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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Tipping point near? Pathocrats engineering population control via income inequality, inflation and food shortages

The cost of food has been steadilyincreasingin places like Thailand and Venezuela as evidenced by the fact that since the beginning of 2014,riots are occurring in countries that are suffering through extreme food shortages.These mass protests movements may all have one thing in common, increasing food prices are the cause of the civil unrest.According to Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam and his research colleagues at the New England Complex Systems Institute...

Paul Craig Roberts blasts western media: Respect for truth no longer exists

Comment: Roberts's analysis is spot on. The Western media are either idiots or prostitutes. Funny that Russia -- historical home of the worst type of propaganda during its Soviet days -- has been producing the highest quality journalism in the mainstream (RT, RIA Novosti, Itar-Tass) in recent years. But even they have their limits, which is why alternative media -- like Sott.net -- is thriving. © RIA NovostiWestern media = pure lies. The Western...

Gut bacteria discovered that may prevent food allergies

© Photo by Kenya HondaThe bacterium, called Clostridia, appears to minimize the likelihood that rodents will become allergic to peanuts, and researchers would like to find out if it does the same in people. WASHINGTON: Mice that were raised in a sterile environment or given antibiotics early in life lacked a common gut bacteria that appears to prevent food allergies, US researchers said on Monday.The bacterium, called Clostridia, appears to minimize...

The Hague treats war criminals better than Guantanamo Bay's Camp Seven

© RIA Novosti/Denis VoroshilovThe Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a highly controversial US military prison located in Cuba, has been the subject of harsh criticism since its establishment in 2002. Health workers, inspectors and former detainees have described cruel and inhumane conditions at the camp, including torture War criminals awaiting trial at the detention center operated by the International Criminal Court in The Hague are treated better...

ADL ad justifying Israeli murder of Palestinian children "translated" into plain words by actor Wallace Shawn

ADL ad that appeared in The Hollywood Reporter Playwright and actorWallace Shawnhas responded to thisAnti-Defamation League(ADL) ad blaming Palestinians for Israel's mass slaughter of children in Gaza.Shawn's brilliant "translation" of the ad into plain English is below.Five hundred and sixteen children are among the 2,142 Palestinians killed by Israel's current bombardment of the Gaza Strip, according to the latest tally from Al Mezan Center for...

The final nail in the coffin: The death of freedom in our schools

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves."―D.H. Lawrence © www.lostrepublic.us No matter what your perspective on the showdown between locals and law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri, there can be no disputing the fact that "local" police should not be looking or acting like branches of the military.Unfortunately, in the police...

Diplomacy not escalation: Poroshenko meets with Putin in Belarus to discuss peace plan for Donbass

Comment: Notice the change of tone and words coming from Poroshenko. Has he simply received a new script from his foreign masters, or has he realized the futility of his government's actions these past months? Time will tell! © AFP Photo / Sergei BondarenkoGot you where I want you! Putin and Poroshenko meet for first time in over 2 months. Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko shook hands as talks between the Eurasian Customs Union, EU and Ukraine...

Big Brother Never Stops Spying: The NSA built its own search engine of millions of Americans that law enforcement agencies can access

The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained byThe Intercept.The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible...

Major seismic event imminent ? Strange glowing lights seen by pilots over part of the Pacific Ring of Fire

Strange lights have been spotted near the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka (image by Dutch pilot JPC van Heijst). The sighting was made by pilots flying from Hong Kong to Alaska. The glow came about 20 minutes after a vertical lightning bolt was seen * Strange lights have been spotted near the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka* The sighting was made by pilots flying from Hong Kong to Alaska* The glow came about 20 minutes after a vertical lightning bolt...

Fifth Amendment down the toilet: California Supreme Court rules that silence can be evidence of guilt

© Police State USAAmerican justice. The Supreme Court of Californiahas ruled that a suspect's silence can be used as evidence of guilt during trial.The 4-3 decision reversed an appellate court's ruling and reinstated a man's felony conviction for a 2007 vehicular manslaughter case. That case involved a motorist named Richard Tom, who broadsided another vehicle while speeding in Redwood City.Following the collision, Mr. Tom chose to remain silent...

Rochdale council protects pedophiles, rejects claim of child sex abuse as 'out of time'

Children in a play at the Bryn Alyn home run by John Allen (centre), who was jailed in 1995 for indecent assault on six boys. Council chiefs in Rochdale are refusing compensation to a victim of child sex abuse because they say that his claim is out of time.Their stance that the claim is "statute barred" could hit many who were sexually abused decades ago as children in the care of Rochdale borough council, where the pedophile MP Sir Cyril Smith...
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