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G. Edward Griffin’s RealityZone.com

2010 MARCH 13 – 19

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US: Court cases on gun control and state sovereignty are popping up everywhere. Here is an excellent summary, including an analysis of the issues. Unfiltered News 2010 Mar 19
US: At present, banks may not create more than $9 in loans for each $1 they hold. However, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke says this may be changed to ANY amount in loans REGARDLESS of what is held. At that point, fractional-reserve banking becomes zero-reserve banking, and hyperinflation will be upon us. This was predicted in 1994 in The Creature from Jekyll Island, pages 200 and 543. Raw Story 2010 Mar 18 (Cached)
► Obtain a copy of Creature here.

Idaho and Utah have joined Virginia in legislation to nullify the Obama Health Care bill � as state sovereignty gains steam. USA Today 2010 Mar 18 (Cached)

US: So-called jobs bill, which awaits Obama’s signature, could create 250,000 jobs, but this is a drop in the bucket compared to the 8.4 million jobs lost since the financial meltdown. And it ignores the 500,000 jobs that will be lost because money is extracted from the economy to pay for the 250,000 new jobs. Yahoo News 2010 Mar 17 (Cached)

Hawaii legislature considers a law to prevent people from requesting copies of Obama’s birth certificate. Hawaii’s Health Department has never produced the document but receives 10 to 20 requests each week. My goodness, what a workload that must be. It certainly warrants a law to bring it to an end.
Yahoo 2010 Mar 17 (Cached)

Monsanto’s own data shows that Genetically Modified (GM) organisms are detrimental to health. Animals fed with GM corn developed liver and kidney damage within 3 months. Meanwhile Monsanto keeps telling the public that everything is safe. Natural News 2010 Mar 17 (Cached)

US: Hundreds of air travelers file complaints on full-body security scanners. People are not given a choice of an optional “pat down,” and many are concerned over health risks.
Prison Planet 2010 Mar 17 (Cached)

New research finds the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments of testicular cancer can be worse than the disease. Natural News 2010 Mar 16 (Cached)



US: Man is arrested for a crime police thought he might commit. He had purchased several guns after losing his job. Although he was a gun collector and already owned other guns, police determined he would likely use the new ones to attack his employers. Reason 2010 Mar 16 (Cached)

US: Justice Department boasts that government is surveying social networking sites, sometimes creating false profiles, to gather information about the whereabouts and activities of suspected criminals. They wouldn’t do that against honest citizens who oppose corruption in government, would they? CNBC 2010 Mar 16 (Cached)

US: Obama promised more transparency in government; but review of Freedom-of-Information requests finds he is utilizing more secrecy than Bush. Bloomberg 2010 Mar 16 (Cached)

France: TV contestants in ‘The Game of Death’ take turns electrocuting participants who get wrong answers – or so they thought. Actually it was an experiment to see how many people would inflict pain and death on someone merely because an authority figure told them to. 80% did.
AFP 2010 Mar 16 (Cached)

People in power make better liars, study shows
Findings suggest that dishonesty comes more easily to those on top. MSNBC 2010 Mar 15 (Cached)

US: WikiLeaks is a web site that publishes letters and documents from whistleblowers within the government. Recently, it published a secret Pentagon document describing WikiLeaks itself as a “threat to the US Army”. The document says that whistleblowers and leakers must be stopped.
Wired 2010 Mar 15 (Cached)

US: Group that profits from finding “hate” speech on the Internet not surprisingly finds an increase in “hate” speech on the Internet. It also lumps “conspiracy theorists” into the same category as terrorists. This is preparation for more government censorship of the Internet. Fox News 2010 Mar 15 (Cached)

George Soros funds programs to eliminate the right of Americans to possess guns for self defense against criminals and tyrants. His plan is to have all guns controlled by the criminals and tyrants that dominate the UN. InfoWars 2010 Mar 15 (Cached)

London: A young man traveling with his family is told to turn his Levi Strauss “Freedom or Death” t-shirt inside-out. Why? Because it was “threatening” and an “incitement to terrorism”.
Daily Mail 2010 Mar 14 (Cached)

 US: Investigation reveals that Lehman Brothers “cooked the books” to overvalue the company and create false impression of profitability right up to the day it collapsed – all the while government regulators looked the other way. This is the Enron story all over again only worse. YouTube 2010 Mar 14 (Cached)

