Reply by DMYates on January 8, 2012 at 12:03pm I would denitely use the adult content. Then it's up to the reader.

Some readers become insulted by certain subjects. If you have the adult content up, they will be prepared and not be angry at you for not telling them ahead. http://bookblogs.ning.com/forum/topics/ adult-content-warning-question

imprint: 2012 Felix von Keudell ISBN 978-3-84-825423-1 Herstellung und Verlag: Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliograe.

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What's a Nurdle? by Charles Moore, Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, onboard the Esperanza Greenpeace/Alex Hofford Plastic is now everywhere. When locating plastics anywhere in the environment, scientists have little difculty fullling the age-old saying, "Seek, and ye shall nd." But where do plastics come from? Most plastics are made from the natural gas portion of our petroleum resources. The gasses, like ethylene, are puried and turned into plastic by the use of polymer catalysts, which link ethylene molecules together to make polyethylene. Polyethylene plastics make water bottles, clothing fabric, and Tupperware as well as thousands of other products. So how does the polymer get to the processor who makes the goods for the consumer. The answer is nurdles. Over 250 billion pounds of nurdles are shipped around the world to plastic processing factories every year. Nurdles are plastic resin pellets that represent the most economical way to ship large quantities of a solid material, that is, in a pelletized form. The pellets come in rail tank cars, and at 20-25,000 per pound, there are about a billion of them in each tanker. So many

have escaped over the last half century during the transfer from rail car to factory by vacuum hoses, washing during rainstorms from rail sidings to the sea, that nurdles now represent about 10% of the litter counted on beaches worldwide. In surface trawls for plastic particles aboard the Greenpeace vessel Esperanza, nurdles have been found in every trawl. The plastic industry itself is the biggest single source of plastic particles in the environment.

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WhatYOU can do: REcycle Don't use disposable plastics, sort your waste REuse Use canvas or re-usable grocery bags, make compost REduce Choose glass bottles (glass can be eternally, 100% recycled) REfuse Drink tap water REpair Repair your broken objects or redesign them for a second life REdesign Use products with natural ingredients

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/ marine/pollution.htm

A great deal of time and money is put into the challenging problem of restoring natural habitats world-wide. Such efforts are critical for preservation of biodiversity, as well as of the critical socioeconomic resources provided by many natural habitats [3], [55]. Our results suggest that the loss of marine habitats in humandominated landscapes could be mitigated with appropriate consideration and management of incremental changes in relevant habitat characteristics and of attributes facilitating the recovery in these systems. They also provide an empirical demonstration of the potential benets from a more integrated management approach to resilience, where the focus is on reducing risks of major ecosystem changes rather than on individual environmental stressors [5]. This conceptual shift is particularly important in face of the escalating degradative ecological change of our coasts and oceans [16]. We need to provide better protection to marine habitats, as it is becoming increasingly clear that mere restoration of environmental conditions preceding a loss, if possible, may be insufcient for ecosystem restoration, and is scarcely cost-effective.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0010791

Conserving Marine Habitats Although habitat destruction has been increasing for many years, the protection of marine habitats has only recently become an issue of critical importance to conservation efforts. As human population continues to rise, so will our use of the oceans and coastal areas. Ongoing efforts to safeguard ocean habitats include the creation of marine reserves where development is curtailed and shing is prohibited. Laws banning the dumping of sewage and chemicals into the ocean and policies that foster better stewardship of wetlands are having positive effects. But scientists agree that drastic measures will be needed to avert the ocean crises being created by climate change.

http://www.zsl.org/conservation/regions/ habitats/marine/project-ocean/marinehabitat,1588,AR.html

Fish are Part of the Solution: Stop Overshing! An important discovery During much of the past half-century, the production of calcium carbonate (CaCO3), which when dissolved contributes to the alkalinity of the worlds oceans, was thought to come almost entirely from calcifying marine plankton such as foraminifera and coccolithophores. However, back in 1991, Walsh et al. made an interesting discovery while studying osmoregulation in the gulf toadsh, Opsanus beta. In the stomachs of the toadsh were carbonate minerals, a by-product of osmoregulation in the intestine. As sh drink sea-water, their intestines selectively retain water and other minerals important for bodily functions and subsequently form pellets of carbonate which are excreted by the sh in a highly dissolvable form. It was at this time in 1991, that Walsh et al. predicted that the excretion of this carbonate could contribute to the marine inorganic carbon cycle.

http://www.duke.edu/web/nicholas/bio217/ spring2010/chang/StopOvershing.html

On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon/BP MC252 drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico caused the rig to sink and killed 11 workers. As a result, oil began leaking into the Gulf creating the largest spill in American history to date. Over the course of 87 days an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil were released into the Gulf. Although research continues to determine the full extent of the damage, we know that this spill impacted wildlife, habitats, shing communities, and commerce along the large coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Florida. Impacts to Wildlife Sea turtles and marine birds were some of the rst wildlife affected by the oil as they live and feed in the surface areas where oating oil collects. Marine mammals such as dolphins and whales are other affected species, as they must come to the surface to breath. Oil accumulated on the skin of animals can make it difcult to breath and move in the water. Oiled birds can lose the ability to y, dive for food, or oat on the water which could lead to drowning. Oil also interferes with the water repellency of feathers and can cause hypothermia under the right conditions. Ingested oil can kill animals immediately; more often it results in lung, liver, and kidney damage which can lead to death. Extensive efforts to prevent more extensive

wildlife impacts, rescue and rehabilitate oiled animals, and investigate possible longterm effects of oil exposure are ongoing. (Source: USFWS) Fisheries Fish, shrimp, and shellsh are integral to the food web of the Gulf as well as the economic health of the region. To minimize human exposure to potentially unsafe seafood from the spill region, more than 80,000 square miles of commercial and recreational shing grounds were closed while scientists investigated the impact of the spill and clean-up efforts on these organisms. After careful research on the presence of chemical and microbial contaminants in species from all levels of the food chain, portions of the region deemed safe by FDA and NOAA scientists were re-opened to shing. Once again, Gulf sherman have access to valuable shing grounds and consumers and sh sellers are protected knowing that only safe seafood is entering the marketplace from this area. Ongoing monitoring continues to insure safety of seafood and changes in the Gulf habitats. (Source: NOAA Keeping Seafood Safe) Habitat Impacts The Gulf of Mexico is a diverse ecosystem incorporating deep-sea ocean ridges and trenches, mid-depth banks, barrier islands, beaches, and estuaries. As currents and winds spread the oil from the mile deep spill

site, all habitats of the ecosystem were at risk of contamination. Estuaries and coral reefs are some of the most sensitive areas in the impact zone as they provide protection, feeding areas, and nurseries for a large diversity of species. NOAA has been involved in extensive research to map and understand this system prior to the spill (See: Ocean Explorer) and now in the aftermath. This information will be valuable in calculating the full impact of the spill and the long-term effects on this rich ecosystem.

http://www.education.noaa.gov/ Ocean_and_Coasts/Oil_Spill.html

6 comments Michael Jefferis May 7, 2010, 1:03 a.m. Cozy relationships between regulators and industries are endemic and one of the causes of mine explosions, well blowouts, water contamination, etc. Failure to solve this problem (it CAN be solved) is a mark of the incompetence and compromised ethics of congress and the white house (now and in the past). One of the things that has not been explained so far is WHY WOULD THE FLOW OF OIL INCREASE OVER TIME? Presumably, the pressure in the oil-bearing formations does not change over a short period of time, and the hole into this formation (from the well) isnt getting any bigger, presumably, so how does the ow increase? wright4ulg May 7, 2010, 9:48 a.m. Piggy Oil Companies: I do not think oil companies clean up the oil because they care about the environment. I think they just want the oil back! If our economy gets any worse, we are just going to look at an oil spill as an opportunity for cheaper gas. We will all drive down with our tanks and clean it up ourselves.

However, to add insult to injury, the oil companies only have to spend up to 75 million for the clean up. Which I am sure they will just make it back by charging us more at the pump. Leaving them with zero accountability. Let me guess, the American Tax Payer has to pay anything that goes over 75 million? THATS CALLED A BAIL OUT! Apparently, the oil companies are also too big to fail. I think there should be a law that says that oil companies have to give Americans free gas that is equivalent to whatever they spilt. Now that sounds more fair to me! However, they instead make a 10 BILLION DOLLAR prot. When gas went up in the 90s, President Clinton responded It looks like someone is playing politics. Who knows, maybe that was the day that a law being passed that stipulated they had to pay more than 75 million. Maybe they rose the gas rates to remind the President that they have the power to create and economic crisis, with one stroke of a pen. HOW DARE THESE OIL PIGGIES HOLD OUR PRESIDENTS AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY HOSTAGE WITH THREATS OF ECONOMIC SABOTAGE! Piggy Banks: But there is a bigger spill on the horizon my friend. This spill is going to effect every coast line in America. It is called the GREAT FORECLOSURE SPILL! It will also keep bubbling and bubbling and bubbling foreclosures. It is still going to happen, even though the American Tax Payer funded TARP with a potential 581 BILLION DOLLARS as BAIL OUT

money to the piggy banks. I mean if the government is in the lending business, why not have just loaned it to the American homeowner directly? I mean these piggy banks caused the whole mortgage crisis in the rst place. TARP gave one bank $45 BILLION DOLLARS! Now that bank is potentially playing politics with the modication process. While dealing with the piggy banks, President Obama and Bush had the same look of fear on their face as President Clinton did with the oil companies. HOW DARE THESE PIGGY BANKS HOLD OUR PRESIDENTS AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY HOSTAGE WITH THREATS OF ECONOMIC SABOTAGE! I dedicate to both the Piggy Oil Companies and Piggy Banks the following song by George Harrision and John Lennon. Appropriately titled Piggies I invite you to listen to it on youtube as you read the words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTmeHMHojg&feature=related Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt And for all the little piggies Life is getting worse Always having dirt to play around in. Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts You will nd the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt

Always have clean shirts to play around in. In their ties with all their backing They dont care what goes on around In their eyes theres something lacking What they needs a damn good whacking. Everywhere theres lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon. I AM FIGHTING BACK! You can read my story or show your support in your comments at: Unitedlawgroup.com under the John Wright vs. Bank of America Lawsuit Please send an email to BofA CEO with I SUPPORT JOHN WRIGHT VS. BANK OF AMERICA: brian.t.moynihan@bankofamerica.com Sincerely, Johns-wright@hotmail.com Rosseposse May 7, 2010, 7:13 p.m. I have to ask without the least bit of sarcasm, but where is the oil slick? I thought it would have made landfall by now, where

is the environmental disaster, is this just more hyperbole? Lafayette May 22, 2010, 3:21 a.m. {How widely is the oil spreading} Given the Gulf Stream, we here in Europe are expecting to see some components of the oil spill in a week to ten days. Which seems rather quick, given that it must make a turn around Florida to insert itself into the main cross-Atlantic Gulf Stream. A major point of landfall of the Gulf Stream in Europe is ... Ireland. (Some of Irelands beaches have Palm Trees, the origins of which are thought to be the Gulf Stream.) Lesson Learned: The laxity of federal oversight authority in this matter, and a good number of other areas, should be the nal nail-in-the-cofn for those who must believe the markets are self-regulating. One of the most naively asinine notions of the Right in both this and last centuries. In fact, for all the hullabaloo regarding tightening regulatory oversight, all it takes is one Lead-head of a PotUS to neuter the oversight agencies (as did GWB) to undo all that is being done to tighten the safetybelts.

pkgoode May 24, 2010, 9:41 a.m. Michael Jeffris wrote: how does the ow increase? Michael, Im not a geologist, so take this for what its worth. Wouldnt continuous upward pressure from a vast eld widen the opening and thus increase the ow until the eld depleted enough to reduce the pressure? pkgoode May 24, 2010, 9:52 a.m. I have two questions: Can President Obama nationalize BP at the proverbial stroke of a pen? My instincts tell me that nationalizing the American assets of a foreign company operating in international waters is not a simple matter, that BP would contest it vigorously in American and international courts, and that the administration couldnt take such a step without the support of Great Britain. But could he do it, and what is involved? Would it require an act of Congress for the government to take direct control of the capping and cleanup operations?

Legally, BP is responsible for this. But could the President declare a state of emergency and give control to the government? Again, there are practical problems here, since BP apparently owns the technology and despite all evidence to the contrarythe expertise. But could the president do this? Commenting on this story is closed.

http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/gulfoil-spill-faq-what-happened-what-may-havecaused-it-and-whos-responsib

The worlds rst major documentary about the devastating effect of overshing premiered at Sundance Film Festival Imagine an ocean without sh. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act. The End of the Line, the rst major feature documentary lm revealing the impact of overshing on our oceans, had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition. In the lm we see rst-hand the effects of our global love affair with sh as food. It examines the imminent extinction of Bluen tuna, brought on by increasing western demand for sushi; the impact on marine life resulting in huge overpopulation of jellysh; and the profound implications of a future world with no sh that would bring certain mass starvation. Filmed over two years, The End of the Line follows the investigative reporter Charles Clover as he confronts politicians and celebrity restaurateurs, who exhibit little regard for the damage they are doing to the oceans. One of his allies is the former tuna farmer turned whistleblower Roberto Mielgo on the trail of those destroying the world's magnicent bluen tuna population. Filmed across the world from the Straits of Gibraltar to the coasts of Senegal and

Alaska to the Tokyo sh market featuring top scientists, indigenous shermen and sheries enforcement ofcials, The End of the Line is a wake-up call to the world. Scientists predict that if we continue shing as we are now, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048. The End of the Line chronicles how demand for cod off the coast of Newfoundland in the early 1990s led to the decimation of the most abundant cod population in the world, how hi-tech shing vessels leave no escape routes for sh populations and how farmed sh as a solution is a myth. The lm lays the responsibility squarely on consumers who innocently buy endangered sh, politicians who ignore the advice and pleas of scientists, shermen who break quotas and sh illegally, and the global shing industry that is slow to react to an impending disaster. The End of the Line points to solutions that are simple and doable, but political will and activism are crucial to solve this international problem. We need to control shing by reducing the number of shing boats across the world, protect large areas of the ocean through a network of marine reserves off limits to shing, and educate consumers that they have a choice by purchasing sh from independently certied sustainable sheries. The End of the Line premiere at Sundance planted the seed for a global campaign for citizens to demand better marine policies. Leading international environmental

organizations have lent their full support to the lm. "There is no better place than Sundance for The End of the Line to have its world premiere," said the lm's director, Rupert Murray. "Sundance has a long history of making cutting edge, issue-based documentaries matter." Murray's rst lm, "Unknown White Male" premiered at the festival in 2005. Charles Clover, the book's author, said: "We must stop thinking of our oceans as a food factory and realize that they thrive as a huge and complex marine environment. "We must act now to protect the sea from rampant overshing so that there will be sh in the sea for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren." "Overshing is the great environmental disaster that people haven't heard about," said producer George Dufeld. "A recent global conference about bluen tuna stocks saw almost no media coverage in the U.S. We hope this lm really sounds the alarm. We can x this problem starting right now." "Reading the book The End of the Line changed my life and what I eat. I hope the lm will do the same for others," said producer Claire Lewis. The End of the Line is a leading example of the new wave of documentary. It is an independent lm made outside the established broadcasting structure.

It is a campaigning lm which aims to change the world by engaging large public audiences in a political issue. And it is a project which is integrated with the work of NGOs and progressive companies to achieve this change. The lms nancing is an example of the new model of funding: with cornerstone funding from the UKs Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, the vast bulk of the nance came from not-for-prot foundations in the UK and the USA. In the UK the cinema release of the lm was supported nancially by Waitrose - a major UK retailer. The lm has received nancial support from: The Waitt Family Foundation, Marviva, The Oak Foundation, Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation, WWF, The Weston Foundation, The Clore Foundation, The Marine Conservation Society, AD Charitable Trust, GD Charitable Trust, Waterloo Foundation and Oceana.

http://endoftheline.com/lm

ONLINE WEB-CAM - NOW UP AND RUNNING!!! Can't make a match? watch it, LIVE TODAY! Redbridge Fishing Lakes is now proud to announce that its shing webcam facility is now up and running for all to see. If you are a match shing and coarse shing enthusiast and just can't get enough of shing, tune in to our live shing webcam broadcast today and watch anglers match shing and landing some of the many beautiful silver sh specimens that Redbridge Fishing Lakes has to offer. Redbridge Fishing Lakes has open matches running every Tuesday and Saturday; therefore, give us a call and join in. If you can't make a match, click on the link below and watch the matches live today!!! TUNE IN TO OUR WEBCAM NOW! To view the Redbridge Lakes webcam, click on the link below:

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Half of Filipino Catholics shunning church weddings 3:39 am | Friday, October 12th, 2012 Share CBCP media director, Msgr. Pedro Quitorio. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO More than half of Filipino Catholics have not gotten married in churches, according to a survey conducted by Radio Veritas, a Catholic-run radio station and this could be because church weddings are deemed costly. Sociology professor Bro. Clifford Sorita said that the radio station conducted a truth survey during the second quarter of the year which showed that the unions of majority of Filipino Catholic couples were not blessed in churches. Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) media ofce director Msgr. Pedro Quitorio III described the results of the survey as very alarming. The Catholic Church would have to focus on this problem. This is a serious problem and we have to do something, he said.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/287358/over-50of-catholics-have-not-had-churchweddings-survey

Unfortunately, girls around the world have also shared with me how pursuing an education can be dangerous, whether it's because of harassment and violence from teachers or the dangers they encounter as they walk to school. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/11/opinion/ buffett-girls-safety/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

A Abbie, Abe, and Abie (North America) a Jewish male. From the proper name Abraham. Originated before the 1950s.[1] ABCD (South Asians in the US) American-Born Confused Desi, a term used to refer to Indian Americans, Pakistani Americans or other South Asians, term as "desi," who were born in the United States. The condescending term is used chiey by South Asian immigrants to imply confusion about cultural identity.[2] Abo/Abbo (AUS) Australian Aboriginal person. Originally, this was simply an informal term for Aborigine, and was in fact used by Aboriginal people themselves until it started to be considered offensive in the 1950s. In remoter areas, Aboriginal people still often refer to themselves (quite neutrally) as Blackfellas (and whites as Whitefellas). Although Abo is still considered quite offensive by many, the pejorative boong is now more commonly used when the intent is to deliberately offend, as that word's status as an insult is unequivocal.[3] Alligator bait (US) also Gator Bait. A black person, especially a black child. More commonly used in states where alligators are found, particularly Florida. First used in the early 20th century, although some hypothesize the term originated in the late 19th century.[4]

Ann (North America) a white woman to a black personor a black woman who acts too much like a white one. While Miss Ann, also just plain Ann, is a derisive reference to the white woman, by extension it is applied to any black woman who puts on airs and tries to act like Miss Ann.[5] Ape (US) a black person.[6] Apple (North America) an American Indian (Native American) who is "red on the outside, white on the inside." Used primarily by other American Indians to indicate someone who has lost touch with their cultural identity. First used in the 1980s.[7] Asian nigger an ethnic slur against Filipinos.[8] Arabush ( ) an ethnic slur against Arabs, current in Israel - derived from Hebrew "Aravi" (Arab) which is itself non-offensive [9] Aunt Jemima / Aunt Jane / Aunt Mary / Aunt Sally (US) a black woman who "kisses up" to whites, a "sellout," female counterpart of Uncle Tom.[10] B Banana (North America; UK) an Asian person living in a Western country (e.g., an Asian American) who is yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Used primarily by Asians

to indicate someone who has lost touch with his or her cultural identity.[11] Beaner / Beaney (US) a term widely regarded as derogatory, that refers to people of Mexican descent or, more specically, mestizos of Central American descent.[12][13][14] The term originates from the prevalence of frijoles pintos and other beans in Mexican food.[14] [15] Bluegum (US) an offensive slur for an AfricanAmerican perceived as being lazy and who refuses to work.[16] Boche / bosche / bosch (France; US; UK) a German [shortened from the French term caboche dure (hard head, or stubborn)].[17] Bog Irish (UK, Ireland) a person of common or low class Irish ancestry.[18][19] Bohunk (North America) a person of east-central European descent. Originally referred to those of Bohemian (now Czech Republic) descent. It was commonly used toward Ukrainian immigrants during the early 20th century.[20] See also hunky. Boong / bong / bung (Aus) Australian aboriginal.[21] Boong, pronounced with (like the vowel in bull), is related to the Australian English slang word bung, meaning dead; infected; or dysfunctional. From bung, to go bung "Originally to die, then to break down, go

bankrupt, cease to function [Ab. bong dead]". [22] Highly offensive. [First used in 1847 by JD Lang, Cooksland, 430][23] Boonga / boong / bunga / boonie (New Zealand) a Pacic Islander [alteration of boong].[24] Bounty Bar A Bounty chocolate bar, being composed of coconut coated with chocolate; it is white on the inside and brown on the outside. As with wigger, this is both a subcultural and ethnic slur. The immediate target is criticized for having the cultural values of a different ethnic group, with the implication that the ethnic group in question is bad or inferior. Coconut and Oreo are used in the same way.[25] Breed (North America) A derogatory term for a Native American. Brownie (US) a. a person of mixed white and black ancestry; a mulatto. b. (US) a young, brown-skinned person 1940s 1950s.[26] Buddhahead (US) an Asian;[27] Also used by mainland Japanese Americans to refer to Hawaiian Japanese Americans since World War II.[28] Bule (Indonesian) a commonly used word in Indonesia to describe a foreigner, especially Caucasians. Means Albino; sometimes used in pejorative manner.[29] Bufe a. a black person.[30]

b. (US) a young, brown-skinned person 1940s 1950s[26] Burrhead / Burr-head / Burr head (US) a black person (referencing stereotypical hair type).[31] C Camel Jockey an insulting term for people of Middle Eastern descent.[32] CBCD (Subcontinentals in Canada) CanadianBorn Confused Desi Similar to ABCD, but used for Canadian-born South Asians who are confused about their cultural identity. [33] Charlie 1) (African-American, 1960s-1970s) A mildly derogatory term used to refer to white people as a reied collective oppressor group, similar to The Man or The System.[34] 2) (Vietnam War military slang) Nonpejorative slang term used by American troops as a shorthand term for Vietnamese guerrillas. Derived from the verbal shorthand for "Victor Charlie", the NATO phonetic alphabet for VC, the abbreviation for Viet Cong.[35] Other references to the Viet Cong included "Mr. Charles" as a rueful admission of the skill at asymmetric warfare.[36] Chee-chee, Chi-chi an Anglo-Indian or Eurasian half-caste [probably from Hindi chi-chi e!, literally,

dirt][37] Also can refer to English spoken with a Southwest Asian accent. Cheese-eating surrender monkey (UK, USA) a Frenchman, from the defeat of the French against the German in 1940, and the huge variety of cheeses originating from France. Gained popularity after the term was used on an episode of The Simpsons.[38] Ching Chong (US and Canada) mocking the language of or a person of perceived Chinese or East Asian descent. An offensive term which has raised considerable controversy, for example when used by comedian Rosie O'Donnell.[39] Chinaman found offensive, although it is a translation of the Chinese . It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction eras in western North America, when discrimination against Chinese was common.[40] Though widely used historically without offensive intent, the term today generates controversy when still used in geographic places associated with or resembling Chinese. Fowler's Dictionary of English Usage as late as 1956 describes it as the term for a Chinese person, whereas the term Chinese was only used as an adjective for things. Though it is widely used as an ironic self-reference by many North Americans of Chinese descent, and is still heard in the lyrics to the 1970s song "Kung Fu Fighting" and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift movie song "Tokyo Drift"

by the Teriyaki Boyz, it tends to generate objections in modern times, especially in the US where Asian-American is the preferred nomenclature. (Note that in cricket, the term "chinaman" is used in a non-ethnic sense to refer to a lefthanded bowler who uses a wrist spin action, and that a chinaman was also a type of 18th and 19th C. merchant ship, or a dealer in china ware.) Chink (US, UK) used to refer to people of perceived Chinese descent, and by extension for other East Asians. Considered extremely derogatory, exemplied by a US school that had to stop using the term as a sports mascot until 1980.[41][42] Cholo (Latin American Spanish, USA) used in Latin America to refer to people of perceived Amerindian or African slaves descent; used in the USA to refer to people of perceived Mestizo descent, especially teenagers and young people in the lowrider subculture. It may be derogatory depending on circumstances. Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo was nicknamed "el Cholo". [43] Chonky refers to a person of Chinese heritage with white attributes, whether being a personality aspect or physical aspect.[44][45] Christ killer a Jew, an allusion to Jewish deicide. On occasion it can also be used as an antiItalian slur on the basis the Romans, as

ancestors of the present-day Italians, executed Jesus. Chug (Canada) refers to an individual of aboriginal descent.[46] Coconut (US) a person of Hispanic descent who's accused of acting white.[47] (New Zealand/Australia) a Pacic Islander. Named after the coconut, the nut from the coconut palm.[48] (UK) a black person who exhibits behaviour associated with caucasians; (US) a black person trying to be 'white'.[49] (South Africa) a black person who acts white[50] (Canada) an individual of South Asian (typically Dravidian) descent, who is accused of trying to be 'white'. Coolie (North America) unskilled Asian labor, usually Chinese (originally used in 19thcentury for Chinese railroad labor). Possibly from Hindi kuli, day laborer.[51] Also racial epithet for Indo-Caribbean people, especially in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and South African Indians. Coon (US, UK and Australia) a black person. Possibly from Portuguese barraco, a building constructed to hold slaves for sale (1837).[52][53] Popularized by the song "Zip Coon", played at Minstrel shows in the 1830s. Coonass, or Coon-ass (US) a person of Cajun ethnicity.[54] Cracker

(US) a poor Appalachian or poor Southerner, a white person, rst used in the 19th century.[55] Crow a black person,[56] spec. a black woman. Cunt-eyed (US) adjective: a person with slanted eyes (rst used in the 1910s)[57] Curry-muncher/Curry-slurper/Currystinker (Australia, Africa, New Zealand, North America) a person of East Indian origin.[58] Cushi, also spelled Kushi ( ) a term originating from the Hebrew Bible, generally used to refer to a dark skinned person usually of African descent. Originally merely descriptive, in present day Israel it increasingly assumed a pejorative connotation and is regarded as insulting by Ethiopian Israelis and by African migrant workers and asylum seekers in Israel. In 2007 a judge of the Israeli Supreme Court stated that The term "Cushi" is considered, by the Israeli society as a whole, to be a prative term and an insult, usually meant to defame a person for his dark-skinned color, and to mark him as an "exceptional", and as an inferior person to a lighter-skinned individual. It is a racist slur, meant to humiliate and degrade the receiver, solely because he belongs to the Falasha ethnic group. Therefore, the court found against a bus driver who used the term in addressing a black-skinned passenger [59]

D Dago (UK and Commonwealth) refers to Italians, Spaniards, or Portuguese, possibly derived from the Spanish name, "Diego,"[60] or a corruption of the title Hidalgo (member of the Gentry, from Spanish > hijo de algo "son of someone [important]"). 2) (US) An Italian or person of Italian descent.[61] Darky / darkey / darkie noun. used as a term for a black person, which may cause offense.[62] Randall Kennedy's Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word notes that some judges have considered "darky" a "term of endearment." See also Minstrel show. In South Africa, however, it is can be considered either racist or offensive (depending on the context), but is commonly used among black people to refer to other black people in a non-derogatory way.[63] Dink an Asian, esp. a Vietnamese. Also used as a disparaging term for a North Vietnamese soldier or guerrilla in the Vietnam War. Origin: 196570, Americanism[64] Dogan, dogun (CAN) Irish Catholic [19th century on; origin uncertain: perhaps from Dugan, an Irish surname].[65] Dune coon (US) a derogatory term used for Arabs.[66] By analogy with sand nigger, below.

E Eight ball a black person; slang, usually used disparagingly[67] Eyetie (British) an Italian person; slang, usually used disparagingly. Originated through the mispronunciation of "Italian" as "Eyetalian." [68] F Fenian (Northern Ireland and western Scotland Protestants) originally the name of a political movement, the Fenian Brotherhood, but now a derogatory term aimed at Catholics, especially those thought to sympathise with the IRA.[69] Flip (Western World) a derogatory term for Filipinos.[70] Free Stater (Northern Ireland) a citizen of the Republic of Ireland, especially to Ulster Protestants. Also used by Irish Republicans to refer to Irish people who they believe are less than patriotic.[71][dubious discuss] Fresh off the boat (sometimes shortened to "F.O.B." or "FOB"), a derogatory[citation needed] term for people of foreign nationality, who have arrived in a host nation as tourists, immigrants, students, or most commonly, as work permit applicants. Fritz

(UK, France, Hungary ("fricc"), Poland [Fryc], Russia [] ) a German [from Friedrich (Frederick)].[72] Frog (Canada, UK and US) a French person. Prior to 19th century, referred to the Dutch (as they were stereotyped as being marshdwellers). When France became Britain's main enemy, replacing the Dutch, the epithet transferred to them,[73][74] due to the French recipe for eating frogs' legs (see comparable French term Rosbif). Also used in Canada to refer to both the French and French Canadians, and occasionally incorrectly as more broadly to people from Quebec who are not, in fact, necessarily French or French speaking.[75] Fuzzy-Wuzzy (UK) colonialist term used to refer to the Hadendoa warriors in the 19th Century. Not applicable in Australia, see Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels G Gable a black person.[30][76] Gaijin (JP) a term for any non-Japanese person. Shortened form of 'Gaikokujin' (person from another country). Gin (AUS) an Aboriginal woman.[77] Gin jockey

(AUS) a white person having casual sex with an Aboriginal woman. Pejorative. See also gin burglar[78] Golliwog A predominately UK expression which originally was a children's literature character and type of black doll but which eventually became to be used as a jibe against people with dark skin, most commonly Afro-Caribbeans.[79] Gook-eye, Gooky, Gook a derogatory term for Asians, used especially for enemy soldiers.[80] Its use as an ethnic slur has been traced to US Marines serving in the Philippines in the early 20th century.[80][81] The earliest recorded example is dated 1920.[82] It gained widespread notice as a result of the Korean and Vietnam wars.[80] Goy, Goyim, Goyum A Hebrew biblical term for "Nation" or "People".[83] By Roman times it had also acquired the meaning of "non-Jew". In English, usage may be controversial, it can be assigned pejoratively to non-Jews.[84][85] [86] Greaseball, Greaser A person of Italian descent.[87] It can also refer to any person of Mediterranean / Southern European descent or Hispanic descent. Gringo a foreigner; especially used disparagingly against North Americans and North Europeans in Latin America. (Likely from the Spanish word "griego", meaning Greek. The

use of the term Greek for something foreign or unintelligible is also seen in the similar expression "it's Greek to me".)[88] The term lends itself to derogatory or paternalistic connotations, but in most of the contexts it may not be meant pejoratively. Groid (US) A black person. Offensive. Derived from "negroid".[89] Gub, Gubba (AUS) Aboriginal pejorative term for white people[90] Gweilo, gwailo, or kwai lo ( ) (used in South of Mainland China and Hong Kong) A White man. Loosely translated as "foreign devil;" more literally, might be "ghost dude/bloke/guy/etc." Gwei means "ghost." The color white is associated with ghosts in China. A lo is a regular guy (i.e. a fellow, a chap, or a bloke). Once a mark of xenophobia, the word is now in general, informal use[91] but still considered derogatory. (Actually to many local Hong Kong people, this term have cutty or even superior respectful kind of meaning.) [citation needed] Guido (US) An Italian-American male. Usually offensive. Derives from the Italian given name, Guido. Used mostly in the Northeastern United States as a stereotype for working-class urban ItalianAmericans.[92]

Guinea, Ginzo A person of Italian birth or descent. Most likely derived from "Guinea Negro," implying that Italians are dark or swarthy-skinned like the natives of Guinea. The diminutive "Ginzo" probably dates back to World War II and is derived from Australian slang picked up by US servicemen in the Pacic Theater. [93] Gyppo, gippo, gypo, gyppie, gyppy, gipp a. A Romani people . b. (UK and Australia) Egyptians.[94] These are variations of "Gypsy", the most common word in English for people of Romani origin. "Gypsy" is not in itself an ethnic slur but its usage is sometimes controversial. Not to be confused with "jippo", which is a slang word used in South Africa meaning "to cheat" (e.g. to jippo the system). H Hairyback (South Africa) a derogatory term for Afrikaners[95] Hajji, Hadji, Haji (US) Used by some US servicemembers to describe Iraqis, Arabs, Afghans, or Middle Eastern and South Asian people in general. Derived from the honoric Al-Hajji, the title given to a Muslim who has completed the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).[96] Half-breed A derogatory term used to describe anyone who is mixed Native American (especially North American) and white European

parentage. Mtis is a French term for a half-breed, and mestizo is the equivalent in Spanish. Half Caste (UK) Derogatory term against people who are born of mixed race.[97] Often shortened to 'Hale'. Haole (US, Hawaiian) A non-native, used by Hawaiians mainly to refer to whites (less commonly to refer to non-Hawaiians). Can be used neutrally, dependent on context.[98] Hambaya (Sri Lanka) an ethnic contumely for Muslims. Heeb, Hebe (US) an offensive term for a Jewish person, derived from the word "Hebrew".[99][100] Hillbilly (US) term frequently considered derogatory for Americans of Appalachia or Ozark heritage.[101] Hindoo (AUS) 19th century, Hindu. Often not offensive.[102] Honky also spelled "honkey" or "honkie" (1) (US) an offensive term for a white person. Derived from an African-American pronunciation of "hunky", the disparaging term for a Hungarian laborer. The rst record of its use as an insulting term for a white person dates from the 1950s.[103] House Nigger / House negro (US) a derogatory term for afuent or highly educated African-Americans. Derived from the fact that African slaves who

worked in the homes of their masters gained their favor, and were able to advance socially by reporting suspicious slaves and or activity.[104] Hun (US and UK) 1) A derogatory term for Germans, especially German soldiers; popular during World War I.[105] Derived from a speech given by Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany to the German contingent sent to China during the Boxer Rebellion in which he exhorted them to "be like Huns" (i.e., savage and ruthless) to their Chinese enemy. 2) An offensive term for a Protestant in Northern Ireland or historically, a member of the British military in Ireland ("Britannia's huns").[106][107][108] Hymie (US) an offensive term for a Jewish person, derived from the personal name Hyman (from the Hebrew name Chayyim). Jesse Jackson provoked controversy by referring to NewYork City as "Hymietown" in 1984.[109] I Ikey / ike / iky a Jew [from Isaac][110] Ikey-mo / ikeymo a Jew [from Isaac and Moses][111] Indon an offensive term for Indonesian citizens and Indonesia in general. Used mostly in Malaysia and Singapore.[112] Injun an offensive term for a Native American, corrupted "Indian".[113]

J "Jungle bunny" redirects here. For literal rabbits living in a rainforest, see Sumatran Striped Rabbit. Jap (US, especially during World War II) a Japanese soldier or national, or anyone of Japanese descent. Also an acronym for Jewish-American Princess. Jerry (Commonwealth, especially during World War II) a. a German national. b. a German soldier [Probably an alteration of German].[114] Origin of Jerry can. Jigaboo, jiggabo, jigarooni, jijjiboo, zigabo, jig, jigg, jigga, jigger (US and UK) derogatory[115] term for a black person with stereotypical black features (e.g. dark skin, wide nose, and big lips).[116] Jiggaboo or jigabo is from a Bantu verb tshikabo, meaning meek or servile.[117] Jock, jocky, jockie (UK) a Scottish person, Scots language nickname for the personal name John, cognate to the English, Jack. Occasionally used by the English as an insult.[118] but also in respectful reference to elite Scottish, particularly Highland troops, e.g. the 9th (Scottish) Division. Same vein as the English insult for the French, as Frogs. (US) an athlete, derived from the jock strap athletic supporter. Sometimes used pejoratively, as in dumb jock (a reference to an athlete with minimal academic skills, a stereotypical belief being he was promoted

in school simply due to enhance a particular school athletic program) or pampered jock (a reference to an athlete getting preferential treatment due to his/ her athletic prowess and notoriety, where such treatment such as reduced punishment for criminal conduct would not be provided to a non-athlete similarly situated). Jungle bunny (US and UK) a black person.[119] K Kafr, kaffer, kafr, kar, kaffre, kuffar (South Africa) a. derogatory for a black person. b. also caffer or caffre: a nonMuslim. c. a member of a people inhabiting the Hindu Kush mountains of north-east Afghanistan. Origin is from the Arab word kar meaning indel used in the early Arab Zanzibarian trading posts on the Indian Ocean coast in Africa to refer to the non-Islamic black people living in the interior of Africa. The term is still used as a pejorative by some Muslims, particularly Islamists in such a context. The term passed into modern usage through the British because on early European maps Southern Africa was called by cartographers Cafreria (the name derived from the Arab word "kar") and later Kaffraria. Thus the British used the term "kafrs" to refer to the mixed groupings of people displaced by Shaka when he organized the Zulu nation.

These groups (consisting of Mzilikaze, Matiwani, Mantatisi, Flingoe, Khoikhoi, and Xhosa peoples inhabited the region from the Cape of Good Hope to the Limpopo river) fought the British in the Kafr Wars 1846 1848, 18501852, and 18771878.)[120][121] See also Kafr (Historical usage in southern Africa) Kano (Philippines) an abbreviation of "Amerikano", which is a Filipino term for an American. [122] Kike or kyke (US) a derogatory term for Ashkenazi Jews. From kikel,Yiddish for "circle". Immigrant Jews signed legal documents with an "O" (similar to an "X").[123] Kala the nonspecic racist slur of "kala" (Burmese: u ; MLCTS: ku. la:) is used against Muslim and Indian immigrants in Burma, especially when referring to Burmese Muslims. Keling a word used to describe people originating from the Indian subcontinent by native Malaysians and Indonesians - originally merely descriptive,it has come since the 1960s to be considered offensive by a majority of Indians[according to whom?] Kraut (from Sauerkraut) (North America and Commonwealth) Derogatory US and British term for a German,[124] most specically during World War II.

Kona Paluwa (Sri Lanka) an ethnic contumely for Muslims. L Limey (US) a British person. Comes from the historical British naval practice of giving sailors limes to stave off scurvy.[125] Lubra an Australian Aboriginal woman.[126] Lugan a Lithuanian.[127][128] M Macaca originally used by francophone colonialists in Central Africa's Belgian Congo to refer to the native population; use has expanded to other groups, including North Africans and Indians. Mack, Mick, Mickey, Mickey Finn a. (Britain, Commonwealth and US) an Irish person or a person of Irish descent. Mick is considered more offensive in the UK and US. From the prex "Mc"/"Mac" meaning "son of" that is commonly found in Irish surnames. b. (Australia) a Roman Catholic [19th century on, from Mchel].[129] Malaun (Bangladesh) A derogatory term used to refer to the Hindus. It is considered an ethnic slur.

Mallu used to call a person of Kerala (Indian) origin or the one who speaks Malayalam. Mat Salleh (slur) Mat Salleh kotek bengkok A derogatory Malay term used for Caucasians. Originally, it was used to mock English sailors, that is, as "mad sailors"" Even more insulting is the addition of the words "kotek bengkok", which means "bent penis". Mock / moch (US) a Jew [rst used in the 1960s as an abbreviated form of mocky (qv)][130] Mocky / moky / moxy / mockey / mockie / mocky (US) a Jew [rst used in the 1930s][131] Monday (US) A black person. Popularized by Russell Peters stand up at Def Jam.[132] Moulie / Moulignon Offensive word for a black person, used by Italians in US. It is a corruption of melanzane, the Italian word for eggplant. [133][unreliable source?][134][unreliable source?] Munt / Munter (among whites in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia) a black person. Derives from muntu, the singular Bantu word for "person"[135] In the UK, the word means "ugly person", especially "ugly woman".[136] [unreliable source?] Mustalainen (sing.)/Mustalaiset (pl.) derived from the Finnish word for "Black", it is a word for the Finnish Kale a group of the Romani people that lives primarily in

Finland and Sweden. It is nowadays sometimes considered an offensive term, and in common and ofcial context romani is considered more appropriate (see [2]). Muzzie / Mussie (Europe and US) A highly offensive[citation needed] slang term for a Muslim. Mzungu (Malawi and Eastern Zambia) "White person", not necessarily offensive.[137] N Niglet a term used to describe a young black person.[138] Nig-nog (UK) a black person.[139] note alternative original mildly derogatory meaning in the UK: "a novice; a foolish or naive person"[140] Nigger / Niger / nig / nigor / nigra / nigre (Caribbean) / nigar / niggor / niggur / nigga / niggah / niggar / nigguh / niggress / nigette (International) An American-English slur originally used to refer to black-skinned people, but developed a dual meaning in the late 20th century. Nip (US and UK) A derogatory term for someone of Japanese descent (shortened version of Nipponese, from Japanese name for Japan, Nippon)[141] Nitchie / neche / neechee / neejee / nichi / nichiwa / nidge / nitchee / nitchy

(CAN) a North American Indian [From the Algonquian word for "friend"].[142] Northern Monkey (UK) (See also Southern Fairy) used as a pejorative in the south of England, relating to the supposed stupidity and lack of sophistication of those in the north of the country.[143] In some cases this has been adopted in the north of England, with a pub in Leeds even taking the name 'The Northern Monkey'.[144] O Ocker (AUS and NZ) an uncultivated Australian. [145] Ofay (US) a white person, from Pig Latin for "foe." [31][146] Orange bastard (Scotland, (Northern) Ireland) used by Catholic Irish or Scottish Republicans for a presumed Protestant in Ireland or Great Britain, who is perceived to be a Unionist, i.e. supporting union of Northern Ireland with the United Kingdom. "Orange" refers to the Orange order, an order in Northern Ireland, playing a major role on the Unionist Protestant side in the Northern Ireland Conict (see Orangemen's Day), typically a supporter of the Glasgow football club Rangers FC (see Old Firm, Sectarianism in Glasgow). [3] [4]

Oreo (US) a racial slur for being black on the outside and white on the inside, hinted by the appearance of an Oreo cookie.[147] Compare Magic Middle. P Paddy (Primarily UK) an Irishman.[148] derived from a nickname for Pdraig. Often derogatory; however, Lord Edward FitzGerald, a major leader of the United Irishmen of 1798, proclaimed himself proudly "a Paddy and no more" and stated that "he desired no other title than this". Paki (United Kingdom) used as a derogatory term directed towards South Asians (and sometimes Middle Eastern people), it is usually considered offensive when used by a non-Asian in the UK.[149][150] Poppadom (United Kingdom) Used as a derogatory term directed towards South Asians (and sometimes Middle Eastern people). The term was most infamously used during a Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy. Pancake Face, Pancake an Asian person[151] Pepper or Pepsi (Canada) a French Canadian or Qubcois[152][153] Derived from the AngloCanadian jibe that their stereotypically bad dental hygiene was due to drinking Pepsi or

Dr Pepper for breakfast. Pickaninny a term generally considered derogatory that in English usage refers to black children, or a caricature of them which is widely considered racist. Pikey / piky / piker (Britain) derived from "turnpike". a. Irish Traveller, b. Gypsy, c. an itinerant or vagrant lower-class or poor person. Sometimes used to refer to an Irish person [19th century on].[154] Pindos (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus) Originally used by Russian troops as a disparaging term for an American soldier during Kosovo War. Currently is applied to any American. Pocho / pocha (Southwest US, Mexico) adjective: term for a person of Mexican heritage who is partially or fully assimilated into American culture (literally, "diluted, watered down (drink); undersized (clothing)").[155] (See also "Chicano") Polack (Primarily US) a Pole or a person of Polish origin,[156] from the Polish endonym, Polak (see Name of Poland). Note: the proper Swedish demonym for Polish people is polack[157] and the Norwegian equivalent is polakk.[158] Pom, Pohm, Pommy, Pommie, Pommie Grant (AUS/NZ/SA) a British (usually English) immigrant. Some claim it derives from "Prisoner of Mother England" or "Prisoner of Her Majesty", but it probably derives from

pomegranate, rhyming slang for "immigrant".[159] It is often used irreverently and is usually considered offensive. Many such migrants to Australia, such as Prime Minister Julia Gillard, call themselves "ten pound poms", because they paid ten pounds for their passage to Australia between 1945 and 1972 under an assisted migration scheme. Often combined with an adjective, particularly whingeing pom, a reference to migrants who complained about their adopted country. Often used in a sporting (especially cricket and rugby) context, with liberal use of 'pom' and 'Aussie' being used by the media; the term is often seen as unoffensive in this context, and instead as light-hearted banter by those who use it, but still possibly as offensive by those whom it is directed at[citation needed]. Porch monkey a black person[160] referring to perceived common behavior of groups hanging out on front porches or steps of urban apartment complexes in US cities. Prairie nigger a Native American[161] Peckerwood a slur that was used through the mid 20th century by southern African Americans and upper class whites used to describe poor rural whites. It is still used mostly by African Americans against White people.

Q Quashie a black person.[30] From the West African name Kwazi, often given to a child born on a Sunday[76] R Raghead an ethnic slur used against Arabs, Indian Sikhs and some other peoples, denigrating them for wearing traditional headdress such as turbans or kefyehs.[162] Sometimes used generically for all Islamic nations. See Towel head. Razakars a Bengali Pejorative akin to the western term Judas.[163] Redlegs in Barbados, the term is offensive to many, and refers to the islands' laborer-class whites. Redneck in the US, the term is offensive to many, and refers to Southern laborer-class whites.[164] Not to be confused with rooinek (literally "red-neck"), South African slang for an Anglo-African. Redskin a controversial term referring to Native Americans, used in the names of several sports teams in the US.[165] Roundeye (English-speaking Asians) a white or nonAsian person.[166]

Russki, Russkie disparaging when used by foreigners for "Russian"[167] (actually, these are transliterations of the Russian "" (in Russian pronounced: Rooskiy) for "Russian" and the spelling Russkiy is almost always in a literary context. "Russki" in Russian simply means someone who is an ethnic Russian as opposed to a minority nationality within the Russian Federation. Russophobe as a codeword for Jew, popularized in Russia by Igor Shafarevich, a leading gure in the Russian nationalist anti-Jewish movement. [168] S Sambo (US) a derogatory term for an African American, Black, or sometimes a South Asian person.[169] Sakkiliya (Sri Lanka) an ethnic contumely for Tamils. Sand nigger an ethnic slur used against Arabs and those thought to be Arabs.[170] Sawney (England, archaic) a Scottish person, local variant of Sandy, short for "Alasdair".[171] Seppo, Septic (Australian/British) An American. (Cockney rhyming slang: Septic tank Yank)[172] Schvartse

aYiddish term for someone of African descent.[173] Sheeny (US) a 19th-century derogatory term for an "untrustworthy Jew."[174] Shelta (Ireland) a pejorative term for the Travelling Folk. Derived from siilta, which means "The Walkers" in Irish. Shiksa (Yiddish) a pejorative term, mostly in North America, for a non-Jewish woman. Derived from the Hebrew root Shin-Qof-Tzadei ( ), meaning loathsome or abomination.[citation needed] Most commonly used to refer to a nonJewish woman who is dating or married to a Jewish man.[83] Shine a disparaging term for a black person originating from their working at shoe shine stands on urban streets or in bus and train station terminals.[175] Shkutzim (Yiddish) a pejorative term used by Jews against nonJewish men, especially those perceived to be anti-Semitic. The singular is sheigetz.[83] Sideways vagina/pussy/cooter Slur against Asian women, particularly Chinese women.[176] Skinny (US) A term for Somali militia ghters[177] Skip /Skippy (Aus) a person of Anglo-Australian decent, alluding to the name of a kangaroo in a once-popular Australian television show for children.[178]

Slant-eye, Slant a pejorative term for a person of Far Eastern origin (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese etc.) Derived from the term for those who have epicanthic folds[179] Slope, slopehead, slopy, slopey (US and Aus) a person of Asian (in Australia, especially Vietnamese; in America, especially Chinese) descent.[180] Smoked Irish / smoked Irishman (US) a 19th century term for Blacks (intended to insult both Blacks and Irish).[30] Snowback a Canadian working, studying, living, or immigrating illegally to the US or a Canadian spending the winter in the US. Also known as a frostback.[181] Sooty a black person [originated in the US in the 1950s][182] Spade a black person,[183] recorded since 1928 (OED), from the playing cards suit. Spearchucker A term used for an African American, or other person of African descent.[184] Spic, spick, spik, spig, or spigotty (US) a. a person of Hispanic descent, or a person of actual or presumed Puerto Rican origin whether or not of Hispanic descent. Use of the word is often perceived as extremely offensive if used by a person not of Latino descent in any context. Origin uncertain. First recorded use in 1915. Theories include from "no spik English" (and spiggoty from the Chicano no speak-o t'e

English), but common belief is that it is an abbreviation of "Hispanic" b. the Spanish language.[185] In the UK this term is more commonly used towards people of Italian/ Mediterranean descent rather than Hispanics. Spook a black person,[186] attested from the 1940s. [187] This particular slur plays a pivotal role in the novel The Human Stain and the lm based on it. Squarehead a Caucasian person, esp. German. The slur refers to either the stereotyped shape of their heads, or to the shape of the Stalhelm M1916 steel helmet [5], or to its owner's stubbornness (like a block of wood). Squaw (US and CAN) an often offensive term for female Native American.[188] Derived from lower East Coast Algonquian (Massachuset: ussqua),[189] which originally meant "young woman", but which took on strong negative connotations in the late 20th century. (The equivalent derisive for a male is "buck", and for a child, "papoose".) Squinty a disparaging term for a person of East Asian descent in reference to the appearance of the eyes, similar to "slant" [190] Sucker sh a term used ambiguously in southern Oregon directed towards the Klamath people during a dispute over the sucker sh of the Klamath River which was considered

sacred by the tribe. Troublemakers displayed bumper-stickers with the message "Save a Farmer, Fillet a sucker sh."[191] T Tan (Ireland) a British person, a derogatory term for British people, derived from the Black and Tans, the nickname for an auxiliary British Army unit deployed to Ireland in the 1920s and which gained a reputation for brutality. Taffy or Taff (UK) a Welsh person. First used ca. 17th century. From the River Taff or the Welsh pronunciation of the name David (in Welsh, Dafydd).[192] Children's rhyme: "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief". Generally considered offensive[citation needed] when used by an English person, although it has appeared in such family-friendly series as Dad's Army, where it was used as a lighthearted nickname. Taig (also Teague, Teg and Teig) a vitriolic slur used by loyalists in Northern Ireland for members of the nationalist/Catholic/Gaelic community. Derived the Irish name Tadhg, often mistransliterated as Timothy.[193][194][195] Tar baby (UK; US; and NZ) a black child.[196] Tschusch (Austria; Germany) A Serbian living in Austria or Germany. [197]

Teapot (British) A black person. [19th century][198] Teuchter (Southern Scotland) somebody from the north of Scotland or rural Scottish areas. Used as a derogatory term to cause offense. [199] Thicklips (UK) a black person.[30] Tigers (Kotiya) (Sri Lanka) a Tamil person..(Majority of People in Sri Lanka use this word against Tamils as an Offensive word because of the 30 years of Civil war.) Timber nigger an ethnic slur against Native Americans. [200] Tinker / tynekere / tinkere / tynkere, -are / tynker / tenker / tinkar / tyncar / tinkard / tynkard / tincker a. (Britain and Ireland) an inconsequential person (typically lower class); (note that in Britain, the term "Irish Tinker" may be used, giving it the same meaning as example b.) b. (Scotland and Ireland) a Gypsy [origin unknown possibly relating to one of the 'traditional' occupations of Gypsies as travelling 'tinkerers' or repairers of common household objects][201] c. (Scotland) a member of the native community previously itinerant (but mainly now settled) who were reputed for their production of domestic implements from basic materials and for repair of the same items, being also known in the past as "travelling tinsmiths". The slur is possibly

derived from a reputation for rowdy and alcoholic recreation. Often wrongly confused with Gypsy/Romany people. Towel head a religious/ethnic slur against people who wear a turban.[202] Touch of the tar brush (British) derogatory descriptive phrase for a person of predominantly Caucasian ancestry with real or suspected African or Asian distant ancestry.[203] Twinkie a. a pejorative used by most American Indians to refer to a European American, with little or no social or blood links to any tribe, who claims to be an American Indian (Native American).[204] b. also used to describe an Asian American who has become completely integrated into White American, or mainstream American culture, thus losing their traditional Asian values.[205] U Uncle Tom a pejorative for an American black person who is perceived as behaving in a subservient manner to white authority gures. "To Toms" is the equivalent pejorative slur by Hispanics in America towards Hispanics who are seen as accepting assimilation in to white society.[206]

W Wetback (US) a derogatory term for a Latino person. Originally applied specically to Mexican migrant workers who had crossed the Rio Grande border river illegally to nd work in the United States, its meaning has since broadened.[207] White boy (US) a derogatory term used by people of color to refer to white males regardless of age.[208] White Nigger / Wigger / Whigger / Wigga (US) used in 19th-century United States to describe the Irish. Sometimes used today in reference to white people in a manner similar to white trash or redneck.[209] Also used to describe white youth that imitate urban black youth by means of clothing style, mannerisms, and slang speech. The 'w' at the start of wigger refers to the white person and the 'igger' refers to nigger, which is a racial slur for black people. Also used by radical Qubcois in selfreference, as in the seminal 1968 book White Niggers of America. Whitey a term for a Caucasian, commonly used in a derogatory manner.[210] Wog (UK and Commonwealth) a generic term for any swarthy or dark-skinned foreigner. Possibly derived from "golliwogg"[211] In Britain, it usually refers to dark skinned people from Asia or Africa,

though any truly xenophobic Englishman knows that "the Wogs begin at Calais". Wog is also a backronym for Worthy Oriental Gentleman. In Australia the term "wog" is usually used to refer to Mediterranean Europeans (Spaniards, Italians, and Greeks) although it can be used for some Eastern Europeans, particularly those of the Balkans (Bosnians, Macedonians, Serbians, Croatians, or Albanians). Wop (North America and UK) a racial term for anyone of Italian descent, derived from the Italian dialectism, "guappo," close to "dude, swaggerer" and other informal appellations, a greeting among male Neapolitans.[212] Although this is the term's original origin, "wop" evolved into a racial slur against Italians and Italian Americans during the 20th century, with its most common use being a derogatory backronym for 'WithOut Papers'.[213] Y Yank,Yankee A term for Northerners used by Southerners within the United states or by non-Americans for Americans. From the Dutch Jan Kees ("John Cheese") meaning Englishman.[214] Yellow designating or pertaining to an Asian person, in reference to those who have a yellowish skin color.[215]

Yid disparaging term for a Jew, although it is an endonym amongYiddish-speaking Jews. Used in Britain to describe Tottenham Hotspur fans (often proudly by themselves, for example calling themselves "theYid Army"), which include a large Jewish supporting base from north-east London. [216] Z Zog Lover used by white nationalists to describe a person who they perceived as an Aryan who is subservient to the Jews ("Zog"=Zionist Occupation Government).[217] Zip, Zipperhead an Asian person. Used by American military personnel during the Korean War and Vietnam War. Also seen in the lms Platoon, Full Metal Jacket and Gran Torino.[218][219] [220] The phrase "zips in the wire" from Platoon has also been used outside of this context.

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37Yo mama's so fat that she's got smaller fat people orbiting around her The only one that made me laugh, Im probably gonna use it at some point xD Genious! BESTYO MAMMA JOKE EVER. I DON'T NORMALLY LAUGH A LOT, BUT THIS ONE CRACKED ME UP! I don't always laugh at yo mama jokes but this is awesome. Who ever made this is a genius laugh out loud

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The Top Ten 1George Carlin Friend of my mine introduced him to me couple of years ago. Since then, he's my favorite. Very observant and analytical to the bone. His material is educative and stimulates logical thinking. Worth watching again and again. I have to agree that Carlin is the best of the best... He not only jokes but he's serious about what he saying and makes perfect sense and what he says is fact.. This guy has to be the best stand-up comedian ever! I am not American, not even a native English speaker, but I read 2 of his books, and I Know all his specials! More comments about George CarlinListen to samples

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ReplyDelete KeeorpMarch 11, 2008 1:37 PM When my mother was going through menopause, and kept the heater turned off in the middle of January because SHE was too hot, my Dad and I started referring to her as "St. Nanook of the North." My husband had a salesman whom we called "Mr. Stupid", until my then preschoolaged daughter told us that "stupid" is a bad word, so we started calling him "Mr. S" instead. Now, neither one of us can remember his real name! I have a lot of nicknames for some of my more memorable students, but none that I can share publically. ReplyDelete AmyMarch 11, 2008 1:40 PM My dad: Snoop Daddy Dadd (he's nosey as all get out). My kid: Grumpy Grumperson (on the occasion he's in a bad mood). The unnamed person I work with: Slappy (has a spanking fetish). The gal at work that always leaves a mark in the toilet: Scar

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But wait until you get to the comments: Am I the only one here who would rather nail Linda Cohn than Erin Andrews? [Are you the only one here who gives a rat's ass whom you'd like to nail? I thought so.] This is exactly why she looked like a bimbo. If you want to be taken seriously you dress for the job. That dress is intended to be worn while going out to pick up men, not to be taken seriously as a journalist. When she interviewed Theriot post game, he couldnt even make eye contact with her. [If Theriot couldn't make eye contact with her, isn't that HIS problem rather than hers?] Butter-Face [Haha! No really! That's the whole comment! So original! So funny!] Jesus, bringing up Linda Cohn just completely killed my hard on. Shes all teeth. [Thanks for telling us about your penis. Is this the most action it has seen since the Cubs won the World Series?] Erin Andrews reminds me of the drunk chick at parties who overtly irts with every guy she can in the shortest amount of time except for me. Her whole act is just too forced, and she comes off like a fucking idiot sometimes. [Fixed that for you!] EA would get sideline interviews no matter what she wears, so why set yourself up for this kind of criticism by wearing something

thats obviously unnecessarily casual? [Why fall into the trap of criticizing a woman for the behavior of those who will criticize her?] as she bent over to shake Aramia Ramirez hand, she said: Good for youthese are gOoOoOoOod for youas she shakes her goods for Ram Ram [???] A well tailored pants suit doesnt look dowdy or dykey. [Token lesbian insult.] You know what would be awesome? Having sex with Erin Andrews. [You know what would be awesome? For you, I'd guess, having sex with another human. For me, it would be living in a world where assholes stop objectifying women like this.] She has to do more and be better than other journalists in order to attain credibility, otherwise there are people like me who say she got where she is because shes pretty. If she wants to be taken seriously as a journalist, then she needs to tone down the wardrobe. [Actually, I think the problem is "people like" you who say she got where she is because she's pretty. She's not responsible for your issues or judgment of her.] Id do her. Look, Erin Andrews isnt a journalist. Shes just the token bimbo that ESPN trots out there to ask softball questions during baseball games, so she dresses like one. And

she is an average-looking blonde. [Are you the token asshole?] if she wants to be taken seriously, she has to err on the side of dressing conservatively. [Really? According to you?You're too stupid to take a woman seriously because she dresses less conservatively than you think she should? How sad for you.]

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Back Pocket In A Shirt Someone or something that is generally useless or pointless. Thon apprentice af yours is about as much use as a back pocket in a shirt.

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Mon March 22, 2010 Leisure & Travel Top 10 PlacesYou Dont Want To Visit 301 Comments Share by Jamie Frater In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you dont want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it is quite enough. Feel free to mention any other contenders for the list in the comments. 10 Great Pacic Garbage Patch Pacic Ocean

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Published Saturday, October 13, 2012 A group of illegal Israeli settlers burnt down Palestinian olive trees belonging to residents of Qaryout village near the West Bank city of Nablus, the International Middle East Media Center reported Saturday. The settlers came from a nearby settlement shortly before sunrise, sprayed the trees with ammable liquids and set them ablaze before returning to the settlements. The incident is the latest in a string of attacks on the trees a vital source of income for the occupied population as the olives enter harvest season. Settlers chainsawed more than 120 olive trees belonging to 12 farmers in Qaryout earlier this week. On Friday, a Palestinian was injured after a group of settlers attacked a Palestinian family picking olives in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil. The settlers came from the Tal Romedia and Beit Hadassah illegal settlement outposts. At least three similar attacks have been carried out by settlers over the past three days.

Settlers and soldiers routinely destroy Palestinian olive orchards, often using tractors to uproot the trees. Attacks on olive orchards are most common at the start of harvest season in early Fall. Last week marked the rst week of the season. Last Saturday, Israeli soldiers red teargas at Palestinian farmers as they harvested their olives, forcing them to pull back and abandon the harvest. (IMEMC, Al-Akhbar)

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/ israeli-settlers-set-palestinian-orchardsablaze

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2012 email | print | Scores injured as rival protests clash over Morsi in Cairos Tahrir Square By Amina Ismail | McClatchy Newspapers CAIRO Thousands of protesters clashed violently with one another Friday in dueling demonstrations over the performance of Mohammed Morsi, Egypts rst democratically elected president, and the group he once led, the Muslim Brotherhood.

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234 comments waste of time and money. Commenterjustme Location Date and time October 15, 2012, 7:16AM With attitudes like this we would still be living in caves. Commentermayday Location sydney Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:15AM Not a waste of time and not a waste of money. Very well spent money productively *Grin* CommenterNot_A_Normal_Man Aka A cool stable somebody Location Sydney Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:25AM Yes. Heaven forbid we should try to extend ourselves and answer any more 'what if' questions. Let's just stop trying to learn anything new or do anything that hasn't been done before, it's a waste of time and money. CommenterHarvey K-Tel Location Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:28AM that is the greatest thing i've seen, sooo want to do it. please please please make it commercial CommenterDave Location Living Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:32AM I agree the money could have been spent on something more useful like cancer reasearch. How has this advanced the human race? Commenterozcurly1 Location Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:35AM That's not for you to decide. If Red Bull thought it was money well spent, and Baumgartner thought it was time well

spent, that's all that matters. Personally I think this is a wonderful achievement. It was once considered impossible to travel above 40mph without suffering brain damage so in a sense the men who proved this otherwise were dare devils of their time CommenterMick Location Melb Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:43AM Certainly not a waste of money. How sad to see the rst comment is ridiculing this amazing feat. If we did not keep pushing the boundaries, would we have ever been able to y or put a man on the moon? It is people like Felix that are pioneers like the Wright brothers. One day space travel will be a lot safer due to what Felix did today, and hopefully we won't have tragedies like the Columbia space shuttle disaster because they will have a bail out system. Great job Felix!!! CommenterH Location Shooting for the stars Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:43AM Yeah but it's their money - not yours, or mine. I'm sure some people consider some of your hobbies to be a waste of money too... CommenterBob Location Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:43AM Waste of money and time? You should watch the movie called "The Right Stuff" (1983). This move covers the breaking of the sound barrier by ChuckYeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts. The Space program (and hence forth the moon landing) only became possible because

daredevils like ChuckYeager continously pushed the limits of what was technically and humanly impossible at the time. Another question, where's your sense of adventure? "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." Commenteraf612 Location Date and time October 15, 2012, 8:44AM

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Headcam footage of Felix Baumgartner's jump. (youtube.com) submitted 11 hours ago by LikeCricket 1693 commentsshare top 200 commentsshow 500 sorted by: best []mintmarshall[] 2200 points 7 hours ago mirror mirror on the wall, who can link me to Baumgartners fall? permalink []no_talent_ass_clown 902 points 6 hours ago It's cute how Red Bull thinks they can keep the footage of this off the internet. So early 00's.

