[PageSix] Prince played two shows in Washington, DC, on Sunday, but he also gave a private VIP performance at the White House on Saturday night to celebrate African-American Music Appreciation Month.
Spies exclusively told Page Six that the "Raspberry Beret" singer brought Stevie Wonder up onstage for a surprise duet at the show for President Barack and Michelle Obama and 500 lucky guests. It's good to be the king.
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D *** NG, was Diane invited - she's a big fan of Prince = the He-She-It Artiste' formerly known as Prince just as I am of MADONNA, although I don't think being a fan of Prince gave her any Jedi-Sith powers???
[NEWSWEEK] For centuries the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter," has been held up as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.
It was signed, or more accurately sealed, by England's King John on June 15, 1215, in a field 20 miles outside London. By all accounts, the move was a capitulation, not a heartfelt act of goodwill. The monarch was pressured into it by barons unhappy with his reign, and in particular with the taxes he had levied on them to pay for his disastrous military campaigns in La Belle France.
Though initially created to appease only a select few, today the document is considered influential in the establishment of democratic governments and legal systems worldwide--an affirmation that no man, not even a king, is beyond the rule of law. Lots more hole follows, with no donut.
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The .001% yield to the 1%. 500+ years later, across the pond, the 1% yield to the 10%. 200+ years later the mob rules.
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For centuries the Magna Carta, or "Great Charter," has been held up as an enduring symbol of freedom and democracy.
Straw man argument.
It was and still is an example of curtailing unrestrained power of those exercising government. That those seeking unlimited and incontestable power, should not be allowed to rule.
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FREEREPUBLIC Artic = indics that the Magna Carta may have links to early Scottish andor Irish democracy as Representatives from these lands allegedly also signed the charter agz King John.
[AP] NEW YORK -- Gap plans to close 175 of its namesake stores in North America, or 18 percent of its current total, and cut 250 jobs at its headquarters as the company tries to strengthen the struggling brand.
Gap Inc., which owns Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, said Monday it will close about 140 Gap stores in North America in the fiscal year that ends Jan. 31 -- and the remainder afterward -- based on factors that include location and performance. The San Francisco company also is closing an undisclosed number of stores in Europe. And it's cutting jobs at its headquarters in an attempt to make it faster and more decisive.
The moves are the latest attempt by the once high-flying company to improve the shaky performance at its namesake brand. The brand that used to be a go-to for generations of khaki pants wearers has suffered in more recent years as it's failed to keep up with the right design trends.
To help right the ship, Gap has shaken up its management ranks: Art Peck became CEO in February and leadership of the Gap and Banana Republic brands was changed. The company also has been working to overhaul its fashions to improve their appeal. And it got rid of its Piperlime line.
The latest moves are aimed at making the company more nimble. Gap said the job cuts at its headquarters, in particular, are intended to make it faster and more decisive. In total, Gap said store closings and job cuts will save it around $25 million a year. The company said it will take about $140 million to $160 million in charges related to the moves.
[DAWN] In the recent recruitment for educators, more than 40 teachers got jobs on fake documents but only seven teachers have been booked.
Sources in the education department also claim that since 2012 more than 100 teachers were recruited in the education department against fake degrees.
City police have so far started the paperwork but haven't done much else against only three female teachers, three male teachers and a computer operator of monitoring team for getting educators' jobs on fake documents.
Some teachers who had got jobs on fake result cards of the National Testing Service (NTS) sent their resignations to the department on Saturday.
Talking to Dawn, DCO Hafiz Shaukat Ali said he was making a team which would probe recruitment made in the department since 2012. He said he was looking into the matter as new cases were surfacing through the media and he would make a special team which would grill the scrutiny committee and monitoring officials who were responsible for verification of documents and degrees.
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[DAWN] Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Education Department has terminated more than 800 illegal teachers in the province in an ongoing scrutiny, according to Balochistan Education Secretary Saboor Kakar.
While talking to Dawn.com, Kakar said, "Ghost teachers had been drawing salaries from the national exchequer for the last few years."
The government has also launched a process to verify documents and appointment orders of all teachers working in the province, said the education secretary, adding that in the past, a large number of fake and ghost teachers had succeeded in cementing ties with officers in the education department.
"An inquiry is already underway against officers responsible for payment of salaries to these fake teachers," Kakar said.
"We have removed their names from our lists rather than terminating them. Since they were never appointed to begin with, we have simply removed their names," he said.
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[HumanRightsVoices] "The U.N. peacekeepers arrive; months later, some leave infants behind. Now the United Nations has quietly started to offer DNA testing to help prove paternity claims and ensure support for the so-called 'peacekeeper babies.'
