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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
http://news.yahoo.com/black-firefigh...103841632.htmlA black firefighter has said he was assaulted, shot with a stun gun and arrested as he tried to help police while he was off-duty, in the latest racism allegation against Scotland Yard.
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy, 28, made a formal complaint after the incident in the early hours of September 4, in which he says he approached police who were dealing with a disturbance to give them a description of a youth he had seen throw a rock at a police van.
The group of six officers, who were dispersing partygoers -- some of whom had turned violent -- in Harrow, north London, assaulted and insulted Kennedy-Macfoy, according to his account, before deploying the electric shock weapon and detaining him without good cause.
Kennedy-Macfoy was charged with obstructing police, but found not guilty at Brent Magistrates' Court in February.
The Guardian, which is campaigning on the issue of police racism, quoted Inspector David Bergum as saying in court: "I couldn't say he was anything to do with the party. The party was all black. He was black. He had driven through the cordon. I had to do a quick risk assessment."
The Metropolitan Police said that its Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) were both investigating. Kennedy-Macfoy's lawyer sent a further complaint letter to the force this week.
The force confirmed it had received the complaint and said it had shut down a loud party of about 200 people on the day of the alleged incident.
"Some of those attending became hostile towards police and threw bottles and bricks at officers. Four police officers received minor injuries," a spokesman said.
"A man arrived at the scene by car and approached officers on the cordon. He was subsequently tasered. He did not require medical treatment."
The complaint alleged that "officers arrested and detained a 28-year-old man without good cause, assaulted him during the arrest, that the officers were insulting and the way in which he was treated was motivated by factors relating to race," the Met said.
The force has previously faced claims of institutional racism, most famously by a public inquiry into its treatment of the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993. Two men were found guilty of his killing this year.
It currently faces 12 separate allegations of racism, which are under investigation by either Scotland Yard or the IPCC.
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And I thought the wheels of justice moved slowly in the US. How could a murder in 1993 take that long to prosecute?
There were prosecutions for the murder of Stephen Lawrence at the time in 1993.
But the whole investigation and prosecution were botched by the Met, which allowed the gang of prime suspects to effectively walk free.
Many years of public inquiry into how the hell this could have happened led to the Macpherson report on institutionalised racism in the Met in 1999, and has led to wholesale changes to the way the Met operates.
Stephen's parents have campaigned tirelessly for the prime suspects to be brought to justice.
New forensic investigations allowed two of the prime suspects, Gary Dobson and David Norris, to be successfully prosecuted and sentenced to life for the murder, 18 years later.
It's a notorious case that has had an impact on the conscience of the nation.
It would seem, from Loki's article, that the Met still faces accusations of racism, however.
Missed the fact that this took place in Britain?And I thought the wheels of justice moved slowly in the US. How could a murder in 1993 take that long to prosecute?
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Justice was swift, on the other hand, in the CCCP... Depending on the guilt of the accused, only a few days were needed!
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Koki Niwa, born in 1994, beat the no. 1 table tennis player. That's kinda like a Triple A team triumphing the best Major Leaguers. Holy shit.
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http://www.videobash.com/video_show/...genious-258279
This is hilarious.
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Ah, thanks for explaining the time gap, Tim.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
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Man that's roughmore details on the site. Wherever the need is greatest, where the charges are the most vulnerable, that's where these people end up.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
And whenever a union is present, the guilty party will be shifted to another school where they can continue their abuse.
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http://www.cherryhill.k12.nj.us/
I fully support the idea of immediately moving a teacher out of a target classroom during an investigation. Imagine the headache if that recording was manipulated in any way and they only discovered that after a kneejerk firing.Dr. Reusche added, “In February, upon receiving a copy of an audio recording, the district undertook a thorough and rigorous investigation and, as we have previously noted, responded swiftly and appropriately. Although this is a personnel matter and there are specifics that I cannot legally address publicly, I want to assure our parents that the individuals who are heard on the recording raising their voices and inappropriately addressing children no longer work in the district and have not since shortly after we received the copy of the recording.”
School districts don't work like the church. You aren't transferred between districts. Changing districts means you applied for and were accepted at a new place of hire.
Didn't look to deep into this, but I've read her new school is a high school. If she ended up in a urban school with your usual low performing "cultural" problems, being able to dish it as well as she can expect to receive it may not have counted that much against her.
Don't see anything that remotely suggests union interference yet.
