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A 6-year-old boy has been suspended from a Colorado school for kissing a girl on the cheek.
School officials in Canon City are accusing the boy of sexual harassment and they want it on his school record.
The boy's mother tells KRDO-TV (http://tinyurl.com/lyhxh7l ) her son was suspended once before for kissing the girl and had disciplinary problems, but the girl did not object to being kissed.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Colorado-6-year-old-suspended-for-kissing-a-girl-5050930.php
A six year old boy is suspended from school in Canon City for kissing a classmate on the cheek
His mother says it's a crush and the two children like each other. But the school is calling it something else; sexual harassment.
First grader, Hunter Yelton, told us he loves science and phys-ed. Also...that he has a crush on a girl at school, who likes him back.
It may sound innocent enough...but at six years old Hunter now has 'sexual harassment' on his school record.
"It was during class yeah. We were doing reading group and I leaned over and kissed her on the hand. That's what happened," said Hunter Yelton.
Six year old Hunter was at home on Monday instead of at school.
"They sent me to the office, fair and square. I did something wrong and I feel sorry," he said.
http://www.krdo.com/news/six-year-old-suspended-for-sexual-harassment/-/417220/23403144/-/ndefbbz/-/index.html
Watch the video at the link to put this in context and How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter
Search grows for 6 missing in brutal Nevada cold
A search has grown in the mountains of northwest Nevada for a couple and four children who went to play in the snow and haven't returned after two nights of sub-zero temperatures.
Sheila Reitz of the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that additional rescuers had come from Douglas, Lander and Humboldt counties to help find the missing people.
The temperature in nearby Lovelock was 10 degrees below zero early Tuesday.
Crews are trying to find 34-year-old James Glanton, his 25-year-old girlfriend, Christina McIntee, and the four children: a 10-year-old, two 4-year-olds and a 3-year-old.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Search-grows-for-6-missing-in-brutal-Nevada-cold-5048193.php
How Every Part of American Life Became a Police Matter
If all you've got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves "solving" social problems (and even some non-problems) by throwing cops at them, with generally disastrous results. Wall-to-wall criminal law encroaches ever more on everyday life as police power is applied in ways that would have been unthinkable just a generation ago.
By now, the militarization of the police has advanced to the point where "the War on Crime" and "the War on Drugs" are no longer metaphors but bland understatements. There is the proliferation of heavily armed SWAT teams, even in small towns; the use of shock-and-awe tactics to bust small-time bookies; the no-knock raids to recover trace amounts of drugs that often result in the killing of family dogs, if not family members; and in communities where drug treatment programs once were key, the waging of a drug version of counterinsurgency war. (All of this is ably reported on journalist Radley Balko's blog and in his book, The Rise of the Warrior Cop.) But American over-policing involves far more than the widely reported up-armoring of your local precinct. It's also the way police power has entered the DNA of social policy, turning just about every sphere of American life into a police matter.
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
It starts in our schools, where discipline is increasingly outsourced to police personnel. What not long ago would have been seen as normal childhood misbehavior—doodling on a desk, farting in class, a kindergartener's tantrum—can leave a kid in handcuffs, removed from school, or even booked at the local precinct. Such "criminals" can be as young as seven-year-old Wilson Reyes, a New Yorker who was handcuffed and interrogated under suspicion of stealing five dollars from a classmate. (Turned out he didn't do it.)
Though it's a national phenomenon, Mississippi currently leads the way in turning school behavior into a police issue. The Hospitality State has imposed felony charges on schoolchildren for "crimes" like throwing peanuts on a bus. Wearing the wrong color belt to school got one child handcuffed to a railing for several hours. All of this goes under the rubric of "zero-tolerance" discipline, which turns out to be just another form of violence legally imported into schools.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/american-society-police-state-criminalization-militarization
‘Is my husband gay’ Google searches higher in less LGBT friendly states
Have you had to ask Google “Is my husband gay?” recently? If so, a new opinion piece in this weekend’s New York Times by Seth Stephens-Davidovitz says you may be living in a state that’s less tolerant to LGBT people. Also, you’ve probably never seen any television show created by Ryan Murphy (that’s not from the study: that’s just this blogger’s guess).
The two states where the question “is my husband gay?” is most commonly Googled turn out to be Louisiana and South Carolina, places not exactly on the forefront of LGBT equality. According to Stephens-Davidovitz, “In 21 of the 25 states where this question is most frequently asked, support for gay marriage is lower than the national average.”
The query “is my husband gay?” even outranked “is my husband cheating?” by 10% in the United States of all Google searches that begin, “is my husband…” It is also 8 times more common than “is my husband an alcoholic?” and 10 times more common than “is my husband depressed?” Perhaps it goes without saying these may be questions better directed at your husband than a search engine.
