Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

This week, it was announced that a startup called Compass Pathways has received approval from The Food and Drug Administration to develop treatments for depression, and possibly even pharmaceuticals, with psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic “magic mushrooms.”

Compass Pathways launched in the UK in 2016, thanks to funding from Peter Thiel. While the company is just now receiving approval to run trials in the US, they were already approved in Canada, the Netherlands and their base of operations in the UK.   Continue reading “The FDA Just Approved PayPal Founder’s Project to Use Magic Mushrooms to Treat Depression”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico agreed on Monday to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), putting pressure on Canada to agree to the new terms on auto trade and other issues to remain part of the three-nation pact.

U.S. President Donald Trump and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said talks with Canada would begin immediately, though Trump threatened he could put tariffs on Canadian-made cars if a three-way deal could not be reached.   Continue reading “U.S., Mexico reach NAFTA deal; pressure turns to Canada”

RT

An embarrassing scandal has hit Paraguayan police after it emerged that 42 rifles held in storage were actually toys. Officers have also ‘lost’ some 90 handguns since the start of the year, it emerged.

The rifle issue came to light last week, when the police admitted that at least 42 FN FAL rifles went missing from its armory in the city of Capiatá. The rifles has been held in storage as they were replaced with new models of smaller caliber. The stolen weapons were still operational.   Continue reading “Paraguay’s police rifles replaced with replicas by thieves”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Update: The gunman who opened fire during a Madden 19 video game tournament in Jacksonville, leading four dead including the suspect, has been identified as 24-year-old David Katz, the Inquisitr reports.   Continue reading “Gunman In Jacksonville Mass Shooting That Left 4 Dead Has Been Identified”

RT

“Foreign specialists” have arrived in Syria and may stage a chemical attack using chlorine in “the next two days,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. This will be filmed for international media to frame Damascus forces.

Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said the operation is planned to unfold in the village of Kafr Zita in Syria’s northwestern Hama Province in “the next two days.”   Continue reading “‘Foreign specialists’ may stage chemical attack in Syria in 2 days to frame Assad – Russian MoD”

Medium – by Caitlin Johnstone

In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a comatose state. They live their whole lives in that virtual simulation, without any way of knowing that what they appear to be experiencing with their senses is actually made of AI-generated code.   Continue reading “Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix.”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Arlington, VA — Daniel McAdams, Executive Director at Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, was travelling back from the institute’s recent conference in Washington when he and his family were targeted by Transportation Security Administration officials at a TSA checkpoint and subjected to horrific treatment—up to and including his 13-year-old daughter’s sexual assault.

McAdams noted that he got the entire horrifying scene on video.   Continue reading “TSA Molests 13-Year-Old Girl, Then Calls the Police When Parents Object”

Reason  – by Robby Soave

Paul Welch is not a fascist. He is a liberal who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, and for Hillary Clinton in the general election. On August 4, he attended a far-right rally in Portland, Oregon, as a counterdemonstrator intent on signaling his opposition to the “tacitly fascist event,” he told The Oregonian.

Tell that to Antifa: One of the masked militants attacked Welch, striking him over and over again with some kind of metal rod concealed in black cloth. One blow landed on his head, which caused Welch to immediately crumple to the ground. He would eventually need four staples to close up the gaping wound.   Continue reading “This Liberal Carried an American Flag to Protest Fascism in Portland. Antifa Cracked His Head Open With a Bat.”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

Google claims 39 YouTube channels were connected to Iran and part of a covert Iranian-backed operation to spread propaganda to U.S. viewers and 49 were part of a Russian-backed operation to spread disinfo, PC MAG reported.

According to PC MAG, the propaganda campaign disguised itself by pretending to be several independent media websites, one of which was called the Liberty Front Press.  Continue reading “Google Bans 39 YouTube Channels For Ties To Iran; Facebook and Twitter Ban Accounts”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is cutting more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department said on Friday, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadership.

A senior State Department official said without elaborating that the funds, originally planned for programs in the West Bank and Gaza, would address “high-priority projects elsewhere.”   Continue reading “Trump cuts more than $200 million in U.S. aid to Palestinians”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

Atlanta, GA — Alphonso Carey is not a criminal. In fact, he is the antithesis of a bad person and has worked and served his community for years, and was even honored by the city for his service. However, this 66-year-old grandfather’s dedication to the community was of no consequence to police in South Fulton, Georgia who were seen on video violently attacking him this week.

