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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: The World's a Swole Hole: The Ever Expanding Epidemic of Obesity


Sott.net
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:00 UTC
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The United States holds the unenviable title of being the fattest country on Earth and other western (and westernized) countries are slowly gaining parity. It has become apparent to medical researchers and lay observers alike that people are getting 'yuge'. What is the cause of this rise in obesity? Considerable resources have been devoted to seemingly healthy dietary guidelines and exercise recommendations yet they haven't made a dent in the average person's waist size. Are people becoming more gluttonous, slothful and undisciplined or should the spotlight be directed at our current food landscape and those who fund it?

Join us for this episode of The Health and Wellness Show as we discuss all things 'swole': biological factors in obesity, as well as fat-shaming and the fat acceptance movement. Stay tuned at the end of the show for Zoya's Pet Health Segment where the topic will be obesity in cats.

Running Time: 01:16:45

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SOTT Focus: Act 9 of Regime Change in France: Yellow Vests Protesters Remain Determined - Vincent Lapierre Reports


Le Média Pour Tous
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:33 UTC
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With the French establishment media under-reporting or misreporting the Yellow Vest protests in France - and with Western media of course following suit - accurate, unfiltered on-the-scene coverage is sparse.

Independent reporter Vincent Lapierre has been 'embedded' with Yellow Vest protesters since the movement began back in November, publishing video reports on his channel Le Média Pour Tous of each of the major Saturday protests in Paris.

The following is his video report from 'Acte IX' in Paris, which took place on Saturday 12th of January. Click on the captions icon (cc) for English subtitles.

Meet the Yellow Vests: working men and women, unemployed people, pensioners, parents, patriots, of foreign descent, Antifa, hoods from the banlieues, country-folk, and privileged students...

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SOTT Focus: Syria, Then and Now: Liberated of Western-backed Terrorism

Max Parry
Sott.net
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:35 UTC
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In a surprise turn of events, last month U.S. President Donald J. Trump made the abrupt unilateral announcement that American troops would begin to withdraw from Syria. The unexpected decision provoked the wrath of the foreign policy establishment and bipartisan 'war party' in Washington, who immediately denounced it as a premature, reckless move that would lead to a resurgence of ISIS. As anticipated, the Beltway blob also claimed it was another sign of Trump's perceived untold allegiance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. None of the warmongers in Washington would dare admit that the real gains made against ISIS were by the Syrian army with Russian air support, let alone that their own policies were responsible for its manifestation. Sure enough, a suicide bombing in Kurdish-controlled Manbij killed four American personnel just a month later and Daesh, which has a history of taking credit for attacks perpetrated by others, immediately claimed responsibility. It is almost as if the strategic asset themselves did not desire an American pullback - could it be another 'false flag' to keep the war machine in Syria going?

The neocons within the administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton, contradicted Trump's statements on the pullout citing the need to 'protect the Kurds' before any such removal. The degree of sincerity behind Trump's decision has drawn a range of speculation - is it a superficial appeasement of his base to whom he made 'anti-interventionist' pledges as a candidate, when the U.S. is conducting a bait-and-switch with no plans to really leave Syria? Perhaps Blackwater private contractors will be taking their place. If Trump is genuine, then his decision-making is being circumvented by the Pentagon, who Pompeo and Bolton arguably have demonstrated more allegiance to than their Commander-in-Chief, as not a single U.S. soldier has left Syria since Trump stated his intentions. The 'deep state' strikes back.
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SOTT Focus: The Integrity Initiative And The British Roots of The Deep State: How The Round Table Infiltrated America

Matthew J.L. Ehret
Sott.net
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:53 UTC
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With the near weekly revelations that the British Foreign Office, MI6, and GCHQ have been behind the long standing agenda to undermine the Presidency of Donald Trump and undo the peaceful alliance between nationalist leaders in America, Russia, China and elsewhere, a new focus on the British hand in undermining the United States has become a serious thought for many citizens. In the first week of the new year, fuel was added to this fire when internal memos were leaked from the British-run Integrity Initiative featuring a startling account of the techniques deployed by the anti-Russian British operation to infiltrate American intelligence institutions, think tanks and media.

For those who may not know, the Integrity Initiative is an anti-Russian propaganda outfit funded to the tune of $140 million by the British Foreign office. The January 2019 leak, featuring documents dated to the early period of Trump's election, demonstrate that this organization, already active across Europe promoting anti-Russian PR and smearing nationalist leaders such as Jeremy Corbyn, was intent on spreading deeply into the State Department and setting up "clusters" of anti-Trump operatives. The documents reveal high level meetings that Integrity Initiative Director Chris Donnelly had with former Trump Advisor Sebastien Gorka, McCain Foundation director Kurt Volker, Pentagon PR guru John Rendon among many others.
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SOTT Focus: Trump's Coronation of Guaido as President an Attack on Venezuelan Sovereignty

John Wight
RT
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 21:33 UTC
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Scour the history books and you will struggle to find an act of imperialism more brazen than US President Donald Trump's de-recognition of Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's president.

