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SOTT Focus: Tiananmen Redux? West Pushing Baba Beijing to Send PLA Into Hong Kong

Jeff Brown
China Rising
Wed, 24 Jul 2019 15:20 UTC
Note before starting: when writing 'CIA', or more correctly, the CIA-complex, I include all the West's spy agencies, among them MI6 (UK), DGSE (France), BND (Germany), ASIS (Australia), etc.; their Ministries of Foreign Affairs, embassies; thousands of front NGOs, which are financed by the above and by billionaire global capitalists, such as George Soros and Pierre Omidyar. We can also include NATO and its military contractors, the West's government-managed 'free press', as well as transnational corporations, which are full of CIA non-official covers (NOCs), not to mention global and local organized crime cartels, who do a lot of their black ops. It's all one big Frankenstein family, raping and plundering the world's human and natural resources, while making the 99% - you and me - poorer and poorer.
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On July 1st, 1997 Britain finally renounced its 110-year colonial control over Hong Kong (HK). Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping had hammered out the Basic Law, which set the course for China's reintegrated Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The concept was a novel one, One Country, Two Systems, which was to last for 50 years, until 2047. It stipulates that Hong Kong is an inseparable part of China, over which the Mainland has the ultimate right to make all necessary administrative and policy decisions, but the SAR would have a high degree of independence in its legislature and judiciary. On that day, the PLA took over all of Britain's military properties on the territory's islands and on the mainland of HK, in Kowloon and New Territories. There are 1-2 divisions of PLA troops there (about 9,000), including small naval and air force detachments. They stay put, raising and lowering the Chinese flag every day and doing military drills to stay sharp. I've never seen a PLA soldier on Hong Kong's streets, so they must change into their civvies when they leave their bases.
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SOTT Focus: New MH17 Doc Reveals Evidence Tampering, Dutch Cover-up of Forged Recordings, Hidden Ukrainian Radar Records

John Helmer
Dances with Bears
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:47 UTC
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A new documentary film by Max van der Werff, the leading independent investigator of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster, has revealed breakthrough evidence of tampering and forging of prosecution materials; suppression of Ukrainian Air Force radar tapes; and lying by the Dutch, Ukrainian, US and Australian governments. An attempt by agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to take possession of the black boxes of the downed aircraft is also revealed by a Malaysian National Security Council official for the first time.

The sources of the breakthrough are Malaysian — Prime Minister of Malaysia Mohamad Mahathir; Colonel Mohamad Sakri, the officer in charge of the MH17 investigation for the Prime Minister's Department and Malaysia's National Security Council following the crash on July 17, 2014; and a forensic analysis by Malaysia's OG IT Forensic Services of Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) telephone tapes which Dutch prosecutors have announced as genuine.

The 298 casualties of MH17 included 192 Dutch; 44 Malaysians; 27 Australians; 15 Indonesians. The nationality counts vary because the airline manifest does not identify dual nationals of Australia, the UK, and the US.

The new film throws the full weight of the Malaysian Government, one of the five members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), against the published findings and the recent indictment of Russian suspects reported by the Dutch officials in charge of the JIT; in addition to Malaysia and The Netherlands, the members of the JIT are Australia, Ukraine and Belgium. Malaysia's exclusion from the JIT at the outset, and Belgium's inclusion (4 Belgian nationals were listed on the MH17 passenger manifest), have never been explained.
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SOTT Focus: Every Woman Has a Right to Have Her Scrotum Waxed

Godfrey Elfwick
Spectator USA
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 11:59 UTC
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Refusing to wax a woman's balls is transphobia at its most blatant... and yet here we are, in 2019, still disrespecting trans women's rights by denying them a smooth nutsack.

