Wow, what a path to get to today.
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The costs were high, but today, the joke"s on the GOP
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The costs were high, but today, the joke"s on the GOP
The costs were high, but today, the joke"s on the GOP
Thursday, March 27, 2014
School Science Project Reveals High Levels Of Fukushima Nuclear Radiation in Grocery Store Seafood
A Canadian high school student named Bronwyn Delacruz never imagined that her school science project would make headlines all over the world. But that is precisely what has happened. Using a $ 600 Geiger counter purchased by her father, Delacruz measured seafood bought at local grocery stores for radioactive contamination. What she discovered was absolutely stunning. Much of the seafood, particularly the products that were made in China, tested very high for radiation. So is this being caused by nuclear radiation from Fukushima? Is the seafood that we are eating going to give us cancer and other diseases? The American people deserve the truth, but as you will see below, the U.S. and Canadian governments are not even testing imported seafood for radiation. To say that this is deeply troubling would be a massive understatement.
In fact, what prompted Bronwyn Delacruz to conduct her science project was the fact that the Canadian government stopped testing imported seafood for radiation in 2012…
Alberta high-school student Bronwyn Delacruz loves sushi, but became concerned last summer after learning how little food inspection actually takes place on some of its key ingredients.
The Grade 10 student from Grande Prairie said she was shocked to discover that, in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) stopped testing imported foods for radiation in 2012.
And what should be a major red flag for authorities is the fact that the seafood with the highest radiation is coming from China…
Armed with a $ 600 Geiger counter bought by her dad, Delacruz studied a variety of seafoods – particularly seaweeds – as part of an award-winning science project that she will take to a national fair next month.
“Some of the kelp that I found was higher than what the International Atomic Energy Agency sets as radioactive contamination, which is 1,450 counts over a 10-minute period,” she said. “Some of my samples came up as 1,700 or 1,800.”
Delacruz said the samples that “lit up” the most were products from China that she bought in local grocery stores.
It is inexcusable that the Canadian government is not testing this seafood. It isn’t as if they don’t know that it is radioactive. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…
• 73 percent of the mackerel
• 91 percent of the halibut
• 92 percent of the sardines
• 93 percent of the tuna and eel
• 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
• 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish
So why was radiation testing for seafood shut down in Canada in 2012?
Someone out there needs to answer some very hard questions.
Meanwhile, PBS reporter Miles O’Brien has pointed out the extreme negligence of the U.S. government when it comes to testing seafood for Fukushima radiation. The following comes from a recent EcoWatch article…
O’Brien also introduces us to scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who have been testing waters around the reactors—as well as around the Pacific Rim—to confirm the levels of Fukushima fallout, especially of cesium.
These scientists are dedicated and competent. But they are also being forced to do this investigation on their own, raising small amounts of money from independent sources. They were, explains lead scientist Ken Buesseler, turned down for even minimal federal support by five agencies key to our radiation protection. Thus, despite a deep and widespread demand for this information, no federal agency is conducting comprehensive, on-the-ground analyses of how much Fukushima radiation has made its way into our air and oceans.
In fact, very soon after Fukushima began to blow, President Obama assured the world that radiation coming to the U.S. would be minuscule and harmless. He had no scientific proof that this would be the case. And as O’Brien’s eight-minute piece shows all too clearly, the “see no evil, pay no damages” ethos is at work here. The government is doing no monitoring of radiation levels in fish, and information on contamination of the ocean is almost entirely generated by underfunded researchers like Buesseler.
A video news report in which O’Brien discusses these issues is posted below…
It is the job of the authorities to keep us safe, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster was the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
So why aren’t they doing testing?
Why aren’t they checking to make sure that this radiation is not getting into our food chain?
The Japanese are doing testing off the coast of Japan, and one fish that was recently caught off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture was discovered to have 124 times the safe level of radioactive cesium.
So why are all the authorities in North America just assuming that the fish are going to be perfectly fine on this side of the Pacific?
One test that was conducted in California discovered that 15 out of 15 Bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
So how can the authorities say “don’t worry, just eat the seafood”?
Everyone agrees that a plume of radioactive water has been moving from Fukushima toward the west coast of the United States.
According to researchers at the University of South Wales, that plume is going to hit our shores at some point during 2014…
The first radioactive ocean plume released by the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster will finally be reaching the shores of the United States some time in 2014, according to a new study from the University of New South Wales — a full three or so years after the date of the disaster.
