http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=hit-and-run Sun, 19 May 2013 00:45:38 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=hit-and-run Sat, 18 May 2013 19:11:11 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0e9_1368918624 FB-RAMBO Baton Rouge, LA 5/18/13 - footage captured from a cell phone of a man who was run over on Sherwood Boulevard and clings to the hood of the car that hit him while asking the driver next to him to call the police. Why is there so much crazy shit going on in Baton Rouge? http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0e9_1368918624 FB-RAMBO Man gets runover and stays on hood of the car wtf guy car road Thu, 16 May 2013 05:56:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=687_1368692944 Poncho_NZ Happened after work today, guy in blue lorry clips the dyna vans wing mirror / side and doesn't stop... Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=687_1368692944 Poncho_NZ Lorry hit and run. Crash wing mirror hit and run Tue, 14 May 2013 13:43:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebe_1368553283 the aliens are here bro Watch till end. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebe_1368553283 the aliens are here bro Oversteering or overdrinking? Russian hit and run. Russia, hit, and, run Sun, 12 May 2013 03:02:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=011_1368341750 ljfriel2 died at the scene from his injuries http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=011_1368341750 ljfriel2 Fatal <span class="highlight">hit-and-run</span> in stolen car road,highway,vehicle,stolen,pedestrian,struck,hit,run,died,dashcam Tue, 14 May 2013 07:12:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=315_1368529744 FB-RAMBO Crazy Russian driver http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=315_1368529744 FB-RAMBO Crazy Russian Driver leaves Accident crazy russian drivers hit and run Wed, 15 May 2013 11:40:38 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a1_1368632120 one_L_19 White man, his wife and teenage daughter attacked by territorial groidle. Police refuse to file hate crime charges. News video at bottom of post. BATON ROUGE, LA He was in the "wrong neighborhood" is just one reason a man gave as to why he was punched in the face. His wife and daughter were also hit. Police arrested one man and ticketed two others. They are all accused of punching the family. At the corner of Plank Road and Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. A family stopped there to get gas Sunday around 10 p.m. "Upon our arrival, we located three victims who were attacked in the parking lot," said Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department. The owners of the gas station did not want to comment on camera, but said there's a wide variety of customers in and out of the store in the daytime. At night, though, it's not the safest of places, especially with the area having some of the highest crime in the city. "It was a small scene but it got to be a big scene after the fight broke out and it was a big scene when the police came," said Keisha Henderson, a witness. Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument. "The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated. It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground." At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital." His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious." According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface." The daughter was also punched in the face. "There were only three suspects but there were multiple people in the parking lot," said Stubbs. Of those three, Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery. The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery. When police were questioned about why all three defendants were not charged with felony second degree battery, Stubbs responded, "Because you have to have disfigurement for a second-degree battery charge, and only one victim had disfigurement and he was attacked by the one suspect that we booked." However, Louisiana law defines second-degree battery as "bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement." The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious. "I feel that's racist," said Henderson. As to why officers only charged one suspect with second-degree battery, police said under former Police Chief Dewayne White, officers were told to take all offenders to prison. Towards the end of his term, the policy changed and officers were told to use discretion. That's the policy in place now. As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation. All three defendants, Dickerson, Bessye and Simmons, have had run-ins with the law prior to Sunday's incident. Copyright 2013 WAFB. All rights reserved. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a1_1368632120 one_L_19 blacks Attack White Family, Father in Hospital, Wife and Young Daughter Beaten Blacks, hate crime, white, family, attacked, by animals, baton roughe, Louisiana, racism, SBPDL Mon, 13 May 2013 00:56:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46b_1368420918 mtnmanx Do the crime, do the time. At least in Russia people (except the hit-and-run driver) will try to help. