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Eight-year-old Alabama boy charged with murder after 1-year-old girl is beaten to death

Nikki Wolfe
Rawstory
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 03:14 UTC
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Kelci
An eight-year-old boy has been charged with murder in Birmingham, Alabama, after an infant left in his care was beaten to death.

The child's mother, who has been named as 26-year-old Katerra Lewis, has been charged with manslaughter after leaving her one-year-old daughter Kelci in the care of a group of children all younger than nine.

On 11 October, police said, Katerra Lewis and her friend left to go to a club at around 11.30pm. The women returned at around 2am, but did not check on Kelci until the following morning, according to Birmingham police spokesman Sean Edwards.

Comment: It's actually the mother who should be arrested. Who leaves an eight-year-old in charge of an infant in order to go to the club?

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Robot

Meet "RoboCop": The cop who has the most complaints against him and still gets away with it


FilmingCops
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 02:10 UTC
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No one knows how William Melendez earned the nickname "RoboCop"; however, one thing is for sure: the police officer is well acquainted with dodging punishment for his reported wrongful conduct. He has a well-publicized list of cases against him.

On various occasions he has been accused of planting evidence, wrongfully killing civilians, producing false police reports and carrying out unlawful arrests. At one point, while he was employed by Detroit police, he had complaints against his name than any other officer in the department.

The suburb of Inkster is expected to pay huge sums as payout to his victims - but, things are not as straightforward. The budget is tight and every time a settlement is reached, the amount is passed on as tax to the residents.

Comment: Yikes! These are just the reported incidents, just imagine the stuff that didn't make it into the reports.

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Arrow Down

The rich get their organ transplant quicker

Marcus Hondro
Digital Journal
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 02:11 UTC
Organ Transplant
© Brendan Smialowski/AFPDoctors inspect a kidney after it was removed during a transplant in 2012.
A new look at the numbers surrounding organ transplants in the U.S. has shown what some of you may have suspected — the rich get their organs quicker and are less likely to die waiting for a transplant.

Organ transplant data

The lead author of the study, Dr. Raymond Givens of New York's Columbia University, presented the results at an American Heart Association conference in Orlando, Florida on Monday. Dr. Givens found the wealthy can more easily get on multiple transplant waiting lists, making it less likely they'll die while waiting for a kidney, heart or other organ.

Organs are supposed to be given to the sickest patients who have waited the longest but many wealthy patients can afford to put themselves on two, three or more wait lists, travelling to other states and paying the fees for the tests needed at each one. Tests can cost from $23,000 for a kidney all the way up to $51,000 for a heart.

"Multiple-listed patients were more likely to get transplanted and less likely to die," Dr. Givens said. He adds that getting on more than one wait list is a "rational thing to do" for those who can afford it.

Some states, such as New York, have comparatively fewer organs available, while others, such as California, have more. Wealthy people from New York often travel to California and pay for tests and get on wait lists there.
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Bomb

Scores of tech workers laid off, forced to train foreign replacements

Patrick Thibodeau
ComputerWorld
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 01:47 UTC
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The IT workers at Cengage Learning in the company's Mason, Ohio offices learned of their fates game-show style. First, they were told to gather in a large conference room. There were vague remarks from an IT executive about a "transition." Slides were shown that listed employee names, directing them to one of three rooms where they would be told specifically what was happening to them. Some employees were cold with worry.

The biggest group, those getting pink slips, were told to remain in the large conference room. Workers directed to go through what we'll call Door No. 2, were offered employment with IT offshore outsourcing firm Cognizant. That was the smallest group. And those sent through Door No. 3 remained employed in Cengage's IT department. This happened in mid-October.

"I was so furious," said one of the IT workers over what happened. It seemed "surreal," said another. There was disbelief, but little surprise. Cengage, a major producer of educational content and services, had outsourced accounting services earlier in the year. The IT workers rightly believed they were next.

The employees were warned that speaking to the news media meant loss of severance. Despite their fears, they want their story told. They want people to know what's happening to IT jobs in the heartland. They don't want the offshoring of their livelihoods to pass in silence.
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Bomb

400 richest people control more wealth than every country on Earth except the U.S., China and Japan

Brendan Coffey
Bloomberg Business
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 01:02 UTC
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So much money they can afford to light cigars with 100 dollar bills while 10% of people in the world live in extreme poverty.

Comment: As you read the following story keep in mind that there are approximately 7.5 billion people living on Earth today...


Jeff Bezos has edged past Carlos Slim to become the world's fourth-richest person, buoyed by a 113 percent rally this year in Amazon.com Inc.

The 51-year-old founder of the world's largest online retailer passed the Mexican telecommunications tycoon Tuesday after Amazon rose $4.19 by the close of trading in New York. Bezos commands a fortune of $58.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Slim, who was the world's richest person as recently as May 2013, is now ranked fifth with $57.2 billion. He's lost $15.4 billion in 2015, more than any other billionaire on the index.

Bezos has increased his fortune 103.5 percent in 2015 as investors have cheered profits at Amazon and growth in its cloud storage business. His $29.6 billion year-to-date gain is the biggest of any billionaire on the Bloomberg index, a daily ranking of the world's 400 richest people.

Comment: Such gross excessive hording of wealth! Meanwhile an estimated 100 million people in the world are homeless; approximately 795 million do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life; and nearly half the world (3.5 billion people) have less than $2.50 per day to survive and according to UNICEF 22,000 children die every day due to extreme poverty.