The following graphic comes from that study…
And multiple independent tests have already confirmed that levels of nuclear radiation are being detected on California beaches that are more than 10 times the normal level.
Clearly something is happening.
So why are the U.S. and Canadian governments willingly looking the other way?
About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled “The Beginning Of The End” is now available on Amazon.com.
School Science Project Reveals High Levels Of Fukushima Nuclear Radiation in Grocery Store Seafood
Obama"s Disapproval Hits New High as His Handling of Ukraine Hits Low
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Friday, March 21, 2014
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
High School Student Suspended For NRA T-Shirt
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Ukraine leader puts military on high alert
Troops in unmarked uniforms stand guard in Balaklava on the outskirts of Sevastopol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 1, 2014. An emblem on one of the vehicles and their number plates identify them as belonging to the Russian military. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of sending new troops into Crimea, a strategic Russia-speaking region that hosts a major Russian navy base. The Kremlin hasn’t responded to the accusations, but Russian lawmakers urged President Putin to act to protect Russians in Crimea. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)
Troops in unmarked uniforms stand guard in Balaklava on the outskirts of Sevastopol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 1, 2014. An emblem on one of the vehicles and their number plates identify them as belonging to the Russian military. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of sending new troops into Crimea, a strategic Russia-speaking region that hosts a major Russian navy base. The Kremlin hasn’t responded to the accusations, but Russian lawmakers urged President Putin to act to protect Russians in Crimea. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)
A wounded pro-Western activist sits after clashes with pro-Russia activists at the local administration building in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 1, 2014. Supporters of new Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russia demonstrators clashed in Kharkiv, a mostly Russian-speaking region in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Olga Ivashchenko)
Local residents carry Russian flags and shout slogans rallying over the streets of Crimean capital Simferopol, Ukraine, on Saturday, March 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament Saturday for permission to use the country’s military in Ukraine, moving to formalize what Ukrainian officials described as an ongoing deployment of Russian military on the country’s strategic region of Crimea. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
A gunman in unmarked uniform stands guard as troops take control the the Coast Guard offices in Balaklava, outskirts of Sevastopol, Ukraine, Saturday, March 1, 2014. The word in the background reads “To Sevastopol”. An emblem on one of the vehicles and their number plates identify them as belonging to the Russian military. Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of sending new troops into Crimea, a strategic Russia-speaking region that hosts a major Russian navy base. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov)
An unidentified man guards the entrance to a local government building in Simferopol, Ukraine, on Saturday, March 1, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin asked parliament Saturday for permission to use the country’s military in Ukraine, moving to formalize what Ukrainian officials described as an ongoing deployment of Russian military on the country’s strategic region of Crimea. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
Ukraine leader puts military on high alert
Friday, February 21, 2014
Tensions high on Kiev square despite deal
Anti-government protesters watch a live broadcast from the parliament in central Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. European officials say Ukrainian protesters have agreed to a deal with Ukraine’s president on defusing a deadly political crisis. Earlier Friday President Viktor Yanukovych announced early elections and promised to invite the opposition into the government. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Anti-government protesters watch a live broadcast from the parliament in central Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. European officials say Ukrainian protesters have agreed to a deal with Ukraine’s president on defusing a deadly political crisis. Earlier Friday President Viktor Yanukovych announced early elections and promised to invite the opposition into the government. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
Anti-government protesters man a barricade at the Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Ukraine’s presidency said Friday that it has negotiated a deal intended to end battles between police and protesters that have killed scores and injured hundreds, but European mediators involved in the talks wouldn’t confirm a breakthrough. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)
A fire burns on a barricade at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Ukraine’s presidency said Friday that it has negotiated a deal intended to end battles between police and protesters that have killed scores and injured hundreds, but European mediators involved in the talks wouldn’t confirm a breakthrough. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)
A man carries a photo of an anti-government protester killed in clashes with the police, during a funeral procession at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. In a day that could significantly shift Ukraine’s political destiny, opposition leaders signed a deal Friday with the country’s beleaguered president that calls for early elections, a new constitution and a new unity government. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)
An anti-government protester stands on a barricade at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Ukraine’s presidency said Friday that it has negotiated a deal intended to end battles between police and protesters that have killed scores and injured hundreds, but European mediators involved in the talks wouldn’t confirm a breakthrough. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)
Tensions high on Kiev square despite deal
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Immigrant Youth in North Carolina Faces Discrimination – Denied Enrollment in High School
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Despite Dangerously High Radiation Levels, No Caution Signs at Surfer"s Beach...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Fed"s low rate vow not too high a price to pay for taper: Fisher
Fed"s low rate vow not too high a price to pay for taper: Fisher
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DALLAS Jan 14 (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve’s promise last month to keep rates near zero until after unemployment falls to 6.5 percent was part of the horse-trading on policy that also resulted in a decision to begin paring the Fed’s bond-buying program, a top Fed official suggested on Tuesday.
