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Thursday, 20 November 2014

SOTT Exclusive: Send in the troops? Only if ISIS gets hold of a nuclear weapon

© Unknown What would it take for the U.S. government and its caliphate of psychopaths to deploy ground troops to "fight" ISIS? Recent statements by Obama give us a clue:President Obama has been unwavering and definitive in declaring he will not deploy U.S. ground troops into combat to fight ISIS militants. Period.But for the first time since the start of then anti-ISIS offensive dubbed Operation Inherent Resolve, the president volunteered a scenario...

137 shots by 13 cops plus two dead unarmed civilians equals taxpayers on the hook for $3 million

© Unknown Cleveland, Ohio - Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams were driving near downtown Cleveland on November 29, 2012, when Russell's car backfired. Police in the area apparently mistook the sound for gunfire and gave chase.What took place next was a stunning car chase that involved over 60 police cruisers and lasted almost a half hour.It's unclear exactly why Russell didn't pull over, but what is clear is that when the chase ended, Russell...

Dutch government refuses to reveal ‘secret deal’ into MH17 crash probe

The Dutch government has refused to reveal details of a secret pact between members of the Joint Investigation Team examining the downed Flight MH17. If the participants, including Ukraine, don’t want information to be released, it will be kept secret.The respected Dutch publication Elsevier made a request to the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) agreement,...

Obama issues executive order on immigration reform

© Reuters/Jason Reed President Barack Obama announced an executive order on immigration reform Thursday, which he will sign on Friday. The actions will affect up to 5 million undocumented immigrants in the US, many of whom are the parents or spouses of legal residents.Obama announced his plan for unilateral action on immigration via a prime-time address from the White House. He will sign the executive order during a rally in Las Vegas on Friday....

Psychopathic Israel: relentlessly brutalizing millions of Palestinians for decades

© RINF Israeli policy is longstanding. Reflecting anti-Palestinian state terror. Institutionalized racism writ large. Vicious repression.Brutalizing Muslims for not being Jews. Enforcing militarized occupation harshness. Denying Palestinians rights everyone deserves.According to Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) director Jeff Halper:"...(T)he 'Zionist answer' to the downward cycle of senseless violence in which Jerusalem finds...

Meet the Pathocrats, the richest .01%

The richest Americans hold more of the nation's wealth than they have in almost a century. What do they spend it on? As you might expect, personal jets, giant yachts, works of art, and luxury penthouses. And also on politics. In fact, their political spending has been growing faster than their spending on anything else. It's been growing even faster than their wealth.According to new research by Emmanuel Saez of the University of California at...

Libya's NATO supported "pro-democracy" rebels have joined the Islamic State

© Unknown The United States has attempted to claim that the only way to stop the so-called "Islamic State" in Syria and Iraq is to first remove the government in Syria. Complicating this plan are developments in Libya, benefactor of NATO's last successful regime change campaign. In 2011, NATO armed, funded, and backed with a sweeping air campaign militants in Libya centered around the eastern Libyan cities of Tobruk, Derna, and Benghazi. By October...

Western media bows to their masters by avoiding any mention of Israeli violence against Palestinians

© Omar Sameer/ActiveStillsPalestinians protest at the recent killing — by Israeli police — of Kheir Hamdan in the Galilee village of Kufr Kana As Tuesday's grisly murder of five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue by two Palestinian assailants continues to dominate headlines, major media outlets are actively erasing the Israeli violence that preceded the attack and the surging anti-Palestinian assaults that have followed.In typical fashion, The New...

Putin marginalized at G20? Imagine if he took center stage and spoke the truth

Mr. Putin is marginalized at the G20 summit in Brisbane Australia. Washington's European vassals are afraid to even get close to the Russian President - it could be ill-seen by Master Obama. Madame Merkel had a brief private conversation with Mr. Putin - the supplier of 30% of Germany's energy. Then, she went on castigating him in public for interfering in Ukraine's democracy. What planet is she from? The others dare aping her critique - after...

'Robbed of their womanhood': Sisters suffer from premature ovarian failure after Gardasil shots

Maddie and Olivia Meylor Olivia and Madelyne Meylor are in their early 20s. They still want the world to know what happened to them as teens after they received three Gardasil shots - an HPV vaccine marketed as a way to prevent cervical cancer.Diagnoses of Premature or Primary Ovarian Failure (POF) followed leaving only 5 percent chance one of them could ever get pregnant.[embedded content]In this story about a pending federal court case they were...

America: A Vaxxer-Nation?

© kjngenealogy.com Recently there has been a lot of 'debate' in the mainstream media about vaccinations. While this debate is not new, it is something to take notice of, at least I have been taking note. What sparked my interest in the current vaccine debate, and the taking of notes, was a comedy segment on T.V.While I am not a regular viewer or cable subscriber, I had the opportunity while visiting family to watch Comedy Central, I almost fell...
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