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Schavan is not the rst high-prole German politician to be accused of plagiarism. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was one of Germany's most popular politicians when allegations emerged in early 2011 that he had plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis. The University of Bayreuth subsequently stripped Guttenberg of his doctorate and he resigned as defence minister a few days later. In June of 2011, the University of Heidelberg withdrew the PhD of German member of the European Parliament, Silvana KochMehrin. She had resigned as vice president of the European Parliament after allegations of plagiarism rst came to light, but did not give up her seat in the assembly. pfd/ch (Reuters, dpa, AFP)

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The companys public promises to boost workers wages and improve conditions, issued after a spate of suicides widely reported in the international media two years ago, have proved nothing but a fraud. One worker at the Zhengzhou plant told China Labour Watch last month that wages are actually decreasing. In August, the Zhengzhou factory raised base pay for new workers to 1,800 yuan ($284) a month and for experienced workers to 2,000 yuan, but the actual wage is dependent on overtime hours worked and deductions made by management. Average monthly deductions include 420 yuan for meals, 110 yuan for accommodation, and 180 yuan for social insurance.

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Mr. Zhu who has only been working here less than a month is getting ready to quit. FOXCONN WORKER, MR. ZHU, SAID: "The managers talk down to us and the pressure on the assembly line is too high." But others we met here seem to appreciate the work. 26-year-old Mr. Wang. FOXCONN WORKER, MR. WANG, SAID: "The salary here is relatively higher. The base salary in Zhengzhou is 1350 yuan and here it's 1800. So the difference is obvious."

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Transsexual Prostitution Ring? Stop the Presses!October 9, 2012. 9:41 am Hmm . . . I wonder how many prostitutes are arrested every day around the world? Its so common that its not deemed to be newsworthy, even on a slow news day. So, why is it major news of the international variety when a transsexual prostitution ring is busted in Italy?Ya think it has anything to do with the exotic transsexual word? I mean, if it was just a prostitution ring, would it get any attention at all, even if the women involved were brought in from foreign countries (as they so often are)? Another excuse for the media to get the trans word in a headline, draw more clicks to their websites? Oh, by the way, many people feel prostitution should not be a crime . . . Just sayin . . . Jillian

http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/10/09/ transsexual-prostitution-ring-stop-thepresses/

Whats the difference? A night shift is not convenient for me as a mother. At night there are more clients. Even though the equation is that more clients means more money per shift, the work only ends just before dawn and can last 12 to 14 hours. That doesnt go well with motherhood. There is also a difference in the type of the clients. They are night types: partiers, potheads, men who arrive in groups, men who come to hunt. More drunks and junkies, more violence. The night clients are also not especially clean. And the daytime clients? Working men: high tech, doctors, businessmen, lawyers. A note of pride creeps into her voice. They are almost all married. They show me pictures of the wife and kids on the mobile. They are on the way to work or have popped out for a meeting or for lunch. They dont reek of alcohol, they are very clean and tidy, are more focused and short of time, she laughs. They are clients who know what they want and have to hurry back to the ofce.

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- Israels prostitution and sex trafcking industry brings in between $500,000,000$750,000,000 a year. - The average age of a woman who enters into prostitution in Israel is between 12-13.

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Today, Israel lives up to her name as an international hub of prostitution and white slavery in the Mideast.

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Because We Were Slaves: Israels Sex Trade Marina sits at a table in one of Jerusalems all night bar/cafs. Shes dressed stylishly, albeit a bit provocatively for Jerusalem. Its just past 5 a.m. on a Thursday night and Marina and her party seem to be having a good time. Theyre drinking and chain smoking Marlboros laughing and joking in Russian. They dont seem signicantly different from any of the other patrons at the impossibly busy bar. Marina has been in Israel for 3 months. A recent arrival from Novosibirsk via Moscow, shes 26 years old and has a degree in Physics.

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WORLD WIDE WHITE SLAVE TRADE CENTERED IN ISRAEL: Post BLACKLISTED Or Buried By GOOGLE [RE-POST] Modern Day Slavers Their God Granted Right?! APRIL 28, 2012 BY ADMIN LEAVE A COMMENT For some reason we cant nd this post Online anywhere? Under our name or under its posted title. It was ranking near the top of the listing at number 2 or 3 spot. Hmm. Maybe it will show up later In the mean time, here is a re-post. Its quite a good posting, actually. ISRAEL NOT SO COOL FACTS: Every American Should Know

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Who controls crime? Certainly not the police. Crime is nothing new but what is new is the concentration of criminal activity worldwide in the hands of one particular group. All Jewish fortunes have been based on crime of one sort or another dating back to before the Rothschilds right up to the present day. The Jewish businessman, Joseph Seligman, created the infamous "Black Friday"stock market crash in the late 1800s. In 1885 the French-based project to build the Panama Canal collapsed, once again Seligman was involved with a Paris-based Jewish nancier Jacques de Reinach. Leon Weiss was implicated in Huey Long's corrupt political machine in early 20th century. In 1908 according to the Jerusalem Post "Jews were 25 percent of the four million residents in NewYork City but 50% of the prison population." A number of modern "respectable" Jewish fortunes were founded on links to the underworld in the Prohibition era. The Seagram's alcohol fortune (Bronfman family) had a distribution deal for his liquor with mobster Meyer Lansky.

The Chicago-based Pritzker family also had links with organised crime. In 1999 the Daily Mail highlighted the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie , who lorded it over London's underworld through their networks of thugs and thieves, until their imprisonment in the 1960s. Israeli Nachum Ben David lists 91 cases of assassinations committed by Jews in Palestine/Israel from 1882 to 1988.Aside from Jewish gangster murders there are the assassinations carried out by Jews under the auspices of Russian communism. It was the Jews not the Italians who created what was later called the Maa. In the 1920s the Italians began to replace the Jews in the NewYork organised crime industry but as late as 1940 the Lepke Buchalter , also known as Murder Incorporated, still held a prominent position. The Jews were the rst ones to realise the link between organised crime and organised politics . They led the way in corrupting the police and city councils. They realised the value of gang syndicate cartels and were monopolists of the highest order. In London the Jews have always been involved in assorted criminal activities. They committed petty thievery, forgery and illegal distilling of liquor. Some went to Eastern Europe and convinced young girls

that jobs and bachelors awaited them in England, only to ship them off to Indian or Argentian white slave markets. The Jackson Vanick Law, a bill pushed heavily by the American Jewish lobby which allowed "Russian" immigrants ease of entry into the United States, presented a chance for the KGB to dump its hard core criminals into the United States. One of these, Marat Balagula, acted as a mob functionary for the KGB who set him up as head of the largest food co-op in the Ukraine. He became a major Jewish crime gure and acting in collusion with the Zionist agencies and the women's group, Hadassah, purchased a restaurant in Brooklyn, which became of real power in the area. This criminal operation was multi-national in scope. They had a eet of massive oil tankers. All owned by Jews loyal to the Mob. Balagula created a massive Maa empire leading from North Africa to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela to Brooklyn. They developed an infra structure within the oil trade that made them invincible. Yuri Brokhin was another Jewish mobster from the USSR. Both he and Balangula were able to transfer their wealth to America via Zionist and "charitable" Jewish organisations .

A major connection between American politics and the Jewish maa is the rabbi Ronald Greenwald who was a major player in the Richard Nixon campaign of 1972, and was given the post as adviser to Nixon on the "Jewish poverty" programme. Undoubtedly Nixon owed Greenwald. Greenwald was also instrumental in protecting Marc Rich, a billionaire Jewish investor with mob ties who was a major player in the Clinton administration While Jewish maa investors all but took over Las Vegas. George W. Bush's professed mentor, Natan Charansky, has long and deep ties to organised crime. The Congress, State Department and the CIA all have lengthy dossiers on Charansky who acted as a bridge between the Republican Party and Jewish thugs. Charansky, knowing his power, simply refused to sever ties with organised crime, infusing the Jewish Maa into the highest echelons of the Bush administration. Jewish Maa inuence plays a vital part in the price of oil whereby the Maa act as gobetween Mossad and the Arab oil-producing kingdom. On April 28th 2002 a military helicopter went down in the southern part of the

Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. On board was a major Russian dignitary General Alexander Lebed, governor of the region. Lebed was pronounced dead at the scene. Almost immediately the international (Jewish) press blamed "heavy fog". However every member of the Russian military knew that the death of Lebed was no accident but another hit by the international Jewish maa, an organisation that has taken control over much of Russia's economy. The fact that the Jewish Maa, often misnamed the "Russian" Maa, was capable of completely covering its tracks while everyone (in Russia) was convinced of their complicity, is proof of its power. This Maa is without exception Jewish. The unique situation in the former USSR and the fact that Jews predominated in the Soviet bureaucracy provides the clue to the rise of the Jewish Maa. The king-pin in this morass is a Ukrainian Jew, born in 1946, named Semion Mogilevich who trafcs in nuclear materials, drugs, precious gems and stolen art and controls everything that goes on in Moscow's International airport. He bought a bankrupt airline in a former Asian Sovietic Republic for millions of

dollars in cash so that he could haul heroin out of the " golden triangle". His rst operations were based in Israel where he eeced Jewish refugees from Russia. He then acquired Hungarian citizenship. He controls the brothels in Israel, where Ukrainian and Russian girls are forced into slavery. This is legal in Israel if the girls are non-Jews. Mogilevich controls the vodka trade in Russia and Central Europe, but despite all this his name is little known and never appears on any report in the Press or television in Israel, the Ukraine or the United States. Proof of the power of the Zionist controlled media and their relentless drive to suppress all investigation into Jewish crime. He has created a massive global communications network and employs hundreds to run his nancial empire. He has penetrated every stock exchange and controls much of the trading therein. He was also the mastermind of the largest money laundering scheme in US history, washing 7 billion dollars through the Bank of NewYork, which is a major branch of the Federal Reserve and his bank of choice. He controls the military equipment being manufactured in Hungary. He has his own army, mechanised infantry, etc. NATO has

said that he is a threat to the stability of Europe although his name still remains little known. He has agents in the intelligence agencies of all European countries, which means he may never be prosecuted. German television reported that the German Intelligence Service, the BND, had entered into secret negotiations with Mogilevich, whereby the latter would supply information on his rivals in Russia. He has a similar arrangement with French Intelligence. He has close connections with Mossad which destroyed his criminal le, which means he is immune from prosecution and travels freely. He controls the black market from Central Europe to Russia. He has a Rockefeller connection. His main economic adviser, Igor Fisherman, was a consultant to Chase Manhattan. The state of Israel is a major factor in the rise in power of the Jewish Maa, Jewish drug dealers, child porn pushers and slave traders. The CIA has commented that there is no major "Russian" Mob gure that does not carry an Israeli passport but the Israeli state refuses to take any action against the gangsters. The power of the Jewish gangs is wielded more ruthlessly than any other criminal gang. All of whom are free from prosecution in Israel. Israel does not consider these to be crimes so long as the

victims are non-Jews and the Israeli state will not extradite its citizens to non-Jewish countries.

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ZIOYID RESISTANCE!

Jew awareness

educational blog. Reality as you know it is based on monumental LIES. Anti-Semitic is code word for Truth Teller. ANTI-RACIST IS CODE WORD FOR ANTI-WHITE.

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In the course of these exercises you will get to know the provisions of these documents and the mechanisms developed to ensure their realisation. Main part 2. Show the participants part of the lm, "The UN System of Human Rights Protection" beginning with the scene showing students in the corridor preparing for an exam. Stop at the end of the conversation between the narrator and Marek Nowicki of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. (Fast forward the cassette to this scene ahead of time) If the participants have already seen the lm, they should now watch this segment for the purpose of reviewing the names of the various treaties and specialised conventions. Furthermore, the rst part of Marek Nowicki's monologue is directly related to these lessons. Therefore it is best to ask them ahead of time to pay close attention to what Marek Nowicki is saying.

http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/ monitoring/HFHR/8-UN-Refugee.html

"[Solomon] was involved in Jewish community affairs, being a member of Mikveh Israel Congregation in Philadelphia, and in 1782 made the largest individual contribution towards the construction of its main building. In 1783 Haym Solomon and other prominent Jews appealed to the Pennsylvania Council of Censors urging them to remove the religious test oath required for ofce-holding under the State Constitution. In 1784, he answered Anti-Semitic slander in the press by stating: "I am a Jew; it is my own nation; I do not despair that we shall obtain every other privilege that we aspire to enjoy along with our fellow-citizens."

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UDHR REPRESENT THE FIRST GLOBAL EXPRESSION OF RIGHTS TO WHICH ALL HUMAN BEINGS ARE ESSENTIALLY ENTIITLED Editor posted this in Blog, Human Rights, Opinion on September 27th, 2012 By Bankole Clifford Ekundayo Morgan Distinguished readers, in this write up, I would like to share with you a very important and internationally widely recognized document that has laid the foundation for international, regional and national human rights framework. This document is known as Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR has been described as the rst global expression of rights to which all human beings are essentially entitled. UDHR is a document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the 10th December, 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The UDHR came about through the experience got by warring factions from the Second World War. During the rst and second world wars, there was no respect for human dignity and all the war factions came to the realization that they had lost infrastructural developments, lost lives and properties and subjected people to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments or punishments. So

the UDHR symbolize the rst global expression of rights to which all human beings are essentially entitled. It consists of 30 articles which have been highly structured in subsequent international treaties, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions and laws. WHICH DOCUMENT(s) CONSISTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS? Distinguished readers, generally, International Bill of Human Rights consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its two Optional Protocols. In 1966, the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights; and in 1976, after the Covenants had been ratied by a sufcient number of individual nations, the Bill took on the force of international law. 10th DECEMBER OF EACHYEAR IS A SIGNIFICANT INTERNATIONAL COMMEMORATION DAY OF HUMAN RIGHTS The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly on 10th December 1948 by a vote of 48 in favour, 0 against. The adoption of the Universal Declaration on 10th December 1948 is a

signicant international commemoration marked each year on 10th December and is known as International Human Rights Day. The commemoration is observed internationally by National Human Rights Institutions, schools, individuals, religious groups, Civil Society Organizations and the United Nations. In Sierra Leone, the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone in collaboration with UNIPSIL and the Civil Society Organizations observe this day by having a unied nation wide celebration. FOUR FREEDOMS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLLY, FREEDOM FROM FEAR AND FREEDOM FROM WANT WAS THE BASIC WAR AIMS OF THE ALLIES. Distinguished readers, during the Second World War the allies adopted the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom from fear and freedom from want, as their basic war aims. The United Nations Charter reafrmed faith in fundamental human rights, and dignity and worth of the human person and committed all member states to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. WHAT ARE HUMAN RIGHTS? Human Rights could be dened as the fundamental rights of a person that

should be protected by law, and guaranteed by the state. A right is an entitlement, and when we talk about human rights we mean those rights that belong to every individual- (Man or Woman, Girl or Boy, Infant or Elder) simply because he/she is a human being. Human Rights consist of the basic standards without which people cannot enjoy/realize their inherent dignity. This in essence could be interpreted as the foundation of Freedom, Justice and Peace. CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Human rights also have its characteristics which amongst others are: Universal Inherent Interdependent Inalienable Indivisible Interrelated Universal: Human Rights are universal because they belong to every human being whether black or white, man or woman. Inherent: Human Rights are said to be inherent because it is a birth right of every human being.

Inter-dependent: Human Rights are Interdependent, which means all rights support each other. Inalienable: Human Rights are inalienable because you cannot lose those rights as long as you are a human being and without a valid legal reason. Indivisible: Human Rights are indivisible because all human rights are equally important.You cannot be denied a right because some one decides that it is less important or non-essential. All rights stand together. Inter-related: Human Rights are interrelated, which implies each gives meaning to the other. For instance, the right to life, right to health and freedom of movement cannot be enjoyed without the right to food and the right to security of persons. In short, Rights complement each other. Precious readers, there is one area which most human rights defenders fail to project, that is the responsibility aspect of human rights. Human Rights go along side responsibilities. For instance all those who have reached the voting age (18yrs and above) have the inherent right to register and to vote in a national election. Their corresponding responsibilities are to ensure that they do not involve in double voting or any aspect of election related violence. Also

all registered political parties have the legal right to fully function as political parties. These political parties also have the corresponding responsibilities to rst, abide by the electoral laws , secondly, abstain from rigging elections and creating elections related violence, thirdly, win elections on the popular will of the people but not by inuencing Elections Management Bodies (EMBs). Also, NEC has the legal right to conduct all public elections, but also has the corresponding responsibility to conduct all public elections within the legal frame work, and desist from all forms of elections malpractices. As a matter of responsibility we must continue to impress on the minds of all EMBs that fair elections means we have honest balloting and counting administered without fraud or manipulation. Sierra Leoneans, lets put the interest of Mama Salone above every other interest. In what ever we do we must remember that this is the only land that God has blessed us with. We must not allow party interest and or greedy politicians to use us as tool to destroy this beautiful land that has the potential to compete with Ghana, Nigeria and other developing countries in Africa, if only we elect the right person. Heavenly Father, into your hands I commit 17th November, 2012 and the entire electioneering process. Lord, not the will of greedy politicians neither our wills, but your will oh Lord, be done in the forth

coming elections, this I ask in your name, Amen. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, my presentation will go without a ceiling if I fail to make mention of the three levels of State obligations. In the respect for the promotion and protection of human rights states have three levels of obligation in relation to human rights: the obligations to respect, to protect and to fulll. When we talk about respect we mean regard for human rights which means state by signing human right document(s) must at all cost have regards for these signed documents. To protect we mean setting up institution like Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone to jealously guard human rights. To fulll we mean to take afrmative steps to ensure that international and regional human rights instruments signed, domesticated and becomes law. Precious readers, as I conclude I want to take this opportunity to congratulate all representatives of the various political parties and other institutions who would be travelling to Belgium for the matching exercise. I hope they would go there as a team and put the interest of Mama Salone above every other interest. I also hope that they facilitators will use the human rights based approach in every stage of the exercise. Bravo to NEC, UNDP and other stakeholders who are working hard to see

that the entire electioneering process is trustworthy and free from all forms of elections manipulations and violence. Editor s Note: Bankole Clifford Ekundayo Morgan has been a promoter and protector of human rights for a long time now.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOW TO AVOID HAVINGYOUR POST VANISH: ATTENTION NEWCOMERS admin July 24 This site and our efforts are so controversial that it has evoked the rage of the "elite" and subsequent government, and we face censorship all the time. To get through having a post be deleted (we almost always discuss this before killing something, and rarely delete) TYPE WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY IN NOTEPAD, AND SAVE IT TO YOUR LOCAL MACHINE. THEN, COPY/PASTE INTO THE FORUM. IFYOUR POST GETS KILLED OR NEVER SHOWS UP AND NO EXPLANATION IS GIVEN, REPOST IT WITH A SIMPLE COPY PASTE. KEEP DOING IT UNTIL IT STICKS. We have had some REALLY GOOD POSTS vanish here, against our will, and this is one way to resist that. If you post a new thread and it gets deleted or there is any delay in it appearing (posts here are NOT pre moderated), please inform Admin and others through the forum messaging system, (repeatedly, until you get a response). They - the self proclaimed "elite" have gotten access to this server, and are deleting posts from new members to discourage new members and make them want to leave. This is to prevent this community from growing.

And they can vanish those posts without a trace. I can't go back into the system and nd the record of the delete. We are not anal here, and this site is not censored by us. If your post is ridiculous in our eyes, other forum members will tell you why, legitimate deletes here are very rare occurrences. Please be patient while we try to acquire a new server that is actually secure. At one time this server was being left alone for the most part, but in the last 6 months or so it has really been hell. James.

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"The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts." Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b "The Akum (non-Jew) is like a dog.Yes, the scripture teaches to honour the the dog more than the non-Jew." Ereget Raschi Erod. 22 30 "Even though God created the non-Jew they are still animals in human form. It is not becoming for a Jew to be served by an animal. Therefore he will be served by animals in human form." Midrasch Talpioth, p. 255, Warsaw 1855 "A pregnant non-Jew is no better than a pregnant animal." Coschen hamischpat 405 "The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs." Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b "Although the non-Jew has the same body structure as the Jew, they compare with the Jew like a monkey to a human." Schene luchoth haberith, p. 250 b "If you eat with a Gentile, it is the same as eating with a dog." Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b "If a Jew has a non-Jewish servant or maid who dies, one should not express sympathy to

the Jew.You should tell the Jew: "God will replace 'your loss', just as if one of his oxen or asses had died"." Jore dea 377, 1 "Sexual intercourse between Gentiles is like intercourse between animals." Talmud Sanhedrin 74b "It is permitted to take the body and the life of a Gentile." Sepher ikkarim III c 25 "It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah." Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425. 5 "A heretic Gentile you may kill outright with your own hands." Talmud, Abodah Zara, 4b "Every Jew, who spills the blood of the godless (non-Jews), is doing the same as making a sacrice to God." Talmud: Bammidber raba c 21 & Jalkut 772 How does a Jew prepare for his crime? Moed Kattan 17a . If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there. Hitting a Jew is the same as hitting God

Sanhedrin 58b. If a heathen (gentile) hits a Jew, the gentile must be killed.

O.K. to Cheat Non-Jews Sanhedrin 57a . A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work. Jews Have Superior Legal Status Baba Kamma 37b. "If an ox of an Israelite gores an ox of a Canaanite there is no liability; but if an ox of a Canaanite gores an ox of an Israelite...the payment is to be in full." Jews May Steal from Non-Jews Baba Mezia 24a . If a Jew nds an object lost by a gentile ("heathen") it does not have to be returned. (Afrmed also in Baba Kamma 113b). Sanhedrin 76a. God will not spare a Jew who "marries his daughter to an old man or takes a wife for his infant son or returns a lost article to a Cuthean..." Jews May Rob and Kill Non-Jews Sanhedrin 57a . When a Jew murders a gentile ("Cuthean"), there will be no death

penalty. What a Jew steals from a gentile he may keep. Baba Kamma 37b. The gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has "exposed their money to Israel." Jews May Lie to Non-Jews Baba Kamma 113a. Jews may use lies ("subterfuges") to circumvent a Gentile. Non-Jewish Children are Sub-Human Yebamoth 98a. All gentile children are animals. Abodah Zarah 36b. Gentile girls are in a state of niddah (lth) from birth. Abodah Zarah 22a-22b . Gentiles prefer sex with cows. Insults Against Blessed Mary Sanhedrin 106a . Says Mary was a whore: "She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the harlot with carpenters." Also in footnote #2 to Shabbath 104b of the Soncino edition, it is stated that in the "uncensored" text of the Talmud it is written that Jesus mother, "Miriam the hairdresser," had sex with many men.

Horrible Blasphemy Against Jesus Christ Gittin 57a. Says Jesus is being boiled in "hot excrement." Sanhedrin 43a. Jesus deserved execution: "On the eve of the Passover,Yeshu (Jesus) was hanged...Do you suppose that he was one for whom a defense could be made? Was he not a Mesith (enticer)?"

Talmud Attacks Non jews beliefs Rosh Hashanah 17a. Christians (minnim) and others who reject the Talmud will go to hell and be punished there for all generations. Shabbath 116a. Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament. Dr. Israel Shahak of Hebrew University reports that the Israelis burned hundreds of New Testament Bibles in occupied Palestine on March 23, 1980 (cf. Jewish History, Jewish Religion, p. 21). Sick and Insane Teachings of the Talmud Yebamoth 63a. States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden.

Yebamoth 63a. Declares that agriculture is the lowest of occupations. Sanhedrin 55b. A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specically, three years "and a day" old). Sanhedrin 54b. A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old. Kethuboth 11b. "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing." Yebamoth 59b. A woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a Jewish priest. A woman who has sex with a demon is also eligible to marry a Jewish priest. Abodah Zarah 17a. States that there is not a whore in the world that the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with. Hagigah 27a. States that no rabbi can ever go to hell. Baba Mezia 59b. A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God admits the rabbi won the debate. Pesahim 111a. It is forbidden for dogs, women or palm trees to pass between two men, nor may others walk between dogs, women or palm trees. Special dangers are involved if

the women are menstruating or sitting at a crossroads. Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me a gentile, a woman or a slave.

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"Even if you've paid into the system for 35, 40 or 45 years and even if you have a qualied job and a regular salary, you may still not receive a pension above the poverty line," Labour Minister Ursula Von der Leyen told parliament last week. Economic experts at the Hans Boeckler Foundation think tank calculate that an employee earning around 2,000 euros ($2,600) per month will need to work 43.5 years to receive the minimum monthly pension of 700 euros in Germany.

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The Schlecker family recorded the greatest loss (1.92 billion) due to the bankruptcy of the Schlecker drug store chain. Retaining assets of almost 40 million, however, it is anything but poor.

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some of the risks with food additives Most of the packaged food found in conventional supermarkets is highly processed and contains a multitude of food additives. These additives are frequently used in conventional foods to improve colouring, taste, texture, smell and appearance. Additives are also used to stabilise product processing and to extend shelf-life. However, food additives, colourings and preservatives may cause a range of health problems in people, particularly children because they ingest more food per unit of body weight than adults, so exposure is greater in proportion to their size. Indeed, the intolerance of some consumers in general to food additives appears to be rising. Increasingly, researchers are questioning the safe use of articial additives, especially the mostly unknown effects of how chemicals interact with each other. According to the Soil Association in the UK, tartrazine (the yellow food colouring E102) and other additives have been linked to allergic reactions, headaches, asthma, growth retardation and hyperactivity in kids. In the US, the Agency for Toxic Substances has warned that children with asthma or other respiratory problems may suffer asthma attacks or breathing

difculties if they eat foods preserved with sulphur dioxide or other sulphur-based preservatives.

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Dangers of Food Additives and Preservatives Many foods available in the market contain different types of additives and preservatives. These chemicals can give rise to certain health problems. Here is some useful information about the dangers of food additives and preservative and how to minimize the risk. When we need to store any food for a longer time, it should be properly processed. During this processing, some substances and chemicals, known as additives, are added to the food. Additives consistently maintain the high quality of foods. In addition, we also need to add some preservatives in order to prevent the food from spoiling. Direct additives are intentionally added to foods for a particular purpose. Indirect additives are added to the food during its processing, packaging and storage. Food Preservatives are the additives that are used to inhibit the growth of bacteria, molds and yeasts in the food. Some of the additives are manufactured from the natural sources such as corn, beet and soybean, while some are articial, man-made additives. Commonly Used Food Additives and Preservatives Nowadays, most people tend to eat the ready-made food available in the market, rather than preparing it at home. Such foods contain some kind of preservatives, so that their quality and avor is

maintained and they are not spoiled by bacteria and yeasts. More than 3000 additives as well as preservatives are available in the market, which are used as antioxidants and anti-microbial agents. Salt and sugar the most commonly used additives. Some of the most commonly used food additives and preservatives are aluminum silicate, amino acid compounds, ammonium carbonates, sodium nitrate, propyl gallate, butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), monosodium glutamate, white sugar, potassium bromate, potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, etc. Some articial colors are also added to the foods to give them an appealing look. These coloring substances are erythrosine (red), canthaxanthin (orange), amaranth (Azoic red), tartrazine (Azoic yellow) and annatto bixine (yellow orange). Uses When the food is to be stored for a prolonged period, use of preservatives is essential in order to maintain its quality and avor. The excess water in the foods can cause the growth of bacteria, fungi and yeasts. Use of additives and preservatives prevents spoiling of the foods due to the growth of bacteria and fungi. They maintain the quality and consistency of the foods. They also maintain palatability and wholesomeness of the food, improve or maintain its nutritional value,

control appropriate pH, provide leavening and color, and enhance its avor. Additives are classied as antimicrobial agents, antioxidants, articial colors, articial avors and avor enhancers, chelating agents and thickening and stabilizing agents. Antimicrobial agents such as salt, vinegar, sorbic acid and calcium propionate are used in the products such as salad dressings, baked goods, margarine, cheese and pickled foods. Antioxidants including vitamin C, E, BHT and BHA are used in the foods containing high fats. Chelating agents such as malic acid, citric acid and tartaric acid are used to prevent the avor changes, discoloration and rancidity of the foods. Dangers and Side Effects Although these additives are essential for food storage, they can give rise to certain health problems. They can cause different allergies and conditions such as hyperactivity and Attention Decit Disorder in some people who are sensitive to specic chemicals. The foods containing additives can cause asthma, hay fever and certain reactions such as rashes, vomiting, headache, tight chest, hives and worsening of eczema.

Some of the known dangers of food additives and preservatives are as follows: Benzoates can trigger the allergies such as skin rashes and asthma as well as believed to be causing brain damage. Bromates destroy the nutrients in the foods. It can give rise to nausea and diarrhea. Butylates are responsible for high blood cholesterol levels as well as impaired liver and kidney function. Caffeine is a colorant and avorant that has diuretic, stimulant properties. It can cause nervousness, heart palpitations and occasionally heart defects. Saccharin causes toxic reactions and allergic response, affecting skin, gastrointestinal tract and heart. It may also cause tumors and bladder cancer. Red Dye 40 is suspected to cause certain birth defects and possibly cancer. Mono and di-glycerides can cause birth defects, genetic changes and cancer. Caramel is a famous avoring and coloring agent that can cause vitamin B6 deciencies. It can cause certain genetic defects and even cancer.

Sodium chloride can lead to high blood pressure, kidney failure, stroke and heart attack. To minimize the risk of developing health problems, you should avoid the foods containing additives and preservatives. Before purchasing the canned food, you must check its ingredients.You should buy organic foods, which are free from articial additives. Try to eat the freshly prepared foods as much as possible rather than processed or canned foods.

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Vegetables, fruits, and whole grains should form the central part of a person's diet, regardless of whether they are grown conventionally or organically.

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How Food Additives Affect Our Health by Eve V. Allen, Ph.D., N.D.c Director of Circle Of Health Wellness Center Have you ever wondered how a can of corn or green beans can sit on your shelf in the cupboard for a year and still be good to eat? There are a few things to consider the next time you open a canned good. Let's explore why chemicals are added to our food. Originally, foods were grown and eaten directly from a relatively unpolluted Earth. Wild foods were sought and gathered. Cleaner oceans, lakes and rivers fed us nutritious sh. Wild animals provided protein foods to hunters and their families. As the population multiplied, the world expanded, farming progressed, trade developed, and markets shared a variety of goods. Techniques for food preparation and preservation, such as pickling, salting, and smoking, were developed to deal with the new problems of storage, waste, and foodborne illnesses. With advanced technology, our modern food industry relies on processing and additives. Are we sacricing our health for the sake of technological "advances"? For decades now, the food industry has continually created new chemicals to manipulate, preserve, and transform our food. With the use of chemicals, scientists

are able to mimic natural avors, color foods to make them look more "natural" or "fresh," preserve foods for longer and longer periods of time, and create altered versions of breads, crackers, fruits, vegetables, meats, dairy products and many more commonly used foods. Some of the "foods" that are made entirely from chemicals are coffee creamers, sugar substitutes, and candies consist almost completely of articial ingredients. Such manipulation of our food can have a profound effect on our body's unique biochemical balance. The food industry says there is method to their madness and provide ve main reasons why chemicals must be added to our foods: 1. To improve shelf life or storage time. 2. To make food convenient and easy to prepare. 3. To increase the nutritional value. 4. To improve the avor of foods. 5. To enhance the attractiveness of food products and improve consumer acceptance. Let's look at the key additives that may affect your health. Some of the immediate effects of chemicals and additives in your food may cause headaches or alter your

energy level, or they may affect your mental concentration, behavior, or immune response. Those with long-term effects could increase your risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other degenerative conditions. Avoiding additives in your diet is an important step toward enhancing your health and lowering your risk of disease. Begin by avoiding the most questionable additives, no longer consuming them on a regular basis. Although it may seem difcult to change habits and nd substitutes for foods you enjoy, remind yourself that you will be adding to your diet some wholesome new avors and foods that you may come to like even more. 12 Additives to Avoid and Their Health Risks 1. Hydrogenated Fats - cardiovascular disease, obesity 2. Articial Food Colors - allergies, asthma, hyperactivity; possible carcinogen 3. Nitrites and Nitrates - these substances can develop into nitrosamines in body, which can be carcinogenic 4. Sultes (sulfur dioxide, metabisultes, and others)-allergic and asthmatic reactions

5. Sugar and Sweeteners - obesity, dental cavities, diabetes and hypoglycemia, increased triglycerides (blood fats) or candida (yeast) 6. Articial Sweeteners (Aspartame, Acesulfame K and Saccharin)-behavioral problems, hyperactivity, allergies, and possibly carcinogenic. The government cautions against the use of any articial sweetener by children and pregnant women. Anyone with PKU (phenylketonuriaa problem of phenylalanine, an amino acid, metabolism) should not use aspartame (Nutrasweet). 7. MSG (monosodium glutamate) - common allergic and behavioral reactions, including headaches, dizziness, chest pains, depression and mood swings; also a possible neurotoxin 8. Preservatives (BHA, BHT, EDTA, etc.) allergic reactions, hyperactivity, possibly cancer-causing; BHT may be toxic to the nervous system and the liver 9. Articial Flavors - allergic or behavioral reactions 10. Rened Flour - low-nutrient calories, carbohydrate imbalances, altered insulin production 11. Salt (excessive) - uid retention and blood pressure increases

12. Olestra (an articial fat) - diarrhea and digestive disturbances Other Concerns: Food Waxes (protective coating of produce, as in cucumbers, peppers, and apples)-may trigger allergies, can contain pesticides, fungicide sprays or animal byproducts. Plastic packaging - Carcinogenic (vinyl chloride); immune reactions, lung shock Healthy Tips The rst step is to sharpen your awareness about what you're currently eating. Wash all of your fruits and vegetables before consumption. Buy organic whenever possible - it's more expensive, but you're worth it! Find a Farmer's Market or Health Food store in your area. Fresh foods are always the rst and best choice, then frozen, canned foods as last resort. If you must buy canned foods, consider the ones with the lowest sodium content. Make a conscious decision to either cut down on or cut out altogether foods with additives that may be hazardous to your health.

Here is a sensible rule to start with: If there are special treats that you just can't imagine living without, have them only on occasion. Changing routines for shopping and eating isn't something you can easily do overnight. Be determined! Make the changes one step at a time. Avoidance and discernment are crucial steps in your natural health care program. With God, All things are possible! Let's commit to feed our families safely.

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Is It Necessary to Give Up All Processed Foods and Food Additives? When you begin to realize the health risks associated with processed foods and food additives, it makes good sense to start eating less of them. But this doesnt mean you need to take an alarmist approach. Here is a sensible rule to start with: If there are special treats that you just cant imagine living without, have them only on occasion. But be aware of what those special treats contain. Think about the possible wholesome alternatives that might taste just as good and which dont put your health at risk. Also, consider changing your consumer habits. Are there farmers markets in your area where you could shop frequently? Is there a natural foods market with organic produce nearby that youve never bothered to check out? Changing your shopping and eating routines isnt something you can easily do overnight. The rst step is to sharpen your awareness about what youre currently eating. Then you can take steps to make the changes you desire.

Dr. Elson M. Haas, MD is the Director of Preventive Medical Center, an integrated health care facility located in San Rafael, California. Books he has authored are The Detox Diet, Staying Healthy With Nutrition, and the new Staying Healthy Shopper s Guide: FeedYour Family Safely.

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What are the health issues associated with food additives? In recent years there has been considerable research linking some food additives to health issues including allergies, digestive complaints and behavioural issues including Attention Decit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). An important step in avoiding some of the health issues associated with food additives is to understand the effects that some of these chemicals can have on our bodies. Sulphites Sulphur dioxide and other sulphites are used in a wide variety of foods as preserving agents. They can be identied as E220, E221, E222, E223, E224, E226, E227 and E228 on food ingredient panels. Sulphur dioxide is a naturally occurring product of beer and wine production but is often added to bottled wine to stop fermentation within the bottle. Some asthma suffers are known to have had attacks brought on by sulphur dioxide. Sulphite food additives are frequently used in dried fruits, cordials, juices and processed meats. Benzoates The benzoates are another class of food additives which are used to stop yeasts and moulds from growing. They include benzoic acid E210 and other benzoates E211, E212, E213, E214, E215, E216, E217, E218 and E219. The benzoates have been associated with

worsening of the symptoms of asthma and eczema. Benzoates are often used in soft drinks, cordials and medicines. Tartrazine Tartrazine is used as yellow food colouring in soft drinks, lollies and sauces. Tartrazine is shown on food ingredient panels as E102 and has been linked to medical conditions including urticaria (nettle rash), rhinitis (runny nose), skin allergies including dermatitis and asthma. Food Colourings There are well documented and scientically proven links between food colourings and Attention Decit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In particular the following food additives have been shown to worsen the condition and should be avoided by all ADHD suffers. - Sunset yellow E110 - Quinoline yellow E104 - Caramoisine E122 - Allura red E129 - Tartrazine (yellow) E102 - Ponceau 4R E124 In Europe any food or drink containing any of these six colouring agents must contain a warning that it 'may have an adverse affect on activity and attention in children'.

Nitrates Nitrates (E249, E250, E251, E252) are a class of food additives used to preserve the colour and taste of many foods especially cured meats. Nitrates are harmless but can be converted to nitrites which are powerful cancer causing agents during digestion. If you consume foods containing nitrates then one good method of minimising the digestive conversion of nitrates to nitrites is to consume foods high in vitamin C at the same time. Vitamin C has been shown to inhibit nitrate to nitrate conversion. (Always have a glass of orange juice with your bacon in the morning!) Propionates Calcium propionate (E282) is a food additive used to inhibit the growth of mould on bread. Calcium propionate and the other propionates (E280 - E283) are naturally occurring in many dairy products like swiss cheese. The effects of the propionates are cumulative and build up over a period of weeks or months and can lead to a range of health issues and symptoms including migraine and headaches, gastro-intestinal symptoms including stomach aches, irritable bowel and diarrhoea, urinary urgency, bedwetting, eczema and other itchy skin rashes, nasal congestion (stuffy or runny nose), depression, unexplained tiredness, impairment of memory and concentration, speech delay, tachycardia (fast heart beat), growing pains, loud voice (no volume control), irritability,

restlessness, inattention, difculty settling to sleep, night waking and night terrors. There have been reports of babies crying uncontrollably after consuming milk from a mother who has recently ingested breads and cheeses containing propionates. Some bakeries selling preservative free bread use propioni bacteria which can be cultured in whey powder as a method of using natural 282 preservative without having to declare it on the label. It is best to avoid breads that contain whey powder as this isn't a core ingredient in bread. Articial Sweeteners Artical sweeteners are used as a sugar substitute in many food products. Articial sweeteners are many times sweeter than sugar so tend to be used in small quantities. There are reports and studies of this class of food additives resulting in a wide range of health issues but those most widely reported include bloating, intestinal pain or diarrheoa.

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DANGERS OF FOOD ADDITIVES by Mary Dallman Why are people turning to natural foods nowadays? Is it possible that they know something that we do not? If so, what is it that they know? Sometimes, nothing can beat the aroma of french fries from McDonald's or a Breakfast Buddy from Burger King - there is nothing, when you are hungry and in a hurry, that beats a hot meal, already prepared, served to you in exchange for a few dollars from your pocket. No dishes to clean, no mess to tidy up, nothing to put back in the refrigerator. Fast, easy and hot, this is the way we've come to expect our food to be: offered to us with a smile, when we want it (usually right now), with a minimum of fuss and bother. It's the same thing that makes a Hot Pocket enticing to hardworking parents: Get in your car, go to the supermarket, pick up a box of Hot Pockets, pop em in the oven or microwave, and you can't be accused of being a bad parent because you're feeding those kids the best you can. Aside from the fact that fast foods are easy to obtain and that we've come to expect them, there is an aspect of these foods that is downright frightening: the chemical additives that are added to them (to make

them taste good or look better or smell enticing). Here are some of the additives added to your favorite foods, and a few of their known effects: 1. MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE (MSG): Commonly associated with Chinese take-out food, this avor-enhancing amino acid in commercially-produced, rened form, can cause a myriad of problems because it is in free form; that is, not delivered along with other constituents that negate its adverse effects. Glutamine (as Glutamic Acid, a naturally-occuring amino acid found in many foods, including carrots and whole grains), is a neurotransmitter that allows cells in the brain to communicate with each other. MSG is known as an exitotoxin (along with cysteine and aspartate). Exitotoxins, when ingested in their chemically-puried form in abnormal quantities, can cause neurons in the brain to become overstimulated and die. Further, MSG crosses the blood-brain barrier. Contrary to popular belief, this network of blood capillaries, which usually keeps toxic substances from coming into contact with the brain, is not present around the hypothalamus, the circumventricular organ (part of the brain stem) and the pineal gland. MSG is often disguised on processed food labels as textured vegetable protein (TVP) or plant protein extract. The word hydrolyzed always refers to MSG. MSG is added to

frozen foods because they would taste extremely bland if it wasn't. Frozen foods taste bland because freezing breaks down enzymes and co-enzymes that give fresh food its unique taste, and destroys some of its food value. MSG's popularity is due to its ability to render such compromised foods more palatable. However, instead of attempting to revive food avor by tricking our tastebuds into thinking we are eating fresh and wholesome foods, we are further compromising and even endangering our families' health. For a list of food additives to which MSG is commonly added, and the names it hides behind on labels, please see Mark Gold's [MSG File]. Common adverse reactions to MSG: chest pain, drowsiness, burning sensations (back of the neck and chest), plus tingling and weakness in the upper back, arms and neck. MSG's toxicity is cumulative, so even if you do not react to it immediately or notice any strange sensations that you can attribute to its ingestion, it could still be causing problems, albeit ones that develop slowly. 2. ASPARTAME: Used in sugar substitutes such as Nutrasweet and Equal. Approved by the FDA in 1993 for inclusion in all foodstuffs with no restrictions [this means it can be added to foods that do not require labeling, such as fast food items], and an ingredient in sugar-free sodas, this chemical changes

to formaldehyde, phenylalanine and methanol in the human body, or when a product containing it is heated to more than 86 degrees F (30 degrees C). Formaldehyde is typically used to preserve dead bodies, and methanol is a deadly neurotoxin, commonly known as wood alcohol. Gulf War Syndrome could be due to the heating of Nutrasweetened soft drinks in the high temperatures of the Saudi Arabian desert, and the subsequent degradation of Aspartame into formaldehyde and methanol (phenylalanine is also an amino acid crucial to the production of neurotransmitters). For more information, please read [ Diet Drinks: Gulf War Syndrome In A Can?] Over 92 known side-effects are caused by ingestion of Aspartame (known to the Food and Drug Administration), including vomiting, anxiety attacks and tinnitus (ringing in the ears). Ingestion of Aspartame-containing foods has resulted in several deaths. It's even a component in most chewing gums. For more information on health problems related to Aspartame, please read Patricia Ziliani's article, [ ENVIRONMENTAL TOXINS] Symptoms may be delayed or immediate. Like MSG, its effects are both immediate (in particularly sensitive people) and delayed. The U.S. Air Force has warned its pilots

against drinking diet soft drinks sweetened with Aspartame before ying, as several commercial pilots have experienced grand mal seizures while in the cockpit (Flying Safety, May and August 1992). 3. SULFITES: Used to preserve foods (especially dried fruits), occurring naturally as a result of fermentation in alcoholic beverages (wine & beer). Although sultes have been used since Roman times as a preservative, many people have an allergic reaction when they ingest sultes. They are particularly implicated in worsening asthma. Sulting agents are used to help prevent spoilage and discoloration and were banned by the Food and Drug Administration in 1984 for use on foods that are meant to be consumed raw, such as salad bar items (vegetables and fruits), but are still legally used in processed foods. They are still illegally used in some restaurant salad bars. They are also added to some commercial cookies, crackers and cereals. 4. NITRATES AND NITRITES: These two ingredients are used extensively in cured meats - luncheon meats, ham, hot dogs and the like. They are implicated in research studies as a cause of cancer in laboratory animals. However, the FDA and food industry manufacturers continue to say the risk is slight.

They are also used as avor enhancers and colorants. Even though the public became aware of their cancer-causing possibilities years ago (these two ingredients form nitrosamines in the human body, which are carcinogenic), the furor has died down due to continued downplaying of their risks by both the industries that utilize them the most and the FDA. While it may be true that you are at a lower risk ingesting foods containing these ingredients if you don't consume them on a daily basis, if you have sausage with your breakfast, eat a salami sandwich for lunch and ham for dinner, you are exposing yourself to high amounts of these known cancer-causing factors. And if you eat like this every day, your chances of developing the dreaded C disease go up exponentially. 5. rBGH - Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, or rBGH, is a geneticallyengineered drug that is injected into milk cows to increase milk production. It passes into the cow milk the same way that pesticides pass into human milk. Monsanto, one of the conglomerates that manufactures rBGH, gave data to the FDA based on a different recipe for rBGH than what they now produce. Some of the issues surrounding rBGH are that: (1) We have enough milk in this country as it is--too much in fact; surplus milk is purchased by the Federal Government with

your tax dollars (by an Act of Congress many years ago to keep dairy farmers aoat); (2) This growth hormone causes mastitis, an infection in the cow's udder, requiring even MORE antibiotics (which also pass into the milk) to be given to cows; (3) rBGH causes IGF-1 or Insulin-like Growth Factor, to increase; this is a known cancerpromoting substance in humans. IGF-1 is present in the rBGH milk that humans consume--it's also present in human milk, but its levels are much increased in rBGH milk. It is important to note that rBGH passes through the digestive system and is not eradicated by pasteurization, so with every mouthful of yogurt, every slice of cheese, every pat of butter, you possibly expose your body to a hormone genetically-engineered for cows. There are, of course, many food additives not mentioned above, such as BHA and BHT, FD&C dyes, and parabens that cause reactions in humans. These reactions include hives, nausea, diarrhea, headaches, severe contact dermatitis, lowered blood pressure, abdominal cramps, and the list goes on. Please try to avoid consuming food items that contain these additives for your own well-being. Control over your health is as close as making careful selections of what

you consume every day. Be an informed, label-reading consumer, and don't expect the FDA to police every mouthful for you. An excellent resource on the dangers of food additives, upon which much of this article is based, can be found at [Public Awareness Page], by Costas Giannakenas MD., PhD.

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Saccharin and Aspartame Cause Greater Weight Gain than Sugar In related news, a study published on October 19 in the journal Appetite7, found that compared with sucrose (regular table sugar), saccharin and aspartame caused greater weight gain in adult rats, and this weight gain was unrelated to caloric intake. The underlying mechanism was not determined. However, a number of studies have already shown that consuming articial sweeteners breaks the connection between a sweet sensation and a high-calorie food, thereby changing your body's ability to regulate intake naturally. In a similar 2008 study8, rats that ate yogurt sweetened with an articial sweetener consumed more calories, gained more weight, and put on more body fat than rats that ate yogurt sweetened with sugar. Other studies, too, have shown that eating articial sweeteners might hinder your body's ability to estimate calorie intake, thus boosting your inclination to overindulge. The fact that aspartame is NOT a dieter's best friend has been known by scientists for some time. The problem is this news has not received the necessary traction in the media... For example, a study from 19869, which included nearly 80,000 women, found that

those who used articial sweeteners were signicantly more likely than non-users to gain weight over time, regardless of initial weight. According to the authors, the results "were not explicable by differences in food consumption patterns," and concluded that: " The data do not support the hypothesis that long-term articial sweetener use either helps weight loss or prevents weight gain." Another more recent study with the telling title of Gain Weight by "Going Diet?" Articial Sweeteners and the Neurobiology of Sugar Cravings, published in 201010, found that epidemiologic data suggest articially sweetened foods and beverages do not reduce weight. Quite the contrary: "Several large scale prospective cohort studies found positive correlation between articial sweetener use and weight gain. The San Antonio Heart Study examined 3,682 adults over a seven- to eight-year period in the 1980s. When matched for initial body mass index (BMI), gender, ethnicity, and diet, drinkers of articially sweetened beverages consistently had higher BMIs at the followup, with dose dependence on the amount of consumption... Saccharin use was also associated with eight-year weight gain in 31,940 women from the Nurses' Health Study conducted in the 1970s.

Similar observations have been reported in children. Saccharin and Aspartame Cause Greater Weight Gain than Sugar In related news, a study published on October 19 in the journal Appetite7, found that compared with sucrose (regular table sugar), saccharin and aspartame caused greater weight gain in adult rats, and this weight gain was unrelated to caloric intake. The underlying mechanism was not determined. However, a number of studies have already shown that consuming articial sweeteners breaks the connection between a sweet sensation and a high-calorie food, thereby changing your body's ability to regulate intake naturally. In a similar 2008 study8, rats that ate yogurt sweetened with an articial sweetener consumed more calories, gained more weight, and put on more body fat than rats that ate yogurt sweetened with sugar. Other studies, too, have shown that eating articial sweeteners might hinder your body's ability to estimate calorie intake, thus boosting your inclination to overindulge. The fact that aspartame is NOT a dieter's best friend has been known by scientists for some time. The problem is this news has not received the necessary traction in the media...

For example, a study from 19869, which included nearly 80,000 women, found that those who used articial sweeteners were signicantly more likely than non-users to gain weight over time, regardless of initial weight. According to the authors, the results "were not explicable by differences in food consumption patterns," and concluded that: " The data do not support the hypothesis that long-term articial sweetener use either helps weight loss or prevents weight gain." Another more recent study with the telling title of Gain Weight by "Going Diet?" Articial Sweeteners and the Neurobiology of Sugar Cravings, published in 201010, found that epidemiologic data suggest articially sweetened foods and beverages do not reduce weight. Quite the contrary: "Several large scale prospective cohort studies found positive correlation between articial sweetener use and weight gain. The San Antonio Heart Study examined 3,682 adults over a seven- to eight-year period in the 1980s. When matched for initial body mass index (BMI), gender, ethnicity, and diet, drinkers of articially sweetened beverages consistently had higher BMIs at the followup, with dose dependence on the amount of consumption... Saccharin use was also associated with eight-year weight gain in

31,940 women from the Nurses' Health Study conducted in the 1970s. Similar observations have been reported in children. A two-year prospective study involving 166 school children found that increased diet soda consumption was associated with higher BMI Z-scores at follow-up, indicating weight gain. The Growing Up Today Study, involving 11,654 children aged 9 to 14 also reported positive association between diet soda and weight gain for boys. For each daily serving of diet beverage, BMI increased by 0.16 kg/m2... A cross-sectional study looking at 3,111 children and youth found diet soda drinkers had signicantly elevated BMI."

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/ archive/2012/11/07/aspartame-causes-bloodcancer.aspx

US insurer AIG, German sewers tangled tax scheme (AFP) Mar 18, 2009 BERLIN (AFP) What do Berlin trams, German sewers and the stricken US insurer AIG have in common? They have all got intertwined in complex nancial transactions that could cost many Germany cities dearly. The tale began with intermediaries such as Deutsche Bank and the nancial arm of auto maker Daimler that approached cashstrapped communities, specialist Werner Ruegemer told AFP. "These 'arrangers' told municipal authorities that thanks to a US scal loophole, they could obtain cash just by signing a piece of paper," he explained. The transactions are known as cross border leasing, or CBL. Behind the German intermediaries were US banks operating from post boxes in locations such as the state of Delaware, known for its business-friendly tax environment. In Berlin, indebted city ofcials agreed in 1997 to rent tram and subway cars to a US trust, and then sub-let them back for use in the city's transit system. More than 1,000 cars were involved in the scheme, according to press reports. The US investor that bought or rented German infrastructure got a tax benet for foreign investments, while the city got money but became a renter, or sub-renter of the assets.

Berlin received 69 million euros (90 million dollars) from its deal. Another key actor in the transaction were banks or insurance companies that agreed to guarantee the value of the assets until the contract expired, from 25 to 99 years later. Ruegemer said 180 such contracts were signed in Germany for an estimated 80 million euros. In 2004 however, a US court uncovered the loophole. Since then, German municipal authorities have come to realize the full content of the contracts they signed, written with complex technical terms over hundreds of pages and signed in NewYork during comfortable business trips for which all expenses were paid. A US nancier for example can demand a city continue to maintain subway cars it no longer uses so the investment does not lose its value, or prevent a worksite from proceeding. And many banks and insurance companies that guaranteed the contracts are now distressed, forcing communities to guarantee the guarantor's nancial health or replace them, according to terms of the deals. A frequent guarantor was AIG, which is in deep trouble after posting a 2008 loss of almost 100 billion dollars. US investors therefore have demanded that municipalities nd other guarantors for

the assets, which is often impossible at present, or provide their own guarantees. Bochum, in western Germany, had to buy 125 million dollars' worth of US Treasury bills on credit to insure the value of the sewer it had ceded. For its tramways and subway cars, Berlin had contracted insurance in 2004 from a consortium that included AIG and the US investment bank Lehman Brothers, which went bankrupt in September 2008. In a worst case scenario, the German capital could face claims for 200 million dollars on the basis of the CBL contracts. "For now, no one has asked us for a cent," said Petra Reetz, spokeswoman for the Berlin transit system BVG. "If someone comes after us, we will not pay, we will take them to court," she vowed.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/ article/ ALeqM5hLc_GlmelYDyotaDXmAVILIgX34A

Cross-border lenders pile funds into German banks September 18 2012 at 08:00am Comment on this story German banks cross-border funding rose by 26 percent in the rst quarter, the largest boost in 20 years, as they attracted global lenders funds after liquidity injections by the European Central Bank (ECB). Cross-border lending by international banks to their German peers expanded by $271 billion (R2.2 trillion) in the three months to March, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the recordkeeper of the worlds central banks, said in its quarterly report yesterday. The surge was one of the biggest contributors to a 0.4 percent rebound of global cross-border lending that followed the biggest drop since 2008 in the preceding three months, it said. BIS reporting banks aggregate cross-border claims increased during the rst quarter of 2012, after falling sharply in the previous three months. Notwithstanding this rise, cross-border bank lending remained subdued from a longer-term perspective, in line with the moderate activity observed during the past few years, the BIS said. The ECB pumped an unprecedented E1 trillion (R10.8 trillion) into the regions banks in December and February in an effort to

unfreeze interbank lending and restart economic growth. Bloomberg

http://www.iol.co.za/business/business-news/ cross-border-lenders-pile-funds-intogerman-banks-1.1385062

After centuries at debt's door, Berlin's 68bn tab is no surprise DEREK SCALLY BERLIN DIARY: A new books suggests the German capitals history can be written on the back of an IOU GERMAN DOUBTS about bailouts dont stem from Athens, but Berlin. New arrivals to this capital of 3.5 million people soon learn about the citys staggering debt of 68 billion. But when did Berlin buck the German culture of frugality to become a debt champion and basket-case economy? Some point to the costs of the citys cold war division, others go back to 1945 when big companies like Siemens ed the city with their machinery before the Red Army arrived. A new book, Debts in Berlin, suggests that the citys entire history can be written on the back of an IOU. Published by Berlins City Museum, the book is a hilarious romp through centuries of debtrelated scams, poems and songs, such as: Well drink our grannys house away/ with the rst and second mortgage.

The book contains a list of Berlin bars where you can still drink on credit; to sober up, the editors point out that Berlins annual debt interest of 2.5 billion would, if stacked in a pile of 100 notes, make a tower 97 times the height of the Brandenburg Gate. Dozens of historical episodes reveal just how deeply ingrained debt has become in the Berlin mentality. The rst recorded Berliner in debt was Thilo von Hamelin in 1289, who bought 84 pieces of lumber on credit from a Hamburg businessman to rebuild houses destroyed in a Berlin re. Within a few years, though, he was buying and selling debt like a modernday nancier. The business of debt had well established itself by 1517 when the indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel spent a protable few months in the city. He was getting ready to move on when a Berlin man asked if it was possible to buy an indulgence not just to purge past sins but for future sins, such as highway robbery? For a small premium, Tetzel was happy to make the sale. A few days later, leaving Berlin with his trunk of indulgence takings, Tetzel was confronted by masked highwaymen.

He told the bandits he was a man of God and implored them not to risk their mortal souls by robbing him, whereupon one of the men revealed his face and, waving his indulgence, relieved Tetzel of his trunk. Pre-war wit Kurt Tucholsky once noted that business in Berlin was possible not because of its businessmen but in spite of them. A good case in point involves a Berliner by the name of Henry Strousberg who, in 1862, planned to get rich quick building railways across the expanding Prussian empire. Rather than seek investors and start building, he created an elaborate pyramid scheme that eventually collapsed with debts of 74 million marks and ended in bankruptcy. History repeated itself 150 years later when the city transport company BVG sold off hundreds of trams and trains to an American cross-border leasing (CBL) company. It seemed a sweetheart deal for the perpetually broke BVG: 69 million upfront in exchange for leasing back the trains and trams from the Americans. After the collapse of some banks managing the deal, the contract small print revealed

that the transport company was liable for the entire risk of the transaction. Its court challenge to overturn the contract is ongoing but the company has already set aside 150 million to cover the likely nal cost. The editors of Debts in Berlin suggest the root of Berlins debt problem is leaders who, through the centuries, have nursed a sense of entitlement outweighing their own nancial means. Three centuries ago, the Prussian duke Friedrich fell for the charms of the smooth-talking prime minister, Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, who promised to make Friedrich a big wheel in European monarchy league table. To do so, Wartenberg borrowed heavily to have Friedrich upgraded from Duke to King in Prussia in 1701 in a coronation that cost twice the Prussian annual tax takings. Taxes were imposed on everything from coffee to wigs, heels to hats and, when that failed to cover the gap, heavy borrowing followed. Eventually, the kings son, Friedrich Wilhelm, forced his father to re his prime minister and end his proigate ways.

But he still left behind a bankrupt state with debts of 20 million talers. The proigacy has continued to the present day, critics say, aided by Germanys federal scal transfer system. Berlin is the biggest recipient 3 billion annually from a postwar subsidy system intended to even out internal structural weaknesses. As in Greece, critics say the subsidies helped breed and underwrite both an incestuous ruling class and their incompetent mismanagement of public projects. In keeping with this proud tradition, they say, is the unfolding disaster that is Berlins new airport. Scheduled to open last month, Berliners are no longer certain when it will open, but they know it will cost at least an extra billion. 70 billion debt straight ahead.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ world/2012/0724/1224320709162.html

When the US Congress voted to close a tax law loophole this month, some German city governments began to worry. Over the past seven years Germany municipalities have signed more than 150 cross-border leasing agreements with US investors. Under the agreements, Americans leased German infrastructure facilities sewage plants, waste water facilities, etc. and wrote off the lump-sum cost from their taxes as a foreign investment. The same investors, however, immediately rented the facilities back to German governments at very low rates, allowing the governments to make money on the lease of the facilities while paying only a token amount for their continued use. When the new US rules take effect, however, some predict that the American investors will try to get out of their contracts. When investors don't reap the tax advantage they had expected," says one anti-globalization activist, "they'll start looking for ways to prematurely end the contract and to be able to claim compensation." One tax expert isn't so pessimistic about the outcome for Germany municipalities, however. "The Germans tend to follow contracts to the letter," he says. If that is the case, the American investors may just have to wait until the contracts expire to seek their tax breaks elsewhere.

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/deathknell-cross-border-leasing-deals

Why cross-border leasing? Imagine you are the city accountant, and instead of a nicely lled treasury you're staring into a black hole. That is the situation in nearly all German municipalities. The German economy has suffered three straight years of little or no growth, and as a result, the federal and state governments have shifted the burden to cities and towns. The local authorities' budgets are on the verge of collapse. Social services, youth welfare, and cultural activities are only some of the areas that have been short of funds for years now. It is no surprise, then, that city accountants all over the country are desperately searching for new ways to ll their empty cash drawers. So-called "creative nancing operations" such as cross-border leasing are highly welcome in this situation. In a crossborder leasing transaction, an investor -in this case, a U.S. company -- leases an asset up front from a foreign entity -- in this case, the German municipality. The owners immediately lease back their asset from the investor, so that they still own and operate the asset. The U.S. investor, on the other hand, gains a quick tax benet for writing off the up-front lease payment.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ shows/tax/schemes/germany.html

Antimicrobial resistance Fact sheet N194 Reviewed March 2012 Key facts Infections caused by resistant microorganisms often fail to respond to conventional treatment, resulting in prolonged illness and greater risk of death. About 440 000 new cases of multidrugresistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) emerge annually, causing at least 150 000 deaths. Resistance to earlier generation antimalarial medicines such as chloroquine and sulfadoxinepyrimethamine is widespread in most malaria-endemic countries. A high percentage of hospital-acquired infections are caused by highly resistant bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Inappropriate and irrational use of antimicrobial medicines provides favourable conditions for resistant microorganisms to emerge, spread and persist.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/ fs194/en/

MDRO(multidrug resistant organismsEach year nearly 2 million patients in the UnitedStates get an infection in a hospital. Of those patients,about 90,000 die as a result of their infection. Morethan 70% of the bacteria that cause hospitalacquiredinfections are resistant to at least one of the drugs mostcommonly used to treat them. Persons infected withdrugresistant organisms are more likely to have longerhospital stays and require treatment withsecond- or third-choice drugs that may beless effective, more toxic, and/or moreexpensive

http://www.slideshare.net/tirulipasilva/ managementmdromultidrugresistantorganismshealthc arefacilities

Democracy does not guarantee security, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today, warning instead that it could lead to violence when minority groups rise to demand their rights. The countrys longest serving prime minister pointed out that during elections, losing parties often do not accept their failures and would do their best to bring down the elected government. Dr Mahathir said that although it was through a democratic process that these parties had lost, they would turn around to use the same democratic system to negate the results of the polls by claiming that it had been tampered with. Sometimes this leads to violence and killings, burning of houses and buildings... they would do anything to bring down the majority government, he told a luncheon talk for the International Forum 2012 held in conjunction with Umnos general assembly this week. This is because in newly democratic countries, we do not fully appreciate the system... while we say we like democracy, we only like it when we win, not when we lose, he added. Dr Mahathir added that as democracy promotes equality of its people, this would

lead to conicts as many do not share the same ideals. These conicts, if not settled properly, would lead to unending violence and loss of lives, he said. So even democracy does not guarantee the security of the people, he said.

http://www.malaysia-today.net/mtcolumns/ newscommentaries/52983-democracy-couldbreed-violence-says-dr-m

"So what should we expect for 2004, a presidential election year? First off, the misnomer that presidents are elected must be dispelled. They are selected. Any reasonable and sensible person must conclude that Thomas Jefferson could never win the nomination of a major party. Political parties have always hated the Republic. Their purpose is to confuse and distort politics in order that their organizations can manage the process of sham elections. The fraud that there is a real difference between the DemocRATS and RepubliCANTS, should be apparent to even the most obsessed party activist. So why do the masses continue to act as asses? Why do they still vote? The only answer that potentially explains this discontent from sane reality is that voters believe they get something out of supporting a politician."

