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Having decided in the face of a mountain of evidence (more on that later)that the Syrian government had 'crossed the red line' by useing chemical weapons against rebels trying to overthrow the regime, the Obama administration has decided to start sending arms to anti-Assad rebels for the first time since, according to reports from Washington.
A leaked internal memorandum reveals the Obama administration has assessed that chemical weapons, reported to be the nerve gas sarin, were used multiple times in battle against the Syrian rebels. The 'intelligence community' obviously taking time off from spying on Ametican citizens, concluded that forces loyal to Assad regime used chemical weapons on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year, according to the memo, as cited by The New York Times.'
Read longer article on The Obama Administration's Accusations
Now a little of that mountain of contradictory evidence.
'Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.
Carla del P
onte, a member of the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, told Swiss TV there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof," that rebels seeking to oust Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad had used the nerve agent.'
Read more on Syrian Rebels Use Of Sarin Gas
The whole story about use of illegal weapons by the Assad regime against rebels in Syria looks very staged. Use of poison gas is illegal no matter what quantity is used. Now Bashar Assad might be an odious tyrant but he is not stupid. He would not risk turning his few allies against him and causing outrage among the mostly indifferent international community to score a small victory, he would take out rebel headquarters or their most heavily occupied baes. So is the sarin gas story fabricated as an excuse for this?
'American newspaper USA Today quoted Christopher Harmer, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, as saying that the US is vetting to use Turkey's Incirlik Air Base, which is technically a NATO air base, as a hub for supplying militants in Syria with weapons.
"The US moves cargo through there all the time," Harmer said, adding that establishing a supply route to the militants "is not that hard." The report added that the US-supplied weapons are planned to reach terrorists in Syria's northern city of Aleppo through southern Turkey.'
Read more on US Arms Shipments To Syrian Rebels via Turkey
The front page story run by The Daily Mail was quickly removed from the online edition (On the orders of British and US Security Agencies? You may say that, I could not possibly comment.) Fortunately some canny libertarians and anti - war liberals (as opposed to war mongering neo - fascists posing as 'progressive liberals' had the presnce of mind to photograph it. Images cannot be indexed except by the test with in the meta dats 'alt text' parameter. So it's a little hard to read but you can see enough to understand what is being said.
Obama Admin Denies Saying "No Boots on the Ground" in Syria After Saying It 16 Times
This is our second report today that catches Barack Obama and his administration of 'homies' in a blatant lie. The first related to the TTIP trade treaty, this one concerns the decision to deploy American ground troops in Syria, after Obama had repeatedly stated there would never be any US soldiers on the ground in Syria
Russia's Surprise Withdrawal From Syria? "If We Don't Go Away, We Can't Come back Again.
There is no doubt that the withdrawal is not quite what it seems to be, but more likely a tactical move by the Russians. The Kremlin feels it has done enough to secure the regime of President Assad, the remnants of the Sunni Muslim Free Syrian Army are no longer capable of mounting a challenge and the Syrians, along with Shi'ite militias in Iraq and Kurdish irregulars, backed by Iranian Republic an Guard troops ought to be capable of dealing with ISIS
Obama Implosion - Is The US Military Close To Mutiny Over Obama's alliance With Al Qaeda.Barack Obama and other members of his failed administration are desperate to get war in Syria back on track to divert attention in the USA from several unfording catastrophes caused by political incompetence and idological intransigence. But when loss of confidence in the Commander - in - Chief brings a nation's military to the brink of mutiny, that nation is clearly facing social breakdown.
Global Nuclear War Seems Inevitable Now
The Daily Stirrer has been warning for long enough our current crop of genocidal idiots political leaders were steering a course that made war inevitable. well now the first shosts have been fired, a couple of limited nuclear strikes on Syria by Israel probably with American backing. Head for the hills everyone.
Strange Case Of Disappearing News: Is Obama Killing The Internet.
Recently we have noticed a number of the kind of news items ignored by mainstream media but loved by readers of new media news sites have returned error messages that suggest the page is being blocked when people try to access them. As the blocked stories are invariably embarrassing to big government and its corporate cronies, is Obama making good his threat to censor the internet?
The Most Secretive And Oppressive regime In The Modern World.
When talk turns to the suppression of free speech by totalitarian regimes, we think of Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Nazi Germany, the theocratic dictorships of the middle east and the regimes of bemedalled buffoons with a taste for killing their country's citizens. but increasingly it is governments in the west that are suppressing freee speech.
Songs Of Glory (Songs Of War)
As the situation nears breaking point in Syria, Russia, Iran and China are determined to to allow the Assad regime to fall, the rebellion has fragmented with factions turning on each other and the western powers are getting more desperate to install a puppet regime. Time then to resurrect this antoi war poem from 2003
What Happened To The Idea Of Financiasl Privacy
Not long ago I posted a report here about the near - criminal Payday Loans industry, their usurious interest rates and implacable pursuit of defaulters. I have never had any dealings with loan sharks so a little research was necessary, a few clicks and I was ready to write.Since then, although I gave no personal details to anybody I have received a steady stream of ...
Obama's Lust For War Could Turn Out Very Badly For The West
For two years the great peacemaker and joybringer, Mr. Hopey Changey Man himself, Brack Hussein Obama has been trying to find a way to intervene in the Syrian civil war on the side of the anti Assad rebels and fanatical Islamic Jihadists without pissing off Russia and China too much.
Even the United Nations Knows Syrian Rebels Used Chemical Weapons So Why Is Obama Still Accusing Assad
Obama's latest war is bogged down in Syria, in spite of the USA being supported by usual suspects, the United Kingdom and France the phalanx of Syrian allies which inclueds Russia, Iran and China looks a bit too formidable to persuade the limp wristed one it is safe to invade or start bombing. So all he has is a war of words, and he's losing that.
