THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff was the scene of a fight between two groups of students that resulted in one shooting death and three injuries. The shooter is Steven Jones, an 18-year-old freshman, who has been taken into custody by campus police. ABC News 2015 Oct 9 (Story)
France is joining in US airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, claiming that ISIS has plans to attack France. The French also claim that 90% of Putin’s airstrikes are against Syrian rebels, not ISIS. France24 2015 Oct 9 (Story)
The Pentagon admits failure of its $500 million program to train Syrian rebels. The program produced only four or five fighters. Meanwhile, Putin is mopping the floor with ISIS, in spite of French claims to the contrary. Washington Free Beacon 2015 Oct 9 (Story) (Cached)
A video clip from last year features Putin diplomatically explaining that ISIS was created by the US. [Although he did not say it, it is generally understood that the reason for this was to create a credible threat to justify US military action and anti-terrorism programs that have other agendas. We are not Putin admirers and we know that he, also, has hidden agendas but, on this issue, we believe he is correct.] RT posted 2015 Oct 9 (Story)
Shocking footage shows Israeli soldiers, who had infiltrated into a group of rock-throwing Palestinian protesters, suddenly turning on the real protestors and shooting at them. Israeli soldiers rushed forward to protect the infiltrators, indicating that it was a planned maneuver. Israel boasts that its army is equipped with units to infiltrate Palestinian events. Al-Araby 2015 Oct 8 (Story)
MPs released canisters of tear gas in Kosovo’s parliament in protest against a recent EU-brokered deal reached by the government with Serbia. Two MPs fainted and were taken to the hospital. Aljazeera 2015 Oct 8 (Story) (Cached)
Violence continues to brew in Israel for control over the Al-Aqsa Mosque that has religious significance for both Muslims and Jews. Two more Jews were stabbed, and the perpetrators were reported to be Palestinians. One of the attackers was killed at the scene and the other was arrested. France24 2015 Oct 8 (Story)
China: The government is launching an Orwellian program to intimidate citizens into total compliance by issuing “citizen scores”. Scores will be based on people’s usefulness to the government and on their political correctness. Activity on the Internet will be a major source of data for this purpose. Liberty Blitzkrieg 2015 Oct 8 (Story) (Cached)
Monsanto’s profits have fallen by 14%, and the company is laying off 2,600 employees, which is 12% of its workforce. But the company is fighting back by attempting to obtain legislation to protect it from market pressures. House Bill 1599 was given the Orwellian title of ‘The Safe and Accurate Labeling Bill’, but it aims to keep GMO ingredients a secret and will prevent states and counties from banning GMO crops treated with Roundup Ready pesticide. RT 2015 Oct 8 (Story)
Slovakia and Hungary are threatening to leave the European Union if it imposes mandatory quotas and fails to stop the flood of migrants. The penalty imposed by the EU for refusing to take migrants is a fine of .002% of the country’s GDP. InfoWars 2015 Oct 8 (Story) (Cached)
New York: A former president of the UN General Assembly, John Ashe, has been arrested on charges of receiving $1.3 million in bribes from a Chinese businessman in exchange for backing a proposal to build a UN-sponsored conference center in Macau. The Chinese businessman was also arrested last month for smuggling $4.5 million dollars in cash into the United States. One can only wonder which US politician was the intended recipient. PressTV 2015 Oct 7 (Story)
Leaked documents from Syria show how ISIS gets its funding: 45% comes from direct theft “confiscations”, 28% from oil sales, and 24% from taxes on people who live in ISIS territory. VOX 2015 Oct 7 (Story) (Cached)
Iraq: ISIS killed 70 of their own fellow Sunni Muslims. They were assassinated because their families had sided against terrorists. PressTV 2015 Oct 7 (Story)
Jerusalem: Following the murders of several Israelis by Palestinians, 2,500 Israelis protested outside of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s house. They demanded that he intensify efforts against terrorism and called on him to build new settlements in the West Bank. AFP 2015 Oct 6 (Story)
Obama arms ISIS-linked militants and, on the same day, pushes for gun control in the US. InfoWars 2015 Oct 6 (Story) (Cached)
The TransPacific Partnership, if ratified, will obligate the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam in the world’s largest trade bloc. Obama is using this treaty as an end-run around Congress to achieve provisions backed by treaty law that would not otherwise be passed into law by Congress. The US mainstream media is painting the treaty as a good deal, but overseas, the media is revealing that the treaty benefits the multi-national corporations that helped to draft it. American Dream 2015 Oct 5 (Story) (Cached)
German officials say that an estimated 800,000 migrants will enter their country this year. However, a confidential government report estimates that the real number is almost twice that large. Taxpayers who must pay the bill are not happy with either number. Reuters 2015 Oct 5 (Story)
Cindy Hahn is suing several Carlsbad Police officers, because they beat her for no cause other than revenge and did so in front of her children. Hahn stopped at a park to use the restroom when she questioned a police officer about a car alarm he was observing and he told her it was none of her business and swore at her. She complained about him to the police department and, a short time later, he pulled her over for a seatbelt violation and proceeded to beat her. Other officers joined him without realizing they were being filmed. DailyMail 2015 Oct 5 (Story) (Cached)
Air France executives were attacked by union protesters who ripped at their clothes to humiliate them. This was in response to the company’s plan to restructure and cut up to 2,900 jobs. The airline will file a criminal complaint against the attackers. The French government that owns the publicly-traded company has called for reform after the company failed to turn a profit over the past four years. France 24 2015 Oct 5 (Story)
CNN doctored a photo of Chris Harper-Mercer, the man who killed nine people and himself at the Umpqua Community College in Oregon last week. The mixed-race shooter was turned into a white man. Following suit, the LA Times characterized him as a white supremacist. Mainstream media freely alters facts to make them fit the narrative it wants people to believe. InfoWars 2015 Oct 4 (Story) (Cached)
Kunduz, Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is closing its hospital after a US airstrike that left 22 people dead. They are declaring the bombing a war crime. CBS News 2015 Oct 4 (Story)
The Russian Federation, the world’s largest political entity, has formally declared all commercial planting of genetically modified organisms, GMOs, to be prohibited. It is expected that Russian organic food will be in high demand in the US where land and crops have become widely contaminated by GMOs and chemicals. NEO Journal posted 2015 Oct 3 (Story) (Cached)
The Chinese government is accused of torture and harvesting organs from living people who practice Fulan Gong, a spiritual group that does not support Communism. Hard to Believe is a documentary that shows the reality of this incredible crime. The filmmakers estimate that 65,000 Falun Gong were killed for their organs between 2000 and 2008. Western media has refused to carry this story. The Daily Beast posted 2015 Oct 3 (Story) (Cached)
Oregon gives birth-control implants to ten-year-olds. The state also offers taxpayer-funded sex change to minors without parental consent. Kids as young as nine have received sex-change therapy in Oregon, which earlier this year made it legal for minors to undergo radical treatment for “gender dysphoria” without permission from a parent or guardian. [If you live in Oregon, are you ready yet to get involved in politics?] Judicial Watch posted 2015 Oct 3 (Story) (Cached)

