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Trump administration lists the 7 dirty words the CDC can't use

Avery Anopol
The Hill
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:14 UTC
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© Tami Chappell / Reuters
The Trump administration has reportedly banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using the phrases "evidence-based" and "science-based" in official documents.

Senior CDC officials distributed the list of "forbidden" words and phrases to policy analysts at the CDC on Thursday, The Washington Post reported Friday. The list also bans the use of "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender" and "fetus."

Analysts are reportedly prohibited from using the phrases in official documents they prepare for the 2019 budget, which is expected to be released in February.

An analyst who attended the meeting at the CDC in Atlanta told The Washington Post that instead of "evidence-based" or "science-based," policy analysts are instructed to use the phrase, "CDC bases its recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes."

Comment: Banning the words "evidence-based" and "science-based" seems, on its face, quite whacky. However, considering the CDC's record of altering study data (i.e. engaging in scientific fraud), most notably regarding the vaccine-Autism link, they should not be permitted to hide behind the veneer of scientific respectability when their research is about as dirty as it gets. Moreover, the CDC aren't alone in shady research. Science is rife with it: Conflict of Interest in Scientific Research And Our Own Personal Bias

P.S. There is no scientific consensus on global warming.

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Su-30 pilots covered Putin's plane to Syria as 'heat traps' for possible enemy missiles


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:05 UTC
December 11, 2017. President of Russia Vladimir Putin on board a presidential aircraft bound for the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria
© Michael Klimentyev / SputnikDecember 11, 2017. President of Russia Vladimir Putin on board a presidential aircraft bound for the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria
Summary One of the Su-30SM pilots who covered Vladimir Putin's plane on his recent trip to Syria opened up on the mission. The jets were "heat traps" ready to take possible enemy missiles upon themselves, he said.

"In this case, the task was to meet [the Russian President's plane] and escort it to the landing strip," a pilot named Yury told a Rossiya 1 correspondent at the Russian Khmeimim airbase in western Syria. "One of the tasks was to hereby cover it with ourselves, roughly saying," he added.

According to the ace, the Su-30SM jets were a sort of "heat traps" for missiles that could've been fired at Putin's plane. "The temperature of the exhaust gases of the (Su-30SM) plane is much higher" than of presidential Il-96-300PU, he said. "We were flying at maximum capacity because our planes have different speed and it was that we were protecting the presidential plane from both sides with ourselves," the pilot added.
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Ukrainian President Poroshenko celebrates EU sanctions extension on Russia, despite tanking Ukrainian economy

Smita Nordwall
VOA
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:25 UTC
supporter waves European Union flag from a building top in Kyiv, Ukraine Nov. 29, 2013.
FILE - A supporter waves a European Union flag from a building top in Kyiv, Nov. 29, 2013.
European Union leaders extended tough economic sanctions leveled at Russia over the country's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

The decision, announced Thursday at an EU summit, will extend current restrictions against Moscow until July 2018.

"EU united on roll-over of economic sanctions on Russia," European Council President Donald Tusk posted on Twitter.

Comment: "has been violated almost daily", huh? Well, who's been violating it?

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USA

The GOP tax plan: Separating fact from fiction

Kush Desai
The Daily Caller
Sat, 16 Dec 2017 18:06 UTC
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© REUTERS/Aaron P. BernsteinSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan announcing the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. November 16, 2017.
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich claimed Wednesday that reputable analyses of the GOP tax bill have at most found "maybe a couple hundred bucks" of benefits for middle-class families.

Verdict: False

Several reputable studies estimate that many in the middle class would receive a sizable tax cut under the bill.

Fact Check:

As House and Senate Republicans attempt to pass the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act before Christmas, many commentators, including Reich, have continued to criticize the tax reform effort.

Reich claimed during a segment on CNN that prominent tax policy groups have estimated little benefit for the middle class.
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The exclusively Jewish state: Israel passes 'anti-infiltration law' to speed up deportation of African refugees

Jonathan Ofir
Mondoweiss
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:50 UTC
Israel political cartoon
© Carlos Latuff
On Monday, the Israeli parliament, Knesset, passed an amendment to the 'Prevention of Infiltration Act', aimed at African refugees from mainly Eritrea and Sudan, so that it could continue to coerce African refugees to be deported to a third country, against the threat of indefinite incarceration. The law was promoted after the Supreme Court criticized the state practice of incarcerating refugees for indefinite periods, in attempt to coerce them to leave to a third country. "We'll have to enact new laws that will enable us ... to send the illegal infiltrators out of our country", said Prime Minister Netanyahu three months ago, on his "mission to give back south Tel Aviv to the Israeli residents" (from the African 'infiltrators' who had supposedly taken it over).

What we are seeing here is not really new legislation. The state is simply bent upon deporting the African refugees, and if it can make 'new legislation' and enact immediate deportation it might get away with it before a race against the courts. The state had already declared a week ago, even before the passing of the law, that it will be enacting the deportations within the next few weeks, as Haaretz reported. Netanyahu has also reportedly cut a deal with Rwanda, wherein also refugees deported against their will would be taken by Rwanda.

