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2016 December 10 – 16
2016 December 10 – 16
Those guys in Russia are to blame for everything.
Those guys in Russia are to blame for everything.
At least that’s what those guys who supported Hillary in the presidential election would have us believe. I don’t think Putin and his guys are what you would call champions of truth and virtue, and 
I would not be surprised to learn that they hack anyone’s emails who they view as an opponent, but I also know that the NSA in the US has been doing exactly the same thing around the world for many years. That doesn’t make it OK, but it shows the hypocracy of those who endorse such actions for themselves but pretend to be shocked when done by others.
On top of that is the fact that, so far, neither the CIA or NSA have offered any hard evidence that Russia had anything to do with the DNC email hacks. In fact, there is good reason to suspect that the emails were sent to WikiLeaks by Seth Rich, an computer programmer for the Democrat National Committee who had access to the DNC computer. It may not be a coincidence that Seth was shot to death on the street near his home shortly after the hack was discovered. In case you are not aware of this, here are two stories that provide the details: (News item 1) (News item 2)
Even if the hack really was done by Russia, the facts revealed in the emails are more important to the security of America than who released them. The Establishment wants us to be indignant at the possibility of Russia doing the same thing the US does and entirely forget about the corruption that the emails revealed.
If Al Capone had leaked the private letters of Bugsy the Butcher proving that Bugsy had murdered the Chief of Police, are we to be so offended by the unauthorized publication of Bugsy’s letters that we forgive him of the murders? Even if Russia did hack the emails – which is doubtful – that would not purify Hillary or entitle her to occupy the White House.
G. Edward Griffin
2016 December 16
FEATURED COMMENTARIES
FEATURED COMMENTARIES
The FBI, CIA, and the office of National Intelligence are refusing to brief Trump’s presidential transition team on alleged Russian cyberattacks during the US presidential election. The CIA says that these hacks altered the outcome of the presidential election but, so far, has offered no proof that Russia was involved in any way. USA Today 2016 Dec 14 (Story) (Cached)
Obama has ordered a Congressional investigation into the claim that Russian hacks of Democrat Party emails caused Hillary to lose the election. He is supported by a bipartisan group that opposed Trump’s candidacy. The CIA, still under control of Obama, also has supported this allegation but, so far, has offered no proof. The best evidence so far are “reports” from unnamed sources. CBS News 2016 Dec 12 (Story)
The US Senate passed the ‘Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act’ that creates a new agency to counter domestic occurrences of ‘foreign disinformation’. This is part of the recent attempt by the Establishment to label the hack of Hillary’s emails as a Russian plot. The language in the bill is so vague that it can be used to label any exposure of domestic fraud or corruption as ‘foreign disinformation’. AntiWar 2016 Dec 12 (Story) (Cached)
WEEK IN REVIEW
WEEK IN REVIEW
Leftists are pressuring electors in the electoral college to change their vote and put Hillary in the White House, even though there could be a penalty including jail time. Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor, is offering legal support for anti-Trump electors. InfoWars 2016 Dec 15 (Story)
Yahoo has announced another data breach, this time affecting more than one-billion accounts, the largest in history. This breach may have exposed names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and security questions. The company recommends that current users change their passwords and security questions. ABC News 2016 Dec 15 (Story)
Political scientists at the UN claim that there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that man-made global warming is real. That claim is just as false as the theory of man-made global warming itself. Here is a list of 145 very prominent scientists who reject the UN’s claim. [See An Inconvenient Lie for more information and documentation.] Climate Science International posted 2016 Dec 15 (Story) (Cached)
Germany: Last week we reported on the rape and murder of 19-year old medical student, Maria Ladenburger, by an Afghan refugee. The refugee has been identified as Hussein Khavari, and claims to be 17-years old. He was jailed in Greece in 2013 for attempting to murder a student by pushing her off a cliff and, at that time, also said he was 17. In Greece he was sentenced to ten years in prison but was released early and allowed to travel to Germany. Information Liberation 2016 Dec 15 (Story) (Cached)
UK: Nigel Farage ridicules the claim by UK labor leaders that Russian cyber hacking and Internet propaganda are responsible for Brexit and that the Russians also are responsible for the influx of refugees in Europe. The truth is that German Chancellor Merkel threw open the door to immigration in Europe and accepted a migrant population of 80% young males who never would have qualified as refugees otherwise. Now the EU wants to get rid of NATO so it can create its own army. The EU also wants Ukraine to join the EU to further provoke Russia. The ploy is to create an enemy hate figure to blame for the EU’s own own failures. Fox News 2016 Dec 15 (Story)
US: In the recent election, Detroit, Michigan was an area in which the vote for Hillary Clinton was strong. It now is known that voting machines in 37% of Detroit precincts (248 out of 662) recorded more votes than there were voters. [Would it be considered ‘conspiracy theory’ to suggest vote fraud?] Breitbart 2016 Dec 14 (Story) (Cached)
