Thursday, March 28, 2019

Palestinian Cleric: 'France Will Become an Islamic Country Through Jihad'

In an address to Al-Aqsa mosque-goers, Palestinian cleric Abu Taqi Al-Din Al-Dari said that France will become an Islamic state because it will mostly be inhabited by Muslims by 2050.

“France will become an Islamic country through jihad; the entire world will be subject to Islamic rule,” the cleric said.

Al-Dari said that this would happen because young European natives are not getting married, settling down and having children whereas Muslims have a high fertility rate and have lots of children.

“Muslims must have a country that will bring Islam….to the people of the west through jihad for the sake of Allah,” said Al-Dari.



Al-Dari then referenced how the Ottoman Empire previously conquered European countries and that “these events portend that the Islamic nation is capable of returning to its former self and spreading Islam.”

The cleric said that this would be accomplished in one of three ways.

“Conversion to Islam, payment of the jizya poll tax, or we will ask for Allah’s help and fight them until the entire world is subject to the rule of Islam,” he concluded.

Over the last few months, France has been rocked by Yellow Vest protests in major cities. One of the reasons given for the demonstrations is that French people feel their culture is being subsumed by mass migration.

18% of babies born in France are now being given Islamic names while the country’s Muslim population stands at around 8% of the total.

In one area of Paris alone, St. Denis, there are 400,000 illegal immigrants, the majority of them Muslims.

As philosopher Eric Zemmour warned in a recent speech, areas of France are now completely outside the control of police and are being run by Arab gangs who have imposed de facto Sharia law.

“We aren’t in France any longer,” said Zemmour.
https://www.infowars.com/palestinian-cleric-france-will-become-an-islamic-country-through-jihad/
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Mainstream Media Censors News That Threatens Its Financial Interests

Story at-a-glance

  • Under the guise of stopping "fake news," internet watchdogs are burying alternative news that threatens mainstream financial interests
  • The internet watchdog Snopes has been beset by scandals and widely discredited
  • Major media companies have pharmaceutical leaders on their boards and their reporting is shaped by revenue from their many drug ads. Medical news outlets also bury news that would harm commercial drug products
  • Google is pursuing academic, medical, artificial intelligence, military and other ventures that enlarge its already massive footprint
  • NewsGuard, an internet watchdog that sells a browser plugin has received funding from the Publicis Groupe, a giant global communications group serving Pharma clients

What if you were in the middle of a phone conversation and the line suddenly went dead because you mentioned a topic like vaccine injury that the service provider considered to be misinformation?  You would probably have two immediate questions: “How does a business know what's true better than I know myself (especially if I do my own research)?" and "What's to keep the service from self-dealing — using its influence to push its own agenda?"

As fake news has become a national concern in the U.S., internet watchdogs are emerging to weed out and flag incorrect, falsified and nonsourced stories. Most have websites that people can visit, and one has a plugin that can be downloaded from Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft’s desktop and mobile Edge.

Certainly, websites with odd names and strange domains that end in “.com.co” and websites that carry non-bylined, nonsourced stories that are found nowhere else on the internet should raise your suspicion meter. But internet watchdogs may not be ethical or virtuous either.

The "protection" these organizations offer sounds like a great idea since everyone wants the news and information sites they visit to be trustworthy. The problem is, who is checking the checkers? Who finances them? Do they have an agenda? Are some watchdogs calling news "fake" just because it threatens their backers' products, as we have seen with pro-GMO and pro-chemical voices? Sadly, the answer is often yes.

In fact, the conflicts of interest with many internet watchdogs are so blatant it brings to mind the joke about how a sleazy lawyer tells his client "go to hell" — he says "trust me."

The Rise and Fall of Snopes

One of the calling cards of a fake news site according to Forbes writer Kalev Leetaru1 is that it appears as a “'wilderness of mirrors' — creating a chaotic information environment that so perfectly blends truth, half-truth and fiction that even the best can no longer tell what’s real and what’s not."
So, when Britain's Daily Mail ran a scathing exposé on the fact-checking site Snopes in 2016,2 the exposé itself looked like fake news. It included claims that Snopes was founded by a husband-and-wife team, Barbara and David Mikkelson, who fabricated a nonexistent society. After their divorce, said the Mail, the husband embezzled $98,000 to use for prostitutes and hired his new wife, Elyssa Young, a former escort and porn actress as website administrator.

