Mike Adams
Natural News
May 3, 2011
A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages. This particular transition, however, promises to be the most tumultuous and costly transition humankind has ever seen.
But don’t wait around for December 2012 to look for the signs. Here are 14 signs that the world as we know it is unraveling right now. We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one. In the future, they’ll look back and call this all one moment in history, but when you’re living through it, it seems to move forward at almost a snail’s pace. But make no mistake: We are living through the opening chapters of the end of the world as we know it, and on the other side of all this will emerge a new world that’s very different from the one we know today.
#1 – Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis – At first it seemed like a fluke; but now it’s a pattern. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme. Over 120 tornadoes recently struck the U.S. Midwest. Texas is on fire and suffering through an extreme drought. And where there aren’t fires and droughts, there are floods. This is only the beginning… watch for more freak weather over the next 18 months.
#2 – The silence of the bees – Colony Collapse Disorder continues to accelerate across North America. We already know it’s being caused in part by chemical pesticides (and possibly worsened by GMOs), but the chemical industry is engaged in a full-on cover-up to deny this truth while the pollinators of our world suffer a devastating population collapse. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028218_p…)
#3 – The failure of nuclear science – The Fukushima catastrophe proves one thing: Scientists are dangerously arrogant in their planning of large-scale projects, and they fail to account for the awesome power of Mother Nature. Nuclear science promised us clean, green energy — but now it has delivered a silent, invisible poison that’s infecting our planet.
#4 – The vicious pursuit of Wikileaks – In an age of such rampant deceit, there is no room for the truth. So those who tell the truth (Wikileaks) are viciously pursued as if they were criminals.
#5 – The rise of the medical police state – The armed SWAT raids on Maryanne Godboldo in Detroit are only the beginning (http://www.naturalnews.com/032091_M…).
The truth is that the medical system uses guns to force its vaccines and chemotherapy onto children and teens across America. The medical system has become so utterly useless, corrupt and dangerous that it must actually invoke guns in peoples’ faces just to “convince” people to take its medicine. This is a gunpoint-enforced medical monopoly that exists as a threat to our health and our freedoms.
#6 – The increasing frequency of food shortages and crop failures – Notice the spike in food prices? That’s just the beginning: Food prices will continue to skyrocket in the years ahead due to extreme weather, the loss of pollinators and the global contamination of crops by GMOs. Real food is becoming increasingly scarce in our world. You might want to think about starting a home garden…
#7 – The runaway destruction of the world by energy companies – The radioactive fallout from Fukushima isn’t the only way in which energy companies are destroying our world: Don’t forget about the Deepwater Horizon and the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — a spill that isn’t over, by the way. They’re still spraying Corexit in the Gulf one year later!
#8 – The continued GMO contamination of our planet – This may be the worst chapter in the coming collapse: The widespread genetic pollution of our planet through GMOs. This is a crime against nature and against humanity. It is a “gene spill” that may never be contained as it spreads its deadly DNA across the world’s food crops, leading to crop failures and starvation (http://www.naturalnews.com/032167_g…). The use of GMOs is the closest thing to “Satanic” that you’ll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is pure evil.
#9 – The tyranny and criminal crackdowns targeting real food (raw milk) – When you can’t even sell honest farm food to your neighbors without being targeted and arrested by the cops, something is terribly wrong with the world. But this is happening today, all across America. Now the feds are even targeting the Amish! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_r…)
#10 – The escalation of the counterfeiting of the money supply – In a failed economic system approaching collapse, the moronic leaders can only think of “solutions” that actually accelerate their own downfall. The runaway counterfeiting of money by the Federal Reserve (with its “quantitative easing” and other counterfeit methods) is a classic sign that the end of our current system is fast approaching. The economic insanities are obvious to anyone who can still do math.
#11 – The plummeting intelligence of the masses – One of the most disturbing signs that we’re already in the collapse is the great dumbing-down of the masses. The drooling, CNN-watching television zombies who dominate our landscape offer absolutely nothing of value to the world. They are the “mindless consumers” who get vaccinated, watch television and eat processed, pasteurized junk food. They’re on psychiatric meds and believe everything the government tells them. Most of these people, of course, won’t make it through the collapse.
#12 – The complete and utter fabrication of the mainstream news – Much of the mainstream news is now utterly and completely fabricated these days: The reporting on Obama’s long-form birth certificate; the news about the war in Libya; the coverage of the economy and the U.S. debt… it’s all so utterly false and unbelievable that an intelligent person watching the news can’t help but explode with laughter. It is a sign of this collapse that the information sources relied upon by the masses are unable to report the truth anymore and must resort to weaving politically expedient fictions on everything from health care and medicine to the fate of the U.S. dollar itself.