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
There are no laws against 1. an union excluding its most dickish members or 2. firing someone for such obvious violations or 3. revoking someone's license, putting them on probation and then making them recertify. Now maybe the specific actors in this particular mess refrain from using these options but in theory the options are there and in theory they should be used (judiciously of course), if for no other reason than to look good and to retain some public support. Bad apples harm everyone, not just their victims.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
In practice, the unions always challenge these dismissals and get their way most of the time. The result is that teachers don't get fired except in instances of gross misconduct (of which this apparently isn't an example of).
Except this is the same school system, with the same set of central databases. Everyone knows that this person left and why (I'm not convinced they were actually fired). And I doubt severely disabled children will be able to dish anything out.
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Yeah, the super is totally going to lie about all this as it goes viral, that totally seems more likely than the parent finding a VM that hasn't been deactivated in the middle of the school year. And the homepage of the high school the teacher was transferred to doesn't show any hint of being a special needs school, or of offering special needs classes.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
So the coalition with Wilders' Freedom Party negotiated 7 weeks for a budget, but failed because Wilders didn't want to take his responsibilities and came back on several promises (not to mention he knew roughly what the outcome would be so he could have quit early). Problem was that the delay and failure gave little time for the deadline for a balanced budget, 30 april.
So they sat down with the opposition and brokered a deal in two days. With five parties involved.
I didn't even read the link, but demonizing unions isn't the best way to fix underlying problems. All that does is...well, demonize unions. It also shows how law-makers are "held captive" by special interest groups with tons of money and political clout.
It doesn't do much for improving public Education, let alone protecting anyone in the private sector facing discriminatory employment practices. Bashing teacher unions hasn't meant our legislators are required to apply the same legal employment standards across the board. It certainly hasn't translated into finding ways to attract/retain the best teachers or provide kids with a better education.
If anything, unions have been a driving force for exposing all sorts of issues that impact everyone. Equitable hiring/firing practices, safe work environments, defining a "professional" wage/salary, exchanging wages for healthcare or future retirement packages, employment contracts, mandatory retirements, etc.
Unions wouldn't have much influence over legislation if (A) legislators weren't so dependent on special interest group lobbying/funding, (B) all workers had anti-discriminatory protections, and (C) things like healthcare access and affordability couldn't be used as employment bargaining chips.
Thank you for your essay on the price of strawberries in Peru.
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What the HELL
The worst
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17886548A data breach led to people reported for anti-social behaviour and drug taking getting information on those who complained...
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http://arstechnica.com/business/news...k-bullying.ars
Man, kids are so frickin dumbWoodward said there had been no dispute between the teens prior to the bullying.
"She just considers herself a normal, average seventh-grader," Woodward said. "She had never been targeted or had something like this happen before."
The alleged teen offenders told school officials that they just didn’t like Boston, according to Woodward. "They said ‘she followed us around school too much.’ There was no real explanation, as is so often the case with these activities. Why kids do things to other kids is a mystery, and is for sure in this case."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Well, the parents now at least have to explain in court why they failed to do anything about it. Serves them right.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loca...149758275.html
Chong gets arrested for being in the same place as pot, gets locked in a cell for 5 days without care, DEA forgets he is there.
This guy is going to be set for life.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
that is so WTF
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How do you figure that? He probably should be, but getting damages out of the federal government is ridiculously difficult. They've manged to deny liability in actual cases of torturing the wrong sand-nigger, so how do you figure they'll be made to account for this case of neglect?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
My hypothesis of Americans being the only one without an international education on geograpy was shattered, when a girl from Canada didn't know about the whereabouts and asked me why I spoke English when I was from Norway.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
The religion of love...Jeremy Hooper at Good as You has posted some extremely disturbing audio identified as Sean Harris, the Senior Pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC, giving his congregation a "special dispensation" to beat their children if they think they might be falling outside of gender norms.
Harris also urged his congregation to vote for North Carolina's Amendment One in an hourlong sermon posted on Sunday.
Says Harris at the beginning of his horrifying rant (thanks to Jeremy for the transcript):
"So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, 'Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,' you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed."
He adds:
"Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male."
Harris has advice for parents who think their daughters might be acting too butch:
"And when your daughter starts acting to Butch you reign her in. And you say, 'Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.'"
Adds Harris: “Can I take charge like that as a parent? Yeah, you can. You are authorized. I just gave you a special dispensation this morning to do that."
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
He's even more disgusting on video.
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