I’ve really been slacking with Occupy.
I really feel like I’m losing the two feet I had in the loop.
It’s time to step back up and give people some news.
An iconic photo I took today, November 17th 2011, while doing my photojournalism deal. Protesters lock hands blocking a four lane intersection, for a march of 5,000+ students 20+ blocks, from Union Square to Foley Square.
Photo Credit: Derek-Jon Flagge
"Zombie Apocalypse"
So everyone has been freaking out about this even that happened two days ago in Miami. A man was found eating another mans face off in which he was shot dead. It seemed crazy to everyone including me until I found out a lot more about other events. There have been multiple attacks in Florida in the past few months all with a lot of the same symptoms exemplified by the attacker. So, I researched, as I usually do. I found not one, but two articles from National Geographic talking about a new rabies virus that is evolving way too quickly and if mixed with influenza could actually cause a “zombie-like disease” that would not make someone dead come back to life, but would make someone with the virus almost zombie-like as far as being violent, biting, eating, killing, etc.
There also was A SEPARATE attack in Miami about 1 1/2 months ago where a man attempted to bite someone and was also acting abnormal. He was shot with a stun gun and actually died. Article HERE
A woman attacked an elderly man and claimed she was a vampire. ArticleHERE
Police say man attacks officer and zoo worker, bites them. He was originally there with his girlfriend but then he started to act abnormal, ripping his clothes off because he was hot, dunking his head in water, and then bit two people. He was tazed and is now dead as well. Article HERE
A 49 year old woman bit her 74 year old friend to death in California last year. Article HERE
Naked man covered in blood lunges at police officers, biting one in leg in 2009. Article HERE
Now, they actually labeled this new “attack”, Excited Delirium. “The symptoms of excited delirium include bizarre and/or aggressive behavior, shouting, paranoia, panic, violence towards other people, unexpected physical strength, and hyperthermia. Throughout the United States and Canada, these cases are frequently associated with psychostimulant abuse, representing the extreme end of a psychiatric continuum of drug abuse effects. However, reports of acute exhaustive mania, physical restraint, Pepper Spray or TASER and sudden death also have been reported that are not related to abused drugs, suggesting further that an underlying central nervous system disorder was the precipitating cause of lethality. Such victims of excited delirium have provoked allegations of police misconduct, unnecessary force and improper TASER deployment.”
The crazy thing to me is that after all of these reports, the police say it was LSD or PCP. There have been so many reports of it not being drug related and if it had anything to do with drugs, it was just enhancing the rage of the human being.All I’m saying is do not rule out something that hasn’t been proven yet. They have said HUNDREDS of times that it is possible for something like the “rage virus” in 28 days later to actually exist because they aren’t dead, they are just rage induced because of a disease or virus. There is something going on around the country/world and it’s quite odd. Be open minded and pass this news along.
Student protests, Canada. They refuse to acknowledge the anti-protest bill. This is beautiful and gaining more and more momentum.
700 students arrested in Montreal during clashes with police
Students protest in downtown Montreal on May 22, 2012 as tens of thousands defy an emergency law restricting protests to mark the 100th day of student protests over plans to raise tuition.
Read more here
Anniversary of M15 (May 15th Day of Action), Puerta del Sol, Spain.
When Nike gave Internet video maker Casey Neistat a hefty advance payment and orders to #makeitcount, it’s unlikely this is what the company had in mind.
In response to me asking Casey “Just looking at all the flights I was thinking thousands upon thousands just for the airfare. But how did you get away with Nike not being mad at you? hahaha”
He said: “Life shrinks and expands in proportion to your willingness to take risks. Wasn’t really concerned with them being mad.”
What an awesome guy, check this video out for him, it’s worth it.
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How well does this graph (from The Economist) explain the West’s obsession with Iranian regime change?
