Comment: The reality is that what the West terms as "spreading democracy" is really just a euphemism for taking a nation that doesn't follow the Empire's orders and turning it into a subservient client state. The elites don't care about destroying governments that were good for the people like in Libya and the ensuing cultural destruction caused by proxy terrorists like ISIS taking over. They just demand more money and power and everything that achieves that is a means to an end, just collateral damage that the elites could care less about.

Comment: Dearlove is stating the obvious; the risks should be clear to anyone with a brain. Which suggests that on some level, this is the plan. And the fact that EU leaders are going along with the deal suggests either that they support this outcome, or that they are being coerced into accepting it.

Turkey is the biggest known state sponsor of Daesh. It gives them free access to and from Syria across Turkish borders, treats their wounded in its hospitals, provides them with arms, money and intelligence, buys their oil, and provides them with fresh recruits. Visa-free travel for Turks will make it that much easier for Turkish-backed terrorists to enter Europe, with their CIA/Mossad handlers pulling the strings. The threat isn't so much from homegrown radicals; it is from patsies and agents who are protected and directed from 'on high' to carry out terror attacks via the strategy of tension.

It's time to drop Erdogan, Europe. Do you have the backbone to do it?

Comment: Harvard study: Police killings a major public health concern

Alarmingly, the report revealed that, at present, there is no reliable public health data on the number of police killings that occur because of long-standing resistance by police departments to make these data public.

The report explained that, ironically, we only have a sense of how many citizens were killed in the U.S. by police in 2015 because of "The Counted," a United Kingdom-based website launched on June 1, 2015, by the newspaper The Guardian. According to the report, "the website quickly revealed that by June 9, 2015, over 500 people in the US had been killed by the police since January 1, 2015, twice what would be expected based on estimates from the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI)." At the time of the writing of this article [Dec. 29th, 2015], 1126 U.S. citizens have been killed due to police violence in 2015.

When compared to publicly available U.S. statistics on other common causes of death, the scale at which the endemic problem of police violence occurs, and the extent to which it affects the public well-being, comes into clearer view:

It is startling that we, in the US, must rely on a UK newspaper for systematic timely counts of the number of persons killed by the police. After all, we have a world-class public health system that reports, nationally, in real-time, on numerous notifiable diseases and also on deaths occurring in 122 cities with populations >100,000 ^[4]. As of September 19, 2015, the cumulative 2015 total of 842 US persons killed by the police ^[1] notably exceeded the corresponding totals reported for the 122 cities' 442 deaths under age 25 (all causes) and also 585 deaths (all ages) due to pneumonia and influenza, and likewise exceeded the national totals for several diseases of considerable concern: measles (188 cases), malaria (786 cases), and mumps (436 cases), and was on par with the national number of cases of Hepatitis A (890 cases) ^[4]. Just as epidemic outbreaks can threaten the public's health, so too can police violence and impunity imperil communities' social and economic well-being, especially if civil unrest ensues ^{[1,3,5 - 8]}."

Comment: Unfortunately, the whistleblowing officers become ex-cops and leave the psychopaths and authoritarian followers on the force. What a backward world we live in.