I'm referring of course to the recent publicity surrounding Jessica Yaniv, a stunning and brave trans woman who has filed complaints against more than a dozen female waxers with the Human Rights Council in British Columbia. And what is the justification these women have attempted to make in order to disguise their obvious bigotry? Well, among other flimsy excuses, 'religious grounds' (the majority of these women are immigrants) and the bizarre claim from one of them that her husband feared for her safety due to the fact that she works from home and has small children to take care of. What on earth does a woman have to fear from a 200+ lbs trans woman who is simply asking to come round to her home and have the hairs removed from her testicle satchel?
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SOTT Focus: Objective:Health - Stress is Not the Best so Give it a Rest!


Sott.net
Sun, 21 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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It seems everyone these days is experiencing some level of stress, with most of us having what we'd probably classify as too much stress. But despite the common goal of a stress-free existence, a certain level of periodic stress is actually necessary for the organism to function properly.

Anything can be a stress on the body, whether it's work, relationships, toxic exposure, injury or even poor eating habits or lack of sleep. But much of the negative effects of stress have more to do with how we experience and react to these stressors. Why is it that some people seem to thrive in highly stressful environments, while others seem to be crushed by relatively minor stressors?

How is it that stress gets under our skin? What affect does it have on our brains and bodies? How can we help to mitigate our stress?

Join us on this episode of Objective:Health as we talk about the biology of stress and what you can do about it. And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment as she explores the phenomenon of dogs knowing when their owners are coming home.


Links to check out:
Bruce McEwan - When is stress good for you?
Elliot Overton - If You've Got "Adrenal Fatigue", There's Likely Nothing Wrong with Your Adrenals

For other health-related news and more, you can find us on:
♥Twitter: https://twitter.com/objecthealth
♥Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/objecthealth/

♥And you can check out all of our previous shows (pre YouTube) here.

Running Time: 01:22:17

Download: MP3 — 74.9 MB

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: How Universities Are Destroying Young Minds With Pathological Thinking

Harrison Koehli, Corey Schink, Elan Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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How has it come to be that our universities, societal norms and cultural values have taken a sharp turn down the road of instilling stupidity - instead of intelligence? When we see that the most tried and true (and ancient) approaches to the use of mind and emotions are being relegated to the dung heap, when we notice that many of the most advanced ideas put forth from cognitive behavioral therapy are being ignored - and indeed, inverted - what are we to make of this? On this week's MindMatters we look at these questions and make use of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's recent book The Coddling of the American Mind.


Running Time: 01:28:31

Download: MP3 — 81 MB

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SOTT Focus: 'Call for Justice' - Investigative Report on Gaping Holes in The Official Story of MH17


Bonanza Media
Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:27 UTC
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Five years on from the MH17 terror attack, an investigative team from Bonanza Media has published the following half-hour video report comprising footage from exclusive interviews they've conducted in the intervening years with - among others - one of the suspects in the downing of MH17, the Malaysian prime minister and a Malaysian colonel who recovered black boxes from the crash site.

Their report includes testimony from eyewitnesses, evidence from experts, and footage of large sections of the downed plane still lying around in eastern Ukraine, leaving viewers with no doubt that the official JIT investigation is incomplete at best, corrupt at worst...

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SOTT Focus: The 'Squad' Earns Another Nickname: 'Four Horsewomen of The Apocalypse'

David Badash
AlterNet
Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:58 UTC
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Comment: Rather than present "just the facts, ma'am", we bring you this news item - a new Trump tweet - as reported by a left-wing political activist 'news' site, i.e. AlterNet. Be warned - you're about to encounter numerous examples of labeling, dichotomous thinking, mind-reading, and negative filtering.


President Donald Trump is not letting go of his latest obsession: the four progressive Democratic freshmen Congresswomen who are also women of color.


Comment: Oy. Nothing like starting out with a bang. More accurately, Omar, Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley are obsessed with Trump. Just check their twitter feeds. Not only that, these upstart freshmen (women?) are leading an open rebellion against their own Speaker of the House, claiming that Pelosi is also a racist. Generally, that's political suicide, but this lot doesn't seem to care. The next election may bring a dose of reality.


In an early Wednesday morning rant Trump quoted Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy, a chameleon who likes to appear as a moderate on MSNBC, then take off his mask and reveal himself as strongly conservative.


