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Bernanke is Wrong, Gold is Money

Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

2011 July 13

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke today said that the Federal Reserve is prepared to act with an additional round of quantitative easing if there is any weakening of the U.S. economy and threat of deflation. Bernanke also said that the Fed could act in other ways to stimulate the economy, such as cutting the interest rate that the Fed pays to banks on their $1.5 trillion in excess reserves that they currently keep parked at the Fed. NIA believes this $1.5 trillion alone would multiply into $15 trillion once it circulates through the U.S. economy and if Bernanke on top of that unleashes any additional quantitative easing, it will just about guarantee hyperinflation. Bernanke has made it very clear that he is prepared to print money until the U.S. dollar becomes worthless and the incomes and savings of all U.S. citizens are destroyed.

Ron Paul today asked Bernanke whether or not he watches the price of gold and if he thinks gold is money. Although Bernanke admitted that he does watch the price of gold, Bernanke said that gold is not money, but it is only an asset. Bernanke explained that central banks only hold gold as a “tradition”. The truth is, gold has been accepted as money throughout all civilizations over periods of thousands of years. Bernanke doesn’t want U.S. citizens to wake up and realize that they can opt-out of the criminal Federal Reserve system if they get rid of their U.S. dollars and store all of their wealth in gold and silver. To see a video of Ron Paul’s exchange today with Bernanke, simply visit our blog at: http://inflation.us/blog/2011/07/video-of-ron-paul-asking-bernanke-if-gold-is-money/

The U.S. Constitution defined gold as legal tender and the current fiat currency system we have today where Bernanke can steal from the purchasing power of the poor and middle-class and redistribute this wealth to his banker friends on Wall Street is unconstitutional, immoral, and illegal. The U.S. dollar originally only had purchasing power because it was backed by gold. Today, the U.S. dollar is a fiat currency that is backed by nothing. Any remaining purchasing power the U.S. dollar still has is just an illusion and will soon evaporate due to Bernanke’s actions.

In order for an item to function as money, it should be liquid and easily tradable, easily transportable, and durable. It should be divisible into smaller units without destroying its value and should also be fungible, meaning one unit of equal weight must be equivalent to another (which is why diamonds can’t be used as money). The item must also be a specific weight, measure, or size, so that it is easy to count. It must be long lasting, durable, and not perishable or subject to decay (which is why food items can’t be used as money).

Money must be easily recognizable and most importantly, it must be difficult to counterfeit. The U.S. dollar simply isn’t real money because Bernanke has been counterfeiting trillions of dollars out of thin air. Money shouldn’t require a mark or image to be valuable, but it should just be valuable based on weight and measure. Gold is valuable based on its weight and measure, and fits all of these other qualities and characteristics as well. Never do people explore shipwrecks hoping to discover U.S. dollars, because dollars that Bernanke can print at will even if they could survive the corrosion of the ocean, simply won’t have any purchasing power left by the time explorers can locate them. People explore shipwrecks for gold, because it will last underwater for thousands of years and always retain its value.

When Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe ordered their central bank to implement exactly the same monetary policies that Bernanke has been ordered to implement here in the U.S., the Zimbabwe dollar became worthless and Zimbabweans were forced to pan their rivers for gold. Citizens of Zimbabwe who were able to find 0.1 gram of gold after a long hard day’s work of shifting through thousands of buckets full of mud, were able to take that 0.1 gram of gold and exchange it for a loaf of bread. Those who were too old or weak to pan for gold simply couldn’t afford food and starved to death.

NIA recommends to all U.S. citizens that they read this eHow article about homemade gold panning: http://www.ehow.com/how_7763218_homemade-gold-panning.html This is a skill all Americans will need to have in order to survive hyperinflation. Unfortunately, unlike in Zimbabwe, most gold in U.S. rivers has already been explored for, so Americans might not be as lucky as Zimbabweans.

In order for an asset to be considered money, its supply must be kept scarce. Bernanke has spent a total of $4.7 trillion since the financial crisis of late-2008, which has flooded the world with excess liquidity of U.S. dollars and led to massive inflation in the prices of food and energy, the two items that Americans need most to live and survive. The inflation problems in China are a direct result of their currency peg to the U.S. dollar and willingness to accept the dollars we print in return for the real goods they produce. As soon as the Chinese central bank decides to end their currency peg, China’s currency will increase in purchasing power and all of the monetary inflation the U.S. has exported to them will flow back to the U.S. like a giant tsunami.

Ron Paul today pointed out exactly what we said in our last article. Since the last Presidential election about three years ago, the U.S. dollar has lost about half of its purchasing power priced in gold. Although the U.S. government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has reported only 2% annual price inflation over the past three years, when you account for how the U.S. government used to calculate price inflation before the implementation of hedonics and quantitative easing, annual price inflation has actually been closer to 9%. Soon when price inflation begins spiraling out of control, Bernanke will be forced to raise the Fed Funds Rate north of 10%, which will cause our interest payments on the national debt to soar to over $1 trillion per year. The U.S. government will then need to immediately end Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all other entitlement programs, to have any chance of survival.

It is important to spread the word about NIA to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, if you want America to survive hyperinflation. Please tell everybody you know to become members of NIA for free immediately at: http://inflation.us

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Media Already Marginalizing Ron Paul Presidential Campaign

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

We are at the very beginning of our nation’s most important Presidential election season in history. Historically in all Presidential elections, taxation has always been one of the top issues. The Republicans always call for lower taxes, while the Democrats say we should tax the rich more and cut taxes on the poor and middle class. The truth is, taxation today means nothing when the real U.S. budget deficit is now more than twice the government’s total tax receipts. Taxation is used to distract U.S. citizens as the Federal Reserve prints trillions of dollars out of thin air, stealing from the incomes and savings of all Americans.

NIA’s number one goal during the next year is to educate as many Americans as possible to the truth about the U.S. economy so that come the 2012 Republican primaries and general Presidential election, inflation is the number one issue on everybody’s minds. During the 2008 Presidential debates between President Obama and John McCain, Obama did not use the word inflation once. McCain used the word inflation only a handful of times, but spoke about taxation nearly one hundred times. When McCain mentioned inflation, he said that we need to make it easier for students to borrow larger amounts of money to attend college due to inflation, when it is actually the government’s willingness to provide easy access to student loans that is causing tuition inflation.

In the 2008 Presidential election, Americans did not have a choice to vote for an anti-inflation candidate. Although polls in late-2008 indicated that the majority of U.S. citizens were against the government’s bailouts of Wall Street and artificial stimulus bills, both Obama and McCain were in support of them. Despite Ron Paul doubling McCain’s fundraising in the 4Q of 2007 and raising $20 million, ending the year with $7.8 million in cash on hand while McCain’s campaign was broke and in debt, the mainstream media manipulated the minds of Americans into voting for McCain as the Republican nominee, when it is Ron Paul who would have put a stop to Congress’ reckless, dangerous, and destructive spending that can only be paid for by borrowing and printing money.

