[DETROITNEWS] Calling for "calm and patience," Mayor Mike Duggan and council President Brenda Jones issued a joint statement Friday on the brutal beating of a 54-year-old motorist who was attacked and robbed by a crowd Wednesday after the man struck a boy with his pickup truck.
"Earlier this week, a traffic accident that injured a young boy, David Harris, escalated into a vicious attack on the driver of the vehicle, Steve Utash, who had done the right thing by stopping to check on the boy. This senseless vigilante style attack is not the essence of who we are as bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... ers and will not be tolerated.
"We are asking all Metro Detroiters to demonstrate our true character by exercising calm and patience during this emotionally charged time. Most important, we must all keep Mr. Utash, David Harris and their families in our prayers.
"We also are calling on members of our community who know the individuals involved in this brutal attack to step forward so that justice can be served and healing can begin."
Meanwhile on Friday, the family of Utash, a Clinton Township resident, said his vitals were stable. Utash is at St. John Hospital in Detroit with physicians performing MRIs every 24 hours after he was put in a medically induced coma from severe head injuries he sustained Wednesday, according to his daughter, Mandi Emerick, on Friday.
"We're just waiting for him to wake up," she said.
Utash stopped to aid David Harris, a 10-year-old boy he accidentally struck with his pickup while on his way home from work. He hit the child near Morang and McKinney around 4:10 p.m. Wednesday and then left his pickup to check on the boy. That's when a group of about 12 men from the neighborhood, who had gathered after the accident, began to beat him, police said.
"It was hard to watch my dad hitting somebody," Emerick said of the surveillance footage. "I think for anyone if they hit someone, your instinct is to stop and make sure they're OK. But to see all of those people coming out of nowhere. I can't imagine how scared he felt with them coming at him all at once."
Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody has said Utash was "absolutely not responsible" in the crash.
Emerick said her brother, Joseph Utash, was the first to find out about the grisly incident when he saw his father's pickup on the news.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... Emerick has started an online fundraiser for her father who doesn't have health insurance. By Friday afternoon, the family had raised nearly $9,000.
Witnesses told police the attackers were black. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... Woody said the race of the suspects and the victim, who is white, is a "prosecutorial issue" and wouldn't dictate the police investigation.
But he also said it didn't appear race was a factor based on the initial investigation.
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"This senseless vigilante style attack is not the essence of who we are as bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit...."
I agree! Replace 'essence' with foretelling and you've got it.
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No one has given us a statement that was indicative that this was a racially motivated crime or anything to that extent,” said the spokesman, Sgt. Michael Woody.
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We are asking all Metro Detroiters to demonstrate our true character by exercising calm and patience during this emotionally charged time.
IOW; all you hot head militia types need to turn your pickemup trucks around once you hit the 8 mile. And BTW, since when has Detriot’s “true character” been defined as calm and patient?
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Cause the maybe high school grad draftee in the '50s has so much in common with the volunteer of the '10s. This is the point where the straights go out and get a marriage certificate so housing will give them off base housing allowances to get away from the barrack inspections and duties.
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"But it does symbolize a return to standards that many think have suffered during wartime."
Umm, pardon me, but fighting and winning wars is the reason for the military? "losing" inspections and BS activities that are now done just for the sake of doing them is stupidity. Once in a while for discipline? sure. But as a routine just for the sake of routine? No. Only a blanket folder would want that. And surprise, this is a support unit.
It looks like we are headed back to the peacetime Army run by politicians and blanket folders, not warriors. God help those troops when the warriors get out and the blanket folders get called to action. Look at the initial results form the Korean War. Then Vietnam once mass deployments were taking place.
