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Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 February 12-18

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Wisconsin: Protestors take control of the state capitol, and 14 Democrat Senators flee the state to prevent the legislature from functioning. The issue behind this is that the Governor introduced a bill (supported by the Republican majority) to balance the budget by requiring state employees to pay a larger share of their own pension and healthcare costs and by reducing power of the state-employee union. Other options to balance the budget are (1) increase taxes or (2) request an ongoing and never-ending bailout by the federal government (via taxpayers) which will increase federal control. Over 40 states now are facing the same problem.
ABC News 2011 Feb 18 (Cached)

US: Over 100 doctors, nurses, and physical therapists are arrested for Medicare fraud, typically involving over-billing for procedures or for procedures not performed. Fraud of this kind is estimated at $60 billion to $90 billion per year. [This is just a peek at what to expect under Obamacare.]
Ohio.com 2011 Feb 18 (Cached)

US: Righthaven is an organization that sues blogs and news sites for copyright infringement when they quote copyrighted material from other sources. The net effect is to harass or silence alternative media. Righthaven’s first case (it has 238 cases pending) was dismissed based on the ‘Fair Use’ law, but this will be appealed.
Activist Post 2011 Feb 18 (Cached)

US: Fox News is caught creating false news to put Congressman Ron Paul in a bad light. The real news is that Paul was the overwhelming winner of the Conservative Political Action Committee’s straw poll for the next Presidential candidate, and the announcement was followed by prolonged cheers. The false news is that, when Fox aired the event, it played video from the 2010 convention in which there was a mixed reaction from the delegates including some boos from his opponents. The effect is that Paul was denied recognition of the fact that he has gained mightily in popularity in the last year. [Fox News plays the role of being pro-Constitution and anti-big government but only supports Republicans who vote for the same collectivist schemes they pretend to oppose. People like Ron Paul, who actually vote against collectivism, are usually ostracized or sabotaged by the network. This is classic.]
The Cutline 2011 Feb 17 (Cached)

Idaho’s State House of Representatives is the first to pass legislation nullifying Obamacare. [Great start, Idaho! Now the Idaho Senate, the Governor, and all the other states need to follow suit]
TAC 2011 Feb 16 (Cached)

US: Senate votes to extend key provisions of the misnamed Patriot Act for 90 days. [Both major parties support the Patriot Act, along with President Obama, so there is no reason to expect the Act not to be fully renewed in 90 days.]
Yahoo 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)

Chinese companies found mass producing fake rice out of potatoes and plastic.
Natural News 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)

US: Foreclosure volume soars 50% in California, Arizona, Washington, and many other states. The reason is that the ‘foreclosure moratorium’ has ended, and homes that were suspended in the process now are being disposed. Next month is expected to be worse. [But pay no attention. They still are assuring us the recession is over.]
Business Insider 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)

Washington State to require all firms that buy second-hand precious metals (including coins) to obtain personal information and photograph from anyone who is selling – to thwart thieves with stolen goods, of course.
PPJ Gazette 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)

US: Veterans who have been raped by others in the military are suing the Pentagon for grossly mishandling the cases. Sometimes the victims had to serve alongside their attackers.
Yahoo 2011 Feb 15 (Cached)

China overtakes Japan as world’s second largest economy, based on the gross domestic product. This is primarily because Japan’s economy decreased.
Telegraph 2011 Feb 14 (Cached)

Obama’s budget estimates a federal deficit for this fiscal year over $15 trillion, larger than the entire US annual economy. [The budget cuts obtained by newly elected Tea Party members are meaningless against these staggering numbers, and budget estimates always are more favorable than reality. How much longer can America survive its leaders?]
Washington Times 2011 Feb 14 (Cached)

US: Islam jihadi who assisted the 7/7 London bombers, is quietly released from prison after less than 5 years. Since petty thieves often serve longer terms, this has prompted claims that he was an undercover informer for the US government at the time. The judge even said that he had ‘cooperated’ with authorities prior to his arrest.
Guardian 2011 Feb 13 (Cached)

Arizona’s Financial Transparency legislation has been introduced calling for making available to the public all state and local government incoming receipts, outgoing payments, and asset balance. [This is an excellent proposal because a significant part of state and local cash flow often is hidden from the public. Expect to see entrenched powers do everything possible to defeat this bill.]
Walter Burien 2011 Feb 13 (Cached)

Mexico loses over 80% of its crops to big freeze, the coldest weather in over half a century. This, in combination with inflation, points to skyrocketing food prices in Mexico and the US. [And they are still pushing cap-and-trade taxes to combat the effects of so-called global warming. Hmmm: Higher food prices, higher taxes, and fewer jobs. There are going to be a lot of unhappy people. The word Egypt comes to mind.]
Digital Journal Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)

The North American Union (merger of the US, Mexico, and Canada) is moving ahead as Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper agree to a common ‘perimeter’ around both countries and a biometric ID to track all North Americans. They further agreed to work jointly on health, security, terror, fraud and the economy. [Congress and the American people are not being consulted in this matter.]
New American Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)

US: An estimated 28.7 million jobs have been exported from the US since 1992 due to NAFTA. Both major parties supported the treaty. In his 2008 presidential campaign, Obama promised to renegotiate parts of NAFTA to bring jobs back to the US. [How many years ago was that?]
Business Insider Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)

US: Study shows that exposure to pesticides – paraquat and rotenone – increases the chance of developing Parkinson’s disease by 250%.
Yahoo Posted 2012 Feb 11 (Cached)

UK: Woman is handcuffed and charged with stealing after taking potato waffles and pies that had been thrown away by a local grocery store. The charge was “Theft by finding.” Makes taking food that has been thrown away a crime by charging a woman with “theft by finding”.
DailyMail Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)

World Economic Forum says the world needs $100 trillion in new credit over the next decade, which would double the level of existing credit. [That means doubling the world's money supply at a time when goods and services are shrinking. That spells massive inflation as the value of the money falls. Since members of the WEF are highly placed or influential in the major governments of the world, this tells us what to expect from those governments.]
Telegraph Posted 2011 Feb 12 (Cached)

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ANALYSIS
Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

US: Zero-tolerance policies in schools are converting them into agencies of a police state, prison-like in nature; criminalizing behavior, and punishing instead of educating.
Analysis by John Whitehead.Lew Rockwell 2011 Feb 17 (Cached)

The Global Warming Conspiracy, a documentary by Jesse Ventura, is well worth watching. In spite of the overly dramatic style of production, the facts are accurate and important. They will make you angry.
truTV, Posted 2011 Feb 14

Here is an excellent analysis of “Which Path to Persia,” a strategy paper prepared by the Brookings Institute, which is a think tank funded by mega-corporations within the orbit of the CFR. Everything that is happening in the Middle East is in accordance with this plan, developed in 2009. If you want to know what will happen next, read this. All major decision were made long ago.
Activist Post 2011 Feb 13 (Cached)

Playing the Global-Warming Card: This analysis explains how the myth of global warming is the centerpiece of the current movement for expanding government, controlling people, and depopulation, a movement known as Agenda 21.
MorphCity 2011 Feb 11 (Cached)

‘The Singularity’ is the name given to the point in the development of technology where, theoretically, it will be possible to transfer human consciousness and introspection into self-directed, self-repairing, and self replicating robots. Don’t laugh too quickly. Scientists and futurists are giving this concept a fair amount of credibility. Even if you are not convinced it is possible, you may find this report of interest.
Time 2011 Feb 10 (Cached)

DISINFORMATION & CONTROLLED OPPOSITION

When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, they proclaim it boldly but mix it with outrageous or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag causing us to throw out the good with the bad. Another collectivist strategy is to send agents into the ranks of freedom activists to become their leaders. One reason the freedom movement has been consistently defeated is that false leaders put up a good fight but, at the last minute, accept defeat or switch sides. News items in this section illustrate these strategies.

US: Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has been an outspoken advocate of adhering to the Constitution. Yet, after newly elected ‘Tea Party’ Congressmen and women who had their endorsement voted this week to renew the unconstitutional Patriot Act, CPAC was silent and continued to praise those who broke their pledge. [This is a classic case of controlled opposition. Collectivists playact at being Constitutionalists to get elected and then betray those who they fooled.]
BBCW 2011 Feb 14 (Cached)

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 January 29-February 4

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Mexico is purging US Dollars from its economy. It no longer allows purchases in Dollars, not even in American-owned stores such as Wal-Mart. That’s because the Dollar is losing value so fast it is expected to collapse very soon, and Mexico does not want to be left holding the worthless notes. [Amazing! We have come to the point where people prefer Mexican Pesos over US Dollars. Are your savings still in Dollars?]
ThePeoplesVoice 2011 Feb 4 (Cached)

US: Treasury Dept. and Federal Reserve threaten Armageddon in America if Congress fails to raise the debt limit – again. It’s the same argument used to push Congress into supporting the bank bailouts of the past two years. [It always works.]
ActivistPost 2011 Feb 4 (Cached)

JP Morgan is being sued for being complicit in the Bernie Madoff scandal in spite of the fact that the bank suspected him of being a crook 18 months before the scam was revealed to the public.
DailyMail 2011 Feb 4 (Cached)

Our documentary on chemtrails What in the World Are They Spraying, was featured in a CBS Atlanta affiliate story. The station is requesting photos of chemtrails for proof of spraying.
IntelHub 2011 Feb 3 (Cached) Click for info on DVD

US: Last year the city of Oakland, California, passed an ordinance allowing marijuana farms. Now federal prosecutors are threatening to prosecute growers and even city council members if they follow through. [The issue is, not whether people should grow pot, but who is authorized to make that decision. The Tenth Amendment says that states and the people have the authority in all matters except those specifically described elsewhere in the Constitution, and that does not include decreeing what crops may not be grown. Therefore, it is up to the states or the people, not the federal government.]
RawStory 2011 Feb 3 (Cached)

US: Federal Judge orders BP-claims administrator Ken Feinberg to stop telling Gulf victims that he is independent because, even though approved by Obama, he is working on behalf of BP. Feinberg is offering settlements that prevent victims from suing BP or any other responsible party after they sign the release. Now that the victims know he is not independent, more law suits are expected.
WTVY 2011 Feb 3 (Cached)

US: Whole Foods, Stonyfield Farm and Organic Valley, three of the largest organic-food brands, say they will not fight genetically-modified foods but, instead, will “co-exist” with them. They were told by the FDA that a complete ban was not an option, so they chose the best they could get, which is partial regulation of some crops. [Very courageous! By the way, the CEOs of two of these companies are personal friends of the head of USDA who is so close to Monsanto that he has traveled on its corporate jet on political campaigns. The author of this article says this is not a major scandal, just disappointing. Our view is that it is a major sell-out with the distinct odor of corruption.]
FastCompany 2011 Feb 2 (Cached)

