ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.
Germany: Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants Facebook to remove ‘racist’ posts targeting asylum seekers after recent attacks on refugee camps. Twenty buildings used as refugee centers have gone up in flames in the country this year. Consider this: If the government can force comments which we disapprove off the Internet, it also can force off comments that we approve. All it has to do is label them racist or hateful or seditious or even false. Bloomberg 2015 Aug 28 (Story) (Cached)
Large areas of land in California’s Central Valley farming region are reportedly sinking as a result of farmers pumping too much groundwater to irrigate their crops during the drought. California’s Department of Water Resources is requiring these areas to come up with a plan to save water. Critics say that the state is trying to take over the water rights of landowners. [Although not mentioned in this report, other critics say the water is being wasted in environmental-protection schemes and being exported out of the area by privately controlled water districts to the highest bidders. No matter how you look at it, the fear of a water crisis is being used by governments and speculators alike to take water rights away from landowners.] ABC News 2015 Aug 26 (Story)
Ron Paul says that the Federal Reserve is 99% responsible (not China) for crashing the US market. The reason is that the Fed and the ‘Plunge–Protection Team’ constantly interfere, so markets never fully correct. He believes the US dollar will be destroyed and replaced by a new world–reserve currency. RPI 2015 Aug 25 (Story)