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22 Signs That Voter Fraud Is Wildly Out Of Control And The Election Was A Sham By Michael, on November 13th, 2012 After what we have seen this November, how is any American ever supposed to trust the integrity of our elections ever again? There were over 70,000 reports of voting problems on election day, and there are numerous eyewitnesses that claim that they saw voting machines change votes for one candidate to another candidate right in front of their eyes. In several of the swing states there were counties where the number of registered voters exceeded the total voting age population by a very wide margin. How in the world does that happen? Some of the vote totals that were reported in some of the most important swing states were completely and totally absurd, and yet we are just supposed to accept them on blind faith without ever being able to ask any questions. Of course the Romney campaign has already totally given up, so it isnt as if there is any chance that the results of the presidential election could be overturned anyhow. But if massive election fraud did take place and nobody is held accountable, what kind of message will that send for the future? Will we ever be able to have faith in the integrity of our elections ever again?

The following are 22 signs that voter fraud is wildly out of control and the election was a sham #1 According to the Election Protection Coalition, voters across the United States reported more than 70,000 voting problems by 5 PM Eastern time on election day. #2 There were 59 voting divisions in the city of Philadelphia where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote. In those voting divisions, the combined vote total was 19,605 for Barack Obama and 0 for Mitt Romney. #3 The overall voter turnout rate in Philadelphia was only about 60 percent. But in the areas of Philadelphia where Republican poll watchers were illegally removed, the voter turnout rate was over 90% and Obama received over 99% of the vote. Ofcials in Philadelphia have already ruled out an investigation. #4 According to WND, one poll watcher in Pennsylvania actually claims that he witnessed voting machine software repeatedly switch votes from Mitt Romney to Barack Obama It was in Upper Macungie Township, near Allentown, Pa., where an auditor, Robert Ashcroft, was dispatched by Republicans to monitor the vote on Election Day. He said the software he observed would change the selection back to default to Obama.

He said that happened in about 5 percent to 10 percent of the votes. He said the changes appeared to have been made by a software program. Ashcroft said the format for computer programming has a default status, and in this case it appeared to be designating a vote for Obama each time it went to default. #5 Somehow Mitt Romney won 55 out of the 67 counties in the state of Pennsylvania and still managed to lose the entire state by a wide margin because of the absurd vote totals that Obama ran up in the urban areas. #6 Barack Obama received more than 98 percent of the vote in 10 out of the 50 wards in the city of Chicago. #7 Prior to the election, voters in the states of Nevada, North Carolina, Texas and Ohio all reported that voting machines were switching their votes for Romney over to Obama. #8 There were more than 50 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio where Mitt Romney received 2 votes or less. #9 There were more than 100 precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio where Barack Obama received more than 99 times the votes that Mitt Romney did.

#10 Barack Obama also received more than 99% of the vote in a number of very important precincts down in Broward County, Florida. #11 Wood County, Ohio (which Obama won) has a voting age population of 98,213, but somehow 106,258 voters were registered to vote on election day. #12 Ten counties in the swing state of Colorado have a voter registration rate of more than 100%. #13 Barack Obama did not win in a single state that absolutely requires a photo I.D. in order to vote. #14 In Ohio, two election judges were caught allowing unregistered voters to cast ballots. #15 Many Ohio voters that showed up at the polls on election day were surprised when they were informed that they had already voted. #16 In fact, there were reports all over the nation of people being unable to vote because records showed that they had already voted. #17 According to U.S. Representative Allen West, there were numerous voting irregularities in St. Lucie County, Florida on election day

The thing that spurred our curiosity in our race was the fact that at 1 oclock in the morning on Election Night, all of a sudden there was a 4,000-vote swing that took me from being ahead to put the lead into my opponents hands. #18 In Wisconsin, there were allegations that Obama voters were actually being bussed in from out of state The Democrats stationed a self described BIG Chicago pro bono attorney as one of their two observers at this small polling place. He remained at the polling place from 7:00 a.m. until well after 8:p.m. ..A high priced CHICAGO attorney, sitting in a Sheboygan WISCONSIN polling place, observing wards comprised of 1500 voters? . WHY??? Why would someone from Chicago be observing in Sheboygan Wisconsin? And WHY at such a small polling place? Finally, isnt it interesting that this would occur at the VERY polling place in which all of the above described events ALSO occurred? AGAIN WHY WOULD A CHICAGO ATTORNEY BE OBSERVING AN ELECTION POLLING PLACE WITH FEWER THAN 1500 VOTERS IN IT, IN SHEBOYGAN WISCONSIN? Of all the places where there has been suspected voting irregularities, and OUTRIGHT FRAUD throughout the ENTIRE United States, WHY HERE? WHY SHEBOYGAN? WHY THIS SMALL WARD? This lawyer spent the day running in and out making, and taking calls, which

coincidentally then coincided with inuxes of groups of individuals by the van and bus loads, coming in to register, AND VOTE, using what appeared to be copied Allient energy bills. These individuals often did not have photo I.D.s, could not remember their own addresses without looking at the paper, and became easily tripped, confused and annoyed when questioned. Many of these same individuals, just so happened to be dressed in/wearing CHICAGO BEARS apparel, and whom openly discussed catching busses back to Chicago with each other, with poll workers, via their cell phones in the lobby area just outside the polling place, as well as in the parking lot, both before and AFTER registering and voting. One woman was dressed head to toe in CHICAGO BEARS apparel including perfectly manicured BEARS fake ngernails! She complained because registering was taking too long and she had to hurry up to catch her bus back to Chicago. We have photos of these people in vehicles with plates from different states, photos of them leaving the polls, and other irregularities. #19 Prior to election day, an Obama for America staffer was caught on video trying

to help someone register to vote in more than one state. #20 It is being alleged that unions in Nevada have been registering illegal immigrants and pressuring them to vote. #21 According to townhall.com, there was a systematic effort by the Obama campaign to suppress the military vote because they knew that most military votes would go against Obama Aiding Obamas win was a devious suppression of the conservative vote. The conservative-leaning military vote has decreased drastically since 2010 due to the so-called Military Voter Protection Act that was enacted into law the year before. It has made it so difcult for overseas military personnel to obtain absentee ballots that in Virginia and Ohio there has been a 70% decrease in requests for ballots since 2008. In Virginia, almost 30,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots than in 2008. In Ohio, more than 20,000 fewer overseas military voters requested ballots. This is signicant considering Obama won in both states by a little over 100,000 votes. #22 According to the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, it appears that thousands of military votes from this election will never be counted at all.

So what do you think about all of this? Do you still believe that elections in America are fair and honest? Please feel free to post an article with your thoughts below

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Court-appointed Republican poll inspectors are being forcibly removed from voting stations in some Philadelphia wards and replaced in some cases by Democratic inspectors and even members of the Black Panthers, according to GOP ofcials. Secrets just received this memo from GOP ofcials: The Philadelphia GOP is reporting that court appointed Minority (read GOP) Inspectors are being thrown out of polling locations in several Wards. These Inspectors are election ofcials again, court appointed -- and are reportedly being thrown out by the Head Judges of Elections (these Judges are elected Democrats) and being replaced by Democrats. This has happened at the following locations: Ward 32, Div 13 Ward 43, Div 14 Ward 56, Div 1 Ward 56, Div 22 Ward 32, Div 28 Ward 32, Div 28

Ward 12, Div 17 Ward 39, Div 1 Ward 24, Div 9 Ward 18, Div 25 Ward 43, Div 14 Ward 29, Div 18 Ward 65, Div 19 Ward 20, Div 1 Ward 6, Div 11 Another ofcial told Secrets: "one of our female inspectors was physically thrown out."

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In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes November 13, 2012 Share on emailShare on printShare on redditMore Sharing Services It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this headspinning gure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Mitt Romney received not one vote. Zero. Zilch. These are the kind of numbers that send Republicans into paroxysms of voter-fraud angst, but such results may not be so startling after all. "We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic," said Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University. "It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia." Most big cities are politically homogeneous, with 75 percent to 80 percent of voters identifying as Democrats.

Cities are not only bursting with Democrats: They are easier to organize than rural areas where people live far apart from one another, said Sasha Issenberg, author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns.

http://articles.philly.com/2012-11-13/news/ 35069785_1_romney-supporters-mitt-romneyvoter-id-law

Massive Voter Fraud in Philly Is a Myth And heres why: Because its practically impossible to pull off. By Stephen Silver 11/21/2012

http://blogs.phillymag.com/the_philly_post/ 2012/11/21/myth-massive-voter-fraud-philly/

Is Ohio voting software vulnerable to fraud? Court to hear Election Day case A local candidate says a crucial piece of Ohio vote-tallying software was not properly vetted by the state and could be hacked. A judge will hear the case on Election Day and decide whether to grant an injunction against use of the software Tuesday. By Mark Clayton, Staff writer / November 5, 2012 A federal lawsuit led Monday in Columbus, Ohio, charges the secretary of state's ofce with illegally installing untested software on voting systems in dozens of counties a step that creates a digital back door, which someone wishing to alter vote totals might be able to exploit.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/ 2012/1105/Is-Ohio-voting-softwarevulnerable-to-fraud-Court-to-hearElection-Day-case

voter ID laws aid President Obamas victory over Mitt Romney? Obama did not win a single state that fully requires photo IDs to vote, although he was victorious in four states that accept nonphoto identication Washington, Colorado, Ohio and Virginia. Those states accept as legitimate identication current utility bills, bank statements and paychecks.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/did-this-dirtytrick-get-obama-elected/

Fox News senior correspondent Eric Shawn appeared on Americas Newsroom to report on possible voting problems and voter fraud in the battleground state of Ohio. Shawn detailed reports of broken voting machines and ballot scanners in addition to long lines and hours of waiting. He then explained that some voters arrived at their polling places only to be told they werent on the voter rolls or worse yet, that they had already voted when they hadnt.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/11/07/voterfraud-watch-two-election-judges-replacedafter-illegal-activity-in-ohio/

In this 2012 election, reports of electronic vote fraud are now pouring in from both liberal and conservative sources: Experimental software patches on Ohio voting machines may sway the vote. And Steve Watson notes: Multiple reports of electronic voting machine irregularities have begun to pour in from all over the country as Americans take to the polls today. Voters in Hamilton County Indianapolis were forced to wait for 30 minutes to begin voting because the machines were not working when the polling station opened. The AP reports that cards used to clear tallies from machines before voting begins were improperly programmed, meaning that around 500 machines had to be reset. The Toledo Blade reports that some 100 voters were unable to cast ballots this morning in Bedford, Ohio, because a voting machine was not working. Ofcials said that a memory card had to be replaced. Long lines led to people walking away. In Dubuque, Iowa, more voters were delayed when machines failed to operate for around 45 minutes after the polling station opened.

Reports from across North Carolina, one of the key swing states, are pouring in suggesting that voting machines are ipping votes from one candidate to the other. In Greensboro, a voter complained that they tried to vote for Mitt Romney three times but that the ballot cast was instead for Barack Obama. Other voters in Guilford County and in some other parts of the state said they experienced similar issues. In Charlotte, another voter reported the same problem. In Rehoboth, Massachusetts problems with voting machines were also noted. The machines ofcials are using are 14 years old, according to the report. Problems were also reported in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. In Milford Township, Pennsylvania, three voting machines stopped working after just one hour of voting. After a technician got them working again, one of them broke down a second time, causing waiting voters to begin discussing their distrust of the machines and the potential for voter fraud. In Crawford County, problems with machines were also reported. They had not been set to the correct time, so were unable to be used for a short period of time.

In Missouri, the Secretary of States ofce has been forced to respond after numerous voters claimed that machines were ipping votes for Romney to votes for Obama. In Pittsburgh, voters have reported multiple problems with voting machines. In Sandy Springs, Georgia, hundreds of people were delayed when voting machines went down at around 11 a.m. In Nashville, Tennessee, technical issues with the machines were reported by many voters, while in Chattanooga, machines malfunctioned, meaning some voters had to put their ballots in the machine without them being scanned. In Fredericksburg, Northern Virginia, hundreds of voters were turned away as all of the electronic voting machines at one polling station failed to operate. Polling workers only had 50 paper ballots available. Worse still, some voters who used the machines were told that their votes would not count if they had placed them before 8am. In Spartanburg County, South Carolina, voting machines have failed to work all day and election ofcials have twice run out of paper ballots. In Faulkner County, Arkansas, machines were reported inoperable.

Some areas in Virginia reported voting machine problems. Voters in California have complained that voting machines switched their votes for Obama to Romney. *** Last week this same problem was reported in six other states. In Ohio, a lawsuit has been led following the installation of software into voting machines by the state that experts say could allow back door vote manipulation by non-election board ofcials. Green Party candidate Robert J. Fitrakis led papers yesterday in federal court in Columbus, seeking an order blocking the use of the machines and the software in vote counting. Named as defendants in the case are Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted and Omaha, Nebraska- based Election Systems & Software Inc.

As we have routinely reported during elections, electronic voting machines have caused signicant problems. Many security experts are adamant that the machines can easily be hacked, and past cases have shown that vote fraud has been facilitated by the use of electronic voting machines.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/ videos-of-vote-fraud-pour-in-from-bothliberal-and-conservative-sources.html

Nevada Unions Are Registering Illegals and Forcing Them to Vote!!!! - Wake Up America!!!! As A Citizen This IsYour Most Important Right That IsYours BecauseYou Are A Citizen!!! When A Illegals Or Noncitizen VotesYour Vote & Right Has Been Stolen!!! Our Country Is In Danger!!!

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Anyway, the polls were right. Chambers has moved on, launching BarackOFraudo.com, exposing how they stole the 2012 election. It leads off with a map of the 2012 election that blacks out Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, and Virginia. They are states won by Obama fraud. Whats Chambers going on for that? Im getting credible information of evidence in those states that there enough numbers that are questionable and could have swung the election, he says. Im only putting good credible information on there, like the actual vote counts, reports, and mainstream publications reporting voter fraud. Theres a lot of chatter, though. There are articles people have sent me that dont hold up. Crazy stuff.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/maker-ofunskewed-polls-creates-obama-voter-fraudmap-see-which-states-he-thinks-shouldvebeen-romneys/

Helena Guerrero 14 days ago is it possible to nd an updated count? thanks! 0 Share YubaNet Mod Helena Guerrero 14 days ago The latest report is at 3,334,495 unprocessed ballots. We'll be posting updates on the count and the races as soon as the various counties update their results.

http://yubanet.com/california/Over-3Million-of-Unprocessed-Ballots-inCalifornia.php

Now, to earn a place in the white-hat hall of fame, a few very talented hackers need to prove that the California election system, the vote-counting apparatus can be hacked.

Im NOT calling for anything illegal. In fact, this only works if its done in front of election ofcials and FBI agents and the FEC. In broad daylight. As it is broadcast to hundreds of millions of people around the world, online.

http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/ a-call-to-hackers-everywhere/

Hackers Trade Tips On DDoS, SQL Injection Study of hacker bulletin boards reveals focus on attack techniques, tips for beginning hackers, buying and selling of fake social network endorsements. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek October 30, 2012 12:13 PM What do hackers talk about amongst themselves? These days, the two hottest topics -comprising 19% of all discussions -- involve distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and SQL injection attacks.

http://www.informationweek.com/security/ attacks/hackers-trade-tips-on-ddos-sqlinjection/240012531

sooty 2 weeks ago Er, Ernesto, November 12 2012? It's still 22.34pm November 11 2012 in most of the real world, lol, but thanks for the info, this dipstick sounds like his mummy & daddy should take his netbook off him & send him to his room without supper, lol. Young hackers, love them or hate them you aren't allowed to murder the little bast**ds

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Hacking Tool: Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) Tutorial 31-10-2012, 07:13download ebooks (Author: athamethcom) Download "Hacking Tool: Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) Tutorial" [Fast Download] Hacking Tool: Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) Tutorial English | 2011 | AVI | eLearning | 400MB Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) Tutorial VDict quick lookup What is Denial of Service Attack? Types of DoS Attacks How DoS Work? What is DDoS? Hacking Tool: Ping of Death Hacking Tool: SSPing Hacking Tool: Land Hacking Tool: Smurf Hacking Tool: SYN Flood Hacking Tool: CPU Hog Hacking Tool: Win Nuke Hacking Tool: RPC Locator Hacking Tool: Jolt2 Hacking Tool: Bubonic Hacking Tool: Targa Tools for Running DDoS Attacks Hacking Tool: Trinoo Hacking Tool: WinTrinoo Hacking Tool: TFN Hacking Tool: TFN2K Hacking Tool: Stacheldraht Hacking Tool: Shaft

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Types of DoS Attacks for Beginners 05-Nov-2012, 01:43 AM Post: #1 mihir Account not Activated Posts: 51 Joined: Oct 2012 CCP: 54.0 Many "hackers" say that DoS attacks are for skids, but they have no idea what a DoS attack is and how to use it. 99% of those hackers only know how to buy tools and nd tuts on how to use the tools A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Here are several different kinds of dos attacks as discussed below: 1. Ping Of Death The ping of death attack sends over sized ICMP data grams to the victim.The Ping command makes use of the ICMP echo request and echo reply messages and it's commonly used to determine whether the remote host is alive. How to launch Ping Of Death Attack 1.1. Start command 1.2. Type this command

Code: ping ip -l 65500 -n 10000000 -w 0.00001 And, hit enter. You don't need tools for this attack. This attack is old and won't work these days. 2. Teardrop Attack Whenever data is sent over the internet, it is broken into fragments at the source system and reassembled at the destination system. For example you need to send 4,000 bytes of data from one system to another. Rather than sending the entire chunk in a single packet, the data is broken down into smaller packets. Example: Code: * packet 1 will carry bytes 1-1000. * packet 2 will carry bytes 1001-2000. * packet 3 will carry bytes 2001-3000. * packet 4 will carry bytes 3001-4000 3. SYN - Flood Attack In SYN ooding attack, several SYN packets are sent to the target host, all with an invalid source IP address. When the target system receives these SYN packets, it tries to respond to each one with a SYN/ACK packet but as all the source IP addresses are invalid the target system goes into wait state for ACK message to receive from source.

These half-open connections saturate the number of available connections the server is able to make, keeping it from responding to legitimate requests until after the attack ends. How to launch a SYN Flood Attack Here is a nice tutorial about starting attack with hping. Code: http://www.binarytides.com/tcp-syn-ooddos-attack-with-hping/ 4. Smurf Attack There are 3 users in the smurf attackthe attacker, the intermediary (which can also be a victim), and the victim. In most scenarios the attacker spoofs the IP source address as the IP of the intended victim to the intermediary network broadcast address. Every host on the intermediary network replies, ooding the victim and the intermediary network with network trafc. 5. UDP ood Code: A UDP ood attack is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a session less/connectionless computer networking protocol. Using UDP for denial-of-service attacks is not as straightforward as with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). However, a UDP ood attack can be

initiated by sending a large number of UDP packets to random ports on a remote host. - Wikipedia UDP Flooder -You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 6. Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) In Distributed DoS attack, there is more than 1 attack (for example 100 different attacker systems) attacking the single system. Due to higher number of attackers DDoS attack are more effective and dangerous than regular DoS attack. Trin00 is a tool for DDOS attack. Also, almost every botnet has a ood command. This is enough for beginners. I will probably write more.

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How to End the Tragedy in Gaza As of late Friday the ceasere in Gaza seems to be holding, if tentatively. While we should be pleased that this round of ghting appears temporarily on hold, we must realize that without changes in US foreign policy it is only a matter of time before the killing begins again. It feels like 2009 all over again, which is the last time this kind of violence broke out in Gaza. At that time over 1,400 Palestinians were killed, of which just 235 were combatants. The Israelis lost 13 of which 10 were combatants. At that time I said of then-President Bushs role in the conict: It's our money and our weapons. But I think we encouraged it. Certainly, the president has said nothing to diminish it. As a matter of fact, he justies it on moral grounds, saying, oh, they have a right to do this, without ever mentioning the tragedy of Gaza. To me, I look at it like a concentration camp. The US role has not changed under the Obama administration. The same mistakes continue. As journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote last week: "For years now, US nancial, military and diplomatic support of Israel has been the central enabling force driving this endless conict. The bombs Israel drops on Gazans,

and the planes they use to drop them, and the weapons they use to occupy the West Bank and protect settlements are paid for, in substantial part, by the US taxpayer Last week, as the ghting raged, President Obama raced to express US support for the Israeli side, in a statement that perfectly exemplies the tragic-comedy of US foreign policy. The US supported the Israeli side because, he said, "No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders. Considering that this president rains down missiles onYemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and numerous other countries on a daily basis, the statement was so hypocritical that it didnt pass the laugh test. But it wasnt funny. US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton traveled to Tel Aviv to meet with Israeli prime minister Netanyahu, but she refused to meet with elected Palestinian leaders. Clintonsaid upon arrival in Israel, America's commitment to Israels security is rock-solid and unwavering. Does this sound like an honest broker? At the same time Congress acted with similar ignobility when an unannounced resolution was brought to the House oor after the business of the week had been nished; and in less than 30 seconds the resolution was passed by unanimous consent, without debate and without most

Representatives even having heard of it. The resolution, H Res 813, was so one-sided it is not surprising they didnt want anyone to have the chance to read and vote on it. Surely at least a handful of my colleagues would have objected to language like, The House of Representatives expresses unwavering commitment to the security of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state with secure borders... US foreign policy being so one-sided actually results in more loss of life and of security on both sides. Surely Israelis do not enjoy the threat of missiles from Gaza nor do the Palestinians enjoy their Israel-imposed inhuman conditions in Gaza. But as long asIsrael can count on its destructive policies being underwritten by the US taxpayer it can continue to engage in reckless behavior. And as long as the Palestinians feel the onesided US presence lined up against them they will continue to resort to more and more deadly and desperate measures. Continuing to rain down missiles on so many increasingly resentful nations, the US is undermining rather than furthering its security. We are on a collision course with much of the rest of the world if we do not right our foreign policy. Ending interventionism in the Middle East and replacing it with friendship and evenhandedness would be a welcome rst step.

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Post as Image Showing 3 comments Kevin J. Mahoney Well articulated analysis of US and Israeli relations, as well as the root causes of the ongoing conicts in the middle east. We fund the Israelis' warmongering, safeguard them from UN resolutions, and condone their atrocities, furthering their irrational mindset that they are undeserving victims of Palestinian aggression. Ron Paul will be missed in the US Congress. Like Reply 17 hours ago 12 Likes Thom44o A statesman's position. It would have been nice to see what a true statesman could have done in the next 4 years. Sad it NEVER had a chance. I agree that our policy of dealing beyond our borders needs to be

drastically reshaped. Calling it "foreign policy" is being too kind to the blatant destruction we have dealt others over the past few decades. Sooner or later, "those chickens are coming home to roost." I wonder "who" we'll be by then - the devil's disciple, the Phantom of the Opera, maybe something even stranger? Time will tell. Maybe we should all hope that the end of the Mayan calendar really does mark the end of the world. Like Reply 18 hours ago 5 Likes UncleSam13713 democracy is today an illusion choices not // we must decide what to end // analysis infos : larger 2nd round about to start

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Humanitys last invention and our uncertain future A philosopher, a scientist and a software engineer have come together to propose a new centre at Cambridge to address developments in human technologies that might pose extinction-level risks to our species, from biotechnology to articial intelligence.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ humanitys-last-invention-and-ouruncertain-future/

Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth's history, according to a paper released on Wednesday by the science journal Nature. Over the past 540 million years, ve megawipeouts of species have occurred through naturally-induced events. But the new threat is man-made, inicted by habitation loss, over-hunting, over-shing, the spread of germs and viruses and introduced species, and by climate change caused by fossil-fuel greenhouse gases, says the study.

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Arms trade treaty nally within crosshairs Global Times | 2012-11-26 13:25:00 By HeYun In a historic vote at the UN General Assembly First Committee on November 7, member states passed Resolution L.11 in favor of nalizing the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in March 2013. An overwhelming 157 countries voted in favor of the resolution with only 18 abstentions and no oppositions. Out of the six biggest arms exporters, China voted in favor of the resolution, along with the US, UK, Germany and France with only Russia abstaining. Although the resolution itself does not guarantee the nal adoption of an ATT, it is to date the biggest demonstration yet of a broad international consensus in support of a legally binding treaty regulating the global arms trade. The idea that imports and exports of weapons should be regulated by common standards is not entirely new. Efforts to regulate the conventional arms trade have been on the international agenda for a long time. One of the earlier efforts was made by the League of Nations, when in 1925 it introduced a draft convention on the arms

trade. This treaty, however, was never adopted. During the Cold War, both the Eastern and Western blocs set up separate mechanisms to coordinate the arms trade internally and maintain their spheres of inuence. Arms transfers were used to nance proxy wars and as political leverage to prevent the expansion of rivals. Although multilateral institutions to regulate arms exports did exist, they were primarily intended to prevent arms owing to the opposing side. For instance, NATO's establishment of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) was an attempt to stop the export of military or dual-use items to the Soviet Bloc. Back then, national security interests remained paramount. The concept that drives the inception of an ATT is very different. Traditional concern for national security interests is no longer the primary reason to regulate the arms trade. What motivates the ATT negotiation is the emphasis of human suffering that is directly connected to the transfer of weapons. It is estimated that every minute at least one person dies from armed violence around the world. Countless more have their lives torn apart either because of conict, poverty and disease that are fueled by unregulated or poorly regulated arms transfers.

The establishment of an ATT will have a positive effect in regulating the ow of these weapons to areas of conict and instability that are often on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. Upon its entry into force, the ATT will require each state, before authorizing an arms transfer, to undertake an assessment based on the risk whether the arms transfer could be used to facilitate, among other things, "serious violations" of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, or to commit terrorist acts. If the risk is considered "over-riding," then a country is required to refuse such an arms transfer. There is more. Whereas small arms and light weapons are not the traditional concerns of arms export control regimes until very recently, they have been included as a major component in the scope of ATT. The logic is simple: these weapons kill. Much effort and attention has been given to the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, but, ironically, what brings death to millions is not these "absolute weapons," but weapons as small as a handgun or rie. To date the road that leads to an ATT has been quite complex. Since its inception in 2006 in the form of UNGA Resolution 61/89, the ATT initiative has been through a group of governmental experts, two sessions of an

open-ended working group meeting and four preparatory committee meetings, culminating in the July 2012 Diplomatic Conference. Although in July 2012 states failed to adopt a treaty, the conference is believed to have achieved a fundamental breakthrough by putting forward a draft treaty text, coded CRP.1, which provides a basis for the next round of nal negotiations in March 2013. With the progress made so far on the substance of the draft treaty, the momentum garnered through the recent UN First Committee resolution and the exibility the Obama administration will be able to exhibit during its second term, there is much hope that the next round of ATT negotiations in 2013 will nally produce a treaty that many around the world are crying for. The author is a Fulbright fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland and Ph.D candidate at Tsinghua University.

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dcCU 2 days ago July 20 1977-8 the government announced they had done MindKontrol experiments but had terminated experiments. This is no conspirarcy theory the only conspiracy is if its still being conducted. what do ya think? hmmm we put a man on the moon July 20 also. thevinend 1 day ago @dcCU So the gov announced they suspended a highly unethical and illegal covert operation of creating assassins, and this makes it so? huh, I see some aws in the logic. dcCU 23 hours ago thevineend- hi-im just saying they announced that they were doing it, admitted to experiemnts. oh of course they didnt stop! the release of info was just to appease the simplistic minded that believe the media and govt word is golden. i was just referencing mostly the date of JULY 20. coincidence? i believe there are no coincidences. thanks for response. nice to meet ya

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Was Robert Kennedy killed by a real 'Manchurian candidate'-style assassin? A new book claims to reveal evidence that the CIA, FBI and Aristotle Onassis hypnotised a Palestinian man into assassinating Robert Kennedy. John Hiscock reports

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ americas/was-robert-kennedy-killed-by-areal-manchurian-candidatestyleassassin-6154616.html

Los Angeles (CNN) -- As a federal court prepares to rule on a challenge to Sirhan Sirhan's conviction in the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, a long overlooked witness to the murder is telling her story: She heard two guns ring during the 1968 shooting and authorities altered her account of the crime.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/28/justice/ california-rfk-second-gun/index.html

Now sick babies go on death pathway: Doctor's haunting testimony reveals how children are put on end-of-life plan Practice of withdrawing food and uid by tube being used on young patients Doctor admits starving and dehydrating ten babies to death in neonatal unit Liverpool Care Pathway subject of independent inquiry ordered by ministers Investigation, including child patients, will look at whether cash payments to hospitals to hit death pathway targets have inuenced doctors' decisions By SUE REID and SIMON CALDWELL PUBLISHED: 23:03 GMT, 28 November 2012 | UPDATED: 00:54 GMT, 29 November 2012 Comments (588) Share

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The Cost of KiddingYourself In Open Thread on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 1:34 pm Five years ago, every American would have considered a trillion-dollar budget decit a national tragedy. If you believe the CNBC parrot show, NOT having a trillion-dollar decit is now a sure sign of the Apocalypse. I speak of course of the cleverly dubbed Fiscal Cliff, which panicked CNBC apologists are required to mention no less than 5,000 times a day. Were told ad nauseam that going over the cliff will drag the US into recession. Heres what were not told: The US has been in recession 9 of the last 10 years. Its in recession this year, and no matter what CNBCs nancial terrorists say or the idiots on Capital Hill decide, it will most certainly be in recession in 2013. Creating the illusion of economic growth is easy if you can print money. Its a prank you can play on an entire country. Cut the value of the currency in half and the economys size will appear to double. If it doesnt, youre in recession (whether you know it or not). Cavemen probably understood this concept better than Americas best economic minds.

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URGENT NATO preparing vast disinformation campaign by Thierry Meyssan Member States of NATO and the GCC are preparing a coup dtat and a sectarian genocide in Syria. If you want to prevent these crimes, you should act now: circulate this article on the Internet and alert your elected ofcials. VOLTAIRE NETWORK | DAMASCUS (SYRIA) | 11 JUNE 2012 FRANAIS DEUTSCH ITALIANO ESPAOL PORTUGUS In a few days, perhaps as early as Friday, June 15, at noon, the Syrians wanting to watch their national TV stations will see them replaced on their screens by TV programs created by the CIA. Studio-shot images will show massacres that are blamed on the Syrian Government, people demonstrating, ministers and generals resigning from their posts, President AlAssad eeing, the rebels gathering in the big city centers, and a new government installing itself in the presidential palace. This operation of disinformation, directly managed from Washington by Ben Rhodes, the US deputy national security adviser for strategic communication, aims at

demoralizing the Syrians in order to pave the way for a coup detat. NATO, discontent about the double veto of Russia and China, will thus succeed in conquering Syria without attacking the country illegally. Whichever judgment you might have formed on the actual events in Syria, a coup detat will end all hopes of democratization. The Arab League has ofcially asked the satellite operators Arabsat and Nilesat to stop broadcasting Syrian media, either public or private (Syria TV, Al-Ekbariya, AdDounia, Cham TV, etc.) A precedent already exists because the Arab League had managed to censure Libyan TV in order to keep the leaders of the Jamahiriya from communicating with their people. There is no Hertz network in Syria, where TV works exclusively with satellites. The cut, however, will not leave the screens black. Actually, this public decision is only the tip of the iceberg. According to our information several international meetings were organized during the past week to coordinate the disinformation campaign. The rst two were technical meetings, held in Doha (Qatar); the third was a political meeting and took place in Riyad (Saudi Arabia). The rst meeting assembled PSYOP ofcers, embedded in the satellite TV channels of AlArabiya, Al-Jazeera, BBC, CNN, Fox, France 24, Future TV and MTV. It is known that

since 1998, the ofcers of the US Army Psychological Operations Unit (PSYOP) have been incorporated in CNN. Since then this practice has been extended by NATO to other strategic media as well. They fabricated false information in advance, on the basis of a story-telling script devised by Ben Rhodess team at the White House. A procedure of reciprocal validation was installed, with each media quoting the lies of the other media to render them plausible for TV spectators. The participants also decided not only to requisition the TV channels of the CIA for Syria and Lebanon (Barada, Future TV, MTV, Orient News, Syria Chaab, Syria Alghad) but also about 40 religious Wahhabi TV channels to call for confessional massacres to the cry of Christians to Beyrouth, Alawites into the grave!. The second meeting was held for engineers and technicians to fabricate ctitious images, mixing one part in an outdoor studio, the other part with computer generated images. During the past weeks, studios in Saudi Arabia have been set up to build replicas of the two presidential palaces in Syria and the main squares of Damascus, Aleppo and Homs. Studios of this type already exist in Doha (Qatar), but they are not sufcient. The third meeting was held by General James B. Smith, the US ambassador, a

representative of the UK, prince Bandar Bin Sultan (whom former U.S. president George Bush named his adopted son so that the U.S. press called him Bandar Bush). In this meeting the media actions were coordinated with those of the Free "Syrian" Army, in which prince Bandars mercenaries play a decisive role. The operation had been in the making for several months, but the U.S. National Security Council decided to accelerate the action after the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, notied the White House that he would oppose by all means, even by force, any illegal NATO military intervention in Syria. The operation has a double intent: the rst is to spread false information, the second aims at censuring all possible responses. The hampering of TV satellites for military purposes is not new. Under pressure from Israel, the USA and the EU blocked Lebanese, Palestinian, Iraqi, Libyan and Iranian TV channels, one after the other. However, no satellite channels from other parts of the world were censured. The broadcast of false news is also not new, but four signicant steps have been taken in the art of propaganda during the last decade. In 1994, a pop music station named Free Radio of the Thousand Hills (RTML) gave the

signal for genocide in Rwanda with the cry, Kill the cockroaches! In 2001, NATO used the media to impose an interpretation of the 9/11 attacks and to justify its own aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq. At that time already, it was Ben Rhodes who had been commissioned by the Bush administration to concoct the Kean/Hamilton Commission report on the attacks. In 2002, the CIA used ve TV channels (Televen, Globovision, ValeTV and CMT) to make the public in Venezuela believe that phantom demonstrators had captured the elected president, Hugo Chvez, forcing him to resign. In reality he was the victim of a military coup detat. In 2011, France 24 served as information ministry for the Libyan CNT, according to a signed contract. During the battle of Tripoli, NATO produced fake studio lms, then transmitted them via Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, showing phantom images of Libyan rebels on the central square of the capital city, while in reality they were still far away. As a consequence, the inhabitants of Tripoli were persuaded that the war was lost and gave up all resistance. Nowadays the media do not only support a war, they produce it themselves. This procedure violates the principles of International Law, rst of all Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights relating to the fact of receiving and

imparting information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Above all, the procedure violates the United Nations General Assembly resolution, adopted after the end of World War II, to prevent further wars. Resolutions 110, 381 and 819 forbid to set obstacles to free exchange of information and ideas (like cutting off Syrian TV channels) and all propaganda provoking or encouraging threats to peace, breaking peace, and all acts of aggression. By law, war propaganda is a crime against peace, the worst of crimes, because it facilitates war crimes and genocide. Thierry Meyssan Source Komsomolskaa Pravda Translated from French by Olivia Kroth.

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French Socialist in Mittal Row: We're Just Doing What Obama Does Published: Friday, 30 Nov 2012 | 6:48 AM ET By: Reported by Stephane Pedrazzi, written by Catherine Boyle The French politician who said Indian steel company ArcelorMittal should leave the country has told CNBC that his government is only acting like U.S. President Barack Obama. Eric Feferberg / AFP/Getty Images French Minister for Industrial Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg poses as he arrives at the Hotel Matignon (the Prime Minister's ofcial residence) in Paris. Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, a member of the governing Socialist party, caused controversy last week when he said that the Indian company, which employs close to 20,000 people in France, should leave after it said it would have to close down a factory. The French government announced on Thursday that it could nationalize the factory in question, with backing from an unnamed businessman.

The news raised the specter of the nationalizations of the early 1980s, which were instigated by Hollandes predecessor Francois Mitterrand. Montebourg told CNBC after a meeting with trade unions in Paris: Barack Obama's nationalized. The Germans are nationalizing. All countries are nationalizing. I've also noticed the British nationalized 6 banks.

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Brainwashed FAQ Q: Are there any famous claims of brainwashing? A: In 1972, kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst claimed at her trial that she was brainwashed into committing crimes alongside her abductors. And in 1968 Bobby Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, who claimed he was brainwashed into killing Kennedy. Q: What was the goal of the Brainwashed episode of Curiosity? A: The objective was to take mentally healthy, law-abiding citizens and program them to shoot and kill complete strangers using brainwashing. Q: Who conducted the Curiosity brainwashing experiment? A: Overseeing the experiment were: Dr. Cynthia Meyersburg, who has conducted multiple studies on false memory implantation at Harvard University; Dr. Mark Stokes, who studies the neuropathways of the decision making processes at Oxford University in England; and Dr. Jeff Kieliszewski, who works in Super-Max security prisons, and hospitals for the criminally insane.

Q: Who performed the actual hypnosis during the Curiosity brainwashing experiment? A: The experts called on certied hypnotherapist Tom Silver to perform the hypnosis for the experiment. Silver has treated thousands of patients in more than 20 countries. Hes been called in by law enforcement to conduct hypnotic interrogations, and he was recruited by the Taiwanese Secret Service to help uncover an international arms trading scandal -- a story only recently declassied. Q: How many people applied to join the Curiosity brainwashing study as participants? A: 185 people applied for the study. Q: What's the rst step in hypnosis? A: The rst step is to determine whether or not a subject is susceptible to hypnosis. Not everyone is. Q: How did Curiosity's hypnotist approach candidates for the experiment? A: Hypnotist Tom Silver hypnotized the subjects in groups of 10 at a time and then gave them a series of commands designed to test the depth of their hypnotic state. Q: During Curiosity's brainwashing experiment, how long did it take most subjects to become hypnotized? A: After ve minutes, most subjects entered a hypnotic trance.

Q: How many subjects were found to be suitable for Curiosity's brainwashing experiment. A: The team found that 16 of the original 185 applicants were susceptible to hypnosis. Of those 16, 11 passed the rigorous follow-up psychological evaluation. Q: Which challenge did the Curiosity brainwashing subjects face rst? A: The subjects were tested to see how many would abandon social norms under hypnosis. Q: How many Curiosity brainwashing subjects were able to abandon social norms under hypnosis? A: Four participants in the experiment were able to abandon social norms while under hypnosis. These four "assassins" were able to move on to the next challenge. Q: What was the rst challenge faced by the remaining four Curiosity brainwashing experiment subjects? A: The subjects were hypnotized and then submerged in an ice bath, but only after being instructed NOT to feel the cold of the water. Q: How cold was the water used in the ice bath test during the Curiosity brainwashing experiment? A: The water in which the test subjects were submerged was conrmed by a thermal imaging camera to be 35 degrees F (1.7 C).

Q: Were precautions taken to ensure the safety of the Curiosity brainwashing test subjects during the ice bath experiment? A: The experiment team attached monitors to each person to ensure such critical things as their heart rate could be observed. An EMT was also on hand to ensure the participants' safety. Q: Did any of the remaining four Curiosity brainwashing test subjects pass the ice bath test? A: All but one of the subjects failed the test. None of the participants who failed lasted more than 18 seconds in the near-freezing water. The remaining subject lasted an astonishing 2 minutes. Had all four subjects failed, the experiment would have been over. Q: Who was the nal Curiosity brainwashing test subject still in the running to be hypnotized into being an assassin? A: A man named Ivan, a 36-year-old corrections ofcer, was the last subject standing. Q: How did the Curiosity brainwashing team go about staging an assassination for Ivan to attempt? A: Outside the hotel, the team staged a velvet line at a service entrance. "Paparazzi" were staged along the velvet line, waiting for a "foreign dignitary" to emerge from the

entrance. Large SUVs awaited the dignitary. Q: What kind of weapon was Ivan given? A: The team used an airsoft prop gun that res no bullets but has the blast and recoil action of a real rearm. Everything about it would suggest to Ivan that it was a real, deadly weapon. Q: How was Ivan programmed for the killing without tipping him off to what was about to happen? A: Ivan was told he was not selected to continue in the program but that the producers wanted to see him for an exit interview. When he showed up for the interview, that gave Tom the hypnotist his chance. Q: How did Tom's hypnotizing of Ivan proceed? A: Tom induced a trance in Ivan and then gave him his instructions to assassinate the foreign dignitary as he is leaving the hotel. Tom also left Ivan with a key piece of information: A "trigger" signal that would cause Ivan to act out his commands at a later time. Later, Ivan, who thought he was going home after the exit interview, received the signal from a production staffer in the hotel lobby. Q: Did Ivan carry out his assassination? A:Yes. The experiment was a success, and Ivan carried out his instructions: removing the

gun from a red backpack, waiting near the velvet rope line and "assassinating" his target.

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Committee Overwhelmingly Passes the FY13 National Defense Authorization Act Chairman McKeon Lauds Passage by 56-5 WASHINGTON- The House Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly approved HR 4310 the FY 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) this morning. The action clears the way for consideration of the bill by full House, scheduled for next week. The legislation provides the necessary authorities and funding for Americas military. The bill meets Chairman Howard P. Buck McKeons goals of keeping faith with Americas men and women in uniform; restoring scal sanity to a defense budget that is inconsistent with the threats America faces; rebuilding a force after a decade at war; and aligning our military posture in a dangerous world. Im grateful to our committee members for their vigorous and energetic debate today, Chairman McKeon said. This represents the rst step in passing the 51st consecutive National Defense Authorization Act, a bill that has become the gold standard for Congressional bipartisanship. Our troops deserve the best training, equipment, and leadership in the world, and Im proud that our members consistently put aside personal politics to fulll that sacred obligation to our Armed Forces.

Restoring Strategy and Sanity To The Defense Budget: The FY 13 Defense Authorization Act begins to restore scal sanity to the defense budget, reecting concern about Americas mounting debt, but also ensuring that our armed forces have the resources they need to meet an increasingly dangerous world. It also recognizes that the military has absorbed 50% of decit reduction efforts to date, though it comprises only 20% of the federal budget. The bill authorizes $554 billion for national defense and $88.5 billion for Overseas Contingencies Operations, consistent with the budget resolution the House passed last month. Like the Presidents budget request, these levels differ signicantly from levels authorized in the Budget Control Act. This level of funding is nearly $4 billion more than the Presidents budget request, but it is still less than last years request and only an incremental step to address the $46 billion decrease when considering where the President estimated National Defense would be for scal year 2013 in last year s budget. Even with this modest increase to the Presidents request for the military, the 2013 defense bill reects the fact that members of the Armed Services Committee and the broader Congress must make tough choices in order to provide for Americas common defense.

Keeping Faith With The Warghter And Military Families: The FY13 NDAA provides our war ghters and their families with the care and support they need, deserve, and have earned; while ensuring that proposed drawdown plans do not cut to the heart of the Army and Marine Corps. Vital provisions include: TRICARE: The FY13 NDAA restates the rmlyheld sense of Congress that prior service to our nation is a pre-payment of healthcare benets in retirement. This nation must honor its commitment to generations of service members, families, and survivors who have spent decades sacricing their personal interests in service to their country. As such, it rejects Administration proposals to increase some TRICARE fees and establish new TRICARE fees. These proposals went too far and were not included in the bill. The FY13 NDAA includes a modest increase in TRICARE pharmacy co-pays in 2013 and a cap on pharmacy co-pays beginning in 2014 that would allow fees to rise by no more than the annual retiree COLA. This is offset by a 5-year pilot program that requires TRICARE for life recipients to obtain rells of maintenance drugs through the TRICARE mail-order program. TROOP PAY: The FY13 NDAA authorizes a 1.7% pay increase and extends bonuses and special pay for our men and women in uniform.

TROOP REDUCTION: As the size of the military is reduced, the FY13 NDAA caps the number of troops that can be separated from the force in a single year. The bill also mandates that in the future, funding for troops designated for separation must be part of DoDs base budget and not carried in accounts for contingency operations. SEXUAL ASSAULT: The FY13 NDAA reects a bipartisan effort to provide signicant new regulations and procedures for combating and prosecuting sexual assault within the military. Rebuilding A Military Tested By A Decade At War VITAL SYSTEMS AND CAPABILITES: The bill restores and retains vital systems, platforms, and authorities needed to maintain Americas combat power after a decade of war while declining to take up Administration requests, such as two rounds of base closure, which could damage vital military infrastructure. * Restores three of the four Navy cruisers proposed for early retirement in Fiscal Year 2013. * Preserves tactical airlift crucial to DODs ability to support warghters on the ground with agile combat support, such as C-130 Hercules, C-23 Sherpas, and C-27J Spartan aircraft proposed for early retirement.

* Maintains close air support and ground interdiction capabilities provided by A-10 Warthogs and F-16 Fighting Falcons slated for premature divestment prior to the forecasted service-life end of each aircraft. * Retains the Air Force's Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft as they support the deployed warghter, rather than shifting this asset to storage. * Supports counter-IED funding for the warghter. * Sustains America's heavy armored production base by maintaining minimum sustained production of Abrams tanks, Bradley ghting vehicles, and Hercules recovery vehicles. * Maintains the option for additional airborne electronic warfare capabilities by supporting advance procurement for the EA-18G. * Fully funds the Army Ground Combat Vehicle development program. * Fully funds requests for 50 AH-64 Apaches, 59 UH-60 Blackhawks, and 44 CH-47 Chinooks, 29 F-35 Lightning II aircraft, 26 F-18 E/F Super Hornets, V-22 aircraft, 36 MQ-9 Reaper UAS.

* Authorizes a multi-year procurement for up to 10 Virginia-class submarines. * Authorizes a multi-year procurement for up to 10 DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers. COMPETITION AND INNOVATION: The FY13 NDAA introduces bi-partisan reforms aimed at the way the Defense Department interacts with the private sector, opening more opportunities for small businesses, increasing competition, and spurring innovation. The bill requires the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on areas of risk within the defense industrial base. It also requires the Secretary to develop a national security strategy for the industrial base and eliminates obstacles to small business competition for Defense Department initiatives. The measure also restores a long-standing balance of depotlevel maintenance between the Defense Department and the private sector. Aligning Military Posture In A Dangerous World: The NDAA ensures that Americas military is robust, exible, and capable. The bill will provide our warghters with the time, resources, and authorities they need to win the war in Afghanistan and continue to prosecute the wider War on Terror. In addition the NDAA:

* Requires the President to notify Congress of any planned force reductions in Afghanistan, and justify those reductions based on conditions on the ground. * Prohibits use of private security contractors for force protection of US troops in Afghanistan. * Requires Combatant Commanders to give their assessment of capability gaps against North Korea, China, and Iran. * Reinforces the United States commitment to use all elements of national power to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and enhances the credibility of the military option, should it prove necessary. * Modernizes and supports DODs nuclear forces, that includes intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers and the Navys strategic submarines and submarine-launched ballistic missiles. * Reform NNSAs governance and management systems to make the agency more independent and efcient. Strengthens congressional oversight of the nations nuclear weapons war plan. * Supports a robust national missile defense, including $100 million for an East Coast third site for national missile defense to align with the rising threat from Iran.

* Supports key allies, including Israeli Cooperative Missile Defense programs like Iron Dome. * Provides additional funding for national security space programs, approximately $50 million above the Administrations request. Increases oversight on development of cyber operations capabilities. * Supports several key areas of science and technology investments to ensure the Department meets future defense needs * Enables Special Operations Forces to sustain the current ght and rebalance across the globe where appropriate to counter and mitigate threats, and work with partner nations. * Preserves and institutionalizes other capabilities such as irregular warfare and security force assistance within the services and U.S. Special Operations Command. * Implements recommendations from the HASC Financial Management and Auditability Reform Panel that will improve execution and management of Department of Defense Enterprise Resource Planning systems.

DETAINEES: As terrorists have decentralized and sought new safe havens from which to carry out attacks on U.S. soil, Congress acted last year to ensure our military men and women risking their lives to defend us from such attacks on are on solid legal ground. Last year the FY12 NDAA reafrmed the authority to go after terrorists who are part of or substantially supporting al Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces. This year, through the incorporation of the Right to Habeas Corpus Act, the bill makes clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that every American will have his day in court. The FY13 NDAA also prohibits the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States. Permalink: http://armedservices.house.gov/ index.cfm/2012/5/committeeoverwhelmingly-passes-the-fy13-nationaldefense-authorization-act

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German lawmakers condemn Google campaign against copyright law By Madeline Chambers BERLIN | Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:22am EST (Reuters) - Senior German politicians have denounced as propaganda a campaign by Google to mobilize public opinion against proposed legislation to let publishers charge search engines for displaying newspaper articles. Internet lobbyists say they are worried the German law will set a precedent for other countries such as France and Italy that have shown an interest in having Google pay publishers for the right to show their news snippets in its search results. Lawmakers in Berlin will debate the bill in the Bundestag (lower house) on Thursday. Google says the law would make it harder for users to retrieve information via the Internet. Google launched its campaign against the bill on Tuesday with advertisements in German newspapers and a web information site called "Defend your web". "Such a law would hit every Internet user in Germany," Stefan Tweraser, country manager for Google Germany, said in a statement. "An ancillary copyright means

less information for consumers and higher costs for companies." The campaign has caused outrage among some members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition. "The campaign initiated by Google is cheap propaganda," said conservative lawmakers Guenter Krings and Ansgar Heveling. "Under the guise of a supposed project for the freedom of the Internet, an attempt is being made to coopt its users for its own lobbying," the two said in a statement. Supporters of the law argue that newspaper publishers should be able to benet from advertising revenues earned by search engines using their content. Under the plans, publishers would get a bigger say over how their articles are used on the Internet and could charge search engines for showing articles or extracts. German Justice Minister Sabine LeutheusserSchnarrenberger, a member of the Free Democrats (FDP) who share power in Merkel's government, said she was astonished that Google was trying to monopolize opinion-making. She is responsible for the law.

"PANIC MONGERING" Germany's newspaper industry, suffering from economic slowdown and keen to get its hands on any revenues it can, backs the plans and railed against Google's campaign. "The panic mongering from Google has no justication," Germany's BDZV newspaper association said in a statement. "The argument from search engine companies that Internet searching and retrieval will be made more difcult is not serious. Private use, reading, following links and quoting will be possible, just as before." Internet lobbyists in Brussels fear the European Commission is sympathetic to publisher demands for a piece of Google's prots online. Recent statements, they say, are proof. "Consumers are not the only ones facing difculties," Michel Barnier, the EU's internal market commissioner, said in a speech on November 7. "Think of newspaper publishers who see the content they produce being used by others to attract consumers on the net and generate advertising revenues." French newspapers and magazines want Google to pay them for linking to their articles on Google. The French government has named a mediator to negotiate with the

press and Google to try to get a deal by the end of the year. If no deal emerges, President Francois Hollande's government will ask parliament to draft a law modifying copyright laws to protect the press from appropriation of its content online, according to a letter signed by two ministers on November 28. (Additional reporting by Harro ten Wolde in Frankfurt, Claire Davenbport in Brussels and Leila Abboud in Paris; Writing by Madeline Chambers, Editing by Gareth Jones and)

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Slow Poisoning By Food Additives Excerpted from Sheri Nakkens VaccineInfo List May 31, 2004 Aspartame is a drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with other drugs, has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG, and is a chemical hyper-sensitization agent says a press release from World Natural Health Association which announced recent lawsuits led in California against twelve companies who either produce or use the articial sweetener aspartame in their products. It cites the work of a number of researchers such as Dr. John Olney, who in the 1970s found lesions in the brains of mice exposed to aspartic acid and in 1996 made the aspartame/brain tumour connection. It cites as well Dr. Ralph Waltons research into the psychiatric problems triggered by aspartame-caused depletion of serotonin. Aspartame causes headache, memory loss, seizures, vision loss, coma and cancer. It worsens or mimics the symptoms of such diseases and conditions as bromyalgia, MS, lupus, ADD, diabetes, Alzheimers, chronic fatigue and depression. Aspartame liberates free methyl alcohol. The resulting chronic methanol poisoning affects the dopamine system of the brain causing addiction. Methanol, or wood alcohol, constitutes one-third of the aspartame molecule and is classied as a severe metabolic poison and narcotic. Sudden death can occur from aspartame use because it damages the

cardiac conduction system (something re athletes) Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with aspartame. For 16 years the FDA denied approval for it because of unresolved questions about its toxicity. Then in 1977 the G.D. Searle company hired Donald Rumsfeld as its CEO to apply his substantial political muscle to get aspartame approved. When Rumsfeld was appointed to President Ronald Reagans transition team in 1981, he hand picked Arthur Hull Hayes to be the new FDA Commissioner, who over the objections of his own FDA team, approved aspartame for use in dry products. By 1983 it was approved for soft drinks, and today is found in over 5,000 foods, drinks and medicines. In 1995, the FDA was forced to release a list of 92 aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. The lawsuits allege that food companies committed fraud and breach of warranty by marketing products such as diet Coke, diet Pepsi, sugar free gum, Flintstones vitamins, yogurt and childrens aspirin with the full knowledge that the articial sweetener aspartame is neurotoxic. Companies named in the lawsuits include Coca-cola, PepsiCo, Bayer Corp., the Dannon Company, William Wrigley Jr. Company, ConAgra Foods, Wyeth, Inc., The NutraSweet Company, and Altria Corp. (parent company of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris). Plaintiffs have asked for an

injunction to stop companies from producing, manufacturing processing, selling or using aspartame. Two recent books highlight the widespread health crisis provoked by food additives MSG (monosodium glutamate) and articial sweetener aspartame. Following is an excerpt from Dr. Russell Blaylocks book and a brief review of John Erbs book on MSG. Both substances are also classied as excitotoxins and can cause neurodegenerative diseases. There is now evidence that excitotoxins play a major role in exacerbation of MS and other demyelinating disorders including trigeminal neuraliga. Because excitotoxins trigger signicant elevation of free radicals in the lining of arteries, Dr. Russell Blaylock warns aspartame will increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes. From the book, Excitotoxins The Taste That Kills By Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD What if someone were to tell you that a chemical (MSG) added to food could cause brain damage in your children, and that this chemical could effect how your childrens nervous systems formed during development so that in later years they may have learning or emotional difculties?

What if there was scientic evidence that these chemicals could permanently damage a critical part of the brain known to control hormones so that later in life your child might have endocrine problems? How would you feel? Suppose evidence was presented to you strongly suggesting that the articial sweetener in your diet soft drink may cause brain tumors to develop, and that the number of brain tumors reported since the introduction of this widespread introduction of this articial sweetener has risen dramatically? Would that affect your decision to drink these products and especially to allow your children to drink them? What if you could be shown overwhelming evidence that one of the main ingredients in this sweetener (aspartate) could cause the same brain lesions as MSG? Would that affect your buying decisions? And nally, what if it could be demonstrated that all of these types of chemicals, called excitotoxins, could possibly aggravate or even precipitate many of todays epidemic neurodegenerative brain diseases such as Parkinsons disease, Huntingtons disease, ALS, and Alzheimer s disease? Would you be concerned if you knew that these excitotoxin food additives are a particular risk if you have diabetes, or have ever had a stroke, brain injury, brain tumor, seizure, or have suffered from

hypertension, meningitis, or viral encephalitis? Would you also be upset to learn that many of the brain lesions caused by these products in your children are irreversible and can result from a SINGLE exposure of these products in sufcient concentration? How would you feel when you learn the food industry hides and disguises these excitotoxin additives (MSG and Aspartate) so they cant be recognized? Incredulous? Enraged? The fact is many foods are labeled as having No MSG but in fact not only contain MSG but also are laced with other excitotoxins of equal potency and danger. All of the above are true. And all of these well known brain toxins are poured into our food and drink by the thousands of tons to boost sales. These additives have NO OTHER purpose other than to enhance to TASTE of food and the SWEETNESS of various diet products. Hidden Sources Of MSG As discussed previously, the glutamate (MSG) manufacturers and the processed food industries are always on a quest to disguise the MSG added to food. Below is a partial list of the most common names for disguised MSG. Remember also that the powerful excitotoxins, aspartate and L-cystine, are

frequently added to foods and according to FDA rules require NO LABELING AT ALL. Aspartame An Intense Source Of Excitotoxins Aspartame is a sweetener made from two amino acids, phenylalanine and the excitotoxin aspartate. It should be avoided at all costs. Aspartame complaints accounts for approximately 70% of ALL complaints to the FDA. It is implicated in everything from blindness to headaches to convulsions. Sold under dozens of brand names such as NutraSweet and Equal, aspartame breaks down within 20 minutes at room temperature into several primary toxic and dangerous ingredients: DKP (diketopiperazine) (When ingested, converts to a near duplicate of a powerful brain tumor causing agent) Formic Acid (ant venom) Formaldehyde (embalming uid) Methanol (causes blindnessextremely dangerous substance) Common Examples: Diet soft drinks, sugar free gums, sugar free Kool Aid, Crystal Light, childrens medications, and thousands of other products claiming to be low calorie, diet, or sugar free.

A Final Note Dr. Blaylock recounted a meeting with a senior executive in the food additive industry who told him point blank that these excitotoxins are going to be in our food no matter how many name changes are necessary For an indepth history and analysis of Aspartame read The Articially Sweetened Times produced by Don Harkins and Ingri Cassel, publishers of Vaccination Liberation and the Idaho Observer. Following is a review of John Erbs book The Slow Poisoning of America John Erb, author of the book The Slow Poisoning of America believes that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body. It is the food industrys equivalent to Nicotine. Studies have shown that people who eat food laced with MSG eat more of it, and faster than food that does not have this additive.[and]adding MSG to certain foods, such as soup and mashed potatoes, has been successful in increasing the food intake in institutionalized elderly populations. If it makes the elderly eat more, what is it doing to our nations children? Just as the occurrence of obesity and diabetes has risen to record levels, so too has the publics ingestion of MSG, also found in ingredients such as Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein and AutolyzedYeast Extract. It is

being added to a huge selection of restaurant food and processed food found in supermarkets. Glutamate is an amino acid that can excite almost every major organ in the body, especially the brain. It occurs naturally in milligram amounts in some harvested foods. Now, however, a person can get as much as a teaspoonful a day. When ingested by human test subjects MSG directly affects the pancreas stimulating it to triple its standard output of insulin output. This unnatural amount of insulin nds the sugar in the blood and converts it to fat. A few hours after you eat MSG, the excess insulin the MSG triggers reduces your blood sugar level so much that you become tired and even hungry again. In animal test subjects this excess insulin leads to hyperinsulinemia: the chronic overproduction of insulin. The pancreas becomes so out of control that the body starts producing killer T cells to shut it down. Is it any wonder why diabetes, obesity and lethargy in our youth is at an all time high? Junk foods, processed foods, even cafeteria foods are now laced with large amounts of exitotoxic glutamates, reports John Erb. Too much glutamate in the brain overexcites the neurons until they die. Many people who suffer from chronic headaches and migraines can trace their trigger to

eating too much MSG. If it can give an adult a migraine what can it do to a developing fetus? John Erb asks. Invited to attend the Defeat Autism Now Conference in Washington, D.C., Erb, presented a report that outlined how MSG can affect a fetus before it is even a month old. The placental barrier is not developed and the embryo gets a full dose of whatever chemicals the mother has in her bloodstream, raising the possibility of altering brain development, leading to autism spectrum disorders. Considering that MSG has been proven to cause obesity and pre-diabetes in test subjects and is used as a food additive to make people eat more, Erb believes that glutamates should be banned as a food additive. A university associate of John Erb writes the following: Checking the cupboards and the fridge I was shocked to nd MSG was in everything! The Campbells soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays avored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, Kraft salad dressings, especially the healthy low fat ones. The items that didnt have MSG had something called Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate. I was shocked to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everyday are lled with this stuff. They hide MSG under many

different names in order to fool those who catch on. But it didnt stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started asking the restaurants what menu items had MSG. Many employees, even the managers, swore they didnt use MSG. But when we ask for the ingredient list, which they grudgingly provided, sure enough MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere. Burger King, McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like TGIF, Chilis, Applebees and Dennys use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish, salad dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin, their secret spice was MSG! We do not want to be rats in one giant experiment, and we do not approve of food that makes us into a nation of obese, lethargic, addicted sheep, waiting for the slaughter. Blow the whistle on MSG!

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Microglial Activation and Neurodegeneration Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. Microglia are the resident immune cells in the central nervous system. Normally they remain in a quiescent state. When stimulated, they become metabolically active and assume an ameboid prole, with an ability to move about the CNS. Activation of microglia is quite easy and can be accomplished by a number of events, such as trauma, excitotoxic excitation, invasion of microorganisms, heavy metal toxicity, systemic immune activation and various pharmaceutical agents. Under most circumstances this activation is short lived and terminates rather abruptly. Under such conditions, the microglia serves the function of any immune cell-that is, it releases immune cytokines, eicosanoids, free radicals, lipid peroxidation products and complement, which act to kill the invading organisms. In addition, microglia secrete several growth factors (brain derived growth factor and epidermal growth factor), which serves to repair any damage that might have been done. It also has ameboid, phagocytic activity, which allows these cells to remove cellular debris and dead or dying microorganisms. It can also remove soluble beta-amyloid, which can accumulate during such assaults. Because of their

ability to move around and between neurons, they can specically target the synaptic interface. In a great number of conditions, this synaptic unit is damaged and therefore is central to their pathophysiology. On occasion, the activation of microglia is not terminated and a state of chronic activation occurs. When this happens, signicant damage can occur to a number of brain microstructures, especially synaptic connections and dendrites. While short term microglial activation can be neuroprotective (because of the secreted growth factors) chronic activation appears to be neurodegenerative. Newer studies have shown that chronic microglial activation occurs in a number of pathological states, including CNS trauma, infections, heavy metal toxicity, pesticide exposures. neurodegenerative diseases, autism, Downs syndrome and overvaccination. When microglia are activated, they also secrete two known excitotoxins-glutamate and quinolinic acid. In addition, they secrete a number of factors that are also known to enhance excitotoxicity, such as tumor necrosis factors-alpha (TNF-alpha), IL-1, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6 and IL-18, as well as interferons and other immune molecules. A number of studies have shown that several of these immune factors greatly enhance excitotoxicity, especially TNF-alpha and

IL-1-two inammatory cytokines that are elevated in all of the neurodegenerative diseases as well as autism. Microglia also secrete a fatty molecule called arachidonic acid. This too enhances excitotoxicity. Arachidonic acid release increases the production of inammatory eicosanoids, primarily by the action of LOX and COX enzymes. Studies have shown that glutamatergic neurons also contain COX enzymes and that excitotoxic destruction of neurons follows the presence of COX-2 enzymes. Blocking COX and LOX enzymes signicantly reduces excitotoxicity. This accounts for some of the selectivity of excitotoxicity, that is, it will severely damage and/or kill some neurons and result in no harm to others close by. Another damaging effect of chronic microglial activation, is a concept called by-stander damage. When the inammatory cytokines, excitotoxins, eicosanoids, free radicals and lipid peroxidation products are released, they diffuse toward surrounding neurons and their dendrites and synapses. The longer the microglia are active, the greater and more widespread the damage becomes. So, why the selective damage?-that is, How can some neurons survive in such an environment? Studies have shown that neurons possessing strong antioxidant defenses, or lacking free radical-generative enzymes (such as NADPH oxidase) can escape the damage much

longer than poorly protected cells and synaptic connections. Likewise, glutamatergic neurons have been shown to contain COX-2 enzymes, whereas protected neurons do not. Blocking COX-2 has been shown to be neuroprotective in cases of excitotoxic activation, as mentioned. This explains the dramatic reduction in Alzheimers disease seen in epidemiologic studies in those who regularly take NSAIDS. Experimentally, NASIDS and other COX-2 and LOX blocking drugs and natural products can signicantly attenuate excitotoxic damage. In the excitotoxic cascade, PLA2 (phospholipase-A2) is activated by protein kinase-C, releasing arachidonic acid from the membrane of the neuron. LOX and COX enzymes convert arachidonic acid into leukotrienes and inammatory prostaglandans, respectively. It is these eicosanoids that generate the reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species (peroxyl, superoxide and hydroxyl radicals) that ultimately damage the mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum and nucleus during excitotoxic cascade activation. During the opening of the calcium channel (in NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors) the excess intracellular calcium also activates nitric oxide synthetase (NOS), which generates excessive amounts of nitric oxide (NO). The NO then reacts with

superoxide to form peroxynitrite radical, which is a very powerful reactive nitrogen species (RNS). This RNS passes through the mitochondrial with great rapidity, and has been shown to be especially damaging to mitochondrial enzymes and mtDNA. In essence, we see an interaction between eicosanoid production and nitric oxide production that ultimately results in a signicant loss of mitochondrial energy production. A number of studies have shown that neuronal energy loss, no matter the cause, greatly increases neuronal, dendritic and synaptic sensitivity to excitotoxin damage. In addition, some of the NSAIDS are known to be rather potent inhibitors of microglial activation. This is especially benecial in cases of chronic microglial activation. It is also known that inhibition of microglial activation, once triggered, is dependent of certain cytokines, such as IL-10 and TGF-. Dysfunction in IL-10 activation, as seen with shifts from TH2 to Th1 cytokine activation, interfere with cessation of microglial activation. This switches microglia from a neuroprotective function to a neurotoxic one. In pathological states, such as Alzheimers dementia, Parkinsons disease and autism, it may be that a loss or dysfunction in brain growth factors also plays a role. This would make microglia a source of inammatory cytokines, complement, S100B, eicosanoids, arachidonic

acid and excitotoxins, without the protective factors. Reduced levels or dysfunction of antioxidant enzymes, such as catalase, SOD, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase and glutathione itself would also greatly increase neuronal sensitivity to excitotoxicity and free radical and lipid peroxidation damage. As we have seen in my discussion of mercury toxicity, mercury not only is a powerful activator of microglial activity at micromolar or even submicromolar concentrations, but also at these same concentrations powerfully inhibits the glutamate transport proteins. At 0.5 uM we see a 50% reduction in glutamate uptake. The majority of extracellular glutamate is taken up by the astrocyte, which is the site of the greatest mercury accumulation in the CNS. The microglia is the second most abundant site of mercury accumulation. Mercury also is a powerful inhibitor of glutamine synthase and glutamate dehydrogenase, both of which also play major roles in controlling extracellular glutamate levels. At lower concentrations of glutamate, glutamine synthase is the most important mechanism for astrocyte glutamate clearing. But at higher levels, glutamate dehydrogenase becomes more important.