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46b_1368420918 mtnmanx Motorcycle runs red light, pays the price. red light, motorcycle crash, motorcycle red light crash, russia motorcycle accident Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e15_1368733198 tubezzz Heya folks! a last minute addition of AWOLL for LL's first real live stream show! i was rushed to do this one (was supposed to come out next sunday or so). so i hope you like it :&gt; Music: Spiderbait - Black Betty (edited) All videos used were featured on LL in the last few days. 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Wait For It! 98 Year Old Man Smoked Weed Everyday Since 1936 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e15_1368733198 tubezzz A Week On Liveleak #5 a week on liveleak Thu, 16 May 2013 14:02:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e2_1368726988 Detroit Iron by Joe Concha 8:58 am, May 16th, 2013 "I do not believe what the IRS was reported to have been doing is an outrage. I believe that the IRS agents in this case did nothing wrong. Let me say it again, you won't hear it anywhere else: the IRS agents did nothing wrong. They were simply trying to enforce the law as the IRS has understood it since 1959." - Lawrence O'Donnell on the IRS. "Conservatives still want to change the subject to the fake, ginned up scandal they've been pushing month after month." - Chris Hayes on Benghazi. "So now they're (Republicans are) viewing an actual real world abuse of power scandal (the IRS Scandal), not as its own outrage, but as a means of supporting their preexisting witch hunt on Benghazi, which they really struggled to turn into a scandal in large part because they themselves cannot seem to settle on what the scandal even is. It's a cover-up. Just don't ask what's being covered up..." - Hayes on the IRS Scandal being used for political gain for Republicans on...Benghazi. "Does this mean that the IRS is hereby forever neutered from doing what is, after all, the very important work of making sure that political fundraising groups are not making a laughingstock of the rules that are supposed to limit what they do? Will we ever really have an IRS doing that important work again, giving how badly they screwed up trying to do it over these past couple of years?" - Rachel Maddow on the IRS Scandal and its potential ramifications for the agency. And so it goes at MSNBC. The formula worked in 2012 in turning Mitt Romney into Gordon Gekko while the network soared to its highest ratings ever. But that formula-part-attack Republicans, part-defend-the President at all costs-is a one-track record that the public-even some on the left-aren't buying. And when the choice is to join the GOP in holding the President accountable with the same passion they did when taking on Bush 43, the captains of MSNBC primetime appear to be prepared to go down with the ship...if it means embracing that horrific alternative. If ratings (those slightly-important indicators that ultimately pay the bills and allow network people to keep their jobs and hosts to keep their shows on the air) Phil Griffin 's network has experienced arguably the worst six weeks of his tenure. If you recall, Griffin declared in March he would kick his friend Jeff Zucker's "ass" in the ratings, all while overtaking Fox News-which has been number one for over a decade-within the calendar year. At the time I commended Griffin for thinking big, but also cautioned him to be wary of Zucker in his rearview mirror . At that time, CNN was plodding along in third or fourth place (depending on what was going on with Jodi Arias and HLN). But then Boston happened and many viewers-particularly casual ones-turned to CNN. And after the terrorists were killed and captured, respectively, a funny thing happened: Audiences mostly liked what they saw on CNN and stuck around. The result? HLN and CNN leapfrogged MSNBC in April in total viewers and the all-important 25-54 demo. No matter. All cable networks have a bad month when breaking news or events help steer some views away. With Boston in the past, May would be the month MSNBC would rebound when things returned to normal, whatever that is. But like a 1-2-1 jab, four huge stories hit the fan. Benghazi Rebooted. Adios Arias. Cleveland Captivity and the Charles Ramsey Show. The IRS-Targeting-Conservative-Groups Scandal. Arias and Cleveland kidnappings helped Turner Broadcasting's CNN and HLN continue its momentum of recent weeks. Arias, of course, is the (demented) gift that keeps on giving for HLN, while CNN wisely dedicated resources to LeBron's former home to cover the kidnapping story extensively. And of course, Fox might as well open a bureau in Benghazi in appreciation for all of the mileage that story has provided the network in a non-election year. So the fourth place finishes have continued for MSNBC, which (as also noted in this space recently) is a network without a narrative during said non-election year. In short, Phil Griffin 's network revolves around one thing: Politics. And that world just ain't that compelling unless there's ballot box somewhere in the near future. MSNBC is also built on pointing out the hypocrisy and/or evil nature of the Republican Party and Fox News, two cornerstones of its content. But now it is President Obama and his promise to be a completely transparent administration that is being gleefully