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Doctors Urge California Residents ‘Leave Now … While You Can’ As Gas Leak Fears Grow

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– Doctors Urge California Residents “Leave Now…While You Can” As Gas Leak Fears Grow:

California Governor Jerry Brown finally declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, concerning the ongoing, currently unstoppable methane gas leak spewing from Aliso Canyon that has created a nightmare for residents of Porter Ranch.

“I will tell you, this goes well beyond Porter Ranch. We’ve had complaints from as far as Chatsworth, Northridge, and Granada Hills,”emphasized Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander during a Porter Ranch town hall meeting on December 28. “Apparently this plume of toxic chemicals and whatever it might be, doesn’t know zip codes […] This is the equivalent of the BP oil spill on land, in a populated community.”

Aliso Canyon sits less than two and a half miles from Porter Ranch and less than 30 miles from the city of Los Angeles — the second most populous city in the United States — whose outlying total statistical area includes nearly 18 million residents, as of 2013.

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Pediatrician Dr. Richard Kang gave an ominous warning during the Porter Ranch meeting, saying, “Unfortunately, the only real way to get away from the symptoms is… you have to relocate — you have to get away from the environment.” Health complaints include severe headaches, nosebleeds, respiratory issues including increasing cases of asthma, and a number of other issues.

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Human Rights Watch: US-made cluster bombs used by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen attacks

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People gather at the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Yemens capital Sanaa January 6, 2016

– US-made cluster bombs used by Saudi-led coalition in Yemen attacks – HRW:

Cluster munitions sold to Saudi Arabia by the US were used in attacks on residential neighborhoods in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said, calling for an international inquiry into the alleged war crime.

Saudi-led coalition forces seriously violated the laws of war by airdropping the “indiscriminate weapon” on populated areas in the Yemeni capital on January 6, HRW said in a report published on Thursday.

“The coalition’s repeated use of cluster bombs in the middle of a crowded city suggests an intent to harm civilians, which is a war crime,” HRW arms director Steve Goose said, adding that these attacks are “outrageous.”

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CIA Denies FOIA Request for Info on Edward Snowden

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– CIA Denies FOIA Request for Info on Edward Snowden:

CIA denies request for info on Edward Snowden

Matrix One: who is Edward Snowden?

by Jon Rappoport

January 7, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

“The Matrix can be looked at as one gigantic covert op. It spills over with cover stories and lies and false trails, to conceal what is actually going on under the surface. The information- specialists have to make the surface seem true, so no one bothers to look underneath it. Keep in mind that media stories, no matter how absurd they are, tend to be believed because they’re simpler than the truth, and people want simple. If the Times says three terrorists jumped out of a mule’s ass on a quiet road and killed a group of tourists, and you come along and propose that the attack was actually the result of a multi-bank money transfer and three idiot dupes who were pumped up by an FBI informant, part of the reason your scenario is rejected is because the mule’s-ass version has only one step…” (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)

Update: the CIA has just refused a FIOA request for information about its former employee, Edward Snowden.

The request was filed on November 15 by John Young, the owner of Cryptome.org. The CIA’s response, dated December 29, refers to Young’s query seeking “records granting Edward Joseph Snowden access to classified information…[and] records indicating Mr. Snowden[‘s] compliance with controls of classified information upon leaving the CIA.”

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“The Jihadists Will Attack Europe”: Leaked Phone Call Shows Gaddafi Warned Tony Blair Of Terror Attacks

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– “The Jihadists Will Attack Europe”: Leaked Phone Call Shows Gaddafi Warned Tony Blair Of Terror Attacks:

On Wednesday, we took a close look at the battle for Libya’s oil.

Libya, much like Syria, is a case study in why the West would be better off not intervening in the affairs of sovereign states on the way to bringing about regime change. “Toppling dictators” sounds good in principle, but at the end of the day, it’s nearly impossible to predict what will emerge from the power vacuums the US creates when Washington destabilizes governments.

