Lick The Jack Boots: Reports and stories of outrageous control policy

[Freeski]

This is key:

Police seized the 54-year-old's phone at Harburg station, near the northern city of Hamburg, after fellow train passengers, shocked by the sound of Hitler screaming, alerted police.

This is the groupthink. They are frightened, like little children, and they feel they have a duty to be "responsible citizens", even though they don't really know how and why things work -- and that's largely because of the TV -- so their immediate response to anything out of the ordinary (pre-programmed by TV) is to call someone else before even evaluating it themselves. They no longer think for themselves. They are helpless.



You can't "ban" an idea.

[Brocke]

This is key:

This is the groupthink. They are frightened, like little children, and they feel they have a duty to be "responsible citizens", even though they don't really know how and why things work -- and that's largely because of the TV -- so their immediate response to anything out of the ordinary (pre-programmed by TV) is to call someone else before even evaluating it themselves. They no longer think for themselves. They are helpless.



You can't "ban" an idea.

It's the 'ol sins of the father (or grandfather in this case) syndrome. I think that the ringtone was in the worst possible taste but in a free society he should be allowed to use it. Hell, most ringtones are offensive. If it was a speech by Stalin no one would care and he killed millions more!

[Freeski]

It's the 'ol sins of the father (or grandfather in this case) syndrome. I think that the ringtone was in the worst possible taste but in a free society he should be allowed to use it. Hell, most ringtones are offensive. If it was a speech by Stalin no one would care and he killed millions more!

I may not agree with what you say but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it.

[Brocke]

EPA to Crack Down on Farm Dust

Published on 08-01-2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.

The letter dated July 23 to the EPA states, "If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation's history." It further states, "We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether its livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event."

Read the letter to EPA signed by 21 senators including Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn > http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/griffin/NEWS9/PDF/1007/EPALetter.PDF

Many in the Oklahoma farming industry are opposed to the EPA's consideration. One farmer said the possible regulations are ridiculous.

"It's plain common sense, we don't want to do anything detrimental," said farmer Curtis Roberts. "If the dust is detrimental to us, it's going to be to everybody. We're not going to do anything to hurt ourselves or our farm."

Roberts, a fourth generation farmer and rancher in Arcadia, said regulating dust in rural areas will hurt farmers' harvest, cultivation and livelihood.

"Anytime you work ground, you're going to have dust. I don't know how they'll regulate it," Roberts said. "The regulations are going to put us down and keep us from doing things we need to be doing because of the EPA."

Oklahoma Farm Bureau President Mike Spradling said the rules could be detrimental to farmers across the Sooner State.

"We as an organization do not feel dust is a pollutant," Spradling said. "It would almost be impossible to comply with what's being addressed now from the EPA as in agriculture. We're doing everything we possibly can."

"It's just common sense, we don't like dust in the morning but it's something we got to live with," Roberts said.

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-9960-0-6-6--.html

[Satyagraha]

Memo from the EPA:

Farm Dust is BAD.
Corexit is OK.

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BP didn't make Gulf oil spill worse with dispersants, EPA finds
The EPA issued a report Monday that suggests the dispersant used by BP in the Gulf oil spill, Corexit, doesn't form a more toxic stew when mixed with oil. The dispersant was also no more toxic than seven other alternatives, the study concluded.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0802/BP-didn-t-make-Gulf-oil-spill-worse-with-dispersants-EPA-finds

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EPA: Always looking out for our best interests...

EPA's Christie Whitman says air is safe days after 911
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdttHY59b4

[feeditup]

How about the planes that might be spraying us ? farm dust ? oh alright

[Brocke]

French cops to fine tourists for taking off their shirts

    * From: NewsCore
    * August 16, 2010 6:54PM

MALE tourists in France were being threatened with 38 ($54) fines for walking around without their shirts on, The Independent reported Monday.

Locals in seaside resort towns including Cannes and St. Tropez demanded the move after they were sick of seeing Brits and other tourists displaying their "hairy chests" in the streets, the newspaper said.

Inland cities such as Perpignan, in the south of France, followed the move and introduced a dress code banning bare chests for the first time.

Women wearing bikini tops in the streets could also face the fine if they failed to cover up when asked to by cops, authorities said.

The tough laws came into force after locals were shocked by a group of British rugby fans who took off their shirts while watching a match.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/french-cops-to-fine-tourists-for-taking-off-their-shirts/story-e6frfkui-1225906035279#ixzz0wlLYKnvA

[Brocke]

English professor Lynne Rosenthal ejected from New York Starbucks over linguistic dispute

    * By John Doyle, Rebecca Rosenberg and Annie Karni
    * From: NewsCore
    * August 16, 2010 5:55PM

A Starbucks customer has been kicked out over a "bagel rage" incident / File Source: Supplied

STARBUCKS' strange vernacular has finally driven a customer nuts.