Fear and Panic: how To Create Threats and Enemies
Fear and panic has always been one of the most potent weapons of tyrants and wannabe tyrants. But in an world lacking enemies how do the elitists of the New World Order create enough fear and panic to persuade populations to surrender freedom and live under a global totalitarian government?
Has Everybody Forgotten Obama's War
The American military machine has just chalked up the grim statistic of its 2,000th fatality since America troops first surged into Afganistan to defeat "insurgents" whose families had lived in that country for many generations. The invasion was justifed in the aftermath of September 11 by the myth that Afghanistan was a ...
Just How Close Are We To World War Three
Have you read or heard in your news supplier of choice of the recent massive troop movements in Israel, the massive build up of British, French and American warships around the approaches to the Persian gulf or just how badly the situations in Egypt and Libya have deteriorated since ...
Ignore The warmongering Left's Calls For Intervention In Syria
Morons to the right of me, idiots to the left. What are us libertarians to do as we find ourselves in our customary position, clinging to a raft of common sense as we try to navigate a course through a sea of insanity. My stance on the trouble spots of the middle east has always been the same, firmly non interventionist and I am not shifting as the propaganda ...
Obama Talks The Talk But Dare Not Visit Afghanistan In Daylight
Todays mainstream news papers and broadcast bulletins are full of the Superhero Barack Obama's daredevil visit to Afghanistan. The man who liberated Libya single handed and took out Osama Bin Laden (or a Pakistani pensioner with a beard) in a daring solo raid behind enemy lines stormed into the Afghan capital, Kabul, made a speech that left hundreds of Taliban fighters dead and saw others fleeing for the mountains with their arses on fire then left again all in the space of ...
Syrian Rebels Say West Is Already Aiding Thier Uprising.
The mainstream media are all agog today over something The Daily Stirrer and other libertarian blogs have been telling you for weeks. There are already western military personnel on the ground in Syria, aiding the uprising against the government of President Assad.Western powers have been providing military support and equipment to the Syrian rebel fighter, one of ...
Syria's Dirty War Looks Set To Get Dirtier
'From unobtrusive, anonymous offices scattered around the middle east, in Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, CIA officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a programme of massive arms shipment to Syria's rebels. The western powers operation to support those trying to overthrow the Assad regime is officially denied and ...
Israel Will Not Warn USA Before Launching A Strike Against Iran
Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, a U.S. intelligence official familiar with the discussions has ytold Associated Press. The prediction, delivered in a series of private, top-level discussions raises tension in the middle east ahead of meetings in the coming days at the White House and Capitol Hill. Israeli officials said that if they eventually decide to launch a strike is necessary, they would not ...
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European Union Goes The Full Nine Orwells
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Germany Rejects Yazidi Asylum Seekers Fleeing Presecution By Islamic Extremists
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French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel exchange the French-German friendship treaty during the signing ceremony, on January 22, 2019 in the town hall of Aachen, western Germany. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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The left wing wankerati will not doubt be screaming about racism and xenophobia when they learn of the latest exploits of the Yellow vest movement. This time it is the German branch of the movement who were out in the streets protesting against the latest step Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel and The Boy Macron have taken towards politically integrating Germany and France, a plot not mentioned by mainstream media but on which Original Boggart Blog and The Daily Stirrer have been following developments
The Yellow Vests, Deplorables and Gammons Are Here To Stay
The Gilets Jaunes (yellow vest)movement, which began as a Facebook group for dissatisfied French drivers almost a year ago and since the Macron government proposed a hike in fuel taxes for petrol and diesel cars spakred the first street protests, has mushroomed into a people's rebellion against globalism and corporatism. It has worried the French establishment and succeeded in forcing the usually arrogant and imperious President Macron into offering what globalist fellow travellers in mainstream media call major concessions from the government,
As is usual at this point in January the world's financial and political elite are assembling in the Davos - Kloisters ski resort in the Swiss Alps for the World Economic Forum. These people, who have travelled by private jet, often half way round the wold to get to the jolly, their vision of ever-closer commercial and political ties, i.e. a totalitarian world government made up of appointees from the political, business and academic elite...
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Furious Yellow Vest protestors Clash with police ahead of Macron's summit with MayorsFrance's crisis surrounding the presidency of Emmanuel Macron's and his elitist style of governing continued to escalate today as poll showed Marcon's approval ratings plummeting to new lows and protestors staging angry demonstrations across the country. The so called Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) protests which started in November have previously been confined to weekends but are now starting to take place throughout the week.
Brexit Is Now About More Than Leaving The EUUntil now we have not posted anything in the past few days on Brexit. Our position is well know to our readers, let's face it, the saturation coverage left nothing new to be said. The whole thing is a craptangle, but it was obvious from when the Conservative Party engineered a situation in which Theresa May was left as the only candidate for the leadership that there could be no other outcome.
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West Yorkshire Police have arrested 55 men in connection with alleged historic child sexual abuse. Detectives investigating allegations grooming and sexual abuse of under age girls and vulnerable young women in the Kirklees region of Yorkshire have arrested 55 men as part of an ongoing investigation. Arrests in the case began back in November 2018, but details have only just ben released. The individuals were arrested from addresses in West Yorkshire Police revealed today.
First Swedish Yellow Vest Protest -Female speaker: "Put feminism on hold for 10-20 years"
A Demonstration held in central Stockholm last weekrnd was the first major event in Sweden to feature Yellow Vests. There have been previous small protests by groups of people wearing the symbolic yellow vests but the weekend's even represents an escalation in support of the movement. This time, people gathered at Norrmalmstorg to show their dissatisfaction with how Sweden is governed.
Globalisation, The Davosocracy and the PushbackFrench writer and political philosopher Renaud Camus, who found fame (or notoriety perhaps,) as the first academic to propose the theory of the "Great Replacement (link goes to French language video)," aired his thoughts to news reporters about the wave of riots and civil unrest that has rocked France over the past two months, giving his opinion that the recent "Yellow Vest" protests are a grassroots reaction against the Davos elite who view working people as worthless "human Nutella."
