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Heart - Black

Heartless school district fires kitchen manager for giving lunch to students without money


CBS Denver
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:39 UTC
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© CBSDella Curry
Della Curry is out of work, and unashamed, after being fired by the Cherry Creek School District.

A married mother of two, Curry is the former kitchen manager at Dakota Valley Elementary School in Aurora. She lost her job on Friday after giving school lunches to students who didn't have any money.

"I had a first grader in front of me, crying, because she doesn't have enough money for lunch. Yes, I gave her lunch," Curry said.

In the district, students who fail to qualify for the free lunch or reduced lunch program receive one slice of cheese on a hamburger bun, and a small milk.

Curry says that meal is not sufficient. Many times she paid for lunches out of her own pocket.

"I'll own that I broke the law. The law needs to change," she said.

Comment: One wonders how the individuals on the Cherry Creek School District council would feel if it was their children who she had given free meals to.

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40 reasons U.S. jails and prisons are full of black and poor people

Bill Quigley
Counterpunch
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownAmerican Corrections Association convention, 1997.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reports 2.2 million people are in our nation's jails and prisons and another 4.5 million people are on probation or parole in the US, totaling 6.8 million people, one of every 35 adults. We are far and away the world leader in putting our own people in jail. Most of the people inside are poor and Black. Here are 40 reasons why.

One. It is not just about crime. Our jails and prisons have grown from holding about 500,000 people in 1980 to 2.2 million today. The fact is that crime rates have risen and fallen independently of our growing incarceration rates.

Two. Police discriminate. The first step in putting people in jail starts with interactions between police and people. From the very beginning Black and poor people are targeted by the police. Police departments have engaged in campaigns of stopping and frisking people who are walking, mostly poor people and people of color, without cause for decades. Recently New York City lost a federal civil rights challenge to their police stop and frisk practices by the Center for Constitutional Rights during which police stopped over 500,000 people annually without any indication that the people stopped had been involved in any crime at all. About 80 percent of those stops were of Black and Latinos who compromise 25 and 28 percent of NYC's total population. Chicago police do the same thing stopping even more people also in a racially discriminatory way with 72 percent of the stops of Black people even though the city is 32 percent Black.

Comment: "It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." -- Nelson Mandela

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Family faces jail time for cheering to their graduating teen

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Wed, 03 Jun 2015 14:50 UTC
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© ShutterstockBlack woman cheers as she graduates
A black Mississippi family was kicked out of a high school graduation ceremony and charged with disturbing the peace after they cheered for a graduating senior.

Superintendent Jay Foster asked audience members to hold their cheers and applause until all the graduates' names were called, but one family said they were unable to contain their excitement, reported WREG-TV.

Ursula Miller said she called out the first name of her niece, Lanarcia Walker, as she crossed the stage to receive her diploma from Senatobia High School.

The teen's father, Henry Walker, shouted, "You did it, baby," and waved a towel, drawing laughs from the crowd.
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Muslim chaplain refused can of coke by United Airlines so she wouldn't weaponize it


RT
Sun, 31 May 2015 21:20 UTC
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United Airlines is facing a customer backlash after discriminating against a Muslim passenger. Tahera Ahmad was on an internal US flight when she was refused an unopened can of soda. The flight attendant believed she would use it as a weapon.

Ahmad, a Muslim chaplain from Northwestern University, was traveling from Chicago to Washington, DC, for a conference aimed at promoting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian youth.

During the flight, she asked the flight attendant if she could have a can of diet coke. However, the 31 year-old's request wasn't granted. The attendant told her: "Well I'm sorry I just can't give you an unopened can so no diet coke for you," Ahmed wrote on her Facebook page.

Moments later, the passenger sitting next to her was given an unopened can of beer. This prompted Ahmad to ask the flight attendant why she hadn't been given an unopened can of diet coke.

"We are unauthorized to give unopened cans to people because they may use it as a weapon on the plane," the attendant is reported by Ahmad to have said.

An astounded Ahmad tried to ask her fellow passengers to support her claim, but unfortunately she only received more abuse.
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Sickening: Jerusalem kindergarten creates play acting out IDF soldier murdering Palestinian


RT
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:48 UTC
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A kindergarten in East Jerusalem has come up with a controversial play which showed a kid dressed as IDF soldier "killing" a Palestinian boy with a gun. The supporters of the "victim" then cover him in a Palestinian flag.

The play took place in a kindergarten at the Dar al-Hekma private school in Beit Hanina, a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, the Arabic-language Himma News reported. The site posted a video of the performance but soon deleted it. It was later uploaded by the Jerusalem Post.

In the video, a kindergarten pupil dressed as an IDF soldier takes another boy, apparently a Palestinian, from the crowd. He explains to him something and then "shoots" him at close range.

Then kids playing Palestinian supporters are seen running to the victim, grieving the murder of their fellow comrade. They later cover him with a Palestinian flag.

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Renowned pianist Lisitsa, who condemned Kiev war against E. Ukraine, to perform concert in Donbas


Sputnik
Tue, 02 Jun 2015 21:23 UTC
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Valentina Lisitsa, a well-known Ukrainian-born American classical pianist who has faced censure over her strong opposition to Kiev's war in Donbass, has told Sputnik that she is getting ready to hold a concert in Donetsk later this month.

