Police questioned a group of Georgia third-graders suspected in a plot to kill their teacher
3rd grade kill teacher plot - Google News
This was published around April 1st, but I’d be surprised if someone wrote this as a joke! I’m pretty shocked to think that such violence could be actually considered by the children.
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“The basic problem is that far more information lands on your eyes than you can possibly analyze and still end up with a reasonable sized brain,”
Change Blindness - Natalie Angier - New York Times
This article is stuff I’ve seen/read before, but it includes a fun test of sorts.
Family holidays ruined by earliest Easter in 90 years
It was felt that to celebrate Christ’s resurrection on the wrong day would be blasphemous so it was very important to get the day right. The general rule was agreed at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
hahahahahahaaaha!!!
This cracks me up. The idea that God / Jesus / anyone-who’s-enlightened would be displeased/upset/blasphemised if a celebration were held at the wrong time..
Or even not held at all… no big deal!
hahahahahahahahahaha!!!
Who cares about Easter anyway? Kids! Eggs! Families! Is there a wrong day for families to celebrate their lives? Are the eggs fresher in late March than in mid April? Is it better for kids to chase eggs when the weather is cold?
Spring hasn’t even sprung here in Tokyo. Good thing we don’t have Easter!!!
A federal investigation was launched into the South Carolina Highway Patrol after dashboard camera videos showed a trooper using a racial slur and two others ramming their cruisers into fleeing suspects, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Oh my god. What is happening to the world?
Save Jerusalem from the Apartheid Wall and Ethnic cleansing
In an attempt to disrupt this unity among Palestinians on both sides of the Armistice Line, the Wall has been built right down the middle of the village, separating families and neighbors, shopkeepers and customers from their markets, people from their work, and children from their schools. 216 shops and houses have been demolished close to where the Wall has been built. 600 out of the previously existing 1,200 shops had to close.
Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda not linked, Pentagon says - CNN.com
The U.S. military’s first and only study looking into ties between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al Qaeda showed no connection between the two, according to a military report released by the Pentagon.
What a big surprise. NOT!
n 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the “burn” rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz and co-author Linda J. Bilmes report in a new book.
Why do I feel so helpless to stop this?
This was actually sent to me a long time ago, but I’m just now getting it posted
Hi All, it’s been a while I know! Partly my lack of emails is because i’m not very good at keeping in touch (as pointed out very clearly by my sister last week!) and partly because I didn’t think I had that much to report. I’m settled here now and my life has it’s routine just like it did in the UK. That’s what I thought until I had an instant-messenger conversation with a friend a couple of nights ago:
Me: “Everything’s good here, very quiet really, except for the birds, spring is definitely here!”
Neil: “I read things were bad in Hebron, have you been back recently?”
Me “Oh yes, i was there last week and couldn’t leave cos the army invaded and sealed off the checkpoint. The settlers had driven a JCB into the Old city- they want to expand their colony and were trying to knock down some Palestinian owned shops. Oh, and Beit Jala was raided early yesterday morning- I slept through it! And another raid into Bethlehem, I swear I’m bad luck, everytime I go to do my shopping the army seem to follow me! Not so quiet then I guess…”After only 5 months this has all become a bit normal for me. If I don’t see it happening with my own eyes i hear of it on the radio or TV- everyday- Hebron, Tubas, Nablus, Jenin, a village, a refugee camp raided, one teenager dead, one child shot but still alive, several with rubber bullet injuries, an elderly woman collapsed from tear gas inhalation. A couple of days ago Al Walajah was raided just as my friend Ahamd was leaving his home. They had come to arrest a 17 year old boy. The only reason Ahmad told me was because it was part of a funny story about the bad day he’d had- it started with the army raiding his village and making him late for school, then at school he got into trouble for being late from the headmaster, he was kept back after school but couldn’t call to tell his brother as his phone had no credit….etc etc. An army helicopter and harrassment from fully armed soldiers was just an incinental part of his story.
This isn’t accidental, this normalisation of daily violence and injustice, it’s a survival strategy. When I’d been here for about three months I went through a period when i couldn’t sleep. Whenever i tried my mind would begin to wander and i’d strart thinking and getting upset about things I’d seen and heard that day: my friend Wael worrying about money, playing with the four lovely children that he’s so worried about finding the money to feed, remembering going through the Bethlehem checkpoint and having to explain in bad arabic how it all worked to a bewildered woman visiting her family for the first time if 5 years or remebering that i’d noticed that the construction of the aparthied wall was creeping ever closer to Walajeh or thinking about a report on Al Jazeera that quoted Condaliza Rice saying that sanctions on Palestine wouldn’t lifted until Hamas recognised Israels right to exist and another report that said that the number of illegal Israeli colonies had increased again during 2006 and…….
It was driving me crazy, and this isn’t even my country…
I told a friend about this and asked how he coped with it day in day out. He said that he’d stopped himself thinking about it. If he saw a soldier beating a friend at a checkpoint he’d cry about it there and then, and then push all feelings and memories of it aside and lock them away. If he didn’t, he’d go mad. He advised me to stop watching Al Jazeera just before I go to bed.
So this is what i’ve done. Most nights I manage to fall asleep, if i feel my mind wandering i gather up those memories and put them aside. I have wild and crazy dreams and wonder what this is doing to my mental health, but at least i am sleeping.And all of this after just 5 months. Just imagine what it must be like if this was your country, your entire life, past present and foreseeable future….
Two weeks in Bethlehem (a city smaller than Leeds):
Bethlehem city raided three times.
Aida Camp raided twice
Al Walajah village raided one
Al Khader village raided once
Al Souwara village raided once
Beit Jala raided twice
16 taken to unknown locations by the Israeli army.www.palestinecampaign.org
www.bigcampaign.org.uk
www.enoughoccupation.orgSx
P.S. It was 23ºC here yesterday, spring in Palestine is beautiful!
Exopolitics: The Study of the Politics of Extraterrestrial Contact: Local ET Contact Activity
A recent increase of ET activity worldwide seems to back up this assertion as well as what seems to be a corresponding increase in world government disclosure.
About a year ago I asked my friends at work, “have you guys been seeing more reports of UFO sightings recently?”
They were like “no,” and I didn’t bring it up again, but the thought remained in the back of my mind.
I’m ready!
