Featured Discussions - 12160 Social Network2024-03-29T07:54:04Zhttps://12160.info/forum/topic/list?groupUrl=nanny-state-politics-exposed&feed=yes&xn_auth=no&featured=1Toronto school bans junk food snacks from students’ lunch bagstag:12160.info,2013-10-17:2649739:Topic:13408532013-10-17T22:08:48.834Ztruthhttps://12160.info/profile/adap2k
<p><a href="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="align-left" height="408" src="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg" width="362"></img></a> The battle over nutrition for young people has escalated in one Toronto school, where kids now are banned from bringing any junk food in their packed lunches.</p>
<p class="first">The new policy at James S. Bell Junior Middle School in suburban Etobicoke, which covers grades one to nine, now bars students from bringing snacks like chocolate, candy, pop and chips. Only fresh, healthy…</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg"><img class="align-left" src="http://davefarmersblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/nanny_state.jpg" height="408" width="362"/></a>The battle over nutrition for young people has escalated in one Toronto school, where kids now are banned from bringing any junk food in their packed lunches.</p>
<p class="first">The new policy at James S. Bell Junior Middle School in suburban Etobicoke, which covers grades one to nine, now bars students from bringing snacks like chocolate, candy, pop and chips. Only fresh, healthy foods will be allowed, <em><a href="http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/toronto-school-bans-junk-food-from-students-lunch-bags-1.1500394" target="_blank">CTV News</a></em> reports.</p>
<p>Even granola bars are verboten as an everyday snack, although they're apparently allowed on special occasions such as holidays. Granola bars? The high levels of sugar, salt and other dodgy ingredients make them dubious health snacks, as the <em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/granola-bars-a-healthy-snack-or-dressed--up-junk-food/article572493/#dashboard/follows/" target="_blank">Globe and Mail</a></em> noted a few years back.</p>
<p>“If we do find something like a box of Smarties or a KitKat bar … we will just kindly ask the student to take it home,” school principal John Currie told <em>CTV News.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/toronto-school-bans-junk-snacks-students-lunch-bags-190553720.html">http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/toronto-school-bans-junk-snacks-students-lunch-bags-190553720.html</a></p> Glendale is paying service to monitor students online, Company keeps an eye on social media posts including those on Facebooktag:12160.info,2013-08-26:2649739:Topic:12969732013-08-26T05:05:55.189ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p><span class="byline">By Kelly Corrigan, <em><a href="mailto:kelly.corrigan@latimes.com">kelly.corrigan@latimes.com</a></em></span></p>
<p class="date"><span class="dateString">August 24, 2013</span> <span class="dateTimeSeparator">|</span> <span class="timeString">12:37 p.m.</span></p>
<div class="clear"><br></br>Glendale school officials have hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor and analyze public social media posts, saying the service will help them step in when students are in danger of…</div>
<p><span class="byline">By Kelly Corrigan, <em><a href="mailto:kelly.corrigan@latimes.com">kelly.corrigan@latimes.com</a></em></span></p>
<p class="date"><span class="dateString">August 24, 2013</span> <span class="dateTimeSeparator">|</span> <span class="timeString">12:37 p.m.</span></p>
<div class="clear"><br/>Glendale school officials have hired a Hermosa Beach company to monitor and analyze public social media posts, saying the service will help them step in when students are in danger of harming themselves or others.</div>
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<p>After collecting information from students' posts on social media platforms such as Facebook, <a title="Instagram" class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORCRP0017741" href="http://www.glendalenewspress.com/topic/science-technology/technology/instagram-ORCRP0017741.topic" name="ORCRP0017741">Instagram</a>, YouTube and Twitter, Geo Listening will provide Glendale school officials with a daily report that categorizes posts by their frequency and how they relate to cyber-bullying, harm, hate, despair, <a title="Substance Abuse" class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEBEC000020" href="http://www.glendalenewspress.com/topic/health/behavioral-conditions/substance-abuse-HEBEC000020.topic" name="HEBEC000020">substance abuse</a>, vandalism and truancy.</p>
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<p>Glendale Unified, which piloted the service at Hoover, Glendale and Crescenta Valley high schools last year, will pay the company $40,500 to monitor posts made by about 13,000 middle school and high school students at eight Glendale schools.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-me-monitoring-20130824,0,4640365.story" target="_blank">Here</a></p>
</div> Victims’ Dilemma: 911 Calls Can Bring Eviction... Even In Cases Of Domestic Violencetag:12160.info,2013-08-19:2649739:Topic:12914382013-08-19T03:21:06.381ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p>NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The police had warned Lakisha Briggs: one more altercation at her rented row house here, one more call to 911, and they would force her landlord to evict her.</p>
<p>They could do so under the town’s “nuisance property” ordinance, a law intended to protect neighborhoods from seriously disruptive households. Officials can invoke the measure and pressure landlords to act if the police have been called to a rental home three times within four months. </p>
<p>So she faced…</p>
