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Boys as young as 13 rescued from detention camps say they were
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Two boys have come forward to claim they were victims in a twisted
plot run by ISIS women that forced at least 10 young teenagers to
try to impregnate dozens of women held in a detention center.
âWe are being forced to have sex with the ISIS women, to impregnate
them,â Ahmet, 13, and Hamid, 14, told a guard at Camp al Hol in north-
east Syria, according to Syrian Defense Force officials. âCan you get us
out of here?â
Camp al Hol is one of the detention centers housing approximately 8,000
foreign ISIS-affiliated women and children who surrendered or were
captured as a result of the 2019 territorial defeat of the so-called
Islamic State.
While some of these women want nothing more to do with ISIS, others
continue in their violent dedication to the Caliphateâinsisting on carrying
on ISISâs distorted Islamic dictates, punishing women who renounce ISIS
âand working hard to indoctrinate children whose countries continue to
refuse to repatriate them. Some of these ISIS diehard women have refused
voluntary repatriation, with their countries of origin allowing them to also
refuse repatriation for their children.
Housing boys who reach puberty can be difficult in the camps, and some
were being transferred to detention facilities. Under a new policy, the boys
will now be transferred to rehabilitation centers.
A general view of al-Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria,
April 1, 2019.
Ali Hashisho/Reuters
Now that rehabilitation centers have been established for ISIS boys, their
pro-ISIS mothers beg and successfully raise money over apps like Telegram
to preemptively smuggle their sons out of the camp and into the hands of
terrorists.
Ahmet and Hamid told the staff at the newly opened Orkesh rehab center
that they were subject to sexual exploitation by a group of ISIS women.
Center staff told The Daily Beast that one of the boys said he was forced
to have sex with eight ISIS women in just a few days.
Officials said the ISIS women in Camp al Hol told the teens they wanted
to get pregnant to increase the population of the Islamic State, which
they believe is going to be reinstated when fighters come and break them
out of the camps. A camp guard said at least 10 boys at al Hol were involved,
some only located and rescued when the SDF went into the camp and found
them hidden by the women in underground tunnels.
No one knows the exact number of pregnancies in the camps but the SDF
intelligence who monitor the camps say there are many. These should not be
possible given that the ISIS men are held separately. Some pregnancies may
have been the result of illicit relationships with guards, despite safeguards in
place to make sure that doesnât happen, but officials say the boys are clearly
being exploited by ISIS women.
Some of the ISIS women in Camp al Hol hide this practice by giving birth
without the help of the campâs official doctors, aided by detainees who are
also doctors and nurses.
Security forces and camp authorities in al Roj camp also confirmed to The
Daily Beast that the same issue has occurred in their camp, although fewer
pregnancies resulted there. One boy in Camp al Roj subjected to such
exploitation ended up in the hospital collapsing after being given a Viagra-like
substance to make him perform. Some mothers in the Roj camp, wanting to
protect their sons from these women, begged the camp authorities to take
their sons to rehabilitation centers.
So far, the SDF and Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES)
has worked hard to keep surrendered and captured ISIS-affiliated families
together. But as these boys age into puberty and beyond, the AANES and SDF
are taking steps to protect them from sexual predation and abuse. They also
hope to disrupt the gangs of violent boys who are organized by their pro-ISIS
mothers to burn tents, patrol, harass women in the camps, and keep them from
disrupting NGO efforts to de-radicalize the others.
âThe boys are definitely not for sale.â
Ahmet and Hamid were transferred to Orkesh, the new rehabilitation center
where I am a consultant. The boys there on my visit could be seen playing
football under sunny skies, taking lessons and participating in group counseling
sessions. They are all housed in clean rooms with bunk beds which compare
favorably to the crowded and unhealthy prisons or camps they came from.
They can relax in a games room filled with four foosball tables and are offered
educational lessons. They also undergo counseling aimed at teaching them how
to deal with their traumatic pasts and emotional distress in prosocial waysâ
while redirecting them to futures that no longer include ISISâs virulent ideology,
activities all aimed at eventual repatriation and reintegration into society.
âWe donât dig deep in the beginning. We want to give them time and not get in
over our heads in dealing with such traumas,â Ahmetâs and Hamidâs counselor said.
These are difficult issues, and moving the boys to safe, predictable and
nurturing routinesâcoupled with the opportunity to work through their traumatic
pastsâis intended to help them heal.
All of the adolescent boys who end up in these rehabilitation centers were taken
from their ISIS mothers in order to protect them. Yet a recent UN report severely
criticizes the AANES and SDF for their actions, stating, âWe are extremely concerned
that serious harm may befall these boys and fear they may be forcibly disappeared
and subject to sale, exploitation and abuse, torture, inhuman and degrading
treatment or punishment.â The camp director said the boys were, in every case,
officially transferred from the camp authority to the justice and reforming
authorities of the AANES. They were then to be moved into the rehabilitation
center, according to the director, adding that âthe boys are definitely not for sale.â
Supporters of the removal policy say sexual exploitation, abuse, radicalization, and
disappearance is exactly what has been happening to some of these boys in the
camps when their ISIS mothers successfully smuggle them out to terrorist groups
eager to receive them.
The UN report also complained that the SDF removed these boys at night from their
mothers, although Western police sometimes do the same when removing children
from dangerous family situations. Police typically arrive with social workers and
removals occur with no advance notice given and at night, if necessary, because
advance notice only places the child in further danger, sometimes even of being killed.
Women stand together al-Hol displacement camp in Hasaka governorate, Syria, April 2, 2019.
