To a nation of snowflakes, Christmas has become yet another trigger word.
The latest Christmas casualties in the campaign to create one large national safe space are none other than the beloved animated classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (denounced for promoting bullying and homophobia) which first aired on television on December 6, 1964, and the Oscar-winning tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (accused of being a date rape anthem) crooned by everyone from Dean Martin to Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel in the movie Elf. Also on the endangered species Christmas list
are such songs as “Deck the Halls” (it supposedly promotes “gay”
apparel), “Santa Baby” (it has been denounced for “slut shaming”), and
“White Christmas” (perceived as being racist). One publishing company even re-issued their own redacted version of
Clement Clarke Moore’s famous poem “Twas the night before Christmas” in
order to be more health conscious: the company edited out Moore’s mention of Santa smoking a pipe (“The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth, / And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath.”) Oh the horror. After a year plagued with its fair share of Scrooges and Grinches and
endless months of being mired in political gloom and doom, we could all
use a little Christmas cheer right now. Unfortunately, the politically charged Right and Left have been
trying to score points off each other for so long, using whatever means
available, that even Christmas has been weaponized. Yet just because the War on Christmas has been adopted as a war cry by Donald Trump doesn’t mean that it’s not real. Look around you. When I was a child in the 1950s, the magic of Christmas was promoted
in the schools. We sang Christmas carols in the classroom. There were
cutouts of the Nativity scene on the bulletin board, along with the
smiling, chubby face of Santa and Rudolph. We were all acutely aware
that Christmas was magic. Fast forward to the present day, and there is a phobia surrounding
Christmas that has turned it into fodder for the politically correct
culture wars. Indeed, in its “Constitutional Q&A: Twelve Rules of Christmas,” The Rutherford Institute
points out that some communities, government agencies and businesses
have gone to great lengths to avoid causing offense over Christmas. Examples abound. Schools across the country now avoid anything that alludes to the
true meaning of Christmas such as angels, the baby Jesus, stables and
shepherds. In many of the nation's schools, Christmas carols, Christmas trees,
wreaths and candy canes have also been banned as part of the effort to
avoid any reference to Christmas, Christ or God. One school even
outlawed the colors red and green, saying they were Christmas colors
and, thus, illegal. .......
From August 13, 2012 John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt - The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Philip Weiss After article was rejected and publishers yawned, Walt and Mearsheimer dropped ‘The Israel Lobby’ in 2005 The authors of The Israel Lobby went on Chicago radio station WBEZ last week to reflect on their achievement after ten years. No, not 60 Minutes. Not The New York Times. Not MSNBC. But WBEZ radio.
It is a great interview by Jerome McDonnell about a stupendous achievement. As I wrote ten years ago, this book is up there with Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed, as a bombshell that will help transform society.
Below are some choice bits from the interview.
Publication ruined both men’s chances to serve in government or in university administration. Mearsheimer:
I had no interest whatsoever in a government position. But I did think that when we wrote the piece, that it would mean that we would never get a high level government position. Even medium level government position. It would also make it almost impossible for us to get any meaningful administrative job in the academic world.
Mearsheimer was then 59 years old and in Chicago. But Steve Walt was a sprightly 50 and on I-95, on the Harvard springboard to presidential elbows. The book forever changed his horizon:
I was academic dean in the Kennedy School. I think it’s fair to say that both universities did stand by us in the sense that they didn’t put any formal censure on us. There were various ways of what you might call informal marginalization at least for a while, because the leaderships in both universities were very nervous about the fallout. Universities don’t really like controversy very much.
I did understand that this was probably going to eliminate any possibility of government service in my case, which is something I do regret, because it’s something I would have appreciated, had that opportunity presented itself at some point down the road.
Walt went on to say that they had to do it. “If we weren’t willing to do that, then hardly anybody else would be. We couldn’t lose our jobs. We didn’t necessarily need government employment to pay the mortgage.”.......