The findings were part of an overall study the author did trying to determine what percentage of American men are gay: it’s a complicated question because the number of men that openly identify as gay is not necessarily equal to the actual number.
Using surveys, social media, pornography search histories and dating site statistics the author concluded that the percentage of men in America who primarily are attracted to men is somewhere in the 5% range. Searches for gay porn and male-for-male sexual encounters on dating sites in places where social media and census data only indicate a 1% gay male population prove for the author that gay men do not exist in smaller numbers in intolerant places, they just exist in various degrees of the closet.
http://blog.sfgate.com/relationships/2013/12/09/is-my-husband-gay-google-searches-higher-in-less-lgbt-friendly-states/
From the comments... "No, you're husband is "str8." It says so right there in his Craigslist ad."
Why is medically advanced Israel lagging behind on AIDS?
"Sex is an integral part of my life, and I don’t intend to stick on a piece of rubber that will rob me of its pleasure.” Over the past few years, I heard words to that effect, in one variation or another, from a good friend who holds a senior position in an investment house. He wanted to explain why he always has unprotected sex. “It bothered me in my twenties, but since then I have completely freed myself,” he says. He didn’t repress the possibility that he would become a victim of an STD ? sexually transmitted disease ? with AIDS looming particularly large. On the contrary: he had regular checkups, once every six months on average. A few months ago he tested positive; he is a carrier. But even now, as a carrier, he hasn’t changed his tune. Taking a daily pill is a tiny nuisance compared to the alternative of enslavement to condoms.
Though one’s initial instinct is to accuse my friend of irresponsible behavior, more and more experts would say that he “handled the matter” in a mature way. Thanks to the frequent checkups, he was able to discover the virus within a relatively short time after being infected, and he immediately began treatment.
Medical treatment dramatically reduces the possibility that he will infect others. In fact, it turned out, in the course of his regular follow-ups, that his viral load ? the level of HIV in the blood ? is undetectable, thus diminishing the risk of transmission even further. Studies show that the likelihood of carriers transmitting the virus decreases by 96 percent if they are under medicinal treatment (even in cases of unprotected sex). The growing sophistication of the medicinal treatment, and its transformation into no more than a minor burden, has not only brought about a change in the carriers’ everyday life, it has generated a new approach to HIV throughout the Western world – both in the scientific community and also in the at-risk population (those prone to infection? ) .
The relevant data: in 2012, 496 new cases of infection were discovered in Israel (an increase of 8 percent over 2011? ), of which 150 cases involved men having sexual relations with men ( 30 percent? ). These figures are similar to the rates that were reported at the end of the 1980s, not long after the disease appeared, when 38 percent of the carriers in Israel were homosexual. But afterward, the rate fell steadily, leveling off in the 1990s at just 5 percent. In recent years, though, the trend has reversed itself.
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/.premium-1.560503
Israeli leader who mourned Mandela's death helped white regime get missiles
Among the world leaders who have showered South Africa with condolences since the death of Nelson Mandela, Israel’s Shimon Peres stood out as a peer. Like Mandela, he won a Nobel Peace prize. Like Mandela, he stayed on the world stage long past retirement age. Mandela died at 95. At 90, Peres is still serving as Israel’s president.
The world has lost a great leader who changed the face of history,” said Peres on behalf of the Israeli nation. “Nelson Mandela was a human rights fighter who made his mark on the war against discrimination and racism."
But in the 1970s, while Mandela was languishing in a damp prison cell on Robben Island, Peres was making deals with South Africa's apartheid regime, according to interviews and documents gathered by NBC News, a recent documentary and a book based on Israeli and South African government documents. With the help of an Israeli operative now famed as the Hollywood mogul behind “Pretty Woman” and “Fight Club,” Peres traded missiles for money and the uranium needed for atomic bombs.
At the center of the relationship was a "Joint Secretariate for Political and Psychological Warfare" set up in 1975 to handle various matters, not the least of which was "propaganda and psychological warfare." It was an outgrowth of a $100 million South African propaganda campaign to fix the country’s tarnished image. Leading the effort was the late Eschel Rhoodie, a brash apparatchik who had convinced the regime’s leaders they needed to sell apartheid to the western media.
Under terms of the agreement, championed by Peres, then Defense Minister, and Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister, Israel would help South Africa burnish its international reputation. South Africa would supply the money, with each country appointing a secretary to look after its interests.
As the relationship grew, the two sides began to cooperate on military, even nuclear development. Peres, the architect of Israel’s nuclear program, had procured the country’s first nuclear reactor in the 1950s, and built a clandestine agency called the Science Liaison Bureau that collected nuclear technology.
