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High school lands in hot water for slavery reenactment project


CBS Los Angeles
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:03 UTC
Cerrritos High School
Students tied up? Staff acting as slave ship captains?

As KCAL9/CBS2's Michele Gile reports, a high school in Cerritos is under fire after a controversial student history project about slavery.

Whitney High School junior Timothy Reyes had his hands taped together and was a part of a slave ship reenactment when he was an 8th grader on the Cerritos campus.

A mother complained recently after getting an email from her son's teacher explaining the "unique classroom activity," which was to be a surprise. Staff would act as slave ship captains, the email described, and the children slaves.

After lining the kids up, the note said, they'd "use masking tape to 'tie' their wrists together, make them lay on the ground, and in a dark room have them watch a clip from the film 'Roots.' "
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Megaphone

Why banning 'hate speech' will only make it stronger

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:48 UTC
Frederick Douglass
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason...There can be no right of speech where any man...[is] compelled to suppress his honest sentiments. Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker."

- Frederick Douglass
A recent survey conducted by the Brookings Institution adds to my already festering concerns about American attitudes when it comes to our most precious civil liberty. Free speech.

Let's start out by highlighting some of what we learned. First, via an opinion piece in The Washington Post:
Here's the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants "safe spaces," or otherwise conflating mere words with physical assault: If speech is violence, then violence becomes a justifiable response to speech.
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Sheriff

Chicago deploys more cops as city's death toll hits 500


RT
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 02:34 UTC
Chicago Police Cops
© Jim Young / Reuters
Despite a boost in police numbers, Chicago, Illinois has recorded its 500th homicide for the year, with 11 people killed and more than 30 wounded in shooting incidents over the weekend.

Among those killed was a pregnant woman, and two people who lived on the same block, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Four people were killed in Brighton Park on Friday as they traveled in a car, police said, adding that the latest bloodshed resulted from an ongoing gang war in the Southwest Side neighborhood.

Comment: Further reading: Forensic criminologist: The truth about crime, illegal immigrants and sanctuary cities

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Cult

SJW guilt trip: San Diego State students offered extra credit to determine their level of 'white privilege'

Drew Van Voorhis
The College Fix
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 21:17 UTC
white privilege SJW studends
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Students in a sociology class at San Diego State University can earn extra credit if they take a quiz to determine their level of "white privilege."

Professor Dae Elliott offered the option to her sociology class students, a "White Privilege Checklist" that includes 20 questions that aim to illustrate that "racial privilege is one form of privilege."

Some of the questions include:
I can choose blemish cover or bandages in flesh color and have them more or less match my skin.

I can be late to a meeting without having the lateness reflect on my race.

I am not made acutely aware that my shape, bearing, or body odor will be taken as a reflection on my race.

I can enroll in a class at college and be sure that the majority of my professors will be of my race.
At the end of the quiz, students were also made aware of other forms of privilege, such as "gender, sexual orientation, class, and religion," as well as asked to define any more types they can think of.

Students were instructed by Professor Elliott to add up their scores, with a higher score meaning they had a high level of privilege and a lower score meaning they had a lower level of privilege.

Comment:

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New report says Britain ranks number 1 in Europe for online jihadist propaganda


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:11 UTC
terrorist computing
© Global Look Press
Online jihadist propaganda gets more views in the UK than in any other European country, according to a new report.

Britain is ranked fifth in the world scale of audiences accessing online extremist material, trailing behind Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, the Policy Exchange study found.

The report suggests a majority (74 percent) of the 2,001 Britons it surveyed would support new laws to criminalize the "persistent consumption" of extremist material online.

In fact, while it is currently an offence to possess information that could assist a would-be terrorist under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, it is not illegal to possess material which glorifies terrorism.

Although the government has called on social media giants like Facebook and WhatsApp to crack down on jihadist material, former US military chief General David Petraeus, who wrote a foreword to the report, said current regulations aimed at tackling the propagation of online extremist material are "inadequate."
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Road Cone

10 newly-arrived US tanks in Poland to show Russia who's boss... damaged passing railway station


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:37 UTC
us tank meme
Ten American tanks were damaged while being transported by rail from the Polish city of Gdansk to a training ground after failing to fit under a train station roof, RMF 24 reported.

