The witnesses? The only witness that vaguely supports this that I've seen is an anonymous witness cited in the Daily Caller. Not credible journalism even by USA standards. The known witnesses are Dorian Johnson (altercation at the car, shooting as he ran away, he got hit, turned around put his hands up and stumbled forwards before the shooting began again), James McKnight (more or less the same as Johnson), Michael Brady (altercation at car, shooting, then as Brown was halfway towards falling to the ground more shots), Piaget Crenshaw (shots fired as he ran away with hands up, turned with hands up, more firing). Those accounts aren't too far from the Police account really. Is it reasonable to conclude deadly force is required in the timeframe of the shooting? What does police protocol say? One step? Two? When can you be sure it's not charging but belligerence, drunkenness, or injury? I'm sure America are the experts in these cases by now and have explicit and clear guidelines for semi-autonomous itinerant armed police officers and when they can and cannot open fire. Surely it isn't just 'if you harbour any fear, kill or otherwise incapacitate the citizen you are trying to apprehend'?

There is also TheePharoah who tweeted it from the scene and said ' JUST SAW SOMEONE DIE OMFG....no reason! He was running!', but you know, its not clear he can provide further useful information assuming he was interviewed.

Your video, Man Fights Off Great White Shark In Sydney Harbour, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

There are certainly penguins on the south coast of Australia, most famously their nesting spots Victor Harbour - http://www.tourismvictorharbor.com.au/whales_penguins.html and Phillip Island - http://www.penguins.org.au/

Their actual range goes at least as far north as New South Wales, but not quite southern Queensland (where Rustic Pathways are based).

I don't know about "they" but I blame them by default usually.

We're okay where we are, but south west is where it's all happening. I'm in Dorset and by the harbour, we seem to be safe from these floods. But there has been sinkholes in the roads and there is a sewage pipe burst just up the road from mine.

Cameron is saying money is no object. I'm so glad because that means there will be an end to austerity, seeing as he's not concerned anymore.

Absolutely, but China has never harboured any delusions that it is anything other than a totalitarian state, the US is the mob preaching about 'freedoms'. ; )

So while there may be no moral high ground, there are depths of hypocrisy and I think the US has fallen further.

Not the Largest Man Made Non Nuclear Explosion
Halifax has you beat.
The Halifax Explosion occurred on the morning of Thursday, December 6, 1917. SS Mont-Blanc, a French cargo ship fully laden with wartime explosives, collided with the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the Narrows, a strait connecting the upper Halifax Harbour to Bedford Basin. Approximately twenty minutes later, a fire on board the French ship ignited her volatile cargo, causing a cataclysmic explosion that devastated the Richmond District of Halifax. Approximately 2,000 people were killed by debris, fires, and collapsed buildings, and it is estimated that nearly 9,000 others were injured.The blast was the largest man-made explosion prior to the development of nuclear weapons with an equivalent force of roughly 2.9 kilotons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT). In a meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in May 1918, Dalhousie University's Professor Howard L. Bronson estimated the blast at some 2.4 million kilograms of high explosive.

I was once in a pub overlooking the main harbour of Vancouver in Washington State. A herd(?) of sealions were on their sides in the middle of the harbour, sunning themselves. I caught a glimpse of orca fins at the mouth of the harbour slipping below the water's surface. I knew what was about to happen.
Suddenly the orcas came up out of the water from below the sea lions catching them completely unaware. As pub patrons gasped in shock and awe, there were sea lions screaming and swimming like hell for the shoreline as the whales ripped into them. It was simultaneously horrifying and mesmerizing...

>> ^Kofi:

Was Pearl Harbour very selective and targeted?
Plus, 30,000 tonnes?!?!?!?! Think about it for a moment. Tonnes, pounds, whatever.


Pearl Harbor is an interesting case. It's on one hand a horrific war crime, and on the other well within the standards in which the US operates. Hawaii was a colony which we stole and placed military bases there to control the pacific. Bombers were being produced and put there with the expressed intention, literally this was put in the paper, to bomb the shit out of Japan.

