CATALAN independence leader Carles Puigdemont was blocked entering the European Parliament despite being elected as an MEP last weekend. Mr Puigdemont, who fled Spain in 2017 to escape charges related to the Catalonian independence referendum deemed illegal by Spanish courts, complained he was being prevented from entering the Brussels-based institution yesterday. The MEP-elect has been …[continue reading]
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The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil “sustainable”. Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons of palm oil that end up in European fuel tanks every year. Tell EU legislators to put an end to …[continue reading]
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France just took an unprecedented step to protect bees by passing a total ban on bee-killing neonics. But a new harmful insecticide is being shoved into EU states and it could prove just as toxic as neonics. Developed by Bayer, “flupyradifurone” is a chemical cousin to the neonics linked to the mass die-off of …[continue reading]
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‘The Freedom of Information Act is dead’: High Court rules against Information Commissioner in UCC finding
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A DECISION BY the Information Commissioner ordering University College Cork (UCC) to release records under Freedom of Information has been overturned by the High Court. The judgement was made after UCC challenged a decision by the Commissioner in 2018 that the university must disclose details of a loan provided to it by the European Investment Bank (EIB) …[continue reading]
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Journalist Shane Dowling has been jailed for exposing paedophile judges and judicial bribery
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Australian journalist Shane Dowling has been jailed for publishing articles exposing paedophile judges and judges taking bribes. The exact charge against Mr Dowling is contempt of court because he repeated in court on the 3rd of February 2017 part of an article he had published and also for publishing an article about the contempt proceedings …[continue reading]
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Generally speaking, when we see lawsuits filed and court cases active, we expect them to be for relatively recent issues fresh on people’s minds – or at least, issues that are recollectable to individuals living today and not something that occurred well over 70 years ago. That being said, the Rockefeller Foundation is currently facing …[continue reading]
The Truth Factory suspects that something deeper is afoot with the recent de-platforming and demonetization of numerous accounts belonging to Conservative pundits on Facebook. She takes a look at the history of Facebook to find out what is going on. She reminds us of a DARPA project called LifeLog, which tracked users’ browsing, chat and banking histories – plus the …[continue reading]
Tim Pool has an excellent podcast on YouTube and he’s found a new niche as a Left-of-Center journalist who’s appalled at the unhinged radicalization of the Left in the US. Lately, he’s been reporting on how journalism has been invaded and killed by what he calls “fringe activists” and that the data proves it. He says, …[continue reading]
Are stupid people too stupid to realize that they are stupid? This question has been asked for thousands of years but only in the past decade or so has it been answered scientifically. Winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, Dunning and Kruger showed that – yes – there is something to this age-old question. EMBED …[continue reading]
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Minnesota’s Legislature just approved a spending plan that would set aside $900,000 over one year to assist homeowners in turning their lawns into bee-friendly habitats. That’s right—the state of Minnesota wants to pay residents to make their lawns better for bees. The plan aims to replenish the food source of the rusty patched bumble bee—a fuzzy and …[continue reading]