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nudityandnerdery: sparklebums: stunthusband: goodstuffhappened...

fibbingfeud — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:43:26 -0400

sparklebums:

stunthusband:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

Bikers Against Child Abuse make abuse victims feel safe

These tough bikers have a soft spot: aiding child-abuse victims. Anytime, anywhere, for as long as it takes the child to feel safe, these leather-clad guardians will stand tall and strong against the dark, and the fear, and those who seek to harm.

The 11-year-old girl hears the rumble of their motorcycles, rich and deep, long before she sees them. She chews her bottom lip, nervous.

They are coming for her.

The bikers roar into sight, a pack of them, long-haired and tattooed, with heavy boots and leather vests, and some riding double. They circle the usually quiet Gilbert cul-de-sac, and the noise pulls neighbors from behind slatted wood blinds and glossy front doors.

One biker stops at the mouth of the street, parks in the middle of the road and stands guard next to his motorcycle, arms crossed.

The rest back up to the curb in front of the girl’s house, almost in formation, parking side by side. There are 14 motorcycles in all, mostly black and shiny chrome. The bikers rev their engines again before shutting them down.

The sudden silence is deafening. The girl’s mother takes her hand.

The leader of this motorcycle club is a 55-year-old man who has a salt-and-pepper Fu Manchu and wears his hair down past his shoulders. He eases off his 2000 Harley Road King and approaches the little girl.

He is formidable, and intimidating, and he knows it. So he bends low in front of the little girl and puts out his hand, tanned and weathered from the sun and wind: “Hi, I’m Pipes.”

“Nice to meet you,” she says softly, her small hand disappearing in his.
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The unruly-looking mob in her driveway is there to help her feel safe again. They are members of the Arizona chapter of Bikers Against Child Abuse International, and they wear their motto on their black leather vests and T-shirts: “No child deserves to live in fear.”

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/azliving/articles/2012/07/13/20120713bikers-against-child-abuse-make-abuse-victims-feel-safe.html?page=1#ixzz214xfChtS

I’ll admit - this made me tear up. I’d never heard of BACA before. Now I want to find the WA and OR chapters, and give them some money. I can’t give them a lot - I live hand-to-mouth - but they deserve my support. Surviving abuse is not - *not* - easy. These bikers have taken on a nearly-impossible task, struggling to make it a little easier. Amazing. Absolutely wonderful.

gosh some people are really fucking great

This may be the best goddamn thing I have read in a while. Some faith in humanity restored.

jtotheizzoe: Drug Resistance, Chicken And 8 Million UTIs What...

fibbingfeud — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:30:42 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Drug Resistance, Chicken And 8 Million UTIs

What will afflict one in nine American women in the next year, cost $1 billion in healthcare spending, and could be gaining antibiotic resistance from poultry farming?

If you guessed UTIs (urinary tract infections), you’d be right.

UTIs are not only uncomfortable, they are potentially very dangerous if untreated. More and more of them are caused by bacteria resistant to common antibiotics. Turkey and chicken products that come from poultry farms where these antibiotics are overused show the same pattern of drug-resistant bacteria. Maryn McKenna has full details of the months-long investigation here.

(via Superbug: Wired Science)

choongcommunist: Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed...

fibbingfeud — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:33:05 -0400

choongcommunist:

Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound.

The campsite in East London, hidden from public view, has 25 people sharing each toilet and 75 to each shower.

They sleep in portable cabins, some of which have been leaking in the rain.

Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound.
The campsite in East London, hidden from public view, has 25 people sharing each toilet and 75 to each shower.

They sleep in portable cabins, some of which have been leaking in the rain.

On arrival, some were horrified to be told there was no work for two weeks. But despite this, they were made to pay the cleaning company £18 a day in ‘rent’ to sleep in the overcrowded metal cabins, which works out at more than £550 a month.

Others who had come to the UK desperate for the jobs turned back, describing the camp as ‘horrible’, with showers and toilets ‘filthy’ from over-use.

climb-higher: Me: Excuse me, may I take your picture?Her: Oh...

fibbingfeud — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 15:50:57 -0400

climb-higher:

Me: Excuse me, may I take your picture?
Her: Oh sure!
Him: Wait just let me fix my hair.
*Pulls a piece of his hair through a hole in his hat*
Him: Is my curl showing?
Me: Yes
Him: Perfect! You can take the picture now.

occupyallstreets: Peru Declares State of Emergency As 5 Die...

fibbingfeud — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:37:39 -0400

occupyallstreets:

Peru Declares State of Emergency As 5 Die During Protests

The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency in the mountain region of Cajamarca where thousands have gathered in recent days to protest the expansion of a gold mine owned by the U.S.-based Newmont Mining that is already the largest in South America.

