Positive News from the USA

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 20 May 2015 05:41

The rioters in Baltimore were just stupid. They should have had Harleys and leather jackets saying:
Cannibals on the top and Maryland on the bottom. And carried loaded assault rifles with their drugs.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 20 May 2015 05:47

LokeshC wrote:If it was a clash between black biker gangs then this would have happened.

Bikers generally don't bring children to their nasty fights. bars and casinos won't allow them there.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 20 May 2015 05:50

UlanBatori wrote:The rioters in Baltimore were just stupid. They should have had Harleys and leather jackets saying:
Cannibals on the top and Maryland on the bottom. And carried loaded assault rifles with their drugs.

you can't beat biker stupidity. Hardly any of them have an IQ greater than their age.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 20 May 2015 07:10

Most of the ones I've seen fairly close up, seemed like just people who wanted to mind their own business, staying in their world. They seemed to be careful with their shiny bikes, and tried to stay out of other people's way. My terror was always that I might bump their bikes and scratch or knock them over. Once I saw a whole crowd of them in DC around Memorial Day (I think those were mostly Vietnam Vets), and then on the Blue Ridge Pkwy coming back, and again they were among the more responsible drivers there. These gangs may be something else entirely.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 20 May 2015 08:53

One way of looking is the bikers are like the cowboys who have adapted.
Highways are their Chisholm and Oregon trails. Motorbikes are iron horses. Biker gangs are like outlaw gangs of old West.

Only no good sheriffs to run them out.

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 20 May 2015 09:09

ramanaji, despite hollywood movies, most of the cowboys worked for a living. the outlaw types of wild-west mostly hung around boom-towns (mining, trading et al). So not fair to compare to these chaps at Waco to the American shepherd classes

The percentage of drug dealers among the affiliated gang-bikers are probably higher than among African-americans. Will be illuminating to see if the percentage in jail is above 13%.

UB-saan, even the thuggish ones stay out of your way because they do not want to garner attention for their core activities. They dont get pulled over by cops all the time, so the only threat to their activity is if they garner attention to themselves.

(With the money that the hispanic and african-american gangs make, I wonder why no one ever started a gora-chauffer service, by hiring these bikers. Will not get pulled over and inspected. very symbiotic

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Vayutuvan · Post by **Vayutuvan** » 20 May 2015 09:39

Jay Leno probably has pretty good IQ though I doubt he belongs to any gangs of the waco type.
TSJ: Looks like you forgot your old haunt south parking lot where people can park their automobiles for free and take the MTD buses to the quad, they have regular biker classes every weekend in the morning and evening as well as during most days of summer months. None of them are biker gangs. May be it is out west it is more like "To live and die in LA" scene.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 20 May 2015 17:24

Americans are High-IQ types. Very Charitable too.

Washington (CNN)In a rare joint action with attorneys general for each of the 50 states, the Federal Trade Commission says four cancer charities run by extended members of the same family conned donors out of $187 million from 2008 through 2012 and spent almost nothing to help actual cancer patients. (What's that? 1178 Crore Rupees? Now THAT's what I call Hi-Class Fraud!)

none of the four charities would comment. We were ordered out of the building at the Cancer Fund of America in Knoxville, Tennessee, and were the object of an obscene gesture by the CEO of The Breast Cancer Society in Mesa, Arizona.

The Cancer Fund of America is run by James Reynolds Sr. His son James Reynolds Jr. is the CEO of the Breast Cancer Society. Another charity, the Children's Cancer Fund of America, is run by Rose Perkins, the ex-wife of the elder James Reynolds. He's also the CEO of the fourth charity, Cancer Support Services.

The government says the charities claimed to provide direct support for cancer patients, breast cancer patients and children with cancer.

"These were lies," the government's complaint says.

Jessica Rich, chief of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, says that in all, the charities spent about 97% of donations they received either on private fundraisers or on themselves. Only 3%, she says, went to help actual cancer patients.

