THIS WEEK IN REVIEW

US: There is a media blackout on an angry speech by Russian President Putin delivered to representatives of Western media firms. He warned that the US and Europe are escalating tensions that, if continued, will end in nuclear war. He criticized Western media for remaining silent about NATO putting missiles on Russia’s borders, the overthrow of Ukraine by the West, the West funding of radical Islam, and the destabilization of the Middle East. [Putin is not our hero. In fact, the Russian press is just as committed to support Russia’s ruling elite as the Western media is committed to support its own. Nevertheless, it is our view that, because his warnings are credible and deadly serious, they should be reported.] InfoWars 2016 Jul 7 (Story)

UK: Families of dead soldiers react to the Chilcot Report with deep sadness, anger after the lies that pushed Britain into the Iraq War were revealed. Many have named Tony Blair as a terrorist who should face charges. ODN 2016 Jul 6 (Story)

UK: In response to the Chilcot Report on the political deception that led to the Iraq War, Jeremy Corbyn, the current leader of UK’s Labour Party, apologized to the citizens of Iraq, the British soldiers who fought and died in Iraq, and the British people who were betrayed. He then pledged to follow international law in the future and to respect the authority of the United Nations. [What he failed to mention is that the War in Iraq was in accordance with international law and did, indeed, respect the authority of the UN, even though it was primarily a US/UK mission. He did not suggest punishment for those who committed this crime, which would include former Prime Minister Tony Blair from his own Labour Party. His message was: now that we have said how sorry we are, you can trust us as before.] ODN 2016 Jul 6 (Story)

FBI Director James Comey announced that Hillary Clinton will not be charged for exchanging classified material via emails on her home server. Investigative reporter Wayne Madsen says that Israel was involved in the email sharing, which may be yet another reason prosecution was not pursued. Chelsea (Bradley) Manning, the soldier who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking documents to Wikileaks about the Iraq War, tried to commit suicide the day after Hillary was spared. InfoWars 2016 Jul 6 (Story)

The International Monetary Fund says that Deutsche Bank is the most dangerous bank in the world and could bring the entire financial system crashing down. Its shares have fallen nearly 70% in the past year. BBC News 2016 Jul 6 (Story) (Cached)

Italy: Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says Deutsche Bank is the real cause of the “derivative problem” facing Europe. Deutsche Bank has bet $75 trillion on derivatives, which is 20 times higher than Germany’s GDP, and is nearly the same amount as the entire GWP (global world production). Renzi says that bad-loan problems in Italian banks are minuscule compared to the derivatives problems, which are one-hundred times greater. Public anger will rise as more European banks fail, and all manner of bail-ins and bail-outs come into play. ZeroHedge 2016 Jul 6 (Story) (Cached)

Italy’s banks are failing caused by billions in bad loans. Share prices have fallen by 33%. Italy accounts for about one-third of the Eurozone’s total debt. According to EU rules, banks must first do a ‘bail-in’ and take money from depositors, bondholders, and shareholders before a taxpayer-funded public ‘bail-out’ is allowed. However, this rule is politically unpopular, and the European Commission granted Italy permission to proceed directly with a $150-billion taxpayer-funded bail-out. International Forecaster 2016 Jul 6 (Story) (Cached)

Minneapolis, Minnesota: A group of 20-30 ‘refugees’ entered an affluent neighborhood and began shouting ‘Jihad’, shooting fireworks, driving their cars onto lawns, waving Somali flags, and threatening to kidnap and rape women because ‘Sharia law says it’s legal’. The incident was covered by a local TV channel, but The Star-Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minneapolis, didn’t produce a single article concerning the police report. Information Liberation 2016 Jul 6 (Story) (Cached)

A two-year US study by the National Toxicology Program concluded that cell-phone exposure increases the incidence of rare brain cancer and tumors in rats by 4%. [It’s time to repeat the warning that cell-phone users should use speaker mode as much as possible and store their devices somewhere other than pockets.] RT 2016 Jul 5 (Story)

Tennessee passed a law that says: if a person with a permit to carry a handgun is injured, suffers bodily injury or death, incurs economic loss or expense, property damage, or any other compensable loss on a property posted as a gun-free zone, that person can sue the person or entity who denied them their right to self defense. Next News Network 2016 Jul 4 (Story)

Here is a list of 16,000 food items that are packaged in materials that may contain the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). BPA, is linked to cancer, diabetes, obesity infertility, and abnormalities in the brain, nervous system and cardiovascular system. EWG posted 2017 Jul 3 (Story) (Cached)

US: Last week, Monsanto scored a victory on a ‘test vote’ for a bill that would give the federal government exclusive authority over GMO labeling laws. This would deny the states the ability to pass their own laws in this matter. Here is a list of how US Senators voted and how much money they have received from agribusiness lobbies. Food Consumer posted 2016 Jul 2 (Story) (Cached)

Israeli forces killed a pregnant 27-year old Palestinian woman, claiming she tried to carry out a stabbing attack on one of the soldiers near the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron. Numerous eyewitnesses refuted the claims of an attempted stabbing attack. However, the woman was pepper-sprayed before being shot, suggesting that she may have been confronting the soldiers in some way. IMEMC News posted 2016 Jul 2 (Story) (Cached)

Leaked documents show that the FBI and DOJ spy on uncooperative journalists without due-process or justifiable cause simply by claiming the reporters are national-security risks. Biong Boing posted posted 2016 Jul 2 (Story) (Cached)

Sweden: A Scandinavian bank shut down the customer account of precious-metals dealer Tavex Guld & Valuta without warning or stated cause. The account holder believes that the motive for this is to put out of business any financial service that has the capability to circumvent the planned cashless society. If this is true, there will be many more cases like this in the weeks ahead. Smaulgld posted 2016 Jul 2 (Story) (Cached)