Robert Fisk’s bombshell first-hand account for the UK Independent runs contrary to nearly every claim circulating in major international press concerning what happened just over week ago on April 7th in an embattled suburb outside Damascus: not only has the veteran British journalist found no evidence of a mass chemical attack, but he’s encountered multiple local eyewitnesses who experienced the chaos of that night, but who say the gas attack never happened.
Fisk is the first Western journalist to reach and report from the site of the alleged chemical weapons attack widely blamed on Assad’s forces. Writing from Douma in eastern Ghouta, Fisk has interviewed a Syrian doctor who works at the hospital shown in one of the well-known videos which purports to depict victims of a chemical attack.
Importantly, the report, published late in the day Monday, is causing a stir among mainstream journalists who–minutes after the Saudi-sponsored jihadist group Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) accused the Syrian Army of gassing civilians–began uncritically promoting the “Assad gassed his own people” narrative as an already cemented and “proven” fact based on the mere word a notoriously brutal armed group who itself has admitted to using chemical weapons on the Syrian battlefield in prior years. Also notable is that no journalist or international observer was anywhere near Douma when the purported chemical attack took place.
Controversy ensued immediately after Fisk’s report, especially as he is among the most recognizable names in the past four decades of Middle East war reporting, having twice won the British Press Awards’ Journalist of the Year prize and as seven-time winner of the British Press Awards’ Foreign Correspondent of the Year (the NY Times has referred to him as “probably the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain” while The Guardian has called him “one of the most famous journalists in the world”). An Arabic speaker, Fisk became famous for being among the few reporters in history to conduct face-to-face interviews with Osama bin Laden, which he did on three occasions between 1993 and 1997.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/famed-war-reporter-robert-fisk-reaches-syrian-chemical-attack-site-concludes-not-gassed/240660/
World Champion Boxer Manny Pacquiao Builds 1,000 Homes For Poor Filipinos
Involved in what’s said to be the ‘fight of the century’, professional boxer Manny Pacquiao, even upon his defeat, made over $100 million and is now using his earnings towards a respectable initiative. The Philippines-native took to Facebook with the message: “I’m so happy giving this houses free to my constituents in Sarangani Province from my own pocket more than thousand families are the beneficiaries.” Upon his major, worldwide-viewed match with Floyd Mayweather Jr, he was inspired to make a difference with his earnings. The boxer felt it was his duty to give back and recognize his roots at a time like this.
https://www.providr.com/manny-pacquiao-builds-homes-for-the-poor
Meeting The Definition Of Terrorism: Big Pharma, Big Oil, And Big Banks
We trust our health to big pharma, our money to big banks and our food to big ag. This needs to change!
http://australiannationalreview.com/2018/05/04/meeting-the-definition-of-terrorism-big-pharma-big-oil-and-big-banks/
Stunning finding reveals autism is highest in areas with the highest vaccination rates
The surge of autism diagnoses in recent years has left many people looking for an explanation. Oft-labeled a “conspiracy theory,” or something to that effect, the suspicion that vaccines are a potential cause of autism is on the rise. New research from the Canadian government has indirectly shown that in highly vaccinated populations, autism rates are noticeably higher. These shocking findings are sure to leave vaccine propagandists reeling while they try to somehow discredit the findings of a government agency.
http://australiannationalreview.com/2018/05/03/stunning-finding-reveals-autism-is-highest-in-areas-with-the-highest-vaccination-rates
Particle Physics Resurrects Alexander Graham Bell’s Voice
Eight more Spectre-style flaws found in Intel processors
Another reason why I do not trust putting all my data on someone else’s cloud service.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/eight-more-spectre-style-flaws-found-in-intel-processors-490279
15 Health Experts Call Breast Cancer Screening ‘Fear Mongering’ That ‘Do More Harm Than Good’
Breast cancer screening is one of the most promoted medical “saviors” of our time. Almost every doctor and family member and friend will tell you that passing on these screenings is dangerous stuff. Most of the big breast cancer awareness promotions revolved around the concept of “getting screened.” The claim is that early detection saves lives.
But does “getting screened” for breast cancer actually help protect a woman’s health?
According to 15 health experts interviewed by The Times, the answer is a resounding “no.” And furthermore, they claim that the entire pitch is based on “fear-mongering” and that women should “carry on with their lives.” They also said that these routine breast cancer screenings may “do more harm than good.”
Essentially, these experts gave breast cancer screening a real lashing.
(In my opinion they did not go far enough! The Swiss have banned them as being more destructive than beneficial.)
https://vaxxter.com/15-health-experts-condemn-breast-cancer-screening/
Flu Vaccine only 10 Per Cent Effective and Vaccinations Weaken Immune System
Vaccine propaganda is a “binary trap,” in other words: Every debate is about pro-vaccine vs. anti-vaccine. This “Overton Window” limits debate to the vaccine alone, avoiding any real discussion of far safer and more effective options that don’t involve vaccines. Vitamins C and D, for example, are extremely effective at helping individuals mount an immune response that rapidly overcomes influenza infections.
Zinc, too, has been scientifically shown to limit the duration and severity of influenza infections. In fact, if you ask around, you’ll probably find that people who take nutritional supplements instead of vaccines are extremely resistant to influenza. (For myself, I haven’t had a vaccine shot in decades, yet I can’t even remember the last time I had a cold or the flu.) Yet the very people who seem to get sick with the flu every year are the same ones who routinely get flu shots.
How can that be? The answer, shockingly, is that flu shots have been scientifically proven to weaken your immune response in subsequent years.
http://australiannationalreview.com/2018/05/06/vaccine-industry-in-panic-mode-as-vaccinated-children-keep-dying-from-the-flu-all-across-america
In North Carolina, 10 Vaccinated Kids Get Whooping Cough
Of the 10 cases recently reported, all had been vaccinated against it. Yet the main stream media repeat the line “The best way to prevent whooping cough is to get vaccinated”. Excuse me? If all 10 cases who got it were vaccinated, wouldn’t it be more logical to say to avoid it, don’t get vaccinated?
https://vaxxter.com/10-vaccinated-kids-get-pertussis-in-north-carolina/
Monsanto concealed effects of toxic chemical for decades, Ohio AG alleges
And we should trust this company with what we put in our mouths?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/monsanto-concealed-effects-toxic-chemical-decades-ohio-ag-alleges-n853866