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A 36-year-old Brazilian man was freed yesterday after allegedly being held captive by his father and step-mother in the basement of their home for at least 20 years.

Police in Brazil came across Armando de Andrade by accident after they searched homes looking for members of a drugs gang.

The man, who disappeared when he was 16, was reportedly tied to a bed in a tiny, windowless room of the house in Sao Paulo.

He was found with 'enormous' toenails and fingernails and a long beard which had grown to his knees, according to witnesses, while police officers who found him described him as 'malnourished'.

Police believe he lived in virtual darkness for two decades in a room without light fittings, while the floor was reportedly covered in human faeces.

Police chief Celso Marchiori, who is investigating the case, said of the moment policemen found him: 'He got up, very impaired and didn't speak a word. We took him outside and he still didn't say anything. We didn't know if he was scared or drugged.

'He wasn't able to identify us as police officers. We called for help and he was taken straight to hospital.

'It's difficult to believe he was in that place for 20 years. It's a very insanitary place, he wouldn't have survived. There's no light at all.'

Neighbours in the Guarulhos district of Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil, recalled how Armando was a normal 16-year-old, who liked skateboarding and playing the guitar, when he suddenly disappeared.

Never seen again by his friends, Armando's family always claimed he had moved to another part of Brazil and was 'doing well'.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3869856/Brazilian-man-discovered-tied-bed-father-s-basement-held-captive-20-years.html

One neighbour, Aparecido Rocha Brasil, said he believed the teenager's father and step-mother decided to lock him in the room after he started experimenting with alcohol.

He told Brazil's Globo News TV channel: 'Every teenager is curious about these things. But for some reason, when alcohol entered into his life, his family decided to take this approach, and kept him locked up for all this time.'

Ederson Silva, a childhood friend of Armando, said: 'Whenever we asked about him they always said they same thing, no, he's living in the northeast, he's well, he's working, he's building his family there. That's all they said to us.'

Armando's father Amancio de Andrade denied the allegations, claiming that his son left home aged 18 and returned last week, and asked him to lock him in the room as he wanted to get clean from drug addiction.

He said: 'He's a grown man. He never got in touch. Then last week I opened my door and he was there. He gave him food and let him stay in the basement room. He asked me to lock the door so he couldn't get out.'

Armando is being cared for in the psychiatric ward of a local hospital, where he is reportedly too traumatised to speak.

A video of a friend talking with him shows the man only able to nod or shake his head to respond to questions.

Police have launched an investigation while Armando's father and step-mother, who have not yet been arrested, have reportedly fled their home following aggression from angry neighbours.

Government and private grants have made CCCEP one of the most lavishly funded institutions of its kind in the world, as it has raised and spent about $37 million since 2008.

Studies that receive financial support from the public sector don’t have to disclose it as an ethical conflict of interest, even when that support is in the millions of dollars. Recent studies in the U.S. — which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses to support the scientific case for its Clean Power Plan — saw the agency give $31.2 million, $9.5 million, and $3.65 million in public funds to lead authors, according to EPA public disclosures.
http://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/schwartz.pdf
http://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/levy.pdf
http://junkscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/driscoll.pdf

The author who received $3.65 million, Charles Driscoll, even admitted to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the result of his study was predetermined, saying “in doing this study we wanted to bring attention to the additional benefits from carbon controls.”
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2015/05/05/Study-says-cutting-carbon-dioxide-emissions-would-reduce-premature-deaths/stories/201505050108

Universities typically received about 50 percent of the money their researchers get in public funds if their investigations find positive results, making them deeply dependent upon federal funding and likely to encourage studies that will come to conclusions the government wants.
http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working-paper-29.pdf

>brits, when will they learn?
People don't steal my global warming research because I'd shoot them if they did. God bless America.

>>80563
I'll believe it when I see a real source report on it. All you have are clickbait merchants and political agenda/junk science blogs.

>create remote base in arctic
>don't give them enough supplies
good job hitler

But why did he even create this? It's pretty far away from Russia to be useful spot for an attack. Or was it hitler just spreading his hands as far as he could across the globe?

>>80535
Nazis believed in the hollow Earth theory so there's that.

>>80537
What is the hollow Earth theory?

'Yikes! He had his ears removed, added permanent horns and will have his nose removed. To each his own??,' wrote one shocked user, whilst another added: 'As if a man on this morning wants to look like a parrot.'

One Twitter user wrote: 'Who's a pretty boy then! #ted #parrotman #thismorning,', and another shocked viewer pondered: 'Omg the #parrotman on @thismorning really??? why do people put themselves through it all? #bafflesme.'

Another user threw her support behind Ted, writing: 'I'm finding this interview a bit judgemental... he's not hurting anyone? Let him be a parrot! Each to their own.'