Ali Hashisho/Reuters
In the camp, authorities state that the women were told ahead of time why and to
where their sons would be taken and were asked to voluntarily surrender them.
Only four complied. The rest were taken forcibly, although all the mothers were
able to say goodbye and have had supervised telephone contact with their sons
since removal.
âVictims of terrorismâ
In the United States, the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
(CAPTA) sets out the legal framework for the protection of children from abuse
and neglect, requiring states to have laws in place that allow for the removal
of children from their homes. Similarly, the EU has adopted a number of
directives and regulations that address the protection of children, including
the EU directive on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and
sexual abuse, and the EU directive on the rights of the child. Syria also has laws
allowing for removal of children from abusive and criminal home environments
as does the AANES.
Likewise, UNHCR guidelines emphasize the importance of family unity and the
best interests of the child. However, there are certainly situations in which it
is deemed necessary to separate a child from their motherâfor instance if she
is suspected of having committed serious crimes or is a threat to the childâs
safety. In such cases, the UNHCR recommends that authorities should take
steps to ensure that the child is placed in a safe and appropriate environment,
and that their rights and well-being are protected.
While the UN report roundly criticized the SDF for removing these boys from
their mothers in the camps, the AANES authorities state that they are doing
their best to protect everyone. âThe doors are wide open to all countries who
wish to come and take their youth,â an official said.
The al Roj administration also points to the rape of a girl in the camp by one of
the youths, and other evidence that these pubescent males are acting as predators
on younger boys, as well as their own exploitation by the ISIS women. While
Western statutes and policies restrict the imprisonment of minorsâand it is generally
recognized that the detention of children with their parents can have negative
impacts on the physical, mental, and social well-being of the childrenâthe SDF and
AANES are facing this impossible situation of housing ISIS-affiliated children with
their mothers. Likewise, despite UN criticisms, most UN member states have offered
no alternative to consigning these children to the camps run by the AANES, which
struggles to make the best resolutions under these extremely difficult circumstances.
The UN report warns that, if they are removed, the boys âare likely to be placed in
male prisons or other detention facilities,â but there is no basis for that claim. The
reality is that the boys are being housed in a rehabilitation center where they will
be protected from the dangerous conditions in the camp, to receive psychotherapy
and support in a secure environment until their countries decide to repatriate them.
If their home countries do not act, these adolescents could in fact age into adult
detention centers, something the AANES wishes to avoid.
The UN report correctly points out, âMost of these boys have been detained since
they were seven years old. They are victims of terrorism and deserve the protection
of international human rights and humanitarian law.â
@AnneSpeckhard
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'World's most dangerous rollercoaster' reaches 300mph before killing all riders
The Euthanasia Coaster was designed by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas in 2010 and promises
passengers a painful death - but some people have claimed the concept is "fake"
Written by
William Hill
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Some rollercoasters don't ever make it to opening day (stock image used)
(Image: Getty Images/Johner RF)
Rollercoasters are not for the faint-hearted.
Some rides offer adrenaline junkies exactly what they're after, while others find the idea
rather nerve-wracking. But now we believe this ride might just give you the biggest fright
of your life. One TikTok user discussed the "world's most dangerous ride" during National
Rollercoaster Day on Friday. User @jakebsweetfacts talked about the Euthanasia Coaster.
This terrifying ride was reportedly designed as a concept by Lithuanian artist Julijonas
Urbonas with the sole intention of killing its passengers. It was conceived in 2010 and
turned into a scale model. It starts with a steep-angled lift that takes riders up 500
metres (1,600ft) before giving guests just seconds to reflect on their lives. From there,
passengers are given an option to leave, reports the Daily Star.
But those who wish to continue can press a button to proceed. The TikTok viewer informed
his 9,800 followers: "You can only ride this rollercoaster once. This guy designed a
rollercoaster called Euthanasia Coaster and it's capable of holding up to 24 passengers.
Once everyone's on board, it starts slowly ascending up a massive hill."
As the rollercoaster reaches the peak, people can press a button to turn back, otherwise
they're hurtling down the hill at rapid speeds of 300mph before going through seven
different loops. The video explained: "Each hoop gets smaller and smaller! It's designed
so riders maintain 10 G's of force for 60 seconds. Everyone on the rollercoaster's blood
rush to their feet, leaving no more blood in their brain.
"This causes them to lose their vision and eventually black out and die. And it's designed
for people with incurable diseases who wanted a no painful death." The Euthanasia Coaster,
which lasts a mere 3:20 minutes, concludes with a straight track that leads back to the
station where the deceased are unloaded and new thrill-seekers board.
Debuted as part of the HUMAN+ exhibition at Dublin's Science Gallery in 2011, the ride was
later hailed as the year's flagship exhibition by the gallery itself. Since its appearance
on TikTok, the video has racked up 115,000 likes and sparked hundreds of comments. One user
remarked: "It's designed for death row." While another expressed a desire to experience the
ride: "I need to go on that."
A third user speculated about their chances: "I'm the kind of people to think I'd survive
this." Meanwhile, another was in disbelief: "I can't believe it's real."
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https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/anthony-kiedis-sexual-assault-history-details/
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Inside the details of Anthony Kiedisâ troubling sexual assault history
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No one would ever accuse the Red Hot Chili Peppers of being reserved
in their sexual exploits. Whether itâs lyrically in songs like âSuck My Kissâ
or through their own recollections in memoirs like Anthony Kiedisâ Scar
Tissue, the Chili Peppers cultivated an infamous reputation for carnal
desire and lecherous, even perverted ideals. To some, this was just an
image, but for others, it was more than just a pose.
