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2016 February 20 – 26
2016 February 20 – 26
Would it be better if some did not vote?
Would it be better if some did not vote?
The following link takes you to what appears at first to be a funny series of man-on-the-street interviews eliciting stupid comments from the public. However, in spite of an added laugh-track to make sure this is perceived as humorous, actually it is one of the most frightening stories of the century.
Not only does it reveal how stunningly ignorant many people are about important issues, but how easily opinions can be engineered by the skilled use of 
words. What makes it even worse is that these people can vote. Here are the interviews:
Congratulations, North Korea!
Click and be scared.
This raises a serious question: Is self-rule really possible? Is it realistic to expect a political system to survive if it requires informed, conscientious citizens exercising their judgment by popular vote?
That will be the topic of commentary next week, and it will be based on a political essay written in 1960 by Senator William Fulbright, entitled The Elite and the Electorate. I think you will be surprised by my analysis.
G. Edward Griffin
2016 February 26
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
THIS WEEK IN REVIEW
The tenth Republican debate featured intense verbal attacks by Rubio and Cruz against Trump who was left on the defensive. CBS News 2016 Feb 28 (Story)
Kansas Senator, Pat Roberts, has introduced a bill that would prevent states from controlling or restricting GMO crops. RT 2016 Feb 25 (Story)
The death of US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, became even more mysterious after it was learned that several members of the hunting party at the Cibolo Creek Ranch where Scalia was found dead are members of The International Order of Saint Hubertus. The first American branch of the Order was established at the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, which operates the Bohemian Grove, a place where male world leaders meet and practice occult ceremonies. DailyMail 2016 Feb 25 (Story) (Cached)
Photos of the ranch where Justice Scalia died show satanic-themed artwork and books on global empires. InfoWars 2016 Feb 25 (Story) (Cached)
A new study shows that drinking beet juice improves brain function in older adults. It does this by increasing blood flow to the brain, especially the frontal lobes. Beet juice also lowers blood pressure, helps protect against cancer, cleanses the bowels, strengthens the gall bladder, and increases stamina. Natural News posted 2016 Feb 25 (Story) (Cached)
Syria: Despite a ceasefire agreement between Russia and the US, the war will continue, because the Kurds, the al-Nusra Front, and ISIS are not part of the agreement. Furthermore, cease-fire agreements easily can be broken merely by launching a false-flag attack against one’s self and then re-starting the war in the name of self-defense. It’s an old trick. RT 2016 Feb 24 (Story)
Two human-rights groups in Israel report that dozens of Palestinians held at an Israeli detention facility have been illegally subjected to inhuman treatment and torture. AP 2016 Feb 24 (Story) (Cached)
Six states filed a lawsuit against the federal government because Obama’s Affordable Care Act failed to put states on notice that they would be required to pay a substantial fee to reimburse the fed for Medicaid subsidies. The suit says the fee is projected to allow the federal government to collect between $13 billion and $15 billion from states over the next decade. Fox News 2016 Feb 24 (Story) (Cached)
Trump storms to victory in the Nevada Republican Presidential caucuses. This is his third win, finishing far ahead of Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. AP 2016 Feb 24 (Story)
Jurors in St. Louis awarded $72 million in damages to the family of a woman whose death from ovarian cancer was linked to her using Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based Baby Powder and Shower to Shower. Johnson & Johnson faces claims that, in an effort to boost sales, it failed for decades to warn consumers that its talc-based products could cause cancer. About 1,000 similar cases have been filed in Missouri state court, and another 200 in New Jersey. Reuters 2016 Feb 23 (Story) (Cached)
New Delhi, India: Protesters from the farmer’s caste, who are demanding more jobs in government and education, sabotaged a major canal, depriving an estimated 10,000,000 people of water. France24 2016 Feb 23 (Story)
Canada passed a motion to condemn “any and all attempts” to promote the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The motion passed 229-51. We note, however, that this is merely a position statement, not a law to prohibit or penalize any such activity. RT 2016 Feb 23 (Story) (Cached)
Chapman University in California studied the fears of Americans and released a list of the top ten. The greatest fear is not terrorism or loss of privacy (although these are high on the list). The number one fear held by 58% of the people interviewed is corruption in government. Truthstream Media 2016 Feb 22 (Story)
Safes are sold out in Japan. This is a reaction to negative interest rates in which Japanese banks now are charging customers for holding their money and, thereby, motivating depositors to keep their money at home. This is another reason banks are pushing toward a cashless society. If there is no currency, you cannot keep it in a safe. If all money is digital, all of it must be processed through the banks, where it will be accessible for bank service fees or as a bail-in to cover bank losses. ZeroHedge 2016 Feb 22 (Story) (Cached)
Presidential candidate, John Kasich, who also is the Governor of Ohio, signed a state law that removes $1.3 million in state and federal funding for Planned Parenthood. CS Monitor 2016 Feb 22 (Story) (Cached)
