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looks like you don't know what this law is: an individual or organisation proposing a boycott may be sued for compensation by any individual or institution facing possible damage as a result. Evidence of actual damage will not be required. It bans consumer boycotts of goods and services produced in West Bank settlements and the blacklisting of cultural and academic institutions in settlements. It also bars the government from doing business with companies that comply with boycotts. link

there are some feel good stories coming out of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gex_ya4-Oo

how is he a darwin award winner?

this is an opportunity for you to run into another thread and throw your shit around.

to be clear, i'm not saying it's right or wrong for the immigration regulations to become more strict. i'm also not saying we're receiving less immigrants due to the changing policies. i'm only sharing the trend and the direction immigration in canada is going towards and to perhaps counter the misconceptions, assumptions and accusations for those who seem to be anti-immigration. to answer your question, i would need to see the information you're referring to.

perhaps the article doesn't go deep enough for some, but it does provide a good perspective on the variety of people who are involved by describing who they are and what their intentions may be. someone like scotty may benefit from reading such an article so they don't throw around comments like: "they're mostly blacks and turks"

link "shots were fired and a 29-year-old man died....It is believed that two shots were fired by a firearms officer....A non-police issue handgun was recovered....An officer's radio which appears to have a bullet lodged in it has also been recovered." this implies that the police were shot at. by the way, having a gun does not warrant being executed. i wonder why you're so quick to jump in there for big brother. the government does not need a marketing department when they have people like you.

bonam is a victim.

Mark Duggan did not shoot at police, says IPCC IPCC releases initial findings of ballistics tests in police shooting of Mark Duggan, whose death sparked London riots link there was no shootout. the police killed a man who did not fire any shots. but the police lied and said there was a gun battle. people suspected that he was assassinated and now it's turning out that the suspicions were true.

or was it that the guy was killed by the police and the rumours about the police lying about him shooting at them have turned out to be true? you're always so quick to jump in there to protect big brother.

what's wrong with you?

the killing of a black man that triggered the riots also created the myth that it's black men and asians who are behind the riots and looting. here is a good article in the guardian which tries to look deeper into the people behind the riots and looting. Anyone who has witnessed the disturbances up close will know there is no simple answer to the question: who are the rioters? Attempts to use simple categorisations to describe the looters belies the complex make-up of those who have been participating. ... Take events in Chalk Farm, north London. First the streets contained people of all backgrounds sprinting off with bicycles looted from Evans Cycles. Three Asian men in their 40s, guarding a newsagent, discussed whether they should also take advantage of the apparent suspension of law. "If we go for it now, we can get a bike," said one. "Don't do it," said another. Others were not so reticent; a white woman and a man emerged carrying a bike each. A young black teenager, aged about 14, came out smiling, carrying another bike, only for it be snatched from him by an older man. They were just some of the crowd of about 100 who had gathered on the corner; a mix of the curious and angry, young and old. It was impossible to distinguish between thieves, bystanders and those who simply wanted to cause damage. ... In Tottenham on Saturday many of those who gathered at the police station to protest against the shooting of Mark Duggan were, like him, black. But others were Asian and white. By the following day, as the looting spread to other north London suburbs, there appeared to have been a slight shift in the demographic, which started to look younger. In Enfield most of those who gathered in the town centre were white. The youngest looked about 10-years-old. Those taking part in the battles in Hackney's Pembury estate on Monday included many women. Teenage girls helped carry debris to form the burning barricades or made piles of rocks. ... When another group finished ransacking a pawnbroker's and started cleaning out a local fashion boutique, an angry young black woman berated one of them. "You're taking the piss, man. That woman hand-stitches everything, she's built that shop up from nothing. It's like stealing from your mum." A girl holding a looted wedding dress smiled sheepishly, stuck for anything to say. Jay Kast, 24, a youth worker from East Ham who has witnessed rioting across London over the last three nights, said he was concerned that black community leaders were wrongly identifying a problem "within". "I've seen Turkish boys, I've seen Asian boys, I've seen grown white men," he said. "They're all out there taking part." He recognised an element of opportunism in the mass looting but said an underlying cause was that many young people felt "trapped in the system". "They're disconnected from the community and they just don't care," he said.

it's not sustainable to end immigration. we're not having enough children to take care of the retired and old. we need young skilled and semi-skilled people to continue to immigrate to canada. canada's immigration policy is actually quite strict and it continues to become more and more difficult for non-skilled people to immigrate to canada. our immigration policy has been updated a few times in the past decade to reflect our economic needs. for example, at the moment, in the most popular immigration program, federal skilled program, people with experience in 29 occupations are able to apply. not only do you need to have at least 1 year experience in one of the occupations, but you also need at least a university degree and a high language level to be able to apply. immigration is not the problem. you guys are chasing ghosts. the problem is the structure of the social system and the power of the multi-national companies who have gained much influence in our governments.

