Patrick deHahn

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Today was the first time I think I was experiencing my first pandemic,

A Massachusetts nursing director says Wednesday.

U.S. flu epidemic

Four in 10 people who received the flu vaccine are still likely to contract the virus
7.3% of the nation’s deaths last week was due to the epidemic

Read on.

"At 2pm yesterday, he was an aspiring broker who was walking to lunch, when he got violated by people who, up until that moment, he thought were there to protect him. By 4pm, Tyler was chanting in solidarity with a horde of Occupiers. And by the time that we got out, he was itching to head back towards Zuccotti and get more footage of police beatings. If that's not the best birthday present that Occupy Wall Street could ask for, then I don't know what is." →

Since 1964, the Gallup organization has always correctly predicted the U.S. presidential election results 100 days out (now 98 days) except once and they predict a... tie. →

“The latest Gallup poll, conducted on a seven-day rolling basis, puts President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney at a tie. Both candidates received 46% support among registered voters.”

Obama’s big tweet of the day (Source)

IsRonPaulStillRunning.tumblr.com →

Uh. I think not.

(via theamericanprospect)

There have now been at least 7,106 arrests in 114 cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began on Sept. 17, 2011.

catmartini:

There have now been at least 7,106 arrests in 114 cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began on Sept. 17, 2011.

According to the Huffingtonpost:

With the May Day arrests of at least 116 people at Occupy protests around the country, there have now been a minimum of 7,106 Occupy arrests in 114 cities across the United States since the Occupy movement began in New York on September 17, 2011.

“The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, so it’s not surprising that so many people are being arrested for speaking up, but it is still quite disturbing” according to Marianne Huber, spokesperson for St. Pete for Peace.

OccupyArrests.com, a project of St. Pete for Peace, has been tracking these arrests and lists each chronologically, including number arrested, location, a brief description and links to source documentation.

The total number of arrests is conservatively derived, including only those instances in which at least two credible and consistent sources are found. Many additional arrests are often reported.

For more information, please visit http://occupyarrests.com.

Funny: Texts from Hillary Clinton Tumblr →

I love this photo. Classy.

(via motherjones)

Here it is, a video from the pepper spraying incident at Santa Monica College, where students tried to get into a trustees meeting debating on offering higher priced classes. Reportedly 30 people were pepper sprayed.

Wish I could find more information, but I couldn’t find much. Journalist Ben Doernberg posted a Storify on the event.

Things That Can Get You Strip Searched (In America)

newsweek:

villagevoice:

From Victoria Bekiempis:

Unpaid Parking tickets

Adultery

Fortune Telling

Criminal Anarchy

Criminal interference with health care services or religious worship in the second degree

Criminal Mischief in the Fourth Degree

Making Graffiti

Unlawfully Using Slugs (fake coins)

While America was focused on the health-care hearing, the Supreme Court went and ruled you, average American, can legally be stripped searched for the pettiest of crimes.

Okay?

The above photo is a photo that was found on an Al Qaeda related site by the NYPD Intelligence Division’s cyber unit. The New York City government and the FBI is currently investigating this matter.

The graphic shows the city skyline and has wording on it saying “Al Qaeda, Coming Soon Again in New York”

NY Daily News also shares additional information:

It was posted in the “artwork and design” section on that particular web page, Browne said.

He added that while there has been no intercepted chatter or intel to suggest that a plot is in the works, the “obvious implications” of the logo raised concerns.

The NYPD Intelligence Division’s cyber unit is working to find the origin of the photo and if it is considered to be a credible threat.

“It’s something we’re looking into,” Browne said. “We’re trying to determine the origins of it. We take all things like this seriously.”

Reuters also has more.