In 1989, during the bandâs Motherâs Milk tour, Kiedis was convicted
of sexual battery after a show at George Mason University. According
to the accusation, he exposed himself and touched his crotch to a
womanâs face against her wishes. Kiedis was also convicted of indecent
exposure and was fined $1,000 on each misdemeanour charge. An
archived contemporary article from The Washington Post confirms
the charge.
Kiedis claimed that the incident was âblown way out of proportion
by both the media and the prosecutionâ immediately after the incident.
âIt was a playful thing that happened backstage â there was never any
harmful intention,â he added. âSpeaking for my band and myself,
weâre all very friendly people who would never want to hurt anybody
or make people uncomfortable.â
It wouldnât be the last time that the Chili Peppers would be caught
up in harassment claims or accusations of inappropriate behaviour.
In a 2016 essay, former Epic Records executive Julie Farman detailed
how two of the Chili Peppers harassed her in the companyâs storage
room in 1990. That same year, Flea and Chad Smith were arrested for
lascivious behaviour, battery and disorderly conduct in 1990 after
picking a woman out of the crowd and allegedly trying to rip off her
bathing suit. The band had a reputation for being sex-obsessed party
animals, but the music business too easily brushed it off as a personality
gimmick, not an indicator of real life actions.
Itâs not like the band themselves have ever denied their actions. In Scar
Tissue, between its moments of jumping off roofs and shooting up heroin
with his father, Kiedis acknowledge his sexual relationship with a 14-year-old
girl when he was nearly a decade older. âThe next day we drove to Baton
Rouge, and of course, she came with us,â he said. âAfter we got offstage,
she came up to me and said, âI have something to tell you. My fatherâs the
chief of police and the entire state of Louisiana is looking for me because
Iâve gone missing. Oh, and besides that, Iâm only fourteen'â.
Keidis continued: âI wasnât incredibly scared, because, in my somewhat
deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love
with me, he wasnât going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I
did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one
more time.â If youâve ever wondered if Kiedis has any remorse about the
incident, refer to their 1985 song âCatholic School Girls Ruleâ for your answer.
You can find pictures and clips of the Chili Peppers in their heyday going
beyond the realm of âlovable horny scampsâ and into the realm of
âunwarranted harassersâ. As late as 2006, Kiedis was still writing
songs like âSheâs Only 18â with lines such as âshe took the shortcut to
being fully grownâ. In Scar Tissue, Kiedis admits that his relationship
with British actress Ione Skye started before she turned 16. The more
you look into the Chili Peppersâ real life actions, the more uncomfortable
and downright illegal most of them seem. Having a sordid history is
nothing new in rock and roll, but being serial offenders, and then
proceeding to write songs about it is on a whole other level.
So what is to be done? Is Kiedis overdue for a reckoning? Perhaps,
but that seems unlikely by this point. The claims against the Chili
Peppers â despite being publicly available â havenât really stuck
to any of the members. That goes especially for Kiedis, who continues
to be one of rock musicâs most popular figures. It would seem like
any of their alleged (and confirmed) behaviour wouldnât be accepted
in the modern day, but different sets of social circumstances shouldnât
be an excuse to forget or forgive sexual harassment or assault.
View the Red Hot Chili Peppers any way you want, but before canonising
them as alt-rock heroes, their darker side should be acknowledged as well.
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-07/los-angeles
-craigslist-fentanyl-sales?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=promo_
module&utm_campaign=rss_feed
How L.A. fentanyl sales boomed on Craigslist [LA Times 6/7/24]
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-07/
los-angeles-craigslist-fentanyl-sales?utm_source=yahoo
&utm_medium=promo_module&utm_campaign=rss_feed
California
Boba Fett, blue fish, and fettuccine: How L.A. fentanyl sales boomed on Craigslist
Blue pills in a clear plastic baggie surrounded by Craigslist ads
(Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times;
photos via Getty Images; screenshots via Craigslist)
By Connor Sheets and Keri Blakinger
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June 7, 2024 3 AM PT
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At first glance, the items listed for sale on Craigslist seemed benign: Blue socks. A fancy
china set. A collectible action figure.
But there was odd lingo slipped into the otherwise mundane posts. The socks were âpressed.â
Buyers could âtryâ a plate from the china set âto guarantee quality.â And the action figure
was âpure.â
The phrasing was one giveaway they were advertising illicit fentanyl, according to several
drug market experts who reviewed dozens of suspicious posts identified by The Times.
The open sale of drugs has been a long-standing problem on Craigslist. Over the last decade,
a handful of people have overdosed and died after buying fentanyl through the site, yet until
recent months The Times found ads for them remained commonplace, especially in Southern
California.
âPeople have been able to buy drugs on Craigslist for a long time,â said Chelsea Shover, a
UCLA researcher who studies drug use. âBut these ads seem qualitatively different in how
brazen a lot of them are.â
Craigslist founder and namesake Craig Newmark declined to comment, deferring to the siteâs
current leadership and noting that he has not been involved for many years. Craigslist and
its lawyers did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The siteâs terms of use bar
the sale of prescription pills and illegal drugs.
Until April, typing certain letters into Craigslistâs search bar would prompt predictive
text suggestions for a variety of drug terms. After reporters began asking questions, the
search function stopped offering many of those suspicious keywords, and the number of posts
in the L.A. area that appeared to be openly selling fentanyl sharply declined.
Several other sites and apps almost eliminated drug postings years ago after scrutiny by
law enforcement, yet drug dealers on Craigslist seemingly remained active, using a colorful
assortment of code words to operate in plain sight.
