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The damning Monsanto guilty verdict is just the beginning...

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
monsanto
A jury trial in California has resulted in a guilty verdict against the agrichemical and GMO giant, Monsanto, now Bayer/Monsanto. The judge has ordered Monsanto to pay damages of USD 289 Million to former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. His lawyer argued it was caused by Monsanto's glyphosate-based weed-killer Roundup. Not surprisingly Monsanto plans to appeal the verdict. The impact of the ruling, regardless the outcome of the appeal, will unleash worldwide consequences that spell huge problems for the entire GMO agrochemicals business model.

The Johnson trial, Dewayne Johnson v. Monsanto Co., CGC-16-550128, in California Superior Court in San Francisco, is the first of more than 5,000 such cases across the United States awaiting trial for claims that Roundup ingredients cause cancer.

Johnson, age 46, is a former pest control manager for a California county school system, where he applied Roundup and Monsanto's Ranger Pro on school grounds across the county up to 30 times per year for more than two and a half years.

According to the magazine Insurance Journal, the guilty verdict could influence the outcome of thousands of similar cases against Monsanto glyphosate-based Roundup. Notably, the same law firm, California-based Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, PC is involved as part of the legal team in many of the other cases awaiting trial.

Comment: Few companies in modern history have demonstrated such utter contempt for the well-being of humans in the world as Monsanto has.

More on the court case: And do not miss: James Corbett: The Monsanto and Bayer merger: A match made in hell (VIDEO)

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Eye 1

SOTT Focus: Is There a Hidden Hand Behind The 'Clash of Civilizations' in Europe?

Pierre Lescaudron
Sott.net
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:18 UTC
The clash of civilization
The clash of civilization
In my last article titled "Immigration, Crimes and propaganda", I suggested that a 'clash of civilizations' is being engineered in Europe.

This conflict is manufactured by radicalizing two opposing populations: the White European natives who are encouraged to reject any form of immigration, and the migrant populations who are encouraged to reject any manifestation of white European civilization.

To reach such a goal, five complementary operations are being conducted:
  • Wars waged by the West against predominantly Muslim countries
  • The ISIS threat and the false-flag terror attacks attributed to it
  • The open border policy that prevails in the EU
  • The radicalizing of migrant populations through fundamentalist forms of Islam
  • The radicalizing of native populations through ultra-nationalist ideologies.
Is a clash of civilizations really engineered, or is it just the result of spontaneous human tendencies towards hate, violence and racism?

One factor that strongly argues for the former is the documented involvement of a few related groups in each of the five complementary operations listed above.

In addition, as we will see below, these few groups would directly benefit from a 'clash of civilizations' occurring in Europe.
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Eye 2

Seattle police sergeant sentenced to 23 years for repeatedly raping his own children

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:54 UTC
Daniel Amador
In case after horrifying case, those in positions of power are exposed for their crimes, showing how these positions often attract society's worst. One recent example of this is a police sergeant in Seattle being found guilty this year for the repeated rape and molestation of his own daughters.

Daniel Amador, 46, has now finally been sentenced and he will spend the next 23 years behind bars for his crimes. In June, he was detained after a jury found him guilty of first-degree child molestation, second-degree child rape, third-degree child rape and first-degree incest.

According to the court documents, this vile top cop routinely raped his older daughter, known in court papers as A.B., about five times a week and also molested his younger daughter, C.A.
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Dollars

Another step toward de-dollarization

Paul Goncharoff
The Duran
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:42 UTC
Turkish lira US dollar
I have opined and written about the trend towards de-dollarization before, but with the latest US -Turkish spat it has hit the wallets, mattresses and markets of a number of countries, be they aligned with Washington or not. One thing they all have in common was that in this recent era of low cost available money, many happily fed at the US dollar trough.

This serves as a further albeit loud example to many nations for the need to diversify to an extent away from the greenback, or risk being caught up in its volatile, sudden and unpredictably risky increasingly politicized directions.

The Dollar and the geopolitical winds from Washington are today as never before openly being used as policy, which can be called the "carrot and stick", a distinctly Pavlovian approach. Sadly, few if any can make out where or what the carrot is in this recent US worldview branding.
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Take 2

Pakistan's Senate body passes bill for ban on smoking in cinemas


Dawn
Sat, 11 Aug 2018 20:18 UTC
Smoking banned in Pakistani cinemas
© Ankommenapp
The Senate Standing Committee on Health on Friday passed a legislative bill calling for a ban on smoking in cinemas across the country.

The Senate committee, which met at Parliament Lodges with Senator Mian Mohammad Ateeq Sheikh in the chair, passed the bill titled The West Pakistan Prohibition of Smoking in Cinema Houses (repeal) Bill, 2018.

The meeting also discussed various issues related to the health ministry, including the nominations for an upcoming WHO conference on health in Geneva.

Retired Maj Gen Salman Ali, a representative of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP) gave a briefing about the college.
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Quenelle

No exceptions: Chain-smoking Italian manager of Chelsea Football Club comes to terms with UK's totalitarian anti-smoking culture


RT
Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:11 UTC
Maurizio Sarri
© Ciro De Luca/Reuters (file photo)
Maurizio Sarri, recently appointed as Antonio Conte's replacement at Stamford Bridge, was known for smoking on the sidelines while at Napoli but was forced to find a workaround because of the smoking ban at EPL stadiums.

