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Homeland Security detains US journalist returning from Beirut, tries to confiscate phones
RT | July 22, 2016 A Wall Street Journal reporter returning from Beirut was taken into holding, grilled and asked to hand over her phones by the Department of Homeland Security at Los Angeles International Airport. When the journalist, Maria Abi-Habib, returned from Beirut, it was another ordinary work trip. But after touching down at […]
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New Zika Case Raises Questions on Transmission
An unnamed individual in Utah has been reported to be carrying the Zika virus, but no one is quite sure how the virus was transmitted to the person. Experts are already clear that Zika transmits through mosquito bites and sexual contact with someone who is infected with the virus. They are also certain that the virus is tied to microcephaly in unborn babies. However, this case is incredibly unusual, because the person has no known risk factors for developing the virus.
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Oliver Stone: Pokémon Go is ‘Surveillance Capitalism’ for a Robotic Society
Press Association
The Guardian
Film director Oliver Stone has branded the popular gaming app Pokémon Go a “new level of invasion” of privacy that could lead to “totalitarianism”.
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Turkey’s failed coup throws up surprises
By M K Bhadrakumar – India Punchline – July 21, 2016 What emerges on the sixth day of the failed coup attempt in Turkey is that three inflection points could be in play in the Turkish-American relations in the coming days and weeks. They are: The functioning of the Incirlik Air Base on the Syrian […]
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New Dinosaur with Tiny T-Rex Arms Discovered
The Tyrannosaurus Rex (T-Rex) may have been the go-to dinosaur we thought of in terms of a large body and tiny arms, however, archaeologists have since discovered a new predatory beast with similarly proportioned appendages.
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THE TRANSHUMANIST SCRAPBOOK: PART ANIMAL PART MACHINE ...
5/5 (16) It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain pace with technology and its moral and ethical implications. Genetic engineers have already created chimerical creatures, part one species, part another, and pigs and rats and other…
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John Potash on his book Drugs as Weapons Against Us
John Potash discusses his book Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and other Activists. We talk about the role narcotics trafficking as has played in the rise of the American oligarchy and how this self-anointed elite has weaponized drugs in order to quell meaningful dissent.
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John Potash on his book Drugs as Weapons Against Us
John Potash discusses his book Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and other Activists. We talk about the role narcotics trafficking as has played in the rise of the American oligarchy and how this self-anointed elite has weaponized drugs in order to quell meaningful dissent.
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Chinese Premier, IMF Chief warn against Brexit uncertainty
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (4th from left) with IMF chief Christine Lagarde at the 1 + 6 roundtable on promoting global growth at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on 22 July 2016 [Image: IMF]In Beijing on Friday, IMF chief Christine Lagarde called on Europe to quickly resolve questions over Britain’s exit from the European Union.
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China’s working age population to fall 23% by 2050
With its working age population declining as the elderly population increases, China scrapped its one-child policy in 2015, allowing all couples to have a second child [Xinhua]China’s working age population would fall more than 23 per cent to around 700 million by the year 2050, according to data released Friday by a human resource official.
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EU ECONOMICS MEETS DEMOCRACY – interviewed by the Green European Journal
The architecture of the European Union institutions is flawed. Its leaders seem to deny the ineffectiveness of the response given to the financial and economic crisis as we see inequality and extremism on the rise. The European Union will be … Continue reading →
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Freedom Cells Network UPDATE
Derrick Broze gives an update on the progress of the Freedom Cell Network and the Houston Freedom Cell. Organize here: http://freedomcells.coeo.cc FB page: https://www.facebook.com/Freedom-Cell… Launching a Homestead project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatlU… Find more videos like this at: www.theconsciousresistance.com
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Exploring Geo-Mutualist Panarchism w/ Will Schnack
Derrick Broze interviews writer, author, and activist Will Schnack. Will has been an organizer in North Texas for years, including co-founding the Black Cat Collective and the People’s Arcane School. Will runs the website Evolution of Consent which promotes his views on what he calls Geo-Mutualist Panarchism. http://evolutionofconsent.com/ Principle of Fair Regard: http://evolutionofconsent.com/?p=811 The Philosophy […]
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Trump Enrages the War Party
This election season is so much fun because Donald Trump keeps enraging all the right people – and his timing is perfect. Just as the Republican convention was at its height, with his running mate up there on the podium perorating about the alleged threat of Vladimir Putin, along comes Donald with an interview in […]