Using live ammunition against the protesters, police have killed five people this week alone. In a dramatic video broadcast nationally on Peruvian television, police severely beat Marco Arana, a former Roman Catholic priest, who had rallied protesters despite emergency measures restricting freedom of assembly.

We speak to journalist Bill Weinberg, who was recently in Cajamarca. “Every time the company, Yanacocha, proposes an expansion of the mine, the local people there get organized, and they block the roads, and they shut down the businesses,” Weinberg says.

reuters: A demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus is arrested by...

fibbingfeud — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:51:08 -0400

reuters:

A demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus is arrested by riot policemen during clashes with students protesting against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Santiago, December 22, 2011. Chilean students have been protesting against what they say is the profiteering in the state education system. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

NYPD Often Manipulate Crime Reports, Study Finds

fibbingfeud — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:39:58 -0400

NYPD Often Manipulate Crime Reports, Study Finds:

occupyallstreets:

An anonymous survey of nearly 2,000 retired officers found that the manipulation of crime reports — downgrading crimes to lesser offenses and discouraging victims from filing complaints to make crime statistics look better — has long been part of the culture of the New York Police Department.

The results showed that pressure on officers to artificially reduce crime rates, while simultaneously increasing summonses and the number of people stopped and often frisked on the street, has intensified in the last decade, the two criminologists who conducted the research said in interviews this week.

“I think our survey clearly debunks the Police Department’s rotten-apple theory,” said Eli B. Silverman, one of the criminologists, referring to arguments that very few officers manipulated crime statistics. “This really demonstrates a rotten barrel.”

Their survey is likely to rekindle the debate, which flared up earlier this year after The Village Voice detailed the case of Adrian Schoolcraft, an officer in the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn who secretly gathered evidence, including audio recordings, of crime-report manipulation. Shortly after Mr. Schoolcraft presented the evidence to police investigators, his superiors had him involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, saying he was in the midst of a psychiatric emergency.

The survey, conducted earlier this year, was financed by Molloy College. Dr. Eterno and Dr. Silverman e-mailed a questionnaire to 4,069 former officers who had retired since 1941. Roughly 48 percent — 1,962 retired officers of all ranks — responded.

The respondents ranged from chiefs and inspectors to sergeants and detectives. About 44 percent, or 871, had retired since 2002. More than half of those recent retirees said they had “personal knowledge” of crime-report manipulation, according to the summary, and within that group, more than 80 percent said they knew of three or more instances in which officers or their superiors rewrote a crime report to downgrade the offense or intentionally failed to take a complaint alleging a crime.

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fibbingfeud — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 12:54:21 -0400

It isn’t limited to one side of the political spectrum,...

fibbingfeud — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:14:52 -0400

It isn’t limited to one side of the political spectrum, rather individuals in league for their own benefits at the losses of a massive amount of others, as to prevent the transparency of their actions. They then call this capitalism.

stfuconservatives:

(via Liberals Are Cool and AATP)

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fibbingfeud — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:55:39 -0400

justinchin: HONG KONG: June 27, 2012 — A member of the...

fibbingfeud — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:46:35 -0400

justinchin:

HONG KONG: June 27, 2012 — A member of the anti-capitalist Occupy movement from mainland China has been staying with the “Occupy Central” site for over four months. He normally watches people, reads and write songs at the public passageway on the ground floor of the HSBC headquarters on June 27, 2012, when similar protests were launched across Asia by the “Occupy Wall Street” and “Indignant” movements.

The banking giant said it applied to the city’s high court last Friday for an eviction order, after previous attempts to ask the small group of protesters to leave had failed. (Photos by Justin Chin)

7 Facts That Prove The Middle Class Is Shrinking

fibbingfeud — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:15:21 -0400

7 Facts That Prove The Middle Class Is Shrinking :

occupyallstreets:

Recent economic statistics reveal an undeniable pattern of the U.S. working class suffering an erosion of its standards of living. Taken one at a time, each of these statistics could be a shocking snapshot of our society; they could each be considered unjust. But if you put all these snapshots together, you get something more than a picture; you see a whole story unfolding, a process of long-term decline for U.S. workers. These include:

61 percent of Americans “always or usually” live paycheck to paycheck, up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007;

The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation’s wealth;

24 percent of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year;

Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975;

More than 40 percent of workers are now in service jobs, which are often very low paying;

For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number to go up to 43 million in 2011;

Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010—the highest rate in 20 years.

occupyallstreets: Mobile Carriers Gladly Give Your Data to the...

fibbingfeud — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:03:08 -0400

occupyallstreets:

Mobile Carriers Gladly Give Your Data to the Cops, But Not to You

The nation’s major mobile carriers have amassed a treasure trove of sensitive data on their customers that they share with police and advertisers — but keep hidden from the consumers themselves.