Take THAT, Teesta Setalwad, Javed Anand, Biju Matthew, Angana Chatterji, Girish Agarwal, Shalini Gera, Akhila Ra(h)man, Vijay Prashad and other principals of the S I N G H Foundation (Secular India's Naxals? and Goondas? in Harmony)

According to the complaint, funds donated to help cancer patients instead went for personal use, in often lavish ways.
"Donated funds were used to pay for vehicles, personal consumer goods, college tuition, gym memberships, Jet Ski outings, dating website subscriptions, luxury cruises, and tickets to concerts and professional sporting events," the complaint says.
"Most of what we are doing is bringing actions against fraud," says Rich. "And this is as about as bad as it can get: taking money away from cancer victims."
There was also what the FTC calls "rampant nepotism" at play in all of the charities. For instance, at the Breast Cancer Society, James Reynolds Jr. hired his wife, Kristina Hixson, to be his public relations manager. The complaint states that he also hired Hixson's two sisters, her son by a previous marriage, her mother and her step-nephew. According to the complaint, Hixson's mother had been a caterer. At the Breast Cancer Society, she was hired to write grant applications.
Moreover,on their tax returns, each charity claimed millions of dollars in donated goods shipped to overseas locations on behalf of cancer patients. The complaint says the charities never owned any of the goods in question and simply paid a fee to a private firm in South Carolina to ship the goods, called gifts-in-kind. CNN went to Guatemala in early 2014 to investigate anyone who may have received those gifts and could find no evidence that they even existed.
As a result of the complaint, two of the charities say they will close their doors. Both the Breast Cancer Society and the Children's Cancer Fund of America are being dissolved, according to the complaint. James Reynolds Jr. faces a judgment of more than $60 million in fines and Rose Perkins, who runs the Children's Cancer Fund of America, faces a judgment of around $30 million.
Under a proposed final order, the judgment against Reynolds Jr. will be suspended when he pays $75,000. The judgments against Children's Cancer Fund of America will be partly met upon liquidation of its assets, and the judgment against Perkins will be suspended due to her inability to pay.
The FTC's Jessica Rich, however, said there are few assets left. Government regulators will be lucky to recover $1 million, she told CNN.
As for James Reynolds Sr., he will contest the charges in the complaint, the government says. CNN hasn't yet been able to reach attorneys for Reynolds Sr., his son or Perkins for comment, but in a message posted on the Breast Cancer Society website, Reynolds Jr. said:
"While the organization, its officers and directors have not been found guilty of any allegations of wrong doing, and the government has not proven otherwise, our Board of Directors has decided that it does not help those who we seek to serve, and those who remain in need, for us to engage in a highly publicized, expensive, and distracting legal battle around our fundraising practices."

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 20 May 2015 22:24

Apparently the white-guys are finally cool enough to be referred to as "thugs". Now to find that third rapper after Vanilla Ice and Eminem....

Media coverage of gang violence sure looks different when the perpetrators are white

The Blakk Samurai @BlakkSamurai
Its Jim Beam and Marlboro's fault! If white ppl smoked and drank less harsh stuff they wouldnt be so violent! #StopWhiteOnWhiteCrime

maria lia calvo @MariaLiaCalvo
Has Rand Paul blamed the fatal shooting in Waco on the "lack of fathers," for in that community, yet?

RagingTeabagger @RagingTeabagger
More died today in Waco than Ferguson & Baltimore combined & the media still won't refer to bikers as thugs. Think about that. #WacoThugs

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 21 May 2015 01:40

Proof! US always highlights its Minorities. Front-page photos. Publicity! 170 arrests, but guess which is THE bad one?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 21 May 2015 02:35

vayu tuvan wrote:Jay Leno probably has pretty good IQ though I doubt he belongs to any gangs of the waco type.
TSJ: Looks like you forgot your old haunt south parking lot where people can park their automobiles for free and take the MTD buses to the quad, they have regular biker classes every weekend in the morning and evening as well as during most days of summer months. None of them are biker gangs. May be it is out west it is more like "To live and die in LA" scene.

