Must Read Articles From August 2009

I go through a lot of news articles every month. I archive what i think is important into 71 different categories. But there are those articles that make a lasting impression and having a wider effect then just the day the story was printed.

I put these stories into my MUST READ folder. I wish I had the time or the space here to explain why I believe each of these stories is so important but I don’t. Hopefully something on this list will get you thinking.

The FBI Deputizes Business … an old article from 2008 that I just became aware of.This article talks about InfraGard. 23,000 representatives of private industry who are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

Job Growth Lacking in the Private Sector … The admission from main stream media that the American economy has added virtually no jobs in the private sector over a 10-year period. All economic growth has be in the government.

A new superbug found in Britain is major concern: Government scientists … A new superbug that is resistant to all antibiotics has been brought into Britain by patients having surgery abroad. The media is hyping swine fly and we have at least 22 cases in Britain of a superbug.

Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America … A warning that the new swine flu jab is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter. Hmm I wonder why this one didn’t get reported in the US.

John Conyers “why would I read health care bill” … This one absolutely floors me. A member of congress say why should be read the bills? because it’s  your job …. and the fact that he needs lawyers to tell him what the bill means proves that congressmen aren’t writing these bills. They’re being written by laywers of the lobbiest and then handed to congress to pass them. That’s enough proof for me right there that you should oppose the health reform bill.

Two executed as China fraud crackdown continues … I love this one. China executed two people for defrauding hundreds of investors out of millions of yuan in beauty parlour, cosmetics and property scams. So Bank CEO’s swindle taxpayers out of trillions of dollars and we give them millions in bonus …. you make a bad business deal and China and your dead!

Judge Orders Fed To Disclose Who Received Bailout Trillions … Bloomberg has sued the FED twice in the last year to get them to disclose where the bailout money went. Now A New York District Judge has ordered the Federal Reserve to disclose the destination of around $2 trillion dollars in bailout funds after the Fed failed to convince the Judge that the records should be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

The Man Who Sells America’s I.O.U.’s … The auction of United States Treasury securities, and $32 billion has just been sold in a blink. It was another successful operation for Van Zeck, the commissioner of the public debt, who has the world’s biggest credit card.

Vital Signs and the “Fix” … As we approach the middle of the summer, 2009, it is of utmost importance to be able to slice deftly through the heavy propaganda fog that the government is pumping out through its mouthpiece the media.

Flu shot or get fired … Workers at Capital Region hospitals are going to have to get a flu shot this year or face losing their jobs …. This is a good one to get you thinking, what if this was the policy at your office?

Study Says World’s Stocks Controlled by Select Few … A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world’s finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power.

Common Sense 2009 … This article from Larry Flynt! is amazing. He’s been attacked for years for his free speech as the founder of Hustler. Now he’s hitting back. He writes “The American government — which we once called our government — has been taken over by Wall Street”

Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents … if your not following Mike Adams articles you should put it on your daily reading list. This guy is hard hitting.

Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’

Bloomberg (link) is reporting that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, showed off a sample coin of a “united future world currency.” at the G8.

“Here it is,”

Medvedev told reporters

“You can see it and touch it.”

It seems like we are certainly close now to having a sample coin show to the press and reported by the AP media. This one world currency is no long just for conspiracy sites, it’s main stream news.

No …. Sadly This Is Not A Joke

Too much bling? Give us a ring!” campaign

In a blatant BIG BROTHER move a new Kent Crimestoppers campaign targeting those living off the proceeds of crime was launched at Kent Police Headquarters in Maidstone on 19th May 2008, in South West England.

Kent Crimestoppers encourages people to turn their neighbors in, if they suspect they are living a lifestyle that isn’t supported by their income.They say the campaign will make spotting criminals easier to spot because of the recession.

The “Too much bling? Give us a ring!” campaign targets those who live far in excess of their income through the proceeds of crime. These individuals are responsible for undermining communities and destroying lives.

