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2009 FEBRUARY 14 – FEBRUARY 20

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US: Greenspan, former head of Federal Reserve, says nationalization of failing banks (which means most of them) is a good idea - as a temporary measure, of course. Financial Times 2009 Feb 20 (Cached)

US: Unemployment rate hits record high and inflation returns as energy prices move up. CNBC 2009 Feb 19 (Cached)

Czech president compares European Union to Soviet Union. Yahoo 2009 Feb 19 (Cached)

US: Listen to this young woman tell legislators that the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is not to protect the right to hunt ducks. It's about protecting all of us from you guys!!! Brasscheck Posted 2009 Feb 19

Obama sends 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Does anyone still think there is a difference between the 2 major parties? Reuters 2009 Feb 18 (Cached)

US: Geronimo's descendants sue Skull and Bones society, claiming it stole his remains from his grave. Reading Eagle 2009 Feb 18 (Cached)

European Army to be established as sovereign nations fade into history. Telegraph 2009 Feb 18 (Cached)

Organized crime in Mexico: The third war. This report is a shocker. Stratfor 2009 Feb 18 (Cached)

Chrysler has asked for, and thus will receive, another $5 billion. GM still adding up how much it's going to ask for, and thus receive. Yahoo 2009 Feb 17 (Cached)

Listen to bankers at Citigroup and Morgan Stanley explain how they are going to continue paying bonuses with taxpayers' money but call them something else so as not to upset the public. Brasscheck 2009 Feb 17

US: 14,000 people per day now are losing their health insurance because it was provided as part of their jobs which they also are losing. ThinkProgress 2009 Feb 17 (Cached)

International jurists report what everyone knows:  torture and other abuses in "war on terror" have undermined civil rights values in U.S. and Britain. Washington Post 2009 Feb 17 (Cached)



China: Government releases fake economic growth statistics. Everyone knows they conceal real nature of severe decline. Epoch Times 2009 Feb 17 (Cached)

Kansas follows lead of California - runs out of money and stops paying tax refunds. Payroll may be next. KSN.com 2009 Feb 16 (Cached)

UK: New law makes it a crime to photograph police officers - to protect against terrorism, of course.
BBC 2009 Feb 16 (Cached)

Cash crisis forces California to free 55,000 prisoners. NZHerald 2009 Feb 15 (Cached)

The amazing Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic boy nicknamed 'The Living Camera' because he can draw details of a whole city after flying over it only once in a helicopter. Comprehensive Photo 2009 Feb 15

Montana lawmakers considering bill that will defy federal gun control law. Missoulian 2009 Feb 14 (Cached)

US: Massive spending bill (deceptively called a stimulus bill) passes Congress. Mostly pork.
NY Times Posted 2009 Feb 14 (Cached)

Learn the difference between cold sores and herpes infections - and how to treat them without drugs. Mercola 2009 Feb 14

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WILL THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AGAIN CONFISCATE PRIVATELY HELD GOLD? This notice, which was placed in post offices in 1933 is a bitter reminder that it could happen again. If you click on the image, you can read an enlarged copy and see for yourself that, the last time America faced a financial crisis, the President declared a national emergency and ordered all citizens to turn in their gold coins, gold bullion, and gold certificates (paper notes backed by gold). The only exceptions were coins that were perceived to have significant collector's value. Many coin dealers today point to this fact as a reason to purchase numismatic coins instead of what they call bullion coins. This is a reasonable precaution but it comes with a significant price tag, because one must pay for collectors' value in addition to gold value and, if they are ever needed as barter for necessities, it is doubtful that the common man would appreciate their collector's value. In times of crisis, gold weight is what matters most. Also, there is the possibility that gold coins will not be confiscated at all, inasmuch as so few of them are in private hands today compared to 1933. At that time gold, literally, was money, and a significant proportion of the population held them. We mention this, not because we think we are smart enough to know what will happen and to make a recommendation one way or the other, but because we feel that Reality Zonedwellers should have as much knowledge about these issues as possible so they can make informed decisions for themselves.
G. Edward Griffin

