THE REPORT

venerdì 16 settembre 2016

Anonymous’ Hack of WADA Reveals Williams Sisters, Simone Biles, Took Banned Substances

As is being reported by multiple sources, a group known as the ‘Anonymous Fancy Bears’ have hacked the World Anti-Doping Agency and Court of Arbitration for Sports – again. The information leaked indicates that the William Sisters and gold medalist Simone Biles, all tested positive for banned substances, but were allowed to compete anyway.

In a statement available through their web site –http://fancybears.net – the Fancy Bears go on to say:

“Greetings citizens of the world. Allow us to introduce ourselves… We are Fancy Bears’ international hack team. We stand for fair play and clean sport. We announce the start of #OpOlympics. We are going to tell you how Olympic medals are won. We hacked World Anti-Doping Agency databases and we were shocked by what we saw. We will start with the U.S. team which has disgraced its name by tainted victories. We will also disclose exclusive information about other national Olympic teams later. Wait for sensational proof of famous athletes taking doping substances anytime soon, according to a brief message from Fancy Bears.“

The Fancy Bears then go on to accuse the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Olympics in general of playing favorites in regard to athletes and nationality.

“Just before the 2016 Summer Olympics, the U.S. team was reported to be one of the medal favorites while being on top of the Rio medal forecast. Besides, the USA is commonly known to be always ahead of the game. As predicted, the USA dominated the 2016 Olympics medal count with 46 gold, 37 silver, 38 bronze for 121 total. The U.S. team played well but not fair. After detailed studying of the hacked WADA databases, we figured out that dozens of American athletes had tested positive. The Rio Olympic medalists regularly used illicit strong drugs justified by certificates of approval for therapeutic use. In other words, they just got their licenses for doping. This is other evidence that WADA and IOC’s Medical and Scientific Department are corrupt and deceitful.“

It is largely being reported that Russian hackers are thought to be responsible for the hack – almost no one is reporting on the Fancy Bears or Anonymous. It makes sense, however, that Russian interests might be involved, due to the fact that an unprecedented number of Russian athletes were banned from competing at the Olympics, earlier this year. The World Anti-Doping Agency even went on record calling “for a blanket ban of all Russian athletes from the Olympic games in Rio.”

In addition to this, the entire Russian Paralympics team was banned from competing in the 2016 Special Olympics. Instead, the country opted to host their own version of the games in Russia, for all of the athletes who had worked so hard over the years. In the end, 271 Russian athletes were eventually allowed to participate in the games, but it is understandable why their may be same bad feelings involved.

To prove that the World Anti-Doping Agency operated with prejudice against the country of Russia, while at the same time protected the US’s top athletes in the same line of testing, the Fancy Bears publicly released the Williams Sisters and Simone Biles medical records/tests.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has condemned the breach and harshly criticized the group responsible. In an official statement released earlier today, WADA goes on to state:

““The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that a Russian cyber espionage group operator by the name of Tsar Team (APT28), also known as Fancy Bear, illegally gained access to WADA’s Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database via an International Olympic Committee (IOC)-created account for the Rio 2016 Games. The group accessed athlete data, including confidential medical data — such as Therapeutic Use Exemptions delivered by International Sports Federations (IFs) and National Anti-Doping Organizations (NADOs) — related to the Rio Games; and, subsequently released some of the data in the public domain, accompanied by the threat that they will release more….

….WADA deeply regrets this situation and is very conscious of the threat that it represents to athletes whose confidential information has been divulged through this criminal act,” said Olivier Niggli, Director General, WADA. “We are reaching out to stakeholders, such as the IOC, IFs and NADOs, regarding the specific athletes impacted.”

This is not the first time Anonymous has hacked WADA, only the most recent. Prior to the start of the Olympics in August 2016, various Anonymous groups throughout South American teamed up to ddos the Rio Olympic homepage, hack various channels of Rio’s government and dump files stolen from WADA’s servers.

Native American High School Student’s Grade Lowered for Not Standing for Pledge

(ANTIMEDIA) In the wake of the Colin Kaepernick national anthem controversy, American nationalism has shifted from overdrive to hyperdrive.

Though internet temper tantrums and jersey-burning have dominated protests against Kaepernick’s protest, the backlash is being felt in a different and more institutional way: in public schools.

This week, two stories of public schools forcing patriotism on students made headlines, highlighting a deeply-ingrained sense of American pride that pervades society — one that often begins in grade school with daily recitations of the pledge of allegiance.

One high school teacher in Lower Lake, California lowered the grades of two students who refused to stand for the pledge of allegiance, CBS SF Bay Area reports.

One of the students, Leilani Thomas, is Native American.

She says she won’t say the pledge “because of the history that happened here. On my land. My people’s land.” She added she is “not going to stand for the people who did this to my people.”

Thomas and another female student have refused to cite the daily pledge in their first-period class since the first day of school, a decision that upset the teacher.

