Pete Breidahl, former member of the New Zealand Defence Force, on visiting the gun club where the terrorist was a member. He made a complaint to Dunedin police but nothing was done
Victims were unavailable for comment.
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Platitudes by those in power, when given by those who can create change but do nothing, are meaningless. They don’t help the murdered, nor honor their memories by preventing future senseless deaths. Prayers and well-wishes are not worthless or unwanted on principle, but they are pointless when not coupled with action.
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And this wasn’t even today, it was October The US is getting more and more out of sync with the rest of the world.
Prof Brooke Harrington, Handelshøjskolen i København, on the Paradise Papers, to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Leak of the year If you thought the Wikileaks cables were big, this dwarfs them.
Facebook hosts scam Very clever phishing scam found in my spam box today: the email claims you have been making dodgy posts on your Facebook fan page, and you should verify that you haven’t. The scammers actually use an apps.facebook.com domain so it looks legit. But on the page they ask for your email and password. Beware of this and ask yourself: if you’re logged in, why should you need to feed either of these things in? The dodgy address found in this one is https://apps.facebook.com/1684174288467285/—if you know a way to report it, please do. I have Tweeted Facebook about it, but previous experience shows that they really do not care.
Here are the women who’ve gone public about Bill Cosby:
1. Kristina Ruehli said Cosby raped her at 22 in 1965, when she was a secretary at a talent agency.
2. Carla Ferrigno said Cosby tried to rape her in 1967 and she had to fight him off.
3. Joan Tarsis said Cosby raped her in 1969.
4. Cindra Ladd said Cosby also raped her in 1969. She wrote about it for the Huffington Post.
5. Victoria Valentino said Cosby raped her in 1970. She later spoke about the incident with the Washington Post.
6. Autumn Burns said Cosby raped her in 1970 too.
7. Louisa Mortiz said Cosby raped her in the dressing room of Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show in 1971.
8. Donna Motsinger said Cosby raped her in 1971. She later sued.
9. Katherine McKee said Cosby raped her in the early 1970s while she was on tour with Sammy Davis Jr.
10. Helen Hayes said Cosby stalked her and her friends in 1973 before groping her.
11. Judy Huth said Cosby took her to the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15, and raped her. She later sued.
12. Tamara Green said Cosby drugged her and tried to rape her in the early 1970s. She went public on the Today Show in February.
13. Marcella Tate said Cosby took her to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, gave her a drink that made her pass out, and then woke up the next morning naked with him in a strange bed.
14. Therese Serignese said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1976. She later sued.
15. Shawn Brown said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1973, while the two were in a relationship. Brown later gave birth to Cosby’s daughter, Autumn Jackson.
16. Joyce Emmons said Cosby drugged her in the late 1970s, and that she later woke up in bed with one of Cosby’s friends.
17. P.J. Masten said Cosby drugged and raped her when she worked as a Playboy Bunny in Chicago in 1979.
18. Linda Kirkpatrick said Cosby drugged and raped her in a dressing room at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1981.
19. Lynn Neal (an assumed name) said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1981.
20. Janice Baker Kinney said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982.
21. Janice Dickinson said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1982.
22. Renita Chaney Hill said she was repeatedly drugged and raped by Cosby while she was in a relationship with him between 1982 and 1986. The relationship began when she was 15.
24. Heidi Thomas said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1984.
23. Beth Ferrier said she was drugged and raped by Cosby after ending an affair with him in the mid-1980s.
25. Beverly Johnson said she was drugged and almost raped by Cosby in the mid-1980s.
26. Sammie Mays said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in the mid-1980s.
27. Barbara Bowman said she was drugged and raped by Cosby in 1986. She later sued and wrote a Washington Post op-ed titled “Bill Cosby Raped Me. Why Did It Take 30 Years for People to Believe My Story?”
28. Lisa Jones said Cosby tried to rape her in 1986. She was 17.
29. Chelan, whose last name hasn’t been made public, said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1986.
30. Jena T. (shown above) says that Cosby began to groom her when she was 17, and forced her to give him a handjob in 1988.
31. Lisa, whose last name has not been released, said Cosby drugged and raped her in 1988. She was 21.
32. Jewel Allison said she was drugged and raped by Cosby at his home in the late 1980s. She later called him a “very sick sociopath.”