Since Obama was elected President on November 4th, 2008, the U.S. dollar has lost 48% of its purchasing power. Americans today spend 48% more for gasoline than they did the day of the last election. Americans today also spend 105% more for sugar, 78% more for coffee, 58% more for corn, with similar gains for many other agricultural commodities. The U.S. government and Federal Reserve created all of this inflation in an attempt to reinflate the Real Estate bubble, yet the median U.S. home price declined by 2.4% during this time period. Meanwhile, the real unemployment rate has increased from 16.8% to 22.3%.

The media worked tirelessly in 2008 to marginalize Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign. After every Republican candidate debate, FOX News would have a text message and online voting poll on who won the debate. Ron Paul would overwhelmingly win most of the polls, with hundreds of thousands of people voting, yet the FOX News hosts wouldn’t give credit to Ron Paul for winning the debate. They instead would claim that their own poll was somehow compromised and manipulated by tech savvy Ron Paul supporters. Ron Paul supporters did not manipulate FOX News’ polls, FOX News and the rest of the mainstream media manipulated the minds of their viewers into nominating John McCain who had the exact same viewpoints as Obama on every economic issue, except that Obama said he would tax the rich slightly more than McCain (big deal!).

The media is already beginning their massive campaign to marginalize Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign for the Republican nomination in the 2012 election. After the first Republican debate on June 13th, Bill O’Reilly referred to a snap poll that declared Mitt Romney the winner with 51% of the vote and Ron Paul the loser with 0%. The very fine print on the screen said that 54 people voted in the poll that Bill O’Reilly was using to declare Romney the winner of the debate. So when hundreds of thousands of real voters support Ron Paul in a FOX News poll, the network’s hosts downplay it and claim that their own poll was rigged; but when 54 Washington insiders vote for Romney and 0 vote for Ron Paul, Bill O’Reilly gives credibility to that poll in an attempt to influence his viewers into believing Ron Paul has no chance of being elected!

The mainstream media has already hand selected Romney to be their nominee in the 2012 election. No matter where you look this week, the headlines read that Romney raised $15 to $20 million in the second quarter, most of it coming from bankers on Wall Street. Meanwhile, Ron Paul has raised $4.5 million from grassroots supporters, more than Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman, or anybody else that has reported so far, but nobody gives Ron Paul any credit. All of the articles written about Ron Paul call him a “long-shot”, solely in an attempt to manipulate the minds of voters.

Romney’s millions of dollars in donations are coming from those who benefited from the Federal Reserve’s unconstitutional and criminal acts of stealing the wealth of hardworking middle-class Americans through inflation. Romney has made it very clear that he won’t discuss the Federal Reserve and that he believes Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is doing a good job. The fact is, unless we address the Federal Reserve and the endless monetary inflation they are creating, no other issues matter at all.

Some of the people who benefited from the Federal Reserve’s bailouts are hedging their bets and not just supporting Romney, but are supporting all of the Republican candidates other than Ron Paul. Jack Welch, former Chairman of General Electric (GE), yesterday declared Romney, Pawlenty, and Huntsman the three “real contenders” in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, saying that, “each of them has their pluses and minuses”. Welch gave no mention of Ron Paul, despite the fact that he raised more money than Pawlenty and Huntsman last quarter. Welch in the same interview called Bernanke a “hero during the crisis”. After all, GE would have gone bankrupt due to Welch’s reckless management of the company if it wasn’t for the U.S. government backing $139 billion of GE’s debt during the financial crisis.

Bill O’Reilly has been trying to portray Ron Paul as some kind of a lunatic, when O’Reilly is clearly uneducated about the economic issues that matter today. In a shocking display of just how incompetent O’Reilly is, he recently played a clip of Ron Paul speaking at the June 13th debate about how the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency has become our main export in return for all of the real products we import from countries like China and Japan. O’Reilly said he was “very confused” by what Ron Paul was saying. O’Reilly apparently thinks this is normal and will be sustainable continuously forever. To see this shocking video of O’Reilly’s incompetence, simply go to our recent blog posting at: http://inflation.us/blog/2011/06/bill-oreilly-clueless-about-economics-and-inflation/

Glenn Beck, the only person in the mainstream media who has called NIA a credible organization and has referenced our food inflation report on the air on many occasions, recently left FOX News to start his own Internet television network. With Glenn Beck leaving FOX News, the balance of power has now shifted. If you combine all of the major alternative media organizations on the Internet, they now have larger reach than the mainstream media news organizations on television. Due to this shift in power, NIA now truly believes that a candidate like Ron Paul has a chance of actually winning the 2012 Presidential election.

In order for our movement to succeed in electing a real President like Ron Paul in 2012, we must all work together. Americans need to realize that the real war isn’t CNN, MSNBC, and the Democrats vs. FOX News and the Republicans. The real information war is alternative news organizations on the Internet that speak the truth along with politicians who believe in Austrian economics and protecting the U.S. Constitution vs. CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and the rest of the mainstream media, which spread false propaganda in order to support the Democrats and Republicans that have been brainwashed by our nation’s colleges with Keynesian economic principles, and have put our nation on the brink of hyperinflation.

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Manning The Barricades for Virtue and America

Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Written on July 2, 2011 by Floyd Brown

This a Fourth of July we are reflecting on the Founding Father’s intensive study of the Roman civilization. Knowing history, they embraced Rome’s virtues and eschewed her vices. The Founders understood the currents of history which gave us a collective heritage unrivaled. Sadly, we as a nation are turning our backs on the morality that made America special.

The country has convulsed in the past 30 years as a new modern morality has supplanted the currents of culture built nearly two thousand years ago along the shores of Galilee. This new culture is not yet fully defined, but we stand horrified as we peer into the future.

The culture of the Roman world was brutal and nasty. Ironically, we see its worst practices reviving with vigor. Please give us a moment as we recount a history seldom taught today’s students.

The Roman Empire had a twisted view about the value of human life. These views were banished by the ascendency of Christ’s teaching. Infanticide was both legal and encouraged in ancient Rome. Pagan societies, such as the Carthaginians, Romans and Greeks went so far as to kill their children outside the womb, sometimes as a religious sacrifice to their gods. According to Plutarch, the Carthaginians “offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs of young birds; meanwhile the mothers stood by without a tear or moan.”

We see a modern American society which looks at children as a burden, and a generation of mothers who have decided by their own “choice” to sacrifice a generation. Population control is now an international objective.

Roman views on homosexuality were closer to today’s views than many realize. Pundit Nathaniel Blake characterizes it this way: “But, the Roman conception of same-sex relationships was very different than that of the modern West. The most important factors in the Roman view seem to have been the status and role of the partners. The Romans did not consider homosexual or heterosexual identities as exclusive from one another. While bisexuality was common, strict homosexuality was all but unknown. Unlike the modern view, social class mattered a great deal in the acceptability of homosexual relations. The upper classes were much more likely to indulge in homosexual acts, and masters had the sexual use of their slaves.” It was common to see an older man who held dominance over a younger male, using him for sexual pleasure.

It was not until the teachings of Christ and Saint Paul conquered Rome and Western Europe that sodomy was outlawed. But alas much has changed. Now sodomy is once again legal, and some states believe these acts deserve celebration in the most public of ceremonies, the wedding.