Frustrated students seek tuition refunds as government tries to open classrooms by Monday Frustrated and financially burdened students affected by the Ontario colleges strike are turning to the courts to try to get some cash back.
A class action was commenced on Tuesday that seeks to recover tuition money on behalf of the thousands of students at 24 colleges who have been out of class since mid-October.
Going down the lawsuit road could be a long and ultimately unsuccessful journey, but there could still be some benefits to it in the short term, say class action experts.
"Bringing that lawsuit has got the plight of the students some more press and that is inherently pressure, political or otherwise, potentially economic, on the colleges at least, maybe the union," said Jason Squire, head of the class action group at Lerners LLP in Toronto.
Pressure on the Ontario government to step in and force an end to the strike, now in its fifth week, ramped up Thursday when the latest contract offer from the College Employer Council was rejected by striking faculty, represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union.
Premier Kathleen Wynne met with representatives from both sides on Thursday afternoon, and several hours later her government announced it would introduce legislation to force them into binding arbitration and end the strike. The premier said she wants to see students back in class by Monday morning......
McMaster University will become the province’s first tobacco and smoke-free campus next year.
As of Jan. 1, 2018, using tobacco and all oral smoking devices will be prohibited on McMaster campuses.
This includes the Hamilton campus, inside and on the grounds of the Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington, as well as at all McMaster-owned properties.
The university said it is working to help students, faculty and staff adapt to the new policy and educate the community before it comes into effect.....
This vid is from 4 months ago and shows Berkeley's pro-Trump and anti-Trump Americans coming to blows. There are ongoing protests on almost a weekly basis in that part of California. Think back to protests and marches like happened in Ukraine and Syria and you don't have to be a genius or a Nostradamus to predict what is bound to happen in the USA, very, very soon.
The vid below is from a few days ago. I don't know about you, but to my eyes, the so called Antifa or anti-fascists come across just like the Ukrainian Nazis did during that uprising. So, who are the Nazis now??
Harvard University has established a modern version of the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of prohibited online publications which are tagged as “fake” and “false”, broadly following the politically tainted “List” of censored independent and alternative media. As we recall the Catholic Church’s Index was a list of books “deemed heretical, anti-clerical or lascivious”.1
Ex Cathedra, Harvard has decided in one fell swoop that virtually the entire US based “Alternative Media” pertaining to tens of thousands of authors would be categorized not only as fake news, but fake science, knowledge and analysis.
The Harvard Index however goes far beyond the Catholic Church’s Index which selectively banned books after careful reading, review and evaluation within the Church’s hierarchy. This frivolous decision by Harvard constitutes a violation of the most fundamental principles of university education which are debate, discussion, critique and analysis.
The Harvard Index acts as a Lynchpin. It establishes a “new normal”, a guideline to colleges and universities across the land, regarding what we can or cannot read, what we can or cannot write.
Is it a conspiracy? Yes it is. Harvard’s Index broadly undermines the foundation of University education. It instates academic mediocrity.
Prof Michael Persinger talks about a subject that might seem too far-fetched at this point in time but chances are a large percentage of our planet's humans will be able to master this skill in due course.
This is the reason why most reasonable people prefer prevention rather than the "cure" that hate-filled people resort to.
Can you hear the silence of the media?????!!!!
If only the immigration departments in the Western countries had laid down the rules well before Muslims migrated here with their traditional custom of women wearing black masks and headgear while men wearing white nightgowns ... which immediately identifies them as Muslims, sad and tragic incidents like the one below could have been avoided. These two vibrant young girls would have known that their head coverings are not welcomed in the Western society and they would have either opted to stay away from the Western educational system or they would have come anyway but refrained from continuing to wear their traditional outfits while in public.
I blame the Western politicians and especially the Immigration Departments for not spelling out precisely and clearly what was expected from all immigrants, whether they be Muslims or not.
Doug Stanglin writing at USAToday: Chapel Hill 'rocked' by killings of 3 Muslim students. The mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., said Wednesday that the college town has been "rocked" by the shooting deaths of three Muslim students that the father of two of the victims calls a "hate crime."
