Source: Newsweek

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More than 200 were arrested in New York City during the second consecutive night of protests over a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the choking death of an unarmed black man, police said.

Officer Daniel Pantaleo was captured on video placing Eric Garner in a chokehold in Staten Island in July while arresting him for illegally selling loose cigarettes. His subsequent death was found to have occurred in part from chokehold, and was ruled a homicide. Garner repeatedly said, "I can't breathe," as Pantaleo held his hands around Garner's neck

Protesters gathered at locations across the city, but were mostly concentrated in Mahattan. At least 3,000 protesters blocked traffic in Times Square an hour before midnight, Reuters reports, and other groups staged sit-ins at Union Square and blocked intersections in downtown Manhattan.

The protesters' rallying cry was, "Black lives matter," a reference to perceived racial bias in policing practices across the country. In recent months, similar protests have erupted in Ferguson, Mo., over the death of an unarmed black teenager at the hands of a white police officer, and in Cleveland, Mo., where a police officer shot and killed a 12-year old black boy over what turned out to be a toy pistol.


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Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/nypd-arrest-more-200-overnight-ongoing-protests-289418

Fuck the Cops
Fuck the Supreme Court

They promise to PEAK in 2030 and that a Huge moving target

What kind of BS are they peddling this time

just thought you all should know

Not sure if having the internet connection out here was such a good idea now that I read all these post concerning misogynist comments. Being old, it seems to me, everyone (including women/misandry) has a little bit - or A LOT of this in them and at different points in their life struggle with it in a lesser and at times greater degree.

Of course institutionalized misogyny or misandry is just plain wrong - and we all should work to see its end in our life time.

But there is always going to be the little giggle/rude joke told between like gender friends that will be the most pervasive and perhaps the last bastion of misogyny / misandry. It most likely will wither away of its own accord as a newer generation of well informed youth replaces us "Old Farts" in the coming decades and years.

What would be most fascinating would be watching graduate anthropologist stumble across these threads stored in some form of digital archive a couple of 100 years from now, scratching their head in disbelief thing - "Gee were people really like that?

But anyway less I digress - my "Power Tools Await" me

NO THEY DO NOT SAVE MONEY MANUFACTURING IC CHIPS OVERSEAS

The only way the Equation Works is through USA's Corporate Tax Loop holes which allow Dummy Corporate Offices in 3rd party countries to claim the bulk of the mark up in value without ever receiving, processing, or touching the goods.

My friend I went to school with years ago is an R&D engineer for 1 of the Biggest names in the business. (in fact he asked me for my resume and I said No) He tells me the cost of doing business overseas is 10x the cost of doing business here in the USA.

A Chip Manufacturing Facility MUST include the following infrastructure not provided by the host country

1. Power Plant - 25 - 50 Megawatts
2. Water Treatment Plant
3. Housing for Key workers (Management)
4. Facility Transportation (Goods and Workers to and from airports and port of entry)
5.Security - operating Private Security for the facility, American Workers (at work and home) and even the schools the dependents enroll in
6. The physical facility itself (since ready made industrial/commercial space is non-existent)

Additional cost will include

1. Educating Workers - look at the campus Cisco Systems paid for in China
2. Health Clinic for workers
3. Government Kick-Backs
4. Guarding against Intellectual Property Theft
5. Numerous USA litigation cost to prevent "Knock-Off" products from hitting the shelves

So the "Eye Witness" knew it was a TOY GUN - but the Weapons Expert couldn't tell and shot a 13 yr old boy dead

BTW: the police STILL have not released the cell phone video confiscated from eye witnesses

Source: Ken Pritchett KTVU.com

More than 200 protesters took to the streets of Oakland Wednesday evening in another solidarity march tied to the shooting of an 18-year-old man in Ferguson, Missouri.

“Hands up! Don’t shoot,” the protesters chanted as they marched from 14th and Broadway in the direction of Oakland Police Headquarters on 7th street.

They were stopped short of the building by a line of officers blocking off Broadway.

The protesters pledged the march would be non-violent and it was.




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He was a kid by any standard and especially if you have raised teenagers.

And now the bigots are spreading all across the internet to insert disinformation and doubt about what truly happened. A kid was shot and killed in the street like a dog and the officers so intent and making sure he died refused to allow anyone to attempt to resuscitate or even call for an ambulance for him

Maybe your version of nirvana is all white or all black or what ever color you please or a mixture like we have now. But just how does the killing of children fit in that vision of nirvana.

We should all be deeply disturbed by the treatment of any child (barely legal adult) in this manner

I've been in some war torn ass backwards 3rd world countries during my time in Uncle Sam's Army many many years ago. And the one thing I found so universal and so human (even in a place where bodies could lay in the streets for days if not weeks) was the absolute care, and protection given to children in need from complete strangers. No hesitation, no fore thought - just an immediate response to help a child in need

Where in the F___ have we gone so very very wrong

You want me to believe with all the eaves dropping surveillance equipment they have today there is such a thing as "anonymous"






Shredding the Constitution in the name of Security - the founders of this country must be ashamed of what we've done