So, we can see that a single heavy metal can powerfully interfere with glutamate clearance by a number of mechanisms, resulting in excitotoxicity. In addition, mercury is a powerful inhibitor of mitochondrial enzymes and interferes with mitochondrial membranes function, both of which reduce neuronal energy production, as well as energy production by astrocytes and microglia. This energy loss, as we have seen, magnies excitotoxicity. Mercury is not the only thing that can precipitate these chains of events. Pesticides, other heavy metals, elevated free radical presence, 4-hydroxynonenal, infectious organisms, glutamate itself, other excitotoxins and oxidized LDL-cholesterol in the brain can have the same effect. It is the synergistic effects of a number of environmental and metabolic toxins that, in my opinion, results in the neurodegenerative diseases, autism, Downs syndrome and a number of other neurological conditions.Yet, central to the process in all these conditions is chronic microglial activation.

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ASPARTAME AND OTHER SO-CALLED "ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS" NEWS AND ARTICLES The newest items are listed at the top of the below list. The date that you see by each headline is the date when it was posted here. If you know of a news story, research, or information that should be posted here, please let us know and provide us with a link. The articles and links posted here and for informational and educational purposes only and do not necessarily imply endorsement by the World Natural Health Organization. The articles posted for previous years have been archived and links are provided to them; by year; at the bottom of this page. 26 Nov 2012 - Consumption Of Articial Sweetener And Sugar Containing Soda And The Risk Of Lymphoma And Leukemia In Men And Women (Includes Study (Aspartame) And Commentaries) 26 Nov 2012 - Actor Larry Hagman Dies At 81 (In Aspartame Movie) 21 Nov 2012 - Aspartame And Medical Afictions 21 Nov 2012 - How Aspartame Stole Thanksgiving

20 Nov 2012 - Study: Aspartame, Saccharin Cause Greater Weight Gain Than Sugar 19 Nov 2012 - Harvard Hospital Is Sorry They ToldYou Aspartame Is Bad! 14 Nov 2012 - Harvard Hospital Admits It Promoted Weak Science On Aspartame 14 Nov 2012 - Study: Aspartame Linked To Blood Cancers 14 Nov 2012 - Controversy Swirls Around Sweeteners 14 Nov 2012 - The Dangers Of Diet Soda 12 Nov 2012 - Toxicology Expert Explains Why Aspartame Is So Dangerous ToYour Health [Has an embedded video on the web page] 07 Nov 2012 - Aspartame Associated With Increased Risk Of Blood Cancers In LongTerm Human Study 31 Oct 2012 - The Synthetic Sweetener Splenda Is A Poisonous Chlorocarbon 31 Oct 2012 - Aspartame Is Linked To Leukemia And Lymphoma In New Landmark Study On Humans 19 Oct 2012 - Aspartame Is Poison Newsletter

10 Oct 2012 - Aspartame Is Dangerous! Why Did The FDA Approve It? [Has an embedded video on the web page] 10 Oct 2012 - The Health Impacts Of Aspartame - By James Turner, Attorney [YouTube video] 09 Oct 2012 - Still Drinking Coca Cola And Pepsi? Watch This! [YouTube video] 09 Oct 2012 - Stop Using Splenda 03 Oct 2012 - Aspartame Linked To Multiple Sclerosis? 26 Sep 2012 - Aspartame: Safety Approved In 90 Nations, But Damages The Brain [It mentions that the two amino acids in aspartame are building blocks of life but did fail to say they are two amino acids you can't isolate. Aspartic acid is an excitotoxin and phenylalanine is a neurotoxin. The molecule breaks down to diketopiperazine, a brain tumor agent. Aspartame is in at least 100 countries of the world and the government organizations say its safe even though it destroys the brain, the optic nerve, immune system and central nervous system, and has been proven. It also ravages every organ in the body. Dr. Bill Deagle says because of its ubiquitous nature in food is more dangerous than depleted uranium. The Trocho Study shows that the formaldehyde converted from the free methyl alcohol embalms living tissue and damages DNA. Dr. Maria Alemany who did this study says

aspartame will kill 200 million people. Has it already? Aspartame was rubberstamped around the world after it was marketed due to the political chicanery of Don Rumsfeld after the FDA tried to have the manufacturer indicted for fraud and revoked the petition for approval. Be sure to see "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" (contact for movie: cori@sweetremedyradio.com) Dr. B. Martini, D.Hum.] [Has embedded videos on the web page] 17 Sep 2012 - What's Really Inside Articial Sweetener Packets: The Bitter Truth About Fake Sweeteners 14 Sep 2012 - Mayor Bloomberg's Soda Ban Will Cause NewYorkers To Poison Themselves With More Aspartame 12 Sep 2012 - New Study: Dietary Excitotoxins Linked With Fibromyalgia And Irritable Bowel Syndrome 12 Sep 2012 - Michelle Obama Launches New Supermarket Shopping Guide, But No Mention Of GMO, Aspartame, MSG 12 Sep 2012 - Sickening Sweet Sodas 11 Sep 2012 - New Study, More Lung Cancer From Non-Smokers, And Drug Interaction: It's Aspartame 11 Sep 2012 - Save Ann Romney's Life And Mitt's Mind. Aspartame And Multiple Sclerosis

31 Aug 2012 - 'Avoid Sweetened Drinks': Scandinavian Scientists Warn Pregnant Mothers 31 Aug 2012 - U.S. Kids Drowning In Diet Drinks 30 Aug 2012 - Aspartame Awareness Month September 2012 30 Aug 2012 - No Safe Dose Of Aspartame 27 Aug 2012 - Autism, Anger And Aspartame: Casual Connections Or A Smoking Gun? 27 Aug 2012 - Investments In Society's Sweet Tooth: Old And New Ideas - The "Old" Aspartame's Lucrative Market Being Chipped Away, But Major Supplier Still Has A Bullish Chart 22 Aug 2012 - The Great Organic Deceivers 16 Aug 2012 - Mothers Using Aspartame During Pregnancy. Autism Epidemic: FDA Knew It Would Happen! - By Dr. Betty Martini 14 Aug 2012 - DKP Studies 09 Aug 2012 - Articial Sweeteners May Be Worse Than Sugar For Diabetics [Has an embedded video on the web page] 08 Aug 2012 - What Soft Drinks Do ToYour Body [Has an embedded video on the web page]

07 Aug 2012 - Seven Toxic Foods, Drinks, And Additives To Cut Out OfYour Diet For Good 07 Aug 2012 - Splenda Soon To Unleash 'Nectresse' - Here's WhatYou Need To Know About This New 'Natural' Sweetener 06 Aug 2012 - 1- Hour Interviews On Methanol/Formaldehyde Toxicity And Many Human Diseases 06 Aug 2012 - Explosive Facts About Sugar Substitutes! A Sweet Delight Or Toxic Poison? 06 Aug 2012 - Biologist Calls Sodas And Fizzy Beverages 'Evil' 03 Aug 2012 - Can WhatYou Don't Know About Aspartame KillYou? Read And Decide 03 Aug 2012 - Aspartame: More Unsavoury Side Effects 02 Aug 2012 - Articial Sweeteners: SugarFree, But At What Cost? 01 Aug 2012 - Aspartame Sales Plunge For Ajinomoto 01 Aug 2012 - Early Poor Memory In Multiple Sclerosis, And Other Studies 31 July 2012 - New Study Points Out Sugar Substitutes As A Leading Cause In Obesity For Australians Reports ArticialSweeteners.Org

31 July 2012 - Aspartame: EFSA Launches Additional Call For Data 27 July 2012 - Aspartame Has Been Renamed And Is Now Being Marketed As A Natural Sweetener [They will keep right on doing anything they can to keep this poison on the market. As for it being natural, totally impossible. Aspartame, no matter what you call it is still manmade and still a deadly poison!] 27 July 2012 - Soda Companies Race To Find New Sweeteners 19 July 2012 - MM Kini And JR Cooper 1962 Show Aerobic Respiration In Mitichrondria Shut Down By Low Level Formaldehyde 18 July 2012 - Aspartame Killed My Wife - One Mans Story [YouTube video] 13 July 2012 - Gender Dimorphism in Aspartame-Induced Impairment Of Spatial Cognition And Insulin Sensitivity [Here is a new study proving that aspartame affects in utero the spatial cognition of male mice. Isn't it interesting that almost 100% of independent, scientic peer reviewed research for over 3 decades show the problems that aspartame cause, and that it is unsafe. I wonder how the manufacturer will try to rebut this one which is what they do with each damning study. The FDA will simply ignore it as they have done with all the damning studies. When is enough

enough?! - Dr. B. Martini, D.Hum.] [PDF format] (It will open in a new window) 13 July 2012 - Methanol/Formaldehyde Toxicity Ubiquitous In Many Modern "Diseases Of Civilization" 13 July 2012 - Justice For Joy Video 11 June 2012 - List Of Products Containing Aspartame 11 July 2012 - Aspartame Links To Birth Defects And Autism [Has an embedded video on the web page] 11 July 2012 - Video Interview: Monsanto's History Marred By Scandal [Has an embedded video on the web page] 02 July 2012 - Aspartame And MSG 2 Food AdditivesYou Should Avoid - How Diet Foods And Drinks Can Actually Cause, NOT Prevent Diabetes 28 June 2012 - Extreme Dangers Of Aspartame / Woodrow C. Monte Ph.D. [Has embedded videos on the web page] 28 June 2012 - Teen Suicide Caused By Aspartame Part 1.mp4 [YouTube video] 28 June 2012 - How Dangerous Is Methanol Part 4.mp4 [YouTube video] 28 June 2012 - Sugar Substitute Dangers [Has an embedded video on the web page]

27 June 2012 - Parliament Was Right About Aspartame And Birth Defects: It's A Teratogen 27 June 2012 - Aspartame: Open Letter To Beth Hubrich, Calorie Control Council 27 June 2012 - ASPARTAME: An FDA-Approved Epidemic - A "Food Product" Which Causes Depression, Migraines, Seizures, And Fed Daily To Chickens & Pigs To Make Them Think They Are Hungry 26 June 2012 - EFSA Animation (Ellinika) - EFSA's Conict Of Interest [YouTube video] 26 June 2012 - Articial Sweeteners: Doubts By The Teaspoonful 20 June 2012 - Five Health Steps The System Does NOT WantYou To Take 14 June 2012 - International Health News June 2012, Number 228 - Review Of Dr. Monte's Book: "While Science Sleeps" - The Methanol Issue [PDF format] (It will open in a new window) 14 June 2012 - Aspartame Impairment Of Spatial Cognition And Insulin Sensitivity 14 June 2012 - Comments To The Editor Of NewMax.Com Concerning Their Article, "Coke Pushes Back Against Bloomberg Soda Ban" 13 June 2012 - Qu Mengem? 2/6 (What We Eat? 2/6) [Dr. Betty Martini of Mission Possible

International is in the video starting at 9:45. Video is in the Catalan language - a variation of Spanish] [YouTube video] 11 June 2012 - Coca Cola: Protecting Prots At All Costs (Opinion) 11 June 2012 - Still Drinking Coca Cola? Watch This! [YouTube video] 08 June 2012 - WC Monte Finally Got Secret FDA Memo 37Years After Searle Co. Labs Found Birth Defects In Rabbits From Aspartame 06 June 2012 -You Think HFCS Drinks Are Dangerous, Mr. Mayor? Why DoYou Think Diet Drinks Are Better? 05 June 2012 - Coke Bottles May Require Cancer Warning Label If Drink Ingredients Not Changed 04 June 2012 - Op-Ed: Aspartame's Cancer Causing Mechanism Discovered-FDA Must Ban It 04 June 2012 - The Bitter Side Of Diet Soda: Strokes 04 June 2012 - New Book By James Granger, M.D. That Has Information On Aspartame, "We Have Got It All Wrong" 01 June 2012 - Articial Sweeteners Linked With Preterm Delivery

25 May 2012 - Made From Genetically Modied Bacteria Waste, Aspartame Risks Public Health 25 May 2012 - Miracle Sweetener Aspartame May Have A Sour Note 25 May 2012 - Gender Dimorphism In Aspartame-Induced Impairment Of Spatial Cognition And Insulin Sensitivity 07 May 2012 - Coke Meeting Fizzles 03 May 2012 - Articial Sweeteners And Flavor Enhancers Are Dangerous 01 May 2012 - Dolce E' La Vita - Report: 29/04/2012 [This is a report by Dr. Morando Soffritti concerning aspartame. This is in Italian] [Has an embedded on the web page] 26 Apr 2012 - FDA = Fatal Drugs Allowed 26 Apr 2012 - New Zealand: Woman Who Drank Over 2 Gallons Of Coke Per Day Dies: Was Using Aspartame 26 Apr 2012 - More On The New Zealand Woman Who Died After Consuming Coke 26 Apr 2012 - Industry Damns Sucralose Study At Cancer Conference (Aspartame And Sucralose) 25 Apr 2012 - New Zealand Woman's CocaCola Habit Blamed For Her Death

24 Apr 2012 - Sugary Soda Raises Stroke Risk And KilledYoung Mom 23 Apr 2012 - The Food Industry Is Waging War OnYour Cells With These 10 Toxic Ingredients 23 Apr 2012 - The Beverage That Is Even WORSE Than High Fructose Corn Syrup Soda 18 Apr 2012 - Methanol Toxicity From Aspartame May Cause Autism, Spina Bida, Preterm Delivery And More 05 Apr 2012 - Sugar & Articial Sweeteners Dr. James Granger With Altergyn 28 Mar 2012 - VIDEO: Aspartame: GMO Bacteria Excretions Causing Blindness [Has an embedded video on the web page] 28 Mar 2012 - Multiple Sclerosis: The Cause And The Solution Uncovered -- At Last! 28 Mar 2012 - Alex Jones Jan 31, 2012 On Fluoride And Aspartame [YouTube video] 28 Mar 2012 - More Aspartame Side Effects Revealed - Headaches, Blurred Vision, Neurological Symptoms And More 28 Mar 2012 - Is This More-Dangerous-thanAspartame Sweetener Hiding InYour Food? 26 Mar 2012 - Is This FDA-Approved Sweetener Causing Brain Damage?

13 Mar 2012 - Coke, Pepsi Makes Changes To Avoid Cancer Warning: With Aspartame Still Causes Cancer 13 Mar 2012 - Coca Cola Adelaide's Grubby Secret. Whistle Blower Video [YouTube video] 09 Mar 2012 - Aspartame Danger - Urgent Warning About Tumors And Seizures 08 Mar 2012 - Open Letter To Dr. Oz 07 Mar 2012 - FDA:You Don't KeepYour Own Laws 05 Mar 2012 - The Top 10 Worst Sources Of Aspartame 02 Mar 2012 - Aspartame Withdrawal And Side Effects Explained - Here's How To Protect Yourself 01 Mar 2012 - The Great Government Hoax Of Public Safety 01 Mar 2012 - Paper For The Scottish Public Petitions Committee: PE1376 18-2-12 29 Feb 2012 - The Sweetener That's MORE DANGEROUS Than Aspartame 28 Feb 2012 - Splenda Pushing New 'Essentials' Line Of Toxic Sucralose As A Health Product [A POISON is still a POISON no matter what you add to it!]

27 Feb 2012 - Is Soda MakingYou Sick? [Has an embedded video on the web page] 22 Feb 2012 - Toxic Chemical Being Sold As A Health-Conscious Sweetener 20 Feb 2012 - This Popular Beverage Can IncreaseYour Stroke Risk By 50% 20 Feb 2012 - NutraSweet Company Brags About The Second Coming Of Aspartame: Neotame Now Taking Over World Markets 16 Feb 2012 - Equity Company That Helped Buy NutraSweet From Monsanto Also Funds Sunny Delight, Fitness Quest And Mattress Firm 14 Feb 2012 - Sugar Sweetened Drinks Increase Heart Disease And Diabetes Risk In Women 09 Feb 2012 - Neotame The Next Aspartame? FDA Doesn't Require Labeling Of Latest Chemical Sweetener From Monsanto 07 Feb 2012 - Ditch Colas And Other Soft Drinks Now 03 Feb 2012 - Diet Drinks: America's Passion For Poison 03 Feb 2012 - Daily Consumption Of Diet Soda Increases Risk Of Heart Attack

19 Jan 2012 - Dr. Mercola On "Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World" On Aspartame [Has an embedded video on the web page] 18 Jan 2012 - Aspartame And Tinnitus 16 Jan 2012 - Did you use aspartame during pregnancy, and the results, autism or other birth defects? Then download the form and please email the form to Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum at bettym19@mindspring.com and she will pass it on to those researchers interested. [Microsoft Word format] (It will open in a new window) 13 Jan 2012 - Open Letter To EFSA - More FDA Hidden Studies Showing Aspartame Causes Birth Defects: Parliament Informed Aspartame News Archives: Aspartame News - 2011 Aspartame News - 2010 Aspartame News - 2009 Aspartame News - 2008 Aspartame News - 2003-2007

http://www.wnho.net/aspartame_news.htm

* Food Additives that ALWAYS contain MSG * Monosodium Glutamate Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Hydrolyzed Protein Hydrolyzed Plant Protein Plant Protein Extract Sodium Caseinate Calcium Caseinate Yeast Extract Textured Protein (Including TVP) AutolyzedYeast Hydrolyzed Oat Flour Corn Oil * Food Additives That FREQUENTLY Contain MSG * Malt Extract Malt Flavoring Bouillon Broth Stock Flavoring Natural Flavors/Flavoring Natural Beef Or Chicken Flavoring Seasoning Spices

* Food Additives That MAY Contain MSG Or Excitotoxins * Carrageenan Enzymes Soy Protein Concentrate Soy Protein Isolate Whey Protein Concentrate

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Fri 25 Jan 08 6:41pm smile_seta Member From The Philippines Member since Mon 03 Dec 07 Re: MSG LINKED TO OBESITY Of course, I don't want to speak ill of MSG producers. I enjoy Japanese cuisine very much and I don't think that all Japanese chefs use MSG in their art. Can I mention a brandname here? Ajinomoto (it literally means "Origin of Taste") is synonymous to MSG in like half of the world and it came from Japan. If someone puts Ajinomoto in a bowl it is OK by me. I'm just saying that if I'm given the choice, I wouldn't put it in MY food.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/forum/ viewtopic.php?pid=239306

Doctors removing healthy breasts unnecessarily Thursday, November 29, 2012 by: Sherry Baker, Health Sciences Editor

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HARVARD HOSPITAL IS SORRY THEY TOLDYOU ASPARTAME IS BAD! By Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. Mission Possible International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 Telephone: 770-242-2599 E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com Web Site: http://www.mpwhi.com Posted: 19 November 2012 http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/ 2012/10/24/14674053-harvard-hospital-admitsit-promoted-weak-science-on-aspartame Harvard Hospital Admits it promoted Weak Science on Aspartame http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/ 336384 Aspartame Linked To Blood Cancers http://www2.tbo.com/lifestyles/life/2012/nov/ 10/4unewso12-controversy-swirls-aroundsweeteners-ar-559241 Controversy Swirls Around Sweeteners --Excerpt: "A recent report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (on line Oct 24 2012) has reignited the aspartame controversy. The Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study include thousands of people queried regularly about diet and other habits over

decades. The Harvard Scientists who run these studies noted the Italian rat results and analyzed their data to see if they would also show an association between aspartame and cancer." "The data from approximately 77,000 women (nurses) and 48,000 men (doctors, dentists, pharmacists, etc) led the authors to conclude "In the most comprehensive longterm epidemiologic study, to our knowledge, to evaluate the association between aspartame intake and cancer risk in humans, we observed a positive association between diet soda and total aspartame intake and risks of NHL (non-Hodgkin lymphoma and multiple myeloma in men and women." "Walter Willett, M.D., Dr. P. H., is Chair of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, and one of the CO-AUTHORS. He told NPR, "I do think this nding is STRONG enough to justify further study on aspartame and cancer risk." That could take years. Until then consumers should keep in mind that the long term safety of aspartame remains controversial." Martini: "Meanwhile aspartame cash registers ring a merry tune and Harvard hospital lls with aspartame victims of the 91 toxic reactions plus death listed in 1995 by the FDA from 10,000 consumer complaints." Let's analyze this. An actual co-author says the study is strong enough to justify further

study on aspartame and cancer risk. The authors say its "the most comprehensive long term epidemiologic study to our knowledge, to evaluate the association between aspartame intake and cancer risk in humans."Yet Harvard Hospital calls it weak science and apologizes. I'll pause for a moment until everyone stops laughing. Perhaps they could have said it this way: "The problem with excellent scientic research like this is that it hurts the aspartame business for which we deeply apologize." Lets say that again. If its bad for the aspartame business it?s good for the public no matter how many it kills. Dr. Richard Wurtman of MIT was a tiger in Congress exposing aspartame. He told UPI's Gregory Gordon that the VP of G. D. Searle threatened him if he did studies on aspartame and seizures his research funds would be rejected. They were. Today Dr. Wurtman no longer speaks out against aspartame but MIT gets their research funds. A research front group was set up called ILSI (International Life Sciences Institute). "A number of scientists who pressed for more studies into possible brain damage told UPI they were turned away by Searle and the International Life Sciences Institute, a tax exempt industry foundation supported by the company, it's Japanese aspartame manufacturing partner and 10 sellers of NutraSweet avored products."

Gregory Gordon said: "Several independent scientists have alleged that the industry has steered research money to allies in the scientic community, while denying funding to those who have raised health concerns." So you get the picture. G. D. Searle knew that if researchers did studies on aspartame they would prove how deadly it is. Researchers are funded if they are willing to cooperate. Almost 100 per cent of independent peer reviewed studies show the problems. Only industry controlled or funded research say it's safe. Dr. Ralph Walton did this analysis for 60 Minutes many years ago. Be sure to read the entire UPI Investigation. Courageous Gregory Gordon tells the grim truth. http://www.mpwhi.com/ upi_1987_aspartame_report.pdf Over the years I've received calls from hundreds of informants but I'm reminded of the lady who called from ILSI. She didn't call as an informant. She was sick on aspartame. She did mention, "Do you know that ILSI is not independent and if you want research funds you must say its safe?" I said, "Yes I know but then why have you used it?" She replied, "I was using it when I came to work here and then I heard ofcials discussing how hard it was to cover-up the facts of its toxicity. I was horried at some of the things said and then looked it up on the Internet and found your reports. I hope its not too late for me to get well."

When Dr. Wurtman stopped speaking against aspartame Harvard scientists also went silent. Dr. Wurtman himself told me to call them but I couldn't get a straight answer. Aspartame has been known to cause cancer since it was created. On August 1, 1985 the late FDA Toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, testied to the Senate: "In view of all these indications that the cancer-causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the socalled Delaney Amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act? Is it not clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that aspartame has caused brain tumors or brain cancer in animals? "Given that this is so (and I cannot see any kind of tenable argument opposing the view that aspartame causes cancer) how would the FDA justify its position that it views a certain amount of aspartame (50mgm/kgm body weight) as constituting an ADI (Allowable Daily Intake) or "safe" level of it? Is that position not equivalent to setting a "tolerance" for this food additive and thus a violation of that law? And if the FDA itself elects to violate the law, who is left to protect the health of the public?" G. D. Searle ltered out all reports of cancers and what they did not want FDA to

see. Morando Soffritti, M.D., of the prestigious Ramazzini Institute did three studies which showed aspartame is a "multipotential carcinogen" causing everything from kidney cancer to lymphoma, leukemia, breast, lung and liver cancer, and more. The aspartame industry has strong ties to government agencies and conict of interest is rampant. So immediately the European Food Safety Authority went to the defense of aspartame manufacturers. Dr. Soffritti answered: "In examining the raw data of our study, the EFSA (2006) observed a high incidence of chronic pulmonary inammation in males and females in both treated groups and in the control group. Based on this observation, it was concluded that "the increased incidence of lymphomas/ leukemias reported in treated rats was unrelated to aspartame, given the high background incidence of chronic inammatory changes in the lungs . . . ." In my opinion, this conclusion is bizarre for the following reasons: "First, the EFSA (2006) overlooked the fact that the study was conducted until the natural death of the rodents. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT INFECTIOUS PATHOLOGIES ARE PART OF THE NATURAL DYING PROCESS IN BOTH RODENTS AND HUMANS. "Second, if the statistically signicant increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias

observed were indeed caused by an infected colony, one would expect to observe an increased incidence of lymphomas/leukemias not only in females but also in males. The EFSA (2006) did not comment on this discrepancy in their logic. "Finally, in support of the hypothesis regarding the safety of aspartame, the EFSA (2006) cited the negative results of recent carcinogenicity studies carried out in transgenic mice by the NTP; the ESFA did not mention that, because the NTP studies on genetically altered mice were performed using a new experimental model, the NTP subcommittee unanimously agreed "there is uncertainty whether the study possessed sufcient sensitivity to detect a carcinogenic effect" (NTP 2005). "Interestingly, the same scrutiny applied to our study has not been applied to a recent abstract published by Lim et al. (2006) from the NCI diet questionnaire survey (NCI 2006) in which self-reported aspartame consumption showed no increases in either leukemia/lymphomas or in brain cancer. These results have been used by industry, the EFSA, and others to argue that aspartame is not a risk for humans, in spite of our animal study results. Without specic information on each individual's consumption rate and duration it is difcult to assess the power of the survey, in spite of the large number of participants. The second related issue is whether

aspartame is an early- or late-stage carcinogen. If it is an early-stage initiator of cancer, then reporting the lack of effects in older individuals who have not consumed aspartame since early childhood would be expected to show little or no increased cancer (Hoel 1985). "The safety-in particular, the noncarcinogenicity-of today's most widely diffused articial sweeteners and their blends is largely based on studies conducted decades ago. I second Karstadt's nomination of acesulfame K for further study; however, I add that it should be evaluated using a long-term megaexperiment. "The author declares he has no competing nancial interests." Morando Soffritti Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences "B. Ramazzini" Bologna, Italy Email: crcfr@ramazzini.it This is such an example of industry inuence. This study was so impeccable they couldn't gure out how to rebut it so they used something as silly as the rats had respiratory problems when any researcher knows respiratory disease is the dying process. Believe it or not the rats just stopped breathing! Then there was an oncogene study in Hungary. "The effect of aspartame administration on Oncogene and suppressor gene expressions." This was done in Hungary in 2007. The denition of oncogene is a gene that causes the transformation of normal

cells into cancerous tumor cells, especially a viral gene that transforms a host cell into a tumor cell. The results showed an increase in gene expressions concerning all the investigate genes especially in organs with a high proliferation rate: lymphoreticular organs, bone-marrow and kidney." Aspartame has been controversial for nearly 50 years. The FDA has admitted it causes cancer. Numerous independent studies show aspartame causes cancer. If you research the issue you will nd the necessity of using inuence, threats or bribes to keep the cancer issue from the unsuspecting public. The modus operandi of the aspartame industry is to rebut studies that show how deadly it is. If too much damning data gets out they will even call it a hoax as they did when I lectured for the World Environmental Conference. They assassinate the integrity of the researchers. They call names. They especially use the term "scare monger". When you expose the facts in their own records they don't answer. They use money to buy results they want. In this case they apologize for a study on aspartame and the cancer risk. According to Erin McDonough of communication and public affairs, this was "the rst time something like this had ever happened in her 25 years of working in media relations." I remember when I spilled out Diet Coke in Atlanta, home of Coca Cola, in front of the

media, Dr. Robert Moser of NutraSweet said "it's nutritional terrorism"! Dr. H. J. Roberts, world expert on aspartame, declared best doctor in the US in 1983 in a medical magazine and author of the 1000 page medical text, "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic", http://www.sunsentpress.com they called a toxic terrorist. When this happened in Atlanta he told me I had now arrived. Just how toxic and deadly is aspartame? It's been known to be an addictive, excitoneurotoxic, carcinogenic, genetically engineered drug and adjuvant for decades. If you haven't made up your mind yet or haven't researched the honest facts and records here are some quotes that may help you make up your mind. Dr. James Bowen, a victim of aspartame with Lou Gehrigs and stomach cancer in a letter to the FDA: -- "the only responsible action would be to immediately take aspartame off the market, fully disclose its toxicities, offer full compensation to the injured, public and criminally prosecute anyone who participated in the fraudulent placement of aspartame on the marketplace. That includes those who work so diligently to keep in on the market as well." He also said: "Every known metabolite of aspartame is of marked or questionable toxicity and patently unsafe for human

use. Methyl alcohol is metabolized to nascent formaldehyde in the eye, nervous system and other metabolically active organs. It immediately attacks and denatures the tissue structure proteins in which is metabolized to nascent formaldehyde. This stimulates specic organ and subcellular autoimmunity which seems to be a preponderant source of the bad experiences reported by NutraSweet victims. Aspartic Acid is a neuroexcitotoxic present in damaging amounts, it own right, at the ADI for aspartame. Simple logic tells one that it will vastly increase the metabolism of methyl alcohol to formaldehyde attach there. This corresponds well with the symptomalogies often experienced, such as Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS), bulbar palsies, neurohormonal disorders, diketopiperazine issue remains totally unresolved and dangerous. The amino acids that are released by hydrolysis, form eimers and isomers that are either not sufciently studied, or which are known substrates in undesirable pathological states such as Alzheimer's disease." Dr. Richard Caldecott (1961) (Atomic Energy Commission): "By far the most mutagenic agents known to man are chemicals, not radiation. And in this regard, food additives rather than fallout at present levels may present a greater danger."

Dr. Bill Deagle in a conversation with me on his radio show: "Aspartame because of its ubiquitous nature in food is more dangerous than depleted uranium." Dr. Deagle also has said to me several times and written: "I called Dr John Olney while the director of Neuropathology of Washington State Medical School, when applying for a Neuropathology Residency to do research on Multiple Sclerosis and Brain Cancers, as well as other motor disorders... Dr Olney said after introduction and receipt of my application... "Dr Bill Deagle, I have been doing research on Aspartame for the FDA. I found that identical changes on scanning electron microscopy of brains of laboratory animals exposed to this peptide, as the early changes in brain cancer, such as Multicentric Astroglliomas. I predict at 10 to 20 % increase in brain cancers, and other neurological diseases such as ALS amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, dementias, and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as peripheral neuropathy and cardiac conduction bundle abnormalities." I said, "Wow, when the FDA has your preliminary data, what are they saying?" Dr Olney said," I don't know what their response will be but there is no doubt that this neurotoxin, and

genotoxin should never be approved." I was amazed that my questions on a Neuropatholgy Residency turned so quickly to his work on Aspartame. He seemed unimpressed that his data and ndings would be accepted by the FDA and PTB. I was in shock, that public health, fetal development, brain aging and disease take a back seat to Big GenoPharma, makers of the most dangerous GMO food, Aspartame. "Report on the Genesis of Aspartame from E.Coli with a cassette of genes in an unstable plasmid.: When working with employees of the Augusta Georgia aspartame plant as a physician in Georgia in 1987 and 1988, I received a brieng by the plant communications director to physicians at the Augusta Regional Hospital. We were told not to report to media any unusual illnesses including neuropathy, organic brain diseases, transverse myelitis, cardiac conduction problems or cancers for employees we would see in our practices or the emergency department. Then, I was given a plant production report verbally about the E.Coli was genetically engineered to make the peptide by a high velocity gene gun coated with Gold ions as a genetically nonconnected unstable plasmid of genes to make this peptide. Centrifuges would take the E.Coli peptide slurry and separate by multiple stages the nal tripeptide. The said that had take precautions to make sure the

E.Coli would not come in contact with workers or leave the plant by accident or in product they produced. Plasmids can survive extreme environments, but stable outside the cell in the extracellular space and can enter gut bacteria or host of any mammals or other host, then producing uncontrolled production of this Glutamate agonist neurotoxin. Having worked under Dr Robert Brown PhD in the early 70s, who was a bioweaponeer at US facilities, I was aware that proper precautions were in no way present at the Aspartame Peptide GMO E.Coli facility in Georgia in 1987 and 1988." Dr Bill Deagle MD AAEM ACAM A4M H. J. Roberts, M.D. after reviewing Dr. Morando Soffritti's rst aspartame cancer study: "It's now incumbent upon researchers of leukemia and lymphoma to inquire about the use of aspartame products routinely in such patients. And its also highly relevant, the striking increase of primary brain lymphoma which I reviewed in my books an articles.You are dealing with a unique lymphoma of the brain, which most neurologists had not seen before the availability of aspartame. In view of the unequivocal induction of brain tumors and of leukemia/lymphoma in experimental animals, animals the intent of the Delaney Amendment should be involved. This justies aspartame as an imminent public health hazard and should be removed from the market as I've emphasized for two decades."

Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D. also reviewed Dr. Soffritti's rst study and commented: "The new study released in the European Journal of oncology by Morando Soffritti and co-workers should terrify mothers and all those consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done study which clearly demonstrated a statistically signicant increase in several types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have increased signicantly in this country since the widespread use of aspartame. "This study conrmed the previous study by Dr. Trocho and co--workers, which also found the formaldehyde breakdown product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage was accumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with cancers. Along with this most recent study, this means that drinking a single diet cola sweetened with aspartame every day could increase one's risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia. "They also found an increased incidence of malignant brain tumors, even though it was not statistically signicant. This does not mean there is no association to brain tumors, since only the animals exposed to aspartame developed the tumors. With children and pregnant women drinking the largest amount of diet colas, this puts their children at the greatest risk

of developing of these horrible diseases. Their study found that even low doses of aspartame could cause these malignancies; yet, the higher the dose, the more cancers that were seen." I spoke with Dr. Maria Alemany in Barcelona about the Trocho Study. The rst thing he said to me was: "Betty, aspartame will kill 200 million people!" I could continue with pages of quotes from eminent, honest and independent physicians and researchers all day. Cancer has been established since the FDA rst investigated over 3 decades ago. Dr. Woodrow Monte, another courageous researcher who recently wrote "While Science Sleeps" tells how the FDA made a deal with G. D. Searle to never let the public see the birth defect studies on aspartame. He was able to get four of them and it took me 8 years to locate two of them at the request of Jerome Bressler who authored the famous Bressler Report while at FDA. They had also been stricken here too. Dr. Monte explains why now we have an epidemic of autism and there is no warning for pregnant women!! The FDA law is that if you le a Citizens Petition for ban it must be answered in 180 days. If you le an Imminent Health Hazard petition it must be answered in a week or ten days. I led rst in 2002 and then the

imminent health hazard amending in 2007. They have never answered but did send two letters saying they had more important things to do. What is more important than removing a product that has caused according to Dr. James Bowen mass poisoning of the world? The FDA did nally call me in 2009 and when I said people are sick and dying all over the world I was told: "So what, we have to depopulate". Check out Agenda 21. Erected in 1980 in Elberton, Georgia are the Georgia Guide Stones. Four gigantic granite slabs in which are cut Guides for a better world in eight languages. The rst "Guide" is: Maintain Earth's population at 500 million, in perpetual balance with nature. So they want to kill off 92% of humanity. While I was writing this report Dr. Bowen called me and told me about original toxicity studies which obviously were not made public and in humans caused breast and bone cancer. He said when Dr. Adrian Gross reviewed the studies he said not only is this a horrible chelating agent but also a horribly toxic substance and it will carry heavy metals out of the can and lead in ceramic cups into humans poisoning them. So Dr. Gross was transferred to the EPA to silence him. He discussed the fact he had spoken with people who service Coke and Pepsi dispensing machines and when aspartame was used it ate the aluminum walls of the machine. He said much, much more.

James Turner, DC Attorney who with Dr. John Olney attempted to prevent approval of this poison, said today: ?We've known since the l980 Public Board of Inquiry that aspartame/NutraSweet is not safe enough for consumers to eat. Decade by decade the evidence mounts that the public is being harmed by NutraSweet. This study is one more addition to the mounting condemnation of the American food safety system." Dr. Betty Martini, D.Hum. Founder, Mission Possible World Health International 9270 River Club Parkway Duluth, Georgia 30097 770-242-2599 E-Mail: BettyM19@mindspring.com http://www.wpwhi.com http://www.wnho.net http://www.dorway.com Aspartame Toxicity Center: http:// www.holisticmed.com/aspartame P.S. When I returned from the trip I intended to write for my lists a recap of interesting points but this report is long enough. I will say I met with Felicity Mawson, Mission Possible UK, and made a video with Corinne Gouget, MP France. These are incredible women who have done a vast amount of research and saved lives all over Europe. Corinne lost her children because of speaking out against aspartame.

I was on a ship. Give me 3000 people and I'll give you an epidemiological study. I had magazines from the National Health Federation who publish Health Freedom News. It had two cover studies, Dr. Blaylock's article on chemtrails and my article "No Safe Dose of Aspartame". Reports on the dangers of aspartame were continually given out. Many wanted more info for sick on aspartame.

http://www.wnho.net/ harvard_sorry_they_told_you_aspartame_i s_bad.htm

Antimicrobial resistance in the European Union and the world Dr Margaret Chan Director-General of the World Health Organization The EUs contributions to the solutions of the global antimicrobial resistance problem Keynote address at the conference on Combating antimicrobial resistance: time for action Copenhagen, Denmark 14 March 2012 Your Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary, excellencies, distinguished delegates, experts, representatives of regulatory authorities, agencies for disease control, and civil society, ladies and gentlemen, You are meeting to explore what EU Member States can do to solve what you rightly recognize as a serious, growing, and global threat to health. Drug-resistant pathogens are notorious globe-trotters. They travel well in infected air passengers and through global trade in food. In addition, the growth of medical tourism has accelerated the international spread of hospital-acquired infections that are frequently resistant to multiple drugs.

Let me acknowledge the work of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, or ECDC, in so quickly conducting risk assessments of the spread of NDM-1producing bacteria within Europe. Surveillance is on your agenda. This kind of rapid response to an emerging threat speaks well of the EUs capacity to protect its citizens. It also demonstrates the EUs capacity to generate models, useful elsewhere, for combating antimicrobial resistance on multiple fronts. The EU has its eyes wide open to the problem. This is readily seen in the number of recent policies, directives, technical reports, strategies, and regulatory decisions designed to reduce antibiotic consumption, in humans and animals, ensure the prudent use of these fragile medicines, and protect specic agents that are critically important for human medicine. You have moved forward in remarkable ways, as reected in several EU-wide networks for surveillance of both resistance and consumption, and for susceptibility testing. Thanks to this surveillance, we know that consumption patterns and resistance levels vary greatly across Europe, pointing to a clear need to share experiences and harmonize best practices.

The EUs progress is also reected in success stories in individual countries. Worldwide, the fact that greater quantities of antibiotics are used in healthy animals than in unhealthy humans is a cause for great concern. This makes it all the more an honour to speak to you in Denmark. Like several other EU nations, Denmark has achieved low domestic antibiotic consumption through multisectoral collaboration and a range of targeted measures. In particular, Denmark has tackled the problem of antibiotic use in food-producing animals in a pioneering way. Recognizing the potential for a health crisis, this country progressively ended the administration of antibiotics as growthpromoters in the late 1990s, well before the EU-wide ban. An international review panel, set up by WHO at the request of the Danish government, concluded that the ban reduced human health risks without signicantly harming animal health or farmers incomes. In fact, Danish government and industry data showed that livestock and poultry production actually increased following the ban, while antibiotic resistance on farms and in meat declined.

What began as the Danish experiment became the Danish model. The termination of the use of antibiotics as growth promoters had a voluntary component on the part of industry, strongly motivated by consumer concerns. I congratulate industry for its responsible actions. There is another lesson here. Never underestimate the importance of consumer groups and civil society in combating antimicrobial resistance. They are important movers, shakers, and front-line players, especially in this age of social media. Ladies and gentlemen, The antimicrobial threat is easy to describe. It has an irrefutable logic. Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe, and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our rst-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units. For patients infected with some drugresistant pathogens, mortality has been shown to increase by around 50%. Let me give an example of what this means for a disease of global signicance.

Among the worlds 12 million cases of tuberculosis in 2010, WHO estimates that 650,000 involved multidrug-resistant TB strains. Treatment of MDR-TB is extremely complicated, typically requiring two years of medication with toxic and expensive medicines, some of which are in constant short supply. Even with the best of care, only slightly more than 50% of these patients will be cured. Many other pathogens are developing resistance to multiple drugs, some to nearly all. Hospitals have become hotbeds for highly-resistant pathogens, like MRSA, ESBL, and CPE, increasing the risk that hospitalization kills instead of cures. These are end-of-the-road pathogens that are resistant to last-line antimicrobials. If current trends continue unabated, the future is easy to predict. Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry, especially for gram-negative bacteria. The cupboard is nearly bare. Prospects for turning this situation around look dim. The pharmaceutical industry lacks incentives to bring new antimicrobials to market for many reasons, some of which fall on the shoulders of the medical and public health

professions. Namely, our inability to combat the gross misuse of these medicines. From an industry perspective, why invest considerable sums of money to develop a new antimicrobial when irrational use will accelerate its ineffectiveness before the R&D investment can be recouped? A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a childs scratched knee could once again kill. Some sophisticated interventions, like hip replacements, organ transplants, cancer chemotherapy, and care of preterm infants, would become far more difcult or even too dangerous to undertake. At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis. Ladies and gentlemen, As a follow-up to last years World Health Day, on antimicrobial resistance, WHO has just launched a new document setting out options for action to combat antimicrobial resistance. As that document notes, much can be done to limit selective pressure on bacteria to develop resistance.

Namely: Prescribe antibiotics appropriately and only when needed. Follow treatment correctly. Restrict the use of antibiotics in food production to therapeutic purposes. And tackle the problem of substandard and counterfeit medicines. The EU is doing many of the right things well. You have a ve-year action plan with twelve lines of action, underscoring the need for a broad-based, multi-pronged response. There is a strong convergence between these actions and those in WHOs European strategic action plan on antibiotic resistance, launched last year. This sets the stage for many jointlyundertaken activities. Last year, the WHO Regional Ofce for Europe also issued a guide to options for the prevention and containment of antibiotic resistance from a food safety perspective. The EU is making good use of regulatory tools, and has solid technical backing from agencies like the European Food Safety Authority and ECDC. You have launched an unprecedented collaborative R&D effort to bring new antimicrobials to market.You emphasize the need to prevent infections in the rst place, whether through vaccines or better hygiene, also in animals.

And you recognize that new point-of-care diagnostic tools are another way to improve prescribing practices and promote prudent use.Your European Antibiotic Awareness Days keep the public alert to the threat and their role in diminishing it. But the threat, as you have noted, is indeed global, extremely serious, and growing. Political will at the highest level is essential. Over many years, WHO and the EU have repeatedly drawn attention to this threat in appropriately dramatic statements, as during last year s World Health Day. Yet attention is still sporadic, and actions are far too inadequate. In my personal view, one problem is that the threat of antimicrobial resistance is competing for attention in a world beset by one global crisis after another. These days, doomsday scenarios are a dime a dozen. To underscore the severity of this global threat, let me briey remind you of the daunting challenges facing developing countries. Many countries are crippled by lack of capacity, including laboratory, diagnostic, quality assurance, regulatory, and surveillance capacity, and control over how antimicrobials are obtained and used.

For example, anti-malaria pills are sold individually at the local marketplace. Counterfeit and substandard antibiotics abound. In many countries, the pharmaceutical industry is the principal source of prescribing information for doctors. Good public health practices are undermined by utter poverty. When resources are extremely limited, will a doctor use precious money to treat as many patients as possible, or invest in diagnostic tests? When people travel very great distances to reach a health post, they want something in return. They demand something: an injection or some pills. They do not take no for an answer. WHO is aware of these challenges and is addressing them, also through strategies for combating antimicrobial resistance adopted by other WHO regions. Recent WHOcoordinated initiatives are described in the new document I just mentioned. Building capacity, including regulatory capacity, is a built-in component of these initiatives. WHO work, aided by international partners, including the EU, pioneered the way forward through laboratory and surveillance networks set up to track multidrug-resistant TB and HIV-associated drug resistance.

Again, we have a good model for moving forward and are building on this success. Ladies and gentlemen, I thank Denmark for raising the prole of antimicrobial resistance during its EU presidency. I thank the EU for its collective progress, and striking progress within individual countries. I thank you for your unwavering support to WHO. We have many challenges ahead, and a long way to go. But we have solid success to build on. And we are steadily on our way. Thank you.

http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2012/ amr_20120314/en/index.html

Cockroaches could help combat MRSA and E.coli Cockroaches and locusts contain powerful antibiotic molecules in their brains that could be used to develop new treatments against MRSA and E-coli, scientists have discovered. Scientists at Nottingham University found that the insects, which are widely reviled for their dirty image, could actually be more of a health benet than a health risk. They have identied up to nine different molecules in the tissues of cockroaches and locusts that are toxic to bacteria and they hope will pave the way for new treatments for multi-drug resistant bacterial infections. The tissues of the brain and nervous system of the insects were able to kill more than 90% of MRSA and E.coli bacteria, without harming human cells. Simon Lee, a postgraduate researcher who is presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiologys autumn meeting in Nottingham, said: We hope that these molecules could eventually be developed into treatments for E. coli and MRSA infections that are increasingly resistant to current drugs.

Also, these new antibiotics could potentially provide alternatives to currently available drugs that may be effective but have serious and unwanted side effects, he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/ healthnews/7981714/Cockroaches-could-helpcombat-MRSA-and-E.coli.html

The Top 12 Harmful Food AdditivesYou Need To Eliminate FromYour Diet Posted on July 1, 2009 by freedomrebel First on the list is Sodium Nitrate. Switching to turkey bacon in the morning is not good for your health. The reason, sodium nitrate is in processed meats, such as, hot dogs, regular bacon, turkey bacon, bologna and many lunch meats. What is sodium nitrite? Sodium nitrite is a food additive used as a preservative. It is used to extend the life of meats, and to prevent the growth of bacteria. Whats the problem? Sodium nitrite is toxic. When you eat it, nitrosamines are formed. These dangerous compounds are highly carcinogenic. During lab studies, researchers inject these compounds into lab mice when they want to give them cancer. Clearly, this is not something we should be consuming. Although you may be consuming less fat by eating turkey products instead of red meat, you are not necessarily reducing your cancer risk. In fact; cancer risk is thought to be higher in meat than other foods, not simply because of the higher saturated fat content, but because of the sodium nitrite content.

Second on the list is BHA & BHT. BHA and BHT stands for Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). These are food additives that are used as a preservative to keep food from spoilage. BHA and BHT can be found in butter, meats, chewing gum, snack foods, dehydrated potatoes, and even beer. These additives are approved by the FDA as safe for human consumption. However, they are proven carcinogens. There is proof that some people have difculty metabolizing BHA and this can result in health and behavioral changes. The structure of BHA and BHT will change during this process [of preserving food], and may form a compound that reacts in the body, says Gerbstadt. BHA and BHT are not stable or inert. Theyre not just hanging out and being excreted by the body. Gerbstadt says that they are obviously not added for the purpose of giving people cancer, but for some people, some of the time, there may be that risk. Third on the list is Trans fats. This one really ticks me off. Try nding hamburgers without trans fats in them, it is almost impossible. Hamburgers taste perfectly ne without them adding trans fats. Also, those who use margarines, they may not list them in the ingredients but, most have at least . 5% in them and sometimes as high as .7%.

Articial trans fats are made when hydrogen gas reacts with oil. They can be found in cookies, crackers, icing, potato chips, stick margarine and microwave popcorn. About 80 percent of trans fat in Americans diet comes from factory-produce partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Why are they so bad for you? Trans fats pose a higher risk of heart disease than saturated fats, which were once believed to be the worst kind of fats. While it is true that saturated fats found in butter, cheese and beef, for example raise total cholesterol levels, trans fats go a step further. Trans fats not only raise total cholesterol levels, they also deplete good cholesterol (HDL), which helps protect against heart disease. Fourth on the list is Olestra. This is the additive that Mad TV did a skit on, because of its nasty side effects. Olestra is a fake fat, used to make non-fat potato chips and other snacks.Youd think, with all the bad rap fat has gotten, a nonfat fat would be great. But Olestra has been shown to bind with fat-soluble vitamins A, E, D and K and carotenoids substances thought to keep the immune system healthy and prevent some cancers and to eliminate them from your system. Proctor & Gamble, the company that produces olestra, has acknowledged the problem with

vitamins A, E, D and K and is now fortifying it with them. Olestra has also caused digestive upset in some people, especially when they eat a lot of it. Often, its not just fat in the potato chips that causes problems for people; its the fact that they are displacing healthier foods, such as fruit, so Olestra can just perpetuate an unhealthy habit. Fifth on the list is Propyl gallate. This preservative, used to prevent fats and oils from spoiling, might cause cancer. Its used in vegetable oil, meat products, potato sticks, chicken soup base and chewing gum, and is often used with BHA and BHT. Sixth on the list is Monosodium glutamate. Is an amino acid used widely as a avor enhancer in frozen dinners, salad dressings, chips and restaurant food. This additive is in my favorite asian foods, like egg rolls and wontons, so I only order chinese take-out now about once a year. Love the taste but, I pay later feel sluggish and bloated. MSG is now so ubiquitous in our food chain (east and west) that you would be very hard pressed to go MSG-free. As you would expect, junk foods and instant foods like soups and other mixes contain MSG. Prepared food in your grocery stores and at fast food outlets (KFC chicken skin is massively loaded with

MSG) and ne dining restaurants alike are awash in MSG. When you see the word citric acid in prepared food ingredient lists, think MSG. Industrial citric acid is not made from citrus fruits, its made from corn. Its not pure either. Why is MSG bad for you? Early on (in the 50s) studies reported signicant issues relating to the exposure of mammals to MSG. If neonatal rats were given a single exposure to MSG, the neurons in the inner layer of their retina were killed. It was also reported that certain parts of their brains were injured as well (the hypothalamus). When considering various ndings of MSG exposure in the rat, remember that humans are some 5-6 times more sensitive to MSG than rats. At one point, researchers determined that rats would be an excellent model for the study of obesity after the exposure to MSG. MSG is a chemoinducer of obesity, type II diabetes and metabolic syndrome X in the rat. (lesion of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH) by administering monosodium glutamate) Thus, MSG is used in the lab to induce obesity in rats. Seventh on the list is Potassium bromate.

Potassium bromate (KBrO3) is an oxidizing agent that has been used as a food additive, mainly in the bread-making process. Although adverse effects are not evident in animals fed bread-based diets made from our treated with KBrO3, the agent is carcinogenic in rats and nephrotoxic in both man and experimental animals when given orally. It has been demonstrated that KBrO3 induces renal cell tumors, mesotheliomas of the peritoneum, and follicular cell tumors of the thyroid. In addition, experiments aimed at elucidating the mode of carcinogenic action have revealed that KBrO3 is a complete carcinogen, possessing both initiating and promoting activities for rat renal tumorigenesis. Eighth on the list is Aspartame. This is the articial sugar substitute. I dont like the aftertaste of Nutrasweet or Equal, which is made by the Monsanto Corporation. Although aspartame is added to over 9,000 food products, it is not t for human consumption! This toxic poison changes into formaldehyde in the body and has been linked to migraines, seizures, vision loss and symptoms relating to lupus, Parkinsons Disease, Multiple Sclerosis and other health destroying conditions. Besides being a deadly poison, aspartame actually contributes to weight gain by causing a craving for carbohydrates. A

study of 80,000 women by the American Cancer Society found that those who used this neurotoxic diet sweetener actually gained more weight than those who didnt use aspartame products. Find out more about the deadly health risks posed by Monsantos toxic sweetener on this website: www.aspartamekills.com. Aspartame/Nutrasweet (aspartylphenylalanine-methyl-ester) breaks down to its poison constituents at 86 degrees (Aspartic Acid 40%, Phenylalanine 50%, and Methanol 10%). Remember your stomach is at 98.6 degrees! Therefore you should never use Aspartame/Nutrasweet in hot beverages or cooked foods such as Jell-O. How the FDA allows this remains a mystery. There is mounting evidence that the Burning Mouth Syndrome experienced by the Desert Storm troops was actually Methanol poisoning from the Diet Coke they drank lots of, after being exposed to desert temperatures. Ninth on the list is Food colorings (Blue & , Red , Green ,Yellow ). Research on animals suggests that other additives may cause cancer. This includes six articial food colorings (blues #1, #2, and #3, green #3, red #3, and yellow #6). Red #40 some side effects are: ADHD, Oppositional Deant Disorder (ODD), and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Red #3 is

used in cherries (in fruit cocktails), baked goods and candy. It causes thyroid tumors in rats, and may cause them in humans as well. Blue #1 is used to color candy and is in beverages, may cause cancer. Articial food and supplement colorings are made of coal tar and petrochemicals. Whod knowingly eat that? Among other things, articial food colorings are shown to increase hyperactivity in a wide range of children Tenth on the list is Sodium chloride. We know it as salt. Large doses can lead to heart and blood pressure problems, as well as strokes and kidney failure. Eleventh on the list is Acesulfame-K. Is a newer sweetener used in soft drinks and some baked goods. It was approved by the FDA in 1998 for use in soft drinks. Acesulfame-Kthe K is the chemistry symbol for potassiumis considered 200 times sweeter than sugar. While Gerbstadt isnt specically concerned about this sweetener when used in moderation, there is a general concern that testing on this product has been scant. Some studies showed the additive may cause cancer in rats. This one should be avoided until further studies are done to know if there are any harmful affects.

Twelfth on the list is White sugar. This is the one I will never give up, but I do use more honey now to cut back on my intake. The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes (mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by rening it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other benecial nutrients. What is left is a concentrated unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities that is now ingested in todays accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approximately 115 lbs. of sugar per year. This is per man, woman and child. The damage sugar does is slow and insidious. It takes years before it ruins your pancreas, your adrenal glands, throws your whole endocrine system out of kilter and produces a huge list of damage. Sugar is the main cause of diabetes, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. It is either a signicant or contributory cause of heart disease, arteriosclerosis, mental illness, depression, senility, hypertension, cancer. These additives are some of the many reasons more and more people are turning to

organic foods. Not everyone can afford the prices of organic foods but, being informed can make it easier to shop healthier.

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What can you do to protect yourself? 1. Select organic fruit and vegetables whenever possible. Wash or peel nonorganic produce. 2. Choose fruits and vegetables in season. This means that your exposure to the chemicals used to delay ripening, prolong shelf-life, preserve color and so on, will be limited. 3. Supplement your diet with antioxidant nutrients-vitamins A, C, and E, and the minerals zinc and selenium-since the detoxication of many pesticides involves these nutrients.

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Current EU approved additives and their E Numbers Most additives are only permitted to be used in certain foods and are subject to specic quantitative limits, so it is important to note this list should be used in conjunction with the appropriate EU Directives which can be viewed via the link at the bottom of this page. Colours Preservatives Antioxidants Sweeteners Emulsiers, Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents Others More Information To nd out which foods these additives are permitted in and at what levels check the European Commission website. This list does not in any way supplement the law in this area, nor constitute legal guidance. Back to top Colours E100 E101 E102 E104 Curcumin (i) Riboavin (ii) Riboavin-5'-phosphate Tartrazine Quinoline yellow

E110 E120 E122 E123 E124 E127 E129 E131 E132 l E133 E140 E141 E142 E150a E150b E150c E150d E151 E153 E154 E155 E160a E160b E160c E160d E160e E160f acid E161b E161g E162 E163 E170

SunsetYellow FCF; OrangeYellow S Cochineal; Carminic acid; Carmines Azorubine; Carmoisine Amaranth Ponceau 4R; Cochineal Red A Erythrosine Allura Red AC Patent Blue V ndigotine; Indigo Carmine Brilliant Blue FCF Chlorophylls and chlorophyllins Copper complexes of chlorophyll and chlorophyllins Green S Plain caramel Caustic sulphite caramel Ammonia caramel Sulphite ammonia caramel Brilliant Black BN; Black PN Vegetable carbon Brown FK Brown HT Carotenes Annatto; Bixin; Norbixin Paprika extract; Capsanthian; Capsorubin Lycopene Beta-apo-8'-carotenal (C30) Ethyl ester of beta-apo-8'-carotenoic (C30) Lutein Canthaxanthin Beetroot Red; Betanin Anthocyanins Calcium carbonate

E171 Titanium dioxide E172 Iron oxides and hydroxides E173 Aluminium E174Silver E175 Gold E180Litholrubine BK Back to top Preservatives E200 E202 E203 E210 E211 E212 E213 E214 E215 E218 E219 E220 E221 S E222 E223 E224 E226 E227 E228 E230 E234 E235 E239 E242 E249 E250 Sorbic acid Potassium sorbate Calcium sorbate Benzoic acid Sodium benzoate Potassium benzoate Calcium benzoate Ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate Sodium ethyl p-hydroxybenzoate Methyl p-hydroxybenzoate Sodium methyl p-hydroxybenzoate Sulphur dioxide odium sulphite Sodium hydrogen sulphite Sodium metabisulphite Potassium metabisulphite Calcium sulphite Calcium hydrogen sulphite Potassium hydrogen sulphite Biphenyl; diphenyl Nisin Natamycin Hexamethylene tetramine Dimethyl dicarbonate Potassium nitrite Sodium nitrite

E251 E252 E280 E281 E282 E283 E284 E285 E1105

Sodium nitrate Potassium nitrate Propionic acid Sodium propionate Calcium propionate Potassium propionate Boric acid Sodium tetraborate; borax Lysozyme

Back to top Antioxidants E300 E301 E302 E304 E306 E307 E308 E309 E310 E311 E312 E315 E316 E319 E320 E321 E392 E586 Ascorbic acid Sodium ascorbate Calcium ascorbate Fatty acid esters of ascorbic acid Tocopherols Alpha-tocopherol Gamma-tocopherol Delta-tocopherol Propyl gallate Octyl gallate Dodecyl gallate Erythorbic acid Sodium erythorbate Tertiary-butyl hydroquinone (TBHQ) Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) Extracts of rosemary 4-Hexylresorcinol

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Sweeteners E420 E421 E950 E951 E952 E953 E954 E955 E957 E959 E960 E961 E962 E965 E966 E967 E968 (i) Sorbitol (ii) Sorbitol syrup Mannitol Acesulfame K Aspartame Cyclamic acid and its Na and Ca salts lsomalt Saccharin and its Na, K and Ca salts Sucralose Thaumatin Neohesperidine DC Steviol glycoside Neotame (as a avour enhancer) Salt of aspartame-acesulfame (i) Maltitol (ii) Maltitol syrup Lactitol Xylitol Erythritol

A method for calculating permitted levels of the salt of aspartame-acesulfame can be found at the link below. Back to top Emulsiers, Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents E322 E400 E401 E402 Lecithins Alginic acid Sodium alginate Potassium alginate

E403 E404 E405 E406 E407 E407a E410 E412 E413 E414 E415 E416 E417 E418 E425 E426 E427 E432 E433 E434 E435 E436 E440 E442 E444 E445 E460 E461 E462 E463 E464

Ammonium alginate Calcium alginate Propane-1,2-diol alginate Agar Carrageenan Processed eucheuma seaweed Locust bean gum; carob gum Guar gum Tragacanth Acacia gum; gum arabic Xanthan gum Karaya gum Tara gum Gellan gum Konjac Soybean hemicellulose Cassia gum Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate; Polysorbate 20 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate; Polysorbate 80 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monopalmitate; Polysorbate 40 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monostearate; Polysorbate 60 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan tristearate; Polysorbate 65 Pectins Ammonium phosphatides Sucrose acetate isobutyrate Glycerol esters of wood rosins Cellulose Methyl cellulose Ethyl cellulose Hydroxypropyl cellulose Hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose

E465 E466 E468 E469 E470a E470b E471 E472a E472b E472c E472d E472e E472f E473 E474 E475 E476 E477 E479b E481 E482 E483

Ethyl methyl cellulose Carboxy methyl cellulose Crosslinked sodium carboxy methyl cellulose Enzymatically hydrolysed carboxy methyl cellulose Sodium, potassium and calcium salts of fatty acids Magnesium salts of fatty acids Mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Acetic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Lactic acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Citric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mono- and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Mixed acetic and tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids Sucrose esters of fatty acids Sucroglycerides Polyglycerol esters of fatty acids Polyglycerol polyricinoleate Propane-1,2-diol esters of fatty acids Thermally oxidised soya bean oil interacted with mono and diglycerides of fatty acids Sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate Calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate Stearyl tartrate

E491 E492 E493 E494 E495 E1103

Sorbitan monostearate Sorbitan tristearate Sorbitan monolaurate Sorbitan monooleate Sorbitan monopalmitate Invertase

Back to top Others Acid, acidity regulators, anti-caking agents, anti--foaming agents, bulking agents, carriers and carrier solvents, emulsifying salts, rming agents, avour enhancers, our treatment agents, foaming agents, glazing agents, humectants, modied starches, packaging gases, propellants, raising agents and sequestrants. E260 E261 E262 E263 E270 E290 E296 E297 E325 E326 E327 E330 E331 E332 E333 Acetic acid Potassium acetate Sodium acetate Calcium acetate Lactic acid Carbon dioxide Malic acid Fumaric acid Sodium lactate Potassium lactate Calcium lactate Citric acid Sodium citrates Potassium citrates Calcium citrates

E334 E335 E336 E337 E338 E339 E340 E341 E343 E350 E351 E352 E353 E354 E355 E356 E357 E363 E380 E385 E422 E431 E450 E451 E452 E459 E500 E501 E503 E504 E507 E508 E509 E511

Tartaric acid (L-(+)) Sodium tartrates Potassium tartrates Sodium potassium tartrate Phosphoric acid Sodium phosphates Potassium phosphates Calcium phosphates Magnesium phosphates Sodium malates Potassium malate Calcium malates Metatartaric acid Calcium tartrate Adipic acid Sodium adipate Potassium adipate Succinic acid Triammonium citrate Calcium disodium ethylene diamine tetra-acetate; calcium disodium EDTA Glycerol Polyoxyethylene (40) stearate Diphosphates Triphosphates Polyphosphates Beta-cyclodextrin Sodium carbonates Potassium carbonates Ammonium carbonates Magnesium carbonates Hydrochloric acid Potassium chloride Calcium chloride Magnesium chloride

E512 E513 E514 E515 E516 E517 E520 E521 E522 E523 E524 E525 E526 E527 E528 E529 E530 E535 E536 E538 E541 E551 E 552 E553a E553b E554 E555 E556 E558 E559 E570 E574 E575 E576 E577

Stannous chloride Sulphuric acid Sodium sulphates Potassium sulphates Calcium sulphate Ammonium sulphate Aluminium sulphate Aluminium sodium sulphate Aluminium potassium sulphate Aluminium ammonium sulphate Sodium hydroxide Potassium hydroxide Calcium hydroxide Ammonium hydroxide Magnesium hydroxide Calcium oxide Magnesium oxide Sodium ferrocyanide Potassium ferrocyanide Calcium ferrocyanide Sodium aluminium phosphate Silicon dioxide Calcium silicate (i) Magnesium silicate (ii) Magnesium trisilicate Talc Sodium aluminium silicate Potassium aluminium silicate Aluminium calcium silicate Bentonite Aluminium silicate; Kaolin Fatty acids Gluconic acid Glucono delta-lactone Sodium gluconate Potassium gluconate

E578 E579 E585 E620 E621 E622 E623 E624 E625 E626 E627 E628 E629 E630 E631 E632 E633 E634 E635 E640 E650 E900 E901 E902 E903 E904 E905 E912 E914 E920 E927b E938 E939 E941 E942 E943a

Calcium gluconate Ferrous gluconate Ferrous lactate Glutamic acid Monosodium glutamate Monopotassium glutamate Calcium diglutamate Monoammonium glutamate Magnesium diglutamate Guanylic acid Disodium guanylate Dipotassium guanylate Calcium guanylate lnosinic acid Disodium inosinate Dipotassium inosinate Calcium inosinate Calcium 5'-ribonucleotides Disodium 5'-ribonucleotides Glycine and its sodium salt Zinc acetate Dimethylpolysiloxane Beeswax, white and yellow Candelilla wax Carnauba wax Shellac Microcrystalline wax Montan acid esters Oxidised Polyethylene wax L-Cysteine Carbamide Argon Helium Nitrogen Nitrous oxide Butane

E943b E944 E948 E949 E999 E1200 E1201 E1202 E1203 E1204 E1205 E1404 E1410 E1412 E1413 E1414 E1420 E1422 E1440 E1442 E1450 E1451 E1452 E1505 E1518 E1520 E1521

Iso-butane Propane Oxygen Hydrogen Quillaia extract Polydextrose Polyvinylpyrrolidone Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone Polyvinyl alcohol Pullulan Basic methacrylate copolymer Oxidised starch Monostarch phosphate Distarch phosphate Phosphated distarch phosphate Acetylated distarch phosphate Acetylated starch Acetylated distarch adipate Hydroxyl propyl starch Hydroxy propyl distarch phosphate Starch sodium octenyl succinate Acetylated oxidised starch Starch aluminium Octenyl succinate Triethyl citrate Glyceryl triacetate; triacetin Propan-1,2-diol; propylene glycol Polyethylene glycol

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Facts About CAFOs What is a CAFO? What pollutants do CAFOs produce? Are there are different kinds of CAFOs? What's in CAFO waste? How do CAFOs pollute water? How do CAFOs pollute air? How do CAFOs impact human health? Are CAFOs sustainable? Do CAFOs need taxpayer subsidies? How are CAFOs regulated and permitted? What is a CAFO? A CAFO, or Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation, is an industrial-sized livestock operation. * The quantity of urine and feces from even the smallest CAFO is equivalent to the urine and feces produced by 16,000 humans. * A CAFO can house anywhere from hundreds to millions of animals. * The animals in CAFOs are most often dairy cows, hogs, or chickens. * CAFO animals are conned at least 45 days or more per year in an area without vegetation. * CAFOs include open feedlots, as well as massive, windowless buildings where livestock are conned in boxes or stalls.

