A culture-enriching “Australian” named Muhammet Velipasaoglu is being investigated by health authorities for practicing as an unlicensed “rogue” dentist for more than ten years. Mr. Velipasaoglu failed to follow proper hygienic procedures, and it is feared that he may have infected some of his patients with HIV or other blood-borne pathogens. The case has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.
In other news, the Norwegian government has agreed to take in its allotted share of 8,000 migrants currently awaiting resettlement in Italy.
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As Seen in Greece: The Return of ATM Lines?
Late last Friday, we reported what many had feared: the Greek population’s faith in its government’s negotiating skills evaporated last week amid a breakdown in talks with creditors, leading to what local sources dubbed a “massive” €700 million deposit outflow in one day (and over €3 billion for the week).
Now, courtesy of FT (who has confirmed just what we said, namely that “anxious Greeks [are] pulling money from banks amid fears of capital controls”), we get what appears to be visual confirmation of what happened and is still happening on the ground:
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Biggest Ring Around Saturn Just Got Supersized
A giant ring around Saturn is even larger than thought, spanning an area of space nearly 7,000 times larger than Saturn itself, researchers say.
“We knew it was the biggest ring, but know we find it’s even bigger than we thought, new and improved,” the study’s lead author, Douglas Hamilton, a planetary scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, told Space.com.
The immense ring was discovered around Saturn in 2009. The dark grains of dust making up this faint ring are probably debris that cosmic impacts knocked off the gas giant’s distant and equally dark moon Phoebe.
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Clearing Your Browser History Can be Deemed ‘Obstruction of Justice’ In the U.S.
Next week, a 24-year-old man who knew Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev is scheduled to appear in U.S. Federal Court for sentencing on obstruction of justice charges related to the 2013 attacks.
Khairullozhon Matanov, a former taxi driver, did not participate in or have any prior knowledge of the bombings, according to U.S. authorities.
What could land him 20 more years in prison — where he has been since his arrest — are the charges that he deleted video files from his computer and cleared his browser history in the days following the attacks.
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Hospitals Are Blatantly Ripping Us Off
Most Americans are deathly afraid to go to the hospital these days — and it is because of the immense pain that it will cause to their wallets. If you want to get on a path that will lead you to bankruptcy, just start going to the hospital a lot. In America today, hospitals and doctors are blatantly ripping us off and they aren’ t making any apologies for it. As you will read about below, some hospitals mark up treatments by 1,000 percent. In other instances, basic medical supplies are being billed out at hundreds of times what they cost providers. For example, it has been reported that some hospitals are charging up to 30 dollars for a single aspirin pill. It would be difficult to argue that the extreme greed that we see in the medical system is even matched by the crooks on Wall Street. These medical predators get their hands on us when we are at our most vulnerable. They know that in our lowest moments we are willing to pay just about anything to get better or to make the pain go away. And so they very quietly have us sign a bunch of forms without ever telling us how much everything is going to cost. Eventually when the bills come in the mail, it is too late to do anything about it.
How would you feel if someone sold you something for ten times the amount that it was worth?
Would you feel ripped off?
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How Much Media Fraud Will America Tolerate?
Over and over again at each event that I speak at across the country, I always highlight how this administration is using the Saul Alinsky tactics against the American people.
“Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.” — Saul Alinsky, “Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals,” p. 126
This past week, we saw Hillary Clinton had only 50 women show up at one of her presidential fundraising campaigns. Ultimately, she allowed men in due to the pitiful turnout. Yet, Americans are told that she is leading the presidential candidate polls. America, who told you that?
This, of course, comes to you directly from America’s tolerated “useful idiots” that work for the lying, state-controlled media. If you think, I’m joking about the media, just take a look at the following quotes.
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Pizza Hut Debuts Hot-Dog Pizza in Push to Boost Sales
Pizza Hut, contending with sluggish sales, is betting that a hot-dog crust will help draw customers. The pizza chain, which is owned by Yum! Brands Inc., will debut the new Hot Dog Bites Pizza on June 18 at its 6,300 domestic restaurants. The item features 28 “premium hot dog bites,” which are baked into the crust and meant to be pulled off and dipped in mustard.
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Records From Government Data Breach Surface on ‘Darknet, ‘ Says Expert
Government records stolen in a sweeping data breach that was reported last week are popping up for sale on the so-called “darknet,” according to a tech firm that monitors the private online network used by criminals and creeps throughout the world.
Credentials to log into the Office of Personnel Management are being offered just days after the announcement the agency’s records, including extremely personal information of 4.1 million federal government employees dating back to the 1980s, had been compromised, said Chris Roberts, founder and CTO of the Colorado-based OneWorldLabs (OWL), a search engine that checks the darknet daily for data that could compromise security for its corporate and government clients, including government IDs and passwords.