#13 – The ongoing pharmaceutical pollution of our world – Beyond the GMO contamination and the radiation contamination of our world, we are also experiencing the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet. It’s not just the pharma factories that dump their products into the rivers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_w…); it’s also the fact that well over half the population is now taking drugs almost daily, and those drugs pass right through their bodies and end up in the water supply where they contaminate the fish (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html). Even beyond that, the drugs end up in the human sewage sludge that’s packaged and sold as “organic soil!” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029504_o…)
#14 – The radioactive contamination of the global food supply – Here’s one that’s really insidious: The global food supply is now contaminated with the radioactive fallout from Fukushima. We’re told the levels are “low,” but we’re not told the truth of how radioactive cesium isotopes persist in the food supply for centuries. How is the human race going to survive its exposure to CT scans, radioactive food, chest X-rays, TSA body scanners and even the secret DHS mobile X-ray vans that can penetrate your body with X-rays as you’re walking into a football stadium? The total radiation burden on the human race is now reaching a point of mass infertility. That may be the whole idea, actually.
It’s accelerating, too
December, 2012 may be a useful date as some sort of mid-point in the crisis, or perhaps as a trigger date for some further acceleration of society’s rapid unraveling. But make no mistake: We are already living in the collapse of our modern world. And you have a front-row seat! (Exciting, huh?)
Think about what’s happening around you these days. These are the signs of the last, desperate clutches of a civilization built on utterly unsustainable practices that don’t value life on our world. These are the End Times of the corporate oligarchy; the monopolistic for-profit corporation machine that destroyed everything in our world in exchange for a slightly higher quarterly earnings report.
In the quest for more money, humanity has sacrificed its food supply, its pollinators, it’s oceans, forests and soils. Greed-driven humans have used other humans as medical experiments and cannon fodder. We have created wars to sell more bombs, and we’ve invented disease to sell psychiatric chemicals.
These are the practices of a failed civilization… and one whose days are numbered. Watching it all crumble is far more interesting than watching it continue its destructive ways, of course, because those of us paying attention realize a future civilization must rise up in the place of this one after the collapse.
Say goodbye to the false power of institutions
It would be nice if our future leaders remembered the importance of liberty and personal responsibility, of course. The answer to all the world’s problems, it turns out, is freedom — freedom in medicine, freedom in economics and freedom from government tyranny.
Because, let’s face it: The root cause of most these problems that are bringing down our world right now is bad government. It is bad government (Big Government) that approved the GMOs. Bad government enforced the medical monopoly and allowed the pesticides to kill the honeybees. Bad government drove us into inescapable debt and costly foreign wars. Bad government outlawed health freedom and protected the monopolistic practices of the food companies, drug companies and chemical companies.
The downfall of modern human civilization is, as you probably guessed, also the downfall of the very idea that Big Government creates a better society. Because if there’s one idea that needs to stay dead after the collapse, it’s the idea that We the People somehow need another group of people (government workers) to live off our hard work while hounding us with their false authority, directing every little detail of our lives.
What we need in our world isn’t more government, but more freedom. If we had freedom, integrity and personal responsibility, we wouldn’t even be facing the global collapse that has already begun. But alas, the human race is an infant species and it must learn some lessons the hard way, it seems.
This lesson should be long remembered: If you let the corporations, the banks and the governments run your economies, your farms and your lives, they will enslave you and steal your future while you sleep; they will inject silent poisons into the very world around you until you awaken one day to find that all you created has been destroyed. They will promise you paradise but deliver only death. Beware of any entity that is not a living person — no government, no institution, no corporation has a soul, nor a heart, nor a conscience. They are forces of organized destruction that decimate those things we hold dear while delivering to us things that will only enslave us or harm us.
Beware the corporation; the government; the non-profit institution working as a front group for private industry. Never allow yourself to be ruled over by any institution which exists only as a fictional construct organized from the projection of human greed.
And be ready for the acceleration of the collapse. Because if you are reading this, you are the future of the human race. You have a duty to stay alive, keep your genes intact, and be around to help create the Next Society after this one crumbles into history
Natural News
May 3, 2011
A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages. This particular transition, however, promises to be the most tumultuous and costly transition humankind has ever seen.
But don’t wait around for December 2012 to look for the signs. Here are 14 signs that the world as we know it is unraveling right now. We are living through the end of one era and the birth of a new one. In the future, they’ll look back and call this all one moment in history, but when you’re living through it, it seems to move forward at almost a snail’s pace. But make no mistake: We are living through the opening chapters of the end of the world as we know it, and on the other side of all this will emerge a new world that’s very different from the one we know today.
#1 – Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis – At first it seemed like a fluke; but now it’s a pattern. The weather is becoming increasingly extreme. Over 120 tornadoes recently struck the U.S. Midwest. Texas is on fire and suffering through an extreme drought. And where there aren’t fires and droughts, there are floods. This is only the beginning… watch for more freak weather over the next 18 months.
