Wednesday, October 6, 2010

National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 10-05-10

Injustice Everywhere

A Marco Florida police officer is the subject of a lawsuit accusing him of using excessive force when he stopped his police cruiser, beat 3 handcuffed men in the back of that cruiser, then sealed the cruiser up after releasing pepperspray in the vehicle, all of which was captured on video and all because they kept taunting the officer on the way to jail. The officer initially received 2 weeks suspension and was charged with battery but was allowed to enter a pre-trial diversion program that cleared his record and his suspension was overturned by a state panel, ultimately leaving him with a clean record and free pass.

Watertown New York has settled a lawsuit for $600,000 to a man who was shot 3 times by a police officer who broke into his apartment through a 2nd floor window hunting for his ex-girlfriend who he then kidnapped. That officer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempted murder, kidnapping, burglary, and grand larceny.

An Owensboro Kentucky police officer has been fired for violating policies including use unnecessary force after jail video showed him repeatedly challenging a detainee to stand up and when he finally did the officer and others jumped on him and began beating him. Investigators also found that a report over the incident filed by another officer had discrepancies when compared to the video.

Flagler County Florida and the sheriff of Flagler County have both settled a lawsuit for unspecified sums to the daughter of a former state attorney who claims deputies used excessive force when they forced her into a restraint chair for refusing to strip and shower in front of male deputies after being arrested on a disorderly intoxication charge that was dismissed later.

Seaside Heights New Jersey has settled a lawsuit for $75,000 to a man claiming police officers there injured his shoulder after they cuffed his arms behind his back despite being told by him and his fiancee that he had an injured shoulder and then choked him into unconsciousness without cause. They also arrested his fiancee for asking why he was being arrested. The incident apparently escalated through a series of misunderstandings after the man had responded to an obscenity yelled at him.

A Vernal Utah police sergeant was allowed to enter into a diversion agreement that will dismiss a felony assault charge he faced for pistol-whipping a suspect arrested after he allegedly shot another officer in the leg. The charge will be dismissed in a year in exchange for a $1,000 fine and his decertification as a police

New York NY has settled a lawsuit for $300,000 to two brothers who were falsely arrested by narcotics cops on drug charges but freed once surveillance video of the arrest came out showing the charges were trumped up. One of the officers already pled guilty to a felony charge after resigning while the other is awaiting trial after becoming a cop in Nassau County NY.

Three Basalt Colorado police officers are the subject of a lawsuit filed by a man claiming officers injured him when they beat him while arresting him for yelling “don’t let the door hit you in the ass” while they were leaving after conducting a bar “walkthrough”. Those charges were eventually dismissed.

The New Mexico Region III Narcotics Task Force was accused of using excessive tactics when they raided a Montessory school with students aged 11-14 in search of marijuana in that school’s greenhouse. While teachers say the kids thought the armed military helicopter the task force used was neat, they didn’t think the armored officers armed with assault weapons were necessary. While officers didn’t find any pot, they did find plenty of tomatoes.

A Garden Grove California police officer has been arrested on two counts of felony forcible sodomy over allegations that he sexually assaulted two women that he dated.

Two Philadelphia Pennsylvania police officers have been arrested arrested after they detained then robbed an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer as part of a sting operation targeting corrupt officers. [0]
Four Anchorage Alaska police officers will go through “retraining” after an investigation found they violated departmental policy in a recorded incident where they threatened to taser and arrest a man for refusing to let them enter his apartment without a warrant over an animal complaint.

A Milford Connecticut police officer has been suspended for 5 days and prohibited from driving any departmental vehicles for 9 months after the release of dahscam videos involving offices using excessive speed through an FOIA request prompted an investigation into that officer’s consistent use of excessive speed while responding to calls.

A Newark New Jersey police officer has been granted a pretrial diversion deal involving counseling and community service that will ultimately clear his record of a domestic abuse charge involving a female teenage relative.

An Ishpeming Michigan police officer has resigned and has been sentenced to pay a $600 fine after pleading guilty to a domestic violence charge.

The police chief of Helotes Texas has been suspended after Texas Rangers searched his home as part of an unspecified investigation.

A Macomb County Michigan deputy is under investigation after accused of sending text messages when he rear-ended another vehicle while transporting prisoners from court to jail.

The police chief of Ashley Pennsylvania has been suspended while he’s the subject of an investigation by state police into an unspecified complaint about threats he allegedly made.

Finally, a part-time sworn police officer in Pinetops North Carolina is a suspect in the shooting death of a college student who’s body was found in the officer’s dorm room after he died from a bullet wound to the head. Police aren’t releasing any more details except that the officer was also discovered nearby holding an emptied gun.

That’s it for today, stay safe out there.

