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Expanding California's Water Supply
Nov. 20, 2014
By Kat Kerlin
University of California, Davis
California's approval of a $7.5 billion water bond has bolstered prospects for expanding reservoirs and groundwater storage, but the drought-prone state can effectively use no more than a 15 percent increase in surface water storage capacity because of lack of water to fill it, according to a new analysis released Nov. 20.
The report by water engineers and scientists with the University of California, Davis, The Nature Conservancy and three prominent water consultants, said California could potentially use up to 6 million acre-feet in combined additional surface and groundwater storage — about a third more capacity than Shasta Reservoir. Exceeding this expansion runs into limits of available precipitation and the ability to transport water.
"Reservoir storage does not equate to water supply," said Jay Lund, lead author of the report and director of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences. "Reservoirs cannot supply water without a water supply to fill them first."
The report, "Integrating Storage in California's Changing Water System," evaluates the possibilities of Read the rest of this entry »
Student Farm Still Growing Strong
Nov. 18, 2014
By CA&ES Outlook Magazine
University of California, Davis
Since 1977, the 20-acre Student Farm has given thousands of students with an interest in sustainable agriculture plenty of hands-on opportunities through internships, courses, and part-time jobs.
The heart of the operation is the Market Garden, managed by organic farmer Raoul Adamchak, and the Ecological Garden, managed by horticulturist and educator Carol Hillhouse. The Market Garden grows and sells about $100,000 of produce each year to community subscribers, campus dining services, and the student-run Coffee House. The Ecological Garden is filled with fruit trees, flowers, herbs, and small vegetable plots, and also hosts a Kids in the Garden program for area schoolchildren.
"We're trying to teach students about the entire food system by involving them in it directly," said Student Farm director Mark Van Horn. "We help them learn not only 'what,' but also 'how' and 'why.'"
Study: Antimicrobial May Damage Liver, Raise Cancer Risk
A common antimicrobial found in common soaps may cause liver damage and raise cancer risk.
Nov. 18, 2014
By Pat Bailey
University of California, Davis
Long-term exposure to triclosan, an antimicrobial agent commonly found in a broad array of soaps, shampoos, toothpastes and other consumer products, may have potentially serious health consequences, reports a research team including a UC Davis scientist.
Data from a new study shows that triclosan causes liver fibrosis and cancer in laboratory mice through molecular mechanisms that are also relevant for humans. The study, led by the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, appears Nov. 17 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Triclosan's increasing detection in environmental samples and its increasingly broad use in consumer products may overcome its moderate benefit and present a very real risk of liver toxicity for people, as it does in mice, particularly when combined with other compounds with similar action," said Robert H. Tukey, a professor in UC San Diego's departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Pharmacology.
Tukey led the study with Professor Bruce D. Hammock, who has a joint appointment in the Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Comprehensive Cancer Center at UC Davis Read the rest of this entry »
UC Davis Students Earn Awards For Work In Agricultural, Resource Economics
Nov. 14, 2014
By Julie McNamara
UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Three UC Davis doctoral students in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) have received awards for research papers presented by graduate students at the 2014 International Conference on Food Security and Rural Development. The conference was held in October at Nanjing Agricultural University in China.
Aleks Schaefer received first prize in the rural finance category for the paper he presented, "Bilateral Trade Agreements, Climate Change, and Access to Fresh Produce: An Application to Thompson Seedless Table Grapes." The paper presents a conceptual framework to investigate the extent to which free trade agreements (FTAs) can improve access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Schaefer estimates the effects of the U.S.-Chile FTA on out-of-season access to fruits and vegetables and the degree to which FTAs can smooth in-season price spikes caused by extreme weather-related yield losses.
Firas Abu-Sneneh received second prize in the agricultural economics and rural resources category. He presented a paper co-authored with ARE professors Colin Carter and Aaron Smith, "Retail Gasoline Overcharge with Mandatory Ethanol Blending." The paper measures the economic effects of the U.S. EPA ethanol mandate on the pricing of ethanol in relation to gasoline blendstock and the associated impact on the retail price of blended gasoline. The authors find that refiners and blenders bid the price of ethanol above its energy content value to capture some of the blending profit ensured by the blending mandate. Read the rest of this entry »
Fresh Idea Brings Campus Produce to UC Davis Pantry
Fresh Focus brings campus-grown produce to students using a food pantry at UC Davis.
