Tag: deaths
Murders Are Spiraling Out Of Control In Chicago
You will find more statistics at Statista
500 people have been murdered in Chicago this year, more than Los Angeles and New York combined. The number of homicides has hit a 20-year high and the city hasn’t experienced a single day without someone being murdered since February of last year. A BBC report on the violence in the Windy City compared the number of deaths there with U.S. war dead in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Myth of the ‘War on Cops’
The storyline about cops under fire is complete and utter bullshit spewed by the statist press and those who want to further take away you liberties and freedoms. It’s the people who are under fire by the government and their police state thugs who bully, abuse, and shakedown the citizens. The storyline is obliterated below.
Guest Post by Jesse Walker
If there really is a war on cops, whoever’s fighting it seems to be losing.
With the “war on cops” narrative on the rise again, you might be wondering: When it comes to lethal violence against police officers, how does 2015 stack up against other years? Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute took a look at the annual number of cops who died of non-accidental gunshots, as measured by the Officer Down Memorial Page. This year isn’t over yet, obviously, but if the trend thus far continues, 2015’s rate will be higher than 2013’s. It will also be lower than every other year since 1870:
IKEA RECALLS 27 MILLION DRAWERS – RESPONSIBLE FOR TWO DEATHS
Having worked at IKEA for 14 years, I know everything there is to know about their inner workings. This recall is the result of gross negligence on the part of IKEA. I was there in the early 1990’s when the first death in the U.S. occurred. A young child opened the bottom drawers of an IKEA chest and it fell on him. He suffocated to death. My boss Mike McDonald, the CFO, met with the parents and negotiated the large payout to the family. This was over 20 years ago. From that moment forward the company vowed to include a wall anchoring kit with every bookcase and drawer unit. It was a nylon strap with screws and washers so you could attach one end to the furniture and one end into a stud in the wall.
I bought many pieces of IKEA furniture over the years. I had small children. I anchored all of my bookcases and storage units to the wall with these anchors. There is nothing new about this. Why didn’t the Malm dresser already have these wall anchors included? There is no excuse, considering it has been a standard for 20 years. If they were not included in order to save money or cut corners, then the blood of these children are on the hands of IKEA executives in the U.S. and Sweden. IKEA will try to spin this tragedy, but it sounds like corporate irresponsibility to me.
Ikea recalls 27 million chests, dressers after two deaths
Ikea is recalling about 27 million chests and dressers because they can tip over and crush children if they aren’t anchored to the wall, the retailer and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Wednesday.
Two children died after Ikea’s Malm chests fell on them in 2014. Ikea says it knows of reports of three additional deaths since 1989 from tip-overs involving other models of Ikea chests and dressers.
While Ikea’s new repair program is considered a recall, consumers aren’t supposed to return the furniture. Instead, they should order or pick up a new free wall anchoring kit for the affected chests and dressers. Consumers should move unanchored chests and dressers into storage or other areas where they cannot be accessed by children until the chests and dressers are properly anchored.
Patty Lobell, Ikea’s U.S. commercial manager, said in a statement that the company is “deeply saddened” by the deaths and hopes “our efforts prevent further tragedies.”
Furniture and TV tip-overs have been a top concern at CPSC for several years. A child dies every two weeks and one is injured every 24 minutes in the U.S. from furniture or TVs tipping over, according to CPSC data.
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Who or What Is Killing the Bankers of Wall Street?
Guest Post by Jesse
“While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control.
A new tyranny is thus born, invisible and often virtual, which unilaterally and relentlessly imposes its own laws and rules … In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenceless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.”
Francis I
“He was a murderer from the beginning, not standing with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar, and the father of lies.”
John 8:44
It feeds on whatever is fragile, vulnerable, whether it be the environment, the public peace, the weak, the marginalized, the poor, the disabled, or the hearts and minds of children.
Peace and love are weakness; conquest and plunder are our calling.
There are a number of possible explanations for this recent cluster of untimely deaths on Wall Street.
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THANK GOD OBAMA SAVED GENERAL MOTORS WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS
Obama and his minions have touted the huge success story of saving this murdering union controlled abortion of a company. They used your tax dollars, ignored bankruptcy law, and kept this piece of shit alive in order to keep their union constituents happy. Even though auto sales are supposedly booming, this company manages to lose money. They jam millions of vehicles onto overflowing dealer lots and call it sales. They have their government financing arm ALLY FINANCIAL dole out 0% seven year loans to deadbeats in the inner cities so the free shit army can drive Escalades.The bad debt loses will fall on the taxpayer.
In the meantime, the management of this fucked up company do presentations to employees about what not to put into emails. Every week we get a new revelation of defects, cover-ups and deaths of innocent people. Where is Obama now? Where is MSNBC and the union loving press? After reading the documents below, how can top executives of this company not be in jail?
Via Doug Ross
2008 GM document warned engineers to avoid “widow-maker”, “deathtrap”, “decapitate”, “Hindenburg” and other inflammatory words
You may recall that GM has suffered from a series of embarrassing product defects and recalls including one that the company “didn’t fix until 13 people had died.”
Patrick George at Jalopnik discovered a GM Powerpoint that illustrates how the automobile manufacturer went so far off the rails related to a whole host of catastrophic product defects.
George calls the presentation a “smoking gun” intended to dissuade employees from candidly discussing safety issues. In fact, one panel goes so far as to request that engineers avoid the use of the words “defect” or “safety” and instead focus on “issue, condition or matter.”
One panel offers a laundry list of words to avoid including “disemboweling”, “impaling”, “maiming”, and “mangling” even if, presumably, victims were in fact disemboweled, impaled, maimed and mangled by said vehicles.
So Toyota committed no such crimes and was forced to pay billions in fines (after laughably being accused by Eric Holder of a “cover up”) while GM really does cover up a “death trap” and will pay $35 million?
Sounds fair.
Hat tip: BadBlue Car News