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May 8, 2015

Killed by police facts:

At least 400 people have been killed by U.S. police since January 1, 2015.

At least 50 people have been killed by U.S. police since #FreddieGray was #KilledByPolice in #Baltimore

At least 800 people have been killed by U.S. police since #MikeBrown was #KilledByPolice in #Ferguson

At least 900 people have been killed by U.S. police since #EricGarner was #KilledByPolice

http://www.killedbypolice.net/

Finally, check out this time lapse map of police killings over the last 16 months:

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/CEWoTEMWoAIID5k.mp4


May 7, 2015

officer failed to turn on his camera before fatally shooting a man

witness said cop killed man for no obvious reason.


The San Diego Police Department decided to change a section of its body camera policy after an officer failed to turn on his camera before fatally shooting a man in the Midway District.
Instead of hitting record when they make contact with someone, they will have to turn on their cameras before they arrive at a scene.

The move comes after Officer Neal Browder shot Fridoon Zalbeg Rawshannehad, 42, to death on April 30 outside the Highlight Bookstore in the Midway District.


Snip....Witness:
“I support police, but this was wrong. This guy shouldn’t have been shot based on what I saw on the video,” said the man, who did not want to be identified. “The guy was walking, just normal, lazical (sic), lazy walking. If he (the officer) said ‘stop’, that’s all he said. He just opened the door, and said ‘stop’ and shot.”
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/SDPD-Revises-Body-Camera-Policy-After-Fatal-Shooting-302999241.html
May 7, 2015

If James Kunstler and Tom Robbins had a love-child, it would be this guy

http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-death-of-internet-pre-mortem.html

Interesting ideas, much focus on what comes next, delicious writing, as he ponders futures.
In the link above...the future of the internet.

Radio and television, like most of the other familiar technologies that define life in a modern industrial society, were born and grew to maturity in an expanding economy. The internet, by contrast, was born during the last great blowoff of the petroleum age—the last decades of the twentieth century, during which the world’s industrial nations took the oil reserves that might have cushioned the transition to sustainability, and blew them instead on one last orgy of over-the-top conspicuous consumption—and it’s coming to maturity in the early years of an age of economic contraction and ecological blowback.

The rising prices, falling service quality, and relentless monetization of a maturing industry, together with the increasing burden of online crime and the inevitable rebound away from internet culture, will thus be hitting the internet in a time when the global economy no longer has the slack it once did, and the immense costs of running the internet in anything like its present form will have to be drawn from a pool of real wealth that has many other demands on it. What’s more, quite a few of those other demands will be far more urgent than the need to provide consumers with a convenient way to send pictures of kittens to their friends. That stark reality will add to the pressure to monetize internet services, and provide incentives to those who choose to send their kitten pictures by other means.

It’s crucial to remember here, as noted above, that the internet is simply a cheaper and more convenient way of doing things that people were doing long before the first website went live, and a big part of the reason why it’s cheaper and more convenient right now is that internet users are being subsidized by the investors and venture capitalists who are funding the internet industry. That’s not the only subsidy on which the internet depends, though. Along with the rest of industrial society, it’s also subsidized by half a billion years of concentrated solar energy in the form of fossil fuels. As those deplete, the vast inputs of energy, labor, raw materials, industrial products, and other forms of wealth that sustain the internet will become increasingly expensive to provide, and ways of distributing kitten pictures that don’t require the same inputs will prosper in the resulting competition.

May 7, 2015

If you could only take ONE tv series with you to a desert Island........

which one, created in the last 10 years, and why?

For me.....The Big Bang Theory

May 7, 2015

only 23% of ENTIRE West not in drought

Doesn't even cover Texas or the plains states.



https://twitter.com/hashtag/HistoricDrought?src=hash

May 7, 2015

Federal appeals court in New York rules that the NSA program to collect phone records is illegal

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court ruled Thursday the National Security Agency’s controversial collection of millions of Americans’ phone records isn’t authorized by the Patriot Act, as the Bush and Obama administrations have long maintained.

The NSA has used the Patriot Act to justify collecting records of nearly every call made in the U.S.


rest is behind wsj paywall.

but info is sufficient to hope the tide is turning..........
May 7, 2015

This Is What Thunder Looks Like

The very first picture of thunder.........wow.

You have to go to the link to see the pic..It won't copy.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-is-what-thunder-looks-like?utm_source=mbtwitter

May 6, 2015

So ISIS is telling us it has members in 15 states ready to strike. Anyone else heard this?

Several sites link to this page:
http://justpaste.it/Anonymous90

(refers to Garland shooting)

We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah.

Of the 15 states, 5 we will name... Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan. The disbelievers who shot our brothers think that you killed someone untrained, nay, they gave you their bodies in plain view because we were watching.
May 6, 2015

We finally have all of the details of the Jade Helm plot to take over America...

or to take over Texas, at any rate, which is the same thing, almost. Kinda sorta.

Here it is:

Apparently the military is constructing FEMA domes in Texas to house “insurgents” after the declaration of martial law.
And those closed WalMart stores will be converted into giant entrance facilities for a network of underground tunnels that the U.S. military will use to link “deep underground military bases” (DUMBS) and secretly transport troops across the U.S. (those troops presumably being necessary to enforce the imposition of martial law).
And we know for a fact that trains bearing shackles have been already been readied to transport “insurgents” (aka “American political prisoners”) to “FEMA detention camps” (aka “FEMA death domes”) because an anonymous Texas Ranger said so.

By why martial law, and why is it coming now?
Because the militant Islamic State (ISIS) is camped just across the border from El Paso and is planning to launch an attack on the Southwestern U.S. from Mexico. !!!!!!!!
And while our valiant troops are busy fighting off the ISIS threat, all those closed WalMart stores will be serving double duty as food distribution centers for the Chinese troops who will be welcomed here to disarm the American citizenry while our attention is diverted elsewhere.
http://now.snopes.com/2015/05/04/conspiracy-in-name-only/
May 6, 2015

The full preliminary report on the Germanwings crash is available in PDF form here:

http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.gwi18g/flight.gwi18g.php

It's the first one down, says Preliminary Report, 6 May 2015
just click on the check mark under the Brit flag.

In the report, the page of "Initial Findings" pretty much covers the issue.

Also, there is information about other plane crashes, including Malaysia Flt 370, on the right hand column of the link page.

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Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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