Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:40 'Heads will be forced to list children as young as five on school 'hate registers' over everyday playground insults. Even minor incidents must be recorded as examples of serious bullying and details kept on a database until the pupil leaves secondary school. Teachers are to be told that even if a primary school child uses homophobic or racist words without knowing their meaning, simply teaching them such words are hurtful and inappropriate is not enough. Instead the incident has to be recorded and his or her behaviour monitored for future signs of 'hate' bullying. The accusations will also be recorded in databases held by councils and made available to Whitehall and ministers to help them devise future anti-bullying campaigns. The scale of the effort to stop children using homophobic or racist language was revealed after the parents of a ten-year-old primary school pupil in Somerset, Peter Drury, were told that his name would be put on a register and his behaviour monitored while he remained at school.' Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:37 'The transcript of Hillary Clinton’s press conference in Buenos Aires with Argentine President Kristina Kirchner last night, has just been released by the State Department, and it is a real eye-opener. Her remarks represent an astonishing propaganda coup for the Peronist regime in its dispute with Britain over the Falklands, with Washington brazenly backing its position.' Read more: Hillary Clinton Slaps Britain in the Face Over the Falklands Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:16 'Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.' Worth keeping a copy on you when you go out with a camera. Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:10 'The Coffee Party is a political parasite which presents itself as something it is not. As reported in the NY Times [see update below], Park presents herself as not hostile to the Tea Party movement, and in fact, hopes to bring some Tea Partiers into her group: “We’re not the opposite of the Tea Party,” Ms. Park, 41, said. “We’re a different model of civic participation, but in the end we may want some of the same things.” .... Ms. Park and chapter organizers said they would invite Tea Party members to join their Coffee counterparts in discussions. “We need to roll up our sleeves, put our heads together and work it out,” she said. “That’s, to me, an American way of doing this.” In fact, a simple internet search (which the NY Times apparently is not capable of doing) reveals that Park organized the Coffee Party for the specific purpose of undermining the Tea Party movement.' Thursday, 04 March 2010 10:06 Dear David I am writing to you to inform you about some prohibitive aviation legislation I found out about on January 7th 2010 I was aircraft spotting at London Gatwick airport on this date and while waiting for my train home I met a CAA (UK aviation authority) member who was also a spotter. I got talking to him and he mentioned the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) US equivalent was trying to enact new legislation which was prohibitive in more ways then one. This legislation would have been implemented world-wide and not just in the USA.
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Important information to know to stop police abusing their own law - as they so often do
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