Thursday, March 31, 2016

Declassified CIA Document Reveals Iraq War Had Zero Justification

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Surviving on the Battlefield in the Information War

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People must dedicate themselves to following the truth no matter where it brings them, having the courage to accept a reality that may not mesh with their current perception.

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The Clinton Investigation Enters a Dangerous Phase

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Screen Shot 2016-03-30 at 12.14.51 PMThe FBI investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s failure to protect state secrets contained in her emails has entered its penultimate phase, and it is a dangerous one for her and her aides. Federal law enforcement sources have let it be known that federal prosecutors and the FBI have completed their examination of raw data in the case. After the FBI acquires raw data — for example, the nature and number of the state secrets in the emails Clinton failed to protect or the regular, consistent, systematic nature of that failure — prosecutors and agents proceed to draw

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Depressing Survey Results Show How Extremely Stupid America Has Become

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Chemical Safety Bill Could Help Protect Monsanto Against Legal Claims - The New York Times

Chemical Safety Bill Could Help Protect Monsanto Against Legal Claims - The New York Times: "Facing hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits, the giant biotechnology company Monsanto last year received a legislative gift from the House of Representatives, a one-paragraph addition to a sweeping chemical safety bill that could help shield it from legal liability for a toxic chemical only it made."



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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. manifesto on mercury and vaccines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "I am pro vaccine. I had all of my six children vaccinated. I believe that vaccines save millions of lives.  So let me explain why I edited the book Thimerosal: Let The Science Speak, which exposes the dangerous—and wholly unnecessary—use of the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in vaccines being given to millions of children
and pregnant women here and around the world.

Vaccines are big business. Pharma is a trillion-dollar industry with vaccines accounting for $25 billion in annual sales. CDC’s decision to add a vaccine to the schedule can guarantee its manufacturer millions of customers and billions in revenue with minimal advertis- ing or marketing costs and complete immunity from lawsuits. High stakes and the seamless marriage between Big Pharma and government agencies have spawned an opaque and crooked regulatory system. Merck, one of America’s leading vaccine outfits, is currently under investigation for deceiving FDA regulators about the effectiveness of its MMR vaccine. Two whistleblowers say Merck ginned up sham studies to maintain Merck’s MMR monopoly.

Big money has fueled the exponential expansion of CDC’s vaccine schedule since 1988, when Congress’ grant of immunity from lawsuits suddenly transformed vaccines into paydirt. CDC recommended five pediatric vaccines when I was a boy in 1954. Today’s children cannot school without at least 56 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they’re 18."



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What You Need to Know About Monsanto's GMO Labeling Act

What You Need to Know About Monsanto's GMO Labeling Act:



On March 11, the court ruled12 the GMA "violated Washington campaign finance disclosure laws by shielding the identities of major corporate donors funding efforts to defeat a food labeling initiative in Washington." The case will continue to trial to determine the size of the penalty.



Ferguson has requested maximum penalties to be applied. As noted in his motion, "While proof of intentional concealment is not required, state law permits treble penalties if the fact-finder determines a person intentionally concealed the source of a political contribution or expenditure."
In this case, Ferguson insists such proof does exist. He also claims he has proof showing the GMA engaged in five separate acts of intentional concealment, so the penalty should therefore be tripled for each count.
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"Documents ... show that Chassy and the university directed Monsanto to deposit the payments through the University of Illinois Foundation, a body whose records are shielded from public scrutiny. The foundation also has the ability to take in private money and disburse it to an individual as a 'university payment' — exempt from disclosure," WBEZ writes.
"To some who study transparency in science, Chassy's failure to publicly disclose his ties with a company while he was speaking and writing about GMOs crosses a line. 'That, to me, it's a disgrace,' said Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D., a bioethicist who studies academic conflict of interest at Tufts University.
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GOP's new shield provision is designed to abolish Monsanto's liability as a favor to the company, which has donated $39 million to politicians over 30 years. Documents uncovered during our litigation have confirmed Monsanto's sickeningly corrupt corporate culture. Instead of being a good corporate citizen, Monsanto's decision-making matrix puts greed before public health and welfare." 


