These are the stories that I wrote about this week all in one post, so you can catch up on anything you might have missed :-)
Not One—BUT FOUR COPS—Cowered In Fear as Kids Were Murdered in FL Shooting
roward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson resigned this week after a video showed him cowering in fear while there was a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Now it has been revealed that there were three other officers who were taking cover instead of trying to help.
All of the officers who hid were apparently from the Broward County Sheriff’s office and were the first to arrive on the scene. They apparently waited for reinforcements before doing anything, but according to officers with Coral Springs Police Department, the Broward County officers remained outside and did not immediately follow them to apprehend the suspect.
According to CNN, during a vigil after the tragedy, Coral Springs City Manager Mike Goodrum confronted Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel over the actions of his deputies, saying that it could have cost some of those children their lives. This issue has caused a bit of drama between the two police departments who are now both bitterly criticizing one another’s response to the shooting.
Trump Suggests Ratings For Violent Movies And Games - But They Already Exist
As usual, President Donald Trump has been all over the place in his response to the recent Florida school shooting. On Thursday when addressing solutions to school violence, Trump took a page out of the 1990s politicians playbook to pin the blame on violent movies and video games.
“We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds, and their minds are being formed, and we have to do something about maybe what they’re seeing and how they’re seeing it. And also video games,” Trump said.
He then went on to suggest that a rating system be implemented on this type of media, even though rating systems exist for both movies and video games. “I’m hearing more and more people say the level of violence in video games is really shaping young people’s thoughts. And you go one further step and that’s the movies. … maybe they have to put a rating system for that,” he said.
CDC Official Responsible for Handling Zika and Ebola Emergencies Mysteriously Goes Missing
35-year-old Timothy Cunningham, a high ranking employee with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been missing for nearly two weeks. Cunningham went home sick from work on February 12 and has not been seen or heard from since.
According to the CDC, Cunningham is a graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a commander in the Public Health Service who has worked in emergency situations with the Ebola virus and the Zika virus. Last week, the Atlanta Police Department issued a missing persons notice through their Facebook page, and since it has received nearly 2,000 shares, but still no leads.
Cunningham’s family said that this is extremely unusual behavior for him, since he is usually very close with his family, and he would never leave without letting them know or making sure that his dog was taken care of. When his family went to look for him at his home they found his phone, wallet, car, and keys, along with his dog.
New Reality TV Show Will Manipulate Contestants Into Committing Murder
A new show announced by Netflix called, “The Push,” is promising to take reality television to new extremes, with a theme of manipulating contestants into committing murder. The show will be hosted by Derren Brown, a man who calls himself a “psychological illusionist” Derren Brown is not a stranger to controversial reality television, there has already been a UK version of the show with this same premise but with the name, “Derren Brown: Pushed To The Edge.”
Brown came on the scene In 2011 with a similar show called “The Assassin,” where he hypnotized someone and tried to convince them to murder a celebrity. The show will place contestants in the most extreme and stressful position ever, being pressured to take a human life.
A trailer released this week teases an episode where a young man is put into a situation where he is unknowingly surrounded by 70 actors who are all setting him up to commit murder. For some reason, the man is being convinced to push someone off a ledge to their death. Of course, no one will actually get murdered on the show, but these experiments are sure to leave lasting mental marks on the contestants.
MIT Researchers Make Salt Water Drinkable With Solar Technology
As drought and water shortages become more of a concern in places like California, scientists are looking for new ways to solve the problem. One solution recently came from MIT, where a team was able to come up with a way of turning salt water into drinking water. The process uses solar power and is environmentally sustainable. It was reported that the process can convert 2,100 gallons of salt water into drinking water in just 24 hours.
According to a full explanation on from MIT:
The group came up with a method that uses solar panels to charge a bank of batteries. The batteries then power a system that removes salt from the water through electrodialysis, that means that dissolved salt particles, which have a slight electric charge, are drawn out of the water when a small electrical current is applied. Both electrodialysis and reverse osmosis require the use of membranes, but the membranes in an electrodialysis system are exposed to lower pressures and can be cleared of salt buildup simply by reversing the electrical polarity. That means the expensive membranes should last much longer and require less maintenance. In addition, electrodialysis systems recover a much higher percentage of the water — more than 90 percent, compared with about 40 to 60 percent from reverse-osmosis systems, a big advantage in areas where water is scarce.
Study: Regularly Working With Cleaning Supplies As Bad As Smoking A Pack-A-Day
According to a new study published in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, working with cleaning supplies on a regular basis can be just as damaging to your health as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day.
The study concluded that “long-term respiratory health is impaired 10-20 years after cleaning activities. We found accelerated lung function decline in women both following occupational cleaning and cleaning at home. The effect size was comparable to the effect size related to 10-20 pack-years of tobacco smoking.” In addition to decreased lung capacity, the study also found increased risks of asthma.
The study was led by Scientists at Norway’s University of Bergen, who tracked 6,000 people who used popular cleaning products over a period of two decades. The scientists measured the test subjects’ lung function by putting them through various breathing tests and then surveying them about their exposure to cleaning chemicals.
LA Has Criminalized Poverty By Making It Illegal To Sleep In Cars and RVs
Raising rent prices and low wages have resulted in thousands of people across the city of Los Angeles becoming homeless, many of them now living in cars and RVs if they were able to keep it together that well. According to the most recent counts by the KPCC, there are at least 7,000 people live in their cars in Los Angeles. Many of these people still maintain jobs and try to live the most fulfilled lives that they can, but they are constantly facing problems from authorities.