US: Nine states including Maine, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming have introduced legislation to nullify Obamacare under the Tenth Amendment. Some of the bills include jail time for any federal agent who tries to enforce the unconstitutional law. [This is a good start. Now let's see if the legislators really mean it or are just trying to look good to the voters. When enough states reject a bad federal law, it has little chance for implementation.]
Tenth Amendment Center 2011 posted Feb 2 (Cached)

British and American telecommunications companies helped Egypt shut down the internet and identify dissenters.
Democracy Now 2011 Feb 1 (Cached)

More than 80 physicians, surgeons, scientists and other experts go on record stating that there is no real science behind vaccination and it does more harm than good.
Natural News 2011 Feb 1 (Cached)

US: Watchdog group says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appears to have ‘knowingly and willfully’ violated the law for 20 years by falsifying income-disclosure forms that are used to reveal possible conflict-of-interest among public employees.
PR Newswire 2011 Feb 1 (Cached)

Microsoft warns of a security flaw that affects users of Internet Explorer (900 million people). Although it is not known if anyone yet has taken advantage of the flaw, it is possible for hackers to take over computers and steal personal data. Users are urged to download a free “fix” from the Internet.
DailyMail 2011 Feb 1 (Cached)

Egypt: Sources inside the government are saying that the US has had secret meetings with the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’, which is the main opposition group, and that it has been covertly encouraging the current anti-government demonstrations. [It is likely that whoever comes to power will be beholden to the US for funding and support. Do not expect true reform, merely a change from puppet A to puppet B.]
WND 2011 Feb 1 (Cached)

Egypt shut down internet service, making it difficult for people to organize. Here is a list of alternative methods of communication in case your government pulls the plug on the Internet. [This is wiki style, which means anyone can add to it. There are several very interesting alternatives, but they need to be explained further. If you are tech-savvy, perhaps you can help.]
Wired 2011 Feb 1 (Cached)

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez (who fired the state’s environmental board on her second day in office) is cracking down on illegal immigration by allowing the police to investigate immigrations status of criminals. Ironically, although she is Hispanic and has a large Hispanic constituency, she is being accused of racism.
NECN 2011 Jan 31 (Cached)

US: Federal judge declares Obamacare unconstitutional in a 26-state lawsuit because Congress exceeded its authority with regard to requiring citizens over 18 to purchase health insurance. This case now will likely go to the Supreme Court. [States don't have to wait for the courts. They can nullify this bad law right now and avoid further litigation,]
Bloomberg 2011 Jan 31 (Cached)

European study proposes an extra tax on meat and dairy products to reduce the consumption of those foods. Why? Because they say dairy animals are a major cause of global warming. [Since global warming is a myth, we know that the real goal is merely to raise additional tax revenue, exactly as cap-and-trade is intended to do.]
MSNBC 2011 Jan 31 (Cached)

As Egypt government closes down the Internet to prevent citizens from organizing protests, the U.S. government introduces “kill switch” legislation that will enable the President to do the same thing in America.
The Age 2011 Jan 31 (Cached)

US: Rate of home ownership continues to fall, and nearly 11% of houses are empty even though prices also are falling. Banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are holding hundreds of thousands of properties. [Why do they hold them? Because they don't want to put them up for auction and reveal their true worth. They would rather hold the inventories and hope that, eventually, the government will bail them out by buying them at book value, not market value. In the end, taxpayers will pick up the loss.]
CNBC 2011 Jan 31 (Cached)

US: Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has requested the government to provide him with the names of every person who has ever made a Freedom-of-Information-Act request. He says it is to make sure that the government isn’t dragging its feet in complying with these requests. [Shuur! If that were true, all he needs is a tally of requests and time delays. Why a list of names? This guy has a bad past, including allegations of arson and an indictment for car theft. Could the true motive be retaliation against those who are challenging government secrecy?]
SmirkingChimp 2011 Jan 30 (Cached)

US: Two witnesses will testify at the trial of the ‘underwear bomber’ who attempted to blow up Flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009. They observed him being assisted through security by men in suits who appeared to be government agents. The witnesses believe the incident was set-up by the US government and that the man was given a defective bomb to provide a newsworthy event to further the ‘War on Terror’, to install body scanners at airports, to increase the TSA’s budget, and to renew the Patriot Act.
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 29

Toxic chemicals relating to crude oil are showing up in blood samples taken from Gulf residents. These chemicals can cause kidney damage and cancer. People can absorb these chemicals by touching the oil, breathing fumes from it, or eating contaminated seafood.
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 29

Mexico issues national ID cards with biometric iris-scan technology to children ages 4 to 17 – to protect against baby trafficking and child prostitution, of course. [Their parents will be next.]
SignOnSanDiego Posted 2011 Jan 29 (Cached)

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ANALYSIS

Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

US: Analysis: Banks claim to be making a profit, but that is a bookkeeping trick. In spite of continuing foreclosures and bad loans, banks are reducing loan-loss reserves. Heck, who needs to put money aside for losses when you can get a government bailout from the taxpayers? So, take the money that will be needed to cover next month’s losses and declare them as today’s profits – and pay bonuses, too.
Business Insider Posted 2011 Jan 22 (Cached)

US: 2012 will be dubbed the year of youth, if Young Americans for Liberty have their way. More than just enthusiasm, they have the understanding as well. Worth supporting.
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 22. Here is their website link: www.yaliberty.org

Texas: Activist confronts Austin Chief Sustainability Officer as she confirms that the UN’s Agenda 21 program, which she supports, calls for reducing the population by 85%. She laughs when the issue is raised and says she is not concerned about that aspect of the program. [This is only one official out of thousands just like her in positions of government authority around the country, but be assured that she represents the norm, not the exception. These people are dead serious.]
YouTube 2011 Jan 16

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DISINFORMATION

When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, their disinformation agents proclaim it boldly but mix it with questionable or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag and cause us to throw out the good with the bad. News items in this section may be in that category.

US: A Congressional panel finds that the financial crisis occurred because government officials, the Fed, and Wall Street ignored warning signs and failed to properly manage risks. The panel is referring cases to the Department of Justice to look into possible criminal prosecution. [This is classic controlled opposition. First, there likely will be no prosecutions of the people who were most responsible, because they have too many friends in high positions. Second, the panel concluded that there is nothing wrong with the the financial system itself, including the power of the Federal Reserve, only with the people who run it. However, until the banking cartel called the Federal Reserve is abolished and the nation returns to sound money based on gold or silver, the problem will never be solved. This theater of investigating, deliberating, debating, and finger-pointing merely serves to perpetuate the system and keep the public from considering an alternative.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 January 22-28

Friday, January 28th, 2011

A California community announces it no longer will accept cash in payment of utility bills – to protect against terrorists, of course. [This may seem like a small matter, but collectivists want to eliminate cash completely so all financial transactions can be traced by credit card or check. This is a small but definite step toward that goal.]
Prison Planet 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

An academic study finds social networking, instead of bringing friends together, creates mutual isolation networks that detach people from meaningful interactions and make them less human.
Natural News 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

Himalayan glaciers are not melting because of global warming, according to new study from Universities of California and Potsdam. Instead, they are advancing. Last year, the UN claimed the Himalayan glaciers would completely disappear by the year 2035.
Telegraph 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

US: Grocery prices have shot up over 50% faster than the official rate of inflation. [In other words, the official rate of inflation is not accurate. It should be increased by 50% – or more.]
Natural News 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

US: Virginia State House of Delegates passes the ‘Intrastate Commerce Act’ to nullify any federal regulation of economic activity that is entirely within the state. [This is very good news. Collectivists have used a tortured interpretation of the commerce clause in the US Constitution to justify virtually unlimited federal power over activities within the states. Nullification is a Constitutional way to reverse that trend. Let's hope other states soon follow suite.]
Tenth Amendment Center 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

US: Virginia legislation ends mandatory HPV vaccine for young girls – four years after overwhelmingly approving it.
Natural News 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

US: Social Security now is losing $45 billion dollars per year, and the fund will be completely drained by 2037. [That is the optimistic view. The realistic view is that the fund already is drained because it has no money, just government bonds, which are IOUs. As long as the government is controlled by collectivists from both major parties, Social Security will continue to lose even its IOUs and, eventually, the whole system will be funded entirely from taxes and inflation.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

Southern California desert is home to a $170 million “mock city” the size of downtown San Diego that is used for military war games. It has underground tunnels and 1560 mock buildings. [The military considers urban warfare and control of civilian populations to be a major part of future operations.]
MSNBC 2011 Jan 26 (Cached)

Study of Corexit dispersant used in the Gulf oil-spill looked at how long it takes to degrade but failed to investigate its toxicity. [The primary concern over Corexit never was over how long it would last but what harm it does to living things, including humans.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 26 (Cached)

US: House Republicans are proposing an audit and funding-cut of subsidies to the United Nations. The US is the largest single “contributor” (dues are mandatory) and pays 22% of its regular budget plus 27% of its so-called peacekeeping operations. [The speeches are good. Now let's see if they carry through. Why not just get out of the UN completely instead of quibbling over how much it costs?]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 25 (Cached)

US: RAND corporation released a study concluding that alternative fuels from corn and other seed oils, waste oils, and algae are of no value to the military and not presently useful to the nation. The recommendation is to re-consider supporting these so-called renewable resources. (Alcohol and hemp were not included in this study – neither of which would negatively affect food production.)
Canada Free Press 2011 Jan 25 (Cached)

China plans new ‘Mega City’ to merge 9 cities together and create a metropolis of 42 million people 26 times larger than London. [This is in compliance with the UN's Agenda 21, which calls for bringing people out of the countryside, where they can live fairly independently, into cities, where they can be monitored and controlled.]
Right Side News 2011 Jan 25 (Cached)

US: Insurance companies sue Bank of America over “massive mortgage fraud” and say that 91% of securitized loans (such as mortgages and auto loans) are misrepresented.
ZeroHedge 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

Chicago: Artist selling wares on the street recorded his own arrest and may be sentenced up to 15 years under the Eavesdropping Act, which prohibits photographing or video-recording police officers.
DailyMail 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

Tax-exempt organizations that claim to “fight” against genetically modified food are funded by groups that promote GMOs. This is a classic example of controlled opposition.
FarmWars 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

