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Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc
Was that not what the War on Terror was about ?
Today things finally came full circle. It was Al-Qaeda that supposedly caused 9/11 and lead to the War on Terror but really War of Terror by the USA and lead directly to the deaths of millions through numerous wars in the Middle East.
And yet today the former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda, Al-Jolani was hosted in the White House by Trump. A surreal moment indeed.
In reality of course 9/11 was orchestrated by inside forces that wanted to launch the War of Terror and Al-Qaeda has been a wholly backed American tool ever since then.
Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark
That tree we got retained in 2007, is no more
2007
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2025
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Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc
A major study involving 1.7 million children has found that heart damage only appeared in children who had received Covid mRNA vaccines.
Not a single unvaccinated child in the group suffered from heart-related problems.
In addition, the researchers note zero children from the entire group, vaccinated or unvaccinated, died from COVID-19.
Furthermore, the study found that Covid shots offered the children very little protection from the virus, with many becoming infected after just 14 to 15 weeks of receiving an injection.
The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan
Disability Fine Lauder and Passive Income with Financial Gain as A Motive
Why not make money?
Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc
A comprehensive study by leading pediatric scientists has confirmed that the devastating surge in heart failure among children is caused by Covid mRNA shots.
The peer-reviewed study, published in the prestigious journal Med, was conducted by scientists at the University of Hong Kong.
The team, led by Dr. Hing Wai Tsang, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, uncovered evidence to confirm that Natural Killer (NK) cell activation by Covid mRNA injections causes the pathogenesis of acute myocarditis.
Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle that restricts the body?s ability to pump blood.
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Red White and Blueland Wed Jan 21, 2026 19:30 | James Alexander
Power politics is back. As Trump upends the post-war order by making a play for Greenland, the result, suggests Prof James Alexander, will be that countries will have to start being honest about what they really want.
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Trump Blasts Britain?s ?Catastrophic? North Sea Oil and Gas Curbs as He Stokes Feud With Starmer Wed Jan 21, 2026 18:19 | Will Jones
Donald Trump lashed out at Britain's "catastrophic" North Sea oil and gas curbs today in a speech at the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos as he stoked his mounting feud with Sir Keir Starmer.
The post Trump Blasts Britain’s “Catastrophic” North Sea Oil and Gas Curbs as He Stokes Feud With Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Miliband Orders Solar Panels on All New Homes and Blocks Gas Boilers Wed Jan 21, 2026 15:29 | Will Jones
Solar panels will be fitted on all new houses and gas boilers will be blocked in new homes under a sweeping ?15 billion green 'Warm Homes Plan' unveiled by Ed Miliband.
The post Miliband Orders Solar Panels on All New Homes and Blocks Gas Boilers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
We Shouldn?t Expect Historical Greats to Be 21st Century Role Models Wed Jan 21, 2026 13:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
The renaming frenzy that followed the 2020 BLM protests forgets one key lesson, says Dr Nicholas Tate: we shouldn't expect our historical greats to be 21st century role models. What they achieved for posterity is enough.
The post We Shouldn’t Expect Historical Greats to Be 21st Century Role Models appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Vitamin D Protects You From Flu, Oxford Scientists Find Wed Jan 21, 2026 11:00 | Will Jones
Getting enough vitamin D really can help to protect you against the flu, a study by Oxford scientists has found, with people with severe vitamin D deficiency 33% more likely to be admitted to hospital.
The post Vitamin D Protects You From Flu, Oxford Scientists Find appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5We are very pleased to see that the Green Party has a veggie option on the menu for its Grand Ball and that it has the sensitivity to alert possible attendees of the conference to the unsavoury duck down pillows provided by the Lord Bagenal Hotel . The Greens have come under fire from some quarters recently , but surely deserve congratulations on their ethical consistency in this regard .
My brother John and I have decided to write to the management of the Lord Bagenall Hotel requesting that they stop the use of duck down pillows in their bedrooms . We had originally intended to ask the Lord Bagenall to provide guests with the option of non-animal based pillows but decided that such a course of action would be something of a moral cop out . It would be more ethical if the hotel stopped the use of duck down altogether : duck feathers normally come from slaughtered, factory farmed birds.
Can I say that apart from these ethical considerations - which are of course primary - synthetic materials are very advanced nowadays and are often warmer, lighter and less allergenic than goose or duck down products. We would urge anybody booking into the hotel for the conference weekend to bring the issue of animal abuse to the attention of the management .
Something for ball attendees to chew on while chewing the five course meal (veggie option or not)
From Green Party Manifesto 2007
"Education - Invest €1 billion in education for the first year of the next Government to front-load educational priorities. Provide 2,400 extra teachers at primary and secondary levels."
Now exactly how does getting rid of 2,000 posts at primary and second level assist in fulfilling this promise?
I would have thought it more beneficial that the Green Party examine what's going on in their heads, rather than what they lay their head on??
Sheeps wool filling in pillows would be preferable to synthetic material, which during manufacture damages the air that we breathe.
At least then the Green Party folk would then have the excuse of following FF like sheep to the slaughter ;-)
We cannot allow Michael Hogan's post to go unanswered .Michael would appear to be labouring under a popularly held misconception regarding wool production – that sheep need humans to shear them - and that pillows made from sheeps' wool are therefore more acceptable to those made from duck down. In fact the woollen industry purposely breeds sheep so as to maximize their wool yield just as in the dairy industry cows are raised to yield maximum quantities of milk without regard for the suffering of the animals .The breeding for wool is anything but benign . Merino sheep for instance , as a consequence of being bred to have wrinkles in their skin so as to yield large quantities of wool , suffer painful maggot infestation . Sheep farmers counter this by a practice known as “mulesing” -cutting large chunks of the sheep’s flesh off without any anaesthetics.
Green Party delegates staying overnight at the Lord Bagenall Hotel should therefore be urged to reject any proposal to replace duck down pillows with pillows made from sheeps’ wool first and foremost on animal rights grounds . But there are also sound environmental reasons to opt for pillows that are not made from wool . Methane emissions from sheep contribute significantly to the output of greenhouse gases . Australia's livestock herds -23 million cows and 170 million sheep - discharge more than three million tons of methane a year, accounting for 14 per cent of the country’s output of greenhouse gases.