Globalisation, The Davocracy and the PushbackFrench writer and political philosopher Renaud Camus, who was the first academic to propose the theory of the ">Great Replacement " aired his thoughts about the wave of riots and civil unrest that has rocked France over the past two months, saying the recent "Yellow Vest" protests are a grassroots reaction against the Davos elite who view working people as worthless "human Nutella."
UK academic says Integrity Initiative fatally hurt by leaksThe Integrity Initiative, a UK based NGO set up to combat fake news by spreading the fake news governments want us to see is in trouble, in fact some of its critics say it is so damaged by leaks revealing the organisation dismissed true reports as misinformation and promoted goverment favourable narratives which were fabricated to divert and distract attention from those organisations trying to report events with integrity ...
Macron May Trigger EU Wide Crisis With Yellow Vest CrackdownWith no sign of an end to their protests, the Yellow Vest movement looks to have created the perfect storm of economic, political and social problems for political novice turned national leader, President Emmanuel Macron [ ... ] Ignoring the problem made him look weak. All he can do to get himself out of the situation is forget his globalist handlers, put France first, resign and step aside for new elections,
'Hate Speech' Convictions In Sweden Soar Tenfold As Government Cracks Down On Critics Of It's Loonytoons Migration PolicySwede Tomas Åberg, who leads online hate speech monitoring vigilante monitoring "Näthatsgranskaren" w tax funds hich is funded by taxpayers money to carry out the task it's self - righteous supporters appointed themselves for, that of mass reporting European Swedes who write critical coments about mass immigration and its damaging effects on society on Facebook and other social media sites.
Google is the enemy and must be destroyed, or freedom dies forever"Don't be evil," the corporate motto read in the early days, although that has now been dropped because it became something of an embarrassment when people worked out it was incomplete, the full version read, "Don't be evil, that's our job."The Google empire is anything but a force for good ...
Organizer Of Macron's 'Grand Debate' With Yellow Vests Is One Of His Elitist croniesMacron's plan for a nationwide public debate, seeking on the Gilets Jaunes protests, got off to a start typical of the Marcon administration's bumbling incompetence. As arrangements were made for launching the campaign, which promised to give the people a voice, the spotlight immediately fell on to the extravagant salary being paid to the government official responsible for organizing it.
Prominent Hedge Fund Manager Sees Dollar Losing Reserve Currency StatusWhile the liberal democracies, having allowed Cultural Marxists to infiltrate government at every level and implement socially and economically disruptive policies Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, the world's biggest Hedge Fund believes now is a good time to reflect on China's progress towards its goal of replacing the USA as the world's most powerful nation.
UK Government Loves Extremists, bans Opponents Of ExtremismIf it sometimes seems possible to the causual obsrver that the UK government has greater committment to Islam than to serving the interests of Christian and secular people who make up the vast majority of the population, it will seem blatantly obvious after you have read this article.
After Triggering Mass Migration Crisis, Germany Bribing Foreigners To Leave
Though Angela Merkel clings to power the effects of her 'open doors' immigration policy damage Germany. It may amuse nationalists to observe as, with one face the pledges support for a United Nations initiative to open all national borders, while with the other she tries to persuade German voters she has listened to public opinion and understands her mass immigration policy is abhorred by a majority of voters ...
De — Dollarisation: More Nations backing Away From The US$In a year which saw the global geopolitical spiralling back towards cold war polarisation, with the weaponisation of currencies, the global community is dividing into two camps, those nations that still support using the US$, and those that favour the new methods of settling accounts through technological payment systems that need no reserve curencies, only a few trusted currencies.
Japanese researchers develop a prototype humandroid to replace human labourers
There's no doubt about it, scientidts are a creepy - weird, dangerously obsessive bunch of wankers. They would rather be machines than people. But to stop them feeling like emotionally crippled losers because of their machine - like behaviour, they want to replace all the rest of us with machines. Now I can understand why scientists want to develop sex robots ...
Is The UK Foolish To Leave The EUThis question, worded slightly differently, comes up innumerable times in comment or Q & A threads on websites. Here's a near pefect answer from a fellow warrior for liberty and opponent of Euronaziism, Barney Lane: Is Brexit a foolish idea? Brexit means Britain is in the EU but is now leaving it. Which part is foolish, the being in part or the leaving part?
Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook's Biased, Convoluted Censorship PoliciesSince the phrase 'fake news' entered the vernacular, Facebook has employed thousands of human moderators to identify what is and is not acceptable content to be posted on the censorious social media website, not to replace the 'Artificial Intelligence' automated moderation system but to make the judgements 'Artificial Intelligence' cannot
The Importance Of Freedom Of Speech and InformationPolitically Correct attitudes try to dictate to us how we should behave towards each other with the emphasis on not saying anything likely to cause offence (sic),which seriously inhibits our right to express opinions. Well let's be straight, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and hurt feelings never killed anybody.
Yellow Vests Don't Take Christmas Vacations
For the seventh weekend in succession protestors in Yellow Vests (the Gilets Jaunes) have been out in the streets of Paris, making a public spectacle of their disillusionment with the elists government of President Emmanuel Macron. In spite of Chrstmas celebreations the yellow vests continued their bid to forece the resignation of Macron.
Security Expert: Sweden is "On the Way to Civil War"
International security consultant Olle Fjordgren has issued a stark warning that his native Sweden is "on the way to civil war" as a result of the problems caused by mass immigration, a soft justice system that often seems to blame victims of crime as much as the prepetrators, and inability to tackle lawlessness among immigrants in the country's expanding "no go zones" where crime is rampant.
