Protesters in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, took to the streets and burned EU flags to express their dissatisfaction with Brussels. In possibly unrelated news, Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borisov warned the EU that it would be in for sleepless nights if it voted to impose sanctions on Poland.
In other news, two unknown assailants riding a motorbike threw Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in Tunisia.
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Accused New York Subway Bomber Pleads Not Guilty to Terrorism Charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The Bangladeshi man accused of attempting an Islamic State-inspired suicide bomb attack on a busy New York City commuter hub in December pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal terrorism charges.
“At this moment, not guilty,” said Akayed Ullah, 27, when U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan asked him for his plea at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan.
The charges against Ullah include supporting a foreign terrorist organization, using a weapon of mass destruction and carrying out a terrorist attack against a mass transit system. Ullah faces life in prison if convicted.
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Feinstein Makes Startling Admission: “I Got Pressured” To Release Fusion Transcripts
Sen. Dianne Feinstein made a startling admission when asked why she released the Fusion GPS transcripts on Tuesday without first informing Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ahead of time.
“I meant to tell him, and I didn’t have a chance to tell him, and that concerns me,” Feinstein told CNN Congressional correspondent Manu Raju, adding “I just got pressured, and I didn’t do it.”
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Population Control Alert: Ibuprofen is a Tool of Agenda 21!
A study published Monday detailed the effects of the drug Ibuprofen on male fertility. The drug was shown to cause a hormonal condition in young men that is linked to infertility.
According to CNN, a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that when taking ibuprofen in doses commonly used by athletes, a small sample of young men developed a hormonal condition that typically begins, if at all, during middle age. This condition is linked to reduced fertility, which some say makes ibuprofen perfect for Agenda 21’s population control.
Joe Joseph of The Daily Sheeple says he’s been vindicated. “I feel vindicated today! A couple months back I put out a video about how ibuprofen could be a tool for Agenda 21,” said Joseph.
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Princeton Puts Crimp in Alarmist Argument
Climate scientists grossly underestimate the effect cloud cover has on global temperatures, according to researchers at Princeton University’s environmental institute.
Climate models factor in too much of the sun’s daily heat into their projections about what the Earth’s land temperatures could look like long-term. Inaccuracies in accounting for daily cloud cycle distorts the effectiveness of a tool scientists use to measure climate change, according to a study publishedin the journal Nature Communications.
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Project Veritas Hidden Video: Twitter Employees Admit to Political Censorship
In the second undercover video in three days, Project Veritas has continued to expose Twitter as part of the “American Pravda.” While the first video showed a senior engineer at Twitter saying that the company is “more than happy to help the Department of Justice with their little investigation” into President Trump, this video helps explain why that may be.
The new hidden camera video — published Thursday — features “nine current and former Twitter employees” admitting to “steps the social media giant is taking to censor political content that they don’t like,” according to Project Veritas
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The Shoe-Horn Strategy of UN Globalist “Visioning”
Our county in northern Virginia is probably one of the most compliant with the dictates of U.N. Agenda 2030. They have been so much ahead, counting on citizens not knowing what they are subscribing to. The District Supervisor urges residents in the New Woodbridge Vision, to “Go Green, Get Your Vision.” The vision, of course, is a smart development plan tailored to local needs but also United Nation’s “vision” of a global social engineering to control every human activity within the parameters they set out of what is and what isn’t sustainable.
Pushing smart development, Frank Principi, who was elected in 2008, describes the Vision of a New Woodbridge as a “mixed use, smart growth development that maximizes existing transit and prepares for new options.” This vision is mirroring the vision of U.N. Agenda 2030.
Compliant with the dictates of U.N. Agenda 2030
He describes smart growth as “a mix of residential, commercial, and retail space in close proximity with a range of housing options, utilize compact building design, promote walkability, green space preservation and sustainability,” all for the lofty goal of community collaboration.
Frank Principi supports more “town centers for convenience, to combine live, work, eat, and play space.” A population socially engineered in one small area is much easier to control. Most taking points in this pamphlet are found in the U.N. Agenda 2030 stated goals and “visions.”
All main roads are congested by non-stop traffic that no politician seems to be able to unclog. The county’s population has increased 40 percent by mostly illegal residents according to the last census report. Principi is looking at other venues such as VRE, HOT lanes, and even “the option of commuting to work via a high-speed catamaran, in under an hour into DC, at a price point competitive with rail and less expensive than HOT Lanes.”