VT, Did you know Teddy Roosevelt was also a cowboy! Watch the PBS documentary.

I know many bikers(not Harley Davidson riders!) and they find my comparisons very apt. They also call the rowdy bikers similar to outlaws.
just as the cowboy was Home on the range, the bikers are home on the highways.

I heard there are deep pisko studies on the analogy. So its not just my isolated observation.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 21 May 2015 02:40

UB, There is some Supreme Court judgment about unreasonable bail amount is tantamount to violation of due process/"habeas corpus". So some biker attorneys will bring this out. The argument is by setting an unreasonable high bail amount which the defendant cannot post, the court in effect is sentencing the person to jail term without a trial.

There is more than meets the eye in this episode.

member_22733 · Post by **member_22733** » 21 May 2015 03:42

TSJones wrote:
LokeshC wrote:If it was a clash between black biker gangs then this would have happened.

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Bikers generally don't bring children to their nasty fights. bars and casinos won't allow them there.

You missed the point. Point is if there was a black biker gang they would be treated as pagan cults and firebombed to death with military grade weapons like what happened to the MOVE group (which was not even a cult). They would not have to take their children for a shoot out at twin peaks and get killed, the state would have pre-emptively finished them off in their own homes with their children in it, after all that is what an oppressing force does. Even in dissenting within the larger society, there is only a narrow scope for a black person to make it out alive. If he steps out of bounds he WILL be killed or ruthlessly put down.

The bottom line is :- Black expression of independence and assertiveness is met with hostility and labelled as "dissent". Blacks (and other minorities) have a very narrow space to express themselves.

The roles to be played by blacks are very choreographed, and that includes even the "dissenting" roles. The roles are defined to the convenience of the white power structure. Earlier it was slave, then came a sharecropping jim crow, then the black man became violent rioting thug. Ever thought of why this is so? You must know the golden rule of power control perfected by Romans: Divide and Rule. By keeping the hillbilly rednecks barely a level above the blacks. Keeping model minorities a level separated from others the white elites protect themselves from being run over by the very people who they are busy looting. The motto (from 1750s) seems to be: Keep em rednecks drunk on the "we are superior to our neighborhood n*****rs onleee" koolaid.

This game has been going on since the Brishit land owners first brought indentured laborers into the South, the fear being that the laborers would unite and then screw them over.

In the movie "Gladiator", to divert the attention of the people from the trouble rome was in, the emperor decides to hold a Gladiator contest. People will be busy looking at a perverse game of violence and death of condemned men with fascination, ironically forgetting the pain, misery and suffering that they themselves face everyday.

That perverted fascination which existed in Rome continues to this day, just that the show is a little less macabre and "civilized".

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 21 May 2015 05:26

the court in effect is sentencing the person to jail term without a trial.

Murder-1 charges coming - or they want certain persons to cooperate and testify to make the murder-1 charges stick. Or 'clear and present danger' a revenge war if they are freed. Million-$ bail can't be explained any other way.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 21 May 2015 05:50

How come it's not illegal to post these online? No presumption of innocence? Constitutions doesn't apply to CNN?

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 21 May 2015 08:47

Obama Administration will no longer provide surplus military weapons to police force.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 21 May 2015 09:27

UlanBatori wrote:How come it's not illegal to post these online? No presumption of innocence? Constitutions doesn't apply to CNN?

arrests are considered to be in the public domain....the founders were more concerned about *secret* arrests and incarcerations.

Neela · Post by **Neela** » 21 May 2015 10:17

On the left is ISIS. On my right AAAMMERRRIKUH.Ding Ding. Round 1

In 1868, with Amendment XIV, the Constitution had finally given black men full citizenship and promised them equal protection under the law. Blacks voted, won elected office, and served on juries. However, 10 years later, federal troops withdrew from the South, returning it to local white rule. And now, the Republican Party, champion of Reconstruction and freedmen’s rights, had fallen from national power. Would black people’s rights survive?

