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David Bisard caught driving drunk after crashing, again. At...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:41:22 -0400

David Bisard caught driving drunk after crashing, again.

At least this time he didn’t kill anyone and cops didn’t try to cover for him this time. Which seems to be treatment he’s come to expect after killing a motorcyclist on August 6, 2010 in his IMPD patrol car:

“I’ve been drinking since noon and I’m not [going to] say I’ve had two like everyone else does,” Bisard told officers, according to the police report. “I know you know who I am. I messed up today. If you guys can cut me a break, I promise I will never drink again.”

After his arrest, Bisard made “several statements that he would never drink again and to just let him go, stating he has a wife and kids at home and his life is over if he goes to prison.”

But not nearly as over as the life of Eric Wells, the motorcyclist he killed over two years ago.

The Arrestee Processing Center has asked that Bisard be held without bond in this new case, and that his bond be revoked on his existing case. With any luck, Bisard will be staying in jail until he finally faces trial in the 2010 case.

“Terrorists loathe America, but so do many liberals”...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:55:00 -0400

“Terrorists loathe America, but so do many liberals” - Kevin Leininger

Yet on the web the headline is “Why do terrorists hate America? Maybe because so many of us hate ourselves.” It’s almost like Leininger doesn’t want to be an obviously google-able partisan-hack-douche.

Canadian Woman Arrested For Instagram Photo Of Graffiti

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:55:54 -0400

infowarsdotcom:

Patrick Bellerose
Huffington Post Quebec
April 5, 2013

A 20-year-old Montreal woman was surprised when police showed up at her home to arrest her for an Instagram photo she took of graffiti showing Montreal police spokesperson Ian Lafreniere with a bullet in his head.

Click to see the incriminating photo.

Jennifer Pawluck took the photo in question in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood of Montreal last month.

“Many of my friends do not like the police,” Pawluck told the Huffington Post Québec, in French. “I thought it would be funny to put the picture on Instagram. I do not even know who he is, Ian Lafreniere.”

The police arrived at her home Wednesday morning with a warrant accusing her of uttering threats to the well-known spokesman for the City of Montreal Police Department (SPVM)…

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University Lockdown Caused By Zombie Game, Nerf Gun

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:54:28 -0400

infowarsdotcom:

Police swarmed Rhode Island campus after blind panic

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
April 5, 2013

Panic ensued when a university campus in Rhode Island was placed on lockdown after a professor overheard a student saying that he was “a good guy” with a gun, unaware that he was most likely referring to an ongoing “zombie” game.

Police were called in as the professor immediately ordered his students take cover inside a classroom, and later to evacuate the room altogether, following voices he overheard coming from outside, according to reports.

Kayla Gilmore, a URI Student who was in the class told reporters, “We were in physiology class and heard somebody pounding on the door saying that they have a gun and let them in. ‘I have a gun.’ So we all dove underneath our seats and then our professor told us, ‘everybody run!’”

URI ‘gunman’ report leads to student panic

When word got around about the incident via twitter and text messages, students subsequently reported seeing an armed man in a lecture hall, which was also immediately evacuated, with some students suffering minor injuries in the stampede to flee the building.

The sighting is thought to have been part of the panic, rather than any real threat, with police saying that they later recovered a toy “nerf” gun.

“No evidence was found that an active firearm or active shooter was there,” Captain James Manni of the Rhode Island State Police said. He added that it had become apparent that students at the school were participating in an unofficial “zombie week,” where “humans” shoot “zombies” with nerf guns.

“It was possibly some type of game that was being played,” Manni said, adding that police were investigating if it was connected to the gun scare.

Mark Curtis reports on URI Scare

Capt. Frank Castellone, of the Rhode Island State Police said, “At no time was there ever an active shooter or a handgun on campus. And at no time was there ever anyone in danger.”

Police said they are still attempting to ascertain who “pounded” on the door and for what purpose, presuming it was a prank.