Lynne Rosenthal, a college English professor from Manhattan, said three cops forcibly ejected her from an Upper West Side Starbucks on Sunday after she got into a dispute after refusing to place her order by the coffee chain's rules, the New York Post reported.

Prof Rosenthal, who is in her 60s, asked for a toasted multigrain bagel - and became enraged when the barista at the franchise, on Columbus Avenue at 86th Street, followed up by inquiring, "Do you want butter or cheese?"

"I just wanted a multigrain bagel," Prof Rosenthal said.

"I refused to say 'without butter or cheese'. When you go to Burger King, you don't have to list the six things you don't want. Linguistically, it's stupid, and I'm a stickler for correct English."

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/english-professor-lynne-rosenthal-ejected-from-new-york-starbucks-over-linguistic-dispute/story-e6frfm1i-1225906022106#ixzz0wlMSErm2

[Brocke]

Council orders girl's playset pulled down

    * By staff writers
    * From: NewsCore
    * August 18, 2010 5:36AM

A LOCAL council in northern England, ordered a family to pull down their nine-year-old daughter’s outdoor playset, local media reported overnight.

Hard-line town planners from Newcastle City Council told Craig and Lindsay Preston they had 21 days to take down the play equipment because it was on land zoned for farming, The Journal said.

The council ruled that the playset, which was used by the couple’s daughter Honor and her friends, was a permanent structure.

Craig Preston said he was angry the playset, which was built on the family’s paddock next to their home three years ago, had to go.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/council-orders-girls-playset-pulled-down/story-e6frfku0-1225906616515#ixzz0wtnxCh4M

[Freeski]

Council orders girl's playset pulled down

    * By staff writers
    * From: NewsCore
    * August 18, 2010 5:36AM

A LOCAL council in northern England, ordered a family to pull down their nine-year-old daughter’s outdoor playset, local media reported overnight.

Hard-line town planners from Newcastle City Council told Craig and Lindsay Preston they had 21 days to take down the play equipment because it was on land zoned for farming, The Journal said.

The council ruled that the playset, which was used by the couple’s daughter Honor and her friends, was a permanent structure.

Craig Preston said he was angry the playset, which was built on the family’s paddock next to their home three years ago, had to go.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/council-orders-girls-playset-pulled-down/story-e6frfku0-1225906616515#ixzz0wtnxCh4M

It's so sick and petty how the machine wants to own every single part of us. There are millions of such stories.

[Brocke]

Consequences will never be the same for pirates who play Halo: Reach

    * From: NewsCore
    * August 25, 2010 1:44PM

Microsoft says it will know if you're playing a naughty copy of Halo: Reach.

A MICROSOFT executive promises the company would permanently ban users who play pirated copies of Halo: Reach from doing so on Xbox Live.

Hackers stole Halo: Reach earlier this week through the Xbox LIVE marketplace by bypassing a security system that allowed journalists early access to the game for review purposes.

Writing on Twitter, Stephen Toulouse, Xbox director of policy and enforcement, said “as with all unauthorized play on Xbox LIVE, anyone playing any unauthorized title runs the risk of account permaban”.

Mr Toulouse said banned players would be prevented from accessing Xbox LIVE from any account on their consoles and that the company will be able to tell when players are using pirated copies.

“Remember, legit store bought copy runs no risk of ban. Key word: UNAUTHORIZED,” he wrote.

“We have ways of knowing.”

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/consequences-will-never-be-the-same-for-pirates-who-play-halo-reach/story-e6frfro0-1225909921079#ixzz0xc5COKml

[Brocke]

The world's tiniest airline seat the 'Skyrider'

    * By Kate Schneider
    * From: news.com.au
    * September 14, 2010 8:52AM


Skyrider


A new plane seat shaped like a saddle could allow airlines to squeeze in more passengers / Aviointeriors
Skyrider


A partial overlapping of the passengers seating between rows is allowed / Aviointeriors

THINK your economy class seat is cramped? Take a look at a new airline seat forcing passengers to sit at an angle.

Due to be unveiled at a US aircraft show this week, the “Skyrider” claims to increase the number of seats in economy class without sacrificing passenger comfort - creating a whole new type of "cattle class".

However if you thought you were cramped the last time you fly, spare a thought for those who may be squeezed into these seats.