Finally, we see the debasement of money and profligacy of the state. Today taxpayers fund stadiums for the “games.” Roman emperors don’t hold a candle to the US Congress and the Federal Reserve in the looting of the public coffers and destruction of money.

In this, Roman Emperor Caracalla comes to mind. In addition to murdering his brother, Caracalla is mostly remembered for granting Roman citizenship to every Freeman in the empire. Caracalla’s goal was to broaden the tax base to pay for his extravagant spending. He raised the inheritance tax so he could double public salaries and win the allegiance of the legions. His public works are still on display today. If you visit Rome, you can see the ruins of the gigantic “Baths of Caracalla.”

His final contribution rivals the Federal Reserve. The silver denarius was an innovation in sound money introduced by Emperor Augustus. It was 95 percent silver like America’s pre- 1964 coinage, and the denarius lead to greatly improved honest trade around the empire. Caracalla, in his drive to increase spending, changed it to a coin with only 50 percent silver.

It took later emperors to debase it as far as the Federal Reserve has debased America’s currency. By 268 AD the denarius was only 0.5 percent silver. The result was predictable, as prices rose throughout the empire by up to 1,000 percent. Soon the “barbarians” hired by the emperor as mercenaries would not accept the denarius as payment, and insisted on being paid in gold.

Such manipulations by Roman leaders are legendary, but Americans who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. The moral and financial collapse of Rome lead to a renaissance of morality and the “Christian Era.” We can only hope that the accelerating American collapse leads to a return of the time tested honest culture that celebrates life, prudently shuns sexual immorality, and with commerce flourishing after a return to honest money.

But until that day arrives, we will continue to fight for these virtues until our last breath.

©2011 Floyd and Mary Beth Brown. The Browns are bestselling authors and speakers. To comment on this column, e-mail browns@caglecartoons.com. Together they write a national weekly column distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. Floyd is also president of the Western Center for Journalism. For more info call Cari Dawson Bartley at 800 696 7561 or e-mail cari@cagle.com.

Floyd’s latest book is “Killing Wealth, Freeing Wealth,” from WND Books. Time magazine wrote of Floyd: “Brown has stature among devoted conservatives that almost matches his physical heft (6 ft. 6 in. and 240 lbs.)” See more at Floyd’s blog at floydreports.com.
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Illegal Obama “Propped Up” By Congress!

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Conservative Byte 2011 July 2

There were eight attempts by members of Congress during the years Barack Obama was developing a power base and running for president to remove the Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen,” suggesting an organized strategy, according to a new video.

The video documentary was produced by Carl Gallups, the senior pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church for more than 24 years with a long history of community and law enforcement involvement.

Gallups was a Florida law enforcement officer for 10 years, a youth minister before that and is a national and international youth evangelist with outreaches across the United States and in Canada since 1989. He’s also on the board of regents at the University of Mobile and hosts several weekly radio programs in the northwest Florida region.

Documentation for his video comes from a variety of congressional records showing that beginning June 11, 2003, and continuing through the most recent effort, Feb. 28, 2008, there were eight proposals targeting that constitutional requirement.

The video:

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Indy 500 Winner Bobby Unser vs. BIG Government

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 race, racing legend Bobby Unser faced down every challenge…until he encountered the United States government.

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Atlas Shrugged Viewings: Meetings of the Minds

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

Written on May 21, 2011 by Ann-Marie Murrell

Despite negative (liberal) reviews and limited release in theaters (because of liberals), “Atlas Shrugged Part 1” still did exceptionally well in the box office—despite the liberals. With no major studio backing it and relying basically on word-of-mouth advertising, Atlas earned $1.7 million last weekend and was bumped up from being show in only 244 theaters to 400 this weekend.

After my non-liberal review was published last Friday, I kept hearing amazing stories from some of my Facebook friends about their “Atlas Shrugged” experiences. Some had to drive a long way to see it and made a mini-vacation out of it; others met with their local Tea Party groups and had ‘viewing parties.’

I asked some of my friends to comment on their experiences and the response was overwhelmingly positive.

“The rise of the movie, in marketing terms, almost parallels the rise of Rand’s novels,” said Paul Beaird of Missouri. “The underground current of word-of-mouth recommendations, overwhelming the low expectations of the established methods–with a lifetime in marketing, I have to love it!”

Dave Cordes of Minnesota drove 210 miles to see it but said it was worth it. “I saw it yesterday with my daughter. It seemed like it was ten minutes long, leaves you wanting more.”

“Awesome, awesome movie,” said John Feeny of Rhode Island. “When it ended, I immediately looked up when part 2 was coming. This movie is gonna drive the people who don’t want to work out of their minds!”

Although Mitch van Biljon of Utah initially had to force his teenage son to see it, the results were worth the effort.

“My son, who never worries about politics, was taken against his wishes to see the movie but he came out beaming and praising it afterwards,” said Mitch. He encourages parents to take their teenagers, adding you should do a little prep work ahead of time. “Explain what socialism is and the satanic methodology of using marketing gimmicks to hide the truth under the guise of ‘equal opportunity’,” he said. “Young people have not learned the art of delving into details. They hear cliché’s that sound good but are not what they appear to be and are easily deceived.”

“I went last Friday night,” said Susan Inserra, New Jersey. “The movie theater was 80% full. People were not talking to each other, everyone was paying attention. I liked it, and will go again next week to see it. I belong to three Tea Parties in my area and I was surprised I didn’t see anyone I knew.”

Tom Robinson in Texas said, “My wife I attended the movie on Friday as well. It only showed in one theater in the San Antonio area and I would say the theater was also around 80% full. We attended the later show and I don’t know if the 7:30 show was as full but we had to line up to get in.” After Tom’s showing, he said “On the way out of the theater, I heard people explaining the relevance of the film to today’s events, which is what I was doing with my wife, who doesn’t follow political stuff like I do. I think people are using this movie to educate others on what can happen if we continue down our current path.”

“I went to opening night in Westwood,” said Ellen Field of California. “It was packed and our adjacency to LA ensured little pre-show gab, “she said.

Ellen witnessed the extreme difference between groups of Conservatives and liberals when a trailer was shown prior to the movie.

“The trailer was a left-leaning documentary on vegetarianism called ‘Forks and Knives’,” she said. “The theater was packed from stem to stern with Conservatives, Tea Partiers and Libertarian-types when there on the screen was an ideological target if there ever was one: First Lady Michelle Obama.” Ellen said Mrs. Obama was giving one of her ‘I know what’s good for you’ obesity lectures.

“No one, I mean not a person, made a single peep,” she said. “No one hissed, called out a name, or anything. Now I can’t vouch for the thoughts that were thought, but the respectful silence that met that screeching socialism told me everything I need to know about which side we’re on.”

Ellen saw it a second time with about 20 people from her Tea Party group. “There was lots of talking with coffee and tea afterward,” she said. “Looks like the lack of marketing is a problem because it’s not the quality of the film; they did a damn good job” she said, adding, “Did anyone else see Andrew Breitbart in the party scene?”

Deb Lytle in Texas talked about the lack of posters and advertising at her local theater.

