Politics

Abstract:

Contrary to reports in the media, the crowd sourced investigation labeled by some as "Pizzagate" did not begin with internet sleuths digging through the Wikileaks Podesta Files releases looking for pizza parlors and encoded language discussing human trafficking. It began with the shocking discovery that Hillary and Bill Clinton provided assistance to convicted child trafficker, Laura Silsby, resulting in a reduced sentence for child trafficking.

French financial prosecutors said on Wednesday they had opened a preliminary probe into the possible misuse of public funds following a press report about conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon's wife working for him as a parliamentary assistant.

The frontrunner in the April-May election has acknowledged his wife Penelope had worked for him when he was a legislator, but has fiercely denied the report in Le Canard Enchaine that she earned a big salary for work she never did.

While the Economist's endorsement of Hillary Clinton - and its antipathy toward Donald Trump  - is no secret, we are "confident" there is little connection between the economic publication's ideological leanings and the just released report by the Economist's in house Intelligence unit, which has officially demoted the US to a second-class democracy.

A Republican-proposed House Resolution aiming to terminate US membership of the UN has quietly slipped past public radar and been introduced in Congress. The proposed bill sets to rectify Israel’s image on the world stage and save money for the US. At the same time it aims to bypass climate change and gun regulations/controls and to allow Big Oil uninhibited access to pollute the planet. The new bill would set the stage for the United States to terminate its membership in the United Nations. The proposal could throw the world body under the bus at the most crucial time in its history.

Having stunned the media with his Monday night announcement before members of Congress during a private reception that Trump only lost the popular vote due to vote fraud, the president refused to back down the next day, when on Tuesday the White House said Trump stands by his belief that millions of people voted illegally in the U.S. election.