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


RT
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:07 UTC
London Subway Leytonstone
© 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


Sputnik
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 00:20 UTC
Explosion bomb
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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

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Fire

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


RT
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 14:53 UTC
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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

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Vader

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

David Swanson
Counter Punch
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:00 UTC
children murdered in drone strikes
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?

Comment: See also:

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USA

What in the world has happened to the American people?

Janet Phelan
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 21:03 UTC
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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?

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Chart Pie

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

Dan Wright
Mint Press News
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 19:02 UTC
Trump
© 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.


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TV

Six positive signs the lame-stream media is collapsing

Phillip Schneider
Waking Times
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:34 UTC
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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.

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Market triple suicide attack leaves 30 dead, over 80 injured on Lake Chad island


RT
Sat, 05 Dec 2015 18:38 UTC
Africa map
© Google maps
Some 30 people have been killed and 80 others injured as three suicide bombers attacked the island of Koulfoua on the Chadian side of Lake Chad, Reuters reports, citing security sources.

The attacks coincided with market day and the death toll may rise.

"Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in three different places at the weekly market on Loulou Fou, an island in Lake Chad," sources also told AFP.

No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks.

However, the the region is under a state of emergency after an attack by Boko Haram militant group killed 12 people last month.
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Question

'A lot of things, quite frankly, don't add up', says San Bernardino shooters' attorney

William N. Grigg
Activist Post
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:04 UTC
Swat
© AP
The question of how Sayed Farook could have mutated into a human monster capable of mass murder is just one of many questions plaguing the family of the man accused of carrying out Tuesday's terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In an interview with CNN, the family's attorney describes numerous ways that the official story of that horrible crime "doesn't add up."

"There's a lot of disconnects, and there's a lot of unknowns, and a lot of things that quite frankly don't add up," insisted attorney David S. Chelsey, who represents Farooq's family when asked by CNN correspondent Chris Cuomo how the family "could explain how he went from someone they knew and loved to someone who could do something so monstrous."

Witnesses and investigators have both described a terrorist onslaught carried out with military precision by suspects who were trained and capable. Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, didn't appear to have the necessary background and skillset, according to Chelsey.

Comment: There are a lot of unanswered questions in this case.

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Arrow Down

Elderly in UK forced to choose between bare necessities of food or heat


RT
Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:59 UTC
poverty UK
© Egor Eryomov / Sputnik
This winter over 750,000 elderly people in Britain are being forced to choose between the bare necessities - food or heat, according to a new report released by a support charity.

While the better off are making Christmas gift decisions, 752,000 elderly people in Britain have to choose between eating or staying warm in the 2015 winter season, the Independent Age charity found.

The report also found that 43 percent of elderly people had gone to bed early to keep warm at least once, with an estimated 890,000 of them doing this often or even every day.

There are 11.4 million people aged 65 and over in the UK, according to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS). Independent Age said that 36 percent of them do not heat their homes adequately in winter because of worries about paying fuel bills, while 13 percent have resorted to going to a library, a shopping center or using public transport just to stay warm in winter.

Comment: No one should have to make such choices, particularly in a country with a combined household wealth of £9.1 trillion. The UK'S richest 20 percent have more than one hundred times the wealth of the poorest 20 percent. An analysis from Lloyds Bank Private Banking revealed that if the combined household wealth was evenly distributed, each family in Britain would have an annual income of £326,414. This speaks volumes about the psychopathic elite and their utter contempt for the most vulnerable in society. Consider that there is always enough money to fund wars and ramp up the security state, yet social services are generally the first to receive cuts when the elites deem it time for more austerity.

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