Reagan fixed that in the mid 80's with a return to the warrior ethos. It worked for the Cold War and the first GW, and there was enough combat action and momentum to carry it through the Clinton years (best thing about President Bubba is that he didn't give a crap, no hate, no like, just neutral). GWBush used it for the wars that were needed but lost sight of victory conditions and got us entangled in wilsonian nation building in Afghanistan. Obama is trying to undo it all, and the generals he has are for the most part craven weasel politicians, having backstabbed and pushed out the warrior leaders as a threat to Obama and his compliant politically correct perfumed princes.
Will the nation be at the mercy of Courtney Massengales, or do we still produce enough Sam Damons to rescue us when the time comes?
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Secondarily, why the hell do we still have K-town, aren't there better places to put our support bases? Put them up in Graf, just like the active units.
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It's all but closed OS. Not sure if there is any Army footprint remaining. Last time I was there the USAF was using a portion for housing, BX, commissary, etc. in support of Ramstein and Landstuhl Hospital.
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No disrespect intended P2k. While there certainly are exceptions, I don't hold much with the old saw... 'he's a field soldier who simply cannot adjust to life and tasks in the rear.' The decorated warrior's job in garrison is to lead, teach, and set the example [whatever the task] for the young rankers. I think the Marine Corps still does an excellent good job in that regard. Sadly, there may be much room for improvement in some Army units I'm afraid.
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The problem is not the inspections or parades, but when inspections and parades become the be all and end all, when appearance supersedes functionality that when militarism overtakes military. When you spend 'x' amount of time prepping for and executing these things that exceed the 'y' amount of time on mission tasks and training, you've slipped from one to the other.
Some housekeeping: We're going to Pennsylvania! Not really. The NY Safe Act has outlawed all semiautomatic guns with a detachable magazine, so all classes of semiautomatic rifles are now illegal. No more listings from New York State, and since I wanted to give an idea of what was happening in the realm for used firearms for private sale in the eastern seaboard, I will be listing from Pennsylvania, unless they also catch the unconstitutional law fever.
There will be a rally in Hartford, Connecticut today for gun owners demanding the state's draconian and unnecessary laws be repealed. The rally will attract all manner of law enforcement in the region including federal law enforcement, but now it will also attract a project from Guerrilla America, which will be gathering data on the disposition of federal forces at the rally. The analysis, to say the least (and if it is released publicly) will be interesting.
Liberal with a death wish Mike Malloy has described NRA members as "Brown Shirts" in his latest statement. He also said he looked forward to the day when they will be killed. Malloy, a radio talk show host who should know better, is an example of an individual who uses the power of their voice to encourage even more draconian laws against citizens. I wouldn't do it, and 99.99 percent of gun owners wouldn't do it, but some dumb ass is going to take a shot at this guy since he presents such a tempting target. And it wouldn't surprise me to find that Malloy is just fine with that.
An NRA Board member bewails the rhetoric at gun rallies. Rhetoric is nothing compared to the actual intent of government to attack its citizens using the thin veil of law enforcement. Besides, for now, it's just talk, unlike the government, which has the will and the means to do what it wants, for now.
Prices for pistol ammunition and rifle ammunition were mostly lower.
Prices for used pistols and used rifles were lower across the board.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each (Unchanged three of previous five weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Freedom Munitions, RN, reloaded, .34 per round (Unchanged six of last seven weeks)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, CCI-Speer, FMJ, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, reloaded, .27 per round (Unchanged from last week)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, Steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SWVA Arms, Brown Bear, steel cased, RN, .23 per round (Unchanged from previous week)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Munire USA, Fiocchi Cowboy Action, FNL, .47 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 Rounds: Ammo2U, PMC, JSP, .40 per round (-.10 Each from last week (!))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .27 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf :Polyformance, steel cased, .28 per round (Unchanged from Last week )
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: +.03 Each
Cheapest, 20 rounds:SG Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .50 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf Polyformance, steel cased, .45 per round (-.06 Each From Last Week (!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: -.03 Each From last Week
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Natchez Shooters Supplies, Wolf, steel core and case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: SG Ammo, Red Army Standard, steel core and case, .22 per round (Unchanged from Last week)
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged from Last Week
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammofast, Remington, .15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Smokey Mountain Munitions, CCI-Speer, .16 per round (-.01 Each From Last Week)
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $713 Last Week Avg: $761 (-)
California: Smith & Wesson M&P15: $700
Texas: Core 15 (M4 Clone): $650
New York: New York SAFE Act
Virgina: Unidentified Build: $800
Florida: Spikes Tactical: $700
.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,238 Last Week Avg: $1,347(-)
California: DPMS: $1,500
Texas: DPMS Panther: $1,250
New York: New York SAFE Act
Virginia: Armalite AR-10: $1,200
Florida: DPMS LR308: $1,000 (!)
