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Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has condemned a big power deal
with Iran on its nuclear activity, said he would meet U.S. President
Obama in Washington next month to further the goal of denying Tehran an
atomic bomb capability.
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President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor Susan "Benghazi video" Rice appeared on Friday before a room full of news reporters regarding the Wall Street Journal's story
about a letter from Obama sent to Iran's supreme leader and not one
reporter questioned her veracity. Rice stated that the Obama
administration has not engaged in any operations against the Islamic
State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) nor are there any plans to do so.
White House Press Office
Rice, who angered a large number of Americans when she blamed a
YouTube video for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi,
Libya, in 2012, was sent out to do what she does best: look straight
into a television camera and "lie through her teeth on behalf of hr
feckless bosses in the White House," said former military intelligence
officer and police anti-terrorism operative Michael Snopes.
"When [Susan] Rice shows up, get ready to be lied to. With four
Americans dead in Benghazi and radical Islamic groups vying for power in
the post-Gaddafi Libya -- which she should have known about -- Rice
blamed a poorly produced motion picture about the Islamic Prophet
Mohammed. As far as a lie, it ranked right up there with Bill Clinton's
'I never had sex with that woman... Monica Lewinsky,'" Snopes quipped .
Ms. Rice told reporters point blank: the United States is not engaged
in any type of military coordination with Iran over combating the
Islamic State militants. However, she stopped short of denying the
letter from President Obama to Iran's real leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei. As described in an Examiner news story,
The Wall Street Journal claims that the Obama letter was supposed to be
a top secret document, but counterterrorism analyst, former police
training officer Larry Bengalina, who trained cops in Iraq and
Afghanistan, said he believes the letter was actually leaked by Obama's
White House minions in order to show Americans he's "on top of the war
on ISIS."
"The fact is that in his figurative eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation
with the Iranian government, Obama blinked," said Bengalina, who is a
candidate for a doctorate in public safety administration. "The Iranians
weren't oblivious to Obama's 'red line' with Assad that showed our
President was all talk. That so-called red line appears to have moved to
U.S. states such as Arizona and Texas, where Obama decided to sic his
Attorney General [Eric Holder] on GOP politicians and sheriffs who dared
to try to curtail illegal immigration," he told the Examiner on Friday morning.
Rice also dismissed any link between Iran's nuclear program and the
campaign against the Islamic State. "We have never made that linkage, so
the reports that suggest the contrary are inaccurate," she told
reporters the White House Press Corps on Friday.
The Wall Street Journal had reported on Thursday that in his letter
sent to Khamenei in the middle of last month, Obama stressed that "any
cooperation on Islamic State was largely contingent on Iran reaching a
comprehensive agreement with global powers on the future of Tehran 's
nuclear program by a Nov. 24 diplomatic deadline."
Safety of children in general was not a consideration
No abusers will be prosecuted
Victims banned from launch of shocking report
Church
leaders and government watchdogs covered up 'endemic' and 'ritualised'
abuse of thousands of children in Roman Catholic schools and orphanages
in the Irish Republic, a shocking report revealed yesterday.
For
six decades, priests and nuns terrorised boys and girls in the
workhouse-style schools with sexual, physical and mental abuse.
Kevin Flannigan, right, and John Kelly, left,
from the group Survivors of Child Abuse, protest at not being allowed
into the launch of the long-awaited Child Abuse Commission report at the
Conrad Hotel Dublin
But officials in Ireland's Catholic
Church shielded paedophile staff from arrest to protect their own
reputations despite knowing they were serial attackers, according to the
2,600-page report, which took nine years to complete.
Irish government inspectors also failed to stop the chronic beatings, rape and humiliation, it found.
Justice Sean Ryan launches the report at the Conrad Hotel in Dublin today - but refuses to take questions from journalists
About 35,000 children and teenagers who were orphans, petty thieves,
truants, unmarried mothers or from dysfunctional families were sent to
Ireland's network of 250 Church-run industrial schools, reformatories,
orphanages and hostels from the 1930s up until the early 1990s.
The
report by Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse found 'a
climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary
punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for
boys'.
It added: 'Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from.'
Judge
Sean Ryan, who chaired the commission, said that when confronted with
evidence of sex abuse, religious authorities responded by moving the sex
offenders to another location, where in many instances they were free
to abuse again.
'There was evidence that such men took up
teaching positions sometimes within days of receiving dispensations
because of serious allegations or admissions of sexual abuse,' the
report said.
'The safety of children in general was not a consideration.'
The leader of Ireland's four million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady,
said he was 'sorry and deeply ashamed' after the report was published
yesterday.
'Children deserved better and especially from those caring for them in the name of Jesus Christ,' he said.
The report found that molestation and rape were 'endemic' in boys' facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers order.
