THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
Connecticut: Governor Dannel Malloy is proposing to prohibit the sale of guns to people who are on a government watch list. [Considering that there are no reliable standards for what it takes to be put on a watch list, this seems like a very bad idea. It’s also unconstitutional.] Reuters 2015 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
Dr. Judith Curry, the former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says that climate science has
become politicized, current climate models do not reflect reality, the artic ice is expanding, not contracting, and the current rate of rising sea level is the same as it has been for 10,000 years. In other words, the theory of man-made global warming is debunked by scientific facts. Rich Clarke YouTube 2015 Dec 10 (Story)
Returning from the Paris Climate Conference, US Secretary of State John Kerry says the US will double the money it spends helping poorer countries deal with climate change. He committed $800 million per year from US taxpayers by 2020. Guardian (Nigeria) 2015 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized for the fact that black citizens are treated differently by the police. He withheld a video of Chicago police killing a teen who was moving away from them. The motive for this decision was partly to avoid increasing race tensions in the city and partly because releasing the video likely would hurt the chances for his re-election. CBS News 2015 Dec 10 (Story)
Venezuelan President Maduro, the protege of communist Hugo Chavez, was overwhelmingly voted out of office last weekend but is refusing to leave. He has vowed to keep the “revolutionary right” from taking over the country no matter what the vote is. [This is reminiscent of the old Communist saying: “One vote – one time.” In other words, when attempting to come to power, the comrades advocate one vote for everyone on an equal basis. After they are elected to power on that slogan, the rules are changed, and there are no meaningful elections after that.] Independent 2015 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
US Supreme Court Justice, Anton Scalia, is being called a racist for favorably discussing the ‘mismatch’ theory of affirmative action in school admissions. He said that some people make the argument that African Americans in general do not benefit as much from a school like the University of Texas as they do in what are called “slower-track” schools. [Statistics show that he is correct, but it is politically incorrect for him to mention it.] ABA Journal 2015 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
Sydney, Australia: Police raided the home of Craig Steven Wright who Wired magazine says is the likely creator of bitcoin. Australia ruled in December 2014 that cryptocurrency should be considered an asset, rather than a currency, for capital gains tax purposes. Australia’s major banks have begun to close the accounts of bitcoin dealers, companies, forcing at least 13 digital-currency providers out of business. Reuters 2015 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
El Chapo, the leader of Mexico’s deadliest drug cartels, reportedly threatened to destroy ISIS because they destroyed one of his shipments to the Middle East. InfoWars 2015 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, said that the US should bar all Muslims from immigrating to the US until the government can sort out “what is going on.” Some Republicans denounced him, saying that it would be discriminatory against a religion. Trump says that 68% of his supporters would vote for him if he ran as an independent candidate, which likely would guarantee a win for the Democrats. CBS News 2015 Dec 8 (Story)
Syrian refugees are being resettled in the US even in states that vowed to refuse them. PBS News 2015 Dec 8 (Story)
News video clips, back-to-back, highlight Obama’s lies about Syria over time and provides evidence for his support for ISIS. One interesting example is when Obama admitted that the US is arming and training ISIL, and later claimed it was a Freudian slip. You be the judge. Alex Jones 2015 Dec 7 (Story)