Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Misc.

The New York Times lead web story this morning is about Climate Change.  It states that the evidence is that it is real and having real effects in the present day.  More storms, wildfires, droughts, heat waves and floods are ravaging the planet.  Scary stuff.

Meanwhile, the Albuquerque Journal's climate change denying editorials continue in a stealth way.  Today they opined that we need to essentially be gentle with the coal industry.  They say less climate killing coal means more expensive energy.   The full column editorial never once mentions climate change.  One begins to wonder if the Journal has been secretly purchased by the fossil fuel industry.

The Supreme Court's endorsement yesterday of opening prayer in public meetings doesn't seem to work that well in ABQ.  The Albuquerque City Council had to adjourn quickly last night when a crowd took over the meeting to vent on APD.  The hapless APD Chief Eden was forced to flee the meeting when he was served with a citizen's arrest warrant.  This GOP picked new Chief from Governor Martinez's administration should just shuffle off into history for his own good and that of the city of Albuquerque.  He is not up to this job and a nationwide search needs to start immediately for a 'fixer' to come in.  Actually, this public disobedience is refreshing.

Still no word on how that suspect who shot a police dog six weeks ago died.  Will we ever know?




11 comments:

Anonymous said...

PROTESTERS, YOU WERE AWESOME LAST NIGHT AT THE COUNCIL MEETING! This is EXACTLY what needs to be done, and even louder until WE THE PEOPLE are heard. and major changes occur. No more bullshit from this administration. You see what this administration’s plan is now based on their recent actions and you know what to do. CONTINUE WITH THIS STRATEGY!

How can we who are not able to “show our face” support you both financially and otherwise? Where is the link to the unedited video of that takeover? It needs to be shared with the world!

Please announce the future protests prior to them occurring so that the general public can participate, even beyond Albuquerque, or where the public can see the announcements. As you can see, the takeover last night made headlines for all three news channels and the government propaganda newspaper that only old white guys read anymore.

Possibly a YouTube video announcing the next action would be great!

Thanks for all of your efforts and thanks to the EYE too! Don’t stop until there is REAL change to fix this crisis.


APD, you told us on Sunday you would release the lapel camera videos of last Sunday’s shooting on Monday. Then on Monday you tell us you will release it today. You’d better release it today or you will have a riot on your hands. And don’t try to manipulate the videos like you did with the smoke coming out of Redwine’s cell phone which you propagandized as a gun. TIMES UP, WITH YOUR MANIPULATIVE TACTICS!

Anonymous said...

Here’s a REAL LEADER to replace Berry once he is recalled. Richard Shine. I don’t know him personally but he WILL fix the crisis in Albuquerque. If he ran for governor, I’d vote for him too! He and Governor Martinez are both lawyers. Martinez is the kind of lawyer that gives lawyers the reputation they have. Richard Shine is the kind of lawyer you’d want to be your friend and know you can trust. It’s worth 15 minutes of your time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbazPnYgIYw&list=UUL4sBd69WbC2JyeOF7kC-4g

SHINE FOR MAYOR! LET ALBUQUERQUE SHINE AGAIN! SHINE THE LIGHT ON ALBUQUERQUE!

Anonymous said...

Gee, can Eden be charged with resisting arrest? :-)
Berry and Martinez should follow him out the door.

Anonymous said...

Southwest Climate Change Assessment Report (a contribution to the 2014 National Climate Assessment) http://www.swcarr.arizona.edu/ See also opportunity to get realtime answers from the key people in the National Climate Assessment’s creation this Friday, May 9th. http://www.swcarr.arizona.edu/content/national-climate-assessment-ask-me-anything-reddit-kathy-jacobs-and-ua-authors

Anonymous said...

Re: Climate change
Call me a conspiracy nut or what ever but from my daily view of the TV news 7 day forecast with month after month and week after week of clouds foretasted EVERY DAY,I say wake up NM.In the almost 40 years of living in NM this has never happened before and is so obvious.
Watch the planes in the sky spewing out chemicals to make clouds day after day. The new name is global dimming, thank the Government...

Anonymous said...

the City Council is now making noise about changing the way the meetings are run so that they won't lose control - it seems to me that what they really want is a means to have speakers arrested if the council members decide that the speakers are unruly. As if the constant police presence and the city admin body guards aren't enough of a distraction for citizens.

