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Denver deputy given a 14 month paid vacation after assaulting a drunken inmate

Kyle Askin
Deputy Thomas Ford of the Denver Sheriff's Department, who was fired in August 2014 for excessive force after slugging a drunken, foul-mouthed prisoner, will be reinstated to his job, thanks to a decision by the Career Service Board.

In keeping with established policy, Ford's termination will be revised to a paid suspension. This means, in effect, that the "punishment" for Ford's act of aggravated assault would be a 14-month paid vacation. Two other deputies involved in the incident, including one who covered up Ford's act of aggravated assault by refusing to report it, were reinstated by the Career Service Board last month.

An investigation of the incident by Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey resulted in a ruling that Deputy Ford's attack was "justified" because of profane and provocative language used by the detainee, Kyle Askins, and because he stood up when approached by the enraged deputy. Ford and several others on the scene, including a registered nurse, claimed that Askins - impatiently waiting to be processed at Denver's Downtown Detention Center - emitted a string of racial slurs, taunts, and supposed threats at the black deputy.

Stock Up

Profiting from terror: Business is booming for US arms makers

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"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

-Two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Major General Smedley Butler, USMC
The United States is dropping bombs faster than the military industrial complex can manufacture them. The spike in demand for weapons of war since the attacks in Paris have sent stock prices and arms sales through the roof.

According to US officials, arms manufacturers have added shifts and hired workers, but they warn that this may not be enough to keep up with the world's demand for weapons of mass destruction.

As the US sends tens of thousands of warheads to Saudi Arabia so they can bomb schools and hospitals in Yemen, they are placing a strain on domestic production. Since the terror attacks in Paris, American forces have increased their efforts and have begun dropping 453 bombs a day in Iraq and Syria.

Comment: Who benefits? Defense industry stocks soar after the Paris terror attacks


Pistol

Miami Beach: Police shoot and kill razor wielding bank robbery suspect

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© Marcellus Johnson via APDec. 5, 2015: In this photo provided by Marcellus Johnson, authorities draw their guns on a man suspected in a bank robbery in Miami Beach, Fla.
Police say they killed a razor-wielding man suspected in a bank robbery early Saturday.

Officers responded to the Bank of America branch on Alton Road after a 911 caller said a suspect was armed with a bomb and had passed a note to the teller, according to Kathleen Prieto of the Miami Beach Police Department.

Prieto said police arrived at the scene and found the suspect inside a barber shop. He then left the shop with a "straight edge razor in his hand." Shots were fired and the suspect was killed.

Witnesses told The Miami Herald that the man was seen causing a commotion inside the barber shop.

A video of a shooting on Miami Beach was posted on Instagram and elsewhere on social media. In the video, a man without a shirt is seen briefly confronting what appeared to be at least three police officers outside a shopping center. The man was shot and fell to the ground.

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Bad Guys

Man attacks London tube travelers with machete - Witness alleges he was screaming 'this is for Syria'

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© Luke Macgregor / Reuters
Saturday night turned into a horror movie at London's Leytonstone underground station as an attacker slashed a person's throat while shouting "this is for Syria." Police, who had difficulty detaining the man with only a Taser, are now treating the incident as a terror act.

The attack took place in the ticket hall at Leytonstone station. Witnesses described a horrific scene, with a pool of blood on the floor and the attacker shouting, while threatening to stab others.


Comment: It's difficult to ascertain whether or not the man really did scream 'this is for Syria' while carrying out this gruesome attack. But one thing is clear, and that's that this diabolical insanity is spreading like wildfire.

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Bomb

Assailants throw fire bombs at Turkish Cultural Center in France

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© Flickr / Max Stanworth
Several unidentified individuals have thrown hand-held bottle fire bombs at a Turkish cultural association in the southern French city of Marseille, causing minor damage to the building, local media reported Saturday, citing a police source.

Several unidentified individuals have thrown hand-held bottle fire bombs at a Turkish cultural association in the southern French city of Marseille, causing minor damage to the building, local media reported Saturday, citing a police source.

According to Le Parisien newspaper, three or four men hurled four Molotov cocktails at the building situated in the seaside city's north.

Comment: Seems the world is spiraling out of control. Also see: Terror regime Turkey invades Iraq, occupies ISIS oil smuggling zone


Fire

Xenophobic hysteria: Only 4 convictions in over 200 attacks on refugee homes in Germany

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© Michaela Rehle / Reuters
Worrying figures show most of the violence against refugee homes in Germany, including life-threatening arson, is followed by almost no prosecutions. In 2015 alone, there were only four convictions out of 222 recorded cases, according to Die Zeit.

