2016 is shaping up as the year when countless conspiracy theories will be confirmed to be non-conspiracy fact: from central bank rigging of capital markets, to political rigging of elections, to media rigging of public sentiment, and now, commercial bank rigging of both silver and gold. In short, "tinfoil hat-wearing nutjobs living in their parents basement" were right all along.
Throughout history, government officials have tried to stop "fake news" through various means before it was published.
The crime of the peddlers of fake news: failing to acknowledge that those in power were perfect saints.
Socrates
For example, Socrates was killed in 399 BC for spreading "fake news".
His crime: “Failing to acknowledge the gods that the [mainstream media of the day] acknowledges”.
Tyndale
William Tyndale was killed in 1536 for spreading "fake news".
Andrew Breitbart may have been murdered after uncovering evidence of a pedophile ring in Washington D.C. that directly implicated the Clinton’s. According to Internet sleuths, Breitbart was very vocal that Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John Podesta, was connected to a child sex ring in Washington that very likely included the Clinton’s and their cronies. Just weeks after Andrew Brietbart began going public on his findings, he was found dead under mysterious circumstances. Worryingly, his coroner was found dead just weeks later too. A tweet by Mr.
A federal judge in California has ordered bitcoin wallet service Coinbase Inc. to hand over records of all American user transactions from 2013 to 2015 to the IRS, as part of a tax evasion investigation. RT.com reports: On Wednesday, the Northern California District Court allowed the Internal Revenue Service to issue a “John Doe” summons to Coinbase in the pursuit of “information about US taxpayers who conducted transactions in a convertible virtual currency during the years 2013 to 2015,” the US Department of Justice said.
Submitted by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,