But, writes Leetaru, after reaching out to David Mikkelson for his comments, he discovered the Daily Mail exposé was not fake news after all.3
"It was with incredible surprise therefore that I received David’s one-sentence response which read in its entirety 'I'd be happy to speak with you, but I can only address some aspects in general because I'm precluded by the terms of a binding settlement agreement from discussing details of my divorce.'
This absolutely astounded me. Here was the one of the world’s most respected fact-checking organizations, soon to be an ultimate arbitrator of 'truth’ on Facebook, saying that it cannot respond to a fact-checking request because of a secrecy agreement.
In short, when someone attempted to fact-check the fact-checker, the response was the equivalent of 'it's secret.'
It is impossible to understate how antithetical this is to the fact-checking world, in which absolute openness and transparency are necessary prerequisites for trust. How can fact-checking organization like Snopes expect the public to place trust in them if when they themselves are called into question, their response is that they can’t respond.”
 

Do the Internet Watchdogs Have Political Leanings?

It is bad enough that Snopes had many secrets and nontransparencies, but it also had political leanings. Young, Mikkelson's new-wife-turned-Snopes-administrator, had run for Congress in Hawaii as a Libertarian in 2004 on a "Dump Bush" platform.

Over recent years we have heard a lot of compelling evidence that mainstream news aggregators suppress conservative news and views. "Like handicapping a horse, Google appears to weigh down conservative news sites," says Alan Gray, publisher of NewsBlaze, an alternative business and world news newspaper. "More liberal sites take all the first page positions and conservative news is pushed back to Page 2, 3 or nowhere at all. This makes conservative news financially unviable."

Progressive and alternative websites that challenge the status quo are, of course, also sidelined and unable to achieve financial viability. "Before the war against alternative media, OpEdNews.com came out at the top of Google search results for progressive news," says publisher Rob Kall.

"After Google changed its algorithm, we along with most alternative, non-mainstream news sites, were buried pages deep. This has had a huge effect on our traffic." Clearly biased news selection can be as dangerous as fake news. This is how Leetaru puts it:4
"Think about it this way — what if there was a fact-checking organization whose fact-checkers were all drawn from the ranks of Breitbart and Infowars? Most liberals would likely dismiss such an organization as partisan and biased. Similarly, an organization whose fact-checkers were all drawn from Occupy Democrats and Huffington Post might be dismissed by conservatives as partisan and biased ...
In fact, this is one of the reasons that fact-checking organizations must be transparent and open.
If an organization like Snopes feels it is OK to hire partisan employees who have run for public office on behalf of a particular political party and employ them as fact-checkers where they have a high likelihood of being asked to weigh in on material aligned with or contrary to their views, how can they reasonably be expected to act as neutral arbitrators of the truth?"

Big Media Companies Have Big Conflicts of Interest

Have you ever noticed how many news shows and news magazines are anchored by drug ads? Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising began 20 years ago, drug ads with their dangerous side effects famously superimposed with images of puppies and sunsets have arguably become TV's greatest form of ad revenue.

No wonder mainstream news doesn't report on the jaw bone death and esophageal cancer associated with the bone drugs bisphonsphates. No wonder it doesn't expose how TNF-alpha inhibitors like Humira, Enbrel and Remicade invite infection, cancer and even Hansen's disease (once known as leprosy) according to a recent report.5,6

In addition to ad revenue, representatives of Pharma sit on the actual boards of major TV and print news outlets further censoring reporting about drug safety and effectiveness. The New York Times has had on its board Schering-Plough and Eli Lilly affiliates, and The Washington Post has had Johnson & Johnson affiliates.7 Even so-called “public” media like PBS and NPR have accepted money from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), UnitedHealthcare and the Koch brothers.8

Medical News Is Especially at Risk of Censorship

It should surprise no one that news which threatens Big Food and Big Drug products is especially censored. Paroxetine (Paxil) was a top selling SSRI antidepressant drug for GSK. But in 2004, soon after its approval, the New York attorney general charged that Paxil research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry buried the drug’s true risks of suicide in adolescents.9

More than 10 years later, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a reanalysis that "unburied" the hidden data and amounted to a reversal of the original study. The new research demonstrated that Paxil indeed increases risks of suicide in young people and adolescents.

In 2015, Scientific American magazine shockingly partnered with Johnson & Johnson and GMO Answers for a conference at the National Press Club in Washington.10 GMO Answers is funded by BASF, Bayer, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Syngenta and Monsanto.