“My husband found two theaters in Austin where it was showing,” she said. “The one we chose did not have any announcements on the outside marquee. You have to purchase your ticket before entering the building, where they did have it on the marquee. But if anybody just happened to come up to the building trying to decide on what movie to see they would not have known it was playing there.” Deb said, “I think we filled half the theater. We loved the movie. I didn’t want to see it end so I’m anxious for Part 2!”

“I saw it last weekend,” said Nancy Smith. “I so wished it wasn’t over. The theater was about 2/3’s full. Everyone there had an air of expectation about the movie before it started, and everyone was talking about it when it was over.”

Patty Bride of Kansas said, “My husband and I saw it today. It was fantastic and I can’t wait for Part 2!” Patty said there were lots of people at the early showing, including “a lot of couples and single men; they all seemed amazed at the movie and wanted more.”

“My wife and I went to see it Friday at an early matinee,” said Jeff Oosterman in Massachusetts. “There were only about a dozen people in the theater with us which is actually pretty good for that time; I don’t think any of the other movies playing had any more people. We did talk to another couple after the show and they wanted to see part two.” He said afterwards he and his wife went to their local book store and bought the book.

Jim McIlroy of Southern California said, “When I saw it last Sunday early evening in Northridge, there were about 25 to 30 people in the room with me.” Jim said he went to a second screening and this time he took his 17 year old son, who was anxious to see it, too. “It was even better the second time,” he said, “and I am sure will get better the more I watch it.” He said his son enjoyed it as well and it generated some thought-provoking dinner conversation. “He hit some of the major points in the movie about the way the government took over, making people sell of their companies if they owned more than one, and also how that Union Guy tried telling Dagny Taggart that her rails were a threat to public safety. What a bunch of cowards–just like what’s happening right now with the Obama Administration.”

“We had a nearly full theater in Fresno. Great movie!” said Kevin Peck of California. Kevin said he had recently experienced local government corruption first-hand, adding “This is real folks; you or your neighbor might be next if you don’t stand up for your rights.” Kevin said everyone cheered at the end of the movie, “save for a few liberal folks who can’t stand truth.”

Michael Gerardi of California said he saw it in San Diego with a Tea Party group. “The theater was probably 2/3 full. I talked with a few new acquaintances before and after. The feedback was pretty positive,” he said. Regarding the movie, Michael said, “I thought the adaptation was pretty good, especially the updating of why railroads are significant again for travel (in 2016). I didn’t expect scintillating dialogue or amazing characterizations, because that’s not what the book’s about.” Overall, he said he was pleased with the movie and “I hope to see the remaining two parts!”

So the consensus of “Atlas Shrugged Part 1” is that it is definitely worth seeing, and is becoming a new way for like-minded Conservatives to get together.

Ultimately, I think Paul Beard summed it up best: “It’s a pure good-versus-evil story. But this time the hard-working, inventive, obstacle-overcoming businesspeople are the heroes, with the parasites and politicians doing all they can to stop them. Dagny’s soul-wrenching scream of NO at the end expresses the tone of what we who love America and see it disappearing feel. My friend bawled outside. The lady sitting next to me had never read the novel and wanted to ask an hour’s worth of questions. The young 20s outside the theater didn’t want to leave, talking about the movie and the novel. It was a religious experience!”

To find an Atlas Shrugged Part 1 viewing in your area, check the AS website. As word-of-mouth (and the Tea Party) makes it more and more popular, as business owners they have no choice but to show it in more theaters. Go Tea Party!
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BtL Update 2011 May 12

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

How Did Socialism Start in America?
The past few years (okay, since Obama took office) we’ve heard a lot of talk about Socialism. But where did it come from? How did a German-based philosophy –something that has never even worked—make its way to freedom-based America?

I wanted to learn more about it myself, so I did some research and hope this helps you a little, too. I’ve written it in a way that hopefully is not too confusing but will maybe help you understand what we’re up against in America. I’m just skimming the surface, so again please read more about it on your own.

The very first seeds of Socialism were formulated in Switzerland by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). He was a philosopher who helped influence the French Revolution and developed the growth of nationalism.

Following Rousseau was Karl Heinrich Marx (1818 –1883), the German philosopher who adapted many of Rousseau’s beliefs. Marx believed capitalism was the “dictatorship of the bourgeoisie” and wanted to create a ‘workers state’—or ‘leveled playing field’ as the Liberals of 2011 like to call it. Marx believed socialism would eventually be replaced by a “stateless, classless society called pure communism.”

Socialists loved Marx’s theories so much they created the Frankfurt School. I urge everyone to please look up this “school of philosophy” and read more about it; if you’re like me, you will be surprised how enormously influential it has been on our society.

The Frankfurt School was founded in Germany and is described as a school of “neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory.” The school offered an alternative to capitalism and one of its biggest messages—and something that is continuing to affect the United States today—is something called ‘critical theory’.

Max Horkheimer of the Frankfurt School described critical theory as “social theory oriented toward critiquing and changing society as a whole, in contrast to traditional theory oriented only to understanding and explaining it.” They wanted to integrate all the social sciences—including economics, sociology, history, political science, anthropology, and psychology.

Basically what that means is Frankfurt School wanted to infiltrate all aspects of society and change the way “the educated” thought about things by inserting their Marxist beliefs. And they wanted to do it by infiltrating our schools and universities and indoctrinating youth.

They officially began their indoctrination of American youth when WWII came about and the Frankfurt School moved to America. They continued their Marxist teachings at New York’s Columbia University. Soon, their sociology department was affiliated in universities throughout the United States.

From an article called “Intro to the Frankfurt School”:

The Frankfurt School is the name given to the social engineers that fled Nazi Germany in order to set up their Marxist experiment in the United States. In the 1960s, while the Baby-boomers were ripe for cultural transformation, cultural Marxists such as Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm and Charles Reich practiced “critical theory,” “androgyny” and “cultural pessimism” in their “long march through the cultural institutions” — institutions such as the arts, cinema, theater, literature, universities, public school system, clergy and today what’s become known as the mass media. Find out how the culture you are now living, sleeping, eating and breathing in has been bastardized by cultural Marxism, also known as ‘political correctness.’

(It’s worth noting– Dr. Benjamin Spock was a big follower of Erich Fromm. Yep, the famous baby doctor was a big-time Socialist.)

One of the most influential at the Frankfurt School—and someone whose influence is still worshipped by Liberal/Socialists today–was Herbert Marcuse and his New Left theory.

Marcuse began his teaching career in 1952, first at Columbia, then Harvard, then Brandeis University and ultimately ended up at the University of California, San Diego where he taught until he retired in the late 1970’s.

Basically, Marcuse’s New Left was all about tolerance—as long as you are only tolerating liberal/Marxist beliefs. “Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left,” he wrote.

Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people)… They would include the withdrawal of toleration of speech and assembly from groups and movements which promote aggressive policies, armament, chauvinism, discrimination on the grounds of race and religion, or which oppose the extension of public services, social security, medical care, etc.” (Marcuse’s 1965 essay “Repressive Tolerance”)

Marcuse’s New Left basically started the Hippie movement, community organizing and college campus protests. They were activists, educators and agitators who wanted to push their Socialistic agenda further than it had ever been pushed in America.