Nov. 12, 2014
By Julia Ann Easley
University of California, Davis
Fresh Focus brings campus-grown produce to students using a food pantry at UC Davis. The student-initiated program delivers blemished or surplus produce from the Student Farm for free distribution at The Pantry, a program of the Associated Students at UC Davis.
Campus-grown produce, delivered by bicycle and offered at a UC Davis food pantry, is warming not only the stomachs of students, but also their hearts.
"The fresh produce is very helpful to the pantry experience," said Sebastian Cano, a fourth-year student from Oakland, California, who recently took home two melons with some canned soup and pineapple.
"We're receiving help from our student government," the political science major said. "We're also receiving the freshest, most organic ingredients — just as if we're at the farmers market, just as if we're at the grocery store."
Students learn to grow produce sustainably at the iconic Student Farm and sell it for use in campus dining halls or through subscription market baskets in the community.
A Fresh Focus, a new campus program now in its first full quarter, collects some of what's left — surplus, blemished or odd-shaped produce — and makes it available at The Pantry, a unit of the Associated Students at UC Davis. Read the rest of this entry »
UC Davis Honored For International Leadership
University receives honors for agricultural leadership in Afghanistan.
Nov. 5, 2014
By Pat Bailey
University of California, Davis
The Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Project, coordinated by the University of California, Davis, since 2011 to help rebuild Afghanistan's agricultural industry, has been selected to receive a 2014 U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary's Honor Award in the global food security category, the highest award given by USDA.
The award recognizes exceptional leadership contributions or public service in support of USDA's missions and goals. It will be presented today, Nov. 5, in Washington D.C. to Jim Hill, associate dean for International Programs, UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; and Michael McGirr, national program leader, USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture's Center for International Programs.
"This award acknowledges the creativity of our partner universities and the dedication of many Afghan nationals who have worked hard to rebuild the Afghanistan agricultural extension system," said Hill, who is also a UC Cooperative Extension plant science specialist at UC Davis.
"We have tried to instill a farmer-first, demand-driven extension system and we have been very pleasantly surprised at the ownership taken by the Afghan extension staff even under the most difficult of conditions," Hill said. Read the rest of this entry »


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The Federal Reserve last week proposed cutting the "swipe" fees, or interchange, that merchants pay to accept debit cards by up to 84 percent. That will give merchants more incentive to steer consumers away from New York-based AmEx's higher-cost credit and charge cards, said Chris Brendler, a Stifel analyst, in a note to clients today. He changed his recommendation for the stock to "hold" from "buy."
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Visa Inc., the world's biggest payments network, plunged 17 percent last week, and No. 2 MasterCard Inc. fell 13 percent, as the Fed proposed capping debit interchange at 12 cents per transaction. AmEx, which doesn't issue debit cards, charges retailers who accept its credit and charge cards an average of 2.56 percent of the purchase price, the lender said in its third-quarter financial supplement.
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Ronda Rousey Fires Back At Eminem For 'Badonkadonk' Line
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More On The Doctor Who CM Punk Trashed & More
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It still needs a permanent dean, a school building and accreditation from the American Bar Association. But Drexel University College of Law has been up and running for a month now and acting dean Jennifer Rosato said things are proceeding nicely for the startup institution.
On Aug. 16, 181 students -- a third more than the 120 the school had targeted for its inaugural class -- reported for classes, which were held for the first three days in the National Constitution Center's auditorium. Classes are now being held on the main Drexel campus because the newly constructed law school facility will not be ready until January.
Rosato said the $14 million facility, at 3310 Market St., is across from Drexel's W.W. Hagerty Library. Hagerty will house a top-floor law library, which will be connected to the law school building. The 60,000--square-foot-facility should be open for classes in January with the law library opening the following month.
The students are taking one class a week at the Jenkins Law Library at 8th and Chestnut streets, with Drexel offering shuttle bus service from campus.
"I think the biggest challenge has been not having everyone under the same roof," Rosato said. "But the students have been great, and everything has been really positive."
Instead of dividing the students into two sections of 60, as was planned for 120 students, there are now three groups. The students include 55 percent women and 21 percent ethnic minorities and come from 21 states and six countries -- though Rosato said 53 percent are from Pennsylvania and 74 percent are from the tri-state area. The school received 1,738 applications, well above the 1,200 it expected. The median college grade point average was 3.4 and the median age was 25.
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Hundreds evacuated and 14 people injured after gas explosion at central London hotel
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Monday October 21, 2013 MYT 6:09:31 AM
Monday October 21, 2013 MYT 6:09:42 AM
by carlos calvo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's new coach Miguel Herrera named a squad including 10 players from his club America to prepare for next month's World Cup playoff against New Zealand, saying the country's prestige as a soccer nation was at stake.