And sites that would question almost all other corporation machinations give Big Vax a pass. Last year, Jezebel ran the headline: "Robert De Niro and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Call Vaccines Dangerous, Which They Are Not." An Atlantic 2015 article sneered, "Vaccines Are Profitable, So What?"11 The otherwise liberal Daily Beast has gone so far as to publish pro-vax pieces penned by Paul Offit, perhaps the nation’s most extreme vaccine promoter.12,13

Google Is Everywhere and That Can Be a Problem

Aside from monopolizing the internet, Google has strong presences in childhood education, health care and even the food industry of which few are aware. It is also engaged in social engineering pursuits, artificial intelligence, military applications and Biomedical/Pharma ventures.

Few, for example, know about Google Life Sciences (now called Verily) or Google's subsidiary Calico, focused on "health, well-being and longevity," according to Google founder Larry Page.14 In 2014, Calico partnered with Humira-maker AbbVie to open an R&D facility focused on aging and age-related diseases, such as neurodegeneration and cancer. It has since joined with other drug developers.

In a chilling demonstration of the partnerships between government, Pharma and internet giants, in 2017 Dr. Thomas R. Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health, left government to join Google Life Sciences (now Verily),15 which develops technologies for early detection and treatment of health problems, though he left soon after.16
 
Early detection of disease "risks" is a primary Pharma marketing push. Such partnerships might explain why an exposé17 on the alleged illegal marketing of Genentech/Novartis asthma dug Xolair was virtually buried on the internet in 2016.

Google Is Training a Whole New Generation

Google's internet monopoly, which centers around personal information tracking and sharing, is just the beginning. The technology giant is also involved in childhood education, developing brand loyalty and a future customer base among children through product placements in schools.

This happens quickly because many schools have abandoned books in favor of tablets and computers equipped with aps like Google Classroom, Google Docs and Gmail. Just as Pharma enlists doctor support, Google has enlisted teachers and administrators to promote Google's products.

Today, more than half of U.S. primary and secondary school students, more than 30 million children, use Gmail and Google Docs and Google-powered laptops like Chromebook. Once the children are out of school, they're encouraged to convert their school accounts to personal accounts — a move that allows Google to build incredibly powerful personality and marketing profiles of each individual from a very early age and, of course, profits.

This is similar to the Pharma push to keep kids on ADHD drugs once they leave home in order to not lose the market share of a captive audience. ADHD drug marketers worry the 5 million young people they have managed to get on ADHD meds might discontinue the drugs when they leave home.

"I remember being the kid with ADHD. Truth is, I still have it," said an ad from ADHD drugmaker Shire with a photo of Adam Levine, the lead singer of Maroon 5, in the Northwestern University student newspaper, The Daily Northwestern, a few years ago.

The disease mongering tag line was, "It's Your ADHD. Own It."18 In a conference call about its earnings, Shire bemoaned that it loses many of its college age ADHD customers "as they kind of fall out of the system based on the fact that they no longer go to a pediatrician and they move on to a primary care physician.19

The Brave New World Business Model of NewsGuard

Another internet watchdog entrant is NewsGuard, a plugin that promises to rate websites on nine criteria of credibility and transparency. Once installed, the NewsGuard rating will appear on all Google and Bing searches and on articles in your social media news feeds. Marketing plans include getting librarians to help patrons download the plugin on their personal computers, tablets and cellphones.

NewsGuard assigns a color coded "Nutrition Label" to sites that considers the publication of false content and deceptive headlines, ownership and financing disclosures and more.20 It has partnered with tech giant Microsoft for a Defending Democracy Program that addresses hacking, increasing transparency and warding against political disinformation campaigns.

As soon as I saw this ambitious venture I wondered who funds it. I did not have to look far. NewsGuard received much of its startup funds from Publicis Groupe, a giant global communications group with divisions that brand imaging, design of digital business platforms, media relations and health care.

It is so huge it has eight advertising/public relations subsidiaries, including the well-known Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett.21 Here is how Recode describes NewsGuard's business model:22
"One thing that makes NewsGuard stand out from many other non-tech journalism initiatives is that it’s for-profit — it has received $6 million in venture funding from its founders and other investors — so it doesn’t need to rely on philanthropic donations. It has also enjoyed plenty of positive press."
As I expected, Publicis Groupe’s health subsidiary, Publicis Health, names Lilly, Abbot, Roche, Amgen, Genentech, Celgene, Gilead, Biogen, Astra Zeneca, Sanofi, Bayer and other Pharma giants as clients. Does anyone imagine that news about healthy alternatives to Pharma drugs won't be censored?

And, as far as the transparency NewsGuard is pledged to protect, its own transparency is murky. On NewsGuard's United States Securities and Exchange Commission Form D filed March 5, 2018, there is an option for disclosing the size of its revenue, but that box was checked, "Decline to disclose."
In your search for the truthful health news, always follow your own guiding light and your skepticism. Internet watchdogs like Snopes and NewsGuard have their own agenda — and it’s not public health.