It is estimated that the Skyrider will allow just 23 inches (58 centimetres) of legroom, seven inches (18 centimetres) less than the average seat pitch of around 30 inches (76 centimetres).

The new seats are curved like a saddle and forces passengers to sit at an angle. Part of the passengers' weight will be taken on their legs, which are also tucked under the seat in front.

The seats, designed by Italian aircraft seat design company Aviointeriors, were styled on saddles used by cowboys and will be comfortable for flight of between one to three hours.

“The seat is like a saddle. Cowboys ride eight hours on their horses during the day and still feel comfortable in it,” an Aviointeriors spokesman said.

A partial overlapping of the passengers seating between rows is allowed.

The makers claim several airlines have already expressed an interest in the seats. If an airline decides to go ahead with installing the seats the company would have to apply to aviation authorities for proper certification.

It is likely that passengers would pay less to sit in the seats.

“The Skyrider has been designed and engineered to offer the possibility to even further reduce ticket prices while still maintaining sound profitability.”

Earlier this year controversial Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary said his airline would offer vertical seating. However safety regulators said the vertical seats would not meet safety rules.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/the-worlds-tiniest-airline-seat-the-skyrider/story-e6frfq80-1225922030342#ixzz0zY6t0IDo

[citizenx]

How long can someone sit on the hump without getting rhoids or something?

Welcome to "Rhoid Air".  "If you want a pillow, you should have brought one from home, Princess."


"Now strap in and shut up.  We'll get there when we get there."

[Brocke]

How long can someone sit on the hump without getting rhoids or something?

Welcome to "Rhoid Air".  "If you want a pillow, you should have brought one from home, Princess."


"Now strap in and shut up.  We'll get there when we get there."

Notice they have a photo of ONE skinny woman. Put 3 200 pound men in those seats and see how happy they look!

[citizenx]

She is skinny and it doesn't look like she has one inch to spare in that seat.  WTF?

[Freeski]

How long can someone sit on the hump without getting rhoids or something?

Welcome to "Rhoid Air".  "If you want a pillow, you should have brought one from home, Princess."


"Now strap in and shut up.  We'll get there when we get there."

You must fly a lot!

[citizenx]

Not really.  One trip to America this year and one to the Phillipines.

But I don't think I could sit in that seat for the ten or eleven hours it takes to get to LA from Seoul.

[Brocke]

Field trip horror as classmates see Jesse Shipley's brain in a jar

    * From: NewsCore
    * October 02, 2010 4:22PM
    * 43 comments

Students were horrified to see a jar containing their dead classmate's brain during a field trip / supplied Source: PerthNow

    * Students see classmate's brain in a jar
    * Made the sickening discovery during field trip
    * Family may sue over removal of boy's brain

AN appeals court has ruled a US family can sue the New York's Medical Examiner (ME) after discovering their dead son's brain was removed from his body without their permission.

Andrew and Korisha Shipley's son, Jesse, 17, was killed in a car crash in 2005.

Their daughter, Shannon, was also a passenger in the same crash, and "witnessed her brother Jesse in tremendous pain, suffering severe injuries, which ultimately resulted in his death," court papers said, the New York Post reported.

An autopsy determined the cause of Jesse's death was blunt impact skull fractures.

Two months later, several of Jesse and Shannon's classmates from Port Richmond High School, US, were on a forensic science club field trip at the Staten Island mortuary, where they saw a brain being kept in a jar of formeldahyde.

In what a judge called "a surreal coincidence," the "label on the jar indicated that the brain was that of Jesse Shipley".

"A couple of the kids noticed it immediately, and the kids who knew him became really distraught," said Shipley family lawyer Marvin Ben-Aron.

Some of the students even started taking mobile phone pictures of the brain, which were confiscated by their teacher, Ben-Aron said.

"They ended the trip almost immediately," the lawyer said, and returned to school, where one of the students told Shannon what they'd seen.

"She fell apart," Ben-Aron said. School officials had to call the "hysterical" girl's parents, who couldn't believe what they were hearing and rushed to the school to bring her home.

"It was definitely very traumatic for the parents and for Shannon," Ben-Aron said.

A few days later, a doctor from the city Medical Examiner's office dissected the brain to do further tests.

Asked in a deposition about the reason for the delay between the autopsy and the brain examination, Dr. Stephen de Roux of the ME's office explained, "I wait months, until I have six brains, and then it's kind of worth [the neuropathologic examiner's] while to make the trip to Staten Island to examine six brains. It doesn't make sense for him to come and do one."


