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[Bud Green]

This young man had the balls to stand up for Cannabis users in the state of Tennessee...

This happened yesterday, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020


U.S.
Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization
ELLA TORRES
January 28, 2020, 2:04 PM CST

Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization.
Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
A 20-year-old man caused a stir in a Tennessee courthouse when he advocated for the legalization of marijuana and then proceeded to spark a joint in front of the judge.
Spencer Alan Boston was appearing before Judge Haywood Barry on Monday at the Wilson County Courthouse in Lebanon, on a simple possession-of-marijuana citation, when he began to tell Barry that marijuana should be legalized, according to Lt. Scott Moore, a spokesman for the Wilson County Sheriff' Office.
Courtroom video captured what came next: Boston is seen reaching into his jacket pocket, pulling out what appears to be a joint and lighting it up, taking multiple puffs.

Security quickly intervened and took Boston into custody.

Moore told ABC News in a telephone interview that Boston said something to the effect of "the people deserve better" before he was taken away.
"I've been here 20 years," Moore added, "and this is the first time I've ever seen that."

Boston faces two new charges: disorderly conduct and simple possession of marijuana. He's being held on $3,000 bond, online jail records show. He'll also have to serve 10 days in Wilson County Jail because Barry held him in contempt of the court, according to Moore.
A spokesperson at Barry's office said the judge had no comment on the incident.
The joint smoked in court was collected as evidence.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

This young man had the balls to stand up for Cannabis users in the state of Tennessee...

This happened yesterday, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020


U.S.
Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization
ELLA TORRES
January 28, 2020, 2:04 PM CST

Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization.
Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
A 20-year-old man caused a stir in a Tennessee courthouse when he advocated for the legalization of marijuana and then proceeded to spark a joint in front of the judge.
Spencer Alan Boston was appearing before Judge Haywood Barry on Monday at the Wilson County Courthouse in Lebanon, on a simple possession-of-marijuana citation, when he began to tell Barry that marijuana should be legalized, according to Lt. Scott Moore, a spokesman for the Wilson County Sheriff' Office.
Courtroom video captured what came next: Boston is seen reaching into his jacket pocket, pulling out what appears to be a joint and lighting it up, taking multiple puffs.
MORE: Landmark bill legalizing marijuana at the federal level passes House committee
Security quickly intervened and took Boston into custody.

Moore told ABC News in a telephone interview that Boston said something to the effect of "the people deserve better" before he was taken away.
"I've been here 20 years," Moore added, "and this is the first time I've ever seen that."
MORE: Marijuana sales in Illinois top $3M on first day of legal recreational cannabis in the state
Boston faces two new charges: disorderly conduct and simple possession of marijuana. He's being held on $3,000 bond, online jail records show. He'll also have to serve 10 days in Wilson County Jail because Barry held him in contempt of the court, according to Moore.
A spokesperson at Barry's office said the judge had no comment on the incident.
The joint smoked in court was collected as evidence.

This came through my Facebook feed yesterday with the caption, "Not all heroes wear capes".

 

[armedoldhippy]

This young man had the balls to stand up for Cannabis users in the state of Tennessee...

This happened yesterday, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020


U.S.
Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization
ELLA TORRES
January 28, 2020, 2:04 PM CST

Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization.
Man smokes marijuana in front of judge after advocating for legalization originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
A 20-year-old man caused a stir in a Tennessee courthouse when he advocated for the legalization of marijuana and then proceeded to spark a joint in front of the judge.
Spencer Alan Boston was appearing before Judge Haywood Barry on Monday at the Wilson County Courthouse in Lebanon, on a simple possession-of-marijuana citation, when he began to tell Barry that marijuana should be legalized, according to Lt. Scott Moore, a spokesman for the Wilson County Sheriff' Office.
Courtroom video captured what came next: Boston is seen reaching into his jacket pocket, pulling out what appears to be a joint and lighting it up, taking multiple puffs.
MORE: Landmark bill legalizing marijuana at the federal level passes House committee
Security quickly intervened and took Boston into custody.

Moore told ABC News in a telephone interview that Boston said something to the effect of "the people deserve better" before he was taken away.
"I've been here 20 years," Moore added, "and this is the first time I've ever seen that."
MORE: Marijuana sales in Illinois top $3M on first day of legal recreational cannabis in the state
Boston faces two new charges: disorderly conduct and simple possession of marijuana. He's being held on $3,000 bond, online jail records show. He'll also have to serve 10 days in Wilson County Jail because Barry held him in contempt of the court, according to Moore.
A spokesperson at Barry's office said the judge had no comment on the incident.
The joint smoked in court was collected as evidence.

you beat me to it, Bud! thanks!

