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2008 NOVEMBER 15 – NOVEMBER 21

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US: Jobless rate surged to highest point in 16 years,
XE 2008 Nov 20 (Cached)

Investors fleeing stock market create 56% increase in demand for gold as a safe haven.
Times Online 2008 Nov 20 (Cached)

China: Large scale protests break out over government denial of human rights. Epoch Times 2008 Nov 20 (Cached)

Scotland: Parliament votes against national ID cards. Scots will get them anyway, because Parliament has no authority over ID cards. INF 2008 Nov 20 (Cached)

Canada: Queen's University institutes "Conversation Cops" to spy on students to discover anyone making politically incorrect statements. Collectivism grows by the hour. OneNews 2008 Nov 20 (Cached)

Mobile phone use increases risk of cancer of the salivary glands by 50%. Natural News 2008 Nov 18 (Cached)

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Bank of America receives 15 billion taxpayers' dollars to keep it from collapsing and then invests $7 billion in China's Construction Bank (CCB).
Herald Tribune 2008 Nov 18 (Cached)

Afghan press reports that American government stopped French military from capturing Bin Ladin. The reason was that a captured Bin Ladin would lesson public support for the Middle East war.
Informed Consent 2008 Nov 17 (Cached)

India sends space probe to the Moon and plants the Indian flag. AFP 2008 Nov 16 (Cached)

US: Treasury Secretary Paulson says using taxpayer money to rescue the economy should just be given to the banking industry, not the auto industry. Paulson is a former banker. Times Online Posted 2008 Nov 15 (Cached)

            FROM OUR READERS
Send comments to gedward.griffin@verizon.net but please be aware that personal responses are not possible.

TURN OFF THE TUBE - IT IS POISON TO THE MIND
Dear Mr Griffin:
I have long been a reader of "Unfiltered News." Thank you for the opportunity to be able to read news with real truth in it. I want to comment on television. All I hear and see from people about television would make me believe, if I didn't know better, that there is an effective law forcing people to watch television. Since I turned off the tube completely almost five years ago, I find my mind opening up to new thoughts and original ideas that are as "common sense" as can be, but seem to humor or appall other people. And the fact that my children were raised almost completely without television seems to make them a little different, too... actors rather than RE-actors, definitely able to support themselves and their families, and a strong contempt for lies and gossip... and propaganda, which they can easily assess.

My advice is... if all we're going to see is propaganda, all we're going to hear is lies, and all we're going to do is get more brainwashed and led deeper into the "Pit of Distraction," why should we watch television? Indeed the news, itself, seems to be some of the greatest entertainment on the tube, but there is no truth... only lies that will take us farther and farther from our true goal, a constitutional government. It is obviously detrimental to our health and finances, and used by the powers we oppose to accomplish all of the above. Keep the movies you love, but turn off the tube. It is the single most devastating communication median ever devised, and it is being very effectively used to develop and spread the only thing that can defeat this once great nation... corruption from the inside out.

Turn it off. Block the air waves from your home. Let your kids, your family, live without subjection, being able to make up their own minds, learning to have a conversation that doesn't include the latest gossip and fad. Let them grow up FREE of television and you will find out they will grow up FREE in this nation, FREE in mind and spirit, FREE as God intended.

James 1:5-6 states: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed."

Television changes subjects every 15 to 30 seconds. That, alone, is enough to program young minds, and older folks alike, to be unfocused and wavering and to accept it as normal and ordinary. We must stay focused in our minds and spirits if we expect to accomplish our goals. Turn off the TV.
Sunny, 2008 November 15

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ASTUTE READER MAKES EXCELLENT POINTS ABOUT CANCER AND AMERICAN VOTERS
Dear Mr. Griffin,
I have three comments for you. First, I wrote you a couple years ago criticizing a bunch of stories you had put in your Unfiltered News in one issue and you printed my comments that were picked up by your detractors and published elsewhere. I commend your integrity and regret that my first comment to you was one of criticism, because I consider your Unfiltered News in general to be a major positive factor in spreading important news to people. In other words, unlike the mainstream media, you have done and continue to be a credit to humanity and an important voice to consider.

Second, you have done great work in educating the world on alternate cancer cures like vitamin B17. However, is the story titled "US: Smoking rate is under 20 percent for first time, but cigarettes still kill almost half a million per year" technically accurate? Wouldn't you have to agree that actually standard medical doctors kill almost half a million cancer patients a year with their useless surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy? I recently watched them murder my 88 year-old father with radiation, which caused massive sores in his mouth, on his tongue and down his esophagus that made swallowing so painful, he didn't even want to swallow water and so he died of dehydration caused by radiation.

And third, the story titled "How Obama used the Internet to win,…" I don't think the Internet had much to do with it. Please read the following 300 word letter I plan on submitting to my local newspaper.
Respectfully,
Victor Connor, 2008 November 11
PS. Please continue your work. It is of the utmost importance.