US: House Republicans are preparing a bill to require Internet Service Providers to track all user activity for review by police. [These are the same politicians who campaigned on behalf of personal rights and privacy and pledged to restore the Constitution. Both major parties are dedicated to collectivism.]
CNET 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

Oil-eating bacteria has been released into the Gulf of Mexico to help clean up the BP oil spill. That’s good news. The bad news is that, instead of using natural bacteria, which is harmless to marine life, they released a genetically engineered “super” bacteria that works twice as fast but also is suspected of destroying marine life and possibly posing a health hazard to humans.
Natural News 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

US: FEMA and Dept. of Homeland Security are seeking 140 million packets of food, blankets, and body bags. They are especially interested in stockpiling in states adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico. [Do you have your emergency supplies yet?]
IntelHub 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

US: Treasury Secretary Geithner threatens Congress that, if the debt ceiling is not raised, default on US debt is imminent, leading to economic chaos. Lifting the ceiling will allow the Fed to create even more money. [Congress will comply. Rampant inflation is on the way along with increased taxation.]
Midas Letter 2011 Jan 23 (Cached)

UN: A $21.7 billion foundation, called the Global Fund, backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy at the UN, has 67% of its budget eaten up by corruption. The money is accounted for with forged documents and bogus bookkeeping, indicating it was pocketed. Donated drugs are sold on the black market.
Fox News 2011 Jan 23 (Cached)

US: Government pledges $1 billion corporate welfare to pharmaceutical companies to help develop new drugs. [Big Pharma is the most profitable industry in the world. With that kind of money, they can buy politicians to plunder taxpayers to deliver even more profits. That's how collectivism works.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 23 (Cached)

Dutch researchers are promoting the replacement of meat with insects and worms as a way to deal with food shortages that are predicted for the near future.
Breitbart 2011 Jan 23 (Cached)

New Mexico: Man is acquitted after filming TSA and police in public area of a New Mexico airport. Video shown here captured the confrontation.
Activist Post 2011 Jan 23

Federal Reserve quietly institutes an accounting trick that makes Enron seem virtuous. It now can treat losses as liabilities to the US Treasury. [That means losses will never cause a reduction in capital so long as they carry the liability on their books, which can be forever – or until such time as the Treasury "forgives" the liability, which means, passes it to the taxpayer.]
Economic Policy Journal Posted 2011 Jan 22 (Cached)

US: Researchers at the Dept. of Agriculture knew 2 years ago that pesticides, manufactured by Bayer, are related to bee-colony collapse. A leaked document reveals that the EPA (which approved the pesticide) also knew about its destructive nature. [If anyone has any doubts about corruption in government, this proves that these agencies operate in the interests of the companies they supposedly regulate instead of the citizens who fund their paychecks.]
Grist 2011 Posted Jan 22 (Cached)

US: Dept. of Agriculture says it poisoned thousands of starlings in a recent bird die-off in South Dakota. They say, altogether, they have killed over 4 million birds in an operation named ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’. [Officially this was in response to a farmer's complaint that the birds were defecating in his feed meal. Another explanation was that it was done to protect human health. The media did not challenge these explanations.]
Natural News Posted 2011 Jan 22 (Cached)

Russia will adopt the Universal Electronic Card (National ID) in 2012. It will connect bank accounts, credit cards, bus passes, etc. India and Mexico are scheduled to use Universal National ID cards with biometric features. These will increase government tracking of citizens and also increase the risk of identity theft.
SingularityHub Posted 2011 Jan 22 (Cached)

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ANALYSIS

Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

US: Analysis: Banks claim to be making a profit, but that is a bookkeeping trick. In spite of continuing foreclosures and bad loans, banks are reducing loan-loss reserves. Heck, who needs to put money aside for losses when you can get a government bailout from the taxpayers? So, take the money that will be needed to cover next month’s losses and declare them as today’s profits – and pay bonuses, too.
Business Insider Posted 2011 Jan 22 (Cached)

US: 2012 will be dubbed the year of youth, if Young Americans for Liberty have their way. More than just enthusiasm, they have the understanding as well. Worth supporting.
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 22. Here is their website link: www.yaliberty.org

Texas: Activist confronts Austin Chief Sustainability Officer as she confirms that the UN’s Agenda 21 program, which she supports, calls for reducing the population by 85%. She laughs when the issue is raised and says she is not concerned about that aspect of the program. [This is only one official out of thousands just like her in positions of government authority around the country, but be assured that she represents the norm, not the exception. These people are dead serious.]
YouTube 2011 Jan 16

Goldnomics: the value difference between cash and gold bullion. [You probably know most of this, but it is a good idea to take a refresher course from time to time.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 15

Mike Adams and Farmer Brad discuss the impact of the misnamed Food Safety Bill: Many small farmers will go out of business due to extensive paperwork & FDA regulations; food prices will increase; and more food will be imported from other countries. [Imported food bypasses most safety regulations, so Americans will be at greater risk than before. Incidentally, small farms have never been the source of major outbreaks.]
Natural News Posted 2011 Jan 15

This is an excellent animation that explains the illusion of the “American Dream” and fiat money. [Caution! Some of the historical information is not accurate. For example, the story that JFK was assassinated because of his stand against the Federal Reserve cannot be substantiated. In fact, Kennedy always was a friend of central banking (See The JFK Myth). Nevertheless, because of the high quality of this program and the fact that the general theme is correct, we recommend it highly.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 15

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DISINFORMATION

When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, their disinformation agents proclaim it boldly but mix it with questionable or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag and cause us to throw out the good with the bad. News items in this section may be in that category.

US: A Congressional panel finds that the financial crisis occurred because government officials, the Fed, and Wall Street ignored warning signs and failed to properly manage risks. The panel is referring cases to the Department of Justice to look into possible criminal prosecution. [This is classic controlled opposition. First, there likely will be no prosecutions of the people who were most responsible, because they have too many friends in high positions. Second, the panel concluded that there is nothing wrong with the the financial system itself, including the power of the Federal Reserve, only with the people who run it. However, until the banking cartel called the Federal Reserve is abolished and the nation returns to sound money based on gold or silver, the problem will never be solved. This theater of investigating, deliberating, debating, and finger-pointing merely serves to perpetuate the system and keep the public from considering an alternative.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 27 (Cached)

Carnegie Institution praises Genghis Khan because he killed so many people that the Earth began to revert back to a primitive state of forestation, and that was the “green” thing to do! [This is what the depopulation supporters are advocating today, which may be the reason for this so-called study. It's pure propaganda with no science behind it. By the way, humans cause less than a fraction of 1% of greenhouse gases.]
Mother Nature Network 2011 Jan 24 (Cached)

EU Times story on “toxic-oil spill rains” correctly spotlights damage from the Gulf-oil spill but makes claims that cannot be substantiated, thus, undermining genuine concerns.
Rense.com Posted 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 January 15-21

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

US: Giant rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying a secret spy satellite (the third of 6 that are planned). It is believed that the new satellite will be capable of reading car license plates.
DailyMail 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)

US: Congress has introduced a bill to repeal the ban on incandescent lights by 2012. Compact fluorescent lights save energy but they contain toxic mercury and are a potential health hazzard when broken.
Natural News 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)

Chinese President Hu, speaking in Chicago, says China is not a military threat and also denied that his country has a one-child policy. [Well, that settles that, doesn't it? Surely he wouldn't say anything that was untrue!]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)

Australia: Global-warming myth makers claim that recent floods are the result of so-called “climate change”. Here is the historical proof that such claims are pure bunk. These charts show that floods of this magnitude are not unusual for that area and, in fact, were more common and severe in the 19th century.
WUWT Posted 2011 Jan 21 (Cached)

Spain: Government is pouring freshly created money into banks in hopes of warding off an international bailout. Billions of euros in previous bailouts have been ineffective. [As always, the influx of money out of nothing will create even more inflation for consumers.]
WSJ 2011 Jan 20 (Cached)

US: FDA is investigating a possible connection between flu vaccines and 36 seizures in young children that occurred within 24 hours of receiving the shots. [Don't expect much here. The FDA is more of a partner to Big Pharma than a regulator and likely will "find" that the problem was not the shots in general but a bad batch or some other temporary condition or that the number of adverse reactions is too small to worry about, so keep those kids coming for more. We shall see.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 20 (Cached)

US: Supreme Court has denied hearing a case exposing corruption by lower-court federal judges. The proof against them is so clear that no one even tries to deny it. Yet, the Supreme Court has refused to hear the case, which has the effect of releasing them from conviction and, at the same time, condemning an innocent man.
Breitbart 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)

Goldman Sachs’ earnings fell by 53% in the 4th quarter and 37% overall in 2010 due to a reduction in bond trading and investment banking. (Investment banking involves acting as an agent for companies that need to raise capital from investors.) However, its own investing and lending segment showed a larger profit than last year. [This so-called profitable sector is the same one that was bailed out after suffering huge losses from high-risk loans. It's easy to show a profit when your losses are covered by taxpayers.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)

Goldman Sachs has 475 secret elite partners who stand to reap a windfall from 38 million stock options that were granted to them in 2008. [Options allow the holders to purchase stock at a stated price, usually very low, in anticipation of the stock being much more valuable at a future date. This method of compensation often is concealed from the public because it does not show up as salary or bonus. Among those to benefit are former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin.]
NY Times 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)

Obamacare has been repealed in the House but, likely, will be sustained the Senate and/or the President, so this was largely a symbolic effort. Most Republicans want to reform parts of the law instead of abolishing it completely. [Neither the Right nor the Left in Congress has any intention of repealing Obamacare because they stand to collect an extra $345 billion a year with the new tax provisions. That's why we support State Nullification.]
Fox News 2011 Jan 19 (Cached)

US: 26 states have joined a lawsuit filed by Florida to challenge the constitutionality of Obamacare. [This is a good sign of public opposition but contains the seeds of its own defeat. The lawsuit says Obamacare is unconstitutional because it forces Americans to buy health insurance. However, if that provision is struck down, all the other provisions would remain, and funding would come from taxes and inflation instead of premiums. So this has the appearance of opposition but is without real effect. If the states are serious about abolishing Obamacare, they should simply nullify the whole thing under the 10th Amendment.]
Guardian 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

Ireland’s central bank begins printing Euros [that's right, Euros] out of thin air to cover its debt. This will have an inflationary effect on the rest of the EU countries. [This seems strange, but appears to be not much different than having the money printed by the EU and then shipped to Ireland. It's all just an accounting trick anyway.]
Daily Bell 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

