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What war on police? 1,000 lives ALREADY taken BY police in 2015

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
1,000 people killed by police 2015
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Comment: At this rate, this is a little over 3 people per day, every single day of the year, who are killed by the very same police officers who are allegedly sworn to protect them.


Monday night marked the passing of 1,000 people killed by police in the U.S. this year. Although officers claim these killings were justified, video evidence and witness statements often contradict the official narrative.

In contrast, 105 law enforcement officers have died since the beginning of the year. Last year, the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund reported 117 officer fatalities. Instead of waging a fictitious war on cops, officer fatalities have actually been declining since 2007 and 2001, which reported 192 and 241 deaths respectively.

According to KilledByPolice.net, police in the U.S. have killed at least 1,000 people this year and 1,108 people last year. Although The Guardian has only counted 960 deaths, it appears that the British newspaper is not quite up-to-date. But according to The Guardian's preliminary investigation, approximately 1,100 people will die at the hands of police officers before the end of the year. And not all of them will be justified.

Comment: How many more murders at the hands of police officers will it take for people to stand up and say enough is enough?

See also: Pedophiles and rapists: Investigation reveals about 1,000 cops lost badges for being sexual predators

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Heart - Black

Police officer Lisa Mearkle acquitted of murder after shooting unarmed man in back


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:32 UTC
Lisa Mearkle David Kassick
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A police officer who shot and killed an unarmed man as he lay face down on the ground, having just been tased, was acquitted of murder on Thursday. Hummelstown, Pennsylvania Police Officer Lisa Mearkle, 37, was charged with third-degree murder, voluntary, and involuntary manslaughter after executing 59-year-old David Kassick when he attempted to flee from a traffic stop in February. Following her acquittal, Mearkle cried and stated that she didn't want to shoot the unarmed man.
"I feel relief right now, but it's going to take a little bit for me to get back to my normal self, this has taken a toll on me that nobody understands," Mearkle told reporters at the courthouse. "I truly wish it didn't happen. I want them to know that. I didn't want to shoot anybody."
Kassick had been tased, and when he fell to the ground his hands disappeared under his body. Mearkle claimed that she believed he was reaching for a weapon. Prosecutor Johnny Baer argued during the trial that Mearkle "took David's life without justification. Took it unnecessarily."


Comment: As if it wasn't unjust enough that an innocent and unarmed man was executed over an expired registration, Lisa Mearkle walks free because she was 'afraid' of David Kassick, who was face-down on the ground, crippled by her taser. Police now get a free pass for merely thinking about a threat. They are trained to see every citizen as this threat, and are clearly not held accountable at any level. Humanity is being tyrannized by monsters of a psychological kind, swines who are protected at every corrupt move by an insidious and deeply sick 'justice' system.

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Arrow Up

Indian farmers abandoning GM cotton after devastating pest attack

Rupam Jain Nair and Mayank Bhardwaj
Reuters
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 08:31 UTC
GMO cotton
© Reuters/Munish SharmaFarmer Darshan Singh plucks cotton from his damaged Bt cotton field on the outskirts of Bhatinda in Punjab, India, October 28, 2015.
Indian farmers are for the first time abandoning genetically modified cotton after a devastating pest attack ravaged their fields, sowing doubts about the crop technology that had been hailed as a panacea.

The whitefly attack on the Bt cotton variety in the states of Punjab and Haryana has caused a rural crisis: at least three farmers have committed suicide around the city of Bhatinda and tens of thousands protested to demand state aid..

These are some of the same farmers who more than a decade ago reaped the first bumper harvest of GM cotton that quickly caught on because it dramatically increased yields and raised living standards.

Cotton output has jumped fourfold since commercial cultivation of GM cotton was allowed in 2002, transforming India into the world's top producer and second-largest exporter.

That run may now falter, raising the risk of slower sales for Monsanto which has sold Bt cotton seeds to more than 7 million Indian farmers, mainly through local seed firms operating under license.

"We poured all our money into buying pesticides and worked day and night to save the crop. But it failed miserably," said Thana Singh, 67, whose son died after taking poison during a protest outside a government office in Punjab.

Comment: Genetically modified crops don't increase yields nor do they decrease the use of agri-chemicals, but have instead created super-pests and super-weeds. More countries are now banning GMOs because the destruction caused by this biotech experiment on humanity has become obvious.