In a February 1993 interview, Rhoodie told NBC News he was the chief representative on the South African side. "Arnon Milchan was the chief representative on the Israeli side,” said Rhoodie. “We paid him about 30,000 rand [$40,000] a year." Milchan is now a Hollywood billionaire who has produced more than 120 movies, including “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “L.A. Confidential.” When he was in his 20s, however, Peres recruited him for the Science Liaison Bureau. Peres designated Milchan to represent Israel in South Africa.
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/08/21795608-israeli-leader-who-mourned-mandelas-death-helped-white-regime-get-missiles
Articles like this, from NBC, you know the gloves are off...
John Kerry's high-wire diplomacy, Has the new secretary of State eclipsed Hillary Clinton..
on the world stage.
in 10 months, Kerry has embarked on a whirlwind of diplomacy. He helped conclude an interim deal with Iran that puts a ceiling on Tehran's nuclear enrichment. He launched new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with the goal of producing a deal next year. And he secured a date for negotiations to end the war in Syria, although it's still not certain who will show up.
"The naysayers are wrong to call peace in this region an impossible goal," Kerry said in Jerusalem on Friday, at the end of his latest dash through the Middle East. "It always seems impossible until it's done."
Actually, the naysayers say a lot more than that. For one thing, they note, Air Kerry has produced a series of thrilling takeoffs but no safe landings. The Iran agreement is a long way from a permanent deal, the Israeli-Palestinian talks are just talks, and the Syria conference is little more than a date and a city (Geneva, Jan. 22).
But give Kerry credit. He has dared to take big risks — in notable contrast to his revered but risk-averse predecessor, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton tended to subcontract out the unpromising assignments to special envoys like the late Richard C. Holbrooke, her deputy for Afghanistan. But Kerry has taken them on himself, personally and visibly. If any of them fail — and they all could — he'll take the fall himself.
One reason for the contrast is simple: Kerry, who turns 70 this week, knows this is almost certainly his last major assignment in American politics — his last opportunity to make an outsized mark. Unlike Clinton, he isn't considering running for president again, which means he can afford to absorb a setback or two.
Besides, one lesson of Clinton's tenure (to Kerry fans, anyway) is that caution may be an overrated virtue. Quick quiz: What was Clinton's greatest achievement as secretary of State? Answer: the "reset" with Russia — and it didn't last.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-kerry-state-department-20131208,0,1472606.column#ixzz2mx8f3A5g
Just the ticket - volunteer-minded trips for lesbians
Shannon Wentworth tried so hard to walk lightly on the Earth.
She gave up meat for 24 years. She followed a strict vegan and reuse regimen, buying all her clothes at thrift shops. She tried to save the world, all by herself. Yet, by her own admission, she was so rigid that she just wasn't that much fun to be around.
"My life was defined by sacrifice, and I wasn't necessarily winning anyone over," she said. "Salads and no shopping for the rest of your life ... who wants to join that party?"
Then she reconsidered her approach to life. Now Wentworth's party is in full swing, and thousands are lining up to get in.
Wentworth is founder and CEO of Sweet, a lesbian ecotourism company that brings groups of women to faraway places to have a good time in the name of community service.
http://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Just-the-ticket-volunteer-minded-trips-for-5045049.php
Riot breaks out in Singapore's Little India neighbourhood
Source: Guardian UK
A rare riot broke out in Singapore on Sunday night, apparently after a Bangladeshi worker in the Little India district was hit and killed by a bus, a local television channel reported.
Channel News Asia showed dramatic pictures of burning vehicles and people attacking the windshield of a bus with sticks and refuse bins. It was not clear if anyone was injured in the rioting that began late in the evening.
Such violence is unheard of in Singapore, an orderly, modern city-state known for strict punishments for crime and generally law-abiding citizens.
In a statement, police confirmed that rioting took place but gave no details. It only said officers were on the scene in Little India, an area popular among Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Nepali expatriates.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/riot-singapore-little-india-bangladeshi-killed-bus
No charges ever pressed: Assange marks three years of UK detention
WikiLeaks founder and journalist, Julian Assange, has marked the third year spent in detention in UK under constant threat of extradition to Sweden.
On December 7, 2010 Assange was taken into custody after voluntarily attending a British police station. He spent 10 days behind bars, before being released on bail with a residence requirement at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England.
The journalist is wanted for questioning in Sweden in relation to a sexual misconduct investigation, which he labeled as politically motivated. Swedish authorities’ repeatedly refused to question Assange via video conference or personally in London, pressing for an extradition to Sweden.
After the British Supreme Court upheld the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition warrant in June 2012, he found asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he remains in a five square-meter room.
http://rt.com/news/assange-three-years-uk-892/
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