Sweden: Authorities cancel traditional Christmas concerts, promote Islamic events
Sweden's, and perhaps the world's largest outdoor Christmas concert "Oh Holy Night", which traditionally airs on Christmas Eve each year, has been cancelled, SVT news reports. This is most likely part the Swedish governmenmt's policy of suppressing European traditions in order not to offend migrants, Muslim extremists, who steal, rape and murder in the knowledge that courts will be lenient because "asking immigrant to obey Swedish law is racist ...
Extremist Muslim Group Influence Government Report On IslamophobiaControversial Muslim activist group MEND, which has ben involved in promoting extremism as well as lobbying the government in support of further Islamification of british institutions, has "exerted decisive intellectual influence" in the government's first report from a think tank looking at Islamophobia in Britain, according to a research note.
Media's hyping of Russia threat a 'grotesque absurdity' says veteran investigative reporter John Pilger
Investigative journalist John Pilger has called out the "grotesque absurdity" of those in the Western media who hype the so-called threats from Russia and China to Cold War levels, in an interview with RT's Going Underground.
Rape Gang Found Guilty of Sexually Abusing Oxford School Girl
Following on from a previous report on this page, about an Oxford grooming gang that lured young girls to their "shag wagon", three men have been now been found guilty of historic sexual offences against an Oxford school girl who was groomed and raped from the age of 14.
UN Migration Pact: Which Governments Are Prepared To Sell Out Their People?The United Nation's Global Compact for migration since being discussed and adopted by leaders and opinion makers from around the world at the Marrakech conference in Morocco this month, it has had a very divisive effect around the world from both the public and their respective governments as wannabe global government The United Nations Organisation seeks to make migration a human right
"Britain's political class could see a revolution like they've never seen before," yellow vests UK warn
Yellow Vest movement hits UKThe Yellow Vest movement, which started in france and has spread to The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Spain is not on course to end anytime soon, with British activists taking to the streets of London last Friday. They donned the appropriate hi vis waistcoats and blocked traffic on Westminster Bridge, one of the main rover crossings in London, chanting pro-Brexit slogans.
Yellow Vests Week 5 And Bare Breasted Mariannes
After France's Yellow Vests rebellion turned violent last week during the fourth week of protest against the government of Emmanuel Macron, this weekend's protests (week 5) saw a further escalation in the protesters anger against the government, which they claim is for the rich and foreign nations rather than the people of France. Well as this news site has always said, that is what globalism is all about.
Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Confront Macron's Riot Police Thugs As Yellow Vests Second French Revolution Gathers MomentumAfter France's rebellion of the Yellow Vests protest against the globalist, elitist government of Emmanuel Macronturned violent last week this weekend's protests (week 5) saw a further escalation in the anger against the government, which they claim is for the rich and foreign nations rather than the people of France. Again vast number of police, around 70,000 according to unofficial reports, have been mobilized across France in an effort to suppress the protesters,
Bare-Breasted 'Mariannes' Confront Macron's Riot Police Thugs As Yellow Vests Second French Revolution Gathers MomentumAfter France's rebellion of the Yellow Vests turned violent last week during the fourth wek of protest against the globalist, elitist govertnment of Emmanuel Macron, this weekend's protests (week 5) saw a futher escalation in the protesters anger against the government, which they claim is a government for the rich and for foreign nations rather than the people of France. Well as this news site has always said, that is what globalism is all about.
The Truth About Climate Change Is Not On The Cover Of The Rolling StoneRolling Stone was once a decent music magazine, in fact my title references a Dr. Hook song lyric which made the claim that you have 'arrived' when you get your picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone. Alas, like so much connected with music, entertainment and Hollywood, The Rolling Stone has disappeared up its own arse. Now, instead of sticking with what it is good at, Rolling Stone fancies itself as a left wing opinion maker ...
EU To Reduce Dependence On US Dollar As Sanctions Hit Trade With IranPlans to reduce European Union dependence on the US dollar have been rumoured for a while now, as China's alternative to the Petrodollar continues to gain strength. The EU is not signing up to the move by Russia, China and the other BRICS bloc nations to replace the dollar but are thinking involvement with the emerging economies bid to break US economic hegemony will improve the 27 member Union's ability to run an independent foreign policy ...
G20 Elitists Club Teetering On The Edge Of The AbyssTen years after The G20 first convened to bring together the leaders of world's main powers and controllers of natural resources. The Group of 20 was doomed from the start. Russia and China were never going to agree to US economic hegemony, the European Union nations were never going to accept Saudi Arabian human rights abuses and some of the third world nations were never going to be happy with the liberal west's LGBT rights.
Mass Arrests In Paris As "Gilets Jaunes" Protests Go Into Third Week, Spread To BelgiumAs the violent protests of the so?—?called Gilets Jaunes (Yellow vests,) which have spread to most major cities in France, with protestors angry at the policies of elitist president Emmanuel Macron, which they claim ignore the interests of the working and middle classes and favour the elites and the globalist corporations who support the move towards a federasl European superstate.
UK Parliament Seizes Internal Facebook DocumentsAfter Mark Zuckerberg has twice failed to respond to a summons to answer questions in front of a UK Parliamentary investigation into Facebook's failure to protect users privacy, and hold accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data breach outrage, the U.K. Parliament has seized a cache of Facebook's confidential documents
SJWs Infiltrate Google?—?Organise Rebellion Of The Humandroids
Thousands of Google employees staged walkouts in offices around the world earlier this month in protest at the company's bias toward white males in its hiring policy and the alleged protection of senior employees accused of sexual harassment and assault.
Have Mainstream Media Seen Through Facebook And Google At Last
Mainstream media has seen through Google and Facebook at last, it seems. For years print and broadcast news have heaped praise on digital media while tech corporations like Google and Facebook censored content and filtered their rivals pages out of search results.
The Full Orwell - UK Government Comes Over All Big Brother
In a stealthy, or to be more accurate, creepy move that bypasses the democratic process the British government, without debate in our elected assembly, without media coverage and without the authority of law, the UK Government has usurped to itself the power to take biometric data from all of us and store it in ...
