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Seattle plans to open safe spaces for addicts to use heroin — and that's smart [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-10-06 19:35:15 by Hondo68
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(Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Nearly every major city across the United States has been affected by a wave of heroin abuse and overdoses in recent years, but none have responded with the radical — but proven — approach that Seattle-area officials now plan to take. A county-level heroin task force recommended Thursday that the city and surrounding municipalities open places where addicts can inject or smoke opioids without fear of arrest and with access to clean needles and treatment.After unveiling a 99-page report on the subject, which outlined the myriad public health benefits from similar experiments elsewhere in the world, King County Executive Dow Constantine told ...
Citing beating of officer, Chicago's top cop says police are 'second-guessing themselves'
Post Date: 2016-10-06 19:17:33 by misterwhite
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Chicago’s top cop said Thursday one of his officers was seriously beaten at an accident scene because the national focus on police shootings has caused officers to second-guess themselves. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the patrol officer told him she did not use her gun to defend herself for fear of a backlash. "She didn’t want her family or the department to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news," he said. The injured officer, a 17-year Chicago police veteran, got into a struggle with a man who allegedly was high on PCP after she stopped at a crash scene in the Austin community on the West Side on Wednesday morning. The suspect smashed the ...
Lindsey Graham warns The Trump: 'Don't claim the election's rigged'
Post Date: 2016-10-06 16:30:13 by Willie Green
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Is voter fraud a concern in the Electoral College?Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, and former 2016 rival of Donald Trump, implored the GOP presidential nominee Thursday to stop suggesting the US election system was "rigged," arguing it wasn't good for democracy. Graham, who has publicly refused to endorse Trump said the electoral process could be trusted, despite recent cybersecurity concerns in the aftermath of hacking at organizations like the Democratic National Committee and of state voter records."I don't think it's good for democracy to have a major candidate for president doubt the outcome," Graham told CNN's Kate Bolduan and John ...
Weld: The Second Amendment is to Defend Against Tyrannical Gov’t
Post Date: 2016-10-06 16:06:26 by Hondo68
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Libertarian Veep Pick Weld Shifts Stance On Guns In a speech in Philadelphia Thursday, Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate Bill Weld displayed a shift from his previous stances about the right to bear arms.After a few questions about the Veterans Administration—Weld favors privatizing it on the Medicare model—one college-age supporter at the Temple University event asked how, if the Constitution guarantees the right to life, can it also countenance the right to bear arms as broadly as it does in twenty-first-century America?googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0");});Given Weld’s support for restricting Second Amendment ...
Massachusetts cops raided an 81-year-old’s home to cut down a single medical marijuana plant [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-10-06 11:02:16 by Deckard
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Police hit the home by helicopter — to take a plant used for an elderly woman’s arthritis.If you were trying to come up with a headline that perfectly demonstrated why so many people have turned against keeping marijuana illegal, you probably couldn’t do better than this real headline from the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Massachusetts: “Raid! National Guard, State Police descend on 81-year-old’s property to seize single pot plant.” The story is just as absurd as it sounds. On September 21, the Massachusetts National Guard and State Police descended on 81-year-old Margaret Holcomb's home in Amherst using a military-style helicopter to chop down a single ...
Not Just Assange… Hillary Wants to Drone Strike “All Dissidents and Whistleblowers”
Post Date: 2016-10-06 10:40:40 by Deckard
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The October Surprise may come in any shape or form, but it is likely to have a major impact on the elections. Whatever Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is planning to release on Hillary – and however damaging it may or may not prove to be – it is clear that the Clinton campaign wants nothing of it. Perhaps that is why the planned Wikileaks announcement from the embassy balcony where Assange is in asylum had to be canceled – a ‘specific threat’ of some kind. Somebody wants to shut Assange up, quite clearly. Instead, the next release of damning information will be announced in Berlin via video conferencing. Or perhaps circumstances will prevent it from coming out. ...
Trump Running Mate Mike Pence REFUSES To Pardon Man Who Was Wrongly Convicted and Even Proven Innocent!