Gloucestershire’s Chief Crown Prosecutor Adrian Foster, Chief Constable Timothy Brain and Crimestoppers Board Member John Cripps holding the new ‘bling’ posters

There does seem to be a voice of sanity though.Ann Widdecombe, Tory MP and former Home Secretary said:

‘Is this a joke? If the police spent half as much time tackling crime and getting out on the beat as they do coming out with this ridiculous stuff, we’d all be better off.

Glenn Beck And The Housing Boom

Glenn Beck giving some perspective on the housing boom.

I think this video could start some really good conversations about the American Dream, and what kind of standard of living we have come to expect.

I hear people at work say things like:

” well Obama has to pass these bailouts, to save the economy, things are bad and even if we don’t think it’s the best thing to do, he has really smart adviser’s telling him what to do.”

I don’t think think these bailouts are to save the economy, I don’t have time to get in what I see. But the simple picture is this, these bailouts aren’t to save us, it’s to save the government. The stimulus bill bloats government and makes it even bigger, Obama is restructuring Homeland security and the NSA to give them more power. We are expanding social welfare programs like food stamps and medicaid, and Obama says he will restructure health care in the next year.

History tells us, the bigger government is, the harder it is to get rid of.

Ohio’s Unemployment Fund Is Bankrupt

Ohio’s unemployment compensation fund is Bankrupt!

The state has been forced to borrow $500 million in federal funds, and they requested $50 million right away just to pay this weeks benefits.

What the article doesn’t tell you is that Ohio has already borrowed $550 million in November, that was suppose to cover December, January, and February! …… oops.

The last time Ohio borrowed money for unemployment was in the 2003 recession, we borrowed $342 million.

This time around the State has already borrowed over a billion, and that should only last until April, unless unemployment keeps going up, which it is.

Tack on that Forbes is reporting “Liquor sales in Ohio at all-time high”

And that equals Obama coming to Ohio to push support for his economic plan today.

This is going to get ugly

10 Important News Articles for 2008

National Debt From 1940

Maxing Out the National Debt Clock

Reported by U.S. NEWS

As of December 29, The National Debt stands at 10.6 Trillion. Thats almost $35,000 for every person!

Madoff was arrested for running a $50 billion “Ponzi scheme”

World’s Biggest Swindle

Reported by TIMES ONLINE

The former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market is best known as the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the closely-held market-making firm he launched in 1960. But he also ran a hedge fund that U.S. prosecutors said racked up $50 billion of fraudulent losses.

Mr Madoff told them that he was “finished”, that he had “absolutely nothing”, and that “it’s all just one big lie”. He said the investment arm of his firm was “basically a giant Ponzi scheme”, and that it had been insolvent for years.

A Ponzi scheme, named after the swindler Charles Ponzi, is a fraudulent investment operation that pays abnormally high returns to investors out of money put into the scheme by subsequent investors, rather than from real profits generated by share trading.

The financial crisis and climate change are pushing national governments towards global solutions

. . . and now for world government

Reported by Financial Times

An article by editor Gideon Rachman says “I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US. I have never seen black helicopters hovering in the sky above Montana. But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible”

According to Bloomberg the cost of the Bail out will hit $8.5 Trillion

Bailout Hits 8.5 trillion

Reported by San Fransisco Chronicle

Most of the money, about $5.5 trillion, comes from the Federal Reserve, which as an independent entity does not need congressional approval to lend money to banks or, in “unusual and exigent circumstances,” to other financial institutions.

That sum represents almost 60 percent of the nation’s estimated gross domestic product.

Shocking proposal urges military leaders to attack major foreign power.

RAND Lobbies The Pentagon To Start New War To Save U.S. Economy

Reported by Pakistan Daily

According to reports out of top Chinese mainstream news outlets, the RAND Corporation recently presented a shocking proposal to the Pentagon in which it lobbied for a war to be started with a major foreign power in an attempt to stimulate the American economy and prevent a recession.

