Saturday, January 23, 2016
As the Zika virus rages, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018
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The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness. What until recently was a seemingly routine public health problem for countries that are home to a certain type of mosquito has morphed into a potentially culture-shaping phenomenon in which the populations of several nations have been asked to delay procreation. The World Health Organization says at least 20 countries or territories in the region, including Barbados and Bolivia, Guadeloupe and Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Panama, have registered transmission of the virus.
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Friday, January 22, 2016
Mitch McConnell Moves to Grant the President Unlimited War Powers with No Expiration Date
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This morning, I came across an extremely important story with tremendous long-term negative implications for freedom in these United States. It relates to the fact that the always shady Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is moving to fast track an Authorization of Military…
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France Announce Permanent Police State Until ISIS Is ‘Defeated’
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said that France will keep its state of emergency status until ISIS have been completely defeated, hinting at a more permanent police state in France. The emergency measures were initially introduced after the Paris attacks on the 13th November 2015. Police in France currently have extended powers to conduct raids and impose house arrests without a court order. BBC News reports: Mr Valls also warned that Europe’s migration crisis was now putting the European Union itself at grave risk. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to hold talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Berlin . EU countries hope Turkey will help to control the flow of migrants reaching the EU from Syria and other conflict zones. Interviewed by the BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Valls said France was “at war”, which meant “using all means in our democracy under the rule of law to protect French people”. When asked how long he envisaged the state of emergency remaining, Mr Valls said: “The time necessary. We cannot always live all the time in a state of emergency.” “As long as the threat is [...]
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The Right to Tell the Government to Go to Hell: Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens
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By John Whitehead, Constitutional and Civil Rights Attorney, the Rutherford Institute. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”― George Orwell Free speech is not for the faint … Continue reading →
The Right to Tell the Government to Go to Hell: Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens was originally published on Washington's Blog
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Thursday, January 21, 2016
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
A Run On The Banks Begins In Italy As Italian Banking Stocks Collapse
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The Italian financial meltdown that we have been waiting for has finally arrived. For quite a long time I have been warning my readers to watch Italy, and now people are starting to understand why. Italian banking stocks continued their collapse for a fifth consecutive day on Wednesday, and nervous Italians are beginning to quietly [...]
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Getting the Idea of Government & Political Authority Out of Your Mind
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Political authority, or the authority of State, or the authority of Government, is something the average person virtually never questions. Almost everyone goes through their entire life believing that the Government – although it’s almost always composed of provable criminals, cheats and liars – still has a solid basis for its political authority. Many people, whether left, […]
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Monday, January 18, 2016
The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts
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The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud Paul Craig Roberts In the last years of the 20th century fraud entered US foreign policy in a new way. On false pretenses Washington dismantled Yugoslavia and Serbia in order to advance an undeclared agenda. In the 21st century this fraud multiplied many times. Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, and…
The post The 21st Century: An Era Of Fraud — Paul Craig Roberts appeared first on PaulCraigRoberts.org.
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
Obama’s Appointee to Head the FDA is a Big Pharma Mega-Lobbyist
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by Daniel Barker, Natural News:
In his last months in office, President Obama continues to pursue his policy of appointing industry insiders and lobbyists to important posts within the federal government.
A glaring example is his recent nomination of Dr. Robert Califf to become the new head of the FDA when current commissioner Margaret Hamburg [...]
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