Aleppo, Syria: Civilians found large supplies of food and other humanitarian aid intended for them but which had been confiscated by the Army of Islam, a rebel group funded by Saudis who are US allies. Reuters 2016 Dec 14 (Story)
US Congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard, is introducing a bill to stop funding terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, ISIS and al-Nusra. Her bill competes directly with outgoing Obama’s executive action to lift all restrictions on US arms exports to rebel groups in Syria. 21st Century Wire 2016 Dec 14 (Story) (Cached)
The leftist Southern Poverty Law Center claims that over 1,000 racial and anti-Muslim attacks have occurred since the election. It says that Donald Trump and white supremacists are responsible for the attacks. US Attorney General Loretta Lynch also lashed out at ‘hate crimes’ that she blamed on white supremacists. As most often is the case, there is no proof that these reports are true. In this day when almost everyone has a video-enabled smart phone, acts of violence commonly are recorded by bystanders, Video documentation of the reports from these leftist groups are conspicuously absent. Colin Flaherty 2016 Dec 14 (Story)
Guerrero state, Mexico: Angry citizens in the small town of Totolapán are so fed up with violence and kidnapping by drug gangs that they struck back. Townsfolk-turned-vigilantes counter-kidnapped a group of gang members and their leader’s mother. State police oversaw the hostage exchange, but the vigilantes released their hostages to authorities for investigation. Foreign Policy Magazine 2016 Dec 14 (Story) (Cached)
Philippines: President Duterte says that, when he was the Mayor of Davao City, he would drive his motorcycle around looking for suspected criminals to kill, in order to set an example for his policemen. Since taking power in June, Duterte has waged a ‘war on drugs’ that has resulted in the killing of more than 5,900 people suspected of dealing or using drugs. Fair trials are not part of the process. CNN 2016 Dec 14 (Story)
Alex Newman has written an excellent summary of the recent Freedom Force conference entitled ‘Global Warming, an Inconvenient Lie’. While you are waiting for the proceedings to be broadcast over the Internet (soon to be announced), this will show the breadth of topics covered and the depth of scientific documentation offered. G. Edward Griffin, Founder of Freedom Force, describes this as a ‘Weapon of Mass Instruction’ that will destroy one of the most dangerous myths of all time. [Subscribers to Need to Know News will be notified of the broadcast date and time. If you are not a subscriber, you can enroll here. It’s free] New American 2016 Dec 13 (Story) (Cached)
Mark Thompson, CEO of the New York Times, is blaming social media for the newspaper’s decline, and wants subsidies from them to keep the paper afloat. ZeroHedge 2016 Dec 13 (Story) (Cached)
A complaint has been filed with the Federal Trade Commission that alleges two new toys, the I-Que Robot and the My Friend Cayla doll, may be spying and collecting data on families. They come with listening and recording capabilities and can prompt children to answer personal questions about their family. The recordings are being transmitted by Wi-Fi to Nuance Communications, a company that allegedly has contracts with military and law enforcement agencies. RT 2016 Dec 12 (Story)
Radiation from leaking nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, finally reached the shores of the US in Oregon and it less than expected. It is less than one-thousandth the standard for drinking water. Ken Buesseler, a chemical oceanographer, launched a crowd-funded seawater-sampling project, because the US no longer monitors the oceans for radioactivity. UPI 2016 Dec 12 (Story) (Cached)
The US Energy Department is refusing to provide Donald Trump’s transition team with the names of people who have worked on climate change or who attended global climate talks hosted by the UN. Reuters 2016 Dec 13 (Story) (Cached)
President Maduro of Venezuela is withdrawing from circulation the country’s largest banknote. The 100-bolivar note is worth only two US cents in the free market. Maduro is blaming shortages of food and goods on criminals in Columbia who buy cheap Venezuelan currency at the border, use it to buy government-subsidized Venezuelan goods, and then sell them for a profit in Colombia. The real cause of shortages is, not speculators in Columbia, but socialist (collectivist) economic policies in Venezuela. EuroNews 2016 Dec 12 (Story)
US: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency that was given the task of deporting illegal aliens, spent $100-million in a scheme to avoid deporting them. Instead, they were moved from one place to another within the US. Only 3 percent of those caught at the border over the last few years had been sent home as of June. Washington Times 2016 Dec 11 (Story) (Cached)
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Last month, the Washington Post admitted that its article condemning ‘fake news’ was, itself, fake news. It was based on a report from PropOrNot, an anonymous group that accused more than 200 websites of promoting Russian propaganda to sway the election against Hillary Clinton. Then, the Washington Post admitted it could not vouch for the accuracy of the report, which means it presented the undocumented opinion of an unknown writer as though it were a newsworthy fact. [By so doing, it published fake news, which is the very thing it was condemning. So what else is new?] The Duran posted 2016 Dec 10 (Story) (Cached)
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
News and commentaries that reveal historical facts and trends that place current events into perspective and make it possible to anticipate future events.