âIf you know, you know,â said Shover. âAnd if not, it might not create a suspicion.â
Frosting and Fetty Wap
The features that have made Craigslist appealing for drug dealers and buyers are some of
the same reasons the low-tech site has endured for so long: Itâs free, easy to use, and
anonymous, with no account needed to post and reply to listings.
Law enforcement officials say the convenience has enabled people to buy drugs more easily
than in years past. Thereâs no need to find someone who knows a dealer, or take the risk
of making a buy on the street. All it takes is a phone or computer, and a few seconds to
type some terms into a search bar.
âAll those barriers that kept a lot of people away from drugs, those have been removed,â
said Bill Bodner, former special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administrationâs
Los Angeles field division. âYou can live in Brentwood and get heroin delivered to your
house in 20 minutes.â
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Users caught selling items prohibited by Craigslistâs terms of use can have their listings
removed and potentially face fines of $4 per post, although itâs unclear how that penalty
is collected or how frequently people are actually asked to pay.
Posts that violate the rules can be flagged â either by other users, Craigslist staff or
the platformâs automated systems. As a result, the academic and law enforcement experts said,
dealers tend to get creative with coded language to evade detection.
Because heroin is sometimes referred to as China white, Shover explained, some dealers post
ads offering âfine china.â A 30-milligram blue oxycodone pill, she said, becomes a 30-piece
blue tool set. A list of âSlang Terms and Code Wordsâ released by the DEA in 2018 includes
âchina, chinese food, and chinese buffetâ as known heroin terms, along with âbluesâ for
oxycodone.
Crystal meth becomes Christina Aguilera tickets, the UCLA researcher said. The singerâs
name has been used as a meth code word for decades, with a New York Post article from 2005
noting its use even then by Craigslist dealers.
âOne giveaway is the number of ads,â Shover said. âIf someone is actually selling their blue
china plates, they probably havenât put up 30 ads. Another tell is concert tickets for a
concert that isnât happening.â
Fentanyl â sometimes known as fetty or fet â has its own colorful array of code words:
Confetti-flavored frosting, fettuccine or fetty, like the rapper Fetty Wap, according
to the experts.
When three drug and law enforcement experts reviewed a series of recent Craigslist listings
containing those and other keywords, they confirmed the posts were almost certainly covert
drug ads.
One L.A. Craigslist ad that raised eyebrows was posted in February, titled âWhite Boba Fett
Action Figure.â The seller did not respond to an inquiry, but there were red flags that
Shover and Bodner said indicated a toy was not for sale.
âThis is pure Boba Fett, before any influence of the Sith or other contaminating forces,â
the ad stated, probably using Star Wars references to tout the purity of the drugs on offer.
âSerious fans only.â
The seller noted the merchandise was âmade in Chinaâ and warned that buyers would face
âsecurity checks.â Approved customers could expect âconsistent and fastâ delivery, but
the deals âmust be in person.â
Other sellers warned of similar security screenings for seemingly ordinary items. One
titled âFettucini Box â (6) fine china,â promised buyers: âonce you pass the verification
process, you wonât need another bulk supplier.â
Another ad titled âFish that are blue for saleâ included a picture of a fish with âM30â
scribbled over it. The shorthand has no obvious connection to undersea creatures, but
Shover and Bodner say itâs a common slang term for blue 30-milligram oxycodone pills
and fentanyl-laced counterfeit versions of them.
Three people who posted suspicious ads on Craigslist this year confirmed in online messages
that their thinly veiled listings for other goods were in fact offers for fentanyl. One
told The Times heâd been selling drugs through Craigslist for about five years. He said
he considered it a reliable way to build his customer base without selling on a street
corner.
The dealer â who requested anonymity because he feared arrest â said the ads heâs used have
also changed over time, usually in response to whatever terms get flagged as suspicious.
He used to post Fetty Wap concert ticket listings, for example, but had to shift to other
phrases.
âIâve seen an ad for roofing tar,â he said, explaining that it was actually a reference to
black tar heroin. âTheyâre trying to say they have fetty without being too blunt.â
Another dealer who operates out of the San Fernando Valley and also requested anonymity,
citing fear of police, said he had similar experiences on Craigslist. In one ad, titled
âfunFETti cupcakes w/ fun fet frosting,â he offered âseveral delicious batches of cupcakes
ready to go, of course the most popular flavor funfetti is always on hand!â and directed
potential buyers to âCall or text anytime day or night.â
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The dealer who said heâd been using the site for five years told Times reporters that he
insists on meeting potential buyers in a public place and screens for law enforcement,
in part by asking first-time customers to use drugs with him. Getting high together,
he said, also allows him to look for new users who might be more prone to overdose.
He wonât take on those sorts of clients, he said, adding that he always brings the
overdose-reversing drug naloxone.
He said heâs tried selling through other popular platforms â including Telegram,
where large group chats have become a common venue for drug sales â but he keeps
coming back to Craigslist.
âOn Craigslist, you just have to know what to type for,â he said. âOr youâre not
going to find it.â
âRoxy board shortsâ
Henry Zurkow was an honors student at the University of Colorado in Boulder, a mecca
for two of his passions, mountaineering and snowboarding. A native of Scarsdale, N.Y.,
he had climbed all 46 peaks of the Adirondacks four times, according to his father,
Peter Zurkow.
The elder Zurkow described his son as resilient and driven. But he said Henry had
repeatedly battled sports injuries and was eventually prescribed painkillers. For
a time, he struggled with addiction â to opioids and Xanax â but he went to rehab
and his parents said they believed heâd stopped using.