Sarri, the 59-year-old Italian charged with resurrecting a Chelsea side which fell stagnant during the stewardship of former head coach Antonio Conte, started his Premiership career with a 3-0 win away to Huddersfield Town in the first round of games of the new English season this weekend.

The Italian, famous for indulging his tobacco habit on the touchlines of the grounds in Serie A, has been forced to abide by rules governing English stadiums which forbid smoking - and he apparently did so by chewing unlit cigarettes during his Premiership debut.


Comment: Maybe it's time to acknowledge that we live in a totalitarian hell?

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Attention

Outrage: As if 'straight from Nazi handbook', Aussi MP vows 'final solution' to Muslim immigration


RT
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:08 UTC
Muslim Rug
© David Gray/ReutersMuslim worshipper in Gallipoli Mosque
An Australian MP has raised ire of fellow lawmakers after he called in his maiden speech to seek a "final solution" to Muslim immigration. The notorious term dates back to Nazi policy of the Holocaust.

Senator Fraser Anning of the right-wing Katter's Australian Party (KAP) found himself in hot water over his inflammatory anti-Muslim maiden speech he delivered in the parliament. Claiming that Muslim Australians are unable to integrate, he said adherents of Islam "do not work and live on welfare," and bring the threat of terrorism.

Fanning fears of Muslim immigrants "stealing jobs" and "sympathizing with Islamic State [IS, formerly ISIS]," Anning offered:
"The final solution to the immigration problem is, of course, a popular vote. We don't need a plebiscite to cut immigration numbers; we just need a government that is willing to institute a sustainable population policy."
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Arrow Down

Omarosa's claim of Trump using the 'n-word' is falling apart very quickly

Dan Calabrese
Herman Cain
Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:00 UTC
Omarosa Manigault-Newman
© UnknownOmarosa Manigault-Newman
Omarosa Manigault-Newman seems like quite the gold-digger, and one thing gold-diggers do is make spectacular claims sure to get them attention.

There is no story the news media would like to tell more than this one: "Trump caught using n-word." Manigault-Newman knows this, and she needs attention. So last week she tried to give them that story by making the claim that she had heard Trump say the world backstage while she was working on The Apprentice.

Aside from the question of whether anyone should even care, let's consider how we might determine whether we believe the claim. After all, if it's strictly Manigault-Newman herself claiming to be a witness, and there was no one else to corroborate it, then it's strictly a he-said-she-said and there's no way to know for sure.

But often people who tell tall tales can't resist the temptation to make them taller, and that's where they tend to get in trouble. In Manigault-Newman's new book Unhinged, she claims there is outside corroboration to her claim about Trump using the n-word . . . and that's where she starts to get herself in trouble:
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Airplane

Transport Security head claims armed surveillance of innocent flying Americans 'makes a lot of sense'


Source
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 18:36 UTC
TSA patrol
© SFGA
Transport Security administrator David Pekoske has defended his agency's controversial and creepy Quiet Skies surveillance program - that sees armed federal agents collect information on ordinary Americans' behavior in airports.

Pekoske told CBS News - in his first TV interview since the controversial program was revealed a month ago - that a dragnet surveillance program like Quiet Skies "makes an awful lot of sense."

Under the program, Federal air marshals are assigned to spot potential threats based on a list of shockingly common behavioral traits.

Observing the boarding area from afar, excessive fidgeting, exaggerated emotions, going to the bathroom, sweaty palms, strong body odor, staring into space, face touching, using a computer on the flight, and 'having a cold penetrating stare' are all considered suspicious behaviors by the TSA.
"Our job overall as an agency, and the air marshals in particular, in flight, are working to make sure that we mitigate any risks that could occur in aircraft," the agency chief explained. "If an agency responsible for security has some information that might indicate that there may be - emphasis on may be - more risk with a particular passenger, providing some mitigation or some risk management on the flight is a very important and very reassuring thing to me."

Comment: See also:
TSA surveillance team, 'Quiet Skies', targets Americans on domestic flights without warrant

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Beer

Canadian company to use cannabis waste to brew beer


RT
Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:08 UTC
cannabis beer
© Ruptly
A Toronto-based company has come up with a... cannabis-brewed beer. The drink is being prepared in anticipation of Canada's legalization of marijuana this year.

As Canada is set to become the second country in the world to legalize the class-B drug for recreational use, Province Brands has figured a unique way of bringing cannabis-based products to the consumer market.

In fact, it has invested an eye-watering $38 million in what will be the world's first cannabis brewery.

Dooma Wendschuh, the co-founder and CEO of Province, told Ruptly: "We felt like brewing this beer was something that had to be done.

"For generations, alcohol has had a monopoly as the only psychoactive for social and leisure activities and, with the legalization of cannabis, there was an opportunity to create for the first time ever a safer and healthier alternative to alcohol and if you are going to that what better format than a beer?"

Comment: Cannabis stems and stalks are incredibly durable and can be used in a variety of other, more constructive, processes, such as fabrics or as building materials: And for more on the medicinal properties of the plant: Also check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: The Highs and Lows of Cannabis as Medicine

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