First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as spill cover-up goes Orwellian – Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) – As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime.

CNN reporter Anderson Cooper says, “A new law passed today, and back by the force of law and the threat of fines and felony charges, … will prevent reporters and photographers from getting anywhere close to booms and oil-soaked wildlife just about any place we need to be. By now you’re probably familiar with cleanup crews stiff-arming the media, private security blocking cameras, ordinary workers clamming up, some not even saying who they’re working for because they’re afraid of losing their jobs.”

Video: G20 Toronto Black Block get green light to rampage?

See Also: (TheStar) – ‘I will not forget what they have done to me’ – 20 people arrested at the G20 tell of ‘inhumane’ treatment at the hands of police – Read More Here

A photo Journalist describes his experience following the black block as they rampage through the streets of Toronto during the G20 Summit.

Video: Emergency S.O.S. – America Falling to Foreign Bank Takeover – Fourth of July

(July 2) – Alex Jones breaks down the takeover by offshore banking powers– newly empowered by Congress’ banking “reform,” expanded taxes worldwide, as well as accelerated moves towards ending the Dollar’s reserve status, including urging from a recent United Nations report.

This Fourth of July, the United States is indeed in peril; it is not only the Gulf Oil Spill, Russian spies and threats of war with Iran which Americans must worry about. Instead it is the quiet but deadly conquest by private, central banks, who lobbied Congress to once again vest new powers in the Federal Reserve and, by all indicators, further weaken the U.S. economy through its future actions.

The financial crisis has indeed been developed in such a way that no nation can ever repay all the debt, and control by global economic forces is all but inevitable.

Video: Bob Chapman – Global Governance is A Corporate Takeover by The illuminati – Alex Jones Tv

(July 2) – Regular Friday guest Bob Chapman, former gold and silver stockbroker and publisher of The International Forecaster, talks about the economy.

Video: Max Keiser – Goldman Sachs – The Real Pirates behind America’s Economic Implosion

(July 2) – Alex talks with Max Keiser about who the real criminals are behind the implosion of the american economy.

Video: Gerald Celente – We’re Going into The Greatest Depression and WW 3 – Alex Jones Tv

(July 2) – Alex also talks with trend forecaster, publisher of the Trends Journal, business consultant and author Gerald Celente.

BP Oil Gusher

Video: Apocalypse Oil Rain And Its Toxic Consequences – Video Link Here

(AP) – Report: Toxins found in whales bode ill for humans

Sperm whales feeding even in the most remote reaches of Earth’s oceans have built up stunningly high levels of toxic and heavy metals, according to American scientists who say the findings spell danger not only for marine life but for the millions of humans who depend on seafood. Read More Here

(Yahoo) – BP bets on Kevin Costner’s oil cleaning machine – Read More Here

(HuffingtonPost) – Gulf Oil Gusher: Danger of Tsunamis From Methane?

A new and less well known asymmetric threat has surfaced in the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher. Methane or CH4 gas is being released in vast quantities in the Gulf waters. Seismic data shows huge pools of methane gas at the location immediately below and around the damaged “Macondo” oil well. Read More Here

(CNN) – Video: First Amendment Has been Suspended

As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible. View Video Here

(Reuters) – Oil invades more wetlands as surf pounds Gulf coast

Tropical storm Alex slowed oil spill clean-up and containment work in the Gulf of Mexico and drove more petroleum into fragile Gulf wetlands and beaches on Thursday, with any permanent fix to BP Plc’s ruptured deep-sea well still several weeks away. Read More Here

(AP) – Video: FEMA Trailers in Gulf Can ‘Hurt Innocent People’

Media reports reveal the FEMA trailers used to house people following hurricane Katrina are reportedly making a second appearance in Louisiana. High levels of formaldehyde were found in some of the trailers and linked to possible health risks.

House Approves Martial Law Rule?

(FellowShipOfMinds) – Yesterday, the first item on the Daily Schedule of the House of Representatives for July 1, 2010, was a vote on the adoption of the Martial Law Rule for H.R. 5618 – Restoration of Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act.