The retired shoe factory worker got his first tattoo in 1976 and has since built up a collection covering almost his entire body.

But the body art and plastic surgery was not enough as Mr Richards, from Hartcliffe, Bristol, has now changed his name by Deed Poll - to Ted Parrotman.

After having his ears removed, he had to return to his plastic surgeon to have synthetic lumps inserted under the skin on the side of his head - because he had overlooked the fact that he wore glasses.

>>80333
>Dailymail
Fuck off Piers, but nice trips tbh

where does he get the money for this

Thanks! Those goddamn trolls always get to me.... I'm forced to have them WIN their argument/conversation by not responding to them when I have so much more to say to those jerks *sigh* At least after reading this article I now know how to deal with them by making them rethink who exactly their messing with kek

>talk show host
>"I got an e-mail saying I was a biased prick"

How the hell is that trolling?

>>80297
They felt bad after the fact.

>>79389

Over the last two weeks, Democratic Party officials and U.S. government agencies have accused the Russian government, including the country's "senior-most officials," of pursuing a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election.

WikiLeaks has been one of the most prominent internet outlets to post and promote hacked Democratic Party materials. While denying any connection with a Russian hacking campaign, Assange has refused to disclose WikiLeaks' sources for hacked Democratic Party messages.

Sources close to both the Democratic Party and WikiLeaks say they believe WikiLeaks has acquired as many as 40,000-50,000 emails hacked from the personal accounts of John Podesta, the former White House advisor who now chairs of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Despite Assange's complaint that his internet connection was cut, WikiLeaks posted on Monday afternoon what it said was a fresh batch of Podesta's emails.

According to a summary of the latest emails posted on Russia Today, a media outlet with close links to the Russian government, highlights include campaign staff discussions about "galvanizing Latino support" and about how to handle media queries about Clinton's "flip-flopping" on gay marriage.

FIN

>>79389
Hillary = Ecuador?

>>79393
The implication the OP is making is that the US government on behalf of Hillary Clinton (Obama endorsed her) is putting pressure on Ecuador to stop Assange from leaking things, at least that is my interpretation of the OP not him though.

>>80523
Oh shit I thought it was just North America.

>>80525
It's fucking escalating around here.
Were just a small town, but the fear is real around here.I suppose it gets coverd by the media to hide ttip or something.
Well,atleast i and my friend are going to hunt Clowns on Halloween.

>>80544
Why the fuck are you so scared of a bunch of wierdos in clown costumes?

Dial back the faggotry mate.

>The conflict opposing the US to russia and china is evolving on two fronts: on one side, washington is looking for an eventual scapegoat on which they could blame the war on syria, on the other, moscow, whom already linked the syrian and yemenite cases, is trying to tie them to the ukrainian question.

>Washington, looking for a scapegoat

>To be able to disengage while keeping their head up, the US must blame their crimes on one of their allies. They have three possibilities: they can blame Turkey, Saudi Arabia, or both. Turkey is present in Syria and Ukraine, but not in Yemen, while Arabia is present in Syria and Yemen, but not in Ukraine.

>turkey

>We now have verified information on what really happenned the last 15th of july in Turkey; information which forces us to revise our initial judgement.
>First of all, it was so that to leave the management of the dhihadists hordes to turkey after the attack on saudi prince bandar bin sultan would not come without its load of problems: indeed, if bandar was an obedient intermediary, erdogan followed through with his own strategy to create the 17th turco-mongol empire, which brought him to use the djihadists outside of his mission.

1/7

>>79985

>However, the US could not sanction erdogan who was economically getting closer to russia while he was a member of nato.
>Finally, with the global power crisis, erdogan was becoming the ideal scapegoat to get out of the syrian crisis.
>from the american point of view, the problem is not turkey, who is an essential regional ally, neither, the MIT of hakan fidan who organized the djihadists' movement in the world, but erdogan.
>Consequently, the national endowment for democracy (ned) first tried in august of 2013 a colored revolution (the "one armed man revolution") by organizing protests in the gezi parc of istanbul. The operation failed and washington decided otherwise.

