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UK's military strength down 9th straight year; MoD's 'millennials' recruitment a failure?

RT
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 14:12 UTC

Britain's military strength has declined for the ninth consecutive year despite calls from officials for increased defense activity in the Gulf and Arctic and a recruitment strategy targeting 'millennials' over the past 12 months.

The British Army, Royal Navy and RAF have all seen dwindling numbers in their fully-trained personnel, with the army suffering the biggest losses, according to figures released by the Ministry of Defence. In July, there were 74,440 army personnel, down 2,440 on the previous year's total and 7,000 troops short of the UK government's target.

The Royal Navy and Royal Marines numbers dropped to 29,090 of the required 30,600, despite rhetoric from British defense officials, past and present, signaling an increased military presence in hostile areas.

In September 2018, former defense secretary Gavin Williamson announced that the MoD would "enhance" its focus on the Arctic to deal with the "threats" posed by Russia. While in July of this year Britain sent one solitary ship to the Persian Gulf to maintain its "commitment to promoting peace and stability," in the region in a response to the Iran oil tanker crisis.

Lethal? Novichok has been found in a blood test of second UK police officer in 2018

Kate Holton
Reuters
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:19 UTC

British police who investigated a 2018 Novichok poisoning that was blamed on Russia said traces of the deadly nerve agent have since been found in a blood sample taken from a second officer at the time.

Police said the officer received medical treatment and returned to duties shortly after they responded to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, a former Russian double agent and his daughter who were found slumped on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury.

The attack triggered a sequence of events which ended with one person dead and a deep strain on the West's relations with Russia. Another officer, Nick Bailey, fell seriously ill at the time before eventually recovering. Both Skripals have made a slow recovery.

The police said the poisoning of the second officer had not originally appeared in tests at the time but showed up when the sample was tested by a different method. They said officers were continuing to review the case.

Britain has blamed the attack on two agents from Russia's GRU military intelligence who visited the city. Russia has denied any involvement.

Shocking pictures show emaciated elephant forced to work in Sri Lankan parade

Megan White
Evening Standard
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00 UTC

Harrowing photos have emerged of an incredibly thin 70-year-old elephant who works in a parade in Sri Lanka.

Tikiiri is one of 60 elephants who joins the Perahera Festival, working every night for ten days wearing a costume, including a mask with bright lights.

The pictures reveal Tikiiri's gaunt body once her sparkly full-body robe has been removed, with her emaciated ribs on show.

Save Elephant Foundation shared the tragic pictures on Monday to mark World Elephant Day.

Comment: Update: Save Elephant Foundation posted this image on Facebook of Tikiri from 15th August, stating that the exhausted elephant had collapsed.

Why is Jeff Bezos' Washington Post writing a hit piece about Mercola.com?

Dr. Joseph Mercola
Mercola.com
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:51 UTC

August 9, 2019, I was contacted by Washington Post reporter Lena H. Sun. She requested an interview, which I had to decline due to travel and speaking engagements. Instead, I asked her to send me the questions, so I could respond in writing.

Considering the biased and clearly industry-favorable reporting done by Sun and The Washington Post on previous occasions, I would not be surprised if my answers are twisted or misinterpreted to support an industry narrative, so I've decided to publish all of The Washington Post's questions to me, along with my complete answers. I expect The Washington Post article to be published later this week.

The Washington Post reporters are really concerned with how much money I make selling vitamins, which is pretty funny considering their owner has admitted to selling and profiting off of FAKE supplements! What are the chances we will see those revealing details in their sleuthing?

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Alt energy fail: Worlds first solar road is falling apart, doesn't generate enough energy

Ruqayyah Moynihan and Lidia Montes
Business Insider
Tue, 13 Aug 2019 16:47 UTC

© Reuters
The French minister for ecology, sustainability, development, and energy, Segolene Royal, at the inauguration of the Normandy solar road.

Solar roads were promised to be one of the biggest unprecedented revolutions of our time, not just in the field of renewable energy but in the energy sector generally.

Covering 2,800 square meters, Normandy's solar road was the first in the world, inaugurated in 2016, in Tourouvre-au-Perche, France.