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Friday, March 25, 2016

Voting To Destroy The Establishment: “We Now Can Plainly See the Left Wing and Neo-con Wing Both Have The Same Agenda”

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It looks like we are going to find out what happens when enough people bind together to destroy the establishment. It’s going to be a wild ride. Prepare yourself and your loved ones.

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

The NFL Really Doesn't Like Being Compared to Big Tobacco

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For more than a decade, the National Football League supported a series of peer-reviewed studies that concluded that brain injuries sustained during football players' careers did not lead to long-term consequences. But a new investigation by the New York Times reports that the research omitted data from more than 100 documented concussions—and, perhaps more troubling, that the NFL had a closer connection to the tobacco industry than previously known.  

While the Times found "no direct evidence that the league took its strategy from Big Tobacco," its story lays out a series of overlapping ties between the league and tobacco giants, from hires to requests for advice. A league attorney challenged the assertion in a letter to the Times that was included in the story, writing, "The N.F.L. is not the tobacco industry; it had no connection to the tobacco industry." 

But the league didn't stop there. On Thursday morning, the league released a statement pushing back against the Times report. The newspaper then followed up with a series of tweets refuting the NFL's statement—after which the league responded with another statement.

Here's a point-by-point breakdown of what the Times reported and how both sides responded to each other's claims on Thursday: 

Times on NFL's use of flawed data: "For the last 13 years, the N.F.L. has stood by the research, which, the papers stated, was based on a full accounting of all concussions diagnosed by team physicians from 1996 through 2001. But confidential data obtained by The Times shows that more than 100 diagnosed concussions were omitted from the studies—including some severe injuries to stars like quarterbacks Steve Young and Troy Aikman. The committee then calculated the rates of concussions using the incomplete data, making them appear less frequent than they actually were."

NFL's initial statement: "In fact, the MTBI studies published by the MTBI Committee are clear that the data set had limitations…The studies never claimed to be based on every concussion that was reported or that occurred. Moreover, the fact that not all concussions were reported is consistent with the fact that reporting was strongly encouraged by the League but not mandated, as documents provided to the Times showed."

Times' responses:

NFL's follow-up statement: "The studies themselves expressly noted the limitations in their work and never claimed to be based on every concussion that was reported or that occurred. The fact that not all concussions were reported is consistent with the fact that reporting was strongly encouraged by the League but not mandated, as the documents we provided to the Times showed. We nevertheless agree that these limitations could have been more clearly stated."


Times on Dorothy Mitchell, a former legal liaison who oversaw the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, and her ties to the tobacco industry: "Before joining the N.F.L., Ms. Mitchell, a young Harvard Law School graduate, had been one of five lawyers at Covington & Burling who had provided either lobbying help or legal representation to both the N.F.L. and the tobacco industry, sometimes in the same year."

NFL's initial statement: "Her experience as a young lawyer working on a tobacco case (among many other cases) was entirely unknown to the NFL personnel who hired and supervised her, as well as to members of the MTBI Committee, until they learned of this proposed story."

Times' response:

NFL's follow-up: "At her law firm, Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., Dorothy Mitchell worked on a wide variety of matters, including employment matters for the League and a matter for the Tobacco Institute as a young associate. The NFL did not seek out Ms. Mitchell for employment or know that she had worked on any tobacco matter."


Times on contact between Lorillard general counsel Arthur Stevens and former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue in 1992: "In 1992, amid rising concerns about concussions, Mr. Tisch—the Giants and Lorillard part owner—asked the cigarette company's general counsel, Arthur J. Stevens, to contact the N.F.L. commissioner at the time, Mr. Tagliabue, about certain legal issues…In a letter obtained by The Times, Mr. Stevens referred Mr. Tagliabue to two court cases alleging that the tobacco and asbestos industries had covered up the health risks of their products."

NFL's initial statement: "In fact, neither then-NFL Commissioner, Mr. Tagliabue, the League nor its counsel ever solicited, reviewed, or relied on any advice from anyone at Lorillard or the Tobacco Institute regarding health issues."

Times' response:

NFL's follow-up: "Commissioner Tagliabue did not know Mr. Stevens and does not recall communicating with him prior to or after the October 20 letter. There is no evidence in an extensive review of files that Mr. Tagliabue solicited the advice, reviewed the advice or acted upon the advice. Nor did anyone else at the League ever take any action regarding health issues based on advice from Lorillard or the Tobacco Institute."


