So I had a dream around 8 to 930 where a gigantic "public transportaion" yellow drone with black letters was shot down over my head and crashed in front of me, when I woke up the first thing on bbc was the article of ms804
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36333992
>/x/
kys
Wow, great story. Interesting stuff.
24-hour hunger strike failed to convince them
University of Chicago student government representatives are more worried about a food fight with their constituents than the societal problem of mass incarceration.
The General Assembly voted down a resolution to ask the university to bring dining in-house so that it avoids any complicity in the “prison-industrial complex,” and to source more food from local vendors.
It’s another setback for student group The Fight for Just Food (FJF), which staged a fruitless 24-hour hunger strike to convince the university to not hire Bon Appetit after UChicago ended its contract with Aramark.
Unlike Aramark, Bon Appetit does not serve any prisons, though its parent Compass Group owns companies that do, according to The Chicago Maroon.
Student activists have been protesting since November, when they created a MoveOn.org petition asking university officials to dump Aramark: “As long as UChicago Dining contracts with any company that serves food in prisons, we are funding the prison industrial complex.” As of Monday night it had 129 signatures.
FJF upped the ante in January with two banners accusing the university of perpetuating mass incarceration, one of which targeted Executive Director of Dining Richard Mason.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27492/
The Maroon reported that Mason has said the university is barred from considering “political questions when making institutional decisions” – such as a contractor’s prison ties – because of its Kalven Report, a nearly 50-year-old document that pledges the university to “free inquiry” and “a diversity of viewpoints.”
The university chose Bon Appetit last month after a competitive bidding process, but did not cite Aramark’s prison service as a reason for dumping that company just halfway through its 10-year contract, the Maroon reported.
The Student Government General Assembly narrowly rejected a resolution on May 8 calling for a move to in-house dining and the sourcing of 40 percent of campuswide food from locally owned businesses on Chicago’s South Side, where the university is located, “within 3 years,” the Maroon said. Mason has said it would take three to five years to bring dining in-house.
FJF’s hunger strike on May 6 featured chants such as “Prisons profit off our tuition—how about prison abolition? This food funds prison labor—this is not a taste we savor. It’s a moral obligation to choose self-operation.”
Its own advocacy may end up supporting prisons, however: FJF has also supported the Teamsters, which not only represented Aramark workers at the university but also represent prison workers.
FJF is part of the university’s Coalition for Ethical and Sustainable Dining, another student organization that includes climate change, animal welfare, and sustainability groups, mirroring the goals of the Real Food Challenge.
Emails from The College Fix to several FJF members as well as a message its Facebook group were not returned. The university responded to an initial email inquiry last week but did not reply with answers by Monday night.
"Prison slavery" is something I believe in that needs change, but college protesting puts such a bad taste in my mouth thanks to social media warping the idea of activism into attention whoring.
>>45179
They got dropped because Aramark is a shitty company. I mean think about it, the slop they serve at some prisons is laughable, so would you really want to risk OKing those same meals at a college? College is already a prison in some respects, so they should at least make the food above average.
My college food was great early on, then nosedived and you could see the effect it had on the students. Flunking (or even doing well on) a test and then eating a shitty meal kills morale, which young and emotional students desperately need.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/05/17/overtime-pay-eligible-employees-workers/84504890/
>Moving to fatten low- and middle-income paychecks that have languished for years, the Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a long-awaited rule that will make millions of Americans newly eligible for overtime pay. The rule, slated to be formally released Wednesday, would essentially double the threshold at which executive, administrative and professional employees are exempt from overtime pay to $47,476 from the current $23,660. That’s expected to make 4.2 million additional workers eligible to receive time-and-a-half wages for each hour they put in beyond 40 a week.
>Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said the salary threshold was originally intended to exempt high-paid executives but instead has denied overtime to low-level retail supervisors and entry-level office workers who often toil 50 to 70 hours a week.
>Many companies expect to convert salaried workers to hourly employees who will need to punch a clock and track their hours, hurting morale in some cases. Some will likely maintain the status of salaried employees, but will still have to monitor their hours and net the extra pay for logging more than 40. Others will lift workers' base pay to the new threshold to avoid paying overtime.
>Many small businesses can’t absorb the added cost and will instruct employees to work no more than 40 hours a week, bringing on part-time workers to pick up the slack, says Dan Bosch, head of regulatory policy for the National Federation of Independent Business. Perez said that will still be a plus because it will restore leisure time to overworked employees.
>Perez said the new rule also clarifies the types of duties white-collar employees must perform to be exempt. That potentially makes eligible an additional 8.9 million workers now misclassified, he said, such as certain administrative employees who don’t supervise anyone.
I don't know how this will strain small businesses, or corporations on the small side. Every small local business I worked for was willing to pay overtime. It is the corporate giants I've worked for that restrict hours and force salary managers to work 50-60 hours a week at no additional pay. As in zero pay, not even overtime.
>>45176
Yeah. Sadly I don't think this change will do much, but it might push people to work at smaller businesses. That's always a plus.
