THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
President Obama told an audience of Argentinian youth that there is no great difference between communism and capitalism and that they should just “choose what works”. He praised Cuba’s socialist system but then said that Havana looks like it did in the 1950s because the economy is not working. [We cannot help but agree with Obama’s advice to choose what works, in which case the choice would be capitalism. When we say capitalism, we are referring to the classical definition that includes a free market. However, that no longer exists today. All the economic decay we now see in the world is the result of collectivism.] InfoWars 2016 Mar 25 (Story)
China keeps buying American companies (by closing out loans they previously made to the US government), and lawmakers are voicing their concern. One recent example is the purchase of the Chicago Stock Exchange. So far in 2016 there have been 170 Chinese mergers-and-acquisitions deals, amounting to $105 billion in value. Business Insider 2016 Mar 24 (Story) (Cached)
Apple still is refusing to comply with the government’s request to build a back door to secretly enter into the iPhone system and monitor everyone’s communications. The company did offer to retrieve data from a single phone owned by a known terrorist, but the government was not content with that. The FBI now has enlisted an Israeli tech firm to break into the iPhone system with or without Apple’s consent. RT 2016 Mar 23 (Story)
Poland says ‘no’ to immigrants following Brussels attacks. Officials are saying the call for open borders is a suicidal philosophy. Truth Revolt 2016 Mar 23 (Story) (Cached)
Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has been found guilty of genocide against Croats and Muslims. He committed some of the worst atrocities in Europe during the Bosnian war from 1992 – 1995. The attack on Muslims at Srebrenica left over 8,000 dead. ITN News 2016 Mar 23 (Story)
ISIS has claimed responsibility for two explosions at the Brussels Airport and one at the Maalbeek metro station. There are at least 31 deaths and hundreds of injuries. Two suicide bombers were seen on surveillance video before the blast. CBS News 2016 Mar 22 (Story)
Policies of the leftist European governments led directly to the attacks in Brussels because they brought in millions of people from war-zones who are known to hate the West. Acts of terror were predictable. In fact, in January of 2016, Donald Trump did predict violence in Brussels, and he was mocked for his opinion. Intellihub 2016 Mar 22 (Story)
US: In 2012, Republican leaders created Rule 40(b) to prevent Ron Paul from receiving the Party’s nomination. This rule states that only candidates who meet a qualifying threshold of support are eligible for the Second Ballot. In this year’s election, Donald Trump is the only candidate to meet that requirement. Not to worry. The GOP leaders now say they will change the rules again to make sure a candidate of their choice will be nominated. InfoWars 2016 Mar 21 (Story) (Cached)
BASF, one of the big-six pesticide and GMO corporations, has announced that it is closing GMO testing sites in Hawaii, India, and Puerto Rico. The company cited poor performance of GMO products as the reason for downsizing. Natural Society 2016 Mar 21 (Story) (Cached)
The US government has launched a program to cast suspicion on whistleblowers as being psychological misfits. The new program calls for surveillance of military and civilian employees to spot ‘insider threats’, which is the new name for whistleblowers. The purpose is to label those who reveal government wrongdoing as being disgruntled, vulnerable to blackmail, having divided loyalties, suffering from low esteem, having personal problems, or being motivated by greed. RT 2016 Mar 21 (Story)
Google offered to help Secretary-of-State Clinton undermine Syria’s President Assad by tracking defections from the Syrian government. This information was to be used to encourage more defections and build confidence in Assad’s opponents. InfoWars 2016 Mar 21 (Story) (Cached)
The US Army announced that it plans to stockpile munitions and military supplies in countries close to China’s border. These include Vietnam, Cambodia, and possibly the Philippines. Some say this will thwart China’s military aggression. Others say it will provoke it. Either way, it’s a dangerous game. Next News Network 2016 Mar 21 (Story)
The US Supreme Court upheld the right of Colorado to legalize marijuana. KFOR News 2016 Mar 21 (Story) (Cached)
Brussels police captured Salah Abdeslam who is charged with murder for his role in the terrorist attack that killed 130 people in Paris last November. Abdeslam backed out of blowing himself up during the incident. Police are searching for two more accomplices. CBS 2016 Mar 21 (Story)
The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah warned Israel against attacking Lebanon, saying it will fight any new war with the Jewish state without any ceilings, limits, or red lines. It said targets may include Israeli nuclear reactors and biological research centers. The Iranian-backed Hezbollah fought Israel to a draw during a ferocious month-long war in 2006. ABC News 2016 Mar 21 (Story) (Cached)
The US government is sending more troops to Iraq to fight ISIS after a rocket killed a marine on a US military base. Obama publicly condemns a ground war in Iraq and Syria, but he has been quietly deploying additional US troops there. RT 2016 Mar 21 (Story)
When Obama challenged Cuban President Raul Castro on the imprisonment of Cuban dissidents, Castro flatly denied that his country has any political prisoners and demanded that Obama give him a list of names. ABC News 2016 Mar 21 (Story)
For 40 years, Indonesia has outlawed shackling prisoners, but the law is often ignored when it comes to psychiatric patients. AFP 2016 Mar 21 (Story)
Donald Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a federal appeals-court judge. She was sent a threatening letter just 24 hours after Trump’s son, Eric, received a suspicious package containing a white powder. The Anonymous hacking group has released Donald Trump’s phone number and social security number online. DailyMail 2016 Mar 20 (Story) (Cached)
Protesters in Phoenix, Arizona blocked traffic on a major street, preventing Donald Trump supporters from attending his rally. Look closely. Does it appear to you that there is at least one police car on the scene, but police are doing nothing to clear pedestrian demonstrators from the middle of the road? CNN 2016 Mar 19 (Story)
German nuclear power-plant firms are suing the government (meaning German taxpayers) for at least 15-billion euros because of Angela Merkel’s decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2022. The plan is to replace nuclear energy with renewable energy. Germany already has shuttered some nuke plants and currently must purchase nuclear power from other countries. RT 2016 Mar 19 (Story)
US Representative, Jason Chaffetz from Utah, has introduced a bill to remove law-enforcement functions from the federal Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service. The bill would transfer all law-enforcement on public lands to local sheriffs. This would implement a major demand of states’ rights advocates who support the concept that sheriffs have more constitutional authority over local matters than federal agents. KCSG News posted 2016 Mar 19 (Story) (Cached)
CORECTION: Last week, we published a headline that said the Israeli parliament had approved a law with a two-year prison term for any Israeli who hires a Palestinian worker for even one day. We should have said that this applied only to illegal Palestinian immigrants. The article, itself, made that clear, but the summary was unintentionally misleading.