It would be like China setting up on Cuba and sending planes there that they brag can bomb all US cities on the eastern sea board. We'd probably go insane and start nuking everything if that happened.

Was Pearl Harbour very selective and targeted?

Plus, 30,000 tonnes?!?!?!?! Think about it for a moment. Tonnes, pounds, whatever.

This guy is an idiot. A statement as stupid as his isn't worth the air-time nor the space on the Internet that harbours it.

In fact, I don't know why I'm posting here. Doing so only gives it some form of credibility.

This does give ammunition to the libertarian idea. The fact that votes are so states are given sort of equal power to decide their fate, where the local democracy rule. Which would be fine, except that the US does not live in a vacuum, and has, especially since WW2, been instrumental in deciding the fate of the world. One might argue, from a libertarian perspective that that intervention is fundamentally wrong, but the fact of the matter, as Pearl Harbour showed, (and also global issues such as the environment) the US is not isolated, and, increasingly, never will be. As a non-US citizen, the vote now decides more than simply someone (the president) who oversees the actions of the states. It decides the fate of the entire world.

I sometimes wish that I could ignore the US vote. The US, is THE symbol of the enlightenment and progress, and in some sense we should all let it live by itself , but we can't ignore it. For better or worse, it is instrumental in deciding the fate of us all.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Dan_Mangan:So_Much_For_Everyone.

As much as i'd like to go

To places i've never known,

Scared shitless to leave home,

And i don't want to go alone.

I miss the rewarding gaze

Of a friend from my younger days,

Didn't mind 'bout my selfish ways,

As he died i was miles away.

I hope he remembers how,

As i do when i look back now,

Though he'd bark at the slightest sound,

Would not bite for he knew not how.

And sometimes it's more than clear,

When morning comes early here,

And i know that the day is near,

Wasted days make for wasted years.

Now i'm vicious with appetite,

Sobering half a mind,

Dripping with stolen wine,

Awoken by something i dreamt.

Harboured by everything i have been witnessing.

Postcards and daydreaming

Get less embarrassing.

After the day is done,

I will be on the run -

So much for everyone, so much for everyone.

The showdown is endless here,

Under the burning sun.

As eyes roll toward me now,

I will drop my gun.

>> ^Skeeve:

Stan Rogers deserves less begging and more promotes. RIP Stan.


Thank you kindly Skeeve, me old son

@Porksandwich

I think you're right that letting directors and producers into your head as a writer can be both helpful and/or dangerous..

What I meant was Moore hasn't seen those movies because they were shit. Like a veteran of ww2 avoiding watching Bay's Pearl Harbour. The only thing they'd be trying to avoid is insult or rage.

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Stan_Rogers:Make_And_Break_Harbour

How still lies the bay, in the light western airs
Which blow from the crimson horizon
Once more we tack home, with a dry empty hold
Saving gas with the breezes so fair
She's a kindly Cape Islander, old but still sound
But so lost in the longliner's shadow
Make and Break and make do, but the fish are so few
That she won't be replaced should she founder

Now it's so hard to not think of before the big war
When the cod went so cheap, but so plenty
Foreign trawlers go by now with long-seeing eyes
Taking all where we seldom take any
And the young folk don't stay with the fisherman's ways
Long ago they all moved to the cities
And the ones left behind, old and tired and blind
Won't work for a pound, for a penny

In Make and Break Harbour the boats are so few
Too many are pulled up and rotten
Most houses stand empty, old nets hung to dry
Are blown away, lost, and forgotten

Now I can see the big draggers have stirred up the bay
Leaving lobster traps smashed on the bottom
Can they think it don't pay to respect the old ways
That Make and Break men have not forgotten
For we still keep our time to the turn of the tide
And this boat that I built with my father
Still lifts to the sky, the "one lunger" and I
Still talk like old friends on the water