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2011 AUGUST 6 – 12

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US: Members of the new Congressional Super Committee (created by the debt-limit agreement last week) have received $3million from corporations and unions that want to keep their government funding from being cut from the budget. The White House says it is silly to criticize this conflict-of-interest because the representatives have taken an oath to the Constitution. [Really! The Super Committee itself is unconstitutional, and its members have a unbroken record of violating the Constitution. So does the White House.] Yahoo 2011 Aug 12 (Cached)

US: A new Jobs Super Committee is proposed to solve unemployment. This is inspired by the new Super Congress created last week to solve the debt crisis. [The same people who ruined the economy with too much debt now will solve the problem with more debt; and the same ones that created unemployment by too many taxes and too much government control now want to solve the crisis with more taxes and more control. That should work!]
Yahoo 2011 Aug 12 (Cached)

Ron Paul at Iowa Debate – Part 1:
He says Congress doesn’t understand monetary policy and can’t fix a problem they don’t understand. He wants to cut welfare to illegal aliens. He challenges the claim that Iran is a nuclear threat. He wants to stop trying to solve problems of other countries. YouTube 2011 Aug 11
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Part 2: He advocates abolishing the Federal Reserve and returning to sound money. He says that the debt debaters used scare tactics and explains how $1.6 trillion can be wiped off the books immediately. YouTube 2011 Aug 11

Colorado: The FBI wants military surplus stores to spy on their customers. They are asked to get ID from anyone who buys firearms or preparedness items, such as ready-to-eat meals, because they may be terrorists. OathKeepers 2011 Aug 11 (Cached)

UK: Amazon.com stopped selling items such as batons and metal baseball bats when it was discovered that hundreds were being purchased for possible use in the London riots.
Guardian 2011 Aug 11 (Cached)

China stops lending money to the US until it cures its “debt addiction.” Last week, China downgraded US credit rating from A+ to A. GoldSeek 2011 Aug 10 (Cached)

US: Standard & Poor’s downgrades ratings on thousands of municipal bonds (a $2.9 trillion market). The reason is that their credit worthiness depends on bailouts from the federal government which, itself, now has been downgraded.
Economic Policy Journal 2011 Aug 10 (Cached)

UK: Scotland Yard confirms that police were ordered to stand down and let rioters wreak havock in order to frighten the population into wanting martial law. It worked. The majority of citizens now want the police to use bullets and tasers. [This will continue long after the riots are over.]
Prison Planet 2011 Aug 10 (Cached)

Kansas Governor joins Oklahoma in rejecting federal funds to implement Obamacare; hands back $32 million grant. [This does not mean that Obamacare is blocked in those states, only that they will not participate in setting it up. The feds will have to do it on their own, which will make little difference in the outcome. Still, this is an encouraging sign of resistance.] DailyMail 2011 Aug 10 (Cached)



Gold has hit $1800, but George Soros and others in the “smart-money” class are said to be selling gold to buy farmland. [The implications are sobering. They anticipate that global food shortages will make food more valuable than gold. They could be right. We may not be able to buy and cultivate farmland, but we can stock up on food for our families. Also, you can be sure that Soros did not get rid of all his gold.] MarketWatch 2011 Aug 10 (Cached)

Wisconsin Republicans are still the majority after recall elections despite millions spent by special-interest groups supporting government unions demanding so-called collective bargaining ‘rights’. Yahoo 2011 Aug 10 (Cached)

Two Americans who were investigating corruption in Iraq involving military and contractors were arrested and tortured there in 2006 by US troops. A district court now rules that these men may sue Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, because he approved the use of torture.
DailyMail 2011 Aug 9 (Cached)

US: The EPA, reacting to a scathing review by the Government Accountability Office, is considering setting tougher standards for toxic chemicals in drinking water. [Do not expect meaningful action, because the EPA is heavily influenced by the corporations that are responsible for these toxic chemicals in the first place. This article explains how to remove the chemicals while you’re waiting for the EPA.] Forbes 2011 Aug 9 (Cached)

San Francisco buses to be outfitted with real-time spy cameras that recognize faces, track eye movement, and can photograph underneath clothes – to protect against terrorism, of course.
InfoWars 2011 Aug 9 (Cached)

Libya reports that NATO killed 85 civilians in bomb and missile attacks, and reporters are shown the debris and the bodies. NATO says it bombed the houses because they were used for military purposes. Those killed included 32 women and 33 children. CNN  2011 Aug 9 (Cached)

Japan: Fish caught 30 miles offshore of Fukushima contain radioactive cesium above allowable limits. Mainichi News 2011 Aug 9 (Cached)

The US debt ceiling was raised by $400 billion and, overnight, the Treasury debt increased by $20 billion. Some observers think the big spenders will hit the new ceiling before October.
ZeroHedge 2011 Aug 8 (Cached)

Google admits handing over European user data to US intelligence agencies, probably in violation of  European privacy laws. Softpedia 2011 Aug 8 (Cached)

US: Twenty percent of Congressmen are taking vacations in Israel this summer paid by the American Israeli Political Action Committee, the largest lobbying group in the US.
DailyMail 2011 Aug 8 (Cached)

Homeless boy steals talent show. Click & enjoy.
   