US: An air traveler at the Baltimore-Washington Airport declined to accept a full-body scan but was forced to walk through the machine anyway. He believes it was a psychological move to show that opt-outs cannot claim a “victory” over their authority.
InfoWars 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

Hawaii: Natural farming, using compost and earthworms, has doubled the yield of a small farm in just two years – and no pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizer are needed. There was a 30% decrease in water usage. [Even though most of us are not farmers, it is important that even city dwellers know that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are not necessary for our food supply.]
Staradvertiser 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

Overpopulation time bomb is a myth, according to several recent scientific studies. The problem with global hunger is not that there is not enough food but that distribution is hampered by a holdback in technology.
The Independent 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

City of Camden, New Jersey, lays off 17% of its employees, including police and firefighters, who warn that the city will become a “living hell.”. Public-safety workers and unions refused to take job-saving cuts, and the state is unable to bail out the city again (as it has for the past 2 generations).
Yahoo 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

US: Department of Agriculture provides a $12 million secret bailout to Domino’s Pizza in a bizarre new partnership. The announced purpose is to promote “a cheesier pizza.” [How's that for the proper function of the state?]
Shatter Limits 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

Chief climate scientist at NASA calls for Chinese-style dictatorship to fight global warming. He laments that the democratic process allows voters to obstruct the process. [Is anyone surprised? The global-warming myth is merely an excuse to establish a global dictatorship, and this fellow is just confirming it.]
Washington Times 2011 Jan 17 (Cached)

A study from the University of California found that all of the pregnant women in the test were contaminated with toxic chemicals, many of which have been banned in the US for decades. The source? Plastics, toys, personal-care products, and pesticide residue in food that is imported from other countries. Even though banned in the US, they can be imported with no problem. In addition, many toxic chemicals are still allowed in the US.
Natural News 2011 Jan 17 (Cached)

UK: A single mother, who was temporarily paralyzed by a fall, was told that her two-month-old baby (which was being well cared for by her sister) was to be put up for adoption by social services. The case workers claimed (with absolutely no evidence) that the mother may have been suicidal. The case has dragged on for 18 months after the mother’s total recovery. [This is only one case, but the details are painfully reminiscent of many similar cases that occur in every collectivist nation of the world where children are considered to be property of the state.]
Telegraph 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

Here is a list of the top 10 prescription drugs linked to violent behavior, including homicide and suicide. Most are anti-depressants and attention deficit drugs. [Incidentally, these are some of the most highly prescribed drugs in history. Instead of outlawing guns, how about outlawing these killers?]
Time Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

Here is an article that contains astonishing excerpts from Air Force documents describing how the HAARP installation in Alaska (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), may create weather modification as a weapon. [When they speak of nanotechnology and particles in the atmosphere, be aware that the most efficient method of putting them there is through aerosol spraying from aircraft. We call them chemtrails.]
PPJ Gazette Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

See: What in the World Are They Spraying?

Montana is considering ‘Sheriffs First’ legislation requiring federal agencies like the IRS, FBI and ATF, to get written permission from local sheriffs to perform searches and seizures.
WND Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

US Mint reports a buying frenzy of physical silver within the first 12 days of January 2011. Gold sales also have jumped. [Ironically, the spot price of silver and gold dropped significantly shortly after this announcement. It appears that those who manipulate the market are making a last-ditch effort to push the demand back down. They do this by selling bullion contracts (not the bullion itself). If buyers decide to demand physical delivery, the game is over, and the speculators who have done this will be wiped out.]
ZeroHedge Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Here is a list of the tax hikes that are in Obamacare. It is one of the largest tax increases in American history.
ATR.org Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

US: Patriot Act that allows the government to conduct warrantless searches, monitor private computer records, tap phone calls, and prevent you from knowing you are being spied on, has wide support in Congress and is expected to be renewed this month with little or no debate or fanfare. [This will be a test of the sincerity of those Tea-Party Republicans who recently were elected on their promise to uphold the Constitution.]
Huffington Post 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

Genetically modified chickens have been created that developers say will not transmit avian flu to other birds. [That's good news, but developers don't say what negative effects to human health may come from eating the meat from these chickens. This is part of the current trend whereby GMO companies are trying to get farmers to grow only foods that they have patented, and they always justify this practice as, somehow, providing a benefit to mankind.]
PopSci Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

UK: Grandmother received swine flu vaccine and was told by her doctor that it would absolutely protect her from the flu. She did not have the flu at the time but died from swine flu two months later.
Natural News Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

California applies to the federal government for bankruptcy protection. Currently, states are prohibited from declaring bankruptcy, but a new law to change that is being considered. [If states can declare bankruptcy, they will be able to re-negotiate impossible-to-sustain employee pension plans and health-care contracts, which is why unions oppose the measure. For taxpayers, it would be a great relief.]
LA Times 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

US Fish and Wildlife has agreed (only after being sued) to stop planting GMO crops on refuges in 12 Northeastern states. More lawsuits to stop the practice in other regions are being pursued. [This article says that, while farming is allowed on refuges, most have been converted to GMO crops because those were the only seeds farmers could obtain. A peek into the future?]
PEER Posted 2011 Jan 15 (Cached)

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ANALYSIS

Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

Texas: Activist confronts Austin Chief Sustainability Officer as she confirms that the UN’s Agenda 21 program, which she supports, calls for reducing the population by 85%. She laughs when the issue is raised and says she is not concerned about that aspect of the program. [This is only one official out of thousands just like her in positions of government authority around the country, but be assured that she represents the norm, not the exception. These people are dead serious.]
YouTube 2011 Jan 16

Goldnomics: the value difference between cash and gold bullion. [You probably know most of this, but it is a good idea to take a refresher course from time to time.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 15

Mike Adams and Farmer Brad discuss the impact of the misnamed Food Safety Bill: Many small farmers will go out of business due to extensive paperwork and FDA regulations; food prices will increase; and more food will be imported from other countries. [Imported food bypasses most safety regulations, so Americans will be at greater risk than before. Incidentally, small farms have never been the source of major outbreaks.]
Natural News Posted 2011 Jan 15

This is an excellent animation that explains the illusion of the “American Dream” and fiat money. [Caution! Some of the historical information is not accurate. For example, the story that JFK was assassinated because of his stand against the Federal Reserve cannot be substantiated. In fact, Kennedy always was a friend of central banking (See The JFK Myth). Nevertheless, because of the high quality of this program and the fact that the general theme is correct, we recommend it highly.]
YouTube Posted 2011 Jan 15

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DISINFORMATION

When the enemies of freedom cannot hide or deny the truth, their disinformation agents proclaim it boldly but mix it with questionable or offensive claims so people will recoil from the whole, like mixing garbage with groceries to stink up the bag and cause us to throw out the good with the bad. News items in this section may be in that category.

EU Times story on “toxic-oil spill rains” correctly spotlights damage from the Gulf-oil spill but makes claims that it cannot be substantiated, thus, undermining genuine concerns.
Rense.com Posted 2011 Jan 18 (Cached)

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2011 January 8-14

Saturday, January 15th, 2011

JP Morgan-Chase bank says its net income jumped 47% in the fourth quarter of 2010, and that executive salaries in their home-loan division tripled from $549 million to $1.8 billion since last year. CEO Jamie Dimon says that hurdles are high for investors who want to force banks to buy back bad loans, and this will be vigorously opposed in court.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 14 (Cached)

US: Treasury announces it will sell warrants it holds in Citigroup and 2 smaller banks to raise money to repay the $700 billion bailouts. It claims it will make $12 billion on its $45 billion bailout of Citigroup. [We are getting tired of having to repeat this warning, but it must be done: We don't believe you can squeeze orange juice out of a rock. In spite of all the brave talk about economic recovery and improved profits, banks and other bailed out entities are not yet producing anywhere near sufficient real profit to repay the bailouts. The trick they have used in the past, working in partnership with the Federal Reserve, is to provide new bailouts, hidden from public view, to repay the old ones, thereby fooling the public into believing bailouts are acts of statesmanship. Eventually, all of this will be exposed but, by then, it will be too late to do anything about it.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 14 (Cached)

US: A recent poll reported that Obama’s approval rating has soared to 77%. [Here's how they produced that absurd figure: 44% like him as a person and also like his policies. 29% like him but oppose his policies. 2% like his policies but dislike him as a person. 19% dislike him and his policies. The reality, therefore, is that 75% like something about him (mostly his personality) but only 46% like his policies, which is the meaning of an approval rating. This is classic media spin.]
InfoZine 2011 Jan 14 (Cached)

Illinois raised its income-tax rate to 5% to pay off a $15 billion deficit. That’s a 66% increase. Neighboring states with lower taxes are gleefully anticipating the influx of businesses and jobs away from Illinois.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)

AIG and the US government are working on a plan to sell $20 billion dollars of AIG stock to expand the company’s capital. This will reduce the value of existing shares, but it is hoped it will attract needed capital from investors. [As with previous moves to attract new capital into businesses that continue to lose money, we are skeptical. The standard game plan is for the Treasury and the Fed to covertly provide politically favored investors with new money or offer guarantees to cover the loss of old money so that, on the surface, it looks like the bailouts have been paid back. Watch closely. Can you tell which shell covers the peanut?]
MSNBC 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)

If you still believe that mass bird kills are caused by fireworks, flying into buildings, indigestion, or some other “official” explanation, here is a map showing global locations for 30 recent events. [Whatever the cause, it is happening world wide. See the article by Andrea Silverthorne in the Forum section, below, for reasons to suspect formaldehyde that forms from methane gas.]
Google 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)

US: Home foreclosures hit a record high of over 1 million in 2010. If not for the recent wave of court cases in which banks are prevented from foreclosure when they cannot document that they own the mortgage, the total could have exceeded 3 million. Currently, more than 5 million homeowners are at least 2 months behind in their payments. [Not to worry. Our leaders and media pundits have assured us that the economy has turned around.]
Yahoo 2011 Jan 13 (Cached)

Missouri has no problem with illegal immigrants because of common sense laws: English is the official language; police verify immigration status of those who are arrested; and illegal immigrants are not eligible for taxpayer-funded programs like food stamps, health care, and financial aid for education.
Ozark Sentinel posted 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)

Morgan-Chase bank in Cleveland told a homebuyer that the only way they were willing to modify his loan downward was for him to default on his payments, which he did. [Why would a bank advise default? Because it counts on moving the mortgage into a GSE (Government Sponsored Enterprise) such as Fanny Mae or Mac and thereby receive a subsidy on the revised loan. In other words, the banking game continues at the expense of taxpayers.]
ZeroHedge 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)