I tried to find information on the net, but could only find this on House Minority Leader John Boehner (R)’s website, The Republican Cloakroom: –

World War

(Uruknet) – “Falluja Worse Than Hiroshima “

What exactly happened in Falluja ? What were the kinds of bombs used ? Was it just DU or more ? Read More Here

Palestine

(DesertPeace) – ‘MASTER PLAN’ IMPLEMENTED IN JERUSALEM

Israeli police detained residents of Silwan as bulldozers demolished a horse stable in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood on 29 June, while other construction vehicles razed a small warehouse to the ground in nearby Abu Tur. Read More Here

(AlJazeera) – Video: Homes in Gaza destroyed by Hamas – View Video Here

(JPost) – ‘Flotilla passengers were tortured’

Further claims included torture by Israeli authorities once the passengers were taken into custody and brought into the Ashdod port. “The participants received physical blows and were subjected to psychological torture,” the report alleged. Read More Here

(DesertPeace) – ISRAEL’S NEW MASTER PLAN

Quietly, Israel is preparing the biggest illegal land grab in recent memory, all on Obama’s watch, writes Khalid Amayreh in Jerusalem Read More Here

(Mondoweiss) – Flotilla fallout: What exactly was the U.S. role?

The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the United States government’s knowledge of, and actions related to, Israel’s attack on the freedom flotilla. CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher explains in a press release: Read More Here

(SouthLebanon) – Mavi Marmara Accounts: Violence, Theft, Abuse

As Israel continues to present its own account of what happened when its navy commandos raided an aid convoy destined to the besieged Gaza Strip and killed nine humanitarian activists aboard one ship, witness accounts of Westerners are emerging that discredit Tel Aviv’s version of events. Read More Here

Iran

(AntiWar) – UK General Blames Pakistan, Iran for Afghan Attacks

According to Maj. Gen. Messenger, the British military has “evidence” that the funding for the IED attacks and even some of the components used in the more advanced such devices are coming through both Pakistan and Iran, with some reports suggesting that the militaries and intelligence communities of those two nations are behind it. Read More Here

(KurtNimmo) – Israel Suspected in Bogus Claim Iran Developing Nuclear Trigger – Read More Here

(AsiaTimes) – Weather clears for a US strike on Iran

Everybody in the region is restless. Turkey is making spectacular diplomatic pirouettes. Egypt is quietly seething, and Saudi Arabia less quietly so. Jordan’s king had ruefully predicted war if no peace was achieved by the summer [1], and summer has now come. Syria and Lebanon are positioning themselves to weather the coming storm [2]. Yemen is in disarray. Russia, China, India, and a host of other powers are vying to make the best of the fracas. The Iranian regime itself appears to be digging in for a fight. Read More Here

Afghanistan

(CNSNews) – June Was Deadliest Month for U.S. Troops in Nine-Year-Long War in Afghanistan – Read More Here

(AsiaTimes) – Counter-insurgency down for the count

United States President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t working. So said a parade of Afghanistan watchers during the flap over war commander General Stanley McChrystal’s firing. But what does that phrase, so often in the media these days, really mean? And if the strategy really isn’t working, just how can you tell? Read More Here

(AsiaTimes) – ‘Surge” smoke follows Petraeus to Afpak – Read More Here

Economy

(SmirkingChimp) – Is the Depression Coming? Or Is It Here?

The FBI arrests 1,200 Americans for mortgage fraud in the largest crackdown of its kind in history. There is no media focus on the companies that securitized and insured their toxic loans. This white-collar crime sweep is, at best, a one-day story with most of the reports carried by local outlets. Read More Here

(MyBudget360) – Commercial real estate transactions collapse 90 percent from 2007 to 2009. The next taxpayer bailout in the $3.5 trillion CRE market. From $522 billion in sales to $52 billion. CRE market over 4 times the size of the entire credit card market

The massive commercial real estate market is already plaguing the weak balance sheets of banks. It is the case that each Friday, we are likely to see one U.S. bank fail because due to high levels of commercial real estate (CRE) debt on their books. This market is likely to cause the failure of hundreds of banks and put the economy down into another real estate funk. Read More Here

(July 2) – Video: Bill Still – The Secret of OZ / Solutions For a Broken Economy – Alex Jones Tv