7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $663 Last Week Avg: $699(-)
California: CAI (Underfolder): $700
Texas: Zastava: $650
New York: NY SAFE Act
Virginia: Saiga: $600
Florida: CAI: $700
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,445 Last Week Avg: $1,598 (-)
California: Romak PSL: $1,689 (Same Gun)
Texas: Romak PSL: $1,200 (Same Gun)
New York: NY SAFE Act
Virginia: None Available
Florida: None Available
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol Average Price: $495Last Week Avg: $535 (-)
California: Rock Island Armory: $500 (Possibly Same Gun)
Texas: High Standard: $450
New York: Ruger 1911: $650
Virginia: Rock Island Armory: $425
Florida: Tisas: $450
9mm Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic Average Price: $426 Last Week Avg: $476 (-)
California: Beretta 92 FS: $425
Texas: Sig Sauer P225: $375
New York: Glock 16: $450
Virginia: Glock 17: $450
Florida: Ruger P95: $430
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $452 Last Week Avg: $467 (-)
California: Glock 23: $460
Texas: Glock 23: $450
New York: Glock 23: $450 (Same Gun)
Virginia: Glock 27: $500
Florida: Glock 27: $400
AR 80 percent receivers
Note: I have stopped listing 80 percent receivers because most of the manufacturers are running behind.
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Back from the CT Gun Rights Rally, attendence appeared to be about twice last's year turnout, my guess is about 4000-5000, wish it was higher, but certainly better then a couple of dozen. As always the Capitol Police were polite and professional with no other visible evidence of LEO's.
[Guardian] Venezuelans queued on Friday to register for an electronic card system designed to end food shortages that have plagued the country – but which some fear may be the thin end of the rationing wedge.
The ID card, introduced this week, will limit Venezuelans to once-a-week shopping and will set off an alarm to halt any transaction if a purchaser breaks the rules. The government wants to prevent individual shoppers from "over-buying" in a country hit by acute shortages of basic items including milk, sugar, .22 ammo, and toilet paper. Critics say it is an admission of failure of economic policy in one of the world's big oil-producing nations.
"The government needs to control the hoarders. They have made this worse. But if there weren't shortages there wouldn't be hoarders. We are trapped," says Jose Diaz, a 65-year-old construction worker. You will soon be able to use for food ID card for healthcare as well. The long queues will go down and the costs will decrease. You'll see.
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Thin end of the wedge, me arse. It's more a sign Venezuela is well down the slippery slope and about to take the plunge. Enjoy the socialism, suckers! Pity. Used to be a fairly prosperous country.
In an appearance on Fox News this morning, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) reported that in addition to massing tens of thousands of troops on the eastern border of Ukraine, Russia is building up its military forces in the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia. Rogers suggested that Russian president Vladimir Putin is considering an invasion of both Georgia and Armenia, as part of an effort to create an overland link between Russia and Iran.
"They are moving some of their most advanced equipment into South Ossetia," said Rogers. "There is no reason to do that. The Georgian army really poses no threat. That's certainly concerning."
Rogers later added, "I would ask why is he moving the equipment that he is into South Ossetia up in Georgia, which makes really makes no sense other than they are contemplating maybe using those armor columns to drive through Georgia down to Armenia to create a land bridge to Iran."