Philippines: Town mayor forces university to uproot a field of GMO eggplant. The reason is that the university failed to follow the law and take adequate steps to insure that the plants could not contaminate natural crops in the vicinity.
NaturalNews 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)

State of Virginia is considering establishing a committee to study whether it should adopt currency such as gold or silver should the Federal Reserve collapse. [This is a step in the right direction but strictly speaking, it is unconstitutional. Article 1 Section 10 of the Constitution says that states may not "coin money." That is reserved to the federal government. States must allow only gold or silver coins to be legal tender (which means people are required by law to accept them), but they cannot issue legal tender coins themselves. They can manufacture their own coins and accept them in payment of taxes, but cannot make them the official money of the state that people must accept. So it gets murky. Let's hope the committee will sort all this out and come to the conclusion that the state should issue silver and gold coins, encourage them to be used as money even though they are not required to do so. That would be ideal. No one needs to be forced to accept gold or silver.]
Market Oracle 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)

US: Housing market values have fallen 26% since their peak in June 2006, which is worse than the decline during the Great Depression from 1928 and 1933. [In spite of these grim statistics, this article insists that the economy is revving back to life. We shall see.]
CNBC 2011 Jan 11 (Cached)

US Court case discloses that military conducted mind-control experiments on 7800 Viet Nam veterans. They were subjected to nerve agents and psycho-active drugs (including LSD). Soldiers volunteered but were not told of the risks.
Alternet 2011 Jan 11 (Cached)

Obama’s presidential commission report on the Gulf gusher suggests the the US government should share responsibility. [That probably is correct, but there is more here than meets the eye. If the government shares responsibility, this will blunt the legal attack on BP and will save it billions of dollars in law suits. The government likely will have to pay at least half of the damages and most of the remediation costs. Taxpayers, once again, will be put through the ringer, while the people who were personally responsible for this disaster will not pay a dime or be punished in any way.]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 11 (Cached)

Obama is pushing for Internet ID overseen by the Department of Commerce – to protect your on-line identity, of course. It will be optional – for now. [If the public wants this, the private sector could and would provide it without government presence or access to the data base, but that is not what will happen.]
DailyMail 2011 Jan 10 (Cached)

Canada: Homeowner fined $5,200 for growing cucumbers in his basement. Authorities thought he was growing marijuana. Even though only cucumbers were found, the fine was levied to cover the cost of the search.
The Province 2011 Jan 10 (Cached)

Australia: Government is considering re-naming ‘climate change’ (already changed from ‘global warming’) to ‘climate challenges’. This is because most people no longer think that climate change is man-made, so the myth makers must find a more appealing phrase. [No matter how they sell it, at its core it is junk science leading to carbon tax.]
The Australian 2011 Jan 9 (Cached)

Massachusetts federal court voids bank seizure of 2 foreclosed homes because the banks failed to show they held the mortgages at the time of foreclosure. This is expected to have an enormous impact on other foreclosed homes in the past and in the future.
DailyMail 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)

US: While the Constitution is read on the House floor, a woman in the audience yells out that Obama has violated the Constitution because he is not ‘natural born citizen’ as required. She is removed.
Yahoo Posted 2011 Jan 8

Upcoming G20 meetings to discuss how rising food prices can be used as an excuse for passage of regional laws to increase government control over crops, farming methods, quotas, and prices. [Never let a good crisis go to waste. Instead of reducing government interference in the free market, which is the primary cause of food shortages, they are pushing ahead for more controls than ever. Collectivism always grows until it consumes everything.]
Reuters Posted 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)

China supplies most of the world’s honey and is notorious for using antibiotics to keep the bees “healthy” – but the honey becomes contaminated, which is far from healthy for humans. Chinese honey is falsely labeled as from Taiwan, Indonesia or Malaysia to avoid tariffs.
Globe and Mail Posted 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)

Ron and Rand Paul plan to introduce a bill to cut the federal budget by $500 billion. Rand says that the government collects about $2 trillion, but spends $4 trillion. Ron advocates repealing the welfare warfare state.
Sad Hill Posted 2011 Jan 8

Greek doctor (Harvard graduate) tells how medical research is a “damned lie.” He says bad science is manipulated to skew data favorably toward drug manufacturers who fund the research. Up to half of all medical research is untrustworthy.
The Atlantic Posted 2011 Jan 8 (Cached)

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ANALYSIS

Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

Pulitzer Prize winner, David Johnston, explains how the rich get richer at your expense. It’s a system of subsidies and tax breaks for those with political influence. He says these mega-businesses should earn their money in the marketplace, not receive it as a gift, stolen from the middle class by their friends in politics.
The DailyBail posted 2011 Jan 13

The Arizona shooting has resulted in a media frenzy to vilify conservatives, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, the Tea Party, “divisive political rhetoric,” and gun-rights advocates. Like every other crisis in the present day, the event is being used to create public acceptance of yet more government power. This is an excellent overview.
NeitherCorp 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)

Globalism and the UN’s Agenda 21 are forbidden by the Bill of Rights and the American Constitution. Here is an excellent outline of how to restore America’s core value.
FreedomAdvocates 2011 Jan 12 (Cached)

Vaccine Court is an alternative to a real court and was established to shield drug companies from prosecution for vaccine injuries (like autism). Only small damages are granted, and those are charged to taxpayers, not Big Pharma. [Guess who lobbied for that.]
PPJ Gazette 2011 Jan 9 (Cached)

Here is a short video that is designed to condition people to accept and even approve being crammed into mega-cities with tightly controlled housing, transportation, education, job placement, and food choices. It’s pure propaganda for the UN’s Agenda 21 program that aims to remove most people from the country where they are hard to control and get them into mega-cities where they can be totally regimented. This REALLY is what is being planned for you.
YouTube 2011 Jan 4

Lockheed Martin, a military and aircraft production company, is the largest single recipient of US tax dollars. This author says that, like the largest banks, it has become too big to fail, which means its mistakes and corruption are always covered up by the government, and its losses are passed to the taxpayers. This is an eye-opening review.
Yahoo 2011 Jan 4 (Cached)

Alcohol is a fuel and can be distilled from plants that thrive in poor soil, don’t need much rain, and grow like weeds without cultivation. [If we could ever break our fixation on gasoline from oil, producing fuel from these sources could bring back economic prosperity and oil independence to the US.]
ActivistPost 2011 Jan 4 (Cached)

US: Local law enforcement increasingly is being brought under federal control primarily through offers of money from Washington. [Local police departments seldom resist a federal grant to help them hire more officers and purchase needed equipment; but, with the money, comes control.]
PoliceOne.com 2010 Jan 3 (Cached)

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: Global Warming

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2010 December 11-17

Saturday, December 18th, 2010

$7.2 billion is recovered for victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme. The widow of ‘philanthropist’ Jeffrey Picower agreed to return the money that had been paid to her husband out of the Madoff fund. (That represents about half the amount stolen from investors.) Picower drowned in a swimming pool after a heart attack. [Incidentally, Madoff's son, who also was paid heavily from the fund, committed suicide on December 11.]
Yahoo 2010 Dec 17 (Cached)

US: Dept. of Agriculture says it wants to approve use of Monsanto’s genetically modified alfalfa, but public concern over contamination of conventional crops forces the agency to consider putting restrictions on its use. [The restrictions are minor and will not prevent contamination, and safety testing will not be required. The USDA has become a rubber stamp for the biotech industry, while Congress, fat with campaign contributions, remains silent. Incidentally, USDA co-owns a separate GMO patent with Monsanto, so they are business partners.]
Reuters 2010 Dec 17 (Cached)

US: Memo leaked from the EPA sheds light on the mystery of why honey bees have been dying off. It may be a pesticide produced by the Bayer Company. The EPA has known that this chemical harms honey bees since at least 2003; yet, not only has it allowed Bayer to sell the product, it has concealed the research. [Once again, we see the ugly face of corruption in government.]
GreenChipStocks 2010 Dec 16 (Cached)

US: A federal appeals court ruled that government must have a court-issued warrant based on probable cause if it wants to look at your e-mails stored by your internet service provider. Fourth Amendment rights are now extended to e-mails. [There is no mention of capturing emails by government agencies or private contractors while they are in transit before becoming stored, but this is a welcome ruling.]
AllGov.com 2010 Dec 16 (Cached)

Blackwater (now known as Xe), a private military contractor firm, has been sold by its owner Erik Prince because of ongoing criticism, especially for the senseless killing of 17 people in Baghdad in 2007. Xe was sold to an investment group with close ties to Prince. The group includes a partner who is a longtime financial adviser congress, to Prince helping him to procure government contracts. [This appears to be a strategy to create the illusion of divestment of control, but the crony connections suggest that little has changed except the paper trail.]
Yahoo 2010 Dec 16 (Cached)

California will adopt a Cap-and-Trade program even though a similar proposal was rejected by Congress. It will cap emissions from the 600 biggest industrial facilities and impose additional taxes on energy use. It is expected to set a precedent for other western states.
LA Times 2010 Dec 16 (Cached)

US government initiates lawsuit against BP Oil for violating environmental and pollution laws. Halliburton, the primary suspect in causing the spill, is absent from the complaint. [This is an indication that the complaint may ignore the initiation and cause of the spill and focus, instead, only on cleanup operations.]
DailyMail 2010 Dec 16 (Cached)

How did Goldman Sachs “repay” it’s $10 billion TARP loan? It obtained the money from the quiet sale of more than $100 billion in mortgage-backed securities (junk-quality) to the Federal Reserve. [In other words, the first bailout was paid secretly by additional bailouts of even greater magnitude. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs, the government, and the Fed have claimed that repayment of these loans was proof of the wisdom and success of the initial round of bailouts. This makes the Mafia look like a Boy Scout troop; yet, none of the criminals will be punished.]
Economic Policy Journal 2010 Dec 15 (Cached)

US: Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he does not believe Obama is a natural born citizen and, according to the Constitution, not the legitimate Commander-in-Chief. Prior to the trial, the judge said Obama’s birth certificate is irrelevant. Lakin was sentenced to 6 months in prison and loss of all benefits.
Yahoo 2010 Dec 14 (Cached)

JP Morgan has been manipulating the silver market for several decades but, because of rising prices even beyond its control, is forced to begin reducing its short derivatives position. It has already closed out 4000 contracts but has about 26,000 contracts still in play. [It appears that, for the first time in many years, the price of silver is being driven by the free market. Don't be surprised if it doubles or triples in price soon.]
NIA 2010 Dec 14 (Cached)

