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In Dramatic Reversal, US Vice President Biden Calls On Turkey To Withdraw Its Troops From Iraq

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– In Dramatic Reversal, US Vice President Biden Calls On Turkey To Withdraw Its Troops From Iraq:

It has been a strange two days for US foreign policy.

Earlier today we reported that in what amounts to a significant blow to the official US position over Syria, namely the multi-year demands to replace president Assad with a western puppet ruler, John Kerry on Tuesday accepted Russia’s long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad’s future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward putting aside years of disagreement over how to end Syria’s civil war.”

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Argentine Peso Collapses 29% After Government Lifts Currency Controls

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– Argentine Peso Collapses 29% After Government Lifts Currency Controls:

New President Mauricio Macri’s move to unify the official and black market exchange rates for the peso in the face of depleted FX reserves and still sky high inflation has the currency plunging by nearly 30% on Thursday.

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Thailand: Man Faces 37 Years in Prison For ‘Insulting’ the King’s Dog

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You just can’t make this stuff up!

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– Thai Man Faces 37 Years in Prison For “Insulting” the King’s Dog:

In America, we often joke that what we post on the internet might land us in prison, but for the time being – though perhaps not for long – we are generally safe to say what we like about the government. We worry mostly only about the “slap on the wrist” of probably being placed on a watch list.

A man in Thailand, however, faces 37 years in prison for criticizing the king’s dog on the internet, as well as allegedly insulting the monarchy.

Thanakorn Siripaiboon, a factory worker, faced trial this week in a military court for making a “sarcastic” comment about the king’s dog online. Though officials declined to cite any specific statements, CBS News reports the man shared an “inappropriate” picture of the dog and liked a photo disparaging to the king.

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MSM Claims Assad Funds ISIS – Evidence Claims Otherwise

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– MSM Claims Assad Funds ISIS – Evidence Claims Otherwise:

Just when you think the propaganda coming from the Western mainstream media and Western governments couldn’t get any dumber, they come right along and top themselves. This time, there are no easily disproven claims of chemical weapons usage by the Assad government or new and creative ways to accuse Assad of killing his own people. Instead, major mainstream mouthpieces like the Daily Beast have recently “revealed” who is buying the stolen oil from ISIS and, according to the notoriously misleading outlet, it’s not Erdogan, Turkey, or Israel – it’s Assad.

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Holy Macaroni! New Zealand Approves Pastafarian Marriages

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NOT the Onion … check!

NOT April 1st … check!

Holy macaroni! New Zealand approves Pastafarian marriages

– Holy macaroni! New Zealand approves Pastafarian marriages:

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been allowed to officiate weddings for its kiwi followers.

The application filed in November to the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages has been approved and is now listed in the New Zealand government’s gazette.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has been allowed to officiate weddings for its kiwi followers

The application was found complying with New Zealand’s law, and thus there was no reason to decline it, registrar-general Jeff Montgomery told the website stuff.co.nz.

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Deadly Sarin Gas Delivered to Syria Was Provided by Certain Western Countries (AKA NATO)

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– Deadly Sarin Gas Delivered to Syria Was Provided by Certain Western Countries (AKA NATO):

The following is very good coverage by Spiro: A treason investigation has been launched against a Turkish MP who alleged in an exclusive interview with RT that Islamic State jihadists delivered deadly sarin gas to Syria through Turkey.

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GMO insects should be given field trials in Britain, says House of Lords report

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H/t reader squody:

“Got at.

What could possibly go wrong…except perhaps symbiosis leads to wipe out.”

Creating GM diamondback moths could save brassica crops

– GM insects should be given field trials in Britain, says House of Lords report:

Powerful technology could provide safer alternatives to pesticides or even eliminate transmission of lethal diseases

The first field trials of genetically modified insects should be encouraged by the Government, a parliamentary investigation has concluded.

Scientists in the UK have pioneered the development of GM insects, which can be used to reduce the transmission of pests in crops or diseases in livestock and people – but highly-restrictive EU regulations have effectively blocked field trials.

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Turkish MP Faces Treason Charges After Telling RT ISIS Used Turkey For Transiting Sarin

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– Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin:

A treason investigation has been launched against a Turkish MP who alleged in an exclusive interview with RT that Islamic State jihadists delivered deadly sarin gas to Syria through Turkey.

Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office opened the case against Istanbul MP Eren Erdem of Republican People’s Party (CHP) after his interview about sarin was aired on RT on Monday.

“Chemical weapon materials were brought to Turkey and put together in ISIS camps in Syria, which was known as the Iraqi Al-Qaeda at that time.”

Read moreTurkish MP Faces Treason Charges After Telling RT ISIS Used Turkey For Transiting Sarin

State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children’s Blood

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– State of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children’s Blood:

“The City of Flint has experienced a Manmade disaster,” said the city’s mayor Monday evening, as she declared a state of emergency over evidently staggering levels of lead in the city’s tap water. Mayor Karen M. Weaver has requested federal assistance to deal with the fallout from over a year’s worth of tainted water delivered to Flint residents and, allegedly, falsely declared safe by government officials.