The darknet, the seedy underbelly of the Internet that search engines don’t plumb and only people with certain software can access, is a digital bazaar where everything from new identities, to a life-saving kidney, to credit card numbers and even the murder for hire, are for sale.
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Sovietizing of American Society
The late Alexander Solzhenitsyn, famous Soviet dissident, noted writer, concentration camp (GULAG) survivor, issued an important warning September 11, 1973, when he said, in a speech:
“Coexistence on this tightly knit earth should be viewed as an existence not only without wars… but also without [government] telling us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and what not to know.”
Drawing a Line in the Red Sand
Are YOU going to be one of the parents to draw a line in the red sand?
If Not You, Who?
I. Before continuing on with the following post Early Learning From Birth To Age Five by Mary Thompson 3D Research Group, it is important to know exactly what this early childhood agenda is all about.
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The Truth Behind the USDA’s ‘Non-GMO Label’ Revealed
US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, also known as Monsanto’s errand boy, sent a letter to media outlets on May 1st of this year stating that the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has, for a long time now, offered a Process Verified non-GMO label to food manufacturers. In the least, the claim has kicked up some dust to make understanding the USDA non-GM label claims a little difficult to see through.
Vilsack points to the USDA’s website, stating it “provides companies that supply agricultural products or services the opportunity to assure customers of their ability to provide consistent quality products or services,” with a Process Verified Seal. But this only requires companies to submit internal documentation on their goods or services — there is no outside inquiry into any claims they make.
So, essentially, the USDA certifies a company’s own internal practices based on their paper trail. For the first time, a company has sought the USDA’s Process Verified Label in connection for a product it sells, with a desire to claim non-GMO status.
There is no USDA non-GMO status that is externally vetted. A company could claim that the sky is made of Oreos and cottage cheese if they wanted to — as long as the ‘documentation’ from inside the company claims it is so — the USDA would have to issue this “Process Verified” label. That’s why last week, Natural Society launched a petition to keep the USDA in check. Posted with the headline “Don’t Let the USDA Ruin GMO Labeling,” we have already received around a thousand signatures demanding the agency bring in real testing protocols for their supposed labels.
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Unraveling the Secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
TPP is shrouded in deceit and misrepresentation: Power the agreement bestows on the executive branch and the worsening of our trade deficit
President Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership is actually the name of one of three agreements that together comprise the largest international trade agreement in US history. In popular use, the name also refers to the entire trade pact.
Senator Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner are working tirelessly to pass the TPP.
Fast-track, or trade promotion authority, are temporary powers Congress grants to the president in which they agree to pass his trade agreements without any amendments or filibusters. The president needs these powers to advance his TPP. On May 22, the Senate passed fast-track and set the stage for full passage of the agreement. John Boehner is now pushing aggressively to pass fast-track in the House.
Unlike any trade pact ever presented to Congress, the TPP authorizes control over vast segments of Americans’ lives, including the information internet service providers must collect, the healthcare system, the privatization of hospitals, and even control of banking institutions. The agreement consolidates greater power in the executive and diminishes Congress’ role in trade oversight…
As for “leveling the playing field,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), read sections of the agreement and concludes it does the opposite. According to Warren, the TPP is a handout to large international corporations. Under the agreement, if a multi-national corporation is in violation of US law, they can bypass our judicial system and take their case to an international board of arbiters.
Not only does this undermine the US rule of law, the conflict of interest is staggering. Many of the board judges are the same corporate lawyers representing the companies they are to judge. Since only large international investors, not small businesses can use this court; the TPP is inherently unfair.
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Austria: Ten Alleged Extremists on Trial in Vienna
Ten suspects who allegedly planned to join the militant group Islamic State (Isis) are currently on trial at Vienna Criminal Court, amid high security.
The Vienna-based suspects, nine Chechens and one Turkish national, were arrested in August last year as they attempted to leave Austria and travel to Syria. Police apprehended them as the group tried to cross the border in two cars.
They have been charged with participating in a terrorist organization.
In a statement to the court, prosecutor Stefanie Schön said that should the suspects have reached Syria they would have not only taken part in fighting, but also planned to support Isis logistically, financially, and help build infrastructure and provide other assistance.
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Austrian Police Try to Take Reporter’s Camera
Infowars reporters Rob Dew and Josh Owens attempted to speak with Austrian police about a call received from their hotel manager saying police were looking for Dew in regards to a YouTube video. Following numerous run-ins with Austrian law enforcement near the site of Bilderberg 2015, a police officer tried to take Owens’ camera while at the police station.
