“As he continues to heavily tout his “9-9-9 plan”, Herman Cain has seen his popularity soar. But is the Herman Cain tax plan a good idea for America? Without a doubt, the “9-9-9 plan” is and it is to remember. To most Americans, it sounds like a low tax plan. But is that the truth? As you will see below, Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan will actually raise federal taxes on some middle income Americans to as high as 37 percent. If the other Republican candidates understood this, they would be jumping all over Cain. But instead the best that most of them seem to be able to do is to make jokes about it. For example, Jon Huntsman said that he thought that the 9-9-9 plan “was the price of a pizza when I first heard about it.” That is a funny line, but the reality is that the future of our tax system is very serious business. Our economy is dying and our nation is drowning in debt. We need some very real solutions to our very real problems. So let’s take a closer look at the 9-9-9 plan that Herman Cain is proposing….”
Via The Economic Collapse Blog
Nobody knows superior than MJ Stephens that rape is no laughing matter. So as the victim of a sexual assault, she was horrified when she encountered the contents of a Facebook page full of jokes about rape and violence toward women.
But worse was to come when the young American tried to argue with people who had attached comments to a page called: “You know shes (sic) playing hard to get when your (sic) chasing her down an alleyway” – most of them teenagers and young adults from Britain and Australia.
In sickeningly explicit terms, several of them threatened her and expressed the wish that she be raped again. Such pages, full of ugliness, aggression and pornographic language are multiplying on Facebook, drawing lucrative user traffic to the social networking site.
Now it has emerged that one of the “administrators” of the page -users with the right to edit its content – is believed to be a British schoolboy linked to a network of hackers in Britain, Australia and America who have set up Facebook pages featuring offensive sexual and violent content.
Micheal O’Brien, a Canadian computer systems engineer who cofounded the Rape Is No Joke (RINJ) campaign to pressure Facebook to delete “rape pages” via petitions and boycotts, has tracked the activity on several such pages and contacted participants online.
He told The Sunday Telegraph that associates of 4chan, a loose-knit collection of international “cyber-anarchists” who champion absolute on the web freedom, including the right to share pornography, have founded and administer several of the pages. The RINJ’s own website has been attacked by hackers and campaigners have been subjected to virulent on the web onslaughts since they started to draw attention to the 4chan connection last week. Pro-4chan images have also been posted to the “alleyway” page. Facebook protects the identity of those who set up and run pages but O’Brien has identified several posters as likely page administrators, including a teenage boy in Britain and college students in Australia.
With almost 210,000 people indicating that they “like” it, and many million of monthly visitors, the “alleyway” page is the most popular. Others include “Abducting, raping and violently murdering your friend as a joke”, “Pinning your mate down while someone HIV positive rapes him for a laugh”, “Police call it a restraining order, we call it playing hard to get” and “Turning into a chain smoking sexual predator when you drink.”
Many of the regular users who “post” on the pages are young Britons and Australians – many still at school, judging from information on their own Facebook profile pages. The website grants any child aged 13 or older to open an account.
Activists and victims’ support groups have urged the social networking site to shut down and remove the pages.
But despite an on the internet petition signed by more than 200,000 people worldwide, the Internet giant is refusing to do so.
© Copyright (c) The Daily Telegraph
Nobody knows than MJ Stephens that rape is no laughing matter. So as the victim of a sexual assault, she was horrified when she encountered the contents of a Facebook page full of jokes about rape and violence toward women.
But worse was to come when the young American tried to argue with people who had attached comments to a page called: “You know shes (sic) playing hard to get when your (sic) chasing her down an alleyway” – most of them teenagers and young adults from Britain and Australia.
In sickeningly explicit terms, several of them threatened her and expressed the wish that she be raped again. Such pages, full of ugliness, aggression and pornographic language are multiplying on Facebook, drawing lucrative user traffic to the social networking site.
Now it has emerged that one of the “administrators” of the page -users with the right to edit its content – is believed to be a British schoolboy linked to a network of hackers in Britain, Australia and America who have set up Facebook pages featuring offensive sexual and violent content.
Micheal O’Brien, a Canadian computer systems engineer who cofounded the Rape Is No Joke (RINJ) campaign to pressure Facebook to delete “rape pages” via petitions and boycotts, has tracked the activity on several such pages and contacted participants online.
He told The Sunday Telegraph that associates of 4chan, a loose-knit collection of international “cyber-anarchists” who champion absolute freedom, including the right to share pornography, have founded and administer several of the pages. The RINJ’s own website has been attacked by hackers and campaigners have been subjected to virulent on the internet onslaughts since they started to draw attention to the 4chan connection last week. Pro-4chan images have also been posted to the “alleyway” page. Facebook protects the identity of those who set up and run pages but O’Brien has identified several posters as likely page administrators, including a teenage boy in Britain and college students in Australia.
With almost 210,000 people indicating that they “like” it, and many million of monthly visitors, the “alleyway” page is the most popular. Others include “Abducting, raping and violently murdering your friend as a joke”, “Pinning your mate down while someone HIV positive rapes him for a laugh”, “Police call it a restraining order, we call it playing hard to get” and “Turning into a chain smoking sexual predator when you drink.”
Many of the regular users who “post” on the pages are young Britons and Australians – many still at school, judging from information on their own Facebook profile pages. The website grants any child aged 13 or older to open an account.
Activists and victims’ support groups have urged the social networking site to shut down and remove the pages.
But despite an on the web petition signed by more than 200,000 people worldwide, the Internet giant is refusing to do so.
© Copyright (c) The Daily Telegraph
