it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
adjusted knowledge,
"According to the 2011 FBI Uniform Crime report, Californian with the strictest gun laws in America based on the Brady scoring system , had the highest amount of gun murders in 2011."
Is that per capita or gross numbers? California is the most populous state in the US. According to the Brady ranking system that you mentioned Louisiana had 8.60 murders per 100,000, Oklahoma 3.43, and Arizona 3.32 higher than California (3.21) and that doesn't count a lot of states.
it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
Simon,
It’s been legal to kill a black man in this country
"That is why pieces like this fail to resonate with the majority who become disengaged and unwilling to listen to what may be valid complaints. Everyone knows that is a ridiculous and untrue statement that is pure hyperbole."
It's been legal for police to kill, paralyze or brain damage almost anyone black or white.
"Getting the vote was THE most important achievement and now too many don't use it. Why not?"
They're demoralized. They turned up in large numbers and voted for Obama. Now what do they have to show for it?
it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
HBH
Rise of the New Black Radicals:
“In my city every day, police is pulling somebody over, harassing them, extorting them,” he said. “Because that’s what it is—it’s legal extortion. When a government is making 30 to 40 percent of their yearly budget off of tickets, fines and imprisonment, it’s extortion. It’s the same thing the mob did in the ’20s. So we fight. We can’t go back to normal lives. We get followed, harassed, death threats, phones tapped, social media watched, they hack into our emails, hack into our social media account, we all got FBI files. They know we here right now. So I mean it’s not a game, but it’s either continue to deal with not being able to just live like a regular person, and dream, and have an opportunity, or get up and do something about it. And we decided to do something.”
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“Just envision a debtor’s prison being run by a collusion between city officials, police and court judges, who treated our community like an ATM machine,” Tyler said. “Because that’s all they did. Ferguson is in St. Louis County. It’s 21,000 people living in 8,100 households. So it’s a small town. Sixty-seven percent of the residents are African-American. Twenty-two percent live below poverty level. A total of $2.6 million [were paid in fines to city officials, the courts and the police] in 2013. The Ferguson Municipal Court disposed of 24,532 warrants and 12,018 cases. That’s about three warrants per household. One and a half cases for each household. You don’t get $321 in fines and fees and three warrants per household from an average crime rate. You get numbers like this from racist bullshit, arrests from jaywalking, and constant low-level harassment involving traffic stops, court appearances, high fines and the threat of jail for failure to pay.”
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“It’s been legal to kill a black man in this country. Just since Mike Brown, 11 more people has been killed by police in St. Louis alone, one being a woman who was raped then hung in jail. But none of the other murders got national coverage. It was just two standoffs with police yesterday. So I mean, we don’t know what that’s going to look like. We know we’re dedicated. We’re going to continue to fight. It’s going to take full-fledged revolution to make a change. The worst of the worst would be civil war. That’s just where my mind is.”
it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
cappytan,
"But also, for all the individuals gunned down by police, beaten up by police, etc. one thing remains constant: 99% of them were in that position because of their actions outside the rules of society."
And where do you get a 99% figure?
I have seen videos of an elderly man being slammed down to the ground by a policeman apparently because he did not speak English. He was paralyzed.
I have seen a video of a 12 year old approached at high speed by a police car and shot for having a toy gun.
I have seen a video of a man in Walmart holding a toy rifle that was on sale with one hand, muzzle pointing up, while holding a cellphone with another hand talking to someone. Also shot.
I have seen a video of a woman, handcuffed behind her back getting repeatedly punched in the shoulder by a cop.
I have seen, with my own eyes, an elderly homeless person, half asleep, getting kicked by a cop.
I am intelligent enough to realize that what shows up on video - and there's dozens more - is but a small fraction of similar incidents that no one gets to record. And since the incident that I was eyewitness to happened 30 years ago I can tell that this is a systemic problem that has always existed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3YL1ATsi3M8
it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.
in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.
you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.
so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.
chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.
i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.
Billy the Ex-Bethelite,
"Frankly, it still wouldn't be enough organic fertilizer."
How about rotating crops with nitrogen fixing plants?
"I think we rely on too few crops as primary staples. Particularly when native African crops, for example, are ignored in favor of European/American/Asian crops."
Like sorghum and millet? They are drought resistant and we will be having quite a few droughts in the years to come.
so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.
chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.
i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.
Billy the Ex-Bethelite,
I don't have any farming background but (?)...
"People want cheap food, and organic isn't cheap."
That's mostly because organic foods are not mass produced at the same level as non-organic and therefore you don't have the savings that all mass produced products have.
"When this subject has come up in my conversations with people that don't have any kind of farming background and they start ragging on farmers for using chemicals, etc...."
There are natural alternatives to chemical pesticides such as lady bugs and certain bacteria. I had lady bugs in my garden and they seemed to have done well.
so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.
chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.
i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.
"It depends on how they're modified."
Indeed it does depend on how they're modified. Many GMO products are designed to be sterile in order to keep the farmer buying their seeds. That I don't support since it could have major repercussions if there is a loss of crops where these sterile seeds are being grown.
The peanut gene argument is more of a hypothetical case about the possibility that these genetic alterations will be made by corporations that simply won't care about any negative consequences of their products.
The bottom line is that GMOs are produced by corporations that do not have the best interests of the consumer in mind. That is bound to create problems.