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One Out Of Every Six U.S. Taxpayers Will Be Hit By A Tax Increase Averaging $3,900 This Year And Most Of Them Don’t Even Realize It

endoftheamericandream.com

Did you know that there are two different sets of federal income tax rules in the United States? It's true. Each year, most U.S. taxpayers either pay income tax under the system that most of us are familiar with or they pay the "Alternative Minimum Tax" - whichever amount ends up being greater. For years, the U.S. Congress has passed one year "fixes" that have exempted millions of middle class American families from the Alternative Minimum Tax. This has essentially been a huge tax cut each year for those millions of American families. But this year, the Democrat-controlled Congress has not passed a "patch" for the Alternative Minimum Tax. So now one out of every six U.S. taxpayers is going to be hit by the Alternative Minimum Tax. The taxpayers most likely to be affected are married couples, very large families, home owners and taxpayers in states that have high state and local taxes. The average tax increase that these taxpayers will be facing is going to be approximately $3,900 and most of them have no idea that it is coming. At a time when an increasing number of families is barely getting by, a tax increase of this magnitude is simply going to crush the American Dream for literally millions of families. Talk about a cruel surprise for tens of millions of Americans this upcoming tax season!

Would you be able to sit down and write a check for an extra four thousand dollars this upcoming April?

So where in the world did this insane alternate tax system come from anyway?

Well, back in 1969 the Alternative Minimum Tax was implemented with the intention of catching high income individuals who were avoiding paying taxes altogether by abusing certain loopholes. But unfortunately, the Alternative Minimum Tax has not really been adjusted for inflation since that time, so now the Alternative Minimum Tax applies to millions of ordinary middle class American families.

Fortunately, the U.S. Congress has been passing a "fix" to this problem each year to avoid this problem, but so far this year the U.S. Congress has not acted.

So now we are on the verge of a complete and total mess.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, approximately 4.5 million American households paid the Alternative Minimum Tax in 2009.

If nothing changes, 27.2 million American households will pay it in 2010.

Are you starting to get the picture?

Do you know if the Alternative Minimum Tax will apply to you this year?

You might want to find out.

The temporary reprieve for middle class taxpayers that Congress passed last year expired at the end of 2009.

Therefore, every penny that you have earned in 2010 is subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax if it applies to you.

Of course Congress could still act and help all of us out by doing something about the Alternative Minimum Tax by the end of the year.

But considering the fact that this Congress is so incompetent that they wouldn't be able to find their feet if they weren't attached to the end of their legs, it is hard to be able to count on them to do anything correctly.

In fact, there is very little appetite in Congress right now to do anything that would add to the federal budget deficit in future years.

The truth is that simply eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax without making equivalent cuts in U.S. government spending would add approximately $626 billion to the national debt over the next ten years.

So this Congress might just decide to let the middle class suffer.

In fact, all of us will be coughing up more taxes soon. In all, there are more than 100 tax provisions that have either already expired or are about to expire.

2011 is already being dubbed "the year of the tax increase", and unless something changes really, really quickly many of us are going to get some really nasty surprises early next year.

So are you ready to pay even more taxes?

Are you ready to be squeezed like a melon even though it is very likely that the U.S. government will never have a balanced budget ever again?

The U.S. government has piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world in our names, and in the end we are all going to pay for it in one way or another.

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Censored Gulf news: Kindra Arnesen. Skin barrier gone but not sprayers

Deborah Dupré
Examiner.com

Kindra Arnesen in her most recent interview has presented a comprehensive view of the Gulf crime against humanity, along with graphic detail of her poisoning and skin condition. She explains that the peoples' natural skin barrier is gone, but not the black ops spraying poison on the people.

The courageous young mother from Venice, Louisiana who became a celebrity by speaking out on behalf of Gulf coast fishermen at the first Emergency Gulf Summit, criticizing the media black-out of the Gulf atrocities, continues trying to defend human rights of the people of the Gulf.

On June 20th, the Examiner reported that Arnesen exposed that 60-Minutes filmed and aired documentation about truth in the Gulf Coast area but the program was pulled from the internet within 24 hours. (Dupre, D., La emergency summit fisher wife slams media black-out (video), Examiner, June 20, 2010)


Arnesen told Project Gulf Impact that she had gone into panic mode earlier in the Gulf catastrophe when she realized how lethal the crude and Corexit are. She then tried with all of her might to get people to relocate, knowing if they stayed, they would suffer more. (See: Dupre, D. Gulf news: 'How do we get people to leave?' Kindra Arnesen on Intel Hub,

Then, she finally realized she could not convince people to leave and that nothing would stop the powers that be from poisoning the people. (See Arnesen in the PGI video below).

"Everybody" in Arnesen's Plaquemines Parish residential area is sick she said, estimating that 40 million people throughout the Gulf region are now poisoned.

"They might not all be sick now, but mark my words, they will be."

This week, sources told the Examiner about places on the Alabama coast where the people are sick and suffering as much as people in Plaquemines Parish.