One of those very effective ‘Frankfurt School pushers’ was Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky (1909-1972) literally wrote the handbook for Liberals, “Rules for Radicals”, which continues to be used throughout social culture and the media in 2011.

Playboy magazine once called Alinsky “one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left.” In 1970, Time magazine wrote that “American democracy is being altered by Alinsky’s ideas” and William F. Buckley said he was “very close to being an organizational genius.”

Some very influential Alinsky followers were Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez and Jesse Jackson. Hillary Clinton wrote her senior honors thesis about the works of Alinsky and “the effect they have on politics today.” And of course THE community organizer of 2011, Barack Obama, once wrote a Harvard paper called “After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois”.

In a nutshell, Alinsky’s Rules are summed up best by Alinsky himself: “What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. ‘The Prince’ was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. ‘Rules for Radicals’ is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.”

The brilliant thing about Alinsky’s work—and the reason it continues to be effective today—is because the plan is to destroy their enemy from within through (very sneaky) infiltration and indoctrination. He encouraged his radicals to plant seeds of class warfare from within through community organizing.

“According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a situation.”

In other words, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization. Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a ‘mass army’ that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals.” (http://www.conservapedia.com/Saul_Alinsky)

By the way, the president’s first political party—back in his radical community organizing days–was with “New Party,” socialist democrats:

The New Party was a radical left organization, established in 1992, to amalgamate far left groups and push the United States into socialism by forcing the Democratic Party to the left. It was an attempt to regroup the forces on the left in a new strategy to take power, burrowing from within. The party only lasted until 1998, when its strategy of “fusion” failed to withstand a Supreme Court ruling. But dissolving the party didn’t stop the membership, including Barack Obama, from continuing to move the Democrats leftward with spectacular success. (Archives prove Obama was a New Party member)

So there ya go. The ‘seeds of Socialism’ began in Germany, came to New York, spread throughout our universities and helped influence everything from arts and entertainment to newspapers, film and television. And as Andrew Breitbart says, “We have now entered the first full-fledged Alinsky presidency.”

In closing, I’m adding all of the Alinsky Rules. Please study them, know them, and recognize them when you see them. They’re counting on our side not knowing their secrets—so it’s our responsibility to make sure we do.

“Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.”

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people. The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”
The Patriot Update 2011 May 12

Ethanol: Environmentalists and Special Interests Rob Americans
Late last year, even the Eco-Prophet (or should that be Eco-Profit?) Al Gore had to admit the failure of one of the grand schemes of environmentalists: ethanol in fuel:

It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for first-generation ethanol … first-generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.

Yet as reported on Patriot, the EPA wants to increase the ethanol fuel mandate from 10% to 15%.

Ethanol is so costly that it wouldn’t make it in a free market. That’s why Congress has enacted major ethanol subsidies, about $1.05 to $1.38 a gallon, which is no less than a tax on consumers. In fact, there’s a double tax — one in the form of ethanol subsidies and another in the form of handouts to corn farmers to the tune of $9.5 billion in 2005 alone.

It takes 450 pounds of corn to produce the ethanol to fill one SUV tank. That’s enough corn to feed one person for a year. Read more…
The Patriot Update 2011 March 30

Land Usage Held Hostage by Lizards, Owls
Farming, ranching, mining, and extraction are the foundation for everything else. They are what make food, energy, and manufacturing possible by proving the raw materials for economic growth. Yet these bedrock American industries have, little-by-little, been squeezed, scaled back — so subtly that most of us did not notice until the economy began to lag. And with a bad economy came questions: America’s citizens wanted to know what happened; they wanted to know why.

What happened that changed these industries and federal lands management? The birth of the environmental movement in the late 1960s. Read more…
Newsmax 2011 April 28

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Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 April 23-29

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

US: General David Patraeus, a CFR member, will be appointed to head the CIA, and Leon Panetta (former CIA Director) will become Secretary of Defense. [This brings into public light the reality that military and CIA both serve a power-elite with virtually no meaningful oversight by Congress.]
ActivistPost 2011 Apr 29 (Cached)

Obama’s long-form birth certificate was released, but already critics are raising questions about its authenticity. All of Obama’s other records that might reveal his place of birth have been scrubbed from public access, and millions have been spent to keep them hidden. The controversy continues.
Atlas Shrugs 2011 Apr 28

Pentagon 9/11 victim and her lawyer are facing sanctions for her lawsuit against Cheney and Rumsfeld for their part in the 9/11 tragedy. The case went to an appellate court where George W. Bush’s first cousin was one of the three judges Not surprisingly, the court said that the suit was ‘frivolous’ and a ‘fantastical alternative history’.
ABAJournal 2011 Apr 28 (Cached)

US: The Supreme Court rules that corporations can block class-action suits against them simply by placing a mandatory arbitration clause in all consumer contracts. It also said that states do not have the right to challenge the federal edict in this matter.
Yahoo 2011 Apr 27 (Cached)

US: JP Morgan & the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (which includes BofA, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, the Soros Fund Management & others) warn Obama about the soaring national debt but, at the same time, urge him to push harder for increasing the debt ceiling. [In case you are confused, understand that the debt warning is mostly to look good in the public eye. Banks make their money by collecting interest on debt. Debt and more debt is what drives their business.]
CNBC 2011 Apr 27 (Cached)

US: Bernanke holds a press conference (the first-ever for a Fed Chairman) and says QE2 will end as planned because the economy has strengthened. [This is a PR move to enhance the Fed's image as being pro-active and transparent, but nothing has changed, including disinformation about the alleged strength of the economy. Although the purchase of government bonds with freshly created money may be terminated, it is to be replaced by a new program in which bonds will be purchased with money the Fed says it is earning from the junk mortgages it acquired from ailing banks. Not mentioned is that the value of these mortgages continues to fall and, thereby, more than offsets the so-called revenue. This is slight-of-hand to continue pumping money into the government in a more obscure manner, and it will be paid by the middle class through inflation. If Bernanke had made this announcement before a Congressional banking committee, he might have been questioned and the scheme exposed; but, in a press-conference before compliant and clueless reporters, the bankers' arcane secret was well protected.]
Yahoo 2011 Apr 27 (Cached)

: Ron Paul comments on Bernanke’s press conference and advocates removing the ability of the Fed to buy up government debt, thus preventing outrageous spending. [Great concept!]
YouTube 2011 Apr 27

$9 per gallon of gas in Germany and Holland; over $8 per gallon in other European countries.
BeforeItsNews 2011 Apr 26 (Cached)

US: Each American soldier in Afghanistan costs taxpayers over $1 million per year. The U.S. recession is deeply connected to military spending, yet most Americans tolerate the economic destruction of their nation because they believe the myth that endless war in the Middle East protects them from terrorism.
ActivistPost 2011 Apr 26 (Cached)