After a few weeks on the road, Stewart decided they would. True, terrorism against blacks — lynching, rape, arson — ran unchecked. True, many rural blacks lived under a sharecropping system little better than slavery.

Fast forward to 2015. The means have changed. The ends the same. Terrorism against the Blacks continues under the garb of "Zero tolerance to crime" .
Whatever the ISIS have done, it is no different from what Amreekis do. ISIS is shown as macabre. If the victim were to choose, he would go for Amerikkuh. Now I thought about it. it felt logical the victim chose Amerikkuh. But then, if I think harder, I should be ashamed of Amerikkuh.

Betting on ISIS though .
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Cant find that statistic - probably in the tweets if TaNehisi Coates. There was 400% more arrests of Black males when compared to any other group - or some such.
This is a society with congenital racist attitudes. it stems from its very founding.

anmol · Post by **anmol** » 21 May 2015 10:48

Just googled it, it is still returns White House for "Nigger House".

Google says sorry over racist Google Maps White House search results
by Samuel Gibbs, theguardian.com
May 20th 2015

Google has apologised after searches which include the racist slur “nigger” were shown to find the White House in Google Maps.

Related: Where does Google Maps think you are?

Searches for “nigger house”, in a global view of the world, and for “nigger king”, when focused on in the Washington DC greater area, return with the home of the US president Barack Obama as either the primary search result or one of three.

“Some inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologise for any offence this may have caused. Our teams are working to fix this issue quickly,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. It has not explained why the results are occurring.

At the time of writing, the racist search results had not been fixed. They were first exposed by the Washington Post on Tuesday.

It is not the first time a Google search-based product has appeared to be racist. In 2010, the company’s search auto-complete system suggested racist queries after simply typing “why”, while its advertising system was shown to be 25% more likely to bring up ads for criminal record checks when searching for traditionally black names.

Both systems are automated, taking user input from the billions of searches performed using Google to predict likely queries and results.

But Google was also forced to shut off its crowd-sourced Map Maker system for Google Maps, which allowed user-generated corrections and additions to maps, after pranks including a picture of an Android robot urinating on an Apple logo.

Google said it had been experiencing “escalated attacks to spam Google Maps over the past few months”. Whether the latest incident is a hack by a third-party or an issue with Google’s algorithm is unknown.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 21 May 2015 11:24

Perverted b^st^rds!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 62436.html
US college 'forced' medical students to have vaginal examinations

The students claim they submitted under duress to the probes, which at times required their bodies to be sexually stimulated by other students to facilitate insertion, experiencing “discomfort and embarrassment each time they had to endure this forced probing of their sexual organs,” their case states.

When the students protested against the procedure, they were allegedly told by the clinical and laboratory co-ordinator that they could find a different school, their grades would be reduced and that they would be blacklisted from local hospital jobs.

Despite the students having access to anatomically correct dummies and the chance to practice on actual patients during clinics in hospital, “Valencia’s established and widespread policy was to browbeat students who did not consent to those invasive probes,” the lawsuit states.

“Plaintiffs endured these invasive probes without a modicum of privacy. Plaintiffs would disrobe in a restroom, drape themselves in towels, and traverse the sonography classroom in full view of instructors and other students,” the lawsuit states.

Using volunteers, including students, for medical sonography training is a nationally accepted practice, said Carol Traynor, spokeswoman for Valencia College in a statement on Monday.

Read more:
• How medical students are gaining vital examination experience
• Broken hymen cannot determine whether a woman has had sex
• 'Humiliating' internal examinations are traumatic for doctors too

Traynor added that the university had not yet been served with the lawsuit and would not be able to comment, but added: “Valencia College's sonography program has upheld the highest standards with respect to ultrasound scanning for educational purposes, including voluntary participation and professional supervision by faculty in a controlled laboratory setting.