>>45201
>>45176
It probably won't affect the most-visible small businesses that you're thinking of because the workers in question are more-lucratively-paid anyway - they're lower middle class. We're not talking about a minimum wage errand boy at the doughnut shop.
I would suspect the most likely-to-be-affected small businesses are smalltime contractors that require skilled professionals, like a local land survey business which would make use of professional cartographers, geologists, and graphic designers.
Burlington College announced today that it will close on May 27 after it found itself unable to recover from “the crushing weight of the debt” incurred under Jane O’Meara Sanders, the college’s former president and wife of Bernie Sanders.
At the end of 2010, Ms. Sanders took out $10 million in loans on behalf of Burlington College to purchase a 32-acre swathe of land from the Roman Catholic diocese, which put the land up for sale to help cover the costs of a $17 million sexual-abuse settlement.
Less than a year after leading Burlington College into massive debt, Ms. Sanders resigned, taking with her a $200,000 severance package. By 2014, because of its shaky finances and running deficits, Burlington College found itself placed on probation for two years by the regional accreditation agency.
Catholic parishioners in Vermont have called for an investigation into whether Ms. Sanders committed federal bank fraud by deliberately misrepresenting the amount that the college had secured in fundraising pledges as she sought financing for the land purchase.
As Ms. Sanders pursued financing for the land acquisition, she repeatedly said that Burlington College had received more than $2 million in fundraising commitments and pledges, according to numerous records.
But in fiscal year 2011, Burlington College raised only $279,000—though the college had earlier claimed to have secured $1.2 million in confirmed pledges.
In January, Vermont lawyer Brady Toensing, who is also vice chair of the Vermont Republican Party, wrote a letter on behalf of Catholic parishioners to the U.S. attorney in Vermont, as well as the inspector general of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, seeking a probe into whether Ms. Sanders fraudulently secured the loans.
http://heatst.com/politics/breaking-burlington-college-closes-due-to-crushing-weight-of-debt-acquired-by-jane-sanders/
Money, how does that work?
>>45068
it makes no sense that students and their parents pay higher interest rates for college than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages
>>45077
What does the borrower of a student loan offer the lender as collateral?
Auto loans and mortgages have a large capital good to be repossessed.
Queen says chinese are very rude
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36265224
That's the most British insult I've ever heard.
I'd recommend the Chinese not be so rude next time. Honestly, I don't know why people are getting so worked up about it, the Queen is very politically savvy but making a small comment at a garden party is not going to destroy international relations.
>>44038
She said their state apointed diplomat was rude in a particular instance. She wasn't saying all Chinese are rude.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html?_r=2
Thoughts on this? How about any experience with what this article is relating about in a social setting or the work place?
>>43327
i think it's okay to discriminate based off what people think. this is why some people are in prison. because they think wrong
>>43330
So you have to think a certain way?
>>43333
yes. what you think can be horribly wrong. thinking wrong is what enables people to murder, rape, and steal. We all have the ability to control our thoughts. The people who do not control their thoughts are controlled by their desires. They are not good people and can be discriminated against freely
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/05/04/3775204/trump-economic-policies/
>>42766
RIGHT ON BROTHER!!!!!!!
I think must of us know his plans are baloney.
Of course know that he is the nominee he can drop this tough talk and pull out his actual plans.
I for one am looking forward to when he builds the wall and deports all the beaners.
Ecuador just got a 6.7 and a 6.8 within 9 hours. This is after the 7.something that broke records... what's going on?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php
HAARP testing
here OP: >>>/sci/8074104
http://m.smh.com.au/world/us-election/ted-cruz-drops-out-of-race-clears-way-for-donald-trumps-romp-to-republican-nomination-20160504-golpmr.html
>Ted Cruz, the insurgent Texan whose presidential campaign was fuelled by disdain for Washington, announced he was leaving the race on Tuesday night, removing the last major hurdle in Donald Trump's quest to become the Republican nominee for president.
>Senator Cruz's decision came after losing overwhelmingly to Mr Trump in the Indiana primary, all but ensuring that real estate mogul will claim his party's mantle at the Republican National Convention in July.
>The exit comes after a series of desperate moves to keep his candidacy afloat in recent weeks, including naming former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate in a bizarre announcement where Senator Cruz spoke for 30 minutes and Fiorina sang to his young daughters.
>In his last day on the campaign trail, Senator Cruz unloaded on Mr Trump, calling the businessman a"pathological liar" and a "narcissist" who was proud of being a "serial philanderer." The attacks were reminiscent of the broadsides Senator Marco Rubio launched against Mr Trump in the waning days of his own presidential campaign — and a far cry from the lavish praise Senator Cruz heaped on Donald Trump for most of 2015, declaring, "I like Donald Trump."
>The fact that Senator Cruz remained one of the last candidates standing in a once-crowded field would have been viewed as improbable when he entered the race 14 months earlier. Senator Cruz, the first major candidate to enter the race, is a first-term senator best known for getting under the skin of his Senate colleagues and championing controversial tactics to block the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. He was painted as a long-shot underdog who was too religious and conservative to advance past the early nominating contests.