Four major central banks, including the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England, have pumped $5 trillion of fiat money – created out of thin air – into the world’s economy. That is 8% of the global economic output. [The result is massive inflation and the false impression that the stock market is improving. During inflation, all prices rise, including stock shares, but that's only because the purchasing power of the currency goes down. Although the dollar price of a share of stock my rise, it's value in terms of how many hamburgers it will buy goes down.]
Telegraph 2011 Apr 26 (Cached)

US: Independent study shows that states use deceptive accounting to conceal budget shortfalls that could be as high as $2.4 trillion. Many pension funds will not survive. This is Enron-style accounting on steroids. Here is how they do it.
BuryPensions 2011 Apr 26 (Cached)

Nine whistleblowers and anti-BP activists connected with the Gulf Oil spill have died under mysterious circumstances.
AFP 2011 Apr 25 (Cached)

American Precious Metals Exchange (one of the biggest wholesalers of precious metals) wants to buy “any quantity” of gold Eagles for $38 over spot price and silver Eagles at $3 over spot price. [That means they are low on inventory and cannot deliver enough physical bullion to keep up with the demand.]
ZeroHedge 2011 Apr 25 (Cached)

US and Japanese governments are downplaying the Fukushima disaster, but radiation emissions are much higher than generally reported. Readers are advised to consider precautionary doses of iodine, bentonite clay, and zeolites.
NaturalNews 2011 Apr 25 (Cached)

Mexican narcotics cartel chief says he coordinated massive shipments of illegal drugs into the US on behalf of the Department of Justice, DEA, FBI, DHS, Immigration, and Customs. [The government has not yet responded, but we predict it will either deny this entirely or, if the evidence is too clear to deny, it will say that this was done to keep an eye on the drug cartel or to pit one cartel against another – all to combat illegal drugs, of course. In truth, it is common for governments to derive huge profits from drug trafficking while pretending to fight it.]
Narcosphere 2011 Apr 25 (Cached)

US: 19% of Americans have raided their retirement accounts in the past year to make ends meet, despite the heavy penalties for early withdrawal. For them, this is a last resort, indicating that all other forms of saving have been depleated.
Bankrate 2011 Apr 25 (Cached)

UN International Monetary Fund declares that China’s economy will overtake the US economy by 2016.
ZeroHedge 2011 Apr 25 (Cached)

China: Communist government, nervous about revolts in the Arab world, cracks down even more against free speech and those who criticize the state on the internet. They are charged with “inciting subversion of state power.”
USA Today 2011 Apr 24 (Cached)

US: 9/11 responders will be subjected to FBI anti-terrorist review before becoming eligible for medical or financial benefits relating to illnesses contracted during their heroic work. [That is an insult to these men and women but it also is a means of silencing them. Nowadays, anyone who is critical of the government can be put on the list as a suspected terrorist!]
Forbes 2011 Apr 24 (Cached)

Animals reject GMO foods, instinctively knowing they are harmful. [Some humans are not so smart.]
Hippocrates Posted 2011 Apr 23 (Cached)

Baby rhino chases away 1500 pound bull who attacked his mother. [Attitude is everything.]
Animal Planet Posted 2011 Apr 23

Arizona milk is determined to be 1600% over EPA safe-drinking levels for radioactive iodine. The state did not test for cesium. If that had been included, radioactive levels could be much higher.
AlexanderHiggins Posted 2011 Apr 23 (Cached)

Internet poll reveals that 96% of people want labels on GMO food. [The fact that the government is working diligently to make that illegal tells us that it serves, not the people, but GMO corporate interests.]
StopAgingNow Posted 2011 Apr 23 (Cached)

US Military has developed an anti-radiation wonder drug called ‘Ex-Rad’, but it is not yet available to the public. The active ingredients have not been disclosed.
Fox Posted 2011 Mar 23 (Cached)

Louisiana physician says that many of his patients are suffering from a variety of illnesses that clearly are related to the Gulf oil spill and chemical treatment that followed. He says that the mainstream media has blocked all news of human health problems.
YouTube Posted 2011 Apr 23

US State Department proposes that passport applications include all prior addresses since birth, lifetime employment history, names and personal family information, and more. Failure to provide this information could result in denial of passport. [Don't worry. It's all for our protection, you know.]
PapersPlease Posted 2011 Apr 23 (Cached)

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The war in Libya supposedly is for humanitarian purposes, but the forces behind this military move are oil magnates, Wall Street bankers, and the CEOs of multi-national corporations. One of the prizes is the enormous aquifer in Libya that could create an agricultural abundance with irrigation. However, the agenda of The New World Order has other objectives, including depopulation and privatized water systems.
Servando Gonzalez posted 2011 Apr 28 (Cached)

Here is an excellent analysis of why the price of silver is skyrocketing and what to expect in the future. Also, the mechanism by which gold and silver prices previously were suppressed is explained. Even if you are not a bullion investor, the facts presented will impact your financial well being. You cannot afford not to know.
SeekingAlpha 2011 Apr 26 (Cached)

What you need to know about GMO “Franken-Foods” and where to get more information.
Unfiltered News 2011 Apr 16

US: Some states are advocating a Constitutional Convention to rein in the federal government. [We agree with this analysis that a Constitutional Convention is dangerous because it opens the Constitution to be re-written. Many of those who would be delegates are advocates of powerful government and are enemies of constitutional restraints on political power. If given a chance, they would destroy what is left of the Constitution and mimic the UN Charter instead, which is a blueprint for collectivism. Enforcing the Constitution's existing limits on the federal government and having the states nullify bad federal laws are the correct remedies.]
JBS Posted 2011 Apr 23 (Cached)

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Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 April 16-22

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Obama (the peace candidate) approves the use of killer Predator drones in Libya.
DailyMail 2011 Apr 22 (Cached)

Google Android phone transmits user locations to Google headquarters several times each hour, similar to the Apple iPhone. The iPhone & iPad allow anyone with access to the owner’s phone or computer to snoop into their location history. Google has a firewall to prevent that, but government agencies and professionals can disable it. It is assumed that Apple & Google are data mining for commercial purposes.
DailyMail 2011 Apr 22 (Cached)

Pakistan: Government says US Drones killed 25 people in Pakistan near the Afghan border. Pakistan has tolerated past attacks because it relies on US civilian and military aid. This action will weaken that tolerance.
Yahoo 2011 Apr 22 (Cached)

BP Oil sues its partners (Transocean and Cameron International) for $40 billion, alleging that every safety system failed. Halliburton was also sued for fraud, negligence, and concealing information. Each of these also is launching suits against others. [It is a legal feeding frenzy as each participant attempts to pass the blame to someone else.]
Yahoo 2011 Apr 21 (Cached)

Radiation fallout from Japan is affecting food safety across North America. Here is a list of high risk foods, including those derived from the Pacific Ocean, dairy, and broad-leaf plants. High-risk geographic areas also are covered.
Bovine 2011 Apr 20 (Cached)

Researchers accidentally discovered that iPhones and 3G-enabled iPads keep track of everywhere you go, including timestamps, on a secret file that is backed up on your computer and shifted onto any new iPhone or iPad you get. Apple has declined to comment on why the file was created.
Guardian 2011 Apr 20 (Cached)