“I didn’t find the 6.5 percent, or well past 6.5 percent, to be too high a price to pay for that cutback of $ 10 billion,” Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher told reporters after a speech here.
The Fed in December decided to cut its bond-buying program to $ 75 billion a month from $ 85 billion. It also said it would keep rates low until well past the time unemployment falls to 6.5 percent. It registered 6.7 percent in December.
“I’m not uncomfortable with statement that was issued, but I think we need to discuss this further,” Fisher said.
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Saturday, December 21, 2013
High School Students Discuss JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theories: Evidence, Facts, Books (1992)
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Friday, December 13, 2013
Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates
CENTENNIAL, Colo.
1 of 14. Arapahoe High School is pictured after a student opened fire in the school in Centennial, Colorado December 13, 2013.
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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) – A student armed with a shotgun and seeking to confront a teacher opened fire at a Colorado high school on Friday, wounding at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life, law enforcement officials said.
The student entered Arapahoe High School in a Denver suburb around midday brandishing the gun, and asked for the teacher by name before shooting two students, seriously wounding one of them, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said.
The teacher immediately fled the school and was not injured, Robinson said. The gunman’s body was later found in a classroom at the school.
“The shooter is dead as a result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds,” Robinson said.
The shooting in the Denver suburb of Centennial took place just eight miles from the scene of one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history at Columbine High School, where two students gunned down 13 classmates and staff before killing themselves in 1999.
Robinson said there was no sign the shooting was related to the anniversary, due on Saturday, of last year’s shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in which a gunman killed 20 children and six adults before killing himself.
Holly Schaefer, an 18-year-old senior at Arapahoe High School, said she was in mathematics class when she and fellow students heard a loud bang. That was followed shortly by another bang, and “then we knew definitely it was a gunshot.”
Schaefer said her teacher immediately initiated lockdown procedures, shutting the door to the classroom as students huddled in a corner of the room.
After about 30 minutes, Schaefer said, they heard police calling out on the other side of the door. Officers eventually cleared her classroom and as students were being escorted out of the building, she said she saw blood on the hallway floor.
‘SHAKING, CRYING, FREAKING OUT’
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who pushed through tougher gun control legislation this year following Newtown and last year’s attack in a Colorado movie theater, despaired the shooting as an “all-too-familiar sequence, where you have gunshots and parents racing to the school, and unspeakable horror in a place of learning.”
Television images from the high school showed students running out with their hands raised and gathering on a track field. Some students were shown being patted down in the aftermath.
Nearby businesses were also evacuated as dozens of police descended, guns drawn, on the scene. Robinson said officers in Colorado were “slowly and methodically” clearing the school and transporting students by bus to a nearby church to be reunited with their parents.
“We were having fun and laughing, and then all of sudden we heard a really loud bang and my teacher asked what it was, and then we heard two more, and we all just got up and screamed and ran into a sprinkler system room,” student Whitney Riley, 15, told CNN. “It sounded like it was coming from the hall that was near us.”
“We were shaking, we were crying, we were freaking out. I had a girl biting my arm,” she said. “We stayed quiet and we heard a whole bunch of sounds. We heard people yelling, we heard walkie-talkies.”
Robinson said the incident lasted just 14 minutes, and that police fired no rounds. It appeared that the gunman had acted alone, and authorities were not aware of any previous threats to the teacher who had been targeted. The relationship between the student and teacher was not immediately clear.
A device believed by police to be an improvised Molotov cocktail was also found on the grounds and an Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad was on hand to identify it and search for other possible explosives.
He said investigators were speaking with family members of the suspect, whom he declined to identify, and that counselors were working with students and teachers from the high school.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman in Centennial and Steve Gorman, Alex Dobuzinskis and Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Writing by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Sandra Maler and Gunna Dickson)
Student opens fire at Colorado high school, wounds two classmates
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
The High Price Egyptians Pay For Opposing Their Rulers
Egypt’s Mohamed Yousef won a gold medal at the kung fu championships in Russia in October. He then put on a yellow T-shirt with a four-finger salute to express solidarity with protesters opposing Egypt’s military-backed government. Egyptian sports officials have suspended him and barred him from tournaments for a year.
