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Saturday, 10 January 2015

Bully Alan Dershowitz protected serial child molester Jeffery Epstein from his under-age accusers

© Robin Platzer / Twin Images/LFI/Photoshot/NewscomAlan Dershowitz and Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor at the Inaugural Champion of Jewish Values International Awards, honoring Sheldon and Miriam Adelson, 4 June 2013 in New York City. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz always felt children were fair game for Israeli missiles. Now the question is whether he thinks they are fair game for the sexual exploits of his powerful associates and himself.Dershowitz...

Frame-up 101: Planted ID card exposes Paris false flag

© AFP Photo / Martin BureauA general view shows firefighters, police officers and forensics gathered in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015 French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo would never have been caught had they not made one fatal mistake: They conveniently left an ID card in their abandoned getaway car.Since when did criminals leave...

Je suis Charlie: Or, "I'm a racist pervert too!"

© Joe Raedle/Getty Images Defending free speech and free press rights, which typically means defending the right to disseminate the very ideas society finds most repellent, has been one of my principal passions for the last 20 years: previously as a lawyer and now as a journalist. So I consider it positive when large numbers of people loudly invoke this principle, as has been happening over the last 48 hours in response to the horrific attack on...

New Claim: Dinosaur Farts May Have Caused Prehistoric Global Warming

Sauropod dinosaurs that roamed the planet 150 million years ago may have released more methane gas into the atmosphere than all modern sources combined. Although methane does not stay in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide, it is 20 times more effective at trapping heat than CO2. “A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic...

Government officials all over America are cracking down on preppers

Why would the government want to punish people that are just trying to work hard, become more self-sufficient and take care of their families?There are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today, and often they appear to be singled out for punishment by bureaucratic control freaks that are horrified at the thought that there are families out there that actually want to try to become less dependent on the system.So if you use alternative...

The Paris shootings and the farce of Western free speech

Speaking outside Elysée Palace in the aftermath of this week's terror killings in France, former President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the violence as "an attack on civilization." Coiffured, sun-tanned and nattily dressed, Sarkozy's solemn words made him appear like the embodiment of civility.That's a quaint turn in etiquette by a politician who is mired in allegations of sleaze and corruption, as well as war crimes.Sarkozy wasn't too concerned about...

News roundup: December in Russia

New NWO The Chinese foreign minister made it plain: "We believe that Russia has opportunities and knowledge to overcome the current problems in the economy. The Chinese-Russian relations of strategic partnership are at a high level, we are always supporting and helping our friend. If the Russian side needs it, we shall offer all possible support we may have". Why is China doing this? Self-interest: if Washington can bring Russia down, China knows...

When it comes to the economy which will you follow; your intuition or the lying government?

What will you accept as real - your intuition that something is deeply amiss in America, or the official propaganda that all is well?In 1967, the rock group Buffalo Springfield recorded a song titled For What It's Worth which speaks not just to the late 1960s but to the present.Consider the opening lines:The ambiguity is not coincidental. When the song was recorded in December 1966, America was in the beginning throes of a full-blown national nervous...

NYPD 'Slowdown' Saves Taxpayers $10M A Week In Parking Ticket Fines

The New York Post is reporting the NYPD's slowdown in issuing parking tickets is "costing the city $10m a week in revenue."From the perspective of the state's tax-victims, that means taxpayers are saving $10m a week. The New York Post reports: The city is losing about $10 million per week on parking ticket revenue because of the NYPD work slowdown, according to budget watchdog estimates.There were just 1,191 parking summonses handed out between...

Beached pygmy sperm whale dies at Point Reyes, California

© Ramin Rahimian / The ChronicleCara Field, a staff vet, with The Marine Mammal Center takes a blood sample from a dead male pygmy sperm whale When Emily Klion and her three friends came upon the large, dying animal tossing in the surf at Point Reyes, they weren't sure what it was."People we saw said it was a dolphin. I thought it was a shark, though, because of the teeth," said Klion of Berkeley, who visited the isolated beach near Abbots Lagoon...

Suffering from False Flag Fatigue Syndrome?

© unknown Gone are the days when we accept everything we are told. Years ago faith in 'The System' meant we soaked up the latest news, believing what we were told and unquestionably believed, that our governments, whichever party they represented, would do the best for the country.Not anymore.We for a fact that our own government, and many others around the world have staged events in order to garner public support for unpopular decisions they intended...

Moderate rebels? 3,000 FSA fighters defect to ISIS

© Reuters / Khalil AshawiFree Syrian Army (FSA) fighters Up to 3,000 Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters have defected from the organization and given ba'yah (religious payment; servitude) to the self-proclaimed Caliph of the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, in the Qalamoun Mountains of the Rif Dimashq Governorate - these fighters belonged to multiple brigades that formed the conglomeration of the FSA.As...

Psychopath shows his stripes: George Zimmerman arrested again for assault and domestic violence

© The Associated PressGeorge Zimmerman George Zimmerman -- the man acquitted by a Florida jury over the death of Trayvon Martin -- was arrested Friday in Florida on suspicion of aggravated assault and domestic violence with a weapon, local authorities said.The 31-year-old Florida man was arrested by police in Lake Mary around 10 p.m. and booked into the John E. Polk Correctional Facility, according to that facility's website. That facility, like...
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