Ring-around-the-Rosie, a Pocket full of Posies
+ 16 year-old boy from Colorado has died from a rare case of the plague last week, and health officials suspect it’s the septicaemic plague, related to the bubonic plague. Roughly 7 people die each year from the plague, which is usually transmitted by fleas in infected rats, mice, and squirrels.
+ Officials don’t know for sure which plague, but bubonic, septicaemic or pneumonic plague are all caused by the same Yersinia pestis, which is still endemic in many parts of the world; the western United States, South America, subsaharan Africa, India, and East Asia.
So Bloated, Can’t Move
+ Yet another report (by CHEM Trust) comes out saying that ‘fracking’ is dangerous, and there should be a European Union wide moratorium until regulatory reform can be taken underway.
+ Fracking is the new vogue way of getting oil out of the ground by shooting water and chemicals to free up natural gas and oils. People are saying this destroys the natural water tables, and increasing seismic activity.
+ Lots of special parties want fracking halted or very regulated, and you can guess oil companies are saying that fracking is perfectly safe. The only issue is, no one trusts them to not cut corners or do it safely.
Campers Beware
+ Officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez are facing murder charges for the killing of James Boyd on March 16, 2014.
+ In 2014, a large group of police officers responded to a report of a homeless and mentally ill man camping in the foothills of the city. Boyd was asked to drop the camping knives he was carrying and he appeared to be doing so in the video when was tasered, fired upon with rifles, fired upon with bean bag guns, and attacked by police dogs. He was hit in the back with the rifle with three rounds and died the next morning.
+ You might recall this incident where the officer quote-unquote said “I’m going to shoot this guy in the dick.” #ToProtectAndServe
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