* Other terms used to describe a CAFO: mega farm, animal factory, hog motels, poop factories, industrial farms. What pollutants do CAFOs produce? CAFOs produce huge amounts of animal sewage and other pollutants. CAFO owners and operators spend millions of dollars on technologies that make it possible to produce massive quantities of milk, eggs, and meat, yet they resist investing in technologies and practices to properly treat the wastes that are by-products of this industry: * The amount of urine and feces produced by the smallest CAFO is equivalent to the quantity of urine and feces produced by 16,000 humans. * CAFO waste is usually not treated to reduce disease-causing pathogens, nor to remove chemicals, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, or other pollutants. * Over 168 gases are emitted from CAFO waste, including hazardous chemicals such as ammonia, hydrogen sulde, and methane. * Airborne particulate matter is found near CAFOs and can carry disease-causing bacteria, fungus, or other pathogens.

* Animals frequently die in CAFOs. Their carcasses, often in large numbers, must be dealt with. * Infestations of ies, rats, and other vermin are commonplace around CAFOs and therefore around CAFO neighbors. Often you'll hear owners of CAFOs argue that the wastes produced by the livestock provide nutrients that help them offset the use of synthetic fertilizers. The sheer amount of wastes produced, however, often overwhelms the ability of the land and crops to absorb CAFO wastes. Are there different kinds of CAFOs? Yes. One type of CAFO houses livestock in buildings the animals seldom leave. Removing wastes from these buildings is a major challenge. * Dairy and hog CAFOs often use clean water to wash animal wastes and contaminants from the buildings into waste-storage structures or lagoons. * Poultry CAFOs use dry-waste systems. The waste falls from animal cages to the oor, where it is scraped out of the building periodically or collected on conveyer belts and moved to composting or storage sites.

Another type of CAFO is the feedlot, which keeps the animals outdoors in pens. Here the manure waste accumulates on the ground, often washing off into nearby ditches and streams. What's in CAFO waste? In addition to plant nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen, CAFO waste is likely to contain: * antibiotic-resistant bacteria * hormones * chemicals used in livestock care * milkhouse wastes * cleaning agents * ammonia and heavy metals * silage leachate * millions of gallons of water contaminated by all of the above. CAFO waste is often stored untreated in gigantic anaerobic waste storage structures or pits for up to six months. After storage, it is spread on farm elds for disposal. This is where CAFO wastes often enters surface water. Nutrients in this CAFO waste can cause bright-green algae blooms in ditches, streams, and lakes. As these surface-water algae blooms die off, the oxygen in the water is depleted. What does this do? It can lead to sh kills. Additionally, drinking-

water plants must remove these nutrients before water is t for consumption. Pathogens such as E.coli bacteria, cryptosporidium, and salmonella, all of which can cause sickness or death in humans and animals, may be present in CAFO wastes. How do CAFOs pollute water? Water pollution is possible at virtually any point in a CAFO's operation. * In the production area, spills, overows, and tracking of wastes on tractor and truck tires can cause surface runoff of contaminants. * Stormwater that mixes with manure wastes, silage leachate, or milkhouse wastes can ow into drains. * Pipes or hoses carrying wastes can break or become unattached. Waste storage structures can overow or burst. * Field tiles or catch basins can be installed that drain wastes directly into surface waters.

It may take dozens of trips per day by semis or tanker trucks to dispose of CAFO waste. These trucks haul the wastes from the production area waste-storage structures to elds that are often many miles away. One of the main sources of CAFO-caused pollution in Michigan comes from discharges of manure and other wastes through the soil into eld drainage tiles, which carry the wastes directly into county drains and streams. When CAFO wastes are applied to farm elds, water pollution can be caused by overapplication of wastes, direct runoff into surface waters, or by traveling through the ground- or catch basins into eld tiles or drainage ditches that discharge directly into surface waters. Tests have shown that waste applied to the surface of a eld can take a little as 45 minutes to reach the eld tiles three to four feet below the surface. Manure wastes are also sprayed from travel irrigators, trucks, tractors, or draglined. This waste can ow directly into surface waters due to wind, by direct discharge from running over a drain or waterway, or through malfuntions of the equipment. Groundwater pollution can be caused by leaking waste storage structures, and improper or overapplication of wastes on

elds. The use of injection systems for shooting wastes directly into the soil is encouraged as a method to keep odor from CAFO land application down, however there is signicant concern that this could simply lead to quicker travel time through the soils into eld drainage tiles. Some CAFO owners have converted eld drainage tiles into de facto septic systems by plugging them with gate valves and other devices. These systems at best only delay the pollution and don't keep pollution from owing to groundwater. They certainly don't remove pathogens. Groundwater is difcult to monitor, so the extent and source of contamination are often harder to pinpoint than surface water contamination. How do CAFOs pollute air? Air pollution from CAFOs can come through numerous methods. Some can cause bad odors, but others emit several dangerous gases as manure and biological materials break down in the absence of oxygen such as in the bottom of a manure pit. Methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulde are some of the gases. Exposure to hydrogen sulde can cause neurological problems, including extreme anger, depression, and illness. The image at right shows a family raising the American ag in their yard, while a hydrogen sulde meter shows concentrations of the contaminant at 2

parts per million in October 2008. The source CAFO can be seen beyond the pine tree. Unfortunately, this home is also surrounded on three sides by elds often used by the CAFO for manure disposal. Some of the sources of CAFO air pollution are: * Barns where the animals are housed The air pollution inside the buildings is potentially deadly to the animals and humans inside if the fans ever stop operating. Normally the fans simply blow the contaminated air to the outside where it can pollute the whole community. Poultry operations blow ammonia and particulate matter, including feathers and chicken feces out of the buildings. * Waste storage structures Hog operations often build the waste storage structure immediately beneath the area where the animals are kept, with slats in the oors to allow wastes to simply drop into the pit. * Handling of the wastes The CAFO wastes stored in waste storage structures is not treated or aerated, often resulting in extreme off-gassing of pollutants such as hydrogen sulde (H2S)

when the wastes are transported and sprayed onto farm elds. * Techniques used in land application For example, once or twice each year many liquid waste CAFO systems will scrape the solids out of the bottom of the waste storage structures and spread these thick, fermented wastes onto farm elds, causing even worse air pollution. How do CAFOs impact human health? CAFOs may cause health effects to their neighbors from pollution damage to the air, land and water. Over 168 gases are emitted from CAFO waste, including hazardous chemicals such as ammonia, hydrogen sulde, and methane. Hydrogen sulde poisoning can cause irreversible brain damage, dizziness, headache, nausea, sore throats, sinusitis, burning eyes, and other illnesses. When phosphorus and nitrogen are overapplied to elds, the nutrients can move through the soil into eld tiles to surface water, or through soil to groundwater and drinking water. Elevated levels of nitrates in drinking water can cause "blue baby syndrome", a potentially fatal blood disorder.

Are CAFOs sustainable? No. * CAFOs are resource-intensive and unsustainable. * CAFOs animal-raising practies are neither economically viable or sustainable. * CAFOs use large amounts of electricity for lighting, equipment, milkers, pumps, and irrigators. * CAFOs use fuel in tremendous quantities to run tractors, gas motors, and pumps, and to transport milk, waste, supplies, and chemicals. * CAFOs use millions of gallons of Michigan's clean fresh groundwater every day to dilute waste and to wash manure from milking parlors and CAFO barns. Do CAFOs need taxpayer subsidies? Yes. CAFOs can't survive without taxpayer subsidies. CAFOs receive many subsidies, such as milk price support guarantees, federal EQIP money through the Farm Bill, Development Right Agreements, tax abatements, grants, bonds, even economic development funds for roads.

These taxpayer supports not only encourage the growth of this industry, they undercut the ability of traditional livestock operations to compete with CAFOs. Without the subsidies, CAFOs would fail nancially. How are CAFOs regulated and permitted? Federal laws establish minimum standards for the regulation of any activity that causes air pollution or water pollution. However, through aggressive lobbying by the promoters of CAFOs, federal laws for the environmental oversight of CAFOs are extremely weak. Currently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides no regulation of air pollution problems from CAFOs. Under the Right-to-Know provisions of CERCLA 42 U.S.C. 11001 et seq. (1986). Also known as Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act - otherwise known as EPCRA (pronounced EPkra) - was enacted by Congress as the national legislation on community safety. This law is designed to help local communities protect public health, safety, and the environment from chemical hazards. CAFOs are required to report emissions of some pollutants, most notably ammonia. This requirement led to disclosure that the largest emitter of ammonia in the country is a dairy CAFO in Oregon.

The federal Clean Water Act does provide some regulation of CAFOs, although interpretations of the extent of those requirements are being litigated. State laws must be at least as restrictive as the federal law, but in Michigan and some other states it has required citizens to bring challenges to state's delegation under the Clean Water Act to force the agencies to implement the laws. Federal law requires that any CAFO which has had an illegal discharge into surface waters must obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit in order to continue operations. Several states (including Michigan) now require NPDES permits for all CAFOs, including new ones. It is important to review the regulations in your state in order to understand what is allowed and not allowed. (View EPA links to state program websites.) State and federal agricultural agencies often play a role in establishing voluntary standards that CAFOs and other livestock operations are expected to abide by. In some instances, the agricultural agencies will act as the gatekeeper for securing any enforcement actions by the state, particularly in the area of air pollution. In Michigan, for example, the Department of Agriculture is given the responsibility for investigating air pollution complaints from CAFOs, although they have no enforcement authority. Except in an

emergency, the agriculture director must make a referral to the Department of Environmental Quality before any action can be taken by the environmental agency regarding those complaints.

http://michigan.sierraclub.org/issues/ greatlakes/articles/cafofacts.html

Petition to Congress: Our current food system is broken, and it didnt happen by accident. Its time for a new farm bill that creates a healthy food system. Please support these actions in the next farm bill: -Level the playing eld for farmers -Make markets fair for farmers and consumers -Ensure food security by restoring the grain reserve -Make healthy food accessible for all people -Rebuild local infrastructure for regional food systems -Make smart government food purchases -Support new sustainable farming programs -Promote environmental stewardship -Require full safety reviews and labeling of GE foods -Stop subsidizing factory farms and dangerous technologies Thank you for your consideration,

http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/ dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5597

CAFOs & Clean Water Act Large-scale concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) can cause signicant environmental and public health threats. In addition to emitting air pollutants such as hydrogen sulde and volatile organic chemicals, CAFOs are also a signicant source of water pollutants, including nitrogen, phosphorus, pathogens, antibiotics, pesticides and heavy metals. The EPA reports that the waste generated by large-scale conventional hog, chicken, and cattle operations has polluted over 35,000 miles of river and has contaminated groundwater in 17 states. Many CAFO operators give antibiotics to animals to make them grow faster and prevent diseases that are caused by the extreme crowding and other stresses on the animals. An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs produced in this country are used in animal agriculture for these nontherapeutic purposes. This amount is estimated to be more than eight times the amount of drugs used to treat human illness. Many of these antibiotics are the same antibiotics used to treat diseases in humans. The use of these antibiotics in CAFOs contributes to the development of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing pathogens. The result is fewer effective antibiotics for medical doctors to use against human diseases.

The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) works against CAFOs by: * advocating for proper enforcement of existing rules for CAFOs and the development of tougher federal regulations regarding their establishment and operation; * opposing the use of farm bill conservation funding and other federal funding to support the proliferation of CAFOs at public expense by subsidizing the cost of CAFO infrastructure such as huge waste lagoons and waste efuent sprayelds; * working for agricultural policies and programs that help our member groups provide outreach, education and information to farmers, ranchers and the public about sustainable livestock and poultry production systems. NSAC is a leading organization in the Clean Water Network and has a major role in the Networks Feedlot Work Group, which seeks to strengthen regulation of largescale CAFOs under the Clean Water Act and other federal laws that can be used to reduce water pollution from CAFOs. In addition, NSACs Policy Associate, Martha Noble, serves on the EPA Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Advisory Committee, which advises the EPA Administrator on agricultural issues within all

environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act. The initial agenda of the EPA Committee includes developing recommendations for the EPA Administrator in the next administration on managing waste from CAFOs and on production of biofuels from agricultural feedstocks. NSAC is working for strong recommendations that will promote longterm sustainable agricultural systems that protect the nations agricultural resources, natural resources, and public health.

http://sustainableagriculture.net/ourwork/conservation-environment/cleanwater-act/

meander 6 years ago ..and for air pollution Conned Animal Feeding Operations (it's hard to call them a farm, even a "factory" farm) have also been let off the hook for their air pollution impacts. In early 2005, the EPA exempted CAFOs from the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws in exchange for the CAFOs' voluntary monitoring of emissions. Here is the Sierra Club's statement about the deal.

http://grist.org/article/cafo-waste/

Toward a Humane, Equitable, and Sutainable Food System Calls for reform of industrial animal food production are becoming increasingly common among scientic commissions, international agencies, activist organizations, chefs, and concerned citizens. There is nearly widespread agreement that animal factory food production must change, yet the prescriptions are not universal. Some favor incremental reforms that would place moratoriums on further expansion of certain types of livestock CAFOs. Others are working for bans against the most brutal connement methods. Legislation to regulate antibiotic use in animal food production is being seriously considered. Voices are rising for the country to restore tens of millions of acres now under feed cultivation to permanent pastures for grass-fed livestock production. Some animal welfare advocates, such as philosopher Peter Singer and activist Eric Marcus go a step further, calling for a citizen movement to dismantle industrial animal production altogether. The European Union currently leads the world in CAFO reforms. These changes are rooted in a seminal report produced in 1997 by the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), an independent advisory body established by the British government over a decade earlier. The FAWC adopted the principles

from the earlier 1965 Brambell Committee Report known as The Five Freedoms. These essential principles have become the guidelines and codes of practice for various animal rights, animal welfare, and humane organizations around the world. The Five Freedoms include: 1. Freedom from Hunger and Thirstby ready access to fresh water and a diet to maintain full health and vigor. 2. Freedom from Discomfortby providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area. 3. Freedom from Pain, Injury, or Diseaseby prevention or rapid diagnosis and treatment. 4. Freedom to Express Normal Behaviorby providing sufcient space, proper facilities, and company of the animals own kind. 5. Freedom from Fear and Distressby ensuring conditions and treatment that avoid mental suffering. The European Union has agreed to phase out the most egregious connement techniques battery cages (for laying hens) and gestation crates (for pregnant sows)by 2012. Some countries within the European Union are also adopting measures to make slaughtering more humane. Moving away from electrical stunning and toward gas-

based stunning on chicken disassembly lines is one example. In 1999 Denmark, a leading hog producing nation, placed strict regulations on antibiotic medicines in the swine industry. Requiring a CAFO to become less pharmaceutically dependent imposes limits on the size and scale of connement operations. This is essential for a country like Denmark, with a nite land area for manure application. The antibiotic regulations were also intended to prolong the effectiveness of these medicines as human safeguards. Demands are rising for animal food production to become more transparent, with the ultimate goal of making the details of all aspects of production better known to the public. Transparency could take many forms. Slaughterhouses and feeding operations, for example, could be required to install video monitoring systems or agree to unannounced third-party inspectionsas is now done by only a number small number of operations on a voluntary basis. CAFO operators could be required to accurately report their usage of antibiotics rather than being able to purchase them by the sack-load and distribute them without a veterinary consult. Actual feed ingredients could be disclosed to the public. Detailed manure distribution records could be required and made more publicly available. Freedom of information within U.S. government agencies could allow the public to know

exactly where taxpayer dollars are being spent to support the industry. None of these disclosures would be radical, but the industry is currently trending away from such transparency. And yet it is not impossible to imagine a far different food and farming system than the one we have today, beginning with a longterm commitment to pasture-based farming. Many have been advocating for some time for an ambitious transformation in U.S. agriculture: away from soil-eroding feed grains toward deeprooted perennial pastures; converting large-areas of the High Plains back to grass and grazing operations; diversifying the corn and soybean dominated Midwest. In fact, thousands of family farmers are managing appropriately-scaled, grass-fed meat, dairy and egg farms without raising animals in vile and sordid conditions. A smart pasture operation (SPO)to pick up on a new phraseis one of the easiest entry points for beginning farmers in current U.S. agriculture. Start-up costs are relatively modest and markets for healthfully raised animal products are underserved and growing rapidly. These pasture-based rotational grazing systems can be extremely resource efcient, and often have the advantage of not needing the energy- and capital-intensive inputs such as heating, ventilation, and cooling systems, housing construction, imported industrial feeds, and mechanized manure management

systems. They rely on sound animal husbandry techniques and integrate farm animals into a healthy landscape, using manure as a source of soil fertility. But this will require whole new generations of farmers willing to join the ranks of this noble profession, and legions of consumers and an nancial and production infrastructure to support them. To that end, many citizens are calling for a much larger and more responsive role for government along the path toward sustainable food production. Reform of USDA Farm Bill programswhich pump billions of dollars and largely establish the rules of modern agricultureare seen as an essential way to fund the transformation to a pasture-based livestock economy through green payments and other incentives. In 2008, Wes Jackson, director of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and author Wendell Berry, called for the launch of a 50-Year Farm Bill campaign. Jackson, Berry, and a coalition of advocates envision a succession of veyear plans, (the average length of a Farm Bill), to move the country away from highly erosive feed grain agriculture and toward perennial, pasture-based animal systems over the next 50 years. Others see Farm Bill programs as an essential economic engine to help rebuild regional food systems with funds for: organic production research; the preservation of traditional and endangered livestock breeds; start-up

capital for farm-to-school and other farm-to-table programs linking local livestock producers with communities of eaters; tractor trailer sized mobile slaughtering units, to serve regions where livestock are currently transported great distances to approved USDA slaughterhouses. Challenging CAFOs will ultimately mean eating fewer animal food products than we do today. There is little doubt that a food system concerned about long-term sustainability, public health, global warming, and global hunger will require that families of four eat far less animal protein than todays present average of 120 chickens, 4 hogs, and 1 cow (not even counting dairy, eggs, seafood, or aquaculture products). This does not mean we have to embrace a vegan society or renounce animal food products of all kinds.Yet somewhere along this path to reform, the general publics perception of vegetarianism simply has to change. Meatless meals may one day become a more frequent choice in a signicant number of households and school meal programs. Livestock will probably remain essential for farming systems as well as for the human diet for some time. But the shift from quantity of the last century to quality and diversity (in all forms) must become a leading force in a 21st century food and farming policy.

We need action on all levels immediately, from governmental to personal. There is a great deal we can do in our own lives everyday, with the choices we make about the kinds of foods we eat, and what kind of world we want those decisions to shape. The time is now to join at whatever point along the spectrum you nd appropriate and push for more local, sustainable, humane, transparent, and just systems of animal food production.

http://www.cafothebook.org/ howitshouldbe.htm

humanmilkpatentpending 3 years ago I have seen the H1N1 u described by government ofcials as "novel." Novel foods are dened as possibly genetically engineered. Is the H1N1 u a genetically engineered problem? This u seems to have jumped the species boundary, something that genetically engineered organisms are manipulated into doing. If the biotech industry is so interested in investigating this situation, one might suspect that just possibly this novel disease was man-made. Factory farming is certainly a nightmare but if we add genetic engineering to the mix it could be a devastating problem for the health and well-being of citizens around the world.

http://grist.org/article/2009-06-03-cafoswine-u/

Wanted: Sound Agricultural Policy Systems that are propped up by billions of dollars in public subsidies are not inevitable. the CAFO system has been nurtured by government policies that favor intensive, industrial-style productionofen at the publics expense. these policies include heav- ily subsidized feed grain, lack of accountability for water and air pollution, counterproductive technological xes such as the non-therapeutic use of an- tibiotics in livestock, and an illequipped regulatory system that looks the other way rather than con- fronting the growing economic power of large processors. Because the success of CAFOs has depended on favorable policies rather than any inherent ad- vantages in production methods, better policies could reverse the damaging ways agriculture is currently practiced in this country. Such policies would eliminate the articial advantages currently granted to CAFOs, force CAFOs to take nancial responsibility for the environmental harm they cause, and support research that would further improve alternative animal farming methods that have already proven safer and better for rural communities than CAFOs. Needed actions include: Strict and vigorous enforcement of antitrust and anti-competitive practice laws under the Packers and Stockyards Act

(which cover captive supply, transparency of contracts, and access to open markets) Strong enforcement of the Clean Water Act as it pertains to CAFOs, including improved oversight at the state level or the takeover of re- sponsibilities currently delegated to the states for approving and monitoring NPDES permits; improvements could include more inspectors and inspections, better monitoring and enforce- ment of manurehandling practices, and measurement of the effectiveness of pollution prevention practices Development of new regulations under the Clean Air Act that would reduce emissions of ammonia and other air pollutants from CAFOs, and ensure that CAFO operators cannot avoid such regulations by encouraging ammonia volatilization Continued monitoring and reporting of ammo- nia and hydrogen sulde emissions as required under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, commonly referred to as the Super- fund) and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) Replacement of farm bill commodity crop subsidies with subsidies that strengthen conser- vation programs and support prices when supplies are high (rather than

allowing prices to fall below the cost of production) Reduction of the current $450,000 EQIP project cap to levels appropriate to smaller farms, with a focus on support for sound animal farming practices Revision of slaughterhouse regulations to facili- tate larger numbers of smaller processors, including the elimination of requirements not appropriate for smaller facilities, combined with public health measures such as providing adequate numbers of federal inspectors or empowering and training state inspectors Substantial funding for research to improve alternative animal production methods (espe- cially pasture-based) that are benecial to the environment, public health, and rural communities We believe that if CAFOs were required to take nancial responsibility for the harm they cause, and entry into markets for alternatives was not held back by a heavily concentrated processing industry and public policies, efcient and safer alternatives would ourish.

http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/ food_and_agriculture/cafos-uncovered.pdf

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations The specialization and industrialization of American agriculture during the past several decades has resulted in an increased number of agricultural facilities that house and feed a large number of animals in a conned area. These facilities, known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), offer a more efcient system to feed and house animals through specialization, increased facility size and close connement of animals. They also pose increased environmental and health problems for neighboring properties and communities. Because more waste is generated in CAFOs than other less-dense animal farm facilities, the potential for greater air, water and land pollution increases in nearby areas. In 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) projected that the nations 257,000 animal feeding operations annually produced more than 500 million tons of manure. EPA estimated that CAFOs accounted for more than half of this amount. When appropriately applied to soil, animal manure can fertilize crops and restore nutrients to the land. When improperly managed, however, animal wastes can pose a threat to human health and the environment. Potential pollutants associated with animal wastes include nutrients (such as ammonia, nitrogen and phosphorus), organic matter, solids,

pathogens, antibiotics, odorous or volatile compounds, and trace elements (such as arsenic and copper). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these pollutants can directly affect human health and can encourage the growth and development of potentially harmful plants and organisms. Due to the increased occupational, environmental and community hazards posed by CAFOs, state, local and federal authorities regulate them. The federal Clean Water Act prohibits discharges of pollutants from point sources into U.S. waters without a permit. Section 502 of the act specically includes CAFOs in the denition of point source. Therefore, CAFOs that discharge wastes into waterways must obtain a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, which limits the amount and types of pollutants that can be released. Under Section 402(b) of the Clean Water Act and 40 C.F.R. Part 123, states can be granted NPDES permitting authority from EPA by adopting federal requirements as state law; as of January 2008, 44 states have permitting authority for CAFOs. EPA retains NPDES permitting authority in Alaska, Idaho,

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Oklahoma. (Alaskas request for permitting authority is pending before EPA.)

http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/agri/ concentrated-animal-feedingoperations.aspx

The Problem with CAFOs: Why they are an unsustainable system for raising livestock What are CAFOs? Three times a day you can make a world of difference, and that's by choosing what you put on your plate. You may be (surprised/dismayed/motivated), to learn that one of the most important ways you can reduce your impact on the planet is to eat less meat and dairy and more plant-based food. Fact: the raising of livestock contributes 18% of humanitys total impact on climate change, more than the emissions from cars, trains, and planes combined.[1] Animals do play an important role when incorporated into farms: they recycle nutrients by eating grass (not digestible by humans), insects (chickens can help keep down pests in this way), and food waste (especially pigs), and turn it into manure - a fertilizer for feeding food crops. But in our current industrial agriculture system, most livestock is not raised on farms, but in CAFOs (Conned Animal Feeding Operations). In the 1970s, agricultural policies led to smaller farms consolidating into big monocultures (single crop). Animals were taken off the farm and squeezed into these animal factories, and instead of using manure for fertilizer we increased our usage of synthetic fertilizers.

CAFOs allowed us to raise many more animals cheaply; we produce enough meat for every American to eat half a pound of meat a day, or 190 pounds a year. But it comes with steep ecological, health, and humanitarian costs. [1] Steinfeld, H., P. Gerber, et al. (2006). Livestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options. (Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.) The Meatrix is a short, informative, and funny cartoon exposing the truth about where our meat comes from. Reason Why CAFOs Are Bad #1: they are inhumane CAFOs arent farms at all, theyre animal factories. Hundreds of thousands of livestock or millions of chickens are grown in tight quarters where movement is restricted and the animals dont have access to the outdoors. The tails are chopped off of pigs and the chickens beaks are clipped without receiving pain killers. Furthermore, the animals did not evolve to eat the diet of corn and soy fed to them in CAFOs, and they certainly did not evolve to eat blood and chicken manure, which are sometimes added to factory farm animal feed to bolster the quantity and protein content of the meat.

Reason #2: CAFOs are a human health hazard We eat what our meat ate, and what our CAFO produced meat ate is nothing good. Disease spreads easily in the crowded unsanitary conditions found in CAFOs, so animals are routinely fed antibiotics even though they aren't sick. According to the Department of Agriculture, 80% of all antibiotics in the US are given to farm animals, most of them healthy and not needing drugs! This overuse of antibiotics can create "superbugs" that pose serious health hazards. When bacteria are exposed to small doses of antibiotics over a long period of time, they evolve and become resistant, turning these antibiotics useless. These strains of "super-bacteria" can reach the human population and spread disease when we eat infected meat or drink water that has been contaminated by CAFO pollution. Reason #3: CAFOs make a lot of waste Historically animal waste was looked at as a precious resource that provided fertility to the farm. By removing the animals from the farms and increasing livestock production, this fertilizer turns into waste, and CAFOs produce enormous amounts: fully 130 times more animal waste than human waste is produced, or 5 tons of animal waste

for every US citizen! The urine and feces are mixed with water and kept in open ponds called liquid manure lagoons, which occasionally leak into the surrounding groundwater systems and contaminate our drinking supply and natural ecosystems. The manure lagoon sludge may also be sprayed on crops, but this is often done excessively and turns into runoff that pollutes natural water systems. Reason #4: CAFOs contribute to climate change As we said, livestock production contributes about 18% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. This is largely because it requires fossil fuels to grow the massive amounts of grain that is fed to livestock in CAFOs; cattle must be fed 10 to 16 pounds of grain to result in just one pound of beef![1] Eating higher on the food chain is an inefcient use of resources when you raise livestock on food that could have been fed directly to humans. One study found that it took 35 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy on a cattle feedlot. [1] From Roberts, P. (2008). The End of Food. Boston, Houghton Mifin Company. p. 293. See also Lapp, F. M. (1991). Diet for a Small Planet. NewYork, Ballantine Books.

Sustainable Alternatives: less meat, or organic, pasture raised meat No doubt about it, if everyone in the world ate as much meat as Americans...well, we'd be sitting in a manure lagoon right about now. It's absolutely necessary that we reduce our consumption of meat - the experts say to just a few times a week, and in smaller portions. When you do choose to eat meat, make it quality stuff: buy from small, organic, pasture raised or free range meat operations. This kind of product you're more likely to nd at farmers markets than grocery stores. Organically raised livestock are fed organic grains and feed, and have not received the heavy doses of antibiotics that CAFO raised animals were given. These high doses of antibiotics can create drugresistant bacteria that can be passed on to humans through the consumption of nonorganic meat, and thus contribute to the spread of disease. [1] Organic meat production can also signicantly reduce GHGs. A 2006 life cycle assessment of three modes of Irish beef production conventional (CAFOs), pastureraised, and organic found that both pasture-raised and organic systems generate fewer GHGs than the conventional system, with the organic system producing 17 percent less than conventional. [2] Organic

and/or environmentally sustainable farming systems can also reduce nitrous oxide emissions by avoiding overproduction of manure because animal stocking densities are typically limited to the land available for manure application.[3] [1] Walsh, Brian. 2009. Getting Real About the High Price of Real Food. Time. August 21st . http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ article/0,9171,1917726,00.html [2] Casey JW and Holden NM. 2006a. Greenhouse gas emissions from conventional, agri-environmental scheme, and organic Irish suckler-beef units. Journal of Environmental Quality 35:231-239. [3] Kotschi J and Mller-Smann K. 2004. The Role of Organic Agriculture in Mitigating Climate Change: A Scoping Study. Bonn, Germany: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements.

http://taramcnerney.hubpages.com/hub/Theproblem-with-CAFOs-unsustainable-ConnedAnimal-Feeding-Operations

BASF abandons GM crop production for Europe Philip Case Tuesday 17 January 2012 12:02 The German chemical giant BASF is moving its genetically modied plant development operations from Europe to the US, where there is less resistance to the technology. The company announced on Monday (16 January) that it would move its plant science headquarters from Limburgerhof, Germany to Raleigh, North Carolina. Two smaller sites in Germany and Sweden will close. BASF will transfer some GM crop development to the US but stop work on crops targeted at the European market four varieties of potato and one of wheat. The decision, which involves the net loss of 140 highly skilled jobs in Europe, also signals the end of GM crop development for European farmers. Bayer CropScience, BASFs German competitor, is working on GM cotton and rice in Ghent, Belgium but not for European markets. There is still a lack of acceptance for this technology in many parts of Europe [by] the majority of consumers, farmers and

politicians, said Stefan Marcinowski, a member of BASFs board of directors. Therefore, it does not make business sense to continue investing in products exclusively for cultivation in this market. The company instead plans to focus on plant biotechnology markets in the Americas and Asia. In 2010 BASF secured European Commission approval to grow a genetically modied potato in the European Union, the rst such approval in more than a decade. The Amora potato was intended to provide high-quality starch for industrial customers. However, German test sites had to be put under constant guard and activists still succeeded in destroying potato elds. BASFs decision is a blow for the European Commission, which began a new push last year to allow farmers in Europe to grow gene-altered products in parts of the Union that accept the technology. Plant scientists across Europe have lamented BASFs announcement. There can be no doubt that the stiing and at times dysfunctional regulatory and political environment for agricultural biotechnology in Europe has played a major

role in this loss of jobs and competences, said Nathalie Moll, secretary-general of EuropaBio, the biotech trade association in Brussels. Decisions to stop innovating for and in Europe are a loss not only for one company, but for Europe as a whole and stand in stark contrast with the rapid adoption of this technology elsewhere in the world, she added. However, environmental campaigners welcomed the decision. This is another nail in the cofn for genetically modied foods in Europe, said Adrian Bebb of Friends of the Earth. Only one genetically modied crop, Monsantos MON810 maize, will be produced in the European Union following BASFs plant-science pullout, Mr Bebb added.

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/ 17/01/2012/131005/BASF-abandons-GM-cropproduction-for-Europe.htm

IsYour Food Safe? What the biotech industry doesn't want you to know The explosive expos, Seeds of Deception, reveals how industry manipulation and political collusion-not sound science-allow dangerous genetically engineered food into your daily diet. Company research is rigged, alarming evidence of health dangers is covered up, and intense political pressure applied. Chapters read like adventure stories: * Scientists were offered bribes or threatened. Evidence was stolen. Data was omitted or distorted. * Government employees who complained were harassed, stripped of responsibilities, or red. * Laboratory rats fed a GM crop developed stomach lesions and seven of the 40 died within two weeks. The crop was approved without further tests. * When a top scientist tried to alert the public about his alarming discoveries, he lost his job and was silenced with threats of a lawsuit.

Read the actual internal memos by FDA scientists, warning of toxins, allergies, and new diseases-all ignored by their superiors, including a former attorney for Monsanto. Discover how industry studies are designed to avoid nding problems. Learn why the FDA withheld information from Congress after a genetically modied supplement killed nearly a hundred people and disabled thousands. Eating such experimental food is gambling with your health. Find out how you can protect yourself and your family.

http://seedsofdeception.com/books/seeds-ofdeception/

Organisations and institutions active on GMO Gentechnikfreie Regionen (German) Aktionsbndnis fr gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft und Lebensmittelproduktion (German) Aktion gegen das Bienensterben (German, English and Spanish) Arbeitsgemeinschaft buerliche Landwirtschaft, AbL (German) AgrarBndnis e.V. (German) Bioland (German and English) Bndnis zum Schutz der Bienen vor Agrogentechnik (German) Bund kologische Lebensmittelwirtschaft BLW (German) BUND, Friends of the Earth Germany (German and English) Bndnis Gentechnikfreie Landwirtschaft Berlin-Brandenburg (German) Forschungsinstitut fr biologischen Landbau - FIBL (German, English and French) Gen-ethisches Netzwerk (German) Greenpeace Germany (German) Grne Liga (Netzwerk kologischer Bewegungen) (German) IG Saatgut (Initiative for GE-free Seeds and Breeding) (German and English) Informationsdienst Gentechnik (German) Kws Gentechnikfrei (German) Mellifera e.V. (German) ko-Institut e.V. Pomologen-Verein e.V.(German, Focus on fruit-growing) Rapunzel Naturkost AG (German)

Risikoregister.de (German) Save Our Seeds (German and English) Umweltinstitut Mnchen e.V. (German and English) Zukunftsstiftung Landwirtschaft (German)

http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/gmo-freeregions/germany.html

Genetically modied foods have been shown to cause harm to humans, animals, and the environmental, and despite growing opposition, more and more foods continue to be genetically altered. Its important to note that steering clear from these foods completely may be difcult, and you should merely try nding other sources than your big chain grocer. If produce is certied USDA-organic, its non-GMO (or supposed to be!) Also, seek out local farmers and booths at farmer s markets where you can be assured the crops arent GMO. Even better, if you are so inclined: Start organic gardening and grow them yourself. Until then, here are the top 10 worst GMO foods for your do not eat GMO foods list. Top 10 Worst GMO Foods forYour GMO Foods List 1. Corn: This is a no-brainer. If youve watched any food documentary, you know corn is highly modied. As many as half of all U.S. farms growing corn for Monsanto are using genetically modied corn, and much of it is intended for human consumption. Monsantos GMO corn has been tied to numerous health issues, including weight gain and organ disruption. 2. Soy: Found in tofu, vegetarian products, soybean oil, soy our, and numerous other products, soy is also modied to resist herbicides. As of now, biotech giant

Monsanto still has a tight grasp on the soybean market, with approximately 90 percent of soy being genetically engineered to resist Monsantos herbicide Roundup. In one single year, 2006, 96.7 million pounds of glyphosate was sprayed on soybeans alone Most news sources are funded by corporations and investors. Their goal is to drive people to advertisers while pushing the corporate agenda. NationofChange is a 501(c)3 organization funded almost 100% from its readersyou! Our only accountability is to the public. Click here to make a generous donation. 3. Sugar: According to NaturalNews, genetically-modied sugar beets were introduced to the U.S. market in 2009. Like others, theyve been modied by Monsanto to resist herbicides. Monsanto has even had USDA and court-related issues with the planting of its sugar beets, being ordered to remove seeds from the soil due to illegal approval. 4. Aspartame: Aspartame is a toxic additive used in numerous food products, and should be avoided for numerous reasons, including the fact that it is created with genetically modied bacteria. 5. Papayas: This one may come as a surprise to all of you tropical-fruit lovers. GMO papayas have been grown in Hawaii for consumption since 1999. Though they cant be

sold to countries in the European Union, they are welcome with open arms in the U.S. and Canada. 6. Canola: One of the most chemically altered foods in the U.S. diet, canola oil is obtained from rapeseed through a series of chemical actions. 7. Cotton: Found in cotton oil, cotton originating in India and China in particular has serious risks. 8. Dairy:Your dairy products contain growth hormones, with as many as onefth of all dairy cows in America are pumped with these hormones. In fact, Monsantos health-hazardous rBGH has been banned in 27 countries, but is still in most US cows. If you must drink milk, buy organic. 9. and 10. Zucchini andYellow Squash: Closely related, these two squash varieties are modied to resist viruses. The dangers of some of these foods are wellknown. The Bt toxin being used in GMO corn, for example, was recently detected in the blood of pregnant women and their babies. But perhaps more frightening are the risks that are still unknown. With little regulation and safety tests performed by the companies doing the genetic modications themselves, we have no

way of knowing for certain what risks these lab-created foods pose to us outside of what we already know. The best advice: steer clear of them altogether.

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Norman Grant :''Occasionally, one of these things gets through the system, but the levels are so low as to be insignicant.'' This is one of the least intelligent statements I've seen for some time. As is made clear earlier in the report, low levels of antibiotics are actually worse than high doses. This is because low doses provide bacteria with an evolutionary path to greater drug resistance, whereas high doses knock them out completely. Mr Grant should get a job working for the tobacco industry.

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Tweet The Issue: Antibiotics and the Food Animal Industry Since the 1940s, antibiotics have played a critical role in protecting the publics health, and are responsible for saving millions of human lives. Unfortunately, inappropriate use of antibiotics is threatening their efcacy. The use of low doses of antibiotics by the modern food animal industry is responsible for drugresistant bacteria emerging on farms which reach the general population through human or animal carriers, and through the food consumers eat. Because of the public health risks associated with antibiotic resistance, there is a push to end the use of low doses of medically important antibiotics in order to slow the development of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. What are Antibiotics? Bacteria are everywhere, including on the skin and in the digestive system of humans. While bacteria are critical to normal bodily functions, some types can cause illness. In humans, antibiotics are used to treat health conditions caused by bacteria, including ear and skin infections, food poisoning, pneumonia, and meningitis. Antibiotics belong to a category of drugs called "antimicrobials," and include penicillin, tetracycline, amoxicillin and many other formulations that can kill or

inhibit the growth of bacteria without causing signicant harm to patients. In the 1940s Penicillin was put into clinical use, and was one of the rst drugs to prove widely effective against formerly untreatable bacterial infections. However, Penicillins efcacy against some common bacterial infections was short lived. By 1955, 13% of common Staphylococcus aureus infections were resistant to penicillin, and by 1988 this percentage was up to 91%. F Today, penicillin is no longer recommended as the rst line of treatment of Staphylococcus infections because it is effective in less than 10% of new cases, F and the growing problem of antibioticresistant bacteria has compromised the efcacy of many other important antibiotics. What are Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria? Similar to how immunization helps the human body ght disease by exposing the immune system to small amounts of a virus or bacteria, when bacteria are continually exposed to small amounts of antibiotics they can develop immunity to them. It's a case of "survival of the ttest," with the strongest bacteria, that are least susceptible to a specic antibiotic, surviving, adapting and multiplying. These are called "resistant bacteria" because they have adapted to the point where antibiotics are no longer an effective means of killing

them. F As a result, some antibiotics have lost their effectiveness against specic infectious diseases. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that each year in the US almost 2 million people acquire bacterial infections in hospitals, 70 percent of which are resistant to at least one commonly used antibiotic. F An example of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium that is the most common cause of staph infections, and can also cause pneumonia, meningitis, toxic shock, skin abscesses, heart valve infections and other serious and deadly medical conditions. F Many strains of s. aureus are now resistant to the antibiotics oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin, and strains of the disease have begun developing resistance to newer drugs like methicillin and vancomycin, powerful drugs once considered last resort antibiotics for only the most serious infections. F F The threat of prolonged illness or death from an S. aureus infection has increased as it has become more resistant and fewer drugs are able to effectively control or eliminate it. According to a recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, approximately 19,000 deaths per year in the United States can be attributed to infection with Invasive Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus, a number greater than annual U.S. deaths from AIDS. F

The problem of antibiotic resistance has accelerated through overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals. Over-prescribing antibiotics for conditions caused by viruses like the u or common cold, which antibiotics cannot treat, contributes to antibiotic resistance. Even when antibiotics are used for bacterial infections, studies have shown that antibiotic resistance can still arise from their use. F F Failure to complete the prescribed antibiotic regimen for a bacterial infection is another common contributor to the development of antibiotic resistance. F Antibiotics and the Animal Industry Industrial farms have been adding antibiotics to livestock feed since 1946, when studies showed that antibiotics caused animals to grow faster and put on weight more efciently, increasing meat producers' prots. F Between 1985 and 2001, the use of antibiotics in feed for industrial livestock production rose a startling 50%. F Today, antibiotics are routinely fed to livestock, poultry, and sh on industrial farms to promote faster growth and to compensate for the unsanitary conditions in which they are raised. F According to a new report by the FDA, approximately 80 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to farm animals. F This means that in the United States only 20 percent of antibiotics, which were originally developed to protect

human health, are actually used to treat infections in people. Modern industrial farms are ideal breeding grounds for germs and disease. Animals live in close connement, often standing or laying in their own waste, and are under constant stress that inhibits their immune systems and makes them more prone to infection. FWhen drug-resistant bacteria develop in industrial livestock facilities, they can reach the human population through food, the environment (i.e., water, soil, and air), or by direct human- animal contact. F One major way in which antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria enter the environment is via animal manure. Industrial livestock operations produce an enormous amount of concentrated animal wasteover one billion tons annually often laden with antibiotics and their residues, as well as antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is estimated that approximately 75 percent of all antibiotics given to animals are not fully digested and eventually pass through the body and enter the environment, F where they can encounter new bacteria and create additional resistant strains. F With huge quantities of manure routinely sprayed onto elds surrounding CAFOs, antibiotic resistant bacteria can leech into surface and ground water, contaminating drinking wells and endangering the health

of people living close to large livestock facilities. F Bacteria can also be spread by insects that come in contact with animal waste. A study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University examined ies near broiler poultry operations and found that many of the ies living near these operations carried antibiotic resistant enterococci and staphylococci. If these ies travel to nearby homes, they could transport these drug resistant bacteria from the farm to neighboring communities. F Antibiotic Resistance and Public Health Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing public health crisis because infections from resistant bacteria are increasingly difcult and expensive to treat. The National Academy of Sciences calculates that increased health care costs associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria exceed $4 billion each year in the United States alone a gure that reects the price of pharmaceuticals and longer hospital stays, but does not account for lost workdays, lost productivity or human suffering. F Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, released a statement on World Health Day 2011 about the bleak future of treating bacterial infections if no steps are taken to slow the development of antibiotic resistant bacterial strains. She warned that in the

absence of urgent corrective and protective actions, the world is heading toward a postantibiotic era, in which many common infections will no longer have a cure and, once again, kill unabated. F Although everyone is at risk when antibiotics stop working, the threat is greatest for young children, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems, including cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, organ transplant patients and, in general, people whose health is compromised in some way. PAMTA In 2011, an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act called the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical treatment, was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The goal of the amendment is to create legislation that is focused on protecting the effectiveness of antibiotics used in treating human and animal diseases. F In early 2011, it was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Subcommittee on Health, as well the House Committee on Rules. Following reports by these committees, the act will be sent back to the House for voting. F If the bill is passed, it will ban the use seven classes of antibiotics that are medically signicant to humans for use by the food animal industry, as well as restrict the use of many other antibiotics in animal feed.

Sustainable Alternatives Ending the routine use of antibiotics in animal agriculture is not only critical, it is possible and economically feasible. According to a study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the increased selling price of chickens fed growth promoting antibiotics (or GPAs) did not offset the increased cost of the feed, resulting in a higher overall cost to the farmer. The study found that the use of GPAs resulted in an average loss in value per chicken of $0.0093, or about 0.45%. Along with expected decreases in health care costs that would stem from reducing the number of drug resistant infections, there is evidence to show that eliminating GPAs would be protable for both farmers and the public as a whole. F Today, many animal farmers do not use antibiotics at all, in large part because they don't have to compensate for unhealthy conditions associated with CAFO production systems. On these types of farms, animals are raised in clean environments with adequate space to reduce animal-stress and the likelihood of infections. F While these types of farms may use antibiotics, they only do so to treat acute infections in sick animals, just as they are used to treat infections in humans.

Federal standards prohibit antibiotic use in animals whose meat will be certied organic. In Eat Well Guide, farms where antibiotics are never given to animals carry the label "no antibiotic use," while those where antibiotics are only used to treat a sick animal carry the label "no routine antibiotic use." In these instances, a suitable amount of time must pass after an animal is treated and before its meat, milk or eggs can enter the food supply.

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MUST-HAVE VEGGIES Veggies are an important part of everyone's diet. They contain dozens of important nutrients and have loads of dietary ber. And just by getting your daily quota of ve to nine servings, you help build your body's immunity to things like cancer, heart disease and diabetes. So what are the top veggies you should be eating to boost your disease-ghting potential? Read on to nd out. Tomatoes Though technically a fruit, tomatoes are most often served like a vegetable. Full of lycopene, these beautiful red orbs (and all tomato-based products) are renowned for their cancer-ghting capabilities. Not only are they chock full of vitaminy goodness (from vitamins A to K), they also keep our blood pressure in check and help to reduce the number of free radicals in our bodies. How to eat them: Heirloom tomato recipes Broccoli Few foods measure up to the disease-ghting potential of broccoli. This cruciferous veg is packed with antioxidants that help reduce the risk of stomach, lung and rectal cancers. And because broccoli is rich in beta-carotene, vitamin C and folate, it is also good at boosting your immunity to colds and us. How to eat it: Sesame-Ginger Frittata with Broccoli and Shrimp

Brussels sprouts These little green veggies are especially important for pregnant woman because they're packed with folic acid, a B-vitamin that prevents neural tube defects. Brussels sprouts are also packed with vitamins C and K as well as ber, potassium and omega-3 fatty acids. How to eat them: Stuffed Chicken Breasts with a side of Brussels Sprouts (cooking video) Carrots These orange-wonders are loaded with eye, skin and hair-enriching nutrients. They're also the richest vegetable source of some important antioxidants, like vitamin A. And because they're rich in vitamin C, carrots protect your cardiovascular system from damage. How to eat them: Carrot Raisin Mufns Squash A good source of anti-inammatory nutrients like vitamin C and beta-carotene, squash, especially summer squash, can help treat dozens of conditions including asthma, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Squash is also rich in potassium, magnesium and ber. How to eat it: Summer Squash Ravioli Sweet potato This root vegetable has dozens of anticancer nutrients like vitamin A, C and manganese. They're also a good source of ber and iron, so not only do they give you

energy, they can also help regulate your digestive system. How to eat them: Sweet Potato Soup Eggplant High in heart healthy nutrients, eggplants are rich in antioxidants like nasunin (a unique compound that protects your brain cells from damage). And because eggplants are loaded with ber and potassium, researchers believe they may reduce your risk of stroke and dementia. How to eat it: Eggplant Parmesan Bell Peppers Whether you prefer red, orange or yellow, bell peppers are packed with dozens of heart-healthy nutrients like lycopene and folic acid. And recent research suggests digging into a pepper every day may lower your risk of developing lung, colon, bladder and pancreatic cancers. How to eat them: Stuffed Roasted Bell Peppers Spinach This chlorophyll-packed type of produce is an excellent source of almost every vitamin and nutrient you need. Scientists believe a diet heavy in spinach may be able to prevent everything from heart disease to colon cancer, and arthritis to osteoporosis. How to eat it: Spinach Salad Onions These pungent smelling veggies are particularly good for people suffering

from (or at risk of developing) osteoporosis. That's because onions are loaded with a peptide called GPCS which scientists believe slows your body's loss of calcium. Onions may also be useful in the ght against heart disease and diabetes because they're loaded with vitamin C and folate. How to eat them: French Onion Soup

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FOOD AND DRINK EU may ease genetic engineering rules on food The European Commission would like to relax limits on genetically modied organisms in food. But Germany's agriculture minister supports a notolerance policy. When the Augustinian monk Gregor Johann Mendel crossed a yellow with a green pea 150 years ago, he hardly could have guessed what his experiment would unleash. It was the starting point for a brand new area of science: genetic technology, which polarizes today more than ever. The latest point of controversy for business, politicians and citizens is the current zerotolerance policy, which the European Commission would like to relax. Under current regulations, genetically modied organisms (GMO) which have not been approved are not allowed in food products, but regulators would like to change that to allow contamination by up to 0.1 percent. Germany's Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner believes the EU's proposal goes too far. "When we're talking about unapproved GMOs, then security must be given highest priority, especially when it comes to food," Aigner said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio.

Consumers seem to agree with her. But questions remain. How dangerous are food products manipulated in this way? And are we not eating them already without knowing it? Alexander Hissting prefers the zero tolerance approach A loophole on zero tolerance The fact that many foods already include GMOs is usually ignored in the debate on the zero-tolerance policy. Organisms with manipulated genes have been used in Germany for about ten years - provided they have been approved by the EU. Consumers often don't know that because approved GMOs don't have to be identied. "For approved GMOs, we don't have a zerotolerance policy," said Alexander Hissting of Lebensmittel ohne Gentechnik (Food without Genetic Technology), a group that advocates against genetically modied foods. "The laws permit GMOs that have been checked for safety to be used in products to a certain degree." Currently, foods can incorporate 0.9 percent of approved GMOs without noting the fact. There is also a loophole when it comes to animal feed, for which the inclusion of non-approved GMOs is permitted. That means a cow can be eating GMOs, but the milk cartons won't make note of that fact.

However, most contamination of food products occurs during transportation or processing, where machines and containers can be used for both conventional as well as genetically modied products. Marcus Girnau notes we may know less about our food than we think No absolute guarantee "Products 100 percent free of genetic modications can no longer be guaranteed," explained Marcus Girnau of the Association for Food Law and Information (Bund fr Lebensmittelrecht und Lebensmittelkunde), which is part of the German food industry. There can be traces even in organic products or those that have labels saying that they are free of genetic technology. "As a result of the different regulations throughout the world, the global trade and the mechanisms for analysis that are used these days it is not possible to rule out that tiny traces of unapproved material end up in the products," Girnau said. Mistrust with regard to genetic modications remains high. The effects of consuming products created with GMOs have not been explored exhaustively. Production of genetically modied produce in Europe has gone down "It's new ground in terms of research. We are lacking, for example, basic research on

the issue of whether genetically modied plants can nd their way into animal products. And whether people can research that question at all is a subject of contention among scientists," said GMO opponent Alexander Hissting. The situation is clearer when it comes to food products containing GMOs that are approved by the EU. They are checked out thoroughly rst to make sure that no products with health risks hit supermarket shelves. However, Hissting argues that there's a risk hiding in every genetically modied plant because "through the genetic modications, other properties can be changed along the way." Proteins could be inuenced and cause allergies, for example. If the current zero-tolerance policy were eased up, Hissting said, even more food products would be contaminated with unapproved genetically modied plants, and that could lead to more food scandals. Author: Rayna Breuer / gsw Editor: Michael Lawton

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Why is Farm Raised Fish So Bad forYou? 1. Can Cause Inammation Farm raised Tilapia has always been a popular source for sh, not only because its widely available in the US, but its also very inexpensive. Its known in the food business as aquatic chicken because it breeds easily and tastes bland. Tilapia is the perfect factory sh; it happily eats pellets made largely of corn and soy and gains weight rapidly, easily converting a diet that resembles cheap chicken feed into lowcost seafood. Recent studies have concluded that eating Tilapia may worsen inammation which can lead to heart disease, arthritis, asthma and a world of other serious health problems. People who have started eating more sh as a way to get their dose of omega-3-fatty-acids and lessen their risk of heart attacks should avoid Tilapia. In fact, scientists have found that the inammatory potential of Tilapia is greater than that of a hamburger or pork bacon! 2. Contains Cancer Causing Pollutants Farm bred sh may have at least 10 times the cancer causing pollutants compared to the wild variety. This can most likely be attributed to the feeds used on farm-raised

sh. Chicken feces is one of the main ingredients in farm sh feed. Not only that, the transfer of pig and duck waste to sh farms is also a very common practice. 3. Contains Antibiotics and Pesticides Where do farm bred sh get their antibiotics? The crowded conditions of sh farms cause the sh to be more susceptible to disease. To keep them alive, farm owners give antibiotics to the sh to stave off disease. Farm bred sh are also treated with pesticides to combat sea lice. The pesticides used to treat these sh are so deadly that they have been found to kill wild salmon that are accidentally exposed to them. These pesticides are also eventually released in the ocean where they get into the bodies and systems of other marine life. 4. Low Levels of Nutrients Many of us consume sh, hoping to reap the omega-3 fatty acid benets that come with it. However, did you know that the omega-3acids found in farm raised sh are less usable to our bodies compared to wild bred sh, and they also have a lower protein content. Not only that, because farm raised sh are kept in cages, they have the tendency to contain more fat, and can have a higher concentration of omega-6 acids. The problem with getting too much omega 3 and omega 6 acids is that they may cause inammation to the body

5. Contains Toxic Chemicals Dibutylin levels (toxic chemical used in PVC plastics) is said to be 6 times higher in farm raised mussels compared to wild ones. Dibutylin is toxic and can impair immune system function while also contributing to inammation. Dibutylin may be the reason why weve seen a rise in asthma, obesity, allergies and other metabolic disorders in the recent years. 6. Contains Even MORE Toxic Chemicals Dioxin levels (toxic chemical) are 11 times higher in farm bred salmon compared to wild salmon. Dioxin is actually a very toxic chemical that can contribute to cancer and other complications. The problem with dioxin is that once it enters our system, it can take a very long time until it is let out. The half life of dioxin is about 7 to 11 years. This is why I only eat Wild Caught sh like Wild Sockeye Salmon. Wild caught salmon is loaded with Omega-3 fats, EPA and DHA, and has incredible health benets. Plus, Salmon contains astaxanthin (A metabolic building block) which has been shown to be 6,000 times more powerful than Vitamin D at absorbing free radicals.

To see all the sh I recommend, check out my free Healing Food Shopping List. If youre not eating Salmon or another wild caught sh once daily, then I recommend taking a high quality sh oil that contains astaxanthin, like Oceans 3.

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Pulling it all together As a summary I could say that theres very little that the large food companies are doing for our health. They all claim they are all in for a healthier planet, but seems like most actions are just to mitigate the churn they have faced amongst this current health trend. They promote wellness through increased exercise and continued use of their products. For example Kelloggs thinks that a brisk daily walk and a bowl of cereal is all we need to be healthy. So basically they are setting down res and not so much innovating for the future. The healthy mindset seems to be a challenge for the incumbents, as their current business model, talent pool, and brand image doesnt support the changing industry. Im not a hater, so unlike many other health foodies, I would actually want these guys to succeed. It would be a much faster/bigger global impact, but they would need to understand that the rules of the game are changing.You just cant buy a brand and then lower the quality

standards. For this reason my guess is that the real change and innovation will rst come from small independent companies making bit bets on big things. Mes cordiales salutations, Tero

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Wholesale and distribution A vast global transportation network is required by the food industry in order to connect its numerous parts. These include suppliers, manufacturers, warehousing, retailers and the end consumers. There are also companies that add vitamins, minerals, and other necessary requirements during processing to make up for those lost during preparation. Wholesale markets for fresh food products have tended to decline in importance in OECD countries as well as in Latin America and some Asian countries as a result of the growth of supermarkets, which procure directly from farmers or through preferred suppliers, rather than going through markets. The constant and uninterrupted ow of product from distribution centers to store locations is a critical link in food industry operations. Distribution centers run more efciently, throughput can be increased, costs can be lowered, and manpower better utilized if the proper steps are taken when setting up a material handling system in a warehouse. [1] Retail With populations around the world concentrating in urban areas,[5] food buying is increasingly removed from all aspects of food production. This is a

relatively recent development, having taken place mainly over the last 50 years. The supermarket is the dening retail element of the food industry, where tens of thousands of products are gathered in one location, in continuous, year-round supply. Restaurants, Cafes, Bakeries and Mobile trucks are also ways consumers can purchase food. Food preparation is another area where change in recent decades has been dramatic. Today, two food industry sectors are in apparent competition for the retail food dollar. The grocery industry sells fresh and largely raw products for consumers to use as ingredients in home cooking. The food service industry by contrast offers prepared food, either as nished products, or as partially prepared components for nal assembly. Food industry technologies Sophisticated technologies dene modern food production. They include many areas. Agricultural machinery, originally led by the tractor, has practically eliminated human labor in many areas of production. Biotechnology is driving much change, in areas as diverse as agrochemicals, plant breeding and food processing. Many other areas of technology are also involved, to the point where it is hard to nd an area that does not have a direct impact on the food industry. Computer technology is also

a central force, with computer networks and specialized software providing the support infrastructure to allow global movement of the myriad components involved. Marketing As consumers grow increasingly removed from food production, the role of product creation, advertising, and publicity become the primary vehicles for information about food. With processed food as the dominant category, marketers have almost innite possibilities in product creation. Media & Marketing A key tool for FMCG marketing managers targeting the supermarket industry includes national titles like The Grocer in the U.K., Checkout in Ireland, Progressive Grocer in the U.S., and Private Label Europe for the entire of the European Union.it

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Monsanto Threatens to Sue Vermont if Legislators Pass a Bill Requiring GMO Food to Be Labeled What it really comes down to this: Elected ofcials are abandoning the public interest and public will in the face of corporate intimidation. April 4, 2012 The worlds most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermonts Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill. Why? Because Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if the bill passes. The popular legislative bill requiring mandatory labels on genetically engineered food (H-722) is languishing in the Vermont House Agriculture Committee, with only four weeks left until the legislature adjourns for the year. Despite thousands of emails and calls from constituents who overwhelmingly support mandatory labeling, despite the fact that a majority (6 to 5) of Agriculture Committee members support passage of the measure, Vermont legislators are holding up the labeling bill and refusing to take a vote.