USA: A 17-year old boy asks TSA agent why his mother was frisked but not him. The answer: “You don’t have boobs.” The mother is suing.
Prison Planet 2010 2010 Dec 14 (Cached)

Sunscreen chemicals are absorbed into the body and are found in human milk samples. They can disrupt cellular functions at many levels.
Natural News 2010 Dec 14 (Cached)

US: A federal judge strikes down ObamaCare because part of it is unconstitutional. 2 other federal judges have ruled it constitutional, so it is headed for the Supreme Court. The issue is whether the federal government has authority to require Americans to purchase insurance. [This is too narrow an issue and could be a clever way to guarantee that the major portion of the bill will be approved. The issue is being defined to focus on the unconstitutionality of just one small part of the bill instead of the whole thing. The Feds may willingly give up the compulsory-purchase part (for now) in order to keep the other 95%.]
Yahoo 2010 Dec 14 (Cached)

The proper way to reject ObamaCare is for the states to nullify it. This will eliminate the bill in its entirety, and Congress doesn’t even have a say in the matter. Click here to read the model state legislation.
TenthAmendmentCenter posted 2010 Dec 14 (Cached)

Spanish scientists are developing technology to imprint human embryos with bar codes.
Fox News 2010 Dec 13 (Cached)

Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released for the purpose of transmitting Dengue Fever to the unsuspecting population. This already has resulted in deaths in Florida. Incredible as that may sound, this project is admitted by the U.S. government, the World Health Organization, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has heavily funded the program. The excuse is that this is a valuable experiment in the quest for ways to use mosquitoes to deliver vaccines to the masses at low cost. [The project, however, is controlled by the military which is far more interested in weapons of control and death. It should be noted also that the Gates Foundation is well known for funding projects related to population reduction. Here is the fascinating and frightening story.]
ActivistPost 2010 Dec 13 (Cached)

YouTube now allows viewers to flag videos if they believe they encourage terrorism. [Sounds downright patriotic, but the word terrorism is undefined. If people are angry because you criticize a politician they like, they can vote you off the Internet by flagging you as a terrorist. Google will make the final decision, but this allows the company to claim it is merely responding to public concern.]
Huffington Post 2010 Dec 13 (Cached)

NASA completes the first global study of Urban Heat-Island effect (heating of the air within large cities caused by heated buildings and and power devices). Temperatures were skewed by a whopping 13 to 16 degrees compared to rural areas. [For many years, global temperature readings increasingly have been coming from large cities and airports while ignoring the larger land mass of rural areas. Cities should be included, of course, but they have been given far too much weight in the calculations. Here is yet another way in which data has been tilted to favor the global-warming myth.]
NASA Dec 13 (Cached)

Massachusetts, home of the socialized medicine plan that was the inspiration for ObamaCare, now finds it cannot afford it. [Unfortunately, politicians are seeking to cut costs without reducing benefits. Collectivists never learn, but the Gods of the Copybook Headings ultimately will prevail.]
Yahoo 2010 Dec 11 (Cached)

Ron Paul, newly appointed head of the Congressional Banking Committee, says the Fed is bailing out states and cities by purchasing their bonds, even though they almost certainly will go into default. As usual, the money will be taken from all citizens in the form of higher prices and destruction of savings. [The banking cartel is in charge, and Congress is in its service.]
YouTube Posted 2010 Dec 11

Bank of America admits fraud and conspiracy in rigging municipal bond bids in derivatives trading. They are fined $137 million to make restitution to the IRS and municipalities that lost revenue. [The fine will be paid by stockholders in the form of lower dividends and by taxpayers who must pay for the inevitable bailouts. Innocent people will pay, while the executives who perpetrated the crime will not be punished but will earn bonuses.]
AFP Posted 2010 Dec 11 (Cached)

Judge Napolitano (on Fox News Network) interviews top rock-band leader, Jon Schaffer. Jon is in the Freedom Force Hall of Honor and a strong advocate of Constitutional government. They discuss the importance of educating America’s youth about freedom. In the following segment, Napolitano also covers the history of taxation.
YouTube Posted 2010 Dec 11

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ANALYSIS

Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

US: The tax system is rigged to favor the super wealthy. Here is a summary of the ways in which billionaires can avoid heavy tax hits while the middle class continues to be wiped out. Regardless of political rhetoric, neither major party wants to change that.
News Herald 2010 Dec 11 (Cached)

Tax provisions hidden in ObamaCare are built on IRS reporting rules that go into effect in January 2011. The rules are explained here. [The result will be a vast increase in taxes, an increase in personal record keeping, small-business failures, unemployment, a big step toward cashless transactions and, in 2012, tracking of gold sales to coin and gold dealers.]
YouTube2010 Dec 7

The full detailed article with research links can be seen here.
Activist Post 2010 Dec 7 (Cached)

California declares a fiscal emergency due to health care costs and calls for $9.9 billion in spending cuts. [Not much news in this, but here is an excellent analysis of why California got into this mess and what must be done about it.]
Natural News 2010 Dec 6 (Cached)

Jesse Ventura exposes the worldwide takeover of water by multinational corporations – and China.
FreeThoughtNation2010 Dec 4

Report gives a glimpse at what is planned for the common man in the not-too-distant future. 3/4 of the population will live in cities because only the elites will have automobiles. [The report focuses on transportation and traffic issues but read between the lines and you will see that all aspects of daily life will be tightly controlled.]
Guardian 2010 Dec 2 (Cached)

Animated characters entertainingly explain how the Morgan bank is massively overextended on naked short silver derivatives (that means they have sold silver they don’t have), so if silver rises in value and buyers demand the physical silver, prices will skyrocket, and Morgan could be wiped out. Meanwhile, those who buy silver now stand to profit handsomely.
YouTube 2010 Dec 2

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2010 December 4-10

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Worldwide corruption deepens as evidenced by the fact that, in the last 3 years, 25% of the people polled paid bribes to officials of governments and institutions empowered by governments. [In general, as governments increase their power to legally coerce citizens, corruption will follow at the same rate.]
Bloomberg 2010 Dec 10 (Cached)

Canada calls for global leaders to bind the US into complying with its CO2 emission-reduction pledges made at Copenhagen. This is a strategy to get Russia and Japan to sign a new treaty to limit CO2 even if the U.S. does not become a party to the Kyoto Treaty. [It's all based on the global-warming myth that is never challenged at such international conferences. Why not? Because, if the myth was acknowledged, there would be no reason for the treaties or the conferences.]
Globe and Mail 2010 Dec 10 (Cached)

US: The misnamed Food Safety Bill that will impede small-farms and expand FDA power, was folded into a general budget bill and passed by the House. It must now be voted in the Senate. Also, the “Same-Day Authority” bill passed, which allows other bills to be brought to vote with virtually no notice until December 18th. This allows the Democrat majority to ram through any bill they wish until their majority comes to an end. [By the way, Republicans often have used similar trickery.]
NWV 2010 Dec 10 (Cached)

US: Equity value of all homes has fallen $9 trillion since 2006 and is expected to continue downward.
Business Insider 2010 Dec 9 (Cached)

Prince Charles and Camilla’s car is attacked by students protesting the tripling of university tuition. Government buildings and shops are vandalized
Yahoo 2010 Dec 9 (Cached)

Ted Turner urges global one-child policy at UN Cancun treaty talks. The article says the world’s population currently is at 7 billion and expected to rise to 10 billion by 2050. Yet …?
The Globe and Mail 2010 Dec 2

The UN’s own documents say the world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2300 and then plateau.
Population Press 2003 Dec 9 (Cached)

US: Baltimore man arrested for trying to detonate a bomb. Just like the recent sting operation in Portland, this man was recruited and trained by FBI agents, posing as Muslim extremists, who gave him a fake bomb so, when he tried to detonate it, they could move in for the arrest. [This makes great news and convinces people there is a constant threat, but terrorism it is not. It is theater.]
Fox News 2010 Dec 8 (Cached)

Visa and MasterCard are cyber-attacked by hackers who objected to their withdrawal of services to WikiLeaks. Visa actually crashed for several hours. [Unfortunately, the government will use this to gain political support for the Cyber Security Act, which will not improve cyber security but will authorize cutting off anyone's Internet access if they dissent from government policies.]
ABC News 2010 Dec 8 (Cached)

Iceland’s recession is over because the voters demanded their government to let the banks fail rather than bail them out with tax money. Iceland has its own currency and is independent of the EU. Nobel Prize winner, Paul Krugman, urges Ireland, Greece and Portugal to get out of the EU and follow Iceland’s example.
Guardian 2010 Dec 7 (Cached)

Obama and Republicans agree to extend Bush tax cuts and increase unemployment benefits. The combined cost is over $800 billion. [Before rejoicing over lower taxes and higher benefits, consider that this will be paid through rising prices. There is no free lunch – except for politicians.]
CNN Money 2010 Dec 7 (Cached)

US: Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as Obama’s point man for the Gulf oil spill, is pressing the armed services, prisons, and schools to consume Gulf seafood. This is in response to a sharp decline in sales due to public concern about toxic residues of oil and Corexit, an oil dispersant. BP Oil will spend $30 million in a campaign to sell the idea that Gulf food is safe. Millions of federal dollars also will be spent for that same purpose.
NOLA 2010 Dec 7 (Cached)

Japan announces, that in compliance with a request from US Department of Homeland Security, it will no longer allow mail over one pound to be shipped into the US. This includes private services like Federal Express. Other countries are expected to follow suite – to fight terrorism, of course.
Natural News 2010 Dec 7 (Cached)

UPS now is requiring photo identification from anyone who wishes to send a package.
MSNBC 2010 Dec 6 (Cached)

US: Federal Reserve forced to reveal jaw-dropping statistics. When Americans were outraged at $700 million bank bailout, it really was $12.3 TRILLION. Much of it went to foreign banks and large corporations who owed money to banks. This is perhaps the biggest theft in all history, and no one has been brought to justice. This analyst thinks the Wikileaks scandals have been used to distract attention from the legalized plunder.
Poor Richard’s Blog 2010 Dec 6 (Cached)

US Treasury says it sold the last of the shares it held in Citibank and claims a $9 billion “profit” from the original bailout. [There is something fishy about this. The economy is still sliding downhill, and most investors are reluctant to put money into red-ink companies; so the suspicion is that these profitable stock-sales are possible only if the government has quietly provided the money or made stop-loss guarantees to large financial institutions so they can buy the stocks at no risk. In other words, they are paying off old losses by setting up new and larger losses in the long run. Time will tell if this suspicion is justified.]
Wall Street Journal 2010 Dec 6 (Cached)

