WEEK IN REVIEW
Florida: Esteban Santiago has been identified by his military ID as the shooter at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport. He has been arrested for killing five people. The sheriff and the mayor say that he acted alone, which is a strange thing to say so quickly after the event with no investigation. ABC Local 2017 Jan 6 (Story) (Cached)
Mexico: Protests and looting fueled by anger over a 20% increase in gasoline prices have led to four deaths, the ransacking of at least 300 stores, and the arrests of more than 700 people. The rise in gas price was the result of the government’s deregulation of energy prices, which means they no longer will be subsidized by taxes. A gallon of gas now costs just under $4, which is approximately equal to the minimum wage for a day’s work. NY Post 2017 Jan 6 (Story) (Cached)
US: Senator Rand Paul and Representative Thomas Massie introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve. President-elect Trump has expressed support for the bill. Similar bills in the past have received endorsements for popular approval but few actual votes. Critics of the Fed are hopeful that it will be different this time. Townhall 2017 Jan 5 (Story) (Cached)
Bowie County, Texas: A 74-year-old grandmother had just sat down in her living room to watch the evening news when, suddenly, she was face-to-face with an intruder pointing a gun at her. Much to his surprise, she picked up a pistol of her own and pointed it straight at him. Result? The intruder fled. [Question: Does possession of a gun by peaceful citizens increase or decrease crime? Does it cause an increase or decrease in killing? Answer: The only thing more dangerous than having a gun is not having a gun.] ABC News 2017 Jan 4 (Story)
Ford Motor Company cancelled plans to build a new $1.6-billion auto manufacturing plant in Mexico, a decision that was influenced by Trump. Mexico’s peso dropped 1% on the news. (NAFTA). AP 2017 Jan 4 (Story) (Cached)
US: Defense Secretary Ash Carter presented his boss, President Obama, with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Critics observe that this really is a matter of Obama presenting the medal to himself. Brietbart 2017 Jan 4 (Story) (Cached)
Eric Holder lands a new job – opposing Trump’s policies in California. Before Trump has even entered office, the California state legislature hired former US Attorney General, Eric Holder, to advise on legal strategies to block the new president on issues that include climate change, immigration, women’s and civil rights, and the environment. Hot Air 2017 Jan 4 (Story) (Cached)
Chicago: A mentally challenged white man was kidnapped and tortured by four black youths who live-streamed their acts of violence over the Internet. When this story first aired, reporters refused to identify the race of the criminals. The four, who all are 18-years-old, made derogatory racial comments against white people and Donald Trump. Chicago police declined to identify this as a hate crime because of political correctness. Fox News 2017 Jan 4 (Story)
Chicago ended the year with 762 murders, the highest number since 1997. The cause of the increase is linked to a drop in Chicago policing activity due to an anti-police sentiment within the population. particularly in minority communities. Chicago police have cut back on the ‘stop and frisk’ policy by 80% because of threat of lawsuits by the ACLU. Independent Journal Review 2017 Jan 3 (Story) (Cached)
US: On the first order of business on the first day of the new GOP controlled Congress, the GOP revealed its ‘business-as-usual’ mindset by trying to gut the ethics committee that oversees their activities. Trump immediately called them on it with a tweet, which caused them to hold an emergency meeting and drop the proposal. Trump’s quick response is seen as a hopeful sign that he will oppose corruption, no matter which party is engaged in it. InfoWars 2017 Jan 3 (Story)
 Aberdeen, South Dakota: A Somalian refugee, Liban Mohamed, was tried and convicted for attempting to sexually assault a special-needs woman while she was sitting outside of a home for the disabled. The local news is keeping this story quiet because local residents oppose their town becoming a migrant resettlement site. WND 2017 Jan 3 (Story) (Cached)
Turkey: ISIS claimed responsibility for a massacre at a New Year party in a trendy nightclub in which a gunman killed 39 people, mostly Muslims, according to the report. An American, Jacob Raak, who sustained a minor injury, said that “these crazy people came in shooting everything”. Despite that statement, the incident is being treated as a lone-gunman attack. Hot Air 2017 Jan 2 (Story) (Cached)
A new study from Italy shows that more than 90,000 Christians were murdered in 2016 because of their religion. Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. Breitbart 2017 Jan 1 (Story) (Cached)
Taxpayers in Denmark are outraged over 36 welfare recipients who have collected $93,760 in unemployment benefits while fighting for ISIS in Syria. RT 2016 Dec 31 (Story)
Hackers, identifying themselves as HackBack and Anonymous, broke into the website of the Bilderberg Club and replaced their front page with a warning to the elitists, telling them they have a year to work for the benefit of humanity, or their assets will be hacked next. [Unfortunately, the hackers did not define “the benefit of humanity” and do not realize  that the Bilderbergers think that is what they are doing – according to their own definition.] RT 2016 Dec 31 (Story) (Cached)
Sweden: Five Afghani refugees filmed themselves raping and beating an underage Swedish boy, yet they received light sentences because of their youth, based on their unsubstantiated claim to be minors. The court is allowing them to stay in Sweden instead of deporting them, because their homeland is ‘too dangerous.’ Express 2016 Dec 30 (Story) (Cached)