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Sep
On The Home Front in the Homeland: Security Insanity
WASHINGTON POST: EPA ASLEEP ON THE JOB
Shocking: Bush’s EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters
The Environmental Protection Agency’s pursuit of criminal cases against polluters has dropped off sharply during the Bush administration, with the number of prosecutions, new investigations and total convictions all down by more than a third, according to Justice Department and EPA data. (By John Solomon and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post)
AIRPORT SECURITY CAN KILL
PHOENIX - A woman late to her plane became irate, was put in handcuffs and was later found dead in a holding cell, police said. Authorities were investigating Saturday if the woman choked herself while trying to get free from the handcuffs.
Carol Ann Gotbaum, 45, of New York, was arrested Friday at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after a conflict with gate crews who refused to allow her to board a plane, said Sgt. Andy Hill, a Phoenix police spokesman.
The airline said the plane was already preparing to depart. She was rebooked on the next flight, but “she became extremely irate, apparently running up and down the gate area,” US Airways spokesman Derek Hanna said Saturday.
SCHOOL SECURITY MADNESS
Student has arm broken for dropping a piece of cake
Fox News reports locally:
Palmdale — A walkout is planned for this morning by some students at Knight High School in Palmdale. They are protesting what they call an “unprovoked assault” on two students by a security guard. The incident apparently left a 15-year-old girl with a broken wrist. Some students and the girl’s parents want the guard fired.
AP reports: High-Priced Student Loans Spell Trouble
Explosion in High-Priced Student Loans Sow Seeds of Trouble for U.S. Economic Growth
Professor Robert Manning, the editorial advisor to my film IN DEBT WE TRUST sent the story along with this note:
The US debt crisis hits with the coming economic slowdown. It will not only hit students and recent grads but also parents that will spend money helping with student loans rather than contributing to their retirement accounts in the post-”defined” pension era. Oh, my, it is going to be bad…
Speaking of credit cards, have you seen the new wave of ads selling us the “swipe” idea arguing that you can now pay your bills even faster…..Mmmmmmm
LETTER:
Chris Skiers writes:
As a professional young Black woman and now FORMER Glamour magazine reader, I am sadened by the above referenced article where a Glamour employee and editor addressed a group of lawyers indicating that certain Black ethnic hairstyles in the office were inappropriate. Please know that this article is being circulated so that the greater public can be made aware of this careless and ignorant mentality.
What is more hysterical is the hidden response to the incident from Cindi Leive that is located on the Glamour magazine website. If you do not click on the box, readers will have no clue as to what she is responding to. To me, this is insufficient. I think the header needs to specify what she’s responding to!
I am hoping that CondeNast can address this incident in an upcoming Glamour magazine article, apologizing to all Black women. It’s unfortunate in this day in age that the CondeNast culture is unsupportive of recognizing the true beauty of Black women in all of it’s diverse forms. Despite what Leive says, if CondeNast and Glamour were truly an organization that didn’t support that type of behavior, this incident would not have even occured.
I’d like to challenge CondeNast by asking them to put more Black women and other women of color in their magazines! It should not be once a year or less that I see women like me on their covers.
Thank you for your attention to this.
JOURNALISTS PROTEST IN PAKISTAN
Via Lady Jane Stahl:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Journalists staged rallies across Pakistan, marking Sunday as a “black day” to condemn police beatings during opposition protests against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s pursuit of another five-year term.
The protests came a day after Musharraf picked up a key legal victory when the Election Commission approved his candidacy for the Oct. 6 vote as lawyers and opposition activists protested outside. Police wielded batons and fired tear gas to disperse them before turning on journalists covering the melee in Islamabad.
Sixty-four people were injured, including 13 police officials, 31 journalists, two opposition lawmakers and several passers-by, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported Sunday, citing an official statement.
Wearing black armbands and carrying black flags, journalists were joined by opposition activists, legislators and lawyers in a rally Sunday in the capital. About 1,000 people chanted “We want freedom” and “No to rules of oppression.”
Rallies also were held in Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore. In Multan, more than 400 protesters burned tires near the city’s press club.”
QUESTION TO 60 MINUTES ON “INTERVIEW” WITH CLARENCE THOMS
Yo, do you ever get the big “gets,” ie. the major interviews when there is no book to sell?
STILL HERE
Welcome to a new week and hopefully a new era. We are still here thanks to Media Tenor’s 9th inning save. Please stay with us and help us build a more sustainable Mediachannel.
Comments to: Dissector@mediachannel.org
Yes, I have seen the new credit card commercials showing folks paying cash “slowing down” the rest of the “smart people” swiping their cards.
Indeed, perhaps the remedy would be to just swipe, but not wait for approval, the receipt to be printed out, nor sign for the transaction, rather, just swipe grab your goods and “walk away.”
Tell the judge you saw it on tv……the brainwashing of the masses in assisting corporate monitoring of their spending habits.
Baaaaaaaa! Baaaaaa!!
October 1st, 2007 at 7:24 am