A bearded man with long, wavy brown hair and wearing a pale pink T-shirt sits smiling
Henry Zurkow, an honors student in college who had climbed the 46 peaks of the
Adirondacks, died in July 2022 of a fentanyl overdose, according to his father, Peter
Zurkow. (Courtesy of the Zurkow family)
But on the night of July 16, 2022, the 23-year-old had been having trouble sleeping and
was in pain from an old snowboarding injury, according to his mother, Erica. Messages
recovered from his phone show he texted a dealer seeking pills â itâs unclear what type
â and set up a buy that investigators believe took place in the Bronx, not far from his
parentsâ home, where he spent much of that summer.
âWe know he said to the person, âI got your name and information off Craigslist,ââ
Peter Zurkow said.
The following morning, he found his son dead in his bedroom, folded over his desk with
his head on his computer keyboard. According to the medical examiner, the cause of death
was fentanyl intoxication â an overdose.
Now, Peter Zurkow thinks Craigslist should be doing more to keep dealers from using the
platform as a digital billboard.
âI believe there is a burden on them to try to regulate content,â he said.
Erica Zurkow agreed. If Craigslist had cracked down harder on drug-dealing, she said,
âmaybe our son and a lot of other people would be alive.â
Today, the Zurkows try to temper their sorrow by doing what they can to help others
avoid a similar fate.
âOne way we deal with grief is we find ways to talk about Henry,â Peter said. âWe
tell people to test their drugs, make sure Narcan is available, make sure thereâs
friends around.â
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stored in a locked cabinet, in Chicago. A drug called ketamine that's injected as a
sedative during arrests has drawn new scrutiny since a young Black man named Elijah
McClain died in suburban Denver. An analysis by The Associated Press of policies on
ketamine and cases where it was used nationwide uncovered a lack of police training,
conflicting medical standards and nonexistent protocols that have resulted in hospital-
izations and even deaths. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford, File)
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Itâs unclear whether Craigslist made any changes to crack down on drug sales in response
to Henryâs death â or any of the handful of others Times reporters identified through a
review of news articles, medical examiner reports and court records.
A Costa Mesa man, Tobin Oliver Wood, 49, who prosecutors said posted a Craigslist ad
offering âRoxy board shorts,â was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison
in 2022 for selling counterfeit oxycodone pills â also known as âroxysâ â that caused
the 2018 fentanyl overdose of a 32-year-old San Clemente man.
Another Craigslist dealer, 25-year-old Andrew Madi of Hollywood, was sentenced in 2022
to more than 10 years in prison after the DEA said he used an ad for âroofing tarâ to
sell fentanyl to someone who died of an overdose afterward.
In response to questions about ongoing drug sales on Craigslist, Matthew Allen, special
agent in charge of the DEAâs L.A. division, said the agency âworks to educate social media
platforms and e-commerce companies about how their platforms are being used for the sale
and distribution of deadly and dangerous illicit drugs.â
Posts on Craigslist indicate some users are aware of drug slang being actively blocked on
the site â while others are confused when their innocuous posts get inadvertently flagged
as suspicious.
In August 2022, a seller made a posting with the title âwetsuit listing keeps getting
flagged. Why?â in a Craigslist help forum.
âIt makes no sense to me that this is repeatedly flagged for removal,â the seller wrote
before pasting the text of the ad, which included the following: âRoxy wetsuit toddler
size 3T. Short legs. Iâm reliable and pickup is easy.â
Another forum user responded: âDonât say Roxy,â adding, âItâs a drug term. You used it
multiple times in your ad, I bet that killed it.â
âThereâs a lot of drug salesâ
Craigslist has been around nearly as long as the public internet. Launched in 1995 as a
small email list of local events in the Bay Area, there were concerns about illicit
activity almost from the beginning.
Jessa Lingel, author of âAn Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist,â
said the site âhas a long-standing reputation for facilitating different kinds of problematic
behavior, partly because it got its start in San Francisco and it reflects the countercultural
vibes of San Francisco in the 1990s.â
Today, Craigslist is one of the most-visited sites on the internet and generates more than
$600 million in revenue a year, by some estimates. Much of that revenue comes from fees
charged to post certain types of ads. Despite Craigslistâs outsized popularity, the site
has a small staff of around 50 people, which could be part of why it has struggled to rein
in drug sales, according to Lingel.
Yet in contrast to former competitor Backpage â which clashed with law enforcement over ads
for sex work â Lingel said that Craigslist developed a âpretty solid track record of working
with law enforcementâ to fight such things as fraud and human trafficking. Whatever the reason,
despite occasional busts and efforts by prosecutors to crack down, drug dealers still use the
platform.
In a study published in 2020, an international team of university researchers who surveyed
more than 1,200 Americans who bought drugs online found Craigslist was the third-most popular
site, after Instagram and Facebook.
In Los Angeles, Craigslist was first identified as âa major new marketplace for illicit fentanylâ
more than five years ago by the journalist Sam Quinones.
Bodner, the former DEA official, said the agency investigated in some cases, but thereâs only
so much authorities can do given constraints on time, resources and law enforcement priorities
in a metropolis such as L.A.
CASTAIC, CALIF. - OCTOBER 11, 2017: Inmate-on-inmate assaults are up in the Los Angeles County
jail system. Officials say one of the reasons may be more out-of-cell time for inmates in open-dorm
settings, like at the North County Correctional Facility in Castaic. This dorm houses 66 inmates.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
California
L.A. County deputy arrested for allegedly smuggling heroin into jail, sources say
May 7, 2024
Unless someone dies, he said, itâs not always worth the time and money involved in finding the ads
and setting up an undercover buy for a small amount of drugs. Pushing site operators to crack down
has been more effective, he said.