Following the lockdown, which lasted for two and a half hours, the university canceled all classes at the Kingston campus, with officials saying it was a precautionary measure. Classes resumed Friday as normal.

Some students reacted on Facebook, with one noting:

“This whole ordeal is really annoying, people are now freaking out over a “threat” which was not carried out. this is proof that gun bans do not work, if the alleged really did have a firearm it sure as hell did not stop the individual from bringing it.”

This is now an all too familiar scene on campuses and at schools across the nation in the wake of increased hysteria following the Sandy Hook tragedy in December.

Back in January, a discussion between two children about a toy nerf gun caused a lockdown and a massive armed police response at two elementary schools in the Bronx.

The two schools were locked down for over an hour with pupils kept inside as police with weapons drawn hunted down the deadly non-existent toy gun.

Earlier in January, a Long Island high school was also placed on lock down for 6 hours in response to a student carrying a toy nerf gun.

We have also seen a long string of incidents where students have been suspended or expelled for bringing anything remotely resembling a gun, pointing fingers into the shape of a gun, or even inadvertently biting food into the shape of a gun.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, andPrisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

Confirmed: ‘Batman’ Shooter James Holmes Was On Psychotropic Drugs

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:14:32 -0400

infowarsdotcom:

Yet another mass killer on violence-causing anti-depressants

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
April 5, 2013

Newly released court documents confirm that ‘Batman’ shooter James Holmes was taking the anti-depressant drug Zoloft before he conducted his massacre in an Aurora theater last July, underscoring yet again the prevalent yet underreported connection between psychotropic drugs and mass shootings.

While it was known that prescription medication was seized during the search of Holmes’ property, the precise identity of the drug has remained unknown for nearly 9 months – until now.

During their execution of the search warrant on Holmes’ apartment, police, “found prescription medication for sertraline, a generic version of Zoloft used to treat depression, panic disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder; and Clonazepam, usually prescribed to treat anxiety and panic attacks,” reports the L.A. Times.

Zoloft is the same psychotropic drug that Columbine killer Eric Harris was taking before his rampage.

James Holmes

Clonazepam, also known under its brand name Klonopin, has been labeled “the world’s deadliest pill,” in that it “dramatically affects the functioning of the brain” and is highly addictive. Long term use of the drug has been linked with “violence and aggression”.

The connection between Zoloft and violent outbursts is well documented. Countless studies identify Zoloft as being responsible for more than 1,000 suicides and hundreds of episodes of mania and aggression.

While this represents yet another example of antidepressant drugs being linked to mass shootings, the mainstream media is loathe to make the connection, preferring instead to blame the Second Amendment in concert with the Obama administration’s gun control agenda.

“How long do we have to wait until there is a thorough investigation into the dangers these drugs pose to society? It’s far easier to blame video games and use the tragedies to target innocent gun owners. Big Pharma and their bought and paid for stooges in government must be stopped,” writes Lew Rockwell.

As CCHR documents, psychiatric drugs have been involved in at least 31 different school shootings and other massacres over the last 25 years.

It has not yet been revealed whether or not Sandy Hook killer Adam Lanza was also on psychotropic drugs, although Louise Tambascio, a family friend of the shooter and his mother, told 60 Minutes, “I know he was on medication and everything….I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.”

The recently revealed search warrant for Lanza’s home reveals that books on autism and Asperger syndrome were found. The symptoms of Asperger’s are commonly treated with psychotropic drugs linked with violent outbursts, although no specific mention of any medication Lanza was taking has been made.

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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.

Remember: the only way to lose to territorial little...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 15:25:00 -0400

Remember: the only way to lose to territorial little bully-trolls like this is to let them talk you into not posting in “their yard” anymore. The solution to bad speech is always more speech.

