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Cop facing felony charges after brutally beating unarmed Oklahoma man with butt of shotgun

Tom Boggioni
Raw Story
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:13 UTC
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© Dashcam screengrabOwasso Police Lt. Michael Dwain Denton striking suspect with shotgun butt.
An Oklahoma cop has been charged with felony assault after beating a suspect with the butt of a shotgun while other officers held him down, Tulsa World is reporting.

Owasso Police Lt. Michael Dwain Denton, 49, has been suspended and faces assault and battery with a deadly weapon and reckless conduct with a firearm following a high speed car chase on June 14, caught on a police cruiser dash cam.

In the video, officers can be seen warily approaching a truck driven by a suspect identified as Cody Matthews.

With fellow officers aiming their weapons at the truck, one officer breaks the driver-side window using his baton. Denton can then be seen entering the picture and using the barrel of his shotgun to strike Matthews in the face before officers drag the man out of the vehicle.

As Mathews is dragged to the ground by multiple officers, Denton once again can be seen standing above the prone Mathews and using the butt end of his shotgun to repeatedly strike Mathews, as well as one of his fellow officers.

According to prosecutors, Denton demonstrated a "conscious disregard" for the safety of other law enforcement officers and created a "situation of unreasonable risk" for his fellow officers and Mathews by using the shotgun.

"Essentially, striking anybody in the head with a hard object is considered deadly force. And you can only use deadly force in a circumstance where it's justified," explained Kevin Buchanan, district attorney for Nowata and Washington counties. Equally concerning to Buchanan was Denton shoving the barrel of the gun — approximately nine times - into Mathews' truck.

Comment: It is refreshing to see someone hold these violent 'public servants' accountable.

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Stock Down

Real numbers prove US economy similar to Great Depression - and it's getting worse

Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse Blog
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 15:00 UTC
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The federal government uses very carefully manipulated numbers to cover up the crushing economic depression that is going on in this nation. For the month of September, the federal government told us that 142,000 jobs were added to the economy. If that was actually true, that would barely be enough to keep up with population growth. Sadly, the truth is that the real numbers were actually far worse than that. The unadjusted numbers show that the U.S. economy actually lost 248,000 jobs in September and the government added more than a million, Americans to the "not in the labor force" category. When I first saw that number I truly believed that it was inaccurate. But you can find the raw figures right here. According to the Obama administration, there are currently 7.9 million Americans that are "officially unemployed" and another 94.7 million working age Americans that are "not in the labor force". That gives us a grand total of 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.

That is not an economic recovery - that is an economic depression of an almost unbelievable magnitude.

Comment: America is like an addict who seems bent on finding the lowest 'rock bottom' possible, and is taking everyone close by along for the ride. How low will rock bottom eventually be? America is pretty close to finding out. Also see:

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Pistol

Murder in Alabama: Fifth grader kills girl with shotgun over a puppy


Sputnik
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 07:54 UTC
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An eight-year-old girl from Jefferson County, Alabama, was killed by her 11-year-old neighbor with a shotgun, WBIR TV channel reported Sunday, citing the local sheriff.

According to Sheriff Bud McCoig, the girl's neighbor is a 5th grader at White Pine Elementary School. He used his father's "12-gauge single-shot shotgun" to shoot the girl, who lived next door, from his house.

Comment: Senseless. Tragic. Inexplicable.

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Quenelle - Golden

Russian court bans Google from spying on users' emails


Sputnik
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:10 UTC
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The Moscow City Court has released the text of it decision effectively banning Google from using its bots to analyze the personal email correspondence of Russian users, business newspaper Vedomosti reports.

Last month, the court overturned the decision of a lower court, which had thrown out the case of a Yekaterinburg-area lawyer who had launched a case against the tech giant for violating his constitutional right not to have his personal correspondence read.

Earlier this year, Yekaterinburg man Anton Burkov filed a lawsuit against Google after targeted advertising related to tourism to France began appearing on his browser after he had discussed a trip to Strasbourg with his friends via email in 2013. Google's Russian branch responded that they have no authority to represent Gmail, with the proper defendant, Google Inc., located under US jurisdiction.

Comment: Another win for Russia, and for human rights in general. Also see:

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Treasure Chest

Russian oil crude output highest since Soviet times


RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:10 UTC
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Russia's oil production in September hit a new record for the post Soviet era, at 10.74 million barrels a day (mbd), according to Rusmininfo. Output was up by 0.4 percent compared to August. The previous best performance was recorded in March at 10.71 (mbd).

"The low oil price had no impact on the production plan," an oil and gas analyst at Deutsche Bank said.

Russian oil firms have increased profits and output since a weaker domestic currency has protected their business. The depreciating Russian currency cuts costs and taxes for the companies that generate earnings in US dollars but pay most of their expenses in rubles.

Comment: So those sanctions on Russia is working real well. Great to see Russia is nowhere near to collapsing like the West, EU and Saudi Arabia.

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Attention

Economic Collapse: How bad can it get and how fast?

Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
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There's so much negative real bad economic and financial news out there that it's hard to choose a 'favorite', but I guess I'm going to have to go with what underlies and 'structures' it all, the IIF stating that for the first time since 1988 and the Reagan presidency, there's more money flowing out of emerging markets than there's flowing in. That is for sure a watershed moment.

And no, that trend is not going to be reversed either anytime soon. Emerging economies, even if they wouldn't include China - but they do - have relied exclusively on selling 'stuff' to the rich world which combined cheap commodities with cheap labor, and now they see their customer base shrink rapidly just as they were preparing to harvest the big loot.

Now, I hope I can be forgiven for thinking from the get-go that this was always a really dumb model. That emerging nations would provide the cheap labor, and the west would kill of its manufacturing base and turn into a service economy.

Comment: See also: Yes, we're in a financial crisis: 11 TRILLION dollars in stock market wealth was wiped out in recent months

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Eye 2

'Cultural cleansing' - ISIS terrorists blow up iconic 2,000yo Arch of Triumph in Palmyra


RT
Mon, 05 Oct 2015 01:34 UTC
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© Sandra Auger / Reuters The iconic arch Arch of Triumph at Palmyra has been destroyed by ISIS
The iconic arch at the UNESCO heritage site in Syria's Palmyra has been blown up by ISIS jihadists engaged in a "cultural cleansing" of the Middle East. The latest grievous loss of an ancient artifact was confirmed to Reuters by Syria's antiquities chief.

Sources in Palmyra confirmed that the iconic Arch of Triumph, a centerpiece of the ancient ruins in the oasis city, had been blown up, Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters.
"It's as though there is a curse that has befallen this city and I expect only news that will shock us," said Abdulkarim. "If the city remains in their hands the city is doomed."
Last month jihadists obliterated several ancient funeral towers at the UNESCO-protected site, while back in August the terrorists blew up two temples - the Temple of Baal Shamin and the Temple of Bel.

After seizing the ancient city of Palmyra in May 2015, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants demolished several ancient temples and gravesites. The city's custodian, 82-year-old archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad, was tortured and beheaded by the group.

Comment: The is the mentality the US has armed and encouraged. (Remember, IS was largely formed from the death squads created by the U.S. in Iraq to counter the insurgency there.) Barbarians who have no respect for culture or history. But hey, it's not our history, so who cares?

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War Whore

Hard hitting facts that show America cares more about war than education

Andrew Emett
The Free Thought Project
Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:08 UTC
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Since the tragic events of 9/11, the budget of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has doubled while the budgets of other departments remain stagnant. Instead of paying Lockheed Martin over $1.5 billion to provide Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates with Patriot missiles, that money could have gone towards improving the failing education system in this country.

In 2001, the base budget for the DoD stood at $287 billion. In less than a decade, the defense budget increased to over $530 billion, which does not even include the primary costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. In 2010, the Office of Management and Budget reported the DoD's federal budget at $530.8 billion. In contrast, the Department of Education only received $64.1 billion, while the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy received $27 billion and $26.4 billion respectively.
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Calendar

ISIL too scared to pray for fear of Russian airstrikes


Sputnik
Sun, 04 Oct 2015 20:06 UTC
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The Islamic State terror group cancelled Friday prayers in the Syrian city of Raqqa and emptied mosques there out of fear of further Russian airstrikes, according to activists and city residents.

According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 12 Islamic State militants were killed Thursday in Russia's first airstrikes carried out in the group's de facto capital in Syria.

"Last night, Russian strikes on the western edges of Raqqa city, and near the Tabqa military airport, killed 12 IS jihadists," Abdel Rahman, head of the observatory, told AFP.

He said residents were staying indoors, and IS "has started to implement a plan to turn off electricity in a number of areas of the city when planes are overhead."

A Russian airstrike on Thursday on also destroyed a mosque in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, which was captured from government forces by an alliance of Islamist insurgents earlier this year, activists said.

On Friday, Moscow said its latest strikes had hit 12 Islamic State targets, mostly in western and northern parts of the country.

The Russian Defense Ministry said warplanes had flown 18 sorties hitting targets that included a command post and a communications center in the province of Aleppo, a militant field camp in Idlib and a command post in Hama.

Comment: Looks like it may be a while...Putin ally says Russian air strikes in Syria to last three-four months

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Bullseye

Alabama closes DMV offices after mandating photo IDs for voting -- ACLU to sue for discrimination

Andrea Germanos
Common Dreams
Thu, 01 Oct 2015 16:38 UTC
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Some observers say that Alabama's move to close dozens of drivers license offices is a discriminatory move that could trigger a civil rights probe.

Here's why: in 2011 lawmakers approved a voter ID law requiring a government-issued ID to vote, and the 31 offices the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency set for closing—which the agency said was due to the $11 million cut in the new General Fund appropriation—will take a disproportionate hit on counties that are majority African-American.

Columnist John Archibald writes that "Alabama just took a giant step backward."

"Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one," he continues, writing that the state "might as well just send an invitation to the Justice Department."
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