A total of 37 tanks were being taken from Gdansk to a training ground in Zagan, according to the Polish media outlet. However, 10 were damaged in transit after they did not fit under the roof at a station in Kowalewo Pomorskie.

"As a result of being hooked up to the train's light, 10 of the 37 vehicles being transported - combat vehicles and skeletons - were damaged," said Jaroslaw Wisniewski, a press officer for the police headquarters in Golub-Dobrzyn.


Comment: 20 fighter jet crashes in the last two years, 2 navy destroyers colliding with tankers in just a few weeks, 2 major training accidents at US bases on the same day, and now this.

At this rate, the US is literally going to militarily destroy itself.

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Arrow Down

The opioid crisis is taking a huge chunk out of America's small-town finances

Paula Seligson and Tim Reid
Reuters
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 05:05 UTC
autopsy
As deaths mount in America's opioid crisis, communities on the front lines face a hidden toll: the financial cost.

Ross County, a largely rural region of 77,000 people an hour south of Columbus, Ohio, is wrestling with an explosion in opioid-related deaths - 44 last year compared to 19 in 2009. The drug addiction epidemic is shattering not just lives but also stressing the county budget.

About 75 percent of the 200 children placed into state care in the county have parents with opioid addictions, up from about 40 percent five years ago, local officials say. Their care is more expensive because they need specialist counseling, longer stays and therapy.

That has caused a near doubling in the county's child services budget to almost $2.4 million from $1.3 million, said Doug Corcoran, a county commissioner.

Comment: Small detail Reuters left out: the heroin comes from Afghanistan, occupied by the US since 2001.

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Alarm Clock

Explosion in Manchester lounge was caused by 'device packed with nails and screws'

Neal Keeling
Manchester Evening News
Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:18 UTC
Lounge Cafe explosion
© ASPFire crews at the scene after an explosion outside a café in Salford.
A device which exploded outside a café in Salford was packed with nails and screws, the M.E.N. can reveal.

It was left under the shutters of The Lounge in Concord Place, Douglas Green, Pendleton earlier this week. It caused damage to the shutters, canopy, windows and pavement.

A loud bang, at around 12.30am on Tuesday, could be heard across Greater Manchester.

It came after a Vauxhall Corsa car was badly damaged when an industrial style firework was attached to the rear of the vehicle in a street in Eccles three days earlier.
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Mr. Potato

New study: US teens slower to drink, have sex or engage in adult activities than previous generation


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:04 UTC
US teens
© Global Look Press
US teenagers are growing up slower than previous generations, avoiding adult activities such as drinking alcohol and having sex until later in life, according to a new study.

Researchers at San Diego State University and Bryn Mawr College analyzed seven large surveys of 8.3 million 13 to 19-year-olds between 1976 and 2016.

The results of the study have been published in the journal Child Development.

"The developmental trajectory of adolescence has slowed, with teens growing up more slowly than they used to," lead author Jean M. Twenge said.

Comment: How about bad ? The "US cultural climate" has been so dumbed down and devoid of meaningful communication and values that OF COURSE its teenagers are in a form of arrested development (not that we advocate the use of sex or alcohol consumption by teenagers).

For how this epidemic is affecting both young and old, see this must read: The epidemic that will destroy America is its permanent state of adolescence

and:

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Russian Public Chamber: Fear of migrants in steady decline for 3 consecutive years


RT
Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:36 UTC
Russia migrants
© Sputnik
The share of Russians who treat immigrants with caution or fear has been in steady decline since 2014, but remains relatively high, the members of the Public Chamber wrote in their annual report.

"'Migrantophobia' remains a serious problem in the Russian community, but its level has been steadily declining over the past three years," reads the paper titled "Xenophobia, radicalism and hate crimes in Russia 2016."

According to the research, in 2014 the share of Russians who confessed in negative attitude to migrants was 76 percent, in 2015 it fell to 68 percent and in 2016 it was registered at 66 percent.

According to the Public Chamber's analysts, the reasons for this phenomenon are new laws regulating the stay of immigrants who entered Russia under visa-free agreements with foreign nations, the small number of terrorist attacks launched by Islamist radicals on Russian territory, and also the work of various state agencies and NGOs spreading the ideas of tolerance.
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