And let’s face it, there’s nothing I love more than causing a bully frustration. :D

anarcho-queer: “When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:36:54 -0400

anarcho-queer:

“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.” - MLK

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th 1968, people rioted in over 100 major cities in America.

It was determined that the states could not successfully repress what seemed to be an unrising in America, so the white house sent tens of thousands of national guard troops to several cities where the unrest was strongest.

J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who was responsible for COINTELPRO and thought to be the person who ordered Malcolm X’s assassination, reportedly recommended to top officials that they have the national guard kill the rioters. Walter Washington refused and later became the first elected mayor of Washington D.C. as well as the first black mayor in the city.

anarcho-queer: Palestinian Protesters And Israeli Soldiers...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 01:36:31 -0400

anarcho-queer:

Palestinian Protesters And Israeli Soldiers Clash In West Bank

Palestinian protesters clashed with soldiers after thousands of mourners turned out for the funerals of a 64-year-old cancer-stricken prisoner and two teenage boys shot dead by the Israeli military, the latest sign of the increasing turbulence across the West Bank.

Meanwhile Gaza militants fired rockets towards Israel for the third consecutive day in a move that threatens to trigger a fresh cycle of violence after almost five months of calm since the eight-day war last November which killed 170 Palestinians and 6 Israeli’s.

Following two Israeli air strikes on Gaza overnight on Wednesday, the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, warned that the country would not tolerate renewed rocket fire. “If the quiet is violated we will respond strongly,” he said.

Thousands of mourners packed into the streets around the Abu Aisha mosque before carrying Abu Hamdiyeh’s body, wrapped in a Palestinian flag with his head swathed in a black and white keffiyeh, to the Shuhada (martyrs’) cemetery.

Echoing claims of Israeli negligence, Itidal Abu Hamdiyeh, the sister of the dead prisoner, said her brother had been shackled to his bed when dying “even though he could not move his body” and had only been given pain-relief medication despite the cancer diagnosis.

“My brother is a symbol because he worked in the resistance since he was a young man, for about 45 years,” she told the Guardian.

After the funeral Palestinian youths threw stones at Israeli soldiers close to an extremist Jewish settlement in the heart of the city. The Israeli military responded with teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets. Abdullah al-Nashe, 13, whose eyes were streaming as a result of teargas, said he was angry at Hamdiyeh’s death and hoped throwing stones would bring change.

Ahmed Slemeh, 18, wearing a black balaclava, said: “The Israelis have killed one of us and we have to resist back. But if we want to achieve our political objectives we have to go on with an intifada [uprising]. I hope this gets bigger.”

Referring to the land of historic Palestine, he added: “What was taken by force is recovered only by force.”

allthingswittyandneko: I wonder if Adria Richards would bitch and moan if a carpenter waved a stud...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:37:45 -0400

allthingswittyandneko:

I wonder if Adria Richards would bitch and moan if a carpenter waved a stud finder over himself and made beeping noises. After all, it’s the oldest joke in THAT industry.

NYPD Now Running Criminal Checks On Domestic Abuse Victims — gothamist.com — Readability

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:27:29 -0400

NYPD Now Running Criminal Checks On Domestic Abuse Victims — gothamist.com — Readability:

3liza:

daily reminder that police and the institute of policing is total garbage. NEVER talk to the police. they will not help you.

michaelk42: University of Oregon adjunct law professor cited...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:26:57 -0400

michaelk42:

University of Oregon adjunct law professor cited for theft, harassment following confrontation with students

And fired it looks like, just like he should be.

James Olmsted, pwned

anarcho-queer: NYPD Brutalize, Harass & Arrests WOC At...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:50:11 -0400

anarcho-queer:

NYPD Brutalize, Harass & Arrests WOC At Brooklyn Protest

On Wednesday, I posted a video of police brutally arresting a woman at the Brooklyn protest against the NYPD killing of Kimani Gray. This video shows the event that led to the arrest.