2/7

>>79987

>The decision was taken to overthrow the AKP islamists through the ballots. The CIA, on the one hand, organized the transformation of the HDP into a real minority party and prepared an alliance between the HDP and the CHP. The HDP adopted a program open to the defense of ethnic minorities (kurds) and social minorities (feminists and homosexuals) and included an ecological aspect. The CHP was reorganized both to mask the over-representation of alevis amongst it and in aim to promote the candidacy of the last supreme court president.
>However, even though the AKP lost the elections of july 2014, it was not possible to make the DHP-HDP alliance. In consequence, new legislative elections were held in november 2014 but they were coarsly rigged by erdogan.
>Therefore, washington decided to physically eliminate ergodan. Three assasination attemps took place between november 2014 and july 2016. Contrary to what has been said, the operation of the 15th of july 2016 was not a coup attempt, but an attempt to eliminate erdogan. The CIA used industrial and military turco-US conections to recruit a small team in the air army in order to execute erdogan during his vacations. However, this team was betrayed by islamist officiers (which represents a quarter of the armies) and erdogan was forewarned an hour before the arrival of the commando. He then was transfered under the escort of military men loyal to istanbul. Conscious of the foreseeable consequences of their failure, the conspiracy started a coup d'état without preparations while istanbul was still swarming with people. They obviously failed. The following repression did not only aim to arrest the assasination team, or even the military men who joined the improvised coup, but the whole of the pro-US: the kemalists laics, the islamists of fetullah gulen. In total, over 70000 people were put to trial and it was necesarry to free prisoners in order to incarcerate the pro-US.

3/7

>>79007
well that sucks. I'm moving.

>>79015
>Just now realizing that he needs to move out of that shitville state.

>>79042
He won't move though, typical californians, glad i left

Island of the Denyen
Stating that the Dana Island most probably was known as the island of the Denyen, named the “Sea People” in the 12th century, Öniz said the Denyens were first mentioned by the Hittite King Telipinu around 1,500 B.C. “The Adania region, which King Telipinu mentioned, is the region of Adana and Mersin today,” he added. The reason why this era is called the Dark Age is that we have limited archaeological information about a period of around 300-400 years. Most probably a big drought, earthquakes or epidemic disease occurred in the 13th century B.C. We can deduce this from the fact that Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II had to send ships full of grain from the Alexandria region, which is usually productive and suitable for agriculture. Ancient sources suggest there was a famine around this era, Öniz said. Probably the Denyens, together with other groups suffering from the famine, attacked Egypt in order to get grain. Ramses III said the Egyptians defeated the Denyens and he sent the captured Denyens and others to remote regions as soldiers. He pursued the other Denyens to their island in the north and destroyed them there, he added. But this story is not limited to the Deneyns and the Hittites. We know of the existence of the late Hittite kingdoms in the Cilicia region in the Iron Age. We know that they resisted against the New Babylon Kingdom that wanted their iron and grain. The name of the island became Pitusu in the Iron Age. The King of Babylon Neriglissar described Pitusu as a mountain in the middle of the sea. He said he attacked it and 6,000 soldiers on this small island resisted against him. The existence of those 6,000 people reveals that the island continued serving as a shipyard in the Iron Age too, Öniz said. History effectively stopped on the island around 800 years ago. And the modern law of the Turkish Republic does not give permission for any work or restructuring on the island. It is now completely a part of the world heritage, he added.

>>80102
super awesome.

At least there's some smart dudes protecting the history of our fathers

>>80353
Take your astroturfing shitposting somewhere else.
Hillary is a corrupt, deceptive cunt but she is not responsible either for ISIS or the deaths of these people.
Get your head out of Trump's ass.

>>80354
>implying I'm a Trump supporter
>implying there's only two options
Aleppo-man is the only one that can save us. If we'd listened to his kind we'd never be in this mess

And the quote was more a criticism of Hillary's belief that when 284 men and boys get slaughtered, women are the real victims. Not saying it's her fault that it happened (both parties over the last 30 years are to blame for this bullshit), just that she's a cold-hearted bitch incapable of empathy for males

also
>300 people being killed is shitposting
kek. I guess you're a cold-hearted bitch incapable of empathy too. This is more news-worthy than most of what else is posted to this sub

>284 men and boys
good idea,
noone in the west gives a shit about males.

>>80217
Mr. Hands

>>80219
Mr hands is a hero who broke new grounds in his area if expertise.

Just a shame he broke his ass as well.

The summit concluded at the White House Sunday night with an updated reading of “I want a president…,” a “collective reading project” devised in 1992 by artist and activist Zoe Leonard.

The original version of the statement described Leonard’s desire for a president who has experienced various setbacks, such as lacking health insurance or having an abortion, that would presumably induce them to support a larger role for government in addressing such issues.

“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia,” the original version states. “I want a president that [sic] had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids [sic].”

The concept was adapted and updated for the social justice conference, with contemporary issues such as immigration and diversity/inclusivity sprinkled liberally throughout.

“I want a Native American for president. I want a Muslim refugee for president, and I want a queer for vice president, and I want someone who walked hundreds of miles across a desert and swam across a river to be here,” the updated version begins. “I want someone who has redefined their gender and sexual identity and spoken up for their rights and committed civil disobedience and sees the flag as a work in progress.”