Instead, theyre calling for more public hearings on April 12, in the apparent hope that they can run out the clock until the legislative session ends in early May. What happened to the formerly staunch legislative champions of Vermonts right to know bill? They lost their nerve and abandoned their principles after Monsanto representative recently threatened a public ofcial that the biotech giant would sue Vermont if they dared to pass the bill. Several legislators have rather unconvincingly argued that the Vermont public has a low appetite for any bills, even very popular bills like this one, that might end up in court. Others expressed concern about Vermont being the rst state to pass a mandatory GMO labeling bill and then having to go it alone against Monsanto in court. What it really comes down to this: Elected ofcials are abandoning the public interest and public will in the face of corporate intimidation. Monsanto has used lawsuits or threats of lawsuits for 20 years to force unlabeled genetically engineered foods on the public, and to intimidate farmers into buying their genetically engineered seeds and hormones. When Vermont became the rst state in the nation in 1994 to require mandatory labels on milk and dairy products derived from cows injected with the controversial

genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone, Monsantos minions sued in Federal Court and won on a judges decision that dairy corporations have the rst amendment right to remain silent on whether or not they are injecting their cows with rBGH - even though rBGH has been linked to severe health damage in cows and increased cancer risk for humans, and is banned in much of the industrialized world, including Europe and Canada. Monsanto wields tremendous inuence in Washington, DC and most state capitals. The companys stranglehold over politicians and regulatory ofcials is what has prompted activists in California to bypass the legislature and collect 850,000 signatures to place a citizens Initiative on the ballot in November 2012. The 2012 California Right to Know Act will force mandatory labeling of GMOs and to ban the routine practice of labeling GMO-tainted food as natural. All of Monsantos fear mongering and intimidation tactics were blatantly on display in the House Agriculture Committee hearings March 15-16. During the hearings the Vermont legislature was deluged with calls, letters, and e-mails urging passage of a GMO labeling bill - more than on any other bill since the ght over Civil Unions in 1999-2000. The legislature heard from pro-labeling

witnesses such as Dr. Michael Hansen, an expert on genetic engineering from the Consumers Union, who shredded industry claims that GMOs are safe and that consumers dont need to know if their food is contaminated with them. On the other side of the fence, Monsantos lobbyist and Vermont mouthpiece, Margaret Laggis employed inaccurate, unsubstantiated, fear-mongering claims to make Monsantos case. She warned during the hearings that if this law were passed, there would not be enough corn, canola, and soybean seed for Vermont farmers to plant. Laggis lied when she said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had done exhaustive feeding tests on genetically modied foods. Hansen corrected her, testifying that all of the GMO feeding tests submitted to the FDA were conducted by Monsanto and other GMO corporations and that the FDA had not done any GMO testing of its own. Laggis lied again when she claimed that a recent Canadian study showing that more than 90% pregnant women had high levels of a genetically modied bacterial pesticide in their blood resulted from them eating too much organic food during pregnancy. Again, Hansen refuted this nonsense by pointing out that the Bacillus thuingensis (Bt) bacterium spray used by organic

growers is chemically and materially different from the GMO Bt bacterium which showed up in the pregnant womens blood and the umbilical cords of their fetuses. Hanson pointed that the high levels of Monsantos mutant Bt in the womens blood was due to the widespread cultivation of GMO corn, cotton, soy, and canola. The committee heard testimony that European Union studies have been conducted which showed that even short-term feeding studies of GMO crops caused 43.5% of male test animals to suffer kidney abnormalities, and 30.8% of female test animals to suffer liver abnormalities. Studies also have shown that the intestinal lining of animals fed GMO food was thickened compared to the control animals. All of these short-term results could become chronic, and thus precursors to cancer. Studies like these have prompted 50 nations around the world to pass laws requiring mandatory labels on GMO right foods. In the end, none of the scientic testimony mattered. Monsanto operatives simply reverted to their usual tactics: They openly threatened to sue the state. Unfortunately in the US, industry and the government continue to side with Monsanto rather than the 90% of consumers who support labeling. Monsantos biotech bullying is a classic example of how the 1%

control the rest of us, even in Vermont, generally acknowledged as the most progressive state in the nation. Vermont activists are organizing a protest at the state capital on April 12 to coincide with the next round of hearings on H-722, and are asking residents to write letters, make calls, and e-mail their legislators and the Governor. For more information, please go to the website http:// www.vtrighttoknow.org or the Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ vtrighttoknow of the Vermont Right to Know Campaign.

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How technology has affected the food industry by Anja Emerson Created on: August 30, 2009 Technology has dramatically improved and reshaped every part of our lives. It has hardly left any aspect of our existence untouched. It has revolutionized the way we work, entertain ourselves and even the things we eat. The food industry has increasingly developed by adopting more advanced technologies that can deliver us healthier, fresher and more varied food. Currently, the marketplace offers a vast variety of foods we can choose from, at a better quality and lower prices than in the past. By introducing new technologies, businesses can offer better products and services in increasingly larger quantities and thus, satisfy a wider range of clients. The same holds true for the companies in the food industry. Advanced technologies are used in all the stages of food production. The rst step is to help evaluate and improve the quality of the raw ingredients used. Next, they're used in the preparation stage, where they aid at shipping and handling the materials. The last stage of processing food will make use

of methods like conservation and separation, potentially adding new ingredients to create the nal product. The packaging process is now less expensive and more sophisticated, with the rise of new materials that can be used to wrap or seal items. Special machines are used to create the packaging and automate this process to maximize efciency and reduce costs. Food quality and safety have both increased because new technologies make it easier to follow international standards and regulations regarding the contents of products. Companies struggle to obtain more raw materials out of crops or nd better methods of drying vegetables. They also strive to improve the way they are processing food, by relying on less harmful chemical substances. The variety of aliments we have at our disposition is simply overwhelming. By constantly renewing and improving their merchandise in their attempt to defeat competition, food companies offer very diverse products. This greatly benets us because we have access to more products than ever before. As of recently, the food industry has been focusing of new ways to produce healthy, ecological food, based mainly on natural ingredients. Because of the population's interest for additive-free products, the

industry is constantly implementing new ways of producing them. Technology benets us and the food industry by eliminating limitations in quality, quantity and reducing costs. Its effects over the food we eat are increasingly more pronounced and that can only be for the best.

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Food Industry & Technology Advancement Being one of the conservative industries, traditionally we have not seen great technology advancement or adoption in the food industry...but the times are changing...it is not anymore adopting technologies to be more competitive...the new mantra is you need to be on the lookout for new avenues and opportunities in technology to survive...having said that what are we seeing? Operations and transportation are supported by highly sophisticated technology like voice-activated picking of products in the warehouse, computerized routing of transportation eets, and monitoring systems for warehouses and trucks that are separated into temperature specic areas to preserve the safety and quality of foods Use of social media for better understanding of consumer demand Social networking technology is being leveraged extensively by consumers to make decisions on a daily basis. This has led large restaurant operators as well as independent local establishments to try and use these new digital tools to better understand their own markets and to control their marketing- to reach out to potential diners with offers and other targeted inducements to patronize their tables.

In doing so they are gaining actionable insights with which to better estimate demand. In turn, they can place orders to their suppliers with a higher level of condence that these orders are a reasonably accurate reection of what their customers will actually be ordering, when and in what quantity. The utility of such tools using social networks could be very effective, but are still at their infancy in most B2B marketing. Predictive analytics and efcient data management Preferences of the end consumer in the food services industry changes fast, however the manufacturers, distributors and operators have in many ways been slow to adapt their sales and marketing practices to better serve the evolving preferences. The sub-optimal performance of the players is in most part due to absence of data-driven input for decision-making, as well as the inability to effectively monitor and evaluate performance demand. Predictive technology applies rigorous quantitative methods to target the right customers with the right products, promotions, pricing and timing. The increasing use of social networking technology has enhanced the quantity and quality of digital signals coming from downstream markets.

Convergence of these two powerful technology trends offers potential benets throughout the foodservice value chain more accurate forecasting for price and other demand levers (assortment, promotions and sales force effort) - which can result in more predictable margins without the wild uctuations seen today. That in turn can provide an incentive for distributors to be willing to look at alternative models to the stultifying "pay to play" template for trade spend that prevails today

http://www.infosysblogs.com/retail-cpg/ 2012/03/ food_industry_technology_advan.html

"Bad apples"? Perhaps the most provocative possibility: are vendors xing prices? The same sense of close-knit community and camaraderie that we might treasure about farmers markets can also be seen, through an economic lens, as anti-competitive collusion. There is evidence from the literature that vendors can indeed form cartels, checking with each other to keep prices at a certain level (and turning the cold shoulder to vendors who might try to undercut them). Indeed, where market prices seemed unusually static, I could look at the raw data and perceive instances where prices moved in sync to an uncanny degree, and rarely to the consumers' advantage. This is certainly not the rule, but it appears to happen. All of these insights suggest possible policies that market managers or the government, where it has a stake, might explore to encourage greater competition and lower prices. Of course... is that what we want, if it spoils some of what otherwise makes farmers markets special? That's certainly not for me to answer! Finally, there was the secondary issue I mentioned above: how well do farmers market prices track the prices in nearby supermarkets? According to this dataset, at least, the answer is: not well at all. In fact, there appear to be very few cases where

prices in farmers markets and supermarkets move together to any signicant degree. They are their own world, seemingly divorced from whatever forces set the prices in more conventional settings. And how about one last question, which just about everyone I talked to about this research seemed to ask me: are farmers markets cheaper? Not according to this data, at least in any categorical sense. But nor are they categorically more expensive; local factors and product differences would appear to be critical here. Feel free to leave your comments below, and happy shopping! For more, I invite you to dig into the paper. Either way, I hope you'll never look at farmers markets the same way again!

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Size of Kosher Food Market: The kosher food market is a $9 billion market today. Consumer Spending for Kosher Products: Consumers spent approximately $165 billion for kosher products in 2003, according to data compiled by Integrated Marketing Communications. In comparison, they spent $250 million on kosher products 25 years earlier. Growth in Kosher Food Market: The kosher food market is enjoying an annual growth of approximately 15 percent. In comparison, non-kosher food sales in American supermarkets are growing at approximately 4 percent a year. American Consumers of Kosher Products: 21% of Americans buy kosher food. Less than 25% of kosher consumers in America are observant Jews. 55% of America's kosher food consumers buy kosher products because they believe kosher food is healthier. Jewish Consumers of Kosher Products: Some surveys conclude there are 5.2 million Jews in America, while others say there are closer to 6 million Jews in America. Only about 15% of American Jews keep kosher. Non-Jewish Consumers of Kosher Products: 80% of all kosher food sales are made outside of the traditional Jewish market.

Non-Jewish kosher consumers include health conscience, vegetarians, lactose intolerant, Muslims, Seventh Day Adventists and other Christian sects with dietary restrictions. Kosher Certied Products: There are more than 100,000 kosher certied products today. Approximately 3,000 new products are introduced into the kosher market each year. Hebrew National sausages made of 100% beef are the top selling kosher brand in America today. Kosher Products in US Supermarkets: In 2005, 40% of US grocery sales were certied kosher, according to the Bureau of Census. The average number of kosher products in American supermarkets is 17,000. Kosher Producing Companies: There are over 10,000 kosher producing companies today. Kosher Certiers: There are close to 400 kosher certiers worldwide. 40% of the retail food products sold in the United States today bear some type of kosher certication. http://kosherfood.about.com/od/ kosherbasics/p/kosherstats.htm

Scam? The Rapidly Expanding World Of Kosher Food While 90 percent of OU's funding comes from kosher certication fees, prots are funneled back into community organizations. "Kosher agencies aren't making billions," says the OU's COO Rabbi Moshe Elefant, holding up the lapels of his rumpled suit. "If we were making billions, I wouldn't look the way I look. The Rapidly Expanding World of Kosher Food Ed Hardy tequila, Glenmorangie Scotch, as well as Big Food outts such as Pillsbury have helped expand the kosher retail market to $13 billion By David Sax Businessweek The throng inside the Meadowlands Exposition CenterIsraeli women in long skirts, Hasidim in oor-length coats, WalMart (WMT) buyers in Dockersmight have struck some as the casting call for a Mel Brooks movie. However, the crowd had come to Secaucus, N.J., in late October for the annual extravaganza known as Kosherfest, a two-day trade show connecting kosher food buyers and sellers from across the globe. Though the event is still dominated by mar quee brands of High Holidays pastEmpire Kosher chicken, Streit's matzos, Gold's horseradisha swarm of rabbis mobbed booths featuring the latest converts to the rapidly expanding world of kosher food: frozen spring rolls, Canadian

hemp oil, Glenmorangie Scotch, and Ed Hardy tequila in an ornately decorated bottle with a skull stopper. Kosher was once a set of rules that Jews observed primarily in the home. Meat was ritually slaughtered by local rabbis, bread was bought from kosher bakeries, and everything was cooked according to the Biblical laws of kashrut. As processed and packaged foods replaced homemade matzo balls, though, kosher consumers began to demand more variety. Starting in the 1930s, brands such as Coca-Cola (KO) have increasingly obliged by pursuing kosher certication agencies to bestow their products with a hechsher, or stamp of approval. Now the kosher retail market, which represents upwards of $13 billion in annual sales, according to Brooklyn (N.Y.) marketing rm Lubicom, even includes certain foodssuch as chocolate Easter bunniesthat many Jews might never eat. Says Sue Fishkoff, author of Kosher Nation: "Today, one-third to one-half of the food in a typical American supermarket is kosher." The business of becoming kosher remains tightly regulated by certication agencies. Such groups are built around the work of a mashgiacha hybrid of a Talmudic scholar and a Food and Drug Administration inspector who supervises food production to ensure everything is kosher. That means overseeing the slaughter and cooking processes of meat and sh, ascertaining

that each ingredient entering a plant is inscribed with the hechsher, and keeping kosher food production separate from that of non-kosher food. As the desire for kosher products has grown, so has the mashgiach business. "The number of certication agencies has exploded," says RabbiYosef Wikler, editor of Brooklyn-based Kashrus Magazine, which tracks the kosher certication industry. "Thirty years ago there were 18, but now there are 1,063 kosher certication organizations around the world. In America alone there are 600." Wikler estimates the U.S. kosher certication business is now a $200 million-a-year industry. At the top of the kosher food chain is Manhattan-based OU Kosher, a division of the Orthodox Union, a kashrut powerhouse that supervises and certies production in more than 6,000 plants in 77 countries. It employs 75 full-time mashgichim and a small army of advising rabbis. While the OU's stamp appears on everything from AriZona Iced Tea drinks to Nabisco (KFT) cookies and Tootsie Roll candies, its real growth comes from the phenomenon of trickle-down koshernomics. An ingredient supplier hoping for a contract with a kosher-certied Big Food outt must rst submit to the strictures of kashrut. "It's a domino effect," says Rabbi Moshe Elefant, OU's executive rabbinic coordinator and

chief operating ofcer. "When you have Pillsbury or General Mills (GIS) going kosher, you're talking about thousands of ingredients made by hundreds of companies in thousands of plants, each of which needs to be certied." The process doesn't come cheap. Companies that make a single product with an approved list of kosher-certied ingredients require only a few inspections per year. Factories that make both kosher and nonkosher products in the same plantor those that develop new products from numerous ingredientsrequire extra supervision. This can involve weekly or even daily inspections that drive annual costs into the hundreds of thousands. Brooklyn's OK Kosher, OU's ercest competitor, certies 20 new companies each week, many of which are ingredient producers. Rabbi Chaim Fogelman, a spokesman for OK Kosher, estimates the agency is growing at around 15 percent annually. As a result, supermarket shelves now groan under the weight of kosher offerings. A recent addition, James Tea, a maker of tea concentrates in Painesville, Ohio, converted this fall after being courted by a koshercertied whiskey brand to make an alcoholic tea. Faced with the choice to certify his own product or risk losing the business, James Tea owner James Kekelis paid Cleveland Kosher just over $2,000 for a

hechsher and rushed to open a booth at Kosherfest. As the food industry's supply lines have spread globally, the business of kosher certication has followed the diaspora. Kosher agencies currently compete to certify articial avors in Thailand, canned tuna in the Philippines, packaged olives in Egypt, and a staggering number of additives in China. "Picture the sight of one of our rabbis riding up a Tibetan mountainside on a donkey," says Rabbi Menachem Genack, OU's chief executive ofcer. "Why's he there? Because there was a shortage of caseina milk-derived protein used in processed foods. Someone was extracting the protein from yak milk in Tibet, and we had to be there to certify it!" Those in charge of kosher certication point out that, despite the industry's growth, most organizations remain nonprot. While 90 percent of OU's funding comes from kosher certication fees, prots are funneled back into community organizations. "Kosher agencies aren't making billions," says Rabbi Elefant, holding up the lapels of his rumpled suit. "If we were making billions, I wouldn't look the way I look." The reality is that the OU and many other kosher supervising agencies hide behind the church exception to IRS ling rules. This means that, despite Rabbi Elefant's claims, we

do not know how much the OU really makes let alone where the OU's money really goes. The OU is taking in hundreds of millions of dollars each year, according to estimates I've seen. Yet day schools are still in crisis, tuition is skyrocketing and many Jewish families are worse off nancially than they have been since the Great Depression. And this is beyond that fact that most items certied as kosher do not need kosher certication at all, and that many of the "necessities" of kashrut we take for granted are only humrot, stringencies, pushed on us over the past four or ve decades by the kosher food industry. The OU should have an independent thirdparty-certied audit done and published so its constituency can see where the money really goes. Of course, it won't do that.

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The 613 Mitzvot In 2007, police reported that they had discovered a list of 613 mitzvot or commandments that all Kosher Nostra members must abide by, in the home of g_dfather Salvatore Piccolstein. The commandments are as follows: 1. No one can present himself directly to another member of the gang. This must be done through arranged friendship by a certied matchmaker. 2. Never look at the wives of friends, even if you can see their hair or their wrists. 3. Never be seen with a hotdog. 4. Don't...er...what was number four again? 5. Always being available for Kosher Nostra is a duty - even if your mother just made chicken soup. 6. Erm...can't quite remember this one either. Was it something about my neighbour's oxen? 7. Jewish wives must always be treated with respect. Shiksas, on the other hand are to be considered a valuable resource. 8. When asked for any information, the answer must be the truth. However, giving a long, complicated and convoluted answer

is ne, especially if you're a rabbi. Also, the answer must be phrased in a form of a question. 9. Money cannot be appropriated if it belongs to others or to other families. Mineral rights, shares etc. are fair game. 10. People who can't be part of Kosher Nostra: anyone who has a close relative in the police, anyone with a two-timing relative in the family, anyone who behaves badly and doesn't hold to moral values. Also Mel Gibson, people who have a goy for a mother and those aficted by any of the following: blindness, lameness, an unusually low nasal bridge, disproportionate limbs, a crippled foot or hand, cataracts, a white streak that transverses the junction between sclera (white part of the eyeball) and iris, certain types of boils and/or crushed testicles. Don't ask us why, they're chukim and who are we to argue? Oh, and Mel Gibson. 11. Make sure that if there are two members of the Kosher Nostra present in a room, you have at least three opinions. 12. If there is one synagogue in a town with a presence of the Kosher Nostra, make sure to build another one quickly, so you can claim that "you will never set foot in that synagogue".

13. What? I'm supposed to remember another 600...? Do you think I've got a hard drive in my head or something? Sod that.

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Witness Intimidation by La Kosher Nostra Photos of Accuser on Stand Disrupt Sexual Abuse Trial Posted on02 December 2012. NOVANEWS The trial of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish counselor accused of repeatedly molesting a girl was disrupted on Thursday afternoon when four spectators in a Brooklyn courtroom were accused of taking pictures with their cellphones of the accuser on the witness stand. The four men, identied by prosecutors as Joseph Fried,Yona Weisman, Abraham Zupnick and Lemon Juice, were arrested and charged with criminal contempt in the second degree, a misdemeanor that carries a sentence of up to one year in jail. The accuser, who is now 17, has testied that she and her family had faced a pattern of intimidation from the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since she alleged last year that Nechemya Weberman, the unlicensed therapist her parents had sent her to for counseling, repeatedly forced her to have oral sex during their sessions together from the time she was 12 until she turned 15. In June, prosecutors charged four Williamsburg men with attempting to silence her by offering her a $500,000 bribe through her boyfriend to drop her participation in the case. Intimidation of

sexual abuse victims in the ultra-Orthodox community is common, prosecutors say, because going to secular authorities with charges against another Jew is considered treasonous. But arrests for intimidation are rare. Mr. Webermans accuser had already been provided with increased security after onlookers said they spotted Mr. Weberman staring at her threateningly through the window of a conference room as she rested during a break in the court session on Wednesday, said Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the district attorneys ofce. The defense denies that Mr. Weberman did this. Then at about 2 p.m. Thursday, court ofcers spotted a man taking a picture of the teenager as she testied, Mr. Schmetterer said. The judge, Justice John G. Ingram, ordered the jury cleared from the 20th-oor courtroom in State Supreme Court, and the cellphones of all onlookers in the courtroom were conscated. The phones of the four men arrested had photos of the teenager that had been taken in the courtroom, and one photo appeared to have already been posted to Twitter, Mr. Schmetterer said. David Bookstaver, a spokesman for the court, said that Judge Ingram also admonished the men before allowing the trial to continue. While the district attorneys ofce did not comment on motive, Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg, an advocate for abuse victims

who was in the courtroom, said that the men arrested were Satmar Hasidim, some of whom supported Mr. Weberman. This is intimidation, he said. The government should not let this slide away, because this is not an accident. It is done deliberately in an effort to keep the law system from functioning.

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Men sell sewage as drinking water in Saudi Arabia LIKE THIS ARTICLE9 Katerina By Katerina Nikolas Sep 25, 2012 in World 3 comments Riyad - Police in Saudi Arabia are searching for drinking water tanks that have been lled with sewage water by con-men hoping to turn a quick prot. Riyadh is under enormous pressure to meet the city's inhabitants demand for water. The situation is exacerbated by persistent disruptions in Riyahd's water network. According to a report in Emirates 247 conmen have taken advantage of the situation by stealing sewage water from pipes and lling up tanks advertising "drinking water." The despicable crime was spotted by a Saudi woman who saw expatriate workers siphoning the sewage through pipes. The woman said "When they glanced at me and saw that I had phoned the police, they stopped siphoning out water, got in their tanks and ed." She managed to photograph them in the act before they drove off. Saudi Arabia is often plagued with illegal water scams. Controversy broke out in 2011 when unscrupulous proteers were caught peddling fake zamzam water, purportedly as the holiest water of Mecca. The criminals disregarded the risk to public health in selling unhygienic water in their

efforts to make a quick prot. Doctors warned that fake zamzam water could cause diseases including typhoid and diarrhoea. The latest scam of selling sewage as drinking water could bring untold heath risks.

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Scotland offers to sell its water WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2012 The rain-soaked hills of Scotland could one day supply water to households in South-east England after the Government conrmed it would discuss an offer from the Scottish Government to redirect excess rainwater to the drought-prone English. The Scottish Infrastructure Secretary Alex Neil offered help in March, before hosepipe bans were imposed by seven water companies in the South-east of England. Record rainfall in April and continuing wet weather has led to bans being lifted in most areas, but now talks will take place to determine whether water could be pumped south from Scottish reservoirs in the event of another drought. "I am pleased the UK Government has responded positively to our offer," said Mr Neil yesterday. "The south of England continues to face real issues with water supply. Scotland has a plentiful supply of water and superb industry expertise, so it was only right that we offered our assistance."

However, Mr Neil said there would be "massive logistical issues" to overcome and that any developments would have to be "commercially viable".

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18 Bulgarian Districts Offer Dangerous Drinking Water Health | June 22, 2012, Friday| 1592 views 18 out of Bulgaria's 28 districts have substandard drinking water, according to an analysis of the country's water resources requested by the Ministry of Environment and Water. Under EU legislation, the supply of water from contaminated sources should be banned. Since Bulgaria's accession to the EU in 2007, bans have been issued for four drinking water sources (Merichleri, Tatarevo and Poibrene), according to data of the Health Ministry. Water quality is worst in the southern district of Pazardzhik, where the 5% norm for deviations from the standard recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) has been exceeded over two-fold, according to reports of masscirculation 24 Hours daily. Water pollution has also increased in the districts of Kyustendil and Plovdiv, which previously reported no problems. Some rural areas have even registered manganese contamination and

contamination with cancerogenic compounds of chromium, arsenic and lead. The situation is worst in the northwestern district of Pleven, where 14 villages report heavy metal contamination. The analysis also mentions aluminum, pesticides and benzene as contaminants in isolated cases. The experts also warn about substantial nitrate contamination, with norms being exceeded two-to-ve-fold. This type of contamination is characteristic of agricultural districts using shallow drinking water sources. The most serious problems are in the districts ofYambol, Shumen, Ruse and Veliko Tarnovo, which need to nd alternative sources because there is no way to remove nitrates from the water. Microbiological contamination has been registered in 11 districts. As a result of poor disinfection, 357 smaller water-supply systems have been found to contain e.coli bacteria, which are strongly toxic and their presence is an indicator of a faecal contamination. Tests in 65 zones have yielded enterococci bacteria.

A total of 82 underground sources of drinking water in Bulgaria are problematic, the majority of them located in the region of the Danube basin. In this area, serious contaminations with nitrates, ammonium and phosphates have been registered near Soa, Dobrudzha, Ruse, Silistra, and the Pleven region. Similar results have been registered in the Black Sea regions of Varna, Nesebar and Burgas and in the basins of almost all Black Sea rivers.

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The World Bank signs two Service Agreements with Bulgaria to suggest options for Water and Innovation Strategies SOFIA, July 26, 2012 The Bulgarian Government has signed today two service agreements with the World Bank to provide advisory services in development of the National Strategy for Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS), and the Smart Specialization Strategy for Innovation. The agreements were signed by Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Delian Dobrev, and Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works, Dobromir Simidchiev. The World Bank Regional Director for Central Europe and Baltic Countries Peter Harrold signed on behalf of the World Bank. Both service agreements are developed under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on partnership and support in the implementation of the EU Structural Instruments, signed in January this year. The MoU set the scene for Bulgarias unique knowledge partnership with International Financial Institutions. It includes a mechanism that allows the Government to draw on EU Funds to cover the costs of knowledge and advisory services of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the World Bank.

The development of the National Strategy for Water Supply and Sanitation, and Smart Specialization Strategy is instrumental for Bulgaria in order to get prepared for the next EU programming period 2014-2020. Both strategies are essential to further enhance Bulgarias investment plans for water and sanitation sector and innovation infrastructure. The World Bank has been partnering with Bulgaria over the last 20 years, providing nancing, but also knowledge and advice. Through these agreements we shift the focus of our partnership to one based on knowledge, and tailored to support Bulgarias absorption of EU funds, and implement the National Reform Program, the World Bank Regional Director for Central Europe and Baltic Countries Peter Harrold said. Innovation is our main priority and we are committed to establish an innovations friendly environment in Bulgaria enabling Bulgarian business to grow, Minister of Economy, Energy and Tourism Delian Dobrev said. The agreement signed today is a result from the MoU singed in January between the Government of Bulgaria, on one hand, and the World Bank and the European Investment Bank,on the other on partnership and support in the

implementation of the EU Structural Instruments. The agreement is also based on the contract we signed as a beneciary in June 2012 with the managing authority of OP Environment on Support in the reform in WSS sector - Priority Axis 1 of OP Environment Improvement and development of water supply and waste water infrastructure, Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Dobromir Simidchiev said. He added: The agreement is part of the envisioned in the contract 7 areas for reforms and sustainable development of WSS sector, including development of sector strategy and linked to it analyses, studies, and workshops. The agreement is for the total amount of 3,5 million BGN and will expire on August 14, 2014. Until 2013, Bulgaria has access to EU Structural and Cohesion Funds in the amount of roughly 7 Billion Euro. While Bulgaria has signicantly increased EU Funds absorption over the last 12 months, the Government is eager to fully absorb all EU Funds by the end of the current Programming Period 2007-2013 and to get itself ready for the next period. These service agreements are the rst concrete steps in the implementation of the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Bulgaria, endorsed by the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank a year ago. The CPS commits knowledge support

for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in Bulgaria.

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Bulgarian Organized Crime Groups Bulgarian organised crime groups are involved in a wide range of activities, including drug trafcking, cigarette smuggling, human trafcking, prostitution, illicit antiquities trafcking, extortion (often under the cover of ostensible security and insurance companies) and the arms trade. They appear to have connections with the Russian Maa, Serbian Maa, and the Italian Cosa Nostra. The Bulgarian organized crime groups came to control much of Bulgarian business, so the word businessman acquired similar undertones. The mugs also inltrated Bulgarian politics (it was often alleged that SIC and VIS were connected to the two main parties of the 1990s, the Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Union of Democratic Forces, respectively). Vasil Iliev Security, or VIS, is a security and insurance company in Bulgaria thought to be a front for a criminal organisation dealing in extortion, car theft, drug trafcking and more. Set up in the early 1990s by Vasil Iliev. The company was declared illegal in 1994 but continued operating under the new name of VIS-2.

Vasil Iliev was assassinated on 25 April 1995. The new boss of the company became his brother Georgi Iliev, who was himself assassinated on 26 August 2005 VIS, along with its rival SIC, was made up primarily of ex-wrestlers, policemen and members of the security apparatus. As well as extortion rackets, the groups also worked in car insurance and theft. The capital they earned in the emerging Bulgarian economy of the 1990s allowed them to build huge inuence amongst the government. SIC is another security and insurance company in Bulgaria. Thought to be a front for a criminal organisation. Activity is much as the same as (VIS). Naglite, literally The Insolent Ones stands out of the groups mentioned before, is a Bulgarian criminal group involved in more than ten high-prole kidnappings in 2008-09. They asked for ransoms of several hundred thousand euros in each case, and in the event of delay or insufcient payment, cut ngers off their victims. In a December 2009 police action, more than 25 people were arrested in several Bulgarian cities. Naglite kept their victims blindfolded and none managed to see any of the kidnappers faces. Nine people were brought to trial in 2010, four of whom were found guilty in

April 2012. The Prosecutors ofce plans to appeal for the others to also be convicted. During the government of National Movement Simeon II (20012005), assassinations became especially common. There was also frequent evidence for the close ties between the criminal networks and politicians and ofcials. Despite continuing pressure from the U.S. and the EU, past Bulgarian governments have done little to reduce the presence of organized crime. As a result, Organized crime groups has increased its inuence and is able to operate with virtual impunity. If the EU uses this leverage to demand not only far-reaching judicial reform but effective implementation as well, there is reason to hope that the tide will slowly begin to turn against organized crime in the coming years.

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Germany 'hotbed' of Italian organized crime: Experts German experts have warned that Germany is now a 'promised land' for Italian organized crime as four largest Maa syndicates are operating in the country under perfect conditions. The opposition Social Democrat (SPD) party in the southeast state of Bavaria cautioned against the phenomenon on Friday and called for tougher coordinated police action against the crime gangs, Englishlanguage The Local news website reported. It also proposed a hearing of experts to investigate the situation. Police expert of the Bavarian SPD Harald Schneider criticized bureaucratic barriers to cooperation between Italian and German authorities. From the perspective of colleagues (in the police) Germany is a promised land for the Maa Schneider, the former head of the Bavarian police union, said at a meeting of the local SPD fraction in Munich on Friday. Schneider said Europe-wide rules were needed to ensure police are able to cooperate across borders, and that more police resources should be concentrated on the ght against the Maa in Germany.

Meanwhile, Italian politician and Maa expert Laura Garavini said Germany was one of the top countries for Italian gangsters. Garavani said that Bavaria, BadenWurttemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia are especially popular among the Calabriabased Ndrangheta gang, responsible for seven Maa murders in Duisburg in 2007, along with the Sicilian Cosa Nostra, the Naples-based Camorra and the Sacra Corona Unita. He added that the gangs' operations focus mainly on the drug trade and money laundering, and Italian crime gangs use increasingly inventive methods such as investing money in wind energy. Bavarian authorities estimate there are around 65 active Maa gang members in the state alone. According to reports, there have been 25 prosecution cases against Italian organized crime syndicates operating in Germany since 2007. Fifteen cases have proven links to the Maa.

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SYNOPSIS The 1913 Federal Reserve Act let powerful bankers usurp money creation authority in violation of the Constitution's Article I, Section 8, giving only Congress the power to "coin Money (and) regulate the Value thereof...." Thereafter, powerful bankers used their control over money, credit and debt for private self-enrichment, bankrolling and colluding with Congress and administrations to implement laws favoring them. As a result, decades of deregulation, outsourcing, economic nancialization, and casino capitalism followed, producing asset bubbles, record budget and national debt levels, and depression-sized unemployment far higher than reported numbers, albeit manipulated to look better. After the nancial crisis erupted in late 2007, even harder times have left Main Street in the early stages of a depression, with recovery pure illusion. Today's contagion has spread out of control, globally. Wall Street got trillions of dollars in a desperate attempt to socialize losses, privatize prots, and pump life back into the corpses by blowing public wealth into a moribund nancial sector,

failing corporate favorites, and America's aristocracy. While Wall Street boasts it has recovered, industrial America keeps imploding. High-paying jobs are exported. Economic prospects are eroding. Austerity is being imposed, with no one sure how to revive stable, sustainable long-term growth. This book provides a powerful tool for showing angry Americans how they've been eeced, and includes a plan for constructive change.

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Five ways to effectively support Gaza through Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Posted on November 18, 2012 by Palestinian BDS National Committee As this new aggression on the people of Gaza shows, Israel will continue its belligerence and state terrorism unless it is made to pay a heavy price for its crimes against the Palestinian, Lebanese and other Arab peoples. Palestinian civil society has called for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as the most effective way for international civil society and people of conscience around the world to show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and hold Israel and all complicit institutions accountable for its occupation, colonization and apartheid. The global, Palestinian-led BDS movement has achieved inspiring and spectacular success, causing economic damage to companies that support Israels crimes, persuading artists not to perform in Israel, winning support from major churches, trade unions and social movements, as well as pressuring governments to take action. Here are ve BDS ways to effectively express solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza and elsewhere:

1. Boycott Israel! Dont buy Israeli goods! Prots from exports from Israel help to fund the Israeli government and its crimes against the Palestinian people. Refuse to buy Israeli goods and tell retailers that you are doing it. Persuade friends and family to stop buying any Israeli products too! Brands to avoid include Ahava, Jaffa oranges, Sabra and Tribe hummus and SodaStream. 2. Join an active BDS campaign or start a new one Initiate action in your institution, union, group, etc., against the companies and organisations that support and prot from Israels system of oppression over the Palestinian people. For example, in the US, campaigners have pressured major pension funds to divest from Caterpillar, a company that provides bulldozers used to destroy Palestinian homes. Public bodies across the world have been successfully pressured to stop awarding contracts for public services to Veolia, a company that provides infrastructure to illegal Israeli settlements. Veolia has lost contracts worth more than $14bn following BDS campaigns.

Campaigners recently persuaded a major bank to divest from G4S, a private security rm involved in Israels crimes against Palestinian prisoners, including children. You can nd out more about campaigns taking place in your area by contacting your local Palestine solidarity organisation. Theres a great online database of Palestine solidarity groups here or contact us for advice on whom to contact or on how to start a new BDS campaign. 3. Organise a BDS protest action Demonstrations, banner drops and ashmobs are great ways to raise awareness of the boycott of Israel. Some actions target particular products, like the actions against Israeli cosmetics company Ahava, while others take place in supermarkets and remind shoppers not to buy Israeli goods or to target complicit companies. Theres a useful guide to planning a BDS action here. The guide is written specically for the Ahava campaign, but its full of useful ideas for similar campaigns too. 4. Urge organisations that you are a member of to divest from Israel Trade unions, student unions, faith groups and other organisations all over the

world have passed BDS-related resolutions calling for divesting from companies proting from Israels occupation. The US Quakers investment entity recently sold its shares in Hewlett Packard and Veolia, two companies supporting and proting from Israeli violations of international law, after having divested from Caterpillar a few months ago for the same reasons. Student unions around the world have voted to support divestment and have successfully campaigned to have companies like Sabra Hummus and Eden Springs removed from their campuses. Trade unions can participate in BDS campaigns and sell any investments they may hold in Israeli companies or raise rank-and-le awareness about Israeli products to boycott. Ask organisations that youre a member of to hold a meeting to discuss education about and support for the BDS campaign, and nd out if its possible to pass a resolution to support BDS when the time is right. 5. Pressure your elected ofcials to impose a military embargo on Israel Military ties with Israel feed and encourage further Israeli violence. Israel wouldnt be able to maintain its occupation

and apartheid system over the Palestinian people if it wasnt for the military aid it receives from the US or the military trade it conducts with countries around the world. Urge your government and elected representatives to support a military embargo on Israel.

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PCHR Calls for Independent International Investigation to address escalating violations in the Gaza Strip Tuesday, 20 November 2012 00:00 Ref: 133/2012 Time: 13:00 GMT The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) calls for the urgent establishment of an independent international investigative body to address the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip. Available evidence indicates war crimes are being committed in the current conict, including: the direct targeting of civilians and civilian objects, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, and a failure to take all feasible precautions in attack and in the choice of methods and means of warfare. Customary international law clearly requires that these suspected war crimes be investigated and that, if appropriate, individual suspects must be prosecuted. The urgent need for investigations is highlighted by the escalation in the conict in the past 48 hours, and the dramatic increase in death and injury amongst the civilian population. Since 14 November, 105 Palestinians have been killed. Our eldworkers have conrmed that at least 70 of the casualties were civilians, of whom 23 children and 12 women. 805 people have been injured in total; almost all of them

(786) are civilians. Amongst those injured are 223 children and 130 women. Due to the chaotic nature of the situation, comprehensive information is unattainable at this time, and these casualty gures are expected to rise. It is imperative that suspected violations of international humanitarian law (the law of armed conict) and international human rights law be investigated by an independent and impartial international body of experts. This is essential in order to: secure victims legitimate and internationally protected right to a remedy; and to ensure accountability and restore the rule of law. For too long, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory has been characterized by systematic violations of international law, and impunity for those violations. It is innocent civilians who have been forced to pay the horric price. PCHR notes that the reality of the current situation precludes effective investigation. This conclusion is reinforced by reference to all parties comprehensive failure to conduct genuine and effective investigation into suspected widespread, and systematic, violations of international law committed in the context of Israel's last major offensive on the Gaza Strip (Operation Cast Lead, 27 December 2008 - 18 January 2009), as conrmed by a UN Committee of Experts mandated to monitor the investigations. It

is noted that the only concrete results of these procedures were a 7 month sentence for the theft of a credit card, and two 3 month suspended sentences for the use of a Palestinian child as a human shield. Any investigation must be independent and impartial, and composed of international experts in international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, as well as military experts. It is essential that this body have the mandate to recommend international criminal prosecutions as appropriate. PCHR reminds that the Geneva Conventions places all States under an obligation to respect, and ensure respect, for international humanitarian law in all circumstances, and to investigate and prosecute all suspected violations of international humanitarian law, regardless of the nationality of the suspect, or the place of commission of the crime.

The international community must intervene in order to restore the rule of law, and to take active steps to protect the civilian population, the so-called 'protected persons' of international law.

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1 ) Donna McRoy / United States20/11/2012 23:46 I am deeply saddened by the events unfolding before my eyes between the people of Gaza and Israel. At all costs, peace must have its place between the two. My heart cries for the people of Gaza, for the lives lost, the injured suffering in pain, for the grieving parents, brothers or sisters or neighbors lost. To the Hamas I say, this is not of your doing.You are not to blame. Do what you can to protect what you can and I will pray for your people and your leaders. Shalom. I AM lightweaver1213.

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Report: Cabinet Meets on Egyptian Ceasere Proposal Israel's Cabinet convened late Monday night to discuss a ceasere proposal advanced by Egypt, according to a radio news broadcast. By ChanaYa'ar First Publish: 11/20/2012, 1:42 AM Israel's Cabinet convened late Monday night to discuss a ceasere proposal advanced by Egypt, according to a radio news broadcast. No details were provided about the proposal, which emerged following a day of indirect negotiations Sunday in Cairo between Israeli and Palestinian Authority ofcials. Earlier in the day, the Israeli government warned Gaza's terrorist organizations they had 36 hours in which to stop raining rocket re on its families or the country's Pillar of Defense ("Amud Anan" in Hebrew) counter terror offensive would be expanded to the next level. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon arrived in Cairo just a few hours ago (Monday evening) on the rst leg of a visit intended to assist efforts to negotiate a ceasere between the terrorists and Israel.

On Sunday, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi met with Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Masha'al and representatives of the terror organizations at the presidential palace in Cairo. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met with Morsi last week at the palace to discuss the situation as well. The United States has meanwhile continued to rmly back Israel in its right to defends its citizens from Gaza rocket attacks. Meanwhile, 103 PA Arabs, most of whom were terrorists, have been killed since Israel began its counter terror offensive against Gaza six days ago. The operation was launched to silence the lethal rocket, mortar and missile re that has been raining almost constantly down on families in southern Israel for months. The frequency and duration of the attacks has steadily increased over the past year to the point that hundreds of thousands of school children were missing days of classes due to the rocket re -- nally prompting the government to take action to end the deadly barrage. Israel launched its offensive last Wednesday with the assassination of Ahmed Jaba'ari, the head of the Izz a-Din al-Qassam military wing of Hamas. On Monday, Israel also assassinated Ramez Harb, a senior Islamic

Jihad commander of the terrorist group's Al Quds Brigades military wing, as he hid in a media center in Gaza City.

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1,5 million people, in a very small area, where can they possible run to?. By Sympethetic 20 Nov 201200:28PM

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10 Most Notorious Arms Dealers in Modern History The arms industry is a truly global phenomenon. Guns, ammunition and other larger weaponry mean big business all over the world, and where theres money to be made there will always be a corrupt or criminal element looking to capitalize on the market. The following men were or are masters at the gun game shady gures who have traveled far and wide trafcking and distributing arms for cold hard cash while attempting to stay one step ahead of the authorities and their business rivals. What follows are the ten most notorious arms dealers in modern history. 10. Adnan Khashoggi Adnan Khashoggi is an extremely successful Saudi Arabian businessman. He also happens to have been a hugely prominent arms dealer. Regarded as the richest man in the world during the 1980s, the Americaneducated Khashoggi, now 76, began his arms trading career in the 1960s, brokering deals between US companies and the Saudi government. Amongst Khashoggis most famous clients were Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin), who during the early 1970s paid him $106 million in commissions. He concealed his nancial dealings by setting up front companies in tax havens such as Switzerland. Caught up (along with Imelda

Marcos, the widow of exiled Philippine president, Ferdinand) in the Iran-Contra affair, Khashoggi was arrested in 1988 but was acquitted two years later. He currently resides in Monaco, where his services as a facilitator are apparently still occasionally called upon most recently in 2003, when he allegedly met with American political advisor Richard Perle right before the invasion of Iraq. 9. Dale Stoffel Dale Stoffel was an arms dealer who was heavily involved with the reconstruction efforts established in the wake of the Iraq War. Known for chomping a cigar and routinely having a machine-gun slung across his back the popular image of a mercenary Stoffel was killed while on his way to Baghdad in 2004. In 2003, his company, Wye Oak Technology, was awarded one of the rst contracts from the newly established Iraqi Ministry of Defense, and in the end the value of his contracts with the nascent Iraqi government totaled over $40 million. During the year leading up to his death, the goatee-bearded Stoffel became an outspoken critic of irregularities in the Iraqis methods of payment for his efforts, and those of others like him, with allegations that corruption was rampant. Shortly before his death Stoffel was owed $24.7 million. His widow Barbara sued the Iraqi government for $25 million in 2009.

8. Dr. Moosa Bin Shamsher Dr. Moosa Bin Shamsher is a Bangladeshi business tycoon known for being a major player in international arms trading during the 1970s and 1980s (as well as for many other business ventures). Affectionately dubbed Prince Moosa by the South Asian press, this high-prole gure is, notwithstanding, known for dealings with other shady big name arms dealers on this list such as Adnan Khashoggi and Sarkis Soghanalian. It is also alleged that Shamsher has had Swiss bank accounts worth $7 million frozen because of irregular transactions. Formed in 1974, Shamsher s business, DATCO, deals in global weaponry, including tanks, ghter planes and ballistic missiles. Almost as renowned as Shamshers arms dealings is his love of excess: he owns a eet of a hundred private cars that includes Rolls-Royce models and limousines and wears diamond-encrusted shoes valued at $3 million. 7. Samuel Cummings Samuel Cummings was an American arms dealer and founder of the International Armament Corporation a company that grew to all but monopolize the global market in private arms sales. Cummings died in 1998 at the age of 71 following a series of strokes but has been called (by The New York Times) the undisputed philosopher-king of the arms trade. Recruited as a weapons

expert by the CIA in 1950, he spent the rest of the early 50s traveling Europe buying up large amounts of excess WWII weaponry. This led Cummings to start up the arms dealing business Interarmco, which would come to dominate the small arms market of 1950s and 60s America. He also dealt with many famous international leaders, including Fidel Castro, to whom he sold a consignment of AR-10 ries much to the ire of General Rafael Trujillo, leader of the Dominican Republic, where Cummings was later doing business. 6. Fares Manaa Said to beYemens most infamous arms dealer, the ofcial occupation of Sheikh Fares Mohammed Manaa is Governor of Sadah, a city in north-westernYemen. Despite such standing, Manaa's more illicit activities have been noted by the United Nations Security Council, who added his name to a list of people accused of dealing arms to the Somali insurgents known as Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahedeen a notorious group suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda. Manaa has also been accused of spying for the late Libyan leader Colonel Gadda in return for millions in funds. In March 2011, Manaa was installed as the new governor of Sadah following a battle between pro-government tribesmen and the Manaa-supported Houthi rebels, to whom he is also accused of supplying arms.

5. Sarkis Soghanalian When Florida-based private arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian died recently, on October 5, 2011, an extraordinary life ended. Born in 1929, Soghanalian nicknamed the Merchant of Death established himself during the Cold War, becoming the leading arms merchant during that time of political conict. He was also infamous for being the foremost seller of weapons to Saddam Hussein during the 1980s. With the full knowledge and backing of the CIA, Soghanalian sold arms to Iraq in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War. He also sold weaponry to militia groups during the Lebanese Civil War, as well as to Ecuador and Nicaragua, and to Argentina during the Falklands War. Following the rst Gulf war with Iraq, Soghanalian was jailed for six years for possession of arms and the intent to sell to Iraq. His sentence was reduced to two years, however, after he supplied the US with intelligence. 4. Monzer al-Kassar Syrian-born Monzer al-Kassar also known by the glamorous title, the Prince of Marbella is an international arms dealer of some notoriety. Currently incarcerated, al-Kassar began his career in trading weapons in the early 1970s when, by his own account, theYemeni government requested that he buy arms for them from Poland. He lived in London from from

around 1972 until 1984, at which point he was thrown out of the country by the British government for arms and drug trafcking. From London al-Kassar moved to Marbella, where he gained his extravagant nickname. Further allegations of arms dealing followed including that he sold arms to and helped the hijackers of cruise ship the Achille Lauro. He also pocketed millions making sales to Croatia, Bosnia and Somalia when there was a UN arms embargo with the three countries. Al-Kassar was caught and convicted thanks to an elaborate DEA sting that began in 2006 and proceeded to his arrest in Madrid in 2007 and extradition to the US a year later. 3. Jean-Bernard Lasnaud When the French-born Jean-Bernard Lasnaud was arrested in 2002 in Switzerland, it ended almost three years of arrest requests from Argentinian courts and Interpol. Despite this, together with accusations from European courts on counts of arms smuggling and fraud, amazingly Lasnaud was allowed to live peacefully in South Florida for more than ten years before his past nally caught up with him. Lasnaud was in the business of selling arms from his luxurious gated community to anyone interested, with China and Somalia just two of the suspected client countries. According to his own estimates, Lasnauds Caribbean Group of Companies

sold between $1 and $2.5 million in weapons every year. Accused of brokering thousands of tons worth of Argentinian weaponry to Croatia and Ecuador between 1992 and 1995, Lasnaud even boasted his own website to aid with his transactions. He is caught up in a complex web of corruption and scandals the true extent of which may never be known. 2. Leonid Minin Leonid Minin, a Ukrainian by birth, is a notorious international arms dealer. Born in 1947, he moved to Israel in the 1970s. He was arrested by the German authorities later in the same decade for using false identication as well as under suspicion of art theft. His customers in the arms trade have allegedly included the Liberian dictator Charles Taylor as well as the Revolutionary United Front group which operated in Sierra Leone. The weapons that Minin dealt in are held to have had their origins in the Russian arms company Aviatrend, a group also involved in money laundering connected with toppled Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloevi. Arrested by Italian authorities in 2000 for illegal arms dealings, Minin was sentenced to two years. Nicolas Cages character in the 2005 movie Lord of War is partly based on Minin, as well as Sarkis Soghanalian and our number one, Viktor Bout.

1. Viktor Bout Viktor Anatolyevich Bout, the most notorious arms smuggler on this list, currently faces seeing out the rest of his life behind bars. Extradited from Thailand to America in 2010 following a ve-year operation by the DEA, the Russian national stands accused of illegally arming the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in their operations against US forces. The jury found him guilty and he will receive sentencing in early 2012, when he could stand to receive a life sentence. Bout is reported to have made substantial amounts of money shipping goods in Africa and the Middle East in the 1990s and 2000s, and the former military translator for the Soviet Union may well have fed the ames of various African civil wars by supplying vast quantities of arms during the Nineties. He has also been dubbed a sanctions buster because of allegations that he violated UN arms embargoes in trading with Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone and the Congo during the same decade. In 2001 Bout was furthermore implicated in the movement of gold and cash out of Afghanistan. The charges against him make Bouts future prospects fairly grim indeed.

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Top 30 arms producers in the world By Zhang Junmian China.org.cn, March 6, 2012 The sales of arms and military services by the top 100 biggest arms makers grew by 1 percent in real terms to hit US$411.1 billion in 2010, despite the global nancial crisis which affects so many other industries, according to the Top 100 Arms Producer List released late February by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an independent international institute dedicated to researches on armaments, arms control and disarmament. Most remarkably, the top 10 makers generated US$230 billion, or 56 percent, of the total arms sales. And 7 of the top 10 are from the United States. Between 2002 and 2010, the total sales, including both sales for domestic procurement and sales for export, surged by 60 percent, with the threshold for moving up into the Top 100 jumping from US$280 million in sales in 2002 to US$640 million in 2010. The growth rate in 2010 was much slower than in 2009, when it was 8 percent in real terms. This is probably due to the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq

and the subsequent expected decrease in related equipment sales, according to the SIPRI arms industry expert Dr. Susan Jackson. North America and Western Europe continued to predominate the SIPRI Top 100 in 2010, the 23nd edition of its kind. 44 companies are from the United States, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total sales, while 30 are based in Western Europe, taking up 29 percent.

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10 companies proting most from war UNDATED: (FILE PHOTO) An F-22 Raptor ies in this undated image provided by Lockheed Martin. The rst Raptor will join the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia October 27, 2004 after leaving Lockheed's plant in Marietta, Georgia. It was reported that the Senate voted 58-40 to cut $1.75 billion from a military authorization bill which was intended for seven Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor ghter jets on JUly 21, 2009. (Photo by Lockheed Martin via Getty Images) Global sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest defense contractors increased in 2010 to $411.1 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. The increase reects a decade-long trend of growing military spending. Since 2002, total arms sales among the 100 largest arms manufacturers have increased 60 percent. The institute recently published its annual report on the leading arms producing companies in the world -- SIPRI Top 100. The report identies the largest companies in the sector and provides each companys arms sales as a percentage of its total sales. Based on the report, 24/7 Wall St. identied the 10 companies with the highest revenue from arms sales. These companies alone account for $230 billion -- over half of all arms sales that year.

While many industries continued to suffer in 2010 as a result of the nancial crisis, leaders in the arms and military services were largely unaffected. According to SIPRI arms industry expert Susan Jackson, when sales dropped, it was not because of the nancial crisis. Instead, Jackson notes that loss in sales was due to the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and the subsequent expected decrease in related equipment sales. The composition of the 10 largest manufacturers reects the state of modern warfare. More and more, battles are fought remotely through air surveillance and strikes rather than onthe-ground combat. As a consequence, seven of the 10 largest companies are among the leading aerospace companies. Surveillance and battleeld communications also are increasingly important in modern warfare. All of the companies in the top 10 have signicant electronics divisions. Of the 100 companies on the list, 44 are based in the U.S., including Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. The American companies account for more than 60 percent of arms sales revenue of the 100 manufacturers. Seven of SIPRIs top 10 are American, one is British, one is Italian and one is a multinational EU conglomerate. The U.S. federal government has contract deals with all seven American companies. These seven are among the top 10

U.S. federal contractors by amount procured, according to the governments Federal Procurement Data System. 24/7 Wall St.: The 10 most expensive weapons in the world 24/7 Wall St.s analysis of the SIPRI 100 includes revenue for arms sales for 2007, 2009 and 2010, as well as percentage of company revenue from arms sales, employees, industry and applicable military division. 24/7 Wall St. also included history of each company and notable weapons systems manufactured. These are the companies proting most from war. 1. Lockheed Martin Arms sales 2010: $35.73 billion Total sales 2010: $45.80 billion Arms sales as pct. of total sales: 78 percent Total prot: $2.93 billion Total employment: 132,000 Sector: Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Space Lockheed Martin is the largest armsproducing and military services company in the world, with nearly $3 billion more in arms sales than second place BAE Systems. Although military sales make up the majority of its revenue, it is signicantly less than many other major armsproducers, including BAEs 95 percent share. In addition to being the worlds largest

arms-seller, Lockheed is also the largest federal contractor in the U.S. by a large margin. In 2010, the companys government contracts totaled nearly $36 billion. Lockheed produces a number of major products, including the Trident missile and the F-16 and F-22 ghter jets. Despite being the largest military service company on this list, Lockheed is only the fourth-largest company by overall sales among the companies featured on this list. In 2007, the Lockheed was the third-largest arms producer. 2. BAE Systems Arms sales 2010: $32.88 billion Total sales 2010: $34.61 billion Arms sales as pct. of total sales: 95 percent Total prot: $1.67 billion Total employment: 98,200 Sector: Aircraft, Artillery, Electronics, Missiles, Military vehicles, Small arms/ ammunition, Ships BAE Systems is an aerospace and defense contractor based in the UK. The company has a major U.S. subsidiary, BAE Systems, Inc., which by itself would be the seventh-largest weapons manufacturer in the world. The British company was formed in 1999 through the merger of Marconi Electronics (which was at the time a subsidiary of GE) and British Aerospace. BAE produces weapons systems in nearly every major military category, including aircraft, defense electronics, vehicles, naval vessels and

small arms. Among the companys notable contributions are the M2/M3 Bradley ghting vehicle, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Type 45 destroyer and the Astute-class nuclear submarine. In 2010, 95 percent of its revenue came from arms sales, $32.88 billion in all. 3. Boeing Arms sales 2010: $31.36 billion Total sales 2010: $64.31 billion Arms sales as pct. of total sales: 49 percent Total prot: $3.31 billion Total employment: 160,500 Sector: Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Space As recently as 2007, Boeing was the largest arms producer in the world. By 2008, it had fallen behind Lockheed Martin and U.K.based BAE Systems. The aerospace and defense company remains one of the largest in the world, however. Boeing is the second-largest aircraft producer in the world by deliveries, behind only Airbus. It is also the second-largest U.S. government contractor, procuring just under $19.5 billion in contracts in 2010. Major products produced by the company include the KC-767, an aerial refueling tanker, and the F-15 ghter jet. Boeing made less in arms sales in 2010 than it did in 2009, although arms sales made up a larger amount of total sales -two percentage points, to be exact -- in 2010 compared to 2009. Even in 2010, however, only 49 percent of revenue came from arms

sales, which is among the lowest rates among companies on this list. A24/7 Wall St.: Eight reasons gas will hit $5 this year 4. Northrop Grumman Arms sales 2010: $28.15 billion Total sales 2010: $34.76 billion Arms sales as pct. of total sales: 81 percent Total prot: $2.05 billion Total employment: 117,100 Sector: Aircraft, Electronics, Missiles, Ships, Space Northrop Grumman is the fourth-largest weapons contractor in the U.S. The company, which is based in Falls Church, Va., is one of the leaders in aerospace technology and the leading producer of naval vessels in the world. The company manufactures Nimitz-class carriers that are the current agships of the U.S. Navy. And over the next few years it is also set to build the new, $9.7 billion Gerald R. Fordclass supercarriers. Northrop Grumman also develops radar systems for aircraft and ground defense, sensor systems for a variety of vehicles and several unmanned aircraft and drones. Weapons systems sales accounted for 81 percent of company revenue in 2010. Arms sales grew by approximately $3.5 billion between 2007 and 2010.

24/7 Wall St.: Nine States Closing the Most Mail Centers 5. General Dynamics Arms sales 2010: $23.94 billion Total sales 2010: $32.47 billion Arms sales as pct. of total sales: 74 percent Total prot: $2.62 billion Total employment: 90,000 Sector: Artillery, Electronics, Military vehicles, Small arms/ammunition, Ships General Dynamics is an American defense company that deals in aerospace, combat systems, information systems and technology, and marine systems. Although the company has been around since 1952, it has enjoyed a resurgence beginning in the 1990s, thanks largely to a number of mergers. Since 1997 General Dynamics says it has acquired more than 50 companies. Over this same period, its revenue increased from $4 billion to more than $32 billion. It also added more than 60,000 employees to its workforce. Currently, 74 percent of the companys sales are arms sales. General Dynamics owns Electric Boat and Bath Iron Works, two of the largest naval vessel builders in the world. General Dynamics is notable known for its Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the Seawolf-class submarine, the M1 Abrams tank and the Arleigh-Burke-class destroyer.

Click here to read the rest of the companies proting the most from war.

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19 March 2012: Rise in international arms transfers is driven by Asian demand, says SIPRI (Stockholm, 19 March 2012) The volume of worldwide arms transfers in 20072011 was 24 per cent higher than in 20022006 and the ve largest arms importers in 20072011 were all Asian states, according to new data on international arms transfers published today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Read the press release in French here, Spanish here and in Swedish here. Asia and Oceania accounted for 44 per cent of global arms imports, followed by Europe (19 per cent), the Middle East (17 per cent), the Americas (11 per cent) and Africa (9 per cent). India was the worlds largest recipient of arms, accounting for 10 per cent of global arms imports. The four next largest recipients of arms in 20072011 were South Korea (6 per cent of arms transfers), Pakistan (5 per cent), China (5 per cent) and Singapore (4 per cent). Major Asian importing states are seeking to develop their own arms industries and decrease their reliance on external sources of supply, said Pieter Wezeman, senior researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. A large share of arms deliveries is due to licensed production.

China shifts from imports to exports China, which was the largest recipient of arms exports in 20022006, fell to fourth place in 200711. The decline in the volume of Chinese imports coincides with the improvements in Chinas arms industry and rising arms exports. Between 20022006 and 200711, the volume of Chinese arms exports increased by 95 per cent. China now ranks as the sixth largest supplier of arms in the world, narrowly trailing the United Kingdom. While the volume of Chinas arms exports is increasing, this is largely a result of Pakistan importing more arms from China, said Paul Holtom, director of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. China has not yet achieved a major breakthrough in any other signicant market. Arab spring has limited impact on arms transfers Major suppliers continued to deliver weapons to countries affected by the events of the Arab Spring. Despite a review in 2011 of its arms transfer policies towards the region, the USA remains a major supplier to both Tunisia and Egypt. In 2011, the USA delivered 45 M-1A1 tanks to Egypt and agreed to deliver 125 more. Russia supplied 78 per cent of Syrias imports in 200711. During 2011 Russia continued

deliveries of Buk-M2E SAM systems and Bastion-P coastal defence missile systems to Syria, as well as securing an order for 36 Yak-130 trainer / combat aircraft. These deliveries contributed to a 580 per cent increase in the volume of Syrian arms imports between 20022006 and 200711. The transfer of arms to states affected by the Arab Spring has provoked public and parliamentary debate in a number of supplier states. However, the impact of these debates on states' arms export policies has, up to now, been limited, states Mark Bromley, senior researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme. Other notable developments In 2011 Saudi Arabia placed an order with the USA for 154 F-15SA combat aircraft, which was not only the most signicant order placed by any state in 2011 but also the largest arms deal for at least 2 decades. Greeces arms imports decreased by 18 per cent between 20022006 and 200711. In 200711 it was the 10th largest arms importer, down from being the 4th largest in 20022006. Greece placed no new order for major conventional weapons in 2011. Venezuelas arms imports increased by 555 per cent between 20022006 and 200711 and it rose from being the 46th largest importer to the 15th largest.

The volume of deliveries of major conventional weapons to states in North Africa increased by 273 per cent between 20022006 and 200711. Moroccos imports of major weapons increased by 443 per cent between 20022006 and 200711. The comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database is accessible from today at www.sipri.org.

http://www.sipri.org/media/pressreleases/ rise-in-international-arms-transfers-isdriven-by-asian-demand-says-sipri

AK47 maker bites the bankruptcy bullet Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 06 April, 2012, 18:51 Edited: 07 April, 2012, 20:57 TAGS: Arms, Corporate news RIA Novosti / Alexey Nikolsky The company that makes the world famous Kalashnikov assault rie has declared bankruptcy. Even though hundreds of thousands of the guns have been sold world wide the companys nances have been dire. A court has given the green light to Izmash factory being wound up following a lawsuit by a creditor owed $30,000. The Kalashnikov maker is now in receivership, and an administrator has been appointed by the court. The bankruptcy is part of the reorganization procedure that was launched by Kalashnikovs parent company Russian Technologies State Corporation last year. It created a new subsidiary Research and Production Association Izhmash responsible for the gun-maker and related companies. Its director Maksim Kuzyuk said the bankruptcy procedure will help to save the brand and most of the companys property. The company makes around 90 percent of all ries in Russia, according to Lenta.ru. Its most famous the AK 47 or simply the Kalashnikov has been a favorite with armies, rebels and smugglers for half a

century. However, last year the company made a net loss of over $80 million and its production in monetary terms fell by 45 percent. Its newly created rie the AK-12, which the company spent several years developing, has got quite a cold reception with reports that the Russian Defence Ministry is not going to buy it. The company unveiled the new rie in February and claims it meets all the modern requirements and is due to be tested later this year. Another blow for the gun-maker was lapses in security. A local resident bought a wooden box for rewood, only to nd it contained new AK 47s. A number of managers at the company were red over the incident.

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Kalashnikov Rie Maker Sales up 57.4% in 2011 19:56 25/01/2012 Izhmash, the manufacturer of Kalashnikov AK assault ries, said its sales were up 57.4 percent last year at 5.73 billion rubles (about $190 million). Civilian weapon sales rose 25 percent and a similar increase is expected this year, Izhmash press secretaryYelena Filatova said. Production is to increase 30 percent this year, to 5.1 billion rubles, she added. In September 2011, Chief of the Russian General Staff Nikolai Makarov said the Defense Ministry had stopped procuring AK-74 ries because of oversupply, indicating that new models of small arms and light weapons would replace it. The AK-74 is the most widely used and wellknown assault rie in the world. It is used by some 50 armies around the world, as well as countless guerrilla movements.