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Charlie Hebdo Satirists Shred Finns Party in Latest Issue
The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has focused an ironic eye on the nationalist Finns Party and its rise to the ranks of government in its latest issue. The paper casts the populist party as flogging a potent cocktail of “mock-socialism”, euroscepticism and xenophobia, and notes that it’s now part of a government rolling out biting austerity cuts.
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Danish Police Attacked With Molotov Cocktail
Officers were assaulted on Tuesday night by young men throwing rocks and a firebomb, Funen Police reported. A police car patrolling through the troubled Odense suburb of Vollsmose was attacked last night when four young men began throwing rocks at the vehicle, Hans Frederiksen from Funen Police told BT. A Molotov cocktail followed soon after, which forced the patrol car to withdraw to safety.
The Vollsmose suburb is known in Denmark for its high crime and unemployment rates, as well as a large proportion of people of foreign descent living in the area. Its local youths are often involved in altercations with the police.
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Dutch Nerd of the Year Builds Malaria Detector in a Shoe Box
A Dutchman who invented a simple detector for malaria using a shoe box, heating element from a hair dryer and some cheap items from a diy store has been voted Nerd of the Year by magazine Vrij Nederland. Wouter Bruins tops the list of 101 ‘nerds’ who were judged on their ‘technological solutions for an existing problem’ or ‘other interesting technological discovery.’ Judges included Bluetooth inventor Jaap Haartsen and start-up innovator Oscar Kneppers of Rockstart. According to Elsevier, Bruin’s discovery can contribute to more speedy malaria treatment and will begin major testing in Rotterdam and at a hospital in Zambia. Malaria kills more than half a million people every year.
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EU Report Finds Rampant Racism, Xenophobia in Hungary
The Council of Europe has criticized Hungary in a new report, condemning xenophobia and violence against migrants and minorities. The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban denies any wrongdoing.
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Germany: The Shot That Launched a Battle of Generations
On June 2nd 1967, student Benno Ohnesorg was shot dead by a policeman during a protest in West Berlin. His death fuelled the outrage of the left-wing student movement and ended up contributing to the radicalization of the notorious Red Army Faction.
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Germany: Hitler’s Paintings up for Auction
Watercolour paintings and drawings by Adolf Hitler from about 100 years ago are to go up for auction in southern Germany this month, an auction house said Tuesday.
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Germany’s Most Powerful Trade Union Grouping to Join Protest Against Trans-Atlantic Trade Pact
BERLIN — A powerful grouping of German trade unions says it will help organize protests this fall against a planned trans-Atlantic free trade pact.
The Confederation German Trade Unions, known by its acronym DGB, says it has joined other groups calling for a mass demonstration on Oct. 10.
DGB spokeswoman, Maike Rademaker, confirmed the move first reported Wednesday by German business daily Handelsblatt.
There is unease in Germany about the possible consequences of the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, currently being negotiated between the U.S. and the European Union.
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Irish Muslims to Share Ramadan
DUBLIN — Sharing the spiritual experience of Ramadan fasting, an Irish Muslim leader has called on Muslims to extend their love to their neighbours during the holy month by inviting them to share iftars.
“As more than one billion Muslims worldwide celebrate Ramadan by fasting and appreciating the blessings given to us,” Sheikh Muhammad Umar al-Qadri, founder of the Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council (Impic), told The Irish Times.
“It is equally important for the Irish Muslim community to reach out to our neighbours as an example of true Islamic ideals.”
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Norway Police Slammed for Filmmaker Raid
Norwegian press freedom groups have harshly criticised the country’s police security service (PST), for raiding the house of a celebrated filmmaker without a court warrant and seizing footage as evidence against a suspected terrorist.
Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, best known for the feature film Izzat, about Norwegian Pakistani youth growing up in Oslo’s gang culture, had been shooting a film about the 18-year-old, who was arrested on Monday at Gothenburg airport as he prepared to depart for Syria to fight with the terror group Islamic State.
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Spain ‘In Eye of the Storm of Jihad’, Warns Expert
A German-American foreign policy expert warned that Spain is at a heightened risk of radical jihadists, even as the government continues its crackdown on suspected terrorists.
Soeren Kern of the American Gatestone Institute think-tank explained the growing concerns about radical jihadists in the country in an essay published on Saturday June 6th.
Kern referenced an Interior Ministry report last month that revealed authorities have arrested 568 jihadists over the past ten years in 124 different operations, but emphasized that the same report also estimated the probability of an attack in Spain to be 70 percent.
Spanish authorities have been increasingly cracking down on suspected terrorists in recent months amid growing concerns about Isis and lingering fears following the Paris attacks at magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The analyst, now based in Madrid with the Strategic Studies Group, wrote that Spain has become more of a hotbed of extremism as radicals have entered Spain from France where the French government has stepped up its own security measures since the attacks.
