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Saturday, 17 January 2015

Agency will confiscate infant if entire family doesn’t get flu shots

Jamie Smith takes a stand as Washington bureaucrats attempt to force unwanted drugs on her children. (Photo courtesy KOMO News)TACOMA, WA — A state bureaucracy is threatening a mother with removal of an infant unless her entire family subjects themselves to flu shots.This is the dilemma that foster parent Jamie Smith is currently facing. The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is giving the Tacoma family until February to comply...

Cop fired for exposing department policy where officers have sex with prostitutes, then arrest them

© Unknown A police officer in Arkansas recently lost his job after he exposed a massive scheme that allowed officers to have sex with prostitutes and then arrest them for servicing the undercover cops.The way that Former Fort Smith Police Department Sgt. Don Paul Bales' department had it set up, cops would "prove" that they weren't really police officers, by having sex with prostitutes. The cop who had just broken the law himself would then follow...

Sad prospect for Finland's kids: Typing takes over as handwriting lessons end

© AFP Learning joined-up writing, often in fountain pen in the UK, is almost a rite of passage for primary school students. But Finland is moving into the digital age by ditching the ink in favour of keyboards, the newspaper reports. From autumn 2016, students won't have to learn cursive handwriting or calligraphy, but will instead be taught typing skills, the report says. "Fluent typing skills are an important national competence," says Minna Harmanen...

Gas threat and Auschwitz snub: More insults to Russia that deserve a response

How many insults does the European Union expect Russia to bear without consequences? Ethnic cleansing of Russian people by the Brussels-backed Kiev regime, a refugee crisis on Russia's borders, economic sanctions based on groundless accusations hurting Russian society - and now this - the neo-Nazi cabal that seized power in Ukraine with CIA backing last year has repeatedly been found guilty of siphoning off Russia's natural gas exports to the EU.On...

Horrifying! New Jersey mom lit baby on fire

© Burlington County Prosecutor's OfficeHyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton Township, N.J., was charged with murder after neighbors claim she set her baby girl on fire in the street. A New Jersey woman intentionally burned her baby girl alive in the middle of a quiet street, authorities said.Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, 22, of Pemberton has been charged with the infant's murder.Witnesses to the horrific scene claimed a young woman poured a...

SOTT FOCUS: Worshiping at the Altar of Pus: How putrid matter is the alpha and omega of vaccination

Vaccination, the holy sacrament of allopathic medicine, is a crime against humanity. Under all circumstances, they are neither safe nor effective. By their very nature they bypass the natural laws of immunity and are antithetical to health. Vaccination is an assault upon everyone who accepts it, and it has left a trail of debility, disease and death in its wake. This grotesque ritual is one of the greatest scams foisted upon citizens of the world.Most...

Budding sociopath? 11 year old boy charms court after crime wave in small town

The 11-year-old boy walked free from court today after pleading guilty to eight crimes A one boy crime wave blamed for a fifth of all crime in is home town has walked free from court at the age of 11 after telling magistrates he wants to be a bank manager.The child, accused of exposing himself in a Carphone Warehouse and abusing customers with foul language in Costa Coffee, appeared before Yeovil Magistrates in Somerset today.After being told to...

Homeless cat saves abandoned baby in Russia

© RT Ruptly A baby boy not older than 12 weeks has been found in a box on a staircase in an apartment block in the Russian town of Obninsk. The box was meant for a cat, who - after having found a new soul in misery, warmed up the baby and was worried to let him go.The baby in the cat box was discovered by one of the neighbors, who had heard what she thought to be loud meowing and rushed to rescue the cat from possible offenders. © RT Ruptly The...

Key reservoir for Sao Paulo drying out from extreme drought

© AP Photo/Andre PennerIn this Oct. 10, 2014 file photo, the frame of a car sits on the cracked earth at the bottom of the Atibainha dam, part of the Cantareira System responsible for providing water to the Sao Paulo metropolitan area, in Nazare Paulista, Brazil. Halfway through the rainy season, the key reservoir for the hemisphere's largest city, the Cantareira water system, holds just 6 percent of its capacity, and experts warned Friday, Jan....

Man attacked by owl in Salem, Oregon

Great Horned Owl Ron Jaecks of Salem was on his usual morning run in Bush's Pasture Park on Tuesday when he was attacked, or so he thought.Jaecks was jogging near the baseball field about 5:15 a.m. Suddenly in the morning darkness his stocking cap was pulled from his head, and almost simultaneously he felt something puncture his scalp.Jaecks thought he was dying."It was like a huge electric shock ran through my body, but also like I got hit in...

Hundreds of thousands of blue jellyfish invade Surfer's Paradise, Australia

A giant swarm of blue jellyfish has invaded the pristine waters of the Gold Coast A giant swarm of blue jellyfish has invaded the pristine waters of the Gold Coast, forming a spectacular display as the mass of creatures congregated in Queensland's iconic Surfer's Paradise.Spotted just off Narrowneck, near the northern end of Surfer's Paradise beach, the school of jellyfish extended for 50 metres in circumference.Photographer and lifesaver Grahame...

What game is the House of Saud playing?

© Reuters/Todd Korol The House of Saud now finds itself in times of extreme trouble. Their risky oil price war may eventually backfire. The succession of King Abdullah may turn into a bloodbath. And the American protector may be musing a change of heart.Let's start with oil - and some background. As much as US supply has increased by a couple of million barrels a day, enough oil from Iran, Kirkuk in Iraq, Libya and Syria has gone out of production;...

Agency will confiscate infant if entire Washington family doesn't get flu shots

© Komo NewsJamie Smith takes a stand as Washington bureaucrats attempt to force unwanted drugs on her children. Tacoma - A state bureaucracy is threatening a mother with removal of an infant unless her entire family subjects themselves to flu shots.This is the dilemma that foster parent Jamie Smith is currently facing. The Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is giving the Tacoma family until February to comply with the mandated...

SOTT Exclusive: Breaking news! Reichstag torched, culprit caught! Muslim plot for world domination uncovered!

Have you heard? The Reichstag has been burned down. Reporting on this breaking news is psychopathic propagandist and anti-Semite, Julius Streicher, writing for Der Stürmer :A few days ago, Germany was astonished by the news of arson in the Reichstag. Fires were set in more than twenty places in the building. It was almost completely destroyed. The ringleader is the head of the Communist faction in the Reichstag, Representative Torgler.At the same...

Comet Finlay surprise outburst, visible in binoculars ... again!

© Michael MattiazzoComet Finlay’s up to its old shenanigans again. Here we see it in outburst with a bright, compact head and a half-degree-long tail pointing northeast on Friday, January 16th. Lost sleep at night, fingers tapping on the keyboard by day. Darn comets are keeping me busy! But of course that's a good problem. Comet 15P/Finlay, which had been languishing in the western sky at dusk at magnitude +10, has suddenly come to life ... for...
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