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

‘To protect the movement’: Greta Thunberg wants to trademark her name

‘To protect the movement’: Greta Thunberg wants to trademark her name

Teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg says she’s had it with ‘impostors’ and marketers, and is moving to trademark her own name as well as that of her movement – purely for noble and altruistic purposes, of course.

Thunberg announced the move to in an Instagram post on Wednesday, urging her 500,000-plus followers to be “extremely suspicious” if someone pretending to be her contacts them, as many impersonators and frauds have tried using her name “in order to communicate with high profile people, politicians, media, artists etc.”

In addition to applying for a trademark in her own name, Thunberg is seeking to protect the ‘Fridays For Future’ and ‘Skolstrejk för klimatet,’ the Swedish name of her “climate strike” movement, in order to put a stop to advertising and fundraising by unrelated third parties.


Fridays For Future is a global movement founded by me. It belongs to anyone taking part in it, above all the young people. It can – and must – not be used for individual or commercial purposes.

A foundation recently registered by her parents, though not up and running quite yet, will be “strictly nonprofit of course and there are no interests in philanthropy,” she added. “It is just something that is needed for handling money (book royalties, donations, prize money etc) in a completely transparent way.”

She then contradicted herself, adding that the foundation’s goals will be to “promote ecological, climatic and social sustainability as well as mental health.”


Source: https://www.rt.com/news/479529-greta-thunberg-trademark-foundation/


Very impressive business acumen, for a young child that just turned 17 on January 03/2020. Well done.... Greta™......





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[Rocky Mtn Squid]

EXCLUSIVE: Telecom CEO & Pioneer Blasts FBI, DOJ, NSA — ‘They’re the Largest Organized Crime Family in America’


There is something very poetic about the truth, mostly because in today’s media it is so hard to find — but that is not the case here, where a Telecom legend and pioneer just blasted the Justice Department and its Deep-State co-conspirators, offering us all an alarming glimpse of the truth.

In a rare interview, Telecom legend Joseph P. Nacchio reflected on his controversial tenure as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International on the latest episode of the Thomas Paine Podcast. And it is an explosive, shocking interview about how the FEDs conspire to tap your phone calls, internet — legally or not — and destroy anyone who gets in the way. You won’t find raw Intel in the mainstream media or cable TV.

Here is an excerpt from the podcast.

Nacchio referred to the Justice Department as the “largest organized crime family in America” and offered other astoninshing insights, especially on mass and wayward government surveillance of telecommunications:

“I have no respect, no respect for our system of government and laws. I think the elite — whether it’s the rich political Elite — or whether it’s a governmental Elite (the Deep State), that are always there irrespective of the president — and the politicians and the swamp so to speak — I think it’s totally corrupt.

You have universal surveillance, you have this overcriminalization of America where everybody’s breaking the law every day and the government can get information on anybody. Okay, and when they decide you’re a problem, you’re cooked — that to me would make George Orwell turn over in his grave; It would make Stalin and Hitler envious they were born a century too early.”

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-exclusive-interview-telecom-ceo-pioneer-blasts/id1491435111?i=1000464165131

Source: https://truepundit.com/exclusive-telecom-ceo-pioneer-blasts-fbi-doj-nsa-theyre-the-largest-organized-crime-family-in-america/


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[Green Squall]

Search Continues for Possible Monkey on the Loose in Tewksbury

Search Continues for Possible Monkey on the Loose in Tewksbury

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/loca...ble-monkey-on-the-loose-in-tewksbury/2128468/

Police and animal control officers continued to search Thursday for what was believed to be a monkey on the loose in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

Tewksbury police and animal control were using ATVs and drone units to find the animal. Officials don't know for sure what kind of animal it is, but Diane Charlton said she saw a monkey when she was out on her morning walk Tuesday on Main Street.

"We saw a monkey, just sitting, staring at us," Charlton said. "I froze. I wanted to take a picture so bad, I froze."

The monkey was spotted again Wednesday morning — this time by Charlton's son in their backyard on Michael Street.

"I got scared," said Justin Charlton. "He got scared, he ran off, I ran off."
Tewksbury Animal Control has now set up a trap on the family's property that includes a crate, a blanket and fruit.

Animal control officers will be setting up cameras and traps in the area to find the animal so that they can identify it and, if necessary, relocate it to a safe location.

Staff at the nearby Shawsheen Animal Hospital said it’s not theirs.

“No monkeys here in the wild and they’re not legal to have as pets in Massachusetts," Dr. Michele Caruso said.
Caruso has no idea where it could have come from.

 

[JimCreator]

1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland

Researchers warn land inequality is rising with farmland increasingly dominated by a few major companies

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...ty-is-rising-around-the-world-finds-reportOne per cent of the world’s farms operate 70% of crop fields, ranches and orchards, according to a report that highlights the impact of land inequality on the climate and nature crises.