The fatal shootings have sparked condemnation from a national Muslim civil liberties group and triggered a Twitter uproar over allegations of anti-Muslim bias.
The victims, all shot in the head, were identified as Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife, Yusor Mohammad, 21, of Chapel Hill, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh, police said. The two female victims were sisters.
Barakat, a Syrian-American and a second-year dental student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Yusor Mohammad were married in late December.
Chapel Hill police release a 911 call from a witness who heard gunshots and screaming following the deaths of three Muslim students. Craig Stephen Hicks turned himself in to officials and has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder. .....
Could colleges really have to close down because of what is opined in the article below? I hope not. I often wonder why the governments of Canada and the USA not lessen the burden of those outrageous tuition fees on students by halving them or better still, giving fully free education to citizens. Instead of sending taxpayers' dollars to countries outside our own, why not allocate a big chunk of it for the educational institutions? What madness to send money to countries outside your own while your own citizens are in dire need of it ! A more widely educated population might be less prone to crime and better equipped to gain employment and prosperity. Charity begins at home .... but our politicians think "home" means their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies.
In a clip on Inc.com , Cuban talks about the student loan bubble, which he says will burst and end badly for colleges. The end of the student loan bubble, Cuban says, will be like the housing bubble, where tuition collapses the way the price of homes collapsed. These collapses will put colleges out of business. Cuban:
"It's inevitable at some point there will be a cap on student loan guarantees. And when that happens you're going to see a repeat of what we saw in the housing market: when easy credit for buying or flipping a house disappeared we saw a collapse in the price housing, and we're going to see that same collapse in the price of student tuition, and that's going to lead to colleges going out of business."
Cuban also talks about the impact student loan debt is having on the economy, saying that people burdened with student loans can't afford to spend money on anything other than the bare necessities....
And, I predict this sort of thing will be soon happening all over in the countries that have a wide disparity between the fat cats and the young unemployed, disenfranchised citizens. In the article below, the writer opines that police crackdown on the protesting students will embolden them further, and he is absolutely right. First and above all, the youth are angry with the establishment for not only the high tuition fees but also the dire unemployment (in spite of the govt. massaging the job numbers to show them on an upward trend) the students know it's not true, otherwise they would be employed.
Owen Jones writing at GuardianUK: Students are rising again, and police crackdowns will only embolden them Once again student protest – this time at Warwick – has been met by police repression. The pre-election battle lines are drawn. Young people are often patronised and dismissed as an apathetic blob, too dazzled by mass consumerism to give a toss about politics. But when powerful figures go through the motions of encouraging youth engagement, it is clear they mean little more than casting a vote every few years. Angry protest – let alone peaceful civil disobedience – is a definite no-no. If Britain’s young mount protests that are in any way appropriate to the scale of the government-directed attack on them, the state will make its disapproval firmly known. Many of the students protesting at Warwick University will have had little experience in protest. Perhaps – for some of them – Wednesday’s day of action, which was called by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts, was one of their first tastes of political activism. It will have proved a salutary experience. After the students staged a sit-in in support of free education, police officers stormed in, began manhandling students, sprayed students with CS gas and had Tasers at the ready. This experience will be all too familiar to veterans of the many student protests that followed the coalition’s assumption of power and the trebling of tuition fees. In the aftermath of perhaps the largest student demonstration in a generation, the end of 2010 saw waves of student occupations of universities and protests. Often these were met with police repression: hours-long kettles in freezing temperatures, and officers swinging batons. At one protest in Parliament Square, I was among those who had to abruptly jump aside after police officers charged us on horseback.......
At long last someone is taking to court, universities who are neck-deep in affirmative action. Affirmative Action is one of the most deplorable practices deeply embedded in American universities and contrary to what most of us believe, the policy favors the rich and mostly the rich. The rich, no matter how dumb they might be and regardless of color and creed are always those who benefit from this policy while the most deserving are left out from the admissions quota.
