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Monday, 5 January 2015

Psycho Pat Robertson says non-religious children should be beaten until they respect Christian beliefs

© Addicting Info In another example demonstrating that Pat Robertson believes in persecuting non-Christians and indoctrinating children, the televangelist openly suggested that parents should beat their kids until they respect Christian beliefs.During yet another shameful episode of the 700 Club, which runs on Disney-owned channel ABC Family, Robertson received an email from a woman who claimed that her grandson disrespects their Christian faith...

Pat Robertson says non-religious children should be beaten until they respect Christian beliefs

© Addicting Info In another example demonstrating that Pat Robertson believes in persecuting non-Christians and indoctrinating children, the televangelist openly suggested that parents should beat their kids until they respect Christian beliefs.During yet another shameful episode of the 700 Club, which runs on Disney-owned channel ABC Family, Robertson received an email from a woman who claimed that her grandson disrespects their Christian faith...

The real life Serpico: The police are still out of control

Frank Serpico In the opening scene of the 1973 movie "Serpico," I am shot in the face - or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it's very difficult for me to watch those scenes, which depict in a very realistic and terrifying way what actually happened to me on Feb. 3, 1971. I had recently been transferred to the Narcotics division of the New York City Police Department, and we...

Top experts predict global economic disaster in 2015

© unknown Will 2015 be a year of financial crashes, economic chaos and the start of the next great worldwide depression? Over the past couple of years, we have all watched as global financial bubbles have gotten larger and larger. Despite predictions that they could burst at any time, they have just continued to expand. But just like we witnessed in 2001 and 2008, all financial bubbles come to an end at some point, and when they do implode the pain...

UK schoolteachers urged to report terrorist toddlers

© unknown Just three years ago, we found out that children in Britain as young as three could be "blacklisted" - labeled "racist" on their permanent file for such evil thought crimes as calling a fellow classmate a "broccoli head."When my brother was six and I was 12, he called me a "carnival head." I always thought it was because he was being a six-year-old little brother. I never knew until today that it was because he was totally racist... You...

North Korea rebuttal at UN - U.S. the biggest violator of human rights in the world

DPRK Permanent Mission to the UNToday the U.S. and other Western countries are increasingly cracking down on the human rights of the peoples of their countries, including on their socio-economic and cultural rights as well as on political freedom and rights.In the U.S., whose population accounts for 5% of the world's population, prisoners there account for 25% of the total number of prisoners in the world. Today, when the world is rushing to scale...

Neurological consequences of Botox injections

© Mirror, UK The Injection of Botox to reduce facial lines and wrinkles has long been assumed to be purely cosmetic in nature. Hollywood's rush to it has normalized the procedure and even given it an air of frivolity.New research, however, has revealed an unintentional and rather dramatic consequence: Botox injections in the forehead rearrange the brain's sensory map of the hands. The scary part is that clients typically come back for regular injections,...

Iraqi MP says U.S. aircraft dropped load of weapons and equipment to ISIS militants

On Saturday, MP Majid al-Ghraoui said that an American aircraft dropped a load of weapons and equipment into the hands of the ISIS group militants in southeast of Tikrit, located in Salahuddin province.MP Majid al-Ghraoui, the member of the Security and Defense Committee in the Parliament, said: "The information that has reached us in the security and defense committee indicates that an American aircraft dropped a load of weapons and equipment...

Mind control: Dr. Ewen Cameron and 'psychic driving'

© unknown (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)This is what happens when you put Materialists in charge of human life. They destroy themselves and everything around them. It's their only option, because their understanding is Zero. They're trying to make thought and imagination and passion into material objects. Since that's an absurdity, they do the only thing they can do: try to control those "objects."In this way, they become the perfect voluntary...

Jeffery Sterling and the U.S. war against government whistleblowers

© JIM WATSON via Getty Images No one disputes that Jeffrey Sterling told Senate Intelligence Committee staffers about a CIA operation that had provided flawed nuclear weapon blueprints to Iran in 2000, dubbed Operation , which Risen's book later exposed and brought to light as dumb and dangerous.The trial of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, set to begin in mid-January, is shaping up as a major battle in the U.S. government's siege against whistleblowing....

Ferguson grand juror sues prosecutor to speak out

© ReutersPeople take part in a march against police violence, in New York December 13, 2014. A member of the grand jury that declined to indict former police officer Darren Wilson over the August 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown is back in court, this time to try and win the right to speak publically about those proceedings.On Monday this week, attorneys for an individual named only as "Grand Juror Doe" filed a lawsuit alleging that St. Louis...

Snow forecast across 2,000 miles of U.S

© CBS News In addition to some snow and heavy rain, bitterly cold temperatures have begun moving into parts of the U.S. and will be staying put for at least part of this week.Snow is possible across a 2,000-mile stretch of the U.S. and meteorologist Megan Glaros of CBS station WBBM says that millions of people will deal with brutally cold weather - with wind chills as low as 50 degrees below zero for part of the northern Plains.Here are some questions...

Iceland's Prime Minister expected to withdraw EU application

© Flickr/ Trey Ratcliff Iceland is expected to withdraw its application to become a member of the European Union, the reported Monday, citing the country's prime minister."Participating in EU talks isn't really valid anymore. Both due to changes in the European Union and because it's not in line with the policies of the ruling government to accept everything that the last government was willing to accept. Because of that, we're back at square one,"...

Children who take ADHD medication perform worse in school

Children who take mind-altering medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) and Adderall (amphetamine and dextroamphetamine) for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been shown in a new peer-reviewed study to perform worse in school than if they weren't taking the substances at all.Researchers from Princeton University, Cornell University and the University of Toronto found that the administration of these drugs to children, which...

The UN anti-Nazi resolution and the history of U.S. Nazism accommodation and acceptance

The Syrian Arab Republic, together with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia are among the many co-sponsors of this UN Anti-Nazi Resolution, adopted by a majority vote of 133 by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 2014. There were 51 abstentions. Only 4 nations opposed this resolution: the United States, Ukraine, Palau and Canada. Excerpts from the Resolution state:"1. Reaffirms the relevant provisions...
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