Times on the league and tobacco industry sharing lobbyists: "Still, the records show that the two businesses shared lobbyists, lawyers and consultants. Personal correspondence underscored their friendships, including dinner invitations and a request for lobbying advice."

NFL's initial statement: "In fact, the League has never participated—either through its counsel of over 50 years, Covington & Burling, or otherwise—in any joint lobbying efforts with the Tobacco Institute."

Times' response:

NFL's follow-up: "The NFL has worked with Covington & Burling for more than 50 years, and both the NFL and the Tobacco Institute have retained Covington & Burling at various times for lobbying services—as have any number of other companies and individuals in Washington and elsewhere. But the NFL never participated in any joint lobbying efforts with the Tobacco Institute. Regarding health and safety, the NFL retained assistance from Covington & Burling from 2009-2014 for its lobbying efforts in state legislatures to pass youth concussion laws, the 'Lystedt Law,' in all 50 states."
 

Times on NFL's use of the same research firm as the Tobacco Institute: "On at least two occasions in the 1970s and 1980s, the N.F.L. hired a company whose client list included the Tobacco Institute to study player injuries. The league also hired a company — for a matter unrelated to player safety—that had performed a study for the tobacco industry that played down the danger of secondhand smoke."

NFL's response: "The Times asserts a connection between the League and the Tobacco Institute because both hired the Stanford Research Institute (SRI)…In fact, one of the research studies the Times alludes to was jointly commissioned by the NFL and the NFL Players Association. There is no evidence that SRI engaged in misleading or inappropriate research."


Times on former NFL president Neil Austrian: "Neil Austrian, a former N.F.L. president, had previously run an advertising agency that under his leadership reversed its ban on taking tobacco clients. He called Philip Morris 'an honorable company that sets high standards.' It was during his tenure at the N.F.L. that the concussion committee was created."

NFL's response: "Mr. Austrian had no involvement with the MTBI Committee during his tenure at the NFL. Mr. Austrian was responsible for the business entities of the league."


Times on Joe Browne, the NFL's former senior vice president of communications: "When Congress was considering legislation that dealt with when a team owner could relocate a franchise, Joe Browne, a league official sought lobbying advice from a representative of the Tobacco Institute. 'I would like to take the opportunity to sit down and discuss this bill with you further,' Mr. Browne said in a 1982 letter to the institute's president, Sam Chilcote."

NFL's response: "The Times implies that there was a nefarious relationship between Joe Browne and Sam Chilcote. In fact, Joe Browne (then NFL SVP of Communications) built a personal relationship with Sam Chilcote while Mr. Chilcote was at the Distilled Spirits Council in the 1970s…Mr. Browne contacted Mr. Chilcote in 1982 for some advice as someone he knew in Washington, DC about a subject completely unrelated to tobacco, concussions, or any player-related or medical issue. We have seen no evidence—from the Times or otherwise—that demonstrated their relationship had anything to do with tobacco or NFL health and safety."



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12 Year Old Girl Arrested For Pinching Boy’s Butt: “Kids Can’t Even Be Kids”

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And society is officially learning its lessons about how anything that can be considered "offensive" is a criminal offense.

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Barely Half of Student Loans Are Being Repaid | Foundation for Economic Education

Barely Half of Student Loans Are Being Repaid | Foundation for Economic Education: "Total taxpayer exposure, including government guarantees of private loans, is up to $1.2 trillion. This is larger than outstanding auto loans ($1.1 trillion) and credit card debt ($0.7 trillion). The student loan balance is also growing faster than most other types of debt: credit card debt has grown 4.3 percent over the previous year, while housing debt has grown just 0.1 percent. Of the major debt types, only auto debt grew quicker than student loans, at a rate of 12 percent."



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Sunday, March 20, 2016

Study: Knowledge of mass surveillance creates 'chilling effect' and is silencing dissent online

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Thanks largely to whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013, most Americans now realize that the intelligence community monitors and archives all sorts of online behaviors of both foreign nationals and US citizens. But did you know that the very fact that you know this could have subliminally stopped you from speaking out online on issues you care about? Now research suggests that widespread awareness of such mass surveillance could undermine democracy by making citizens fearful of voicing dissenting opinions in public. A paper published last week in Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), found that "the government's online surveillance programs may threaten the disclosure of minority views and contribute to the reinforcement of majority opinion."