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/field-trip-horror-as-classmates-see-jesse-shipleys-brain-in-jar/story-e6frfkz0-1225933191532#ixzz11G5AX4f6

[Brocke]

Teen jailed for keeping password secret

    * From: NewsCore
    * October 06, 2010 7:57PM


A BRITISH teenager has been jailed for refusing to tell police his computer password.

Oliver Drage, 19, was sentenced to 16 weeks behind bars over the offence, the Lancashire Evening Post reported.

Cops asked the restaurant worker to hand over his 50-character encrypted code after they received a tip off that his computer might contain vital information about an investigation into a child exploitation racket.

But Drage, of Blackpool, northern England, refused and 17 months later police are still trying to work out how to access information on the now seized computer.

The teenager was jailed under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which was brought in to crack down on terrorists.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/teen-jailed-for-keeping-password-secret/story-e6frfku0-1225935088455#ixzz11ZXbDlBQ

[agentbluescreen]

Teen jailed for keeping password secret

    * From: NewsCore
    * October 06, 2010 7:57PM


A BRITISH teenager has been jailed for refusing to tell police his computer password.

Oliver Drage, 19, was sentenced to 16 weeks behind bars over the offence, the Lancashire Evening Post reported.

Cops asked the restaurant worker to hand over his 50-character encrypted code after they received a tip off that his computer might contain vital information about an investigation into a child exploitation racket.

But Drage, of Blackpool, northern England, refused and 17 months later police are still trying to work out how to access information on the now seized computer.

The teenager was jailed under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which was brought in to crack down on terrorists.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/teen-jailed-for-keeping-password-secret/story-e6frfku0-1225935088455#ixzz11ZXbDlBQ

In a free country this would be a clear 5th Amendment case, but the noble monarchy-socialist Anglican Fascist tribal mafia tyranny of Britain has no lawfully-constituted form of republican government. In established religious-communist imperial-commonwealth tyrannies, lowly "subjects" (their substitute for "citizens with inherent rights") only have temporary or occasional "privileges" periodically, reluctantly acceded-to by the current Patriarch/Matriarch of their noble-religious-warlord-mafia "famiglia".

[Brocke]

The Future of Air Travel



FAA issues fire warning for lithium batteries

    * By Joan Lowy in Washington
    * From: AP
    * October 11, 2010 8:18AM

US federal aviation officials have urged air carriers to voluntarily take steps to reduce the risk of cargo fires caused by overheated lithium batteries, an indication of regulators' growing concern about the threat posed by air transport of the batteries.

The warning follows last month's crash of a United Parcel Service plane in Dubai that killed both pilots.

The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged publicly for the first time in Friday's safety directive that the Boeing 747-400 was carrying a large quantity of lithium batteries. Smoke from a fire in the plane's main cabin, which was used for cargo, was so thick that the pilots told air traffic controllers they couldn't see their instruments as they struggled to land the plane.

Dubai authorities are leading an investigation of the accident with assistance from the National Transportation Safety Board and FAA. The cause of the crash hasn't yet been determined.

The safety directive urges air carriers to ask shippers to identify bulk battery shipments in shipping documents. It also recommends stowing battery shipments in cargo compartments in the belly of planes, where there are halon gas fire suppression systems. There are no fire suppression systems required in the main cabins of cargo or passenger planes.

Since the early 1990s, there have been dozens of incidents of batteries igniting in flight or during cargo handling. But exactly what triggered many of the fires is not well understood.

The FAA's safety directive said that recent research conducted by its scientists shows that when batteries are exposed to high temperatures they have the potential to create "thermal runaway", a chain reaction leading to self-heating and the release of a battery's stored energy.

A cargo compartment fire can be hot enough to ignite batteries even if they aren't involved the initial fire, "creating a risk of a catastrophic event," the safety directive said. Once one battery experiences thermal runaway, it generates enough heat to trigger thermal runaway in other nearby batteries. Lithium metal batteries - the kind normally used in watches and cameras, for example - can create explosions forceful enough to damage cargo compartments.

FAA tests of as few as six loose lithium metal batteries stored in steel containers found that when exposed to heat they created enough explosive force to blow the lids off the containers, the directive said.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/faa-issues-fire-warning-for-lithium-batteries/story-e6frfku0-1225936949603#ixzz121LdXyJG


Pending Air Cargo Restrictions Concerning Lithium Batteries Cause Widespread Concerns

Posted by Bob Ferrari on Oct 7, 2010 in Transportation and Logistics | 0 comments

A recent Wall Street Journal article (paid subscription may be required) notes that U.S. and international regulatory officials are seeking to add stricter controls on air cargo shipments that contain electronic devices with installed lithium-ion batteries.  The timing is expected to be later this year, and the implications to shippers and high tech companies will be significant.

