Anonymous ID: 34ce95 June 28, 2021, 5:05 a.m. No.14004294   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Delta Gamma (KEK)

 

Delta Gamma (ΔΓ), commonly known as DG, is a sorority in the United States and Canada with over 250,000 initiated members.[1]

 

It has 151 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada and more than 200 alumnae groups.[2] The organization's executive office is in Columbus, Ohio.

 

Delta Gamma is one of 26 national fraternities under the umbrella organization of the National Panhellenic Conference

 

Delta Gamma was founded in December 1873 at the Lewis School for Girls in Oxford, Mississippi near the University of Mississippi. The group's founders were Mary Comfort Leonard, Eva Webb Dodd, and Anna Boyd Ellington.[4]

 

The early growth for Delta Gamma was confined to women's colleges in the southern United States. Within a few years, Delta Gamma had established itself in the northern United States and later to the East with the help of George Banta, a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Delta Gamma's only male initiate.[5] Banta played an integral part in the expansion of Delta Gamma chapters from Oxford, Mississippi, to well-recognized northern colleges.[6]

 

In 1882, Banta married Lillian Vawter, a Delta Gamma at Franklin College. After Lillian died in 1885, he was remarried to Ellen Lee Pleasants.[7] In his later years, he assisted with the rewriting of the Delta Gamma ritual.[7] He frequently visited Delta Gamma conventions, often participating as a guest speaker. He appeared for his last speech in 1934, a year before his death.[6] As a result of the assistance provided by Banta, Delta Gamma retains close historical ties with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.[8]

 

Delta Gamma was one of seven charter members of the National Panhellenic Conference when the first inter-sorority meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts in 1891.[9][10] Delta Gamma and the six other charter members formally joined the National Panhellenic Conference in 1902.

 

Today,[when?] Delta Gamma has 151 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada. It has more than 200 alumnae groups in the United States, Canada and England.[2]

 

In 2013, Delta Gamma founded the #IAmASororityWoman campaign for members of any sorority to start conversations about what sorority women truly value to combat common stereotypes.[11]

 

Although Delta Gamma has no official jewel, the fraternity recognizes the anchor as its official symbol and bronze, pink, and blue as its official colors. The official flower is the cream-colored rose, which is registered as the Delta Gamma Cream Rose with the American Rose Society and is the only official sorority flower to have been registered as such. The Hannah Doll is their mascot.[5][2]

 

The badge of Delta Gamma is a golden anchor and may be worn only by initiated members.[12]

 

Before the adoption of the golden anchor, the symbol of Delta Gamma was simply a "H" for the word "Hope". In 1877, the original "Hope" badge was changed to the traditional symbol of hope, the anchor. Today's badge has a small cable wrapping around the top of the anchor, with the Greek letters Tau Delta Eta (ΤΔΗ) on the crosspiece. Delta Gamma's motto is "Do Good."[12]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Gamma

Anonymous ID: 34ce95 June 28, 2021, 5:22 a.m. No.14004333   🗄️.is 🔗kun

'A personality type that feels absolutely no guardrails': How Saudi Arabia's leader charmed Washington while cracking down on opponents

 

Joseph Westphal was wowed from the start. As President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 2015, Westphal started paying regular visits to the rising new power in the royal court: the country’s new defense minister, Mohammed bin Salman, favored son of King Salman.

 

As Westphal recalls his visits with the prince, they struck up a warm friendship from the start.

 

“First of all, we shared a really nice sense of humor,” said Westphal. “I mean we, we laughed, we joked around. … It was just laughing about life, and talking about things that maybe happened to me or happened to him.”

 

More important, Prince Mohammed, who is known as MBS, was pledging to start to rein in the country’s religious police and grant greater rights to Saudi women — steps that U.S. officials had long been calling for. “Yes, absolutely,” Westphal replied when asked if he viewed MBS at the time as an agent of change. “From the very beginning. Absolutely.”

 

Westphal’s relationship with the young Saudi prince is one glimpse into a much broader and, from today’s perspective, unsettling phenomenon: the strange and successful courtship by MBS of America’s foreign policy and corporate elite, presenting himself as a cultured reformer who was positioned to revolutionize his rigidly conservative country.

 

The story of that courtship — and its embarrassing aftermath, as MBS’s ruthless crackdowns on dissent and his bloody military adventure in Yemen became ever more apparent — is the subject of “The Rise of the Bullet Guy,” Episode 5 in Yahoo News’ "Conspiracyland" podcast: “The Secret Lives and Brutal Death of Jamal Khashoggi.”

 

It is a courtship that came to a final, crashing and ignominious end when, in October 2018, a so-called Tiger Team of Saudi assassins brutally murdered the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi — drugging him with illicit narcotics brought from Cairo, suffocating him and then carving up his body with a bone saw and depositing his body parts in plastic bags.