Despite the hype surrounding solar roads, two years after this one was introduced as a trial, the project has turned out to be a colossal failure — it's neither efficient nor profitable, according to a report by Le Monde.

The unfortunate truth is that this road is in such a poor state, it isn't even worth repairing. Last May, a 100-meter stretch had deteriorated to such a state that it had to be demolished.

According to Le Monde's report, various components of the road don't fit properly — panels have come loose and some of the solar panels have broken into fragments.

On top of the damage and poor wear of the road, the Normandy solar track also failed to fulfill its energy-production goals. The original aim was to produce 790 kWh each day, a quantity that could illuminate a population of between 3,000 and 5,000 inhabitants. But the rate produced stands at only about 50% of the original predicted estimates.

Comment: There's something deeply irrational and disturbing about the green energy fetish of recent years. The research is pretty clear: solar and wind cost more to produce, create more waste, and can't provide enough energy. The solution is obvious: nuclear. But feelings trump facts, apparently, and good intentions trump actual results.

Intergender MMA matches would end sport's tiresome gender debate once and for all, but likely with a tragedy

Danny Armstrong
RT
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 15:36 UTC

mixed martial arts inter gender sparring

© Gulshan Khan /Agence France-Presse/Getty
Shana Power, 25, Mixed Martial Artist, spars with EFC Champion Gareth Mclellan in the gym which she co-owns called Power House Intensive Training (PHIT), in Johannesburg on February 28, 2018.

If mixed martial arts wanted to end sport's tiresome gender debate it should allow 'intergender' matches where men fight women for championship belts. Then we might just end the tedious back and forth in one fell submission.

The very idea might sound like a sinister sporting sequel to The Hunger Games set in a dystopian future where genders have finally gelled into an unrecognizable blur - much to the delight of social justice warriors.

But it isn't too far away from reality.

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Leaked Google documents link holocaust denial, Vatican-alien conspiracy, etc. with vaccine safety questions

Sayer Ji
Green Med Info
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:45 UTC

A new investigative report reveals that Google has been classifying searches such as "do vaccines cause autism" as "fringe queries" alongside searches that include Holocaust denial, Pizzagate, the Vatican's knowledge of aliens, and so-called "false flag" shootings.

A new report by James O' Keefe features the video testimony of a Google insider by the name of Zachary Vorhies who reveals that Google has been actively censoring certain search queries and websites that contain information that run counter to Google's singular narrative of Truth.

In the leaked screenshot below, Google identifies the search query "do vaccines cause autism" to be targeted for algorithmic censorship, alongside seemingly more outlandish queries such as "vatican knows about aliens," which strangely appears to be true, based on a Podesta email leak that received mainstream media coverage.

Comment: Back when Google was still carrying it's moto "Don't Be Evil", no one expected it to become an active force in shaping the opinions of its users (who are, more or less, everyone). But now they're a terrifyingly efficient propaganda tool, controlling behavior and the thought processes of people around the world. It doesn't get much more evil than that.

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The bigotry of environmental pessimism

Michael Shellenberger
Quillette
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:19 UTC

Democratic Presidential candidates and the New York Times rightly condemned the use of inflammatory words like "invasion" by President Donald Trump and Fox News hosts to describe the desperate people coming from Latin America to seek a better life in the U.S. Such language is irresponsible and may very well have contributed to the motivation of a man suspected to have killed 13 Americans, eight Mexicans, and one German in El Paso last week. In a manifesto he posted online before the attack, the suspect also used the word "invasion."

While they are at it, they should condemn the inflammatory rhetoric used by environmentalists, which also may have contributed to the motivations of the El Paso shooting suspect. The suspect justified his mass shooting of people in a Walmart by arguing that "our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country." The suspect writes, "y'all are just too stubborn to change your lifestyle. So the next logical step is to decrease the number of people in America using resources. If we can get rid of enough people, then our way of life can become more sustainable."

Google whistleblower: Same scheme may have been used for suspending Jordan Peterson, Tulsi Gabbard

Egor Efimchik
Sputnik
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:01 UTC

Tulsi Gabbard, a vocal proponent of breaking up the tech monopolies, had her campaign's advertising account suspended by Google after the Democratic debate in late June and is currently seeking $50 million in damages.

