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Monuments… or Shelter? A Memorial Day Reflection

Monday, May 31st, 2010

As Americans reflect on the price of liberty this Memorial Day, we celebrate our veterans. But while there are plenty of beautiful monuments being grandly erected around America to honor the dead veterans, there is a distinct lack of health care and housing for living veterans.

by Rachael Woodhouse

Robert Rosebrock with Los Angeles-based Veterans Revolution is addressing the issue of homelessness among veterans. In April, he spoke with Thomas Kiely on GCN’s INN World Report.

According to Kiely, “Apparently there is a tremendous resource that is available to veterans that is not being utilized properly or is not being fully utilized by any means. I understand there’s a lot of homeless veterans in and around Los Angeles, and there’s a great space that has been set aside, dedicated specifically for the use of homeless veterans as a veterans home.”

Rosebrock contends that there are 600 acres in Los Angeles that were set aside in the late 1800s for veterans, but is not being used for its original purpose. He says in his opinion, the land is being effectively stolen by members of the wealthy Brentwood neighborhood.

The timeline is detailed extensively at the Vietnam Veterans of America website, tracing the battles waged over the land between the Brentwood Homeowners Association, which has tried to turn part of the land into a city park for the better part of 25 years, and veterans advocates, who say the original intent of the land gift should be honored – and used to care for homeless and disabled vets.

“They try to divide and conquer veterans”, Rosebrock says. “That’s why … the [Veterans Service Organizations] are chartered by Congress, and they draw a wedge between them, the VFW, the American Legion, and all of them. It shouldn’t be that way, it should be one unified veterans’ organization, but Congress doesn’t want that. Remember this, there’s close to 25 million veterans… If we could unite under one umbrella, instead of all these other factions, the force would be incredible. But by design, the Congress is manipulating and giving money to the various VSO’s with offices and everything else.”

Ultimately, homelessness amongst America’s war veterans is not only an issue in Los Angeles, but around the nation, as this 2007 package from CBS shows:

On this Memorial Day 2010, activists like Rosebrock hope that all Americans, regardless of political persuasion or their stance on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, will open their eyes to the issues facing veterans.

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Gulf Oil Gusher: Fears Mount, Damage Worsens

Monday, May 31st, 2010

by Rachael Woodhouse

It may be the biggest news story on the minds of those who are awake: the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher. No one but ignorant sheeple or slick corporatist shills can now try to make the claim that this event is anything less than a devastating man-made environmental disaster. Videos showing multiple gushers have sprung up all over the internet, so despite British Petroleum’s and the Obama Administration’s attempts to cover up the true magnitude of the disaster, the truth of the matter is there for all to see.

The best way to describe this catastrophe has been accurately coined by Michael Rivero, host of GCN’s What Really Happened. “Some observers have claimed that the BP Gulf Oil Disaster is Obama’s “Katrina.” Sadly, this is far worse. The Gulf Oil Disaster and scandal has reached the point of being America’s Chernobyl.”

Captain Kelly Sweeney of Maritime Headhunters appeared [] on GCN’s Call To Decision and told Pastor Butch Paugh regarding the initial accident, “the rig itself was not equipped with an extra fail safe that is required in other countries like Norway, in places like the North Sea, down in Brazil where they do a lot of drilling. Our government did not require that, and BP and the other oil companies said it’s too expensive, [but] it only cost like 500,000 bucks, and every rig should be equipped with one of these things.”

Even if the initial cause of the gusher was an accident (which many have begun to doubt), BP’s response to the incident has undoubtedly made the pollution far worse. Corexit, the chemical dispersant that has been added to the spill, has had the effect of driving the oil far beneath the surface, making the cleanup nearly impossible to manage.

Captain Sweeney went on to describe the danger to cleanup workers from the toxic mix of crude oil and Corexit. “The fishermen that have been hired by BP to deal with the oil spill in close to shore are becoming ill. The health experts are saying that it’s the direct result of exposure to the crude oil. You know, the crude oil itself has dangerous gasses that can kill within a matter of minutes…and the dispersant that they’re spraying in the air to get the oil that’s on the surface, a lot of that blows over onto the poor men and women who are helping clean up this oil spill. And they’re getting ill, they’re getting sick, it’s really affecting them, and I’m very concerned for my fellow mariners.”

Presstv.com is reporting that “the agent [Corexit], scientists believe, has a 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when mixed with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its molecules will be able to ‘phase transition’.” That means it will get into the atmosphere.

As is always the case in man-made disasters, it is wise to follow the money. Corexit is made by a water treatment company called Nalco. So, who owns stock in Nalco? An article from LeakBird.com dated March 4, 2009 says “(Warren) Buffett picked up 8.7 million shares. That makes Berkshire the second-largest shareholder in the company, with a little more than 6% of the shares. It’s easy to see what Buffett likes.”