Around 2021, Bodner said, OfferUp â an app for selling used goods and clothes â became âthe spotâ for
online drug sales.
âWe wrote them a letter saying hereâs whatâs going on on your platform: Thereâs a lot of drug sales,â
Bodner said.
The listings Bodnerâs investigators found featured a lot of the same slang that still peppered
Craigslist ads this year: Roxy shorts, China sets and blue clothes with a 30-inch waist.
âWe had a Zoom with OfferUp, and they kind of got on their people and tightened things up,â he
said.
Federal agents checked the platform before and after OfferUpâs clampdown, Bodner said, and found
that there were around 70% fewer ads featuring suspicious search terms.
Timothy Mackey, a professor at UC San Diego who studies the intersection of the illicit drug trade
and social media, said the ârelatively static and legacy systemâ on Craigslist could limit what data
the company is able to collect, making it harder to block illicit activity than on an app such as OfferUp.
Until Times reporters contacted Craigslist last month, the siteâs search function still suggested a
range of drug terms, including âpain pillsâ and âM30s,â along with common slang such as âRoxy blue
shortsâ and âfine china white.â
At the same time, other problematic keywords, such as âheroinâ and âprostituteâ were not suggested when
the first few letters were typed.
Craigslist did not respond to questions about its predictive text and search functions, so itâs unclear
exactly what recent changes the site has or hasnât made â but many of those slang words for fentanyl
have now stopped showing up as search suggestions.
Casey Fiesler, a tech ethics professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said regardless of why
things changed, itâs a sign the site is capable of taking action.
âYou canât assume they know itâs a problem,â she said, âbut you can say this is the kind of thing that
a website should test for.â
LOS ANGELES-CA-MARCH 7, 2022: Registered nurse Linda Leimer, left, with L.A. County Department of Health
Services, hands Narcan nasal spray to a man living along Aetna Street in Van Nuys on Monday, March 7, 2022.
The medication can reverse an opioid overdose. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
Deadly overdoses stopped surging among L.A. County homeless people. Narcan could be why
May 9, 2024
Connor Sheets
Connor Sheets is an investigative and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times.
Keri Blakinger
Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriffâs Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023,
she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then
covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Blakinger was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for
For her insightful, humane portrait, reported with great difficulty, of men on Death Row in Texas who play
clandestine games of âDungeons & Dragons,â countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy. Her
work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine,
where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of
âCorrections in Ink,â a 2022 memoir about her time in prison.
With arrests in Matthew Perry death, is L.A.âs ketamine bubble about to burst?
Aug. 15, 2024
PACIFIC PALISADES, CA - OCTOBER 30, 2023 - Daisy Muro, from Downey, prepares to leave flowers at a growing
memorial for actor Matthew Perry in front of his home in Pacific Palisades on October 30, 2023.
"It breaks my heart," Muro said about the passing of the Friends television star. "It won't be the
same anymore watching, Friends." It's going to be sad because he's not here anymore," Muro concluded.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
California
Matthew Perry investigation: What we know about the people charged in his death
Aug. 15, 2024
4 people arrested in the killing of âGeneral Hospitalâ actor Johnny Wactor
Aug. 15, 2024
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I Underwent Guerilla Testing By A Covert Agency Once
It was Occupy Philly, in 2011. I wore a cardboard sign around my neck saying "Kill Your Ego".
Had on all white and long ass hair. I had been intensively into yogic and meditation training,
as well as alchemy at the time, on my own. A guy approached me who was always drinking 4 locos
. He took me to his tent house, it was the best cardboard house on the block. He explained to
me how he used to be a CEO of a big company and chose homelessness because he hated the corporate
world.
I didn't know what to believe, but all I knew for sure was that he seemed to know some shit, and
he had wads and wads of mad fucking cash.
I imagine they already had a profile on me before he took me in.
He took me to an army navy store and told me to pick out whatever I wanted. Probably seeing how
I would use resources, because he had all the money, and the only limit was my imagination.
The second test was when I had to piss, he told me to go in this big business building across the
street, pointed to the door and said the bathroom is on the right. Well, right after I crossed the
street I could see it in his eyes, some weird shit going on between him and some old lanky homeless
looking dude. That lanky dude started following me, and he went into the building after me, so I sat
on the bench, and did not go into that bathroom, stayed in the public eye. The lanky guy was like
"Weren't you gonna go to the bathroom?". So, I said no.
Needless to say, I didn't fuck with the rich long haired guerilla recruiter for whatever fucking
agency he worked with. I didn't realize I was being tested at the time. I know I failed miserably
because all I got at the army navy store was a dumb little water canteen, and some other unremarkable
item. Then, even though I demonstrated good situational awareness and intuition with the guy following
me, I went and cried about it to one of the security people from the protest. I meditated my way back
into serenity and continued to rock my kill your ego sign.
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OP got turned out by a gay homeless man in some
cardboard shack and thinks a government agency
tried to "recruit him." Holy fuck, I've seen gays
in denial before but this is a whole new level
of closeted fraggot.
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[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[Hey op I wanna tell you something.
When I was a lot younger
Some random guy came up to me and asked me a bunch of weird questions.
He had all designer clothes, camo colored but gold jewelry, nice shoe's...
He reminded me of ALI-G, the Sacha baron-cone. Character.