<p>NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The police had warned Lakisha Briggs: one more altercation at her rented row house here, one more call to 911, and they would force her landlord to evict her.</p>
<p>They could do so under the town’s “nuisance property” ordinance, a law intended to protect neighborhoods from seriously disruptive households. Officials can invoke the measure and pressure landlords to act if the police have been called to a rental home three times within four months. </p>
<p>So she faced a fearful dilemma, Ms. Briggs recalled, when her volatile boyfriend showed up last summer, fresh out of a jail stint for their previous fight, and demanded to move in. </p>
<p>“I had no choice but to let him stay,” said Ms. Briggs, 34, a certified nursing assistant, even though, she said in an interview, she worried about the safety of her 3-year-old daughter as well as her own. </p>
<p>“If I called the police to get him out of my house, I’d get evicted,” she said. “If I physically tried to remove him, somebody would call 911 and I’d be evicted.” </p>
<p>Over the last 25 years, in a trend still growing, hundreds of cities and towns across the country have adopted nuisance property or “crime-free housing” ordinances. Putting responsibility on landlords to weed out drug dealers and disruptive tenants, the laws aim to save neighborhoods from blight as well as ease burdens on the police. </p>
<p>But the laws are sometimes forcing victims, especially women facing domestic violence, to choose between calling the police and holding on to their homes, according to legal aid groups and experts on housing and the poor. </p>
<p>“These laws threaten citizens’ fundamental right to call on the police for help,” said Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard. </p>
<p>In a <a title="Links to study report." href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/mdesmond/publications/unpolicing-urban-poor-consequences-third-party-policing-inner-city-women">study of citations</a> issued to landlords in Milwaukee, conducted with Nicol Valdez of Columbia University, Mr. Desmond found that domestic violence was involved in nearly one-third of the cases and that rentals in largely black areas were disproportionately singled out. </p>
<p>Legal experts say the laws can give tenants the lasting stain of an eviction record without due process. </p>
<p>In a <a title="ACLU description with links to complaint and amicus briefs." href="http://www.aclu.org/womens-rights/briggs-v-borough-norristown-et-al">federal lawsuit</a> being watched by legal aid groups elsewhere, Ms. Briggs has challenged the Norristown ordinance as unconstitutional. </p>
<p>She did so after her fears were realized. </p>
<p>In June 2012, days after her ex-boyfriend, Wilbert Bennett, moved into her house in this struggling town northwest of Philadelphia, he started another drunken, late-night argument. Then came his most violent attack yet: an assault with a broken ashtray that left a gash on her head and a four-inch stab wound in her neck. </p>
<p>Before she passed out, Ms. Briggs begged her neighbor not to call 911 because of the eviction threat, according to the suit, which is being argued by the <a title="groups Web site." href="http://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union</a>. </p>
<p>The neighbor called anyway. Ms. Briggs was taken by helicopter to Philadelphia for emergency treatment. Mr. Bennett is now serving a sentence of one to two years for aggravated assault. </p>
<p>And Norristown officials instructed her landlord to evict her within 10 days or lose his rental license. </p>
<p>“I was afraid I’d lose my house, my job and, what’s next, my daughter?” Ms. Briggs recalled. </p>
<p>A legal aid lawyer put her in touch with the A.C.L.U., and the city backed away from the eviction demand. Ms. Briggs moved anyway, to a location she hopes Mr. Bennett will not discover when he is released.</p>
<p>Read More <a href="http://dilemma-911-calls-can-bring-eviction.html?pagewanted=all&_r=4&" target="_blank">Here</a></p> High School Student Disarms Gunman – Gets Suspended For ‘Involvement in Violent Incident’tag:12160.info,2013-03-03:2649739:Topic:11376812013-03-03T01:18:58.312ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
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<p>A Florida high school student and his friends discovered the truth of the cynical adage that “no good deed goes unpunished” when he was suspended for disarming a fellow student on the school bus. The teens, all students at Cypress Lake High School in Fort Myers, Florida, were on a school bus when two students got into a heated argument. One of them then pulled a loaded .22 caliber revolver on the other, and aimed it at his head.</p>
<p>One of the suspended students, who…</p>
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<p>A Florida high school student and his friends discovered the truth of the cynical adage that “no good deed goes unpunished” when he was suspended for disarming a fellow student on the school bus. The teens, all students at Cypress Lake High School in Fort Myers, Florida, were on a school bus when two students got into a heated argument. One of them then pulled a loaded .22 caliber revolver on the other, and aimed it at his head.</p>
<p>One of the suspended students, who spoke later with WFTX-TV news, knew instantly that this was no prank.</p>
<p><a href="http://amresolution.com/2013/03/02/high-school-student-disarms-gunman-gets-suspended-for-involvement-in-violent-incident/" target="_blank">SOURCE</a></p> 19 Signs That America Has Become A Crazy Control Freak Nation Where Almost Everything Is Illegaltag:12160.info,2013-01-21:2649739:Topic:10991122013-01-21T00:31:22.791ZTarahttps://12160.info/profile/Tara
<p>Do you think that you are free? Most Americans would still probably answer “yes” to that question, but is that really the case? In the film Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson stated that “everything is illegal in Massachusetts”. Well, the same could pretty much be said for the United States as a whole. Our lives are governed by millions of laws, rules and regulations and more are being piled on all the time. In fact,…</p>
