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G. Edward Griffin’s RealityZone.com

2012 APRIL 21 – 27

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Arizona’s legislature passed a bill rejecting cooperation with the federal government to carry out indefinite detention of Americans under the NDAA bill, and it is awaiting a decision from Governor Jan Brewer. Virginia already passed a similar law as have a growing number of cities and counties. [We are not fans of the ACLU, which is proposing model legislation for this move, but we wholeheartedly approve of their action in this case.] 
ACLU 2012 Apr 27 (Cached)
UN International Criminal Court has convicted former Liberian president and CIA asset Charles Taylor for war crimes. [Taylor appears to be guilty of terrible crimes, but the trial through this court is an ominous move creating popular approval for global ‘justice’ through the UN.] New American 2012 Apr 27 (Cached)
US: The House has passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, which is an assault on privacy that, in effect, eliminates the Fourth Amendment relating to anything on the Internet.[It overrides all wiretapping and privacy protection laws relating to cyberspace.] InfoWars 2012 Apr 26 (Cached)
EPA official has promised to “crucify” energy-producing companies. [This is the attitude of most of the federal government toward industrial America. As a result, industry has fled overseas, unemployment has skyrocketed, and Department of Interior head Salazar says that gas prices could rise to $9 a gallon. When we elect people who hate capitalism, that’s what we get.]WND 2012 Apr 26 (Cached)
 The Red Cross says they have been directed by the City of Chicago and the Secret Service to prepare for evacuation of Chicago during the NATO Summit next month due to possible “unrest or another national security issue”. 
CBS Chicago 2012 Apr 25
Obama orders the Labor Department to enforce child-labor laws on family farms. [This will make it illegal for children under 18 to help in the storing, marketing, or transport of products from their parents’ farms. Additionally, independent training and certification through 4-H clubs will be replaced by a government training program.] InfoWars 2012 Apr 25 (Cached)
Dirty tricks in New York: GOP Chairman made a last-minute robo-call to Republican voters urging them to vote for Mitt Romney and told them that all other candidates had dropped out of the race.[That was a lie. Ron Paul did not drop out of the race. Listen to his recorded message here.] 
Digital Journal 0212 Apr 25 (Cached)
Goldman Sachs has hired a public-relations expert to improve the tarnished image of its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. [It is a tough assignment considering recent scandals and pending perjury charges.]
Fox Business 2012 Apr 25 (Cached)
A California dairy cow is discovered to have mad-cow disease, which is caused by cows eating discarded parts of slaughtered animals that have been ground up and added to their feed. [Most body parts from mammals have been banned from animal feed, but not all. Officials have said that this case was a ‘random mutation,” not a case of animal-feed contamination, although it is not clear how they know that.] NaturalSociety 2012 Apr 25 (Cached)
Israeli military chief says it is unlikely that Iran will build nuclear weapons and warns Israelis to avoid hysteria about that possibility. [This is contrary to the line advanced by the civilian government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said in an interview with CNN that there were no questions about Iran’s nuclear-weapons program and that the international sanctions had “better work soon.”]AntiWar 2012 Apr 24 (Cached)
BP Oil engineer is arrested for intentionally deleting 300 e-mail messages about the enormous flow of oil in the spill. BP’s reports to the public were at much lower levels. [We expect top decision makers to claim that they were not aware of these messages.] Bloomberg 2012 Apr 24 (Cached)
Contrary to the predictions of global-warming myth-makers, world temperatures have risen only one-fourth of one degree over the last 20 years.[Meanwhile, the economic burden of so-called ‘Green’ policies are rising dramatically. Higher costs are yet to come.] DailyMail 2012 Apr 24 (Cached)
US: Ron Paul is quietly gaining delegates at the GOP nominating convention despite mainstream media’s insistence that Romney will receive the nomination. [Other strategies also exist, such as nominating Paul from the floor at the convention in Florida in August. In other words, it ain’t over until it’s over, and the action is expected to be intense.]
Reason 2012 Apr 24 (Cached)
MF Global’s missing $1.6 billion has been traced.[Most of the customers’ money was used to pay for MF’s own obligations, and a substantial amount went to other financial firms like JP Morgan. MF Global customers may recover about 70% of their funds. Criminal prosecution is undecided at this time.]
NY Magazine 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
Prominent global-warming promoter, James Lovelock, admits that he was wrong about his predictions of weather catastrophe.