US: For decades, the Social Security fund has been raided. The money was transferred to the general fund and spent. All that remains are IOUs. Now the IOUs are coming due to pay current benefits, but there is not enough money to repay. That means more borrowing to cover the shortfall. After decades of compulsory payments to build the original fund, citizens now will pay for it a SECOND TIME through inflation. Yahoo 2010 Mar 14 (Cached)

Venezuela: Chavez again calls for government control of the Internet. Not long ago the world would have condemned dictators for such violation of human rights. Now almost all nations are pursuing the same collectivist agenda.
Reuters 2010 Mar 13 (Cached)

US: States may hold on to income-tax refunds for months to avoid running out of cash. Citizens who withhold payment of their taxes for the same reason would go to prison. USA Today Posted 2010 Mar 13 (Cached)

Boston TV news investigates “mysterious” substance mixed in with the fluoride powder it adds to the water supply. While expressing concern over its possible toxicity, it ignores the well-known toxicity of the fluoride. The CDC says fluoride is safe, but there is substantial evidence that it can cause cancer and adversely affect the heart, kidneys, bones, GI tract, and nervous system. InfoWars 2010 Mar 13 (Cached)

US: A coalition of 27 Congressmen has sponsored a bill to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) due to massive American job losses. Obama campaigned against NAFTA, but that was merely to get elected. Don’t expect him to endorse this bill. WND 2010 Posted Mar 13 (Cached)



Massachusetts Supreme Court rules that the right to bear arms, as defined in the 2nd Amendment, may prevent the federal government from gun control, but not the states. Therefore, Massachusetts is free to restrict firearms as it sees fit.
South Coast Today Posted 2010 Mar 13 (Cached)

Wyoming Governor signes resolution affirming the 10th Amendment and state sovereignty over all powers not granted in the Constitution to the federal government. Although this is only a resolution and not binding law, it is a step forward in the growing state-sovereignty movement.
10th Amendment Center Posted 2010 Mar 13 (Cached)

The drug Fosamax (by Merk) and similar drugs from competitors are marketed as aids to stronger bones. Now cases are mounting up showing that, for many people, bones actually are weakened, leading to fractures not related to injury. The FDA has failed to inform the public. ABC News Posted 2010 Mar 13 (Cached)

US Chamber of Commerce is preparing to spend more money in future elections than labor unions or even the national committees of the major parties. They will perpetuate the myth that the two parties offer a real choice expecting people eventually to recoil from the Democrat Party and jump into the Republican Party. It’s the same old game, but they will have a huge amount of money to play it. Corporations can anonymously fund political activity through the Chamber.
Fox News Posted 2010 Mar 13 (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: Here is the latest AND ACCURATE news on S.510 and S.3002, falsely labeled as the Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010, which are legislative attacks on natural health by Senators John McCain and Byron Dorgan. NHF 2010 Mar 17 (Cached)

Mexico & US War on Drugs is a failure that has resulted in massive violence. Marijuana prohibition raises its price, and the profits are the main cause of cartel wars in Mexico. California has legalized medical marijuana, and now there is an initiative to tax it, which would once again increase its price. Politicians never get it right. Huffington Post 2010 Mar 15 (Cached)

US: Judge Napolitano and Professor Walter Williams discuss the upcoming census and your right NOT to answer personal questions.
YouTube Posted 2010 Mar 13

Jerry Day reveals the questions that will be asked by census workers and explains why they are not Constitutional. Matrix News Posted 2010 Feb 11

Ron Paul on Fox News explains why he is opposed to the National ID Card, which now is being proposed supposedly to combat illegal immigration. YouTube 2010 Mar 10

US: Army is continuing to experiment with secret chemical “non-lethal” weapons that can be used on civilian populations. The “Super Stink Bomb” worries analysts who say there is no way to guarantee that the toxic components could not become permanently damaging or even lethal in some circumstances. Guardian 2010 Mar 10 (Cached)

A sobering analysis of what to expect in the near future as nations prepare for the final transition to world government. Learn of 12 events that could panic the masses into welcoming this move. Analysis by Adrian Salbuchi, an Argentinean with an excellent understanding of world events, including those within the United States. ►Part 2 here. YouTube 2010 Mar 7