It is such a common issue that many churches have opened up their parking lots to people living out of their cars. For example, the New Beginnings Counseling Center opened up their parking lot for a “Safe Parking program,” which was intended to provide a safe and welcome parking place for people living out of their cars.
Unfortunately, under new legislation passed in Los Angeles, programs like this will be illegal, because sleeping in cars and RVs have been entirely outlawed. Under the new laws, it is illegal to sleep in a car or RV that is parked in a residentially zoned area from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. Areas within one block of a park, daycare, or school are entirely off limits. Fines will range anywhere from $25 to $75 which is impossible to pay for most people in these situations.
Study: Dancing can reverse the signs of aging in the brain
According to a study published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, dancing can reverse signs of aging in the brain. The study also found that dancing showed greater results than other types of physical activity.
Dr Kathrin Rehfeld, lead author of the study, explained that, "Exercise has the beneficial effect of slowing down or even counteracting age-related decline in mental and physical capacity. In this study, we show that two different types of physical exercise (dancing and endurance training) both increase the area of the brain that declines with age. In comparison, it was only dancing that lead to noticeable behavioral changes in terms of improved balance." The subjects in the study had an average age of 68 and were split off into two separate groups, one to test the effects of dancing and the other endurance training. "We tried to provide our seniors in the dance group with constantly changing dance routines of different genres (Jazz, Square, Latin-American and Line Dance). Steps, arm-patterns, formations, speed and rhythms were changed every second week to keep them in a constant learning process. The most challenging aspect for them was to recall the routines under the pressure of time and without any cues from the instructor," Rehfeld said.
"Right now, we are evaluating a new system called "Jymmin" (jamming and gymnastic). This is a sensor-based system which generates sounds (melodies, rhythm) based on physical activity. We know that dementia patients react strongly when listening to music. We want to combine the promising aspects of physical activity and active music making in a feasibility study with dementia patients. I believe that everybody would like to live an independent and healthy life, for as long as possible. Physical activity is one of the lifestyle factors that can contribute to this, counteracting several risk factors and slowing down age-related decline. I think dancing is a powerful tool to set new challenges for body and mind, especially in older age," Rehfeld added.
Politicians Push New Legislation To Make Saggy Pants Illegal
In recent decades, cities and states throughout the country have been slowly and silently criminalizing saggy pants. A new bill proposed in the South Carolina will threaten fines for anyone who has pants that hang more than three inches below the waistline, even if their skin is not exposed.
On February 15th, South Carolina lawmakers introduced House Bill 4957, which states that it will be illegal for men or boys to be seen in public “wearing his pants more than three inches below the crest of his ileum exposing his skin or undergarments.”
Thestate.com pointed out that the lawmakers spelled “ilium” wrong in the bill, which is the correct spelling of a part of the hip bone. Instead, they typed ileum, which is a part of the small intestine. If the bill passes it will allow police to write fines that increase with every ticket.
The first offense would carry a $25 fine, the second offense would carry a $50 fine and/or up to 3 hours of community service, and a $75 fine and/or 6 hours of community service thereafter.
The Solar Revolution Is Solving Africa’s Energy Crisis
Remote areas in Africa have become accustomed to living without electricity, as the type of infrastructure necessary is very sparse and costly throughout the entire continent. However, as the price and efficiency of solar technology steadily improves, the African market has been quick to catch on and take advantage of this cleaner form of energy. This year, a number of solar upstarts have broken new ground in Africa, and some foreign investors are even moving in to help make solar technology a more widespread possibility.
US Marines Drink Cobra Blood In Creepy "Jungle Survival Exercise" (Images)
6,800 US soldiers were involved in an annual military exercise in Thailand called “Cobra Gold.” While there are a number of different activities involved in the exercise, the most popular is a strange exercise where soldiers drink Cobra blood, in a seemingly ritualistic way.
Local Rapper Called Out Convicted Criminal Cop in a Song Years Ago—But No One Listened
Former Baltimore Police Detective Daniel Hersl was among the worst offenders in the task force, and his name was notorious on the streets of Baltimore. So notorious was his name, that he was called out by a local rapper long before his crimes were made public.
Baltimore rapper Kevron Evans, AKA Young Moose, says that he was regularly harassed by Hersl, which put a significant strain on his life and career. After his first run-in with Hersl, Moose refused to back down and instead began speaking out against police brutality and corruption, which made the Baltimore Police Department crack down on him even harder.
Sheriff Took $110,000 From Prison Food Fund - 49 Other Sheriffs Doing The Same
An Alabama Sheriff was recently caught pocketing over $110,000 in taxpayer money that was allocated for feeding inmates in the county jail that he runs.
According to prosecutors, between the years of 2014 and 2016, Monroe County Sheriff Thomas Tate pocketed large sums of money that was supposed to buy food for inmates at the jail. Unfortunately, this is a common practice across the state, with many Sheriffs doing this out in the open, claiming that they aren’t doing anything wrong.
Sheriff Tate claims that a state law allows local police to keep any leftover tax money that was intended to feed county jail inmates. However, this leaves an obvious incentive for Sheriffs to cut corners or neglect their responsibilities in feeding inmates.
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Excellent news sources all on one post upvoted+resteemed.
This post is so good and excellent
With all the problems in the world, the idiots are addressing saggy pants?
Have anybody put to question insanity of those people?
Great post do you work for a news company?
I work for The Free Thought Project, The Mind Unleashed, The Conscious Resistance and a few others :-)
sounds awsome good on you following for more
Derren Brown is awesome, I saw a thing once where he was at a racetrack and then he would take a losing betting slips and mindfuck the cashier into paying out on them as if they were winners. NLP is awesome.
This is a great idea! My feed gets messy, and I sometimes miss your posts.