Carey owns Carey’s Center for Mathematics which tutors children in the Atlanta area in math and has been operating for over 22 years. He has no criminal record.   Continue reading “Cop Body Slams Grandfather After He Asked Him to Stop Roughing Up a Young Girl”

Breitbart – by John Hayward

The Vostok 2018 military exercise in eastern Russia was already billed as Russia’s largest war game since 1981. China’s Defense Ministry announced on Thursday it will send 3,200 troops from the People’s Liberation Army to join over 100,000 Russians in exercises from September 11 to 15.

The Chinese troops will bring at least 900 tanks and 30 aircraft with them. If Russia’s boast of the biggest exercise since the Cold War is accurate, over 1,500 Russian tanks and 120 aircraft will be involved.   Continue reading “Chinese Troops Join Russia’s Biggest Military Exercise Since the Cold War”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The former head of the Centers for Disease Control, Tom Frieden, has been arrested over allegations of “forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment,” reports CNBC. Frieden headed the CDC between 2009 and 2017, resigning the day of President Trump’s inauguration.

NYPD officers from Brooklyn’s special victims division arrested Frieden on Friday morning. He is expected in court later in the day. –CNBC

Continue reading “Ex-CDC Head Tom Frieden Arrested, Charged With Forcible Touching, Sex Abuse And Harassment”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain, the maverick Republican who survived a Vietnam War prison camp and ran unsuccessfully for president, is discontinuing medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, his family said in a statement on Friday, a year after he announced his diagnosis.

“John has surpassed expectations for his survival,” the family said, adding that the disease’s progression and McCain’s age, 81, have led him to stop treatment for the “aggressive glioblastoma.”   Continue reading “Republican Senator McCain ending medical treatment for brain cancer”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Here we go again. Did Bolton just give jihadists facing imminent final defeat under Assad and Russian bombs an open door invitation to initiate a chemical provocation?

As CNN and others warned this week that Syrian and Russian forces are closing in on the “last rebel stronghold” in Syria in the country’s northwest pocket of Idlib province, US National Security Advisor put Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on notice, saying the United States would respond “very strongly” if pro-government forces use chemical weapons in their campaign to retake Idlib.    Continue reading “Bolton Again Warns Assad “We Will Respond” If Chemical Weapons Used In Idlib Offensive”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

A former police detective, and author of a bombshell book that exposed a massive pedophile ring made up of high-level government officials was found shot in the head last week. While officials are calling it an apparent suicide, his family is claiming that he told them he would never kill himself and that people were after him because he was about to expose even more high-level government pedophilia.   Continue reading “Detective Publishes Book Exposing High-Level Gov’t Pedophile Ring, Shot in the Head Days Later”

The Conscience Resistance – by Derrick Broze

Donald Trump recently made it clear he will not accept any limitations on the U.S. military’s logistical support of the war in Yemen.

On August 13, Donald Trump did what every president does, every single year, without question – he signed the annual military budget bill, the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019. Some readers may recall that since 2011, the NDAA has included a provision which allows for indefinite detention of American citizens without a right to trial. Many of you may remember that President Obama had no problem signing the NDAA 2012 in 2011, which legalized the indefinite detention of American citizens suspected of ties to terrorism. The indefinite detention provision is still contained in the NDAA, and has been approved by Congress every year since it first passed.   Continue reading “Donald Trump’s Signing of the 2019 NDAA Will Lead to More Dead Yemeni Children”

Reuters

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The number of U.S. lawsuits brought against Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE) newly acquired Monsanto has jumped to about 8,000, as the German drugmaker braces for years of legal wrangling over alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers.

Bayer had previously disclosed 5,200 such lawsuits against Monsanto, which it acquired in a $63 billion deal completed in June.   Continue reading “Bayer’s Monsanto faces 8,000 lawsuits on glyphosate”

Anti-Media

Prisoners in 17 states across the country started a two-week strike Tuesday, calling for an end to “modern slavery.” Prisoners will abstain from going to work at their jobs, halt commissary spending, engage in sit-ins, and refuse to eat.

The main reason for the strike was an April prison riot at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina that left seven inmates dead and a dozen more injured. The strike launched Tuesday was planned for next year, but following the violent incident, Lee prisoners wanted to take more immediate action.   Continue reading “American Inmates Stage Nationwide Prison Labor Strike over ‘Modern Slavery’”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

At DEFCON 26, the world’s largest hacking convention that recently took place in Las Vegas, an 11-year-old boy managed to hack a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results in less than 10 minutes. Organizers of the event said that at least 30 children were able to hack similar replica websites in under a half hour, including an 11-year-old girl who completed the job in just under 15 minutes.

One of the attractions of the event was the “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” which allowed kids as young as 8 to take a shot at stealing a simulated election.   Continue reading “The State of Democracy: 11-Year-Old Hacks A State Election Replica Website in Just 10 Minutes”