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WHO IS COUNTING THOSE COFFINS?
Someone needs to address the facts. If there have been 4400 casualties in Iraq and 2100 in Afghanistan, why have more than 16,000 coffins been shipped home with strict enforcement of "rules" barring filming or tracking of the coffins and 19 different contractors used for the transportation? Are they lying about US Casualties, or have the coffins been used for the CIA dope trafficking operations, with the $$$$ going to the Bush / Clinton crime syndicates? Someone should openly address this to Obama, our new Commander-in-chief, who espouses "Transparency". I have asked the religious TV personalities to address the issue, but they will not touch it.
Greatview, 2009 Feb 17

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STUDENT TEACHER CONDUCTS CLASS BASED ON CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND
Dear Mr. Griffin,
My cousin, Benjamin Lertola, goes to Carnegie Mellon University where students can create and teach their own classes. Last year I gave him a copy of your book, "The Creature from Jekyll Island" and I just found out that this semester he is teaching a class on it. Apparently the class generated a lot of interest, because he has over two dozen students in it. Just thought you would like to know.
Kris Borer, 2009 Feb 16

REPLY: Indeed, I am delighted to know about this. The thirst for truth will never be quenched.
Ed Griffin

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STIMULUS CRIMULUS
The "Stimulus" and earlier "Bailout" measures are nothing more than a "taking" of the people's credit [money] and handing that all over to the Big Banks and corporations. --WITHOUT GETTING A SINGLE THING FOR THE PEOPLE IN RETURN FOR THESE PAY-INS. It's larceny. Pure and simple. Very large.

And worse: These bills are literally thousands of pages in length, that no one in congress has read. Nor did Congress or Obama write them. They were written by lobbyists for the recipients of these funds. The bills contain hundreds of complex provisions all designed to tighten controls over we the people by leaps and bounds. You are literally seeing here in these measures the architechture of the coming police state, under construction. Nothing less. And there is nothing left out there, that can stop it, save you and me.

"Members of Congress should be made to wear coveralls like NASCAR drivers so we can identify their corporate sponsors."

Dennis Morrisseau, FireCongress.org, 2009 Feb 15

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FROM "THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO" (1973 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) ON HOW TO RESIST MASS ARREST.

"During an arrest, you think since you aren’t guilty, how can they arrest you? Why should you run away? And how can you resist right then? After all, you’ll only make your situation worse; you’ll make it more difficult for them to sort out the mistake.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family?

"Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?

The Organs [government agencies] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We didn’t love freedom enough. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself."

From Walter Butler, 2009 Feb 14

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COURTESY VS. SAFETY
I am nearing 60 years now. As I have been reflecting over my own personal past, how I was raised, and what values my parents and school thought worthy of teaching children, my attention centers on two words. One word was a goal and role model for society when I was young, and the other is a significant icon for today's arrogantly selfish social climate. These are important words which ring two different messages, though without reflection and analysis of changing personal values over a long period of our propagandized population, the subtle direction changes involving individual personal paradigms on a mass scale of adopting one word over the other can easily go completely unnoticed.

The two words I'm referring to are: Courtesy and Safety.
As a youth my parents and grade school taught that "courtesy" was our most important attitude. Today, parents, schools, and media are centered on "safety."

Since courtesy involves habitually caring for, and thinking of other individuals than ourselves, the concept of "safety" is inherent within the context of "courtesy." But "safety" by itself, is narrowly focused and diabolically selfish. The word "safety," as used in our current social rhetoric, can even extend, and most often does, to completely exclude courteous behavior from our thoughts and actions.

Though this observation may seem irrelevant, I believe propaganda is at work, here, to continue to drive people apart. I believe it is extremely important for the citizens of this once great country to care for one another over and above religous beliefs, and other unnecessary quarrels. In truth, caring for each other is the only true way to regain our freedom and make this country great once again. As long as we are bickering and argueing and allowing the propagandists to sway our loyalties away from our constitution, we will never regain our freedom.