#2 – The silence of the bees – Colony Collapse Disorder continues to accelerate across North America. We already know it’s being caused in part by chemical pesticides (and possibly worsened by GMOs), but the chemical industry is engaged in a full-on cover-up to deny this truth while the pollinators of our world suffer a devastating population collapse. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028218_p…)
#3 – The failure of nuclear science – The Fukushima catastrophe proves one thing: Scientists are dangerously arrogant in their planning of large-scale projects, and they fail to account for the awesome power of Mother Nature. Nuclear science promised us clean, green energy — but now it has delivered a silent, invisible poison that’s infecting our planet.
#4 – The vicious pursuit of Wikileaks – In an age of such rampant deceit, there is no room for the truth. So those who tell the truth (Wikileaks) are viciously pursued as if they were criminals.
#5 – The rise of the medical police state – The armed SWAT raids on Maryanne Godboldo in Detroit are only the beginning (http://www.naturalnews.com/032091_M…).
The truth is that the medical system uses guns to force its vaccines and chemotherapy onto children and teens across America. The medical system has become so utterly useless, corrupt and dangerous that it must actually invoke guns in peoples’ faces just to “convince” people to take its medicine. This is a gunpoint-enforced medical monopoly that exists as a threat to our health and our freedoms.
#6 – The increasing frequency of food shortages and crop failures – Notice the spike in food prices? That’s just the beginning: Food prices will continue to skyrocket in the years ahead due to extreme weather, the loss of pollinators and the global contamination of crops by GMOs. Real food is becoming increasingly scarce in our world. You might want to think about starting a home garden…
#7 – The runaway destruction of the world by energy companies – The radioactive fallout from Fukushima isn’t the only way in which energy companies are destroying our world: Don’t forget about the Deepwater Horizon and the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — a spill that isn’t over, by the way. They’re still spraying Corexit in the Gulf one year later!
#8 – The continued GMO contamination of our planet – This may be the worst chapter in the coming collapse: The widespread genetic pollution of our planet through GMOs. This is a crime against nature and against humanity. It is a “gene spill” that may never be contained as it spreads its deadly DNA across the world’s food crops, leading to crop failures and starvation (http://www.naturalnews.com/032167_g…). The use of GMOs is the closest thing to “Satanic” that you’ll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is pure evil.
#9 – The tyranny and criminal crackdowns targeting real food (raw milk) – When you can’t even sell honest farm food to your neighbors without being targeted and arrested by the cops, something is terribly wrong with the world. But this is happening today, all across America. Now the feds are even targeting the Amish! (http://www.naturalnews.com/029322_r…)
#10 – The escalation of the counterfeiting of the money supply – In a failed economic system approaching collapse, the moronic leaders can only think of “solutions” that actually accelerate their own downfall. The runaway counterfeiting of money by the Federal Reserve (with its “quantitative easing” and other counterfeit methods) is a classic sign that the end of our current system is fast approaching. The economic insanities are obvious to anyone who can still do math.
#11 – The plummeting intelligence of the masses – One of the most disturbing signs that we’re already in the collapse is the great dumbing-down of the masses. The drooling, CNN-watching television zombies who dominate our landscape offer absolutely nothing of value to the world. They are the “mindless consumers” who get vaccinated, watch television and eat processed, pasteurized junk food. They’re on psychiatric meds and believe everything the government tells them. Most of these people, of course, won’t make it through the collapse.
#12 – The complete and utter fabrication of the mainstream news – Much of the mainstream news is now utterly and completely fabricated these days: The reporting on Obama’s long-form birth certificate; the news about the war in Libya; the coverage of the economy and the U.S. debt… it’s all so utterly false and unbelievable that an intelligent person watching the news can’t help but explode with laughter. It is a sign of this collapse that the information sources relied upon by the masses are unable to report the truth anymore and must resort to weaving politically expedient fictions on everything from health care and medicine to the fate of the U.S. dollar itself.
#13 – The ongoing pharmaceutical pollution of our world – Beyond the GMO contamination and the radiation contamination of our world, we are also experiencing the mass pharmaceutical contamination of our planet. It’s not just the pharma factories that dump their products into the rivers (http://www.naturalnews.com/025415_w…); it’s also the fact that well over half the population is now taking drugs almost daily, and those drugs pass right through their bodies and end up in the water supply where they contaminate the fish (http://www.naturalnews.com/025933.html). Even beyond that, the drugs end up in the human sewage sludge that’s packaged and sold as “organic soil!” (http://www.naturalnews.com/029504_o…)
#14 – The radioactive contamination of the global food supply – Here’s one that’s really insidious: The global food supply is now contaminated with the radioactive fallout from Fukushima. We’re told the levels are “low,” but we’re not told the truth of how radioactive cesium isotopes persist in the food supply for centuries. How is the human race going to survive its exposure to CT scans, radioactive food, chest X-rays, TSA body scanners and even the secret DHS mobile X-ray vans that can penetrate your body with X-rays as you’re walking into a football stadium? The total radiation burden on the human race is now reaching a point of mass infertility. That may be the whole idea, actually.