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Sherlock

Why do studies ignore the fact that exposure to war increases suicide and murder rates among veterans?

David Swanson
Op Ed News
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:54 UTC
broken mirror
© ruffrootcreative.comYou can't kill and face death and return unchanged to a world in which you are expected to refrain from all violence.
In two recent articles in the Los Angeles Times and the academic studies that inspired them, the authors investigate the question of which war veterans are most likely to commit suicide or violent crimes. Remarkably, the subject of war, their role in war, their thoughts about the supposed justifications (or lack thereof) of a war, never come up.

The factors that take the blame are -- apart from the unbearably obvious "prior suicidality," "prior crime," "weapons possession," and "mental disorder treatment" -- the following breakthrough discoveries: maleness, poverty, and "late age of enlistment." In other words, the very same factors that would be found in the (less-suicidal and less-murderous) population at large. That is, men are more violent than women, both among veterans and non-veterans; the poor are more violent (or at least more likely to get busted for it) among veterans and non-veterans; and the same goes for "unemployed" or "dissatisfied with career" or other near-equivalents of "joined the military at a relatively old age."

Comment: The answer to the question of suicide and murder rates in regards to veterans is staring these researchers right in the face. However, as a society, we have become so used to endless war, so inured to its ravages, so blinded by the lie of spreading freedom and democracy and so beholden to the myth of the hero soldier that the truth behind the suffering of these men and women cannot be seen.

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People Power: Keystone XL shut down thanks to grassroots environmental activism


Sputnik News
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:47 UTC
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US President Barack Obama's decision to pull the plug on the Keystone XL oil pipeline -- an extremely contentious issue among those concerned with climate change and the environment -- would never have happened if it weren't for the work of grassroots activists, investigative reporter Will Potter told Sputnik.

The 1,179-mile pipeline, which according to proposals would have carried 800,000 barrels of carbon-heavy tar sands oil across the Canadian border to the United States every single day, has led to over 750 protests since 2011.

Comment: Given the track record of oil companies and their number devastating oil spills that seriously damage the environment, why should anyone trust them with a cross-country transnational pipeline?

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Info

Sacramento residents exposed to year-long toxic water treatment experiment

Cassius Methyl
Anti Media
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
contamination sacramento water
In 2013 and 2014, the City of Sacramento performed a water treatment experiment at the expense of residents of the city "to save money," according to a local news investigation.

Area residents were never informed about the toxic chemical contamination of their water that resulted from the experiment. "Cancer, miscarriages, and birth defects" are the consequences of consuming those chemicals, but the extent to which Sacramento residents are likely to experience these symptoms is not yet known.

City officials allowed the experiment to continue for an entire year — despite knowing early on that very process was creating carcinogens. For how long that contamination will be suspended in the water supply is up in the air.

Officials experimented on the water with a new added chemical to aid in removing sediment, silt, and other impurities in the water supply: aluminum chlorohydrate (ACH). It was due to replace the chemical known as ALUM that was regularly used to take the larger particles out of river water to treat it. Both chemicals weigh down the sediment to make it easily removable.

However, the addition of ACH to the city's water supply wound up being ineffective as a treatment — so an excessive quantity of chlorine was added to the water, as well.

Comment: Another good reason to filter your water - cities have been poisoning the water supplies with fluoride for decades and tap water has been found to be contaminated with viruses and bacteria, pharmaceutical drugs and multiple other toxins.

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Heart - Black

Six-year-old shot and killed by police, officers falsified reports then given time for rest and sleep before further questioning


Sputnik
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:56 UTC
Jeremy Mardis
© Family photoJeremy Mardis was killed by police on Nov 3rd, 2015. He was 6 years old
The Louisiana police department whose officers shot and killed an autistic 6-year-old child this week keep changing their story on what prompted their officers to shoot. Jeremy Mardis, was shot five times in his head and his torso by officers on Tuesday around 9:30 PM. His father, Chris Few, was also shot and is in critical condition.

At a news conference on Thursday, Louisiana State Police Col. Mike Edmonson admitted that no gun was found in the vehicle, despite previous reports implying that there had been an exchange of gunfire. Investigators also initially stated that the father was being pursued over warrants, however, Edmonson has admitted that they have not found any open warrants.