Read moreState of Emergency Declared in Michigan City After Lead Found in Children’s Blood

Germany: Angela Merkel’s CDU Demands Statutory Compulsory Vaccinations For Small Children

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Original articles in German here:

– CDU-Parteitag fordert gesetzliche Impfpflicht

– CDU-Beschlüsse: Flüchtlinge, Einwanderung und Impfpflicht

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– Google translation:

CDU party calls for statutory compulsory vaccination:

(ht) The CDU has today at its national convention expressed in Karlsruhe at the request of the Junge Union for the introduction of a statutory compulsory vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, mumps, measles, rubella and varicella. Come 2016, the official vaccination? We need to act if we want to prevent that!

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Vladimir Putin signs law allowing Russia to ignore international human rights rulings

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H/t reader squodgy:

“America has been doing this since 9/11 at Bagram & Abu Ghraib & Gitmo.

So why be so upset when Russia dovetails in, when the target is obviously to torture any dissenter worldwide….LEGALLY.”

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And again … We Are On Our Own

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– Vladimir Putin signs law allowing Russia to ignore international human rights rulings:

Russia’s Constitutional Court said the country’s constitution would take priority over international law

Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing the Constitutional Court of Russia to decide whether or not to comply with judgements made by international human rights courts.

The law, published by the government on Tuesday, enables Russia’s high court to overthrow decisions made by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

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The Humiliation Is Complete: Assad Can Stay, Kerry Concedes After Meeting With Putin

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– The Humiliation Is Complete: Assad Can Stay, Kerry Concedes After Meeting With Putin:

“The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change [and] there is no policy of the United States, per se, to isolate Russia.”

Saudi millionaire cleared of raping teenager after claiming he accidentally fell on top of her

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– Saudi millionaire cleared of raping teenager after claiming he accidentally fell on top of her:

Property developer accused of forcing himself on 18-year-old is acquitted of rape after telling jury he accidentally fell on her as she tried to seduce him

A Saudi millionaire has been cleared of raping a teenager after claiming he might have accidentally penetrated the 18-year-old when he tripped and fell on her.

Property developer Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46, was accused of forcing himself on the teenager as she slept off a night of drinking on the sofa of his Maida Vale flat.

He had already had sex with her 24-year-old friend and said he might have slipped over on top of the younger woman.

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David Icke On Political Correctness: You Silence Each Other So We Don’t Have To (Video)

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H/t reader squodgy:

“This week’s David Icke podcast on how we’ve been covertly trained to comply with new rules emulating 1984 and the NewSpeak, Constant War world.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHH5Edf60GI

You Want War? Russia Is Ready For War

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– You Want War? Russia Is Ready For War:

By Pepe Escobar

Nobody needs to read Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski’s 1997 opus to know US foreign policy revolves around one single overarching theme: prevent – by all means necessary – the emergence of a power, or powers, capable of constraining Washington’s unilateral swagger, not only in Eurasia but across the world.

The Pentagon carries the same message embedded in newspeak: the Full Spectrum Dominance doctrine.

Syria is leading all these assumptions to collapse like a house of cards. So no wonder in a Beltway under no visible chain of command – the Obama administration barely qualifies as lame duck – angst is the norm.

The Pentagon is now engaged in a Vietnam-style escalation of boots on the ground across “Syraq”. 50 commandos are already in northern Syria “advising” the YPG Syrian Kurds as well as a few “moderate” Sunnis. Translation: telling them what Washington wants them to do. The official White House spin is that these commandos “support local forces” (Obama’s words) in cutting off supply lines leading to the fake “Caliphate” capital, Raqqa.

Read moreYou Want War? Russia Is Ready For War

Denmark to confiscate gold, jewelry, and other valuables from refugees

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– Denmark to confiscate gold, jewelry, and other valuables from refugees:

It started on December 8, 1931.

Germany was in a world of pain at the time. They were still financially debilitated from having to make reparation payments after losing World War I, and had just barely recovered from one of the worst bouts of hyperinflation in recorded history.

By the early 1930s, the onset of the Great Depression had taken hold in Germany, driving the government to desperation once again.

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ISIS Twitter Handles Traced To UK Government By Hackers

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– ISIS Twitter Handles Traced To UK Government By Hackers:

There’s no shortage of speculation about the possible role the West plays in funding, arming, and otherwise assisting Islamic State.

The theories range from the outright conspiratorial (the CIA created and to this day supports the group) to the probable (the US and its allies saw the establishment of a Salafist principality in Syria as a potentially destabilizing event for the Assad government and so initially encouraged Islamic State’s rise, only to face the worst case of blowback the world has ever known).