It’s accelerating, too
December, 2012 may be a useful date as some sort of mid-point in the crisis, or perhaps as a trigger date for some further acceleration of society’s rapid unraveling. But make no mistake: We are already living in the collapse of our modern world. And you have a front-row seat! (Exciting, huh?)
Think about what’s happening around you these days. These are the signs of the last, desperate clutches of a civilization built on utterly unsustainable practices that don’t value life on our world. These are the End Times of the corporate oligarchy; the monopolistic for-profit corporation machine that destroyed everything in our world in exchange for a slightly higher quarterly earnings report.
In the quest for more money, humanity has sacrificed its food supply, its pollinators, it’s oceans, forests and soils. Greed-driven humans have used other humans as medical experiments and cannon fodder. We have created wars to sell more bombs, and we’ve invented disease to sell psychiatric chemicals.
These are the practices of a failed civilization… and one whose days are numbered. Watching it all crumble is far more interesting than watching it continue its destructive ways, of course, because those of us paying attention realize a future civilization must rise up in the place of this one after the collapse.
Say goodbye to the false power of institutions
It would be nice if our future leaders remembered the importance of liberty and personal responsibility, of course. The answer to all the world’s problems, it turns out, is freedom — freedom in medicine, freedom in economics and freedom from government tyranny.
Because, let’s face it: The root cause of most these problems that are bringing down our world right now is bad government. It is bad government (Big Government) that approved the GMOs. Bad government enforced the medical monopoly and allowed the pesticides to kill the honeybees. Bad government drove us into inescapable debt and costly foreign wars. Bad government outlawed health freedom and protected the monopolistic practices of the food companies, drug companies and chemical companies.
The downfall of modern human civilization is, as you probably guessed, also the downfall of the very idea that Big Government creates a better society. Because if there’s one idea that needs to stay dead after the collapse, it’s the idea that We the People somehow need another group of people (government workers) to live off our hard work while hounding us with their false authority, directing every little detail of our lives.
What we need in our world isn’t more government, but more freedom. If we had freedom, integrity and personal responsibility, we wouldn’t even be facing the global collapse that has already begun. But alas, the human race is an infant species and it must learn some lessons the hard way, it seems.
This lesson should be long remembered: If you let the corporations, the banks and the governments run your economies, your farms and your lives, they will enslave you and steal your future while you sleep; they will inject silent poisons into the very world around you until you awaken one day to find that all you created has been destroyed. They will promise you paradise but deliver only death. Beware of any entity that is not a living person — no government, no institution, no corporation has a soul, nor a heart, nor a conscience. They are forces of organized destruction that decimate those things we hold dear while delivering to us things that will only enslave us or harm us.
Beware the corporation; the government; the non-profit institution working as a front group for private industry. Never allow yourself to be ruled over by any institution which exists only as a fictional construct organized from the projection of human greed.
And be ready for the acceleration of the collapse. Because if you are reading this, you are the future of the human race. You have a duty to stay alive, keep your genes intact, and be around to help create the Next Society after this one crumbles into history
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:10 am Evreything suggests that the artical above is right. I for one hope so but I am still concerned
with Earth expansion rate increase.
May 3rd, 2011 at 9:17 am
Our nation’s infrastructure says a lot about who we are. So what does America’s infrastructure say about us? It says that we are a rusting, crumbling and decaying country. We are in the early stages of an economic and infrastructure collapse. Thousands of bridges and overpasses are deteriorating due to lack of basic maintenance. Many highways and roads are in very poor shape. Sewer systems are leaking raw sewage. The power grid can barely keep up with the demand for electricity. There have been regional blackouts. One of the best ways to measure the future success of a nation is to look at its infrastructure.
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:11 am Wow another great piece OF CRAP from Natural News.
Yes these are the 12 signs with 2 extras thrown in..
What a lot of crap, about what can be expected.