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From Nice to the Middle East: The Only Way To Challenge ISIS
I visited Iraq in 1999. At the time, there were no so-called “jihadis” espousing the principles of “jihadism”, whatever the interpretation may be. On the outskirts of Baghdad was a military training camp, not for “al-Qaeda”, but for “Mojahedin-e-Khalq”, an Iranian militant exile group that worked, with foreign funding and arms, to overthrow the Iranian […]
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Turkey’s Baffling Coup
Military coups – successful or otherwise – follow a predictable pattern in Turkey. Political groups – typically Islamists – deemed by soldiers to be antagonistic to Kemal Atatürk’s vision of a secular Turkey gain increasing power. Tensions rise, often accompanied by violence on the streets. Then the military steps in, exercising what the soldiers claim […]
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Scots express safety concerns after UK submarine collides with merchant ship off Gibraltar
By Stuart Rodger | CommonSpace | July 21, 2016 ANTI-NUCLEAR activists have claimed that a recent incident off the coast of Gibraltar in which a nuclear-powered submarine made a “glancing collision” with a merchant vessel shows the “risks” of the technology. A statement on the Ministry of Defence website said the collision took place at approximately […]
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On the Storm That Hit Turkey That Night
While the ‘coup attempt’ in Turkey carried an altogether different meaning in other countries, such as Pakistan, from what the Turks themselves thought of it, it can hardly be gainsaid that the episode is likely to have some serious repercussions both in internal and external sphere of Turkish polity.
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More Exposure Deaths near Shirqat; 37 Killed in Iraq
On the eve or liberation, refugees from Shirqat are dying from extreme heat.
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The Humiliation Of Ted Cruz, Mike Pence, The Republican Party-- While The Demented Donald Laughs At America
The superficially crafted messaging of the Republican convention has been stepped on and obliterated every day. But Hillary better not feel powerful for having had anything to do with it. It's all Trump and his incompetent, deranged micro-campaign that's causing all the seemingly self-destructive chaos. Trump lifted those plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama's speech and put them into Melania's address and ate up two-and-a-half days of headlines that might have gone to republican messaging.
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New Sanctions Against Kim Jong-un
On July 7, 2016, the United States included the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the sanctions list for human rights violations. The statement made by the U.S. Treasury lists a total of 15 individuals, including Kim Jong-un, and 8 organizations directly involved in human rights violations, tracking down defectors and carrying out censorship.
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In Massive Convention Affront to Trump, Ted Cruz Pointedly Refuses to Endorse Him for Presidency, Tells Republican Delegates They Are Free to Vote Their Conscience, and Is Booed Off Stage by Crazed Fanatics
United Front Against Austerity | Tax Wall Street Party Morning Briefing | Thursday, July 21, 2016 Campaign Boss Manafort May Come Under Pressure to Resign; After 36 Hours of Lying About Melania’s Plagiarized Speech, Trump Campaign Offers Up a Scapegoat Staffer Who Claims She Included Paragraphs from Michelle Obama by Mistake, but Skepticism Persists; Pence [...]
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The Puzzle of the US Multi-Base Deal with Iraq's Kurds- One On Iran’s Border
LinkIt’s not a puzzle! None of the news contained below will come as a surprise to my readers- All of whom already know the US did not view Iraq’s territorial integrity as sacrosanct (above or beyond criticism, change, or interference). Any more then it views Syria’s or Turkey’s territorial integrity as beyond interference.
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The Christian Pastor Who Uses Magic Mushrooms to Connect With God
(ANTIMEDIA) It’s always interesting to encounter alternative narratives from insiders within an organization. I recently had the pleasure of meeting a very peculiar individual. He is a church pastor who wishes to remain anonymous, so we will call him Pastor Shawn.
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US imposes new sanctions on Assad government
Adam J. Szubin, US Treasury Department’s acting undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Press TV – July 21, 2016 The United States has imposed new sanctions on Syria, targeting the arms and financial networks of the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The Department of the Treasury on Thursday included eight individuals and seven entities to […]
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A Story Idea
Someone comes up with a drug, or a technology, that gives the user perfect recall, the ability to rerun, in full detail, any part of his life. How would it get used?One possibility is for self-education. Observing selected past experiences with a fifty year old mind and seventeen year old eyes might teach me a good deal about mistakes I had made, some of which I might still be making. It might provide information about what it was like to be seventeen useful in dealing with current teenagers, including my own children. In life as it now is, we get to see each episode only once.