Ben Mathis-Lilley writing at Slate: Harvard Sued for Discriminating Against "High-Achieving Asian Americans" Lawsuits filed by an activist organization on behalf of rejected applicants allege that Harvard and the University of North Carolina's affirmative action policies discriminate against individuals with Asian ancestry by limiting the number of such applicants that may be admitted. From Bloomberg:
Such applicants “understand that they are not competing” against “the entire applicant pool,” the group said in its filing against Harvard’s governing body, the Harvard Corp., in Boston federal court. “They are competing only against each other, and all other racial and ethnic groups are insulated from competing against high-achieving Asian Americans.”
Both institutions have responded that their admissions policies are consistent with federal law. The Supreme Court has held that race can be considered on an individual and "holistic" basis in admissions decisions in order to attain the educational and social benefits of diversity. But quotas—or point-system bonuses—are unacceptable. "[Candidate X] immigrated to America from Colombia with her family when she was 11, perhaps her experience could deepen the rich tapestry that is our campus discourse," is an OK admissions-office thing to say. "We need three more women from the Balkans, let's just grab the first three that are on the pile and then it's Miller Time" is not............
Dr Ivan Katchanovsk's paper is very detailed. I am still reading through it.
From RussiaInsider Paper presented at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Seminar at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, October 1, 2014 The massacre of several dozen Maidan protesters on February 20, 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the escalating conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
The mass killing of the protesters and the mass shooting of the police that preceded it led to the overthrow of the highly corrupt and pro-Russian, but democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych and gave a start to a large-scale violent conflict that continues now in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine.
A conclusion promoted by the post-Yanukovych governments and the media in Ukraine that the massacre was perpetrated by government snipers on a Yanukovych order has been nearly universally accepted by the Western governments and the media, at least publicly, without concluding an investigation and without all evidence considered.For instance, Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko in his speech to the US Congress on September 18, 2014 again claimed that the Yanukovych government overthrow resulted from mass peaceful protests against police violence, in particular, killings of more than 100 protesters by snipers on February 20, 2014.
The question is which side organized the snipers massacre. This paper is the first academic study of this crucial case of the mass killing. Analysis of a large amount of evidence in this study suggests that certain elements of the Maidan opposition, including its extremist far right wing, were involved in this massacre in order to seize power and that the government investigation was falsified for this reason. Evidence Evidence used in this study includes publicly available but unreported, suppressed, or misrepresented videos and photos of suspected shooters, live statements by the Maidan announcers, radio intercepts of the Maidan snipers, and snipers and commanders from the special Alfa unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), ballistic trajectories, eyewitness reports by both Maidan protesters and government special unit commanders, public statements by both former and current government officials, bullets and weapons used, types of wounds among both protesters and the police, and the track record of politically motivated misrepresentations by the Maidan politicians of other cases of violence during and after the Euromaidan and historical conflicts..........
The first vid below is a great example showing how the rise of ISIS/ISIL/IS/xyz in the Muslim countries will continue to grow no matter how many millions of bombs the West and allies drop on it hoping to defeat or even to degrade the movement. The vid shows what happened when peace loving secular students of the Istanbul University had a gathering protesting the terrorist army. Supporters of the terrorist army besieged the university halls and terrorized the students. See the students retreating with the soon-to-be new recruits of ISIS/ISIL/IS/xyz running after them. Bottom line: For every intelligent, peaceful, secular Muslim or non-Muslim in a Muslim nation, there are 100 violent potential terror army recruits and probably 500 or more terror army sympathizers. The West involving itself in this mess is helping ISIS/ISIL/IS/xyz create an even bigger movement.