US: Federal Reserve proposes to amend the ‘Truth in Lending Act’ so that homeowners can no longer challenge the validity of their mortgages even if lenders did not make full disclosure or falsified loan documents. [The Fed is a banking cartel. It represents the banks, not the people.]
NJ.com 2010 Dec 5 (Cached)

US signs a ‘free trade’ agreement with South Korea so their cheap products can be exchanged for US agricultural products. [Wait a minute! American industry already has been severely damaged by cheap imports - and food shortages in the U.S. already are beginning to appear. Is anyone in Washington looking out for America?]
PPJ Gazette 2010 Dec 4 (Cached)

Warren Buffet says it will be a “pleasure” to donate $50 million to the UN to create a nuclear “fuel” bank. The purpose is to place all nuclear resources under control of the UN. [The theory is that this will make the world safer but, considering the low ethical level of international despots and dictators that comprise leadership at the UN, just the opposite will be the result.]
CNBC 2010 Dec 4 (Cached)

Cancun climate-treaty talks are stalled because global warming has been discredited. To pressure the delegates into supporting the Kyoto Treaty based on the global-warming myth, the UN is threatening to unleash ‘geo-engineering’ that could poison the planet. The US and UK are the main backers.
MorphCity 2010 Dec 4 (Cached)

US Federal agencies are tracking citizens in real time via credit card activity, loyalty cards, and travel reservations, all without warrants.
Wired Posted 2010 Dec 4 (Cached)

Florida orange groves are infected by a bacteria that originated in China. The Chinese simply destroyed the infected trees and planted new ones, which solved the problem. In the U.S., the government decided that the only solution is to introduce genetically engineered varieties that are patented by companies like Monsanto. [To prevent growers from experimenting with ways to eradicate the bacteria, the government declared that it was a "bio-terror" bug, so no one is allowed to even examine it. Clever!]
Reuters Posted 2010 Dec 4 (Cached)

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Tax provisions hidden in ObamaCare are built on IRS reporting rules that go into effect in January 2011. The rules are explained here. [The result will be a vast increase in taxes, an increase in personal record keeping, small-business failures, unemployment, a big step toward cashless transactions and, in 2012, tracking of gold sales to coin and gold dealers.]
YouTube 2010 Dec 7

The full detailed article with research links can be seen here.
Activist Post 2010 Dec 7 (Cached)

California declares a fiscal emergency due to health care costs and calls for $9.9 billion in spending cuts. [Not much news in this, but here is an excellent analysis of why California got into this mess and what must be done about it.]
Natural News 2010 Dec 6 (Cached)

Jesse Ventura exposes the worldwide takeover of water by multinational corporations – and China.
FreeThoughtNation 2010 Dec 4

Report gives a glimpse at what is planned for the common man in the not-too-distant future. 3/4 of the population will live in cities because only the elites will have automobiles. [The report focuses on transportation and traffic issues but read between the lines and you will see that all aspects of daily life will be tightly controlled.]
Guardian 2010 Dec 2 (Cached)

Animated characters entertainingly explain how the Morgan bank is massively overextended on naked short silver derivatives (that means they have sold silver they don’t have), so if silver rises in value and buyers demand the physical silver, prices will skyrocket, and Morgan could be wiped out. Meanwhile, those who buy silver now stand to profit handsomely.
YouTube 2010 Dec 2

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2010 November 27-December 3

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

New York City is sending organ-harvesting vans with ambulances on 911 life-threatening emergency calls. The idea is that, if the victim’s life cannot be saved, they can extract his organs for transplant to those in need of them. The pilot program is funded by the federal government.
Natural News 2010 Dec 3 (Cached)

US: TV special reveals that multi-national corporations are taking over local water supplies for profit and population control.
Infowars 2010 Dec 3 (Cached)

US: Amazon cuts Wikileaks from its Internet servers at the behest of Senator Lieberman. He says it was the right decision and “should set the standard for other companies.”
Business Insider 2010 Dec 2 (Cached)

US: Federal Reserve reveals that, in 2008, it made $9 trillion(!) in loans to banks, Wall Street firms, and manufacturing corporations. Many were from other countries. The Fed claims that the loans were all repaid. [Repayments of the old loans likely were made with money from new loans and credits. Former Treasury Secretary called this an "undisclosable event."]
CNN Money Dec 1 (Cached)

Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney and Halliburton for bribing government officials with $180 million to win pipeline contracts. 23 company officials in Nigeria were arrested but released a few days later on bail. A warrant for Cheney’s arrest is to be issued through Interpol, but likely cannot be enforced.
Bloomberg 2010 Dec 1 (Cached)

US: In response to public indignation, TSA says it will make pat-down procedure less intrusive but now wants all Americans to be cleared by the government 72 hours before boarding a plane. Reportedly there are 750,000 people already on the FBI’s no-fly list.
Prison Planet 2010 Dec 1 (Cached)

US: Senate passes S. 510 Food-Safety Act that expands FDA power and burdens small farmers. However, the House is expected to reject it, not because it disapproves, but because the bill includes a new tax, and that, Constitutionally, is reserved for the House only. [So it is a technicality and a contest over turf. The issue of control over farming will be brought back by amendment to the bill or new legislation in the next session.]
Natural News 2010 Dec 1 (Cached)

California approves pesticide linked to cancer. It will be used primarily on strawberries, nut orchards, and in fresh-flower nurseries. Officials say that its toxicity is of little concern so long as they can use it “safely.” [Huh?]
Yahoo 2010 Dec 1 (Cached)

Climate-Change Summit in Cancun seeks to impose WWII-style rationing on developed countries and forced relocation of whole populations in the name of combating global warming.
Prison Planet 2010 Nov 30 (Cached)

Rulers and regulators, of course, are to be exempt from rationing. Watch their beachside fiesta here.
Watts Up With That 2010 Nov 30

US: Federal judge orders destruction of plantings of genetically modified sugar beets developed by Monsanto after ruling previously the U.S. Agriculture Department illegally approved the biotech crop. The court order requires that the seeds and their plants must be pulled from the ground. Monsanto has appealed the ruling.
Reuters 2010 Nov 30 (Cached)

US: Teacher bans students from bringing pens and pencils to class because they could be used for making weapons. Really!
InfoWars 2010 Nov 30 (Cached)

Farmed salmon from multi-national companies in Norway are escaping into natural waterways and destroying wild salmon populations across the world. This has been profitable to corporate fish farms but an economic blow to communities that depend on wild salmon.
Mercola 2010 Nov 30 (Cached)

Common gadgets like Wi-Fi, mobile and cordless phones, wireless games, and microwave ovens emit EMF (electro-magnetic frequencies) that could be damaging our brains. They are linked to depression, headaches and sleeping disabilities.
Daily Mail 2010 Nov 30 (Cached)

South Korea prepares evacuation centers and shelters located across the country (mostly in subways and car parks) and able to accommodate 20 million people. The government believes that massive attacks from North Korea are a realistic possibility.
NDTV 2010 Nov 30 (Cached)

US: Military veterans are suing the CIA for implanting electrodes in their brains without their consent. Records indicate that this may have been part of mind-control experiments.
Raw Story 2010 Nov 29 (Cached)

US: New army rifles use radio-controlled smart bullets that can kill people even if they have taken cover behind a wall or in a trench. Bullets are like small hand grenades and explode within inches of clearing the edge of the barrier.
DailyMail 2010 Nov 29 (Cached)

Ireland: Banks receives $89 billion bailout, boosting bank-stock prices. Citizens, however, are angry because they must pay the bill through high interest rates on bailout “loans”, reduction in retirement benefits, and higher prices. The banks’ senior bondholders (banks in other countries) will not have to share the losses. [The government's Transport Minister, Noel Dempsey, said the EU-IMF credit line "has taken us out of the situation where we're at the absolute mercy of the markets." Exactly! The purpose of all bailouts is to prevent the free market from fixing the problem by allowing corrupt and mismanaged banks to fail.]
Yahoo 2010 Nov 29 (Cached)

US: Homeland Security now is placing TSA agents at bus stations – to protect us from “bad guys,” they say.
IntelHub 2010 Nov 29

Haiti: Election day is marred by fraud, violence, and destruction of polling places. Elites already are dividing the spoils. Bill Clinton is in charge of billions for the post-quake reconstruction project and is encouraging foreign investment. [That is code for privatization of essential resources by large corporations who acquire control, not by honest bidding, but backroom deals with politicians.]
AP 2010 Nov 29 (Cached)

Iran’s leader, Ahmadinejad, says Wikileaks documents were not genuine but disinformation created by the U.S. government to look like they were leaked. Their purpose is to create divisions and suspicions among Arab countries.
DailyMail 2010 Nov 29 (Cached)

Wikileaks co-founder (who parted with the organization over policy issues) says Wikileaks is funded either by a corrupt organization or a government agency and that all leaks are intentional.
YouTube Posted 2010 Jul 29

Dubai’s officials say the city-state is hoping not to need another bailout and, to avoid that, it is considering selling off some of its assets and selling stocks in its state-run companies.
Yahoo 2010 Nov 28 (Cached)

California has approved cameras mounted on rear-view mirrors to track the behavior of drivers. The concept is being sold as a means of improving safety and monitoring teen-age drivers. [Don't worry, it's totally voluntary – for now.]
Sacramento Bee 2010 Nov 28 (Cached)

Harvard scientists reverse aging in mice by manipulating an enzyme called telomerase, which acts on chromosomes. That’s the good news. The bad news is that humans, unlike mice, naturally switch off the production of telomerase in adulthood, and it is feared by researchers that, if humans are given this enzyme, they would face a higher risk of cancer. Research will continue.
Guardian 2010 Nov 28 (Cached)

National Australia Bank’s computer failed on Wednesday causing millions of accounts to lose a month of previous transactions, including payments and account balances. Smaller banks, that depend on NAB to process their payments, also were crippled by the glitch. Commerce came to a standstill. [If it can happen, it will happen. Every family should have enough cash on hand to cover the purchase of a month's necessities.]
SMH 2010 Nov 27 (Cached)

US: FBI admits it recruited young Islamic extremist into a bomb plot and helped him prepare. [They defend this action by claiming the man was a serious threat and they wanted to push him to the point where he could be arrested. Another possible explanation is that the government needs idiots like this to keep alive the public dread of terrorism.]
RawStory 2010 Nov 27 (Cached)