The major carriers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon, store who you texted, the content of texts and locational tracking information such as cell-site data, which identifies the cell tower to which a customer was connected at the beginning of a call and at the end of the call. Different companies hold your data for different times. Sprint hoards information the longest, according to a Justice Department survey, keeping your call records for an average of 18-24 months.

But, according to a survey by Pro Publica, the major carriers won’t disclose the data to their customers, for a host of reasons — nonsensical ones at best. But they will gladly hand it over to the authorities, even without warrants.

The survey comes as the government is increasingly looking to use cell-site data to bolster prosecutions in the aftermath of a Supreme Court ruling that said the government must obtain a warrant to affix a GPS device to track a vehicle’s every move.

The justices said a warrant was necessary to affix the device to the vehicle. So, in response, the authorities claim they may obtain the data from a target’s mobile phone, without a warrant, because Americans have no expectation of privacy in their public movements. Courts have been going along, even before the high court’s January decision.

When defeating California legislation this year that would force the mobile carriers to publicly report the number of times they turn over cell phone location information to police and federal agents, they successfully argued that such a plan would be too burdensome, and would take time away from the important work of sharing customer data with cops “day and night.”

T-Mobile declined comment on the Pro Publica survey. But AT&T said giving customers their data “is not a service we provide.”

Sprint said it doesn’t do it “for privacy reasons.”

That answer sounds familiar to a claim made last week by the Obama administration, which said it would violate Americans’ privacy if it informed the public on how many times it spied, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications under the FISA Amendments Act.

Verizon said it would provide your data to the cops “but not directly to you.”

All of the carriers’ terms of service note that your data is being used to serve targeted ads “from their own services or from outside companies,” Pro Publica reported.

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fibbingfeud — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 10:05:04 -0400

How Obamacare benefits YOU.

fibbingfeud — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:35:02 -0400

How Obamacare benefits YOU.

Potential jurors voice thoughts on Texas drug law during by saying no matter how strong the evidence, they wouldn't convict man of felony for less than gram of cocaine

fibbingfeud — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:53:30 -0400

Potential jurors voice thoughts on Texas drug law during by saying no matter how strong the evidence, they wouldn't convict man of felony for less than gram of cocaine :

sarahlee310:

A juror’s job is to decide guilt or innocence. We don’t ask them to make the law. But last week in a Harris County courtroom, dozens of potential jurors said a Texas drug law is no good, and no matter how strong the evidence, they wouldn’t convict.

[…]

“They said they weren’t going to make somebody a felon and ruin their lives over less than a gram of cocaine,” Dupont said.

Rangel was found not guilty. Wheeler says it was weak evidence was weak, not the amount of drugs that did it.

But she did tell us, “Given our government is struggling with resources that possibly it was not the best judgment call to have brought a case with such weak evidence to a jury trial.”

Wish more juries would start standing up like this.

socialistictendencies: occupyallstreets: tpmmedia: Google:...

fibbingfeud — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:08:10 -0400

socialistictendencies:

occupyallstreets:

tpmmedia:

Google: Most Censorship Requests Come From Democracies

Google on late Sunday released a sampling of its own data on the number of requests it receives from governments around the world to remove specific content and other speech from its various websites, including YouTube.

Surprisingly, democracies led the way in the overall number of content takedown requests shared by Google, with requests for upwards of 6,000 items to be removed coming from U.S. court orders and government and law enforcement agencies.

Read more…

Google is giving e-mail communications, documents and, among other things, browsing activity, and even IP addresses used to create an account to the government according to Wired.

Most of the requests came from the U.S.

Google, which offers e-mail, cloud storage, a blogging platform, web search and other services, every six months unveils a so-called Transparency Report shedding light on government requests for data and takedowns. The latest results show that the U.S. government targeted 12,243 Google accounts, compared to 11,057 in the six months before.

Google’s transparency data is also limited as it does not include requests under the Patriot Act, which can include National Security Letters with gag orders attached. Nor do the data include anti-terrorism eavesdropping court orders known as FISA orders or any dragnet surveillance programs legalized in 2008, as those are secret, too.

Of the 28 nations listed in the Google survey, the United States filed the largest number of requests. India came in a far second, with 2,207 for the six months ending December 31.

Also, Google may be giving the U.S. government this data without warrants:

We suspect that an alarming amount of the data is being turned over without a probable-cause warrant. The reason is that, in the United States, the law is so antiquated that a warrant is often not required.

Read more from Wired

but we’re so free guise

sunfoundation: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? The “fact” that...

fibbingfeud — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:39:35 -0400

sunfoundation:

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

nice find. Also: I need to cook more often.