THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
Nice, France: Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was shot and killed by police after driving a delivery truck through a crowd, killing more than 80 people who were celebrating Bastille Day. He was well-known to French police as a criminal from Tunisia who previously had used weapons in violent attacks. According to early reports, there is no indication that he was connected to ISIS or any other terrorist organization. ZeroHedge 2016 Jul 15 (Story) (Cached)
Breaking news: An attempted coup d’etat (they are calling it an uprising) is underway in Turkey. The military is attempting to oust President Tayyip Erdogan, but the US State Department says it will back Erdogan because he is the democratically elected leader, despite his failure to uphold democratic values, such as his recent crackdown on critics and journalists. [The bottom line is that Tayyip is a proven asset of the US government and likely will be supported for that reason alone.] CBS 2016 Jul 15 (Story)
The US House of Representatives passed the bill, previously passed by the Senate, that denies states the right to require GMO food labeling by declaring that this is an area for exclusive federal regulation. The bill allows (but does not require) businesses to use a smartphone scannable QR code instead of concise wording that informs consumers if a product contains genetically modified ingredients. Obama is expected to sign the bill. EcoWatch 2016 Jul 14 (Story) (Cached)
A workshop is being given to prepare protestors to take video recordings and resist arrest at the upcoming Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia. AP 2016 Jul 14 (Story)
California: The Fresno Police Department released footage of officers shooting Dylan Noble, who was unarmed but did not follow orders. VideoSPTV 2016 Jul 14 (Story)
New Jersey commodities trader Michael Coscia, used an algorithm to execute, and then cancel, milliseconds-fast orders to manipulate the market. He was sentenced to three years in prison for the trading tactic known as “spoofing.” Prosecutors said they hope the case will be a game-changer in the world of high frequency trading. Chicago Sun-Times 2016 Jul 13 (Story) (Cached)
Obama plans to send 1,000 US soldiers to Poland to serve with the Polish military. The White House said that there will be an increase in NATO and US personnel and that they will have the most modern military equipment. Gary Franchi observes that these troops will be right on the Russian border and will be bait for the next world war. Next News Network 2016 Jul 13 (Story)
Deray McKesson, a Black Lives Matter leader and agitator, lives in a home owned by a member of the board of the Open Society Institute, a radical group controlled by George Soros. Soros spent $33 million on the racial protests in Ferguson. McKesson was given a job with the Baltimore school district with a $165,000 salary. American Mirror 2016 Jul 13 (Story) (Cached)
The FAA is imposing no-fly zones to ban flights closer than 34 miles around the Republican National Convention and the Democrat National Convention. CBS News 2016 Jul 13 (Story)
‘Pokemon Go’ is a new free-download gaming app for smart phones. The augmented reality game utilizes the cameras, GPS, and clocks on users’ phones. Players photograph their surroundings while chasing a cartoon character through real-world environments. Sounds like fun, but Nintendo receives permission to disclose information about players to the government if they do anything that appears suspicious. The game was developed by Niantic Labs, which created Google maps, and was funded by the CIA. Corbett Report 2016 Jul 13 (Story) (Cached)
China’s middle class experienced a 70% growth of income between 1988 and 2008, known as the ‘Asian Miracle’. During this same period, the middle class in the US and in other developed countries experienced no growth at all or, in some cases, negative growth. This is partly because the Chinese standard of living still has a long way to go to catch up with developed countries, but it also is a result of Globalist trade treaties that have given China a trade advantage in recent years. CNN posted 2016 Jul 13 (Story) (Cached)
Joshua Brown was killed when his Tesla drove into a tractor trailer while in self-driving mode. Neither Tesla nor the government told anyone about it for two months – until after the Tesla corporation completed a $2-billion public offering just days after the crash. RT 2016 Jul 12 (Story)
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed a bill that will keep police body and dashboard camera footage secret from the public. He says that technology can be misleading. ABC 2016 Jul 12 (Story) (Cached)
Indianapolis, Indiana: March Eugene Ratney, wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, fired 17 shots at a police officer’s home while screaming profanities against police. He was recently released from a 12-year prison sentence for a violent crime, after serving only half of the time. The officer and his family were not injured. Fox 59 News 2016 Jul 12 (Story)
An estimated 35,000 desperate Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia, when it was temporarily opened for 12 hours, to buy food and medicines. There is no end in sight for these shortages. Euro News 2016 Jul 11 (Story)
Germany: Police documents show that an estimated 1,200 German women were sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve and that more than 2,000 men were involved in the crime wave. Only 120 suspects, most of them foreign nationals, have been identified. [We cannot help but think that, if it were legal for citizens to carry firearms in Germany, few, if any, of these attacks would have occurred.] Fox News 2016 Jul 11 (Story) (Cached)
The US Agriculture Department reports that illegal-alien households are receiving $1.4 to $2.1 billion a year from the federal food-stamp program. The program has grown exponentially since it was created, and nearly 47-million people use it today. Washington Examiner 2015 Jul 11 (Story) (Cached)
Black demonstrations against white police erupt into violence across the Midwest. A man was shot to death in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota. Rioters confronted police with bottles, rocks and Molotov cocktails. Protesters blocked Interstate 94 for five hours. RT 2016 Jul 10 (Story)
Thousands of mostly peaceful protesters took to the streets of cities across America to denounce the police shooting of two black men last week. Demonstrators clogged roadways in New York City, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. Events in San Francisco and Phoenix also drew large crowds. Police used pepper spray on protesters in Phoenix. Zerohedge 2016 Jul 9 (Story) (Cached)
The US government awarded over 1,000 permits for offshore fracking in the same area where the BP Oil spilled in the Gulf. The Center for Biological Diversity says that 76 billion gallons of toxic chemical-laden wastewater has been dumped into the sea since 2010. The permits were granted without any environmental analysis or oversight, and most of the chemicals used are a secret. RT posted 2016 Jul 9 (Story)
Black Lives Matter (BLM) leader DeRay McKesson says that someone hacked into his phone last month. Private conversations between McKesson and Johnetta Elzie, another Black Lives Matter leader, reveal that the two are conspiring to cause the declaration of martial law through disruptive protests at the upcoming Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. The messages suggest that the plan is supported by US Attorney General Loretta Lynch. [McKesson denies that he wrote the messages and or that he is planning the ‘Summer of Chaos’.] Dollar Vigilante 2016 Jul 9 (Story)
A study from the Salk Institute shows that the psychoactive component of Marijuana removes the plaque buildup on brain neurons associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. PopSci posted 2016 Jul 9 (Story) (Cached)
Hours before the attack by Micah Johnson who killed five policemen in Dallas, Lakeem Keon Scott, another black former Army soldier, shot indiscriminately at passing cars and police on a Tennessee highway in the town of Bristol. Scott killed a woman and injured three more (all of the victims were white). Witnesses heard him yelling, “Police suck! Black lives matter!” [Ignore the video in this story. The information is found only in the text.] CNN 2016 Jul 8 (Story) (Cached)