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Switzerland: Ancient Papyrus Texts Found in Basel Uni Library
A valuable collection of ancient Egyptian papyrus manuscripts has been discovered in the University of Basel’s library after being forgotten for more than a century.
The 2,000-year-old texts, written in Greek, Latin, Coptic Egyptian and hieratic, were acquired by the university 115 years ago but were subsequently overlooked.
Sabine Huebner, professor of ancient history, recently found them in two drawers in the library’s manuscripts section, the university said on its website.
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by Srdja Trifkovic
They came in the early eighth century across the Straits of Gibraltar, unleashing terror and carnage across Iberia “like a desolating storm.” They were stopped deep inside today’s France, at Tours, by Charles Martel in 732. They kept attacking Europe throughout the Middle Ages, but their next sustained assault was at her vulnerable southeastern flank, taking advantage of Byzantium’s weakened state after the infamous Fourth Crusade. They conquered Constantinople and destroyed the Christian nations of Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary. They were finally stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683.
Europe seemed safe over the ensuing 250 years of unprecedented demographic, scientific, technological, and geopolitical advance. The “sick man on the Bosphorus” was reduced to a mere object of European imperial ambitions, while “Arabia,” irrelevant to the civilized world, remained stuck in its primitive ways.
Then Europe attempted suicide with the Great War, sealed with its sequel in 1939-45. Her subsequent material recovery was a mirage. Dechristianized and focused on the need for cheap labor regardless of its source, she imported millions of Muslim immigrants in the 1960’s and 70’s—Turks to Germany, Pakistanis to Britain, Algerians to France, and a mix of them all to Benelux, Scandinavia, Austria.
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Forty-two years after The Camp of the Saints came out, Jean Raspail has been proved right. The invaders are not Indians but far more hostile Muslims, yet the result is the same: Our civilization is on the road to disappearance. This applies to all of traditionally Catholic and Protestant Europe. Her current collapse comes from the “old Christian virtues gone mad,” as Chesterton put it—the depraved ideology of universal human rights.
The post-Christian liberal West, which has lost its sense of purpose and history, is unable to protect itself from those who want to destroy and conquer it.
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UK: Top Gear Fans Get Glimpse of Final Show With Clarkson, Hammond and May
The BBC has given Top Gear fans a first glimpse of the final episode of the show to feature Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
The footage was shelved after Clarkson was suspended and then axed following his assault on a producer, but will air on BBC2 in the next few weeks.
It is the last time the trio will be seen on screen together — on the BBC at least — following Clarkson’s departure.
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UK: Waterlooville Paedophile Pictured With a Family He Targeted for a Year
[WARNING: Disturbing Content.]
Hospital DJ Matt Richards was captured grinning at the camera as he played on swings and slides during a trip with family and a young child to a park in Waterlooville, Hampshire.
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Unilever Exec to Head Swiss Chocolate Giant
Switzerland’s Barry Callebaut, the world’s top chocolate maker, on Wednesday said Unilever Foods boss Antoine de Saint-Affrique would take over as its new chief executive in October. The Frenchman will succeed Juergen Steinemann, who has headed the firm since 2009, on October 1, the company said.
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Wales: Forced Marriage Jail First as Cardiff Man Sentenced
A 34-year-old Cardiff man has become the first person in the UK to be prosecuted under forced marriage laws introduced a year ago.
The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was jailed for 16 years after admitting making a 25-year-old woman marry him under duress last year.
He also pleaded guilty to charges of rape, bigamy and voyeurism at Merthyr Crown Court.
The court heard he threatened to kill her father unless she married him.
He was sentenced to four years for the forced marriage, 12 months for bigamy and 12 months for voyeurism to run concurrently with the 16-year rape sentence.
The court heard he became obsessed with the woman, a devout Muslim, and threatened to reveal videos he had secretly filmed of her in the shower and kill members of her family if she told anyone…
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2 Suspected Militants Killed, 4 Wounded in Suicide Attack on Ancient Egyptian Temple
Egyptian security and health officials say police killed two suspected Islamic militants Wednesday shortly after a suicide bomber blew himself up steps away from a temple frequented by millions of tourists every year.
Egypt’s Health Ministry said four other people, including two policemen, were wounded in the shootout outside the temple of Karnak, in the southern city of Luxor. There were only a handful of tourists and Egyptians inside the temple at the time of the late morning attack, the officials told the Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
The governor of the city, Mohammed Sayed Badr, said no tourists were hurt in the bombing.
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Egyptian President Moves to Boost Security After Attack on Ancient Temple
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is calling for more security after a suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday steps away from a temple frequented by millions of tourists every year.