The debate relative to whether lithium-ion batteries pose a safety concern to air cargo is not new.  The concern, however, has been escalated by recent alarming increases in safety incidents and crashes occurring on air cargo aircraft, and more notably, the recent crash of a UPS Boeing 747 cargo plane in Dubai on September 3 involving the death of both pilots. This plane was transporting a considerable amount of electronic goods in its cargo bay when an uncontrollable fire broke out in the cargo bay.   The pilots were alerted to the fire 30 minutes after takeoff and one of the two pilots left the cockpit to try to fight the flames, but never returned. Smoke caused by the fire was so intense that it obscured instrument readings

Aviation groups now believe there is growing evidence that lithium-ion batteries are posing serious fire hazards when they are in the bellies of cargo aircraft flying at high altitudes. Officials point to five directly related safety incidents related to batteries since August.

read more: http://www.theferrarigroup.com/blog1/2010/10/07/pending-air-cargo-restrictions-concerning-lithium-batteries-cause-widespread-concerns/

[Brocke]

Thug cop Ben Price jailed over bashings of Airlie Beach revellers

    * By Peter Michael
    * From: The Courier-Mail
    * October 11, 2010 3:09PM

A POLICEMAN who rammed a fire hose down a handcuffed man's throat during a brutal bashing in a police station has been jailed.

Former Senior Constable Benjamin Price, 34, was today sentenced to 27 months prison by Townsville District Court judge Stuart Durward but will be eligible for parole next July.

Price was sentenced after pleading guilty to four counts of assault against three victims in Airlie Beach, in north Queensland in 2007 and 2008.

In sentencing Mr Durward described Price as a "thug" and his actions as "cowardly and contemptible".

"Your conduct was gratuitously violent," he told Price, who looked pale when the sentence was announced.

Price's teenage daughter wept when he was led away.

One of Price's victims, Timothy Steele said he was stunned the case ever saw the light of day.

He said as an ex-policeman Price "will do it hard in jail, and that's good."

Price's actions only came to light when Price was reported by female police whistleblower constable Bree Sonter and forced to resign amid an internal affairs investigation.

In CCTV footage shown in court last week, Price can be seen punching and kneeing a bleeding, handcuffed Timothy Steele, 23 at the time, in May 25, 2008.

Price puts him in a brutal spine lock and leaves the commercial diver with a broken nose and two blackened eyes, cuts and bruising to the face.

Other police officers watch on - but none intervene - as Price stuffs a running fire hose into his victim's mouth, nearly drowning him in a five minute ordeal, before Mr Steele slumps forward unmoving.

In another incident captured on camera, petite barmaid Renee Toms, 21 at the time, also handcuffed, was hit in the neck, flung about by the hair, and slammed to the floor inside the watchhouse by Price on January 2008.

Two female officers watch on, but again, do not stop the assault.

His third victim, investment banker Nicholas Le Fevre, of Sydney, was king-hit and repeatedly punched in the head by Price after arguing over urinating in a park while on holiday in Airlie Beach.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/thug-cop-ben-price-jailed-over-bashings-of-airlie-beach-revellers/story-e6frfkw0-1225937211100#ixzz126rNKHn8

[Brocke]

Four-year-old girl can be sued: US judge

    * From: AP
    * October 30, 2010 12:46PM

SHE might have been too young for grade school, but a judge says a New York City girl was old enough to be sued over a bicycle accident that happened when she was four.

A Manhattan judge refused earlier this month to toss out negligence claims against Juliet Breitman.

She, her mother and others are being sued by the estate of a woman who said she was severely hurt when hit by bicycles that Juliet and a boy were racing down a footpath in April 2009.

The woman, Claire Menagh, died later that year.

Juliet was three months shy of five.

The judge says there's no evidence a child of that age couldn't appreciate "the danger of riding a bicycle into an elderly woman".


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/four-year-old-girl-can-be-sued-us-judge/story-e6frfku0-1225945490166#ixzz13ofTmt8A

[Brocke]

Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei under house arrest

The controversial Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei, whose 'Sunflower Seeds’ is currently exhibiting at the Tate Modern, has been put under house arrest after trying to hold a party to protest at the demolition of his new art studio.
 

By Peter Foster, Beijing
Published: 12:48PM GMT 05 Nov 2010

Mr Ai, who had planned to travel to Shanghai on Friday with his entourage to host the wake, said that police officers had come to his studio in Beijing to inform him that he was no longer allowed to go.