In a scathing denouncement of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48, famed US Civil War General (and later president) Ulysses S Grant told a reporter,
"We had no claim on Mexico. Texas had no claim beyond the Nueces River, and yet we pushed on to the Rio Grande and crossed it. I am always ashamed of my country when I think of that invasion."
The Mexican-American War was a war of plunder and conquest on the part of a US ruling class for whom every country south of the Rio Grande was then, as if by divine right, deemed subservient to Washington. From then to now the US has regarded Latin America as a wholly owned subsidiary, its primary function to serve Washington's economic interests.
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SOTT Focus: Oops! The New York Times just accidentally shredded the Russiagate hysteria

Lee Camp
Truthdig
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:01 UTC
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Every once in a while, one of those stories comes along that makes the mainstream corporate media look like a bunch of middle-school kids filming their "news show" on an iPhone with their neck ties crooked. Recently, one of those stories splashed down into the middle of our cultural zeitgeist like a small meteor landing in the middle of an elite dinner party.

It made our mass media pundits look like hardened fools. But they have kept spouting their nonsense anyway, hoping no one notices the soup dripping down their faces.

But to talk about that, I have to talk about this: Last month we finally got to see the Senate report spelling out the Russian meddling in our last election. And it was a bombshell. It rocked the heart of our country. It shredded the inflamed mucousy core of our palpitating democracy.
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SOTT Focus: A Challenge to Pepe Escobar: Why the True Westphalian System is in Perfect Harmony with the New Silk Road and Tianxia

Matthew J.L. Ehret
Sott.net
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:33 UTC
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Left: 'The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster' (Westphalia), 15 May 1648, by Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch. Right: Confucius, China's 'Jesus'
On January 10, 2019, the talented journalist Pepe Escobar wrote a widely circulated report entitled "All Under Heaven: China's Challenge to the Westphalian System", which explained how China's ascension to a position of global influence with the Belt and Road Initiative is ushering in a challenge to the Western system of values, which has been hegemonic since the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.

Pepe's article was informed by the work of Professor Xiang Lanxin, director of the Centre of One Belt and One Road Studies at the China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation, and Zhao Tinyang of the Chinese Academy of Social Science. Both scholars have advocated a post-Westphalian world order based upon a fallacy which posits that China's ancient philosophical traditions of Tianxia (aka: "All under Heaven") is not only incompatible with the Western system of confrontation and dominance of the weak and different, but totally antagonistic.

While the principle of Tianxia is a beautiful and important concept for Westerners to understand, and truly is the basis for international harmony which transcends the narrow limits of geopolitics plaguing the west, there is something dangerously false embedded in Tinyang's thesis which needs to be exposed. The fact is that Tianxia is not only in complete harmony with the principle of Westphalia, but that the decay of Western values into the Hobbesian mess of total war and economic manipulation is not due to anything within the Treaty of Westphalia but rather in spite of it.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Will Globalists' War on Nationalism Lead to Bloody Revolution?


Sott.net
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:00 UTC
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Protests in cities across France this weekend for 'Acte X' of the Yellow Vest movement were met with another round of heavy-handed reprisals from state security forces, not least the deployment of copious quantities of chemical weapons to disperse crowds. This revolution is not being televised - not truthfully anyway - because of a serious risk for the Powers That Be that its ideas will inspire people in other countries.

This week on NewsReal, Joe & Niall discuss the historic stand-off between government and the governed in France. This state of sclerosis is also apparent in the Anglosphere, where 'Brexit' is clearly being manipulated to deliver 'the right result' (i.e., no actual Brexit). Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Trump really wants that Wall, but instead a political wall has gone up, again blocking the popular choice.

What happens when the democratic will of the people has nowhere to go? The 'globalist class' doesn't seem to understand that all its political gamesmanship, social engineering and brutal repression will lead to nowhere but their violent overthrow. As JFK once said: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."


Running Time: 01:07:37

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SOTT Focus: Credulous Atheist Believes Evidence-Free Establishment Russia Narrative

Caitlin Johnstone
medium.com
Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:52 UTC
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The 'renegade of the intellectual dark web', Sam Harris (mainstream pundit, more like)
The other day RT reporter Dan Cohen flagged how New Atheism guru Sam Harris recently had a shady cold war manipulator on his podcast promulgating the establishment narrative that Russian hackers and trolls interfered in the 2016 US election, despite the fact that there is no more publicly available evidence for this than there is for the existence of biblical Jehovah. I find this both fascinating and hilarious.


Comment: Can we say... ideologically-possessed?

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SOTT Focus: Manbij False-Flag: The Empire Devours Its Own Soldiers

Nauman Sadiq
Sott.net
Sat, 19 Jan 2019 22:08 UTC
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Immediately after Donald Trump's announcement of a withdrawal of American troops from Syria on December 19th, the Kurdish leadership reportedly threatened to set free hundreds of Islamic State's prisoners and their family members being held in makeshift prisons in the Kurdish-held areas of Syria.

Some of those prisoners are foreign fighters, and their countries of origin - Western countries in particular - are unwilling to accept them since they lack evidence to prosecute them. Though the Kurds have since backtracked on their statement, it shows the level of frustration shown by the Kurdish leadership regarding President Trump's abrupt and apparently whimsical decision to pull American forces out of Syria after a telephone conversation with Turkish President Erdogan on December 14th.

The next step the Kurdish leadership took was to rush to Paris to hold discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron - who has donned the globalist, interventionist cap since the inauguration of an isolationist, "alt-right" president in the US in January 2017.

President Macron reassured the Kurdish leadership that hundreds of French troops stationed in Syria as part of the globalists' "coalition to battle the Islamic State" will remain there and take the lead after the withdrawal of the 2,000 American troops, though it is unlikely that the French forces will stay in Syria for long once the American forces pull out. Particularly if we keep the fact in mind that President Macron has been facing the biggest challenge to his presidency in recent months in the form of Yellow Vest protests.
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