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Are_grits_groceries's JournalI see the EFF-Bee-Eye is bragging about taking down the leaders of Anonymous.
Austin P. Berglas, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's cyber division in New York has been particularly outspoken.
You know what they say about payback?
The Anonymous motto:
We are legion.
We do not forget.
We do not forgive.
Expect us.
A 9-year-old girl was beaten and nearly killed in the women's bathroom of a Florida Best Buy
A 9-year-old girl was beaten and nearly killed in the women's bathroom of a Florida Best Buy, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Police have arrested 29-year-old James Patrick Tadros.
The Sheriff's Office says Tadros lured the girl into the women's bathroom of a Jacksonville Best Buy where he then punched, kicked her and put a plastic bag over her head while holding her down in the toilet.
A customer heard the girl's screams, entered the restroom and helped stop the attack.
The girl is being treated at University of Florida Health hospital.
Police say Tadros did not know the young girl. Authorities described the attack as an isolated, random incident.
"It was by the grace of God that the customer and employees got in when they did," Sgt. Jay Farhat told First Coast News. "If it had been any longer this could have been a much worse outcome."
http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2695887
Lawd, lawd, lawd......
After 4chan manhunt, cat-kicker slapped with animal cruelty charges
Walter Easley, the South Carolina teenager who recorded video of himself kicking a cat, has been charged with cruelty to animals thanks to 4chan.
Easley, 17, of Cordova, S.C., was arrested Monday and faced a court magistrate Tuesday after a 6-second video of him abusing a cat set off 4chan's random imageboard /b/ on a witchhunt. The charge of animal cruelty is a misdemeanor. If convicted, Easley could face a 60-day sentence, the Times and Democrat reported.
Easley became Internet infamous on Aug. 11 after Reddit and 4chan tracked down the horrific Vine video. After the video went viral, Easley deleted the record, but not before the Daily Dot preserved it as a GIF. Easley also made his Twitter profile, @SuckMy_Walt, private but it was too late; /b/ had already set its sights on bringing Easley to justice.
The community created two different Pastebin documents featuring Easley's home address, cell phone number, and a link to his sister’s Facebook page. They also included a link to the Times and Democrat so users could contact the paper.
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http://www.dailydot.com/news/walter-easley-cat-kicker-animal-cruelty/
4chan has made a habit of this.
I would think twice before posting anything showing someone even thinking about harming a cat. They are watching, and if they find out, they WILL get you.
Medecins Sans Frontieres says it has treated about 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms"
MSF confirms Syria 'chemical deaths'
Medecins Sans Frontieres says it has treated about 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms" in Syria, of whom 355 have died.
It said the patients had arrived in three hospitals it supports in the Damascus governorate on 21 August - when opposition activists say chemical attacks were launched against rebels.
It appears to be the first confirmation that chemical weapons were used.
Western countries have accused the government. Damascus accuses rebels.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23827950#TWEET867197
They have enormous credibility.
Blind Dog Living in a Trash Pile Gets the Most Beautiful Rescue - The End is Amazing
&Allergies......happy sigh.....
Every leader of civil-rights organizations who spoke at the march was @some pt under surveillance
A half century past its zenith, the civil-rights movement has been invested with the kind of moral authority that is derived only from being on the right side of history. We’ve compressed the grand scale of the March on Washington—which took place on August 28, 1963, fifty years ago this coming Wednesday—into succinct quotes, a vine of grainy footage of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the crowded dais, and a dream metaphor whose ubiquity is matched only by its anodyne appeal. There’s an easy certainty afforded to the cause that drew a quarter of a million people to the Washington Mall in August, 1963, not only because of its subsequent success in ending legal segregation and disenfranchisement but also because the fruit of its efforts is currently evident in the office of the Presidency. Yet the massive gathering in Washington, D.C., was driven by the concern that, in the nearly ten years that had passed since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, the movement had yet to achieve meaningful legislative change—and the uncertainty that it ever would.
Precisely for these reasons, it’s worth remembering the obstacles faced by the men who led the movement, the malevolent skepticism with which they were regarded by not only the forces of segregation but official establishment they were petitioning for redress. And this year, especially, it’s worth remembering that every leader of a civil-rights organization who spoke at the march was, at some point, under surveillance by the federal government.
The aggregated moral will of the civil-rights movement is responsible for the election of an African-American President of the United States—a President who, on Wednesday, will speak at an event at the Lincoln Memorial commemorating the march, and whose tenure coincides with the most expansive capacity for government surveillance this country has ever known. The moral arc of the universe is long, and it bends toward irony.
