trialdog You'll recall in April 2007, when Bush was president, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 fellow students at Virginia Tech. We learned Cho was mentally ill and would have been denied the opportunity to buy guns if his mental illness had been reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_massacre Today, we learned more about James Holmes, the Colorado theater shooter. Like Cho, Holmes was a student. Like Cho, Holmes was mentally unfit. We also learned that one of his psychiatrists warned campus police more than a month before the shooting that Homes was unbalanced and was having homicidal thoughts. Had that information been passed on the NICS, Holmes would have been barred from buying guns. http://www.wsoctv.com/ap/ap/general/school-faces-new-questions-in-colo-massacre/nXDHS/ We know Holmes bought his final gun within 30 days of his rampage. news.yahoo.com/police-colo-shooting-suspect-bought-guns-legally-083528305.html If only something was done after the Virginia Tech massacre; something that would have made it possible for states to report to the NICS those people with mental illness who would be barred from buying guns, especially around college campuses. If only. But George Bush was president. Yes, George Bush, a president despised by President Obama. Well, in fact, President Bush, the NRA, and prominent democrats got together and worked on a bipartisan basis to pass the NICS Improvement Amendments Act. Democrats flocked to become co-sponsors of the bill. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NICS_Improvement_Act_of_2007 The bill itself was designed specifically to address those inadequacies in the NICS that allowed Cho to buy guns. Federal money was to be provided the states - up to $375,000,000.00 a year - so the states could update their NICS reporting systems and enhance the effectiveness of the NICS. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/978477/NICS-Improvement-Amendments-Act-of-2007 So, was it done? In 2008, based on endless promises he would best lead and faithfully execute the laws of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. In addition, the House of Representatives and Senate were controlled by the democratic party. These caring and thoughtful leaders have great concern about gun crime. As a result, they only funded the new Bush era NICS Improvement Amendment Axt of 2007 by 4.96% http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/downloads/pdf/maig_mimeo_revb.pdf Further, the Department of Justice, headed up by Eric Holder became responsible for enforcing laws regarding the illegal purchase of guns. Surely, they would investigate and prosecute those who falsify information on NICS questionaires. Well, actually, the Department of Justice under Eric Holder stopped investigating such cases and prosecuted less than1% of offenders. http://www.policymic.com/articles/27309/6-biggest-problems-with-mandatory-gun-background-checks So why didn't Obama and the democratic party fund the 2007 NICS Imrovement Amendments Act? Why was preventing illegal gun purchases so unimportant? Was it really more important for the democratic party and Obama to give loans to campaign contributors than to fund laws that would make people safe? Had Colorado received grant money to improve their background data collection and coordination plans, perhaps the very type of gun purchase the law meant to address would have been blocked and investigated. Colorado authorities were warned by Holmes psychiatrist that he was homicidal. Warned. Holmes bought a gun less than 30 days before his massacre. That could easily have been reported and then forwarded to the NICS, which then would've blocked Holmes final purchase (possibly others) and alerted authorities who could've investigated, assuming Eric Holder did his job. But we know he wasn't. He was running guns to drug cartels. So, did political malfeasance lead to the Colorado theater shootings? Yes. We live in an era were political blame is used freely by Barack Obama and the democratic party. If we apply their own criteria in determining who is to blame, then they clearly are 100% to blame for failing to protect the people of Colorado, and quite probably, the victims of another shooter who wanted to outdo his predecessors. Yet, Obama is today praised by his media for signing Executive Orders funding the 2007 Amendments to the NICS. Don't be fooled, be aware. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a30_1365207865 trialdog Did Political Malfeasance Lead to the Colorado Theater Shootings? Obama. Fail, communist, agitator, pathetic Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:03:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61e_1364139165 Hitler_Is_Amazing By: Maxmillian Entropy March 18, 2013 766,319 views The world's economy never came all the way back from the 2008 crash -- unemployment is still at terrifying levels, and there are a hell of a lot of good people still on the streets. If you have unemployed friends, you've no doubt heard horror stories about what it's like (or if you're unemployed yourself, you have an even better view of the horror): nobody's calling back, even for jobs they're well-qualified for. So why in the hell is it so hard? Partly because there are a whole lot of invisible barriers standing in your way. For instance ... #6. One Screwed-Up Interview Can Land You on a Blacklist t Did you ever really embarrass yourself in a job interview or otherwise make a bad impression on an employer when you were young and stupid? Whether you know it or not, you may very well have wound up on a blacklist for that ... and it might haunt you for years after. And when we say "blacklist," we're talking about an actual list that recruiters and HR staff keep and share with each other that says "Don't bother