CBS reports:

“When the girls got their grades Friday, their participation scores were docked from a five to a three because they refused to stand. Thomas recorded her teacher’s explanation in class.

‘Here’s the deal. If you really, really have an argument and feel so strongly about, then I need to see it written out — your argument — in an essay form,’ the teacher is heard saying. ‘Like, why? Why, because here’s the thing; those people, they’re not alive anymore. Your ancestors.’”

Thomas further elaborated on why the teacher insists the pledge is mandatory. “She says that it represents the military and that they risked their lives for us,” she summarized. “And I always tell her, ‘Well, my people risked our lives for our land, for our freedom. For our rights.”

The teacher is being investigated by the Lake County school district superintendent following a complaint from Thomas’s father.

In Collier County, Florida, however, compulsory patriotism has pervaded the administration of one high school. Local outlet NBC-2 reports:

“Lely High School Principal Ryan Nemeth told students during video announcements they’ll be ejected from school sporting events if they refuse to stand for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.’

“Nemeth told students the issue is very important to him, and the policy applies to students at all school-sponsored sporting events.”

“You will stand, and you will stay quiet. If you don’t.. you are going to be sent home, and you’re not going to have a refund of your ticket price,” he reportedly told students.

Nemeth’s harsh policy directly parallels the Kaepernick controversy, and like the incident in Lower Lake, it constitutes a violation of the first amendment.

Public school efforts to force shows of patriotism are often met with legal challenges and criticism. Even so, instances continue to occur across the country, sometimes incurring suspensions for ‘protesting’ students.

While incidents like these are often isolated to individual teachers and administrators, the notion that these individuals may force students to engage in nationalistic behaviors is contrary to the values said rituals allegedly revere.

Unfortunately, compulsory adherence to such rituals is but one example of the rigidity and conformity often imposed in public schools. It should be little surprise, then, that the American school model is based on one created in 19th century Prussia. As the Atlantic has explained, that system “was designed to build a common sense of national identity.”

But as the Lower Lake superintendent said:

“Students don’t lose their First Amendment rights when they walk in the door.”

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“Unbiased” Facebook: Co-Founder to Donate $20 Million to Elect Hillary Clinton

Risultati immagini per Dustin Moskovitz donates clinton

(ANTIMEDIA) When Gizmodo broke the news that Facebook allegedly suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers, Mark Zuckerberg, the social media website’s founder, took to his own page to deny the accusations, saying the platform is politically unbiased.

“Facebook stands for giving everyone a voice,” the 32-year-old wrote. “We believe the world is better when people from different backgrounds and with different ideas all have the power to share their thoughts and experiences.”

But when Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz announced in a blog post that he and his family would donate $20 million to the Hillary Clinton campaign, the internet barely blinked.

Claiming he thinks of this cycle as “different,” Moskovitz adds that “[t]he polarization in America today has yielded a race that is about much more than policies and ideas.” To the entrepreneur, the race between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton is about picking between “fear … tribalism, emphasizing the things that divide us” and “[continuing] in the direction of increased tolerance, diversity and interdependence in the name of mutual prosperity.”

To Moskovitz and his wife, it’s all about good versus evil, and that’s why he has finally decided to do his part.

Relying only on his words, we may conclude that candidate Clinton is the “kind,” more ethical choice, in spite of her record as a public servant.

Throughout her years as First Lady and later as a Senator and Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, Clinton became notorious for pushing laws that helped hurt the black community, voting for the Iraq war, and for fomenting misery and civil war in foreign lands by pushing the U.S. government to initiate regime change in Libya — an action that has been directly linked to the rise of ISIS.

Due to her record, left-leaning publications now admit Clinton is, indeed, a hawk. But many in the tech industry are still convinced that in order to destroy Trump’s chance at winning the presidency, they must come together with hawkish Republicans like Bill Kristol.

Some of the tech CEOs and personalities who joined Kristol’s anti-Trump efforts back in March of 2016 included Napster creator and Facebook investor Sean Parker; the publisher of The New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger; Google co-founder Larry Page; Apple CEO Tim Cook; and several other nameless billionaires, some of whom even flew in from California in private jets to meet with Kristol.

While there’s no evidence linking Zuckerberg or Moskovitz to the Republicans supporting Clinton in an effort to keep Trump weak in the polls, it’s almost impossible to avoid noting the discrepancies, especially when analyzing Moskovitz’s blog post about why he chose to support Clinton the war hawk, Moskovitz also suggests that Americans, as well as individuals from other countries, are “unified by global communication mediums that connect us intimately.” In what he calls “this version of society,” Moskovitz adds that we must all work “together to create a thriving worldwide community.”

His view of a thriving worldwide community is, of course, one in which Clinton, not Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson, or Green Party candidate Jill Stein, is the elected president.