DailyMail 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
US Bank-Secrecy Act requires banks to report to the IRS any deposit over $10,000. Those who earn more than that and divide their earnings into two or more deposits is assumed to have done so to circumvent the law. [That makes them criminals, and they will lose all or a substantial part of their deposits. The Obama Administration is using this law to seize the savings of independent farmers, but no one is exempt.]
FFG 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
UN Calls for global war on crime and pledges to fight organized crime in the drug trade and corruption in the developing world. [The UN, itself, is the largest syndicate of organized crime in the world. Most so-called wars on crime, are merely ploys to justify higher taxation and increased government power without reducing crime at all. Governments have an incentive to perpetuate crime as an excuse for continuing and expanding their funding and police forces. That’s why wars on crime or drugs are never won. This article is pure propaganda.] Global Post2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
US has reached a deal with Afghanistan to keep US military and funding there long after 2014, the previous ‘deadline’ for withdrawal. Details are not being released. SMH 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
Iceland: Former Prime Minister Geir Haarde is found guilty of criminal negligence that contributed to the country’s financial crisis in 2008, but he will not be punished. No bankers were charged for any crimes. CNN 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
US: Homeowners across the country file class-action lawsuit against major banks for fraud and imoney laundering. The lawsuit charges that banks were aided in this crime by the Obama Administration in violation of the Patriot Act.[Although it seems that these charges are justified and easily documented, we don’t expect federal courts to allow the case to proceed. Nevertheless, we applaud the plaintiffs and their attorneys for bringing the issue into the public spotlight.] Market Watch 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
Dutch Prime Minister resigns after failed attempt to gain agreement over austerity cuts.
Aljazeera 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
Merck is ordered pay a $321 million fine (in addition to $600 million already paid) for its illegal marketing practices and off-label promotion of the drug, Vioxx. [Vioxx caused 40,000 deaths from heart attacks. A $921 million fine (with no punishment of the executives responsible) is considered as a reasonable cost of doing business compared to the much larger profits generated from the drug’s sales.] 
NewsInferno 2012 Apr 23 (Cached)
 US: Former NSA official, William Binney, says the government is collecting e-mails and other data on all Americans, not because they are suspected of being terrorist, but so the information can be used against anyone the government decides it doesn’t like. [By now, almost everyone knows that, but it is surprising to hear it from someone on the inside.]YouTube Posted 2012 Apr 21
Spain has outlawed cash transactions over 2500 Euros ($3282 Dollars) – to make sure taxes are paid on all meaningful transactions. [The eventual goal of most governments is to abolish cash altogether which, not only will raise more tax revenue, but also make it possible for authorities to cut off anyone from economic transactions if they fall into disfavor with the government.] DailyBell Posted 2012 Apr 21 (Cached)
US government is spending $100 million each year to train foreign workers in the Philippines to speak English so they can work in call centers that take jobs away from Americans.
Daily Caller Posted 2012 Apr 21 (Cached)
United Nations Rio Conference on Sustainable Development (Agenda 21) in June proposes an array of new carbon taxes and other ‘green’ boondoggles that will cost trillions and further centralize global power under the UN. ExaminerPosted 2012 Apr 21 (Cached)
UK: Report attributes small earthquakes to hydraulic fracking, a process of high-pressure injection of water and highly toxic chemicals into the earth (and ground water) to improve oil and gas yields. [British bankers and politicians are committed to the development of natural gas, so no one calls for an end to such practices. Instead, the report recommends measures that will limit the damage to ‘acceptable’ levels. It does not say what those levels are or how to do it.] Oilprice Posted 2012 Apr 21 (Cached)
Mexico: Wal-Mart paid more than $24 million in bribes for permits to build stores nationwide. This violates US law, which forbids bribing officials in other countries. [Before agreeing that Wal-Mart is an evil company, consider that paying “mordida” (bribes) is the tradition in Mexico and many other countries. When companies pay bribes in the US to obtain favors, it’s legal because they are called campaign contributions. What’s the difference?] USA Today2012 Apr 21 (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.
 Architects and engineers solve the mystery of Building 7 that imploded on 9/11, despite the fact that no planes hit it. [We published the link to this excellent video last summer, but it is well worth repeating. This issue will not go away until the truth is widely known, and the criminals have been punished.]YouTube posted 2012 Apr 25
 If I Wanted America to Fail is a short but powerful statement about how Americans have been tricked into supporting policies that will cause the collapse of their country. 
YouTube Posted 2012 Apr 21