Herrera, who became Mexico's fourth coach in six weeks on Friday after their failure to qualify directly for the 2014 Brazil finals, takes his team to face New Zealand over two legs at the Azteca on November 13 and in Wellington on November 20.
"It's not only me who's putting his prestige at risk, we all are... What's needed in moments like these is to strengthen the group's heads," Herrera, known for his motivational powers, told a news conference at his official presentation as national team coach.
"This seat doesn't burn, we're here thinking of getting the (World Cup) ticket and we'll succeed. I'd never say no to my national team... so now I'm the happiest man on the planet to have been chosen to be here.
"We're sure we'll get off the plane (from New Zealand) with the great happiness of giving our federation and country our accounts and the World Cup ticket and then I'll be back to work with America."
Herrera, whose club side lead the Apertura championship, will remain at the America helm for Tuesday's CONCACAF Champions League match against Alajuelense of Costa Rica before concentrating on Mexico.
Defending champions America, who are six points clear at the top of the Apertura standings after a 1-1 draw at Cruz Azul on Saturday, have already qualified for the eight-team knockout phase for the league title.
The 22 players in the squad the stocky Herrera, nicknamed Piojo (louse) picked for a friendly warmup against Finland on October 30 are all with Mexican clubs.
"There are lots of America people because there's little time to work, because they know perfectly well what we want on the pitch and this way we can reach the level we need a lot quicker," Herrera said.
He added that it was unlikely he would call any of Mexico's foreign-based players like Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez and Villarreal's Giovani dos Santos because they were not in good form.
Herrera, on loan to the Mexico team until after the playoff, has replaced Victor Vucetich, who lasted two qualifiers after Jose Manuel de la Torre and Luis Fernando Tena both lost the job before him.
The Mexican Football Federation may choose to retain Herrera for the World Cup finals but there will be a board meeting in December to evaluate his performance and future.
Mexico have qualified for all the World Cup tournaments since 1986 apart from 1990 when they were banned for fielding over-age players in the World Youth Cup.
Goalkeepers: Jesus Corona (Cruz Azul), Moises Munoz (America)
Defenders: Rafael Marquez (Leon), Juan Carlos Valenzuela, Francisco Rodriguez, Adrian Aldrete, Paul Aguilar, Miguel Layun (all America), Miguel Herrera (Pachuca), Hiram Mier (Monterrey), Rodrigo Salinas (Morelia)
Midfielders: Juan Carlos Medina, Luis Mendoza, Jesus Molina (all America), Lucas Lobos (UANL Tigres), Carlos Pena, Edwin Hernandez, Luis Montes (all Leon)
Forwards: Jesus Escoboza, Oribe Peralta (both Santos Laguna), Raul Jimenez (America), Aldo De Nigris (Guadalajara)
(Writing by Rex Gowar in Buenos Aires; Editing by Clare Fallon)
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Clinton-Appointed Judge Upholds Maryland's "Assault Weapon" and "Large" Magazine Bans in Ultra-Biased Opinion
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Egypt Bans Muslim Brotherhood
An Egypt court has ordered the Muslim Brotherhood banned and all of its assets confiscated, the Associated Press is reporting, following the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The Muslim Brotherhood was outlawed for much of its 85-year existence but was allowed to emerge from the shadows after former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak was removed from office in 2011.
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'Crisis averted': Mo. State Fair permanently bans Obama mask-wearing rodeo clown
Another triumph for free speech!
Claire McCaskill and the rest of the Obama Defense League who raised hell over a rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask at the Missouri State Fair can now breathe a little easier:
Nation saved from lèse-majesté. RT @justkarl: CRISIS AVERTED. twitter.com/BreakingNews/s…—
Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) August 12, 2013
And fair officials are gonna do their damnedest to make sure nothing like this ever happens again:
@SketchyTK The fair is "outraged", banned the clown & now requires sensitivity training for future clowns(seriously) mostatefair.com/press-releases—
Crunk Panda™ (@thecrunkpanda) August 12, 2013
Sensitivity training? Read it and weep — a lot:
The Missouri State Fair Commission ratifies the firm action already taken by the Fair director to permanently ban this rodeo clown from ever participating or performing at the Missouri State Fair again.
Furthermore the MRCA must hold all those responsible for this offensive stunt accountable.