Post Date: 2016-10-06 10:27:57 by Deckard
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There is a new addition to the growing list of Heartless acts of Mike Pence, the Indiana governor has now denied a pardon for a man wrongly convicted and now proven innocent! Sarah Burris of Raw Story reports the sad history of Keith Cooper, who served 10 years of a 40-year sentence after being misidentified. In 2008 shooting victim Michael Kershner and his mother, Nona Canell filmed statements and admitted they were wrong. This came after new DNA evidence was found and a jail informant admitted he lied. Canell asked investigators multiple times to see a lineup of potential suspects because she couldn’t be sure. An Elkhart Police detective promised her that they had “the ...
Working class white men make less than they did in 1996
Post Date: 2016-10-06 10:21:52 by Willie Green
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No wonder they are frustrated. Working class white men saw their income drop 9% between 1996 and 2014, according to a new report from Sentier Research. This group, who Sentier defines as having only a high school diploma, earned only $36,787, on average, in 2014, down from $40,362 in 1996. Meanwhile, college educated white men saw their income soar nearly 23% over the same period, from $77,209 to $94,601. Published by two former Census Bureau officials, the Sentier report shines yet another light on the fortunes of the white working class. This group has become a force in the 2016 presidential election, serving as the backbone of Donald Trump's support. And the Republican ...
Everyone Should View This Video!
Post Date: 2016-10-06 10:13:45 by HomerBohn
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https://www.youtube.com/embed/BdNHf1g4ivA
Russian Newspapers Warn “Full-Scale War With U.S. Possible” Now Over Syria
Post Date: 2016-10-06 10:06:33 by HomerBohn
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And all of a sudden it’s almost as if we’ve time traveled back to the Cold War. It is trickling out today that Russian newspapers are warning a direct conflict with the United States is now possible over America’s obsessive regime change mission in Syria, which is being compared to the Cuban Missile Crisis in Russia. Via The Sun: In one article headlined ‘The stakes are higher than Syria’, the paper Moskovsky Komsomolets warns of a potential new war. It states: “Just imagine that the US does what it has wanted to do for a long time and strike against Assad, not by mistake but on purpose and openly. “Should Russia defend its ally or consider ...
Programmed to bite: The growing epidemic of dog attacks
Post Date: 2016-10-06 09:52:51 by Gatlin
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Dog attacks on the serious end of the spectrum need to become the focus of increasing media and public attention. The number of dog attacks need to finally be given attention to gain legal momentum where owners who are found negligent and in-part responsible will be held fully responsible. Significant dog bites affect millions of people each year. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++All Dog Bite Statistics The number of dogs There currently are 83.3 million dogs in the USA, which are kept by 56.7 million households. (American Pet Products Association, 2013-2014 APPA National Pet Owners Survey Statistics: Pet Ownership & Annual Expenses.) The number of ...
UN Pushes Plan to Force Americans to Pay Reparations for Slavery
Post Date: 2016-10-06 07:21:12 by HomerBohn
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In a recent report, the United Nations criticized the United States for making “no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent” and laid out plans to access financial resources of the country to fix that purported failure. Specifically, the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent has been tasked with implementing a UN mandate aimed at “establishing a working group or other mechanism of the United Nations to study the problems of racial discrimination faced by people of African descent.” The group’s progress is to be reported to the United Nations Human Rights Council and the General Assembly. This ...
Programmed to kill: The growing epidemic of cops shooting dogs
Post Date: 2016-10-06 07:13:27 by Deckard
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“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound from a dog bite is enough to justify using potentially lethal force, in this case at the expense of a 4-year-old girl. And this isn’t the first time. In January, an Iowa cop shot and killed a woman by mistake while trying to kill her dog. Other cops have shot other kids, other bystanders, their partners, their supervisors and even themselves while firing their guns at a dog. ...