Alex talks with Bill Still, the man behind the monetary reform documentary The Secret of Oz(available at the Infowars Store). Still’s previous films include the popular The Money Masters and Capital Crimes. The Secret of Oz won best documentary of 2010 at the Beloit International Film Festival, the Silver Sierra Award for Excellence in Filmmaking at the Yosemite Film Festival, and other prestigious awards. Part 1 Here

(PeopleManagement) – Graduate unemployment rate ‘set to hit 25 per cent’

The UK’s graduate unemployment rate could soar to nearly 25 per cent due to public-sector budget cuts, with newly qualified jobseekers outside of London the worst hit, new forecasts have predicted. Read More Here

(SacBee) – Schwarzenegger orders minimum wage for state workers

The Schwarzenegger administration today ordered State Controller John Chiang to reduce state worker pay for July to the federal minimum allowed by law — $7.25 an hour for most state workers. Read More Here

(LATimes) – Unemployment rate dips as more workers leave labor force

Employment-seekers decline by 652,000 June, which may reflect people giving up on job-hunting and a reluctance to hire. Overall, the jobless rate falls to 9.5% from 9.7%, the Labor Department reports. Read More Here

(DocumentingReality) – Starting in 2011—next year—the W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are provided – Read More Here

(ElliotWave) – Banks Continued Failure To Realise Commercial Real Estate Losses…

The massive commercial real estate market is already plaguing the weak balance sheets of banks. It is the case that each Friday, we are likely to see one U.S. bank fail because due to high levels of commercial real estate (CRE) debt on their books. This market is likely to cause the failure of hundreds of banks and put the economy down into another real estate funk. Read More Here

(AsiaTimes) – Smell of economic death

I know, alas, that there is nothing that can be done to prevent unimaginable suffering and the collapse of the economy, now that the US Federal Reserve has created so much excess money and credit, and, to make matters infinitely worse, are still doing it, more than ever! Read More Here

(Prairie2) – The Depression with no name

If Europe is serious about austerity this would be bad news for the US in several ways. Read More Here

(Money&Markets) – Double-Dip Recession Warning Signs Everywhere! Batten Down the Hatches!

The bright red warning signs of a double-dip recession are flashing everywhere. And I do mean EVERYWHERE. Read More Here

(BuzzFlash) – Wall Street is a Crime Scene, Not a Financial “Cyclical Aberration”

It’s shocking that more than 20 years after the movies “Wall Street” revealed the underlying corruption of America’s financial center, it is still difficult to get the corporate mainstream media to understand that the economic “collapse” of the last two years was a swindle and not a cyclic aberration. Read More Here

(BeforeItsNews) – House Refuses to Look At the Books – What’s Wrong With You and I Looking At The Fed and how it uses our money?

Since 1913 the actual buying power of the dollar has gone down by 95.6% – You can’t buy a gallon of gas for 8c any more. Read More Here

Climategate

(NYTimes) – Climate Scientist Cleared of Altering Data – Read More Here

(ForeignPolicy) – Whatever It Takes – Why I won’t back down on climate change – John Kerry – Read More Here

(EconomicCollapseBlog) – 50 Random Facts That Make You Wonder What In The World Has Happened To America

Our world is changing at a pace that is so staggering these days that it can be really hard to fully grasp the significance of what we are witnessing.  Hopefully the collection of random facts below will help you to “connect the dots” just a little bit.  On one level, the facts below may not seem related.  However, what they all do have in common is that they show just how much the United States has fundamentally changed.  Do you ever just sit back and wonder what in the world has happened to America?  The truth is that the America that so many of us once loved so much has been shattered into a thousand pieces.  The “land of the free and the home of the brave” has been transformed into a socialized Big Brother nanny state that is oozing with corruption and has accumulated the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world.  The greatest economic machine that the world has ever seen is falling apart before our very eyes, and even when our politicians actually try to do something right (which is quite rare) the end result is still a bunch of garbage.  For those who still love this land (and there are a lot of us) it is heartbreaking to watch America slowly die.

The following are 50 random facts that show just how dramatically America has changed….