even interviewing this person." If you're on that blacklist, your chances of being hired are about as likely as finally striking it rich with your Etsy store featuring sculptures made with your own feces. Although if you actually have shit sculptures, that will probably get you blacklisted as well. So what does it take to get blacklisted? Any number of things, some of them as petty as applying for too many jobs or having the gall to ask about salary and benefits. And once you land on one company's list, your bad reputation spreads -- HR professionals love to share their lists. For example, take the completely qualified software developer who landed on two different recruitment companies' blacklists at the same moment because one of the HR reps thought he had bad presentation skills. And once you're on there, you're on there for good: Just ask the programmer who's still labeled as an unsuitable hire by a major defense contractor because when asked if he was willing to submit to a drug test, he responded with "Sure! As long as you give me six days' notice!" A dumb joke, to be sure, but six years later he was still blacklisted for making it. And hell, these days HR people don't even have to step away from their monitors to build their blacklists, since the Internet has turned absolutely everything into a social network. Thanks to places like HR Blacklist, a company can simply pay a small fee to find out if their candidate has been trashed by anyone, anytime, anywhere. Who does said trashing? Well ... you do, apparently. According to HR Blacklist's website, anyone can become an "HR Agent" and begin blacklisting people within minutes: "This job is aimed to experienced HR professionals, with thousands of CVs in their personal database, and with considerable experience in evaluating people. Of course, we will not forbid you to create a HR Agent account, even if you are a newcomer in this area." HR Blacklist "No, no one would ever abuse this to avenge a petty grudge." -Man steepling his fingers on the homepage No way that could ever go wrong. But even if you're not on a blacklist, there's a good chance that ... #5. No Human Will Ever See Your Resume Before It Goes into the Trash When the unemployment rate skyrockets, it creates a buyer's market for employers -- whenever they post a new opening, they have scads of people scrambling to fill it. Luckily (for them, not for you), most companies these days use applicant tracking system (ATS) software to help them deal with the influx of applications. What this means for you is that your resume very likely will never land in front of human eyeballs. The robot can send it right to the trash if its software decides you're not up to snuff. "We're really looking for someone who's more interested in exterminating all humans." These applicant tracking systems receive those countless resumes and automatically parse and sort each one, a process that in the past would have taken untold man hours to do. Think of all the time it saves when they can just have the computer scan the applications and send 75 percent of them directly to the digital shredder. The Web is rife with checklists on how to beat the ATS and get your resume seen -- how and where to use keywords, minimizing graphics, and the exact wording to use for your resume's section headers, to list a few examples. So go ahead and add "SEO Expert" to your work experience, because that's what you'll have to be to have any hope of getting your resume in front of a human. Just how difficult does this make it for job seekers? Ask Russ Wichelman, an engineer and programmer with 30 years of experience in the field. Because Russ never obtained a college degree, he couldn't populate his resume with that one specific key phrase that the companies he was applying to were looking for, and as a result, Russ basically didn't exist to those companies. Did we mention that he had 30 fucking years of experience? But at least until the Singularity happens (at which point we'll all be worried less about jobs and more about stocking our personal arsenals), computers simply aren't as capable as humans of inferring your true capabilities based on a couple pages of text. So to sum up, just in case the black shadow of unemployment hasn't made you feel quite shitty enough, technology has gone ahead and reduced your worth to a list of keywords. #4. A Saint Could Take Your Drug Test and Still Fail With the exception of certain high-profile elected officials, most jobs require the worker to avoid tripping balls while on the employer's dime. And you can't really blame them for that -- after all, companies can't have their delivery drivers pursuing rainbow-shitting dragons along crowded sidewalks or their HR staff using confidential records to blackmail their employees for crack money. "I'm sorry, your honor, can we get a continuance? I'm blitzed out of my gourd." That's all completely understandable, but the problem comes from the way in which employers screen out the druggies: the good old-fashioned piss test. Otherwise known as the test that gives false positives "at least 10 percent, and possibly as much as 30 percent, of the time." That's right, as much as 30 percent of the applicants being screened out as huge Bob Marley fans are the victims of false positives. But even when the results are correct, they're not exactly painting a crystal-clear picture -- the standard piss test can't tell if you indulged once on a special occasion or if you're in the process of trying to achieve immortality by replacing all of your body's hemoglobin with THC. The variances are in fact so erratic that experts have difficulty even tallying all the ways to fake a negative or trip a false positive. Here's a short list of some of the things that could end up labeling you as a junkie to your potential