So .... the plot thickens like we knew it would. A no-fly zone is proposed just like the dimwits had done earlier with Libya. Is the USA and her allies panting to see another Muslim leader get sodomized by their armed and funded terrorists? It appears to be so. Will Russia and Iran sit tight and let that happen? I doubt it. Notice how the NYTimes cites the purpose of the no-fly zone requirement as " to protect civilians." HAHAHAHAHAHA! Man... those "journalists" at the NYTimes would make such good stand-up comedians! From NYTimes: U.S. Considers a No-Fly Zone to Protect Civilians From Airstrikes by SyriaThe Obama administration has not ruled out establishing a no-fly zone over northeastern Syria to protect civilians from airstrikes by the Syrian government, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday. Mr. Hagel and General Dempsey indicated they are open to considering the request of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey for a buffer zone along the Turkish-Syrian border, where tens of thousands of Syrians have sought refuge. Mr. Hagel said, “We’ve discussed all these possibilities and will continue to talk about what the Turks believe they will require.” He said 1.3 million Syrian refugees are now in Turkey......
You won't find any of the MSM news outlets telling you about civilians killed in the first strike in Raqqa. The USA+hellhole coalition have those special kind of bombs that know to target only jihadis and nothing but jihadis.
Eliot Higgins writing at BellingCat: Videos and Photographs Claim to Show Civilians Killed by US Led Air Strikes in Syria The main allegations come from the small town of Kafar Deryan, in Idlib, and west of Aleppo, where videos and images posted to social media channels have shown rescue efforts after the attacks, victims, and the debris of the munition used. Reports on the local Facebook page posted around midday details 4 dead and 8 wounded, and includes images of the victims 1 Child Zainab Muhanna Barakat 2 Child Safaa’ Muhanna Barakat 3 Child Mahmoud Juma’a Muaz 4 Mother of Mahmoud Juma’a Muaz The names of the wounded 1 Khansa Juma’a al-Doush 2 Child Ahmad Muhanna Barakat 3 Child Malak Muhanna Barakat 4 Sabha Shaker Taher, Wife of Muhanna Barakat 5 Child girl Wafaa’ Muhanna Barakat 6 Child Mahmoud Mohammed Muaz 7 Safwan Yahya Skaff 8 Juma’a Mahmoud Muaz It also reported 3 women and 3 children were killed who they had not yet identified. A post a few hours later lists four more dead 1 Abdul Hamid Muhammad Jahjah. 2 His wife Reem Al-Hajji. 3 His daughter Basmalah Jahjah. 4 His son Mohammed Jahjah. In both reports the deaths and injures are linked to US led air strikes..........
Arab woman pilot..'disowned by her family' for bombing 'Sunni heroes of Iraq and the Levant' http://t.co/RaBdqC0bZP :-|
— B Shantanu (@satyamevajayate) September 27, 2014
Sharmine Narwani writing at PeaceAndProsperity Undoubtedly the attacks Undoubtedly the attacks were timed to occur on the eve of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, so “Coalition” partners could cluster behind the decision to bomb a sovereign state, uninvited. The irony, of course, is that they are doing so at the UN – the global political body that pledges to uphold international law, peace and stability, and the sanctity of the nation-state unit. The goal this week will be to keep the “momentum” on a “narrative” until it sinks in. On day one, heads of state from Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, the UK and France were paraded onto the podium to drum in the urgency of American strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Jabhat al-Nusra and other militant groups inside Syria. Every American official – past and present - in the White House rolodex was hooked up to a microphone to deliver canned sound bites and drive home those “messages.” In between, video-game-quality footage of US strikes hitting their targets was aired on the hour; clips of sleek fighter jets refueling midair and the lone Arab female fighter pilot were dropped calculatingly into social media networks..........
From PressTV: The Syrian army is carrying on with its mop-up operations against the Takfiri militants in the countryside of the capital Damascus. Government troops succeeded in driving out the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front terrorists from the Adra al-Balad district after fierce clashes on Saturday. The army inflicted heavy losses on the Takfiri terrorists in the area and currently controls most parts of it. Government forces have also started searching the streets and defusing explosive devices planted earlier by the foreign-backed militants. The town of Adra, located northeast of the capital, reportedly came under siege by the militants in December last year........