The city also did not post the video of the May 5th meeting on its website. The city posted the minutes and agenda but the video remains "not available". In this day and age, censorship is going to fail.

Speaking of censorship - if the city council does move to change the rules for speakers, then where is out attorney general on this?

Anonymous said...

I just watched the unedited link to the city council meeting, which can be seen at:

http://krqe.com/2014/05/05/raw-video-abq-city-council-meeting-protest/

This is what happens when government leaders abuse their power for way too long.

If you go to 30:00 you can hear Sanchez on the news media talk about Berry’s absence. Berry FINALLY realizes that he is the emperor with no clothes! At about 32:00 you can hear the voices of the citizens over Sanchez when he was talking to the media. Perfect analogy of what needs to continue to happen. OUR VOICE WILL BE HEARD!

Councilors, you want to talk? We’ve been talking with no results.

We are DONE talking. We are YELLING now. We will CONTINUE TO YELL LOUDER. The only business you should conduct at next Thursday’s special session is:

1) REMOVE BERRY!
2) REMOVE PERRY!
3) REMOVE EDEN!
4) CAMERAS ARE ON FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL CONTACT OR ELSE THE OFFICER IS FIRED!

And if the law won’t allow for it, make a law that will! Hell, why even worry about the law. Berry hasn’t respected the law-and I'm not just talking about APD-with his shenanigans and his mafia!

Are you planning on going to the special city council meeting this Thursday? If you get arrested and need bail money, post it here. I’ll pay your bail. AND We should have 10 times the number of citizens show up to the next city council meeting if they try to arrest anyone this Thursday.

JUSTICE, PEACE, EQUALITY, DEMOCRACY!

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

GOOD JOB! THANKS FOR GIVING ME AND THE OTHER WISE CITIZENS A VOICE WE DID NOT HAVE BEFORE.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO DO A THOROUGH CAMPAIGN ON COMMUNICATING THE PROTEST YOU WILL HAVE IN A FEW WEEKS. I’LL BE WAITING FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE NEWS. I’LL DO MY PART!

THERE NOW IS HOPE FOR ALBUQUERQUE! THANK YOU!

Anonymous said...

Richard Shine is one of those out of state self promoters that have come to New Mexico to save us from ourselves. Shine left for awhile and now he is back spreading his typical venom and viciously attacking anyone who disagrees with him or opposes him. He is in fact a reflection of what is all wrong with the legal profession. Richard Shine is one nasty excuse for a human being. Self promotion and disruption is what Shine is all about.

Berry is going no where. Berry still has a 56% approval rating among the general population and a shocking 86% approval rating among Republican according to Monahan's poll. The only consolation is that Berry will be miserable for 3 years and when it all comes out, he will be through politically.

If Berry is recalled, we get stuck with gentleman City Council President Ken "I'm running for Mayor This Time" Sanchez as Mayor. Sanchez sure showed what an inept leader he is Monday night trying to face down the protesters. Sanchez was quoted in the paper that disrupting the City Council meeting was a misdemeanor. Watch Sanchez have more cops at the next meeting to protect the Council from harm.

It is going to be one very long hot summer as we watch Berry and the City Council twist slowly over the open fire.

Anonymous said...

At the 10 o’clock news Channel 7 is going to show the lapel camera video of the Martin shooting and do an interview with David Correia. Let’s see if they show any gun in Martin’s hand and how they edit Carreia’s interview. I would like to see the interview in its entirety.

Taser went down 8% today.

Truth matters!

Anonymous said...

The APD police dog name is GE and when asked about how the suspect died the dog said, "I don't know".

Anonymous said...

Shine would be better than either Berry or Martinez for the citizens. He did absolutely no self promotion and only talked, intelligently I might add, about solving the crisis we have here. It’s obvious you work for the Martinez/Berry machine and they obviously are threatened by him due to your response. Your comment is pure propaganda, offering no support for your BS. Then you try to thinly veil it with your “long hot (sic) summer” comment. Good to know they are paying attention to this site. THEY SHOULD! And here’s breaking news for them. It’s going to be a long, hot duration of their pathetic leadership, regardless if the ignorant vote Martinez in again or Berry isn’t ousted.