“I am under house arrest,” Mr Ai told The Daily Telegraph by telephone. “They asked me not to go and to tell everyone the party was off, but I said I couldn’t do that and they’d have to stop me. So now they talked their superiors and came back to say I’m officially under house arrest.”

As many as a thousand people were expected at the party at Mr Ai’s £750,000 art studio in Shanghai which was served with a demolition notice earlier this week after being designated an illegal structure for failing to have a prior planning license.

More here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8112700/Chinese-artist-Ai-Wei-Wei-under-house-arrest.html

[Brocke]

Plastic pig banned from UK toy set for fear of offending Jews, Muslims

    * By Jane Hamilton from The Sun in London
    * From: NewsCore
    * November 17, 2010 3:04AM



This little piggy was taken out of a toyset - but his sty and a button for his oinking remain on the farm Source: Supplied

TOY shop bosses removed a plastic pig from a children's toy farm set because they feared it would upset Muslim and Jewish parents.

A mother who complained to toy store Early Learning Centre (ELC) when she found the pig missing was told it had been removed for "religious reasons," British newspaper The Sun reported.

The mother, named only as Caroline, found there was no pig with the cow, sheep, chicken, horse and dog in the store's HappyLand Goosefeather Farm.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/plastic-pig-banned-from-uk-toy-set-for-fear-of-offending-jewish-muslims/story-e6frfkyi-1225954697030#ixzz15a5LOftb

[citizenx]

I though they just weren't allowed to eat pig -- the real kind (not plastic).

Gosh, they can't even look at a plastic pig?

What else can't Muslims look at?

[Brocke]

Are airline crew now total p*ssies?


Small dog diverts US Airways flight after biting two

    * From: NewsCore
    * December 07, 2010 5:04AM

A CROSS-country US Airways flight was diverted after a small dog on board bit a flight attendant and a passenger.

The dog’s owner was supposed to keep the animal in its cage for the duration of the flight, but she took the dog out and it ran loose, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

The captain decided to divert the plane - carrying 122 passengers from Newark, New Jersey, to Phoenix, Arizona - and landed at Pittsburgh International Airport.

Doctors treated two people for minor injuries, while US Airways attempted to find other flights for the passengers headed to Arizona.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/small-dog-diverts-us-airways-flight-after-biting-two/story-e6frfku0-1225966738899#ixzz17MpqMP2Y

[Brocke]

Feds remove two men from plane; both freed after search

The Denver Post

Posted: 11/24/2010 01:00:00 AM MST

Two men were taken off a US Airways flight in Denver by uniformed federal officers Tuesday morning, but nothing was found when the officers and bomb- sniffing dogs searched the plane. Both men were released, authorities said.

The FBI in Denver said one of the two men drew suspicion from a passenger who became concerned about the man's multiple trips to the bathroom during the three-hour, 41-minute flight from Charlotte, N.C.

The man who first drew suspicion told officers he had a medical condition, said FBI spokesman Dave Joly.

Read more: Feds remove two men from plane; both freed after search - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_16697771#ixzz17xftS5mk


More on this story.

http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978721449

[Brocke]

Jetstar denies heart transplant patient, 5, the use of wheelchair

    * Grant McArthur
    * From: The Courier-Mail
    * December 18, 2010 1:00AM

A GOLD Coast five-year-old recovering from 151 days on a mechanical heart and one of Australia's most traumatic heart transplants had to be carried through Melbourne Airport because Jetstar refused to provide his distressed mother with a wheelchair.

To add insult to injury, the airline also forced Kellin Hyde's mum to use his Christmas present money to fly his lifesaving medication and toys home yesterday because their bags weighed too much.

"He had a mask on his face and I explained to them he had a transplant, that he had been on a mechanical heart for 151 days and that he was going home for the first time in nine months and they didn't care," Andrea Hyde said.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/jetstar-denies-heart-transplant-patient-5-the-use-of-wheelchair/story-e6frfq80-1225973159877#ixzz18R6wPXn4

[citizenx]

Oh, Russia is an autocracy under Putin's puppet, Medvedev, as it was under Putin himslef, as it was under Yeltsin etc.

At least Putin is a relatively rational despot as despots go these days, in fairness.  (Like his Chinese counterparts Wen Jiabo and Hu Jintao.)

Police state?  Absolutely. A tiger does not change its stripes and neither does the Russian state.

[Nailer]

within 12  seconds of getting out of his squad car the nazi cop murders a innocent man carving on a chunk of wood with a knife that the blade was only 3 inches .

