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Sadistic cops command dog to attack suicidal teen - caught planning and celebrating attack in texts

child mauled by police dog
Months after the Herald-Tribune exposed the North Port Police Department for routinely commanding their K-9 dogs to attack people without provocation, the department has done nothing to address the problem. In fact, it defends its officers even in the most egregious cases, including the mutilation of unarmed juveniles.

There is clearly a culture within the North Port PD that encourages and applauds this cowardly form of brutality, as revealed by messages sent between K-9 handlers involving the case of 18-year-old Jared Lemay.

Lemay's mother had called the North Port PD when she learned that her son was apparently about to commit suicide. Keith Bush, the leader of their K-9 unit, responded to the scene, but not before telling a fellow K-9 handler to come join in the fun.
"On this day, before he or any other officer reached Jared Lemay's home, Bush sent a message to fellow K-9 handler Michael Dietz: "COME GET UR BITE."

Minutes later, records show, Bush messaged Dietz again: "IM GONNA TAKE UR BITE IF U DONT HURRY UP."

Lemay, who was found unarmed and hiding in a trash can in his garage, was bitten in the face and back by Dietz's dog, a Belgian Malinois named Cammo."
After he was taken to the emergency room, another cop, William Carter, messaged Dietz "CONGRATS," commending him for his dog's first bite.

Eye 1

Saudi Arabia has lost nearly half its income since 2014 & there's 'no recovery in sight'

Saudi Arabia oil
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Despite a record deficit and falling oil prices creating a drastic impact on the world's leading crude exporter, Saudi Arabia continues to spend heavily on military operations in Yemen.

Since 2014, global oil prices have declined sharply. Falling by over 60%, a barrel of crude currently sells for less than $50, and those figures have had a drastic impact on the Saudi Arabian economy, which relies on oil for roughly 90% of its revenue.

On Monday, the kingdom's finance ministry posted a budget deficit of $98 billion for 2015, the highest in the 83-year-old nation's history. Total revenue was estimated at $162 billion, and that income for 2015 was 15% lower than projected.

Comment: With so many inhuman policies, public be-headings, and support for terrorism and genocide, it's really hard to tell Saudi Arabia and ISIS apart. No wonder, then, that the society is collapsing. Also see:
Back in 2010, the United States and Saudi Arabia conducted the biggest arms deal in world history. $60.5 billion worth of weapons were purchased by the Saudi regime. Saudi Arabia now has the fourth-largest military budget of any country in the entire world. Its weapons, which continue to pour into Syria, are purchased exclusively from the United States. [...]

The support coming for ISIS from these regimes is blatant. The largest mosque in the Kingdom of Bahrain publicly displayed an ISIS flag. A large percentage of the social media activity supporting ISIS originated within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The Wall Street oil plantations also known as the "Gulf States" have been pouring weapons into Syria, as many of their poorest citizens, unemployed as a result of the oil-price drop, find their way into ISIS ranks.

'An enemy within': Are US financial elites interested in the rise of Daesh?



Heart - Black

Video shows cops beating man and slamming his head through wall for walking dog without a leash

Nicholson Gregoire
© HOWARD SIMMONS/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSNicholson Gregoire shows the hole in the wall where he claims an NYPD officer repeatedly slammed his head.
Cell phone video of a man resisting arrest in his own home and having his head slammed through a wall is going viral. How the New York City police officers got inside the home is unclear, but it all stemmed from a puppy being walked without a leash.

Nicholson Gregoire, a 25-year-old biology student at Nassau Community College, was walking his puppy pit bull, Blue, around 5:00 pm on December 15 when he noticed police conducting "stop and frisk" searches, according to the New York Daily News.

Police noticed the dog wasn't restrained by a leash and asked Gregoire for ID. Gregoire reportedly was granted permission to go inside his Queens Village home to find the ID, but he closed the door, prompting two officers to repeatedly ring the doorbell. Gregoire's 87-year-old grandfather, Roleme, came down the stairs to answer the door, but from there, the police and Gregoire tell different versions of subsequent events.

"The police are alleging that my client answered the door and dragged them inside, to justify coming into the house ... They had no basis to enter the premises," Mark Crawford, the lawyer for Gregoire, told the New York Daily News.


Comment: While it seems like Gregoire could have handled the situation better, that does not excuse the brutal actions of the police. Police clearly are not properly trained to handle uncooperative people. Using pepper spray and violence to subdue someone should not be allowed, yet cops are continually backed by their superiors for their unjust actions.


USA

California: Proposed law would require politicians to wear the emblems of their corporate sponsors

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Popular memes calling for politicians to wear the logos of their corporate sponsors have circulated the Internet for years, but the suggestion may soon be a reality for California legislators. In the next week, a potential ballot measure, submitted to the Office of the Attorney General in October, is expected to receive title and summary for the 2016 election, meaning its advocates will be able to collect signatures in order to secure its official place on the ballot. The proposed law would require legislators and candidates to sport the emblems of groups that donate money to their campaigns.

As the advocacy group that launched the measure, California is Not for Sale, muses:
Imagine this: a California Senator is speaking on the floor and proposes a bill he just drafted that will give oil companies huge tax advantages. Now imagine if on his jacket, he was wearing Chevron, Shell, and BP logos - some of his top ten contributors. Our law will bring this under-the-table-corruption to the surface and expose these politicians who take political contributions in exchange for favors for what they really are: corrupt.

Comment: Great idea, but the system is too broken to be fixed at this point.