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Quenelle - Golden

Viva Viggo Mortensen: Bernie Sanders just as hawkish as Hillary Clinton

Jake Anderson
Anti Media
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:00 UTC
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Under their skin, Sanders and Clinton are birds of a feather
The increasingly vocal actor Viggo Mortensen, perhaps best known for his leading role in the Lord of the Rings films, sounded off on United States military intervention in a recent HuffPo Live interview. In assessing United States military involvement in the Middle East, he stated that democratic socialist Bernie Sanders is "just as hawkish as Hillary Clinton."

Mortensen was in New York for a dramatic reading of Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, which features new additions, including writings from Chelsea Manning and Glenn Greenwald. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman also participated in the event.

Speaking on the terrible consequences of the Iraq War and United States military intervention in the Middle East, Mortensen said,
"I really don't think Hillary Clinton, who voted for the invasion, is going to be bringing the subject up on her own. Neither would Bernie Sanders, frankly, because he also has voted for every military appropriation. He's just as hawkish as she is."

Comment: Though it is refreshing to hear someone in the public eye say the things that Mortensen is saying (and recently with Quentin Tarantino about police violence), there seems to be, out of so many well known people capable of seeing and speaking out against injustice, precious few who are actually doing it.

On another note, we'd do well to remember that most politicians would not even be considered a viable "selection" for the presidency unless they could be more or less counted on take a hawkish line on things, since that's what the U.S.'s shadow government - the puppet masters - are pushing for.

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Bad Guys

Non-GMO crops thriving in India while Monsanto crops decimated by pests

Justin Gardner
Free Thought Project
Sun, 08 Nov 2015 14:19 UTC
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Monsanto and the biotech industry are relentless in their efforts to push (GM) genetically modified crops on the world, under false pretenses that their products increase yields and reduce the use of chemicals. These claims are not supported by the facts.

The biotech industry has already gained control of the U.S. soybean, corn and cotton market by infiltrating regulatory agencies, providing falsified data, using their patents on life to drive non-GMO farmers out of business, buying off lawmakers and spending millions on propaganda.

Monsanto has also secured a foothold in India, where its patented Bt cotton has come to dominate agricultural fields. This GM crop, which releases a bacterial toxin meant to control pests such as bollworm, was sold as a way to reduce pesticide use. However, as with so many other GM crops, the reality turns out to be opposite.
"But over the years, whiteflies have regularly attacked cotton plants only to be controlled by intensive spraying of chemical pesticides. But this year, despite a new pesticide being introduced and subsidized by the state government, the whitefly attack spun out of control."
As a result of the whiteflies' decimating Punjab's GM cotton crops this year, at least 15 farmers committed suicide. And yes, it was Monsanto crops that were decimated.

Comment: Monsanto is systematically killing independent agricultural sectors all over the world.

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Dollars

Legalized robbery: Police admit to using civil asset forfeiture for 'toys for police'


RT
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:30 UTC
Massachusetts State Police helicopter
© Brian Snyder / ReutersSearching for assets to "seize" (steal)?
Texas leads the US in civil asset forfeiture, the notorious practice of police seizing property from suspects who have not been convicted of any crime, according to a new report. Such programs have skyrocketed since the start of the Great Recession.

In 2012, 26 states and the District of Columbia seized a total of $254 million through forfeiture, a new report by the Institute for Justice has found. Texas alone took in nearly 20 percent of those assets with $46 million, followed closely by Arizona with $43 million. Illinois was third with almost $20 million. Most states have little to no requirement to report civil asset forfeitures, though, and 2012 is the most recent year that consistent data from states was available.

In the report, titled 'Policing for Profit,' the Institute for Justice also graded each state on its forfeiture practices, looking at criteria like the share of forfeited funds that cops get to keep and protections for innocent owners. New Mexico, which reformed its laws on the practice in July, received an A-, the highest grade given. It was followed by Maine, North Carolina, Indiana and Missouri, which all received a B+.

Comment: Robbery, murder, rape; police are more like a gang or the mafia than public servants sworn to protect and serve.

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Birthday Cake

War is a racket: Happy birthday, Marines

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 23:04 UTC
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"I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers." -Major General Smedly D. Butler
In 1775, in a Philadelphia bar named Tun Tavern, Commandant Samuel Nicholas held a recruiting drive to enlist the first Marines in the history of the United States.

10 November 1775 was the day when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines with the following decree:
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Red Flag

Germany sells out of pepper spray as 'frightened Germans' buy protection from the refugee crises

Tyler Durden
Zerohedge
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:42 UTC
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Despite occasional videos of angry Germans protesting at what has become the biggest "foreign invasion" of Europe since World War II, the German popular response to the wave of migrants, which is now expected to top 1 million in 2015 has been relatively calm. Fear (and anger), however, are building beneath the otherwise calm surface.

According to a report by Focus, following a 600% surge in sales over the past two months, Germany has run out of pepper spray, and the irritating substance can now only be purchased after weeks of waiting. Focus says that according to pepper spray manufacturers, "frightened Germans" have bought out all the available inventory. The alleged reason, according to the German publication: "die Flüchtlingskrise", or the refugee crisis.

Focus goes on to say that in private, Germans are equipping themselves "massively."

"There is fear" explains Kai Prase, managing director of DEF-TEC Defense Technology GmbH in Frankfurt, one of the major producers of repellents. "For the past six to seven weeks we have been practically sold out."
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