The cherry on top is the MORONIC 2012 CRAPFEST woven into the rest to make a real NN Turd Pie.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:12 am David Rockefeller: “We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller Baden-Baden, Germany 1991.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:12 am Donald Trump is the best last chance this country has. It is all about stopping the ILLEGAL alien invasion and Energy Independence and not sending hundreds of billions of US dollars to countries that hate US. Unrest is Coming To America on a daily basis and it is crossing our borders. The USA is failing because of The NWO Agenda. Our government is not taking care of the ILLEGAL alien invasion and the self imposed energy shortage. Solve these 2 problems and everything else will fall into place. The USA is holding back its energy reserves. Now is the time to unleash our over abundant energy reserves (oil, natural gas & coal) on the world. By doing this we would pay down our debt in no time, strengthen our US Dollar & ruin plans for The NWO and become energy independent. BTW, why haven’t the borders been secured since September 12th,2001?. We can do it. We need to treat our lack of energy, energy problem, like we treated the problems we had in World War 2. A crash program, Manhattan Project type solution to our energy problems. We are resilient as a nation and we have the capacity to solve our own energy problems but we do not have the political will. We have trillions of barrels of oil reserves, more coal & natural gas in the ground than any other country. Let’s get our own energy out of the ground and put americans to work rebuilding our infrastructure, electrical grid, protect us from EMP and terrorism. Let’s turn our attention towards energy independence and let’s stop playing all these political games. The Democrats are blocking Republican efforts to deal with the ILLEGAL alien invasion and become energy independent. We need a business leader as President of The United States that is not a professional politician, that can get the job done and put american citizens to work. We are a capitalist society on a slippery slope to becoming a socialist society. Capitalism will bring out the full potential of its citizens. Socialism will make people lazy, while waiting for government assistance to arrive in the form of a government check. Socialism will hurt individuals and hold them back from attaining their true self sufficient potential. We have to stop wasteful spending, shrink the government, at least by attrition and adhere to the US Contitution. Donald Trump is the man that can put America to work, recapture our American Pride & Glory Days and go down in history as one of the greatest presidents of all time. We are at the cross-roads of history. We need to tightly secure our borders. Billions of dollars are being given to illegal alien criminals. If ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS are allowed to stay in this country, they & their children should NEVER be given the right to vote. ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS, must NEVER be rewarded with amnesty. It is rewarding law breakers. They are ILLEGAL Alien Invaders. Who do you want to lead our great country? A professional politician or Donald Trump?
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:13 am Since before and after The 1986 Amnesty Granted To ILLEGAL Alien Invaders, professional, do nothing, career politicians have been derelict in their duty to protect The USA from Invasion by more ILLEGAL Alien Invaders. All politicians bear some responsibility for enabling these ILLEGAL Alien Invaders to Invade The USA on their watch. If ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS are allowed to stay in this country, they & their children should NEVER be given the right to vote. ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS, must NEVER be rewarded with amnesty. It is rewarding law breakers.They are ILLEGAL Aliens, Breaking The Law Invaders.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:13 am Globalization can be defined as an ideology that identifies the Sovereign Nation-State as its key enemy, basically because the State’s main function is (or should be) to prioritize the interests of the Many – i.e., “the People” – over the interests of the Few. Accordingly, the forces of globalization seek to weaken, dissolve and eventually destroy the very foundations of the Nation-State as a basic social institution, in order to replace it with new supra-national worldwide social, political, economic, financial and military management structures.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:13 am The North American Union will destroy United States sovereignty and The North American Union will destroy the middle class with cheap foreign labor, The North American Union will destroy the US dollar and compromise the security of the greatest country the world has ever seen. The North American Union will destroy The USA as we know it. ILLEGAL aliens and ILLEGAL Alien Criminals and ILLEGAL alien terrorists are on U.S. soil in a continuous state of disobedience to U.S. immigration laws, creating a financial burden on The USA at a time when we are becoming financially weaker, some ILLEGAL immigrants are murdering, dealing drugs, driving drunk, committing crimes, breaking laws, filling up our jails, Abusing our health care & welfare system, schools and giving birth to ILLEGAL Anchor Babies, spreading sexually transmitted diseases, Hepatitis, TB, Whooping Cough, Leprosy, Aids, and are here illegally against the will of The American People. If our government did their job and secured our border and kept out these ILLEGAL alien invaders, we would not be so financially drained. Let this website be your guide to saving the United States from New World Order Globalists. The popular practice of criminally entering the U.S. and immediately giving birth to children is growing among ILLEGAL aliens and is not limited to just ILLEGAL aliens. People from all over the world including possible terrorist Muslims also use this practice. They have figured out that the act of simply having a child on U.S. soil bestows citizenship on the baby and usually grandfathers in the mother at a minimum. This law needs to be changed immediately. Better yet, The 14TH AMENDMENT needs to be enforced retro-actively. It is a loophole in the immigration process that is giving citizenship illegally and against the will of the American People to millions of unworthy people who are avoiding the citizenship process and pathway altogether. This is insulting to LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and LEGAL US CITIZENS. Special corporate and political interests want all the cheap foreign labor they can get and Democrats know these ILLEGAL alien babies will grow up to become Democratic voters. Democrats are pushing to grant amnesty to illegal aliens to creates 30 Million New Instant Democratic Voters. Misinterpreting the 14th Amendment and granting automatic birthright citizenship to children of ILLEGAL aliens is but one aspect of the dismantling of America. How can someone that circumvents our pathway to citizenship, breaks the law by illegally sneaking in to The USA, has a baby and that baby becomes a legal citizen of The USA? Using that logic, if an American citizen travels to France on vacation and gives birth to a child, that child is a French citizen. I don’t think so. The authors of The 14th Amendment to The Constitution did not intend to include illegal aliens with no legal connection and not under the jurisdiction of jury duty or military conscription to benefit from The 14th Amendment.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:14 am For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don’t seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that’s because most people don’t realize how different the two parties’ energy policies have been.