Of course a simpler and less expensive economic solution would be to enforce immigration laws in existence and to deport all illegals in the county and to stop bringing in economic refugees from the Middle East and unaccompanied minors from Central America. Most reside in Prince William County because rent is cheaper and can attend public schools at taxpayers’ expense and receive welfare benefits.
It is not coincidental that tiny homes and spaces are being pushed around the country, that suburbia is being vilified by city planners, car use is discouraged, bus and light rail use are encouraged, bike lanes are built everywhere, bike riding is heavily promoted, and the traditional home ownership and one-family residences are frowned upon by local globalist planners?
Roads in the northern Virginia area are narrowed to make driving more inconvenient and countless speed tables are installed on all streets not necessarily just to slow down traffic but to destroy cars over time, necessitating constant repairs and tune-ups, thus making it more expensive to own and operate a vehicle. Garage parking is very expensive and street parking spaces are harder and harder to find.
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Project Veritas has done it again. James O’Keefe and one of his female undercover reporters have gone undercover to expose the tactics used by Clay Haynes, a senior network security engineer and admitted “bleeding heart liberal” at Twitter, to take down President Trump. In the stunning video below, Haynes reveals that he sends Trump’s deleted tweets to the DOJ to “help with their little investigation”.
Project Veritas’ female reporter digs further into his assertion that Twitter is attempting to take down the President by sending private “deleted” tweets and private messages on Twitter to the DOJ. It’s actually pretty ridiculous to believe that President Trump would be sending private messages on Twitter.
The reporter asks Haynes how he feels about not being able to take down Trump’s Twitter account after he claims that he doesn’t “like being part of the machine that contributes to the downfall of America.” Haynes then goes on to brag about how much access Twitter has to their user’s private information.
Haynes then goes on to express his disgust in having to let Trump’s tweets stand on the Twitter network: “And so, because it’s newsworthy, even though he’s making a complete ass out of himself and the country, we have to let those tweets up and let him do…Essentially, he has a carte blanche to do whatever he wants.”
“The other thing is too, that we’re more than helping…We’re more than happy to help the Department of Justice in their little investigation.”
The undercover reporter asks how?
“Basically, give them every single tweet that he’s posted. Even the ones that he’s deleted. Any direct messages, any mentions, oh yeah.”
“So, what we can do on our side is actually very terrifying.”
When the female undercover Veritas reporter asks Haynes what is terrifying about what Twitter does with personal accounts, he responds by telling her how they can basically track your every move on Twitter. Haynes claims, “It’s very, very dangerous. Also very, very creepy Big-Brotherish.”
Next, Haynes makes another admission: “I’m a bleeding heart liberal. I think it comes with the territory.”
So is Haynes saying that anyone associated with Twitter who has the ability to censor speech or rat you out to law enforcement for having opposing political views is probably a “bleeding heart liberal”?
Watch the stunning video below:…
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Trump’s National Security Adviser Rushes to Save Obama Era Iran Nuclear Deal — Breitbart
A new report suggests that President Donald Trump’s national security advisor H.R. McMaster is rushing to save the deeply flawed nuclear Iran deal, which was seen as a hallmark of former President Obama’s legacy, ahead of Friday’s deadline for recertification.
“According to multiple sources, H.R. McMaster is reprising the role he played last fall: removing a legislative irritant from Trump so that the president can quietly remain in the deal,” wrote the Daily Beast.
President Trump has promised he would terminate the Iran nuclear deal.
On Friday, President Trump must decide whether he will waive — or extend — sanctions relief for key parts of the Iranian regime, such as Iran’s Central Bank, or allow them to be snapped back into place, which wouldput the United States in violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran’s Central Bank funds Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was designated as a terrorist entity by the U.S. Department of Treasury in October.
Another lingering question is whether President Trump will decide to stay in the deal.
The Iran deal is largely seen as more of a treaty than law…
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Twitter Caught Trying to Silence James O’Keefe After He Exposed Their Conservative Censorship Regime
Twitter has finally unblocked Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe’s account after attempting to silence the conservative journalist over his expose on the social media giants direct political censorship of conservatives.
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Robert De Niro may have gotten applause from the decaying cesspool of self-important, Hollywood celebrities sitting in the audience, over his foul-mouthed, anti-Trump rant, but the people who used to pay to see him act (when he could still act) didn’t have quite the same reaction, as the mind-numbing clapping seals, who were seated in the National Board of Review Annual Awards that took place in New York City.
[Comment: Responses to DeNiro’s tweets are entertaining.]
