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German MPs Demand Release of Julian Assange
By Ben Knight / DW News More than 70 members of the German parliament from four political parties have called on U.S. President Joe Biden and the British government to stop the impending deportation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange from the UK to the US to
UN Says Ukraine Forces Are to Blame For the Nursing Home Attack They Blamed on Russians
This image from Maxar Technologies shows a nursing home in the eastern region of Luhansk, Ukraine, on Oct. 13, 2021. (Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies via AP) By Richard Lardner and Beatrice Dupuy / The Associated Press This story is part of an ongoing
Journey to resilience
Share Tweet Print I came to the topic of Peak Oil in 2005 at a workshop given by Richard Heinberg in Palo Alto. The information had a profound affect on how I would view the future going forward. My partner and I began to incorporate what I had learned into
Biden’s Continuation of ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran
President Joe Biden talks on the phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia Wednesday, February 9, 2022, in the Oval Office of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Progressive Middle East watchers this week
Palestine Celebrates Eid Al-Adha with Sacrifice, Prayer and Family Time
As in numerous other mosques and open spaces, Palestinians performed Eid Al-Adha prayer in Sarada Square, in central Gaza.� Eid Al-Adha, along with Eid Al-Fitr, are the two major holidays celebrated
Former Angolan President Dos Santos Dies
After years of prolonged illness, the former president of Angola, José Eduardo Dos Santos, died on Friday in Barcelona, Spain at age 79. A controversial figure, Dos Santos will be missed by many Angolans who praised him as the architect of the peace
The Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle
Circle Internet Financial CEO Jeremy Allaire By Matt Taibbi / Substack Subscribers have noticed that it’s been quiet on this site for a while. This is because I spent much of the last month researching the #CryptoCrash, and the last week and a half engaged in
Blaming Palestinians: Italian Politician Attacks UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine in Parliament (VIDEO)
On July 6, the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Italian Parliament held an informal audit with Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation
Canadian Mining in Africa: Looting a Continent
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Massive telecom outage in Japan kicks 40 million mobile users offline
source: Google Images storyblocks.com Almost 40 million residents of Japan spent the weekend in The Time Before Smartphones after local telco KDDI Corp. experienced its biggest outage to date – affecting both voice calls and data communications. Luckily for
German Parliament Condemns Psychological Torture of Julian Assange
Alisdare Hickson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. By Peoples Dispatch In a historic vote on July 6, the German parliament voted in favour of a petition condemning “in the strongest possible terms the psychological
Monkeypox is not a global health emergency for now, WHO says?
Monkeypox is not yet a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization said June 25. The decision comes as the outbreak of the disease related to smallpox continues to spread, affecting at least 4,100 people in 46 countries as of June 24. That
Your Vibrator Can Now Update You On The Status Of Your Food Delivery
At some point in the future, the human race will arrive at an epoch where people will wonder how – back in the stone age of pre-2022 – we would get status alerts about our food deliveries, without having a dildo inside of us. Allow us to explain.
New Science Suggests Scents Matter to Humans as Much as to Dogs
The human nose is not usually considered an asset. Most humans are more concerned with how our noses look than how they function, unless, that is, we’re plagued with sinus infections or have lost our sense of smell due to COVID. While strange dogs will
Michael Crichton: science is not done by consensus
Renowned author and climate skeptic Michael Crichton said in 2003 there is no place for consensus in science, and he is absolutely right. You don’t do science by consensus. It isn’t a vote. Do a Google search for the term “global warming consensus”
No to NATO in Madrid
NATO Heads of Government at Madrid NATO Summit. By Ann Wright / Popular Resistance NATO’S Summit In Madrid And Lessons Of War At The City’s Museums. I was one of hundreds who attended the NO to NATO peace summit June 26-27, 2022 and one of tens of thousands
The Breakdown of Legitimacy: A Good and Necessary Thing
Image by Jesse Collins. By Gary Leupp / CounterPunch Last December Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the Supreme Court would retain its legitimacy if it overturned Roe v. Wade. “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates
Are We Being Set Up for Mass Depopulation?
How do you market and implement a financial system that nobody would want if they understood its full ramifications — a change so huge that it not only would mean the end of currency as we know it, but a total revision of sovereignty and individual rights? In
US Navy secretly designed super-fast futuristic ‘flying triangle’
I wanted to point out Columbia University also helped the Pilgrim Society, at the turn of the century, by corrupting physics and later controlling the U.S. patent officewhich you and Douglas have pointed out in previous AIM articles! Lt. Col. Thomas Bearden,
Imperial Narrative Control Has Five Distinct Elements
All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the
China’s Metaverse Dystopia: The $8 trillion market
The metaverse, that virtual world that teens everywhere are entering with a headset and hand controllers, could eventually pull in $8 trillion. That so enthralls Mark Zuckerberg that he changed the name of Facebook (the parent company) to Meta and is
human rights lawyer examines vax claims, studies, forced vaccines
The efforts to require every American to be injected with an experimental vaccine for Covid-19 are based on the false notion that vaccination will protect recipients from becoming infected with SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, or protect them from
Frozen baby mammoth discovered in Yukon excites Canada
A whole baby woolly mammoth has been found frozen in the permafrost of north-western Canada – the first such discovery in North America. The mummified ice age mammoth is thought to be more than 30,000 years old. It was found by gold miners in
Covid-19: Are NI’s young people resisting the vaccine?
“Get the jab, grab a poke”. It was a catchy slogan with a serious message about getting a Covid-19 vaccination, with a free ice-cream afterwards. But despite such incentives and pleas for younger people to get the jab, figures show the number of
Expert Claims China Ramping Up Forced Organ Harvesting From Uyghurs
New evidence has emerged pointing to the Chinese regime’s ongoing organ harvesting crimes, Ethan Gutmann, China studies research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, told the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 in Washington on June
Army Bases Shockingly Unprepared for Chemical, Biological Attacks
Last spring, a van arrived at an inspection station near one of the gates at Fort Eustis in Newport News, Virginia. Military police noticed what looked like chemicals inside and that passengers were “displaying signs of illness.” Soon first responders arrived,
BBC announces new documentary aimed at the vaccine hesitant
A few days ago, the BBC carried an article aimed at those few Brits who have chosen not to have a Covid vaccination, and announced a documentary to be aired later this month to try and change their minds It is not a long article, so I reproduce it infull,
CERN Confirms 2019 Discovery Of ‘Pentaquarks’
Scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have confirmed their discovery in March 2019 of three subatomic particles during Run 2, the European nuclear research centre CERN said on Tuesday. The 27 kilometer-long (16.8 mile) LHC at CERN is the
What The Molecules In The Atmosphere Tell Us About It And The GHGT
At different altitudes of the atmosphere different types of molecules exist. The altitude of different gases depends on the strength of the energy field, the energy of the molecules at that altitude, and the mass of the gas molecule. The atmosphere is held to
European Court Slams Greece Over Deadly Migrant Pushback
The European Court of Human Rights issued a historic ruling on July 7 concerning Greece’s illegal and life-threatening practice of pushing boats of asylum seekers back to Turkey. Eleven women and children, including infants, died off the Greek island of