Police Dashcam Video From Shooting Of Woodcarver John T Williams


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4Eg0QFjKk&feature=player_embedded


Police-shooting victim 'struggled with a lot of things'
John T. Williams, who was fatally shot by a Seattle police officer after being ordered to drop a knife, often had difficulty hearing and understanding what was said to him, say people who knew him.

A man fatally shot by a Seattle police officer after being ordered to drop a knife often had difficulty hearing and understanding what was said to him, say people who knew him.

John T. Williams, 50, was killed by Officer Ian Birk Monday afternoon. Birk saw Williams with a knife and repeatedly ordered him to drop it just before the shooting, police said.

Williams, it turned out, was a First Nations totem carver and chronic inebriate who had told people he was deaf in one ear, say those who knew him. He also could be so drunk he wouldn't understand what people were saying to him.

Police said Wednesday that they are looking into reports that Williams may have been hard of hearing.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2012784234_copshooting02m.html



Petition for the officer to be held accountable for his actions

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/deafmankilled/

[Brocke]

Victoria Police's poor reporting hides use of force
Reid Sexton
December 21, 2010

VICTORIA Police is unsure how many injuries its members inflicted or how many times they had used force as recently as five years ago, casting doubt over its ability to compare current trends of violence with historic figures.

These are just some of the inaccurate violence-related statistics kept by the force despite a damning report by the police watchdog last year that found police had repeatedly ignored calls to fix the inaccurate reporting and under-reporting of violence.

The report prompted Victoria Police to review its Use of Force Registry, which is intended to help training and identify when use of force is becoming excessive.
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But Victoria Police has been forced to admit much of the registry is still too inaccurate to be released...

read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-polices-poor-reporting-hides-use-of-force-20101220-1937j.html

[Brocke]

British cops swoop in drug raid, find only find guinea pigs

    * From: NewsCore
    * January 12, 2011 1:36PM

COPS have been forced to apologise to a British mom after they swooped on the family home in Bradford searching for a cannabis factory and instead found an electric heater keeping two pet guinea pigs warm, the Yorkshire Evening Post reported yesterday.

Pam Hardcastle, 42, said officers from West Yorkshire Police obtained a search warrant and mounted a raid on her family's home when they thought they had uncovered a specialist heating system designed to grow cannabis.

Elevated heat levels recorded at the property by a police surveillance helicopter sparked the raid, but instead of drugs, cops found her 10-year-old son's two guinea pigs -- named Simon and Kenny -- cuddled up in the garage in front of a heater.

Hardcastle said a police inspector had visited her to issue an apology in person.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/british-cops-swoop-in-drug-raid-find-only-find-guinea-pigs/story-e6freonf-1225986331268

[Brocke]

Teacher guilty of 'unacceptable conduct' for letting 15-year-old boys use sled

    * From: NewsCore
    * January 12, 2011 3:47AM

A DISCIPLINARY hearing found a British teacher who let two children play on a sled in the snow guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.

A General Teaching Council committee reprimanded Richard Tremelling for allowing the 15-year-old boys to have a turn after using it himself as part of a lesson demonstration, according to Sky News.

The reprimand will remain on his record for two years, but he can still continue to teach.

The 10-minute sled session that sparked the hearing passed without incident, The Sun reported earlier. But the principal, who had not authorised it, fired Mr Tremelling for breaking health and safety rules.

Rosa Fernandes, presenting the case, said: "He used the sled on snow-covered slopes at the rear of the school.

"He failed to carry out appropriate risk assessments and failed to provide a written risk assessment. He didn't ensure pupils were wearing protective headgear and clothing."

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/world/teacher-guilty-of-unacceptable-conduct-for-letting-15-year-old-boys-use-sled/story-e6frfkyi-1225985981556#ixzz1ArQRmOlU

[Brocke]

Dob in a smoking neighbour for cash

    * From correspondents in Stockholm
    * From: AFP
    * January 14, 2011 5:20AM

RATTING on neighbours who light up a smoke on the sly can be lucrative in Sweden, where a landlords' association says it will offer a hefty reward for telling on people who violate a strict smoking ban in a residential building.

"I have decided to offer a reward of 5000 kronor ($A740) to our tenants for helping us discover which people are smoking" in buildings where it is banned, Hans Selling, the head of communal landlords Mitthem in Sundsvall, about 400 km north of Stockholm, said overnight

"This is not about looking for informants," Mr Selling said.

"After receiving the information, it is up to us to determine if the person in question is actually smoking.

"An anonymous tip-off here and there is not enough to get the reward."