SECOND LETTER:
IF you can trust the vote counts, 120 million Americans voted for either Obama or McCain, which only proves how many uninformed citizens we have in this country. This is obvious from the fact that they would only have picked those two because their main source of information is the constantly expurgated stories from the mainstream media.

The Republican and Democratic Parties had only one good presidential candidate each: Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich. Paul was for eliminating the IRS and Federal Reserve. But I guess most Americans want to keep paying income taxes and allowing foreign bankers to control our money supply. Kucinich wanted to make significant cuts in our defense budget, which would have drastically made us much safer as our military wouldn’t have the funds to keep preemptively attacking poor countries. This would mean that less people on the planet would hate us, which clearly would have made us safer.

However, by voting for Obama or McCain, these 120 million Americans have voted to continue our way of life with no significant changes. This is bad, because we’ve helped caused the violent deaths of 1.2 million Iraqi and Afghani people since 2002 and over 6 million people in the Congo since 1996. If you question this, all you have to do is read.

We may be good family members, friends, and community members, but most of us are uninformed citizens. A good citizen must really study the politicians before voting for them. It’s up to you if you want to remain uninformed. The Internet awaits you.

It was none other than our Adlai Stevenson who said “Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then they print the chaff.” You really have to consider the vested interests that control the media.

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CABLE TECH SAYS HE WAS SHOWN DEVICE THAT CAN SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING IN FRONT OF THEIR TV SETS - FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, OF COURSE
I have read a couple of your articles from readers on the Governments idea to get rid of regular tv and get hooked up to cable or sattelite.

I worked for the cable company years ago installing the new fiber optic lines in California and spreading out from there. We had a meeting one morning with some people from the cable company to show us why we were putting in the new lines and had to be careful not to bend or disfigure the cables.

They showed us a device in the cable box that let them see through your television, for security purposes, If you were old and fell or had a robbery, the police could see who was in the house to determine the risk of going
in. That was over 20 years ago and it scared the heck out of me. It was like On Star. A company would be based to control the buttons to push to check your house.

I can't believe no one else has ever brought this up with what I have seen. I haven't heard of them implementing it yet. I think they wanted to wait for the time that is coming.
Greg Heupel
Big fan of yours

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A PESSIMISTIC VIEW (PERHAPS ACCURATE, ALSO)
Society IS collectivism. We all are slaves. We can not evade and we own nothing. Unless we realize it we can not change any thing. As you well say, with this new president, we are a step closer to global government.
Our governments, world wide, are only tools to manipulate the masses in function of some super plan. Our money or any other instrument of interchange is only an instrument to defraud us of our work and lives. Unfortunately we can not meet personally nor can we talk over the phone but we better understand that this crisis is just one of the last before communism take over preluding the final chaos. Thi is a realistic analysis based on observations.
Ilario

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SHOULD WE BAN NEWS SOURCES THAT BLASPHEME?
Brasscheck TV has been occasionally linked to by "Unfiltered News" because of some of its clips that you feel are newsworthy. I am writing to you today because of the daily email I received from them today, which was pure and simply blasphemy against the Creator - Yahweh my Elohim.

George Carlin is dead now (the presenter in the email), but Brasscheck TV showed its true colors as godless and therefore not worthy of recognition by me or by you, by presenting this "entertainer" as proof that church and state ought to remain separate.

I admonish you to discontinue any association with Brasscheck TV because it has allowed the blaphemous message of George Carlin, in the most detestable and abominable presentation I have ever heard, to be disseminated to an otherwise unsuspecting audience. Brasscheck TV should be censored by anyone that fears the all-powerful Yahweh!!!
G.S., 2008 November 7

REPLY:
We do not endorse any particular source of news nor do we censure it. Brasscheck is collectivist in orientation and, as you pointed out, very opposed to religion. Their mindset is what now is called the Progressive Left. Yet, every once in a while, they carry a program that contains valuable information that, as far as we can tell, is entirely true. When that happens, we link to it.

Some subscribers have urged us to distance ourselves from religious-based news services because they are offended by that orientation. Yet, to do so would be an equal violation of our policy. We take the truth where we find it. We even take news from The New Your Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc., in spite of the fact that some of the greatest blasphemies and lies ever told have come over those channels of communication.

Because we accept all sources of information does not mean we accept all details of information. We have a nose for lies, distortion, and propaganda, and none of that will ever appear in our news unless accompanied by our own analysis to alert readers to the defects.

Truth about corruption on the Right often comes from Left-leaning sources. Truths about corruption on the Left often come from Right-leaning sources. If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.

The promise of Unfiltered News is to present the truth, no matter the source. We think that is a necessary and wise policy.
Ed Griffin

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THE INFLATION VS. DEFLATION DEBATE
Dear Mr. Griffin,
I have been a long time student of your books and seminars and I hope you would take a moment to hear what your student (employed within a location one block away from Wall Street in New York) has to say.