In addition, before the Missouri State Fair considers contracting with this association again for future rodeos, they must provide evidence to the director of the Missouri State Fair that they have proof that all officials and subcontractors of the MRCA have successfully participated in sensitivity training.
Alas, if only he'd been wearing a Bush mask. But now he's banned from the fair for life.
We could all take a lesson from this: No matter what happens, never ever mock The One — or else there will be hell to pay.
Thall shalt not blaspheme the mesiah. – rodeo clown banned for wearing Obama mask news.msn.com/us/mo-state-fa…—
Roger Andrews (@Boboskiwatnot) August 12, 2013
I'm curious when the now-banned #MoStateFair rodeo clown be on Oprah. #GrovelingApologyTour—
(@ConservativeLA) August 12, 2013
Banned for life? Are you kidding me? Is the mask manufacturer also being punished? on.fox2now.com/A0IaYyf—
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They've banned the rodeo clown that wore the Obama mask. What fucking country are we in again?—
Michael Ray (@xytarium) August 12, 2013
We're in Obama's America now.
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Medical Group Bans Pro-Life Doctors From Event, "Would Threaten Women's Rights"
Last week in Seoul, South Korea, pro-life doctors of American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) were banned from speaking at the last minute because their presentations were deemed to "threaten women's reproductive rights."
They were also described as "unscientific" and "political." These three doctors were scheduled to present at the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA) conference. It apparently doesn't matter to the leaders of MWIA that these doctors had relevant and important information to present. Such reasons don't change that the leaders who made such a decision were barring those from speaking who disagreed with them. It's ironic then how they call themselves pro-choice, isn't it?
The AAPLOG website has links to the three presentations each of the doctors, Dr. Mary Davenport, M.D., Dr. Donna Harrison, M.D., and Dr. Martha Shuping, M.D., would have given. The topics to be discussed, respectively, included "Preterm Birth and Abortion," "Maternal Mortality and the Myth of "Safe" Abortion," and "Women's Mental Health after Abortion."
On a page titled, "MWIA Confrontation," the AAPLOG website also describes how these doctors were then invited by their host, Anna Choi, who is head of a group of South Korean doctors who had stopped providing abortions, to give an interview for the press in which they would have time to discuss what they would have presented. The panel-style interview turned into a television interview rather than a radio or newspaper one. Here is part of the account of what happened in Dr. Davenport's own words:
They put the three of us up front like a "panel" discussion, and the reporters started asking us questions about our presentation, allowing us an opportunity to talk about what we came to present. About 20 minutes into the interview, the Secretary General of MIWA, a Canadian woman, burst into the room (I kid you not. …and all of this is on camera), and came up to the table and said "What presentation is this? Donna Harrison said "it's not a presentation". So she snarled "Why are you being interviewed? At that point, the answers were left to Anna, our host. Anna said that this was a requested interview by the press.
The SecGen then said "Who gave you permission to interview these people?" And the reporters said "We are the press, we don't need anyone's permission. We have freedom of the press" And the Sec Gen snarled at Anna and said "Did you arrange this? Did you talk to the organizing committee?" And Anna said "I am on the organizing committee. I don't need to talk to anyone." And the Sec Gen stood in front of the camera, and refused to move, and said "The interview is over." Then the reporters said "You can't do this. We have the freedom of the press. You are interfering with the freedom of the press." But the Sec Gen would not move and said "The interview is over."
We exited to the hall, and a Belgian and German woman were waiting. They started to make fun of the Korean translator, and to snap pictures in her face. And she said "You can't do this. This is my country. I will call the police." And they actually grabbed at her, and then one of the Korean reporters put a huge camera in the Belgian woman's face and started taking photos of her. A fist fight almost ensured between the women, but another of the Koreans stepped in and kept any contact from happening. And all of this was on camera. And then our Korean hosts ushered us down the hall, and down the elevator, along with the reporters and camera crew, and we resumed the interview in the commons area downstairs by the trash cans and the bathroom. We were able to complete the entire interview, and instead of our audience being a few women doctors from the conference, we now have an audience of probably a few thousand.
Okay, so it's bad enough that these three medical doctors, who were invited, were then told they could not speak. But then, when the press was still interested in hearing what these doctors had to say, and providing an outlet so that others could be informed, they were silenced and there were even attempts of physical intimidation. It is at best biased and immature to bar someone from speaking, at your conference or anywhere else, because you don't agree.
For the Secretary General though, and others with MWIA, who are supposed to act like the adults that they are, to act in such a manner, they are liars then when they call themselves pro-choice. It's not at all a choice when you withhold information from women. I thought women were supposed to be able to make that decision for themselves? How can they make the best decision though when they're not getting all the facts?