The alcohol industry is funding anti-marijuana efforts
Post Date: 2016-10-06 05:54:43 by Deckard
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Like Big Pharma, Big Booze fears competition Earlier this month, I wrote about how Insys Therapeutics, a drug company that sells only fentanyl, a powerful and often deadly opioid, has been fighting marijuana legalization efforts in Arizona. Well, it’s not just the pharmaceutical industry that is bankrolling anti-marijuana campaigns; the alcohol industry is in on it, too. Insys donated $500,000 to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, an anti-legalization organization. As it turns out, the Arizona Wine and Spirits Wholesale Association also gave $10,000 to the group. However, Arizona isn’t the only state where the alcohol industry is trying to stop marijuana from becoming ...
Police Theft So Out of Hand, State Just Passed a Law Banning Cops from Robbing Innocent People
Post Date: 2016-10-06 05:38:40 by Deckard
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California — In a refreshing and unfortunately rare instance of reasonableness in policy, California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a piece of legislation requiring police to secure an actual conviction before stealing people’s stuff in drug-related offenses. Civil asset forfeiture has been rightly likened to state-sanctioned armed robbery, as it allows police to commandeer cash, vehicles, homes, or any property of value — even if the person is never charged with a crime — and then use or sell the items for profit for their departments. Police in Oklahoma, for example, recently honed their thievery by rolling out nefarious Electronic Recovery and ...
‘Tranny Granny’ Halloween Costume Recalled by Amazon, Target, and WalMart (triggers Ruby Giuliani)
Post Date: 2016-10-05 19:33:02 by Hondo68
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The Tranny Granny costume has been removed from multilpe retailers. (Photo: Target) While Halloween is supposed to be fun and shame-free (although we wish every day were shame-free), some retailers didn’t get the message and are selling disappointingly inappropriate costumes.Take, for example, the “Tranny Granny” costume that Walmart and Amazon just pulled from their respective websites. “All the guys will be dressing up as superheroes and princes, but you will stand out among the rest in this hilarious Granny Men’s Costume!” the costume description read.Included in the costume is a white tank dress covered in colorful flowers with a pink collar. It ...
Early marijuana use associated with abnormal brain function, lower IQ
Post Date: 2016-10-05 18:21:29 by Gatlin
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In a new study, scientists in London, Ontario have discovered that early marijuana use may result in abnormal brain function and lower IQ. Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal substance in the world. Previous studies have suggested that frequent marijuana users, especially those who begin at a young age, are at a higher risk for cognitive dysfunction and psychiatric illness, including depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Dr. Elizabeth Osuch, a Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute and the Dr. Joseph Rea Chair in Mood Disorders at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University, is a Canadian leader in studying both mood and anxiety disorders ...
ISIS Calls for Random Knife Attacks in Alleys, Forests, Beaches, ‘Quiet Neighborhoods’
Post Date: 2016-10-05 16:12:01 by HomerBohn
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A new magazine issued by the Islamic State advises lone jihadists to get over any squeamishness about using knives and embrace sharp objects as "widely available" weapons of jihad in nighttime stabbing campaigns. ISIS' Al-Hayat Media Center issued the second issue of its magazine Rumiyah, meaning Rome, in English, Turkish, German, French, Indonesian, Russian, Arabic and Uyghur. The design of the magazine is more simple than ISIS' English-language Dabiq. It's also much shorter: 38 pages compared to the 82 pages in the last issue of Dabiq. FBI Excuse for Redacting Orlando Shooter's ISIS Pledges: 'Ongoing Criminal Investigation' In the first issue of ...
Obama’s army of public relations staffers costs U.S. taxpayers $500M per year
Post Date: 2016-10-05 15:55:05 by HomerBohn
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(Heh, heh, heh, suckers!) President Obama hired hundreds of additional public relations employees to sell his administration’s policies, at a total cost to taxpayers of nearly half a billion dollars a year, the government’s chief watchdog reported Wednesday. Mr. Obama added some 667 PR staffers between 2008, the last full year under his predecessor, and 2011, when staffing levels peaked at 5,238 — a spike of 15 percent during those years. The number has since slipped, but there were still nearly 5,100 PR staffers in the administration in 2014, according to figures from the Government Accountability Office. That doesn’t include the more than $100 million spent each ...