33. Kacey, whose last name hasn’t been released, said Cosby drugged and raped her in the early 1990s.
34. Angela Leslie said Cosby tried and failed to drug her in 1992 before making her give him a handjob.
35. Lili Bernard said Cosby raped her in The Cosby Show studio in 1992.
36. Michelle Hurd said Cosby would make her do “weird acting exercises were he would move his hands up and down my body” in 1995. She turned down his advances to go to his house.
37. Lachele Covington filed a police report in 2000 saying Cosby tried to make her grope him.
38. Andrea Constand said Cosby drugged and raped her in 2004. She later sued and settled out of court.
39. Chloe Goins said Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2008. She’s since lawyered up, but Cosby has yet to be charged.
But it took a confession for people to believe them? Sometimes it’s hard to see patriarchy. And sometimes it isn’t.
THAT’S THAT BULLSHIT I BE TALKING ABOUT
RAPE CULTURE IS PEOPLE WILLFULLY IGNORING DOZENS OF CLAIMS UNTIL THE RAPIST FINALLY CONFESSES, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS MOST TIMES
we live in a society that literally believes the word of ONE MAN over the word of nearly FORTY WOMEN, but people want to act like we as a society don’t treat women any less. people were really way more willing to sit there and be like “I don’t know man maybe ALMOST FORTY WOMEN are lying for attention or money” rather than say “idk man I think this ONE MAN might be lying”
and before the assholes come out of the woodwork, we’re not talking about court proceedings here. we’re talking about people finding it easier to believe that nearly forty women are lying than one man
if you can’t see a problem with that, I don’t even know what to say
And, even after all that, there are still some people insisting on believing that Cosby is innocent, that the confession doesn’t mean he actually did it. They’re grasping at any straw to hold onto their beliefs. Because that’s how people with a personal belief act when confronted with strong evidence against it - they just keep doubling down, spinning and rationalizing in crazier and crazier ways, because they can’t face the possibility that they could have been wrong.
Forty versus one This is worth noting.
The teen pregnancy rate has been cut in half since the 1950s. #ThisGeneration
Smoking has also dropped by 50% #ThisGeneration
The abuse and availability of drugs has actually been in drastic decline. #ThisGeneration
The U.S. homicide rate is currently the at lowest it has been since 1962. #This Generation
Searches for porn have been reduced by half in just the past ten years. #ThisGeneration
The average IQ score has seen a dramatic increase, mainly due to our increasing ability to process symbols. #ThisGeneration
The high school dropout rate is at half of what it was in the 70’s. #ThisGeneration
But somehow the last generation remains largely convinced that we are bad and stupid people because they cannot comprehend advances in technology and society. #LastGeneration
This generation Up with the game, and beyond it.
Je suis Charlie Je regarde les mauvaises nouvelles à Paris ce matin en direct: une attaque du bureau de Charlie Hebdo. Mes pensées vont aux victimes, et aux familles des victimes. Je suis Charlie. Nous sommes tous Charlie.
Via @plantu @lemondefr @cartooningpeace #jesuischarlie (at Free Speech)
De tout cœur L’hommage de Plantu.
#jesuischarlie
Soutien à Charlie Hebdo.
Aujourd’hui, des journalistes, des caricaturistes, ont été attaqués et pour le moment, on a annoncé 12 personnes décédées dont deux policiers et 4 blessées graves. J’ai vraiment été choquée et triste en entendant cette information, ce midi.
Ils n’auraient jamais dû mourir pour avoir exprimé leur...
Aujourd’hui, nous sommes tous Charlie.
François Hollande
I was curious about how true this statistic was, so I did some digging. It is true.
No more Reminder: it even happened to Steve McQueen, the king of cool himself, as a kid.
The fact that trans women have just been completely booted out of this conversation on police brutality smfh…
In 2008, a black trans woman was severely beaten by police and was preparing to sue the Memphis Police Department. She was killed execution style shortly after and no one has yet to be arrested.. Her name was Duanna Johnson. Remember her name…
Forgotten in the US A life is a life is a life. That’s what the authorities there don’t seem to understand.
