Politics

The Clinton Foundation is discontinuing the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) amid an FBI corruption investigation. In a WARN (The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) notice filed with the Department of Labor last week, the Clinton Foundation announced it would be laying off some 22 employees at their primary networking platform. The Clinton Foundation attained notoriety during the election thanks to leaked emails by WikiLeaks. They showed the organization to be an entity that did not serve the US national interest.

Last April, in a move that led to widespread public outrage, the Egyptian government revealed that it had signed maritime demarcation accords that put the islands of Tiran and Sanafir in Saudi waters, in the process handing over the two islands to the Saudi kingdom, a transfer that was widely perceived as a behind the scenes gift from the Egyptian president to the Saudi regime.

It appears the US Democratic party and Clinton campaign are not alone when it comes to problems preserving highly sensitive information. According to the Globe and Mail, Canada's Vice-Admiral Mark Norman has been relieved of his duties as the Canadian military's second-highest-ranking officer over alleged leaks of highly classified information.

Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, commander of the Royal Canadian Navy, Rear Admiral Dave Gardam, Rear Admiral John Newton, and Lt.-Gen Stuart Beare, left to right

As media attention is focused on allegations of election tampering by Russia, one thing is for sure, Goldman Sachs got its man into the White house and guaranteed itself a meal ticket. The mother of all banks, Goldman Sachs, hedges its bets to get the best possible outcome so it stays alive and prospers. In the case of US presidential elections, the zombie bank always manages to pick the winner among the usual two candidates and somehow always comes out on top.

Man-made global warming is a hoax created by the elite to make money and damage the U.S. economy, according to President-elect Donald Trump – and his picks for prominent roles in the administration prove he is serious about “ending the scam.” Trump met with Dr. Will Happer, an outspoken climate change skeptic, on Friday in New York and sources in Washington report the prominent Princeton University professor is joining the administration. In 2015 Dr. Happer declared UN “policies to slow CO2 emissions are really based on nonsense. We are being led down a false path.