 

It was a crime that the CIA soon concluded had been authorized by the crown prince himself, noting — among other factors — that MBS’s right-hand man had met with the team before they left to kill Khashoggi in Istanbul, and that seven members of the hit squad were part of MBS’s personal security detail, answerable only to him.

 

And yet the shocking nature of Khashoggi’s murder has tended to obscure the preceding years, when at first top Obama administration officials, and then President Donald Trump and his influential son-in-law, Jared Kushner, embraced MBS with few reservations and extolled his supposed virtues.

 

“He’s the only person I’ve met in 30 years of my involvement or more with Saudi Arabia who has put that kind of a vision on the table for the transformation of the country,” said John Kerry, Obama’s secretary of state, in an interview for “Conspiracyland” about his assessment of MBS at the time.

 

Kerry’s Georgetown home was the setting for perhaps the most iconic moment in MBS’s courtship of the U.S. government. It was in June 2016, and the new Saudi defense minister, during a trip to the United States, was invited to a Ramadan dinner at Kerry’s house. As he entered, MBS spotted the grand piano in the living room, promptly sat down and started to play Beethoven's “Moonlight Sonata.”

 

I mean, we were all surprised,” recalled Kerry. “Somebody had trained him well.”

 

But even as he impressed the guests in Kerry’s living room, others saw the dark impulses of a would-be tyrant. Ben Rhodes, then Obama’s deputy national security adviser, recalls a summit in Riyadh the previous April, when Obama raised U.S. concerns about Saudi Arabia’s worsening human rights record, including a mass execution of 47 prisoners and the case of a Saudi blogger who had just been sentenced to 10 years in prison — and 1,000 lashes with a whip.

 

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/a-personality-type-that-feels-absolutely-no-guard-rails-how-saudi-arabias-leader-charmed-washington-while-cracking-down-on-opponents-090017268.html

Anonymous ID: 34ce95 June 28, 2021, 5:52 a.m. No.14004446   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Children's author is behind a global network of 'pickup artists' who coordinate attempts to get women into bed and boast about rapes, report says

 

A 39-year-old British children's author is one of three men behind a global network of "pickup artists" who coordinate strategies to trick women into bed, according to The Sunday Times.

 

Kieren Brown, who is the author of "Preeta's Web of Chaos," billed as a "beautiful tale" of transformation to empower girls, co-founded the group and now uses the alias Ciaran Callam to share tips with so-called gamers, the paper reported.

 

Game Global members often use the website to seek "wingmen" to help them approach women on the street, but others are using the network to seek advice on how to go about nefarious activities.

 

Posts describing deception, rape, and acts of sexual violence are commonplace, The Sunday Times reported.

 

Nude images of women taken without consent also appear on the forums, the paper said.

 

According to research by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), Game Global has over 500 groups on social media with more than 26,000 members globally.

 

While some men are using the website to boost their self-esteem and earnestly discover how to interact with women, a significant number are making misogynistic contributions.

 

CCDH researchers discovered messages calling women "bitches", "sluts," and "whores" and describing black women as "stone-cold bitter hoes," The Sunday Times said.

 

There is also evidence of users sharing tips on how to choke, slap, and discipline women, the paper added.

 

Among the posts advocating violence against women, one such message advises members to be "very aggressive with virgins," according to The Sunday Times.

 

One of the co-founders, Ice White, also added to the litany of sexist comments. "I would choke her with those headphones and raw dog her while she is being held down by heavy weights," he wrote under a photo of a woman at the gym, the paper reported.

 

In a statement posted on the Game Global website on Sunday, the network said it is taking steps to "reform" the pickup artist community. It intends to improve moderation, produce videos about consent and feminism, and hopes to encourage "open dialogue," the statement said.

 

Brown's role, according to his LinkedIn profile, partly involves coaching "lonely men."

 

And when he's not coaching or writing children's book, his LinkedIn profile shows that he also runs the "Web of Chaos Movement" - an online community that says it "gives girls, women, and ethnic minorities confidence and self-worth."

 

Insider reached out to Brown for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/childrens-author-behind-global-network-125335504.html

Anonymous ID: 34ce95 June 28, 2021, 6:17 a.m. No.14004558   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Good time to revisit…

 

BRAIN WARFARE - RUSSIA'S SECRET WEAPON

 

Document Type:

CREST

Collection:

General CIA Records

Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):

CIA-RDP70-00058R000100010023-4

Release Decision:

RIFPUB

Original Classification:

K

Document Page Count:

3

Document Creation Date:

November 11, 2016

Document Release Date:

August 17, 1998

Sequence Number:

23

Case Number:

Publication Date:

May 8, 1953

Content Type:

NSPR

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https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP70-00058R000100010023-4.pdf