It's a delicate step, as countries that contribute U.N. troops might not welcome a practice that could prove not only fatherhood but wrongdoing. Of the dozen paternity claims received last year, four were associated with alleged sexual abuse of a minor...
No one knows how many children have been fathered by U.N. peacekeepers over the decades in some of the world's most troubled places. About 125,000 peacekeepers are deployed in 16 locations, almost all in Africa or the Middle East. Sexual abuse and exploitation remains a problem, with little support available for victims.
While the U.N. has worked with member states before on paternity claims, it only started offering a DNA collection protocol, and testing kits, last year...
Almost half of the paternity claims reported since January 2010 -- 14 out of 29 -- were made by minors who said they had been sexually abused. The U.N., nervous about angering member states amid a persistent need for peacekeepers, does not even list the countries whose troops are accused..."
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...Right there next to the unstoppable missile jammer and the missile that shot down the meteor a year or so back...
Mike
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Well considering how well their T-50 stealth fighter and new tank are doing... they might get something like this up. In say.... oh.... around 2146.
* FYI MOSCOW TIMES > RUSSIA-CHINA ALLIANCE COULD LAUNCH NEW WORLD ORDER.
This is debatable given all the criticism on the China MilBlogs about Russia's "best" military systems still being too "old school" [obsolete] for up-n-comer, Russian BFF = BFRNF? China's tastes???
VERSUS
* GROONG > [Sputnik] US WANTS TO TURN UKRAINE INTO NATO BASE TO LAUNCH ATTACKS AGZ RUSSIA - POLITICIAN [Italian MP].
* BIGNEWSNETWORK, TOPIX > CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS TO BE MOST IMPORTANT IN 21ST CENTURY.
* DAILY STAR.LB > PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA WILL BE FORCED TO AIM ITS ARMED FORCES AT [Any Each + All] AGGRESSORS, + their sovereign territories from whence their threat to Russia cameth.
* GROONG > [AFP] POST-COLD WAR GERMANY "STILL OCCUPIED" BY THE US [WW2 Allied = Euro Powers] - EX-CHIEF [Gert R. Polli] OF AUSTRIAN INTELLIGENCE [BVT].
* RUSSIA INSIDER > SAAKASHVILI: UKRAINE WILL RETRUN TO PRE-MAIDAN GDP LEVELS ... IN 20 YEARS.
Again, PUTIN = RUSSIA desires to keep both Post-Cold War Germany [Ukraine = Germany 2/Lite] + Modern Turkey under control + espec NON-NUCLEAR.
* GROONG > THE CONCEPT OF A "GREATER ALBANIA", including "Pan-Alban Union".
D *** NG, DO THE MAQYARS + CHIKS KNOW???
* GROONG > GREECE THE NEXT "YUGOSLAVIA" [breakup]?
GRREK MINISTER CLAIMS EUROPE [Euro-Union] AT WAR WID ATHENS.
* WASHINGTON POST > RUSSIA SAYS IT WILL MATCH ANY US [US-NATO/EU] MILITARY BUILDUP IN EASTERN EUROPE, all along its borders wid Europe = EU.
Bullet-riddled windows, yellow crime scene tape, and evidence markers denoting where shell casings fell on the sidewalk are becoming all-too-familiar sights on New York City streets.
Now in an unprecedented move, a federal agency is joining the effort to get gun crimes under control, CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported Monday. Why does this feel like the beginning of a federal police force that will be forced upon every city, town and village in the US?
Kramer is told it was a collective decision made by the federal government, the NYPD, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. All blazing pillars of government sanity and restraint
Those agencies are mounting a first-ever anti-gun initiative in high-crime areas.
"There's going to be an increase in federal arrests â no doubt," said AFT agent Charles Mulham.
Mulham's words were intended to be a stiff warning to city residents who would carry weapons, and seem all to ready to use them. They will not only have to deal with the NYPD, but they will have the feds on their tail too.
ATF agents have mounted a first-ever summer gun initiative to get illegal weapons off the street.
And when the feds get involved, Mulham warned, "In many cases, the punishment is more severe."
And Mulham said the feds will not rest with nabbing the triggerman.
"Of course, when the ATF gets involved with our resources and our tracing expertise, we'll be able to figure out if weapon is part of an interstate trafficking operation," Mulham said.
With the increase in gun violence this summer, many more local shooting cases will be reviewed for possible prosecution in federal court.