Legislation is being prepared that would give illegal aliens the right to vote in New York City’s 2017 election. NY Post 2016 Feb 22 (Story) (Cached)
Apple is refusing to build a backdoor into the iPhone system so the FBI can extract data from the San Bernardino terrorists’ phones. Apple says this is overkill because it would put millions of other cell phones at risk as well. Tech guru, John McAfee, is offering to hack the terrorist’s individual phone at no charge to the government and, thereby, protect the privacy of the general public. The government has not yet responded to the offer, possibly because what it really wants is that backdoor into everyone’s phones. ABC News 2016 Feb 21 (Story)
Syria: ISIS is claiming responsibility for detonating car bombs in a heavy traffic area in Homs and, a few hours later, two bombings in nearby Damascus. An estimated 142 people were killed in the bombings, adding to the 280,000 people that have died in the five-year war. Half the population has fled. France 24 2016 Feb 21 (Story)
Saudi Arabia military forces killed 60 civilians, many of them children, in bomb strikes in Yemen over the weekend. Over 8,300 people have been killed since the beginning of Saudi attacks on Yemen last year. Press TV 2016 Feb 21 (Story)
UK: A study at Newcastle University of the difference between organic and conventional food showed that organic meat and milk had more than 50% more omega-3 fatty acids than conventional products. Red Orbit posted 2016 Feb 20 (Story) (Cached)
Reports confirm that the Chinese government is still removing and selling the organs of political and religious prisoners. Sometimes this is done without anesthesia. The government says these organ are voluntarily donated by the prisoners. The financial gain on selling organs is huge: a liver can garner $98,000 to $130,000 while the price of a lung ranges from $150,000 to $170,000. The AntiMedia posted 2016 Feb 20 (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.
Urban farmer Curtis Stone made $100,000 by farming on other people’s property in the city. He tells how to create 
a business by contracting with homeowners, catering to niche markets in urban neighborhoods and selling to restaurants, farmers markets, and neighbors. He has systematized his business and teaches others how to do the same. Really quite amazing. Growing Your Greens posted 2016 Feb 22 (Story)
North Carolina: Scientists from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine successfully printed a functional human exterior ear that is ready for transplanting. This remarkable achievement was made possible by the Integrated Tissue and Organ Printing System (ITOP) that works in a similar way to other 3-D printing systems but which can create capillaries for blood circulation. The team demonstrated ITOP’s ability by printing a jaw bone, muscle tissue, and cartilage structures. Inhabitat 2016 Feb 18 (Story) (Cached)
Judge Napolitano commended Apple CEO Tim Cook for refusing a court order to hack into a phone used by one of the accused shooters in the San Bernardino terror attacks. He says that Congress has decided that hacking is a felony, and a judge cannot order a felony to be committed. The case is likely to go to the Supreme Court. Fox News 2016 Feb 17 (Cached)
WHO SAID THAT?
HUMOR
HUMOR
Need to Know is as serious as it gets, but laughter is good for the soul and helps to keep our equilibrium amid the chaos. So, here are quips, gags, and images to put a smile on your face. If you have some you would like to share, please send them here.
Today’s Short Reading from the Bible:
From Genesis: “And God promised men that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the earth.” Then he made the earth round … and God laughed and laughed and laughed!
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Two best friends graduated from medical school at the same time and decided that, in spite of two different specialties, they would open a practice together to share office space and personnel. Dr. Smith was a psychiatrist and Dr. Jones was a proctologist; they put up a sign reading:”Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones: Hysterias and Posteriors”.
The town council was livid and insisted they change it. So, the docs changed it to read: “Schizoids and Hemorrhoids”.
This was also not acceptable, so they again changed the sign.”Catatonics and High Colonics” – No go.
Next, they tried “Manic Depressives and Anal Retentives” – thumbs down again..
Then came “Minds and Behinds” – still no good. “Nuts and Butts” – no way. “Freaks and Cheeks” – still no good. “Loons and Moons” – forget it.
Almost at their wit’s end, the docs finally came up with: “Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones – Specializing in Odds and Ends”. And that’s how it remains to this day.
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FROM A STUDENT IN BELGIUM
2016 Feb 23 from Robert Camps
Hi Mr Griffin,
I’m Robbert, a Belgian engineering student, and a few days ago, I heard from you for the first time. I’ve just watched this video. (I need to watch your other works on cancer and pharma fraud, but I find this kind of thing very interesting to see the bigger picture.) The idea of the whole monetary system being a scam wasn’t new to me, but yesterday I heard about the Rothenschild family. I never thought before of the fact that all this wealth and power must be flowing to some people, but now I can put a face on it. Right now, I feel as if I can’t escape from this scam, as they have so much power (just like you say here. Now, if I may, I have two questions for you:
– Have you ever been afraid of being silenced/killed? You try so hard to make the people aware of what is happening, and if we manage to change the system, some people are losing a lot of power. Power they could use right now to end it all before it goes out of control.