A #Saudi pilot has been detained by the regime for refusing to go on bombing missions to #Syria. His name is Faisal Al-Ghamdi. #IS#Iraq
— Ghazi (@abuaminah_) September 27, 2014
Patrick Cockburn writing at Independent: As the UK prepares for another war in Iraq, is its strategy any more coherent than in 2003? Britain is set to join the air campaign against Isis in Iraq, but, going by David Cameron’s speech to the UN General Assembly, the Government has no more idea of what it is getting into in this war than Tony Blair did in 2003. Mr Cameron says that there should be “no rushing to join a conflict without a clear plan”, but he should keep in mind the warning of the American boxer Mike Tyson that “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”. The Prime Minister says that lessons have been learned from British military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan but it is telling that he did not mention intervention in Libya for which he himself was responsible. In fact, there is a much closer parallel between Britain joining an air war in Libya in 2011 than Mr Blair’s earlier misadventures which Mr Cameron was happy to highlight......
David Stockman writing at PeaceAndProsperity: ...Yes, it is the Washington War Party which transformed the original peaceful (and essentially hopeless) Sunni uprising against the Assads into an armed rebellion and the nation into an apocalypse of brutal warfare and unspeakable sectarian violence and terror. Without Washington’s money and green light, the flow of weapons from Libya, the arms and funds from Qatar and the Saudi’s and the recruiting and transit stations for fighters and weapons along Turkey’s 560 mile border with Syria would not likely have materialized. There would have been no civil war and “fertile recruiting ground” for terrorists in the upper Euphrates valley. Indeed, the irony is that Syria and Iraq were never real nations in the first place. They originated as set of artificial boundaries drawn on maps by British and French diplomats carving up the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago, and had been held together by a succession of kings, tyrants, generals and dictators—-the last of which were nominated for “regime change” by Washington. The outcome is self-evidently failed states and seething incubators of terrorism. Yet the War Party is incorrigible. It has now bamboozled even our “peace president” into a bombing campaign that can only compound the anarchy and intensify the inflow of terrorists to the blood-soaked territories that were once Syrian and Iraq........
The vid below is from a much longer interview. Listen to how this putrid pustule, the Qatari leader, tell us openly that what we in the West term "terrorists" are not "terrorists" to them in the Middle East. Qatar has been arming/funding/training all kind of terrorists hoping at least one of those groups will topple the Assad regime. So what if a few 100s of 1000s get killed in that process, eh?
From HurriyetDaily: Shells land in Turkey as clashes intensify around Kobane Four mortar shells landed in Turkey near the border with Syria on Sept. 27, injuring two people, as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants clashed with Kurdish forces defending a Syrian border town, local officials and a Reuters witness said. ISIL launched an offensive to try to capture the border town of Kobane more than a week ago, besieging it from three sides. More than 150,000 Kurds have fled the town and surrounding villages, crossing into Turkey. One of the mortars blew a large hole in an empty minibus parked near Tavşanlı, a village close to Kobane. Lawyer Onur Kale of Mersin Bar wrote on his Twitter account that a shell hit the minibus they were travelling in.....
It's not just the government that is drifting into nowhere land. When people are uncertain of the direction their country has taken, they feel uncertain and fearful of standing firmly by what their parents had once stood for. The foundation of any country is its educational backbone and the backbone is made up of the people running those institutions. That backbone is broken in the USA and the same fate awaits us here in Canada.
Victor Skinner writing at EagNews: ....The Windham, New Hampshire school board members wrestled with an apparently controversial topic at a recent meeting: Whether or not to accept free pocket Constitutions to distribute to students..... .....Last year Windham resident John Grieco donated 2,841 pocket-sized copies of the Constitution to the school district, one for each child, and wanted to do the same this year. When he contacted district officials, district curriculum coordinator Kori Becht turned away the donation and “told me that they already had the resources and materials they needed,” Grieco told the news site.....
Watch the vid and then read the story below of the Wal-Mart spokesman who was forced to resign because he had not made the required grades to graduate with a college degree. The madness is mindblowing! The guy in the vid is very tricky, but then this incident will teach the students to not put down their names and signatures to any stupid document here, there and everywhere.