He proceeded to pull out a large nalgene bottle full of a yellow powder substance.
He claimed it was full of drugs
He said he had close ties to the world bank, and offered me some kinda position..
I was a teenager thoroughly confused and sketched out by this obviously fed.
I told him to fuckoff and my friend told me to run Away up the hill and get
far away from that douchebag so I did
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User ID: 80364149
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Well he may hqve been fed, this was ows protests im assuming? they
targeted you because you had a sign with the word "kill" on it thats
really all they need to start stalking and justify their fed paycheck.
He probably wanted you to buy something like a knife or flare gun or
something dangerous at the military surplus, get you involved in some
sketchy scenario, to make a scene and get youin prison, again justifying
their paychecks, showing the higher ups how important they are for
public safety.
Im assuming you were also homeless at the time? Another reason to be
targeted; u need to understand these gov goons are desperate to keep
their bs tax leech jobs, they are seriously sick and deranged people
that think they are heroes, the thought of honest hard work probably
makes them want to die.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y83kj3wg2o
Last week, Damion Bailey posted on Instagram that he had just
achieved his âpersonal bestâ â a 13-and-a-half hour flight be-
tween Shanghai and Dallas without any in-flight entertainment,
films, books or music.
âItâs quite tough, honestly,â the 34-year-old from Miami, Florida tells BBC News.
But he keeps doing it.
Mr Bailey is part of a new travel trend, known as âraw-doggingâ, where passengers
spend long hours mid-air just staring straight ahead.
The longer you do it, the tougher you have apparently proven yourself to be.
âJust raw-dogged it, 15 hour flight to Melbourne," boasts Australian music producer
Torren Foot on TikTok, blinking hard as if to stay awake.
"No music, no movies, just flight map."
Some also avoid eating or drinking. A few say they wonât get up at all, even to use
the toilet. But health experts warn that more extreme versions of the trend can pose
serious risks.
Manchester City footballer Erling Haaland recently joined the trend, posting that he
had got through a seven-hour flight with âno phone, no sleep, no water, no foodâ and
had found it "easy".
Responses on social media questioned if he had really stuck to his own rules (a comm-
on question on similar posts from others). Some wondered if he was a robot.
And some simply asked "why"?
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22 min. ago (7/31/2024 11AM)
coko_rime
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Being a victim of genital mutilation
Trigger warning for CSA, trafficking, and cauterization/burning.
I am a victim of genital mutilation and it's a very isolating
experience. Especially when I live in a first world country
where "that stuff doesn't happen" (or at least people say
it doesn't happen but my experience says otherwise).
While being trafficked by a organization within a strange
building I was sometimes given injections down there. Idk
what the hell they were for or was. And looking up what
shots that's given down there that would make sense gives
me a headache. After a rape incident when I was 5 I bled
profusely from my genitals for about a week. And my abusive
aunt was tired of the bleeding and cleaning it up so one day
during that week she held me down, took a cigarette lighter
(any cheap one that you can find in a gas station), and
burned my vaginal area with it. Attempting to cauterize
it herself. Idk if it worked or not. I just remember being
in god awful pain and screaming and crying. She not only
burned my opening but also my clit. And it's probably the
reason why my clit is basically numb to this day.
I surprisingly have no physical evidence left from this.
There's no burn scars on me and if there was it was probably
mild scarring considering the type of lighter used. Because
of there being no evidence left of it I'm worried I'm making
it up. Even though I get horrendous flashbacks to it and can
still recall the pain. And it feels real to me. I never met
any victim of genital mutilation, let alone any that's
experienced the same type of mutilation as me. And it's a
very lonely and isolating experience.
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Agreeable_Sham3
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2m ago
Know my heart goes out to you, I had similar done, and
they carved a satanic symbol onto my genitalia. My doctors
had said the scarring caused permanent nerve damages,
sounds like you may have something similar if it is numb,
sometimes you canât see nerve damage but it stays there
even after healing. I also live in a so called first world
country, people say it doesnât happen cause they are ignorant,
where I grew up is known as the sex trafficking Capitol of the
country, itâs everywhere in every country and every corner
hidden in plain sight. The body can heal in incredible ways
especially as a child, itâs more common to have no scarring
than to have it, that doesnât make it any less real or horrific.
Believe yourself, you wouldnât know the pain of this if it were
fake, you shouldnât know it and yet you do
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A brief intro to Stakeholder Capitalism and what it really is!!
rumble link to article/video
upcoming election in the UK are both parties
corrupted and people are being moved from share
holder communism to shareholder communism
they call this new form of
government stakeholder capitalism
All g 20 heads are called stakeholders
SCHWAB: We are working with Gov around
the world including all g 20 countries
what we are very proud of now is the
young generation liek trudeau, is that
we penetrate the cabinets.
after doing this they have a 10 yr plan
to transition us to stakeholder capitalism,
which schwab designed
SCHWAB; stakeholder capitalism has become mainstream.
it is an authoritarian system
This system gives them control of the companies
and our lives
schwab: the chinese system is certainly a very
attractive model for quite a number of countries !!
the slogan is People and Planet
rishi sunak has already made corporations
maintain a social credit score
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https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail-duke-nukem/
https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail-duke-nukem/
Duke Nukem Forever became the biggest videogame
that never was. A few key milestones.
âBenj Edwards
__Jan 1996__Duke Nukem 3D
is released. The sequel,
Duke Nukem Forever, is
announced in April 1997.
__Nov 1997__3D Realms shows
off early DNF screenshots,
targeting a mid- to late-1998
release using the Quake II engine.