– Do you think the Bitcoin can be a solution to avoid the whole banking system? When I propose this to my friends, they say that banks are necessary; that sometimes we need loans that the bank can give us. They also think we need the government to be able to inject money in the economy when times are bad. I didn’t find a good answer yet to these arguments. (Or will there be no “bad times” if we can fix the system?)
REPLY FROM GEG:
Hello Robert. Good to hear from you, and I am glad to know that you find my work interesting. You have asked several excellent questions, and I will attempt to answer them as best I can under the load of work, correspondence, and deadlines, but I urge you to take a first step and sign up for my free news service, called Need to Know News. Most of what you ask is a recurring theme in Need to Know, so you will get an in-depth response from that source.
The next step is to connect to Freedom Force International. That’s really where the action is. I would be delighted to see you come into that circle as a member.
Now to the questions. Yes, I am afraid of what they might do to me and my family, but I am even more afraid of what will happen to me and my family if we do not stop the global tyranny that now is descending on us. Men have gone into battle from the beginning of time afraid of what might happen to them but, if they are on the defensive side of the conflict, they have no honorable choice.
Bitcoin is an amazing technology and, in a free system, it could be an excellent alternative to settling financial transactions without banks. In a totalitarian system, however, it is almost useless, because the totalitarians can simply outlaw its use and severely punish those who break the law. The Internet can be used, not only to make transactions, but also to trace those transactions. There is no escape from tyranny except to dismantle it.
Your friends are right when they say that banks can and do perform a useful service to the economy. But we are not talking about those services. We are talking about a corrupt system in which banks and governments have formed a partnership by which the public can be legally plundered by inflation and bank bailouts. Your friends are suffering from a sadly incomplete understanding of what banks really do today. Banks do not need to be eliminated, only made to operate honestly.
Finally, the idea that governments need to inject money into the economy when times are bad is contrary to logic and certainly contrary to history. You cannot help people by giving them money you have stolen from them. In every case where there appears to be a boom in the economy from government injection of money, if you back off a bit and look at the long-term consequences, the effect is devastating. It’s like saying we can help a suffering drug addict by giving him more drugs. True, the immediate effect may be that he feels better at the moment, but he is made even more ill by the treatment and, eventually, he will die from it. The economy works the same way.
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WARS REDUCE POPULATION IN COUNTRIES WITH FEWEST HARVARD MBAs
2016 Feb 22 from Bill Madden
[This is in response to last week’s editorial.]
Because war is an efficient method of transferring wealth, and because most sane humans want peace, those profiting from our many wars need to maintain a high level of fear in the world in order to brainwash the masses into believing that we have to fight terrorism in third-world counties in order to keep the homeland safe. In most cases, the terrorists are rag tag mercenaries without sophisticated weapons. No problem. To keep the enemy viable and the wealth transferring, the American taxpayers supply the very latest military hardware.
In addition to perpetuating the flow of profits, the human slaughter helps reduce world overpopulation in countries with the fewest Harvard MBAs.
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“SHATTER IT TO BITS” editorial
2016 Feb 20 from Lionel Binnie
I share your feelings about the war in the Middle East. [Last week’s editorial, “Would we not shatter it to bits?”]
I lived in the Middle East and my wife and I had many Christian Arab friends. We went to the same church, were invited into their homes and were Godparents for their babies at Baptism, and sponsors for the older children at Confirmation. We now worry that our friends’ families are among the Syrian Christians hiding in the northern mountains of Syria.
Here in Canada I became a friend of a Syrian studying at McGill university in Montreal. He was very happy with Syria. He and his fellow Christians were protected by the government, as were the Druse and other religious and ethnic minorities. He even sent me pictures of Easter processions in Damascus, both Catholic and Orthodox. Now he is working in Amman, Jordan, for his father’s firm. He is safe, his family is safe in Beirut, but his extended family lived in northern Syria, and cannot be contacted.
Syria was a good country until outside powers decided to attack Assad. The “Rebels” were financed by Saudi Arabia because Assad is an Alawite (part of Shia Islam) and he protected Christians and other religious minorities. His type of Islam is hated by the Saudi regime, the current “king” of Saudi Arabia has said that “One and a half billion Sunni are “tired” of Shia and want it gone”. That means that he wants Shia Muslims gone, which can only mean that he wants millions of Shia Muslims dead.
It is hard to tell exactly why Saudi Arabia poured so much money into the Syrian “rebel” cause. But Obama armed them, the diplomatic team murdered in Benghazi were shipping weapons from Gadaffi’s armouries to Syria.
The situation saddens me. A country has been destroyed, people have been driven into hiding, ancient churches and monasteries have been destroyed, and historical masterpieces leveled.
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