The BIGGER Issue is Never The Mistake, It’s The Cover-up: 7 Years Of Litigation Reveals An Astounding Depth Of Governmental Inability To Admit A Simple Mistake…

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The BIGGER Issue is Never The Mistake, It’s The Cover-up: 7 Years Of Litigation Reveals An Astounding Depth Of Governmental Inability To Admit A Simple Mistake…

WH Report"s Shocking Stat: 7% of College Men Admit to Attempting Rape, Most of Them Multiple Times

Obama announces task force to deal with epidemic of college sexual assault, says it"s personal.

A White House report released Wednesday brings to light to a shocking statistic: 7 percent of college men admit they have attempted rape, 63 percent of those have been involved in multiple assaults, averaging 6 each. And those are the ones that admit it.

No wonder then, the shocking number of victims: 1 in every 5 female students are said to be sexually assaulted, while only 1 in 8 report the attacks. 

The report states that nearly 22 million American women and 1.6 million men have been raped, resulting in devastating aftereffects, such as depression, which can lead to substance abuse and a host of physical ailments that take their toll for years afterwards.

On Wednesday, President Obama vowed to take on the epidemic, and announced he had formed a White House task force to study how best to do it. 

“No one is more at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted than women at our nation’s colleges and universities,” the report by the White House Council on Women and Girls read, highlighting both the devastating statistical probability of being sexually assaulted, as well as the low number of reported cases because of lingering cultural stigma. 

The report also linked campus sexual assaults to drinking and drug use that can often incapacitate victims at various student parties—often at the hands of someone they know. In his announcement, the President emphasized the importance of changing the attitudes of those who perpetrate sexual asssault. 

“We need to encourage young people, men and women, to realize that sexual assault is simply unacceptable,” President Obama said, pointing out that the issue affects him both as president and as the father of two daughters. “They’re going to have to summon the bravery to stand up and say so, especially when the social pressure to keep quiet or to go along can be very intense.”

The President"s emphasis on exerting pressure on schools is due to what is seen as an historic failure to respond appropriately to campus assaults. In 2011, Amherst College student  Angie Epifano found her campus to be far from sympathetic when she reported a dorm room rape. She has said school counselors questioned her definition of rape, refused her request to change dorm rooms to get away from her attacker, and even had police take her to a psychiatric ward. 

The Associated Press reports that the Education Department has fined several universities for their failure to accurately report sexual assaults, most notably in 2006 when Eastern Michigan University was fined a then-record $ 357,000 for not revealing that a student had been sexually assaulted and murdered in her dorm room.

Organizations like Students Active for Ending Rape (a nonprofit group that works with students in an effort to push for major policy reform regarding sexual assault) said that more than 80 percent of colleges inadequately address sexual assault on campus—nearly one quarter fail completely to deal with it, and a third don’t even comply with the Clery Act, which required colleges and universities to publically record their crime statistics each year.

President Obama announced that the task force, made up of officials in the administration, has 90 days to come up with recommendations for colleges on how to prevent assault, and how to be held accountable should they fail to do so.

 

 

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Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack

Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
August 30, 2013

Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

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“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,”writes Gavlak.

Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.

“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.

His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”

Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel, also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as Abu Ayesha.

According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels.

“More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government,” writes Gavlak.

If accurate, this story could completely derail the United States’ rush to attack Syria which has been founded on the “undeniable” justification that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack. Dale Gavlak’s credibility is very impressive. He has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR).

Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in providing rebels, whom they have vehemently backed at every turn, with chemical weapons, is no surprise given the revelations earlier this week that the Saudis threatened Russia with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi unless they abandoned support for the Syrian President.

“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Prince Bandar allegedly told Vladimir Putin, the Telegraph reports.

The Obama administration is set to present its intelligence findings today in an effort prove that Assad’s forces were behind last week’s attack, despite American officials admitting to the New York Times that there is no “smoking gun” that directly links President Assad to the attack.

US intelligence officials also told the Associated Press that the intelligence proving Assad’s culpability is “no slam dunk.”

As we reported earlier this week, intercepted intelligence revealed that the Syrian Defense Ministry was making “panicked” phone calls to Syria’s chemical weapons department demanding answers in the hours after the attack, suggesting that it was not ordered by Assad’s forces.

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Rebels Admit Responsibility for Chemical Weapons Attack

Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
August 30, 2013

Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press journalist Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

Image: YouTube

“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,”writes Gavlak.

Rebels told Gavlak that they were not properly trained on how to handle the chemical weapons or even told what they were. It appears as though the weapons were initially supposed to be given to the Al-Qaeda offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra.

“We were very curious about these arms. And unfortunately, some of the fighters handled the weapons improperly and set off the explosions,” one militant named ‘J’ told Gavlak.

His claims are echoed by another female fighter named ‘K’, who told Gavlak, “They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them. We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”

Abu Abdel-Moneim, the father of an opposition rebel, also told Gavlak, “My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry,” describing them as having a “tube-like structure” while others were like a “huge gas bottle.” The father names the Saudi militant who provided the weapons as Abu Ayesha.

According to Abdel-Moneim, the weapons exploded inside a tunnel, killing 12 rebels.

“More than a dozen rebels interviewed reported that their salaries came from the Saudi government,” writes Gavlak.

If accurate, this story could completely derail the United States’ rush to attack Syria which has been founded on the “undeniable” justification that Assad was behind the chemical weapons attack. Dale Gavlak’s credibility is very impressive. He has been a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press for two decades and has also worked for National Public Radio (NPR).

Saudi Arabia’s alleged role in providing rebels, whom they have vehemently backed at every turn, with chemical weapons, is no surprise given the revelations earlier this week that the Saudis threatened Russia with terror attacks at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi unless they abandoned support for the Syrian President.

“I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us,” Prince Bandar allegedly told Vladimir Putin, the Telegraph reports.

The Obama administration is set to present its intelligence findings today in an effort prove that Assad’s forces were behind last week’s attack, despite American officials admitting to the New York Times that there is no “smoking gun” that directly links President Assad to the attack.

US intelligence officials also told the Associated Press that the intelligence proving Assad’s culpability is “no slam dunk.”

As we reported earlier this week, intercepted intelligence revealed that the Syrian Defense Ministry was making “panicked” phone calls to Syria’s chemical weapons department demanding answers in the hours after the attack, suggesting that it was not ordered by Assad’s forces.

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VIDEO: Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn Confirm Relationship!

We had our doubts about this dating rumor but thanks to new pics we have all the proof we need! A professional photo shoot is one way to set the record straight but Tiger and Lindsey took it a step further, each posting statuses on Facebook confirming they are in fact dating! Both the golfer and Olympic skier made mention of the fact they started off as friends, but said over the last few months they have become very close.

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