We’re seeing a fairly clear division lately between those who think that Iran presents the most serious threat on the world stage and those who believe that Western militaries (especially Israel and the US) present the greatest threat to renewed mass violence in the Middle East. Yet, no matter one’s opinion, most people understand that if an overt war between Iran and the West does occur, it’s going to be a Western country who launches the first attack.
How many of the pro-war American and Israeli officials and media pundits really believe that Iran is suicidal enough to use a nuclear weapon against the most powerful military alliance in the history of the world (i.e., NATO + Israel)? Why is there no drum-beating for war with North Korea or Pakistan or China, also nuclear powers? I tend to think that many of these talking heads, despite their drum-beating, privately know that an Iranian nuclear attack is extremely unlikely ever to happen. Rather, they fear other, less serious geopolitical implications if Iran joins the nuclear weapons club.
The power shift in the Middle East that would occur with Iranian nuclear weapon capability, along with the protection it would provide the Iranian regime, is something Western officials certainly want to avoid. US-Saudi-Israeli domination of the Middle East and its energy resources would weaken substantially.
Unfortunately, US domination of the Middle East has shown contempt for the basic human rights of many of the people who live in the region. In contrast to the humanist rhetoric we hear about needed changes in places like Syria and Libya, Western powers have been passively supportive of the killing, torture, repression, and abuse that continue to take place in countries like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Sadly, Western lifestyles and corporate profits have grown dependent on these tyrannical regimes. [American citizens, showing welcome rationality, clearly prefer pursuing negotiations rather than a military strike on Iran.]
Zero evidence exists that Iran is either developing nukes or planning to attack Western citizens. Rational minds should conclude that the potential for the unprovoked, deliberate Iranian use of a nuclear weapon—if the regime should ever decide to develop one—is extremely unlikely.
This very scary and very remote hypothetical does however provide a convenient pretext for those who want to start another war in the oil-rich Middle East, just as it has in the past.
this is perfect.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m25y69TzxO1qetel5o1_400.gif)
How well does this graph (from The Economist) explain the West’s obsession with Iranian regime change?
We’re seeing a fairly clear division lately between those who think that Iran presents the most serious threat on the world stage and those who believe that Western militaries (especially Israel and the US) present the greatest threat to renewed mass violence in the Middle East. Yet, no matter one’s opinion, most people understand that if an overt war between Iran and the West does occur, it’s going to be a Western country who launches the first attack.
How many of the pro-war American and Israeli officials and media pundits really believe that Iran is suicidal enough to use a nuclear weapon against the most powerful military alliance in the history of the world (i.e., NATO + Israel)? Why is there no drum-beating for war with North Korea or Pakistan or China, also nuclear powers? I tend to think that many of these talking heads, despite their drum-beating, privately know that an Iranian nuclear attack is extremely unlikely ever to happen. Rather, they fear other, less serious geopolitical implications if Iran joins the nuclear weapons club.
The power shift in the Middle East that would occur with Iranian nuclear weapon capability, along with the protection it would provide the Iranian regime, is something Western officials certainly want to avoid. US-Saudi-Israeli domination of the Middle East and its energy resources would weaken substantially.
Unfortunately, US domination of the Middle East has shown contempt for the basic human rights of many of the people who live in the region. In contrast to the humanist rhetoric we hear about needed changes in places like Syria and Libya, Western powers have been passively supportive of the killing, torture, repression, and abuse that continue to take place in countries like Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Sadly, Western lifestyles and corporate profits have grown dependent on these tyrannical regimes. [American citizens, showing welcome rationality, clearly prefer pursuing negotiations rather than a military strike on Iran.]
Zero evidence exists that Iran is either developing nukes or planning to attack Western citizens. Rational minds should conclude that the potential for the unprovoked, deliberate Iranian use of a nuclear weapon—if the regime should ever decide to develop one—is extremely unlikely.
This very scary and very remote hypothetical does however provide a convenient pretext for those who want to start another war in the oil-rich Middle East, just as it has in the past.
this is perfect.
(via s4mmich)
