Rape Kits Go Unprocessed

Original Article

There have been thousands of rape kits in Detroit that have gone unprocessed, and that is insane. 

In an abandoned Detroit Police storage facility, there were over 11,000 rape kits left unprocessed and untouched. Some of which were from as far back as the 1990s.

Since these were found, 1,600 have been processed and from that, "100 serial rapists and ten convicted rapists were identified."

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The only words that I can use to describe how I feel about this is "absolutely insane". This article makes me feel anger, sadness, more anger, and then a little bit more sadness.

This probably has caused hundreds, quite possibly thousands, of preventable rapes and molestations. Possibly thousands of terrible, awful things happening to thousands of people. That is insane. I hope that these kits get processed fast and soon, and the rapists that are out there get convicted.



"Detroit Rape Kits Finally Processed, 100 Serial Rapists Identified." SourceFed. Defranco   Creative, 13 March 2014. Web. 16 March 2014.

Auschwitz - USHM Article

Auschwitz was a concentration camp that the Nazi regime used during the Holocaust, and it was the largest of its kind. It was made up of three main camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (also referred to as Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (also referred to as Auschwitz-Monowitz).

In November of 1943, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz-Monowitz were made into independent camps, while Auschwitz I remained the headquarters of the SS offices. However in November of 1944, Auschwitz II and Auschwitz I were reunified. While Auschwitz III was renamed "Monowitz concentration camp."

Auschwitz I

Auschwitz I was built to fulfill three different purposes:

1... To imprison the accused enemies of "the Nazi regime and the German occupation."

2... To have forced laborers available when needed.

3... To serve as a facility to exterminate groups targeted by the  Nazis.


-Auschwitz I was equipped with a crematorium and a gas chamber, like most concentration camps.

-Here, medical experiments were carried out in Barrack 10 (the hospital). These false scientific experiments were carried out on infants, twins, dwarves, and adults.

Auschwitz II

-Out of all of the Auschwitz camps, Birkenau (Auschwitz II) had the largest population.

-Auschwitz-Birkenau was a main part in the plan to kill European Jews.

Deportation

-About "1.1 million Jews were deported to Auschwitz."

-The majority of arrivals at Birkenau were determined to be unfit and were immediately sent to the gas chambers.

Auschwitz III

-Auschwitz III, also known as Buna or Monowitz, was established to be a labor camp.

-It was mostly used to make rubber and fuels.

Liberation

-The liberation of the Auschwitz camps took place in mid-January, 1945.

-When the SS got word that the Soviet forces were advancing towards the camps, they began to evacuate. (Thousands were killed before they began the marches.)

-SS officials killed off hundreds of prisoners in Blechhammer, a sub camp in Auschwitz-Monowitz.

-January 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated about 7000 prisoners from all three of the Auschwitz camps. The majority were sick and dying.


**It has been determined that 1.3 million people were taken to Auschwitz between 1940-1945. 1.1 million were murdered at the camps.




 "Auschwitz." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 10 June, 2013. Web.<http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189>

This Could Actually Break Your Mind

Intitial Article

There's this thing called "The McCollough Effect" that can "alter the way your brain perceives information."

There is an image that, if stared at for long enough, can effect your sight. I'm not going to actually show the image, because it is harmful to your brain (so don't Google this and try it out).

In a sense, this image can make you colorblind for up to three months!

With this image, if stared at long enough, you'll get what you'd get with any other image. Inverse colors. If the picture is red, you'll see green, if it's green you'll see red, and etc.

This image doesn't just affect your eyesight, it affects how your brain works (in a sense). If you look at them for long enough, let's say 15 minutes (as given in the video), you'll see the pattern of inverse colors, on everything.

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First off.... wow. There is an image that can change how your brain functions for up to three months!! That is insane and amazing.

(And one again, don't look it up and try it for yourself. Putting yourself through things that alter the functionality of such an organ as the brain, is definitely NOT advised.)

My thought on this when I read the title of the article was: "Oh, they found something gross or creepy that made people "go insane" and, like, start murdering people...... let's check it out." Then I watched the video, and well, I was close......  not at all, really.

I guess it could make them go insane? Seeing that inverse pattern for three months would drive me mad, I think.

But seriously, AN IMAGE THAT CAN BREAK YOUR BRAIN!?!?!?

Cool.

(By the way, the image in this blog post is not the image mentioned.)

Lakhan, Shaheen. "Open head". 26 December, 2008. Drawing. 18 February, 2014. 

Heroin in Happy Meals!?

Initial Article

Shantia Dennis, an employee at a Pittsburgh McDonald's, had found an apparently foolproof plan to sell heroin. She was slipping it into Happy Meals.

Police say that if a customer ordered with the phrase "I'd like to order a toy," they would be slipped a little something-something in their meal (if you know what I mean).

To crack this smack seller or smack this crack seller, a couple officers from "a local narcotics enforcement team" went undercover and bought one of these "meals" after they got inside information from an informant. As stated in the article, "Police officers bought 10 bags of heroin in stamp-sized packets from Dennis and found another 50 bags on her person after making the buy."

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Well.... isn't that something... McDonald's being even more unhealthy. Honestly, this article isn't surprising. True, it isn't a good thing and I'm not impressed, but people will do anything nowadays. She wanted money, they wanted drugs. It just happened to take place at McDonald's.

I mean, think about it, it's a McDonald's employee who probably hates their job and isn't making very much money. Or it's just a drug addict/seller that needed a "clever" way to get their stuff out there.

I'm more surprised at the fact that it hasn't happened before. It's a simple way to get a dangerous thing out into the world.

Miller, Simon. "Big Mac." Photograph. Flickr. 15 June, 2006. Web.