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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/pentagon-explains-odd-transfer-of-175-million-ip-addresses-to-obscure-company/
Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175 million IP addresses to obscure company
Something weird happened minutes before Trump left—US says it was security research.
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https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1436768093481709580
Thank you for showing us how we can both remember and serve, today and every day.
https://twitter.com/911day/status/1436743007756242953
Look who stopped by to say hi Waving hand to the @911Day team!
Big thank you to @HillaryClinton for being one of the original and most impactful supporters of the #911Day observance all through the years.
https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2021/answers-to-common-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines-and-blood-platelet-plasma-donation-eligibility.html
Answers to Common Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines and Blood, Platelet or Plasma Donation Eligibility
Q: Are individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine eligible to give blood, platelets and plasma?
Q: Are individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine eligible to give COVID-19 convalescent plasma?
Q: What is the different between COVID-19 antibodies that you develop from exposure to the virus and antibodies you develop as a reaction to the vaccine?
Q: I’ve heard claims that the Red Cross refuses to accept convalescent plasma from individuals who have received a COVID-19 vaccine because it wipes out the antibodies. Is this true?
Q: Does giving blood after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine reduce a donor’s protection from the virus?
Q: What is the difference between plasma donation and convalescent plasma donation?
Q: Are individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine eligible to give blood, platelets and plasma?
Q: Are individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine eligible to give COVID-19 convalescent plasma?
Q: What is the different between COVID-19 antibodies that you develop from exposure to the virus and antibodies you develop as a reaction to the vaccine?
Q: I’ve heard claims that the Red Cross refuses to accept convalescent plasma from individuals who have received a COVID-19 vaccine because it wipes out the antibodies. Is this true?
Q: Does giving blood after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine reduce a donor’s protection from the virus?
Q: What is the difference between plasma donation and convalescent plasma donation?
>https://www.redcross.org/about-us/news-and-events/news/2021/answers-to-common-questions-about-covid-19-vaccines-and-blood-platelet-plasma-donation-eligibility.html
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https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1436717353211994125
Abolitionist+Writer+Prof
Genderflux all pronouns 🏳️🌈
Columnist @TeenVogue
Author of BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US @RandomHouse (2022)
Former Soviet Citizen Confronts Revolutionary Communist Students Who Hate USA/Capitalism
>"we do the crime, you do the time"
"this is going to hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt us"
"I'm going to need some help because I never talk about this," she begins, before plunging into the topic.
"It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part," she says. "I would always say I was consenting, and then I'd be reminded like 'Hey, you were 15, you're not consenting at 15.' Now I'm like, 'Oh yeah, they're all pedophiles. It's all statutory rape."
Who she is referring to remains unclear; Morissette does not name any of her alleged abusers. But she says she issued calls for help and implicates the music industry in not listening.
"I did tell a few people and it kind of fell on deaf ears," she says. "It would usually be a stand-up, walk-out-of-the-room moment."
Canada's legal age of consent is 16. The law states that the age can be higher "when there is a relationship of trust, authority or dependency."
While the movie would seem to offer Morissette a fresh public platform, the star will shun the premiere in an apparent act of objection.
It is unclear which aspects of the film she finds problematic. Through much of the movie, the singer-songwriter, now 47, is an enthusiastic interview subject, reflecting on her years as generational avatar. There is little material that could be considered critical of Morissette from bandmates, collaborators, old friends, pundits and others who appear. Footage of Morissette from the 1990s the tour promoting "Jagged Little Pill" is revealing but not incriminating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
In 1988, authorities looked into allegations that prominent citizens of Nebraska, as well as high-level U.S. politicians, were involved in a child prostitution ring. Alleged abuse victims were interviewed, who claimed that children in foster care were flown to the East Coast of the United States to be sexually abused at "bad parties". The claims primarily centered on Lawrence E. King Jr., who ran the now defunct Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, and alleged that the ring was "a cult of devil worshipers involved in the mutilation, sacrifice and cannibalism of numerous children". Numerous conspiracy theories evolved, claiming that the alleged abuse was part of a widespread series of crimes including devil worship, cannibalism, drug trafficking, and CIA arms dealing.
https://archive.org/details/moralpanicchangi0000jenk/page/174/mode/2up
Moral panic : changing concepts of the child molester in modern America
"It is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem and that child molesters are predators who compulsively repeat their crimes and have little hope of cure. Yet as recently as twenty years ago many experts viewed the problem as a far less serious one, declaring that molestation was very rare and that molesters were merely confused individuals unlikely to repeat their offenses. Over the past century, opinion has fluctuated between these radically different perspectives. This timely book traces shifting social responses to adult sexual contacts with children, whether this involves molestation by strangers or incestuous acts by family members. The book explores how and why concern about the sexual offender has fluctuated in North America since the late nineteenth century."
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/18/us/a-lurid-mysterious-scandal-begins-taking-shape-in-omaha.html
A Lurid, Mysterious Scandal Begins Taking Shape in Omaha- Dec. 18, 1988
For several weeks a Federal investigation has riveted attention here on a failed local credit union formed to help the poor, on $38 million that it is missing and on its manager, a nationally active Republican politician whom the Government accuses of embezzling at least some of the funds.