The initiative concerns a building in Sundsvall where residents in all 121 apartments are required to adhere to a strict smoking ban applying "in the apartments, on the balconies or anywhere", Mr Selling said.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/dob-in-a-smoking-neighbour-for-cash/story-e6frfku0-1225987506785#ixzz1AxgDCa9n

[Freeski]

It's truly amazing what they're doing to us - a total transfer of personal responsibility to The State. Just like that story about the American dude who got fined or at least hassled for trying to save an animal (maybe a whale?); they said he was obligated to call the authorities to help the animal. If you buy into that mentality, you'll gladly snitch on others for any of the thousands of laws and rules on the books. We are all in violation of something, according to them!

The socialist mindset is killing us.

 

Maybe the Internet was always intended to be the greatest snitch of all?

[Brocke]

Thirty police officers, an arsenal of guns and a lion expert... all to catch two dangerous dogs

By Jaya Narain

Last updated at 8:54 PM on 16th March 2011

More than 30 police officers in riot gear surround a suburban house. Some are carrying rifles.

But this was not a deadly stand-off with an armed gang or a lone gunman.

Instead the huge police operation was aimed at two dogs. It went on for 30 hours and is estimated to have cost £30,000.

It only ended when a vet more used to tranquillising lions finally went into the house with two officers and subdued the dogs. They were later put down.

The animals had turned on a teenage friend of their owner while he was looking after them. Daniel Boardman, 19, was badly bitten on the legs, arms and bottom but somehow managed to dial 999.

Two armed officers arrived to find Mr Boardman being pulled in opposite directions by each dog. They broke down the door and shot the dogs with Taser stun guns to free him and drag him to safety.

But then, because of the danger they posed, the dogs were left in the boarded-up house in Rishton, Blackburn, for 24 hours with a guard outside.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366732/Does-really-need-60-police-officers-including-lion-vet-30-hours-round-dangerous-dogs.html#ixzz1GnrUkJsg

[Brocke]

Kids' chalk drawings graffiti - council

From: AAP
March 23, 2011 3:43PM

    * Council tells cafe to stop giving kids chalk
    * Drawings included rainbows and stick figures
    * Children cried when chalk taken away

TODDLERS drawing chalk rainbows and stick figures on a footpath outside an outer suburban cafe are creating a health hazard and breaking graffiti laws, a Melbourne council says.

Whitehorse Council has told White's Cafe owner Sally White to stop giving children chalk to draw on the 2m-wide footpath outside her cafe.

Ms White said a council officer told her there had been a resident complaint.

Asked to explain further, the council officer sent an email saying the children were breaching the graffiti act and Ms White needed to clean the drawings off the footpath.

"We looked up the graffiti act ... and graffiti is defined as 'anything that can't be removed with a dry cloth'," Ms White said.

She said while chalk on a blackboard could be removed with a dry cloth, chalk on a footpath might need a bit of water as well.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/kids-chalk-drawings-graffiti-council/story-e6frfkvr-1226026843268#ixzz1HPxjzoGy

[Brocke]

TSA Code Bravo

Code Bravo is the code phrase for a general security alert at airports. Unlike most of the codes on this list, the code is meant to cause alarm – but not through knowing what it means: when this alert is raised, all of the security agents will begin to yell “Code Bravo” in order to frighten the passengers – this is supposed to make it easier for the agents to locate the source of the problem without interference from the general public. For those of you who travel on ships from time to time, you may like to know that Code Bravo means “fire” and it is the most serious alert on a ship – if it burns, you either get off or burn with it. Ships also often use sound signals, such as 7 short and 1 long, meaning “man the lifeboats”.

http://listverse.com/2009/02/22/top-10-codes-you-arent-meant-to-know/

[Brocke]

Melbourne Airport flights resume after security breach at Qantas terminal

    * From: NewsCore
    * April 07, 2011 5:11PM

Melbourne Airport resumed flights this afternoon after a security breach forced the evacuation of thousands of people - but police have not yet found the man who sparked the commotion.

The man was spotted on closed circuit TV at Melbourne Airport entering the "sterile" area of the Qantas airline terminal via the exit doors from the baggage collection area on Thursday morning.

Qantas said in a statement that the man was seen entering through the out door but security staff watching monitors lost track of him once inside the terminal.

"An individual entered the secure area at the Qantas domestic terminal at Melbourne Airport just after 9:30am this morning without having been screened by security, passing through the exit doors in the arrivals hall," the statement said.

At least 5,000 commuters were cleared out of the terminal and off planes to be re-screened by security, Sky News Australia reported.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/melbourne-airport-flights-resume-after-security-breach-at-qantas-terminal/story-e6frfku0-1226035518615#ixzz1Ipja3S5k