employer: poppy seeds, Wellbutrin, cold medicine, tricyclic antidepressants, Zoloft, uinolone antibiotics, even some AIDS medications. But if we look past the nuts-and-bolts stuff, there still must be a positive psychological effect -- you'd think that knowing they could be required to pass drug screenings at any time would have to result in lower drug use among employees. You'd think that, but you'd be wrong: Past studies by the National Science Foundation and the American Management Association have shown that drug testing "has been ineffective in reducing drug use and has no noticeable impact on reducing either absenteeism or productivity." So if detection is shaky at best and drug testing doesn't even work as a deterrent, why are companies still doing it? According to the CEO of one Fortune 500 company, "It's there for image." Well, that makes total sense then. We're sure your average unemployed Joe doesn't mind taking one for the team when the end result is making a multimillion dollar company look a bit better to its investors. But even if your clean drug test actually does come back clean ... #3. Their Background Check May Turn Up Crimes You Didn't Commit Submitting candidates to a background check is a routine part of many employers' hiring practices. In fact, according to one survey, "About 93 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks on some applicants, while 73 percent of employers conduct checks on all applicants." And it makes perfect sense, if you look at it from the employers' perspective -- one in four people in the U.S. has a criminal record, and if the guy applying for your open teaching position was once busted for running a sweatshop thinly disguised as a day care, that's something you kind of need to know about. So what's the problem? Well, a study conducted in 2011 by the National Consumer Law Center revealed that the results of said background checks are often strewn with errors. You see, your potential employers aren't conducting that background check themselves -- and you never know who the hell might be providing that service to them. As the NCLC points out, "There are no licensing requirements for criminal background agencies. Anyone with a computer and access to records can start a business; the total number of companies is unknown." These unregulated background screening companies are businesses , and as Merriam-Webster once said, the entire purpose of a business is to make money. And if that means cutting corners that occasionally result in some random innocent guy getting pinned with a brutal rape charge, then by God that's what a business does. We weren't even being facetious there, by the way -- that's exactly what happened to Samuel Jackson (no, not that one) when he was turned down for a job after a background check claimed that he had been convicted of rape back in 1987. When he was 4 years old . Why? They got him confused with another guy with a similar name. Whoops! Our bad! #2. They're Checking Your Facebook Profile for Party Pics and Spelling Errors In case you needed another reason to worry that those photos you posted on Facebook from your last drunken house party (half-nude, duck lips -- you know the ones) would one day come back to haunt you, here you go: A recent survey showed that 92 percent of employers are checking out your social networking profiles during the recruitment process. And if you think you're getting around this by not providing links to your profiles, think again, because 73 percent of potential employers will track them down anyway. What are they looking for, exactly? Well, the obvious stuff: drug use, sexual posts, drunken activity, My Little Pony cosplay. But you might be surprised to find out that the biggest sin of all is apparently spelling and grammar errors -- more employers were turned off by the public butchering of the English language than by references to alcohol. If the world needed another reason to abolish textspeak (it didn't), there you go. But you can just fix this whole mess by not having social networking profiles in the first place, right? Nope -- if nothing comes up for you, that just makes employers think you've got something to hide. But, but ... that's what privacy settings are for, right? Well, privacy settings don't do you much good when employers don't have any qualms about requiring applicants to provide their Facebook usernames and passwords. Luckily for your swear-ridden, booze-addled (but locked down) timeline, state governments have started stepping in with laws to prevent such practices. Of course, this is all just a bunch of statistics mumbo jumbo -- stuff like this doesn't really happen in the real world. Tell that to the female psychiatrist who missed out on a position because she had a tendency to go topless at parties (hey, who doesn't?), or maybe the financial analyst who got blacklisted by a bigtime financial firm in Seattle thanks to his habit of posting drunken photos on Facebook (again, is that not what Facebook is specifically designed for?). #1. Not Already Having a Job Prevents You from Getting a Job It sounds completely counterintuitive, what with so many qualified people currently out of work thanks to the utter collapse of the economy a few years ago, but for many employers, being unemployed is a gigantic red flag. That means once you've been unemployed for a certain period of time, you get stuck in a Kafkaesque trap where you can't get a job because you don't have a job. For skilled, perfectly able people -- like the 330,000 long-term unemployed in Illinois alone -- the longer they go without being able to find work, the less attractive they become to potential employers. As John Challenger, CEO of an outplacement firm in Chicago, put it: "Hiring companies now wonder about whether or not their skills have become less