Harley Schlanger of LaRouchePAC.org told Nutrimedical Report host Dr. Bill Deagle about BP’s atrocious record on worker safety and the environment. “This goes back to the 2005 explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas where I think there were 15 or 16 deaths and 170 badly injured. In the trial, BP admitted negligence.”

Dr. Deagle expressed anger about the 11 dead workers, but added that the harm to human life doesn’t end there. In his view, “it comes back to occupational medicine…and I’m sure that there’s lots of other workers on these other oil rigs, exposed to toxins and dangerous workplaces, and cuts in safety standards that they [BP] knew were going to eventually blow the lid off of a rig. And this is what happened here. BP was always cutting corners, they have a reputation around the world, and they shouldn’t be in our waters at all. And that’s not to say that you can’t drill, but they needed to drill properly with backup safety procedures that they didn’t use.”

Angry yet?

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More Doctors Speaking Out On The Dangers Of Aspartame

Friday, May 28th, 2010

by Rachael Woodhouse

As Americans continue to develop odd health problems, there is a substance added to thousands of food products that has come under increasing scrutiny: aspartame. In contrast to the reasoned, scientific, widespread warnings regarding this “food additive” (originally intended for use as a pharmaceutical), our government has repeatedly and nonchalantly brushed aside the public’s concerns.

Dr. H. J. Roberts, author of Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic, said in his practice, he began seeing symptoms in patients soon after the “diet” sweeteners (NutraSweet, Equal, etc.) hit the market. He found these clinical observations alarming, and felt compelled to publish his 1000+ page book in an effort to heighten awareness.
Roberts recently appeared on GCN’s Crash! Are You Ready? to sound the alarm about aspartame. “Basically, what it amounts to is that this product, this chemical, should never have been approved in the first place”, Roberts said.

“The in-house consultants and scientists and the general accounting office…all came to the conclusion that it should not have been released, that it was potentially dangerous, especially relative to brain tumors that was demonstrated initially in research on rats.” He stressed that subsequent studies have come to the same conclusion.

The rabbit hole goes deeper though. Roberts said aspartame is highly addictive, especially when people consume large amounts of products such as diet sodas and instant drink mixes containing the artificial sweetener. He also claims the health issues span a shocking gamut, from convulsions, to vision problems, to depression. He says that to add insult to injury, people who consume “diet” drinks which substitute aspartame for sugar will often gain weight. “Many people take this to lose weight and they put on fifty to eighty pounds of weight”, Roberts said.

Contrast his corporate-neutral research with the official government stance of the Food and Drug Administration. The bureaucracy’s response to a 2007 European study not favorable to aspartame says “FDA reviewed the study data made available to them by the European Ramazzini Foundation (ERF) and finds that it does not support ERF’s conclusion that aspartame is a carcinogen. Additionally, these data do not provide evidence to alter FDA’s conclusion that the use of aspartame is safe.”

The FDA explains that “when metabolized by the body, aspartame is broken down into two common amino acids, aspartic acid and phenylalanine, and a third substance, methanol.”

But what FDA doesn’t explain is what happens when these substances metabolize further. According to an article by Robert K. Frazer on suite101.com, “Each diet soda with aspartame produces about 20 mg of methanol. The methanol breaks down further into 6 mg of formaldehyde which is three times the daily EPA limit.”

Since aspartame first hit the U.S. market in the mid-70s, doctors contend that tumors and lupus have been skyrocketed in the general population. There is also the mysterious rise in diseases such as fibromyalgia. The term fibromyalgia was first coined in 1976 in an effort to describe its primary symptom, but it wasn’t until 1990, when the American College of Rheumatology developed a diagnostic criteria for doing fibromyalgia research, that the term fibromyalgia gained wide usage.

The bottom line, according to Dr. Roberts: “Think about aspartame disease, and the easiest thing is to … stay away from these products for a short time. Let’s see what happens, without doing anything else. That seems logical.”

Posted in Science/Health News

Bilderberg: The Open Conspiracy

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Now that the agenda for global government is public, the Bilderberg Group’s importance rests on grooming politicians.

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Paul Joseph Watson
GCN Live.com
Friday, May 28, 2010

Now that the agenda for global government and a centralized world economic system is public and out in the open, the importance of the Bilderberg Group’s annual conference rests on grooming political candidates. The lion’s share of Bilderberg’s 2010 agenda has already been announced by its members weeks before – it will revolve around a potential military strike on Iran as well as the future collapse of the euro.

Trilateral Commission members, who routinely also attend Bilderberg’s annual confab, have let slip that a war on Iran is being seriously debated, while the elite continue to exploit the fallout from the economic crisis to push for centralized financial regulation.

The consequences of a military strike on Iran will cause a split between Bilderberg luminaries, just as it did before the invasion of Iraq at the 2002 meeting.