Twitter via Al Arabiya News
Egypt’s Mohamed Yousef won a gold medal at the kung fu championships in Russia in October. He then put on a yellow T-shirt with a four-finger salute to express solidarity with protesters opposing Egypt’s military-backed government. Egyptian sports officials have suspended him and barred him from tournaments for a year.
Twitter via Al Arabiya News
Mohamed Yousef is a tall, handsome practitioner of kung fu. In fact he’s an Egyptian champion who recently won an international competition.
But a month ago, when he collected his gold medal at the championship in Russia, he put on a yellow T-shirt and posed for a picture of a hand holding up four fingers.
That’s the symbol of Rabaa al Adawiya, the Cairo square where Egyptian security forces opened fire in August on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Hundreds were killed, including seven of Yousef’s friends.
“I wanted them with to be there with me,” Yousef says. “I wanted them to rejoice when I won the tournament. The least I could do was remember them. They died because they wanted to see Egypt better.”
He says the military-backed government is doing everything it can to make people forget.
Yousef paid a price for his decision that day in Russia. He was suspended from the national team, summoned home and barred from representing Egypt in future tournaments for the next year.
Some people in Egypt are calling him a traitor. And his story is not unique.
Many Have Been Punished
There are the young girls in Ismailiya who were arrested and strip-searched just for passing out yellow balloons. A soccer player who was suspended for flashing the four-fingers symbol after scoring a goal. A high school student arrested for having a ruler with that same symbol. And the list goes on.
“Any sign of Rabaa al Adawiya reminds the military of their crime,” Yousef says. “It’s a sign of solidarity and when you hold up four fingers the army won’t let it go.”
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas during clashes with riot police close to Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya square on Nov. 22. Hundreds were killed in the square during a protest in August, and the opposition has adopted as its symbol the four-finger gesture shown on the man wearing the yellow T-shirt.
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Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood run from tear gas during clashes with riot police close to Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya square on Nov. 22. Hundreds were killed in the square during a protest in August, and the opposition has adopted as its symbol the four-finger gesture shown on the man wearing the yellow T-shirt.
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There is a battle these days over who gets to tell Egypt’s recent history. And democracy activists say Egypt’s military-backed leaders are quickly trying to rewrite it.
Since the ouster of the former president, Hosni Mubarak, in 2011, very few security forces have been convicted for killing protesters. And the memories are slowly fading for many Egyptians.
In Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the government erected a monument to honor those killed during the uprising against Mubarak. Later that night, the circular brick structure was destroyed, picked apart by angry demonstrators.
Activists say the monument insults their memories and their cause. They say police killed these protesters, the officers weren’t held accountable and now they are being celebrated as heroes.
Cleaning Up The Square
In Rabaa al Adawiya Square, all signs of the mass killing that took place there on Aug. 14 are gone. The graffiti is painted over, the mosque that was the center of the protest movement is a pristine white again. And a monument has been erected: it’s a ball surrounded by two metal structures that are supposed to represent the police and the army protecting the people.
Army tanks now secure the square.
“There’s no acknowledgement of any wrongdoing on the part of the government,” says Karim Medhat Ennarah, a criminal justice researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights.
He says police brutality has steadily gotten worse over the past three years of transition. And now, after so many Egyptians turned on The Muslim Brotherhood over its poor leadership, the police are no longer public enemy number one. And the security forces along with the military feel emboldened.
“Obviously they’re going to lie about the history of what happened in the last two years, about what their position was in it and they’re going to create their own narrative,” he says.
Every government before did the same — Mubarak’s regime, the military leadership, ousted president Mohamed Morsi. But this time, Ennarah says, the military-backed leaders have enough public support to control the story.
“Right now they can get away with it,” he says. “Right now they don’t feel public pressure.”
Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been protesting for months. More than a thousand are dead and thousands more have been detained. Now the government calls the Brotherhood “terrorists,” says they are trying to destabilize the state and that they must be crushed. The crackdown is widening to secular and leftist political activists angry over a protest law that suppresses dissent.
Sentenced To 11 Years
One of the most shocking cases recently occurred in the Mediterranean port of Alexandria.
Bishr Mohamed’s daughter Sumaya is just 18. And this week she was sentenced to 11 years and one month in prison along with 13 other young women. Why?
Because, her father says, she was near a peaceful protest where demonstrators carried the yellow poster that symbolises the mass killing of Brotherhood supporters and passed out yellow balloons.
