Sex, kids, Republican "anti-party"? (comic)

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Why do British royals, holy rollers like cardinals, and Western political elites crave pedophilia so very much? Controversial David Icke explains; the may be too disturbing to countenance or accept.

Icke has been reporting on deceased Jimmy Savile's pedophilia, child trafficking, and procurement of hapless kids for years. Yet only now with the enormous BBC scandal is Icke being taken seriously. 

An episode of the "Liberty Tactics" show features Icke (davidicke.com) where he discloses not only royal pedophilia that involved Princess Diana, but child abductions from orphanages and care homes, necrophilia, and abuse of mentally and physically handicapped individuals.

The BBC's Savile is notorious in England for his horrific sex abuses

 

"My Body My Rights" art

The accusations are so shocking that no right thinking person can take them seriously at first. But Icke goes deeper to implicate unseen forces inspiring this aberrant behavior that even involves killing children in rich, influential circles. These forces first inspire then enter or "possess" a person and thereby engage in the activity by proxy, ruining various lives along the way.

Did the rich and powerful not invite them in to gain such power? So is it not, in that sense and to that extent, also their karma for which they will also meet with the consequences? And when Hollywood starlets say an "Illuminati" group

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Hypocritical homosexual haven the Vatican, corporate Capital of Catholicism, moves "age of consent" up from 12

I surrender. I didn't know he was 11.

(GSN) Pope Francis has announced an overhaul of the Vatican City [State] criminal code, with the age of consent raised and stiffer punishments for pedophiles within the city state. The Holy See also known as Vatican City’s equal age of consent is being raised from 12 to 18 following the announcement of an overhaul of the Catholic Church’s criminal code by Pope Francis. [Bishops, cardinals, and visiting priests have to have some limits. They can consort in nearby Rome if they don't like it.] More
 

[Zen Buddhist] Japan finally bans child porn

AFP (via Telegraph.co.uk)

Kabuki, bukak', Kabukicho Red Light district, Tokyo: little Japan's huge sex industry (Alamy)

 

Hey, kids, want to see some anime?

Possession of child pornography has finally been made illegal in Japan, but paedophilic images in manga comic books remain legal.

Japan on Wednesday finally fell into line with other major developed countries and made the possession of child pornography illegal. But the sometimes graphic images of pedophilia in manga comic books remain legal.
 
The upper house of parliament voted overwhelmingly for a bill revising laws under which only the production and distribution of child pornography had been banned.
 

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The legislation cleared the lower house earlier this month.
 

Campaigners had long urged Japan to toughen its stance on child pornography, complaining it was a major source of the material for global markets.
 

The new legislation bans possession of photographs and videos depicting real children aged below 18, but it does not include drawings or digitally-created imagery. More

Retrospective on Radical Feminism (audio)

Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly; Moira Rankin, Deborah George, From the Vault (FTV 409)

According to author Masha Gessen, Pussy Riot's Nadia was inspired by the radical history of women's liberation in the West. It inspired her to awaken a movement in Russia (AFP).

 

Russia's Pussy Riot

Guest host Lynn Ballen, producer of KPFK (L.A.) Radio's "Feminist Magazine," introduces "A Retrospective on Radical Feminism."

It was produced in 1980 by Moira Rankin and co-produced by Deborah George for Sophie’s Parlor Collective, the oldest women’s radio collective on the air at Pacifica’s youngest station, WPFW in Washington, D.C. Composed of interviews, actions, and music, it includes:

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Oh, ladies, do behave! (MO)

Alix Kates Shulman, activist and author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is interviewed and reads from her book, Burning Questions. 
Fannie Lou Hamer, founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, recalls the physical abuse she suffered in prison in a 1966 KPFA (Berkeley) interview. 
Joan Byron, a member of The Furies, [which as part of the Lavender Menace was] one the first radical lesbian separatist groups describes, their reasons for organizing. 