It sure would make life easier for Russia if they had an uncontested, unmolested land route to Iran. This also has the side benefit of isolating Azerbaijan: if Russia does move into Armenia and Georgia the Azeris then can only bring that oil to market through pipelines controlled by the Russians. The other 'Stans also become more isolated.
Obama plays marbles. Putin plays 3-D chess with Spock and is holding his own.
Hate to say it but Champ is right on this: Kiev and Tbilisi are NOT Berlin, London, or Washington. I'm not going to risk the U.S. to protect Georgia. We absolutely cannot extend security guarantees that we aren't willing to honor when the SHTF.
[Al Ahram] Crimeans discovered to their chagrin Friday that they would have to live without Big Macs for a while after McDonald's suspended operations on the Ukrainian peninsula due to its annexation by Russia.
The omnipresent US fast food chain said in a statement posted on its Ukrainian website and taped to the front doors of its shuttered restaurants that the decision was taken "for manufacturing reasons beyond the company's control".
The news hit 21-year-old Lilia especially hard because she had been happily employed at McDonald's until Thursday and had no suspicion that she was about to be out of work.
"They told us that we would be closing because Kiev was no longer sending us any ingredients," she said as a blonde girl next to her pulled at the restaurant's locked door in vain.
"Some people laughed. Others cried," said Lilia. "It came as a surprise."
Yet the move out of Crimea by the world's biggest hamburger maker reflects a much broader uncertainty among Western firms about their positions in Russia following the Kremlin's military intervention in Ukraine.
Washington and the European Union have both imposed targeted punitive measures against Moscow officials and threatened broader economic sanctions that could affect the operations of McDonald's and other companies with a broad Russian presence.
Ukraine's postal service has also asked the UN agency in charge of coordinating global mail to halt service to Crimea because the region's seizure had created "difficulties delivering postal items".
Germany's Deutsche Post -- the world's largest courier company -- confirmed Friday that it had stopped delivering "letters and parcels (to Crimea) weighing up to 2,000 grammes (70 ounces)".
It added that larger parcels still found their way to the scenic region that is especially popular with Russian and Ukrainian tourists because these were being carried out for the German giant by a local firm.
McDonald's insisted that it would like to reopen the stores in Crimea's main city of Simferopol and the ports of Sevastopol as Yalta "as soon as there is an opportunity".
It also promised jobs for its Crimean employees at the chain's Ukrainian outlets and to relocate their family members to the mainland at its own expense.
But Lilia said only a handful of McDonald's 200 to 300 Crimean employees were likely to take up the offer.
McDonald's -- famous for its red-haired clown and food that claims to taste the same no matter in which corner of the world you happen to hanker for a burger -- has long served as a lightning rod for political criticism and anger at US policies.
Friday's announcement was thus cheered by some top politicians in Russia who have been waging an increasingly vitriolic war of words with the West since last month's start of the Crimean campaign.
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"Somepeople laughed. Others cried," said Lilia. "It came as a surprise."
Every Russer at heart a poet.
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op politicians in Russia who have been waging an increasingly vitriolic war of words with the West since last month's start of the Crimean campaign.
There you have it - bigotry and nationalism that starts at the top. Russia is becoming fascist.
Time to treat Russia as the fascist threat that it is.
[AnNahar] French police incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a Bosnian Serb former soldier suspected of detaining civilians inside a house and then setting it on fire, killing 59 people during Bosnia's 1992-1995 war, officials said Friday.
Bosnian officials have requested Radomir Susnjar's extradition following his arrest, the war crimes prosecutor's office said in a statement.
Susnjar is suspected of taking part in the June 1992 "killing of 59 Mohammedan civilians, among them women and kiddies", in the eastern town of Visegrad.
Some 66 civilians were locked in a house that was later set ablaze. Only seven of them survived.
