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Follow the neoliberal money: Kellogg Foundation gave big to Soros organization, Tides Foundation

Lee Stranahan
Breitbart
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 00:10 UTC
Kellogg's Soros
The institutional left's funding behemoth W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered with and given major donations to George Soros's Open Society Institute and the Tides Center as part of its massive push to promote a far-left agenda.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the nonprofit arm of cereal and sweets giant Kellogg's, based in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kellogg Company is chiefly known for its breakfast brands, including Special K cereal, Eggo waffles, and Pop-Tarts; but its namesake nonprofit W.K. Kellogg Foundation is one of the largest institutional funders in the world and is the seventh largest philanthropic foundation in the United States.

The Kellogg's website explains the history of the Foundation:
As the United States sunk into the Depression, W.K. Kellogg declared, "I'll invest in people." He split shifts and hired new employees to work them. He also founded the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, whose mission — to help children realize their potential — complements that of the Kellogg Company to this day.
In recent years, however, the focus of the Foundation has drifted away from just helping children toward promoting left-wing political issues.

Comment: As the old saying goes, "the devil's greatest trick is convincing the world that he doesn't exist." Neoliberalism is quite similar in some respects. Under the guise of humanitarian values; racial, economic and sexual orientation equality, social justice, etc. - the policies of the institutions that push for them quite often work to subvert the very causes they profess to want to strengthen. It amounts to nothing less than totalitarian social engineering for fun and profit.

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Now that civilians are fleeing E. Aleppo, media can no longer hide reality: Rebels held them as human shields

Lyse Doucet
BBC
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 22:46 UTC
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A biting winter's chill seeps through embattled Aleppo as a city braces itself for what could be the worst months of a war approaching its sixth year.

Driving into government-controlled west Aleppo, through military checkpoints, a landscape of skeletal buildings is a monument to Syria's spiral into violence.

The fate of Syria's second city now looms as a bellwether for the course of this confrontation - ominous for some, enticing for others.

"By the end of December, we'll drink wine to celebrate a new year, and our triumph," says a young soldier standing by a green bus plastered with photographs of a smiling President Bashar al-Assad.

Syrian forces, bolstered by Iranian-backed militias and Russian air cover, are advancing with speed across a swathe of rebel-held territory in eastern Aleppo.

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Turkish coast guard aids Russian cargo ship after it runs aground near Istanbul


RT
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 02:40 UTC
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All 14 crew members of a dry cargo ship that went ashore near Istanbul on Friday evening have been rescued and taken to the hospital for precautionary checks, Turkish media report.

The Volgodon-203 ship was reportedly heading to the Black Sea after unloading its cargo in the Turkish port of Izmir when it was caught in strong winds and ran aground near Istanbul's Kartal district at about 9 p.m. local time, Haber 7 channel reported.

Coast guard, marine police, medical and fire brigades took part in the rescue efforts. Russia's consulate general in Istanbul confirmed there was no threat to the crew members' health.

Comment: Even if the wind was typical for the Istanbul area, we are also seeing a lot more atypical weather happening around the world that is already making stories like this far more commonplace. Just see one of the latest SOTT focuses:

SOTT Earth Changes Summary - October 2016: Extreme Weather, Planetary Upheaval, Meteor Fireballs

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Jordan Peterson speaks for those of us that refuse to follow the 'great liberal death wish'

Conrad Black
National Post
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:53 UTC
Dr. Jordan Peterson
I have just endured the sobering experience of watching the always very intelligent and professional Steve Paikin chair a panel about the trans-gender controversy that centres on University of Toronto professor Dr. Jordan Peterson. I had vaguely followed the story as it percolated up in the press, much of the frothings in which must usually be taken lightly. It was, I fear, a piercing glimpse into what great and venerable statesmen of my youth such as Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Louis St. Laurent called "days that I shall not see." I did not, until now, grasp the fine balance between gratitude and wistfulness in their invocation of that phrase; as a young person, I thought it the license of the great to engage in histrionics, and I now claim it as the right of lesser yet aging people, such as myself.

Comment: Peterson's response:



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The father of American propaganda: Edward Bernays

Gary G. Kohls, MD
Natural Blaze
Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:55 UTC
Edward Bernays
© Melissa Dykes at Truthstream Media
"Tell a Lot of the Truth, but Never Tell the Whole Truth."