The Dark Motives Behind The FUKUS axis Regime Change In LibyaAt around that time, a coalition of western powers, France, The UK and The USA (the FUKUS axis,) had deposed the Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi and turned Libya from the most prosperous and socially advanced nation on the African continent to a chaotic failed state with three rival factions, the Islamists, tribal warlords and gangsters all claiming to be the legitimate government.
Nations Rebel Against The UN Migration Pact
The UN's Global Compact for Migration sets out nonbinding guidelines for an integrated approach to international migration. DW looks at the agreement and at why some nations are vehemently against it.
The compact is based on belief that the world needs to cooperate if massive migration flows are to be managed in a humane manner, while still taking account of the values of state sovereignty ...
Russian Gold Reserves Hit Putin-Era High, Buying Frenzy Accelerates
Bloomberg's Yuliya Fedorinova and Olga Tanas report today that the Bank of Russia has more than doubled its monthly gold purchases, bringing the share of bullion in its international reserves to the highest of Putin's 17 years in power, according to World Gold Council data.
Genetically Engineering The Apocalypse
Scientists tend to get carried away with enthusiasm fort theor latest idea, which they invariably claim will bring great benefits to humankind. The problem with such enthusiasm is, with their minds focused on prestigious awards, research grants and lucrative publishing deals, these rather immature people do not often think of the undesirable consequences of their creations.
Top Cop Slams Politicised 'Hate Crime' Obsession, Demands Focus on Real Crime
One of the UK's highest ranking police officers has attacked the government's policy of prioritising "hate crimes," over serious crimes such as theft, vandalism, violence and fraud, calling for officers to be reassigned to investigate more burglaries and violent attacks by focusing on "core policing."
Most British people agree police have lost control of the streets because of politically correct government policies
One of the UK's highest ranking police officers has attacked the government's policy of prioritising "hate crimes," over serious crimes such as theft, vandalism, violence and fraud, calling for officers to be reassigned to investigate more burglaries and violent attacks by focusing on "core policing."
National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Chair Sara Thornton CBE also said she did not want to see "misogyny" and offensive comments about women specified in law as hate crimes. One can only hope she feels the same about truthful criticisms of Islam, which glorifies misogyny, violence and rape.
Elites Losing The War On Cash? Sweden U-Turns On 'Cashless Society' AgendaSweden was leading the the War On Cash, the ruling elite had pushed the idea that a cashless society would protect citizens from crime and be more convenient. There was no mention that in a cashless society we would completely surrender control of our money to banks, and our privacy in financial matters to government security agencies...
Presentiment?—?Can Your Body Sense Future Events Without Any External Clue?
Recent work at the limits of scientific enquiry is looking at the phenomenon of presentiment (knowing stuff is going to happen before it happens) Research in this area is discovering our bodies may anticipate events below our level of normal consciousness. This is entirely consistent with the work already done in the physics associated field, Quantum Entanglements.
Lancashire Bans 'Cruel' Halal Meat From Schools, But Some Councils 'Kow-tow to Islam' and Serve Halal
In a rare example of politicians putting British values first, Lancashire council voted to cease serving meat from animals that are not stunned before slaughter in schools. Although it signals a step in the right direction after a decade of leftists pushing officials towards favouring Islamic communities over Secular and Christian citizens, around one in 10 UK councils are still supplying sharia compliant halal meat to schools .
Scaremongering IPCC Pushes Climate Hysteria With Latest Doomsday ReportThose discredited jokers, gropers and fake scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have surpassed themselves in the idiocy stakes in their latest report (Summary for Policy Makers linked below). It is just a rephrased version of the farrago of adjusted data, dubious science, wailing and gnashing of teeth and eco-fascistic edicts on how we shall all live our lives in the future.
Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley's Latest Scam…The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavementA daft idea from socialist intellectual idiots that has quickly acquired sacred cow status among the mindless mobs that make up 'the left' is Universal Basic Income. Among the most prominent champions of UBI are a clutch of Silicon Valley billionaires, whose complete lack of ethical awareness and track record for exploiting low paid workers should make us wonder why we continue to support their shoddy products.
Censorship Comes To The Internet - Goodbye Free SpeechCensorship has always been a sore point in democratic societies, without the right to free speech democracy does not exist. So why have we for years now been willing to tolerate the efforts of Silicon Valley high tech corporations and their left - leaning (that's left as in Chairman Mao or Pol Pot,) been willing to tolerate this.
How Many Times Can Dr. Merkel-Who Regenerate Her Government>This week the new series of Doctor Who launched amid much ballyhoo about The Doctor being played for the first time by a woman. While many pedantic Whooverans are appalled and complain that the lead role belongs to a man, in my opinion Jodie Whittaker (best known to date for Broadchurch,) the thirteenth Doctor Who, looks as if she may be the best Doctor since David Tennant.
Algorithms Are No Better At Telling The Future Than Tarot Cards Or A Crystal BallAccording to a new report "An increasing number of businesses are investing in advanced technologies that can help them forecast the future". It's true , almost every day we see supposedly intelligent people who believe that with things called 'Data Science', 'Artificial Intelligence,' and 'Big Data', machines can already be relied on to make better decisions than humans, and that soon computers will surpass us in actual intelligence.
E.U. Parliament Members Call for Facebook Audit, Competition Law OverhaulThough not widely reported (well the proceedings were boring,) a number of parliamentary hearings in the European Parliament and the elected assemblies of member nations, have investigated Facebook's user data breach scandal involving the data thieves Cambridge Analytica. European Union MEPs, including those from Britain have called for a full audit of the social media company and an overhaul of E.U. competition law.
Vaccine Damaged Child Compensated By US Special Vaccine Court.