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Fasting Generates, Literally, A New Immune System, Regenerates Stem Cells

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– Three simple things shown to help heal cancer

– Fasting shown to regenerate stem cells, reverse immunosuppression after three days:

What if the key to maintaining a vibrant immune system was simply not eating for a few days at a time twice a year? Researchers from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles say that periodic, prolonged fasting — that is, not eating for between two and four subsequent days at a time — not only protects against immune system damage, but it also promotes immune system regeneration, particularly in patients who are already immuno-compromised.

Valter Longo, an Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and the Biological Sciences at the USC Davis School of Gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute, looked at the effects of fasting in both mice and humans, observing that when these mammals fasted, their white blood cell counts decreased. The result was that their bodies “recycled” old immune cells, thereby triggering the production of new immune cells to replace them.

Over time, immune cells can become worn out and stop functioning at optimal levels. It was previously believed that there wasn’t much that could be done to overcome this apart from stem cell treatments. However, this latest research shows that periodic fasting cycles actually flip some kind of regenerative switch inside the body, altering the signaling pathways for hematopoietic stem cells, which generate both blood and immunity.

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Israeli Justice Minister Turns To Police After Professor Calls Her ‘Neo-Nazi Scum’ On Facebook

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Ayelet Shaked, Israel’s Justice Minister

– Israeli justice minister turns to police after professor calls her ‘neo-Nazi scum’ on FB:

Two professors from Hebrew University accused Israel’s Justice Minister, Ayelet Shaked, of facilitating arms sales and “genocide” in Africa, with one branding the right-wing minister a “neo-Nazi.” Shaked wasn’t amused and filed a police complaint against both.

Dr. Ofer Cassif from the university’s Political Science Department shared a Facebook post made by his colleague, Professor Amiram Goldblum, which said that Shaked had received funds from Serge Muller, a Belgian-Jewish businessman arrested by Interpol earlier this year over allegations of illegal arms trading in South America and Africa.

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‘We Came, We Saw, He Died’ – Revisiting the Incredible Disaster That Is Libya

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– “We Came, We Saw, He Died” – Revisiting the Incredible Disaster That Is Libya:

In retrospect, Obama’s intervention in Libya was an abject failure, judged even by its own standards. Libya has not only failed to evolve into a democracy; it has devolved into a failed state. Violent deaths and other human rights abuses have increased severalfold. Rather than helping the United States combat terrorism, as Qaddafi did during his last decade in power, Libya now serves as a safe haven for militias affiliated with both al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The Libya intervention has harmed other U.S. interests as well: undermining nuclear nonproliferation, chilling Russian cooperation at the UN, and fueling Syria’s civil war.?

As bad as Libya’s human rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted him. Immediately after taking power, the rebels perpetrated scores of reprisal killings, in addition to torturing, beating, and arbitrarily detaining thousands of suspected Qaddafi supporters. The rebels also expelled 30,000 mostly black residents from the town of Tawergha and burned or looted their homes and shops, on the grounds that some of them supposedly had been mercenaries. Six months after the war, Human Rights Watch declared that the abuses “appear to be so widespread and systematic that they may amount to crimes against humanity.”?

As a consequence of such pervasive violence, the UN estimates that roughly 400,000 Libyans have fled their homes, a quarter of whom have left the country altogether. ?

– From the post: The Forgotten War – Understanding the Incredible Debacle Left Behind by NATO in Libya

Shortly after the NATO-led war which ousted Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ebulliently boasted with a characteristic sociopathic giddiness, the following on network television:

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Jeff Berwick Interviews Ken O’Keefe: Become A World Citizen And Starve The State! – ‘Our Government Is Owned By The Jewish State Of Israel’ (Video)