Since the 1980s, researchers found control over the land has become far more concentrated both directly through ownership and indirectly through contract farming, which results in more destructive monocultures and fewer carefully tended smallholdings.

Taking the rising value of property and the growth of landless populations into account for the first time, the report calculates land inequality is 41% higher than previously believed.

The authors said the trend was driven by short-term financial instruments, which increasingly shape the global environment and human health.

“In the past, these instruments were only of concern to the markets. They didn’t affect us individually. But now they touch every aspect of our lives because they are linked to the environmental crisis and the pandemic,” said Ward Anseeuw, senior technical specialist at the International Land Coalition, which led the research along with a group of partners including Oxfam and the World Inequality Lab.

The study published on Tuesday, is based on 17 new research papers as well as analysis of existing data and literature.

It says previous calculations of land inequality were based exclusively on ownership and the size of individual farms. On this basis, land inequality narrowed until the 1980s, after which it became wider.

That trend is more pronounced under the new methodology, which takes additional factors into account, such as multiple ownership, the quality and value of land, and the number of landless people.

Landlessness was lowest in China and Vietnam, and highest in Latin America, where the poorest 50% of people owned just 1% of the land.

Asia and Africa have the highest levels of smallholdings, where human input tends to be higher than chemical and mechanical factors, and where time frames are more likely to be for generations rather than 10-year investment cycles. Worldwide, between 80% and 90% of farms are family or smallholder-owned. But they cover only a small and shrinking part of the land and commercial production.

Over the past four decades, the biggest shift from small to big was in the United States and Europe, where ownership is in fewer hands and even individual farmers work under strict contracts for retailers, trading conglomerates and investment funds.

Ward said these financial arrangements are now spreading to the developing world, which is accelerating the decline of soil quality, the overuse of water resources, and the pace of deforestation.

“The concentration of ownership and control results in a greater push for monocultures and more intensive agriculture as investment funds tend to work on 10-year cycles to generate returns,” he said.

This is also connected to social problems, including poverty, migration, conflict and the spread of zoonotic diseases like Covid-19.

To address this, the report recommends greater regulation and oversight of opaque land ownership systems, a shift in tax regimes to support smallholders and better environmental management, and great support for the land-rights of communities.

“Smallholder farmers, family farmers, indigenous people and small communities are much more cautious with use of land. It’s not just about return on investment; it’s about culture, identity and leaving something for the next generation. They take much more care and in the long run, they produce more per unit area and destroy less.”

 

[D. B. Doober]

The pooper bandit was on the news here in Boston, I remember it

 

[Tudo]

Two cannibals

Two cannibals

Two cannibals kill and eat a clown. The first turns to the second and asks did that taste funny to you?

 

[D. B. Doober]

I remember the pooper on the news here. It was a local park though, not a parking lot, so maybe different serial pooper

 

[PetFlora]

A federal court ruled this month that citizens cannot be arrested for swearing at police officers.

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On June 2nd, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a US District Court decision that refused to throw out a civil lawsuit against an Arkansas police officer who arrested a man who yelled a curse word at the officer as he conducted a traffic stop on another citizen.

What Happened

According to court documents, in 2015 Arkansas State Trooper Lagarian Cross was performing a traffic stop on a Fort Smith highway when he heard a passerby yell “f*ck you” out of the window of a moving car. The remark prompted Cross to end his traffic stop and pursue the car. After making the stop, Cross arrested Eric Roshaun Thurairajah on a charge of disorderly conduct, stating the profanity constituted “unreasonable or excessive noise.”

Thurairajah spent hours in jail for the utterance, court records say, before the charge was dropped and he was released under his own recognizance.

Thurairajah, however, was not done.

After spending eight hours barefoot in a jail cell with a toilet that had overflowed, he filed suit against Cross, alleging that the trooper violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights by arresting him unjustly.

Cross attempted to have the case thrown out, citing qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that shields government officials from lawsuits—but was denied by the US District Court for the Western District of Arkansas. In that 2017 ruling, the court ruled Cross’s arrest violated Thurairajah’s clearly established rights under the Constitution, voiding his qualified immunity protection.

The Court’s Ruling

On Monday, the 8th Circuit upheld the District Court’s ruling, allowing Thurairajah to proceed in his lawsuit against Cross. W. Whitfield Hyman, Thurairajah’s attorney, called the court’s decision a win for free speech.

“This was a simple case about freedom of expression that is a small step forwaThe ruling is also important because it weakens qualified immunity, which often shields government officials from consequences for bad behavior. (Read, for example, this Cato Institute article describing a state caseworker who strip-searched a four-year-old girl.)

Swearing might be rude, but it’s not criminal. Hyman said police officers need to understand the difference.