The bill passed in second and third readings on a count of 71-41 (out of 120 Knesset members).
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Dems and GOP: Two tools used by the Deep State to knock you out

Caitlin Johnstone
Medium
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:02 UTC
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Democrats made fun of Donald Trump Jr yesterday for saying in the wake of the FCC's vote to can net neutrality regulations that Ajit Pai was "Obama's FCC chairman", but he was partly right. Partisan hacks conveniently overlook the fact that while the aggressively anti-net neutrality Pai was indeed appointed to his position as chairman by the current president, he was appointed to the FCC by Obama.

In fact, two of the three FCC commissioners who voted to kill net neutrality were Obama appointees. Michael O'Rielly, who once infamously attacked the notion that it's important for everyone to have internet access, was appointed by Obama as well. By keeping the FCC from being populated with commissioners who favor consumer protection over irresponsible corporate deregulation, the Democrats have allowed the Republicans to not only repeal the Obama administration's 2015 net neutrality regulations, but regulations which have existed since the age of dial-up as well.

Comment: If this year has made anything clear, it's that the Deep State is running the show in America, but also that people are waking up to this fact and turning away from the lies being peddled by their mainstream media outlets.

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Threatened US Naval blockade of North Korea represents the illegal starvation of a sovereign nation

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:26 UTC
US aircraft carriers
A proposed US Naval blockade of North Korea is an admission that sanctions do not work and puts the world on a course for millions of innocent deaths in both Asia and North America.

Saudi Arabia's Naval blockade of Yemen has caused the profoundest human rights disaster of the 20th century. Mass starvation, critical levels of malnutrition among those who are able to find morsels of food, a severe lack of medicines and clean water in addition to a largely untreated Cholera epidemic, now typify life for thousands in Yemen.

Most horrifyingly, the entire catastrophe in Yemen is man made due to Saudi Arabia's refusal to let the most essential of supplies into the country's northern regions.

While even the US has recently broken its silence, asking Saudi authorities to allow crucial supplies in, this hasn't stopped US authorities from threatening a similar blockade against North Korea.

Comment: Washington has been sending mixed signals about North Korea so there is no telling what will happen:

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USA

Journalist Brian Castner reveals how arms experts tracked down illicit US supplies to Iraq ISIS


RT
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:04 UTC
Iraqi soldiers from Peoples Mobilization Forces
© Global Look PressIraqi soldiers from Peoples Mobilization Forces (PMF) seen inside the liberated Tal Afar military airport in Tal Afar city
A story published by Wired reveals that an EU-funded group of arms experts went to Iraq and Syria to explore Islamic State's well-oiled manufacturing machine, only to find that the US routinely violated arms control clauses.

This week the Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a London-based organization partly funded by the European Union, published a 200-page report that summarizes three years of work done by its field teams in Iraq. CAR experts were documenting the weapons Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) used on battlefields and how exactly it acquired them. In a story published by Wired, writer Brian Castner, a former Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer and veteran of the Iraq War, recounts his experience of following CAR field expert Damien Spleeters as he gathered evidence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar.

CAR field research is about finding weapons and weapon components, documenting markings and tracing the weapons back to their country of origin and origin through tell-tale signs like particular shades of paint. Serial numbers allowed the group to confirm numerous cases in which weapons produced by EU members like Romania and Bulgaria, and purchased by the US and Saudi Arabia, ended up in the hands of IS.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: 2017 in Review: The Great Unveiling


Sott.net
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 17:00 UTC
trump cnn fake news
The year of Trump, the demise of ISIS, the Rise of Russia, the Rise of China, #MeToo, #FakeNews, Antifa, Alt-Right, Brexit, Catalonia, the continuing migrant crisis, Russiagate, terror attacks, Jerusalem, North Korea, weather gone wild, and so much more.

2017 has been a whirlwind, and it's already coming to an end. On this final episode of Behind the Headlines for 2017 (next Sunday is Christmas eve, the following is New Year's eve) we'll be discussing the trends and developments of the past year, as well as taking your questions and comments about anything and everything. The lines will be open, and chat will be active, so feel free to join in.

Tune in this Sunday, 6-8pm CET (4-6pm UTC / 12-2pm EST) for our interactive, year-end special!

Running Time: 02:15:38

Download: MP3

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Biohazard

More human guinea pigs: Residents of Oklahoma town outraged at DHS planned chemical/biological warfare testing

Jay Syrmopoulos
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
bioweapons, biological testing
A planned chemical/biological test by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has residents of a small Oklahoma town in fear that they are being used as human guinea pigs, as the federal government prepares to carry out plans for biological testing in the area next month.

DHS announced plans to conduct chemical and biological testing near the border between Kansas and Oklahoma in January and February, and again in June and July, to determine how much protection people would receive from being inside a house or an apartment in the event of a biological terrorist attack, according to a statement on the Homeland Security website.

Comment: The residents certainly have cause for alarm - the US government has no qualms about using unsuspecting populations for medical experimentation: See also: US Homeland Security plans to conduct bio-terror test on Oklahoma Town

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