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Jan 5, 2016

Jeff interviews well known freedom activist and advocate for the Palestinian people, Ken O’Keefe. Topics include: the nefarious workings of the state, freedom and self ownership, US purveyors of violence, the shattering of illusions and dawning truth leads to the attempt to renounce US citizenship, on the run from the state, Max Igan and Palestine, Gaza, people take their lives in their hands by speaking out, those who speak up are imprisoned and tortured, absolutely vital to speak truth to power, US congress is treasonous and entirely unconstitutional, attempting to initiate world war three, the truth about Iran, the people are sick and tired of war and are waking up in droves but we are responsible and we need to effect the change, the Israeli ownership of the US government, Zionism is not the problem, Jewish supremacy the Talmud and nuclear holocaust, it is imperative to stop the funding of mass murder by not paying taxes.

Read moreJeff Berwick Interviews Ken O’Keefe: Become A World Citizen And Starve The State! – ‘Our Government Is Owned By The Jewish State Of Israel’ (Video)

Internal War Is Now On The Horizon For America

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– Internal War Is Now On The Horizon For America:

If internationalists were to get their way fully with the world and future historians write their analysis from a globalist perspective of the defunct American nation, they will probably say simply that our collapse was brought about by our own incompetence – that we were our own worst enemy. Yes, they would treat America as a cliché. They will of course leave out the destructive influences and engineered disasters of elitists, that would just complicate the narrative.

My hope is that we do not prove these future historians correct, and that they won’t have an opportunity to exist. My work has always been designed to help ensure that resistance thrives, but also that it is pursued in the most intelligent manner possible.

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Jim Willie: This Will Be the Trigger for the Big Banks to Explode

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– Jim Willie: This Will Be the Trigger for the Big Banks to Explode:

The low oil price is the signal of the dying dollar.

 Sub $30 Oil – When this happens, big banks explode

“The reset has begun, the plug has been pulled. Americans and US and western press watch the dollar and say it’s strong. I watch the oil price and say the dollar’s dead.

After ’71 when the gold standard was broke, called the Bretton Woods Accord, what replaced the gold standard but the de facto petrodollar standard?

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Clinton’s request for secure fax Plan B sparks accusations

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– Clinton’s request for secure fax Plan B sparks accusations:

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s request in 2011 that a document be emailed to her instead of sent by secure fax emerged as the latest political uproar over her private email account Friday, as a top Republican senator accused her of ordering classified information scrubbed. It wasn’t clear if any information in the document was classified to begin with.
The June 17, 2011, exchange focused on a set of “talking points” on an unspecified subject that Clinton had waited for since the previous evening. After senior adviser Jake Sullivan emailed her about “issues sending secure fax,” Clinton suggested he turn it “into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”

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‘Mrs Merkel invited me’: Cologne assailants’ ‘shameful’ acts detailed in police report

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– ‘Mrs Merkel invited me’: Cologne assailants’ ‘shameful’ acts detailed in police report:

A new German police report has described the situation during the mass assaults on women in Cologne on NYE as “chaotic and shameful.” It outlined the highly inappropriate behavior of perpetrators, described as migrants, who demanded respect from police.

Groups of men bombarded police with fireworks and pelted people with glass bottles while officers unsuccessfully attempted to prevent mass assaults against women in Cologne on NYE, a new police report revealed.

The new police report outlined by Der Spiegel and Bild newspapers on Thursday described the situation in Cologne on New Year’s Eve as “chaotic and shameful” as the police became too overwhelmed to prevent the “fights, thefts, sexual assaults against women.”

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Migrant Sex Assaults: Cologne Police Admit ‘Most Of The Attackers Were Refugees’

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– WTF: Merkel Says Mass Sexual Attackers “RISK” Expulsion By Germany

– Merkel On Migrants Attacking Germans: ‘We Have To Accept That The Number Of Offences By Young Migrants Is Particularly High’ (Video)

– The “Monsters” Unmasked: Cologne Police Admit “Most Of The Attackers Were Refugees”:

This week, many German citizens were appalled to hear the details of what allegedly occurred on New Year’s Eve in Cologne.