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Liberty Links 7/21/16
23 links today. Enjoy.
What I Saw Last Friday in Hebron (One of the most uplifting articles I’ve read all year, Haaretz)
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Reaction of Elena Isinbaeva, two-time Olympic gold medalist, a three-time World Champion and current world record holder
Reaction of Elena Isinbaeva, two-time Olympic gold medalist (2004 and 2008), a three-time World Champion (2005, 2007 and 2013), the current world record holder. She has never been implicated in
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Joelle Gergis, Data Torturer
In 2012, the then much ballyhoo-ed Australian temperature reconstruction of Gergis et al 2012 mysteriously disappeared from Journal of Climate after being criticized at Climate Audit. Now, more than four years later, a successor article has finally been published. Gergis says that the only problem with the original article was a “typo” in a single word.
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Donald Trump and The Boy Who Cried Wolf
In 1964, Fact magazine published an article whose headline was "1,189 Psychiatrists Say Goldwater Is Psychologically Unfit To Be President." It included a variety of detailed and unflattering diagnoses of the Republican candidate for president by psychiatrists none of whom had actually examined him
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PBC News & Comment: Trump Coronation in Cleveland Tonight
Climax in Cleveland expected to be Trump’s acceptance speech, but Peter Thiel’s “more capitalism, less democracy” message may overshadow Donald…..--Trump steps on his own publicity, with reckless comments about NATO and threat to pull out of NAFTA “in a split second”
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TO PARAPHRASE CHURCHILL, TURKEY RIGHT NOW IS A RIDDLE WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY INSIDE AN ENIGMA
By John Chuckman | Aletho News | July 21, 2016 Events in Turkey just become stranger with each passing day. We now have Middle Eastern and Persian sources, cited by Russian and German papers, that Russia’s security agencies overheard helicopter radio transmissions by the coup participants, and President Putin warned Erdogan about what was happening, […]
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‘Bloody massacres’: Syria appeals to UN after French & US airstrikes ‘kill over 140 civilians’
Syria is demanding the UN take action after it says French war planes killed more than 120 civilians during airstrikes on Tuesday near the Turkish-Syrian border. The deaths came just a day after US air assaults killed a further 20 people in Manbij. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the UN secretary general and to the president of the […]
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How to Actually Make America Great Again
Earlier this week, I published a lengthy thought piece titled, America is Being Divided and Conquered Into Oblivion. I ended it with the following paragraphs:
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Bullet points – intelligence items, eye witness accounts, gleaned in the aftermath of Bastille Day massacre 2016
(Thanks to my friend “P” for sending me these various items! The Saker) Bullet points – intelligence items, eye witness accounts, gleaned in the aftermath of Bastille Day massacre 2016 – thanks tp Hicham
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#PumpUpThaVolume: July 21, 2016
Media Monarchy plays Emily King, Jane Ellen Bryant, Jah Wobble and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for July 21, 2016. ♬
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Rupert Murdoch New Acting CEO of Fox News After Roger Ailes Resigns
(ZHE) Following a barrage of allegations of sexual misconduct involving Fox News’ iconic CEO Roger Ailes, it seemed like it was only a formality before the departure was announced, and sure enough, moments ago it became official when Fox announced that Ailes has resigned as CEO and Chairman.
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Meet the Virtual Robot That is Helping People with Depression and PTSD
(ANTIMEDIA) Depression, which affects 6.7 percent of the United States population, is a notoriously difficult disorder to diagnose.
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The Ridiculous Reason Police Are Now Mad at Hillary Clinton and the DNC
(ANTIMEDIA) Philadelphia, PA — The Philadelphia police lashed out at Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign in a statement issued Wednesday by the president of the Fraternal Order of Police union, John J. McNesby.
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Russia Banned: Are Globalist Politics Threatening to Ruin the Olympic Games?
21st Century Wire says…
No arena is too sacred for international power politics. Now, a recent Olympic Committee doping investigation in Russian athletes has turned into a geopolitical incident. -
Ron Paul on The 28 Pages – Finally Revealed
After some 14 years of classification, the hidden 28 pages of the Senate 9/11 report were released last Friday – not coincidentally the exact moment you release something when you don’t want much press coverage. But the explosive revelations – and even more explosive implications – are now finally coming out. In today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report we interview the individual who should take much credit for the release of these papers. Brian McGlinchey founded the group 28Pages.org to educate the population and to push for the release of the pages.
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