Network

Records of 191 million registered voters leaked online

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© Kacper Pempel / Reuters
A security researcher has uncovered a publicly-available database containing the personal information of 191 million voters on the internet, but it isn't clear who owns it.

Chris Vickery, who shared his findings on DataBreaches.net, disclosed the trove of voter data, which includes names, home addresses, voter IDs, phone numbers, and birth dates, as well as political affiliations and voting histories since 2000. The database does not contain financial information or Social Security numbers.

The Texas tech support specialist said that he found the database while looking for information exposed on the internet in an attempt to raise awareness of security breaches.

Vickery has since reached out to law enforcement, as well as the California attorney general's office. The database was still online as of Monday.

"When one of their attorneys asked, 'Well how much data are we talking about?' and I read her the list of data fields and told her that we had access to voter records of over 17 million California voters, her response was 'Wow,' and she promptly forwarded the matter to the head of their e-crime division," DataBreaches.net's administrator wrote online.

Evil Rays

Woman kept murdered victim on couch for two days as "shrine from God"

anita Braxton
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Police in Phoenix, Arizona responded to two 911 calls that there was a dead woman covered in a towel lying on suspect Anitra Braxton's couch.

Upon arrival at the murder scene Braxton told officers the unidentified body was a "shrine from God" and, that it was in fact her own body. Later, Braxton said the woman was shot in the eye because she didn't believe in God.

The body is thought have been on her couch for two days. Braxton has been charged with murder.

Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Trent Crump told reporters, "She will not tell us who the victim is. When we ask for the victim's name, she gives her own name. At this point, we're not sure what her thought process is or what type of mental illness she may be suffering from."

Braxton was released from prison in 2013 after serving two years for burglary, forgery and drug violations. Her family say she was mentally ill.

Braxton's neighbour told Fox that she acted erratically and did drugs all night. Another neighbour said she had "run around naked" and that "she could just flip."

Witnesses told police they believed the victim was pregnant. An autopsy will be carried out on Tuesday.

Water

Expert: City officials allowed lead-contaminated water to flow leading to blood lead levels in children 7 times higher than CDC guidelines

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© Rebecca Cook / ReutersMan picks up bottled water from the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan to deliver to a school after elevated lead levels were found in the city's water in Flint, Michigan.
Experts who blew the whistle on lead-contaminated water in Flint, Michigan, and its impact on children said that some kids had blood lead levels far higher than those US health officials consider "elevated" - and the state knew kids were being poisoned.

As Michigan officials scramble to help the affected community, a lead researcher who helped expose the toxicity of the water, Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards, said city and state officials should have known that the Flint River was highly corrosive before they decided to switch from the Detroit water system in 2014. He called the lack of water treatment "unprecedented."

Without phosphate treatment, the corrosive water flowed from the Flint River through the city's lead pipes for 17 months and became contaminated. Failures at multiple levels of government exacerbated the problem and delayed the response to the developing crisis.

There is a "strong correlation" between high lead water levels in Flint and blood lead levels in children, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha said. A pediatrician at the Hurley Medical Center, Hanna-Attisha told to RT that the highest readings that she and the state recorded for elevated blood levels in Flint were 38 micrograms per deciliter.

That is more than seven times higher than the level classified as "elevated" by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (5 micrograms). The CDC states there is no safe blood lead level in children.

Bullseye

Mumbai Robin Hoods target Indian weddings for food relief to the poor

India
© Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Food delivery crews of Mumbai are opening a 'Roti' bank - to get food from the rich to the poor. And the leftovers from India's infamous $40bn wedding market could supply the goods.

400 dabbawalas (food carriers), are sourcing leftovers and unwanted food from the edges of the city's massive wedding and catering market. They have partnered with 30 large wedding caterers and planners who have pledged to provide the crucial pick-up info.


"Why should be the food dumped in the bin when it can be shared with those who cannot afford one proper meal a day?" dabbawala union spokesperson, Subhash Talekar said. "We are known for quickly reaching a location and delivering lunch boxes. We want to use the same skills to help the poor."

Bomb

Turkish terror state: Teens arrested for 'insulting Erdoğan' on Facebook

Sultan Erdogan
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A 17-year-old construction worker in the Thracian province of Tekirdağ was arrested on Dec. 28 for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media.

Police was informed of a boy identified only by the initials F.E. who "insulted Erdoğan" in a post he shared on his Facebook account. F.E. was detained at this home in the Çorlu district following a police investigation into the post.

Comment: The situation worldwide is devolving fast as the psychos in power act more and more like the monsters they are.

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Quenelle

Journalist reveals Erdoğan imprisoned him for exposing Turkey's hand in the 'Syrian conflict'

Can Dundar journalist arrested Turkey
© ReutersCumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar
Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, who has been in prison for over a month in a politically motivated case, said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had him imprisoned after he revealed the "truth" about him and his Syria policies.

"Turkey's regime not only smuggled guns into Syria, it used 'state security' as an excuse to imprison the journalists who reported it," Dündar wrote in an opinion he penned for The Guardian from prison.

Dündar and Cumhuriyet's Ankara representative Erdem Gül were arrested in late November on charges of being members of a terrorist organization, espionage and revealing confidential documents -- charges that could see them spend life in prison. Dündar and Gül were arrested as part of a terrorism investigation that was launched after Cumhuriyet published photos in May of weapons that it said were transferred to Syria in trucks operated by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT).

Comment: What this journalist revealed is only the tip of the iceberg. Also see: