Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Excerpts: Ian Hunter 9/17 Danbury CT and 12/10 Pawling NY
Prezi could be useful as a presentation tool. The examples on Greece and Rome might be adaptable for many K-12 applications.
Cf. http://clifmims.wetpaint.com/page/Using+Prezi+as+a+Presentation+Tool
Yodio might be handy since you can record anywhere by using a phone.
An organization, WeAreChange Ohio, traveled to Newport, Kentucky to investigate the military checkpoints that appeared around the downtown area on 6 September 2009. Officially, this was done for traffic control purposes during the annual Riverfest celebration that is held on both sides of the Ohio River.
Military Police from the U.S. Army National Guard performed a series of tasks throughout the day, which included aiding the local police to close bridges across the river, and to reverse traffic along Monmouth Street in Newport.
Two Military Police officers were located at each corner of Monmouth from the Ohio River to 11th Street, while two Humvees were strategically placed to block traffic onto the Taylor-Southgate Bridge. One of the National Guard members indicated that there were also Marines in the area.
WeAreChange Ohio spoke with a thirty-year veteran of the Newport Police Department, who wished to remain anonymous. He stated that the local municipalities were desperately strapped for funds and that the city had been cutting back his division at the department.
While he welcomed the help from the National Guard, he recognized that funding was being systematically shifted away from local governments in favor of Washington.
The officers interviewed at the festival stated that they were on duty to help the local police. They did make it clear that they would follow orders. They are simply soldiers doing their duty.
The LRAD war device was deployed in combat situations as crowd control; it is now used by U.S. police forces.
Transcript for the Video
Warning to Muslims who believe that the public space can be invaded without consequences.
For a number of years, certain of you muslim gentlemen dare to regularly occupy the public space for your prayers.
This occupation, as you well know, is illegal, and is, as we well know, a provocation and a demonstration of force designed to show your domination in certain parts of France and your contempt for our laws and the secular nature of our country.
These politico-cultural demonstrations are in defiance of our institutions and our culture, they put our territorial integrity under pressure with the aim of forcing the construction of mosques, which are often financed by the money of non-muslims who then find themselves victims of gigantic rackets in which our elected officials are complicit.
Muslim militias and certain muslims totally illegally block the streets to non-muslims, preventing the citizens and residents from circulating, returning home or leaving their houses and the mayors say nothing, the police say nothing, the State says nothing.
Thus it remains for the French Nation, to the citizens themselves to take over because all their representatives have spinelessly bent over in the face of intimidation.
The message sent out by the French nation to the “praying” is clear:
Stop praying immediately on the public highway, it is illegal. Pray elsewhere, or don’t pray, we couldn’t care less about that. Nothing gives you the right to occupy our streets, you must respect our laws.
You are extremely lucky that the French (of all confessions and origins) are so patient and indulgent with you but in the face of your arrogant provocations, one day the limit will be reached.
Then there will no longer be time to whine about discrimination. You will have been the sole cause of your inevitable future troubles if you continue to defy our laws.
Who sows the wind reaps the storm. Stop sowing discord in France, stop occupying our streets and our towns with your inopportune prayers.
“UNIFIED QUEST 2011″
* Army Studying implications of “large scale economic breakdown”
* Would force the Army to keep “domestic order amid civil unrest.”
* Army to deal with fragmented global power and drastically lower budgets
Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise.
The U.S. military might have been caught napping for a second time. Three years to the date exactly the Chinese popped up in a naval exercise.
The Chinese do have a stealth submarine. The stealth submarine is a modified version of the Type 041 Yuan-class submarine. According to military experts, the Yuan-class’s technology borrows heavily from Russian designs. The Yuan-class is reported to use a new air-independent propulsion (AIP) system based on the concept of the Swedish Stirling engine. Chinese naval research institutes are known to have been investigating fuel cell and exhaust recycling AIP designs similar to the French MESMA (Module d’Energie Sous-Marine Autonome) (Jane’s Defense Weekly, October 7; Wen Wei Po [Hong Kong], October 12).
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.