G. Edward Griffin's Essential News & Analysis
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Tucker Carlson lambasted war hawks on the right and left who agree that the US must go to war and overthrow Syrian President Assad, based on a viral video depicting people suffering from a poison gas attack that offers no real proof against Assad. He points out that US regime change in Libya and Afghanistan have been total failures and have cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, and these countries should be made whole again before toppling another regime. [...] |
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California: Bill SB 1424 requires all social media and internet websites that have physical presence in the state to verify news stories that are shared on their websites using fact checkers. The goal of the bill is to silence critics of official narratives. California State Senator Richard Pan, who was behind the infamous mandatory vaccine bill of 2015, is introducing this legislation. [...] |
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Amid a huge spike in murders in his city, London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling for heavy knife control and the increased use of a police technique that he had once referred to as “racist.” [...] |
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The FBI raided the office and home of Michael Cohen, Trump's long-time attorney who allegedly paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money just before the 2016 election to silence her about an affair in 2006. The FBI was acting on behalf of special counsel Robert Mueller. Cohen's records include attorney client protected documents. [...] |
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Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers has threatened to pull its business from Wells Fargo unless it severs ties with the National Rifle Association and gun manufacturers. So far, the bank is resisting- a bank official said that he did not believe that the American public wants banks to decide which legal products consumers can and cannot buy. [Conservatives are on the defensive and need to become highly organized like their opposition on the left.] [...] |
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Currently, there are 2 million Americans addicted to opioid drugs, and more than 300,000 people have died from opioids since 2000. The Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 shackled the DEA from cracking down on Big Pharma drug traffickers who sell millions of opioid pills to small pharmacies and clinics who, in turn, sell the pills to street dealers. There is no excuse for Congress refusing to repeal the law now, except that parts of the federal government support the opioid industry. [...] |
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Facebook has two major problems, privacy and propaganda, which may lead to government regulation over the private company. Facebook is the biggest provider of news in the US, with a long track record of censorship, and it has the power to turn election results. Google and Facebook control 90% of the digital advertisement market. In addition, Americans' privacy has been grossly violated because they have not understood the User Agreement. [...] |
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