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Friday, March 18, 2016

WikiLeaks Accuses Facebook of Censorship Regarding Hillary Clinton Email Release

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Twitter The Hillary Clinton email scandal was once again revived in the news this week, thanks to WikiLeak’s release on Wednesday of an archive of 30,322 emails pulled from a private account she used during her tenure as secretary of state. Two days later, WikiLeaks called Facebook on the carpet for allegedly censoring users’ access via the social network to WikiLeaks’ latest Clinton dispatch. If WikiLeaks’ charge is valid, the tech behemoth that Mark Zuckerberg built could effectively be aiding the Democratic presidential hopeful—and since well before Super Tuesday III, the mainstream media’s christened Democratic front-runner—in her efforts to keep those pesky emails from getting between her and the White House. Here’s a closer look at the dispute, which was fittingly touched off via social media. Below is the tweet WikiLeaks sent out on Friday accusing Facebook of censorship: Dear @Facebook: stop censoring our Hillary Clinton email release. No, really. Stop it. There is no technical excuse. pic.twitter.com/AMbIUiPkid— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 18, 2016 Gauntlet: thrown. But what does it mean? The image included below the tweet’s text suggests a sequence of events, visually summed up in a screen shot, in which a Facebook user had spotted WikiLeaks’ story about the Clinton email release and tried to get to the archive by clicking on WikiLeaks’ link as displayed on his or her Facebook news feed. Instead of taking the user to Clinton’s emails, the click produced a pop-up message containing a “security precaution” that warned, “your computer may be infected with a virus or a malicious browser extension.” So far, still cryptic. Much has been written over the years about how Facebook influences news-gathering and consumption patterns in ways that don’t exactly cultivate a politically enlightened public, and media-watchers have fretted about how Internet-addled Americans are echo-chambering and cherry-picking away their higher faculties and civil liberties while Facebook eats the world. Defenders of the technology megacorp have brandished handy disclaimers to the effect that any narrowing of users’ world views or news feeds has come about as a result of some combination of individual agency and impersonal algorithms (see: hegemony) and not deliberate actions on Facebook’s part to influence which stories, not to mention candidates, are given wide exposure on its hugely influential platform. But WikiLeaks apparently doesn’t view Facebook as operating from the de facto position when it comes to the Hillary Clinton email incident—the language of the accusation clearly points to a deliberate, active attempt to block access to the archive. Wherever the truth lies in this case, this is clearly not the first time WikiLeaks, or founder Julian Assange, has encountered static from a global superpower, and the claim is significant, considering the intense scrutiny surrounding Clinton’s emails and that they were obtained as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request. Basing the tweeted allegation on a technical glitch or a one-off user error would be the kind of rookie mistake that WikiLeaks, having spent several go-rounds at this kind of rodeo, would be ill-advised to make. We’re investigating further and will add updates as more details emerge. A request for comment from Facebook’s office was not returned by press time. Meanwhile, more than 30,000 of Clinton’s emails are now available for perusal in archived format—but they might be best accessed directly on Wikileaks’ site. —Posted by Kasia Anderson

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Brazil is Engulfed by Ruling Class Corruption — and a Dangerous Subversion of Democracy

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Western media is depicting street protests as a noble populist uprising. The facts are much more complicated.

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Proof It Is Rigged: “Fed Moved 93% of Entire Stock Market Since 2008″

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Fact: The Fed has screwed over the country. Monetary policy has been the single most important factor in the economy for some time, and this data proves it.

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Copying Japan: The Big Banks Confess

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by Jeff Nielson, Sprott Money:

Back at the end of 2008, Western central banks (led by the Federal Reserve) embarked upon the most radical, extreme, and simply insane monetary policies ever contemplated in our modern economic era as a supposed response to the Crash of ‘08. Zero-percent interest rates. “Quantitative easing.” Hyper-inflationary levels of [...]

