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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

SOTT FOCUS: EMF pollution: The health impacts of wireless RF radiation

This article is part three in a series of articles on electromagnetic field (EMF) pollution. Part one is available . This article will focus on wireless RF radiation and systemic EMF health effects. Chronic diseases have many potential causes, including genetics, deficient diet, toxin exposure, and repressed emotional expression. Research has mounted over the past two decades in support of adding EMF exposure to the top-level list of causes of chronic...

This Is How Much Of Your Life The US Has Spent At War

With the US spiraling quickly towards a maritime conflict with China over the latter’s “construction projects” in the disputed South China Sea and with NATO doing its best to match Moscow’s Eastern European sabre-rattling on the way to facilitating the most serious confrontation between Russia and the West in decades, we thought it as good a time as any to bring you the following graphic which shows the percentage of your life that the US has been...

Caught On Tape: Self-Driving Car Ploughs Into Journalists

While there is much debate whether the latest and greatest Apple fad is a dud... or a hit... Son of Wang Jianlin, China's richest man and chairman of Dalian Wanda, buys his dog two gold Apple Watches $AAPL https://t.co/Kg0Gowws3E — Haidi Lun ??? (@HaidiLun) May 27, 2015 ... Apple has, in case the fading wearables mania is the former, a Plan C: a self-driving car.  Or maybe not, because for a company built on the successful creation, execution...

The Police Chiefs Assoc. wants a national drone policy

CONFIRMED, there is a national police drone surveillance program: Over a week ago, I reported on how DHS is using police departments to set up a national drone surveillance program . Then like 'magic' the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) announces a national drone policy! Was it a coincidence? For those who didn't already know it, they're part of Homeland Security, that's right every police chief is working with DHS. They...

Pentagon chief hints at shift in US policy in war with ISIS

© M.Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO      US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter declared in a television interview broadcast Sunday that Iraqi forces were routed at Ramadi because they lacked the "will to fight," not because they were outgunned by the Sunni-based insurgent group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In the harshest public criticism of the performance of Iraqi government troops since their collapse last summer in Mosul,...

Kiss your pension fund goodbye

     I have warned for some time that government was eyeing up pensions. There is about $19.4 trillion dollars in private pension funds. How will they justify taking over these funds to the people? This is the question debated in secrecy behind the curtain. I have warned that if government seizes pension funds, it will come after 2015.75. The Supreme Court, without any justification constitutionally, just determined how that...

Right-wing Bishop says women are sinning by doing yoga exercises

© Facebook      Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these anti-yoga right-wingers? A conservative Catholic Bishop in Nebraska has issued a warning to women claiming that they are sinning if they practice yoga, and says they should find a different way to exercise. Retired Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of the Lincoln Diocese sent a letter to Women of Grace Ministry calling yoga a dangerous practice and "a pagan religion based on...

Russia digs 100 km ditch along border with south-eastern Ukraine

© RIA Novosti/Valeriy Melnikov Izvarino border crossing point in Lugansk Region, Ukraine.      Russia has erected 40km of fortified walls, and more than 100km of defensive trenches on its border with the rebel Ukrainian regions of Lugansk and Donetsk. "The engineering fortification of the state border is aimed at ensuring stability in the Rostov region, and preventing the illegal circulation of firearms," Russia's border service...

The power of uncertainty

     I dislike uncertainty as much as the next person, perhaps even more. My reaction to it can cause deep anxiety that negatively impacts my health, wealth and overall enjoyment of life. Yet, despite uncertainty's bad rep, I have learned that: no matter what we tell ourselves or how we arrange our circumstances, we can never be free of it, and learning to embrace it can lead to incredible possibilities that I didn't even know...

Today marks the 15th anniversary of US Government planning for 9/11

© waterfordwhispersnews.com      A huge milestone in recent history was recognised today in Washington DC as former US president George W. Bush, along with former vice-president Dick Cheney and former secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld as they made the journey back to the Whitehouse for an official state dinner with President Barack Obama. The 15th anniversary of the decision to plan 9/11 was marked in typical grandeur and...

'Measuring stick' for human gene sequencing unveiled

© Gerald Barber, Virginia Tech University Is this a static TV screen? Nope! It's the end result of the DNA sequencing.      In an attempt to ensure that gene sequencing, medical diagnoses, and personalized therapies of the future are as accurate as possible, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the first human DNA "measuring stick" to serve as a point of reference. According to Engadget, the...

The NSA's Technotyranny: One nation under surveillance

"The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control."—William Binney, NSA whistleblower © truthalerts.com William Binney      We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government...
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