Yet another amazing edition!
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More Ultra-Vivid Headlines from
Edward Griffin’s RealityZone.com

 
2012 AUGUST 4 – 10

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US: Department of Justice drops all charges against Goldman Sachs for subprime mortgage fraud, claiming that there is not enough evidence to bring a criminal case. [Evidence abounds, of course, but the government and the banks are partners-in-crime.]Reuters 2012 Aug 9 (Cached)

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has halted permits for new nuclear plants and renewal permits for existing plants after a federal court ruled that there are not adequate safeguards in place regarding storage of long-term radioactive waste.
CNN 2012 Aug 9 (Cached)

A US federal appeals court has dismissed a case against the government for wiretapping without a warrant. [Even though that is against the law, the court ruled that the executive branch (under the President) has ‘sovereign immunity’, which means it is above the law. No dictator in history ever had more power than this.]Anti-War 2012 Aug 8 (Cached)

Drug manufacturer, Pfizer, agreed to pay $60 million in fines because the company authorized its sales reps in foreign countries to bribe doctors to prescribe their drugs. Marketplace 2012 Aug 8 (Cached)

Syria: Western journalists who were captured by anti-Assad rebels reveal that none of the rebels were Syrian, with some of them sporting British accents.Alexander Higgins 2012 Aug 8 (Cached)

More than 100 million Americans are on at least one welfare program, and that number does not include Social Security and Medicare.
End of the American Dream 2012 Aug 8 (Cached)

US: The federal government pours over half-a-trillion dollars per year into welfare programs; yet the poverty rate remains unaffected. [That’s because government programs focus on making poverty comfortable instead of providing tools to escape it. Governments seldom solve problems. The more money they throw at a problem, the worse it gets.]
CNS News posted 2012 Aug 8 (Cached)

The pharmaceutical industry is developing bio-electronic devices to be implanted into the brain that can transform human beings into mind-controlled robots [all for the good of mankind, of course.]NaturalNews 2012 Aug 8 (Cached)

 Colorado: Three eyewitnesses to the Batman massacre say they saw someone sitting in the front row receive a phone call, immediately walk to the emergency exit, and open the door for the gunman to enter. [Yet, police say with a straight face that there is no reason to believe that the gunman had accomplices1]YouTube posted 2012 Aug 7

Following the pattern of numerous other mass shooters in previous years, the accused gunman behind the massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin worked in psychological operations while he was in the military. Hang the Bankers 2012 Aug 7 (Cached)

Obama fights ban on indefinite detention of Americans. RT 2012 Aug 7 (Cached)

Colorado: Batman “lone gunman” shooter was apprehended at his car, but this aerial photograph shows bloody footprints running past his car and vanishing. A second gas mask was found near the end of the bloody trail. [Could there have been more than one person involved and that the person who left the bloody footprints was picked up at the curb and driven from the scene?] 
FreedumbNation Posted 2012 Aug 6 (Cached)

Medical study accidentally discovers that chemotherapy causes cancer and makes it resistant to treatment. [Don’t expect to read about this in the mainstream media or from the companies that market chemotherapy drugs or the doctors who prescribe them.]
NaturalSociety 2012 Aug 6 (Cached)

New study of GMOs shows that they reduce fertility in animals and, when the diet is continued over several generations, total sterility results. [You read that right. After several generations on GMO food, it is possible that the human race may become extinct.]NaturalNews 2012 Aug 6 (Cached)

Wisconsin: Six people and a gunman were killed in a shooting massacre in a Sikh church. [The official story was quickly released, stating that the dead shooter acted alone. However, two eye witnesses say there were four gunman acting as a team.]
Hang the Bankers 2012 Aug 6 (Cached)

 US: Federal government is providing free phones to those with low-incomes to the point where millions of cell phones now are paid for by those who pay their own phone bills. One woman boasts that she has more than thirty cell phones – all ‘free’. [That’s what happens when government attempts to help some at the expense of others. It’s the nature of collectivism.]YouTube posted 2012 Aug 6

Syrian rebels took 48 Iranian travelers from a bus and now hold them as hostages, claiming they are a military unit sent to assist the Syrian government. Iran says the kidnapped people are religious pilgrims and that there are no Iranian military in Syria. 
Daily Star 2012 Aug 7 (Cached)