And, Molly Loesel makes a telling point in her piece for Human Life International (HLI) when she highlights the similarities between those pro-"choicers" in Texas and with MWIA in South Korea. We not only have to protect ourselves, but also wonder, is there nothing these people will not stoop to?
LifeNews Note: Rebecca Downs is a recent graduate of Fordham University, where she was involved in the Respect for Life club there. She is currently with C-FAM, a Catholic pro-life group in New York City. Reprinted with permission from Live Action News.
The Next Gay Marriage Battle? ACLU Files First-Known Lawsuit Over State Bans on Same-Sex Unions
HARRISBURG, Pa. (TheBlaze/AP) — The battle over gay marriage forges on. Civil rights lawyers said they filed the first known legal challenge Tuesday on behalf of 23 men, women and children seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that doesn't allow it or civil unions.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Harrisburg, also will ask a federal judge to prevent state officials from stopping gay couples from getting married. It names Gov. Tom Corbett, Attorney General Kathleen Kane and three other officials. The plaintiffs are one widow, 10 couples and one of the couples' two teenage daughters, and they include four couples who were legally married in other states but whose marriages go unrecognized by the state of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania would become the 14th state to legalize gay marriage if the lawsuit is successful. It also would force the state to recognize the legal marriages of all same-sex couples in other jurisdictions.
The plaintiffs, some of whom spoke during a news conference in the state Capitol after the lawsuit was filed, said their willingness to join was driven partly by a desire to have the same legal and financial protections afforded to opposite-sex couples, but mostly by the emotional satisfaction of seeking social justice.
"Everyone in our world recognizes us as a true family," said Deb Whitewood, 45, who lives in the Pittsburgh suburb of Bridgeville with her partner of 22 years, Susan Whitewood, and their three children. "We feel that it's time that the commonwealth of Pennsylvania did, too."
Another couple, Dara Raspberry and Helena Miller, who were cradling Miller's 6-week-old daughter, said they married in Connecticut before moving to Philadelphia to be closer to family, but, Raspberry said, they were forced "to become unmarried and less of a family" under Pennsylvania law.
Isabel Rieser, the 21-year-old adopted daughter of plaintiffs Len Rieser and Fernando Chang-Muy of Philadelphia, said her two fathers should be able to marry after 32 years of commitment.
"Besides, I am so over being a child out of wedlock," Rieser joked. "I look forward to my parents finally getting married. I have so many ideas for their wedding: food, location, decorations."
The plaintiffs are represented by American Civil Liberties Union lawyers working with the Philadelphia law firm of Hangley, Aronchick, Segal, Pudlin and Schiller. They expect the suit could ultimately arrive with similar cases from other states at the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not ruled on the core question of whether it is unconstitutional to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.
Corbett's office would only say that it is reviewing the lawsuit. The attorney general's office, which typically defends challenges to state laws, had no immediate comment.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs said banning gay marriage satisfies no legitimate government or child welfare concerns of the state, since Pennsylvania judges routinely grant adoptions to same-sex couples that are viewed as in the best interest of the child.
"It serves only to disparage and injure lesbian and gay couples and their families," the lawsuit said.
For instance, the suit says, same-sex couples do not have access to a long list of legal and financial protections as do opposite-sex couples.
Those include an inheritance tax exemption for widows; an automatic power of attorney for spouses in health care decisions; damages and legal recourse under workers' compensation laws for a spouse; assistance programs for same-sex widows and widowers of military personnel and veterans; pension and survivor benefits for widows and widowers of public employees; Family Medical Leave Act provisions; and a spouse's Social Security retirement benefits.
The lawsuit, in the works since January, was not spurred by the U.S. Supreme Court's three-week-old decision striking down part of the federal government's anti-gay marriage law that applies only to legally married same-sex couples seeking benefits from the federal government.
But the ACLU's legal director in Pennsylvania, Witold J. Walczak, said the nation's changing laws and evolving public opinion made it the right time to challenge the law after 17 years on Pennsylvania's books.
Federal courts in California are so far the only ones that have said a state same-sex marriage ban violates the U.S. Constitution. But federal challenges are popping up in other states, including Nevada, Hawaii and Michigan. In the coming days and weeks, the ACLU plans to lodge same-sex marriage challenges in North Carolina and Virginia.
It is also pursuing same-sex marriage legislation in several other states and referenda in Oregon and Nevada in the coming years, ACLU lawyers said.