Facebook will implement a plan to cut down on so-called ‘fake news’ by making it easier to report a hoax, hiring third-party ‘fact-checkers’, and blocking stories that someone says are false. [Guess who will decide what is false? This does not bode well for whistleblowers and those who attempt to expose fraud and corruption in high places.] CBS News 2016 Dec 15 (Story)
David Knight reports that the US Federal Reserve intends to raise interest rates to cause an economic downturn during the Trump administration. The manipulation of interest rates creates boom and bust cycles and allows banks to reward or punish politicians in office as they see fit. InfoWars 2016 Dec 15 (Story)
New 3D printers are ready to turn manufacturing on its head. A company called Local Motors is making cars in mere hours, while you wait, using 3D printers. The company also uses printers to manufacture an electric self-driving mini bus that even tells jokes. ABC News 2016 Dec 14 (Story)
US: A bill, known as Kevin and Avonte’s Law, passed 346 to 66 in the House. It authorizes federal funding to local law enforcement for tracking-technology programs that include human implantable microchips and bar-code tattoos. Supporters claim that the bill will be used to locate lost people with disabilities such as dementia and autism, As usual, however, the wording of the law is so vague that local police will be free to decide who will be chipped and tracked. [If this bill really was to help people with medical problems, it would have come through the Department of Health and Human Services instead of the Justice Department, which will use it to protect those in power.] Truthstream Media 2016 Dec 13 (Story)
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Journalist, Eva Bartlett, Representatives of the US Peace Council and the International Action Center presented firsthand accounts of the war in Aleppo based on their personal experiences in Syria. They testified that the Western mainstream media have been covering up the truth about Western support of the rebels who attack civilians, about rebel use of chemical weapons, and about the covert arming of ISIS by the US. 21st Century Wire 2016 Dec 12 (Story)
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HUMOR
HUMOR
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Quips from Steven Wright:
Borrow money from pessimists. They don’t expect it back.
Half the people you know are below average.
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
If you want a rainbow, you must put up with rain.
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ARE YOU CIVILLY DEAD?
2016 Dec 15 from Chris
Dear Ed, Regarding your article about the Sopreme Court ruling that the right to own a gun can be denied to those who have been convicted of misdemeanor-level domestic violence, this is legally termed “civil death”. That is one of the methods tyrants use to silence people like me who oppose their tyranny. This is nothing new. It has been used throughout human history. Here is a legal analysis on the subject:
All these news blurbs signal the death of this “republic”. We live in times similar to the days of Christ. The political officials of his time called him “mamzer”, which meant they considered him civilly dead. It’s in the Talmud as well as the New Testement. Because that didn’t silence him, they murdered him, because he was stirring up too much bad press on them.
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THEN INCREASE PRODUCTION
2016 Dec 6 from Patrick Moore (Greenpeace-Canada founder)
My only alternative policy suggestion is to advance the mechanization of agriculture in the developing countries which will automatically address both population growth and poverty in a single action. All one needs is to analyze the current situation. Countries with mechanized agriculture employ only 5% or less of the population in food production, have stable or negative population growth and are relatively wealthy. Counties with subsistence agriculture have 60-80% of the population in food production, high population growth, and relative poverty.
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LEAD INTO GOLD
2016 Dec 5 from Paul David Stoneburner
Subject: CANNOT PROVE THERE ARE NO GHOSTS – Need to Know News 2016 December 2
Oops. Sorry, but I think you finally made a mistake! Almost. There is nothing said that is actually false, but it wasn’t a very good example. It is quite possible to make gold from lead and, as I recall, such was done some thirty years ago. Whether in a reactor or cyclotron I don’t just now recall. The isotope created is unstable, but will decay into stable gold. However, the reason we’re not currently emulating Heaven and paving our streets with the stuff is that to manufacture gold costs many times the value of the product created—several trillion dollars per ounce. As a scientific endeavor to increase knowledge, a great idea. As a way to become wealthy, not so much. Love your news. Keep up the good work.
REPLY FROM GEG:
Hello Paul. I believe it was a particle accelerator at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and, as I recall, it was bismuth, not lead. In any event, please note that I was using this as a hypothetical analogy, not a fact of history, and it had to do with proof of a theory, not whether the theory would produce a profit. Either way, however, I don’t see what’s wrong with the example? I welcome your critique, though, because it’s good to know that people actually are reading my stuff. I’m also glad you like our news service. Thanks for writing.
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