exposed as hypocritical by the GOP and Fox. If Nate Silver is the next Nostradamus, the President is already a lame-duck. Silver says Democrats have little chance to take back the house in 2014. No House control, no ability for a President-whose credibility has taken a toll over the past month for which it will be difficult to recover from-to advance anything grandiose in a second term. In other words, the President is (to quote Tom Cruise in The Firm ): "...like a ship carrying a cargo that will never reach any port". On the U.S.S. Obama is MSNBC. And in making a run at Fox and in an effort to distance itself from CNN, they simply rearranged the deck chairs by doing things like moving Chris Hayes from weekday mornings to primetime. The result has been nothing short of disastrous, as he now trails The O'Reilly Factor by a 7-to-1 margin while failing to get 500,000 viewers per night ( Keith Olbermann , conversely, routinely generated over 1.2 million viewers before being asked to leave). The only hope, of course, is Hillary and the Clinton for President 2.0 2016 campaign. It was somehow the lead story on the Chris Matthews Show on Sunday. All complete with fat jokes about Chris Christie (lather, rinse, repeat) from the host, who ain't exactly Calista Flockhart himself... Benghazi? IRS? AP phone records seized? Nope...it's all about an election 42 months away. Why? Because it's a challenge to defend the President these days. His party won't win in 2014. He's already past tense, a lame duck. What to do? Either continue to defend entities like the IRS... Or Lean Forward with Hillary to 2016. - - &gt;&gt; Follow Joe Concha on Twitter @ConchSports http://www.mediaite.com/online/defending-the-irs-msnbc%E2%80%99s-support-of-obama-once-an-asset-now-puts-network-in-a-losing-position/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e2_1368726988 Detroit Iron Defending the IRS: MSNBC's Support Of Obama, Once An Asset, Now Puts Network In A Losing Position Obama, maddow, matthews, o'donnell Thu, 16 May 2013 06:51:20 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1368701289 ConspiracyTardLL He was in the "wrong neighborhood" is just one reason a man gave as to why he was punched in the face. His wife and daughter were also hit. Police arrested one man and ticketed two others. They are all accused of punching the family. At the corner of Plank Road and Scenic Highway in Baton Rouge sits a Chevron gas station. It's off I-110 near Memorial Stadium. A family stopped there to get gas Sunday around 10 p.m. "Upon our arrival, we located three victims who were attacked in the parking lot," said Cpl. Tommy Stubbs, spokesperson for the Baton Rouge Police Department. The owners of the gas station did not want to comment on camera, but said there's a wide variety of customers in and out of the store in the daytime. At night, though, it's not the safest of places, especially with the area having some of the highest crime in the city. "It was a small scene but it got to be a big scene after the fight broke out and it was a big scene when the police came," said Keisha Henderson, a witness. Stubbs said a man wearing a pink shirt was in line trying to pay for gas when Donald Dickerson, 41, started making fun of him, leading to an argument. "The defendant (Dickerson) approached the white male victim," the police report stated. It went on to read, "the defendant told him he was in the wrong neighborhood and he was not going to make it out." The victim said that's when he "was punched and knocked to the ground." At this time, his wife got out of the car and ran to help her husband. The victim said, "he continued to struggle with the defendant and was eventually knocked unconscious, which later he awoke in the hospital." His wife told police, "after running to help her husband, she remembers falling to the ground and (being) knocked unconscious." According to a close family friend, that's when the couple's teenage daughter got out of the car to check on her parents and, "observed a female punch her mother in the face, when her mother then fell to the concrete, hitting her head on the surface." The daughter was also punched in the face. "There were only three suspects but there were multiple people in the parking lot," said Stubbs. Of those three, Dickerson was arrested and charged with second-degree battery. The other two suspects, Devin Bessye, 24, and Ashley Simmons, 22, were released on site after police wrote them each a summons for simple battery. When police were questioned about why all three defendants were not charged with felony second degree battery, Stubbs responded, "Because you have to have disfigurement for a second-degree battery charge, and only one victim had disfigurement and he was attacked by the one suspect that we booked." However, Louisiana law defines second-degree battery as "bodily injury which involves unconsciousness, extreme physical pain or protracted and obvious disfigurement." The victim suffered "a broken eye socket, broken nose, and several lacerations to the face," and his wife was knocked unconscious. "I feel that's racist," said Henderson. As to why officers only charged one suspect with second-degree battery, police said under former Police Chief Dewayne White, officers were told to take all offenders to prison. Towards the end of his