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia last year sentenced two Bosnian Serb paramilitaries for the same war crime.
Milan Lukic was sentenced to life imprisonment, while his brother Sredoje Lukic was sentenced to 27 years for taking part in the crime, described by the court as one of the "worst acts of inhumanity that one person may inflict on others".
Between April and June 1992, at the start of the Bosnian war, Serb forces killed more than 1,500 civilians in Visegrad and its surroundings, according to data collected by the Bosnian Institute for Missing Persons.
More than 100,000 people were killed during the Bosnian war, while some two million -- almost half the country's population -- fled their homes.
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Nobody cares about Ukraine---but it was a chance to stick one to Russia. Maybe even deprive it of its naval access to Mediterranean---thereby winning in Syria.
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In my view, what is taking place in Syria is unrelated and essentially a non-issue. The west "wins" simply by sitting back and watching.
A similar strategy should be undertaken in other locations. I would offer the CAR, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Melawi, Namibia, South Africa, Cuba, and Venezuela as prime examples. Why deny totalitarianism to those who appear to enjoy it so much ?
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It wouldn't have done anything re: Syria because there are Russian naval bases on the Black Sea near Novorossiysk. And they're supposedly in better shape than the ones in Crimea.
[The Peninsula] Mumbai: For the first time, an Indian court yesterday sentenced to death three people, convicted of repeat offences of gang rape -- of a telephone operator and a photojournalist in the Shakti Mills Complex here last year.
A Mumbai court ordered the death sentence for the trio -- Vijay Jadhav (18), Qasim Hafiz Sheikh, alias Qasim Bengali (20) and Salim Ansari (27) -- in the gang rape of a photojournalist, said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
The three convicts have already been sentenced to life imprisonment till death in the July 31, 2013 gang rape of an 18-year-old call centre employee. They later committed a repeat offence targeting the photojournalist on August 22, 2013, in the same abandoned Shakti Mills complex, Nikam said of the landmark verdict. Delivering the verdict, Principal Sessions Judge Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi also sentenced convict Siraj Khan to life imprisonment. Nikam said the three convicts and their accomplices not only committed the brutal rape, but laughed and made fun of the victim as she cried with folded hands and begged for mercy.
"The trio also boasted that they had committed several rapes on the mill premises and nobody had been able to catch them so far. It was these brave victims who came forward and ensured that they are brought to justice," he said, welcoming the judgment.
Nikam added that in view of this "demonic" behaviour of the rapists, the prosecution sought the most stringent punishment for the accused, under the Indian Penal Code's section 376(E), for ten different aggravating circumstances.
"Though the victim was defenceless, helpless, and crying, the accused cruelly beat her, raped her in a particular manner. One of the accused also boasted that they are very dangerous people," he said, citing one of the aggravating circumstance for the enhanced punishment. The prosecution also pointed out how the accused displayed "depravity of the minds" and enjoyed the act even as the victim was totally defenceless before them.
"Their boasting was a big challenge to the investigating agencies which worked hard and successfully brought them to book. They did not deserve any mercy," Nikam said.
He added that the defence, in view of the young age of the convicts, wanted an opportunity to be given to them for reforming themselves, but the prosecution strongly opposed any leniency as they did not show any leniency to the victims. "A stringent punishment would help serve a strong message to society and to such criminals," Nikam said.
The three convicts had moved the Bombay High Court challenging the enhanced provision slapped on them, but the court declined to interfere with the sessions court's decision in the matter. Last month, Jadhav, Bengali, Ansari and their accomplice M Ashfaque Sheikh (26) were convicted by the court for the July 31 gang rape of a call centre employee and sentenced to life imprisonment till death.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A policeman has been suspended for bringing a case of attempted murder against a nine-month old boy and forcing the crying infant to appear in court, officials said Friday.
