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G. Edward Griffin’s RealityZone.com

2010 APRIL 24 – 30

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US: The misnamed Financial “Reform” Bill is said by its sponsors to put an end to bailouts. However, it allows the Federal Reserve to take over a firm, fire its executives, and use taxpayer money to keep the company from going bankrupt. [In other words, instead of ending bailouts, it creates a legal framework that authorizes them in perpetuity without input from Congress. This is reform?]
FrontPageMag.com
2010 Apr 30 (Cached)

UN World Health Organization warns about fraud and corruption within the pharmaceutical industry. [This is a pathetic effort by the fraudulent and corrupt UN to diffuse public indignation over its false flu-pandemic proclamation. It’s like two crooks being tried for a joint crime with one of them squealing on the other in hopes of getting a light sentence.]
Natural News
2010 Apr 30 (Cached)

UK: Government report calls for an international authority such as the UN to geo-engineer the planet – including spraying the atmosphere with chemicals supposedly to block sunlight and reduce global warming. [Aside from the fact that global warming is a myth, governments now are openly discussing a process that has been underway covertly for many years. You have read about it in Unfiltered News described as chemtrails.] Prison Planet 2010 Apr 29 (Cached)

Head of the European Central Bank delivers a speech at CFR meeting and calls for “global governance” led by the Bank of International Settlements in Switzerland, which is to become the central bank of the world. [The New World Order is beginning to take final form.] Prison Planet 2010 Apr 29 (Cached)

California legislators who favor illegal immigration claim to speak for the state by calling for boycotts against Arizona, which recently passed tough laws to curb illegal immigration.
[They claim their objection is that Arizona police have too much power to stop and question suspects, but this is a ruse. Their voting records show they want to prevent immigration laws from being enforced to hasten the day when Mexico will be merged with the US in what will be called the North American Union.] Christian Science Monitor 2010 Apr 28 (Cached)

US: Oklahoma passes a bill that outlaws recruiting for a militia. [Militias are authorized in the Constitution and represent an important part of homeland security.] InfoWars 2010 Apr 28 (Cached)

Canada: Plans for the upcoming G20 meeting in Toronto include a “Free Speech Zone” far from the G20 meeting. All protestors will be relegated to that area. [Free speech will be prohibited everywhere else.] CTV 2010 Apr 28 (Cached)

US: Federal agencies issue report that says global warming [a convenient myth] could lead to increased cancer and mental illness and they want funding to look for evidence of it.
[They will get the money and release biased studies to “prove” their theory, thereby, creating even more hysterical support for cap-and-trade taxes.] CNS News 2010 Apr 28 (Cached)



UK: Nursery school confiscates child’s cheese sandwich because it was not “healthy” according to government guidelines. Parents told the sandwich must include lettuce and tomato.
[Admittedly, a bare cheese sandwich is not whole nutrition, but government has no business telling parents what they must feed their kids. Collectivism has no limit.] Daily Mail 2010 Apr 28 (Cached)

US: Federal government to use aerial surveillance drones to monitor drug violence on the Mexican border. [After they monitor it, it would be nice if they actually did something about it.]
Dallas News
2010 Apr 28 (Cached)

Greek bonds are downgraded to “Junk” status, making it even harder for the struggling nation to borrow new money, even at 15% interest. Germany says it will not “let Greece fall” even though the German citizenry is opposed to a bailout.
[Citizen opinion does not count if it gets in the way of bailing out bankers and politicians.] BBC News 2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

Obama administration blocks a congressional subpoena for Fort Hood shooting documents.
[What are they trying to hide this time? No one truly believes this is a matter of national security, unless that is defined as security for corrupt national officials.]
Washington Post
2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

The federal government, having failed to get control of the Internet through the Federal Communications Commission, has quietly placed a provision into pending legislation for “financial overhaul” that will give control of the Internet to the Federal Trade Commission instead.
[Free-Internet advocates are not supposed to notice.] Washington Post 2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

US: Congressman Henry Waxman inserts a provision into the Wall Street Financial Reform bill that will restrict the use of vitamin supplements.
[He and his fellow collectivists hope that, because the cry for financial reform is so loud, the public will not notice or care about this end-run to take away freedom-of-choice to self medicate with something other than drugs.] Alliance for Natural Health 2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

British supermarket tabloid reports that a group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat in Turkey. [The accompanying video is impressive, but caution is advised. For evidence that the Ark was made of reeds, not wood, and that it landed 17 miles from Mt. Ararat, see The Discovery of Noah’s Ark, a documentary produced by G. Edward Griffin.] The Sun 2010 April 27 (Cached)

Ukrainian politicians throw eggs, smoke bombs, and punches at each other prior to vote that renewed Russia’s fleet presence in their port on the Black Sea until 2042 – a move bitterly opposed by pro-Western and nationalist lawmakers. Ukraine will get cheap natural gas from Russia in exchange.