Judge Sean Ryan, centre, delivers the Child Abuse Commission report at the Conrad Hotel in Dublin to a media frenzy today
Girls supervised by orders of nuns,
chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered much less sexual abuse but
frequent assaults and humiliation designed to make them feel worthless.
'In some schools a high level of ritualised beating was routine,' the report said.
'Girls
were struck with implements designed to maximize pain and were struck
on all parts of the body. Personal and family denigration was
widespread.'
Victims of the system have long demanded that the truth of their experiences be documented and made public.
John Kelly, from the group Survivors of Child Abuse, protests at not being allowed into the hotel for the launch today
But some victims' groups said the report didn't go far enough,
particularly because there will not be any prosecutions as a result.
This
is because in 2004 the Christian Brothers secured a ruling that
guaranteed all of its members, dead or alive, would remain anonymous in
the report.
John Kelly, from victim group Irish Survivors of
Child Abuse, said the report should have examined how children like
himself were taken away from parents without just cause, and why Irish
governments ceded control over the lives of so many young people to the
Church.
Children at work in one of the notorious Magdalen asylum, earlier this summer
He said any apologies offered now were 'hollow, shallow and have no substance or merit at all'.
The group's John Walsh said he felt 'cheated and deceived' that the perpetrators would not be brought to justice.
Mr
Walsh said: 'I would have never opened my wounds if I'd known this was
going to be the end result. It has devastated me and will devastate most
victims because there are no criminal proceedings and no accountability
whatsoever.'
The victims were also banned from entering the Press conference on the report held in a Dublin hotel.
Ellen
O'Malley-Dunlop, chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, said
of the victims: 'The way that they have been treated here has been
disgraceful and is in effect little more than a repetition of abusive
behaviour.'
Key steps in struggle to confront child abuse in the Catholic Church
June 1994 Catholic
priest Brendan Smyth pleads guilty to 17 counts of indecently
assaulting five girls and two boys in Belfast. His order, the
Norbertines, spent decades shuttling him among Irish and American
parishes and harbored Smyth from British arrest.
November 1994 Taoiseach
Albert Reynolds resigns, and his government collapses, amid claims that
his attorney general colluded with church authorities to delay the
British extradition demand for Smyth. It shatters the taboo against
pursuing criminal charges against priests.
July 1995 Former
altar boy Andrew Madden becomes first person to speak publicly about
abuse by a priest. Madden says the Church paid him €35,000 to keep quiet
about three years of assaults by Fr Ivan Payne. Archbishop Desmond
Connell denies the deal until Madden provides documentary proof of
church payoff. Case spurs hundreds to pursue civil lawsuits against
church authorities.
January 1996 Panel
of Irish Catholic leaders instruct bishops to tell senior police
officers ‘without delay’ about all suspected sex-abuse cases. Some
bishops continue to suppress such information over the coming decade.
February 1996 Dear
Daughter, a documentary shown on RTÉ details abuse suffered by
Christine Buckley and others at St Vincent's Industrial School,
Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin.
July 1997 After
serving prison term in Northern Ireland, Smyth is extradited south and
pleads guilty to 74 counts of sexually abusing 20 boys and girls between
1958 and 1993. He dies of a heart attack one month into 12 year
sentence.
January 1998 Payne is convicted in Dublin on 14 counts of sexually abusing eight boys aged 11 to 14. He serves only four years in prison.
March 1999 Fr
Sean Fortune commits suicide in prison while awaiting trial on 66
criminal charges of molesting and raping 29 boys in the southeast Ferns
diocese. One Fortune victim, former altar boy Colm O'Gorman, launches
victims support group One in Four. It lobbies government for
investigations into abuse cases, particularly in Ferns.
April 1999 Groundbreaking
documentary series ‘States of Fear’ by RTÉ exposes abuse of children in
church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.
May 1999 Taoiseach
Bertie Ahern issues ‘long overdue apology’ to all those abused in
church-run institutions and vows to establish a financial compensation
board and a fact-finding commission into extent of abuse. Ms Justice
Mary Laffoy is appointed to head the Commission to Inquire into Child
Abuse.
May 2000 Government
gives investigatory powers to Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse to
measure causes and extent of unchecked child abuse in institutions from
1937 onward.
July 2001 The deadline for complaints of abuse to be made to the Commission. Some 3,149 people ask to testify.
April 2002 Ferns
Bishop Brendan Comiskey becomes first, and only, church figure to
resign because of failures to stop abuse. He admits he did too little to
stop pedophile priests.
December 2002 Government
establishes board to pay compensation to people who suffered sexual,
physical or mental abuse in church-run institutions. Payouts require
claimants to give up their right to sue church and state authorities.
Taxpayers, not the church, cover bulk of cost.