Baby Mohammad Musa, along with other members of his family, was booked for throwing rocks at gas company officials carrying out an anti-theft inspection in the low-income Ahata Thanedaran neighbourhood of Lahore on Feb 1, the family's lawyer Chaudhry Irfan Sadiq told AFP.
Inspector Kashif Muhammad, who attended the alleged scene of the crime and has since been suspended, wrote in his report that it was a case of attempted murder.
Appearing in a packed court room with around 30 others accused in the case on Thursday, Musa was seen crying as his grandfather Muhammad Yasin, a 50-year-old labourer, held him on his shoulder.
He later drank milk from a bottle as Yasin fielded questions from news hounds.
"Everyone in the court was saying 'How can such a small child be implicated in any case'? What kind of police do we have?" Yasin said.
He accused the police of fabricating the charges because they were colluding with a rival party who wanted to see the accused evicted from their land.
Critics say Pakistain's notoriously corrupt police force often trump up false charges either to extract bribes or because they have been paid off.
Judge Rafaqat Ali Qamar ordered the inspector to be suspended and granted the child bail, though he will have to appear at the next hearing on April 12.
But Sadiq, the lawyer, said the charges against the child should have been dropped.
"The court should have simply referred the minor's case to high court for dropping of the charges against the innocent child and acquit him from the case as the minimum criminal responsibility age is seven," Sadiq told AFP.
Pakistain last year approved raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility from seven to 12 years, except for in terrorism cases.
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[DAWN] Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) has taken action against the fake degree holders according to the corporation's rules and regulations and terminated services of 300 employees in this regard. "Oh, yeah. I been to flight school!"
In compliance with instructions of the Supreme Court, the national carrier has been vigorously pursuing the issue of credential verifications of its employees, said a spokesperson in a statement issued here on Friday.
He said that this gigantic task of verification of credentials of around 16,000 employees was taken up by PIA's human resource administration department six months ago in October last year.
The spokesperson said that the verification process is still ongoing in a transparent manner across the board, encompassing all categories and groups of employees without any discrimination.
So far more than 30,000 degrees have been dispatched to concerned educational institutions (universities and education boards) for verification, he said, adding that dispatch process of remaining 3,000 degrees will be completed by mid of April.
Up till now verification of more than 6,000 degrees have been received and out of which 350 degrees were found fake.
In the light of these actions services of 300 employees have been terminated whereas remaining 50 cases are subjudice and court orders are waited for further action.
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[Ynet] Arab residents in Silwan say the planned visitor center fails to take accounty of their needs, is an attempt to further strengthen the Jewish presence in the neighborhood.
Israel has approved a controversial archaeology project in East Jerusalem, the Interior Ministry said Friday, in a move likely to compound tensions threatening to scuttle peace talks with the Paleostinians.
The peace talks were scuttled by the Palestinians. This is one of the consequences.
The ministry "heard objections" from the Paleostinians and from residents to the plans to build a visitor center just outside Jerusalem's Old City walls in the Arab neighbourhood of Silwan, a statement said.
However it granted approval to the project on grounds that it "will show important archaeological discoveries to the public."
"As a tourist attraction, this will contribute to the development of the city of Jerusalem," the ministry added.
The Silwan neighbourhood, where the 1,200 square meter (13,000 square foot) complex is to be built, is already home to dozens of Jewish settler families who live under heavy guard among their Arab neighbors.
Arab residents charge that the new visitor center fails to take account of their needs and is an attempt to further strengthen the Jewish presence in Silwan.
Last March, the Paleostinian news agency Ma'an reported that the Israel Antiquities Authority destroyed a number of archeological sites and antiques after conducting a dig in the neighborhood of Silwan.
Silwan, part of the so-called Holy Basin around the Old City, is believed to be the site of ancient Jerusalem during the time of the biblical kings David and Solomon.
[DAILYCALLER] Hypersensitive students and professors all over the country are about to score another victory for political correctness if they succeed in their mission to normalize the use of "trigger warnings," which are intended to protect people from taking part in class discussions and media that might offend them.