Die Zeit newspaper has released an alarming report suggesting that violence against refugee shelters is on the rise in Germany with hundreds of recorded attacks ranging from throwing paving stones to Molotov cocktails and arsons. Only a tiny number of such crimes are investigated, and even fewer cases end up in the courts, according to Die Zeit.

The main finding by Die Zeit's investigative team suggests there were 222 violent attacks recorded for this year alone and each of them involved human injuries or the risk of injuries. Of these 222, 93 arson attacks on refugee hostels happened with people inside, meaning that culprits cared little whether people could be seriously injured or killed.

Comment: See: Refugee crisis in Germany - Nazis on the rise - 'Never again' is happening again


Vader

Do all mass killings bother you, or only the ones the media tells you to be bothered about?

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What if these were your children?
We now know this. A young man who had successfully killed on a large scale went to his religious leader with doubts and was told that mass killing was part of God's plan. The young man continued killing until he had participated in killing sprees that took 1,626 lives — men, women, and children.

I repeat: his death count was not the 16 or 9 or 22 lives that make top news stories, but 1,626 dead and mutilated bodies. Do such things bother you?

What if you learned that this young man's name was Brandon Bryant, and that he killed as a drone pilot for the U.S. Air Force, and that he was presented with a certificate for his 1,626 kills and congratulated on a job well done by the United States of America? What if you learned that his religious leader was a Christian chaplain?

Do such things still bother you?

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USA

What in the world has happened to the American people?

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Like others in my generation, I remember proudly the response of the American people to the war in Vietnam. I remember the marches, the sit-ins, the protests. I remember the small Midwestern liberal arts college I first attended deciding to shut itself down as its students readied to pour into the nation's capital and I remember being tear gassed in Berkeley.

Vietnam pales in magnitude when compared with the military actions launched by the US since the turn of the century. Since 2000, US troops have fought in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.

War, no longer an anomaly, has become common fare.

Comment: A Disturbing Truth: The Deception of Media
Whatever Happened To The Anti-War Movement?


Chart Pie

Can you say 'neo-feudalism'? 20 richest people have more wealth than half of all Americans

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© AP
According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) America's 20 wealthiest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the American population combined. IPS calculates the top 20 in the Forbes 400 richest list own more wealth than 152 million people in 57 million households.

Beyond the top 20 the numbers get even worse. The IPS report estimates that the entire Forbes 400 Richest Americans list own more wealth than the bottom 61% of the country — 194 million people — combined. IPS can only estimate due to widespread use among the rich of offshore tax havens, which means inequality could actually be more severe.

The Forbes 400 richest Americans are not just wealthy relative to other Americans, but to people all over the world. As IPS notes, the total amount of wealth estimated to be held by the Forbes 400 is $2.34 trillion, an amount that surpasses the GDP of India with a population that exceeds 1 billion people.

Comment: Who runs the world? Solid proof that a core group of wealthy elitists is pulling the strings
They use some of it to dominate the affairs of the nations. The ultra-wealthy own virtually every major bank and every major corporation on the planet. They use a vast network of secret societies, think tanks and charitable organizations to advance their agendas and to keep their members in line. They control how we view the world through their ownership of the media and their dominance over our education system.

They fund the campaigns of most of our politicians and they exert a tremendous amount of influence over international organizations such as the United Nations, the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. When you step back and take a look at the big picture, there is little doubt about who runs the world. It is just that most people don't want to admit the truth.



TV

Six positive signs the lame-stream media is collapsing

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There is an information awakening taking place right now, and mainstream media is being outed for what it really is: corporate and government controlled propaganda. People are turning to alternative news sources more swiftly than ever now, and as a result, the old guard of media is collapsing at free-fall speeds.

Here are 6 positive signs of the collapse of mainstream media:

1. Mainstream Media is Owned by a Handful of Corporations and the People Know It

It's no secret anymore that nearly everything we see, read, and hear comes from just a handful of mega-corporations. Thanks to the alternative media, it has become a widely known fact that just six corporations control 90% of the media we consume. These big six have the ability to make key decisions and delegate the news to their lower subsidiary companies by cutting out important stories or alternative points of view. People recognize this and are moving over to the indy media as a result.

Comment: The MSM is trivial, irrelevent, lacking in depth and critical thinking. It's high time the population seeks better alternatives.