Zach Vorhies, a former Google employee who has been leaking documents suggesting political biases within the company, has rendered assistance to the representatives of 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who is suing Google for disabling her search ads account.

In an open letter on the social media network Minds, Vorhies said that he had investigated the suspension of the Google account of conservative thinker Jordan Peterson in 2017.

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How real power kills or rescues: Epstein death evidence so far

Makia Freeman
The Freedom Articles
Thu, 15 Aug 2019 07:38 UTC

A look at the Epstein death evidence so far. Despite many anonymous & conflicting reports, a picture emerges of real power that either killed or rescued.

The Epstein Death Evidence continues to mount, but unsurprisingly, there are still many more questions than answers at this point. With each day that passes, more and more irregularities come to light, which bolster the theory that he was either murdered or he escaped. It is clear that Epstein was intimately connected to some of the most powerful people in the world, working with some of them (e.g. joint business ventures such as with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak), working for some of them (his Intelligence funders and bosses) and working against some of them (by setting up many politicians and celebrities to get blackmail material on them). The question is whether the NWO (New World Order) individuals behind Epstein used their money, power and influence to kill him or to rescue him. Both are entirely possible. However, it is already patently obvious that the Epstein case shows signs of outside interference. This is how real power kills (or rescues): people in key positions of power are bought off, who then direct the assassination (or escape) by moving the lower players into position and obfuscating the evidence afterwards. Things that should never have happened suddenly happen; procedures and protocols that should have been followed are suddenly not followed. This is the pattern in key historical assassinations and operations (such the JFK assassination, the Princess Diana assassination and the 9/11 operation). As we know, history repeats itself, as it appears to be happening again in the Epstein death affair.

Epstein Death Evidence #1: Mysteriously, No CCTV Footage Available

The smoking gun: there is no video footage available. We are told the cameras weren't turned on, or malfunctioned or just didn't happen to work for those crucial hours before his death/disappearance. Funny how the US has become the most surveilled nation in the history of the world, with CCTV everywhere, facial recognition being rolled out, private-public partnerships (i.e. Big Gov-Corporatocracy collusion) (e.g. local police gaining access to Amazon's Ring camera across neighborhoods), cameras embedded in smart devices and the NSA watching every move Americans make - yet can't manage to keep a camera on a high-profile prisoner who was a high-security risk. The cameras also mysteriously didn't work the night of Diana's death, and the cameras didn't appear to get much footage of the "plane" hitting the Pentagon apart from a couple of blurry frames. Hmmm...

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Great interview with Professor Petrovsky, a very brave soul ! He is clear and concise from a Vaccine researcher /producer point of view and calls...

Gator

There's no mileage in anything the Smith's have to say, their well versed in interfering with things. So we can all sleep safely in our bed...

Winternights3

Seriously, lets break down these words, and I am fully equipped for this task that I give to myself NOW. gives OSHA the authority to act quickly...

Buffalo_Ken

Forensic pathologists performed a postmortem and concluded that the man had probably died mid-flight Let me see ... he walked onto the plane,...

HashAttack2

This ain't no fucking real emergency. It is an effing emergency in the mind of a few....who thought they were gonna put the rest of us into...

Buffalo_Ken

Society's Child

UK's military strength down 9th straight year; MoD's 'millennials' recruitment a failure?

Lethal? Novichok has been found in a blood test of second UK police officer in 2018

Shocking pictures show emaciated elephant forced to work in Sri Lankan parade

Why is Jeff Bezos' Washington Post writing a hit piece about Mercola.com?

Alt energy fail: Worlds first solar road is falling apart, doesn't generate enough energy

Intergender MMA matches would end sport's tiresome gender debate once and for all, but likely with a tragedy

Leaked Google documents link holocaust denial, Vatican-alien conspiracy, etc. with vaccine safety questions

The bigotry of environmental pessimism

Google whistleblower: Same scheme may have been used for suspending Jordan Peterson, Tulsi Gabbard

How real power kills or rescues: Epstein death evidence so far

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