The Dow Jones Industrial Index, the most widely-watched stock market indicator, plunged by 278 points today, after the Labor Department’s February jobs report showed unexpectedly strong job creation, with nearly 300,000 workers hired last month. This plunge might be hard to comprehend especial[...]
Archive for March, 2015
March 6th, 2015 - 2:08 pm § in Misc.
In Hawthorne, California, a citizen activist watches the cops (video) …
If you dislike power-tripping cops, you’ll love Tom Zebra! You’ll want to give him a big bear hug. Tom is an activist who keeps an eye on Hawthorne, California’s police. He knows them, and they know him. Their interactions are beyond amusing. And Tom tells you exactly what he think[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 1:28 pm § in America
Shades of CIA: The Chicago Police Department’s black site
Chicago’s police admire the CIA so much they’re emulating them. What they like best about the CIA, of course, is their proclivity for bypassing and nullifying all those pesky legal rights that suspects and defendants are supposed to have. “The Chicago police department operates an[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 12:12 pm § in Misc.
Frat boys facing hazing charges after pledge suffers severe frostbite
“Police have charged two Syracuse University fraternity members for an outdoor hazing stunt that could cost a pledge four of his fingers due to frostbite. … [Y]oung men pledging the Nu Alpha Phi fraternity were taken to a city park … and made to do exercises, including push-ups an[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 9:38 am § in Misc.
GOP COMMEMORATES SELMA BY BOYCOTT!
GOP BOYCOTTS. While AMERICANS from across the nation converge on Selma to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the GOP leadership is boycotting. John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise will be absent from the three-day event that commemorates the 19[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 1:38 am § in America
SOUTH CAROLINA: Racism is more than a heritage, it is in our (white) blood.
South Carolina‘s Governor, a Hindustani American, says that Corporations do not care that the cradle of the confederacy still flies the Confederate Flag. She underestimates the extent to which her state remains the cradle of the slave state: Perhaps the real reason no one care is that “[...]
March 6th, 2015 - 1:34 am § in The Ave Scene
Warhol to blossom in Tacoma!
Tacoma is moving forward with a wonderful project .. decorating the roof of the Tacoma Dome with a flower proposed by Andy Warhol in 1982: “The center of the flower would be at the top of dome with large wide petals covering the circumference of the dome.” Read more here:[...]
March 5th, 2015 - 11:33 pm § in Hypocrisy
More O’Reilly
Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots Readmore at The Guardian.[...]
March 5th, 2015 - 5:40 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
So, Do The Cougars Want $14,000,000 a Year to Seed Fund Raising?
The key to this OP-ED in the Seattle Times is Mr. Gardner’s assertion that public money can stimulate private donations. Is this realistic for a Cougar School of Medicine? Special To Seattle Times As a vice president at Washington State University with a background in business and academia, [...]
Anthony Washington: Black Lives Matter, Cuban Americans and the Tea Party
The Black Lives Matter movement cannot squander the momentum and support gained on the national level. The BLM movement needs to expand from just a cultural phenomenon, to a social, economic and political entity. The movement has taken steps in the right direction creating a plan deemed, “Campai[...]