THIS WEEK IN REVIEW

Charlotte, North Carolina: Daquan Antonio Westbrook, 18, fired into a crowded shopping mall, injuring at least one person, and then was shot and killed by an armed off-duty police officer. Police say the incident occurred as a result of a long-running dispute, but few details are known at this time. Fox News 2015 Dec 25 (Story)

An ‘unstoppable’ gas leak in Southern California is being called the worst environmental disaster since the BP oil spill. Porter Ranch, near Northridge in Los Angeles, is the site of a natural-gas storage facility that once was an oil field. It sits on top of a cracked pipe 8,000 feet underground that has been leaking for two months. Airplanes have been diverted away from the area because the gas is spewing with the force of a volcano, and there is a possibility of a massive explosion at any time. SoCalGas says there will be no long-term negative health effects, but Erin Brokovich says “no one really knows the potential long-term side effects of benzene and radon, the carcinogens that are commonly found in natural gas.” There has been a news blackout on this story since October. ZeroHedge 2015 Dec 25 (Story) (Cached)

US: The rate of anti-depressant use has increased nearly 400% in the past two decades. An estimated 20,000 children under two years of age were prescribed anti-psychotic medications for treatment of depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism. [If you want to know what is behind this madness, click here.] RT 2015 Dec 24 (Story)

Miami: Jonathan Corbett, a law student and self-described troublemaker, is suing the TSA over its latest policy to deny travelers an opportunity to opt-out full-body airport scanners. He is asking for a preliminary injunction followed by a permanent ban, and he wrapped his complaint in Christmas paper for the holiday. PTM 2015 Dec 24 (Story) (Cached)

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Minneapolis, Minnesota: Black Lives Matter protesters caused chaos at the Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping marketplace, and then blocked roads at the airport nearby. They were protesting the fact that police have refused to release a video of the police shooting of Jamar Clark in November. PBS Newshour 2015 Dec 23 (Story)

Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant announced in April, 2015, that it would serve only 100% GMO-free food, and its sales increased. This was not good news for the GMO food industry. Two months later, the first of several toxic-food outbreaks occurred at Chipotle restaurants across the US. Contaminants include different strains of E. coli, salmonella, and norovirus. Some observers have speculated that Chipotle could be the victim of corporate sabotage by the biotech and chemical industry. At present, however, there is no evidence that this is so. ARS Technica 2015 Dec 23 (Story) (Cached)

Congress has repealed a law that required meat packages to show the country of origin. This is to conform US law to international law. The World Trade Organization is allowing Canada and Mexico to impose more than $1 billion in retaliatory tariffs on companies that fail to remove country of origin labels from pork and beef packages. American shoppers will no longer know the origin of the meat they consume at the same time that industry standards have been dropped for developing countries. RT 2015 Dec 23 (Story)

Reporter David Knight says that the US Postal Service has warned newspapers not to run ads for marijuana businesses in Portland, even though such businesses are legal under state law and voter referendum. Federal agents continue to intimidate even though the current Drug Czar has called the War on Drugs a failure. InfoWars 2015 Dec 23 (Story)

Federal facilities and military bases in Missouri are rejecting state driver’s licenses as identification to enter because they do not comply with the national Real-ID specifications. The feds have extended the deadline for 19 other states with similar non-compliance. AP 2015 Dec 23 (Story) (Cached)

Los Angeles, California: Nine individuals from the Black Lives Matter protest group were arrested for walking onto the 405 freeway near the airport. They intended to spray paint retainer walls with names of black people who have been killed by police. LAist 2015 Dec 23 (Story)

Officials overseeing the California public employees’ pension fund are resisting an initiative to disclose details about the fees they have paid to private equity firms. The fund has paid $3.4 billion to these firms over the last two decades. An investigation by the SEC shows that over half of US private equity firms have committed serious criminal acts. Liberty Blitzkrieg 2015 Dec 22 (Story) (Cached)

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has restarted production of plutonium-238 after almost 30 years. PU-238 is used to power heat generators that make electricity for deep space probes. Gizmag 2015 Dec 22 (Story) (Cached)

Norway: Rystad Energy, on behalf of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, investigated ISIS oil and discovered that most of the oil smuggled out of Syria and Iraq is sold by terrorists to Turkey, a NATO country that claims to be an enemy of ISIS. RT 2015 Dec 22 (Story)

Norwegian police have learned that hundreds of ISIS jihadists have slipped into Europe and are planning Paris-style massacres, with hundreds more fighters on their way. For now, they are instructed to lay low. InfoWars 2015 Dec 22 (Story) (Cached)

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered that WiFi signals can be used to see through walls and can detect the location and movement of people. It even can identify who they are by analyzing their skeletons. It also can measure breathing and heart rates. AP 2015 Dec 21 (Story)

US Senator Rand Paul has introduced the Restoration and Second Amendment Protection Act. It would shut down the president’s single-handed gun-control moves by removing legal force from any executive action that can hinder Second Amendment rights and classifying them as “advisory only”. Personal Liberty 2015 Dec 21 (Story) (Cached)

US Senator, Rand Paul, says that he voted against the omnibus spending bill that Congress passed last week because he, and everyone else, simply did not have time to read the 2,242 pages. He said that the bill passed because Republicans want more military spending and Democrats want more welfare spending, so they work together to squeeze more money from taxpayers. The Hill 2015 Dec 20 (Story) (Cached)

In the recent Democratic-Party presidential debate, Hillary Clinton said that Syrian President Assad was the cause of the war in Syria. The truth is that terrorism in Syria and the so-called civil war were engineered in the US, Britain, and Saudi Arabia. InfoWars 2015 Dec 20 (Story) (Cached)

Ohio: Pete Santilli, a radio show personality and an outspoken critic of government policies, was pulled over and arrested because his name appeared on a terrorist-watch list. He believes he was targeted because of his political views. Santilli was arrested and jailed for carrying a pistol without a permit. Fox News 2015 Dec 20 (Story)

Joshua Williams, a prominent spokesman for the Black Lives Matter group and an advocate for peace and justice during the Ferguson, Missouri, protests was convicted of burglary and setting fire to a convenience store. Newsbusters posted 2015 Dec 19 (Story) (Cached)

Louisiana: Mainstream media has refused to carry the story about the shooting at Bunny Friend park in New Orleans at the end of November. The assailants were black gang members who opened fire on a crowd of black people, injuring 17, mostly children. The news blackout of this event further fuels the belief that the media will ignore anything that challenges its false narrative that crazed, lone-wolf, white, male Christians are the primary threat to America. Hot Air posted 2015 Dec 19 (Story) (Cached)

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