From Yahoo via Katie Little writing at CNBC: Wal-Mart spokesman resigns after résumé discovery David Tovar, Wal-Mart's (WMT) vice president of corporate communications, is leaving the retail giant after a background check revealed he hadn't finished his college degree. In a phone interview, Tovar told CNBC the résumé error was discovered while he was undergoing an assessment as part of the process of being promoted to senior vice president. He had been with the retail giant for eight years after working at Altria (MO) earlier. "As part of that process I was going through additional leadership assessment, including a battery of tests including questions about leadership, drug tests, background checks," he said. "In the background check my education was flagged-it was done by a third party company. They asked me about it, and I was 100 percent transparent." Following four years at the University of Delaware, Tovar said, he walked in the school's graduation ceremony, moved to New York and landed a job. Several months later, he said, he learned he was a few credits short of earning his degree following a mix-up. "I got a job and never looked back. I really didn't think an art degree would matter in communications, which was the field I went into," he said............
Would any one of our Western leaders sit with our youngsters even for 30 minutes? I thought I would listen for just a few minutes but wound up listening to the entire thing. The Western press has demonized the Russian leader but many people are waking up to the extent of the propaganda that is more prevalent on our own side rather than from the Russian side.
in order to please and satisfy the first and second generation immigrants. A few days ago we heard of a Canadian-Egyptian jihadi kid being educated in an Egyptian school. Now, we hear of a Canadian-Chinese student being sent for "higher" education to an university in America. The only conclusion to be drawn here is that our Canadian education system must be wanting in something immigrants desire.
From CBC: .....Elliot Rodger's victim identified as Canadian George Chen in California rampage. A 19-year-old man from Ottawa has been identified as one of the victims of Friday's mass murder at the University of California at Santa Barbara. George Chen, who was studying computer science, was a graduate from Leland High School in San Jose, Calif., and one of six people killed.......
to be able to question one of the gang members of the Bush war machine if she sleeps well at night for destroying a country like Iraq and killing more than a million of its citizens, a country that had no link to the 9/11 murderers. Why give up the opportunity to grill her why Saudi Arabia was shielded by the Bush administration when almost all the 9/11 murderers were Saudi citizens and holding Saudi passports? I fail to understand why students hold these protests to prevent speakers from saying their say. They should in fact encourage such events but insist that the administration slot in a "question and answer period" and designate a few students from within the protesting group with a list of questions to put to the warmongers. When the warmongers coming to the universities to spout their lies and lay their hands on those fat checks, realize that the students will be putting them in the hot seat they skillfully usually avoid .... watch how they will make themselves disappear.
From AP: ....Condoleezza Rice Backs out of Rutgers Commencement. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has backed out of delivering the commencement address at Rutgers University following protests by some faculty and students over her role in the Iraq War. Rice said in a statement Saturday that she informed Rutgers President Robert Barchi that she was declining the invitation to speak at the graduation. "Commencement should be a time of joyous celebration for the graduates and their families," Rice said. "Rutgers' invitation to me to speak has become a distraction for the university community at this very special time." The school's board of governors had voted to pay $35,000 to the former secretary of state under President George W. Bush and national security adviser for her appearance at the May 18 ceremony. Rutgers was also planning to bestow Rice with an honorary doctorate. But some students and faculty at New Jersey's flagship university had protested, staging sit-ins and saying Rice bore some responsibility for the Iraq War as a member of the Bush administration. Barchi and other school leaders had resisted the calls to disinvite Rice, saying the university welcomes open discourse on controversial topics. The news of Rice's decision came a day after Barchi spoke with students protesting Rice's planned speech and told them the board of governors would not rescind its invitation...........