Thanks for the opportunity to express my views.
Cliff Reid, 2009 Feb 8

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THEY'RE BOMBING AGAIN TONIGHT
Here is a video I just posted in YouTube, in case you want to share in your eNewsletter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msUPCEe05Q0
Best wishes.
Ricardo, 2009 Fev 9

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REGARDING NEWS THAT 8 STATES HAVE DECLARED THEY WILL REFUSE TO HONOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL LAWS - AND COMMENT ON 2ND AMENDMENT
From Ron Avery. Posted 2009 Feb 5

So far Arizona and Washington legislative resolutions just tell the feds to stop doing what they have no authority to do. They do not tell the feds exactly what it is that is unconstitutional. This is fatal error in the resolution. New Hampshire tells the feds exactly what laws they have made that are unlawful and void which they will not comply with and that such laws if not already if pursued further will dissolve the union. NH wins so far!

The Montana resolution to the US is stupid. The fed 2nd Amendment protects all firearms not just guns able to be carried by one man with a bore less than 1.5 inches. It is clear that the people have a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of the state and citizens thereof from the federal and state governments that violate the constitution. Those firearms consist of all weapons that would be used in the state militias including jets, rockets, mortars, missiles, Vulcan electric guns, tanks, cannons and nuclear devices. The rule is if the government has it the people should keep it and bear it. It's just too bad that the government went and developed all that stuff. Now we get to carry it around and scare them with it. I didn't make this up this comes from the mouth of Alexander Hamilton in the federalist letters to which no one argued:

"But though the scheme of disciplining the whole nation must be abandoned as mischievous or impracticable; yet it is a matter of the utmost importance that a well-digested plan should, as soon as possible, be adopted for the proper establishment of the militia. The attention of the government ought particularly to be directed to the formation of a select corps of moderate extent, upon such principles as will really fit them for service in case of need. By thus circumscribing the plan, it will be possible to have an excellent body of well-trained militia, ready to take the field whenever the defense of the State shall require it. This will not only lessen the call for military establishments, but if circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist." (Federalist Letter 29 - 7th paragraph http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa29.htm)

Clearly Hamilton is speaking not of the army but of a militia of well trained people with the use all military fire power to be held by them in defense of the state, their own rights and those of their fellow citizens. Is that not the best thing you've ever read short of John 3:16? THANK YOU ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

Old Hamilton was not all together a bad guy as some make him out to be. Or you might say even the questionable patriots of the revolution were absolute saints compared to the majority of ordinary tyrannous federal legislators, judges and executives of today!

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MEDIEVAL TECH SUPPORT-- VERY FUNNY
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THE UN'S PLAN TO USE FOOD AS A WEAPON OF CONTROL by Robert Singer posted on 2009 Feb 3

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, based in Rome, is an international organization jointly created in 1962 by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations, “allegedly” to protect the health of consumers with guidelines for food standards.

Codex Alimentarius may present the greatest disaster for our food supply—and thus for our health—this country has ever seen, and if not stopped is likely to be implemented starting in 2011. Let me repeat that, the greatest disaster to our health if not stopped, starting in 2011. (More)

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NEW HIGH SCHOOL EXIT EXAM...!!
(Passing requires 4 correct answers)

1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October
Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what
animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial
airplane?

Remember, you need 4 correct answers to pass.
Check your answers below..

1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October
Revolution? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what
animal? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial
airplane? Orange (of course)

What do you mean, you failed? Me too. (And if you try to tell me you passed, you lie!) Pass this on to some brilliant friends, so they may feel useless too.
Nance ~ [planetnews8@gmail.com], 2009 Jan 31

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ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN EXPLAINED
from many sources on the Internet, 2009 Jan 30

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition
TV set, a analog to digital converter box, or a new computer, thus
stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China?
A. Shut up.

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