Big Pharma is set to take over the medical marijuana market with the assistance of the federal government. Another showdown between states’ rights and federal overreach is in the works because states want the potentially lucrative tax revenue for themselves.
RawStory 2011 Apr 20 (Cached)

Arizona sheriff reports that US Border Patrol told local law enforcement agents not to arrest illegal aliens but chase them back to Mexico instead. This allows the Border Patrol to say that arrests are down, and that supposedly proves the borders are more secure.
DailyMail 2011 Apr 20 (Cached)

BP Oil is still getting lucrative government contracts despite its history of safety violations. Last week, the Defense Logistics Agency awarded BP a $42 million no-compete contract with “unusual and compelling urgency” for aircraft fuel at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The reason for the urgency is unknown.
TruthOut 2011 Apr 20 (Cached)

Memo from John F. Kennedy is released that reveals he requested confidential UFO documents from the CIA 10 days prior to his assassination. [No, we are not suggesting he was assassinated because of that. The importance of this story is that the President and the CIA were taking UFOs seriously.]
DailyMail 2011 Apr 19 (Cached)

UN quietly removes map from one of its web sites to distance itself from yet another failed prediction about global warming. The UN reported 6 years ago that there would be 50 million ‘climate refugees’ by 2010. To the contrary, populations are growing in the very regions identified as danger zones.
CFP 2011 Apr 19 (Cached)

European financial markets are in turmoil as Finland’s newly elected hard-line skeptics, the True Finns, achieve a dramatic surge in popularity. They oppose the Euro single currency and may block an EU & IMF bailout of Portugal. Irish bank credit is downgraded to ‘junk’ status, and Greece is poised to default on its debt.
DailyMail 2011 Apr 19 (Cached)

Florida agency spends $14,000 in public funds on 6,000 superhero capes for the jobless. [How about finding them a JOB?]
DailyMail 2011 Apr 19 (Cached)

US Department of Agriculture plans to allow Monsanto and other genetically modified seed producers to perform their own Environmental Impact Statements. [This means an end to even a pretense at independent science testing before the USDA approves new life forms. Monsanto strikes again!]
Grist 2011 Apr 19 (Cached)

Pennsylvania asks natural gas drillers to stop disposing millions of gallons of drilling wastewater into treatment plants that discharge into rivers and streams. The reason is that drinking water has become contaminated by toxic chemicals injected during the drilling process.
Yahoo 2011 Apr 19 (Cached)

Gulf oil-spill crews are infected with a mystery illness with symptoms of respiratory tract infections, eye irritation, headaches, and nausea. It is generally believed that the cause is benzene from the oil spill and the chemical Corexit that was sprayed on the water, but it will be difficult to prove it.
Yahoo Posted 2011 Apr 18 (Cached)

Wikileaks document shows that US State Department gave funds to Syrian opposition groups to support a revolution. This was started under Bush and continued under Obama.
Reuters 2011 Apr 18 (Cached)

US: Diabetes has now reached a record level of 26 million people. [Think about it. Diabetes is not contagious. It is not caused by a germ. It is mostly related to diet and lifestyle. Therefore, it is curable without drugs or vaccines.]
NaturalNews 2011 Apr 18 (Cached)

US: Standard & Poor’s warns that it may downgrade the rating of US bonds because of America’s enormous debt.
LA Times 2011 Apr 18 (Cached)

Gulf: Survey of scientists (most of whom receive grants from the government) indicates that the Gulf is almost back to its pre-spill toxicity level, not very clean to begin with. However, the focus is on chemistry and does not consider the massive dye-off of marine life in the area – as though they were not even related.
Yahoo 2011 Apr 18 (Cached)

Obama pushes Chinese-style Internet ID system that would consolidate tax returns, health information, and bank accounts. [It is being touted as a solution to online identity theft but actually would increases the risk while providing the government with a national ID system through the backdoor. Eventually, users will need government permission to access the Internet.]
Prison Planet 2011 Apr 18 (Cached)

US: Taxes on the super rich have dropped. In 1992, the top 400 earners paid 26% in income tax. By 2007, it had dropped to 17%. Many (top and bottom) pay no tax at all. [That's precisely why exemptions, deductions, credits, and exceptions are created. The income tax is not about collecting revenue but rewarding political friends and punishing enemies. See The Perfect Tax, by G. Edward Griffin.]
Yahoo 2011 Apr 17 (Cached)

US: New greenhouse-gas case is headed for the Supreme Court. So-called environmental groups and Obama administration want to force utility companies to cut emissions regardless of cost to consumers or damage to the economy, but the issue is who should control the process. [It's always about control.] Private groups and some states want the courts to control. The feds want the EPA to control. [Either way, the American people are the target of deception and plunder.]
Yahoo Apr 17 (Cached)

US: Staph bacteria is found in half of meat and poultry sold in supermarkets. The suspected cause is use of low-dose antibiotics fed to industrial-farm animals leading to new strains of Staph that are antibiotic resistant.
HULIQ 2011 Apr 16 (Cached)

Texas University endowment fund now holds $1 billion in physical gold to combat inflation.
Bloomberg 2011 Apr 16 (Cached)

Silver continues to rise in value, and the market is becoming frenzied. People are buying large amounts in the morning and selling at a substantial profit on the same day. A man who thought he owned physical silver in a brokerage account, and who even had been paying storage fees on it, discovered that his silver had been sold. [Take a look at this and you will see what is actually happening in the market.]
Posted YouTube 2011 Apr 16

Morgan Stanley (allegedly too big to fail) has defaulted on a commercial property in Japan valued at $3.3 billion. Its stockholders will absorb the loss – unless the feds use taxpayer money to bail them out again. [Morgan Stanley received $10 billion from TARP]
Yahoo Posted 2011 Apr 16 (Cached)

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Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of Japan Times and currently an independent journalist, is interviewed on Fukushima, the ongoing disaster that is not being reported, and the looming danger of radiation. [Do not listen to this if you are the nervous type.]
YouTube 2011 Apr 18

War lobby (military-industrial Complex) wins $700 billion budget boost, but still wants more. The strategy is collapsing the economy from the inside by funding an enormous war chest with more debt.
YouTube 2011 Apr 16

The US Government is addicted to debt and spent $413 billion on interest alone in 2010. By the year 2046, ALL taxes will go toward interest. NONE of it will be paid to principle. If the US were to pay $100 million a year on the principal (an impossibility), it would take 389 years to pay off the national debt. This is an excellent overview of some of the reasons the world as we have known it is coming to an end.
YouTube Posted 2011 Apr 16

Doctor Mary Newport discovers that coconut oil stops progression of Alzheimer’s disease and may even reverse it. She describes how it benefited her husband. If you know anyone with Alzheimer’s, you will want to listen carefully to this interview.
YouTube Posted 2011 Apr 9

This is a video overview from a documentary called ‘Gasland’. It shows how ‘fracking’ (drilling gas wells using toxic chemicals and high-pressure water) has destroyed the environment and caused serious illness in animals and humans.
YouTube Posted 2011 Apr 9

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Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 April 9-15

Saturday, April 16th, 2011

US: Federals government’s announced budget cut of $38 billion is based on Enron-style accounting. Here are details of actual expenditures.
PPJ Gazettte 2022 Apr 15 (Cached)