Australia's mainstream TV station, SBS, recently aired a special on the Gulf operation that features Arnesen. (See: Dupre, D,. Too sick and scared of Obama's thugs: SBS reports Gulf truth (video), Examiner, Sept. 15, 2010) The Examiner reported:

"For Americans needing proof of the U.S. PMIC's [petrochemical-military-industrial-complex's] calculated use of lethal chemicals on millions of Americans now causing illness and early death, the SBS report (below) may provide enough evidence to break denial of the crime against humanity occurring in the United States against the nation's citizens.

Thanks to SBS and Sophie McNeill, at least Australians now know the Gulf truth."

Arnesen discussed with PGI about the doctors' refusal to properly diagnose and treat her or any of the people she knows.

"The doctors don't want to get involved," she said.

"Do no harm? They are doing harm!" They are not testing, "So how can they diagnose or treat?

"They're treating us for something we don't have and not treating what we do have."

Arnesen explained that last week when she went to get medical treatment for her worsening condition including her pronounced sores, the doctor did not do an examination. Instead, the doctor just reached for her paperwork as soon as Arnesen walked in; automatically diagnosed "scabies;" and said she was "depressed." (See Arnesen's skin condition in the video below.)

"Depressed?! I'm not depressed!" she said, explaining that she has a beautiful family, owns two homes, owns their vehicles and is not in the financially broken state of many people in her area.

Arnesen told PGI, "They're still spraying us!

"They're gassing us."


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12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets

theeconomiccollapseblog.com

Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now? Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate. Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities. In fact, there is such a rush towards gold that shortages are starting to be reported in some areas. Meanwhile, some very, very unusual option activity has started to show up. In particular, someone is making some incredibly large bets that the S&P 500 is going to absolutely tank during the month of October. Central banks around the world have caught a case of "loose money fever" and are apparently hoping that a new flood of paper money will shock the global economy back to life. Meanwhile, the furor over the foreclosure procedure abuses of the major U.S mortgage companies threatens to bring even more turmoil to the U.S. housing industry.

There are some very ominous signs that something is just not right in world financial markets right now. Some of the signs listed below may be related. Others may not be. That is for you to decide.

Often, just before something really bad happens, you can actually see the rats leaving a sinking ship if you know where to look. The truth is that if things are going to go south it is the insiders who know before anyone else.

So are some of the signs below actually clues for what we should expect in the months ahead?

Maybe.

Maybe not.

You make your own call.

But it is becoming hard to deny that there are some serious danger signs out there at this point....

#1 Corporate insiders are getting out of the U.S. stock market at an absolutely blinding pace. It is being reported that the ratio of corporate insider selling to corporate insider buying last week was 1,411 to 1, and this week the ratio has soared even higher and is at 2,341 to 1.

#2 Many of the world's wealthiest people are buying absolutely massive quantities of gold right now.

#3 It is being reported that J.P. Morgan is gobbling up the rights to as much physical gold as it possibly can.

#4 The United States Mint has announced that it has run out of 1-ounce, 24-karat American Buffalo gold bullion coins and that it will not be selling any more of them in 2010.

#5 It is becoming increasingly difficult to explain the unusually high option volume that we are witnessing right now.

#6 Some very large investors are making massive bets that the S&P 500 is going to take a serious tumble during the month of October.

#7 On Tuesday, the Bank of Japan shocked world financial markets by cutting interest rates even closer to zero and by setting up a 5 trillion yen quantitative easing fund.

#8 The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago are both publicly urging the Fed to do much more to stimulate the U.S. economy, including beginning a new round of quantitative easing, even if it means a significant rise in the U.S. inflation rate.

#9 Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told reporters on Tuesday that the loose monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are throwing the world into "chaos".

#10 At the end of September, federal regulators announced a $30 billion bailout of the U.S. wholesale credit union system.

#11 Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and GMAC Mortgage have all suspended foreclosures in many U.S. states due to serious concerns about foreclosure procedures. Now, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is actually demanding that all mortgage servicing companies in the state of Texas immediately suspend all foreclosures, the selling of foreclosed properties and the eviction of people living in foreclosed properties until they have completed a review of their foreclosure procedures.

#12 Not only that, but Nancy Pelosi and 30 other members of Congress are requesting a federal investigation of the foreclosure practices of U.S. mortgage lenders. Needless to say, this controversy has the potential to turn the entire U.S. mortgage industry into an absolute quagmire.

So are dark days ahead for world financial markets?

Well, yeah, but it is incredibly hard to predict exactly when things are going to fall apart.

The truth is that there are going to be a whole lot more "crashes" and "collapses" in the years ahead.

The important thing, as discussed yesterday, is to keep your eye on the long-term trends.

The U.S. economy is undeniably in decline. The only thing keeping the economy going at this point is a rapidly growing sea of red ink. Debt is literally everywhere. It is what our entire financial system is based on in 2010.

In the months and years to come, the major players are going to try very hard to keep all the balls in the air and to continue the massive shell game that is going on, but in the end the whole thing is going to collapse like a house of cards.

Unfortunately, we have been destroying the U.S. economy for decades and there is simply not going to be a happy ending to this story.

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