Now the inquiry, joined by state investigations, is widening and has begun to take on the stark trappings of lurid melodrama.
The collapse of the credit union and the Government's lawsuit alleging embezzlement were the extent of the case, at least on the public record, until last Monday. Then rumors that had been circulating in Omaha for much of the last month made their way into remarks presented to the Executive Board of the State Legislature in Lincoln. The speaker was State Senator Ernie Chambers of Omaha, who said he had received numerous reports, to which he clearly gave credence, that instances of child sexual and physical abuse were linked to the scandal.
Mr. Chambers did not describe the nature of that linkage and has consistently declined to identify the sources of the reports, going only so far as to tell The Omaha World-Herald that they were people I consider credible. But participants in a closed meeting that followed the Executive Board's public session say he told of boys and girls, some of them from foster homes, who had been transported around the country by airplane to provide sexual favors, for which they were rewarded. Three Related Inquiries
The Executive Board, which acts for the full Legislature in periods of adjournment, had been called into session to organize a committee that would investigate only the credit union's collapse. But by the end of the day Monday, the committee, with Mr. Chambers as vice chairman, had been given a mandate to look into the broader case as well.
Then the Omaha office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation acknowledged that it had independently received reports of sexual abuse and that they were a subject of its own criminal inquiry into the credit union affair. And the office of the Nebraska Attorney General said it had directed the state police also to investigate the reports.
If sensation has begun to characterize the case, so has mystery. The various investigators, their efforts barely begun, decline to speak of them in detail. Mr. Chambers himself says he wants to disclose just enough to encourage those with information on the affair to give testimony before the legislative committee.
As a result, there are these large gaps in public knowledge about the case, among others:
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If child prostitution was involved, how vast was it?
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If foster homes were involved, which ones?
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Nick O'Hara, special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s Omaha office, says his investigation centers also on money-laundering, but he will not elaborate.
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State Senator Loran Schmit, chairman of the legislative committee, says a responsible law-enforcement person has told him that drugs were involved, but the Senator declines to say in what way.
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In the Executive Board's public session Monday, Mr. Chambers said the activities of Lawrence E. King Jr., the credit union's manager for the last 18 years and the central figure in its collapse, were just the tip of an iceberg, and he's not in it by himself. But Mr. Chambers added nothing that would shed light on his cryptic assertion. The Defendant's Denial
None of the investigators have declared that Mr. King personally recruited or abused young people, although the inquiries are clearly aimed in part at determining whether children were transported or paid with any of the money that the Government's suit accuses him of diverting from the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union.
The suit was brought last month in Federal District Court here, where Mr. King has filed a motion denying all the allegations of embezzlement.
Mr. King's lawyer, William Morrow, has declined to make him available for press interviews. But Mr. Morrow said his client contended that personal payments and contributions of more than $4 million that Mr. King made this year and last, all of them itemized by the Government in documents that it filed with its suit, had come from his own accounts at the credit union. Records to support that contention are not available, Mr. Morrow said, because all the credit union's papers have been seized by Federal agents.
As for the inquiries into sexual abuse, Mr. Morrow noted a World-Herald article Tuesday in which Mr. O'Hara, the F.B.I. agent, was quoted as saying, We are looking for credible witnesses.
I think, said Mr. Morrow, that he is saying the F.B.I. has no credible evidence. A Flamboyant Figure
Mr. King is a 44-year-old Omaha resident who wholly or partly owns several small businesses here and lives with his wife and school-age son in a large house in one of the city's better neighborhoods. He is a tall, expansive figure well known for his costly style of dressing, lavish celebrations and extensive travel, sometimes in chartered jets and often with an entourage of young men.
In 1972 he headed a national political organization, Black Democrats for George McGovern. But he gained greater prominence after he had switched parties a while later, serving for a time as vice chairman of the National Black Republican Council, an official affiliate of the Republican Party, and becoming a familiar figure on the Republican social scene.
Mr. King has maintained a $5,000-a-month residence off Embassy Row in Washington and has also entertained generously at Republican National Conventions. At the 1984 gathering, in Dallas, where he sang the national anthem on the convention floor, he rented the ranch where the television series Dallas is filmed and organized a party there for black Republicans. And at this year's convention, in New Orleans, an organization he heads, the Council on Minority Americans, held another spectacular celebration, this one in a building where stored paraphernalia of the Mardi Gras provided a dramatic backdrop. Dismay in Omaha
Mr. King's trouble with the authorities came to the surface early last month when officials of the Government's National Credit Union Administration, acting on information from the F.B.I. and the Internal Revenue Service, arrived at the offices of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union and shut it down. Then, on Nov. 14, the agency, which oversees the nation's federally chartered credit unions and insures their deposits, filed the Government suit against Mr. King, whose salary as Franklin Community's manager had been less than $17,000 a year.
The development spread shock among the city's business and political leaders. Some of them, including Mayor Walt Calinger, had been devoted supporters of the credit union, in the belief that by helping to attract deposits there they were providing a source of funds for the poor north Omaha area that Franklin Community had been created to serve.
