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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: 2017 in Review: The Great Unveiling

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The year of Trump, the demise of ISIS, the Rise of Russia, the Rise of China, #MeToo, #FakeNews, Antifa, Alt-Right, Brexit, Catalonia, the continuing migrant crisis, Russiagate, terror attacks, Jerusalem, North Korea, weather gone wild, and so much more.

2017 has been a whirlwind, and it's already coming to an end. On this final episode of Behind the Headlines for 2017 (next Sunday is Christmas eve, the following is New Year's eve) we'll be discussing the trends and developments of the past year, as well as taking your questions and comments about anything and everything. The lines will be open, and chat will be active, so feel free to join in.

Tune in this Sunday, 6-8pm CET (4-6pm UTC / 12-2pm EST) for our interactive, year-end special!

Running Time: 02:15:38

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SOTT Focus: Former Waffle House Waitress Serves Iranian Nothing Burger to the Media

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US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, tries to serve up a big fat nothing burger to a truth-starved press. Don't eat it folks; it's all empty calories!
General Melchett: Now, Field Marshal Haigh has formulated a brilliant, new, tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.

Captain Blackadder: Ah. Will this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy, Sir?

Captain Darling: How could you possibly know that, Blackadder? It's classified information!

Captain Blackaddaer: It's the same plan that we used last time, and the seventeen times before that.

General Melchett: EXACTLY! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It'll catch the watchful Hun totally off-guard. Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time!

~ Scene from the satirical UK series Blackadder
Witnessing the lack of creativity in the West's scaremongering - the same idea being used over and over again by the western pathocrats and their puppet states - one would be forgiven for thinking it's satire. Browsing through the day's news, I came across a story that presented the shameful caricature of reality that we've seen time and time again.

Some people dutifully chew each mouthful of this kind of supersized junk, spoon-fed them by a willingly complicit media, and wash it down with Kool-Aid. But SOTT is the 'world for people who think', and I can't imagine there are many SOTT readers hungering for the latest stomach-churning offering from Nikki 'The Hick' Haley who, on December 14th, expanded on the US's increasingly hysterical pivot towards Iran.

Standing in front of an alleged spent Iranian missile shell, Haley proceeded to use this 'visual aid' to add weight to her claims that Iranian missile shells of one sort or another have been turning up in war zones across the Middle East.

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SOTT Focus: Is Artificial Light at Night Making You and Your Kids Fat & Sick?

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Feeling sluggish during the day and restless at night? Exercising like a gym-bunny and watching your calorie intake but not getting positive results? You may be overlooking something that is literally staring you in the face.

A recent study published by Penn State College of Medicine is the latest to shine light (no pun intended) on the detrimental effects that exposure to artificial light at night-time can have on the human body. Science Daily reports:
After surveying parents about their kids' technology and sleep habits, researchers found that using technology before bed was associated with less sleep, poorer sleep quality, more fatigue in the morning and -- in the children that watched TV or used their cell phones before bed -- higher body mass indexes (BMI).

"We saw technology before bed being associated with less sleep and higher BMIs," Fuller said. "We also saw this technology use being associated with more fatigue in the morning, which circling back, is another risk factor for higher BMIs. So we're seeing a loop pattern forming."

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SOTT Focus: Conflict of Interest in Scientific Research And Our Own Personal Bias

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A recent study published on Springer Link discusses conflict of interest in scientific research, an area long overdue for concise and unbiased study. It has long been recognised that researchers may be influenced by the sponsors of their research. There are many reasons for this including the pressure to publish and the need for repeat research funding to further ones career.

The typical portrayal of scientists in the media is of unbiased individuals on a quest for truth, only considering hard facts, uninfluenced by personal feelings, searching for the unvarnished truth. Reality however seems to be somewhat different.

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SOTT Focus: The Four Gender Non-Conforming Horsepersons of the Apocalypse

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There has been a storm brewing, probably since the turn of the 20th century, and certainly since the 1960s. It's something that represents a more profound threat than radical Islamic terrorism. A kind of whirlwind sowed pre-Enlightenment, if you want to get very technical and pointlessly pedantic. But this is not gonna be one of those articles; we don't have the time and, let's face it, with all the mood-altering drugs and crippling anxieties you face on a daily basis, you don't have the attention span for it.

The real watershed moment - though they certainly didn't realize it, at least not consciously - happened in a D.C. apartment on September 30th, 2007. Four notable atheists - Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet and Sam Harris - gathered around a table to film their smug triumphalism for all the world to see...

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SOTT Focus: The 97 Russian Cents That Changed History - Stop Putin, Before He Strikes Again!

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It's finally here! The irrefutable evidence of malevolent Russian meddling in the elections of our democratic nations has finally been revealed, and it's absolutely stunning. "Incontrovertible!" "Mounting evidence!" That's how the British press described the evidence in November for Russian meddling in the Brexit vote.