Anais Nin, From the Vault (FTV 408)

Betty Friedan renounces her position on the lesbian issue she had dubbed the "Lavender Menace" and supports the sexual preference resolution at the 1977 United States International Women’s Year Conference in Houston, Texas. 
Carol Downer, one of the founders of the Los Angeles Feminist Health Clinic, speaks about the need for women to control their own bodies and have access to abortions. 

Manhandled Femen topless activist (femen.org)

Edith Barksdale Sloane, Executive Director of the National Committee on Household Employment, is interviewed about the need for basic services for women. 
Donna Keck, a founder of Women: A Journal of Liberation, speaks about race within the women’s movement.
Activist Cynthia Washington speaks about all the aspects of oppression including racism, classism, elitism, sexism, and ageism.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration, and past grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the support of Pacifica listeners. It also thanks its partners and collaborators at the Pop-Up Archive, Amara, Other Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the California Audio Visual Preservation Project.

  

PURCHASE a copy of this program or learn more about the historic archival recordings used within this episode. Buy a CD copy by phone at Pacifica Radio Archives: (800) 735-0230 extension 262. 

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Why for-profit prisons fill with inmates of color

Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; Rina Palta (NPR/SCPR.org, March 13, 2014) Why for-profit prisons house more inmates of color; Robert May (facebook.com)

"Kids for Cash" is a shocking and riveting real-life documentary thriller that rivals fiction.

"Kids for Cash" examines the notorious true story of judicial scandal that has recently rocked the nation. Beyond the millions of dollars paid to corrupt judges to jail kids by private for-profit prisons, it exposes a shocking American secret. In the wake of the shootings at Columbine, a small town celebrates a law-and-order judge who is hell-bent on keeping kids "in line." Then one parent dares to question the real motives behind his brand of "justice." This real-life story reveals the untold stories of the masterminds at the center of the scandal to fill up for-profit prisons with any children available, guilty or not, and the chilling aftermath of lives destroyed in the process. It is a stunning emotional roller coaster.

A new study by a UC Berkeley graduate student has surprised a number of experts in the criminology field. Its main finding is that private prisons are packed with young people of color.

 

The concept of racial disparities behind bars is not new. Study after study, report after report, working group after working group has found a version of the same conclusion [ -- the country and courts are affected by ethnic prejudice, economic biases, and subtle racism that people find too uncomfortable to discuss or recognize]. 

Prisons for Profit (WQ)

The Sentencing Project estimates that one in three black men will spend time behind bars during their lifetime, compared to one in six Latino men, and one in seventeen white men. Arrest rates for marijuana possession are four times higher for black Americans than white Americans. 

 

Black men spend an average of 20 percent longer behind bars [when everything else is controlled for] in federal prisons than their white peers do for the same crimes.

 

These reports and thousands of others have the cumulative effect of portraying a criminal [in]justice system that disproportionately incarcerates black Americans and people of color in general.

 

Ruining lives the racist way: a young inmate of color walks through yard at the North Central Correctional Institution in Marion, Ohio, which recently switched to private for-pro management (Ty Wright/Bloomberg via Getty Images).

  

Int'l Women's Day, L.A. (WQ)

Berkeley sociology Ph.D. student Christopher Petrella's finding in "The Color of Corporate Corrections," however, tackles a different beast.

Beyond the historical over-representation of people of color in county jails and federal and state prisons, Petrella found that people of color "are further overrepresented in private prisons contracted by departments of correction in Arizona, California, and Texas."

This would mean that the racial disparities in private prisons housing state inmates are even greater than in publicly-run prisons. His paper sets out to explain why -- a question that starts with race, but takes him down a surprising path.

Age, race, and money

Prisoner (themonastery.org)

First, let's look at a bit of background. Private prisons house 128,195 inmates on behalf of the federal government and state governments (in 2010 numbers, which have increased by 2014). There is a continual debate among legislators and administrators as to which is more cost effective -- running a government-operated prison, with its government workers (and unions), or hiring a private for-profit company (like GEO or Corrections Corporation of America) to house prisoners. States like California, Arizona, and Texas use a combination... More

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