term, the policy changed and officers were told to use discretion. That's the policy in place now. As to whether this falls under a hate crime, police said early reports show it does not meet the statute but remains under investigation. All three defendants, Dickerson, Bessye and Simmons, have had run-ins with the law prior to Sunday's incident. SOURCE: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/14/white-family-including-14-year-old-daughter-reportedly-attacked-for-being-in-the-wrong-neighborhood-of-baton-rouge/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f0a_1368701289 ConspiracyTardLL Family attacked for being in wrong neighborhood Racism, hate Crime, Violent Attack Mon, 13 May 2013 16:25:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b1_1368475463 Setright The black flag of al-Qaeda flies high over Raqqa's main square in front of the smart new governor's palace, its former occupant last seen in their prison. Their fighters, clad also in black, patrol the streets, or set up positions behind sandbags. By Richard Spencer, and David Rose 7:00AM BST 12 May 2013 The Islamists smashed up one of the two shops that sold alcohol. That much was pretty inevitable, the locals agreed. The other off-licence had already closed, as had the casino on the outskirts of town. They brought in a radical cleric from Egypt to preach Friday prayers, and set up a sharia court in the city's new sports centre with the support of other brigades. They had their fiefdom - an entire city to run only 60 miles from Nato'S border. Then, one night, 10 men came for Nagham and Nour al-Rifaie, two teenage sisters from a well-known liberal family. They were at home with a family friend, Yusra Omran, 30, and their male cousin, 32 . All these guys came in with guns and wearing masks and with handcuffs," said Nagham, 19, a civil engineering student. "They started searching everything, and shouting. "They were saying, 'Put on more clothes than you are wearing, put on a headscarf.' I just said I'm wearing clothes and I'm not putting on a headscarf'." The men took them to the sports centre. There the girls were charged with being alone with a man and interrogated. "The guy with us was so mean," Miss Rifaie said. "He was speaking in a horrible way, as if he was disgusted to be with us." In Raqqa, a once conservative but by all accounts not religious city, the triumph of al-Qaeda's Syrian arm, Jabhat al-Nusra, would seem to be complete. The town is largely under the control of Jabhat al-Nusra, affiliated to al-Qaeda (David Rose for the Telegraph). Little known a year ago but suspected of having being founded by al-Qaeda in Iraq, they have grown in stature, leading many of the rebels' most successful recent battles. Last month they publicly declared their loyalty to al-Qaeda's supreme leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Their new-found power is such that it is changing international calculations over the conflict. After first being discouraged from action by their presence in rebel ranks, Britain now has a revised diplomatic strategy. David Cameron put it to Russia's president Vladimir Putin on Friday and will discuss it this week with a nervous President Obama in Washington. Mr Cameron's officials now feel Jabhat al-Nusra has to be defeated by actively supporting the less militant rebels, including with arms. Many of Jabhat's rival militias are being marginalised in cities like Raqqa across the north. On Tuesday, Britain will seek to have Jabhat al-Nusra added to an official list of sanctions at the United Nations. Destroyed buildings near the Ahrar al-Sham Brigade Headquarters in the centre of Al Raqqa. The base was targeted by a regime airstrike last week (David Rose for the Telegraph) In taking Raqqa two months ago al-Qaeda achieved its greatest coup in the war to date: it was the first provincial capital to fall outright to the rebels, and allowed Jabhat to assume a leadership role over a large swathe of north-eastern Syria, to the Iraqi border. To many in it is a welcome development. "Jabhat are excellent for us," said Abdullah Mohammed, a man from the nearby village of Mansoura. "They deal with us according to Islamic rules, so there are no problems. They are honest and they run everything pretty well." As a police officer, Mr Mohammed said he was in a position to know the difference between life under al-Qaeda and the Assad regime. He was in prison when the revolution broke out - he had stopped a car for jumping a red light and found to his cost it was being driven by a regime official. He said he was in a cell with four members of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority sect, and when the protests started the guards were taken away to fight and the Alawite prisoners turned into guards. Other locals too, particularly shopkeepers, say the all-pervasive corruption of the Assad era has vanished with the regime's men. "I like Jabhat," said Ahmed al-Hindy, who runs an optician's shop. "They are better than the regime, at any rate." An Islamic militant in the centre of Al Raqqa (David Rose for the Telegraph) Part of it is money. Jabhat al-Nusra has always been well-funded compared to other militias - most people assume due to wealthy backers in the Gulf, though few have been able to track down the lines of the money supply. Now they