“Nonetheless, we continue to review this practice and others to ensure that they are effective and appropriate for the learning environment.”

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 21 May 2015 18:39

Oh! Someone already posted what I was in danger of posting.

BTW, there is NO truth to the rumor that the US State Dept is considering changing the name and all references to NIG***A to "A***canAmericaia" to remain PC-Compliant.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 21 May 2015 18:45

Still does.

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
The White House1600 Pennsylvania Ave NWWashington, DC 20500
whitehouse.gov
(202) 456-1111

What exactly is Googal doing, with all its execs and expertise? They are going to get sold to the Chinese any moment if they keep this up..
Have u wondered what **OTHER** search terms end up there as well? Someone had to have done this deliberately.

Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 21 May 2015 19:55

MAybe there are enough racist US sites that deliberately associate white house with negro house/obama, and the google bots created a strong association between the two terms. This is more than likely given the proliferation of racist websites and republican websites (large overlap) that don't quite like obama.

A less likely alternative is that someone who knew how google's search engine worked with google maps seems to have created enough connections between NHouse and W House so that search for the former pointed out the latter on the white house.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 21 May 2015 21:53

Hey shiv! Do u c what i c hiyar w.r.t. possibilities in Northern Keralastan and n.Arunachalam?

How does one provide such directions discreetly I wonder?

Tuvaluan · Post by **Tuvaluan** » 21 May 2015 22:54

After doing some "research" and check out what happens if you type in "house nigga" -- there is also a "white house nigga" in Urban dictionary, which is probably considered authoritative by the google search engine. Search engines search for the intersection pages with both words and so the terms house, nigga, white, and obama all appear in the Urban Dictionary defintion of "white house nigga". googal will fix this one occurrence, but I suppose getting it into as many "authoritative" sites would be key exploiting this. These theories can be tested out with some wikipedia pages and other sites that carry the same three keywords over and over, even BRF is spammed by google bots, so we can even try an experiment with some thread that google bots chew on.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 22 May 2015 02:46

But if I read this right, the achievement was achieved using Googal's kind provision of a user-initiated Location Description, hain? Strictly based on Googalmaps, not other websites. I could not find any way that an aam user could do anything, not even to post pics (which is a bit hazardous, BTW, hard to not expose eyepee from where it is uploaded).

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 22 May 2015 06:05

Bojitive Neuj or WHAT?
CNN:

Bandidos said to be stockpiling military explosives
The bikers say police shot "their brothers," and they want revenge, a police bulletin warns. FULL STORY

Didn't Texas National Guard recently get called out to keep the US Army in line?

member_22733 · Post by **member_22733** » 22 May 2015 06:30

If the bikers really said that or even whispered about it in private they are as good as dead. They cannot be that stupid. If they are that stupid then all I can say is Adios Bandidos.

g.sarkar · Post by **g.sarkar** » 22 May 2015 06:48

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sub ... -1.2230656
Subway pusher Erika Menendez gets 24 years for 2012 shove that killed a man
The deranged Queens woman who pushed a man to his death on a subway platform was sentenced Wednesday to 24 years in prison.
Erika Menendez, 33, stood silently as Judge Gregory Lasak handed down the sentence.
“Thank you judge,” she said softly as she was slammed with one year less than the maximum for the first-degree manslaughter charge.
Menendez pleaded guilty in March to pushing Sunando Sen in front of the 7 train in 2012.
Lasak said the cold-blooded murder on the 40th St. subway station in Sunnyside was an unconscionable act.
“That’s a horrible way to die,” Lasak said. “You picked out Mr. Sen and you stood behind him and you followed him.”
Assistant District Attorney Peter Lomp called the case one of the worst in his career.
“It’s about as horrific a crime as I can possibly recall in 22 years of prosecuting,” Lomp said.
Lomp read statements from two of Sen’s friends sitting in the courtroom, who described Sen as a gentle man who came to the United States to leave behind a history of his family’s religious persecution as Hindus in Bangladesh.
“He was a good and honorable man in every way, and was also loved by the entire community in which he worked,” said Bidyut Sarker, a colleague who called Sen as close as a family member.
“A person with this degree of mental illness of blind hatred has no business to walk among us ... please protect us,” he urged the judge......"
Gautam