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Mayor of London Savages Obama’s Anti-Brexit Intervention

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'Coming from Uncle Sam, it is a piece of outrageous and exorbitant hypocrisy'

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Monday, March 14, 2016

FBI Orders Teachers To Report Students Who Question Government

FBI Orders Teachers To Report Students Who Question Government: "New federal guidelines have just been introduced across the country, and what they mandate is quite disturbing to civil libertarians. The FBI has now instructed high schools across the nation to report students who in any way criticize government policies and what the report phrases as “western corruption.”"



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Money, power and oil - A closer look at Hillary's emails and the Libyan agenda

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Critics have long questioned why violent intervention was necessary in Libya. Hillary Clinton's recently published emails confirm that it was less about protecting the people from a dictator than about money, banking, and preventing African economic sovereignty. The brief visit of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Libya in October 2011 was referred to by the media as a "victory lap." "We came, we saw, he died!" she crowed in a CBS video interview on hearing of the capture and brutal murder of Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.But the victory lap, write Scott Shane and Jo Becker in the New York Times, was premature. Libya was relegated to the back burner by the State Department, "as the country dissolved into chaos, leading to a civil war that would destabilize the region, fueling the refugee crisis in Europe and allowing the Islamic State to establish a Libyan haven that the United States is now desperately trying to contain." US-NATO intervention was allegedly undertaken on humanitarian grounds, after reports of mass atrocities; but human rights organizations questioned the claims after finding a lack of evidence. Today, however, verifiable atrocities are occurring. As Dan Kovalik wrote in the Huffington Post, "the human rights situation in Libya is a disaster, as 'thousands of detainees [including children] languish in prisons without proper judicial review,' and 'kidnappings and targeted killings are rampant'." Before 2011, Libya had achieved economic independence, with its own water, its own food, its own oil, its own money, and its own state-owned bank. It had arisen under Qaddafi from one of the poorest of countries to the richest in Africa. Education and medical treatment were free; having a home was considered a human right; and Libyans participated in an original system of local democracy. The country boasted the world's largest irrigation system, the Great Man-made River project, which brought water from the desert to the cities and coastal areas; and Qaddafi was embarking on a program to spread this model throughout Africa. But that was before US-NATO forces bombed the irrigation system and wreaked havoc on the country. Today the situation is so dire that President Obama has asked his advisors to draw up options including a new military front in Libya, and the Defense Department is reportedly standing ready with "the full spectrum of military operations required." The Secretary of State's victory lap was indeed premature, if what we're talking about is the officially stated goal of humanitarian intervention. But her newly-released emails reveal another agenda behind the Libyan war; and this one, it seems, was achieved.

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Thursday, March 10, 2016

Ron Paul: Coming American Empire Collapse Will Spur Revolution

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Former Congressman Ron Paul has said that he believes the U.S. empire is on the verge of collapse, but that the imminent collapse will be the best thing that has happened to the country in recent history.  Dr. Paul told attendees at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Texas that America is showing signs of collapsing, just like every other empire before it did. “I believe… what our contention has to be right now is what is happening to our country from within,” he said. “And actually it’s very encouraging. They’re disintegrating… We don’t have to go to war with them.” Ron Paul told the crowd that the coming collapse may be exactly what is needed to wake American citizens up and cause them to “revolt against this insanity”. Personalliberty.com reports: The longtime lawmaker predicted that as the U.S. government dissolves, it will be replaced by a simple system focused on individual freedom. “What do we have today? We have a government that lies, cheats, steals, counterfeits, murders people around the world, puts people in prison without charges,” Paul said, noting that the federal government violates all of the most basic rules of human interaction. Paul said he believes things will [...]

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China Proposes Unprecedented Nationalization Of Insolvent Companies: Banks Will Equitize Non-Performing Loans

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Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/10/2016 05:48 -0500 In what may be the biggest news of the day, and certainly with far greater implications than whatever Mario Draghi will announce in a few hours when we will again witness the ECB doing not “whatever it takes” but “whatever it can do”, moments ago Reuters reported […]

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6 Huge Stories The Mainstream Media Don’t Want You To Know About By Sophie McAdam

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Whistleblowers, Ecocide, top secret trade deals, and shady ties between the Islamic State and the West’s closest allies…here are a few hot topics the mainstream media barely covered in 2015. 1. Any Tragedy That’s Not Western-Centric The outpouring of fury, despair and grief by the corporate press over the November 13 Paris attackshighlighted the bias of the mainstream […]