She was convicted of joining a terrorist organization and inciting violence. On the day she was convicted, she stood in the prosecution cage with other young women, the youngest just 14.
Before her arrest on Oct. 31, she’d never spent the night outside her father’s home.
It took days to get access to Sumaya, her dad says. At one point, he was arrested as he tried to see her. When he finally did, she asked him “Are you proud of me?”
“I said, ‘Yes, of course,’” Mohamed says. “I was surprised the girls themselves were steadfast and strong. I told Sumaya, ‘Be strong, you have a cause.’”
He reflects on the arrests and the monuments in Cairo lauding the army and the police. The same police that arrested his daughter. The same police that killed protesters during the uprising against Mubarak and successive battles with demonstrators that followed. The same police that the nation now celebrates as heroes, he says.
“It’s like having the person who kills you attend your funeral,” he says.
The High Price Egyptians Pay For Opposing Their Rulers
Monday, November 25, 2013
High School Student in a Coma After Cops Taze Him
Family fears he will not survive
Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
November 22, 2013
The family of a high school student fears he will not survive injuries sustained last Wednesday after school resource officers Tazed him, the family’s attorney has stated.
17-year-old Noe Nino de Rivera is in critical condition at St. David’s Medical Center in Bastrop, Texas, after he was alleged to have interfered with two sheriff’s deputies working as resource officers, who were attempting to break up a fight between two female students.
The Cedar Creek High School student fell and hit the front of his head when one of the officers, Randy McMillan, used a Taser to subdue him. He sustained a traumatic brain injury, one of the worst his family’s attorney, Adam Loewy, says he’s witnessed in his legal career.
“This is one of the worst traumatic brain injuries we have seen and we will be pursuing all legal remedies at the proper time,” Loewy told KXAN.
He told the Austin American Statesman that if de Rivera “does recover, or survive, he will absolutely not be the same person. It’s just a terrible, terrible tragedy.”
A spokeswoman for the sheriff’s department says the Cedar Creek High School student moved aggressively, did not respond to orders and “looked as though he was ready to fight.”
Noe Nino de Rivera in ICU with brain damage / image via Twitter.
Several students, however, say de Rivera did nothing to deserve being Tased, and Lowey says he has video evidence to this effect.
“I do not believe for a second that he was being aggressive,” Loewy stated, pointing to cell phone footage he says proves de Rivera was not the aggressor. “This officer was way out of control.”
“There were two young ladies fighting and he stepped in to break up the fight,” Loewy explained to KXAN. “What the evidence shows, he was sort of backing up from the fight, the fight was over, and this officer literally walked up on him and Tased him.”
The sheriff’s spokeswoman says they also have video of the incident, and it proves officers were in the right. “He’s being aggressive. He is not complying with any of the verbal orders,” Bastrop County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sissy Jones told MyFoxAustin. “One of the officers puts his hand on de Rivera’s chest and says, you need to back up and that’s when de Rivera hits the officer’s hand.”
“Totally false, a complete lie,” Loewy says. ”You see the back of the officers come up and you see Noe facing them and then you see the taser go.”
Students at the high school staged a walk-out Friday morning, in which they chanted “Justice for Noe” and carried signs reading “#PrayForNoe,” and protested the use of Tazers in schools.
According to Jones, Rivera could face charges of interference with public duties, resisting arrest, search or transport, and assault should he survive his injuries.
“Those charges are a joke,” Loewy told Fox news, adding, “and I really hope they try to indict a kid who’s in a coma.”
An independent investigation by the district attorney has been launched, in addition to an internal investigation over the incident. Loewy is also calling for a Texas Ranger and federal government investigation of the case.
Officer McMillan remains on duty, though he’s been transferred to a different department.
This article was posted: Monday, November 25, 2013 at 11:47 am
Tags: police state
High School Student in a Coma After Cops Taze Him
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Too hard: Texas drops algebra II as high school graduation requirement
Daily Caller – by Eric OwensThe Texas Board of Education has given preliminary approval to a plan that will eliminate algebra II as a high school graduation requirement for more students.
The Texas state legislature gave unanimous approval to the change back in May as part of a huge overhaul of the state’s graduation and high-stakes standardized testing regime, reports The Dallas Morning News.
Proponents of the elimination of the algebra II requirement and other academic requirements say the change provides more choices. Now, they say, more students can learn a trade or focus on practical career training if they want.
