Portland, Oregon, cops arrested two homeless people for “theft of services” because they plugged their cell phones into a planter box outlet. According to electrical industry researchers, recharging a cellphone costs 25 cents a year, which means a single recharge uses less than a penn[...]
Archive for March, 2015
March 13th, 2015 - 2:46 pm § in Misc.
Portland cops arrest homeless pair for “stealing” a penny of electricity
March 13th, 2015 - 11:30 am § in Uncategorized
NYPD altered Wikipedia entries about brutality cases
Wikipedia entries about Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and several other victims of police brutality have been edited by the New York Police Department to portray the cops more favorably and make it appear Garner caused his own death, Capital New York reported this morning. Photos: Revisionist history [...]
March 13th, 2015 - 2:21 am § in Politics
Did Netanyahu un-elect himself?
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have outsmarted himself, and his Republican hosts may have facilitated his political self-destruction, with their ill-considered and widely panned gambit of trying to undercut President Obama’s Iran policy by bringing in a foreign leader to attack [...]
March 13th, 2015 - 1:34 am § in Misc.
ALASKA GOP FIGHTS: Gold vs Fish
The Daily Beast reports that the Alaska Republicans are fighting it out . will it be fish or salmon? Remember Sarah Palin? “I am a commercial fisherman; my daughter’s name is Bristol“I could not support a project that risks one resource that we know is a given, and that is the world’s [...]
March 12th, 2015 - 10:57 pm § in Uncategorized
How greedily did Ferguson suck cash from its poor black residents?
Using 2013 population and budget figures, I come up with nearly $160 per person, annually. For a family of 4 consisting of 2 parents and 2 children, this would amount to $640 of their annual income going to the city in the form of fines and forfeitures — not counting municipal taxes and fees. [...]
March 12th, 2015 - 12:08 pm § in Misc.
THE Ave Challenge: What is this?
A. A fossil dinosaur egg B. An African ‘xbecca egg C. A clod from the excavation of Africa’s first city D. A rock in a gold mine E. A potato from Uganda[...]
African American males have to broaden our Cultural Spectrum
One of the main obstacles in the way of employment for African American males is the public school system and the urban street culture mentality that a poor education system perpetuates. Poor public education does not prepare kids intellectually which makes it very tough to gain access to higher e[...]