have control of good sources of income and can pay salaries. From the city's main flour mill, they supply the all-important bakeries, and they have seized some of them too. At night, long queues of women form to buy their daily ration under the watchful eyes of Jabhat guards. They have also taken the oilfields in neighbouring Deir al-Zour province. Production is hardly booming, but they are able to sell enough on the local market to keep cash rolling in. It is not all plain sailing, though. Even in Raqqa, no single militia is all-powerful, even Jabhat, and they depend on an alliance with Ahrar al-Sham, another radical Islamist group. They also have to deal with a slew of other brigades with a variety of ideologies. The dynamic of Jabhat's rise is being challenged out of both envy and fear, leading to clashes. Two senior rival militiamen have been assassinated in the last 10 days: Abu Awad of the Farouq Brigade, and, on Thursday, the head of the Ahfad al-Rasool, Abu al-Zein. In both cases the method was the same - three men in black and masks drove up to the victims' cars, shot them, then sped off. Some say it could be a leftover squad of Assad's Shabiha, but members of their militias point out both were known for support for a civil state, not an Islamic one. Another militia leader, Abu Deeb of the Lions of Islam, was arrested after a fight on Tuesday with Jabhat al-Nusra that brought the city to a brief standstill. Different explanations have been given, but Abdullah al-Khalil, the civilian who heads the town's interim administration, said it was over control of the town's largest bakery. "After Assad falls, there will be a second revolution, against Jabhat al-Nusra," said Amar Abu Yasser, a battalion leader with the Farouq Brigade. The Farouq was once the most famous brigade in the Syrian revolution, spreading its power from its base in Homs across the north of the country, where it still operates several of the border crossings to Turkey, including Tal Abyad, the nearest to Raqqa. But its power and influence has been severely curbed by Jabhat al-Nusra. Abu Azzam, the Farouq head at Tal Abyad, survived an assassination attempt when a bomb was placed under his car. The flag of Jabhat al-Nusra flying over the Governer's Palace (David Rose for the Telegraph) "The problem is due to ideology," said Mr Abu Yasser, until two years ago a student of Arabic literature, now a tough, bearded warrior in fatigues and a black turban. "There is a conflict between the black flag and the revolutionary flag." The green, white and black banner with three red stars made famous by the revolution still flies in Raqqa, but in a secondary place. "It is not wise to try to make an Islamic state here," he went on. "There are Christians, Alawites, Druze living here. It will just be a big problem." He also said Jabhat al-Nusra was not as honest and Muslim as it seemed. He claimed it had stripped the town's factories and smuggled their goods, including nearly 200 tons of sugar, to Turkey for profit. Jabhat has withdrawn into itself as tensions rise, and particularly since the declaration of obedience to al-Qaeda was issued, which confirmed its status as an internationally proscribed terrorist group. It no longer gives interviews or defends itself from such allegations, and has banned its men from talking to foreign journalists. Those its men stop at checkpoints in the city are accused of being "foreign spies" Graffiti is painted on a wall by members of Civic Society, one of the more liberal youth organizations in Al Raqqa (David Rose for the Telegraph) Some locals regarded as fanciful the idea that Farouq and other group would ever again have the strength to rise up and throw out Jabhat. But most proclaimed defiantly that Syria would not become a radical Islamic state. "This is all just for the war," said Mr al-Khalil, the town leader, who is happy to cooperate with Jabhat as he tries to re-establish schools and keep the water running. A former human rights lawyer once jailed by the regime, he said he could tolerate the black flags for now. "But I think the modern Islamic project will win in the end," he added, using a phrase commonly used to refer to a civil state with a Muslim ethos, like booming Turkey next door. He added a refrain repeated now across rebel Syria: it will be harder to keep the Islamists out if the West does not come to the aid of this "modern" project. As a follower of Abu Deeb, the arrested militia leader put it: "This is a pact with the devil. We would rather ally with Obama than Jabhat." At first glance, Jabhat have tried to play safe. A small but visible minority of women go without the hijab, or headscarf. The town's handful of Christian families have stayed put, for now: the churches are closed, but untouched. But it may have made a major strategic error with its announcement of loyalty to al-Qaeda. It did not cause a big stir in the West, where the link had been assumed, but it shocked many who had begun to tolerate Jabhat's presence. Their main Islamist allies, Ahrar al-Sham, immediately denounced it. "It was like a thunderbolt," said Abu Abdullah, 40, an Ahrar al-Sham fighter outside their main base, largely abandoned after being hit by Assad missiles. "It really surprised me and is unacceptable. Our goal is just to liberate Syria. We don't care about