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Borisov: Poland Vote Would Give EU ‘Sleepless Nights’
A vote on sanctions against Poland over its rule of law issues would give the EU “sleepless nights” and should be avoided, Bulgarian prime minister Boyko Borisov said on Thursday (11 January).
“We should not get to this point,” Borisov, whose country has just taken over the presidency of the EU Council — the institution where member states meet — told journalists in Sofia.
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Britain’s Got Talent Judge Calls for Ban on Smoking and Eating Meat
A British rapper and talent show judge has called for a total ban on the production and consumption of meat and tobacco, signalling a desire for widespread and punitive legislation that would deprive hundreds of thousands of a livelihood and millions of basic consumer choice.
The questionable remarks came in an otherwise perfectly ordinary ‘celebrity’ interview with the Home supplement of the Daily Mail for Alesha Dixon, in which the entertainer made several revelations including a “guilty pleasure” for television programme The Only Way is Essex, and that she steals food from other people’s plates when dining out.
Yet the tone changed markedly as the celebrity signalled her distaste for the preferences and habits of the vast majority of ordinary Britons when asked: “what law would you change if you could?”.
Responding, the millionaire vegetarian stated: “I would make smoking illegal and I would ban the slaughter of animals for food or anything… make it illegal to smoke or eat meat.”…
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Furious Protestors Burn EU Flags in the Streets of Bulgaria
PROTESTS have broken out in the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria with demonstrators burning EU flags because they feel ignored by the bloc.
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Hungary to Hold Parliamentary Elections on 8 April
Hungary will hold its parliamentary election on April 8, president Janos Ader said on Thursday in a statement, according to MTI news agency. Prime minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz party is expected to win its third consecutive mandate to govern by a comfortable majority, with the nationalist Jobbik party holding second place in opinion polls, and the Socialists being a distant third.
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Italian Museum Offers Exclusive Discounts to Arabic Speakers
Turin’s Egyptian Museum has introduced an exclusive two-for-one ticket offer for Arabic speakers, igniting a political debate in a country divided by opposing views on Europe’s migrant crisis.
The new promotion is part of a Museum campaign called “Lucky Arabic speaker,” and is displayed on buses throughout the city as well as on the subway.
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Italy’s Center-Right Launches Full-Throttle Campaign: No Longer ‘Slaves to Europe’
The leader of Italy’s premier conservative party “The League” has launched a hard-hitting campaign for upcoming elections based on a platform of national sovereignty in the style of Donald Trump and Brexit.
In one of his campaign posters, Matteo Salvini takes on the European Union (EU) head-on, proclaiming “Slaves to Europe? No Thanks,” a notion that resonates among Salvini’s base of Italians who believe that their nation has yielded far too much of its sovereignty to Brussels bureaucrats.
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Kosher Store Near Paris Set on Fire on Anniversary of Terror Attack
A suspected arson attack that burnt down a French kosher grocery store near Paris on Tuesday has revived anti-Semitism fears in France, three years to the day since a deadly assault on a Jewish supermarket by a jihadist gunman.
A suspected arson attack on a French kosher grocery store has revived anti-Semitism fears.
The incident took place in Créteil to the south east of Paris in France’s Val-de-Marne department.
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London Islamic State Sympathizer Planned to Bomb ‘Smart People’
A self-described “simple man” who had an apparent hatred for people of intelligence planned a suicide bombing in London to take out “smart people”, a British court has heard.
Whitechapel resident Mohammed Kamal Hussain, 28, was arrested with Mohammed Ashfaqur Hemel, 31, last year as he planned to launch an attack, which he identified in communications in code as a “barbeque party”, reports The Times.
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‘Polexit’ Vote Could Happen if Warsaw Becomes EU Net Contributor — Tusk
EU President Donald Tusk has warned that Poland’s nationalist government could follow the UK in leaving the 28-member bloc if one day its contribution to the bloc outweighs the funding it receives.
In an interview with the weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, the former Polish prime minister and opponent of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party said he has “no doubt that for PiS one of the goals is to ‘free’ Polish politics from the burden of the EU.”
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Sweden Investigates Soaring Number of Rapes
Sweden has launched an investigation into the soaring number of rapes after it emerged that one in 24 women have fallen victim to a sexual offence.
The Swedish Crime Survey found that 4.1 per cent of women had experienced some form of sexual offence between 2012 and 2016.
The country’s Moderate Party has now demanded to know if the alarming figures are linked to migration after a probe was launched to find out the reason for the spike in incidents.