As they started their family, Mooresville residents Theresa and Lucas Black dutifully got their children immunized, never doubting their doctor's word that vaccines are safe and necessary. But their faith in those promises was shaken in 2001, when their 3-month-old daughter, Angelica, developed life-threatening seizures and brain damage just three days after getting several vaccinations.
How Many More Lives Does Angela Merkel Have Left?Germany was the most prosperous and stable democracy in Europe under Hausfrau - Volksfuhrer Merkel until she won her third term as Chanellor. That victory had the same effect as being declared divine once had on Roman Emperors. Merkel began to believe she could change the world by supporting schemes to unite Europe under a single government and flood the continent with third world migrants. And she believed she could succeed because Germans, the ignorant masses, would march in lockstep behind her.
Supreme Court Fiasco Shows The US Democratic Party Is No Friend Of DemocracyA look at the way efforts by the US Democratic Party to shaft Trump have backfired on them. Trump is no politician for sure, he's undiplomatic, confrontational, crude, economical with the truth when it suits him, and very direct in expressing his views (a change from the mealy mouthed equivocation favoured by most politicians, but whatever his failings, he's a smart operator and he's outwitting the Democrats every time.
How Can The 'Left' Talk Of Equality When They Don't Tolerate Diversity Of OpinionOne of the first things I learned at my Grandfather's knee was the importance of free speech and of exposure to different ides and shades of opinion. Grandad had been a member of the Labour party before World War One and had lived through the class wars early in the twentieth century. My Dad was a Labour man too, until as a newspaper reporter, he learned things about socialism that shocked him.
Brexit has terrified 'Brussels bubble' - German insider
The EU elite "lost faith in their own appeal and abilities" following the Brexit referendum vote and the surge in support for nationalist parties. The knee jerk response of the Brussels bubble was to try (and fail) to punish Britain for defing Brussels in the same way as they had punished small nations like Greece, Portugal and Ireland, which in their perception was the only way to prevent the EU breaking apart.


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One of the fellows atop this building on the campus of RPI, Rensselear Polytechnical Institute,
repairing brickwork is Art St. Hilaire, a mason by trade.
Arthur St. Hilaire
A family contributor and grandson emailed FrancoAmerican Gravy with memories of Art St Hilaire's small pleasures and his character.
"Pip" also enjoyed his Camels -- several packs a day, in fact -- until the summer of 1977 when an X-ray showed an unidentifiable spot on his lung. He never smoked again after walking out of the doctor's office that day. For someone who smoked so heavily, Pip never complained when he stopped and as far as I remember it didn't affect his disposition one bit. It was just something he had to do, so he did it, he didn't complain, and he moved on with life. Lots of packs of unopened camels stayed undisturbed in the old "smoke stand" for at least two or three years after that, when he gave them away. That's one of the most important lessons I learned from him, a template for handling unpleasant situations, or things that seem overwhelming: Just do what needs to be done and get over it; something better is bound to be on the other side. In his case, who knows how many years he added to his life by stopping smoking in 1977?
Another simple pleasure -- very Franco-American, as I understand it -- was a fondness for pickled pigs' feet (pied de cochon). Yuck!
In later years, the biggest pleasure was sitting around and chewing the fat with anyone who was around -- at the American Legion bar, where he was an "honorary member" (never actually having served in the military), at home with whoever stopped by, at his friends Marge and Danny's "camp" on the NY side of the Crown Point Bridge on Lake Champlain.

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Supreme Court reflects diversity of modern marriage
WASHINGTON -- There's a widow who was a pioneer of the "modern marriage," and one who never wed. Two have been divorced.
There is a husband who married relatively late in life and adopted two children. Another is a prolific procreator, with enough children to field a baseball team and enough grandchildren to form a basketball league.
One is in an interracial marriage, which would have been illegal in his state only 20 years before his wedding.
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the American tradition of marriage, the justices themselves display a wide range of personal choices reflective of the modern experience.
In the court's first full examination of same-sex marriage, the unifying theme of those defending traditional marriage is that government has an important interest in promoting marriage among heterosexual couples because of their reproductive ability.
But the issue comes before a court where four of the nine justices have never married or have had marriages that did not produce biological offspring.
Volumes of briefs have been filed in a pair of potentially historic cases, raising issues that personally resonate with the justices -- the role of adoptive parents, the place of couples unable to or uninterested in having children and possible parallels with laws that once prohibited marriages between the races.
Their personal choices look "just like the rest of America," said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University and an expert on marriage whose work is cited in briefs filed in the two cases scheduled for March 26 and 27.
The same-sex marriage issue brings to the court questions of a state's freedom to define and limit marriage and how far the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection extends. Justices say they must look past their personal lives when deciding such weighty issues.
But the past has shown that each of the nine also brings a unique set of life experiences to the work. Justice Clarence Thomas has often written opinions with a racial perspective none of his colleagues share. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pointed out how sex discrimination is practiced in the real world. And Justice Samuel Alito, a former prosecutor, often provides a lawman's view on criminal justice issues.
As the court confronts the rapidly changing status of same-sex marriage, it will be considering two cases.
In the first, the issue is California's Proposition 8, a 2008 voter-approved state constitutional amendment that restricts marriage to opposite-sex couples. The ban, enacted after the state's high court decided gay couples must be allowed to marry, has been ruled unconstitutional by lower courts.
The other case concerns the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in 1996 to prohibit recognition by the federal government of same-sex marriages performed in those places where it is legal. There were none when the law was passed, but same-sex marriages are now legal in nine states and the District of Columbia.
The act has been deemed unconstitutional by lower courts, which said it was unconstitutional to extend federal benefits to one class of legally married couples but not to another.
So, Proposition 8 concerns same-sex couples who want to be married and DOMA involves those already wed. Those defending traditional marriage in both cases underline procreation as the purpose of wedlock.
As Congress said in passing DOMA: "Were it not for the possibility of begetting children inherent in heterosexual unions, society would have no particular interest in encouraging citizens to come together in a committed relationship."