Libertarian congressional candidate from Indiana arrested
Post Date: 2016-10-05 15:43:59 by Gatlin
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Libertarian congressional candidate from Indiana has been arrested in Louisville on a preliminary charge of third-degree assault of a police officer after an alleged struggle over his phone during a traffic stop. Forty-five-year-old Russell Brooksbank is preliminarily charged with traffic violation of failing to signal and a misdemeanor count of obstructions/interference with a police officer. An arrest report alleges Brooksbank was stopped after making a rude gesture to a passing Kentucky State trooper about 10:40 a.m. Friday. Campaign manager Greg Hertzsch told WAVE-TV Brooksbank denies making an inappropriate gesture. Hertzsch says Brooksbank took out ...
What kind of a person would stay married to a rapist?
Post Date: 2016-10-05 15:41:42 by nolu chan
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What kind of a person would stay married to a rapist? Evil Hillary October 5, 2016
An Election About immigration and Guns
Post Date: 2016-10-05 13:53:00 by Stoner
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What’s it like when a people have allowed their own government to completely disarm them . . . . . and then that government turns around and admits tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of young male Muslim immigrants from primitive backwaters who look at normally-clad Western women — out in the streets “unescorted” without being wrapped head to toe in black burkas — the way a pack of wolfhounds looks at a platter of T-bone steaks unattended on the picnic table? (Do a Web search for “rapes by Muslim refugees,” or visit my own, recent post on “too much tolerance?” at http://www.vinsuprynowicz.com/?p=3413 . Look a little harder, and you’ll ...
October 13 Designated as Oilfield Prayer Day in Oklahoma
Post Date: 2016-10-05 10:48:01 by Willie Green
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Governor Mary Fallin has issued an Executive Proclamation designating October 13 as Oilfield Prayer Day to raise awareness about the state’s distressed energy industry, according to a report by The Oklahoman. An annual breakfast is slated at the Tower Hotel (formerly the Marriott Hotel), 3233 Northwest Expressway in Oklahoma City. The event will conclude with a statewide prayer initiative. “The oilfield is hurting right now,” said the Reverend Tom Beddow, coordinator of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma’s Oil Patch Chaplains ministry. “We’re asking churches all over Oklahoma to open their doors, put on a pot of coffee and pray for the oilfield, and ...
3yo Girl Dies After Being Left in Back of Patrol Car for Hours — Cops Given Paid Vacation
Post Date: 2016-10-05 10:33:39 by Deckard
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Hancock County, MS — Two police officers are on paid leave while the department investigates the death of Cheyenne Hyer, 3, who died after being left in a patrol car for four hours. Amazingly enough, neither of the officers were arrested for the child’s death — as would have been the case had they not had badges. Glenn Grannon, with the sheriff’s department, said Clark Ladner and Cassie Barker were placed on administrative leave after 3-year-old Cheyenne Hyer died Friday. Sheriff Ricky Adam confirmed Barker is Cheyenne’s mother, according to WLOX. According to investigators, Barker was traveling in her patrol car, with her daughter inside, when she stopped at ...
Australia Becomes First Country To Begin Microchipping Its Public
Post Date: 2016-10-05 10:15:09 by Deckard
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NBC news predicted that all Americans would be microchipped by 2017, but it seems Australia may have already beaten them to it. Back in 2010, CBS news reported that the Australian government had a potential RFID microchipping plan in the works related to the health care system. Now, it seems that this plan is beginning to unfold but the push is not a result of mandated health care reforms, but rather a clever propaganda campaign that equates RFID microchipping with becoming superhuman, and people are begging for it. Under the headline Australians embracing super-human microchip technology, Australia’s premier media outlet news.com.au (News Corp Australia) reports: It may sound like ...
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