Congressman Roy Blunt put together these data to highlight the differences between House Republicans and House Democrats on energy policy:
ANWR Exploration House Republicans: 91% Supported House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed
Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed
Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed
SUMMARY
91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of American-made oil and gas.
86% of House Democrats have historically voted against increasing the production of American-made oil and gas.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:15 am “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Cicero, Roman Empire
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:16 am You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. What makes a great president? Every country is a business that is represented by its financial successes and failures. Presidents that recognize this and promote capitalism with compassion have the best interests of its citizenry. A real president does not have to be PC. A real president leads. Welfare and socialism is used by weak and false presidents that don’t have the intestinal fortitude to make the hard decisions that will truly help individuals. Charity begins at home. No foreign entanglements. Strict adherence to The US Constitution. Small government, the government that governs least governs best. Allow citizens to keep more of their income through less taxes. Provide only essential services and eliminate waste. Becoming Energy independent. Protect the citizenry by providing police, firemen and military. Secure our borders, English Language and American melting pot culture by promoting American, Judeo, Christian values, do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:16 am President Obama says clean, safe nuclear power is vital to the nation’s future. “To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we will need to increase our supply of nuclear power. It is that simple,” he said.
He says the government is getting involved by guaranteeing loans to meet the high costs of nuclear plant construction – starting with $8.3 billion to help fund the new plant in the state of Georgia. “This one plant, for example, will cut carbon pollution by 16 million tons each year when compared to a similar coal plant. That is like taking 3.5 million cars off the road,” siad Mr. Obama.
But the president stresses the project in Georgia will do more than provide electricity for over one million people. “It is a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years, and some 800 permanent jobs – well-paying permanent jobs – in the years to come,” he said.
The president made the announcement while visiting a job training center run by a union representing electricians and telecommunications workers near Washington. The center teaches a variety of high-tech skills, including those needed for the construction of nuclear power plants.
Sensitive to nationwide concerns about the stubbornly high unemployment rate, the president stressed the link between the economy and boosting alternative sources of energy. He warned the United States is already lagging behind other countries in building nuclear power plants – citing heavy investments in Japan, France and elsewhere.
“There are 56 nuclear reactors under construction around the world: 21 in China alone; six in South Korea and five in India,” said the president.
Mr. Obama acknowledged that there are opinion differences in America on the use of nuclear power. He stressed the nation cannot continue to be mired in the old debates between right and left, and between environmentalists and entrepreneurs.
“The fact is, changing the ways we produce and use energy requires us to think anew, it requires us to act anew, and it demands of us a willingness to extend our hand across some of the old divides,” he said.
No new plants have been built in the United States in almost three decades, in large part because of the high cost of construction and lingering concerns about safety. Nuclear plants currently provide about one-fifth of the nation’s electricity.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:17 am Obama has put the prospect of building these extremely dangerous nuclear power plants back on the agenda, obviously without a thought for the safety of the people in the USA. Either that, or he recklessly considers running the risk of an appalling loss of life in order to solve our future energy needs. It just doesn’t make sense. It is not safe or practical and the long term ramifications are catastrophic. Nuclear Power Plants should be forced to go the way of the dinosaur.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:17 am No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make “safe” and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime ever perpetrated by man. The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on the basis of such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economic affairs of man as if people really did not matter at all.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:18 am Obama re-states nuclear power support, committed to ‘learning’ from Japanese crisis
The Obama administration continues to back nuclear power as part of a broader energy portfolio, a White House spokesman said, comments that come as the Japanese reactor crisis is spawning calls to rethink plans for new U.S. nuclear plants.
“The President believes that meeting our energy needs means relying on a diverse set of energy sources that includes renewables like wind and solar, natural gas, clean coal and nuclear power. Information is still coming in about the events unfolding in Japan, but the administration is committed to learning from them and ensuring that nuclear energy is produced safely and responsibly here in the U.S.,” Clark Stevens, a White House spokesman, said in a statement Sunday, March 13th, 2011.
Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami that damaged multiple Japanese reactors has led some U.S. lawmakers to call for a pause in plans for an expansion of nuclear power in the U.S.