September 2003 High
Court Judge Mary Laffoy resigns complaining that the Department of
Education, which holds most records on church-run institutions, is
obstructing her investigation into child abuse. Her successor, Justice
Sean Ryan, says probe must severely limit the number of abuse cases it
considers or it will never finish.
April 2004 A
Vatican modernizer and diplomat, Diarmuid Martin, replaces Connell as
Dublin archbishop. Pledges full cooperation with state and police in
exposing past cover-ups of abuse and protecting children in future.
June 2004 Judge
Ryan announces the Commission will not name abusers unless they have
been convicted. The Christian Brothers religious order drops legal
actions against the Commission.
July 2004 The
Christian Brothers testify at a public hearing that files only recently
discovered in its Rome-based archive show evidence of 30 canonical
trials of brothers based on proven incidents of child sexual abuse
against boys in their care from the 1930s onwards.
October 2005 Investigation
led by retired Supreme Court justice finds that church, police and
state authorities did too little to stop sexual abuse of hundreds of
children by 21 priests in Ferns. Report says Ferns bishops sheltered and
promoted priests known to have raped altar boys and molested
schoolgirls on an altar.
December 2005 Residential
Institutions Redress Board says more than 14,000 people who claim to
have suffered childhood abuse in church-run institutions have filed
claims for state payouts.
December 2008 Board
says it has paid nearly 12,000 victims average of €64,230 each, about
2,000 claims remain. Cost including lawyers' fees expected to reach
€1.1bn.
May 20, 2009 Commission
to Inquire into Child Abuse unveils 2,575-page report into thousands of
child abuse cases in institutions. Two more reports into the church's
protection of sex-predator priests in the Dublin archdiocese and the
southwest diocese of Cloyne may be published later this year.
Once again the abuse of children in Islam knows no bounds, even for their own flesh and blood.
Muslims have many backwards and disturbing traditions and rites of
passage, but one tradition enacted by parents in particular is outraging
human rights activists.
The scene is the balcony of a mosque in Karnataka, India, at least 30
ft high. An imam holds an infant by their hands and feet over the
ledge. He vigorously shakes the child, then drops him.
No, this isn’t ISIS delighting in their latest slaughter of Christian
babies. This is a Muslim leader, and the child is undergoing their
first rite of passage.
The imam lets the terrified child plummet to a fellow Muslims holding
an extended blanket below. The terrified child sobs as his family
celebrates.
The ceremony is believed to bring good luck, health, and prosperity.
A video of one of these ceremonies from 2009 shows imams shaking and dropping frightened babies:
Although the tradition was banned in 2011, Muslims reintroduced the traumatic event into mosques.
Phishers frequently introduce bogus applications to add new flavor
into their phishing baits. Let’s have a look at a new fake app that
phishers are leveraging. In this particular scam, phishers were trying
to steal login credentials, but their means of data theft wasn’t with
the phishing bait alone. Their ploy also used malware for harvesting
users’ confidential information. The phishing site spoofed the login
page of Facebook and was hosted on a free web hosting site.
Figure 1: The phishing site that spoofed the appearance of Facebook’s login page
The phishing site boasted that the application would enable users
to view a list of people who visited their profile page. The site
offered two options to activate the fake app. The first option was by
downloading software containing the malware and the second was by
entering user credentials and logging into Facebook. A message on the
phishing page encouraged users to download the software that would
allegedly send notifications to the user when someone visited their
Facebook profile. If the download button was clicked, a file download
prompt appeared. The file contained malicious content detected by
Symantec as Infostealer. On the other hand, if user credentials were entered, the phishing site redirected to a legitimate Facebook page.
Symantec analyzed the malware and found its behavior to be as follows:
The malware consists of two executable files that both perform the same action
The files are added to the registry run key, which execute after every reboot.
The malware sets up a key logger in order to track anything that the victim types.
Then, it will check if there is internet connectivity by pinging www.google.com. If there is connectivity, the malware will send all information gathered to the attacker’s email address.
Symantec observed that the email address has not been valid for 3
months and hence the malware is not able to send updates to the attacker
at the moment.
If users fell victim to the phishing site by entering their login
credentials, the phishers would have successfully stolen their
information for identity theft purposes.
Internet users are advised to follow best practices to avoid phishing attacks:
Check the URL in the address bar when logging into your account and make sure it belongs to the website that you want to go to
Do not click on suspicious links in email messages
Do not provide any personal information when answering an email
Do not enter personal information in a pop-up page or window
Ensure that the website is encrypted with an SSL certificate by
looking for the padlock image/icon, “https” or the green address bar
when entering personal or financial information
Use comprehensive security software, such as Norton Internet
Security or Norton 360, which protects you from phishing scams and
social networking scams
Exercise caution when clicking on enticing links sent through email or posted on social networks
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