“Trooper Cross’s response is not something you would expect from the police in a free country,” Hyman told me.

Criticism of the government as a whole or of an individual government agent should be the safest activity, even if that criticism is vulgar or unwarranted. Hopefully the next time a police officer that wants to throw someone in jail because they hurt the officer’s feelings will remember this case and refrain from violating a person’s natural rights.

There is no more basic constitutional right than free speech. Courts have placed some limits on free speech, of course, but placing a citizen in jail over profanity is an excessive and unjust use of state power.

Not the First Time

Unfortunately, it happens with some frequency. Earlier this month, for example, police in Helen, Georgia, detained a man for 18 hours over a profanity he uttered in public.

“I think it was a complete abuse of authority,” Morgan Wilson, who was visiting from North Carolina, told a local news station. “Even if they wanted to cite me for cursing in public … that would have been a better option than obviously the method that they used.”

Hyman said his client’s victory in court is a step in the right direction.

“With every case like this it becomes harder for a police officer to arrest someone illegally and still be shielded by qualified immunity,” he told me. “The next step will be asking for attorney’s fees and for Eric to be paid damages, such as attorney’s fees associated with his criminal case.”

Source: https://themindunleashed.com/2019/06/federal-court-rules-citizens-can-swear-at-cops.html


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A friend told me long ago, you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride

 

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[Bush Dr]

The bomb squad was called to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital on Thursday (December 2), after a patient was admitted with a mortar shell stuck in his rectum.

Troops from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment rushed to the Gloucester hospital after being notified by police "that a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum."

The man was a military enthusiast who found the shell while clearing out, but somehow "tripped" and fell onto the 57mm piece of army ordnance that landed him in hospital

 

[armedoldhippy]

gives a whole new meaning to the term "blow it out your ass", complete with metric diameter, lol...

 

[brickweeder]

...The man was a military enthusiast who found the shell while clearing out, but somehow "tripped" and fell onto the 57mm piece of army ordnance that landed him in hospital

and Eddie Murphy was being a "good Samaritan"....

 

[star crash]

Sri Lanka shows off giant natural blue sapphire

Published 13th December 2021

Credit: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

Sri Lanka shows off giant natural blue sapphire
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Written by ReutersColombo, Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday put on show what they said was the world's largest natural corundum blue sapphire, weighing 310 kilograms (683 pounds), which was found in a gem pit about three months ago.
Local gemologists, who have examined the sapphire, said it was one of the rarest gems in the world as it weighed more than 300 kilograms (661 pounds). International organizations are yet to certify the precious stone.

The stone on display in Horana, outside the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Credit: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
The sapphire was put on display at the home of one of the gem pit owners in Horana, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Colombo. A group of Buddhist monks chanted blessings for the gemstone before it was unveiled.
The stone was found in the gem-rich Ratnapura area where local people had previously found the world's largest star sapphire cluster in a backyard by accident.

People inspect the blue sapphire, dubbed "Queen of Asia," in Horana, Sri Lanka. Credit: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
Ratnapura is known as the gem capital of the South Asian country, which is a leading exporter of sapphires and other precious gems.
The country earned around half a billion dollars through the export of gems, diamonds and other jewelry last year, the local gems and jewelry industry body has reported.

 

[armedoldhippy]

been reading about that gorgeous stone. blue sapphire can sell for as much as $11, 000 per carat... lessee here...one pound equals around 2300 carats, and add two naughts, carry the ought...ummm...that's a big fucking pile of C-notes, lol... a little over 16.7 BILLION dollars. probably destroy the market if released...

 

[flower~power]

I’ve heard of Cat ladies… but nothing like this! >>>

A man was found dead in his home with more than 100 snakes Wednesday in Charles County, Maryland, officials say. The snakes, some venomous and illegal in the state, all were in cages when sheriff’s deputies arrived.

The man, a 49-year-old whose name was not immediately released, was found in his house in Pomfret. A medical examiner will determine his cause of death.

A neighbor on Raphael Drive noticed he hadn’t seen the man in about a day, county spokeswoman Jennifer Harris said. The neighbor went to the door and was able to see through a window that the man had fallen. He called 911 for help.

When deputies arrived, they found the man unresponsive and the house full of 124 snakes.

Animal control officials responded and began to examine the huge snake collection, Harris said.

“Our chief animal control officer said in his more than 30 years of experience, he had not encountered this kind of thing before," she said.

The collection included venomous snakes that are illegal to keep in Maryland, Harris said. The breeds found included pythons, rattlesnakes, cobras and black mambas, Harris said.

Charles County animal control officials were able to isolate the non-venomous snakes. They brought in experts from North Carolina and Virginia to handle the venomous snakes. A crew spent hours on Thursday working to get the snakes out.

 

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