Trigger warnings are most commonly attached to online news articles and blog posts. They warn readers that the post contains specific, offensive content. An article about sexual violence, for instance, might come with a trigger warning for rape victims. The idea is to prevent post traumatic stress.
But censorship-inclined activists are now eager to force professors to attach trigger warnings to their syllabi.
"Some students and professors argue that nearly everything should come with a trigger warning," wrote Laurie Essig, a professor of psychology at Middlebury College and a contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education. "Mrs. Dalloway? Trigger warning: suicidal tendencies. The Great Gatsby? Trigger warning: suicide, domestic abuse, graphic violence. Think I'm making this up? I'm not."
Essig provided the example of a Rutgers University student who praised trigger warnings as an ideal compromise between free expression and censorship, noting that "by creating trigger warnings for their students, professors can help to create a safe space for their students -- one that fosters positive and compassionate intellectual discussion within the collegiate classroom."
Students at the University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-Santa Barbara are doing their best to make their PC dreams a reality. The student government passed a resolution that urged administrators to adopt mandatory trigger warnings as official university policy last month.
"This is not meant to censor ... but it really just asks that professors and other people on campus acknowledge the effects of triggering content on students with PTSD," said Bailey Loverin, the student who sponsored the resolution, in a statement.
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Graphic honey addiction scenes, hyperactive runaway, prescription abuse, microagressive hedgehog, dominant Victorian white male character. Bee abuse.
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At least Mao sent the intellectuals out to the country to do farm work with the peasants. Wonder how that little 'progressive' program would go over here?
"Pre-revolutionary literature could only be subjected to ideological translation -- that is, alteration in sense as well as language. Take for example the well-known passage from the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...
It would have been quite impossible to render this into Newspeak while keeping to the sense of the original. The nearest one could come to doing so would be to swallow the whole passage up in the single word crimethink."
[CNSNEWS] From the Philadelphia Inquirer: One teacher calls it the "new normal" for southwest Philadelphia's Bartram High School: a massive brawl in the cafeteria, where students punched and stomped each other, and even attacked school police; firecrackers set off in the building; and the student who fractured the skull of a "conflict resolution specialist" is once again roaming the halls, just two weeks after the attack.
Insiders told the newspaper, the larger problem at the 1,100-student school "is the continued culture of chaos and disregard for authority."
According to the newspaper, four additional Philadelphia and school coppers will be at the school by Monday; a community meeting is planned; and the district has reached out to city officials to get social-services help for students who need it.
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....and the student who fractured the skull of a "conflict resolution specialist"
Issue the next "conflict resolution specialist" a Colt and far different outcomes may be realized.
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Beso, I actually guffawed/snorted out loud at that. The irony was too much to take.
I like your solution though a CZ or Ruger would work too.
These bozos just don't get it. When you go on about "We're here to help you and take care of you" the translation of the "kids" is we'll give you anything and everything you want, just don't hurt us.
#7
Back in the 80s my school district had one school for the troublemakers so that the other schools could keep running normally. That seemed to work.
Then I believe that changed because it was unfair to those troublesome students.
Fast forward to the mid-nineties when my aunt was a sub at my old high school and she was choked by a student. Student's father was a lawyer and the school didn't want to lose the money they got for having a butt in the chair so nothing was done.
#8
We really need a trade school program where we can get some of the kids who aren't going on to college out of the system. If they learn to fix cars or build houses or some other job they will not disrupt the school and they'll have job potential. Every other industrialized country does this but the US fetishises high school graduation so we keep kids trapped who have no business there and who in effect pull others down with them.
#10
This has been going down the road to hell for a looooooooooong time. My parents moved us out of NYC in '56 because the public schools sucked so, there was no discipline and our parochial school was only half day.
That's more than 50 years in the s#!##er thanks to the Democrats and the Teacher's Unions (but I repeat myself)
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