Yes Means Yes

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape is a feminist-themed book by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti published in 2008. The book was one of the 99 Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009^[1] and has inspired a sex education non-credit course at Colgate University.^[2]

The book consists of a series of 27 essays by various authors which all share the central theme of preventing rape by addressing the cultural and societal milieu that the authors claim is complicit in enabling rape. The title is a reference to the popular "No Means No" campaign against date rape. Contributors to the anthology include Rachel Kramer Bussel, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Stacey May Fowles, Coco Fusco, Lisa Jervis, Heather Corinna, Julia Serano, Hanne Blank, and Margaret Cho.
Colgate is committed to improving the sexual climate on campus, providing numerous programs to promote healthy sexuality. ^[3] Not only do they offer a course on Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape, they have a committee as well. This committee is called The Sexual Climate Advisory Committee. ^[4] This committee is composed of faculty, staff, and students.^[5] It is charged with developing and evaluating initiatives at the individual, environmental, and system level that contribute to a climate of sexual respect. ^[6]Scott Brown, who is the dean of students, leads monthly meetings. ^[7]

From the slogan, "No Means No", colleges are abandoning the old slogan and accepting "Yes Means Yes" to promote more positivity. “The swiftly evolving conversation about defining sexual assault signaled to us that we needed to reframe our name as something more positive... and it’s even possible that ‘No means no’ will be an outdated or irrelevant concept in 10 years. Students may not have even heard of the phrase by then", said by Allison Korman, the group’s executive director.^[8] Now, there are more than eight hundred colleges and universities that have adopted an affirmative consent definition in their sexual assault policies.^{[9] 
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The Bible: So Misunderstood It's A Sin

They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of granite monuments to the Ten Commandments while demanding prayer in school. They appeal to God to save America from their political opponents, mostly Democrats. They gather in football stadiums by the thousands to pray for the country’s salvation.

They are God’s frauds, cafeteria Christians who pick and choose which Bible verses they heed with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch. They are joined by religious rationalizers—fundamentalists who, unable to find Scripture supporting their biases and beliefs, twist phrases and modify translations to prove they are honoring the Bible’s words.

   

This is no longer a matter of personal or private faith. With politicians, social leaders and even some clergy invoking a book they seem to have never read and whose phrases they don’t understand, America is being besieged by Biblical illiteracy. Climate change is said to be impossible because of promises God made to Noah; Mosaic law from the Old Testament directs American government; creationism should be taught in schools; helping Syrians resist chemical weapons attacks is a sign of the end times—all of these arguments have been advanced by modern evangelical politicians and their brethren, yet none of them are supported in the Scriptures as they were originally written.

Have a closer look at the Bible here

Oh,  and you've probably been hearing about the Illuminati,  free masons,  new world order and such,  well here's a video that sheds a little light on who is supposed to be who and what they're supposed to be doing: Might as well get it out there all in  one go.  Let me say I have no idea what to believe,  even though I see a lot of truth and good information,  I cannot figure out if the surrounding stories are being spun right,  despite the fact that some, clearly ridiculous. claims creep into the narrative.

The New World Order- Secret Societies and Biblical Prophecy

Here's another interesting take:

Former Federal Prosecutor: McCulloch Violated Rules Of Professional Conduct In Brown Case

St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch gave an interview to local radio station KTRS following the news that witness 40 invented her testimony and likely perjured herself in front of the grand jury, and as we've come to expect from McCulloch, he was as unrepentant as ever about his decision to put her on the stand and on the way he conducted the grand jury hearing.
Some witnesses lied to Michael Brown grand jury, McCulloch says. So why have them testify?:
Certain witnesses who spoke before the grand jury investigating the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown told obvious lies under oath, St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch said Friday.

Key takeaway from torture report: Dick Cheney is a dirty, stinking liar

DIRTY DICK

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in 2011, peddling one of his favorite claims in defense of torture:

"One of the most controversial techniques is waterboarding ... And the one who was subjected the most often to that was Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and it produced phenomenal results for us." [...]

Cheney said that waterboarding Khaled Sheikh Mohammed "helped produce the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden."