i fully agree. it was unfair of me to make this sound like i was blaming the american system as this could have happened in many other number of places. but i do believe there is something wrong with the system as i don't think the jury system is fair and just. i wish we could find a way to improve it. for example, the introduction of dna as evidence not only freed many wrongly convicted people, but it also showed the shortcomings in relying on jurors to make the correct decision.

i was stunned when i read about this case. maybe it's the excessive information from the casey anthony trial debacle that i'm unable to escape from, which has me bewildered and questioning the system in general. from relying on a jury to the laws and the penalties handed down. this partially blind man, who admitted to drinking and taking drugs would probably have not killed the child if he was sober. he also has received previous convictions. why did he only get 6 months in jail? the question of racial bias in this can be questionable but that's a whole other issue.

the head of scotland yard has resigned over the corruption charges meaning that this is not a problem with just a few people. how the hell do you know that the police officers involved in investigating the death of the whistleblower are not also corrupt? you don't. so considering the circumstances, it is very reasonable to assume that they can also be corrupt and their announcement that the death is not suspicious can be and should be questioned. what a dimwitted response. don't be silly. the whistleblower would have been one of the witnesses in outing the corrupt people involved in the police force. it is reasonable to assume that others in the police force could be involved in further corruption in order to cover their department. here, dimwit, take a look at this: UK Police corruption probes in 19 forces Nearly half of all police forces in England and Wales have officers facing charges of corruption or dishonesty, according to a survey by The Times newspaper. Altogether 105 police officers in 19 out of 43 forces are under investigation. They include high-ranking officers such as superintendents and detective chief inspectors. London's Metropolitan Police has by far the greatest problem with 51 officers suspended.

why don't you give it a rest so you wouldn't look more like a dimwit? if people in the police force are capable of being corrupt by taking money to do illegal activities in regards to the very same case, why isn't it reasonable to assume that people in the police force who are dealing with the death of this man, who was a whistleblower involving the same case, could be lying?

is the jury system in america working? A grieving African-American mother in Georgia is facing the potential of more time in prison than the drunk driver who struck and killed her child and then fled the scene. Raquel Nelson lost her four-year-old son while trying to shuttle him across a five-lane highway, along with two of her other children. Jerry Guy, a partially blind man who has admitted to having consumed alcohol and painkillers beforehand, hit the young boy with his vehicle. The child later died of his injuries. Nelson and her daughter were also struck and suffered injuries. An all-white jury has convicted Nelson of homicide by vehicle in the second degree, jaywalking and reckless conduct. She could serve up to three years in prison. Meanwhile, the drunk driver, Guy, who was previously convicted of two hit-and-runs in one day in 1997, was initially charged with hit and run, first degree homicide by a vehicle and cruelty to children. But the charges were later dropped to simply hit and run. Guy served a six-month jail term and will spend the remainder of his five-year sentence on probation. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/20/headlines#13 http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/pedestrian-convicted-of-vehicular-1014879.html http://www.examiner.com/green-transportation-in-national/marietta-pedestrian-convicted-of-vehicular-manslaughter-while-walking

so you're not going to admit that likud's platform, who is heading the government of israel says that they will never allow a palestinian state? what about the rest of the coalition? yisrael beitenu? shas? jewish home? where do they stand? face it rue. i actually gave you a statement of likud where they have said that they will never allow a palestinian state and you're still fumbling around and going into long drivels, unable to admit a simple truth. i'm sorry for you.

the wife is wendy deng. a 42 year old chinese woman who has become murdoch's access into the chinese market. his son did nothing but to look on while facial cream man went for his father. he was frozen. these guys are pencil pushers and nothing else.

absolutely nothing, you dimwit.

touché.

you're really reaching. you're just upset because bush (and cheney) fucked up your country and you're unable to admit to it.

US is fucked. bush shouldn't have listened to israel and shouldn't have invaded iraq. he should have listened to his daddy. they were better off with saddam there. not only are there more people dying in iraq (which really isn't an issue), but the current shia government is iran-friendly. not to mention that there is a very powerful man, with a strong following, and backed by iran, sitting and waiting for his opportunity; muqtada al-sadr.

sure. Senior journalists at the News of the World paid police officers to find celebrities or other people they wanted to write about by tracking their mobile phone signal, it was reported on Tuesday. The technique, which was know as "pinging" in the paper's newsroom, pinpoints handsets by using mobile phone masts to measure the strength of their signal, according to the New York Times. Its use normally has to be authorised by the police and security forces with the mobile phone networks on a case-by-case basis under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), in which a request signed by a senior police officer is sent to the network authorising the location of the phone. Using those powers to locate individuals who were not the subject of a police surveillance or serious crime investigation would constitute a breach of Ripa - which was the basis for the jailing of the News of the World's royal editor Clive Goodman in 2007.