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The Effects Of Violent Video Games
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The Effects Of Violent Video Games on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:01:27 +0000
By: Jaylyn Burns
Ever since video games came out, parents, scientists, and other adults have debated whether kids are more violent because of them. Part of that debate is whether being exposed to more violence makes kids want to be more violent by trying what they see. I know first-hand how a game can cause a fight between siblings.
I have two little brothers that play violent video games all the time. They play wrestling, boxing and shooting games. What I notice about some of the games is that the characters are doing things a normal human wouldn't be able to do. I see my brothers often try to reenact the things that they do on the screen. They shoot at each other with toy guns, they wrestle all the time trying to do special flips and moves that they see in the game, including boxing. The bad thing about it is that they are starting to try and do that stuff to my little sisters.
A site called ProCon.org has collected research about the good and bad effects of how children act because of video games. Pros argue that, "Young children are more likely to confuse fantasy violence with real world violence, and without a framework for ethical decision making, they may mimic the actions they see in violent video game." The cons say the opposite, "Video game players understand they are playing a game. Their ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality prevents them from emulating video game violence in real life."
I agree with the pros because I see this first hand in my household. Violent video games are making children around the world think that it is okay for them to solve their problems with violence. Children are taking their anger out on the kids they don't get along with, as well as their friends, siblings, and family members.
Arab and Middle East protests – LIVE
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Arab and Middle East protests – LIVE on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:52:08 +0000
Protesters run from a cloud of teargas during a clash with Bahraini security forces near the Pearl roundabout in Manama. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images 3.32pm, Libya: Security forces in Benghazi have shot dead at least one person and injured a dozen after opening fire on mourners at a funeral for 35 protesters killed in the violent unrest. A hospital official told Reuters that snipers were firing from the top of the Benghazi security headquarters.
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Tax protests hit Barclays branches
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Tax protests hit Barclays branches on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:18:11 +0000
A protester from UK Uncut raises his arms as he takes part in an occupation of a branch of Barclays bank in central London. Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images More than 50 branches of Barclays bank across the UK have been targeted by activists protesting against tax avoidance. The direct action by UK Uncut, taking place in more than 30 towns and cities including London, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, came as Barclays was forced to admit it paid just £113m in UK corporation tax in 2009 – a year when it rang up a record £11.6bn of profits
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Libyan protesters risk ‘suicide’ by army hands
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Libyan protesters risk 'suicide' by army hands on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:07:55 +0000
Gaddafi has warned anti-government demonstrators they risk being shot by the army. Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is confronting the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule as leader of Libya by unleashing his army on unarmed protesters. Unlike the rulers of neighbouring Egypt, Gaddafi has refused to countenance the politics of disobedience, despite growing international condemnation, and the death toll of demonstrators nearing 100
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Come Fly With Me: Husband and wife pilots like Matt Lucas and David Walliams
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Come Fly With Me: Husband and wife pilots like Matt Lucas and David Walliams on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:14:09 +0000
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 6:22 PM on 15th February 2011
A married pair of pilots have been turned into a laughing stock at their airport – by Little Britain’s Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
Debi and Jonathan Peskett fly together just like suspicious wife Jackie Trent and her cheating husband Simon in BBC comedy Come Fly With Me.
The pilot Mr and Mrs have become the butt of jokes since Lucas and Walliams mocked the squabbling 30,00ft high marriage in their new series.
Laughing stock: Husband and wife Captain Jonathan and Debi Peskett at the airport where their colleagues have dubbed them the ‘real-life’ Simon and Jackie Trent from BBC series Come Fly With Me
Debi, 36, said: ‘Since Come Fly with Me came on television we’ve had non-stop ribbing.
‘But I didn’t become a pilot to stop my husband having affairs – thank goodness.’
Debi insists she ‘entirely trusts her husband – unlike Walliams’ character Jackie checking on her straying hubbie.
Debi and Jonathan Peskitt fly for budget airline bmibaby instead of FlyLo like Walliams and Lucas.
The pair have spent the past five years working together with Debi as first officer and Jonathan as captain.
But the couple have been trying to laugh off the high-jinx jokes from fellow crew members as they jet around Europe from their base in Cardiff airport.
Comedy couple Simon and Jackie Trent (left) spend their time squabbling, unlike happily married husband and wife Debi and Jonathan Peskett who say there’s no time for banter when you’re 30,000ft up in the air
Debi said: ‘I’ve even got Simon and Jackie as my profile picture on Facebook.’
Debi first met Jonathan when they were cadets nearly 10 years ago.
But the pair only got together in 2006 – and married in Italy seven months later.
‘Nothing happened until four years later when we were both in the same meeting for bmibaby – then I fell head over heels.
‘I have the opportunity to travel the world with the man I love. We have a lot in common, including luckily sharing a love for flying and travel.’
Their professionalism – and the aircraft’s little black box recorder – mean Debi and Jonathan do not squabble like the Trents.
Jonathan said there was not much room for personal discussion when they were in the air.
He said: ‘Our jobs are very black and white. We have to concentrate on a lot of procedures.
‘It’s not like being in an office where there’s time for banter – plus everything we say is recorded.’
Iraqi Defector ‘Curveball’ Says He Lied About WMD
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Iraqi Defector 'Curveball' Says He Lied About WMD on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:46:57 +0000
The Iraqi defector known as “Curveball,” who provided the basis for U.S. claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, has admitted that he lied to intelligence agencies, a published report says.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi told The Guardian newspaper he made up the stories about Saddam’s arsenal because he wanted to hurt the Iraqi regime.
“I had the chance to fabricate something to topple the regime,” al-Janabi told The Guardian in a series of interviews. “I and my sons are proud of that, and we are proud that we were the reason to give Iraq the margin of democracy.”
The claims were a key part of then-Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech to the U.N. Security Council in 2003. Powell mentioned an Iraqi engineer who described “biological weapons factories on wheels.”
In fact, al-Janabi said he was never involved in any such program. He said he used his chemical engineering knowledge to make up the reports.
Al-Janabi told the stories to the German intelligence agency, BND, which passed them to the CIA. Germany gave al-Janabi asylum in 2000.
Al-Janabi, who was codenamed Curveball by the intelligence agencies, says that removing Saddam from office justified the invasion of Iraq, even after more than 100,000 civilian deaths.
“Believe me, there was no other way to bring about freedom to Iraq,” al-Janabi said. “There were no other possibilities.”
Activists halt Japanese whaling
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Activists halt Japanese whaling on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:46:13 +0000
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Japan has suspended its Antarctic whaling operations after disruption by a conservation group
Wednesday February 16,2011
Japan has temporarily suspended its Antarctic whaling operations after repeated disruptions by a conservation group, a government official said.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been chasing the Japanese whaling fleet for weeks in the icy seas off Antarctica, trying to block Japan’s annual hunts, planned for up to 945 whales.
Fisheries agency official Tatsuya Nakaoku said Tokyo halted the hunt on February 10 “to ensure safety” after persistent disruption by the anti-whaling protesters.
He said the fleet plans to resume hunting when conditions are deemed safe.
The annual whale hunts – for scientific purposes – are allowed by the International Whaling Commission as an exception to the 1986 ban, but opponents say they are a cover for commercial whaling.
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