The strongest comments came from Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a senior member of House committee that oversee energy policy. He said on Saturday the Obama administration should weigh a moratorium on siting new nuclear reactors in seismically active areas.
The moratorium should remain until completion of a “top-to-bottom review of seismic and tsunami reactor design resiliency, emergency response and evacuation plans,” his office said, and also called for consideration of other steps, such as requiring stronger containment systems at existing reactors in seismic zones.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), speaking on CBS Sunday, also said the Japanese crisis – which has forced emergency efforts to cool overheating reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant and problems at other facilities as well warrants new review.
“I think it calls on us here in the U.S. naturally – not to stop building nuclear power plants – but to put the brakes on right now until we understand the ramifications of what’s happened in Japan,” he said.
The damage to the Japanese reactors is creating new uncertainty about plans by a suite of power companies to win approval for building the first new U.S. reactors in decades.
The Obama administration backs efforts to expand nuclear power. The administration last year approved over $8 billion worth of loan guarantees for Southern Company’s proposal to build two new reactors in Georgia.
The White House’s fiscal year 2012 budget plan also seeks another $36 billion worth of loan guarantee authority to support new reactors. President Obama is also pushing Congress to create a “clean energy standard” that calls for an expansion of low-carbon electricity generation from sources including nuclear power.
Various power companies in recent years have submitted applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for construction of over 20 new reactors, although the projects face often-daunting financial hurdles even without renewed safety concerns.
The NRC has not yet issued licenses for construction and operation of new commercial power reactors, although the Tennessee Valley Authority is completing a second reactor at its Watts Bar plant. Construction on the unit – first approved in 1973 – was suspended in the mid-1980s but the project was revived several years ago.
Preliminary site preparation and construction activities have begun at the Southern Company project and another proposed new plant in South Carolina that South Carolina Electric & Gas is developing, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group.
The companies are expected to receive NRC licenses to build and operate the plants late this year or in early 2012, according to the trade group, although it would be years before the projects actually begin commercial operation if they’re allowed to proceed.
Stevens, the White House aide, also said that “The administration’s first priority right now is to support Japan, as well as American citizens in Japan, as they respond to and recover from this event, and we continue to monitor the situation and provide assistance.”
Both Democrats and Republicans have embraced expanding nuclear power as a way to generate electricity and jobs. The recent spike in gasoline prices as well as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have put a renewed focus on revamping U.S. energy policies to find more sources of fuel.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, speaking on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ urged a cautious approach.
‘I don’t think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy. I think we ought to just concentrate on helping the Japanese in any way that we can,’ McConnell said.
Lieberman noted there are 104 nuclear power plants in the United States, and that about 23 of them are built according to designs similar to the nuclear power plants in Japan that are now the focus of the world’s concern.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:20 am All Nuclear reactors routinely emit large amounts of radioactive materials, including the fat-soluble noble gases xenon, krypton and argon.
Deemed “inert” by the nuclear industry, they are readily inhaled by populations near reactors and absorbed into the blood stream where they concentrate in the fat pads of the abdomen and upper thighs, exposing ovaries and testicles to mutagenic gamma radiation like X-rays.
Tritium, radioactive hydrogen, is also regularly discharged from reactors. Combining with oxygen, it forms tritiated water which passes readily through skin, lungs and gut. Contrary to industry propaganda, tritium is a dangerous carcinogenic element producing cancers, congenital malformations and genetic deformities in low doses in animals, and by extrapolation in humans.
In the age of terrorism, nuclear reactors are inviting targets. It is relatively easy to induce a reactor melt-down by either severing the external electricity supply, by disrupting the one-million-gallons per minute intake of cooling water, by infiltrating the control room, or by a well-coordinated terrorist attack. Surprisingly the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has failed to significantly upgrade security at the 103 nuclear reactors since the Sept. 11, 2001 attack. A meltdown at the Indian Point nuclear power plant 35 miles from Manhattan could render that city uninhabitable for thousands of years if prevailing winds blow in the right direction.
Above all, nuclear waste is the industry’s Achilles heel. The United States has no currently viable solution for radioactive waste storage. 60,000 tons are temporarily stored in so called “swimming pools” beside nuclear reactors, awaiting final disposal. Yucca Mountain in Nevada, transected by 32 earthquake faults, has been identified as the final geological repository.
Made of permeable pumice, it is unsuitable as a radioactive geological waste receptacle and recent fraudulent projections of the mountain’s ability to retard leakage by the United States Geological Services have rendered this project to be almost untenable.
Already, radioactive elements in many nuclear powered countries are leaking into underground water systems, rivers, and oceans, progressively concentrating at each level of the food chain. Strontium 90, which causes bone cancer and leukemia, and cesium 137, which induces rare muscle and brain cancers, are radioactive for 600 years. Food and human breast milk will become increasingly radioactive near numerous waste sites. Cancers will inevitably increase in frequency in exposed populations, as will genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis in their descendents.