Charles Cooper, the lawyer representing Proposition 8 proponents, made a similar argument in his brief to the court. "It is the procreative capacity of heterosexual relationships -- including the very real threat it can pose to the interests of society and to the welfare of children conceived unintentionally -- that the institution of marriage has always sought to address."
Those challenging Proposition 8 say that is an inadequate and incomplete view of what marriage means.
"In their 65-page brief about marriage in California," write the lawyers for two same-sex couple seeking to overturn the proposition, "proponents do not even mention the word 'love' . . . This court has never conditioned the right to marry on the ability to procreate."
Perhaps those lawyers were speaking to Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The 58-year-old justice wrote in her recent autobiography that she married her high school sweetheart with no intention of having children.
When she was young, Sotomayor was diagnosed with diabetes. She worried about her own health should she become pregnant and whether she would live long enough to raise a child.
"My projected longevity and the chance for a safe pregnancy had certainly improved" in the years since her diagnosis, Sotomayor wrote in "My Beloved World." "Still, there remained the fear that I might not be around long enough to raise a child to adulthood." She later divorced, although not because of that decision.
President Barack Obama's other Supreme Court pick, Justice Elena Kagan, has never married and has no children.
Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife Jane were both 41 when they married. Having children was always a goal, and four years later they adopted a daughter and a son, who were introduced to the nation when Roberts was nominated to the court in 2005.
Thomas has a son, Jamal, from his first marriage. But his marriage to Virginia Lamp Thomas, whom he wed in 1987, has not produced children. The pair concentrated on raising Jamal, and later took in Thomas's great-nephew, Mark Martin.
To Cherlin, who supports same-sex marriage, such examples render the procreation arguments "at least a century out of date."
"Can the argument be that the way the chief justice had children is somehow second-class?" Cherlin asked.
But another marriage scholar, Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation, said 41 states see the value in restricting marriage to heterosexual couples.
Allowing same-sex couples to wed does not "simply expand the existing understanding of marriage," he said.
Instead, "it rejects the anthropological truth that marriage is based on the complementarity of man and woman, the biological fact that reproduction depends on a man and a woman, and the social reality that children need a mother and a father."
Those who discount the procreation argument have filled their briefs with the words of an unlikely source: Justice Antonin Scalia, who is father to nine and grandfather to 33.
Scalia is not of the view that the Constitution protects homosexual rights, and his dissent in Lawrence v. Texas, the court's 2003 ruling that struck down that state's law outlawing sodomy, was a warning that it might lead to same-sex marriage, not an endorsement.
But a passage in the dissent speculated that procreation could not be a justification for limiting marriage to heterosexuals, "since the sterile and the elderly are allowed to marry."
The briefs also contain passionate arguments on both sides about whether same-sex marriage can be compared with interracial marriage. The latter is a subject Thomas wrote about in his autobiography.
When he met Virginia Lamp, Thomas wrote, "I had no inclination to date outside my race." She even offered to set him up with some of the black women with whom she worked. Eventually, Thomas wrote, he realized that they were soul mates and she was "a gift from God."
"How could I let my own fears, or the bigotry of others, stand in the way?" Thomas wrote in "My Grandfather's Son." "As for Virginia, she was willing to fight anybody, including friends and family, who objected to our love."
The couple settled in Virginia, whose law against interracial marriage provided the case in which the Supreme Court struck down such bans in Loving v. Virginia. The Thomases are among the 8.4 percent of American marriages with interracial partners, according to a Pew Research Center study of 2010 Census data,
All marriages, including those of the justices, have circumstances that make them special. Justice Stephen Breyer is Jewish, but was married in the Anglican Church in a ceremony tailored to couples with different religions. One daughter became an Episcopal priest; another is raising her children in the Jewish faith.
And the court's oldest justice, Ginsburg, had a prototypical "modern" marriage. She always worked and shared child-rearing with her husband Martin, who died in 2010.
Ginsburg, who turned 80 last week, has often told the story that she grew exasperated being interrupted at work by phone calls from school with complaints about her "lively" son.
"This child has two parents," she told the caller at one point. "I suggest you alternate calls."
Martin Ginsburg did all of the family's cooking -- "the justice was expelled from the kitchen nearly three decades ago by her food-loving children," he once explained -- and he left a lucrative New York law practice to join his wife in Washington when she was named an appeals court judge.
The justices frequently officiate at marriages, and Ginsburg told the New Yorker in a recent interview that she thinks no one has asked her or her colleagues to perform a same-sex marriage for fear they would be criticized or asked to recuse themselves from this month's cases.
Asked whether she would officiate if requested, she replied, "Why not?"


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CHAPEL HILL – The NCAA tells North Carolina athletic officials that it isn't considering additional charges connected to academic fraud in the university's African studies department.
The school on Saturday released two emails from Sept. 26 after a records request.
The first is from UNC senior associate athletic director Vince Ille to NCAA associate director of enforcement Mike Zonder. Ille asked whether he correctly assumed the NCAA wasn't planning additional investigation or charges of irregularities in the school's African studies department. Zonder replied that "you are correct in your assessment."
The NCAA sanctioned UNC for academic misconduct within its football program in March 2012.
The school said that August that the NCAA had reviewed irregularities including no-show classes and unauthorized grade changes in classes with significant athlete enrollments and found no rule violations.


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Rheumatic diseases are chronic diseases that affect the skin, bones, joint structures and muscles, usually causing inflammation and pain. Although rheumatic diseases take many forms, many have a common origin: the body's immune system mistakes its own cells for harmful foreign agents and attacks them.