US: Lawyers who represent BOTH 9/11 first responders (firemen, police, and clean-up crews) and also the NY & NJ Port Authority (the owners of the World Trade Center) stand to profit by $400 million from settlements while victims receive paltry amounts. DailyMail 2011 Aug 8 (Cached)

US: AIG (owned primarily by the federal government) is suing Bank of America for $10 billion for fraudulent mortgage-backed securities, and private investors also are expected to sue. [This news obscures the fact that the government itself allowed the fraud in the first place and it creates the impression that the big, bad bankers finally will be punished. In truth, penalties will be reimbursed by government bailouts and passed on to taxpayers. This is merely more legalized plunder of the common man.]
Business Insider 2011 Aug 8 (Cached)

Cargo arriving in Egypt from Japan is found with above allowable levels of radiation. Some countries (not the US) have banned Japanese imports. Almasryalyoum 2011 Aug 8 (Cached)

Al Gore loses his cool and launches into a cussing rant over growing opposition to the myth of man-made global warming. ClimateDepot 2011 Aug 7 (Cached)

US: TSA agents confiscate pregnant woman’s insulin and ice packs because they were an explosive risk. DailyMail 2011 Aug 7 (Cached)

The future of warfare is based on robotic drones. Hobbyists are producing high-tech robots that some day may allow private armies to rival national military forces. MSNBC 2011 Aug 7 (Cached)

China, the largest holder of US government debt, blasts the US for debt ‘addiction’. China’s state-run news agency advocates a new global reserve currency and also wants international supervision over the US dollar. Huffington Post 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)



US: The miss-named Department of Justice drops its investigation of bank mortgage fraud because it claims there is no proof of wrong-doing. [The phrase ‘Too big to jail’ comes to mind.] Yahoo 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

Facial recognition from a webcam can be matched against Facebook photos and produce positive identification in three seconds. DailyMail 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

TSA employees’ union is upset over TSA and Homeland Security because they disregarded safety concerns over x-ray body scanners. There has been an increase in cancer, strokes & heart disease among TSA workers. RealitySandwich Posted 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

Wells Fargo may have to buy back $1.8 billion in near-worthless mortgages because of improper representations at the time they were issued. If so, it is feared that the bank will not have sufficient funds to do so. [Never fear. The federal government will come to the rescue and fleece the taxpayers again to provide the necessary funds.] Yahoo Posted 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

McAffee, a leading producer of anti-virus software, says hacking US & UN computers has been happening over the past 5 years on a massive scale.  China is main suspect, but it has been speculated that the U.S. government also is involved, because this provides an excuse for more control over the Internet. DailyMail Posted 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

Ireland considers withholding welfare benefits for people with children if they refuse vaccinations. This already is being done in Brazil and Mexico. Independent.ie Posted 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

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People fill their garbage cans and the countryside with used, plastic, milk jugs – but you will approve of what this company is doing with them.
YouTube posted 2011 Aug 11

US: Gross Domestic Product figures are manipulated to deceive people into thinking that the economy is better than it really is. This is done by skewing data for production and consumption and especially by including government spending as a domestic product. Here are the details.
GoldMoney Posted 2011 Aug 6 (Cached)

Fiat currency (without gold or silver backing) has an average life expectancy of 27 years. The world’s dominant monetary system fails every 30 to 40 years – at devastating cost to the average citizen. [The U.S. is overdue.] Washington’s Blog 2011 Aug 2 (Cached)

The Smart-Meter Grid has been funded by tax dollars and is expected to generate $170 billion in revenue in 2014 for corporations that produce and maintain the equipment. [The goal is not conservation of energy but monitoring and control of people plus profit for corporations that financially support legislators. The scheme can be thwarted if Smart Meters are rejected.] MorphCity 2011 Aug 5 (Cached)
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Dirty electricity (high frequency energy that rides on top of normal 60-cycle current) can lead to cancer, heart disease, and suicide. The causes of dirty electricity are explained here and how it relates too Smart Meters. YouTube posted 2011 Aug 5