THIS WEEK IN REVIEW

A brawl broke out in Japan’s parliament over a bill that would allow the government to use its military to assist allies who are under attack. This would require a change in the constitution that has prohibited such action since the end of WWII. Those opposing this change say the issue should be put to a vote of the people rather than be decided by parliament. France 24 2015 Sep 18 (Story)

Israel will begin using live sniper fire against Palestinians who throw rocks in protest against Israeli occupation. Children under 10 who throw rocks may be arrested. RT 2015 Sep 18 (Story)

Rosa Abrantes-Metz, a professor at New York University, determined that US Treasury auctions have been rigged. Twenty Primary Dealers, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, are being sued by investors. Bloomberg 2015 Sep 17 (Story) (Cached)

Twenty climate scientists who support the global-warming hoax are asking Obama to prosecute other scientists who disagree with them. [In truth, it should be the other way around.] Daily Caller 2015 Sep 17 (Story) (Cached)

A professor of environmental sciences at the University of Colorado has been placed under a federal investigation for saying that the emission of greenhouse gasses does not increase the costs of natural disasters. He describes the witch hunt against him in this article. Climate Fix posted 2015 Sep 17 (Story) (Cached)

Croatia closes border to refugees. Army put on combat readiness. InfoWars 2015 Sep 17 (Story) (Cached)

Violence erupted after Hungary closed its border and ordered police to fire tear gas and water cannons at refugees and migrants who were stuck on the Serbian side of the frontier. France-24 2015 Sep 17 (Story)

North Korea is re-starting its main nuclear facility that produces plutonium and says it is ready to face US hostility with nuclear weapons currently being improved. ODN 2015 Sep 15 (Story)

Scientists from Holland, England, and Japan have demonstrated that brain activity is disrupted when an operating cell phone is placed on the ear. The researchers discovered that 87% of all brain-activity studies have been sponsored by the cell-phone industry, bringing up the obvious possibility of conflict-of-interest. RT 2015 Sep 15 (Story)

Here is another undercover video catching management from Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of fetal body parts, which is illegal under federal law. Planned Parenthood officials repeatedly say how important it is to avoid news coverage for what they are doing. InfoWars 2015 Sep 15 (Story)

Pope Francis blamed capitalism for the mass migration crisis. Judge Napolitano counters that the refugees are fleeing from bombs and war, not economic inequalities. Fox News 2015 Sep 15 (Story)

Bryan Shaw, Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and a professor at the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department of Texas A&M University, testified that the EPA is wrong in declaring carbon dioxide as dangerous to human health. Carbon dioxide, at the level the EPA is talking about is well within the range of healthy air for humans and, as a bonus, it is good for plants. CNS News 2015 Sep 15 (Story) (Cached)

Joseph Cameron Ponder, a white Kentucky State Trooper, was shot and killed by a black man who was a ‘Black Lives Matter’ supporter and who protested against violence. The shooter, Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks, was from Missouri. TOMO 2015 Sep 15 (Story)

Obama issues an Orwelian executive order. Federal agencies have been directed to hire psychologists to experiment and find ways to better manipulate the American people to the federal government’s goals. WND 2015 Sep 15 (Story) (Cached)

India makes a move to reduce citizen gold demand. The government is encouraging holders of physical gold to put the metal in banks and earn interest. A new “gold-bond” program would allow citizens to buy interest-bearing bonds (paper certificates) that supposedly are backed by gold. Unless the interest rate is high, this will be a tough sell, because India has a long tradition of distrust of paper promises to deliver physical gold. Oil Price 2015 Sep 14 (Story) (Cached)

Six Taliban fighters stormed a prison in Afghanistan and freed more than 350 prisoners. France-24 2015 Sep 14 (Story)

Hungary now is picking up refugees at the Syrian border and delivering them directly to Austria’s border. This is because Hungary’s resources have been strained by the migration of nearly 200,000 refugees traveling through their country on the way to the EU so far this year. On Sunday, before the new policy began, a record 5,809 people tried to cross the border from Syria. AFP 2015 Sep 14 (Story) (Cached)

Moldova: Protesters are demanding that the President, the General Prosecutor, and Governor of the state bank resign because of the disappearance last year of $1.3 billion. That is nearly one-eighth of the country’s GDP. The banks were subsequently bailed out with taxpayer money. AP 2015 Sep 13 (Story) (Cached)

Mainstream media has depicted refugees only in a positive light as repressed victims, but there is another side of the story. It includes migrants throwing rocks at their hosts, fighting with each other, destroying property, wasting food, provoking soldiers, and staging propaganda photos. Most of these are not Syrians. InfoWars 2015 Sep 12 (Story)

Twelve major US banks agreed to pay a penalty of $1.87 billion for fixing prices and locking out competitors from insurance-like products such as credit-default swaps. These fines will be paid by stockholders and taspayers. AP 2015 Sep 12 (Story) (Cached)

Following years of criticism for refusing to prosecute bankers, the US Department of Justice issued new policies that prioritize the prosecution of individual employees, including executives, not just their companies. [This is great news, but we must be mindful that the political power of the banks remains as strong as ever, and this announcement may only be a public-relations move with no intention of following through – except to prosecute a few lower-level executives now and then or to punish a higher-level executive who has fallen into disfavor with the cartel. We shall see.] NY Times posted 2015 Sep 12 (Story) (Cached)