According to a statement from the presidency, el-Sissi praised the police performance in the attack outside the temple of Karnak, in the southern city of Luxor, which left no tourists hurt and wounded only four people, two civilians and two policemen, and called for beefing up security at tourist sites across the country.
Police killed two suspected Islamic militants shortly after the attack.
Meanwhile, on a flight from Cairo to Luxor, Egypt’s Tourism Minister Khaled Ramy told The Associated Press that he expects the tourism industry’s slow recovery would continue, despite the latest attack.
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Libya: Al-Qaeda Militants Clash With Daesh After Leader Killed
Clashes have broken out in eastern Libya between Daesh and al-Qaeda militants after an al-Qaeda leader was killed by masked gunmen, AP reports.
Nasr Akr, a leader of the al-Qaeda linked group operating in Libya, was assassinated in the eastern province of Dama.
The group, known as the Shura Council of Darna’s Jihadis, announced his killing in a statement on Wednesday, blaming Daesh militants for the attack and vowing retaliation, AP reported.
Witnesses said the fighting between the two militant groups has killed at least nine Daesh members.
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American Fighting With Kurds in Syria Killed in ISIS Battle
An American fighting with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State group in Syria has been killed in battle, authorities said Wednesday, likely the first U.S. citizen to die fighting alongside them against the extremists.
Keith Broomfield of Massachusetts died June 3 in a battle in the Syrian village of Qentere, which is near the border town of Kobani, said Nasser Haji, an official with a group of Kurdish fighters known as the YPG. He had joined the YPG on Feb. 24 under the nom de guerre Gelhat Raman, Haji said.
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Dutch Politician’s Outfit Sparks Indignation in Iran
Marietje Schaake has been in demand since her return from a trip to Iran with the European Parliament. She wore clothes meeting Iran’s dress code, but hardliners were still aghast at a glimpse of hair, neck and ears.
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Erdogan’s Welcome Miscalculation
by Srdja Trifkovic
In a stunning blow to Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in over 13 years. By curtailing Erdogan’s power, the results of the general election held last Sunday (June 7) are likely — at long last — to have some positive repercussions for the Greater Middle East.
Erdogan had hoped to obtain a two-thirds legislative supermajority, which would enable him to push through a new constitution that would create an executive presidency and make him de iure, as well as de facto, Turkey’s autocrat with sweeping powers which would have made the U.S. presidency look weak by comparison. His by now openly Islamist AKP, which has governed Turkey since February 2002, went along with his plan. In view of Erdogan’s victory in the presidential election less than a year ago with 52 percent of the vote in the first round, and the AKP’s ability to steadily increase its share of the vote in three consecutive elections, the party’s top brass initially assumed the AKP would be able to gain the 400 seats which Erdogan boldly promised at the beginning of the campaign. Some weeks later he lowered his expectations to 330 seats, the number necessary to hold a referendum on the constitutional amendment he wanted. In the final fortnight of the campaign he remained confident that the AKP would get at least 276 seats needed to form a single-party government for the fourth time.
Erdogan’s name was not on the ballot, but the election was widely perceived as a referendum on his proposed “Turkish-style presidency” — and he has overplayed his hand. Unprecedentedly high turnout of 86 percent included a significant number of former abstainees who were now motivated simply by the desire to stop Erdogan. After last Sunday’s fiasco, his overall power and even his authority in the AKP will no longer be absolute…
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Iran Satellite Launches Tied to Ballistic Missile Program, UN Experts Say
Iran has launched a space satellite using technology that could “contribute to” the development of a ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons, according to a United Nations-appointed panel of experts monitoring the issue.
Tehran intends to launch more such satellites, the panel said.
The most recent launch came last February 15, the experts noted, adding that the Iranian government has already announced plans to conduct three additional satellite launches before March 2016.
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Obama Approves Sending Up to 450 More US Troops to Iraq
The White House announced Wednesday that President Obama has approved sending up to 450 additional U.S. troops to Iraq, in a bid to boost local forces fighting the Islamic State’s advances.
The troops will be sent to help train, advise and assist Iraqi security forces, at a base in eastern Anbar province.
“The President made this decision after a request from Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi and upon the recommendation” of top U.S. military officials, the White House said in a statement.
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Syria: Assad’s Forces Defeated on Roads North and South
President Bashar al-Assad’s military has suffered two more crushing blows as it crumbles on both fronts in the long Syrian war — against Islamic State jihadists and other rebel groups.
Rebel groups backed by western allies like Jordan and Saudi Arabia claimed to have taken a key military base on the road south from Damascus to the Jordanian border.
Meanwhile, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, attacked west from Palmyra, reached the town of Hassia on the main road north from Damascus to Homs and the coast.
