Shake rattle and roll in Rome: the Vatican crumbles as the clown prince grabs the party hat
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie The reigning pope becomes the first in 600 years to hand back the Red Velvet Slippers (“I don’t think we’re in the Vatican any more Toto”). The Lateran State seethes with omens and portents that his successor will be black and call himself Peter the Second, [...]
Italy’s Tea Party makes the breakthrough
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie The Italians have predictably come in for a right old drubbing from the global corporate media for their refusal to vote in the correct fashion in this week’s general election. They are mocked for flocking in droves to an outfit run by a comedian. Most people [...]
Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives gives truly unbelievable speech
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the People’s Party Laurent Louis gives one of the single most unbelievable speeches I’ve ever heard from a politician. The speech, which clocks in just under 14 minutes and was translated into English by Geraldine Feuillien, leaves no stone [...]
Glasgow to become UK’s first ‘smart city,’ will include facial recognition-enabled surveillance cameras
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Glasgow, Scotland is slated to become the first “smart city” in the United Kingdom after receiving a £24 million grant from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) which will result in wonderful benefits like facial recognition for the city’s network of surveillance cameras. Some of the initiatives [...]
Desperate Dave’s throw of the dice: an EU referendum – to save himself
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie If you read the general reaction in the UK media to David Cameron’s famous speech concerning the UK’s future relationship with the EU, then you might think it pushes Churchill’s famous wartime ‘we’ll fight them on the beaches’ exhortation aimed at Hitler’s hordes into the shade. [...]
Comic Opera: Europe’s 3rd largest economy goes to the polls
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie It’s carnival time in Italy. With spring twinkling over the horizon, hearts beat faster and people dress up in flamboyant costumes straight out of 18th century Venice. It’s the perfect time then to stage a comic opera. It is called – drum roll please – the [...]
What goes around comes around: Gladio awakens in Greece
By Richard Cottrell Contributing writer for End the Lie Bombs in the shadow of the Parthenon, a popular opposition leader attacked because he is ‘soft’ on terrorism, the State Department – that renowned hero of Benghazi Gate – issuing statements on political terrorism as a means to wreck democracy. Note: be sure to check out [...]
Europe successfully tests its first stealth killer drone, ‘nEUROn’
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie The first European stealth drone built for combat, dubbed the Neuron or “nEUROn,” made its maiden voyage from Istres, France on Dec. 1. The nEUROn is a technology demonstrator for a European Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) and represents just one of the many ways in which [...]
Facial recognition-based border control system in Netherlands to process millionth passenger by end of year
By Madison Ruppert Editor of End the Lie Readers of End the Lie are likely well aware of the rapid growth of the use of biometrics. Everything from facial recognition (with increasingly fast recognition systems) to pedo-biometrics to remote biometrics to soft biometrics to voice recognition and centralized government databases are on the rise. While [...]