And today, from the initial release on the torture report:

The committee reviewed 20 of the most frequent and prominent examples of purported "successes" that the CIA has attributed to the use of its enhanced interrogation techniques. Each of those examples was found to be wrong.  READ MORE

17 Disgraceful Facts Buried In The Senate’s 600 Page Torture Report

CREDIT: AP

by Igor Volsky Posted on December 9, 2014 at 2:11 pm

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s extensive use of torture reveals that the agency regularly misled the White House and Congress about the information it had obtained from detainees and used techniques that are far more brutal than it — or former Bush administration officials — had previously acknowledged.

For instance, President George W. Bush insisted that “[t]his government does not torture people” and claimed that the intelligence it produced was instrumental to preventing terrorism on American soil and capturing high-value targets, including Osama bin Laden. But the Committee’s five year investigation — and examination of more than six million CIA documents — reveals all of those assertions to be false

For its part, the CIA acknowledged that it “did not always live up to the high standards that we set for ourselves” and “made mistakes” in how it ran the program, particularly “early on” when the CIA “was unprepared and lacked the core competencies required.” However, it insisted that “there are too many flaws for [this report] to stand as the official record of the program” and strongly disputed “that the agency’s assessments were willfully misrepresented in a calculated effort to manipulate.”

Republicans are similarly shielding the agency from criticism, claiming that the report is “ideologically motivated and distorted recounting of historical events.” “The fact that the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation program developed significant intelligence that helped us identify and capture important al-Qa’ida terrorists, disrupt their ongoing plotting, and take down Usama Bin Ladin is incontrovertible,” Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement.  READ MORE

CIA torture report: What happened to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Ramzi Binalshibh

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind,
was waterboarded at least 183 times and underwent rectal
rehydration by CIA interrogators, according to the Senate
Intelligence Committee report.

In most cases, the report from the Senate Intelligence Committee found, the harsh methods — which critics have deemed torture — yielded no solid intelligence. The tactics were also found to frequently cause significant psychological and emotional harm to those on the receiving end.

BY Joel Siegel , Adam Edelman

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 5:06 PM

 

The comprehensive ‘torture’ report released Tuesday by Senate investigators reveals a litany of disturbing interrogation methods the CIA used against suspected terrorists, including waterboardings, rectal feedings and physical violence.

In most cases, the report from the Senate Intelligence Committee found, the harsh methods — which critics have deemed torture — yielded no solid intelligence.

The 10 most shocking revelations of the CIA's torture report

EDITORIAL: CIA torture critics must remember why the agency did what it did after 9/11

On the contrary, the tactics frequently caused significant psychological and emotional harm to those on the receiving end.

The following are the experiences, according to the report, of three such detainees.

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CIA 'torture' report cites 'rectal rehydration,' other unapproved tactics that would have made Colin Powell 'blow his stack'

The report released by the Senate Intelligence
Committee on Tuesday is the first public accounting
of the CIA’s use of what critics call torture on al-Qaeda
detainees held at 'black sites' in Europe and Asia after
the Sept. 11 attacks.

The report from the Senate Intelligence Committee is the first public accounting of the CIA’s use of what critics call torture on Al Qaeda detainees. The summary discloses for the first time that 119 prisoners were held in CIA custody and that 26 or more were held because of mistaken identities or bad intelligence.

BY James Warren , Dan Friedman

DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Published: Tuesday, December 9, 2014, 8:24 AM

WASHINGTON — The CIA abused dozens of terror suspects in the years after 9/11, misled policymakers about what it was doing and then falsely claimed the harsh interrogations made America safer, a scathing Senate report charged Tuesday.

Beginning in 2002, the interrogations played out at secret, shadowy detention facilities in Asia and Eastern Europe, including an Afghanistan site called the “dungeon.”

The tough tactics included stripping suspects, depriving them of sleep for days at a time, waterboarding them, and confining them in boxes. Some were placed in ice baths, or force-fed rectally. Captives were slapped, slammed against walls, and bombarded with threats that they would be killed or family members would be harmed.

The 10 most shocking revelations of the CIA's torture report
EDITORIAL: Remember why
One technique seemed like it came from a James Bond movie — a blindfolded suspect was threatened with a power drill. READ MORE