current, about whether inertia has set in, how driven are you to get back to work. They worry that maybe other companies have seen something that they might be missing when they didn't hire you. Employers have some of these kinds of concerns about your candidacy that someone new into the market doesn't have to contend with." "No other company would have him; what if he has herpes?" To be fair, it's always been this way -- ever heard the old adage "It's easier to find a job when you have a job"? The difference being that there are now many, many more people looking for work because for years we had an economy where there were millions more unemployed people than there were vacant positions. Yet employers ranging from small businesses to fast food chains still show this bias against the jobless, to the point where New Jersey recently passed a law against prohibiting unemployed people from applying for a job, with other states and Congress considering similar ideas. Until such laws become commonplace, though, it looks like your average unemployed person has a laundry list of stereotypes to overcome in order to convince potential employers that they're not filthy bums. So there you have it, kids: If you are currently hopelessly unemployed and desperately need a job, all you've got to do is get a fucking job . It's as easy as that. Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_20322_6-ways-companies-are-secretly-screwing-job-applicants_p2.html#ixzz2OTJTxU1N http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=61e_1364139165 Hitler_Is_Amazing 6 Ways Companies Are Secretly Screwing Job Applicants employers, job market, corporations, jobs, employment, corporate pigs Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:01:51 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d5_1362175031 ellhow A university lecturer with a dislike of 4x4s went on a two-hour graffiti spree, scratching obscenities into parked vehicles after downing a cocktail of gin and antibiotics. source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9903683/Lecturer-fined-28000-after-scratching-graffiti-into-cars.html Stephen Graham admitted damaging four cars and asked for 23 similar offences to be taken into consideration 6:36PM GMT 01 Mar 2013 Stephen Graham, a professor of cities and society at Newcastle University, was fined lb28,000 after damaging 27 cars with his screwdriver during the two-hour escapade. The 48-year-old was said to have been in a "dissociative state" when he got out of bed and strolled outside in the early hours of the morning. He left his front door wide open and was dressed in only underpants, trainers and a suit jacket, with a sleep mask pushed up on his forehead. Judge Guy Whitburn, sitting at Crown Court accepted that his behaviour was totally out of character but insisted that the compensation must be paid in full. He said: "You were out and about for something like two hours and must have walked for miles because the damage that you caused was spread among vehicles over a very considerable area. "I appreciate making the orders that I have done, I have effectively deprived you of your life savings." The judge suspended a nine month jail sentence for a year. Mr Graham, who had no recollection of the events, had previously stated that he did not agree with people driving large 4x4s, otherwise known as Chelsea tractors, in cities. However, the judge accepted that this was not the motivation for the vandalism. Only ten of the vehicles he scratched were 4x4s. Others included a red Audi A1, a grey Volvo, a Mercedes and a promotional Mitsubishi 4x4 for the Metro Radio station. Words he carved into the paintwork included "arbitrary", "wrong", "very silly" and "twat". The court heard that Mr Graham had enjoyed a distinguished academic career. He was "highly-respected" in his field and had received glowing references. On the night in question, he had taken antibiotics for an infection contracted after having a tooth removed and was taking medication for an ongoing depressive illness. He told police that he had also drunk three quarters of a bottle of gin, and having been unable to sleep, must have gone out. Officers were called after a witness heard scratching on the pavement in the early hours of August 31 and looked outside to see a figure crouching on the ground. Julian Smith, mitigating, said: "These are extraordinary circumstances which have caused him to feel profound embarrassment and shame. "Part of him still struggles to comprehend how it is someone with his professional circumstances should find himself before the court answering for these offences." He said Mr Graham could remember going to bed, and apart from some "dreamlike memories" the next thing he recalled was being arrested not far from his home in Jesmond, a leafy suburb of Newcastle. With regard to how his client was dressed, Mr Smith said: "That is not a man who has set out to commit damage to cars, it is a man who is clearly not properly within himself." He said the lecturer had shown no signs of aggression when arrested but simply had a bad reaction to the medication and alcohol. A report by forensic psychiatrist Don Grubin, for the defence, found that Mr Graham had been detached from reality. The professor admitted four counts of criminal damage and asked for another 23 cases to be taken into consideration. The judge said: "He is obviously a highly intelligent man. He is married no doubt to a highly intelligent woman. If he needs, he knows where to obtain help." He expressed hope that Mr Graham would not lose his job. A Newcastle University spokesman said: "We will be considering the matter through normal university procedures." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d5_1362175031 ellhow Lecturer fined lb28,000 after scratching graffiti into cars Newcastle