Even though the Kremlin has cynically denied it on countless occasions, this week we got absolute proof that Vladimir Putin and his wretched rubles were directly responsible for manipulating millions of Britons to vote to leave the EU, potentially bankrupting the city of London and bringing down the civilized world as we know it. Bombarded by Kremlin-bot-backed social media propaganda, naive Brits were maliciously manipulated into voting the way Vladimir Putin wanted them to, and against their better judgment. The British elite were powerless against this Russian information war onslaught. The memes were just too good, using cutting-edge Russian persuasion technology.

Quoting a letter provided by Facebook's HQ, The Telegraph reported that the total investment by all the social network accounts of the Saint Petersburg based IRA (Internet Research Agency) was... are you ready?... under a dollar. That's right, Putin's measly pennies (or were they 'Putin Coins'?) are so powerful that he doesn't need to spend much to change the course of history. The price of Western democracy, it seems, is less than a Pumpkin Spice Latte.

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SOTT Focus: The Handsome Hypocrisy of Justin Trudeau: SJW Leader of Canada Sells Weapons to Ukraine

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© Toronto PrideJustin Trudeau indicating to his supporters the place where his heart used to be.
"Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." ~ Matthew 6:3
It is said that a genius is someone who can hold two contradictory ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. But a person who not only holds two contradictory ideas in mind at the same time but then proceeds to act on them, is obviously an idiot. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is just such an idiot.

When he is not virtue-signaling about diversity and inclusion, pretending to be a feminist, posing for photos with topless women, paying out over 10 million dollars to convicted terrorists, apologizing to various minority groups for every conceivable injustice that history may have visited upon them, and attempting to reintegrate ISIS fighters into Canadian society, he likes to sell weapons of war.

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SOTT Focus: Charlie Sheen Suing for Defamation Over Haim Rape Allegations, But Pedophilia Still Rife in Hollywood

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Charlie Sheen is suing the National Enquirer for defamation after they released an article claiming he sodomized a 13-year-old Corey Haim in the 1980s when they were on set filming 'Lucas'. Sheen has vehemently denied the allegations, stating they are malicious stories published by Dylan Howard (American Media, Inc. chief content officer) who has a personal vendetta against him.

American Media, Inc. the parent company of the National Enquirer, issued a public statement on the matter:
"We look forward to litigating against Charlie Sheen, and can't wait to expose his depravities in a court of law," an AMI spokesperson told THR.
The original story, described here, claims Sheen sexually abused Haim and "pushed him down a drug fueled-path to an early grave." The allegations came from Dominick Brascia, who in the past was also accused of assaulting Haim, which he too denied.

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SOTT Focus: The Vietnam War: CIA Terrorism as American Foreign Policy

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As the US rolls into the 16th year of its 'longest-ever' war, in Afghanistan - ostensibly against the Taliban, although no one really knows who they are anymore - and appears to be seriously considering another large-scale intervention on the Korean peninsula, it's worth recalling what took place the last time US forces amassed in East Asia.

The Vietnam War - known by Vietnamese as 'the American War' - was a long, protracted, bloody mess. Most histories of the war say it lasted either 10 or 20 years, depending on what phase is taken as its starting point: large-scale, regular US military forces were engaged from 1965 to 1975; alternately, US military 'advisors' under the auspices of the CIA first intervened there in 1955. But there was an earlier phase still to this war, one that blends it into occupation by imperial France, and WWII occupation by Japan before that.

At 20-30 years, this would certainly make Vietnam, and not Afghanistan, America's 'longest war'. In any event, some 2,600,000 American soldiers rotated through Indochina in the 1960s and 70s, 58,000 of whom lost their lives, while to up to 3 million Vietnamese died.

In most accounts of the war, it is represented as a relative blip in American history, a fight lost against a guerrilla communist force known as the 'Vietcong', an enemy comprising elusive forces capable of surprising and surrounding helpless American soldiers, then disappearing into the jungle as quickly as they appeared. They would use local inhabitants and villages as human-shields so that American napalm and machine-guns couldn't tell the difference between friend and foe. At least, that's one take on it.

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SOTT Focus: The Health & Wellness Show: Sealfinger and Other Tales of Disease

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As we near the end of 2017 it seems only fitting to review the diseases that have swept the world and held our attention. On this episode of The Health and wellness show we salute the ubiquitous germs of Mother Nature who never fails to grace us with her infinite wisdom. Nothing says fear like The Plague which is currently making its way through Madagascar. Ebola is playing peek-a-boo in the Congo, Hepatitis A is busting a move in San Diego and meningitis C has reared its ugly head in Nigeria. On a more micro level, we also explored the ailments, flukes, fungal infections and other odd conditions that are knocking people out of commission all over the globe. Nature can be unkind and this year was no different so grab your seal repellent and try not to scromit as we take you on a tour of this year's worst health stories.

And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, where she speaks about parasites controlling the behavior of host!

Running Time: 01:32:20

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