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Armed teachers, guards key to school security in Israel
Fox News, by Greg Tepper
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Posted By:leopardtwo, 12/27/2012 3:36:24 PM
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Americans intent on ensuring a school massacre like the one in Newtown, Conn., never happens again could learn a lot from Israel, where the long menu of precautions includes armed teachers. The Jewish state, which has long faced threats of terrorist strikes in crowded locations including schools, takes an all-of-the-above approach to safety in the classroom. Fences, metal detectors and armed private guards are part of a strategy overseen by the country’s national police. (Snip) Oren Shemtov, CEO of Israel’s Academy of Security and Investigation, noted that Headline resplit and Snip added by staff.
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Comments: You can count on Israel for good ideas!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 12/27/2012 3:56:56 PM (No. 9086337)
It makes sense. Now the bad guy breaks into a school and begins to shoot children. Someone calls for help to that other people can bring in weapons to take the bad guy out. Why not have the weapons already there. For each minute the police aren´t on the scene, more kids die. If all of the teachers were armed, all those kids would probably still be alive.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kofcfn, 12/27/2012 4:04:10 PM (No. 9086347)
Even if 10% are armed, that would give terrorist of any kind a pause.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hoosier observer, 12/27/2012 4:18:35 PM (No. 9086365)
I wonder how well this will work in the US schools with the education school graduates we have. I don´t think the teachers in Israel struggle to discover the motivation of armed intruders before firing.
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govlawyer, 12/27/2012 5:03:08 PM (No. 9086405)
If the Joos in Israel are doing it, no worries--Bill Ayers and the education experts will denounce it as anti-Islamic and it will be duly banned.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
MMC, 12/27/2012 6:38:22 PM (No. 9086511)
Two year compulsary military service in Israel. Teachers are all trained in weaponry. The urgent need for constant protection yields a watchful teacher!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
manitouman, 12/27/2012 6:48:01 PM (No. 9086533)
Someone earlier today said on the radio that teachers were there to teach, not carry guns.
Okay, I have no quarrel with that. They´re not there as defenders of the children. Only as unbiased, monotomatic, instructors.
That stipulated to - Don´t teachers have a self preservation gene in there somewhere? Teachers are targeted too, in these shootings. Don´t the teachers have a desire to live?
Maybe not. Maybe teachers, like so many over regulated worker-bots, are nothing more than biological automatons, emitting and serving thoughtlessly at the behest of the ELITES.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
hamrman, 12/27/2012 7:46:27 PM (No. 9086620)
the libs need to p[ay attention to this one...it makes sense when you mean business and advertise it as such.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rocket scientist, 12/27/2012 7:52:12 PM (No. 9086634)
The U.S. could learn a lot about school security from our friends the Israelis. The Israelis have had to live with the threat of terrorism for years. Gun-Free zones were a stupid Liberal idea from the start. Criminals are attracted to gun-free zones.
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Armed teachers, guards key to school security in Israel
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Posted By: leopardtwo- 12/27/2012 3:36:24 PM
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Americans intent on ensuring a school massacre like the one in Newtown, Conn., never happens again could learn a lot from Israel, where the long menu of precautions includes armed teachers. The Jewish state, which has long faced threats of terrorist strikes in crowded locations including schools, takes an all-of-the-above approach to safety in the classroom. Fences, metal detectors and armed private guards are part of a strategy overseen by the country’s national police. (Snip) Oren Shemtov, CEO of Israel’s Academy of Security and Investigation, noted that Headline resplit and Snip added by staff.
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Journal News [White Plains, NY], by Dwight R. Worley
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Vanishing workforce weighs on growth
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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