54 IV. NEWS TRENDS & STORIES Linda Ives Linda Ives has spent decades trying to hold the responsible parties accountable for her son Kevin’s murder in connection with the Mena, Arkansas, drug trafficking operation. • Linda Ives – Pushing for Evidence and Boys on the Track • The Lawsuit that Could Sink the Clintons” Linda Ives Says She Can Prove the Feds Cov- ered up Her Son’s Murder Chuck Marohn Chuck Marohn created Strong Towns to help local communities evolve their infrastructure investment to a positive return on investment. Sound familiar? Strong Towns is an organization you want to join and support. • Solari Report: Strong Towns with Chuck Marohn • Chuck Marohn and His Strong Towns Team Networking America John McAfee While we were warning people about security issues associated with Bitcoin and Cryptocurren- cies, McAfee brought in the heavy lift. • John McAffee Warns on Crypto Security Howard Root Howard Root spent five years and $25 million defeating a bogus qui tam lawsuit adopted by the US Department of Justice. After winning, he published his book Cardiac Arrest, putting forward specific proposals to reform the Depart- ment of Justice. Deeply concerned about what government lawlessness means to the individual liability of the entrepreneur and business owner, he sold his company. “I quit. Friday I walk away from the company I started 20 years ago and grew into 650 U.S. employees and $1 billion in sales of over 100 new medical devices. I didn’t quit because I’m old—I’m 56—or want to play golf. The reason I sold my company and ended a career I loved is to avoid the risk of being criminally prosecuted under the federal government’s “responsible corporate officer” doctrine for the second time.” – HOWARD ROOT, WSJ • Solari Report: Cardiac Arrest: The Criminal- ization of America with Howard Root Dr. Mark Skidmore Upon hearing me describe $6.5 Trillion missing from the Department of Defense in fiscal 2015, Dr. Skidmore set out to prove me wrong. Upon discovering that this amount was accurate, Dr. Skidmore lead a team of graduate students in a survey of DOD and HUD financial reports for fiscal 1998-2015. The result? The amount of documented “un- documentable adjustments” at HUD and DOD surpassed the size of the official outstanding debt off the United States. With the help of Dr. Skidmore’s careful explanations, a much wider audience began to appreciate the importance of requiring federal finances to operate according to the law. • Dr. Mark Skidmore: Publicly Documenting $21 Trillion Missing from DOD and HUD • MSU Scholars Find $21 Trillion in Unau- thorized Government Spending; Defense Department to Conduct First-ever Audit • USA Watchdog: Dr. Mark Skidmore – $21 Trillion Missing from US Federal Budget President Donald J. Trump While many of us were thrilled to face the future without another Bush or Clinton in the White House, it was still hard to know what to expect from Donald Trump. Trump declared war on the corporate media during the campaign and has kept it going throughout 2017 – creating a crack in the mind control dam that is encouraging thousands, if not millions to speak their minds and take action. Would the year of punching back have happened without President Trump’s irreverent – and in many cases successful – attacks on the corporate media, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and the Wash- ington establishment? We think POTUS deserves a lot of credit. Dr. Mark Skidmore