According to eyewitness accounts and a number of apparent victims, hundreds of “Arab or North African” men engaged in coordinated sexual assaults and robberies across Germany with attacks reported in Cologne, Hamburg, and Stuttgart.

“These people that we welcomed just three months ago with teddy bears and water bottles … started shooting at the cathedral dome and started shooting at police,” one hotel bouncer who witnessed the melee in Cologne said. “Ms Merkel where are you? What do you say? This scares us!,” read a sign carried by protesters in demonstrations held on Tuesday.

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5,000 Swiss Army Troops Will Protect World’s Billionaires During Annual Davos Boondoggle

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– 5,000 Swiss Army Troops Will Protect World’s Billionaires During Annual Davos Boondoggle:

With a new wave of terrorism, mass shootings and unprecedented social violence around the globe now a part of the daily routine for billions of people across both developed and developing nations, one group wants to be certain there is no chance of “close encounters”, violent or otherwise, with the peasantry during its upcoming annual boondoggle at the World Economic Forum in Davos. According to Swissinfo, when the world’s billionaires land their private jets in the gorgeous Swiss town (which at 1,560 m is also the highest town in Europe) on January 20, they will have up to 5,000 Swiss army troops protecting them.

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As a result, the Swiss army has begun on-site preparations for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos. 

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Here We Go Again: China Halts Trading For The Entire Day After Another 7% Crash

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– Here We Go Again: China Halts Trading For The Entire Day After Another 7% Crash:

CHINA STOCKS HALTED FOR REST OF DAY AFTER CSI 300 TUMBLES 7% – Following the collapse of offshore Yuan to 5 year lows and decompression to record spreads to onshore Yuan, The PBOC has stepped in and dramatically devalued the Yuan fix by 0.5% to 6.5646. This is the biggest devaluation since the August collapse. Offshore Yuan trading has been violent with a 1000 pips swing on Yuantervention. Dow futures are plunging… WTI trades at a $32 handle… Gold hits $1100.

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The entire Chinese stock market has been halted on half the trading days in 2016

The punishment will continue until The Fed unleashes QE4!!

US Approved Weapons Sales To Saudi Arabia Three Days Before Executions

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– US Approved Weapons Sales To Saudi Arabia Three Days Before Executions:

The US empire’s alliance with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continues to imperil any semblance of credibility the US tries to claim on the issue of human rights. On Saturday, January 2, Saudi Arabia executed 47 people, including non-violent pro-reform and pro-democracy protesters.

Three days prior to the executions, the Pentagon announced a series of multi-million dollar weapons contracts US companies had completed with Saudi Arabia that were approved by the Department of Defense. The beneficiaries of the large contracts are Boeing, Advanced Electronics and Raytheon.

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WTF: Merkel Says Mass Sexual Attackers “RISK” Expulsion By Germany

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H/t reader squodgy:

“Isn’t this the ultimate insult to the German people?

They “RISK” expulsion? Fucking hell!”

Related info:

– Merkel On Migrants Attacking Germans: ‘We Have To Accept That The Number Of Offences By Young Migrants Is Particularly High’ (Video)

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– Merkel Says Mass Sexual Attackers Risk Expulsion by Germany:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the mass sexual assault of women by groups of men in Cologne is part of a pattern and suggested a possible link with migrants for the first time.

In her strongest comments yet on the New Year’s Eve incident in Germany’s fourth-largest city, Merkel said Thursday that the assaults touch on the “coexistence of cultures” in Germany and urged authorities to ensure that “everything is brought to light” in the investigation.

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Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair Sees Profits Triple

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– Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair Sees Profits Triple:

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had a bumper year as profit at the firm managing his business interests more than tripled.

Windrush Ventures Ltd., the main company running his government advisory business, reported operating profit of 2.6 million pounds ($3.8 million) in the year through March 2015, up from 812,000 pounds a year earlier, according to accounts published on Blair’s website . Turnover rose to 19.4 million pounds from 14.2 million pounds.

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