During the recent Trilateral Commission meeting in Dublin Ireland, which routinely discusses an almost identical roster of topics to subsequent Bilderberg gatherings, chief advisor to the Russian leadership Mikhail Slobodovsici unwittingly told a We Are Change member he mistook for a colleague, “We are deciding the future of the world….We need a world government,” he said, but, referring to Iran, said “we need to get rid of them.”

The continued push to pose as the saviors while offering global governance as the solution to the economic crisis was also re-affirmed in a recent speech by IMF chief and BIlderberg member Dominique Strauss-Kahn, when he told an audience of elitists in Zurich that the globalists need to see the ‘crisis as an opportunity’ to push for “a new global currency issued by a global central bank”.

Our sources close to Bilderberg emphasize the fissure that exists within globalist circles. Younger elitists and the nouveau riche are concerned that the global economy is being sunk too quickly and too soon, and that the consequences will be so drastic in the long term that even the wealth and influence of insiders will be threatened.

These divisions in the context of geopolitics was also addressed recently by Trilateral Commission co-founder and prominent Bilderberger Zbigniew Brzezinski, who in addition revealed that a “global political awakening,” in combination with infighting amongst the elite, was threatening to derail the move towards a one world government.

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The fact that globalists are also debating the timeline as to if and when the euro single currency will collapse, and whether it will be followed by the U.S. dollar has also been publicly discussed in recent weeks.

Former Bank of England policy maker David Blanchflower recently told Bloomberg News that the euro region could break up as a result of the debt crisis in Greece which threatens to spread to other countries on the continent.

As veteran Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker points out in his latest article, the corporate media has already been preconditioning the public to accept Bilderberg’s agenda for weeks.

“Bilderberg-controlled news outlets in Europe and the Western Hemisphere are conditioning the public to accept two of the super-secret elite’s major goals in advance of its meeting June 4-7 in Sitges, Spain: a U.S. attack on Iran and a financial bailout of Greece and other European Union (EU) countries,” writes Tucker.

With the agenda for global government now past the point of secrecy and out in the open, the Bilderberg group’s primary role is to groom political candidates for future high-power positions within the new world order hierarchy.

The most interesting aspect to come out of this year’s conference in Sitges Spain is the question of who will be attending. While David Cameron’s new coalition government in the United Kingdom has opposed the expansion of Bilderberg’s European project in rhetoric, they have been busy appointing pro-Euro politicians to influential posts. The possible attendance of Cameron and his new sidekick Nick Clegg will be interesting to watch, as will the question of whether any members of the ousted UK Labour Party are invited. With leadership elections imminent after the resignation of dutiful Bilderberg servant Gordon Brown, Bilderberg will be keen to vet potential future Prime Ministers such as David Milliband.

Posted in Globalization/Big Government

Ron Paul Defends Rand Against Concerted Corporate Media Attack

Friday, May 28th, 2010

It sure didn’t take long for the entire establishment to attack my son Rand in the days after he won the Kentucky Senate primary.

Ron Paul
May 28, 2010




Ron Paul and his son following Rand’s Kentucky primary win.

Dear Friend,

It sure didn’t take long for the entire establishment to attack my son Rand in the days after he won the Kentucky Senate primary.

As I left Kentucky last week, I was both happy for Rand and anxious for what I knew would be coming at him soon. But it came sooner than even I feared.

A mainstream media network has gone into all-out warfare against Rand, beginning with a full 24 hours of repeating outright lies by Rand’s Democrat opponent.

It’s funny. Rand’s opponent’s ideas are anti-freedom. They’re pro Big Government. They’re pro-welfare state, and will stand lock-step with the Obama agenda. And if they are the issue, he can’t beat Rand in Kentucky. So he’s trying to make sure this race is on a different playing field.

Rand needs to fight back. Some of it will be now, some will be in the coming months. But he needs your help to do it.

I know it seems like he won his primary by a lot, and it certainly was a great achievement. But having done this many times before, I urged him to take nothing for granted, and to run like he was 10 points behind. He did just that, and it was an amazing victory to watch! I was very proud of him and his team.

And thanks to you, he had the funds to do everything he needed to do. But he wisely used those funds in the primary, and has only a small amount left in his campaign treasury as we begin the general election.

And now he’s under all-out attack.

I hope you’ll help him out the way you did in the primary. We can’t count on others to help. Sure, he’ll have a few more friends now. But we need that to be in ADDITION to what our movement can give him. We can’t rest now, this is one of the biggest opportunities for a liberty minded candidate in a long time.

Please consider helping Rand today, and as often as you can throughout the general election. He’s going to need to raise three of four times what he raised in the primary to compete with the national special interests that will pour money into Kentucky to stop him.

These early attacks prove one thing for sure: The establishment and the powers that be in Washington are scared to death of a Senator Rand Paul. And they should be.

Now let’s start helping him get there to shake up the Senate!

Please donate today at www.RandPaul2010.com.

In Liberty,

Ron Paul

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