Dr. L.J. Mayeux, coroner of Avoyelles Parish, had also originally claimed that Few had repeatedly backed into the marshal's vehicle after attempting to flee, however, that has also turned out to not be the case. Edmonson stated on Thursday that there is no evidence this happened. The shooting was captured on at least one officer's body camera.

Comment: Does a suspect who is found murdering someone get "a day or two to rest and get sleep"? How is it that a six year old is shot five times in the head and body based on fabricated reports filed by these officers, and then they're given leave so that they can come up with a better story?

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Dollars

Legalization of marijuana could send Mexican cartels' sales up in smoke

Gabriel Stargardter
Reuters
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 21:19 UTC
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Soldiers remove plants from a marijuana plantation near an area known as 'El Hongo' on the outskirts of the municipality of Tecate, on the border with the U.S. California state, September 25, 2015.
For Mexico City anti-narcotics cop Nieto Lara, a decision by the country's Supreme Court that could eventually lead to the legalization of marijuana means only one thing: major cartels abandoning the drug and focusing on harder stuff.

Wednesday's landmark Supreme Court ruling would allow four people to grow and consume the plant for recreational use in a country ravaged by a decade of drug violence, but any nationwide legalization of marijuana is likely years away.

The potentially game-changing prospect that California could join a growing list of U.S. states that have legalized pot, coupled with low prices and shifting attitudes in Mexico, could eventually lead the country's gangs to shift away from one of their original exports, many Mexican dealers, police and drug policy experts say.

"If the government allows the sale of marijuana, the price will fall and the cartels will get into some other type of drug, because it won't give them the same profits as it does now," Lara said.

Comment: With Oregon and other states showing how much revenue they generate from legalized marijuana, it won't take long for this to become widespread for cash-strapped states. This also could give the industrial uses of hemp a boost as it once was a century ago, which will give large companies producing clothes and paper, car metal suppliers, etc., a run for their money.

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"Paid-for-patriotism": Senate investigates millions spent by Pentagon on military-worshipping psyops at sporting events

Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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A Senate oversight report just blew the lid on the U.S. military worship ceremonies we all see at sporting events all over the United States. We see this military worship all the time at college and professional sports events. These staged ceremonies are designed to psyop young men and women into joining the military. They are also designed to sell war and make young adults think that the road to honor goes through a military lifestyle. Sports fans have no idea they are being bombarded with lies and propaganda bankrolled by the Pentagon and the National Guard. The recent Senate report blowing the lid on this psyop campaign labels the paid for propaganda as "inappropriate and frivolous."

The report reviewed contracts between the Pentagon (and National Guard) and sports teams and admittedly labels two thirds of the contracts as "paid-for-patriotism." Yeah, I'll say. Every trick from flag ceremonies, national anthems, ceremonial first pitches, puck drops, color guard presentations even reenlistment ceremonies have been quietly paid for to deceive the sports fans into wanting to join the military.

Comment: In an age when almost an entire population has fallen prey to a concerted effort to keep them dumbed-down, dissociated, disunited, disinformed and unhealthy, it should come as no surprise to any informed individual that the public is being played like this also. The Pentagonians and their ilk exist to perpetuate the agendas they've been told to follow, and many of them are incapable of seeing the shortsighted and destructive nature of the programming they are inflicting on the people they are sworn to serve.

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Cop punches student in the face and chokes another student unconscious five days later

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 20:27 UTC
Jonathan Hardin
Caught on surveillance video pushing a 13-year-old student and punching him in the face, a fired school resource officer will have his charges dropped if he completes anger management classes instead. Five days after the incident, the cop was captured again on video choking another student unconscious, causing a brain injury.

On January 22, Louisville Metro police officer Jonathan Hardin was caught on surveillance video speaking with a 13-year-old student in the Olmsted Academy North lunchroom. While accusing the student of cutting in line, Hardin pushed the teen before immediately punching him in the face. After knocking the student to the ground, Hardin charged the teen with menacing and resisting arrest but lacked probable cause according to an arrest warrant.

Although Hardin clearly used excessive force, he remained on the job when a security camera captured him choking a student unconscious in a separate incident five days later. On January 27, several students were goofing around in the hallway when a 13-year-old appeared to chest-bump Hardin. After falling down, Hardin regained his balance and placed the teen in a chokehold with his feet lifted off the ground for several seconds.

Comment: Police are a danger to society.

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