They were also said to be taking up positions west of the road close to the Lebanese border, raising the possibility that the country could literally be split in two.
That would not only be a disaster for the regime but would raise the threat of Lebanon being sucked further into the conflict.
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Turkey’s Cabinet Resigns as Erdogan Seeks Coalition Partners
Turkey’s prime minister has resigned on behalf of the cabinet as the country prepares for a new administration. President Erdogan’s AKP party faces a tough challenge in forming a coalition government.
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“Drink wine and forget the rest”. Alcoholism is soaring in teetotal Iran, but why are so many Iranians drinking? Alcohol has been banned since the 1979 Islamic revolution, but now the Health Ministry are opening 150 treatment centres. The move is seen by many as the first admission by the government that Iran has a drinking problem. Ali Hamedani from the BBC’s Persian Service explains more about the role of alcohol in Iranian society.
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‘Wishful Thinking’: Obama’s Ex-Military Intel Chief Blasts Iran Talks in Scathing Testimony
A former top military intelligence official under President Obama on Wednesday blasted the administration’s pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran, calling it a “placeholder” based on “wishful thinking.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, delivered pointed and detailed criticism of the Iran deal framework — as well as the U.S. response to the violence in Iraq and Syria — in written testimony to a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.
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US Embassy in Jakarta Moves Fourth of July Celebration to June to Accommodate Muslims
The United States Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia celebrated Independence Day a month early — to accommodate the country’s Muslim population.
It seems the Fourth of July is right smack in the middle of Ramadan this year so the embassy decided to move America’s birthday to the Fourth of June.
“We are celebrating a month early to respect the holy month of Ramadan,” Ambassador Robert Blake told a gathering at the embassy.
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Rogue Dentist Charged, Fears Patients Were Infected
An unregistered dentist might have infected patients with hepatitis and HIV while allegedly running an illegal clinic in a Melbourne garage, health experts warn.
Muhammet Velipasaoglu has been charged over allegedly treating patients out of a home in Rocklands Rise, Meadow Heights from as long ago as 2003.
Poor record keeping means investigators have no idea who, or how many patients, he might have treated but the Victorian health department fears it could be “many hundreds”.
Failings in his infection control mean there’s a low but real risk some patients could have been infected with blood-borne diseases, and should be tested, acting Chief Health Officer Finn Romanes says.
“The quality of dental care that may have been provided may also be very poor,” he said.
The Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority launched an investigation into Velipasaoglu in May after a tipoff from another practitioner who saw patients for follow-up care. Velipasaoglu is believed to have trained and worked as a dentist in Turkey before moving to Australia, but has never trained or been registered in Australia.
It’s not clear whether Velipasaoglu knew he was required to undergo further training to work in Australia, or if patients knew he was unregistered…
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Cheers! Chimps’ Favourite Tipple is Sweet Palm Wine
Sugar and booze are a combination we humans find hard to resist. Our closest cousins also seem to like the occasional tipple — in the first study of its kind, chimps in West Africa were spotted sampling sweet palm wine on a rare but habitual basis.
Locals in Bossou, Guinea, tap raffia palms close to the crown, which then oozes palm sap that ferments into wine. The sap drips into containers that are left unattended throughout the day — chimps use leaves to dip greedily into the containers and retrieve the yummy boozy drink.
Over 17 years, Kimberley J. Hockings of Oxford Brookes University, UK, and her team observed 51 instances of 13 chimps drinking the palm wine in the Bossou area.
In a typical drinking session, a chimp guzzles about 1 litre of the beverage, whose alcohol content ranges from 3.1 to 6.9 per cent. That is the equivalent of about three beers.
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EU Border Boss Plans Greek Coast Intervention
Fabrice Leggeri, head of the European border agency Frontex, said in Berlin on Wednesday that he was planning more interventions around Greek islands in the Mediterranean.
“There’s a lack of accommodation (for refugees) in Greece, especially on the islands,” Leggeri told reporters at a press conference.
Greece has asked Brussels to support it with more cash to pay for sea rescue, medical care and registration of refugees streaming towards the country from crisis zones in the Middle East.
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France: Paris Mayor: ‘Migrants Can’t Sleep on the Street’
Just days after another makeshift migrant campsite was torn down by Paris police, the city’s mayor has said that Paris needs to open a centre in the capital for migrants as they “can’t sleep on the streets”.
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Hey, Look! A Cop Yelling at a Black Girl in a Bikini!
I’m impressed by the coolness and steadiness of our media in suppressing any news about immigration. It’s as if they’ve built a triple-layer fence with border guards around immigration topics. And guess what? Their fence is working!
How many thousands of news stories have there been on Ferguson, ISIS, Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” or men becoming women?