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Sweden: Hanif Bali Compared to Trump and Milo Yiannopoulos
When Sweden’s main opposition party recently made a u-turn on immigration, many credited the new restrictive policies to the increasing influence of one particular backbench MP — and his very controversial Twitter account.
The centre-right Moderate Party now want migrant quotas, higher income thresholds for family-reunification, the right to refuse asylum seekers at the border, and Swedish language and citizenship tests.
These drastic changes had long been pushed for by Hanif Bali, a 30-year-old immigrant MP who has gone from unknown suburban backbencher to being compared to US President Donald Trump in little over a year.
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The Swedish Government is Warning Citizens to be Prepared for at Least a Week Without Help
The Swedish government is warning its citizens to be prepared to survive on their own for at least a week, which is unusual advice for Sweden to dispense. Is there trouble on the horizon?
Shortly before Christmas, the Swedish government quietly published a paper called “Resilience.” Initially, the requirement had been for people to be prepared for 3 days without help, but it seems like that was a baby step. The government itself wants to be prepared for a 3-month long civil emergency and they’re urging citizens to take responsibility, too.
It really makes you wonder what is looming ahead, doesn’t it?
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The Swedish city of Helsingborg has seen a steep rise in shootings, with fatalities in three of the 20 cases recorded in 2017.
In 2016, there were only five shootings in the city which lies on the south-west coast only miles from neighbouring Denmark. In less than a year, the number of shootings had surged to 20, in the city of less than 100,000 inhabitants — a number of attacks unheard of until recently in the formerly peaceful Scandinavian nation.
In almost all of the cases, the victims of the shootings were young men in their 20s and police believe them to be linked to organised crime, Swedish broadcaster, SVT reports.
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Will the Czech Election 2018 Plunge the EU and Czech Republic Into Chaos
Mr Zeman, a fierce critic of European Union immigration policies, has a 42.5 percent chance of winning the first round of the presidential election, according to the most recent public poll by TNS Kantar & Median.
His nearest competitor, Jirí Drahos, is expected to take 27.5 percent of the votes — although he is expected to score higher in the second round at the end of January.
The controversial populist is an ally of Russia and recently blasted Brussels over its EU migrant policy on TV, warning it could lead to 10 million refugees arriving in Europe from Africa.
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A Tunisian Synagogue Set on Fire by Molotov Cocktails
Two Molotov cocktails have been thrown at a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba, setting fire to the building.
The president of Djerba’s Jewish community, Perez Trabelsi, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the attack was perpetrated by two people on a motorbike. He said the synagogue suffered no damage.
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Iran: Relatives Say Protestors ‘Maybe Tortured to Death’ In Prison
Iranian protesters who have been released from prison, and the families of those still held without charges, say that some of the detainees have been tortured and killed.
“People inside are being tortured, maybe tortured to death,” a 31-year-old activist named Amir told Fox News, speaking by telephone from a rally outside Iran’s infamous Evin prison.
Amir said one of his friends was “lucky” to have been released after a week in jail, but has gone into hiding because he fears for his family’s safety. During his week in detention, this student friend was “beaten badly.”
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Trump’s National Security Adviser Rushes to Save Obama Era Iran Nuclear Deal
A new report suggests that President Donald Trump’s national security advisor H.R. McMaster is rushing to save the deeply flawed nuclear Iran deal, which was seen as a hallmark of former President Obama’s legacy, ahead of Friday’s deadline for recertification.
“According to multiple sources, H.R. McMaster is reprising the role he played last fall: removing a legislative irritant from Trump so that the president can quietly remain in the deal,” wrote the Daily Beast.
President Trump has promised he would terminate the Iran nuclear deal.
On Friday, President Trump must decide whether he will waive — or extend — sanctions relief for key parts of the Iranian regime, such as Iran’s Central Bank, or allow them to be snapped back into place, which would put the United States in violation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Iran’s Central Bank funds Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was designated as a terrorist entity by the U.S. Department of Treasury in October.
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The Australian Federal Police are investigating after a Facebook page, Australians Filming Police, called for the beheading of officers, offering a ‘reward for police heads on sticks’ on Saturday.
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Wikileak’s Julian Assange Becomes Ecuadorean Citizen
The Ecuadorean government has confirmed that Julian Assange was granted Ecuadorean citizenship on 12 December.
Ecuador subsequently asked the UK to recognise Mr Assange as a diplomatic agent — a move that could have given him immunity.
The UK has refused, saying Mr Assange — who has been at the embassy since 2012 — should now leave and “face justice”.
