Archive for October, 2015

My Police Abuse Incident in Connecticut

The following post was submitted by Raul Santiago, via the CopBlock.org Submissions page. Date of Incident: Summer of 2007Officer Involved: Supervisor Staff Sergeant BrennanDepartment Involved: Connecticut State PoliceDepartment Phone No: (860) 534-1000 In the summer of 2007, I was driving home from work on I-84 East. I noticed a state trooper in the fast lane […]

Lawsuit: Henderson, NV Police Unlawfully Jailed Woman For Six Months

A Henderson, Nevada woman has claimed in a lawsuit that she was unlawfully held in jail for six months. Vanessa Kelley’s estranged spouse, Audrey Young, had accused her of attempted murder and she was jailed under the pretense of those charges being investigated. However, at the time the attack supposedly took place, Kelley was at the […]

Las Vegas Police Facing Lawsuit Over Arrests of Medical Marijuana Patients

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (“Metro”) is being sued by two medical marijuana patients who were wrongfully arrested in 2013. According to the lawsuit, in spite of her being legally registered as medical marijuana patients and the arrest warrant actually stating that she was, several Metro detectives, including Detective Jeffrey Tabor, raided Courtney Rogalski’s […]

Blind Man Wins Lawsuit After Cop Slams Head Into Counter

An elderly blind man that had his head slammed into a counter by a Denver Police officer after asking him to allow him to feel his badge to prove he was a cop, won an excessive force lawsuit against the department on Friday. 80-year-old Philip White, who is a retired school administrator with a Master […]

Should We Really Be Congratulating Police for Not Killing Us?

Multiple news outlets have circulated a viral Facebook post, dated October 27th, from author Steven Hildreth Jr. regarding a positive interaction with the Tucson Police Department. Hildreth describes being pulled over for a broken headlight. He informs the officers he has a concealed carry permit, and is currently armed. He cooperates showing them his weapon, and his […]

Rockefeller Globalist Agenda-21 Behind Biomass and Plum Creek?

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)— Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. (NYSE: PCL  ) , and The Rockefeller Group, the global real estate investment and development company, today announced a memorandum of understanding to evaluate and pursue joint venture development projects on 4,722 acres of land in the southeastern United States owned by Plum Creek. The initial agreement covers two […]

Worries Over Oil, Gas Industry Exposure To Water And Climate Risks

Above Photo: Oil Pollution via Shutterstock. When it comes to financial risks surrounding water, there is one industry that, according to a new report, is both among the most exposed to these risks and the least transparent to investors about them: the oil and gas industry. This year, 1,073 of the world’s largest publicly listed companies faced requests […]

6,000 Prisoners Make Their Way Home

Over the next three days, 6,000 will be released from federal prisons. The decision to release the prisoners came last April from the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a judicial agency which voted to reduce sentences for drug-related crimes. For many, it’s been years since they’ve freely walked outside prison gates—the average inmate in this release will have served […]

Protests Are Putting A Serious Dent In Tar Sands Expansion

Print Friendly Above Photo: Several hundred students and youth who marched from Georgetown University to the White House to protest the Keystone XL Pipeline wait to be arrested outside the White House in Washington, Sunday, March 2, 2014. CREDIT: AP PHOTO/SUSAN WALSH. All of those marches, rallies, arrests, and inflatable pipelines are working. That’s the main finding of a report released this week by […]

Buddy Bell: The China Pivot

Print Friendly Above Photo: From PopularResistance.org. For the last week, I’ve been walking on a peace march organized by the Nipponzan Myohoji order of Buddhist monks. This march is similar in some ways to another: the Okinawa “Beggars’ March” of 1955-1956. At that time, farmers who had been forcefully removed from their fields by U.S. […]

What Sort Of Assessment DOES Enhance Learning?

Print Friendly Above Photo: Livingindialogue.com. In recent weeks we have heard President Obama talk about the value of tests – even as he acknowledges that they have become too pervasive. President Obama suggested we should have tests that “enhance instruction,” and “enhance teaching and learning.” Unfortunately, the standardized tests his administration has promoted and continues to require […]

1000s of Invaders “Vanishing”

Thousands of nonwhite invaders in Germany are refusing to be registered and are “vanishing” after arriving in that country, authorities have admitted—and many appear to be taking advantage of the European Union’s “open borders” policy to swarm across Western Europe. The Third Worlders’ behavior has taken the race-blind liberal Germans completely by surprise, as […]

Germany: Two More Invader Centers Burned

German patriots have completely destroyed two more invader centers in the state of Saxony overnight, German media have reported.  Although firefighters were able to extinguish both fires, damage was substantial and both centers are now unusable. The first attack took place just past midnight on October 30 in the “Hotel Visa” in Cossebaude near […]

MP: “Jewish Money” Runs UK Govt.

Jewish money, donations, and media influence the British government into adopting a pro-Israel stance, a long-time far-leftist Jewish Member of Parliament has claimed. Speaking before an event organized by the Palestine Return Council (PRC) held in the UK Parliament on Tuesday October 27, 2015, veteran Labour Party MP Gerald Kaufman said that the Conservative party government […]

Rubbish Mistaken for Art

Cleaners who recently threw away yet another “modern art” exhibit in Italy after “mistaking” it for trash have once again revealed the truth of the Hans Christian Andersen fable of the Emperor’s New Clothes—that “modern art” is actually rubbish, and the establishment is just too stupid, stuck-up, or deliberately blind to see it as […]

When Your Children Complain About What They Get For Christmas – Show Them This Video

Below is a video of children in Burundi, a region located in East Africa. It is a place (out of many in Africa) that has been plagued by conflict, genocide, and poverty. It made me think about the contrast we see between ‘developing’ nations and ‘developed nations.’ It also made me think on how most […]

Dead comet with skull face to hurtle by Earth on Halloween

An asteroid, designated 1999 FN53, will safely pass more than 26 times the distance of Earth to the moon on May 14. To put it another way, at its closest point, the asteroid will get no closer than 6.3 million miles away … Source Article from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-dead-comet-skull-hurtle-earth.html Views: 0

Fishing main hurdle to Antarctic marine reserves: Australia

A seal swims under the ice in the Antarctic, where a bid to create a vast marine sanctuary was blocked at international talks on October 30, 2015 Access to fishing was the main stumbling block to agreement on two vast marine reserves in Antarctica, the head of the Australian delegation to international talks said Saturday. […]

Drought pushes endangered California salmon to the brink

Fingerling Chinook salmon are dumped into a holding pen as they are transfered from a truck into the Mare Island Strait on April 22, 2014 in Vallejo, California Chinook salmon were already endangered in California’s Sacramento River, but the record drought parching the western United States has brought the iconic fish even closer to extinction. […]

Brazil, land of water, goes thirsty

A stranded amphibious aircraft is seen next to a hangar on the bed of the Aleixo Lake, in the rural area of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on October 23, 2015 The sign—”risk of drowning”—outside one of Rio de Janeiro’s freshwater reservoirs looks like a joke: there’s no water here left to drown in. Instead, the Saracuruna […]

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