There is a lot of talk on whether there is an inflationary problem or a deflationary problem currently in the United States. Indeed, gas prices have come down dramatically and the prices of most commodities have been hammered. The way I conclude, and please feel free to comment, is that we are indeed currently in a deflationary crisis. However, this temporary deflationary atmosphere, I feel will eventually be followed by a massive inflationary wave.Permit me to explain to you the details of my conclusion...

The Federal Reserve system, as you know, is in effect when Banks are engaged in the business of lending to one another and to the public. It is foolish to assume that when the Fed prints money, that it will reach the people's hands immediately. It certainly takes time. But before the money the Fed prints is available to the people, it must filter through the network of banks. When the network of banks stop lending to one another and maintains tight lending standards and simultaneously is injected with liquidity by the Federal Reserve, then the balance sheets on the banks rise astronomically. Therefore, the banks are currently sitting on a wealth of injected cash right now. The reason why the inflation has not kicked in high-gear yet is because the banks who are sitting on this enormous cash from the Fed has not gone out on a spending spree of lending. When banks stop lending, it is then when the deflationary phenomenon starts to emerge throughout the public. However, the banks cannot sustain in not lending to one another for long and eventually they would need to circulate the money they are sitting on. As soon as they begin that lending, is the very first occurance of a major inflation cycle of what is to come.

Therefore, the deflation that we are seeing now is a result of the banks conduct in not lending and circulating the money they obtained from the Fed. There balance sheets are very high at the moment. But as soon as they begin the cycle of lending, is when inflation will kick in hard, fast and furious. For those people that say we are in a deflationary cycle are more short-term analysts, whereas the people who say we have inflation are more long-term analysts. The proper way of resolving the inflationary/deflationary debate is saying: We are indeed facing a deflationary crisis, which is a stepping stone to a major mega-spike of inflation

Is this a fair explanation? Thanks!
Kemal, 2008 November 12

REPLY:
Hello Kemal.

I think your analysis is accurate. The only thing we might add is that, in addition to the money created by the Fed that has gone into the banks but not yet injected into the public money supply, there is a huge amount of money created by the Fed and being directly injected into the public money supply by government spending for military, welfare, and boondoggles. This has partially offset the deflationary effect of mortgage shrinkage, stock market collapse, loss of savings, and other downward pressures. Without this direct government expansion of the money supply outside the lending mechanism, deflation would have been much worse.

I believe that, as long as the Fed exists and as long as Americans are content to elect politicians who are beholden to it, the nation is doomed to endless money expansion to the point where deflation eventually will be overcome by the tidal wave of inflation. In the process, all vestiges of a free market will be destroyed, and the presence of money won’t even be an issue anymore. There won’t be any. It will be replaced by a totally manipulated system of debits and credits controlled by the government and allocated to citizens through debit cards or embedded chips on the basis of their rank within a totally collectivist society. It’s not a pretty thing that is happening before our very eyes.

Ed Griffin

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ANSWERS TO PRIVACY AND TECHNICAL DTV QUESTIONS
by Glen O'Hara, 2008 Nov 2

Actually the new DTV is quite safe. It's a one-way transmission; and within this "new" technology as used by local broadcasters, there is no way for anyone to gather private information, spy on you, peek into your living room, etc. So relax. This facet of our television system is now referred to as "over-the-air" or "terrestrial" television, to distinguish local broadcast transmitting stations from "extra-terrestrial" (satellite) or "cable." This distinction being unnecessary in the 1950's and 1960's. With the purchase of High-Definition TV's exploding over the past few years, people are anxious for "High-Def" content. I was an early adopter of HDTV and customer of the "VOOM" satellite service pioneered in 2003 by Rainbow Communications, part of Cablevision in NYC, and its visionary CEO James Dolan. He was just too ahead of his time to convince shareholders of Cablevision to continue funding "VOOM" until it could turn a profit. His Son, Charles, actually sided with shareholders and "VOOM" went out of business, selling assets and programming to Dish Network, then "Echostar Communications." (More)

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POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND ARNOLD THE GOVERNATOR?
Dear Mr. Griffin,
Thanks as always for your realityzone website. unfiltered news is my first stop for information. I agree with you that something is being hidden from the public vis a vis Obama's sealed birth certificate. My two cents on the subject says that he is not an American citizen qualified to be President according to the Constitution, but that seems rather obvious.

I think that the Rockefellers, et al., want him elected, and then perhaps let it be known that he has indeed not been born in America. Then they will parlay this fact into amending the Constitution so that this is not a problem.
Then the road will be paved for the Govenator Arnold to goose step us into the NWO. Of course, I hope this is not the case.
Happy Halloween,
Ryan Sparks. 2008 October 30
 

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