Opponents say the change weakens academic standards.
The Board of Education toyed with the idea of defying democratically-elected lawmakers and keeping the algebra II requirement. In the end, though, they decided that would be a bad idea.
There will be three opportunities for board members to change their votes between now and January.
If the changes remain intact, only students who pursue STEM-focused (science, technology, engineering and math) and “distinguished” diploma tracks will be required to take algebra II.
Other features of the new curriculum law include a reduction of mandatory standardized tests from 15 (the highest in the nation) to five.
As of today, 17 states, still including Texas, either make algebra II mandatory or put students in a default curriculum track that will include the course, notes the Morning News.
Other states have already dropped or lowered algebra requirements. In February, for example, California stopped requiring eighth-graders to take algebra—a move that is line with the Common Core standards now adopted by most states, but that may leave students unprepared for college.
The state of Texas is one of just five states which have not adopted the Common Core curriculum.
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Too hard: Texas drops algebra II as high school graduation requirement
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Midwest under high storm threat; tornado hits Ill.
CHICAGO (AP) — Intense thunderstorms and tornados swept across a number of Midwestern states Sunday, and officials were raising the alarm to warn people — including fans heading to some NFL games — might be caught off guard by such severe weather at this time of year.
The National Weather Service confirmed tornados have touched down in several Illinois communities by early afternoon. Meanwhile in Chicago, fans at Soldier Field watching the Chicago Bears host the Baltimore Ravens were cleared from the stands and players and coaches left the field around 12:30 p.m. as wind and rain moved in.
“Our primary message is this is a dangerous weathers system that has the potential to be extremely deadly and destructive,” said Laura Furgione, deputy director of the National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “Get ready now.”
Weather service officials confirmed that a tornado touched down just before 11 a.m. near the central Illinois community of East Peoria, but authorities did not immediately have damage or injury reports. Weather officials said it was moving northeast about 60 mph; East Peoria is about 150 miles southwest of Chicago.
“This is a very dangerous situation,” said Russell Schneider, director of the weather service’s Storm Prediction Center. “Approximately 53 million in 10 states are at significant risk for thunderstorms and tornados.”
Schneider noted that the storms are moving at 60 mph, which he said will not give people enough time to seek shelter if they’re relying on watching the sky alone.
The potential severity of the storm this late in the season also carries the risk of surprise.
“People can fall into complacency because they don’t see severe weather and tornados, but we do stress that they should keep a vigilant eye on the weather and have a means to hear a tornado warning because things can change very quickly,” said Matt Friedlein, a weather service meteorologist.
According to agency officials, parts of Illinois, Indiana, southern Michigan and western Ohio are at the greatest risk of seeing tornadoes, large hail and damaging winds throughout the day Sunday. Strong winds and atmospheric instability were expected to sweep across the central Plains during the day before pushing into the mid-Atlantic states and northeast by evening. Many of the storms were expected to become supercells, with the potential to produce tornadoes, large hail and destructive winds.
In Chicago, the Office of Emergency Management and Communications issued a warning to fans attending making their way to Soldier Field to watch the Bears-Ravens game. It urged fans “to take extra precautions and … appropriate measures to ensure their personal safety.”
And in McHenry County, northwest of Chicago, funnel clouds were spotted late Sunday morning, dropping out of the clouds and then retreating again, said Bob Ellsworth, the assistant director of the county’s emergency management agency. Ellsworth added that none had touched the ground or caused any damage.
Around the same time, the weather service issued a tornado warning for parts of Kenosha, Racine and Walworth counties in Wisconsin.
Friedlein said that such strong storms are rare this late in the year because there usually isn’t enough heat from the sun to sustain the thunderstorms. But he said temperatures Sunday are expected to reach into the 60s and 70s, which he said is warm enough to help produce severe weather when it is coupled with winds, which are typically stronger this time of year than in the summer.
“You don’t need temperatures in the 80s and 90s to produce severe weather (because) the strong winds compensate for the lack of heating,” he said. “That sets the stage for what we call wind shear, which may produce tornadoes.”
He also said that the tornadoes this time a year happen more often than people might realize, pointing to a twister that hit the Rockford, Ill., area in November 2010.
Friedlein said that the storm will move across northern Illinois from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., meaning Chicago could see the brunt of it about the time the Bears-Ravens gets underway.
NFL games in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh also could be affected by the rough weather.
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Associated Press writer Sophia Tareen in Chicago contributed to this report.
Midwest under high storm threat; tornado hits Ill.
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