The video proves that police were the ones agitating the crowd, which was almost exclusively POC. This specific group was made up of mainly WOC. An officer can be seen shoving a women at the 47 second mark. The officer behind him is named Scholl, has been seen brutalizing protesters since the unrest began on Monday. In the video, officer Scholl harasses the young woman who was just pushed by a cop with a baton.

At 1:35, a half dozen male police officers snatch a woman from the crowd and brings her down the concrete. She screams as several cops use unnecessary force to arrest her. One officer pulls her hands behind you back and pushes up, causing her extreme pain while he sits on top of her. At 3:07, the officer who was previously placing is knee on her head, kicks her face.

The Presumption of Truth

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:01:02 -0400

The Presumption of Truth:

michaelk42:

Armando Saldate, Jr. had been adjudged to be a liar on four occasions and a lawbreaker on five others.

No rational person would accept his word as an adequate basis to do anything of importance — let alone as a basis to take a life.

But we do not speak of rational people today. We speak of the criminal justice system. And the criminal justice system is choked with people it has thoroughly captured — people irrationally convinced of, or indifferent to, the credibility of people like Armando Saldate, Jr.

That’s because Armando Saldate, Jr. was a police officer.

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michaelk42: University of Oregon Law Professor Snatches Camera...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:59:13 -0400

michaelk42:

University of Oregon Law Professor Snatches Camera from Student Protester

And this is the downside of recording with cell phones; some hopped-up jackass tries to gank it, you can’t properly fracture their skull with it like you can a proper Nikon F3 or the like.

Google Reader Fever

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:56:54 -0400

journalofajournalist:

Google Reader, the popular RSS reader favored by analysts, journalists, academics, and nerds living under repressive regimes the world over, is being discontinued in July. This is awful news.

Others have said it far more coherently than me (Farhad Manjoo, looking right at you bro), but this is a hugeass BUYER BEWARE FOR THE WHOLE INTERNET. All those web-based services you use for free, expecting to enjoy indefinitely thanks to the internet’s in-no-way-profit-driven teat? Don’t trust ‘em to stick around forever.

In the meantime, support your local idealistic coder-types. They’re the horses to bet on in this race. I just need a good RSS reader for conducting the intensive research that’s integral to my job—Flipboard is geared to casual readers, Twitter is awful for archival digging, and Outlook’s UI is wretched. That’s all…

kemetically-afrolatino: Brooklyn protest on 3/11/2013. East...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:22:33 -0400

kemetically-afrolatino:

Brooklyn protest on 3/11/2013. East Flatbush.Monday, March 11, 2013

NYPD officers killed Kimani Gray (16 yr old) on 3/9/2013.

NYPD, KKK!

HOW MANY KIDS HAVE YOU KILLED TODAY!

About | Stop The Cyborgs

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:31:26 -0400

About | Stop The Cyborgs:

michaelk42:

worsethandetroit:

Stop The Cyborgs’ was founded in response to the Google Glass project and other technology trends. The aim of the movement is to stop a future in which privacy is impossible and corporate control total.

Join us and save humanity from the cyber collective.

H/T Louddetective

Screw those bio-chauvinist meat bags, I am a cyborg

I don’t think they really want to pick a fight with cyborgs, that’s not gonna go well for them.

A Cat May Look At A King, But A Citizen May Not Criticize A Cop

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 08:36:25 -0500

michaelk42:

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department is not an outlier. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Department represents the heartland of law enforcement thought about criticism, dissent, monitoring, and attempts to impose accountability upon the people who are privileged by the law to arrest and/or kill us. That is a heartland where people who inquire how to file a complaint against police are threatened, reviled, and abused. That is a heartland where cops argue that monitoring them is a threat or that it is a crime and are willing to arrest you on ludicrous pretexts to stop it. That is a heartland where law enforcement thinks that discussing your constitutional rights when confronted by them is evidence of criminality. That is a heartland where cops think they have a right not to be mocked and a right to expect you’ll shut your fucking mouth, where writing something they don’t like is an occasion for a knock on your door in the dead of night. This is a heartland where challenging the cops’ actions makes you a suspect and a target. This is a heartland where cops feel they should have the right to use any amount of force against you they see fit, even if normal non-sociopathic people would find that use of force wanton and freakish.

