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rpannier's JournalUK Home Secretary says about police in the UK. Something you'll never hear in the US
from the reichwing, the police groupies and their enablers
Theresa May will publicly criticise claims made by Britain’s most senior police officer that a rise in knife crime is linked to falls in stop and search, branding them as a “kneejerk reaction” and “false”.
In a combative speech on Thursday May will also criticise the race record of the police in England and Wales, saying they are too white, with not one of the 43 forces looking like the communities they serve.
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Addressing the conference of the National Black Police Association, the home secretary will say: “Properly targeted, stop and search will actually help reduce knife crime. It will save police time to focus on prevention and work with gangs, and it will improve the relationship between the police and the public on which all of your work rests.
“We must not jettison all that good work for the sake of a kneejerk reaction on the back of a false link.”
link:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/21/theresa-may-criticises-police-chief-bernard-hogan-howe-stop-search-race-record
I don't like almost everything Theresa May says. But, this I do agree with and would love to hear it in the US
Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one.
Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests.
Things went wrong at Vienna's Burgtheater as Hoevels' character went to "kill himself" in the final scene of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots, on Saturday night
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After emergency treatment at a hospital, Hoevels declared that the show must go on, and returned to the stage on Sunday night with a bandage tied around his neck, ready to once again meet his mock demise.
link:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/11/actor-slits-throat
Thank god the guy survived. Then he's back on stage
'FalconCam' captures moment peregrine falcon chicks hatch in NSW
Peregrine falcons were once considered a threatened species, and while their numbers have recovered since the 1970s, they are still an uncommon sight.
So when staff members at Charles Sturt University's Orange campus in NSW noticed a pair of the raptors taking an interest in the campus grounds, they built a residence for them.
They constructed a nesting box in a tall water tower with the birds' safety in mind, down to non-toxic screws.
The box was fitted with CCTV cameras, to study the home life of these powerful birds of prey.
This week saw three new arrivals into the nest, with the FalconCam catching the close-up view of peregrine falcons hatching.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-11/falconcam-captures-moment-peregrine-falcon-hatches/6843970
Nobel peace prize 2015 to be awarded to the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia
Source: guardian
Updated as new information is given
From the Committee
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. The Quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratization process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest. It established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. It was thus instrumental in enabling Tunisia, in the space of a few years, to establish a constitutional system of government guaranteeing fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/oct/09/nobel-peace-prize-2015-awarded-angela-merkel-pope-francis-john-kerry-live-updates
For the full citation from the Nobel Committee
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2015/press.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitter_tweet
Christie has challenged Putin to get into the ring with him?!
Please accept Putin.
Oh, God please accept.
I wanna see Christie try and wiggle his way out of it
BTW Christie, I don't like Putin, but he would kick your ass and probably not break a sweat
I am tired of the GOP clowns trying to out Trump, Trump.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/chris-christie-throws-down-vladimir-putin
Powell: I stay Republican 'because it annoys them'
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell joked that he identifies as a Republican to annoy the GOP’s right-wing.
“Yes, I’m still a Republican,” he said about his party affiliation during the Washington Ideas Forum in Washington, D.C., according to the Daily Mail.
“I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them,” Powell quipped to host Walter Isaacson.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/255501-powell-i-stay-republican-to-annoy-gop
good a reason as any i guess
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