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Slideshow ( 3 images ) LONDON (Reuters) - Police arrested seven people outside the London headquarters of Barclays on Wednesday after climate change activists broke windows to protest the role of the financial sector in climate change. The activists from the Extinction Rebellion group used hammers to break the windows and then pasted the message “In Case of Climate Emergency Break Glass” on the front of the bank’s building. The group said the action was part of its “Money Rebellion” a...

Updated / Wednesday, 7 Apr 2021 08:36 Protest aimed at highlighting role of the financial sector in fuelling climate catastrophe Climate change activists have broken windows at the London headquarters of Barclays, the latest protest aimed at highlighting the role of the financial sector in fuelling what they call the climate catastrophe. The seven activists from the Extinction Rebellion group used hammers to break the windows and then pasted the message "In Case of Climate Emergency Break Glas...

Can this theory explain Nigeria’s indiscipline? By Sat Mar 06 2021 A story was told of Nigerian election observers who visited an East African country to find an election worker sleeping on a bench while waiting for voters to come out and elect their leaders. What baffled the Nigerian observers was the fact that the electoral officer had with him all the election materials. To boot, no one was there to harass,  destroy or steal the materials from him; even though there were no security agen...

How Bandits Invaded, Kidnapped Kagara School Students, Workers —Eyewitness The eyewitness spoke of how the gunmen broke into the staff quarters of the school before raiding hostels. by SaharaReporters, New York Feb 17, 2021 An eyewitness has narrated how bandits attacked Government Science College, Kagara, Niger State, on Wednesday and kidnapped some of its students and staff members.  According to Daily Trust, the eyewitness spoke of how the gunmen broke into the staff quarters of the schoo...

The Atlantic The building should resemble the United States, a still-broken country in need of fixing. February 13, 2021 Jim Lo Scalzo /Getty On the evening of February 5, as Representative Andy Kim of New Jersey retraced the steps he’d taken nearly one month earlier, hours after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, he saw little remaining evidence of destruction. The shattered glass where Ashli Babbitt was shot outside the Speaker’s Lobby? Repaired. The statues defaced by cigarette butts?...

Other American philanthropy is the envy of the world. Since colonial times, when Benjamin Franklin’s Junto Society, a proto–think tank of public-minded Philadelphia citizens, developed volunteer fire departments and a lending library, Americans have evolved a unique civic culture of giving and entrepreneurial problem solving. From 1995 to 2002, charitable donations as a percentage of GDP were nearly six times higher in the United States than in France and 14 times higher than in Germany. In...

Stop and frisk. it seems like an awfully convenient some would say -- >> its too convenient. >> you didnt leave the republican party, they left you. >> amen, brother. amen. and all the people say. >> amen. >> its true. >> i covered bloomberg here in new york as mayor for years. he was not just a proponent for stop and frisk, he was almost evangelical for it. he really pushed for it. he believed it was the best way to keep crime down. if you catch people from lower events or low-level crimes or i...

>> officers stop a crime before it was happening and now thats not happening. decided to put their hands in the pot that has all stopped. >> this is bad because proactive police something essential for large urban areas. what it effects more than anything else is the poor. steve: they are reluctant to make arrests now. brian: plus you its hard to get cops. not getting paid enough. putting their lives on the line and not getting backing and getting vilified on shows not on fox. ainsley: when i mo...

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Victimized by police agencies and becomes a situation those communities who were once silently supportive of policing and policing efforts become somewhat resentful because they are being subjected to increased enforcement under the guise of making their community better. the largest problem with "broken windows" policing is there is no peace dividend. those communities who even requested additional enforcement and believe in the value of effective "broken windows" policing dont have an opportun...