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The Committee

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Initial release 1968
Directors Peter Sykes
Screenplay Peter Sykes
Languages English Language
Composers Pink Floyd
Arthur Brown
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About The Committee


The Committee is a 1968 British independent black-and-white film noir film. It featured original music by Pink Floyd as well as Arthur Brown's song "Nightmare".

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... Robin Walker, who chairs The Committee, said the childcare market faced significant challenges in " affordability and availability"...

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... However, members of the OBR told The Committee that the impact on economic growth from this measure was " unambiguously" positive...

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... " While we are of the strong view that independence should be preserved, reforms are needed to improve the Bank s performance and to strengthen its accountability to Parliament, " said Lord Bridges of Headley, chair of The Committee...

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George Floyd's death: "stop the pain", the brother says in the US Congress

Nov 24,2023 1:31 pm

Philonise Floyd: "the leader of This Country , This World , needs. The Right things to do"

, the brother of The African -American man whose death in police custody sparked worldwide protests, urged the U.S. Congress to pass reforms on Police Brutality and "stop The Pain ".

Philonise Floyd said, to listen to A House that his brother George could not "another name on a list".

"said the leader, what This Country , This World needs," Mr Floyd.

George Floyd died in Minneapolis in may, when a white Police Officer , a knee held to his neck, the almost nine minutes.

The last moments were filmed on mobile phones.

about his death.

What has been said in The House ?

lawmakers in The House of representatives of the legislative Committee listened to testimony from civil rights activists and law enforcement authorities, A Day after The Funeral of George Floyd, 46, of Houston.

The Committee , send a bill to The Floor of the democratic-led house of 4. July on the fight against police violence and racial injustice.

It Comes amid a Nationwide - and in many cases, International - debate about the practices of The Police and the accountability, and, more generally, about the racial inequality.

"I'm here to ask you to make it stop. You can stop The Pain ," an emotional Philonise Floyd, 42, said the legislator. "George called for help and he was ignored. Please listen to The Call , I'm now on the calls to Our Family and the calls ringing on The Streets all over The World .

"The People marched in The Streets , they say, enough is enough. "

Democrat Chairman Jerrold Nadler, said: "We don't have to remind you that [George Floyd] is just a cause, a name sung in The Streets . He was A Man . He had A Family . we mourn his loss. "

The Democrat-proposed legislation would so-called police chokeholds illegal, in the enforcement of anti-racism training, bar the dismissed officers of the exchange to a different strength and makes it easier to need to a law enforcement miss.

It is unclear whether it has the support of both parties.

Republican Committee representative Jim Jordan said, "it is time for a real discussion, discussions, real solutions, about The Police treatment of African-Americans", but also The President , Donald Trump praised 's answer to George Floyd's death.

Mr Trump has promoted a "law and order" - message, secure a strong reaction by the security forces to violent protests.

A spokesman for Mr Trump said on Wednesday that The President had "frictions proactive policy of waste, whether this means that legislation or an executive order".

What other developments are there?

As The House heard, the chief of police in Minneapolis, said that his Department "absolutely" could be reformed, and vowed, George Floyd ' s death be In Vain .

Medaria Arradondo said the reform would identify the introduction of a new early warning system, the behavior of The Police officers.

On Sunday, a majority of city Council members vowed to disband The Police and replace it with a new model of public security.

"Defund The Police ," was a call for many of the protesters Nationwide . It is both The President of Trump and his Democratic Challenger, was Biden in the November election by Joe.

In other moves: A Columbus statue is beheaded in Boston More on George Floyd's death

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Source of news: bbc.com

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