Yahoo News
2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

US: Newspaper circulation falls another 8.7% in the last 6 months as readers continue to migrate to free Internet news sources (such as Unfiltered News). The top 25 national newspapers had significant losses. Breitbart 2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

US: New technology has been developed that will allow government health operators to know whether you’ have taken your prescribed medications. [Woe unto you if you have not!] Experts predict that medical devices will be placed in our homes to monitor health habits, blood pressure, and much more. Natural News 2010 Apr 27 (Cached)



Northern Arizona University will track students electronically via ID cards to record if they attend class.
[Almost sounds like a good idea; but, when viewed in terms of the trend of growing collectivism, it is likely that this is just the beginning of a plan to monitor all student activities to determine if they are “worthy” of a degree.] AZ Central 2010 Apr 27 (Cached)

US: Amish farmer raided by FDA at 4:30 in the morning for selling raw milk in interstate commerce. Daily Caller 2010 Apr 26 (Cached)

American and Russian scientists have discovered that hamsters fed Genetically Modified food have serious health impairment in the second generation and, by the third generation, are unable to procreate. In other words, they can have children and grandchildren but that’s the end of the line.
[Will this same effect be found in humans? Monsanto and other GMO companies claim they intend to put an end to hunger. One cannot help but wonder if they plan to do this by putting an end to people.]
Salem News
2010 Apr 26 (Cached)

US: Documents reveal that a top official in the Office of Energy Efficiency stands to make huge profits from her investments in companies that benefit from policies and contracts that she authorizes. [Unfortunately, this is not a rare occurrence in collectivist governments, especially among corrupt politicians and scientists parading under the banner of environmentalism.] Pajamas Media 2010 Apr 26 (Cached)

US: Department of Energy report suggests oil supply will crash in 18 months.
[A little skepticism is in order. Why? Because this prediction comes from the government, and because the government is heavily influenced by the oil industry, and because the oil industry has been promoting the “peak-oil” line for at least a decade, and because that line creates a plausible explanation of shortages that really are caused by the industry’s cutback in production, and because shortages lead to a rise in the price of oil, and because a rise in the price of oil leads to sustained profits for the oil companies while actually decreasing production.]
Market Oracle
2010 Apr 26 (Cached)

Americans from all walks of life, mostly without prior political experience, are running for political office to take back power from the elitists in Washington.
[We need lots more of the same, especially at the state level. What are YOU doing that’s more important?] WND 2010 Apr 26 (Cached)

Australian baby dies 12 hours after receiving seasonal flu shot; national health authorities issue orders to block vaccinations of children 5 years old and younger. Adelaide Now 2010 Apr 25 (Cached)



Arizona Congressman says federal government should fight his state’s new law to clamp down on illegal immigration. He is supported by Obama and thousand of local protestors. LATimes 2010 Apr 25 (Cached)

US: Illinois state legislators have asked the Governor to send the National Guard to Chicago to quell street violence.
[It is sad to see people ask for martial law in return for security. That is why would be totalitarians deliberately undermine social tranquility.] Chicago Breaking News 2010 Apr 25 (Cached)

US: A bill is now pending in the Senate that would give control over all American seed, health supplements, food, and farming to the UN. It is believed to have been designed by a former executive of Monsanto who now is at the UN to administer it.
Food Freedom 2010 Apr 24 (Cached)

EU bureaucrats want poor families to have tax-paid travel vacations because they say it is a human right. [They are silent on the human right not to have your earnings taken to pay for the pleasure of those who outnumber you at the polls.] Sun-Times 2010 Apr 24 (Cached)

Facebook, the fastest growing social network, has been actively seeking ties with government intelligence agencies. Meanwhile, the company assures the public that privacy is its top priority.
Social Beat Posted 2010 Apr 24 (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: Short video program, entitled “Policing for Profit” explains the growing trend for police at all levels of government to permanently take your personal property (homes, cars, cash) if they suspect it was used to commit a crime even if you are never tried or convicted of that crime.
Institute For Justice
2010 Mar 30 (Cached)

G. Edward Griffin explains the philosophy and strategy of Freedom Force International.
YouTube
2010 Apr 27

Just discovered: 2007 interview of G. Edward Griffin in Norway upon publication of the Norwegian edition of his book, World without Cancer. Google Posted 2010 Apr 25

Journalist uncovers massive fraud in global humanitarian aid industry. Book details how aid organizations help to prolong wars and benefit the perpetrators of genocide rather than their victims.
Guardian 2010 Apr 25 (Cached)