WEEK IN REVIEW
WEEK IN REVIEW
Netherlands: Geert Wilders, a popular nationalist candidate for Prime Minister, was convicted on Friday of inciting discrimination by saying the Netherlands would be safer with fewer Moroccan migrants. In a speech, he criticized judges for being out of touch with reality and for restricting his speech, which represents the view of millions of Dutch people. InfoWars 2016 Dec 9 (Story)
US: The EPA gave the green light to creeping bentgrass that is genetically engineered to be resistant to Monsanto’s RoudUp Ready pesticide. In addition, the USDA, under pressure from Monsanto, is relinquishing its authority over creeping bentgrass that already is crowding out native plants and the wildlife that depends on them. EcoWatch 2016 Dec 9 (Story) (Cached)
James Corbett and James Evan Pilato report on new legislation in the UK, the Investigatory Powers Act, also known as the Snooper’s Charter. This law flatly gives the state the right to lie in court, including the right to lie about the source of its information. This deprives defendants of the right to a fair trial, because it denies them the right to cross-examine the witnesses against them. They also show the close parallel to laws already on the books in the US. Corbett Report 2016 Dec 8 (Story)
Documents from Deutsche Bank are the smoking-gun evidence that some of the biggest banks in the world have rigged silver prices to defraud investors. The banks incriminated in these documents are Deutshe, UBS, BNP Paribas Fortis, HSBC, Standard Chartered, and Scotiabank, ZeroHedge 2016 Dec 8 (Story) (Cached)
A new toothpaste, expected to be on the market within a year, is said to fix cracks in teeth and restore enamel. It is made of crystalline calcium phosphate, which mimics the natural enamel of teeth and has been shown to be as sturdy as metal, but without the risk of mercury alloy. NaaturalNews 2016 Dec 7 (Story) (Cached)
US: Former Green Party candidate, Jill Stein, demanded a vote recount in three states that Trump won in the election, claiming that the vote count was rigged. She was right, but the rigging was in favor of Democrats. Votes for Hillary were counted more than once and, in one Detroit precinct, a ballot box holding only 50 paper ballots was recorded as containing 306 ballots. Gateway Pundit 2016 Dec 7 (Story) (Cached)
The EUs has levied $520-million in fines on three major banks, Credit Agricole, HSBC, and JP Morgan Chase. This is for rigging the Euribor interest-rate for derivatives, and other financial instruments, in breach of antitrust rules. [As usual, there is no mention of any fines or imprisonment for the bank executives who orchestrated the fraud. They will receive bonuses, while the fines will be paid by the stockholders of the banks. The government will receive a tidy bit of change to fatten their coffers – or possibly even to give back to the banks later on in the form of a bailout. The public thinks the banks are being punished, but nothing could be further from the truth. It’s a game that has been going on for decades.] AFP 2016 Dec 7 (Story)
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France decomposing before our eyes: Civil war is brewing as violent gangs attack hospitals, schools, people in the streets, and even the police. It is clear that the gangs are led by organizers who seek to topple the government. ZeroHedge 2016 Dec 6 (Story) (Cached)
A study commissioned by the US Department of Defense concluded that the military budget included $125-billion in bureaucratic waste. The study was suppressed, however, because it contradicted the Pentagon’s complaint that the military was being deprived of necessary financing. Reason 2016 Dec 6 (Story) (Cached)
Germany has publicly admitted, after years of denial, that Ramstein Air Base is being used by the US Air Force as the command center for drone strikes around the world. More than 50,000 personnel are stationed there. RT 2016 Dec 6 (Story)
The Dakota Access Pipeline project was halted by the Army Corps of Engineers, but Donald Trump supports the project and may be able to reverse that action. Trump is invested in the company that is building the pipeline but says this does not affect his conviction that new energy sources are a top priority for America. He does not have that conviction because he is invested in the project. He is invested in the project because he has that conviction. Reuters 2016 Dec 5 (Story)
The Adobe software company has created a program that can manipulate voice recordings to seamlessly add or subtract words in order to alter the meaning. It has been compared to their product, Photoshop, but for voices. InfoWars 2016 Dec 5 (Story)
Germany: Citizens protested in anger when Germany’s longest–running TV news program refused to report on the arrest of an Afghan migrant over the rape and murder of Maria Ladenberger, a 19-year-old medical student. Her father is a senior EU official in Brussels. The news agency said that the story was not newsworthy because it was ‘too regional’ – despite making headlines around the world. Express UK 2016 Dec 5 (Story) (Cached)
Monsanto and Novozymes A/S, a Danish company, are collaborating on developing a genetically modified fungus that will coat corn seeds. They claim it will increase corn yields. The coating is said to be ‘compatible’ with other chemicals, such as fertilizers and pesticides. [Does anyone outside of politics still believe anything GMO companies say about benefits and safety? We don’t.] Bloomberg 2016 Dec 5 (Story) (Cached)
US Congressman, Keith Ellison, African-American Muslim, was slated to be the leader of the Democratic National Committee, but he now is in disfavor with the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. He said that Israel, with a population of 7-million people, controls the foreign policy of the US with a population of 350-million and that Israel uses the US as an ATM machine because it receives the most welfare from US taxpayers. It’s not that he thinks exploiting the American people is wrong, only that it is Israel doing it. He argued that Muslims could do the same thing if only they would unite and use the Israeli model. The Intercept 2016 Dec 4 (Story) (Cached)
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The US Senate passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which classifies criticism of the Israel government as anti-Semitism. The bill also outlaws questioning either the Holocaust or the virtue of Israeli wars. Mondoweiss posted 2016 Dec 4 (Story) (Cached)
