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G. Edward Griffin’s RealityZone.com

2012 MAY 12 – MAY 18

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Chicago prepares for the NATO meeting this weekend by making a huge show of force. Police are raiding the homes of activists without warrants and arresting them without charges. Nurses are calling for a ‘Robin Hood’ tax on financial transactions to pay for healthcare, social services, and their pensions. Anti-war protests are planned.
Fox News 2012 My 18 (Cached)

Obama is proposing a “public-private partnership” to help poor African farmers improve crop yields and improve their standard of living. [So much for the propaganda. The real plan is to funnel tax dollars to African countries on condition that they purchase GMO seeds and chemical fertilizers from politically favored agri-firms that have influence in Washington, such as Monsanto, DuPont, and Cargill. The result will be (1) poor African farmers will be dependent on patented products from those companies, (2) they will have poorer crop yields in the long run, and (3) they will end up even poorer than they now are.] 
CS Monitor 2012 May 18 (Cached)
The Romney faction of the Nevada Republican Party has lost out to the Ron Paul faction. Instead of accepting reality, they are planning to form a new party, call it Republican, and ask the national Republican leaders to recognize it as the official Nevada party, thereby disenfranchising the Ron Paul majority. [Since the national Republican leadership is committed to Romney, the plan could work.]
Libertarian Examiner 2012 May 17 (Cached)
Obama defends JP Morgan and its CEO Jamie Dimon but fails to disclose that he received $808,799 in campaign funds from the bank in 2008.OccupyCorporatism 2012 May 17 (Cached)
US: An unmanned spy plane (either a military or police drone) nearly caused a mid-air collision above the Denver airport last week. Congress is preparing to put an estimated 30,000 similar drones above America by 2020. InfoWars 2012 May 17 (Cached)
US: Federal judge blocks indefinite detention of Americans under the National Defense Authorization Act because the scope of conduct that could subject citizens to the law is undefined. [This is good because it temporarily blocks arbitrary enforcement of the law, but it is worrisome because it leaves the door open for the government to define the scope of conduct in such terms as to sound reassuring but which, in reality, can be “interpreted” to include any activity of which the government disapproves. We shall see.] Reuters 2012 May 16 (Cached)
Shareholders sue JP Morgan and its CEO Jamie Dimon for fraud. Fox business 2012 May 16 (Cached)
A $1 billion bank run is underway in Greece. [This is on top of $90 billion already pulled out of the banks since 2010. Worried depositors anticipate a complete banking collapse after the June elections that possibly will approve withdrawal from the EU.]
New American 2012 May 15 (Cached)
Iran: Man is hanged after being convicted of being the Israeli agent who assassinated an Iranian nuclear scientist. Yahoo 2012 May 15 (Cached)
California’s San Onofre nuclear plant has been shut down due to unexpected vibrations when steam generators are run at full capacity. Edison, the utility provider, wants to run the plant at a reduced level to bypass the problem, but nuclear expert, Arnie Gunderson, says the only safe solution is to replace the steam generators completely. [The cost for that would be over $800 million, so the issue will be greatly debated.] LA Times 2012 May 15 (Cached)
US: Ron Paul announced he cannot afford to compete in state-primary elections and is shifting his entire focus to gathering delegates for the GOP nominating convention. [This has never been done before, but it is working and it may well turn the Republican Party on its head.] Doug Wead 2012 May 14 (Cached)
US: After public anger over a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows indefinite detention of American citizens without accusation or trial, Congress has paraded a “new” version that is supposed to overcome this danger. [However, a close reading of the bill reveals that nothing has changed except the addition of assuring phrases without substance. It proves that those who drafted this bill are using deliberate deception.] 
New American 2012 May 14 (Cached)
JP Morgan’s derivatives losses now are reported at $3 billion. Some of the traders will lose their jobs. CEO Jamie Dimon has been asked to resign from his position on the board of the NY Federal Reserve
Yahoo 2012 May 14 (Cached)
US: The federal Department of Interior now is claiming ownership of all water in the Western states. This would supersede states water rights that were declared by the Supreme Court decades ago.
[If the feds get control of the water, they will control the food and all related economic development as well, which is their goal.] WND 2012 May 14 (Cached)
US: Former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, gets a ‘Full Monty’ pat-down from the TSA. [This is not a terribly important news story, but the article says that the TSA agents did not know who Kissinger was, implying that, if they had known, he would not have been searched.] CBS 2012 May 14 (Cached)
New psychiatric diagnostic manual includes new mental ‘diseases’ that set the stage for increased medication of the population. [Two-thirds of the manual’s authors have financial ties to drug companies.] New American 2012 May 13 (Cached)
Mexico: 49 beheaded bodies were found on a highway near the US border. This is a product of the ongoing “war on drugs” that has cost 50,000 lives since 2006. [Headlines like this would disappear almost overnight if drugs were decriminalized, because that would eliminate the profit connected with smuggling. Drug cartels and police who combat them both derive huge cash flows from the conflict – which is why the “war” goes on and on.] Guardian 2012 May 13 (Cached)
California’s current budget shortfall is a $16 billion after doubling in just four months. Governor Brown proposes higher taxes and reduced public-school funding. DailyMail 2012 May 13 (Cached)
California’s politicians and politically connected construction firms are proposing a “Bullet Train” between LA and San Francisco. [Although there is no strong public demand for such, it would cost taxpayers over $6 billion and gobble up $3.5 million per day – this in a state that already has a budget deficit of $16 billion and is hopelessly bankrupt.] LA Times 2012 May 13 (Cached)
 US tourist in Europe discovers that cars there can get up to 77 miles per gallon (based on an imperial gallon; the US-gallon equivalent would be 58 mpg), but are banned in the US because the reduction in fuel consumption would reduce federal fuel taxes. [Is this for real? You be the judge.] 
YouTube Posted 2012 May 12
US: The EPA is grossly understating the toxicity of ‘Corexit’, the dispersant used after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. [The EPA’s own data on Corexit prior to the spill show that it is lethal to marine life at low levels. Now the same agency is saying it is only mildly toxic.] NaturalSociety 2012 May 12 (Cached)
 Tennessee police literally commit highway robbery when they pull over out-of-state vehicles and steal people’s cash. All they have to say is that they suspect it is drug money. [Out-of-state victims often find it easier to let them keep it than travel long distances to attend endless court hearings. It’s called policing for profit.] NewsChannel5 Posted 2012 May 12
Harvard University is being sued because its scientists falsified data in a $15 million federally funded Alzheimer’s study. [The evidence points to profound scientific fraud to satisfy commercial interests.] OMSJ Posted 2012 May 12 (Cached)
US: Senator John Kerry is pushing the UN Law-of-the-Sea Treaty that will further restrict US sovereignty and also redistribute American wealth to other nations. Senator Jim DeMint is trying to block ratification but has secured only 24 of the necessary 34 endorsements needed to scuttle the treaty.
CNS News Posted 2012 May 12 (Cached)