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Polish Study Confirms Risk From Vaccines Far Greater Than Benefits

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A Polish study conducted in 2012 confirms what many have been saying for a long time, that the risks from vaccines far outweigh any of their perceived benefits. Scientists at the Department of Pediatric Rehabilitation at the Medical University of Bialystok compared a typical childhood vaccination schedule in Poland with those of other countries around the world. They then evaluated the adverse effects associated with the administration of multiple vaccines as well as how individual vaccines affect immunological development and responses. The study was published in the journal Progressive Health Sciences News Target reports: Chemical preservatives, adjuvants and other common vaccine additives were also taken into consideration, and careful attention was given to post-vaccination reactions to vaccines containing these ingredients. More than 70 scientific studies on these aspects were evaluated as part of the review. “Reports in many Polish and foreign medical journals lead us to conclude that postvaccinal complications among children can be observed in sporadic cases and that they are disproportionate to the benefits of vaccination in the elimination of dangerous diseases in childhood,” explains the study. Risks vs. benefits: Vaccines aren’t really worth it After looking at the historical data, Dorota Sienkiewicz and her colleagues determined that [...]

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A Plan To Slash The Exorbitant Cost Of Phone Calls For US Prisoners Got Put On Hold

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A recent ruling by a US appeals court is the latest development in a long battle waged by inmates and their loved ones against phone companies that contract with private prisons. An appeals court issued a stay on the FCC's order to cap the cost of phone calls from prison, which can cost as much as $14 per minute, Last year, in a 3-2 vote, the FCC agreed to cap call rates at 11 cents a minute for prisons.

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Are You Kidding Me? Chinese Exports Plunge 25.4 Percent Compared To Last Year

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We just got more evidence that global trade is absolutely imploding. Chinese exports dropped 25.4 percent during the month of February compared to a year ago, and Chinese imports fell 13.8 percent compared to a year ago. For Chinese exports, that was the worst decline that we have seen since...

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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is “Bullshit”

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The NSA whistleblower expressed strong doubts about the FBI's insistence that Apple has the exclusive technical means to unlock a terrorist's iPhone .

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Kennedy: US 'Wants to Overthrow Democratically Elected Syrian Gov't'

In his recent op-ed article for Politico Magazine, US attorney and nephew of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote that the US decided to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power after he refused to back a Qatari gas pipeline project.

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Monday, March 7, 2016

Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income

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Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth

Who’s winning? Find out how your income compares with every other generation

The full scale of the financial rout facing millennials is revealed today in exclusive new data that points to a perfect storm of factors besetting an entire generation of young adults around the world.

A combination of debt, joblessness, globalisation, demographics and rising house prices is depressing the incomes and prospects of millions of young people across the developed world, resulting in unprecedented inequality between generations.

Continue reading...

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Judge Jeanine: Mitt Romney awoke a sleeping giant

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The Beginning Is Here

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image/Zen Gardnerfrom The Sleuth Journal   “Is everything a conspiracy?  No, just the important stuff.” – Jeff Wells Waking up to the realities presented before us and even more importantly what they imply is a very profound and personal experience. Once we become aware we are living in a world that’s been deliberately fabricated in ways we never would have imagined and that even our own true nature is anything but what we’ve been told, there’s no...

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If a mainstream reporter told the truth, the pillars of reality would crumble

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(NaturalNews) "Imagine this. The public is told a new disease is sweeping the world, threatening the global population with suffering and death. Millions and millions of words are spewed, detailing and reinforcing the threat. Every day, official reports are issued, blaring the new...


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Sunday, March 6, 2016

People Do Not Die Of Cancer! People Die Of Chemotherapy And In Terrible Pain - The Daily Coin

People Do Not Die Of Cancer! People Die Of Chemotherapy And In Terrible Pain - The Daily Coin: "In fact, Dr. Jones states that patients who don’t practice chemotherapy live about 12 years longer (on average) compared to those who follow this therapy.
As a result of his long research, he concluded that conventional cancer therapy reduces life expectancy and accelerates the deterioration of the system. Even though it is aware of this fact, the cancer industry ignores is as it is a billion-dollar industry. Mass media are covering up this because of their connections with the cancer industry.
This study was published in the reputable New York Academy of Sciences journal. Its findings state that breast cancer patients that don’t receive chemotherapy manage to live four times longer compared to those who receive it, and patients who thought that chemotherapy is the best choice usually die three years after they were diagnosed with cancer, and in some cases, even after a month or two."



