Law

A Turkish court has ordered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to compensate the leader of the opposition party who criticised the President for having golden toilet bowls in the presidential palace. In May 2015 the leader of the opposition Republican people’s party, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, stated that the 1000-room presidential Palace had golden toilet bowls. Erdogan denied the allegation and attempted to sue his rival for his comments. Fort Russ reports: “On December 27th the court of first instance of Ankara decided to close the case about the “Golden bowl” in the first hearing.

The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History

Paul Craig Roberts

The UK foreign secretary has been accused of “parroting the propaganda” of Britain’s Middle East ally as he refused to condemn the mass execution of 47 people in Saudi Arabia. When asked whether London should be “more robust” in condemning the Saudi executions, Philip Hammond said: “Let us be clear, first of all, that these people were convicted terrorists.” Rights campaigners say that at least four of the 47, including the Saudi Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, were arrested and executed in relation to political protests.

Using hacking methods never seen before in the history of law enforcement, the FBI have hacked the dark web, infiltrating the largest remaining known child pornography service in the world. A new report has revealed that the FBI secretly took control of a child porn website early last year and began infecting visitors with malware to identify around 1,300 individuals who had allegedly logged-on using software designed to browse the Internet anonymously.

Venezuela have passed a new law in December 2015 that effectively bans GMOs from the country.  The law imposes one of the toughest regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the world. The anti-GMO law was approved by the National Assembly of Venezuela, and passed by popular demand. Ecowatch.com reports: Today, the new opposition coalition—the Roundtable of Democratic Unity—will take over.