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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

New Zealand Shooting Is Being Used to Turn My Country into Islamic State


by Michelle Kaufman
I live in New Zealand. I’ve become alarmed at developments in my country since the shootings last Friday. What I see unfolding seems so disproportionate to the magnitude of the crime. It seems like I’ve woken up and all of a sudden live in an Islamic State.

Here are some highlights of what’s unfolding:
  • The thought police are out in full force and people are being scrutinized for "hate speech".  Green ribbons are being worn as a symbol against hate.

  • Mosques and many of the prayer rooms continue to be protected by armed police (police aren't usually armed in my country). 

  • Vigils are being held all over the place in solidarity with the victims. These seem to have morphed into what amounts to support for the Islamic religion. One Catholic bishop held one last Sunday afternoon in the Ponsonby church.  After prayers there, they processed over to the mosque, which is on the opposite side of the road and prayed and met there.   

  • Whitcoulls, one of our book stores, probably the oldest, has removed Jordan Peterson's book "12 Rules for Life" from its shelves because he was photographed with a member of the public wearing an anti-Islamic t-shirt while he was in New Zealand recently. Apparently, that's being construed as him having something to do with the madman's agenda. 

  • On Tuesday a Muslim prayer was said in Parliament. Just recently all Christian prayer in Parliament was removed.

  • On Friday March 22 at 1:30pm New Zealand will be called to prayer...Islamic prayer that is.  And we will be expected to keep 2 minutes silence after they read the Muslim prayer acknowledging Allah as "great" and Muhammad as his "prophet." The call to prayer will be broadcasted on national radio stations and TV as well.   

  • One top Catholic Church leader will go to the local mosque (Kilbirnie) as well on Friday to stand outside during their prayers as an act of solidarity. The Catholic bishops here have been very sympathetic and playing out their "inter-faith role" with great enthusiasm. 

  • Catholic school students have been praying inside mosques. 
It seems like we’re living in a different world all of a sudden. It seems that showing our great respect for those who were killed has somehow been manipulated into showing affirmation of the Islamic religion. 

New Zealand is now putty in the Islamists’ hands. 

The shooting on Friday was terrible. But what has now unfolded is something else entirely and may just be the beginning of something very terrible for New Zealand.

Certainly, on a spiritual level, our crisis has become even deeper.

Please keep New Zealand in your prayers.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/troubling-signs-new-zealand-shooting-is-being-used-to-turn-my-country-into-islamic-state
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Monday, March 11, 2019

Pierre Trudeau punched his ex-wife according to 1979 news story


Recently discovered on the internet is a 1979 Milwaukee Sentinel feature story on Margaret Trudeau that most Canadians will find quite shocking. In a wide-ranging article that touches on her photography, her affairs, and her separation from Pierre Trudeau, Margaret reveals that her former husband, the late Prime Minister, was physically violent toward her and “slugged” her, giving her a black eye.

The article describes a scene where there were sounds of “shouting, doors slamming, and floor pacing.” It goes on to reveal that when Pierre was made aware of an interview that Margaret had given, he “hit the roof and then hit Margaret. She loved it.”

Trudeau’s full comments on the incident read as follows:

    Pierre SLUGGED me. He’s given me a black eye. But things are going to be okay. He doesn’t mind my being a photographer.

    Actually, I was quite pleased. It was the first time in a very long while that I’d been able to get a response out of Pierre. He got all his hostility out, and he hasn’t shown me so much attention in years!

    It showed me he really loved me. In a strange way it’s made us closer … I guess I felt this was his way of showing that he cared. Pierre must have felt closer to me too, because that night he was very “macho.”

In a more recent Globe and Mail article from 2009, Margaret Wente appears to confirm that Pierre was abusive to Margaret as she writes the following in a matter-of-fact manner: “After they split up, he insisted on custody of the children and cut her off with scarcely a dime. He even gave her a black eye or two.”

Awareness of violence against women has been in the spotlight in recent years as a result of the #metoo and #timesup movements.

Given the fact that we are in the #metoo era, and that our current Prime Minister, Pierre’s son, has been alleged to have acted inappropriately toward women, it will be intriguing to see how Canadians react to this recently unearthed information.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Academic Hoax Papers: John Stossel of Reason TV



John Stossel goes over seven outrageously fake papers, including the famous hoax paper about rape culture demonstrated by the pups in Portland's dog parks.

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