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Warrantless Stingray Surveillance Deemed Unconstitutional, Proving Cops are Breaking the Law

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

German media twists words in Assad interview

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German ARD broadcaster held an interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad and then twisted his words, Deutsch Turkische Nachrichten reported. The fact that one of Germany's major TV channel's broadcasted an interview with Assad is good, but, sadly, it was depreciated by the wrong interpretation of his words. In the interview, Assad commented on the current developments in Syria. The president made clear that a multitude of militants and rebels armed by foreign sponsors are active in the country. According to the article, journalist Thomas Aders asked Assad whether Syria is still a sovereign state or its policy is "dictated by Tehran or the Kremlin." Here is what Assad answered: "Before the crisis, Israel occupied our territory, and our sovereignty was not full until we reclaimed it. Now, with the crisis underway, our country is flooded with various terrorists and American and allies' aircraft are violating our airspace. Our sovereignty is not full again. At the same time, Syria is still a sovereign country, maybe not a fully sovereign one, with a constitution, state institutions and care of its people. There are elements of foreign power in Syria, and this is the main problem."

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Another Phony Jobs Report

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Another Phony Jobs Report And if true it is damning The monthly payroll jobs reports have become a bad joke. No growth in real retail sales, but 55,000 retail trade new jobs in February. No growth in real consumer income, but 40,000 more waitresses and bartenders. 86,000 new jobs in Education, health services, and social…

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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Top Heart Surgeon Reveals The Real Cause Of Heart Disease

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A top U.S. heart surgeon has revealed that the real cause of heart disease is not what doctors have been telling you. Dr. Dwight Lundell is a former Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital in Arizona. After performing 5,000 open-heart surgeries through the course of his 25-year career he discovered that the conventional treatments offered to patients were both ineffective and potentially dangerous: We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries,today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled “opinion makers.”  Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood . The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite [...]

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

How Billionaires Use Non-Profits to Bypass Governments and Force Their Agendas on Humanity

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As wealth becomes concentrated in fewer hands, so does political and social power via foundations and non-profits.

As wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the billionaire class is increasingly turning to foundations and non-profits to enact the change they would like to see in the world. Amid the rise of philanthrocapitalism, growing numbers of critics are raising serious questions about whether this outsized influence is doing more harm than good.

In the January issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran journalist Michael Massing noted that, in the past 15 years alone, “the number of foundations with a billion dollars or more in assets has doubled, to more than eighty.” The philanthropic sector in the United States is far more significant than in Europe, fueled in part by generous tax write-offs, which the U.S. public subsidizes to the tune of $40 billion a year.

As Massing observes, billionaires are not just handing over their money, they have ideas about how it should be used, and their vision often aligns with their own economic interests. For this reason, the philanthropy industry deserves rigorous scrutiny, not a free pass because it is in the service of good.

Massing’s argument followed a study released in January by the watchdog organization Global Policy Forum, which found that philanthropic foundations are so powerful they are allowing wealthy individuals to bypass governments and international bodies like the United Nations in pursuit of their own agendas. What’s more, this outsized influence is concentrated in the United States, where 19 out of the top 27 largest foundations are based. These 27 foundations together possess $360 billion, write authors Jens Martens and Karolin Seitz.

Such dramatic wealth accumulation has disturbing implications. "What is the impact of framing the problems and defining development solutions by applying the business logic of profit-making institutions to philanthropic activities, for instance by results-based management or the focus on technological quick-win solutions in the sectors of health and agriculture?" the report asks.

These questions are not new, as social movements have long raised the alarm about the global impact of the ever-expanding philanthropy sector. In 2010, the international peasant movement La Via Campesina blasted the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s acquisition of Monsanto shares as proof that its role in privatizing the global food supply and exporting big agribusiness, from Africa to North America, should be viewed through a commercial rather than humanitarian lens.