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European Court Rejects Swedish Proposal to Deport Terrorist Migrant
The European Court of Justice has ruled against the Swedish government’s decision to deport a terrorist asylum seeker claiming that he must remain in Sweden because he could face potential torture in his native Morocco.
The Moroccan asylum seeker came to Sweden in 2005 but in 2016 the Swedish security service (Säpo) determined that the man was a security threat to Sweden and recommended he be deported. Both the Swedish Migration Board and the Swedish supreme court agreed with the Säpo, but the migrant took his case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) who sided with him, Svenska Dagbladet reports.
Swedish terrorism expert Magnus Ranstorp slammed the move saying it makes the job of security services harder because although they can request the deportation of dangerous individuals, rulings like the one by the ECJ show it to be impossible to actually deport them.
Ranstorp added that the problem was not limited to Sweden and that there was a Europe-wide issue with an inability to deport dangerous Islamic extremists to their home countries.
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Israel to Pay for Deporting Illegal Immigrants
Israel is asking their illegal immigrants to deport themselves, and the government is willing to pay a handsome incentive to do it.
For illegal immigrants that are staying behind, it seems Israel will be paying private citizens to help kick them out of the country. According to a report by Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the government will be offering up to 30,000 shekels ($8,705 US Dollars) to citizens who help expel illegal immigrants.
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Shock Memo: Democrats Admit That They Need Illegal Immigrants to Win Elections
In a shocking admission of a fact that many on the right have openly worried about for years, the liberal Center For American Progress Action Fund had admitted that illegal immigrants brought here at a young age are a “critical component” for future Democratic Party electoral success.
You read that right. The Democratic Party is now admitting that their support for so-called Dreamers is in large part because of their belief that the vast majority would vote almost exclusively liberal.
Interestingly, the memo was actually co-authored by former Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri, who herself has claimed on numerous occasions that illegal immigrants never vote and that the DNC’s support for them has nothing to do with elections…
What we have here is the Democratic Party FINALLY admitting that they plan to use Dreamers, if they are given amnesty and citizenship, to change the course of the country forever.
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The Fatal Flaw in the Brain-Computer Interface
by Jon Rappoport
There is a great deal of “utopian research” going on in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) merging with the brain.
Exuberant cheerleaders like Ray Kurzweil are quite confident we are approaching a moment when a computer will exhibit all the power of the human brain. And more.
Kurzweil and others are also sure we’re about to uncover the “algorithm” that underlies all brain activity.
They couldn’t be more wrong. Neuroscience has barely scratched the surface of understanding how the brain operates. Cracking the code is not on the horizon.
Most importantly: how would a brain-computer interface work? Hook up your brain to a super-computer, and how does your brain absorb the computer’s data, and how does it make the data known to YOU, the user?
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Good for Ecuador and shame on the Brits for not recognizing Assange as a diplomat. He uncovered the TRUTH and our “elites” cannot stand it! Thank you, Julian.
Responding, the millionaire vegetarian stated: “I would make smoking illegal and I would ban the slaughter of animals for food or anything… make it illegal to smoke or eat meat.”
…and I would make rap illegal.
But seriously, I tried experimenting with vegan styles, concentrating on fruit and bread, and I can confess that I found out I have to have meat in my diet, or I get weak, cold and depressed. And I heard similar things from guys I work with: Working heavy duty outdoors in winter is impossible with vegans, they kinda run out of energy.
Vegans aren’t famous for doing the heavy lifting in life.
However, vegans (and vegetarians) are becoming famous for earlier onsets of age-related mental deficiencies like dementia and Alzheimers.
See: Many Vegetarians At Risk of Dementia and Alzheimers
It turns out that vitamin B12 is crucial for neurological health and only can be obtained from animal sources. We humans have canine teeth for a reason.
It’s not just B-12. There are many micronutrients in meat (and bones) that we can’t get elsewhere. The problem is trying to find safe meat. The B goes into town for me to get organic chicken carcasses so I can make broth.
To say vegans and vegetarians are in danger of age-related diseases is highly questionable.
Firstly, what is the statistical sample and how was it established? In research, you ALWAYS have to have a comparative sample.
Second, correlation isn’t causation.
Thirdly, vegetarians and vegans might live longer, hence are more likely to suffer from age-related diseases.
Fourth, always read the fine print of a research, unless the source is just hearsay.
And also: we have vitamin and nutritional supplements.
Cheers.-
Bottom line is, even herbivores eat meat if given the opportunity. There are plenty of recorded cases of deer eating small birds or goats eating chicks. Horses were fed meat in northern regions and did just fine even long-term. Meat IS the ultimate energy source.