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Who benets from global arms deals? We ask why the arms industry has continued to boom despite the global economic crisis. Inside Story Last Modied: 20 Mar 2012 14:25 A new report says countries in Asia have been the main drivers of weapons growth in the last 10 years. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) claims that in the last ve years up until 2011, global arms transfers were 24 per cent higher than in the previous ve years. Asian countries accounted for 44 per cent of all weapons imports. India was the biggest buyer - making up 10 per cent of global imports. It overtook China, which fell to fourth place. But Beijing's decline in imports coincided with an increase in arms exports. The outow of Chinese-made weapons jumped by 95 per cent making China the sixth largest supplier of arms in the world, just behind the UK. SIPRI said this arms business is maintained by the US and Russia, which makes up about half of the globes arms exports. From the report we learn that the US accounts from 30 per cent of global arms exports, selling arms to more than 80 countries.

Russias share of the global arms trade stood at about 24 per cent with most of its military supplies being shipped to China. Germany is the worlds third biggest weapons seller at nine per cent followed by France eight per cent. Just what is behind this boom in the arms trade? And who stands to gain most from increasing defence budgets? Inside Story, with presenter Adrian Finighan talks to Pieter Wezeman, a senior researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme; Alexandre Vautravers, a professor of International Relations at Webster University in Geneva and editor of the Swiss Military Review; Joseph Dube, the Africa coordinator for the International Action Network on Small Arms. GLOBAL ARMS DEALS: In 2011 Saudi Arabia placed an order with the USA for 154 F-15SA combat aircraft, which was not only the most signicant order placed by any state in 2011 but also the largest arms deal for at least two decades. Greeces arms imports decreased by 18 per cent between 20022006 and 200711. In 200711 it was the 10th largest arms importer, down from being the 4th largest in 20022006. Greece placed no new order for major conventional weapons in 2011.

Venezuelas arms imports increased by 555 per cent between 20022006 and 200711 and it rose from being the 46th largest importer to the 15th largest. The volume of deliveries of major conventional weapons to states in North Africa increased by 273 per cent between 20022006 and 200711. Moroccos imports of major weapons increased by 443 per cent between 20022006 and 200711.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/ insidestory/2012/03/2012320105517894933.html

2 October 2012, 1.58pm AEST Arms deals: making sense of the EADS-BAE super merger It would be the worlds largest aerospace and defence contractor. Bigger than Lockheed Martin. Bigger than Northrop Grumman. And even bigger than the current global No. 1 defence corporation, Boeing. The prospect of a 29 billion ($AUD45 billion) merger between BAE Systems (BAE) and Franco-German-controlled EADS (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company) has created a serious buzz in both defence and nancial circles. Pundits are already labelling the anticipated conglomerate BEADS. Among global defence rms, EADS currently ranks second by revenues, while BAE holds fth place. EADS owns Airbus Industries and, via a subsidiary, builds the Euroghter Typhoon with BAE. While EADS military arm is focused predominantly upon European defence procurement, BAE plays a major role in the technology development and manufacturing for the US market, including the F35 ghter aircraft for Lockheed Martin, and the Type 45 destroyer for the Royal Navy.

BAE and EADS are a natural corporate t. The two companies already collaborate on a large number of projects, while BAE was a major shareholder in Airbus until 2006, a position it inherited from one of its predecessors, British Aerospace. But BAE also suffered an 11% fall in revenue in 2011, losing its No. 2 position in the global defence rm rankings, due partly to UK defence expenditure cuts. By contrast, EADS saw a year-on-year 13% revenue increase for 2011, nishing a hairs breadth behind No. 1ranked Boeing. But this prospective merger is also causing furrowed brows in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. Why? Because BAE is a major player in the highly-sensitive and ultrasecretive US defence industry.

http://theconversation.edu.au/arms-dealsmaking-sense-of-the-eads-bae-supermerger-9906

Why the need for middlemen in arms deals? 9:35AM Dec 24, 2011 Ksn: There is one aspect of our defence procurements that Malaysians have great difculty understanding and accepting. For example, where does someone like Abdul Razak Baginda t in? The procurements are meant for the respective wings of the Armed Forces. The Armed Forces personnel know their needs best and they have the expertise to decide on their requirements. They also know who the manufacturers of such armaments are. Why do we need third parties who are actually non-professionals to negotiate the arms deals and get paid hefty commissions running into millions of ringgit like in the case of Razak Baginda? It is totally without any logic or reason. Or is it to facilitate payment and distribution of kickbacks? What else, if not this? Sarawakian_3ff9: Why is there a need for middlemen in the purchase of military hardware? Are the Armed Forces so daft that they need some non-military agents to introduce them to the suppliers? Military equipment, especially large and expensive items like submarines, helicopters and other naval craft, are monopolised by

a few suppliers who would gladly pay for military personnel to visit their construction sites and factories to test their wares. There is no need for commissions either. The way things are done now stinks to high heaven of corruption - in the millions, one might add. Joe Lee: The Malaysian Army, Navy and Air Force have been absolutely short-changed by their civilian masters, the Umnoputras. This is one of the many reasons why the military should be absolutely neutral when it comes to the government of the day. If one day they are called on by Umno to launch a coup against a newly-elected Pakatan Rakyat government, they should remember that they are only required to be loyal to the people of Malaysia, not the racist Umno-Perkasa-Perkida jokers, or the other funny guys in the MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission). Mengxiang: Oh my god, one of these 'special' patrol boats now cost a hefty RM1.5 billion? Imagine how much can be done for the people if all this money were channelled for their benet instead. This is all too much to bear. The cost of a single boat could build a number of schools

and hospitals and fund other welfare programmes. Are we at war? If you think the people are going to take all this lying down, you better think again. The corrupt regime and PM Najib Razak has the gall to claim he sacriced a lot for the good of the people. Swipenter: Doesn't it make your blood boil knowing how pervasive corruption has become in our country? Check the people behind all these companies and it would be a huge surprise if they are not related to Umno politicians and/or their cronies. Everything is compromised - the quality, suitability and functionality of our weapons purchases, not to mention the lives of our soldiers and the navy boys using these weapons. We also have scandals involving army rations, boots, uniforms, etc. This is really so sickening. Avatar 111: This is what we called daylight robbery', but it is done shamelessly in every purchase and contract dished out by the government. Corruption in Malaysia is now a institutionalised team effort,happening right before the eyes of every citizen. What a great nation we are.

Onyourtoes: Pilferage and corruption have become a ne art in Malaysia. How can we ever tolerate so much, allowing this country to be plundered dry when the government nance is already in decit. Who are our enemies, what open conict and war are we anticipating? Kita chief Zaid Ibrahim, if you see all these, why the need to quarrel among the opposition? Do the right thing, Zaid, there is nothing shameful to go back to PKR and get the job done. Bluemountains: In the purchase of the submarines, they used a locally-registered consultant to channel the commission', which was disguised as support services. But everything became public knowledge when Altantuya Shaariibuu was murdered. Now for the boats, they have decided to use foreign-registered consultants to avoid detection. Corruption money paid into foreign currency accounts in Singapore cannot be divulged even with a court order. Tell the Truth: This is so disgusting and shameful! After the Scorpene submarines asco, don't they ever learn? To rob the rakyat blind and so arrogantly, it only goes to show that Umnoputras have no respect for the people and are so greedy that they don't even care.

And they call themselves Muslims and say that they are defending Islam. How are they doing that by stealing from the people? Gen2: The submarine commissions set the precedent and because MACC dared not take action against it, others get encouraged to milk cash from the government through commissions. Without fear or favour? I want to vomit every time I hear that phrase from MACC.

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58 Murders by rearms a year in Britain, 8,775 in US (Oak Creek Reprint Edn.) Posted on 08/06/2012 by Juan Updated Number of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775 Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638 (Since Britains population is 1/5 that of US, this is equivalent to 3,095 US murders) Number of Murders by rearms, Britain, 2011*: 58 (equivalent to 290 US murders) Number of Murders by crossbow in Britain, 2011*: 2 (equivalent to 10 US murders). For more on murder by rearms in Britain, see the BBC. The international comparisons show conclusively that fewer gun owners per capita produce not only fewer murders by rearm, but fewer murders per capita over all. In the case of Britain, rearms murders are 30 times fewer than in the US per capita.

Do hunters really need semi-automatic AR-15 assault weapons? Is that how they roll in deer season? The US public doesnt think so. *British crime statistics are September to September, so 2011 is actually 2010-2011.

http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/58murders-by-rearms-a-year-in-britain-8775in-us-oak-creek-reprint-edn.html

Washington oats chemical weapons charge as pretext for Syria buildup By Bill Van Auken 4 December 2012 The Obama administration and the corporate media have cited unspecied intelligence about the movement of chemical weapons to issue new threats of direct intervention in Syria, where Washington and its allies have been backing so-called rebels in a bid to topple the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both made public statements Monday alleging a danger of Syria using chemical weapons and threatening US retaliation. Appearing before a military audience at the National Defense University in Fort McNair, Obama declared, I want to make it absolutely clear to Assad and anyone who is under his command If you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons there will be consequences and you will be held accountable. This is a red line for the United States, Clinton said earlier in the day after a meeting in Prague with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.

Im not going to telegraph in any specics what we would do in the event of credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical weapons against their own people, but sufce it to say that were certainly planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur, Clinton warned. Schwarzenberg told the media that Czech troops specializing in chemical weapons had been sent to Jordan and were training with forces there.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/dec2012/ syri-d04.shtml

U.S. Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2009 According to the recent Census Bureau report (historical data here), the poverty rate in the U.S. increased to 14.3% in 2009 from 13.2% in 2008 and 12.5% in 2007 (see chart above). A few items of interest: 1. The poverty rate in 2009 (14.3%) was below the poverty rates in 1992 (14.8%), 1993 (15.1%) and 1994 (14.5%) following the 1990-1991 recession. 2. The poverty rate in 2009 was below the rate in 1982 (15%), 1983 (15.2%) and 1984 (14.4%) following the 1980 and 1981-1982 recessions. 3. The increase in the poverty rate (Table 5 in the report) associated with the recessions of the early 1980s was 3.8 percentage points (11.4% in 1978 to 15.2% in 1983), which is more than twice the 1.8 percentage point increase from 2007 (12.5%) to 2009 (14.3%). 4. The poverty rates in recent years, and even the 15-year high of 14.3% rate in 2009, have been below the rates from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s.

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Recent trends in military expenditure World military expenditure is estimated to have been $1630 billion in 2010a real-terms increase of 1.3 per cent over 2008 and of 50 per cent since 2001. This corresponded to 2.6 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP) and $236 for each person in the world. World military expenditure is estimated to have been $1738 billion in 2011, corresponding to 2.5 per cent of world gross domestic product (GDP) and $249 for each person in the world. In real terms, the total is virtually unchanged since 2010; the realterms increase of 0.3% is not statistically signicant given the uncertainties in the estimate. This breaks 12 years of continual increases in military spending from 1998-2010. The data show a very mixed pattern of increases and decreases around the world in 2011, with as much variation within as between regions. Overall, 61 countries increased military spending in real terms in 2011, while 62 reduced it. The subregion with the most rapid growth in military expenditure over the 10-year period 2002-2011 was North Africa, with a realterms increase of 109%. The bulk of this growth (75%) is accounted for by Algeria. The other subregions with the largest increases since 2000 are Eastern Europe (86%), East Asia (69%), Central & South Asia (62%) and North America (59%). Only one

subregion, Western and Central Europe, has seen a very slight fall in military expenditure, of 1.5%. The USA's military spending accounted for 41 per cent of the world total in 2011, followed by China with 8.2 per cent, Russia with 4.1% and the UK and France with 3.6 per cent each. Austerity and decit-reduction measures in the wake of the global nancial and economic crisis that broke in 2008 are beginning to lead to reductions in military spending in the US and Europe. US military spending in 2011 amounted to $711 billion, a nominal increase on 2010 ($698 billion), but a fall of 1.2% in real terms - the rst such fall since 1998. The fall is largely due to the long delay in Congress agreeing a budget for FY2011 amidst disputes on how to reduce the budget decit, which meant that procurement plans could not be taken forward, so that outlays were considerably lower than planned. Meanwhile, the Budget Control Act passed by Congress in July 2011-which cut $487 billion over ten years from previous military spending plans-combined with the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq and the planned drawdown in Afghanistan, are likely to lead to falling total US military spending over the coming years. In Europe, especially Western & Central Europe, most countries have been imposing

austerity measures to reduce their budget decits, with heavy cuts in public expenditure, usually including military expenditure. Since 2008, two thirds of countries in Europe have cut military spending, although the rates of cuts have varied considerably. Some of the largest cuts have been in Central Europe, where the generally weaker economies have been unable to sustain such large budget decits. Eighteen European countries have seen realterms falls of more than 10% in military spending since 2008, of which 13 are from Central Europe. Eight of these have made cuts of greater than 20%, with all but one from Central Europe. The largest fall has been in Latvia, by 51%. In Western Europe, the largest falls have generally been in countries facing acute debt crises: Greece (26%), Spain (18%), Italy (16%), and Ireland (11%), as well as Belgium (12%). A number of countries, however, have bucked the trend, and have increased military spending since 2008. These are mostly countries who have emerged from the crisis largely unscathed, in particular Poland, Turkey and Norway. The biggest three spenders in Western & Central Europe: the UK, France and Germany, have so far made only modest cuts in military spending since 2008, by 0.6%, 4% and 1.6% respectively. The UK and Germany plan further cuts, the UK by 7.5% in real terms up to 2014/15, and Germany by about 10% to 2015. France,

however, plans roughly constant real spending up to 2013. In Eastern Europe, however, Russia has continued its long-term increase in military spending, after a slight downturn in 2010. The increase of 9.3% in real terms in 2011 took Russia to third place in the list of top global military spenders, overtaking the UK and France for the rst time since the early 1990s. Further increases of around 50% in real terms are planned up to 2014, in line with plans to replace 70% of Russia's mostly Soviet-era military equipment with modern weapons by 2020. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan made the largest increase in military spending worldwide in 2011, 88% in real terms, amidst increasing fears of renewed conict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Ngorno Karabakh. In Asia, Chinese military spending continued to increase, by 6.7% in real terms, faster than in 2010 but slower than during most of the 2000s. Total military spending for the rest of Asia & Oceania remained constant. Military spending in Latin America fell by 3.3% in real terms, with an 8.2% cut in Brazil accounting for the whole regional drop. African military spending increased by 8.6%, but this was entirely down to a massive 44% increase in the continent's largest spender, Algeria. Military spending for the rest of Africa was essentially unchanged in 2011. All three of these regions saw an

extremely mixed pattern of increases and decreases, with largely equal numbers of each. Only in the Middle East, where military spending increased by 4.6% in real terms, was there a clear pattern, with the great majority of countries for whom data is available increasing military spending in 2011. However, the totals for Africa and the Middle East are both highly uncertain, due to the absence of data in 2011 for a signicant number of countries, including some major spenders.

http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/ milex/resultoutput/trends

You asked: Brunei defense budget Brunei $291,000,000 the amount of money 291,000,000 United States dollars

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What's Happening Right Now In Congo Exposes The Folly Of Western Aid Richard Dowden, The Guardian Nov. 27, 2012, 8:52 AM Africa is covered in epithets, like grafti. It has been labeled dark, lost, hopeless. But generalizations about Africa are dangerous. The only certainty is its size: it could contain the United States, China and India and still have room to spare. Recently it has been dubbed rising, hopeful, the continent of the future. But Africa cannot be declared successful until its vast, rich heart, the Congo, is peaceful and prosperous.

http://www.businessinsider.com/congoexposes-folly-of-western-aid-2012-11

The 20 Poorest Countries: #1. Congo, Democratic Republic of the GDP Per Capita: $348 (As of 2011) Not to be mixed with the neighboring Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has become the poorest country in the world as of 2010. Democratic Republic of the Congo was known as Zaire until 1997. Congo is the largest country in the world that has French as an ofcial language the population of D.R Congo is about six million larger than the population of France (71 million people in D.R Congo vs 65 million in France). The Second Congo War beginning in 1998 has devastated the country. The war that involves at least 7 foreign armies is the deadliest conict in the world since World War II by 2008 the Second Congo War and its aftermath had killed 5.4 million people. #2. Liberia GDP Per Capita: $456 (As of 2011) Liberia is one of the few countries in Africa that have not been colonized by Europe. Instead, Liberia was founded and colonized by freed slaves from America. These slaves made up the elite of the country and they established a government that closely resembled that of the United States of America. In 1980 the president of Liberia was overthrown and a period of instability and civil war followed. After the killings of

hundreds of thousands, a 2003 peace deal was led to democratic elections in 2005. Today, Liberia is recovering from the lingering effects of the civil war and related economic dislocation, with about 85% of the population lives below $1 a day. #3. Zimbabwe GDP Per Capita: $487 (As of 2011) The government of Zimbabwe released its largest bank note 100 trillion dollar bill issued on January 2009. In addition to the economic problems the life expectancy of Zimbabwe is the lowest in the world 37 years for men and just 34 for women. One of the problems for the early deaths are the 20.1% of the population with HIV and AIDS. The health issues arent seeing any improvement. #4. Burundi GDP Per Capita: $615 (As of 2011) Burundi is known for its tribal and civil wars. Burundi have never really had any peaceful time between the everlasting civil wars as a result its the fourth poorest country. Owing in part to its landlocked geography, poor legal system, lack of economic freedom, lack of access to education, and the proliferation of HIV and AIDS. Approximately 80% of Burundians live in poverty and according to the World Food Programme 57% of children under 5 years suffer from chronic malnutrition;

93% of Burundis exports revenues come from selling coffee. #5. Eritrea GDP Per Capita: $735 (As of 2011) Affected by the Italian colonizers of the 19th century. Eritreas advantage of controlling the sea route through the Suez Canal made the italians to colonized it just a year after the opening of the canal in 1869 and same reason the British conquered it in 1941. The present Eritreas economic conditions have not improved and real gross domestic product growth averaged 1.2 percent between 2005 and 2008; in 2009 GDP growth was estimated at 2.0 percent. #6. Central African Republic GDP Per Capita: $768 (As of 2011) Despite its signicant mineral resources; uranium reserves in Bakouma, crude oil, gold, diamonds, lumber, hydropower and its arable land, it remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Diamonds constitute the most important export of the Central Africans Republic, accounting for 4055% of export revenues. The 2010 UNDP Human Development Report ranks CAR near the bottom of its Human Development Index (159th out of 162 countries) and unlikely to meet its MDG goals. The proportion of Central Africans living on $1 a day has decreased slightly to 62% but it needs to be

half of that in order to reach the 2015 goal. #7. Niger GDP Per Capita: $771 (As of 2011) With over 80% of its land is covered by the giant desert of Sahara, Niger has a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in Parity Purchasing Power (PPP) terms of US$771 as of 2011, one of the lowest in Africa. Niger s poverty is exacerbated by political instability, extreme vulnerability to exogenous shocks and inequality which affects girls, women and children disproportionately. In January 2000, Niger s newly elected government inherited serious nancial and economic problems including a virtually empty treasury and was qualied for enhanced debt relief under the International Monetary Fund program for Highly Indebted Poor Countries. #8. Sierra Leone GDP Per Capita: $849 (As of 2011) A West African country with English as its ofcial language, Sierra Leone has relied on mining, especially diamonds, for its economic base and home to the third largest natural harbour in the world where shipping from all over the globe berth at Freetowns famous Queen Elizabeth II Quay. It is among the top diamond producing nations in the world, and mineral exports remain the main foreign currency earner

and also among the largest producers of titanium and bauxite, and a major producer of gold. Despite this natural wealth, 70% of its people live in poverty. If you have seen the movie Blood Diamond you should know that it is based on Sierra Leone. #9. Malawi GDP Per Capita: $860 (As of 2011) Malawi has one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world, with 53% (2004) living under the poverty line. In December 2000, the IMF stopped aid disbursements due to corruption concerns, and many individual donors followed suit, resulting in an almost 80% drop in Malawis development budget. In 2006, Malawi was approved for relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) program. In December 2007, the US granted Malawi eligibility status to receive nancial support within the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) initiative. Agriculture accounts for 35% of GDP, industry for 19% and services for the remaining 46%. In addition, some setbacks have been experienced, and Malawi has lost some of its ability to pay for imports due to a general shortage of foreign exchange, as investment fell 23% in 2009. #10. Togo GDP Per Capita: $899 (As of 2011) This small, sub-Saharan economy suffers from anemic economic growth and depends

heavily on both commercial and subsistence agriculture, which provides employment for a signicant share of the labor force. Cocoa, coffee, and cotton generate about 40% of export earnings with cotton being the most important cash crop. Togo is among the worlds largest producers of phosphate. Approximately one half of the population lives below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day. #11. Madagascar GDP Per Capita: $934 (As of 2011) Madagascar s mainstay of growth are tourism, agriculture and the extractive industries. Approximately 69% of the population lives below the national poverty line threshold of one dollar per day. The agriculture sector constituted 29% of Malagasy GDP in 2011, while manufacturing formed 15% of GDP. Tourism dropped more than 50% in 2009 compared with the previous year, and many investors are wary of entering the uncertain investment environment. #12. Afghanistan GDP Per Capita: $956 (As of 2011) Afghanistan is probably the only poorest country in the world that doesnt need any introduction. Due to the decades of war and nearly complete lack of foreign investment, the nationsGDP per capita stands at $956. Its unemployment rate is 35%

and 42 % of the population live on less than $1 a day. As tribal warfare and internecine feuding has been one of their chief occupations since time immemorial. History has never seen Afghanistan lose a war. They might be one of the poorest but they know how to ght. Instead of a traditional army they simply resist with small counter attacks that eventually tire out the enemy. #13. Guinea GDP Per Capita: $1,083 (As of 2011) Guinea also has diamonds, gold, and other metals. The country has great potential for hydroelectric power. Bauxite and alumina are currently the only major exports. Guineas poorly developed infrastructure and rampant corruption continue to present obstacles to large-scale investment projects. Agriculture employs 80% of the nations labor force. Under French rule, and at the beginning of independence, Guinea was a major exporter of bananas, pineapples, coffee, peanuts, and palm oil. From independence until the presidential election of 2010, Guinea was governed by a number of autocratic rulers, which has contributed to making Guinea one of the poorest countries in the world. #14. Mozambique GDP Per Capita: $1,085 (As of 2011) One of the poorest and most underdeveloped country in the world, 75% of the population

engages in small-scale agriculture, which still suffers from inadequate infrastructure, commercial networks, and investment. The minimum legal salary is around US$60 per month. #15. Ethiopia GDP Per Capita: $ 1,093 (As of 2011) Ethiopia suffers from poverty, and poor sanitation. In the capital city of Addis Ababa, 55% of the population lives in slums. Despite its fast growth in recent years, GDP per capita is one of the lowest in the world, and the economy faces a number of serious structural problems. Ethiopias economy is based on agriculture, which accounts for 41% of GDP and 85% of total employment. Agricultural productivity remains low, the sector suffers from poor cultivation practices and frequent drought. #16. Mali GDP Per Capita: $1,128 (As of 2011) With 50% of the population living below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. Some of its natural resources are gold, uranium, livestock, and salt. Mali remains dependent on foreign aid. Economic activity is largely conned to the riverine area irrigated by the Niger River and about 65% of its land area is desert or semidesert. Mali experienced economic growth of about 5% per year between 1996-2010. The

government in 2011 completed an IMF extended credit facility program that has helped the economy grow, diversify, and attract foreign investment. #17. Guinea-Bissau GDP Per Capita: $1,144 (As of 2011) Guinea-Bissaus legal economy depends mainly on farming and shing, but trafcking in narcotics is probably the most lucrative trade. With 60% of the population living below the poverty line, drug trafckers based in Latin America use Guinea-Bissau, along with several neighboring West African nations, as a transshipment point to Europe for cocaine. The government and the military did almost nothing to stop this business. #18. Comoros GDP Per Capita: $ 1,232 (As of 2011) Made up of three islands with rapidly increasing population, and few natural resources. As of 2008 about 50% of the population lives below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day, due to numerous coups detat since independence in 1975. #19. Haiti GDP Per Capita: $1,235 (As of 2011) Haiti is a free market economy that enjoys the advantages of low labor costs and

tariff-free access to the US for many of its exports. Poverty, corruption, and poor access to education for much of the population are among Haitis most serious disadvantages. Haitis economy suffered a severe setback in January 2010 when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake destroyed much of its capital city, Port-au-Prince, and neighboring areas. Already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with 80% of the population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty, the earthquake inicted $7.8 billion in damages. Seven out of ten Haitians live on less than US$2 a day, according to the International Red Cross. #20. Uganda GDP Per Capita: $1,317 (As of 2011) Uganda is one of the poorest nations in the world, with 37.7 percent of the population living on less than $1.25 a day. Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile soils, regular rainfall, small deposits of copper, gold, and other minerals, and recently discovered oil. Despite making enormous progress in reducing the countrywide poverty incidence from 56 percent of the population in 1992 to 31 per cent in 2005, poverty remains deep-

rooted in the countrys rural areas, which are home to more than 85 per cent of Ugandans.

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Military spending and poverty -- I only just realized... ...that redirecting one would eliminate the other, basically. I'd been wondering if one couldn't do anything useful with all the money that's squandered for military purposes, so today, I quickly did the numbers: -- an estimate of global military expenditures totals around 1100 billion dollars (at least in 2004) -- there are about 1.4 billion people living below the international poverty line of 1.25 dollars/day (in 2005, apparently) -- if one thus divided military expenditures evenly among those people, everybody would get about $2.15/day, and thus be elevated above the poverty line. I don't know, this may not be news to anybody, but seeing the bare gures like that was somewhat shocking to me. Of course, things in the real world aren't nearly as simple as just handing out money to solve everybody's problems, but the brute fact that these resources exist, in principle -- well, I don't know what it means exactly, but there's sure as hell something wrong with the way things are.

In the end, if we didn't spend that much on war, we probably wouldn't have cause to ght that many wars.

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Saturday, December 10, 2011 U.S. military grows, guards opium trade in Afghanistan War on drugs revealed as total hoax - US military admits to guarding, assisting lucrative opium trade in Afghanistan Go To Original (NaturalNews) Afghanistan is, by far, the largest grower and exporter of opium in the world today, cultivating a 92 percent market share of the global opium trade. But what may shock many is the fact that the US military has been specically tasked with guarding Afghan poppy elds, from which opium is derived, in order to protect this multibillion dollar industry that enriches Wall Street, the CIA, MI6, and various other groups that prot big time from this illicit drug trade scheme. Prior to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Afghanistan was hardly even a world player in growing poppy, which is used to produce both illegal heroin and pharmaceutical-grade morphine. In fact, the Taliban had been actively destroying poppy elds as part of an effort to rid the country of this harmful plant, as was reported by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 16, 2001, in a piece entitled Nation's opium production virtually wiped out (http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...).

But after 9/11, the US military-industrial complex quickly invaded Afghanistan and began facilitating the reinstatement of the country's poppy industry. According to the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), opium cultivation increased by 657 percent in 2002 after the US military invaded the country under the direction of then-President George W. Bush (http:// www.infowars.com/fox-news-ma...). CIA responsible for reinstating opium industry in Afghanistan after 9/11 More recently, The NewYork Times (NYT) reported that the brother of current Afghan President Hamid Karzai had actually been on the payroll of the CIA for at least eight years prior to this information going public in 2009. Ahmed Wali Karzai was a crucial player in reinstating the country's opium drug trade, known as Golden Crescent, and the CIA had been nancing the endeavor behind the scenes (http://www.infowars.com/ny-timesaf...). "The Golden Crescent drug trade, launched by the CIA in the early 1980s, continues to be protected by US intelligence, in liaison with NATO occupation forces and the British military," wrote Prof. Michel Chossudovsky in a 2007 report, before it was revealed that Ahmed Wali Karzai was on the CIA payroll. "The proceeds of this lucrative multibillion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of

revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan" (http:// www.thirdworldtraveler.com/A...). But the mainstream media has been peddling a different story to the American public. FOX News, for instance, aired a propaganda piece back in 2010 claiming that military personnel are having to protect the Afghan poppy elds, rather than destroy them, in order to keep the locals happy and to avoid a potential "security risk" -- and FOX News reporter Geraldo Rivera can be heard blatantly lying about poppy farmers being nancially supported by the Taliban, rather than the CIA and other foreign interests. You can watch that clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj-b...

So while tens of thousands of Americans continue to be harmed or killed every year by overdoses from drugs originating from this illicit opium trade, and while cultivation of innocuous crops like marijuana and hemp remains illegal in the US, the American military is actively guarding the very poppy elds in Afghanistan that fuel the global drug trade. Something is terribly wrong with this picture.

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HOW BRITAIN PROMOTED OPIUM IN INDIA Gen. Krish Seth, a close friend, and former Governor of Chhattisgarh has written to me a brief note commenting on my blog of last Sunday, July 15, based on Will Durants book A Case for India. Seth writes: The blog is an eye-opener. I am condent our present generation is totally unaware of these facts. At best they know that once upon a time India was SONEY KI CHIDIYA and nothing else. Even our text books in schools have never brought out these facts. Great effort to put it so simply. -Gen. Seth My blog gives only a glimpse of the painstaking work done by the great historian. The book is replete with facts which convincingly prove Durants verdict that the treatment meted out to India by the British imperialists is the greatest crime in all history. While I strongly commend the entire book to those who read this blog of mine I would like to share with my regular readers yet another glimpse of this wonderful book. Today, it is universally acknowledged that the two basic touchstones to judge a countrys conditions are its performance in the eld of education and healthcare. Judged by these two criteria the world had

always criticised governments who neglected these two spheres. But Will Durant shows how the British rulers in India deliberately and systematically, destroyed whatever wholesome existed. A Case for India has a chapter titled, Social Destruction. In this, Will Durant writes: When the British came there was throughout India, a system of communal schools managed by the village communities. The agents of the East India Company destroyed these village communities. There are now (100 years later) in India 730,000 villages and only 162,015 primary schools. Only 7% of the boys and 1 % of the girls receive schooling i.e. 4% of the whole. In 1911 a Hindu representative, Gokhale, introduced a bill for universal compulsory education in India. It was defeated by the British and Government appointed members. In 1916, Patel introduced a similar bill, which was defeated by the British and Government appointed members. What follows is even more shocking. Durant says: Instead of encouraging education, the Government encouraged drink. When the British came, India was a sober nation. The

temperance of the people, said Warren Hastings, is demonstrated in the simplicity of their food and their total abstinence from spirituous liquors and other substances of intoxication. With the rst trading posts established by the British, saloons were opened for the sale of rum, and the East India Company made handsome prots from the trade. When the Crown took over India it depended on the saloons for a large parts of its revenue; the license system was so arranged as to stimulate drinking and sales. The Government revenue from such licenses has increased seven-fold in the last forty years; in 1922 it stood at $60,000,000 annually-three times the appropriation for schools and universities. Referring to Katherine Mayos malicious book against India, Mother India, Will Durant writes: Miss Mayo tells us that Hindu mothers feed opium to their children; and she concludes that India is not t for Home Rule. What she says is true; what she does not say makes what she says worse than a straightforward lie. She does not tell us (though she must have known) that women drug their children

because the mothers must abandon them every day to go to work in the factories. She does not tell us that the opium is grown only by the Government, and is sold exclusively by the Government; that its sale, like the sale of drink through saloons, is carried on despite the protest of the Nationalist Congress, the Industrial and Social Conferences, the Provincial Conferences, the Brahmo-Somaj, the AryaSomaj, the Mohammedans and the Christians, that there are seven thousand opium shops in India, operated by the British Government, in the most conspicuous places in every town; that the Central Legislature in 1921 passed a bill prohibiting the growth or sale of opium in India, and that the Government refused to act upon it; that from two to four hundred thousand acres of Indias soil, sorely needed for the raising of food, are given over to the growing of opium; and that the sale of the drug brings to the Government one-ninth of its total revenue every year. The concluding paragraph of this chapter quotes an excerpt of Lord Macaulays speech in the House of Commons, delivered on July 10, 1833. (this means nearly one hundred years before this book was written). Durant quotes Lord Macaulay saying: It wasthe practice of the miserable tyrants whom we found in India, that when

they dreaded the capacity and spirit of some distinguished subjects, and yet could not venture to murder him, to administer to him daily dose of the pousta, a preparation of opium, the effect of which was in a few months to destroy all the bodily and mental powers of the wretch who was drugged with it, and turn him into a helpless idiot. That detestable artice, more horrible than assassination itself, was worthy of those who employed it. It is no model for the English nation. We shall never consent to administer the pousta to a whole community, to stupefy and paralyze a great people.

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The East India Company: The World's Most Powerful Corporation Sub title: The Story of Indian Business Author: Tirthankar Roy, Gurcharan Das "For over 200 years, the East India Company was the largest and most powerful mercantile rm in Britain and Asia. Set up to procure Asian goods for British consumers, the Companys business network spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia and North America. In the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn as the Company lost ground as a trading rm, but founded an empire in India. Why did a merchant rm end up being an empire builder? Why did politics mesh so closely with the conduct of business in this time? This new account of the East India Company answers these questions by taking a fresh look at the world of Indian business. The story ts together many pieces of a vast jigsaw puzzle, and shows how trading in India changed the Company and how the Company changed Indian business. Indeed, it is for the rst time that the Companys story is told from the perspective of Indian business history. "

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The Great Diamond Hoax!! I just wanted to get some opinions on an amazing factoid I learned the other day, and see if you guys are as outraged and bafed by it as I am. A guy who I'm training at the gym (I'm a personal tness trainer) works for the USGS here in Austin. He has his Master's degree in Geochemistry from Rice University and has been working in the eld for about 12 years. He has been on ve of the seven continents plying his trade and serving as a consultant to various energy exploration & drilling comapnies. He told me this: The general public and consumer has been lied to for many years about the value of diamonds. They are not really a precious stone, and in fact are very, very common. After all, they simply come from pressurized carbon, which is one of the most prevalent substances on the planet. Diamonds, he said, turn-up all the time when they drill for CBM (coal bed methane, which sits on top of the coal beds) as well as oil. As far as their value, he said, diamonds are actually far, far, cheaper to process than other "precious" stones like rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and topaz. He went on to say that in reality diamonds should be priced along the lines of tur quoise.

We have all been duped for many decades. Energy exploration companies are paid by diamond wholesalers to keep their mouths shut about what they nd, and then are also subsidized for their drilling costs by these diamond buyers. What say you?

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Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of all time Published on 4/25/2006 A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. We came up with a selection of the Top 10 Greatest Hoaxes of all time: The Surgeon's Photo of the Loch Ness Monster Ancient Scottish legends spoke of a giant sea monster that lived in the waters of Loch Ness. In 1934, Colonel Robert Wilson, a highly respectable British surgeon, said that he noticed something moving in the water and took a picture of it. The resulting image showed the slender neck of a serpent rising out of the Loch. The photo came to be known simply as "The Surgeon's Photo" and for decades it was considered to be the best evidence of the monster. It wasn't until 1994, when Christian Spurling, before his death at the age of 90, confessed his involvement in a plot, that included Wetherell and Colonel Wilson, to create the famous photo. Apparently Wetherell's motive was revenge, since he was humiliated years earlier when the supposed monster's footprints he found were nothing but dried hippo's footsteps.

Hitler's $6 million-dollar diary On April 22, 1983 the German magazine Der Stern announced that it had made the greatest Nazi memorabilia nd of all time: a diary kept by Adolf Hitler himself. And this was not just one thin journal. The magazine had paid 10 million German marks ($6 million at that time) for the sixty small books as well as two "special issues" about Rudolf Hess' ight to the United Kingdom, covering the period from 1932 to 1945. However, within two weeks, the Hitler Diaries were revealed as being "grotesquely plump fakes" made on modern paper using modern ink and full of historical inaccuracies, the most obvious of which might have been the fact that the monogram on the title page read 'FH' instead of 'AH' (for Adolf Hitler). The diaries were actually written by Konrad Kujau, a notorious Stuttgart forger of Hitler's works, who was sentenced to 42 months in prison.

The Jewish master plan to dominate the World The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a text purporting to describe a plan to achieve global domination by Jews. Following its rst publication in 1903 in the Russian Empire, numerous independent investigations have demonstrated that the document is a hoax; notably, a series of articles printed in The Times of London in 1921 revealed that much of the material was directly plagiarized from earlier works of political satire unrelated to Jews. In Russia, it helped to the idea that the Bolshevik movement was a Jewish conspiracy for world domination. On WWII, The Protocols became a part of the Nazi propaganda effort to justify persecution of the Jews. It was made required reading for German students. Today, many Arab governments funded new printings of the Protocols, and taught them in their schools as historical fact. In Syria, The Protocols is currently a best-seller, and government-controlled television channels occasionally broadcast mini-series concerning the Protocols.

Idaho, the US state with a made-up name Idaho it's perhaps the only state to be named as the result of a hoax. When a name was being selected for new territory, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested "Idaho," which he claimed was a Native American term meaning "gem of the mountains". It was later revealed Willing had made up the name himself, and the original Idaho territory was re-named Colorado because of it. Eventually the controversy was forgotten, and modern-day Idaho was given the made-up name when the Idaho Territory was formally created in 1863. The Alien Autopsy footage from Roswell UFO crash On 5 May 1995, Ray Santilli, a London-based lm producer, presented for the rst time his alleged "Alien Autopsy" footage to media representatives and UFO researchers. The body was suggested to belong to one of the aliens picked from the supposed Roswell UFO crash site in 1947. The footage became worldknown inmediatly. he debate on whether the autopsied body is a very realistic mannequin, a girl with a genetic disorder (such as progeria or Turner's syndrome), or a real alien is still going on. Pathologists have also questioned the techniques being used in the supposed

autopsy. Ironically, the best evidence against the lm comes from one of the background details. On one wall of the autopsy room, there is a type of warning sign that was not produced until 1967, two decades after the alleged event. Fox TV produced a programme debunking the video as a hoax a couple of years later and, in 2006, a British comedy movie called "Alien Autopsy" was released, on the subject of Santilli faking the autopsy footage, who was apparently involved in the movie's production, which if so would suggest that the autopsy footage was indeed faked. The fossil that embarrassed British Paleontology The so-called Piltdown Man was fragments of a skull and jaw bone found in 1912 from a gravel pit at Piltdown in the English county of Sussex. The fragments were claimed by experts of the day to be the fossilised remains of a hitherto unknown form of early man. From the British Museum's reconstruction of the skull, it was proposed that Piltdown man represented an evolutionary missing link between ape and man, since the combination of a human-like cranium with an ape-like jaw tended to support the notion then prevailing in England that human evolution was brain-led.

In 1953, 41 years later, the Piltdown man was nally exposed as a composite forgery: it consisted of a human skull of medieval age, the 500-year-old lower jaw of a Sarawak orangutan and chimpanzee fossil teeth. The identity of the Piltdown forger remains unknown. The Catholic Pope that turned out to be a woman John Anglicus, a ninth century Englishman, travelled to Rome, became a Cardinal, and when Pope Leo IV died in 853 A.D., he was unanimously elected pope. As Pope John VIII, he ruled for two years, until 855 A.D. However, while riding one day from St. Peter's to the Lateran, he had to stop by the side of the road and, to the astonishment of everyone, gave birth to a child. It turned out that Pope John VIII was really a woman. In other words, Pope John was really Pope Joan. According to legend, upon discovering the Pope's true gender, the people of Rome tied her feet together and dragged her behind a horse while stoning her, until she died. Another legend has it that she was sent to a faraway convent to repent her sins and that the child she bore grew up to become the Bishop of Ostia. It is not known whether the story of Pope Joan is true.

The "Chess Machine" that fooled Napoleon The Turk was a famous hoax which purported to be a chess-playing automaton rst constructed and unveiled in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. He rst exhibited the Turk at the court of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa in 1770, and later took it on a tour of Europe for several years during the 1780s. The Turk defeated prominent world-gures, such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. The cabinet had doors that opened to reveal internal clockwork mechanisms, and when activated the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. However, the cabinet was a cleverly constructed illusion that allowed a chess master to hide inside and operate the mannequin. Consequently, it won most games. The buying of the Catholic Church by Microsoft In 1994 a press release began circulating around the internet claiming that Microsoft had bought the Catholic church. The release quoted Bill Gates saying that he considered religion to be a growth market and that, "The combined resources of Microsoft and the Catholic Church will allow us to make religion easier and more fun for a broader range of people." Under

the terms of the deal, Microsoft would acquire exclusive electronic rights to the Bible and would make the sacraments available online. Microsoft had to issue a formal denial of the release on December 16, 1994. This was the rst internet hoax to reach a mass audience using the internet. The authors of these hoaxes remain unknown. The Martian invasion that frightened the World The War of the Worlds, is a radio adaptation by Orson Welles based upon H. G. Wells' classic novel, was performed by Mercury Theatre on the Air as a Halloween special on October 30, 1938. The live broadcast reportedly frightened many listeners into believing that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. It has been called the "single greatest media hoax of all time", although it was not intended to be one. Contemporary newspapers reported panic ensued, with people eeing the area, and others thinking they could smell the poison gas or could see the ashes of the ghting in the distance. Several people reportedly rushed to the "scene" of the events in New Jersey to see if they could catch a glimpse of the unfolding events, including a few astronomers from Princeton University

who went looking for the "meteorite" that had supposedly fallen near their school. It is sometimes said that the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was rst received in skepticism as a consequence of the radio performance. Amazingly enough, the drama has been rewritten to apply to other locations and rebroadcast, with similar results: - A 1944 broadcast in Santiago, Chile caused panic, including mobilization of troops by the governor. - A February 12, 1949 broadcast in Quito, Ecuador panicked tens of thousands. Some listeners, enraged at the deception, set re to the radio station and the ofces of El Comercio, the capital's leading newspaper, killing twenty people.

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1 (one) Israeli Memorialized as Victim of 9/11 Disaster !!! Did NORAD Send The "Suicide" Jets? HOME RUN: Electronic Hijacking WTC Attack Aircraft Global Hawk Global Hawk Ghost Riders in the Sky Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game Pipelineistan, Part 2: The games nations play The Lies About Taliban Heroin Taliban's heroin 'double-cross' Al-Qaeda Not Involved Afghanistan, the Taliban and the United States Bush's Faustian Deal With The Taliban Bush and Cheny in intimate business contact with real prime suspects of WTC/Pentagon crashbombing frame-up Bin Laden Video: US urged to detail origin of tape: As Muslim doubts grow over authenticity, special effects experts say fake would be relatively easy to make Evidence Planted? Pakistan ex-Spy Chief Blames Mossad 5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy Osama not behind US attacks, says Saranjam bin Laden Says Israel Masterminded 9-11 Attacks 9/11 Cover-Up? US, France Expose Israel's 9-11 Connection Feds Holding 60 Israelis in Connection with 9/11 - Why? Who Benets? The question no one dares to ask!

Israel and 9/11 Is Israel Blackmailing America? 'What tiger?' Massive Spy Ring Linked to Sept. 11 The Israeli Spy Ring Scandal Fox News Series on Israeli Spying in the US Bush Policy Hints: 'Israel a Suspect' U.S. Police and Intelligence Hit by Spy Network U.S. investigating Israel as behind the WTC and Pentagon attacks? The Stories of 9/11 the American Media Hopes You Forget Instant Messages To Israel Warned of WTC Attack Intel Expert Says 9-11 Looks Like A Hollywood Show Israeli Lobby Planted Story About Palestinian "Celebration" Some Got rich off Tragedy Crash of Flight 587 Mystery of Flight 587 'Team-B' Targets Bush-Powell 'Wolfowitz Cabal' Is an Enemy Within U.S. Can the Brzezinski-Wolfowitz Cabal's War Game Be Stopped? 911 News & Anaylsis The Truth About 9-11 FBI Admits: No Evidence Links 'Hijackers' to 9-11 Who Really Controls International Terrorism?

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Lizard People One of the most implausible conspiracy theories (and that's saying something), there exists an unreasonably large amount of people who believe that the world is run by a group of inter-dimensional lizard people called the 'Babylonian Brotherhood', who take the form of political gures and celebrities in order to inuence us and eventually control us. Barack Obama is one, The Queen is one, late American country music singer Boxcar Willie was one - the conspiracists have even taken toYouTube to show us "undeniable proof" of their ndings, including this admittedly-quite-creepy video of CNN reporter Brian Todd: The lizard people conspiracy was popularised by David Icke, former BBC sports presenter, who quit his day job to convince people that George Bush is actually a human-size gecko. Not exactly the most stable of career moves, Dave...

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It took them three hundred years and trillions of dollars to build a theatre of darkness, yet the light of only one match can burn it down. Do not let this light go out, ARCHIVE AND POST!!! 3/11 was Japan's 9/11. It's all documented folks! NEW ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION FUKUSHIMA PHOTOS (make sure you expand them to see them clearly, and post them and everything else EVERYWHERE) Fukushima from the front AND Fukushima from above These are important photographs because you can sit down and analyze them and see exactly what really happened there. This is Japan's 911, and it's all based on ofcial records and evidence which cannot be silenced. What is here is every bit as damning as building 7 on 9/11, while being far more important, and the fact that a large portion of even the truth movement has shunned this report will show you just how deep the conspiracy goes. It is essential for people to link, re-post and mirror this report, because e-mails related to it will be censored and people will not nd their way here from an e-mail. It will also get deleted from sites like Above Top Secret and Godlike productions, and therefore failure to spread the word through other means will

give the elite an ability to create a similar disaster elsewhere, possibly near you. This site is public domain, use anything here on your own site but mention my name and link back to here so people can nd the source. Did the Dimona Dozen murder the Fukushima 50? Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, published on May 21 2011 Updated Saturday, April 21, 2012 This is a massive and technical report. If you have troubles understanding it, just look at THIS classied picture of the vanished reactor, THIS classied picture of the destroyed facility and THIS picture of Magna BSP's camera. Then scroll down to the photos which prove there was no actual quake damage to Japan and the original Japanese seismic charts which prove there was no 9.0. The linked public records prove that the very real tsunami which destroyed everything in it's path could not have been natural. The fact that what happened in Japan did not occur naturally has been very well documented by a skilled investigator, who spent hundreds of hours getting to the bottom of this story. NEW INFO: Japan offered to enrich uranium for IRAN! HERE ARE THE LINKS:Ynet news... Inside Japan News Network...The New

American...Rianovosti news...Hindustan Times...Zee News AND FOUR MONTHS LATER, THE DIMONA DOZEN SHOWED UP WITH A REALLY FANCY CAMERA!! This report includes classied photos and the schematics for Fukushima, as well as the ORIGINAL seismic records to support it's claims. They are, 1. Reactor 3 is completely missing, which means the press and anyone who has claimed anything about pressures, temperatures, containment, ect at reactor 3 after March 14 is lying and people need to pay attention to it, because failure of the public to realize the massive extent of the lies about what is going on there will leave the door open to a repeat event. 2. Reactor 4 is Building 7, demolished by explosives. Reactor 4 had been defueled and was undergoing replacement of it's internal stainless steel shroud, yet blew it's containment anyway. That is the FINAL smoking gun, an empty reactor is inert, and cannot produce an explosion, yet one happened at 4 that was so powerful it destroyed the structure leaving it in danger of falling over. Overheated open fuel pools cannot produce hydrogen because in an open fuel pool the water boils off at 100 Celsius, and won't be present in pressurized

form at 2,000 degrees Celsius to liberate it's hydrogen by losing it's oxygen to the zircon cladding in the fuel rods. The rods will prefer the free oxygen in the air and burn long before attempting to claim the oxygen in whatever humidity there might be. Fuel rods only contain 20 percent ssionable material, and therefore could not have produced the "prompt criticality" in the fuel pools Arnie Gundersen, "The most qualied nuclear engineer in the world" has spoken of. This report includes a background investigation of Arnie Gundersen which proves he is a fraud who is hiding how big the disaster at Fukushima is. He is making statements which defy the laws of physics, and hide what really happened at Fukushima because if it became widely known serious questions would be asked. When have you heard Gundersen talk about a totally missing reactor? SOMETHING had to cause #3 to vanish. It weighed over a million pounds, where did it go? Reactor 4's dome was removed for defueling. Drone photos prove it. This dispels the rumors surrounding unit 4's explosion. Some people have said that this reactor was secretly in operation to enrich plutonium. This photo proves it was disassembled for shroud replacement as stated. Tepco is going out of it's way trying to explain the explosions, especially at reactor 4 because they did indeed occur, so an explanation is needed. As a result they are giving reasons that cannot happen just to say something.

They need to see this post and get the Arava perspective(Arava is a district surrounding Dimona). 3. That the destruction of the facility is so severe it could only have been accomplished with nuclear weapons. Hydrogen gas produces a non-ideal subsonic explosion. It cannot turn concrete into dust. It can produce high pressures if sealed off, but the metal roof on all the reactor containments should have provided the relief and been the only thing destroyed. It takes a high intensity explosive to strip concrete off rebar, a blast wave many times faster than supersonic. This means that whatever happened at Fukushima did not have blast characteristics that t the "ofcial" story. If you missed it in the high resolution photo of the destroyed facility, I took a car that was laying around in the remains and placed it on top of one of the blown away walls at reactor 3, which clearly gives the reference that the walls had support columns at least 15 feet thick. Fukushima was built with the Mark 1 containment design, but beyond Mark 1 standards which was a common upgrade(reference is the included photos, it is obvious). It is true that gas explosions can be very destructive, but only in facilities that were not designed to handle them. Even the basic mark 1 containment was many times beyond capable of withstanding the worst hydrogen blast.

4. That nuclear weapon(s) were placed inside of the reactor containment(s) disguised as security cameras installed under contract this year by Arava based security rm Magna BSP (Arava is a district around Dimona, not a city.) Their "security cameras" weighed over 1,000 pounds and were the size and shape of gun type nuclear weapons.The reason Magna BSP gave for the odd shape, enormous weight, and giant proportions of their cameras was that they were stereoscopic. A stereoscopic camera could be plausible at an airstrip, where the camera would need depth perception out miles, but not indoors where focal lengths are short. Depth perception going out miles could also be accomplished with two separately mounted cameras weighing only a few pounds; the giant thousand pounder is a dead giveaway. Why this giant thing, when smaller nukes are possible? Nuclear weapons always produce a certain amount of heat, and if a small design was used it would be obvious the "camera" was warm, even when turned off and sitting on the shelf. This would cause questions to be asked, especially in a nuclear power facility. The enormous size and weight helped conceal the decay heat.

9/11, 4/11, 3/11? see a pattern? Let's not see another X/11.Your time and effort in spreading the word may really make a difference. The quake was not what we were told. In fact, the quake was a bold faced lie, packing a political agenda. The proof goes beyond the linked Japanese chart. Please note - the date listed at the top is the date of compilation, Japan has thousands of seismic stations run by numerous organizations, and they take time to merge into one nal report. That is the date listed at the top of this compilation (March 15), and there is a shill out there who can't gure this out, a fact which should be obvious because the main seismograph in this report is dated and timed to the quake, and is a match for the lower resolution seismograms in this large compilation.This original seismic data is the smoking gun, however, I have something better. I analyzed the falsied charts put out by the USGS, and from them wrote this sad, sad story about how it had to be according to those charts, not what you will see in the newsroom video I have linked farther down the page which documents what really happened. Keep in mind that precise top speeds of ying debris cannot be determined with complete accuracy, but this story will at least be close to the numbers put out by the USGS.

The people in the newsroom did not die, this story is what would have happened if the USGS charts were true. Meet Atsuo, Airi, and Akiyoshi. They were all the best and most dedicated people at the NHK newsroom, in Sendai Japan. Akiyoshi loved Airi, and Atsuo was the one who introduced them. Unfortunately, all 3 died in the quake. Akiyoshi got a severe cut and bled to death when he hit a display screen behind him at 44 miles an hour, and was then thrown out through a hole in a collapsed wall. Airi followed pretty much the same path, and died beside him in the rubble. Atsuo ew through the open door behind him, then crashed through a window and was crushed when he landed in a massive seismic crack in the road, which closed in on him. Others in the newsroom died also, but I never thought up names for them. At least, according to the ofcial USGS charts. The laser printer was never found, but the table it was on ended up on top of the rubble, smashed to pieces, where one of the few survivors used a piece of the metal frame to splint his broken leg. The chart is from station MYG012, which is less than 1/2 mile from the NHK newsroom. THIS PROVES THE USGS LIED. THERE WAS NO 9.0

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Japan conrms explosion, leakage at nuke plant FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) Japanese Chief Cabinet SecretaryYukio Edano conrmed on Saturday there has been an explosion and radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) (9501.T) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. "We are looking into the cause and the situation and we'll make that public when we have further information," Edano said. "At present, we think 10 km evacuation is appropriate." Japan earlier in the day warned of a meltdown at a reactor at the plant, damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northeast coast, but said the risk of radiation contamination was small. Edano also said that Japan has expanded the evacuation area around the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant. (Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Joseph Radford)

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Monsanto's Latest Poison: The Dangers of Dicamba Tuesday, 04 December 2012 09:20 http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/76285monsantos-latest-poison-the-dangers-ofdicamba

THE UNITED STATES IS STILL A BRITISH COLONY EXTORTING TAXES FOR THE CROWN! A DOCUMENTARY REVIEW OF CHARTERS AND TREATIES August 17, 1996 An Expose' An introduction by the "Informer"

This is the latest from a man who visits me quite often. He and another man researched my theory that we have never been free from the British Crown. This disc shows the results. I have states that we will never win in their courts. This shows conclusively why. We have the hard copy of the treaties that are the footnotes. This predates Schroder's material, my research of the 1861 stats by Lincoln that put us under the War Powers conscation acts, and John Nelson's material. All our material supports that the real Principal, the King of England, still rules this country through the bankers and why we own no property in allodium. This is why it is so important to start OUR courts of God's natural (common) Law and break away from all the crap they have handed us. This is one reason Virginia had a law to hang all lawyers but was somehow, by someone, (the King) set aside to

let them operate again. Some good people put in the original 13th amendment so that without the lawyers the King could not continue his strangle hold on us. James shows how that was quashed by the King. I am happy that James' research of six months bears out my theory, that most people would not listen to me, that we are still citizen/ subjects under the kings of England. My article called "Reality" published in the American Bulletin and the article of mine on the "Atocha case," wherein Florida in 1981 used it's sovereignty under the British crown to try to take away the gold from the wreck found in Florida waters supports this premise. James makes mention of the Law dictionaries being England's Law Dict. you will not is lists the reign of all the Kings of England. It never mentions the reign of the Presidents of this country. Ever wonder Why? Get this out to as many people as you can. The Informer. The United States is still a British Colony; Part 1 The United States is still a British Colony; Part 2 The United State is still a British Colony; Part 3

3. Forgotten Amendment 4. Civil War and The Conquest that followed 5. A Military Flag 6. Conclusion 7. Footnote 1: First Charter of Virginia 8. Footnote 2: The Paris Peace Treaty (Peace Treaty of 1783) 9. Footnote 3: Articles of Capitulation 10. Footnote 4: 11.Footnote 5: The Jay Treaty 12. Footnote 6: 1814 Treaty of Ghent 1814 13. Footnote 7: Washington's Vision: Anthony Sherman 14. Footnote 8 submitted by: colony@civil-liberties.com Source: http://www.civil-liberties.com/books/ index.html

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Questions and Answers While lecturing in many countries, and appearing on radio and television programs as a guest, the author is frequently asked questions about the Federal Reserve System. The most frequently asked questions and the answers are as follows: Q: What is the Federal Reserve System? A: The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system, but rather, a criminal syndicate. It is the product of criminal syndicalist activity of an international consortium of dynastic families comprising what the author terms "The World Order" (see "THE WORLD ORDER" and "THE CURSE OF CANAAN", both by Eustace Mullins). The Federal Reserve system is a central bank operating in the United States. Although the student will nd no such denition of a central bank in the textbooks of any university, the author has dened a central bank as follows: It is the dominant nancial power of the country which harbors it. It is entirely private-owned, although it seeks to give the appearance of a governmental institution. It has the right to print and issue money, the traditional prerogative of monarchs. It is set up to provide nancing for wars. It functions as a money monopoly having total power over all the money and credit of the people.

Q: When Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913, did the Congressmen know that they were creating a central bank? A: The members of the 63rd Congress had no knowledge of a central bank or of its monopolistic operations. Many of those who voted for the bill were duped; others were bribed; others were intimidated. The preface to the Federal Reserve Act reads, "An Act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial papers, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes." The unspecied "other purposes" were to give international conspirators a monopoly of all the money and credit of the people of the United States; to nance World War I through this new central bank, to place American workers at the mercy of the Federal Reserve systems collection agency, the Internal Revenue Service, and to allow the monopolists to seize the assets of their competitors and put them out of business. Q: Is the Federal Reserve system a government agency? A: Even the present chairman of the House Banking Committee claims that the Federal Reserve is a government agency, and that it is not privately owned. The fact is that the

government has never owned a single share of Federal Reserve Bank stock. This charade stems from the fact that the President of the United States appoints the Governors of the Federal Reserve Board, who are then conrmed by the Senate. The secret author of the Act, banker Paul Warburg, a representative of the Rothschild bank, coined the name "Federal" from thin air for the Act, which he wrote to achieve two of his pet aspirations, an "elastic currency", read (rubber check), and to facilitate trading in acceptances, international trade credits. Warburg was founder and president of the International Acceptance Corporation, and made billions in prots by trading in this commercial paper. Sec. 7 of the Federal Reserve Act provides "Federal reserve banks, including the capital and surplus therein, and income derived therefrom, shall be exempt from Federal, state and local taxation, except taxes on real estate." Government buildings do not pay real estate tax. Q: Are our dollar bills, which carry the label "Federal Reserve notes" government money? A: Federal Reserve notes are actually promissory notes, promises to pay, rather than what we traditionally consider money. They are interest bearing notes issued against interest bearing government bonds, paper issued with nothing but paper

backing, which is known as at money, because it has only the at of the issuer to guarantee these notes. The Federal Reserve Act authorizes the issuance of these notes, "for the purposes of making advances to Federal reserve banks... The said notes shall be obligations of the United States. They shall be redeemed in gold on demand at the Treasury Department of the United States in the District of Columbia." Tourists visiting the Bureau of Printing and Engraving on the Mall in Washington, D.C. view the printing of Federal Reserve notes at this governmental agency on contract from the Federal Reserve System for the nominal sum of .00260 each in units of 1,000, at the same price regardless of the denomination. These notes, printed for a private bank, then become liabilities and obligations of the United States government and are added to our present $4 trillion debt. The government had no debt when the Federal Reserve Act was passed in 1913. Q: Who owns the stock of the Federal Reserve Banks? A: The dynastic families of the ruling World Order, internationalists who are loyal to no race, religion, or nation. They are families such as the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Schiffs, the Rockefellers, the Harrimans, the Morgans and others known as the elite, or "the big rich".

Q: Can I buy this stock? A: No. The Federal Reserve Act stipulates that the stock of the Federal Reserve Banks cannot be bought or sold on any stock exchange. It is passed on by inheritance as the fortune of the "big rich". Almost half of the owners of Federal Reserve Bank stock are not Americans. Q: Is the Internal Revenue Service a governmental agency? A: Although listed as part of the Treasury Department, the IRS is actually a private collection agency for the Federal Reserve System. It originated as the Black Hand in mediaeval Italy, collectors of debt by force and extortion for the ruling Italian mob families. All personal income taxes collected by the IRS are required by law to be deposited in the nearest Federal Reserve Bank, under Sec. 15 of the Federal Reserve Act, "The moneys held in the general fund of the Treasury may be ....deposited in Federal reserve banks, which banks, when required by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall act as scal agents of the United States." Q: Does the Federal Reserve Board control the daily price and quantity of money? A: The Federal Reserve Board of Governors, meeting in private as the Federal Open

Market Committee with presidents of the Federal Reserve Banks, controls all economic activity throughout the United States by issuing orders to buy government bonds on the open market, creating money out of nothing and causing inationary pressure, or, conversely, by selling government bonds on the open market and extinguishing debt, creating deationary pressure and causing the stock market to drop. Q: Can Congress abolish the Federal Reserve System? A: The last provision of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, Sec. 30, states, "The right to amend, alter or repeal this Act is expressly reserved." This language means that Congress can at any time move to abolish the Federal Reserve System, or buy back the stock and make it part of the Treasury Department, or to altar the System as it sees t. It has never done so. Q: Are there many critics of the Federal Reserve beside yourself? A: When I began my researches in 1948, the Fed was only thirty-four years old. It was never mentioned in the press. Today the Fed is discussed openly in the news section and the nancial pages. There are bills in congress

to have the Fed audited by the Government Accounting Ofce. Because of my expose, it is no longer a sacred cow, although the Big Three candidates for President in 1992, Bush, Clinton and Perot, joined in a unanimous chorus during the debates that they were pledged not to touch the Fed. Q: Have you suffered any personal consequences because of your expose of the Fed? A: I was red from the staff of the Library of Congress after I published this expose in 1952, the only person ever discharged from the staff for political reasons. When I sued, the court refused to hear the case. The entire German edition of this book was burned in 1955, the only book burned in Europe since the Second World War. I have endured continuous harassment by government agencies, as detailed in my books "A WRIT FOR MARTYRS" and "MY LIFE IN CHRIST". My family also suffered harassment. When I spoke recently in Wembley Arena in London, the press denounced me as "a sinister lunatic". Q: Does the press always support the Fed? A: There have been some encouraging defections in recent months. A front page story in the Wall Street Journal, Feb. 8, 1993, stated,

"The current Fed structure is difcult to justify in a democracy. Its an oddly undemocratic institution. Its organization is so dated that there is only one Reserve bank west of the Rockies, and two in Missouri... Having a central bank with a monopoly over the issuance of the currency in a democratic society is a very difcult balancing act."

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What is left of the British Empire today? Answer: nothing

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Africa has never been allowed to level up.Africa has everything,Oil,Minerals,gold.Africa should be the wealthiest nation in the world.Instead africa is full of European and American companies which take those resources for next to nothing.The west then makes products from these resources and sells them back at extorionate prices.Gadda was trying to unite all the African states and create the United States of Africa.We soon put a stop to that :( I am from the UK btw. Ben Som in reply to fangsea (Show the comment) 4 days ago 36

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Friendship "What is a friend? A single soul, dwelling in two bodies" - Aristotle True friendship is perhaps the only relation that survives the trials and tribulations of time and remains unconditional. A unique blend of affection, loyalty, love, respect, trust and loads of fun is perhaps what describes the true meaning of friendship. Similar interests, mutual respect and strong attachment with each other are what friends share between each other. These are just the general traits of a friendship. To experience what is friendship, one must have true friends, who are indeed rare treasure. Friendship is a feeling of comfort and emotional safety with a person. It is when you do not have to weigh your thoughts and measure words, before keeping it forth before your friend. It is when someone knows you better than yourself and assures to be your side in every emotional crisis. It is when you can sleep ghting and get another morning with a better understanding. Friendship is much beyond roaming together and sharing good moments, it is when someone comes to rescue you from the worst phase of life. Friendship is eternal.

