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Cameron 'vote of no confidence' petition hits 140k+, may be debated in parliament


RT
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 04:51 UTC
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron
A petition calling for a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister David Cameron could soon be debated in parliament after exceeding the required 100,000 signatures.

As of Friday afternoon, a total of 121,790 people have signed the online petition, which accuses Cameron of causing "devastation for the poorest in society" since he took office five years ago.


Comment: As of about 5am GMT on 7 Nov 2015 there were 141,162 signers of the petition for "Vote no confidence in David Cameron".

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Former Russian press minister Mikhail Lesin dead from heart attack at 57 - inspired creation of RT news network


RT
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:58 UTC
Mikhail Lesin
© Alexander Natruskin / ReutersMikhail Lesin was the mass media expert credited with inspiring the creation of Russia Today (now RT)
Mikhail Lesin, a prominent Russian political figure and mass media expert credited with inspiring the creation of Russia Today (now RT), has died in Washington, DC after a heart attack.

Lesin, a former press minister and ex-head of Gazprom-Media, Russia's largest media holding, died at the age of 57 on Wednesday, according to family members. "Mikhail Lesin died from a heart stroke," a family member told RIA Novosti.

Meanwhile, TASS has reported that Lesin was found dead in his hotel room in Washington, DC, citing the Russian Embassy in the US. Police found no signs of foul play, but a formal investigation has been launched. It has been reported that Lesin had been suffering from a prolonged unidentified illness.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his sincerest condolences to Lesin's family early on Saturday.

Comment: Mr. Lesin helped create the organization that not only gave Russia a voice on the world stage, but also puts the Western media to shame with its high quality reporting.

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2 Louisiana city marshals face murder charges in child's death


CBS News
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:53 UTC
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© Jeremy Mardis, age 6
Two city marshals in the central Louisiana town of Marksville will be charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of a six-year old autistic boy following a car chase involving his father, CBS News correspondent David Begnaud has learned.

Jeremy Mardis was shot and killed Tuesday after his father, Christopher Few, led law enforcement officers on a chase. Few was wounded in the incident and is hospitalized in critical condition.

Comment: For more about this story see: Six-year-old shot and killed by police, officers falsified reports then given time for rest and sleep before further questioning

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Thinly veiled threat? Fraternal Order of Police warns they have a "surprise" for Tarantino


Sputnik
Sat, 07 Nov 2015 02:04 UTC
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The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest law enforcement union in the nation, has issued what many are calling a veiled threat, warning that that they have a "surprise" for acclaimed US film director Quentin Tarantino, who has voiced his opposition to police brutality of late.

Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, has announced that the union has something "in the works," to retaliate against Tarantino for his attendance at an anti-police brutality rally in October.

"We'll be opportunistic. Tarantino has made a good living out of violence and surprise," Pasco told the Hollywood Reporter. "Our officers make a living trying to stop violence, but surprise is not out of the question."

Police unions across the country have called for a boycott of Tarantino's new film, The Hateful Eight, and the Washington, DC-based FOP has stated this surprise will be in addition to that.

Comment: If Quentin Tarantino's comments weren't true, there would be no need for the Fraternal Order of Police to "try to hurt him", since the falseness of the statements would be self-evident.

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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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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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Indian farmers abandoning GM cotton after devastating pest attack

Rupam Jain Nair and Mayank Bhardwaj
Reuters
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 08:31 UTC
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© 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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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
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© 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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Sacramento residents exposed to year-long toxic water treatment experiment

Cassius Methyl
Anti Media
Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:00 UTC
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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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