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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.

 

US Intelligence chief James Clapper has acknowledged for the first time that government agencies might use the new generation of ‘smart’ household devices spy on you. Devices such as electric meters, gas meters, thermostats, washing machines, TV sets, refrigerators, and automobiles are being equipped with digital components to monitor your every move. Next News Network 2016 Feb 11 (Story)

James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, has placed the process of gene editing on the list of weapons of mass destruction. Gene editing refers to altering the DNA of living cells. Clapper says gene splicing can be weaponized if it is used to alter life forms to turn them into disease carriers or cause them to inbreed with natural life forms to produce defective offspring. That includes humans. MIT Technology Review 2016 Feb 9 (Story) (Cached)

US: A group called the Preventive Services Task Force has recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The cost would be covered by health insurance which, in turn, is subsidized by taxes. [In our view, this is a scheme to label just about everyone as mentally depressed or disturbed, which will lead to mandatory medication with mind-destroying psychotropic drugs and to denial of the right to own firearms.] Ron Paul 2016 Feb 7 (Story) (Cached)

The family of a Florida defense contractor who was killed in a November terror attack in Jordan is suing Twitter. The family contends the social networking service knowingly allowed groups such as ISIS to use Twitter to spread propaganda, recruit followers, and raise money. Twitter announced that it has shut down 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 for promoting terrorism. [It is comforting to see an attempt to prevent the recruiting of terrorists, but it is chilling to think of how this could evolve into censorship of political dissent merely by calling it domestic terrorism.] CBS News 2016 Feb 6 (Story)

The World Health Organization has declared that spread of the Zika virus is a global health emergency, but it failed to provide any details on the disease. [We think that is because there is no serious evidence that the virus causes a brain disease as widely reported in the media. If there is no science behind this, it’s better to let the media carry the load of convincing the public that there is a medical emergency. That, likely, would lead to the introduction of a new vaccine to save everyone – with billions in sales to the drug companies. The Zika virus was engineered in the laboratory, and the patent is held by the Rockefeller Foundation. Anyone can buy it for 599 euros.] Global Research posted 2016 Feb 6 (Story) (Cached)

James Corbett presents more evidence that the Zika virus is not causing the high rate of microcephaly in Brazil. Data on more than 100,000 babies since 2012 shows that the population in north-eastern Brazil already had a high rate of microcephaly prior to any concerns over the virus. Nevertheless, the UN’s World Health Organization is using the Zika virus to fabricate a viral epidemic. Obama has asked for $1.8 billion in funding to fast-track a new anti-Zika vaccine. Corbett Report 2016 Feb 10 (Story)

Argentina: A report from an organization called Physicians in Crop-Sprayed Towns has challenged the theory that the Zika virus epidemic in Brazil is the cause of the increase in microcephaly among newborns. The doctors discovered that most of the sick people live in areas where a chemical called Pyriproxyfen is added to the water to eliminate mosquitoes. It does this by producing malformations in developing mosquitoes, and the doctors say it also produces the malformation called microcephaly in human embryos. The chemical was introduced to the water supply in 2014, and the malformations began to appear in that area shortly thereafter. Pyriproxyfen is manufactured by Sumitomo Chemical, a Japanese ‘strategic partner’ of Monsanto. GM Watch 2016 Feb 10 (Story) (Cached)