"Now the government will even be also scrutinize the one-time felons, and they don't necessarily have to have violent backgrounds," Mulham said. "They can be people with non-violent backgrounds, but have a felony nonetheless, and now arrested with a weapon." And inevitably some innocent people will get caught up in this mess
The initiative comes as the NYPD is dealing with a surge in gun crimes. This past weekend alone, there were 13 shooting incidents â 17 victims, and two homicides.
And that tally did not include a shooting at a Brooklyn sports bar early Monday morning, where surveillance video showed a gunman opening fire just after closing and striking four people.
It happened around 2:15 a.m. in front of the D Avenue bar on Flatbush Avenue near Hawthorne Street in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. A man who works at the bar, but did not want to be identified, said police were actually in front of the bar minutes before the shooting.
"We've been here for three years, (and) no incidents," a man who works at D Avenue but did not want to identified told CBS2's Diane Macedo. "And then stop-and-frisk has been repealed, so guys are walking around with guns again." Right now it is only criminals walking around with guns. A bunch of law abiding citizens with concealed permits would make the police's job easier.
Manny Gomez, a security expert who has been both an NYPD officer and an FBI agent, said the federal program is unusual.
"If they're going to go around doing gun busts on a day-to-day basis, that's something that we really haven't seen that often in New York City," Gomez said. Get used to it. Like all federal programs it will never go away and only expand.
In addition to freeing up resources for local prosecutors, the new approach will target the very people the NYPD blames for much of the violence â people who have done time in prison, and return to the streets to offend again.
At City Hall Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio was asked if the NYPD needed any help.
"I think I stated very, very clearly ‐ I have tremendous faith in the NYPD," de Blasio said. "We went through a similar situation last year and they turned it around very effectively. We've hundreds of officers to where the need was greatest."
Federal sources tell Kramer the new federal anti-gun program will allow agents to go after people with as little as one prior felony arrest, and hit them with charges that could carry up to 10 years to jail.
A longer record could get a gunman 15 years in a federal lockup.
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"Of course, when the ATF gets involved with our resources and our tracing expertise, we'll be able to figure out if weapon is part of an interstate trafficking operation," Mulham said.
*cough* Fast and Furious *cough*
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Isn't NYC one of the most gun control/restricted cities on the map? /rhet question
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States and cities are not allowed to enforce federal laws like immigration. Why should Federal forces be called in to enforce state and city laws?
Yes, they are supposedly only enforcing federal gun laws. But let's face it - if an ATF agent busts someone who has violated state, but not Federal laws, he will be turned over to the local cops.
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The Hispanic-dominated Los Angeles Unified School District Board has decided it is better to let failing students graduate with D grades rather than deny them a diploma because of their poor grades in college prep classes.
The board unanimously agreed on Tuesday that students with a D grade in so-called A-G courses, which are required for entry to the University of California and California State University systems, could graduate and earn their diploma. The Daily News reported that 51 percent of incoming seniors are behind on the courses. How about giving everyone a college degree when they're born?
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She joined the 'movement' for a reason. A reason not unlike that of Sharpton, Jackson, and many others. She recognized the entitlement sector for what it is, and she enlisted to exploit it. I do not blame her so much as I blame the government for facilitating such favoritism, affirmative action, and nonsense.
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The appeal of 'Black Privilege'. Just ask the resident of the White House. Remember, the Left constantly engages in Freudian Projection. Back in the 50s and 60s, the accusation was 'passing white'. Today, it's passing black. More like, red is just red.
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Her profile has been removed from Eastern Washington University'S website. She is no longer employed there. She had listed herself as a Professor but was only an adjunct teacher. She just can't stop lying.
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The most amazing thing is she made a close copy of a famous Turner painting and passed it off as her own work. She either has no concept of plagiarism, or she was so brazen she thought no one would dare object.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[PageSix] Prince played two shows in Washington, DC, on Sunday, but he also gave a private VIP performance at the White House on Saturday night to celebrate African-American Music Appreciation Month.
[DAWN] In the recent recruitment for educators, more than 40 teachers got jobs on fake documents but only seven teachers have been booked.
[HumanRightsVoices] "The U.N. peacekeepers arrive; months later, some leave infants behind. Now the United Nations has quietly started to offer DNA testing to help prove paternity claims and ensure support for the so-called 'peacekeeper babies.'
Bullet-riddled windows, yellow crime scene tape, and evidence markers denoting where shell casings fell on the sidewalk are becoming all-too-familiar sights on New York City streets.
[SmokingGun] Rachel Dolezal alleged she was victim of white discrimination 