Each typical 1,000 megawatt reactor makes some 200 kilograms, or 440 pounds, of plutonium per year. Less than one millionth of a gram is carcinogenic. Handled like iron by the body, it causes liver, lung and bone cancer and leukemia. Crossing the placenta to induce congential deformities, it has a predilection for the testicle where inevitably it will cause genetic abnormalities. With a radiological life of 240,000 years, once released in the ecosphere it will affect biological systems for ever.
Because only five kilos, or 11 pounds, of plutonium is critical mass, countries building new nuclear reactors could, theoretically, manufacture plutonium for many nuclear bombs per year. The under-resourced International Atomic Energy Agency admits that it is physically impossible to prevent a determined country — whether a signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty or not — from using imported uranium or its by-product, plutonium, to make nuclear weapons.
A truly informed national debate about the efficacy of nuclear power is long over-due. Time is short. As the waste is produced its legacy will impact all future generations.
Obama has put the prospect of building these extremely dangerous nuclear power plants back on the agenda, obviously without a thought for the safety of the people in the USA. Either that, or he recklessly considers running the risk of an appalling loss of life in order to solve our future energy needs. It just doesn’t make sense. It is not safe or practical and the long term ramifications are catastrophic. Nuclear Power Plants should be forced to go the way of the dinosaur.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:20 am What amount of radiation is safe?
Safe means free from danger or risk. Safer means more nearly free from risk than something else. Safest means the most nearly free from risk than other things under discussion. Even the safest car is not safe (risk-free). And even the smallest exposure to ionizing radiation is not safe.
The amount of the danger or risk depends on the amount of radiation exposure. The only risk-free (safe) dose is zero-dose.
When an individual receives a small extra dose of radiation, the person receives a small extra risk of cancer — say, 1 chance in 1,000. The person has 999 chances out of 1,000 of escaping. But if 25,000,000 people like that individual each receive the same, small extra dose of radiation, each person receives 1 chance in 1,000. The consequence is a rate of 25,000 extra cancers in that group. Point: A small personal risk can mean a large actual rate for a group — a fact which produces important ethical and health issues.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:21 am Murphy’s Law: “If something can go wrong, it will.”
The short term benefits of nuclear power plants are heavily outweighed by the catastrophic long term results that may happen as a result of human error, mechanical failure, electrical problem, terrorism, external or internal sabotage, computer glitch, computer virus, earthquake, tsunami, mother nature, tornado, snowstorm, hiccup, sneeze, Murphy’s Law or an accident. Remember, The Titanic was unsinkable. Are we so arrogant? The lives of our children and future generations will be impacted by the decisions we make today. Why risk an irreversible nuclear disaster as a calculated chance? Nuclear power is a losing proposition that no (business person) or company would risk without government subsidies and guarantees. The current controversy that surrounds the woefully inadequate emergency evacuation plans for communities situated near nuclear reactors – such as Indian Point – would seem an eerie reflection of President Eisenhower’s memo when asked what to tell the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons testing and the construction of power plants: “Keep them confused.” Eight percent of the population of the United States, which includes all of New York City, live within a fifty mile radius of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 am Time magazine reports: “After Hurricane Katrina, the secret was out — government alone can never manage big disasters. First responders cannot be most places.”
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:23 am The nuclear government industrial complex is tight-lipped concerning: disasters at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Japanese plants and several well-documented, recent U.S. nuclear plant close-call meltdowns; hazardous transporting and storing conditions of nuclear waste; skyrocketing plant construction costs; exorbitant hidden taxes for disposing of nuclear waste; vulnerability to deadly emissions from metal fatigue and counterfeit parts; employed staff errors; sabotage of plants and tonnages of lethal nuclear waste; cyber attacks, nuclear fuel theft, ineffective public warning and rescue systems, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s historical impotency.
These are all earmarks of portentous multiple-state catastrophes.
Also unsolvable: When and how to alert and prepare people for lethal emissions, especially while sleeping? So-called authorities hype foolproof plant safety, emergency evacuation procedures and cure-all antidotal potassium iodide.
Their refusal to disclose contradictory evidence assures future disasters.
A disaster rescuer, under conditions of anonymity, whispered: “Life saving from radiation fallout in populated areas is hopeless.”
Nuclear power plants are weapons of mass destruction against ourselves? Nuclear Plants are so deadly, crippling, and everlasting. Demand safe energy alternatives.
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May 3rd, 2011 at 8:24 am Hate to burst the writers bubble but the mayans dont say decemeber 23rd 2012 it ends on decemeber 21st 2012 lol noob
May 3rd, 2011 at 9:36 am Damn, and I was counting on those two days …………………….