The suit said Government investigators had been able to find Franklin Community assets totaling only $2.5 million. It put the amount of missing money at $34 million, a figure that the National Credit Union Administration has since revised upward, to about $38 million. Most of the missing funds, the suit said, are reflected in Franklin Community records showing that at least $35 million in certificates of deposit sold by the credit union are outstanding as liabilities, including more than $33 million recorded in a second and secret set of books.
Documents filed with the suit itemize large payments that the Government says Mr. King made with money from Franklin Community accounts. Among them were more than $1 million to American Express for credit card charges; $148,000 to limousine services in Omaha, New Orleans and the New York City area; $120,000 for car leases; nearly $60,000 to jewelry stores; $55,000 in rent for his Washington home; $45,000 to a charter-plane service, and various sums in donations to charitable and political organizations, including $25,000 to Citizens for America, a group of conservative lobbyists, and $18,000 to the Human Rights Campaign Fund, a political action committee for homosexuals that focuses chiefly on AIDS-related issues.
In all, the listed payments, for periods of the last two years that totaled 13 months, amounted to $4.6 million. Where did the rest of the missing $38 million go? It's been a massive operation reconstructing the whole thing, said J. Leonard Stiles, regional director of the credit union agency, and a lot of things still remain a mystery to us.
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/25/us/nebraska-inquiry-is-given-file-on-sex-abuse-of-foster-children.html
Nebraska Inquiry Is Given File on Sex Abuse of Foster Children- Dec. 25, 1988
A state file containing reports of physical and sexual abuse of foster children, based on interviews with some of the children and including one instance reminiscent of slave auctions, has been turned over to the Executive Board of the Nebraska Legislature.
People familiar with the file's contents describe it as a voluminous compilation of reports acquired over the last two years by the State Foster Care Review Board from a variety of child care professionals, including schoolteachers and social workers.
Three leading officials of the review board, which monitors the quality of care in Nebraskan foster homes, submitted the file Monday in a closed meeting with the Executive Board. It will be used by an investigative committee that the Executive Board had already begun forming to look into earlier reports of child sexual abuse and how that abuse might be linked to the collapse of a small Omaha credit union. Good Parties and Bad Parties
One of the reports in the file, according to a source familiar with it, is an account by an interviewer of a narrative provided by a reputed victim, who described parties at various places, including Omaha and cities to which she was flown on the East Coast.
The way she described it, some were good parties and some were bad parties, said this source, who went on to describe scenes of abuse, including one in which the victim, a teen-ager, was made to stand nude at a party while she was offered at auction to the highest bidder.
I don't know if they can prove it, the source said, but if one-tenth of what that girl is saying is true, I'd sure hate to have her talking about me.
The foster care agency's submission of the file is among the latest developments in a case that began surfacing Nov. 4, when the Government's National Credit Union Administration shut down the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union in Omaha. The agency, which oversees the nation's federally chartered credit unions and insures their deposits, subsequently filed suit against Lawrence E. King Jr., Franklin Community's manager and treasurer, charging him with diverting millions of dollars of the institution's money to his own purposes. In all, the agency says, Franklin Community is missing $38 million.
Mr. King has not been accused of personally engaging in child sexual abuse. But a number of widening Federal and state investigations into the credit union's collapse are aimed in part at determining whether any of the money he is accused of embezzling was ever used to transport children or to pay them for sexual favors.
Mr. King, a 44-year-old former vice chairman of the National Black Republican Council, an official affiliate of the Republican Party, has denied all allegations of embezzlement, and in an interview last week his lawyer discounted any link between the credit union case and child abuse. Some Mystery Remains
The number of children involved in that abuse remains something of a mystery, as does the identity of any foster homes involved. The person who spoke of the contents of the foster care agency's file declined to discuss these elements of the case.
One of Franklin Community's employees, a man hired to sell large certificates of deposit that are said to have provided most of the funds that kept the credit union operating, said in a recent interview that on the day it was shut down, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation immediately began asking questions on other subjects.
They asked me about child pornography, drugs and Larry King's life style, in exactly that order, he said. Subseqently, he said, he was called before a Federal grand jury in Omaha and asked to describe his job activities.
The source who spoke of the file's contents said that it reflected efforts dating back several months to spur various investigative agencies to look into the possibility of abuse. And besides the report of auctioning of the services of a teen-ager, the source said, it contains information from other interviews, including some from a child care specialist, Julie Walters, who moved from Omaha late last year to take a position as a juvenile probation officer in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Walters, reached by telephone, told of interviews with two teen-agers who, she said, described physical cruelty to children at foster care homes as well as sexual abuse of teen-agers at parties in Omaha, New York, Chicago and Washington.
Earlier this week, she told an Omaha reporter of a teen-ager's description of a party involving sex between more than two people, same sex and opposite sex.
It's a horrible thing for me professionally and emotionally, she said in the telephone interview, to go through watching kids disclosing things that are very traumatic for them, verbalizing situations in which they were victims and saying they knew that nothing would ever be done about it.
But, she added, that is not uncommon for victims of child abuse.