“It is really shocking for the peasant organizations and social movements in Haiti to learn about the decision of the [Gates] Foundation to buy Monsanto shares while it is giving money for agricultural projects in Haiti that promote the company’s seed and agrochemicals,” said Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Haitian Peasant Movement of Papaye and Caribbean coordinator of La Via Campesina at the time. “The peasant organizations in Haiti want to denounce this policy which is against the interests of 80 percent of the Haitian population, and is against peasant agriculture—the base of Haiti’s food production.”

The Gates Foundation more recently fell under scrutiny from the advocacy organization Global Justice Now, which released a report in January raising concerns about the institution’s track record on education, food and health care policies.

“The Gates Foundation has rapidly become the most influential actor in the world of global health and agricultural policies, but there’s no oversight or accountability in how that influence is managed,” said Polly Jones of Global Justice Now. “This concentration of power and influence is even more problematic when you consider that the philanthropic vision of the Gates Foundation seems to be largely based on the values of corporate America. The foundation is relentlessly promoting big business-based initiatives such as industrial agriculture, private health care and education. But these are all potentially exacerbating the problems of poverty and lack of access to basic resources that the foundation is supposed to be alleviating.”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, raised eyebrows in December when they announced they would give away 99 percent of their wealth. As it turned out, this was not a giveaway at all, but a shifting of funds into their own limited liability company (LLC). Just weeks later, Zuckerberg lashed out at Indian media justice advocates who raised concerns about his company’s efforts to undermine net neutrality protections in their country.

Like many others, Massing is calling for greater transparency, not only for foundations but for think tanks, Hollywood, Silicon Valley and universities. Pointing to the website Inside Philanthropy, whose stated purpose is to “pull back the curtain on one of the most powerful and dynamic forces shaping society,” Massing argues that far greater and better-resourced scrutiny is needed. “There remains the question of how to pay for all this,” writes Massing, posing: “Is there perhaps a consortium of donors out there willing to fund an operation that would part the curtains on its own world?”

But some argue that we already have all the information we need to be concerned. In December, Vandana Shiva, an ecofeminist and activist, wrote in response to Zuckerberg’s move in India that a “collective corporate assault is underway globally. Having lined up all their ducks, veterans of corporate America such as Bill Gates are being joined by the next wave of philanthro-corporate Imperialists, including Mark Zuckerberg.”

“It is an enclosure of the commons,” she continued, “which are ‘commons’ because they guarantee access to the commoner, whether it be seed, water, information or internet.”

 

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016

"We're In Trouble": Stark Warning By Alan Greenspan +Videos

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ZeroHedge As for whether Dodd-Frank has solved anything, Greenspan says no: "The regulations are supposed to be making changes of addressing the problems that existed in 2008 or leading up to 2008. It's not doing that. 'Too Big to Fail' is a critical issue back then, and now. And, there is nothing in Dodd-Frank which actually addresses this issue." And finally, here’s the punchline.

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#OscarsSoScary | Free Range Kids

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When our whole society is at odds about everything else — immigrants, the economy, education — perhaps the one thing we can all agree on (even while congratulating ourselves for being so evolved) is that we hate rape, especially the rape of children. This shared revulsion could be the only glue still holding us together.



The problem with this particular glue is that we have poured it all over everything, to the point where it sticks to almost every aspect of our lives. It’s not just all over the Oscars, and TV, and the news. It’s part of our everyday lives. When we consider giving our kids even an ounce of unsupervised time, we can’t get the door open because it, too, is glued shut with child rape fear.



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Financial Precipice à la 1929?

https://clanagainstthegrain.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/financial-precipice-a-la-1929/

Douglas Rushkoff’s vision for a new, better world

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/15982/douglas-rushkoff-throwing-rocks-at-the-google-bus-interview/

Worst of all, this obligation to grow has turned otherwise promising companies into extractive monopolies. In order to grow, they use scorched-earth practices that take value from people and places and turn it into capital for their shareholders. This growth mandate is cause for the increasing disparity of wealth, and it has been energized and accelerated by digital technology. Digital technology was supposed to distribute this wealth to more people, not impoverish the many for the wealth of a few.