Different people have different denitions of friendship. For some, it is the trust in an individual that he / she won't hurt you. For others, it is unconditional love. There are some who feel that friendship is companionship. People form denitions based on the kind of experiences they have had. This is one relation that has been nurtured since time immemorial. There are famous stories about friends in mythologies of different religions all over the world. They say a person who has found a faithful friend has found a priceless treasure. Psychologically speaking, friendship may be dened as 'a dynamic, mutual relationship between two individuals. As children become friends, they negotiate boundaries within which both partners function'. This helps them to function like healthy individuals in life as they learn to draw a line as and when needed in a relation. This greatly helps in the emotional development of an individual. However, any relation needs constant nurturing and development from all the people that are involved in one. Friendship cannot survive if one person makes all the effort to sustain it without any mutual recognition from others. Since friendship starts the moment a child starts socializing, the kind of friends that the child chooses should be taken care of till the time he / she learns to differentiate between right and wrong. Wrong peers or lack of socializing can lead to severe

psychological traumas and disorders, nally leading to social maladjustment. The correct peer group is essential for the development of the personality of a child. Both positive and negative experiences rene the personality of the individual. Thus it is essential that you nd friends who are compatible with you on an emotional and psychological basis.

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Dene Friendship... saiyeek What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, -- so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland. There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail themselves of your lips. Quote: The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. thats what i feel.... blue77 For me the real friends are those who support you in good and bad moments.You can relay on this people and that is what makes you feel close with them. The real friend have realy close bond to eatch

outher and many common interests. Not every day you can met real friend. The real friends are people who stays with you for years Jakob [JaWGames] If I put it simple I would say that a friend is someone who likes and respects you at the same time as you likes and respects him/her. A close friend is someone you trusts neverthless the situation. HoboPelican Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. An tongue-in-cheek exaggeration, but it illustrates a point very well. A real friend has your back no matter what. TrueFact For me, a friend is caring and giving person... but this can be many ways and different personalities... the idea then... can you know that this person is your friend or another guy passing into our lives. Jakob, without respect and liking there's no friendship at all in the rst place. If you scan the people you know... you'll nd alot of people you like and respect but you don't consider them friends or at least close friends. In other words... liking and respect is one of the basis for any successful relationship between any two or there's no relation....

It always takes time to know that someone you know is a real friend. Often, you can see nothing wrong about the people you think they are you friends. Sometimes you don't know that this one is a friend before you hurt them. but when you have a real friend, you try NEVER to lose him/her. This is not about how long you him/her, or where you met at rst or how you did... Friendship have no limits... Friendship is only identied by you two. and that's my2 cents Jakob [JaWGames] Quote: Jakob, without respect and liking there's no friendship at all in the rst place. If you scan the people you know... you'll nd alot of people you like and respect but you don't consider them friends or at least close friends. In other words... liking and respect is one of the basis for any successful relationship between any two or there's no relation.... Mm, yes I know, friendship reaches much deeper than that but if you likes and respects someone who likes and respects you, you probably are more or less friends (it depends on what you classes as friend.)

A close friend is something totally different and it is much harder to dene Tokci everyone more or less agrees on the denition of friends as the one stands by u in thick and thin, good and bad, right or wrong. But I think there is something more to it. I think a friend understands u and respects u for what u are. He helps u become a better person. Standing by a person when he is doing something wrong is not friendship...a true friends makes u realize that u r doing a wrong thing. Jayfarer "As in any social setting, your friends are the ones you consider your equals. But your best friends --Your closest friends -- are the ones you consider your betters." --Brad Meltzer Tumbleweed A friend is someone who will help you when you ask them..... A true friend does not need to be asked indianinworld "Friend in need is a Friend in Deed" Hope this explains all... crimson_aria Friends are people you've grown to love, want to share happy and sad moments with,

talk to anytime, be with anytime.. They are people who love and accept you for what you are and what you're not. They are special individuals who touch your soul and make your life worth living even if the ups and downs of the road is too risky. I don't know how to exactly dene friendship. But I know what it is. picsite Friends are someone who you could be comfortable around at any point...however this all seems to change when you start to fall for a friend and then things become awkward... TrueFact How can you dene if someone likes and respects you if he's not showing it to you or just dealing with you with usual respect or because the road put you together he is dealing with you. I think a friend in this case is some one you decide who's a friend and who's not. and to say the truth that happens when e nd some one is not the friend we assumed he is. Only days in this case can show who is and who's not. Alias A friend is someone who you would get your best and your glock for backup. A friend is someone who you could lean on to open up your problems and giving you some good advices. RAV3R-xx

Are you saying a friend can only be a person? Because thats what alot of people's denitons have been about. If you had a pet bird, that liked so sit on your pet cat on the couch, and the cat enojyed the birds company.. does this make them friends? I think it does. I think a friend is one showing or having affection for another. kogoot Most amazing denition of a buddie: 1. A Person Who Listens WhenYou BareYour Soul 2. A Person Who KnowsYou Inside And Out 3. The Person Who Can FinishYour Sentence ForYou 4. Who Knows Without Being Told ThatYour DoubtingYour Relationship 5. A Person Who Does Wrong, Apologizes, And Then TakesYou Out (Fishing) To Make Up For It 6. The One Person Who Annoys The Hell Out Of You, ButYou Never Can Get Enough Of 7. The Only PersonYou Hate Seeing With Another Girl CauseYou Don't Think She's Good Enough 8. The Person Who Acts LikeYour Brother, Chauffeur, Body Guard, Best Friend, and Sometimes More. 9. The Only One Who Knows WhenYour Sad, Angry, or Scared, Even WhenYour Pretending To Be Happy

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908 Nigerian female pilgrims held in Saudi Arabia over escort rule, dozens return BY BASHIR ADIGUN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEPTEMBER 26, 2012 ABUJA, Nigeria - The detention of hundreds of female Nigerian pilgrims heading to Mecca at Saudi Arabia's busiest airport over a rule requiring them to travel with a husband or male relative is threatening to bring a diplomatic dispute between the two nations. Saudi authorities are holding 908 Nigerian women in poor conditions "with some needing urgent medical attention" at King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah and threatened to deport them, the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria said in a report submitted to Nigerian lawmakers Wednesday. The report said female pilgrims who had landed in a smaller airport in Medina had been unaffected. However, Fuwaiba Muhammad, a pilgrim, told an Associated Press reporter at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in the northern Nigerian city of Kano that she had been deported Wednesday from the Saudi Arabian city of Medina, along with dozens of others.

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33 Geeky InsultsYou Can Use Almost Anywhere BY JASON CRANFORDTEAGUE05.08.122:05 AM In general, geeks prefer to use brains rather than brawn to get themselves out of a situation. As a result, their insults are often witty, literary and highly intelligent. But not always. Here are a few of our favorites. (Note to parents: you may want to preview these rst before your kids pick them up.) You know, you are a classic example of the inverse ratio between the size of the mouth and the size of the brain. The Doctor, Doctor Who Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffylooking Nerf herder! Princess Leia, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. Thurio, The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare [You're] a girl with as much talent for disguise as a giraffe in dark glasses trying to get into a polar-bears-only club. Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk!

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Vaccines, Mercury, Autism, and Fraud November 23, 2012, Posted by: Leslie Manookian, Leave a Comment Do you remember all the reports in seemingly every mainstream media outlet that researchers had found that there was no connection between the mercury in vaccines and autism? It was everywhere. The quick version of the story is that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hired a consultant from Denmark to do some work investigating the possible connection between the mercury in vaccines and autism. Denmark took the mercury (thimerosal) out of their childhood vaccine schedule, and this researcher, Poul Thorsen, and his team were to study whether the rate of autism went down afterwards. CDC gave Thorsen and his team millions in grant money. Thorsen famously reported that the rate of autism did not go down and all his follow up studies showed the same. This news was trumpted all over the world as proof that vaccines dont cause autism. But the story does not stop there. Thorsen absconded with a bunch of CDCs grant money and is on the run. He supposedly embezzled a million dollars. A watchdog group, CoMeD, led a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees CDC, alleging that Thorsens research was fraudulent and that he and his co-researchers covered

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The Latest Lie From The Cancer Industry: 'Don't Worry About Chemotherapy During Pregnancy, It's Perfectly Safe' According to researchers echoing the sentiments of conventional medical wisdom, there is no need to worry about chemotherapy drugs endangering your unborn child if you develop cancer while pregnant, it's perfectly safe. The sales people at Cancer Inc partnering with Big Pharma, Big Medicine and everybody else who generates a prot from the cancer industry, are at it again with their latest sales pitch, this time for pregnant women. It was only a few weeks ago when researchers in the United States made a "completely unexpected" nding showing that while damaging healthy cells, chemotherapy also triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumour growth and resistance to further treatment. Hundreds of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer each year face the agonising decision of what to do next. Some even opt for an abortion, especially if they are in the early stages of pregnancy and the cancer is very aggressive, while others refuse treatment until after the baby is born.

But researchers in Germany say there is no need to interrupt the pregnancy in any way, delay treatment or use less powerful drugs because your baby will be just ne. Really? So toxic chemicals surging through a woman's body which cause infections, anemia, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, nerve changes, and problems with fertility will cause no problems for a newborn? Their study assessed more than 400 women from across Europe who were diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer while pregnant, almost half underwent chemotherapy during pregnancy. The study also examined whether the newborn babies of the 197 treated women suffered any ill effects that could be attributable to the cancer drugs. Babies whose mothers had undergone chemotherapy while pregnant had, on average, a lower birth weight than those whose mothers had not had chemotherapy, says a report in The Lancet Oncology journal. The biggest downfall of this study? All they assessed were supercial and very-short term effects. They only observed birth defects, wellbeing, blood disorders, and alopecia (hair loss). The study made no attempt to assess the absorption, metabolism or excretion of toxic chemo-therapy agents in newborns, meaning the researchers have

absolutely no idea what the long-term effects of cancer treatment will actually be once the child reachers 6 months, 1 year or older. What are the effects on the child's cells, brain, body, endocrine and immune systems as they age past the the newborn stage? Around one in 2,000 pregnancies is affected by cancer, a rate that is increasing by 2.5 percent a year as women have children later in life. The number of chemotherapy cycles received during pregnancy did not appear to affect the babies' birth weight, leading the authors to suggest that the lower birth weight is not clinically meaningful. Not true. The consistent low birth weights in children who receive a chemical cocktail is indeed indicative of a serious problem. If fetal growth rates are altered, this is suggestive of some underlying mechanism which may have caused it. The evidence is even in their own data. Prof Loibl said 'In the general population, about 10-15 percent of infants are born preterm, but in our study, 50 percent of women with breast cancer delivered preterm, with 23 percent delivering before the 35th week of gestation. So 50 percent preterm deliveries is not a problem?

'More complications were reported in the group of infants exposed to chemotherapy than in the group not exposed to chemotherapy. Professor Loibl added 'our work suggests that treating patients with breast cancer while pregnant is possible, and there is no need to interrupt the pregnancy or receive inferior therapy.' Well Professor Loibl, thanks for your glowing endorsement of further poisoning our children with chemotherapy drugs in addition to their already toxic world of vaccines and antibiotics at birth. For those women who may be asking themselves, "Is this guy insane?" the answer is yes.You should rightfully be questioning all conventional medical wisdom at all times since most of it dees science and logic. This is no exception. To those women who feel that exposing your body to toxic chemicals while pregnant is justied, perhaps you should rst interview a woman who has gone through the process to obtain rsthand evidence of what she and her child endured as they aged. Never let any study dictate how you should treat your body, especially while pregnant and especially when that study is suggesting that toxic chemicals are safe for your fetus. If your gut tells you something is not quite right there, it isn't.

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Chemotherapy during pregnancy: an interview with Professor Sibylle Loibl Published on August 22, 2012 at 4:53 AM No Comments How common is cancer during pregnancy and why is the incidence increasing? The incidence is about 1-3% of all breast cancers. The incidence seems to be increasing due to women delaying their childbearing to when they are in their thirties. Breast cancer also seems to be increasing in women below 45 years. What is the current treatment for cancer patients who are pregnant? Currently we recommend treating them as closely as possible to standard recommendations for non-pregnant women. Surgery is no problem during pregnancy - even sentinel node biopsy can be performed if indicated. Chemotherapy can be given anthracyclines, taxanes, cyclophosphamide are possible. Endocrine therapies, e.g. tamoxifen cannot be given. Trastuzumab should be avoided and is not recommended. Radiotherapy should be delayed to after pregnancy.

Was chemotherapy during pregnancy previously thought to cause problems for the unborn baby? It was never really clear, as all cytotoxic agents are listed as dangerous drugs. In the rst trimester there is a high chance that cytotoxic agents as well as other drugs cause malformations. Well known is methotrexate. Have babies previously been delivered preterm in order to deliver chemotherapy to the mother? Is this dangerous? Preterm delivery in order to start chemotherapy was the current practice. But preterm deliveries, depending on the week of gestational age, can cause severe illnesses and deaths. What did your research show? Our research looked at how women cope with breast cancer during pregnancy. Chemotherapy is given in more than 50% of the patients. The regimen is comparable to those in non-pregnant women. Also taxanes can be given. We showed clearly that the newborns have a lower birth weight, which usually has no clinical implication. There were more events of the infants documented in the group which received chemotherapy during

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The patient needs to be informed thoroughly and should be treated within an experienced multidisciplinary team. At the end of the day it is always an individuals decision. How do you think the future of cancer treatment for pregnant women will develop? I hope that there will be no more unnecessary terminations of the pregnancy and preterm deliveries without a real medical indication. Chemotherapy will be considered as a possibility in pregnant breast cancer women also as neoadjuvant approach. New treatment options will come up and need to be integrated into the treatment algorithm for pregnant women. Do you have any plans for further research into this eld? The registry will be continued to collect more data and more long term data. We will further collect tumor material to perform translational research. We will also elaborate on the outcome of the treated with different therapies for breast cancer during pregnancy.

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Chemo during pregnancy likely to be safe Children born to women undergoing cancer drug treatment show normal results in physical and mental development tests, The Guardian has reported. The news is based on research that examined the health of 70 children who were exposed to chemotherapy in the womb during the nal two-thirds of pregnancy. Between the ages of 18 months and 18 years, the children were given examinations of their general health, brain and heart function, and hearing. Their brain function, hearing, heart function, growth and development were all comparable with the general population. However, being born prematurely was associated with lower scores in IQ tests, leading the researchers to recommend against doctors inducing early delivery in women who need chemotherapy. The researchers also say their results do not support delaying chemotherapy in pregnant women. During pregnancy, decisions about treatment have to be made that are in the best interest of the mothers health, while trying to avoid the risk of harm to the foetus. However, this relatively small study cannot conclusively prove that chemotherapy poses no risk at all to the unborn child. The researchers say that their study is currently gathering longer-

term data on wider numbers of children to help explore the issue further. Where did the story come from? The study was carried out by researchers from Leuven Cancer Institute and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and other institutions in the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Canada. The study was funded by a number of European medical research and technology funds and the Belgian Ministry of Health. The study was published in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet. In general, the media provided balanced coverage of this study. The Daily Mails headline declared that pregnant women with breast cancer can have chemotherapy and surgery and still give birth safely. However, the study did not focus on women with breast cancer, and looked at childrens long-term development rather than the safety of their delivery. The researchers main nding was that being born prematurely was associated with lower IQ scores, which means that planned premature delivery may not be the best option. What kind of research was this? This cohort study looked at how foetal exposure to maternal cancer and treatment, including chemotherapy, affected the physical and cognitive

development of children at various points through their childhood. While it is known that exposure to chemotherapy during the rst 12 weeks of pregnancy can increase the risk of congenital defects in the baby, there is uncertainty over whether exposure during later stages of pregnancy can also affect heart and brain development. The researchers say that up until now, limited data have been available on the longerterm outcomes of children exposed to chemotherapy in the uterus. With this in mind, they intended to record the general health, cardiac function and brain development in children who were exposed to chemotherapy in the uterus. A cohort study is likely to be the most appropriate way of exploring the harms of chemotherapy in pregnancy. Chemotherapy in pregnancy is generally believed to be potentially harmful to the baby, but is sometimes unavoidable in clinical practice. Setting up a trial that randomly assigned pregnant women with cancer to receive cancer treatment or no treatment to assess developmental effects on children would be unethical, both for the mother (who may be denied the treatment she needs) and the baby (who may be put at unnecessary risk of harm).

What did the research involve? From 2005, researchers began gathering study subjects from cancer referral centres in Belgium, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. This included both pregnant women receiving chemotherapy at the time, and children and mothers who had been exposed to chemotherapy several years before the study. Depending on the age of the child the researchers carried out assessments at the ages of 18 months, 56 years, 89 years, 1112 years, 1415 years, or 18 years. The study is ongoing and, in time, these children will be given further examinations. The researchers carried out neurological examinations, tests of cognitive function (using recognised child development tests or IQ tests), heart examinations (electrocardiography and echocardiography), and administered a questionnaire on general health and development. Children who were over ve years of age also received hearing tests in addition to the Child Behavior Checklist, a questionnaire that screens for behavioural and emotional problems. The researchers compared their ndings with available norms such as national data for height, weight and head circumference, as well as national and international reference data for

neurodevelopmental and heart examination tests. What were the basic results? The current analysis of this ongoing study looked at the participating childrens development until March 2011. The researchers assessed 70 children (27 born between 1991 and 2004, and 43 born after 2004) from 68 pregnancies (two of the women had given birth to twins). All women had received chemotherapy, and some were also given radiotherapy, surgery or both. Across the group, 19 different chemotherapy regimens had been given, in which 236 cycles of chemotherapy were administered. On average, the babies were born at 35.7 weeks of pregnancy (most were premature). Only 23 babies (33% of the cohort) were born at full term (37 weeks or over). Each child was followed up for an average of 22.3 months. The childrens behaviour, general health, hearing, growth and heart function were comparable to the general population. Most children were recorded as having normal cognitive development. Most children with scores below the normal range were born prematurely. After the researchers adjusted their results for age, sex and country, they found an 11.6 point increase in IQ score for each additional month of pregnancy that the baby was carried for. The researchers found that

both members of one of the twin pregnancies had severe neurodevelopmental delay, and could not be assessed with the complete set of cognitive tests. How did the researchers interpret the results? The researchers concluded that children exposed to chemotherapy in the uterus are not more likely to have neurological, cardiac, hearing or general health and growth impairments compared with the general population. However, premature birth was common and was associated with impaired cognitive development. Therefore, planned premature delivery should be avoided where possible. Conclusion During pregnancy difcult treatment decisions have to be made in the best interests of both the mother and her unborn child. This valuable cohort study provides followup data on children (from young childhood through to adolescence and beyond) who were exposed to chemotherapy while in the uterus. The study's ndings are reassuring and suggest that a childs exposure to chemotherapy during later-stage pregnancy (beyond the rst 12 weeks) is not associated with brain, heart or other

developmental complications in the child. As the researchers note, their ndings do not support the practice of delaying chemotherapy or performing planned premature delivery so that chemotherapy can be given to the mother after birth (the study suggests that premature birth may carry greater risk of adverse cognitive outcomes than exposure to chemotherapy itself). However, though it does provide some reassurance, this relatively small study cannot conclusively prove that chemotherapy poses no risk to the unborn child: * As the researchers acknowledge, two children born to a twin pregnancy had signicant neurodevelopmental delay. The researchers could not exclude the possibility that this may have been caused by exposure to chemotherapy during a critical time of brain development. However, they considered that the broad nature of the problems in one of the twins suggested that chemotherapy was less likely to be the cause. * Also, though the general neurodevelopmental assessments for the cohort were within the normal range expected for the general population, the researchers noted that a sample of children had some discrepancy between verbal performance and IQ values on intelligence tests, while a sample of others

had higher problem scores on a child behaviour checklist. The researchers say that these ndings show that chemotherapy may have more subtle effects on neurodevelopment. * Additionally, other longer-term effects, which this study did not look at, need to be assessed, including risks of cancer in the children or effects on fertility. * It is important to note that all chemotherapy in this study was given after the rst 12 weeks of pregnancy. Chemotherapy in the rst trimester is associated with increased risk of congenital malformations, and this study did not assess or refute this. * The study lacked a direct comparison group of children who were not exposed to chemotherapy in the uterus. Though the researchers did use national averages for comparison, it would have been better to perform the same range of tests in children who were born at the same pregnancy stage but who had not been exposed to chemotherapy.

The researchers say that their Cancer in Pregnancy initiative will need to continue to gather longer-term follow-up data on much wider numbers of children exposed to chemotherapy in pregnancy.

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Who Gets Chemotherapy? Last modied on September 17, 2012 at 6:58 pm Leer esta pgina en Espaol Chemotherapy is used to treat all stages of breast cancer, including cancer that has come back in the breast area and breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic disease). Chemotherapy treatments are tailored specically for each person's unique situation. When deciding on which chemotherapy medicines would be best for you, you and your doctor will take into account the stage and other characteristics of the cancer, such as hormone-receptor status and HER2 status. You'll also consider your menopausal status and any other treatments you've had. Women who are pregnant can safely have chemotherapy after the rst trimester. Visit the Treatment for Breast Cancer During Pregnancy page for more information. Chemotherapy for early-stage disease Early-stage breast cancer generally means cancer that is classied as: * stage 0 * stage I * stages IIA and IIB * some stage III (For more information on the specic characteristics of each cancer stage, visit

the Breastcancer.org Stages of Breast Cancer page.) Chemotherapy is used after surgery to remove the breast cancer to get rid of any cancer cells that may be left behind and to reduce the risk of the cancer coming back. In some cases, chemotherapy may be used before surgery to shrink the tumor so less tissue needs to be removed. Each person's treatment plan will be different, but there are some general guidelines about who would benet from chemotherapy: * Chemotherapy is almost always recommended if there is cancer in the lymph nodes, regardless of tumor size or menopausal status. * Doctors recommend more aggressive treatments for premenopausal women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. Breast cancer in premenopausal women tends to be more aggressive, so chemotherapy is often part of the treatment plan. * Chemotherapy may be recommended for some women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer if the cancer is hormonereceptor-negative and HER2-positive. Both of these characteristics are associated with cancer that is more aggressive.

* The Oncotype DX test may help some women diagnosed with estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer and their doctors decide if the cancer is likely to come back and if chemotherapy would offer benets. * Chemotherapy usually is NOT recommended for non-invasive, in situ cancers such as DCIS because they have very little risk of spreading to other parts of the body. Chemotherapy for advanced-stage/ metastatic disease Advanced-stage breast cancer generally means cancer that is classied as: * some stage III * stage IV Metastatic disease is breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast area and nearby lymph nodes to other parts of the body. Metastatic cancer is considered stage IV. Chemotherapy is used to treat advancedstage breast cancer by destroying or damaging the cancer cells as much as possible. Because chemotherapy medicines affect the entire body, chemotherapy is commonly used to treat advanced-stage breast cancer. Research has shown that newer chemotherapy medicines, such as: * Taxol (chemical name: paclitaxel)

* Abraxane (chemical name: albumin-bound paclitaxel) * Taxotere (chemical name: docetaxel) * Adriamycin (chemical name: doxorubicin) * Ellence (chemical name: epirubicin) are helping women diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer live longer. Other chemotherapies used in metastatic breast cancer include Gemzar (chemical name: gemcitabine), Xeloda (chemical name: capecitabine), Navelbine (chemical name: vinorelbine), and Ixempra (chemical name: ixabepilone). Each person's treatment plan will be different, but there are some general guidelines that doctors follow when using chemotherapy to treat advanced-stage breast cancer: * If you've had chemotherapy before, your doctor may recommend using only one chemotherapy medicine at a time to treat advanced-stage disease. This way you get benets with fewer possible side effects. * In general, most chemotherapy medicines can be used until side effects become a problem or the medicine stops being effective. * Some chemotherapy medicines seem to work better against cancer tumors when used in combination. So your doctor may recommend a combination of medicines for

you because research has shown that combining treatments has contributed to a better overall prognosis for some advanced-stage cancers. * If you've had chemotherapy before and the cancer came back or didn't respond, your doctor will likely recommend a different combination of medicines. There are many chemotherapy medicines and if one medicine or combination of medicines doesn't seem to be working, there is almost always something else you can try. If the cancer is hormone-receptor-positive, your doctor may choose to use hormonal therapy before or after initiating chemotherapy. If you have metastatic breast cancer and chemotherapy is part of your treatment plan, your doctor may use different tests to determine how well the chemotherapy is working and how you're handling the chemotherapy:

* Blood cell counts * Blood tumor marker tests * Bone scans * Chest X-rays, or X-rays of other parts of the body * MRI * CT (CAT) scans * PET scans

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Cancer Is Not A Disease! Its A Survival Mechanism Discover Cancers Hidden Purpose, Heal Its Root Causes, And Be Healthier Than Ever By Andreas Moritz This latest book by Andreas Moritz may rock or even dismantle the very foundation of your beliefs about the body, health and healing. It offers the open-minded reader concerned about cancer a radically different understanding of what cancer really is. According to Andreas Moritz, cancer is a desperate and nal attempt by the body to stay alive for as long as circumstances permit circumstances that are, in fact, in your control. Todays conventional approaches of killing, cutting or burning cancerous cells offer a mere 7% success rate for cancer remission, and the majority of the few survivors are cured for just a period of ve years or less. In this book, you will discover what actually causes cancer and why it is so important to heal the whole person, not just the symptoms of cancer.You will also learn that cancer occurs only after all other defense mechanisms in the body have failed, for obvious reasons. A malignant tumor is not a vicious monster that is out to kill us in retaliation for our sins or abuse of our body. As you will nd out, cancer does not attempt to kill the body; to the contrary, it tries to save it. However, unless

we change our perception of what cancer really is, it will continue to threaten the life of one out of every two people. This book opens a door to those who wish to become whole again, in body, mind and spirit. This book is now available in German, Dutch and Polish.

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Avocado Oil Could 'Beat Heart Disease, Cancer And Signs Of Ageing' PA/The Hufngton Post UK | Posted: 23/04/2012 10:16 Updated: 23/04/2012 10:16 Avocado oil may have anti-ageing properties like those attributed to olive oil, say researchers. Fat pressed from the exotic fruit could be a potent weapon against conditions such as heart disease and cancer, it is claimed. Avocado oil is similar in composition to olive oil, consumption of which is associated with unusually low levels of chronic disease in some Mediterranean countries. New research conducted in Mexico, the world's largest avocado producer, has now demonstrated its power to combat destructive rogue oxygen molecules. These unstable "free radicals" wreak havoc in the body, triggering chain reactions that destroy cell membranes, proteins and even DNA. The phenomenon is one of the prime drivers of ageing and believed to play a major role in damage to arteries and cancer. Oxygen free radicals, or "reactive oxygen species", are natural waste products of metabolism but may be generated in greater

numbers due to factors such as pollution, tobacco smoke and radiation. One hotspot for free radicals is mitochondria, rod-like bodies in cells that act as energy powerplants. Many "antioxidant" chemicals in vegetables and fruits such as carrots and tomatoes are known to neutralise free radicals. But according to Christopher Cortes-Rojo, who led the new research on avocado oil, they cannot reach the free radicals in mitochondria. "The problem is that the antioxidants in those substances are unable to enter mitochondria," said Mr Cortes-Rojo, from the University Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo in Morelia, Mexico. "So free radicals go on damaging mitochondria, causing energy production to stop and the cell to collapse and die. An analogy would be that, during an oil spill, if we cleaned only the spilled oil instead of xing the perforation where oil is escaping, then the oil would go on spilling, and sh would die anyway." Experiments on yeast showed that avocado oil was effective against mitochondrial free radicals.Yeast cells treated with the oil were able to survive high exposure to iron, which triggers production of huge numbers of the molecules.

"These results could be attributed to the fact that avocado oil caused accelerated respiration in mitochondria, which indicate that the use of nutrients for producing energy for cell functions remains effective even in cells attacked by free radicals," said Mr Cortes-Rojo. The ndings were presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in San Diego, California. Previous research conducted at Morelia General Hospital had shown that avocado lowers blood levels of cholesterol, and certain fats linked to diabetes. "Our results are promising because they indicate that avocado consumption could improve the health status of diabetic and other patients through an additional mechanism to the improvement of blood lipids (fats)," said Mr Cortes-Rojo. "We'll need to conrm that what has been observed in yeasts could occur in higher organisms, such as humans. We hope this will be the case, because there are many vital processes conserved in organisms that seem very dissimilar to humans." He added: "In some Mediterranean countries, low or almost no appearance of these kinds of diseases has been associated with the high olive oil consumption. Olive

oil has a fat composition similar to that found in avocado oil. Therefore, avocado oil could eventually be referred to as the olive oil of the Americas."

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Your glass of fruit juice can up cancer risk ANI Jan 28, 2012, 12.00AM IST A glass of juice in the morning is believed to be the healthy way to start a day, but Australian scientists have claimed that some fruit juices contain so much sugar that they actually increase the risk of certain cancers, rather than preventing them. They said, in fact, by the time the drink has been processed and packaged, many of the ingredients in fruit that protect against tumours have been lost, the Daily Mail reported. The researchers wanted to establish how effective different fruits, vegetables and juices were at preventing the development of bowel cancer. They examined the diets of 2,200 adults, who lled in a questionnaire detailing their daily eating habits. The team then tracked the participants for two years to see how many of them developed the disease. Unsurprisingly they found that eating apples, sprouts, cauliower or broccoli on a daily basis all reduced the likelihood. However, those who consumed lots of fruit juice had a higher risk.

The research found that those drinking more than three glasses a day were more likely to develop rectal cancer, a form of bowel cancer. Scientists believe the high sugar content in juice may trigger certain tumours. The Perth team also said that many things found in fruit which help protect against bowel cancer - including bre, vitamin C and chemicals known as antioxidants - are lost during the juice's processing.

http://articles.timesondia.indiatimes.com/ 2012-01-28/health/30203928_1_fruit-juicebowel-cancer-cancer-risk

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among men and women. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000;92(22): 1812-1823. [PubMed Abstract] 17. Terry P, Wolk A, Persson I, Magnusson C. Brassica vegetables and breast cancer risk. JAMA 2001;285(23):2975-2977. [PubMed Abstract] 18. Smith-Warner SA, Spiegelman D,Yaun SS, et al. Intake of fruits and vegetables and risk of breast cancer: a pooled analysis of cohort studies. JAMA 2001;285(6):769-776. [PubMed Abstract] 19. Zhang S, Hunter DJ, Forman MR, et al. Dietary carotenoids and vitamins A, C, and E and risk of breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999;91(6):547-556. [PubMed Abstract] 20. Bell MC, Crowley-Nowick P, Bradlow HL, et al. Placebo-controlled trial of indole-3carbinol in the treatment of CIN. Gynecologic Oncology 2000;78(2):123-129. [PubMed Abstract] 21. Epplein M, Wilkens LR, Tiirikainen M, et al. Urinary isothiocyanates; glutathione Stransferase M1, T1, and P1 polymorphisms; and risk of colorectal cancer: the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2009;18(1):314-320. [PubMed Abstract]

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90% germ cell cancers are curable Published: Friday, Feb 24, 2012, 22:12 IST By Aliya Khan | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA It has been three years since the day 26-yearold Jaydevsinh Rawal thought he would not live more than a few weeks. The Jalgaon resident, who had been diagnosed with germ cell cancer, (the same kind that affected cricketerYuvraj Singh) did not know that the disease had maximum potential for cure and is labelled as a model of curable cancer. There was a small lump in his private area. After getting it tested, we realised it is cancerous and were referred to Pune city for treatment. Doctors assured us to keep up a brave face, as it was curable. However, we were scared to bits. He was so young and we could not believe it, recalled his father Himmatsinh Rawal. The youngster, however, did not believe in total care and was thinking of the worst. I had even asked my doctor to tell me how many weeks I had to live. He almost laughed at my naivety and assured me that I would grow old, said Jaydevsinh or Jai as he is popularly known. Within 6 months of diagnosis, during which Jai underwent a surgery and 12 cycles of chemotherapy, he was completely cured. The only loss was my hair and the fact that I had got used to eating boiled food

which I tried during treatment to build immunity, said Jai, who is now studying in Jalgaons MJ College. Jais case is not the only one. Medical oncologist, Dr Minish Jain, who treated the youngster, said there are many such examples. More than 90% of all germ cell cancers are curable, even in advanced cases. Unlike other cancers, this form of cancer is considered the least deadly. These cancers generally affect the young and the treatment is standardised. In fact, the success rate is so high, that latest research on these cancers only focuses on how to minimise the side effects of treatment, he said. Oncologist, Dr Bhalchandra Kashyapi, agreed saying that the only catch is such cancers are very rare. Germ cell cancers make up for only 1-2% of all cancers. Germ cells are basically master cells that later transform into reproductive cells. In men, the site of cancer is usually testes, while in women it is the ovaries, said Kashyapi.

http://www.dnaindia.com/health/ report_90pct-germ-cell-cancers-arecurable_1654395

Are our zoos cruel to wild animals? Is our zoos are or aren't cruel to wild animals. This is the most interesting question for the protection the animals. In my opinion, this is not true. First of all, there are a lot of zoos in the world, and the people go there by see different species of animals and animals that are in danger. Secondly the zoo protected the animals and they try to help these animals in danger of extinction. As a result when we go to the zoo we like to see the different animals and If the zoo doesn't take care of these animals, they could die. In conclusion, animals live better in zoos. Than in the jungle, because in the zoo they have a lot of things. In my opinion zoos aren't cruel with animals. But sometimes the people us animals like an object. At zoos animals where there only because the people see them. The child go to the zoos because is absolutely fun and different. If the zoos use the animals to make bad things or "to exploit them" so we could say that they are cruel with animals.

For example, if they take a dolphin and they do it going from a place in the other one, we could say that this it is to be a bit cruel. In my conclusion, I think zoos aren't cruel with the animals. If I knew that they are cruel with animals would be the rst to complain but the animals that there are in the zoo there life good and the people go to see [continues]

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noARA response to guest 10 months ago If you think sanctuaries are transparent think again. They will only release enough information to satisfy the masses of supporters. If they released the full details their supporters would be up in arms and donations would drop like a brick off a roof. Having said that, I agree that, yes, sanctuaries do play an important role in giving homes to abused animals that have absolutely nowhere else to go to keep them safe from harm. However, most zoo elephants have known nothing but deep love and excellent care from the keepers that care for them. Note that I said "most" as not all zoos are good zoos just like all sanctuaries are not good sanctuaries. The main argument for moving zoo elephants to sanctuaries is space to roam. Now that many zoos are expanding their elephant habitats to address that issue are the activists satised? No. No surprise there. Heaven forbid the activists should ever acknowledge that zoos are doing something good for a change. And before you tell me that the redesigned exhibits are still not big enough let me remind you that the only reason wild elephants travel the distances that they do is because they are searching for food. They have to be resourceful in a habitat subject to annual droughts - they have to go where there is food to nd. And because those distances could be insurmountable the migratory path is imprinted in their genetic memory. Both zoo

and sanctuary elephants have no need to do search for food. They just need adequate space to exercise, period. Another misconception is the "morning discovery" of a fallen animal when a keeper arrives at work. Yes, this happens sometimes, even in sanctuaries. However, there are many occasions where an animal has been monitored and provided health care around the clock from those same keepers in an effort to ease their suffering and keep them alive. But those stories wouldn't help the activist cause, now, would they? There is no black and white between zoos and sanctuaries. Both serve an important purpose and the good ones on both sides need to be recognized. PAWS should be applauded for taking in the broken and diseased elephants that have been cast aside but zoo elephants that have had nothing but the best of care and the best food just because their exhibit is not the size of a small country? I think not. 0 Share

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Smoking & tobacco Secondhand smoke Children & secondhand smoke Second-hand smoke is harmful for everyone, but its especially harmful for babies and children. Second-hand smoke can cause ear infections, breathing problems, SIDS, and serious diseases in kids. Kids deserve special protection against second-hand smoke. Kids should also be protected against thirdhand smoke, the smoke that gets trapped in funiture, carpet and fabric, and sticks around even after people butt out. Why children especially at risk from secondhand and third-hand smoke? Babies and children are especially vulnerable to second- and third-hand smoke because: * They have faster breathing rate: they breathe in more air relative to their body weight, which means they absorb more smoke * Their immune systems are less developed They have less power and they're less able to complain about being around smoke

* They are less able to leave smoky places by themselves How does second-hand smoke harm childrens health? Kids who are exposed to second-hand smoke are at higher risk for many serious health problems. Compared to other kids, children who regularly breathe second-hand smoke have: * More risk of dying from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)1 * More cough and wheeze 2 * More cases of asthma, and among kids with asthma, worse asthma symptoms 3, 3 * More ear infections 4 * Less lung capacity 5 * More respiratory tract infections (bronchitis, croup, pneumonia, etc.) 6 * Lower test scores in math, reading and logic 7 * More chance of taking up smoking themselves There is also growing evidence that kids exposed to second-hand smoke are more at risk of developing cancer later in life. 10 And new research suggests that kids who

are exposed to second-hand smoke may have more behaviour problems than other kids.8 Second-hand smoke also harms babies before they are born When pregnant mothers smoke or breathe second-hand smoke, their babies can get serious health problems. Its important that pregnant women dont smoke, and that they stay away from second-hand smoke. Read more about smoking and pregnancy. How many childhood diseases and deaths in Canada can be blamed on second-hand smoke? The non-prot group Physicians for a Smokefree Canada estimates that in Canada, second-hand smoke is responsible for: 11 * 13% of ear infections: about 220,000 ear infections per year in children * 26% of tympanostomy tube insertions : about 16,500 per year * 24% of tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies: about 2,100 operations per year * 13% of asthma cases: about 52,200 cases per year * 16% of physician visits for cough: about 200,000 visits per year

* 20% of all lung infections in children under 5: about 43,600 cases of bronchitis and 19,000 cases of pneumonia per year * 136-212 childhood deaths from lower respiratory infection: about 13-20 deaths per year * 148 childhood deaths from res started by tobacco products: about 15 deaths per year * About 180-270 deaths per year from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) How many kids are exposed to second-hand smoke in Canada? Data collected by Health Canada in 2007 showed that 7% of children under the age of 12 (about 290,042 children) were regularly exposed to second-hand smoke at home 12 . A report based on 2003 data found that 16 % of 12-year-olds were regularly exposed to second-hand smoke in public spaces, and 17% were regularly exposed to second-hand smoke in private vehicles.15 References 1 McMartin KI, Platt MS, Hackman R, Klein J, Smialek JE, Vigorito R, Koren G. Lung tissue concentrations of nicotine in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). J Pediatr. 2002 Feb; 140(2):205-9, and Milerad J, Vege A, Opdal SH, Rognum TO. Objective measurements of

nicotine exposure in victims of sudden infant death syndrome and in other unexpected child deaths. J Pediatr. 1998 Aug; 133(2):232-6. The following British study concluded that SIDS deaths could be reduced by two-thirds if parents did not smoke: Peter Blair et al. Smoking and the sudden infant death syndrome: results from 1993-5 casecontrol study for condential inquiry into stillbirths and deaths in infancy. British Medical Journal, 1996: 313. 2 Gergen Peter J., Fowler Jean A., Maurer Kurt R., Davis William W., and Overpeck, Mary D. The Burden of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure on the Respiratory Health of Children 2 Months Through 5 Years of Age in the United States: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 to 1994. Pediatrics 101(2) February 1998, p. e8. and Mannino DM, et al. Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Health Effects in Children. Tobacco Control. 1996; 5(1): 13-18. 3 Mannino, David M., David M. Homa, Stephen C. Redd. Involuntary Smoking and Asthma Severity in Children. Chest. 2002;122:409-415. 4 Adair-Bischoff, Carol E., Reginald S. Sauve. Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Middle Ear Disease in Preschool-Age Children. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:127-133.

5 Samet, JM. Synthesis: The Health Effects of Tobacco Smoke Exposure on Children. World Health Organisation report, published 1999 and available from: http://www.who.int/ tobacco/media/en/samet.pdf. (PDF) 6 Ugnat AM, MaoY, Miller AB, et al. Effects of residential exposure to environmental tobacco smoke on Canadian children. Can J Public Health 1990 Sep-Oct;81(5):345-9. 7 Collins BN, Wileyto EP, Murphy MF, Munaf MR. Adolescent environmental tobacco smoke exposure predicts academic achievement test failure. J Adolesc Health. 2007 Oct;41(4):363-70 andYolton K, Dietrich K, Auinger P, Lanphear BP, Hornung R. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and cognitive abilities among U.S. children and adolescents. ,em>Environ Health Perspect. 2005 Jan;113 (1):98-103. 8 Gatzke-Kopp LM, Beauchaine TP. Direct and passive prenatal nicotine exposure and the development of externalizing psychopathology. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2007 Dec;38(4):255-69. 9 Bailey JA, Hill KG, Oesterle S, Hawkins JD. Linking substance use and problem behavior across three generations. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2006 Jun;34(3):263-92. 10International Agency for Research on Cancer. Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking. Lyon, France: IARC Press; 2004. (IARC

Monographs; 83) and Sandler DP, Everson RB, Wilcox AJ, et al. Cancer risk in adulthood from early life exposure to parents smoking. Am J Public Health 1985. May;75(5): 487-92. 11 These gures extrapolated for the Canadian context by Physicians for a SmokeFree Canada, based on ndings in these USbased studies: Joseph diFranza and Robert Lew, Morbidity and Mortality in Children Associated with the Use of Tobacco Products by Other People, Paediatrics, 1996, 97:560-568] and California EPA. Final Report: Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke, Sept. 1997. 12Health Canada. Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS) 2007: Summary of Annual Results for 2007. 13 Prez, Claudio. Second-hand smoke exposure- Whos at risk? Statistics Canada Health Reports Vol 16 (1). October 2004. Available from http://www.statcan.ca/ english/studies/82-003/archive/2004/16-1-a.pdf

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You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it. Tennessee Williams

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Alberta bans smoking in vehicles with children present Breaking law will result in $1,000 ne CBC News Posted: Mar 20, 2012 7:36 AM MT Last Updated: Mar 20, 2012 8:52 AM MT Smoking in a vehicle with children present will soon be illegal in Alberta. Under the legislation, smokers can be ned $1,000 for lighting up when someone under 18 is in the vehicle. The law, sponsored by Liberal leader and emergency room doctor Raj Sherman, was passed unanimously in the legislature Monday. Sherman expects the new law to be more educational than punitive. "My hope is that it actually doesn't need to be enforced that people just won't smoke in their cars with their kids," he said. The government hasn't said when it will become law. Most provinces and some municipalities in Alberta, such as Leduc and Okotoks, have already passed similar bans.

Premier Alison Redford promised during her recent leadership campaign that she would ban smoking in vehicles with children.

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A Summary We can now summarize the classical halakhic position: Judaism is concerned with explicit acts, not inner feelings. A homosexual act between two men is explicitly forbidden in the Torah. A homosexual act between two women is forbidden by the rabbis (i.e. it was not forbidden by the Torah, but was in later times forbidden; this type of prohibition is less severe). Homosexuality is considered an act of volition for which one can repent. The reason for the prohibitions seems to be that such behavior undermines the Jewish family ideal of marriage and children as set out in the Torah. Rabbinic thinkers in the past did not consider homosexuality a Jewish behavior problem.

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Oh Brick. I get so lonely. Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone when the one you love doesnt love you.You cant even stand drinking out of the same glass can you? No! No, I wouldnt. Why cant you lose your good looks Brick? Most drinking men lose theirs. Why cant you. I think youve even gotten better looking since you werent on the bottle.You were such a wonderful love. You were so exciting to be in love with. Mostly I guess because you were If I thought youd never never made love to me again, why Id nd me the longest sharpest knife I could and Id stick it straight into my heart. Id do that. Oh Brick how long does this have to go on, this punishment? Havent I served my term? Cant I apply for a pardon? Is it any wonder.You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.

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Europe's old wealth seeks new home in Asia (Reuters) - In the 1470s, the prominent Spinola family of Genoa had an apprentice business agent in Barcelona named Christopher Columbus helping to handle their shipments, preparing the young sailor for his later voyages of discovery to the New World. These days, that Italian clan and other ultra-afuent families are moving assets to Singapore by setting up family ofces in a city-state often touted as the Switzerland of Asia. Wealthy people from Europe and the Americas have long looked to the East for ways to build and preserve their fortunes. But only recently have they started opening family ofces - private companies that manage the trusts and investments of rich households - in the region in earnest. "Because Asia has been a place where we've been investing very heavily - more than 50 percent of our assets are in Asia for the last 15 years - we feel a need to come closer," Federico Spinola, son of the family patriarch, told Reuters from New Caledonia, a Pacic archipelago known as the "Land of Eternal Spring". Campden Wealth, which provides research and data on family ofces, says up to 10 European family ofces have moved to Singapore since the nancial crisis in 2008,

bringing $5-$10 billion worth of assets with them. Singapore, a global banking and investment centre in the heart of Southeast Asia, is an attractive base for its efcient registration process, relatively benign regulations, smooth movement of money, nancial infrastructure and low tax rates. Clean and safe, it also offers high-end shopping, ne dining, casinos, luxury hotels, golf courses and marinas lled with superyachts to help the wealthy spend and unwind. Asia's prospects are alluring as economies in Europe and the United States look weak. After the crisis, regulatory pressures in the West and a crackdown on offshore centers have hastened the pace of family ofces moving to Singapore and Hong Kong. "The families want to be where the action is," said Munish Dhall, a UBS (UBSN.VX) executive director and head of ultra-high net worth offering and client development. "They want a piece of the economic pie." "WE'RE BASICALLY SHAREHOLDERS" Big nancial institutions, feeling the pinch of a tougher investment banking climate and higher capital requirements, are

taking note - and looking to get their own piece of the action. UBS, a Swiss banking giant, has set up a family ofce team that is looking to cater to two dozen clients in Asia who have assets of $200 million or more. Other global players like Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX), HSBC (HSBA.L) and Canada's RBC Wealth (RY.TO) are also courting family ofces, along with Singapore-based DBS Group (DBSM.SI). The Spinolas, whose ancestors include crusaders during the Middle Ages, cardinals of the Holy Roman Empire and inuential gures in the politics, culture and prosperity of Genoa, are one of those families. But they are doing things their own way. Last year, representatives of the family began setting up an ofce in Singapore to manage their investments in the region, rather than using their Geneva-based operation Parly Company SA. It is still early days for Parly Singapore as it applies for licenses and tests its bespoke portfolio management tools. The plan is to hire senior investment managers from top banks over the next year, with the 10-15 members of the team working under an advisory fee model rather than on commission.

"We are a family company and the family is not involved in the business. We're basically shareholders," said Spinola, who sits on a management committee with several relatives and now has permanent resident status in Singapore. By keeping family and investment matters separate and allowing Parly managers to make decisions, he said, "that is a way of differentiating risk." The Spinolas are clubbing together with two other family ofces to cut costs and leverage on efciencies. Parly ofcials declined to identify the partners, other than to say they are "household names" in Europe - one is an English entrepreneur who has donated much of his money to charity and the other is a Swiss-based family. Spinola would not discuss the amount of investment in Parly Singapore and neither would its managing director, Roxanne Davies. But she did give a clue. "A family ofce with such a strategy can't really exist - it is not economically feasible without half a billion," Davies said. TOUGHER REGULATIONS Campden Wealth counts about 2,500 family ofces around the world. In Asia, it says, there are 150-200 - roughly half in Australia and Japan - but the number is

growing alongside the surge in new wealth in China, India and Southeast Asia. A recent survey by Campden and UBS showed the amounts being managed by these family rms range from $50 million to more than $1 billion, with an average return of 9.1 percent over the 12 months to October 2011. The goal for the Spinolas and other family ofces is simple: control their wealth, maximize returns and minimize fees charged by commission-hungry money managers. Concerns about the health of big banks and dismay at their hard-sell tactics that pushed products of dubious merit onto high net worth clients - such as mortgage-backed securities that turned toxic - are other factors. "Singapore is tightening offshore rules but it will continue to be a very attractive place for family and investment ofces," said David Bain, Campden Wealth's head of research. "No government in the world is so committed to attracting the money of the ultra-high net worth." Wealthy families from Europe, more so than Americans, are looking to set up shop in Asia because of the banking situation in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, said Donald Riegger, a Singapore-based expert on family ofces at Deloitte & Touche

LLP, a global accounting and advisory practice. "It's picking up steam," said Riegger, adding Singapore is on the map as a nancial centre and as more family wealth shifts to Asia in an overhaul of portfolios. "I'm not really getting much of a sense that they're eeing something to come here ... For a U.S. person, they're not going to avoid that (taxes) but if you're a European looking for a better tax structure, Singapore could work well." TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS Spinola, who worked at Italian drinks group Martini & Rossi and managed agricultural rms in Argentina before setting up Parly in Geneva in 1993, is no stranger to investing or to Asia. Now he and his family want a more direct link to how their money is managed in the region, although success is not certain given the volatility of markets and the variety of political, investment and regulatory risks in many Asian countries. "We are trying to move away from hot money, high-frequency trading and things that have price discovery that we just cannot control," Davies said. "If we are able to target single digit returns of 6-7 percent

annualized in today's market, we would think of ourselves as very lucky." Pending approval from the authorities, she said, Parly will move the "centralized thinking process" from Geneva to Singapore, which has been "very open to new ways of wealth management and nancial technology that surrounds it". Parly's portfolio is more heavily weighted towards equities, with investments mainly in energy, commodities, healthcare and biotechnology stocks. It also invests in mezzanine nance, bridge nancing and types of structured credits. In Asia, Davies said Parly is interested in opportunities in the consumer sector, Japanese innovations and venture capital, especially in technology rms. If the model works, Parly Singapore will be open to investing on behalf of other wealthy families. Spinola, whose passions are classical music and animal protection, still has ties to Europe. He owns one-fth of Tassarolo Castle, built around a Roman tower and nestled among vineyards and elds north of Genoa. One of the buildings is where the Spinolas minted money until the 17th century.

But Spinola has long felt the pull of Asia. Two decades ago, he was "very tempted" to set up a family ofce in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing or Tokyo but ended up picking Geneva because he felt it was a safer bet at the time. "In 1994, the choice (in Asia) was much wider," he said. "Now, the options are basically down to two or three - Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore." So what swung his decision in favor of Singapore? "I have such good friends there," he said. "It really gives me a higher sense of safety. It all comes down to the people you know."

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Tax havens and the super-rich: why the government has one eye closed London, tax haven capital. New research from the Tax Justice Network an organisation devoted to making the rich pony up their due - says that a minimum of $21trn is held offshore. This stash should worry us all. This is not just because it is money which could generate $190bn in taxes to be spent by governments on, say, paying down debt, building schools or hiring nurses. What is as important is the effect this hidden money has on social inequality. Alongside the report with the $21trn gure (which may in fact be $32trn, or somewhere in between, or indeed less), the TJN published "Inequality:You don't know the half of it", which hews to the argument of The Spirit Level and similar texts, that inequality increases social problems, and shows how it is now a much greater problem in the light of its new research: "Power follows money, and extreme concentrations of wealth at the top of the income scale lead inevitably to disproportionate power and inuence for the wealthiest members of society, so some of the most malign political effects of inequality stem from changes as the very top of the income and wealth distribution."

The British government is certainly making some efforts to tackle tax avoidance - all those Carr-ish schemes are being stopped - but it's with one eye closed. As Nicholas Shaxson pointed out in his book Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world, the fons et origo of tax havens is London. With NewYork, "the jurisdictions act as capitals of secret empires, exploiting their hand-in-glove relationships with former colonies to tap funds that would otherwise be deemed too dirty to handle." If the government can't make the connection between the money that ows into the City from tax havens and the riots on London's streets, it should perhaps pay attention to the Tax Justice Network, crusaders even without capes.

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The City of London & Its Offshore Empire A few weeks ago Westminster MP Mark Field, one of Britains most prominent cheerleaders for tax havens and the City of London, cited a couple of interesting statistics, to bolster his argument that people should go easy on tax havens. The UK has a constitutional relationship with half of the top 30 offshore nance centres, he said implying that this is a good thing. He added, for good measure, that just the three island tax havens closest to the UK the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man provided net nancing to UK banks of a staggering $332.5bn in the second quarter of 2009. Jersey Finance, the promoters of the profoundly corrupt tax haven of Jersey, puts it in plain English: For many corporate treasurers, institutional bankers and treasury specialists, fund promoters, brokers and other corporate nanciers, Jersey represents an extension of the City of London. These statements are all quite correct. In my book Treasure Islands, I describe the City of London as the spider at the centre of a web of tax havens scattered around the world, feeding vast tides of money, and the business of handling money, to the City. If you are worried about the political and economic might of the City of London and want to know how to confront it, you cannot make serious progress without

tackling tax havens. And tax havens make an excellent target, especially for the Occupy movement. In November I said in a speech on the steps of St. Pauls that I believe Occupys greatest strength the key to its ability to resonate with ordinary people around the world is in its focus on two things: extremely high and rising inequality, and the corruption of capitalism. In both respects, tax havens are right at the very heart of concerns about both. And Britain is right at the heart of global concerns about tax havens. First, take a look in a little more detail at this British web of tax havens. In the inner ring of the British web lie these three Crown Dependencies: Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel, and the Isle of Man between the UK mainland and Ireland. The next set of links in the web are the Overseas Territories: the remnants of the British Empire which resolved to remain constitutionally attached to Britain after most of the rest of Britains empire achieved independence. The Overseas Territories include some of the worlds biggest tax havens: the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda along with Gibraltar, Turks and Caicos, Anguilla and Montserrat. The spider analogy may seem unnecessarily sinister, but it is quite apt. The tax havens will generally focus on hoovering up

money ows from nearby jurisdictions: so the tax havens in the Caribbean will focus heavily on attracting money ows from North and South America, for instance, while the Crown Dependencies will focus heavily on Europe, and so on. These places are often merely serving as booking centres, entries in an accountants computer that allow a company to pretend that it is really located in the especially mucky Overseas Territory of the British Virgin Islands while the real business the hammering together of that banking syndicate, the legal work for that giant property deal, and so on gets sent up to London. If I have money to spare, I pass it to the father, said Martyn Scriven, secretary of the Jersey Bankers Association in 2009. Great dollops of money go into London from here. Vast, secretive and often dirty nancial ows wash into the stock markets and football clubs and nancial institutions in the City every day from tax havens. Whatever this offshore money touches, it causes harm: blowing up unproductive property bubbles, corrupting football clubs, hiding ownership patterns in the stock markets, and on and on. The whole relationship between the UK and its tax havens plays out as an elaborate charade. These territories are partly inside, and partly outside, the UK. They have their own local politics, with all the fun of the fair, and they love to say they have full independence when it comes to setting their

own laws. But probe into the constitutional relationship, and it becomes clear that responsibility falls to the UK. Smokescreens come wafting out of London and the tax haven capitals whenever the relationship is probed there is nothing we can do is the typical response to those who say that the UK cracks down on the criminality, abuse and corruption run out of these places. And behind it all lies the City of London, anxious to preserve its access to the worlds dirty money. In both the Crown Dependencies and the Overseas Territories, the Queen appoints the governor, domestic legislation is given royal assent and the United Kingdom is responsible for their good governance, defence and international relations. It is also the guarantor of these territories debts. Given that many of the tax and secrecy facilities provided by these places constitute acts of economic warfare against the revenue authorities and taxpayers of other countries, and is an aspect of the governance of these islands, this puts the responsibility for their tax haven activity rmly in the UK governments hands. As I say in Treasure Islands, the British spiders web is a moneylaundering lter that lets the City get involved in dirty business while providing it with enough distance to maintain plausible deniability.

The City of London Corporation loves its tax havens. Although it did not appear on his ofcial itinerary (why not?) the Lord Mayor of the City of London visited the Isle of Man last month, where he praised its longstanding and much-valued partnership with the City. The City of London Corporation has called the Isle of Man a core asset for the City. The Lord Mayor roams the world with an ofcial mandate to expound the values of nancial liberalisation around the globe (what a strange role for the head of a municipal authority). The more that other countries liberalise their economies, the more nancial activity there is buzzing around, ready to be caught by the nearby tax havens and funneled up to the City. These tax havens love to declare how clean they are but they can be shockingly, even terrifyingly corrupt. Anyone visiting Jersey on a summer holiday might be forgiven for thinking that this is simply another part of Britain: apart from the different-looking ten pound notes, the high street in St. Helier looks and feels just like any other in Britain. But look into the politics in enough depth, and the difference is staggering. People wont believe you when you explain how corrupt Jersey is. In an afdavit signed in May 2011 Lenny Harper, Jerseys former Deputy Police Chief, said: I went to Jersey in 2002 full of expectation of the challenge that lay

ahead. I soon learnt that it was like nowhere else in the British Isles. . . . There are no checks and balances on power and the abuse of it. This is obvious each time one tries to make a complaint against any member of the government. With such an absence of controls, such an absence of accountability, the ordinary decent people of Jersey are helpless. Stuart Syvret, a former health minister, is less diplomatic, and he is worth quoting at some length. Jersey is governed by a crypto-feudal oligarchy which, of itself, is captured by the international offshore banking industry. It is a gangster regime, cloaked with the respectability of the trappings of the British establishment. . . . As the local elites of these tiny islands continue to provide a loyal service to the rich British elites for example, enabling them to dodge taxation then the miniature oligarchs of places like Jersey are guaranteed protection. No matter just how nakedly lawless their own conduct. The media both the Jersey Evening Post, as well as the Jersey arm of BBC are captured by the nance industry. They parrot the protax haven line daily sometimes almost to a comical degree and dissidents are only quoted rarely, and usually highly disparagingly. Syvret has been thrown in prison more than once. The dominance of the nance industry in Jersey is nearly absolute. And few people in Britain care.

We should all care. As the British web of tax havens around the world feeds the City, pumping up its already mighty powers, Britain is turning into more and more of an offshore island in the world and the City of London is turning into more and more of an offshore island within Britain. If we dont stand up to the City and its tax havens, we face a future that looks increasingly like Jerseys. But without such nice beaches.

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Pros of Flat Tax Simplicity is considered a signicant benet of the at tax system. One tax rate makes for easy computation by the Internal Revenue Service and straightforward payments from taxpayers. Because the at tax taxes only one income, it is easier to understand and to report. Taxpayers save the nancial cost of complying with current IRS regulations, which often includes lawyers, accountants and other resources. The at tax remains a popular idea in part because it eliminates double taxation. It removes the section of the tax code that is biased against the formation of capital. It eliminates the death tax, capital gains tax and double taxation of savings and dividends. Families and individuals are not required to report dividends, interest or other business-related income; this income is taxed at the business level. The at tax makes it unnecessary to pay interest, dividends and other business tax at the individual levels. A at tax employs territorial taxation, which is when the government only taxes income that is generated within national borders. In the global economy, taxes remain a critical component of business; countries with lowtaxes benet from jobs and capital. A good tax policy is important to generate revenue for business and also because the penalty for a poorly received tax system on a global scale may be substantial and longterm. The at tax eliminates global

taxation and allows the United States to compete more evenly in global markets. Fairness remains a lauded feature of the at tax. For example, a taxpayer who makes $5,000 pays the same tax rate as someone who earns $500,000. The taxpayer making $500,000 pays more taxes simply because the income is greater, however, this taxpayers pays an equal percent to the $5,000 taxpayer. This tax system does not discriminate based on income level; everyone pays the same percent of income. Cons of at tax Opponents of the at tax contend that the at tax system penalizes the low-income segment of the population. Low-income individuals and families must spend money on the same necessities required by higherincome people. However, after the necessities are purchased, the poorer taxpayers, because they earn less, will have less money left over to pay taxes, at the same rate as those earning higher income amounts. Implementing a at tax system could dismantle the IRS. Many view the IRS as an imposing, intimidating arm of government; however, this institution employs numerous people who were trained to work in the tax industry. IRS employees would most likely lose their jobs under a at tax system. Many believe that a at tax system reduces tax for, and actually benets, high-income earners. For example, if the tax rate were 10 percent, then someone making $1,000

would have $900 spending income left after taxes. Someone who makes $10,000 is left with $9,000 after taxes; this inequity is thought to prove that a at tax disproportionately benets the rich. If the rich paid less tax, many believe that the government would lose signicant revenue. A uniform tax rate treats individuals and corporations fairly, but it eliminates a backup revenue source, the extra dollars generated by taxing high-income earners at a higher rate for the government. The government relies heavily on revenue generated from income taxes.

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What Are the Abrahamic Religions? Abrahamic religions are religions that share the patriarch Abraham in their lineage, although he plays different roles in different belief systems. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all considered to be part of this group, because Abraham appears in the religious texts of all of these faiths. The Druze, Bah', Samaritans and others are considered to be members as well. All told, more than half of the people in the world are believed to identify themselves as members of these religious groups. Religious Traditions In addition to sharing Abraham, numerous other gures, such as Noah, can be found in the tradition of all of the Abrahamic religions, and these religions share several common traits as well. All are monotheistic, believing in one god, and they have Semitic origins. In the case of Judaism, Islam, and certain Christian sects, Abraham is viewed as one of the literal fathers of the religion, in the direct lineage of various prophets and other important religious gures. In most of Christianity, Abraham is considered to be more of a spiritual father, because Christianity is derived from Judaism in some ways.

Abraham's Life Abraham's story is well documented in numerous religious texts, and during his long life, he participated in many religious and historical importance in the eyes of religious believers. He is perhaps most well known for making a covenant with God that allowed him to have many children with his wife, Sarah, long after the two were past the age of childbearing. These children are considered to be the ancestors of the Semitic people. Views of Abraham In Judaism, Abraham is recognized as the father of many, and his covenant with God is an important story in the Jewish tradition. In Islam, he is considered to be a prophet, and his son Ishmael is in the lineage of the prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah. For Christians, Abraham is important because he is the father of the people of Israel and therefore a forebearer of Christ. As a result, he is a crucial gure in all of these Abrahamic religions, along with other religions that use scriptures derived from them. There is some debate over which religions should be classied as part of this group. This is especially true among smaller religions that might be inspired by such belief systems, but might not view Abraham in the same way. Along with the Abrahamic

religions, the other major category of religious belief is that of the Eastern religions, which include faiths such as Buddhism and Hinduism.

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Top 10 Best Faust Quotes #10 Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I #9 What dazzles, for the Moment spends its spirit: What's genuine, shall Posterity inherit. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I #8 The deed is everything, the glory nothing. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part II #7 Methinks, by most, 'twill be confess'd That Death is never quite a welcome guest. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I

#6 What lies beyond doesn't worry me. Suppose you break this world to bits, another may arise. My joy springs from this earth, this sun shines on my sorrows. When I leave here, let come what must. What do I care about it now, if hereafter men hate or love, or if in those other spheres there be an Above or a Below? --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I #5 Man errs as long as he strives. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I #4 That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I #3 I love those who yearn for the impossible.

--JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part II #2 Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part I #1 Of freedom and of life he only is deserving Who every day must conquer them anew. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust, Part II

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