Need To Know News From G. Edward Griffin

Published: Wed, 01/17/18

G. Edward Griffin's Essential News & Analysis
 
 
Pennsylvania state legislature Senator Mike Folmer is seeking support for a law to require medical professionals to obtain informed consent from parents, which would require that they be told of potential risks associated with the ingredients of vaccines. He also is planning a resolution requesting Congress to repeal the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act that shields vaccine makers from liability for vaccine injuries and prevents parents from suing for damages. [...]
 
 
James O'Keefe of Project Veritas publishes more undercover video of Twitter employees. This time, they reveal that users' privacy is a joke to them. Engineer Pranay Singh says all content, even if deleted by the user, is permanently stored on Twitter servers.This includes a vast amount of sexually explicit text and photos. Tweets and supposedly private, direct messages (DMs) are analyzed through a machine algorithm that creates a highly personal profile about you and sells it to advertisers who track you on the Internet with cookies. [...]
 
 
Jason Fyk says that when Twitter shut down President Trump from its platform for 10 minutes, it was to test public reaction. Twitter may be planning to take down his account permanently. Facebook recently blocked the opportunity for hundreds of thousands of people to make money from their Internet content. Fyk calls for regulations, but can we trust Congress? The problem is far more systemic than that. The solution starts with draining the swamp in schools and government. [...]
 
 
Syria: President Assad's army objects to the continued presence of the US military and vows to drive it out. It says the US is training anti-government militias in the interest of protecting Israel. American neocon, General McMaster, however, says that 80% of Syria's army is made up of Iranian proxies. [...]
 
 
Aaron Goldstein, a gun-control advocate seeking election as Illinois Attorney General, was robbed at gunpoint by three men who failed to obey the city's strict gun-control laws. He was in a local park posing for a campaign photo when he came face-to-face with the consequences of gun-control laws. Luckily, no one was harmed. In a bizarre turn of events, Goldstein refused to give a detailed descriptions of his attackers. [...]
 
 
Google and Facebook have become a duopoly, capturing 84% of digital revenue worldwide, excluding China. That adds up to 30% of all revenue on the entire planet. The companies have a strong left-collectivist bias and are weaponizing their ideology. Tucker Carlson says the companies are even more powerful than governments. [Congress has the power to regulate them, but backs away partly because politicians fear this power and partly because many of them also are collectivists.] [...]
 
 
Twitter suspended the account of Congressional candidate, Chris DePizzo, after he tweeted that his Democrat rival was a “liberal media darling” who ignores the concerns of his own district. He also said that his opponent's donors in California and New York were more important to him than his constituents. Clearly, Twitter is no longer just a provider of a channel of communications, it has assumed the role of censor as well - and an extremely biased one at that. [...]
 
 
University of North Carolina anthropology professor, Dwayne Dixon, admitted chasing chasing James Alex Fields, Jr. with a rifle, causing Fields to drive into a crowd of other Antifa and Black Lives Matter protesters, resulting in one death and dozens of injuries. The media was quick to brand Field’s actions as terrorism but, according to authorities, Fields expressed remorse and shock after the incident, asking “Are they okay?”, suggesting the tragedy was not intended but a result of fleeing from Professor Dixon and his rifle. [...]