Many of the original elements were retained in the re-write, but with minor tweaks. Rather than desiring a president who had an abortion at 16, for example, the new version calls for one “who had a dangerous illegal abortion at 14,” then apparently reconsidered and became a parent at 15.

Summit co-host Richard Saxton, an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, told Campus Reform that the social justice conference is part of a long history of artworks, particularly those that are not confined to museums, aimed at promoting social change.

“You can trace artists impacting social space back to the founding of our country. It’s in the statues of George Washington or critiques of them (Michael Asher), paintings that inspired the National Park System (Thomas Cole), socially engaged art/architecture (Rick Lowe and Project Rowhouses), and protest/occupy works (Pedro Reyes forthcoming Doomocracy project),” he asserted. “Most of this work takes place outside of traditional art venues and attracts many people who are not from a traditional art audience.”

“Social works happen outside in social spaces. Artists who are interested in people and place are drawn to this work,” Saxton continued. “For artists that fall into the loose lineage of Social Sculpture (Joseph Beuys), this is their material and medium. They make the art by conceptualizing an idea and seeing it through.”

Why is social justice almost the exclusive domain of the far left? Surely there are young radical people who want to fix inequality without killing all white men? If social justice was more balanced, maybe it wouldn't have been able to become so cancerous.

Cyber security experts have been warning about the risk of “Internet of Things” devices for years, staging high-profile hacks at their annual conference Def Con that show how everything from connected cars to insulin pumps could be hacked. But often it has been hard to see why a cyber criminal would target an individual’s device, unless to expose the activity of a person in the public eye or cause harm to a political figure. This attack showed even if a connected device is not necessarily a huge threat to its owner, it could be used maliciously to attack others.

20bn
Estimated number of connected devices in the world by 2020 (Source: Gartner)

Gartner, the research firm, forecasts there will be more than 20bn connected devices in the world by 2020 with consumers spending $1.5tn on the “Internet of Things” and businesses spending almost as much. The research firm predicts that more than a quarter of attacks on companies will involve connected devices by 2020, but enterprises will only spend 10 per cent of their cyber security budgets on protecting against these types of attacks.

Jeremiah Grossman, chief of security strategy at SentinelOne, a Silicon Valley-based cyber security company, says more attention to the problem of insecure devices is “long overdue”. Device makers should force users to change their default passwords as part of the set-up process and issue security updates, just as they do on PCs, he says. Installing an agent that can monitor what the device is doing would have showed the “very anomalous” behaviour when it was recruited to a botnet, he adds.

Regulating the industry is “almost impossible”, Mr Grossman adds, because the companies connecting devices to the internet do not fit in any one category: stretching from makers of smart TVs to medical device manufacturers.

Some regulators have taken a look at the potential threat, with the US Food and Drug Administration, which oversees the manufacturers of pacemakers and other medical equipment, issuing draft guidelines earlier this year for how hospitals and manufacturers should monitor devices for vulnerabilities and deploy updates.

Shuman Ghosemajumder, chief technology officer at Shape Security, agrees it is tough for regulators to “solve the problem” as security challenges are constantly changing when hackers develop new techniques. But he says they should be responsible for setting “minimum expectations and norms”.

“The industry as a whole needs to do a better job. There’s no question that the growth of the ‘Internet of Things’ has been fuelled by the excitement around the internet connection enabling new functionality and security has taken a back seat,” he says.

However, he adds that potential targets, such as Dyn, a domain name services provider which many major companies rely on to provide access to their sites, also must improve their security and better protect themselves from these ever-expanding botnets.

Dyn said in a blog post on Saturday that it was watching out for any further attacks and working with law enforcement agencies and others to investigate who was behind the attack. “The number and type of attacks, the duration and the scale, and the complexity of these attacks are all on the rise,” said Kyle York, chief strategy officer.

Mr York said because of the customers that relied on it Dyn was often the “first responder of the internet”. But as the internet grows larger, bringing in thermostats, lightbulbs and baby monitors, sending in the paramedics just got even harder.

Backups.

Otherwise, the Starbucks app is down for a while. Why this is such a big deal, I'm not sure. A 'hacker' isn't interested in seeing my front yard on my wifi camera, they want either money or power. You can't have large complicated networks and not expect someone to fuck with it. It comes with being a part of the internet. If you don't like it, don't base everything on internet connectivity.

Perhaps starbucks goers should just use the card in their pocket. Perhaps pacemakers should just be reported on by the user. Perhaps websites shouldn't hold your personal information.

Why do these things knowing security is at risk? Is the convenience of paying with an app that satisfying? Is holding customers social security numbers so important?

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to just send an internet ready usb dongle to Julian?

Note, wifi and dongle shit is easy for security services to hack or take down and who knows if he'll use it.