other countries - we don't want to go and fight in Iraq or anywhere." Then there was the arrest of Nagham al-Rifaie, Nour, 18, and their cousin and friend. That was a "what the hell?" moment, said Mohammed Shuaib, a student who has helped found a human rights discussion group, Haquna. It led a 500-strong protest to the sharia court the morning after the arrest. But by then the girls were already free. What happened is a glimmer of hope to men like Mr Shuaib. On arrival at the court, the girls were told they would immediately face two judges, local worthies brought in by the ruling Islamist alliance. It was one o'clock in the morning. Nagham was told to put a headscarf on. Again she refused. "They said to me, 'It's a sharia court, you can't go in without a headscarf'. I said, 'That's fine by me!' "So we stood before the court with no headscarves on." One of the judges, a teacher called Mohammed al-Omar, referred them to the charge sheet."He said, 'It says you were alone with a man, what do you say.' I said, 'It is none of their business.' "And he said, 'I agree'." The girls were freed immediately. They asked who the men who arrested them were, but no one was able to provide an answer. Whether the rest of Raqqa will escape so lightly, the girls could not say. "Things will become difficult, that's sure," said Miss Rifaie, sitting in a coffee shop last week with her father, himself a human rights activist, the two girls the only women present. "The problem is with the people. Because of the regime, if someone speaks to them who has power, they just sit there. But my father has taught me to have opinions. So I cannot stop." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b1_1368475463 Setright Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists World News, Middle East, Syria Mon, 13 May 2013 02:40:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a35_1368426910 Mark-3-Zephyr Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/8662224/Chinese-cheats-rort-NZ-universities-with-fakes An investigation has uncovered a well-organised commercial cheating service for Chinese-speaking students in New Zealand. >> Read the essay Fairfax bought The long-standing business uses a network of tutors, some outside New Zealand, to write original assignments ordered by Chinese-speaking students attending New Zealand universities, polytechnics and private institutions. The tutors are paid by assignment and have specialist subjects. The assignments go up to masters level but the service claims to have tutors up to doctorate level. Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce last night said the police and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) were launching an inquiry into the service following the investigation. Joyce said the NZQA was anonymously tipped off three months ago and took action to inform universities and polytechs, but failed to tell him. He said it was now an "open question" whether NZQA's response had been adequate, and chief executive Karen Poutasi was conducting an internal investigation. The revelation of the cheating service has serious repercussions for the New Zealand international education sector, which earns about $750 million a year from about 93,000 students. China is New Zealand's biggest education market, last year accounting for 27 per cent of this country's international students. The Sunday Star-Times, using the name of a fictitious Chinese student, successfully ordered an essay for a first-year university course subject from the company, which markets itself under a Chinese-language website called Assignment4U and is run from a unit at 88 Cook St, Central Auckland. The signage in the office says Ateama Ltd in large, bold letters. The company also offers tutoring, counselling, help and academic "solutions" for overseas students. A ghost writer, who wrote assignments for Assignment4U in 2007, told the Star-Times about completing assignments for students who were enrolled at Auckland University, Massey University, Auckland University of Technology and AIS St Helens (a private tertiary education provider). He said he was coming forward now because he wanted to do "the right thing". Pengju Chen, who is listed as a director of Ateama in Company Office records, initially denied being in charge of the operation when approached in the Assignment4U office on Friday. He then agreed he was the director of the company and said the business did not help Chinese-speaking students to cheat. The company provided only face-to-face tutoring and counselling. It supplied students with "examples" or "solutions" on academic assignment questions but made it clear the student could "not hand it in" because the company retained copyright. The examples helped with ideas and structure, he said. No such warning was provided to the fictitious student used by the Star-Times and the company provided its "solution" just three hours before the indicated deadline. About 24,500 students from China were enrolled in New Zealand institutions last year; about 10,500 at universities or polytechnics. Although it's impossible to say how many students have paid Assignment4U for academic assignments, the service has been available for at least five years and hundreds, if not thousands, of students may have used it. A large network of ghost writers