And vegetarians/vegans are dependent on supplements and most of them on produce that heavily impacts the environment (can’t be grown locally, the production itself is questionable, etc.). That alone shows it’s unnatural (they wouldn’t survive without modern society that has supplements readily available) and the lifestyle is by no means any more environmentally friendly than raising animals for meat.
And I haven’t even mentioned the impossibility of survival in colder climates, especially in a hunter and gatherer setting. So again, it’s unnatural. Humans are omnivores and our teeth and digestion system, as well as our closest relatives, are the perfect proof.
Not eating meat won’t change anything and will certainly not improve lives of farm animals. Eating less meat (the ol’ Sunday roast), eating all kinds of meat (not just prime cuts, but things like innards or ox-tail) and buying locally and organic/from small farms it what actually has impact on farming and the quality of lives of farm animals.
I love them oxtails; they make the best underlayer for sweet-and-sour stuffed cabbage. Nothing matches their broth. What many non-rural Americans call “the nasty bits” are the ones I grew up on and dearly love, though they are hard to come by.
We do indeed buy local meats and can even get non-halal lamb, including the kidneys. They’re not allowed to label them “organic” since they haven’t bothered to go thru the bureaucratic maze required for that. But organic they are just the same.
Local eggs are another, but harder come by in winter.
If anyone knows a place that ships capons in the US, would they leave a contact for them? I’m trying to talk a local person into neutering their excess male chicks, but no luck so far.
There is enough stuff in this newsfeed to give me ulcers without eating meat. One believes, Europeans unlike Americans, don’t eat GMO food, so how to account for the high incidence of brain diseases at the ECJ, and other European establishment institutions?
When it comes to banning the eating of meat the intellectually challenged ‘Rapper’, Alesha Dixon (above), is a living embodiment of precisely why we do and should continue to do so.
We Homo sapiens sapiens are omnivores, not herbivores. Our metabolisms require proportionate amounts of both vegetable matter and animal protein to function at a level of efficiency determined by our evolution. Indeed, our teeth demonstrate this quite clearly, even perhaps to the point of such proportionality – 8 incisors, 4 canines, 8 premolars and 8 molars.
It has long been understood how and why animal protein supplies us with essential amino acids which we do not metabolise ourselves (9 in total; histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine). Two of those (aromatic) amino acids, tryptophan & phenylalanine, together with tyrosine, enable the synapses in our brains to function at optimum efficiency because they are biosynthetic precursors for the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.
Consequently, Vegans, and to a slightly lesser extent Vegetarians who, in the cause of righteous virtue signaling deprive themselves of the metabolic benefits of these amino acids, are on the whole somewhat retarded, of low intelligence and of slow, turgid thinking and hence should not be permitted to have any say whatsoever in the way we dietary balanced members of our species choose to sustain our mental processes.
The only possible exception to Veganism being a self-inflicted condition that I am aware of, and there may be others, is a severe allergic reaction, include anaphylaxis, that can result from a potentially life-threatening reaction to a bite from a Lone Star tick. This bite and its reaction can cause people to develop an allergy to red meat, including beef and pork, and obviously they or any other involuntary afflicted are not included in my disparaging comments above.
Excellent comment, Seneca III!
You did quite well until you said vegans and vegetarian engage in some kind of virtue signaling. That would imply that them would consider it a shining virtue, which is pure imagination.
Your assertion that carnivorism is our destiny is [an idea with which I disagee]: orangutans, gorillas, and bonobos, all primates, eat nothing but leaves and roots. Chimpanzees eat meat occasionally, but hardly sufficiently.
Carnivorism was a necessity, for how would you survive in the north when the plants all die, and rot away. Also, only about half the staple crops were available before the discovery of America. That is not the case today.
Enjoy your stake.
It seems to some being “somewhat retarded” is of no importance, according to this smug virtue-signaler writing in a national newspaper recently:
“Yes, being vegan does make me a better person – and, deep down, I think you know it”.
With the possibility a vegan-diet could mean a serious drop in IQ, perhaps in the future we can look forward to a vegan/baked-potato hybrid, one that tells you to “eat the skin”.
However it appears to rule out Scientologists,
L.Ron Hubbard:
“tomatoes scream when sliced.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/06/16/meet-your-vegetables/K9Q57mh3vuj5P2RvV6rUuK/story.html
Today’s proof the left hates us and wants us all dead:
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-most-hostile-work-environment-on.html