Same-sex marriage is legal, or soon will be, in 13 states and the District of Columbia, representing about 30 percent of the U.S. population. Every state except Pennsylvania in the northeastern United States allows same-sex marriage except New Jersey, which allows civil unions.
A 1996 Pennsylvania law defines marriage as a civil contract in which a man and a woman take each other as husband and wife, and it says same-sex marriages, even if entered legally elsewhere, are void in Pennsylvania. State law does not allow civil unions.
In Pennsylvania, recent polls show a majority are in favor of gay marriage, even though bills to legalize gay marriage have gone nowhere in recent years in the Legislature. In 2012, the state voted for President Barack Obama, a Democrat who supports same-sex marriage, and in 2010 for Corbett, a Republican who supports a constitutional amendment to permanently ban it.
The 1996 law passed with overwhelming majorities in the state Legislature.
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The UK Bans Two Prominent American Bloggers From Entering the Country
On Wednesday, two American citizens were told that their opinions were a danger to the UK and as such, they were banned from visiting the country.
Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, two outspoken American bloggers and pro-Israel activists were slated to speak this week at a rally for the English Defence League in the United Kingdom (UK). But that's not happening. Both Geller and Spencer were denied entry into the UK by the Home Secretary's office. Among the reasons given, their presence is "not conducive to the public good."
According to documents sent to Geller and Spencer (both of the letters were virtually identical), their denial was based upon a perceived violation(s) of the British government's "Unacceptable Behaviour" policy. That policy states that the government can expel/deport or deny entry to any non-UK national who violates the policy by engaging in one of the "behaviours" on the list.
These include:
- Writing, producing, publishing or distributing material
- Public speaking including preaching
- running a website
- using a position of responsibility such as a teacher, community or youth leader
To express views that:
- foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs
- seek to provoke others to terrorist attacks
- foment other criminal activity or seek to promote others to commit serious criminal acts
- foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK
The backgrounds of the two banned Americans were reviewed by the Home Secretary's office and they were told in crystal clear terms, "your presence here is not conducive to the public good."
The official notice went on to clarify, "You are therefore instructed not to travel to the UK as you will be refused admission on arrival."
Spencer's blog post titled, "Britain capitulates to jihad," and Geller's called , "Banned In Britain: UK Caves To Jihad," carried identical reply messages regarding their interpretation of the ban.
In a striking blow against freedom, the British government has banned us from entering the country. Muhammad al-Arifi, who has advocated Jew-hatred, wife-beating, and jihad violence, entered the U.K. recently with no difficulty. In not allowing us into the country solely because of our true and accurate statements about Islam, the British government is behaving like a de facto Islamic state. The nation that gave the world the Magna Carta is dead.
If Geller and Spencer's names sound familiar to you, they are the driving force behind many campaigns to educate people in America and around the world to the dangers of "creeping sharia" and some of the motives behind the more militant factions of Islam. They are regularly described as "extreme" and "anti-Islam" by their opponents.
Last November, TheBlaze published a story about their mass transit campaign that irritated many pro-Muslim organizations like CAIR. The ad in question showed the World Trade Center towers in flames along with quotes from the Quran.
We have posted a copy of Ms. Geller's letter below. As stated above, it is identical to the one received by Mr. Spencer, only the names have been changed.
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In a controversial decision sure to spark a contentious debate, a Maryland county has decided to ban all gun shows indefinitely while state and federal lawmakers consider gun control legislation.
The Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation announced the decision late last week. Officials also reportedly referenced the Newtown school massacre when making the decision.
Anita Pesses, a spokeswoman for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, says the moratorium is "temporary."
"We are taking everybody's opinions and actions into account," she told WTOP.
But the decision will remain in effect until lawmakers in Washington and in Maryland are done debating new gun control laws.
Meanwhile, at least one gun show has been cancelled due to the ban on legal gun shows. The Silverado Gun Show was set to take place over the holiday weekend but was canned after the decision.
The show's owner, Frank Krasner, told the Washington Examiner that he is losing money because of the decisions made by county officials.
"This is legal trade we're talking about, not the black market," he said. "This not only took money out of my pocket, but close to 100 exhibitors."
"Once again, lawmakers choose to punish the innocent because of the actions of criminals," commenter Brian Ford wrote on the Silverado Gun Show Facebook page. "Just plain stupid and unfair." Others called for a boycott of the Show Place Arena.
"That's a crock of sh*t," another commenter stated bluntly.
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