40 • Canada’s Pizzagate: Where’s the Media? • Woman Claims Parents Sold Her To An In- ternational Sex Trafficking Organization – At Birth Voter Fraud: • Greg Palast: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy • Georgia Republicans Pass Racial Gerrymander to Kick Black Voters Out of GOP Districts F. Decentralization: Can We Re-Localize? Can It Work? • Do Parents Matter? Questions Senators Should Ask Education Nominee Betsy DeVos • The Cascading Impacts of High Water Costs • Former Black Panther Destroys John Lewis on Tucker Carlson Tonight • City of Everett Claims OxyContin Maker Allows Drug into Black Market, Plans to Sue • Legislators Push for Cities to Be Treated as “Tenants of the State” • Nullify Chapter 15: Nevada Beats D.C. by Turning Off their Water • Plan for Prosperity: The Community Bank Agenda for Economic Growth G. Equity Creation Greater than Controlled Demolitions? • GM Will Invest Over $1 Billion In New US Factories, Create More Than 1,000 Jobs • U.S. Quietly Drops Bombshell: Wall Street Banks Have $2 Trillion European Exposure • The Colonization of Local-Business Main Street by Corporate America • Swiss National Bank’s U.S. Stock Holdings Hit A Record $63.4 Billion • Apple Looks to Raise $1 Billion in Second Taiwanese Bond Sale • Poor Neighborhoods Make the Best Invest- ments H. Covert Cash Flows: Black Budget, Secret Dividends • Vatican Wants Global Central Bank • Berkshire’s Deal With AIG Will Boost Premi- ums and Float • CNN’s Jake Tapper crushed by Tulsi Gabbard, ‘Why is US supporting Al Qaeda, when Al Qaeda attacked US on 9-11, not Syria’ • “This Is Unacceptable” – Congressman Slams Yellen For Prioritizing Foreign Banks Over “America’s Interests” • Part One: At the Eye of a Looming Storm? Those Bankster Deaths and more Missing… III. Global 3.0 Rising A. Space • SpaceX Rocket Successfully Lifts Off • The Biggest Space Missions to Watch in 2017 • China’s Space Activities in 2016 • China’s Ambitious Space Program • SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018 B. Automation • Japanese Company Replaces Office Workers with Artificial Intelligence • Kevin Kelly: How AI Can Bring on a Second Industrial Revolution – Ted Talk 2016 C. 5G is Coming • Verizon to Test 5G in Dallas, 10 Other Mar- kets • How a Telecom Bill is About to Strip Local Authority • Judge Says California Must Release Papers Discussing Risk Of Cellphone Use D. Surveillance Capitalism • The Social Media Exodus Has Begun. Here’s Where Everybody’s Going • Federal Judge in a ‘Dilemma’ over Micro- soft’s Legal Case Against Government Secrecy Orders • I’ll Never bring my Phone on an International Flight Again. Neither Should You • The Role Of Utility Meters In Mass Surveil- lance • Five Eyes Allies Do Spy on One Another • Three sources tell Fox News that Obama used the British NSA to secretly surveil Trump • Mayhem Miller Destroying A Samsung Smart TV After Wikileaks Vault 7 Leak IV. News Trends & Stories “This Is Unaccept- able” – Congressman Slams Yellen For Prioritizing Foreign Banks Over “Ameri- ca’s Interests” ”