New Zealand man recovers from pneumonia, leukemia and a coma thanks to vitamin C. The hospital planned to remove him from life support and allow him to die, but his family insisted on high doses of intravenous vitamin C. It was a major battle because doctors had no faith in natural therapy, and vitamins are not part of the government prescribed medical plan.
3NewsNZ Posted 2010 Nov 27

US: Homeland Security shuts down 76 websites without a court order. [Most were selling counterfeit brand names or were suspected of copyright violations, but it is not the role of Homeland Security to police such things. It is only a matter of time before they begin closing down sites for politically unacceptable editorial policy. They will claim to be protecting against terrorism or sedition or hate speech or ...]
RawStory Posted 2010 Nov 27 (Cached)

Iceland’s new constitution is to be drafted by ‘ordinary folk’. [This should be a doozie. We can imagine such popular provisions as a right to a job, health care, food, housing, heating oil, a college education, and early retirement. It is a populist exercise to divert attention from the cause of the banking crisis. The old constitution had nothing to do with the banking collapse and does not stand in the way of reform.]
SFGate Posted 2010 Nov 27 (Cached)

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Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

Report gives a glimpse at what is planned for the common man in the not-too-distant future. 3/4 of the population will live in cities because only the elites will have automobiles. [The report focuses on transportation and traffic issues but read between the lines and you will see that all aspects of daily life will be tightly controlled.]
Guardian 2010 Dec 2 (Cached)

Codex Alimentarius is a commission created through the United Nations seeking to establish itself as regulator of the world’s food supply, nutritional supplements, and drugs. It appears that Codex actually was established by Nazi war criminals with the support of multinational corporations.
Activist Post 2010 Nov 16 (Cached)

Reality Zone Unfiltered News 2010 November 20-26

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

US: Virginia federal judge to rule on whether ObamaCare violates the Constitution. The question is: Can the fed require citizens to buy commercial insurance? If this judge says no, the issue will go to higher courts for review. [Even if this provision is declared unconstitutional, the rest of ObamaCare (95% of it) will remain. This challenge is good, but far short of what is needed. The whole bill should be repealed.]
NY Times 2010 Nov 26 (Cached)

Irish bonds are severely rated down and Anglo Irish Bank now is ‘junk’ as a result of bailout discussions. Senior bondholders may be required to cover some of the losses; junior bondholders already have lost 80% to 95% of their loans.
Yahoo 2010 Nov 26 (Cached)

US nuclear powered aircraft carrier is offshore in the Yellow Sea to participate in military drills with South Korea next week, apparently in response to the recent shelling of a South Korean island by North Korea. China sees the carrier’s presence as a threat to her security. [What will be her response? Is she being goaded into an attack? If so, would this be an excuse for U.S. to put trade embargo on import of Chinese goods – and would that be retaliation against China's decision (with Russia) to move away from trading in U.S. dollars? We shall see.]
Yahoo Nov 26 (Cached)

Germany rejects European Commission’s proposal to double EU bailout funds, currently at $588 billion. A condition of the EU plan is that the IMF would lend 1/3 of the total. Germany objects because it could trigger lack of public confidence in the solvency of Spain and Portugal causing them not to be able to continue selling their bonds. [Public confidence often is not based on reality. The reality is that these governments are insolvent and cannot pay off their bonds even if they sell them unless they are paid off with devalued currency, which is what they prefer to do. Remember, also, that U.S. taxpayers are on the hook for the biggest chunk of loans from the IMF.]
WSJ 2010 Nov 25 (Cached)

IMF Loans come with strings attached. Resources are used to enrich lending institutions and multi-national corporations, not the common man.
YouTube posted 2010 Nov 25

US: Former Republican Majority House leader Tom DeLay is convicted of money laundering and conspiracy. He funneled $190,000 in corporate donations through the Republican National Committee to several candidates. Texas law prohibits corporate money from going directly to candidates. He awaits sentencing and could get a life sentence. Observers expect a short prison term or probation.
Yahoo 2010 Nov 25 (Cached)

China and Russia announce they will trade with each other in their own currencies (yuans and rubles). This is a blow to the dollar that, until now, has been the international trading currency. The dollar has been accepted by other countries in spite of its massive increase in quantity because oil was traded in dollars, and everyone needs oil. Now that Russia, the #2 exporter of oil, will no longer accept dollars, other nations will lose much of their incentive to acquire them. [This may be the first falling domino leading to the end of the dollar as a measure of purchasing power, abroad and in the U.S. Anyone caught with life saving in dollars or in investments denominated in dollars will be wiped out.]
IBT 2010 Nov 24 (Cached)

US: Full body scanners that use radio waves are now being used at courthouses, while X-ray body scanners is being considered.
Raw Story 2010 Nov 24 (Cached)

US: Doctors warn of flesh-eating bacteria, venereal disease, and other infections that could be spread through invasive TSA pat-downs. That’s because agents do not change gloves between each pat-down.
InfoWars 2010 Nov 24 (Cached)

US: TSA turns off scanners and pat-downs for National Opt-Out Day proving that X-rays and molestation are not necessary to national security.
Natural News 2010 Nov 24 (Cached)

US: Nine states have shown an interest in Virginia’s “Repeal Amendment” that would allow 2/3 of the states to repeal an act of Congress. [Nullification is a more direct way to limit the federal government because it can be done now without amending the Constitution, which is a long and arduous process. Nullification has already worked in the past. Why pursue an untried measure with a high probability of failure – unless failure is the real objective? Could this be a means of letting people blow off steam without really changing anything? Politicians are expert at that.]
Daily Caller 2010 Nov 24 (Cached)

South Korea fires on North Korea and says it was an accident. North Korea launches retaliation. Media in the West says North Korea Attacked South Korea. [What does it mean? We think it is too early to tell, but we should be alert to the possibility of hidden agendas. This analysis suggests that the U.S. is covertly involved, but the motive is not clear. We are not ready to endorse this analysis but think you may find it interesting.]
Prison Planet 2010 Nov 23 (Cached)

US: Head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says security searches next will be done for trains, boats, and metro lines. [Road travel will be next. Surely by now everyone must know that security against terrorism is primarily an excuse for setting up a system to monitor the movement of all citizens.]
The Hill 2010 Nov 23 (Cached)

Mad scientists develop a pill to erase memories by removing proteins from the brain. They say they are only using it on mice for now, but the intended use is on humans. [They already are spinning this as a wonderful aid to help people forget bad memories, but how much memory could be erased? Will it effect human self identity, which is based in memory? Could it be used against a person's will? If it can be misused or abused, it will be.]
Daily Mail 2010 Nov 23 (Cached)

Study shows half of Americans will have diabetes or pre-diabetes by 2020. The report recommends “lifestyle intervention” by way of public-health regulations, medication, and ‘compliance’ and using Public/Private Partnerships (government coupling with business) to apply the interventions. [The option of voluntary action based on education and self-interest is not considered. Under collectivism, it always is assumed that state-sponsored coercion is required.]
MedicalNewsToday 2010 Nov 23 (Cached)

TSA agents claim they also are disgusted by body-contact searches, especially when people are obese and have bad hygiene.
Daily Mail 2010 Nov 23 (Cached)

Heartbreaking testimony of Gulf fisherman’s son who was poisoned by Corexit and now has potentially fatal kidney damage. Damage to the Gulf is so extensive, many families are forced to leave their homes.
IntelHub 2010 Nov 22 (Cached)

US: Homeland Security memo states that those who resist or criticize TSA “enhanced security” measures are “domestic extremists” and should be dealt with accordingly.
CFP 2010 Nov 22 (Cached)

Nobel Prize winning climate scientist breaks away from UN colleagues; says CO2 change does not cause temperature change, but is the result of it. In other words, temperature change comes first, then CO2 levels change. So the whole idea of trying to control CO2 in order to control climate change is bunk.
CFP 2010 Nov 22 (Cached)

Al Gore admits that his support for corn-based ethanol was a mistake, leading to higher food prices while contributing nothing to energy needs. He admitted that, at the time, he believed ethanol subsidies and tax breaks would strengthen his presidential campaign.
Tom Nelson Blog 2010 Nov 22 (Cached)

Russia: Global-warming myth-makers have created another scare scenario just in time for the upcoming negotiations for a UN climate treaty. The scare is that methane seeping out from Siberian permafrost (as it has for 10,000 years) may increase due to global warming. [Expect more hot air than methane in the days ahead.]
Yahoo 2010 Nov 21 (Cached)

Detroit airport TSA workers disconnected a man’s urostomy bag (from cancer surgery) in a pat-down. He warned them it would rip the tube out, and he was left covered in urine. [Humiliation of travelers in the name of 'safety' continues.]
Raw Story 2010 Nov 20 (Cached)

Nearly 40% of American retirees have accumulated credit card debt they do not expect to pay off in their lifetime. [That means they must default or pay interest until the day they die.]
USA Today 2010 Nov 20 (Cached)

US: Here is an astonishing list of Senators who were paid to support S.510, the so-called Food Safety Bill. Also shown are payments to oppose the bill, although much smaller. The groups that paid them are also listed.
Liberty News Posted 2010 Nov 20 (Cached) ?

US: Senate Food Safety Bill S.510 that is designed to centralize agriculture under federal control and eliminate small farms and ranches, can be stopped by your Governor. The bill requires federal government to contract with state agencies to implement this law.
PPJ Posted Nov 20 (Cached)

Warren Buffet recently said he thinks rich people should pay higher taxes. He has structured his company Berkshire Hathaway to minimize taxes. [As Lenin said: "Words are one thing; actions another.]
GapperBlog Posted 2010 Nov 20 (Cached)

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Reports and commentaries that look beyond the news to identify historical facts and trends that must be understood to place the news into perspective. This is our “think-tank” section that makes it possible to anticipate future events.

Codex Alimentarius is a commission created through the United Nations seeking to establish itself as regulator of the world’s food supply, nutritional supplements, and drugs. It appears that Codex actually was established by Nazi war criminals with the support of multinational corporations.
Activist Post 2010 Nov 16 (Cached)

Here is an excellent overview of how the Federal Reserve has destroyed the American economy and allowed great concentration of power in the hands of a few who set interest rates and control inflation. If you have wondered why people are calling for an end to the Fed, here is the answer.
NIA 2010 Nov 14

Quantitative Easing explained in cartoon video – humorous but amazingly accurate.
YouTube Posted 2010 Nov 13

The contest between Left and Right has been replaced by a new conflict between the individual vs. corporations – especially so when one realizes that corporations have become the dominant controlling force over governments. This provides an excellent insight to the new reality.
USAWatchdog Posted 2010 Nov 13 (Cached)

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