While you were busy playing games, the world has continued to move on. Today I'll be talking to you about more questionable actions by governments and outrageous bills being passed through lawmakers' hands.
Apparently the World's economic situation is worse than you've probably allowed yourself to see that it is. Going about your daily tasks, getting your gaming done, I know lots of us have a pretty large backlog to wade through, but it would behoove anyone to lift your head up and look at what is going on around you. But in the mean time, I'm still here to provide snippets of information that you may or may not look into yourself.
Topics of the day include:
-The National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1867, look it up.)
-Eurozone Debt Crisis
-America's Drug Addiction
-UK Public Sector Strike
Let's get the ball rolling!
Never before in the history of the United States has the military been mobilized within its own borders, much less for the sole purpose of detaining American Citizens.
There is a bill in the Senate right now specifically aimed to allow the military to INDEFINITELY detain Americans for any act that could be construed as "terrorism" with no due process.
And seeing as the Department of Homeland Security has described such behavior as "buying gold, owning guns, using a watch or binoculars, donating to charity, using the telephone or email to find information, or using cash" I would say that includes quite a fair number of us, wouldn't you?
You can read the text of the bill
here.
There is a lot of information in these next links, so I'll try to keep it short and the information preserved from the source material for ease of digesting.
Eurozone Debt Crisis Worsens
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(NaturalNews) Allow me to begin this article with a single paragraph published yesterday on Yahoo Finance:
"The world is watching Europe, waiting upon a solution. It's not just the euro that's at stake. If the euro fails, so too does the 27-nation European Union. Bank lending would freeze, stock markets would likely crash, and Europe's economies would follow. Nations in the euro-zone would see their economic output decline, though temporarily, by as much as 50%, according to UBS forecasters. That economic meltdown would then spread to the U.S. and Asia, who would find themselves caught up in the credit freeze while their exports to Europe would collapse." (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Euro-Finance-Ministers-wscheats-3060132077.html)
If you had read these words just 12 months ago, you would have thought it to be fear-mongering conspiratorial nonsense. Words like "collapse" and "crash" and "meltdown" aren't normally tossed around the mainstream media, even when their use is justified. To actually see these words in print is strongly indicative of the severity of the global financial crisis our world now faces -- a crisis, by the way, which is nothing less than a global economic coup that has seen entire nations virtually taken over by criminal banksters.
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In some situations banks that are already doomed have been
stealing assets from their customers.
In addition to all that, I'm sure you recall the couple trillion dollars worth of banking bailouts that began in (if I recall correctly) 2008, which amounted to failing banks being given hundreds of billions of dollars for no reason.
Make no mistake, you ARE slowly allowing your rights to be removed from your hands.
On to the drugs!
More than 20% of American Adults are now on behavioral meds!
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(NaturalNews) Prescription drug addiction is a very serious problem in the US, and is typified in part by the more than 20 percent of American adults that are now hooked on pharmaceuticals for conditions like anxiety and depression. A new study conducted by Medco Health Solutions Inc., a pharmacy benefits management company, has found that one in five adults -- and one in four women -- now regularly takes at least one drug for psychiatric or behavioral disorders.
The findings, which are based on data compiled of 2.5 million patients, found that the use of behavioral drugs among adults has skyrocketed by 22 percent since 2001. The majority of adults taking behavioral drugs are still women aged 45 years or older, but many men are now taking them as well -- and based on current trends, such drug use in general is expected to continue to increase.
Public Sector Rallies Held Across UK
Unions accuse the government of failing to participate in proper negotiations in recent weeks, a claim rejected by ministers
Tens of thousands of people have joined rallies around the UK as a public sector strike over pensions disrupted schools, hospitals and other services.
About two thirds of state schools shut, and thousands of hospital operations were postponed, as unions estimated up to two million people went on strike.
The TUC called it "the biggest strike in a generation". The prime minister described it as "a damp squib".
Unions oppose plans to make members pay more and work longer to earn pensions.
More information can be found in each of the corresponding links, each of those stories further contain links to more information. Make yourself aware, make your peers aware. It's basically too late to avoid most of this shit because no one pays attention, but if you start now you might be well enough informed to handle the future.