THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
The Chinese Communist Party has banned its members from playing golf. The official explanation is that this is to crackdown on corruption, because insider deals often are made on the links. [More plausible explanations are to avoid revealing the affluent life style of Party members and to make the people think that the government really cares about corruption.] PBS Newshour 2015 Oct 22 (Story)
An unidentified hacker, claiming to be a high school student protesting US foreign policy, broke into the email account of CIA Director John Brennan. Wikileaks posted Brennan’s emails believed to have been obtained from this hack that reveals 2,611 email addresses of CIA employees and those in high-security positions. AOL 2015 Oct 21 (Story)
A study by the World Health Organization says that long-term exposure to radiation, even at low levels, can dramatically increase the risk of dying from cancer. Following the initial discovery of a nuclear-waste site near a landfill fire in St. Louis, 24 additional contaminated sites have been identified across ten states in the northeastern US. CBS News 2015 Oct 22 (Story)
Missouri: A fire that has been smoldering for five years under an EPA-superfund landfill in St. Louis now is threatening a large deposit of nuclear-weapons waste less than a quarter of a mile away. This is where the federal government secretly buried the uranium-processing waste from the Manhattan Project. Because it was a national secret, homeowners in the area were not told. The EPA is downplaying the proximity of the fire and the risk of radiation. InfoWars 2015 Oct 21 (Story)
Japan: An employee at the Fukushima power plant has become the first acknowledged case of cancer linked to the nuclear disaster. [Notice the word ‘acknowledged’.] PBS News 2015 Oct 21 (Story)
A German human rights group has filed a criminal complaint against Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, a female CIA agent known as the “Queen of Torture”. The complaint centers around a German citizen of Arabic descent who was seized by the CIA in a case of mistaken identity. When it was eventually discovered that the prisoner had no links to al-Qaeda, Bikowsky insisted that he be subjected to an additional four months of torture. RT 2015 Oct 21 (Story)
Financial expert, Peter Schiff, has written a eulogy about his father, Irwin Schiff, who authored six books condemning the income tax system as unconstitutional and fraudulent. Irwin was noted for having written the only non-fiction book to be banned in America. Irwin Schiff died from cancer at the age of 87 while chained to his bed. He was serving a 14-year sentence for tax “crimes”. Peter Schiff 2015 Oct 21 (Story) (Cached)
California Governor Jerry Brown signed the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act into law. This gives the state control over the medical-marijuana industry, which currently is valued at $1.3 billion. Instead of profits going to drug dealers, now they will go to the state which will get its cut from 17 different licenses on everything from seeds to sales. CBS posted 2015 Oct 20 (Story)
Canada: Justin Trudeau has been elected as the new Prime Minister and immediately notified Obama that he will be withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from Syria and Iraq. However, he failed to give a withdrawal date, so this could be an empty promise, especially since the jets were committed in the first place for only five more months. Trudeau is a staunch supporter of the global-warming hoax and has vowed to reverse Canada’s previous stance that led to leaving the Kyoto treaty. BBC 2015 Oct 20 (Story) (Cached)
Monsanto is asking California environmental officials to reconsider their plan to list glyphosate, the key ingredient in the company’s Roundup Ready pesticide, as a cancer-causing agent. Monsanto’s lawyers say that California neglected to consider valid scientific evidence to the contrary. California’s decision was based largely on the UN’s World Health Organization finding that glyphosate is a cancer-causing chemical. Reuters 2015 Oct 20 (Story) (Cached)
If you like Google Search but do not want to be tracked by Google, you can easily set up a Virtual Private Network that will preserve your privacy. There are also four search engines that claim they do not track users. Yahoo 2015 Oct 20 (Story) (Cached)
Chinese scientists created hyper-muscular dogs by injecting chemicals into the embryos to manipulate DNA. Authorities say they plan to breed the dogs for use by police and military forces.Yahoo 2015 Oct 20 (Story) (Cached)
Obama has secured pledges from 81 of America’s top industries to spend at least $160 billion and work in partnership with the federal government to promote the upcoming climate-change treaty convention in Paris. The onslaught of global-warming propaganda will be unprecedented. Afghanistan News 2015 Oct 20 (Story) (Cached)
Newly released Clinton email proves Bush & Blair plotted Iraq War a year before launching it. [Republicans were not expecting to uncover this information and are not glad to have it.] SF Sentinel 2015 Oct 19 (Story) (Cached)
Enzootic is a biotech company that specializes in aquaculture. It has developed a technique that changes the sex of a female prawn to a male prawn. Since males are larger than females, this is expected to increase output by 60%. Enzootic has yet to fully explain how this works and whether it might adversely affect those who eat these prawns. Reuters 2015 Oct 19 (Story)
German leaders are urging people to stay away from anti-immigration rallies because they say the organization that sponsors the rallies has “hate in their hearts. News24 2015 Oct 19 (Story) (Cached)
Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says new nerve cells can be generated in the brain, despite the former belief that this was not possible. The hippocampus can create about 700 new neurons per day. Old age and disease can limit the development of neurons, and some cancer drugs do the same. However, Dr. Thuret says that people can stimulate the production of new brain neurons through learning, diet, fasting, and exercising. Huff Post 2015 Oct 19 (Story)
The top 500 US companies are keeping $2.1 trillion in cash in foreign offshore tax havens to avoid paying $620 billion in corporate tax. Between 2008 and 2014, the amount of offshore cash holdings for American multinationals doubled. The companies are effectively paying a 6% tax rate on that money, far lower than the 35% corporate tax rate in the US. Aljazeera posted 2015 Oct 19 (Story) (Cached)
A top French meteorologist was taken off the air after he criticized the theory of global-warming. Philippe Verdie also lambasted the United Nations IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for erasing data and politicizing science. New American posted 2015 Oct 17 (Story) (Cached)
The New England Journal of Medicine reports sharp increases in the amount and the types of pesticide that are being used. For example, a new pesticide, Enlist Duo, that combines Monsanto’s glyphosate and Dow’s 2,4-D will lead to a seven-fold increase in pesticide use, per the EPA. Natural Society posted 2015 Oct 17 (Story) (Cached)