Sweet! Sweeter is the name of the law firm representing the students. "Malik" is the the last name of two of the students and according to my "source" the family name "Malik" is either a Pakistani or Indian Muslim name. Don't you just love it that the Muslim-heavy university which is run by a Muslim prez and a Muslim-heavy administration is getting sued by Muslims? Oh la la la .... Ca na da !!! Honestly, I am super glad that the university is being sued. The lack of security on campus and the general administration and management of the university is deplorable and more like the running of universities in third world countries .... and that might be insulting to those universities. Maybe now at long last, the Ministries of Education.... both Provincial and Federal, might be forced to sit up and take notice of the extremely low standards in both security and education at the York University. Of course, we can tell straight off that greed for big bucks plays the overall big role in this lawsuit. Good luck to the "lawfare" gang and to the lawyers as well. Why not?!
Sean Tepper writing at TheStar: .....Eight students who witnessed a March shooting at York University have launched a $20.5 million lawsuit against the school On March 6, Annie Malik, 19, and Namra Malik, 20, (no relation) were injured after a gun accidentally discharged in the food court of the university’s student centre at around 10:45 p.m. The other six students are suing for psychological damages following the incident. They are being represented by the law firm Diamond and Diamond. “We are alleging a pattern of negligence, we’re alleging that security has been overlooked and our allegation is that steps could have been taken and measures could have been taken,” Sandra Zisckind of Diamond and Diamond said at a televised press conference. Annie Malik, a third-year business administration and accounting student was shot in the leg while Namra sustained a shrapnel injury. Annie spoke to the media about the incident. “As I was hiding under the table after my friends had told me to do so because there had been a shot fired, I was praying that there wasn’t going to be another shot fired and wishing that it wasn’t something like the Colorado shooting,” said Malik. “I have a bullet still lodged in my leg and I don’t know if it will cause even worse problems later on in my life.”........ ..........In addition to Annie and Namra Malik, the law firm is representing six bystanders who witnessed the event, whom according to Zisckind are suffering survivor’s guilt and psychological issue.......
The weird happenings at Huron College in London, Ontario, continue to haunt non-Muslim Canadians. To say that there is "stealth jihad" in London, Ontario, is IMO, a gross understatement. It's not just that there is a concentrated effort to islamize London, Ontario ... it's raging all over that area plus several other pockets of Ontario and indeed large swaths of land all over Canada and threatens the very existence of non-Muslims. To think that this sort of thing is happening in our supposedly famed "diversity proud" Canada is a fearsome development. Will the islamization of Canada start from the Province of Ontario ... or has it already started with a vengeance? IMO, the islamization of Canada started more than a decade ago and if these kind of Trojan Horse dangerous situations are not nipped in the bud right now .... then start visualizing your kids and your future descendants shackled in the slavery of an ideology disguised as a religion, an ideology which is more like a cult, a curse on planet Earth.
Barbara Kay writing at NationalPost: ....Huron College should open up its Islam course, or shut it down. The late Mary Daly, a militant feminist, was a long-time academic at Jesuit-run Boston College. She was a revered icon in the feminist movement, but largely unknown to the general public until, in the 1990s, a male student initiated a lawsuit against Boston for Daly’s attempt to exclude males from a Womens Studies course. Daly would not back down, the plaintiff was successful in his suit, and Daly “retired” as a result.
This was of course the correct outcome to that case. How can any tax-funded institution of higher learning exclude any student from a course on the basis of his sex? But if we can agree on that – and I am sure all reasonable people do – then how is it that in 2014, 20 years on and, one would assume 20 years more enlightened on equality issues, a Canadian college finds it acceptable that a professor is excluding a student on the basis of his religion? Here is the back story as told to me in an interview with Moray Watson. On Dec 27th, Watson was browsing the website of a London mosque – Watson, an atheist of Christian background, is a candid worrier about what he perceives as a growing threat of Islamism in London – and he saw an advertisement for a course, designed and to be taught by Huron’s Chair of Islamic Studies, Dr. Ingrid Mattson, “The Muslim Voice: Islamic Preaching, Public Speaking and Worship.” The course was open to the public, the only prerequisite being an undergraduate degree. Watson immediately signed up to audit the course (the course was open for credit or audit at that time), because he was curious to know how ............