But the media will never tell you about Mexicans gang-raping a lesbian in Richmond, California, an Indian immigrant in San Francisco importing 12-year-old girls he bought from their parents for sex, or three children being beheaded by Mexicans in Baltimore.
Don’t Americans have a right to know about the cultures flooding into our country?
This isn’t a natural transformation. It is purely the result of government policy. But our media don’t care to discuss the issue. In fact, they get mad whenever Americans find out what they’re doing with immigration.
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Migrants Race Through Italy to Dodge EU Asylum Rules
Last month, Dejen Asefaw was rescued with hundreds of other migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and brought to Sicily. The 24-year-old graduate from Eritrea, who endured forced military service and prison at home, hopes to be granted asylum in Europe.
But instead of applying for refugee status in the country where he landed, as European law dictates, Asefaw made his way to just south of the Austrian border. He hoped to cross into Austria and travel through Germany to Sweden, where his brother lives. There, he planned to identify himself to authorities and request asylum.
Waiting on a train platform a few days ago, the South Tyrol’s snowcapped peaks shining in the distance, Asefaw said it was easy to avoid being registered in Italy. “No one forces you to give your fingerprints,” he said, before explaining how he paid people smugglers more than $5,000 for his journey to Europe. “Surviving the journey was a miracle.”
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Norway to Take in 8,000 Syrian Quota Refugees
Norway has agreed to take in 8,000 Syrian refugees under the UN quota system, with six parties in the parliament backing the deal after two, the anti-immigrant Progress Party and the Socialist Left party, dropped out of talks.
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Turning Away Migrants ‘Heartless’: Sicily Mayor
Italy’s wealthy northern regions have been labelled “heartless and selfish” for turning away refugees, by the mayor of a Sicily port that has seen tens of thousands land there.
As Italy struggles under the weight of the persistent migrant influx, Luigi Ammatuna said the north’s anti-immigration stance was “spreading bad feeling” about migrants across the entire country.
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Amnesty Urges Ireland to End Abortion Ban
Ireland’s “draconian” abortion laws endanger lives of women trying to end pregnancy, Amnesty International said while presenting a new report. The watchdog has launched a campaign to get Dublin to change its regulations.
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Bilderberg Group’s Transhumanist Corporate Communism
The elusive, secretive Bilderberger Group is set to meet this week in Watford, England with plans to reportedly hand the “baton” of leadership on to Google. I recall back in 1999 first reading about the Bilderberg Group on an obscure conspiracy site now long gone. At that time, if you mentioned the Bilderberg Group or other leftist elite combines, you were considered insane. Indeed, even a few years ago, major news and so-called “conservative” news refused to mention Bilderberg, with neo-con talkmongers cowering to what they falsely consider capitalism. While it may be considered a good sign that Bilderberg is now appearing in mainstream news due to sites like Drudge and Infowars forcing the elite entity into public view, Bilderberg is still able to hide behind a mask of so-called capitalism.
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Sick Minds in the Media Getting Sicker
You can’t even switch channels without getting hit in the face with the endless promotion of “alternative” lifestyles and sexual perversion.
CNN’s lesbian commentator Sally Kohn was offended by Republican GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee joking about transgenders, about how a boy, or even a man, could claim to be a girl just to go into the girls’ dressing rooms. “For those who do not think that we are under threat,” Huckabee said, “simply recognize that the fact that we are now in city after city watching ordinances say that your 7-year-old daughter, if she goes into the restroom, cannot be offended and you can’t be offended if she’s greeted there by a 42-year-old man who feels more like a woman than he does a man.”
“Now I wish that someone told me that when I was in high school, that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE [physical education],” said Huckabee. “I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’“
Turning to his audience, he said, “You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous, doesn’t it?
When WorldNetDaily posted the joke, its entire YouTube channel was suspended. Kohn determined that Huckabee, not the behavior he was describing, was creepy.
In another indication of current trends, when Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco commented on the Bruce Jenner problem by noting that the “clear biological fact is that a human being is born either male or female,” The Huffington Post ran a story about his “sad but predictable” comments.
That’s right: it’s now “sad” to point out the biological facts of life.
Cordileone added, “Yet now we have the idea gaining acceptance that biological sex and one’s personal gender identity can be at variance with each other, with more and more gender identities being invented.”
If present trends continue, he warned of “a reversion to the paganism of old, but with unique, postmodern variations on its themes, such as the practice of child sacrifice, the worship of feminine deities, or the cult of priestesses.”
But the media, it seems, just can’t do enough for this particular sexual minority group, inevitably paving the way for recognition of the next stage in the sexual revolution—pedophile rights.
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UK: Sir Tim Hunt ‘Sorry’ Over ‘Trouble With Girls’ Comments
A Nobel laureate has apologised for any offence after he made comments about the “trouble with girls” in science — but said he had “meant to be honest”.