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To understand how inflammation and pain occur in a joint, it's important to understand how our joints and muscles work together to give us the ability to move - from picking up a pencil to dancing and from walking to nodding our heads. Every joint is made up of:
- Bones
- Cartilage - a smooth, white, shock-absorbing layer that caps each bone to allow it to move smooth against the other bone or bones in the joint
- Synovial membrane - provides lubrication for the joint
- Ligaments - strong fibers that attach one bone to another, keeping the joint stable, supported and properly aligned
- Tendons - attach muscles to bones either above or below the joint
Some joints also have fluid-filled sacs (bursae) between the muscles, tendons and bones. Bursae are designed to reduce the friction that occurs when the bones, muscles and tendons move. Each bursa is lined with a synovial membrane, which releases lubricating fluid.
Cedars-Sinai's Rheumatology Services offers comprehensive treatments, including:
- Assistive devices
- Diet
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*Reprinted from Rheumatology, 3rd Edition. Peter A. Simkin. "The Musculoskeletal System," pg. 58. 2003, with permission from Elsevier.


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Home of the Patient's Guide to HIPAA: How to Use the Law to Guard your Health Privacy
In this guide, we talk about laws, rules, regulations, act, and statutes. Lawyers can find real and technical differences between these terms, but the differences don't matter much to patients. For our purposes, the terms are generally interchangeable references to legally binding policies or obligations.


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Everton reaped the rewards of fielding a virtual full-strength side as they defeated npower League Two side Cheltenham 5-1 in an FA Cup third-round tie at the Abbey Business Stadium.
Nikica Jelavic opened the scoring after 12 minutes and Leighton Baines doubled Everton's lead seven minutes later from the penalty spot.
Leon Osman made it 3-0 early in the second period and, after Russell Penn scored pulled one back, Seamus Coleman and Marouane Fellaini completed Everton's nap hand.
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Susan Gibbs, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Washington, recalled weeks of hard discussions leading up to an "extremely difficult decision" to transfer a long-running Catholic Charities foster care and adoption service into the hands of another agency and to cease offering health benefits for spouses to Catholic Charities employees (except for employees who already had such coverage). A District of Columbia council vote in December 2009 to redefine marriage to include same-sex unions had passed its last legal hurdle and went into effect on March 3.
Concerned about remaining compliant with church teaching on marriage, Catholic Charities altered its benefit package to respond to the legal ramifications of the council's "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment," Gibbs said. She added that Catholic Charities ultimately had little choice in the matter if it wanted to ensure uninterrupted nutritional, health and shelter services to its 120,000 area clients.
Why did events in Washington contrast so sharply with the experience of other dioceses faced by the same conflict between civil and religious interests? It is all in the difference a few words make. Past confrontations over same-sex unions have struggled over the meaning of civil partnerships before the law, not the implications of an extension of the definition of marriage to include same-sex unions. The amendment "requires that we recognize same-sex marriage in our [internal] policies," Gibbs said, since as contractors with the district, Catholic Charities has to certify compliance with all district laws. "It was really a drastic change for us." Gibbs added that the archdiocese did not face similar problems with the district's existing domestic partnership code.
When San Francisco passed an ordinance more than 13 years ago requiring agencies that contract with the city to provide spousal benefits to employees' domestic partners, then-Archbishop William J. Levada asked for a religious exemption on constitutional grounds. Within a few days, however, the city and the archdiocese worked out a compromise that allowed employees to designate "legally domiciled" members of a household—a dependent parent, child or sibling or an unmarried heterosexual or homosexual partner—for spousal-equivalent benefits without requiring the church to recognize the "partners" as married.
Vermont's "Act to Protect Religious Freedom and Recognize Equality in Civil Marriage" adds "advantages" and "privileges" to the list of things that religious organizations cannot be required to extend to same-sex married couples. Though its supporters touted the D.C. marriage amendment's protections for religious freedom, the act offers no exemptions to religious groups outside of the marriage ceremony itself. Churches may not be compelled to conduct same-sex marriage services, nor may they be compelled to allow their facilities to be used for them, but the amendment does not include religious exclusions in all other important practical respects, like employee benefits.
Gibbs sees little likelihood that the D.C. council will change course on the issue and offer religious exemptions in the future. "The council sees it as a discrimination issue," she said, "and they don't see any need to compromise."
And now problems because of same-sex marriage threaten to spill over into neighboring Maryland, where Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler issued an opinion on Feb. 24 that same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions could be recognized as legal. The archbishops of Baltimore and Washington and the bishop of Wilmington, Del., both of whose dioceses include parts of Maryland, quickly challenged the opinion, which is not legally binding.


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The Daily Pilot is evolving to ensure our readers can get their news in a variety of ways — be it print or online, through Facebook posts and tweets, or on their mobile devices. To that end, we have a couple bits of news ourselves.
First, we're pleased to share that we've developed free iPhone, iPad and Android apps so you can more easily access the Pilot's coverage on your phones and tablets. We have spent the last several months building a clear, simple interface that will put breaking news, sports, entertainment, opinion and community happenings at your fingertips. Look for it in your respective app stores now.
Second, we're making changes to our print edition. The Pilot will be published Wednesdays through Sundays, with Tuesday's election day issue being our final Tuesday edition. We will also now feature longer stories on the days that people generally have more time to read them, particularly on weekends.


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After her lawsuit challenging the Understanding Evolution website on constitutional grounds was dismissed for lack of standing on March 13, 2006, Jeanne Caldwell appealed the decision to the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. In a ruling dated October 3, 2008, the appeals court rejected her appeal, affirming the lower court's decision.
A new coalition of Texas scientists voiced its opposition to attempts to dilute the treatment of evolution in Texas's state science standards, which are presently undergoing revision. At a news conference in Austin on September 30, 2008, representatives of the 21st Century Science Coalition challenged the idea that students should be told that there are "weaknesses" in evolution.
The International Planetarium Society recently issued a statement on the ancient age of the earth and universe, noting that "Many independent lines of scientific evidence show that the Earth and Universe are billions of years old.
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