Comment: "Strongly conservative" = anywhere to the right of Karl Marx.


Comment: So much wrong in so few paragraphs. Mr. Badash is very free in his accusations of white supremacy. But then, you can be very free with such accusations when you don't feel the need to provide any kind of substantiation to support them. That's far-left journalism in a nutshell.

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SOTT Focus: Did Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Work For Mossad?

Philip Giraldi
The American Herald
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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The extent of Israeli spying directed against the United States is a huge story that is only rarely addressed in the mainstream media. The Jewish state regularly tops the list for ostensibly friendly countries that aggressively conduct espionage against the U.S. and Jewish American Jonathan Pollard, who was imprisoned in 1987 for spying for Israel, is now regarded as the most damaging spy in the history of the United States.

Hollywood Producer & Israeli Spy Arnon Milchan

Last week I wrote about how Israeli spies operating more-or-less freely in the U.S. are rarely interfered with, much less arrested and prosecuted, because there is an unwillingness on the part of upper echelons of government to do so.

I cited the case of Arnon Milchan, a billionaire Hollywood movie producer who had a secret life that included stealing restricted technology in the United States to enable development of Israel's nuclear weapons program, something that was very much against U.S. interests. Milchan was involved in a number of other thefts as well as arms sales on behalf of the Jewish state, so much so that his work as a movie producer was actually reported to be less lucrative than his work as a spy and black-market arms merchant, for which he operated on a commission basis.

Arnon Milchan flanked by Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg at the 2016 Oscars
Arnon Milchan flanked by Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg at the 2016 Oscars
That Milchan has never been arrested by the United States government or even questioned about his illegal activity, which was well known to the authorities, is just one more manifestation of the effectiveness of Jewish power in Washington.

Comment: See also:

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: Words As Weapons: The Postmodern Political Strategy

Corey Schink, Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin
Sott.net
Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
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Groucho Marx defined politics as "The art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." One could hardly come up with a better definition of postmodern politics. On today's show we discuss the psychological roots of this postmodern mayhem, which is manifesting in radical racial/gender politics in classrooms and universities, Antifa mobs on the streets, and mass censorship in Silicon Valley.


Running Time: 01:06:46

Download: MP3 — 61.1 MB

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SOTT Focus: La-La-Land: US Media Cites Fake News Disinfo Site to Prove 'Russia' Behind 'Theory' Clinton Hitmen Killed Seth Rich


RT
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:12 UTC
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Top: the actual Yahoo! News graphics and title for their 'World Exclusive'. Below, the HuffPo variant.
The man who first reported on the discredited Steele dossier has a brand new conspiracy theory about Russia. The idea that DNC staffer Seth Rich was killed on the order of Hillary Clinton was invented by - guess who?

Yahoo News Chief Investigator Michael Isikoff, who is also the co-author of hit Russiagate book 'Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,' has a new example of how the nefarious Russians supposedly subverted democracy in the US. According to him, it was Russian intelligence that started a conspiracy theory about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich on July 10, 2016 during an apparent botched robbery.

The supposed Russian disinformation showed up three days after Rich's death on a website called WhatDoesItMean.com. Befitting of the site's '90s design, it is, well, a badly written thriller fiction about Rich trying to expose the corruption of the Clinton campaign to the FBI, and instead being ambushed by her hit team. It is complete with a gun battle "just blocks from the White House" - all based on a 'report' by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).


Comment: We've long known that whatdoesitmean.com is a loopy disinfo site - probably run by US and/or affiliated intelligence - to derail people, but could never have imagined mainstream US journalists actually citing it - nay, basing a theory on it and splashing it across front pages!

And this goes without saying to most readers, but Hannity wasn't 'peddling' anything; he was outlining a realistic scenario, that US spooks - at the behest or otherwise of the Clinton crime syndicate - offed Rich in vengeance for mortally wounding her election chances. So Hannity was indeed 'forced to retract the story', if he wanted to live...

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