__May 1998__Trailer for DNF
is shown at videogame industry
convention E3. Fans and critics rave.
__May 1999__The game isn't
shown at E3. Broussard says,
"We're sick of jumping through
pointless PR hoops."
__May 2001__3D Realms releases
its first video in years. "No,
this is not some kind of sick
joke," the company Web site says.
__May 2003__Publisher Take-Two
Interactive says DNF will not
come out in 2003; blames its
financial difficulties on ongoing
delays.
__Dec 2008__3D Realms releases
a new desktop wallpaper image
of DNF.
__May 2009__3D Realms shuts down
internal development. Take-Two sues.
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I find it more weird rabbis run all the other porn companies
Definitely_NotAHobo
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4h ago
Ouissam Youssef was the founder of Mindgeek, the company that owns
most porn sites. His company Valsoft was recruiting families for
childrens youtube channels during the "elsagate" thing. I did an
insane amount of research on him during that. Also found a bunch
of Elsa/Spider-Man kids videos hosted on pornhub.
That man is responsible for a lot of bad stuff.
spamcentral
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3h ago
WHAT. Thats the direct link between the weird fetish content
in elsagate!!!!!
Spiderman pissing on elsa then a bunch of tragedies happen
while she's pregnant and the hulk comes to cuck Spiderman.
That was my fucking theory this whole time. That those
fucking weird videos were giving kids fetishes at a young
age so they'd go consume weird ass porn of it.
Edit: they were on YOUTUBE not any porn sites too
Definitely_NotAHobo
â˘
2h ago
I was actually extremely involved in the whole "elsagate"
thing (never been a fan of that name though)
I spent almost a year of my life watching those videos,
finding the people behind them, and reporting them. My
kid was around 2 years old and I decided to find educational
YouTube videos for him... but there were a lot of weird ones.
Started looking into it and discovered a crazy network of
fucked up shit made for kids.
Side note, I didn't let my kid watch youtube ever again.
He recently turned 10, and he is mature, responsible, and
respectful. I didn't plop him in front of a screen for
entertainment after that, no tablets/internet/etc. We
watched TV together and played video games together and
we talked about any mature/uncomfortable themes that arose.
He's very different than other kids his age, which sometimes
makes me worry that I did the wrong thing by not letting
him have the same childhood that so many others seem to
have now, but I digress.
I became an absolute expert at online "stalking" because
of this. In one video on a weird channel, there were kids
running around a house and it was pretty tame. Except for
the large butchers knife just sitting on one of the tables
the kids ran past. There were no adults in the video, I
assume one was filming though, but this giant knife was
just chilling on an end table. I found their license plate
number in another video, figured out what area they were
in, and reported it to their local child services. Their
other videos had the kids looking absolutely miserable,
btw, so it's not like I only reported the knife. Within
a few weeks the channel had been taken down.
There were also some extreme corporate influences in these
videos. There was a video that I kept seeing, different
channels and different families, but the exact same script.
Kid is playing with hot wheels and rolls one under he couch.
When they go to grab it, a creepy hand comes out and starts
attacking the kid. The kid would block the attack and it
would say "PURPLE" or whatever color the hand was. Then
more started coming in different colors. It had "learn colors"
in the title of the video. There were dozens of these.
I decided to look up the hand they'd used, it was a grotesque
thing with an eye on the back of the hand. Same model in all
the videos. I found a 3D model website selling it for hundreds
of dollars. Decided there was no fucking way this many people
dropped that cash for this hand.
I contacted some of the channels pretending to be a fellow
creator, and asked about where they get their 3D models for
special effects and whatnot. They directed me to AIR, which
is a company that helps manage/market your YouTube channel.
The company was based in Russia at the time but had moved to
various countries throughout its history. Very sketchy. I
found forums for their clients, and discovered that they'd
been pushing these scripts on family channels. That's why
so many had the exact same script! They were threatening
to stop working with family channels that wouldn't use their
scripts, and people were not happy about it, but they
relied on the YouTube channels for their income. Once YouTube
started demonetizing these videos, AIR refused to give them
the money they'd earned.
I could seriously go on for hours about all this. It breaks
my heart that I still see kids watching these videos on
their parents phones when they're grocery shopping or at
a restaurant. Unfortunately I can't just go tell them what
their kid is watching because they'll just think I'm some
crazy lady insisting YouTube is brainwashing their children.
Even though it LITERALLY FUCKING IS.
hey discovered that a diet with taurine supplements
increased the average lifespan by 12% in female mice
and 10% in males â roughly equal to about seven or
eight human years.
Additional experiments revealed that taurine âincreased energy expenditure,
increased bone mass, improved muscle endurance and strength, reduced
depression-like and anxious behaviors, reduced insulin resistance and
promoted a younger-looking immune system.â
âNot only did we find that the animals lived longer, we also found
that theyâre living healthier lives,â Yadav said.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/09/taurine-in-energy-drinks-may-be-an-elixir-of-life-study/
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FROM REDDIT ON RED BULL ONE USER COMMENTED:
"
Its made with beet sugar as opposed to hf corn syrup.
A 12oz can has less caffeine than a cup of coffee.
The ingredients listed on the can are taurine
(a naturally occuring compound in your body),
and b-vitamins along with amino acids,
caffeine and sugar.
Compare that to something like Bang that has the TOTAL daily
allowance of caffeine in one can.
I wouldnt say its good for you or healthy, but
it certainly is the lesser evil in the energy
drink world. Also not as bad for you as smoking,
alcohol, fried foods, etc.
Of course, its not something to use in excess."