Propaganda: "a message designed to persuade its intended audience to think and behave in a certain manner. Thus advertising is commercial propaganda. Or institutionalized and systematic spreading of information and/or disinformation, usually to promote a narrow political or religious (or commercial) viewpoint." - from Business Dictionary

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic (AKA "capitalist") society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, and our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.... It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind." - Edward L. Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew, from his seminal book Propaganda (1928). Bernays was the founder of the public relations industry in the US.
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Profiting from terror: ISIS victim lawsuit states Twitter strategically places ads of terrorist propaganda with news of terror acts

Kartikay Mehrotra
Bloomberg
Fri, 02 Dec 2016 21:02 UTC
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© Pool via Getty ImagesWomen set up a picture of Paris terror attack victim Nohemi Gonzalez for her funeral service at the Calvary Chapel Dec. 4, 2015 in Downey, California.
The family of a woman slain in the 2015 Paris attacks claims in a lawsuit that Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google profit from targeted advertising linked to terrorist propaganda promoting violence.

The case is one of several complaints in U.S. courts alleging that the social media giants have played crucial roles in the growth of terrorist organizations in recent years. The biggest hurdle facing such claims is a federal law that insulates publishers from liability for the speech of others.

The family of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was fatally shot in the Paris attacks, said Friday in a revised version of a lawsuit initially filed in June that the companies created "original content" by tying advertisements to ISIS-supported posts and generating revenue from them.

Comment: Clearly there are a few psychopaths employed by Twitter whose only thought to what they do is how to make more money for their company...

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FBI urged to investigate death threats on Trump electors

Joe Kovacs
WND
Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:15 UTC
Preselectrump
© Business Insider
With death threats for presidential electors who plan to vote for Donald Trump continuing to be reported across America, the FBI is now being urged to investigate the rampant voter intimidation.

"Why isn't the FBI investigating this? I'm serious," radio host Rush Limbaugh said on his national broadcast Wednesday. "Why isn't the FBI investigating all of these threats, these emails, these phone calls, this intimidation effort that's under way against these electors?"

"I know who runs the FBI. [President] Obama runs the FBI," he continued. "But still, why isn't somebody demanding it or calling for it? ... This is the kind of stuff the left does ... they laugh at it, they shrug it off, they shove it way out to the extreme, [suggesting] 'nothing's gonna come of this,' and something always does."

Limbaugh noted, "This is a sleazebag effort if there ever was one. These are the kind of people that need to be pounded into the ground. They need to be defeated to the point that they're demoralized and don't ever try this again. I'm thinking sign surrender papers on the deck of the USS Missouri."
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Street kids given away to pedophiles in Berlin in 1970s - Reports


Sputnik
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:14 UTC
Child abuse
Homeless teenagers were given to the care of pedophiles in Germany in the 1970s, and the Senate of Berlin was aware of the "practice," German media report.

Street children — boys of around 13-17 years of age, were given to men known to be pedophiles, Spiegel said on Friday citing a study by Göttingen-based scientists.

The Berlin Senate also sent boys to the Odenwaldschule boarding school, where students were sexually abused in the 70s and 80s, the newspaper added. According to Spiegel, the existence of the "practice" has long been revealed, but this is the first time that researchers have presented documented evidence of it.

Comment: We were unable to locate a copy of the Spiegel report in English. If you can find a copy and translate it please send a copy via email to sott [at] sott.net

Update (4 Dec. 2016)

Sott.net reader S. Maksovic kindly translated the summary report for us; see here:Pedocracy: For decades, Berlin government authority deliberately sent orphans to 'special school' run by pedophiles

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The old college try: Electoral system shaken, calls for recounts underline tensions in US


RT
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:24 UTC
Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest against U.S. President-elect Donald
© Paul Hanna / ReutersDemonstrators hold up signs during a protest against U.S. President-elect Donald
From recount efforts to criticism of the Electoral College as an institution and death threats to some electors, the aftermath of the US presidential election has become no less controversial than the campaign itself - and the heat is far from over.

Jill Stein-initiated efforts to recount votes

The recount effort underway in three states - Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania - spearheaded by Green Party candidate Jill Stein is being opposed in all states by lawsuits from Donald Trump supporters.

On Friday, a lawsuit was filed on the President-elect's behalf to stop the ballot review in Michigan, the state where Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by 10,700 votes. Unless a court intervenes, a recount could start in that state as soon as next Wednesday.

Comment: "Now that we lost the election we insist the rules be changed to secure our victory!" - said a large number in the losing party in the 2016 US Presidential election. Have a cupcake, and be thankful that you weren't drafted into what might have become Clinton's plans to inflict World War 3 upon the world.

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This is how you can stop fake news from spreading on Facebook

Craig Silverman
Buzzfeed
Sat, 03 Dec 2016 20:11 UTC
After facing intense criticism about how misinformation ran rampant on Facebook during the US election, Mark Zuckerberg announced the company is working on new measures to fight fake news. While that's underway there's one thing you can do on Facebook right now to help.

Many people don't realize that you can report fake news when you see it on Facebook. This helps stop it from spreading. The problem is that the option is kind of hidden. So here's how to use it.
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