Well, looks like Trump is the Republican nominee now, let's talk about that.
usaisnowajoke
It's over lads, /pol/ won.
HE DID IT THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/04/national/social-issues/number-of-children-in-japan-declines-for-35th-straight-year-to-hit-record-low/#.Vynx7bdAtYg
>Manifesting a seemingly unstoppable decline in births, the number of children aged 14 or under fell for the 35th straight year to a record-low 16.05 million as of April 1, government estimates showed Wednesday.
>The number was down 150,000 from a year earlier to the lowest level since comparable data became available in 1950. By gender, there are now 8.22 million boys and 7.82 million girls aged 14 or under.
Fucking Boomers.
Throw away any opportunities for the younger generation and force us to foot the bill for them.
Aren't they overpopulated anyways?
>>42625
Problem is there is aton of old folks and few young people.
Who is gonna pay the oldies social security?
Maybe they could accept a slight cut to save their country....kek what was I thinking?
A call centre worker who made a video where his pet pug did a Nazi salute in response to the words, ‘Sieg Heil’ has been arrested.
The film – which featured the dog watching Hitler’s speeches – has been viewed nearly a million times on YouTube.
The video showed pet pug Buddha jumping up on hearing the words: ‘Gas the Jews.’
Markus Meechan, 28, spent the night behind bars after police swooped on his home in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, and arrested him on suspicion of a hate crime.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/09/man-arrested-after-teaching-pug-to-do-a-nazi-salute-when-it-heard-the-words-sieg-heil-5870354/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYslEzHbpus
>>43659
>What are jokes
>>43659
Please don't link the metro, it is utterly terrible.
>>43659
>Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire
Well that's a relief, for a moment there I thought this happened in a country that actually mattered.
>Maduro in crackdown under Venezuela emergency decree
>Venezuela looters target chicken, flour amid worsening shortages
>Nicolás Maduro Tightens Hold on Venezuela as U.S. Fears Further Tumult
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/world/americas/nicolas-maduro-tightens-hold-on-venezuela-as-us-fears-further-tumult.html
http://www.oann.com/venezuela-looters-target-chicken-flour-amid-worsening-shortages/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maduro-orders-seizure-closed-venezuela-factories-jailing-owners-205441895.html
tl;dr
>Maduro orders seizure of paralyzed factories
>looters, mobs, and unrest; plundering and black market prices are on the up, while markets and transportation of goods is getting very dangerous
>USA officials are warning that a potential coup could oust Maduro and lead to street violence
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fuck you too.
>>44659
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I got that too. It was a nytimes link.
Thanks for the summary in addition to the multiple links.
Maduro is in over his head. I hope the people will chose to empower the institutions this time.
>>44659
Here's a recent article on conditions in Venezuelan public hospitals. The pictures look like something out of a survival horror game.
http://nyti.ms/1V3SFNG
Socialismo, Si!
>>http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Two-State-Police-Chase-379042131.html
>>http://patch.com/massachusetts/chelmsford/police-chase-chelmsford-reports-0
A news helicopter caught New Hampshire and Massachusetts state police violently apprehending a suspect who led them through several towns in a high-speed chase.
The suspect was originally stopped for several outstanding warrants in Holden, MA, which lead to a pursuit that crossed into New Hampshire and ended in Nashua.
The NECN video shows the suspect exiting his vehicle, and laying on the ground. Moments later, a New Hampshire state trooper strikes the man in the head with a haymaker punch, and continues to punch the suspect in the head and back. Another officer also was shown to repeatedly punch the man in the head and spine. Five officers in total held the suspect down as the beating and arrest occurred, which was caught on a live news feed.
>>https://twitter.com/mpoppel/status/730510662124896257
Another aerial angle of the suspect apprehension.
Should've stopped when ordered to then lol...
what I don't quite get is that everyone fantasizes about disbanding all police establishing a vigilante style justice system, then when cops do vigilante shit everyone loses their minds...ass hats pull shit like the clown in this incident deserve to get a beat down IN ADDITION to whatever the court system doles out...also, bait....
Zimmerman to auction gun that killed Treyvon.
This should go well.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/george-zimmerman-auction-gun-killed-trayvon-martin-article-1.2634153
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=558112068
Thanks OP. /pol/'s gonna love this.
is it an artifact weapon?
what stats does it have?
does it glow when there are youths nearby
>>44114
>does it glow when there are youths nearby
Kek
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36267011 I'm looking for the video, anyone found it / recorded it?
Video semi related
bitch post the real video
The video was deleted from periscope, and what remains in YouTube doesn't show the explicit moment she dies. If you are interested in watching her die, you edgy faggot, I'm sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo5BC48_UAApwPtiJ7uTIUQ/videos
>>44327
You can be interested in watching something without being a Sonic watching, flame shirt wearing edgelord.
Here is some reading so you don't look like a 12 year old for your next post:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity#Morbid_curiosity