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/08/obama-surveillance-and-the-legacy-of-the-march-on-washington.html?mobify=0
Sloppy police work, a hands-off justice system & blind prison system turned one man into another
Another long read about a man named Kerry Washington. He is mentally ill and when he was 27 he was arrested for a minor offense. He became mixed up by the authorities with a hardened criminal named Robert Sanders. Nobody checked and Kerry Washington's nightmare began.
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Nearly every day inside Green Haven prison in Stormville, N.Y., behind the 30-foot-high concrete walls and 12 watchtowers, within the endless gray corridors and tiers of windowless cells, the inmate Robert Sanders asked the same question: Why am I here?
He asked the guards in the main unit of the maximum-security prison, where he spent most of his time alone in Cell No. 22 on the third level, crying and praying and drinking too much coffee. He asked the doctors, social workers and nurses in the psychiatric unit, where he was often sent to deal with the voices in his head.
To the staff members, his questions were evidence of his psychosis. "He becomes delusional," they wrote in his chart. "He has bizarre behavior." The prisoner had a habit of picking cigarette butts up off the floor, but not of showering. Everyone complained that he gave off an unbearable smell, and the red-hooded sweatshirt he habitually wore was caked with food and dirt. They complained at night, too, when his chattering echoed down the narrow hall of A Block. The psychiatric team urged him to improve his hygiene and attend classes in "daily living skills." He was given 15 minutes of weekly therapy and heavy doses of Haldol, an antipsychotic drug that left his body rigid and his emotions flat. But his bewilderment grew. "Pt. said he has no idea why the plane took him to N.Y.," a nurse wrote in Sanders's chart. He also "does not know what crime he did and his name is not Robert."
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Remarks from a doctor who treated Kerry Sanders when he learned he was wrongly imprisoned:
The last paragraph:
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000806mag-wrongman.html
Kerry Washington was re-arrested after his release and held as Robert Sanders again.
Sigh.......WTF........sigh.......
The NFL better be scared.They had a rheumatologist in charge of their concussion program.
http://espn.com/video/clip?id=9571070A 2009 GQ article about the NFL and how they ignored damaging concussion evidence and tried to destroy Dr.Omalu who was publishing papers about it:
http://www.gq.com/sports/profiles/200909/nfl-players-brain-dementia-study-memory-concussions?currentPage=1
I have followed this for years. The NFL actively worked to downplay and/or cover up evidence of the damage concussions had done and were doing.
The fact that that they had nobody with some type of neurological background leading their effort is damning.
Fun fact 1: Dr.Pellman, the rheumatologist, was Paul Tagliabue's physician. Tagliabue was NFL Commissioner at the time.
Fun fact2: Dr. Pellman still has a job with the NFL.
"Don't Fly On Ramadan" or "You’ll have to understand, when a person of your… background...."
(This is a very long read, but if you want an idea of what it's like to fall down the rabbit hole of TSADHSFBIATFCIA security, this will give you an idea.)
A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to take a trip from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. Every year, my family goes on a one-week pilgrimage, where we put our work on hold and spend time visiting temples, praying, and spending time with family and friends. To my Jewish friends, I often explain this trip as vaguely similar to the Sabbath, except we take one week of rest per year, rather than one day per week.
Our family is not Muslim, but by coincidence, this year, our trip happened to be during the last week of Ramadan.
By further coincidence, this was also the same week that I was moving out of my employer-provided temporary housing (at NYU) and moving into my new apartment. The night before my trip, I enlisted the help of two friends and we took most of my belongings, in a couple of suitcases, to my new apartment. The apartment was almost completely unfurnished - I planned on getting new furniture upon my return - so I dropped my few bags (one containing an air mattress) in the corner. Even though I hadn’t decorated the apartment yet, in accordance with Hindu custom, I taped a single photograph to the wall in my bedroom — a long-haired saint with his hands outstretched in pronam (a sign of reverence and respect).
The next morning, I packed the rest of my clothes into a suitcase and took a cab to the airport. I didn’t bother to eat breakfast, figuring I would grab some yogurt in the terminal while waiting to board.
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Much much more:
http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan
I feel soooooo much safer with this clown cluster on the job.
Land of the free.....not so much
WTH are we doing???
Images: Rare Red Sprite Lightning Revealed in Stunning Photos
The elusive red lightning called sprites last less than a second. They form above the tops of thunderclouds, when lightning bolts trigger a burst of red light in electrically charged particles.
Because the storms that birth sprites also hide them from view, few sprites are seen from the ground. To better understand the phenomenon, scientists are hunting red sprites from the air.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, graduate student Jason Ahrns captured stunning images of red sprites during several flights over the Midwest during the 2013 summer aboard the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s Gulfstream V research plane.
http://www.livescience.com/39045-red-sprites-lightning-photo-gallery.html
Never heard of it or seen it.
Still looking for The Green Flash.
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