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 22 May 2015 22:55

The News getting More Bojitive All The Time

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of people marched in Washington state's capital city to protest a police shooting that wounded two unarmed stepbrothers suspected of trying to steal beer from a grocery store.

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 23 May 2015 02:15

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html

Schneider is the only pediatric dentist in Jacksonville who took Medicaid, so his practice attracted poorer clients, according to the lawsuit.

Who would be poor and on Medicaid?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 23 May 2015 19:35

Festivities expected: Good day to stay away from Cleveland.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 23 May 2015 21:21

***NOT GUILTY**** Guy climbed on hood of a car that was trapped between several trucks and cars, aimed down at the two unarmed ppl inside the car, and shot them at least 15 times. Their crime? Their car back-fired, and the kind Polis immediately pulled out their guns and shot 137 times at them.

Justice, USA-style.

Brelo's actions -- jumping onto the stopped car in a middle school parking lot and firing 15 shots after he and his colleagues fired more than 100 times in the mistaken belief that the pair had fired a gun -- were constitutionally justifiable because it wasn't clear that any perceived threat to the officers was over, (white) Judge John P. O'Donnell ruled.

Of course - DUH! They were not a threat to begin with, so nothing changed - the PERCEIVED threat was not over until they were both dead. And they were guilty of being MINORITIES. Q.E.D.

chanakyaa · Post by **chanakyaa** » 23 May 2015 23:50

Statistics are scary

One in Five U.S. Women Have Been Raped, CDC Survey Shows (Source: Bloomberg)

Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- One in five women in the U.S. has been raped at some point in their lives, a survey found, and most victims experienced sexual violence before age 25.

More than 19 percent of women and almost 2 percent of men have been raped at one point in their lives, according to the 2011 data, an increase of about 1 percentage point from a year earlier. In addition, 44 percent of women and 23 percent of men said they have experienced other forms of sexual violence in their lives, including unwanted sexual contact and sexual coercion.

“That’s down from 20 years ago, but it’s still an overwhelming number,” said Scott Berkowitz, president of the Washington-based Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.

According to RAINN

1 out of every 6 women has been the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime (14.8% completed rape; 2.8% attempted rape)

9 of every 10 rape victims were female in 2003 (So there is one guy...yikes)

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 24 May 2015 20:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6G6CZT7h4k

Gandhi vs Martin Luther King Jr. Epic Rap Battles of History Season 2

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 25 May 2015 12:12

That stat should be put up at every US airport,port and on the form of those applying for a visa!

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m ... o-ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro: treatment of African Americans is a 'buried giant' for the US
Race problems in America are a ‘buried giant’ – something general society might prefer to forget – according to Booker prize winner

Sunday 24 May 2015 21.35 BST Last modified on Sunday 24 May 2015
The treatment of African Americans is emerging as one of America’s “buried giants”, a subject that the general population might prefer to forget, Booker prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro has said.

Speaking to the BBC’s Martha Kearney at the Hay Festival on Sunday, the author said he had become fascinated with the idea of “societal memory and collective forgetting” when writing his new novel The Buried Giant, his first book in a decade.

Ishiguro said he had become aware that much of his earlier work was about the memories of individuals, and he wanted to examine the memory of a society, and what societies are willing to forget – the “buried giants” of the book’s title.

Unwilling to be drawn into specifics about Britain’s “buried giants”, Ishiguro said he saw the treatment of racial minorities in America as an example of collective forgetfulness.