<p>Do you think that you are free? Most Americans would still probably answer “yes” to that question, but is that really the case? In the film Edge of Darkness, Mel Gibson stated that “everything is illegal in Massachusetts”. Well, the same could pretty much be said for the United States as a whole. Our lives are governed by millions of laws, rules and regulations and more are being piled on all the time. In fact, <a title="40,000 new laws" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45819570/ns/us_news-life/t/new-laws-toughen-rules-abortions-immigrants-voters/#.T01odvVXk3w" target="_blank">40,000 new laws</a> just went into effect in January. Every single new law restricts your freedom just a little bit more. The truth is that America has become a crazy control freak nation where virtually everything that we do is highly regulated. You have probably broken multiple laws today that you don’t even know exist. We have all become criminals and lawbreakers because almost everything is illegal at this point. Our politicians are convinced that they are “making life better” by piling gigantic mountains of laws on to our backs, and law enforcement authorities are convinced that they are helping society by “cracking down on crime”, but the reality is that our liberties and our freedoms are being strangled by all of this government oppression. This is not the way that America is supposed to work.</p>
<p>Yes, every society needs laws. But the laws should be short enough and simple enough that everybody can read them and understand them.</p>
<p>In America today, there is no possible way that any of us could ever read all of the laws that apply to us. Most of us just live our daily lives and try to do the “right” thing. But there is no guarantee that men with guns will not show up at your door one evening because of some obscure regulation that you have broken.</p>
<p>The following are <a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/19-signs-that-america-has-become-a-crazy-control-freak-nation-where-almost-everything-is-illegal" target="_blank">19 signs</a> that America has become a crazy control freak nation where almost everything is illegal….</p> The Nazis, A Warning From Historytag:12160.info,2012-09-14:2649739:Topic:9921322012-09-14T01:59:38.517ZCentral Scrutinizerhttps://12160.info/profile/H0llyw00d
<p align="justify"><img align="left" alt="The Nazis, A Warning From History" height="128" src="http://cdn.tdfimg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/naziswarning-128x128.jpg" width="128"></img> The Nazis would later try to rewrite history to say that Hitler became Chancellor simply because it was his destiny, but in reality, Hitler had been helped by economic circumstance and the support and miscalculation of others.</p>
<p align="justify">As the new century approaches, one historical question more than any other demands an answer.</p>
<p align="justify">How could a cultured nation at the heart of Europe be responsible for acts so heinous that they have…</p>
<p align="justify"><img src="http://cdn.tdfimg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/naziswarning-128x128.jpg" alt="The Nazis, A Warning From History" width="128" height="128" align="left"/>The Nazis would later try to rewrite history to say that Hitler became Chancellor simply because it was his destiny, but in reality, Hitler had been helped by economic circumstance and the support and miscalculation of others.</p>
<p align="justify">As the new century approaches, one historical question more than any other demands an answer.</p>
<p align="justify">How could a cultured nation at the heart of Europe be responsible for acts so heinous that they have altered concepts of what man is capable of.</p>
<p align="justify">How could the Nazis come to be? This series is the definitive television history of the rise and fall of the Nazis.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Helped Into Power</strong> – How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Chaos and Consent</strong> – If the Germans are famous for one quality it is efficiency. Yet the Nazi administration of Germany during the 1930’s was characterized by radical chaos.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>The Wrong War</strong> – Hitler admired one country more than any other – Great Britain. His favourite film was the Bengal lancers which told the story of the British in India. In Mienkampf he spoke of expanding German territory tot he East. How was it possible then that in 1939 he ended up fighting the one country that he had started out wanting as an ally, Great Britain, and allied to the one country he had intended to take land from, Russia?</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>The Wild East</strong> – Poland was to become the epicentre of Nazi brutality; the place were Nazism achieved its purest and most bestial form. This is the story of the first two years of the Nazi occupation of Poland and the vicious power battles between the Nazi barons.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>The Road to Treblinka</strong> – How was it possible that the holocaust ever happened? With access to extraordinary new material from Lithuania including an interview with a member of the Nazi killing squads this programme examines how the Nazi could commit acts which have caused estimates of how low human can sink for ever to be altered.</p>
<p align="justify"><strong>Fighting to the End</strong> – In the summer of 1943 the Italians, seeing which way the war was going, voted Mussolini out of office declared the war over. Why couldn’t the Germans do the same? Why did it take the near total destruction of their country for them to give in?</p>
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