Massachusetts State Court Rules Black Men Not Unreasonable For Fleeing Police
A state supreme court has now ruled black men have every reason to run from the cops — and their fleeing cannot be considered a suspicious act.
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Past Masterpiece of the Week (October 1-8, 2016): Cortex – Spinal Injuries (1981)
Released in 1981, ‘Spinal Injuries’ is one of the most brilliant and criminally under-appreciated, defining releases from that great early 80’s post-punk/deathrock/goth/darkwave period, by the band Cortex from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Rescued Kitten Rosie Raised By a Husky Thinks She’s A Dog Too (VIDEO)
Rosie was rescued off the street as a tiny baby kitten by the Bui sisters: Thi, Thoa, and Tram. When she was found by one of the sisters’ co-workers, she was very sick and fragile, and her humans were concerned that she might not pull through.
Newly Discovered Closest Planet to Solar System Is Potentially Habitable
Proxima b is a rocky, terrestrial planet with a surface (not a ball of gas, like Jupiter), a minimum mass of 1.3 Earth masses, and in a close orbit of approximately 11.2 days with Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun.
Civil Disobedience Legalized To Enable Protest Against Fracking In Grant Township, Pennsylvania
Grant Township is tiny community taking up a 27-square-mile patch of Western Pennsylvania that was faced with the threat of a giant energy corporation leaving toxic fracking wastewater deposits under it. Its 700 residents were concerned over the historical trend all over America of protesters being arrested while attempting to speak out against bullying corporations. So Grant Township passed a law that protects its residents from arrest if they protest Pennsylvania General Energy Company’s (PGE) creation of an injection well.
Past Masterpiece of the Week (August 29-Sept 4, 2016): The Drones – Further Temptations
Before wireless controlled hobby quadcopters or US military weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles raining death from the sunny skies, and decades before the Australian band formed under the same moniker, there was simply the British punk band, The Drones.
Past Masterpiece of the Week (August 22-28 2016): Bauhaus – Sky’s Gone Out (1982)
The Sky’s Gone Out by Bauhaus was released in October 1982 by record label Beggars Banquet.
UPDATE: Texas Court Issues Stay of Execution For Man Who Has Never Killed Anyone But Is About To Be Executed For Murder
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled 7-2 on Friday, August 19 to halt the execution of Jeffrey Lee Wood, a death row inmate awaiting an ostensibly unconstitutional execution by lethal injection for a murder he did not commit nor intend to commit. He was sentenced to death under Texas’ “law of parties” for his involvement in a 1996 convenience store robbery that led to the shooting death of his friend Kriss Keeran, who worked at the store as a clerk.
***ELECTION FRAUD*** Ballot Tampering Caught on Video in San Diego (VIDEO)
Several lawsuits are seeking to hold San Diego Registrar of Voters Michael Vu and Secretary of State Alex Padilla accountable for manipulating California primary results.
CLINTON CASH: New documentary exposes blatant pay-to-play schemes under corrupt Clinton State Department (VIDEO)
An explosive new documentary based on Peter Schweizer’s bestselling book of the same name, Clinton Cash, details how Bill and Hillary Clinton used their positions of power and influence to raise millions for themselves and billions for their “charitable” foundation.
China’s Futuristic “Straddling” Bus May Have Been Illegally Funded Scam (VIDEO)
A futuristic street-straddling bus that allows regular traffic to pass underneath made its first road test in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province, on Tuesday, August 2, 2016.
Kitten and Owl Are Unlikely Best Friends (VIDEO)
At Hukulou Coffee shop in Osaka, Japan, the unconventional friendship between Marimo, a kitten, and Fuku-chan, an owl, becomes an adorable internet sensation.
7 Adorable Maine Coon Kittens Dancing In Unison (VIDEO)
Florence Salles, a breeder at the Triskel Maine Coon cattery in Quebec, Canada, lined up the kittens for a group photo on June 14, 2014, then decided to record a video while waving an object in front of the kittens.
Past Masterpiece of the Week (August 15-21, 2016): The Boys – Self-Titled (1977)
As Last.FM puts it: “The Boys made arguably one of the best LPs of the 70s with their self-titled first album and provided the template for superior Pop Punk before even the Buzzcocks had got out of first gear”.
Voter Suppression and Exit Poll Discrepancies in Arizona Democratic Primaries (VIDEO)
The Arizona Democratic primary elections were plagued with shenanigans, starting from voter roll purges or party reassignments, to shutting down hundreds of poll locations,