If this is not reason enough to close down the whole biotech industry once and for all, I am not sure what kind of disaster we are waiting for.

Why eating GM food could lower your fertility

Reported by Mail Online

Genetically modified corn has been linked to a threat to fertility in an official study that could deliver a hammer blow to controversial ‘Frankenstein Food’.

GM expert at Greenpeace International, Dr Jan van Aken, said: ‘Genetically Engineered food appears to be acting as a birth control agent, potentially leading to infertility.

according to an internal client note from the US bank Citigroup, gold could hit $2000 an ounce in 2009

As the World unravels

Reported by Telegraph

The bank said the damage caused by the financial excesses of the last quarter century was forcing the world’s authorities to take steps that had never been tried before.

This gamble was likely to end in one of two extreme ways: with either a resurgence of inflation; or a downward spiral into depression, civil disorder, and possibly wars. Both outcomes will cause a rush for gold.

A New York Times reporter obtained the call-in phone number for an Oct. 17 conference call

Morgan Chase Exec Brags Bailout Is for Takeovers

Reported by Executive Intelligence Review

In an internal bank conference call last week, a JP Morgan Chase executive, unaware that his conversation would be heard and published by a reporter, confirmed exactly what Lyndon LaRouche has said about the Hank Paulson bail-out: It has nothing remotely to do with extending lending to the U.S. economy, but is concerned with the Mussolini-like corporatist restructuring of the U.S. banking system, turning over the “smaller banks” to the totally bankrupt big banks, so that they can digest the smaller banks’ assets, and survive perhaps a few more weeks.

More than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition denying that man is responsible for global warming

Scientists deny man-made global warming

Reported by Telegraph

The academics, including 9,000 with PhDs, claim that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane are actually beneficial for the environment.

It added: “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of … greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the forseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments.”

Combined that with Over 650 dissenting scientists from around the globe that challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former Vice President Al Gore. The U.S. Senate Minority Report — updated from 2007’s groundbreaking report of over 400 scientists who voiced skepticism about the so-called global warming “consensus” — features the skeptical voices of over 650 prominent international scientists, including many current and former UN IPCC scientists, who have now turned against the UN IPCC.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Fed Considers Issuing Their Own Debt

Reported by Telegraph

To show the gravity of the financial crisis we are in the middle of, and yes we are in the middle, not the end. The Fed has already slashed interest rates to near 0%, given out $2 trillion in disclosed loans, then got sued by Bloomberg for not telling the American public who got the money.

The Federal Reserve is desperate, and they are running out of options on how to avoid a depression. One Option is to issue their own debt, something that has never been done.

Of course this debt would have no congressional oversight, and ends up on the back of American Tax payers.

The Financial Meteorite That Is Coming

Most of us planning for the next few months are building the economic equivalent of bomb shelters: 2009 will be treacherous

We’re all still plunging hither and thither, guzzling wine and wondering what preposterously expensive electronic toys the children will want to smash on Christmas morning this year. We can’t see the meteorite coming either.

I think mainly this is because the government is not telling us the truth, Says Jeremy Clarkson of the Times Online.

The crisis will turn out to be more significant for us and other developed economies than the collapse of communism.

If an enormous meteorite was heading our way and the authorities knew it couldn’t be stopped or diverted, why bother telling anyone? Best to let us soldier on in the dark until it all goes dark for real.

Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles.

I’m starting to see more and more experts make predictions about huge increases in violence, riots, and crime.

Gerald Celente backs this up, everyone should listen to this interview, as well as Dr. Doom,Nouriel Roubini.

Then theres Bloomberg predicting food riots in 2009, The internal memo from Citigroup, that predicts civil disorder, and possibly wars in 2009.

And you can’t forget the Russian Professor (video) that predicts things could get so bad that the US will break up into six parts – the Pacific coast, the South, Texas, the Atlantic coast, the Central states; and the Northern states.