US: Senate Republicans narrowly blocked the Cybersecurity Act that would have authorized the federal government to monitor and censor the Internet. [Obama is expected to issue an executive order that will accomplish the same thing without passage of legislation.] Occupy Corporatism 2012 Aug 6 (Cached)

The US Treasury reports that government debt is at $17.5 trillion. [When Social Security, Medicare, and other ‘entitlements’ and unfunded obligations are added to the bill, US debt rises to $84 trillion. This can never be repaid, but it will be made to disappear by inflating the currency until the dollar is worthless. That will take care of the national debt, no matter how high it is, but it also will destroy those who continue to hold their savings in dollars.] NCPA posted 2012 Aug 4 (Cached)

Iran successfully tested a new, short-range missile capable of targeting any point within about 180 miles. [This adds credibility to Iran’s threat that, if it is attacked, it will retaliate against enemy military forces near its borders and shut down the Strait of Hormuz (40% of the world’s sea-borne exported oil passes through the Strait), risking a military response from the US.] MSN Money 2012 Aug 4 (Cached)

Some GMO crops have hard spikes that destroy heavy-duty tractor tires. Farmers now have to purchase Kevlar (bulletproof) tires at great additional expense. [If corporate farms don’t care about the health hazards associated with GMO crops, perhaps a jolt in the wallet will catch their attention.]NaturalSociety 2012 Aug 4 (Cached)

US: House passes bill eliminating Senate approval of presidential appointments. [This rewrites Article II of the Constitution, diminishes the role of the Senate, and expands presidential power. Bit by bit, the American Republic is being converted into a democratic dictatorship.] New American Posted 2012 Aug 4 (Cached)

US: Most of the money invested in so-called safe securities registered with the SEC is managed by financial firms that have one or more serious regulatory violations. [Investors beware. Wall Street is a house of cards.] Forbes Posted 2012 Aug 4 (Cached)

 Head of the local Service Employees International Union faces 200 years in jail for embezzling from the low-income employees he was supposed to represent.[Perhaps he was in training to be a Congressman.]
Fox Business Posted 2012 Aug 4

US: The IRS has been paying refunds on fraudulent tax refunds estimated at $5 billion per year. These payments go to thieves who have stolen others’ identities. [A single address in Michigan was used for 2,137 tax returns.] Yahoo Posted 2012 Aug 4 (Cached)



                            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.

Geoengineers who advocate dumping chemicals into the stratosphere (a phenomenon often referred to as ‘chemtrails’) say it will cost $50 billion a year but is worth it because it would combat global warming (a politically motivated myth) and could alleviate droughts. [Negative consequences are not being disclosed to the public. The last paragraph of this article contains a quote from one of these ‘scientists’, Mike Hulme, that is highly significant. He says the only way to test geoengineering is to implement it on a large scale. In other words, research and implementation are the same. Keep that in mind the next time you hear one of these geoengineers say they are ‘only testing’ the process.] To learn more about WHAT and WHY they are spraying, click here. Tehran Times 2012 Aug 10 (Cached)

 Ben Swann, on Reality Check, points out that the National Defense Authorization Act makes it illegal to assist al-Qaeda, but Obama and Congress now ARE supporting al-Qaeda by sending $25 million in aid to the Syrian rebel opposition who are affiliated with al-Qaeda and have members in their ranks. [Al-Qaeda is sometimes the ‘terrorist enemy’ and sometimes the ‘rebel ally’ depending entirely on which government is being toppled.] ZeroHedge posted 2012 Aug 8

 Precious metals analyst, Chris Powell, explains why and how the US government secretly trades and manipulates the gold and silver markets (along with every other financial market) with complete immunity. [The Fed is intimately involved, of course, which is why it refuses to release records on gold swaps with foreign banks. This and much more.] 
YouTube 2012 Aug 7

US: An academic military study looks to the future and describes how the Army will be used to regain control over geographical areas that have fallen into the hands of ‘Tea Party insurrectionists.’ [What the military now does to insurrectionists in the Middle East is what it is prepared to do to the Tea Party in America.]InfoWars 2012 Aug 7 (Cached)