Sir Tim Hunt, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 2001, reportedly told a conference in South Korea women in labs “cry” when you criticise them and “fall in love” with their male counterparts.
He told the BBC he “did mean” the remarks but was “really sorry”.
The Royal Society said Sir Tim’s comments did not reflect its views.
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Bilderberg 2015 to Focus on Re-Branding Authoritarianism
Global elite schemes to put squeeze on ordinary citizens.
The Bilderberg Group has released its full participant list and agenda for the 2015 elitist confab days before it’s set to begin in Austria, but as ever, the topics up for discussion are so vague as to almost be meaningless. And we know that many of the most sensitive topics never appear on that list in the first place. So what’s the real agenda?
For a start, it’s unusual that Bilderberg is taking place after the G7 conference. It’s normally the other way around. This suggests that Bilderberg’s role in not only setting the consensus, but making the final call on many of these issues will be pivotal this year.
The intense security surrounding the InterAlpen Hotel, with our reporters Rob Dew and Josh Owens already having been harassed numerous times by police, illustrates how paranoid Bilderberg are about keeping the details of their agenda under wraps. Anyone who violates Bilderberg’s giant “security zone” which stretches for miles around the perimeter of the hotel faces a 500 euro fine. If they refuse or are unable to pay the fine, it’s two weeks in prison. Artificial intelligence will be one of the core discussion topics at Bilderberg 2015. The most interesting newbie in terms of Bilderberg attendees is undoubtedly Regina Dugan — former DARPA director and now Google executive and a pioneer of ingestible ID microchips. Dugan, along with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and Demis Hassabis, Vice President of Engineering for Google DeepMind, will scheme with global power brokers on how to grease the skids for public acceptance and adoption of Big Brother technology that otherwise wouldn’t look out of place in a dystopian sci-fi thriller.
This all ties into Bilderberg’s overarching goal of re-branding authoritarianism.
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Scientists: Lack of Good Gut Bacteria Could be Giving You Cancer
For many years now it has been widely known that smoking, certain dietary factors, obesity, and many other factors are major contributors to cancer incidence. However, a growing body of research has shown that specific changes in the intestinal flora, or dysbiosis, can be found in the stools or on the colonic walls of patients with diseases such as colon cancer.
This has led to hypotheses suggesting that cancers such as colon cancer are in fact bacteria-related diseases, with some species being referred to as “drivers,” and others “promoters.”
“Thus, it appears that microbiota may be considered a platform offering host and environment interactions for studying CRCs. The hypothesis that colon cancer might be a bacteria-related disease is suggested and perspectives are discussed.”
Although most of the aforementioned studies did not state whether the dysbiosis found in colon cancer patients was a cause or consequence of the disease, quantification of major bacterial groups allowed an identification of the Bacteroidetes family as predominant (present as the most influential main factor) in colon cancer. In fact, the common intestinal commensal known as Bacteroidetes fragilis has been found to induce spontaneous colon cancer in mice bred to mimic familial polyposis in humans. Generally, lower numbers of tumors are seen in mice that are “germ-free” than in those with “conventional” (but not necessarily healthy) gut flora, regardless of whatever carcinogens or mutations are used to induce cancers.
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The Most Evil Quotes From Bilderberg Insiders
If you want to know the evils lurking within the Bilderberg Group, look no further than the following quotes from Bilderberg insiders and those who’ve studied the secretive cabal:
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.” — Bill Gates, TED conference presentation
“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 L.A. Riots]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an “extraterrestrial” invasion], whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.” — Dr. Henry Kissinger, 1992 Bilderberg Meeting at Evians, France “Bilderberg pulls the strings of every government and intelligence agency in the Western world.” — James Morcan, The Ninth Orphan
“If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.” — David Rockefeller, Memoirs
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“The invaders are not Indians but far more hostile Muslims, yet the result is the same: Our civilization is on the road to disappearance.”
Oddly enough, India is facing exactly the same issues – perhaps on an even bigger scale. It has some advantages though – its higher birth rate, adherence to traditional values (even if diluted by Bollywood and exposure to Western corporations) and a lack of “human rights gone mad”…
Where I work are many Indians – sometimes when we meet, there’s far more of them than anyone else. Highly intelligent and motivated to succeed… Had the West been “invaded” by Indians, I suspect this may have looked a little different. Instead of drug dealers, child groomers, terrorists or welfare addicts, there’d have possibly been an abundance of doctors, scientists, engineers and computer programmers. Addressing some of what we really need in our societies – looking after our elderly, and researching alternatives to oil.
We are victims. We are not taking responsibility for our decisions. Perhaps we never will.