“They are really struggling with race problems right now, and I heard someone say in America that perhaps what was needed was an official procedure, like the truth and reconciliation [commission] in South Africa after apartheid, about the treatment of African Americans throughout history, because it will not go away,” he remarked.

“Others say it is better to forget, because to bring that subject up again will create a whole new angry generation. There are things that societies feel, collectively, that it is better to forget.”

The author said that, though he could have set his novel in Rwanda or in Kosovo, he had picked a semi-mythical setting of historical Britain to avoid any implication that he was writing about any particular country or war.

Ishiguro, who recently turned 60, said he had begun to look more critically at his earlier works, like the Man Booker prize-winning The Remains of The Day, and the assumptions he made as a younger man writing about age.

“I actually have begun to question whether the whole premise of those books were right, to be honest,” he said. “When I was younger and wrote books like The Remains of the Day, I assumed that if you get your moral values right at a certain stage, you can steer a good course through your life.

“I think that was the unexamined assumption I had when I wrote that, and when I wrote An Artist of the Floating World. When I got into my 40s, I thought ‘that was a little naive’.

“That whole model of figuring out values, debating them in pubs and student halls of residence, and then those values then seeing you through [life], applies only up to a point. Actually, you discover you do not have that much control over your life.”

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 25 May 2015 20:43

"Truth and reconciliation" - like South Africa after apartheid! It seems entire NGO industry in USA, moral keepers, even those who write tomes of secularism seem to be totally unaware of it

. No one seems to know how can this happen in the most powerful country, the most educated and wealthiest, in fact the only superpower in the world?

Multatuli · Post by **Multatuli** » 27 May 2015 13:06

Penn State fraternity shut down for three years after nude photos

Penn State University on Tuesday said it was withdrawing recognition from a fraternity for three years after members were accused of posting pictures they took of mostly undressed women onto private Facebook pages.

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Sims said instances of physical and emotionally abusive hazing were uncovered during the investigation, including boxing matches set up between pledges, in addition to drug use and sales within the fraternity.

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The fraternity was suspended as of March 3 after the images of the women, who were passed out or sleeping, were uploaded to the social media accounts. The pages had about 150 members including students and alumni, according to media.

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Cases of racism, hazing, nude photos, vandalism and a death have rocked U.S. college fraternities in recent months, including a University of Oklahoma fraternity that was closed after a video surfaced online in which students chanted about lynchings and used racist epithets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/ ... 9K20150527

University of North Carolina gets NCAA findings in academic fraud probe

The University of North Carolina said on Friday it has received a notice from the NCAA indicating possible rules violations connected to the school's academic fraud scandal.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association notice comes seven months after an independent investigation by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein revealed that more than 3,000 students at the university in Chapel Hill received credit for fake classes over an 18-year period.

The "irregular classes" offered from 1993 to 2011 had no class attendance or faculty involvement and allowed many of the students to remain eligible to play sports, Wainstein found.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/ ... BO20150522

member_22733 · Post by **member_22733** » 28 May 2015 02:52

America the pure

In most places where Europeans and Africans have mixed, the colour line is not so sharp. Those who are mixed are often recognized as being neither black nor white, but something in between – like the Coloureds in South Africa. What makes America so different?

White women.

In British India the colour line between the English and Indians did not harden till white women started coming from England.

The same happened in America. When the English came to America they brought their wives and daughters with them. Other Europeans, by and large, left them at home to keep them safe.

This meant that white men in America had a real chance to marry white and have white children. They had the luxury of disowning any mixed children they had because they would not be their only children. And if they did not disown them, their white wives would see to it that they did.

On a serious note, the above makes it clear how the Brishit and Anglo Saxon ideas of race were sucked up by the white women. White women feminists are the most virulent latent racists that you will ever come across.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 28 May 2015 07:36

A(wo)men to that.

What "latent"? More like (b)Latant