both in New Zealand and overseas has also assisted in what could be one of the largest examples of cheating to hit the New Zealand international education system. Most education institutions have introduced systems to detect plagiarism but it is still very difficult to check if an assignment is the student's work. The ghost writer, who asked not to be named and now works overseas, believes universities and polytechnics must have turned a blind eye to the cheating. He said staff should have been alerted when students with poor English produced competent and grammatically correct essays. "It would take a colossal amount of looking the other way by the complete legion of tutors, lecturers, course facilitators and teaching assistants to let pass such well-constructed essays and such exquisitely prepared assessments submitted by those whose written and spoken English skills are far from polished." Safeguards such as plagiarism buster turnitin.com did not detect a well-prepared, well-researched, ghost-written, electronic-based assignment, he said. "New Zealand, of all the Western nations, is now widely known in the Chinese community as the easiest way to get a bachelor's or master's degree," he said. In February he sent a letter with his concerns and evidence to a number of New Zealand universities including Auckland University, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Unitec, Massey University and the police but had heard nothing back. Last night, both Massey and Auckland universities said they were not aware of having received tip-offs. However, Joyce said NZQA had received some "information" anonymously three months ago, but had not informed him about it till last week. Joyce said NZQA had informed the umbrella group Universities New Zealand at the time, and the chair of a polytechnic advisory group, but "it is an open question as to whether they followed it up hard enough". The 1500-word essay commissioned by the Star-Times was for a first-year communications paper at Canterbury University and cost $270. It was delivered by email only hours before it was due. Just days before the deadline, Assignment4U asked for lecture notes and the student's login number at Canterbury University so it could check lecture notes. The fictitious student requested an essay of B or B- grade and when we had it marked by Canterbury University media and communications lecturer Donald Matheson, he gave it a B+. "This is a workmanlike essay which shows that the writer understands news values and can apply the ideas to an example," Matheson said. "Because of the mastery of essay-writing and the effort that's gone into using the academic readings, this would probably get a B+, which is a bit sobering. I'd not have picked this as cheating, other than a sense it was a bit weird that the student was so good at writing but didn't use those skills to really say anything." Chen appears to have been involved with the business since at least 2007 when a standard agreement for so-called tutors mentions his name as the office manager of Assignment4U. From 2003 to 2008, Assignment4U Consultant Ltd was a registered company directed and owned by Steven Quan Li, who works from the same apartment block as Chen. Chen and Li own, either personally or through companies, five apartments in the building. The shares in Ateama are owned by Xiaohu Ren who, according to company records, also lives at 88 Cook St. Joyce said the Government had amended the Education Act in 2011 to make it an offence to advertise or provide cheating services. The amendment hasn't yet led to a prosecution, but Joyce said police and NZQA would now "work together to ascertain the veracity of the issues and then work together with the appropriate agencies for a prosecution if that was required". Joyce said New Zealand took its reputation as a provider of tertiary training for international students "very seriously". THE REACTION Massey University spokesman James Gardiner said he wasn't aware of any recent correspondence alerting the institution to Assignment4U's activities, but "we take this sort of thing very seriously and would like to hear from this person again". He said the university had rigorous procedures in place to identify cheats, and uncover some every year, including exam cheats and plagiarists. He said that assignments were just one of a range of assessment processes, including exams. "It's not possible to get a qualification from Massey simply by handing in other people's assignments. There are multiple outputs expected from students, including exams." Gardiner rejected the idea that the university might feel under pressure to enrol international students even if their language skills were not up to completing a degree taught in English. He said it was not in the university's interest to allow students to start a degree they couldn't complete, and "if anything, there is more rigour applied to international students". A spokesperson for Auckland University said yesterday was the first time the university had heard of the alleged cheating, and it would need to know more details so "we can look into it". - (c) Fairfax NZ News http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a35_1368426910 Mark-3-Zephyr Chinese cheats rort NZ universities with fakes china, chinese, fake, cheat, new zealand, education