Recent revelations about Turkey’s role in facilitating Islamic State’s 45,000 b/d illicit oil trade have only added fuel to the fire and little by little, the Western public is starting to wake up to the fact that ISIS is more than the progeny of Abu-Mus’ab al-Zarqawi – it’s an entity that enjoys a great degree of state sponsorship.

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US DARK Act Shocks Consumers with Non-GMO Label for GMO Fed Meat and Dairy – Exclusive

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– US DARK Act Shocks Consumers with Non-GMO Label for GMO Fed Meat and Dairy – Exclusive:

Despite a new poll published Monday suggesting that 76% of Americans expect that a non-GMO dairy label would mean the cows were fed non-GMO feed, a “Trojan horse” paragraph in Bill H.R. 1599, also known as the DARK Act, is set to deliver the exact opposite to consumers, as well as a massive boost to the Biotech industry.

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SUSTAINABLE PULSE EXCLUSIVE

Warren Taylor, Co-Owner of Snowville Creamery in Ohio, stated Monday; “The DARK Act affirmed the U.S. government’s refusal to require GMO labeling despite almost universal public desire for GMO labeling. It makes labeling a federal function, so individual states cannot pass unique labeling laws. This is a common sense requirement in today’s marketplace. The most egregious part of the Act went almost completely unnoticed. A single Trojan horse paragraph at the end of the non-GMO product labeling section allows meat, milk, and eggs from animals fed GMO feed to be labeled as non-GMO. In this way the DARK Act went from not telling to actively intentionally misleading the public about the GMO content of meat, milk, and eggs.”

Read moreUS DARK Act Shocks Consumers with Non-GMO Label for GMO Fed Meat and Dairy – Exclusive

Chicago police commander found not guilty of putting gun in suspect’s mouth

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– Chicago police commander found not guilty of putting gun in suspect’s mouth:

A Chicago Police Department commander accused of jamming a gun down a suspect’s mouth during a 2013 encounter was found not guilty of aggravated battery and misconduct amid tense times between city police and residents.

Judge Diane Cannon ruled Monday that Commander Glenn Evans, a 28-year veteran of the department, was not guilty of accusations levied by Rickey Williams, 25, stemming from their encounter in January 2013. Williams said in addition to the gun in his mouth, Evans, 53, also held a Taser to his groin and threatened to kill him.

“I was gargling, trying to get words out, but I couldn’t say anything because the gun was so far down my throat,” Williams said of the encounter with Evans, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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Google, Facebook, Twitter will delete online hate speech at pressure from Germany

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– Google, Facebook, Twitter will delete online hate speech at pressure from Germany:

Google, Facebook, and Twitter have agreed to delete hate speech deemed illegal in Germany within 24 hours, following pressure from German authorities who have become concerned about an increasing number of racist comments being posted on social media.

The companies committed on Tuesday to removing “illegal content promptly, that is, within 24 hours,” Justice Minister Heiko Maas said, as quoted by AFP.

“Complaints will be examined by specialist teams. And the benchmark to be applied will be German law and no longer just the terms of use of each network,” Maas added.

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ISIS flags & photos of severed heads found amongst refugees in Norway

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– ISIS flags & photos of severed heads found amongst refugees in Norway:

Norwegian police say they have found images of severed heads and executions on mobile phones belonging to refugees entering the country. Flags and symbols belonging to Islamic State were also found as they inspected the luggage of the migrants.

The Norwegian Police Immigration Service (PU) has been dealing with an explosion in the number of refugees and migrants wishing to cross its borders in recent months. While searching asylum seekers, they also came across photos of dead children and other victims of war and terrorism, Nettavisen reports.

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Turkey Smuggled Sarin Gas to Al Qaeda Terrorists in Syria? Turkish MP

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Organised chaos, civil unrest, Government failure leading to Martial Law.

It looks like Turkey could well be the tinderbox for the big one. But Erdogan seems to have all the right tackle as long as the wind’s in the right direction.

I recall Jane Burgermeister’s analysis of what ‘they’ (the elite) have planned for the rest of us….viral & bacterial releases via vaccines & mysterious ‘outbreaks’. She was adamant, and now we have another engineered mutation of yet another virus (SARS) on top of the Erasmus created Bird Flu (H7N9), with its 50% success fatality rate, the opportunity is really opening up as we the people awaken.”

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– Turkey Smuggled Sarin Gas to Al Qaeda Terrorists in Syria? Turkish MP:

By Stephen Lendman

Turkey is allegedly complicit in the smuggled use of various types of banned chemical weapons for which the Assad government was wrongfully blamed.

Turkish Republican People’s Party (CHP) opposition member Eren Erdem accused Ankara of covering up a major war crime, likely direct high-level involvement in smuggling materials used to make deadly sarin gas to ISIS and other terrorists – US proxy foot soldiers waging war on Syria.

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