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ANALYSIS

News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.

 

Costco is having difficulty keeping up with the growing demand for organic food. To solve this problem, the company plans to help farmers buy land and equipment to grow more organic produce. Costco is working closely with a poultry plant in Alabama that raised the 83-million rotisserie chickens it sold last year and it recently bought cattle to be raised on organic fields in Nebraska. [If given a chance, the free market and the profit motive will solve problems better and faster than government decree.] Natural News 2016 Apr 14 (Story) (Cached)

‘Social Autopsy’ is a company that is building a database of ‘negative’ online comments with the goal of identifying those who use harsh words to criticize others in social media. The idea sounds like it has merit in terms of casting public scorn on Internet bullies, but the predictable result will be different. This project will be easily dominated by corporations and government agencies who can afford to hire 24-7 trolls to castigate anyone they hold in disfavor. This already is a reality on Wikipedia where anyone who criticizes the Establishment line is categorized as a conspiracy theorist and a fruitcake. InfoWars 2016 Apr 13 (Story) (Cached)

In this analysis, Max Blumenthal explains that, as the Boycott, Divestiture and Sanctions movement is gaining support for Palestinians against Israeli occupation of Gaza, the Israeli lobby is launching a global agenda to outlaw BDS. The plan is to promote legislation to punish businesses that decline to do business with Israel or divest from their Israeli holdings. The lobby also is advocating an expanded definition of anti-Semitism to include opposition to the government of Israel or the political agenda of Zionism. The Real News 2016 Apr 12 (Story)

Chicago lost more millionaires in 2015 than any other US city. The exodus is motivated by racial turmoil and crime. About 2% of the city’s ultra-wealthy left the city. Paris, Rome, and Athens also lost large numbers of wealthy taxpayers. Chicago Crusader 2016 Apr 11 (Story) (Cached)

Obama is poised to give the UN another slice of US sovereignty and prosperity through a treaty covering the world’s oceans. In the name of environmentalism, it will stop research and development in large areas of the sea. A provision called ‘technology sharing’ will prohibit countries from exclusively benefitting from their own efforts and investments. All advancements must be globally shared. High production nations will be required to share profits with lower producers. That will kill incentives to explore and develop, creating yet another obstacle for production and innovation. Collectivism is strangling the world. Constitution 2016 Apr 9 (Story) (Cached)