This heartland survives — and thrives — because the media is too often a pliant lapdog to law enforcement, and because the populace — lulled by generations of cop shows and law and order rhetoric and statistics-defying fear peddled by the media — either likes it or doesn’t give a shit.

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office can harass Rick and engage in retaliatory searches of him. Your local police can do the same to you. But they can’t harass and search us all. Have you spoken up?

via Popehat

ghostbongweedofthesamurai: silver lining to DHS checkpoints...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:20:38 -0500

ghostbongweedofthesamurai:

silver lining to DHS checkpoints going up everywhere: lots more videos of people hassling DHS stooges

anarcho-queer: veneratiodiaboli666: anarcho-queer: The Pirate...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:20:07 -0500

anarcho-queer:

veneratiodiaboli666:

anarcho-queer:

The Pirate Bay Moves to North Korea, Gets Virtual Asylum

The Pirate Bay says it has been offered virtual asylum in North Korea. The move comes after the Norwegian Pirate Party was forced to stop routing traffic for the infamous BitTorrent site by a local copyright group. “We can reveal that we have been invited by the leader of the Republic of Korea, to fight our battles from their network,” the Pirate Bay says. A traceroute does indeed show that The Pirate Bay is now being routed through the dictatorial country.

Last week the Swedish Pirate Party was forced to shut down its routing services to The Pirate Bay.

The Party and its leaders took the difficult decision after they were threatened with a lawsuit by a local anti-piracy group.

Luckily for The Pirate Bay, the pirate parties of Norway and Catalunya were willing to take over the role. However, after just a few days the Norwegians had to shut down their Pirate Bay node as well, facing similar threats to their Swedish comrades.

This resulted in some downtime earlier today after which The Pirate Bay returned online from a rather unexpected location.

A Pirate Bay insider informs TorrentFreak that they had been working for a while to get connectivity in North Korea. Today they made the big switch.

“We’ve been in talks with them for about two weeks, since they opened access for foreigners to use 3G in the country,” a Pirate Bay insider told us. “TPB has been invited just like Eric Schmidt and Dennis Rodman. We’ve declined up until now.”

While The Pirate Bay crew may not visit North Korea, they are using the country’s network to connect the BitTorrent site to the rest of the world.

“This is truly an ironic situation. We have been fighting for a free world, and our opponents are mostly huge corporations from the United States of America, a place where freedom and freedom of speech is said to be held high.”

“At the same time, companies from that country are chasing a competitor from other countries, bribing police and lawmakers, threatening political parties and physically hunting people from our crew. And to our help comes a government famous in our part of the world for locking people up for their thoughts and forbidding access to information,” they add.

The Pirate Bay says that it sees the current step as one forward for North Korea, and the BitTorrent site hopes that all North Koreans can soon access the site to foster freedom of information.

“We believe that being offered our virtual asylum in Korea is a first step of this country’s changing view of access to information. It’s a country opening up and one thing is sure, they do not care about threats like others do. In that way, TPB and Korea might have a special bond.”

“We will do our best to influence the Korean leaders to also let their own population use our service, and to make sure that we can help improve the situation in any way we can. When someone is reaching out to make things better, it’s also ones duty to grab their hand,” TPB concludes.

While it’s hard to believe everything The Pirate Bay says, the site does indeed route through North Korea at the moment. For some reason we think that Hollywood and the major music labels will have a hard time shutting that node down.

For the record I ran Traceroute and got a German IP address. This is a hoax.

The Pirate Bay made a press release on their Facebook page regarding the ‘switch’. This isn’t a hoax.