dixiegrrrrl
dixiegrrrrl's JournalKilled 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
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:
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.htmlInteresting ideas, much focus on what comes next, delicious writing, as he ponders futures.
In the link above...the future of the internet.
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. Whats 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.
Its 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 its 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. Thats not the only subsidy on which the internet depends, though. Along with the rest of industrial society, its 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 dont require the same inputs will prosper in the resulting competition.
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
only 23% of ENTIRE West not in drought
Doesn't even cover Texas or the plains states.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/HistoricDrought?src=hash
Federal appeals court in New York rules that the NSA program to collect phone records is illegal
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..........
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
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)
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.
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:
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.
The full preliminary report on the Germanwings crash is available in PDF form here:
http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.gwi18g/flight.gwi18g.phpIt'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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