Speaking to Radio Sputnik on Tuesday, Lisitsa noted that her performance, to be held in Donetsk, the capital of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, is likely to take place Friday, June 22, the symbolic 74th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War.

Noting that the performance would take place either at the Donetsk National Academic Opera Theatre or outdoors before the city's main square, Lisitsa stated that she would be very happy if it were held outdoors, "because I know how much interest and thirst for classical music and for music in general there is among Donbass residents, and I'm very excited to go there."

Asked about whose composers' works she planned to play, Lisitsa noted that it would be "very symbolic to perform Prokofiev, because he is from that region; he was a composer whose roots are [in the Donbass region]" and his music was inspired and influenced by his homeland. Moreover, she plans to play beloved pieces by composers including Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven and Bach, whose "pieces...unite all of us - that make us feel like one close family."


Comment: See: Toronto Symphony Orchestra cancels Valentina Lisitsa concert for speaking out on Ukraine atrocities

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Eye 1

A quarter of all Australians interested in having implanted chip used for payments

Alex Heber
Business Insider
Tue, 26 May 2015 21:06 UTC
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A mind-boggling 25% of Australians say they are at least "slightly interested" at the prospect of having a chip implanted in their skin that could be used for payments, new research has found.

The research by credit card company Visa and the University of Technology Sydney found Australians are open to the prospect of paying for items using wearable tech including smart watches, rings, glasses and even a connected car.

"Australians are among the world's earliest adopters of new technology," Head of Emerging Products and Innovation for Visa in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, George Lawson said.

Visa is currently looking at how its payments tech can be integrated with wearable devices and is working with UTS to figure out how it might be adopted by the next generation of shoppers.

"New technology like tokenisation makes it possible to turn any device into a secure vehicle for commerce. We're already seeing smartphone payments take off in Australia. Partnering with UTS gives us the opportunity to explore what our next device might be," Lawson said.
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Christian website "Biblical Gender Roles" supports marital rape in the name of God

David Edwards
Raw Story
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:52 UTC
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A website that gives sex advice to married Christians argues that women can never give their spouses "a flat no" when asked for sex because "her body does belong to her husband."

The anonymous founder of the Biblical Gender Roles website, who says he is a white male in his 40s, came under fire earlier this month after he wrote an article titled, "Is a husband selfish for having sex with his wife when she is not the mood?"

"Feminists and even some women who would not consider themselves feminists believe it is selfish for a man to have sex with his wife, knowing she is not in the mood," the writer explains. "In fact some claim if a man has sex with his wife when she is not the mood this is rape... Here we will try to answer this very important question, from a Biblical perspective."

Although the author insists that he would not advocate "for a husband to force himself physically upon his wife," he says that "a Christian wife should never give her husband a flat no, BUT she can humbly and gently ask for a delay."

And any request for a delay "must be done humbly and respectfully, and always with the attitude in mind that her body does belong to her husband."

A "wife does not have the right to stand and deny her husband access to her body," he writes, adding that she can ask for a delay with a "legitimate" reason, but "the judge of what is legitimate or not is her husband."
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Attention

San Andreas: A prepper's view of earthquake survival

Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:54 UTC
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Nothing warms my prepper's heart more than a good disaster movie that supports my hypotheses about a specific event, and the recent movie San Andreas was no exception.

Okay, sure, there was some pretty unrealistic stuff like when The Rock was driving a boat through post-tsunami San Francisco and just happened to find his daughter that he was looking for. The last time I went to San Francisco, my daughter and I had trouble finding each other on the first floor of Forever 21, for crying out loud.

But, when you only have two hours for a movie, you have to be willing to suspend your disbelief somewhat and put that kind of stuff aside. So, putting that aside, I enthusiastically recommend the movie. We live about 4 hours from San Francisco and go there occasionally for educational outings to the excellent museums, so the setting was quite familiar to us, as was the premise of what would occur if an earthquake happened there. So familiar that my daughter was the frequent recipient of my elbow, as I whispered, "See!!!! I told you this was what would happen if the Big One hit that time we went to the Science Museum!" Trooper that she is, she said, "Yes, Mom, I know, you were right about that too." Since she's a teenager, she probably also rolled her eyes each time, but it was dark and I can't be absolutely certain of that.
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Heart - Black

French romanticism disappearing: Paris authorities remove up to 1 million "love locks" from famous Paris bridge


RT
Mon, 01 Jun 2015 19:55 UTC
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© Reuters / John SchultsA recently-married couple from Poland, Dominika and Bartek Mieczkowski, embrace near grills covered with "love locks" on a walkway which leads to the Pont de Arts over the River Seine in Paris, France
Paris authorities removed hundreds of thousands of metal padlocks from iconic Pont des Arts bridge in front of the Louvre on Monday, with the new anti-romantic token ban possibly breaking millions of hearts around the world - for security reasons.

Both Parisians and tourists had been attaching their tokens to the famous 19th century bridge for years. The padlocks symbolically immortalize their love.


Both Parisians and tourists had been attaching their tokens to the famous 19th century bridge for years. The padlocks symbolically immortalize their love.
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