Massachusetts woman is sentenced to 8 to 10 years in prison for withholding chemotherapy from her autistic son, who later died from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. [If chemotherapy had not been withheld and the child died from complications of the drug (not uncommon), would the doctors and government officials who demanded it be sentenced to prison? Of course not. Collectivism is a stacked deck.]
ABC News 2011 Apr 15 (Cached)

Detroit: Ten-hour siege, a SWAT team, and even a tank. That’s the police response to a mother who refused to give her child psychotropic drugs. Police say that, after they broke down her door, she fired a shot. This has not been confirmed, nor is it known yet if police had a court order authorizing entry by force.
DailyMail 2011 Apr 15 (Cached)

US: Two million homes that already have been foreclosed are being held by banks. They do this so as not to write them off their books, which would cause their true asset value to be revealed, and that would push them into bankruptcy. An additional 6.7 million homes with delinquent mortgages are waiting to flood the market. Check here to see the worst 10 counties where the flood will occur.
Business Insider 2011 Apr 14 (Cached)

20 atomic deserts, a list of places worldwide that are uninhabitable due to radiation. Some of the areas are polluted from nuclear power waste and some are from bombs.
Spiegel 2011 Apr 14 (Cached)

Bolivia: President Morales will nationalize all privately held silver, zinc, and tin mines. He has a history of expropriating privately held companies. [Collectivist governments eventually take over mines – and all other means of production – as soon as some suitable 'crisis' provides an excuse. This is a good reason to hold physical assets (such as gold and silver coins) instead of paper assets (such as stock certificates in gold or silver mines).]
ZeroHedge 2011 Apr 14 (Cached)

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), which account for 40% of the world’s population, are joining forces for more power at the UN to influence the new world currency that soon will replace the US Dollar in international trade.
Yahoo 2011 Apr 13 (Cached)

Japan’s nuclear disaster is now rated at 7, the highest level (Chernobyl is the only other level 7 emergency). Chernobyl spewed 10 times more radiation than Fukushima, but Fukushima is not yet under control.
MSNBC 2011 Apr 13 (Cached)

US: Federal government orders 14 major banks (including Citibank, Bank of America, JP Morgan, and Wells Fargo) to reimburse homeowners who were victims of foreclosure improprieties. [Sounds like justice is finally being done, but wait! There is no definition of what constitutes an 'impropriety'. Our guess is that, when the smoke clears, there will be few improprieties found, and this will be exposed as just another public relations gesture to keep the public happy with words instead of deeds.]
Yahoo 2011 Apr 13 (Cached)

US: Amid a crippling depression, JP Morgan Chase posts a profit of $5.6 billion in the first quarter and claims the economy is recovering. [Most of the metrics used to justify that claim are based on the fact that customers are once again going deeper in debt. That may be good for the bank but not necessarily good for the borrowers or the nation. Debt is the poison that has brought America to her knees.]
Comcast 2011 Apr 13 (Cached)

International pressure mounts to destroy the last two remaining batches of the smallpox virus that was eradicated in the 1970′s. However, these are held by the US Center for Disease Control and a Russian facility in Siberia, and neither government wants to destroy the virus. [Could biological warfare be the reason?]
Popsci 2011 Apr 13 (Cached)

Europeans warned to avoid drinking milk or eating vegetables due to high radiation levels.
NaturalNews 2011 Apr 12 (Cached)

IRS to pre-calculate the amount of taxes a citizen owes ahead of time, and may reject any return that doesn’t comply with its determination.
Sovereign Man 2011 Apr 12 (Cached)

Iceland, for the second time, votes against repaying Britain and the Netherlands $5 billion in bank debt. Bankers who created the debt are being prosecuted. [Banks around the world are paying close attention and making sure that, in their respective countries, the people must never be allowed to vote on this issue.]
Prison Planet 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

US military spending has almost doubled since 2001.
ThinkProgress 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

US: numerous counties now have home-vacancy rates above 55%, one as high as 66%, effectually turning communities into ghost towns.
Yahoo 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

So-called eco-friendly LED light bulbs are loaded with lead and arsenic that can contaminate the environment and pose long-term health risks. [Of course, the safest bulbs of all, the incandescent, has been banned in America.]
OC Register 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

India’s government to issue national biometric ID cards, including fingerprints and photo. The excuse is that they are necessary for tax collection.
Times of India 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

Boston: thermal photo imaging to monitor heat loss from homes is put on hold because of concern that infrared cameras can detect human activity inside and are an invasion of privacy. Outside of Boston, no ones seems to care. [There is no mention of the fact that governments are ramping up to regulate allowable levels of heat loss. If your home is too drafty, you will be forced to make improvements. No one seems to care about that, either.]
CBS Boston 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

Chicago school bans students from bringing homemade lunches, even though they may be healthier and cheaper than school lunches. [There is no room for freedom-of-choice in a collectivist system.]
Chicago Tribune 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

Monsanto modifies soy beans to grow ‘fish oil’. The GMO beans are crossed with a flower and a mold enzyme to create a synthetic omega-3 oil, which is found in natural products like fish, whole grains, flax seed, fruits, and vegetables.
Forbes 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

Egypt: Now that a ‘democratic’ government has taken over Egypt, a civilian blogger has been sentenced to 3 years prison by a military tribunal for criticizing the military. [Notice how the Associated Press softens this story with such phrases as this raises "activists' fears that the army is against greater freedom of expression" and that this "could set a precedent for anyone seeking to expose wrongdoing or abuses by the military." Activist fears? Could set a precedent?]
AFP 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

UN global treaty aims to give ‘Mother Earth’ the same rights as humans. Bolivia has already passed a law that makes bugs, trees, and all other life forms equal to humans. [This is the trend, but these laws have nothing to do with protecting the Earth or its lowly creatures. It is all about justifying more political and economic control over humans.]
Canada.com 2011 Apr 11 (Cached)

Japan: Earthquake moves the ground in an almost liquid fashion. At times, it looks like a huge, breathing animal. The video says this was only a 3.11 aftershock.
YouTube 2011 Apr 10

FBI ‘Next Generation’ technology is here. It includes iris scans, face recognition, gait analysis, and scent detection. It will be fully implemented by 2014.
Post-Gazette 2011 Apr 10 (Cached)

US: FCC refuses to honor Freedom-of-Information requests for communications with the wireless industry about the harmful affects of cell phones. The FCC has downplayed the health effects of cell phones. [Why would trustworthy public servants want to conceal their communications?]
SF Gate Posted 2011 Apr 9 (Cached)

US: First cousin of George W. Bush presides over a trial against Cheney, Rumsfeld, and General Myers for their participation in 9/11. [Is anyone surprised that the court is hostile to any challenge to the government's official version of 9/11?]
CNBC Posted 2011 Apr 9 (Cached)

US government claims that radiation from Japan in US drinking water is not high enough to be a heath threat, but many people are still concerned. If you are one of them, this article recommends 3 filtrations systems for drinking water.
Forbes Posted 2011 Apr 9 (Cached)

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