But when he correctly states that Trump’s views on immigration are counterproductive, Moskovitz seems to forget that Clinton’s are also misguided. “Democratic Party, and Hillary Clinton in particular,” Moskovitz writes, “is running on a vision of optimism, pragmatism, inclusiveness and mutual benefit.”

In reality, Clinton’s immigration preferences often appear to mirror Trump’s almost word for word.

In an article for Reason, Nick Gillespie explains that “back in the day, as a New York senator, she voted for a 700-mile fence,” which is just 300 miles shorter than Trump’s.

He adds that “[Clinton] also sponsored legislation that would create ‘a biometric entry-exit tracking system [which is] exactly what Trump called for Wednesday night (and in the immigration plan he released last summer).’ … And she was, of course, ‘adamantly against illegal immigrants’ for a spell and wanted to screw over folks who employed them (Trump wants to do that too!).”

Despite the tech industry’s self-righteous rhetoric and very public yet secretive efforts to boost Clinton’s chances at the presidency, few seem to have a grasp of the Democratic candidate’s real record and driving influences. They are choosing to ignore reports on corruption and war crimes, dismissing them as propaganda and deciding to focus instead on fighting a candidate who is, at best, just as bad as Clinton.

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DéJà Vu: Cops Just Gunned down 13-Year-Old Boy Carrying a BB Gun in Ohio

(ANTIMEDIA) An encounter Wednesday evening between an 8th grader at Linden-McKinley STEM Academy and a police officer in East Columbus, Ohio, turned deadly. According to official police reports, the teen’s death might not have been justified.

Local police responded to a report of an armed robbery at about 7:45 pm in the area of S.18th St. and E. Capital Street. When approached by officials, the victim told them “a group approached him with a gun and demanded money.”

As officers looked for suspects matching the victim’s description, they spotted three males near a nearby house. Once they were approached, two of the suspects ran away. As officers ran after them, thirteen-year-old Tyree King pulled out what looked “like a firearm that could kill you,” Columbus’ police chief Kim Jacobs said.

From the police statement:

“Officers followed the males to the alley … and attempted to take them into custody when one suspect pulled a gun from his waistband. One officer shot and struck the suspect multiple times.“

The teen allegedly pulled the item from his waistband, prompting one officer to “[shoot] and [strike] the suspect several times.” Upon further investigation, officials concluded the weapon the teen had in his possession was a BB gun.

“It turns out to not be a firearm in the sense that it fires real bullets,” Chief Jacobs said, “but as you can see it looks like a firearm that could kill you.”

One of the other suspects who fled on foot , Demetrius Braxton, 19, talked to The Columbus Dispatch after the incident, claiming King wanted to rob somebody for money prior to the shooting.

He added:

“I was in the situation, … We robbed somebody, the people I was with.”

Once the police initiated the chase, Braxton said, he and King heeded the officers’ orders to stop. But all of a sudden, King got up and ran away.

“When he ran, the cops shot him,” he told the newspaper. At least “four or five” times. “I didn’t think a cop would shoot. Why didn’t they Tase him?”

But once the news broke, the police union rushed to the officer’s defense.

According to Jason Pappas, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police Capital City Lodge No. 9, “[o]fficers do not have the luxury of knowing if it’s a real gun or not, … So two young men who were suspects in this armed robbery separated and ran. One of them was ordered to show his hands and go to the ground, and he complied.”

Promising to investigate the incident in full, Chief Jacobs added she wouldn’t allow an untrustworthy officer “out on the street to perform their job.”

“We want all the right answers, not quick answers,” she added.

As the news broke and more outlets covered the incident, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther told the press that “[w]e want to be open and transparent with the public and the community, but we must make sure we have good information that can be documented and substantiated. It is absolutely critical that we get this right.”

He continued:

“There is something wrong in this country, and it is bringing its epidemic to our city streets, … And a 13-year-old is dead in the city of Columbus because of our obsession with guns and violence.”

Today, the official Columbus, Ohio, police Twitter account published a tweet claiming “[w]e’ve had a few cases this week of teens shooting guns.” In the official Facebook post linked in the tweet,

Columbus police explained that a Columbus church was vandalized, “[b]asketball backboards shot out. Pastor LaMarr says today that 2 teens with bb guns came forward about his [sic] crime. Last night a 13-year-old, Tyre King, armed with a gun lost his life. It too was a bb gun.”

While the Tweet mentions cases of “teens shooting guns,” the post on Facebook does not indicate any of the teens carrying BB guns had shot at people or property.

As the Columbus police investigate, Chief Jacobs says she will refrain from commenting on details, preferring to wait until more facts are gathered.

Unless more is unearthed in the investigation, it’s hard to see how the Columbus, Ohio police department will be able to justify the killing of the 13-year-old based on his having a BB gun. Though he may have been guilty of a crime, as Braxton said, it’s unclear why a taser was not deployed.

Until more is revealed, many will continue to compare this killing to the killing of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old killed by Cleveland police officers over a BB gun.

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