And of course the RAND Corporation, a NGO that is lobbying the pentagon to start another war to stimulate the economy to avoid a recession.

And the LA Times that states the real cost of the bailout is up to 8.5 trillion. Yes, Paulson suckered us into passing an open ended bailout that did not limit the amount to $700 Billion, but thats the part the media left out of the news reels.

I know some of this stuff sounds crazy and unrealistic, I’m not validating what these people are saying, just stating the fact that more and more people on main stream media are saying things like this. 5 years ago we were talking about how great everything was.

Eventually, of course, the system will reboot itself, but for a while there will be absolute chaos: riots, lynchings, starvation.

I would urge people to start paying attention, and actually start to make some sensible preparations for the complete breakdown in society.

Look at it this way, if you take the time to prepare now, stock up on some food and water, and batteries etc… and in a year nothing happens and we pull out of this, then you can use all the things you stocked up on.

It’s not crazy to be prepared, it’s crazy to think you’ll never have to.

We are headed towards a sharp increase in inflation, If you haven’t been paying attention to Zimbabwe and you want to see what a 231 million% inflation increase looks like check this out.

I realize we are not Zimbabwe, but I bet they didn’t think they would wake up one day and pay $20,000 for a loaf of bread.

Frankenfood For Thanksgiving

Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.

Reports Wired

I’m honestly not sure how to feel about this. Wired plays it off like it’s a great thing that we are mutating the DNA of crops, and genetically engineering our animals.

Doesn’t anyone think that all these hormones and chemicals are also increasing the cancer rate?

What about things like autism, ADHD, aspergers, and all the learning disabilities that have sky rocketed in the last 30 years.

What about the obesity problem, take the corn example for one. Corn has gone from 5% sugar to 35% sugar! Doesn’t that worry anyone?

Starbucks Profits down 97%!!

The story from MSNBC reports that profits from Starbuck are down 97% last quarter. Down from $158 million to just $5.4 million.

Know you know the economy is hurting for real,

forget the bailout talk,

ignore the talking heads on cable news,

disregard talking points about how huge financial firms don’t have enough liquidity,

it’s hitting everyday life, when people can’t afford to treat themselves to a cup of coffee.

In a way it’s ironic, people can’t afford over priced coffee,

but in another way it’s probably a more honest economic gauge then all those fancy polls on cnn

A Foreign Policy of Freedom

The Ottomans and Romans, the Spanish and the British,

all who have tried empire have faltered,

and at great cost to their own nations

In 1998 a Kuwaiti professor, amazingly was quoted in a proper pro-government Kuwaiti newspaper saying “The U.S. frightens us with Saddam to make us buy weapons and sign contracts with American companies thus ensuring a market for American arms manufactures and Untied States continued military presence in the middle east.

We have been bombing and occupying Iraq since 1991, longer than the occupation of Japan after World War ll. Yet Iraq has never committed aggression against the United States. So the idea we are there for our national security is a joke. After we removed Saddam from power the first thing the United States did was secure the Oil fields. What does that tell you about priorities.

The War in Afghanistan has long been over, after we reached an agreement to build a pipeline through the country. We got what we wanted and it wasn’t Osama Bin Laben. For a great over view of how Untied States Interest shifted to Afghanistan  check out this.

Our Policy in the Middle East is totally schizophrenic and driven by Arab Oil, weapon sales, and Israel. page 73

Ron Paul says treating all of our  enemies enemies as friends. This policy has probably done more to destroy our credibility as a champion of freedom in the world than any other thing. The Untied States is the worlds largest manufacturer of weapons, our defense budget is 10 times larger then the next closet country with 528 Billion dollars a year. Many countries view us as going into a region starting a conflict and then selling arms to both sides. That’s a great thing to be know for.

Of course our foreign aid dollar is now and has always been a weapon. page25