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Largest seller of BP stock before Gulf disaster was Obama's pet investment company "Vanguard"
[...]
Now to understand this report it must first be remembered who financed Obama's takeover of the Presidency, and in order of their contributions to his campaign they are: 1. University of California, 2. Goldman Sachs, 3. Harvard University, 4. Microsoft, 5. Google, 6. Citigroup, 7. JPMorgan Chase & Co., and 8. Time Warner.
The importance of these contributors lies in what and who they control, and they are: 1.) University of California and Harvard University have provided Obama with the "intellectual firepower" he needs to force upon the American people his "progressive agenda" remaking their once vital democracy into a totalitarian socialist state, 2. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have given Obama unlimited resources through his allowing them to loot the US Treasury, 3.) Microsoft and Google have given him unlimited access to information on the American people unprecedented in modern times, and 4.) Time Warner who has given Obama near total control over all the information told the American people through their news outlets.
Upon Obama's taking office he staffed his administration with what is called a "Wall Street Cabinet", including former employees of Goldman Sachs who Rolling Stone Magazine in their devastating article "The Great Bubble Machine" on this banking behemoth warned, "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again."
And when Rolling Stone Magazine warned that Goldman Sachs was about "to do it again" they probably didn't even know how apocalyptic this banking giant's machinations towards the United States really are, and as evident by the BP disaster in the Gulf when just three weeks prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion they sold nearly half their shares of BP stocks saving for their investors billions of dollars of potential losses.
Goldman Sachs wasn't alone either in its astute "foreknowledge" of the collapse of BP's stock value due to the Gulf disaster as BP's own chief executive, Tony Hayward, sold about one-third of his shares weeks before this catastrophe began unfolding too.
But according to this FSB report the largest seller of BP stock in the weeks before this disaster occurred was the American investment company known as Vanguard who through two of their financial arms (Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Vanguard Windsor Investor) unloaded over 1.5 million shares of BP stock saving their investors hundreds of millions of dollars, chief among them President Obama.
For though little known by the American people, their President Obama holds all of his wealth in just two Vanguard funds, Vanguard 500 Index Fund where he has 3 accounts and the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund where he holds another 3 accounts, all six of which the FSB estimates will earn Obama nearly $8.5 million a year and which over 10 years will equal the staggering sum of $85 million.
The FSB further estimates in this report that through Obama's 3 accounts in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund he stands to make another $100 million over the next 10 years as their largest stock holding is in the energy giant Exxon Mobil they believe will eventually acquire BP and all of their assets for what will be essentially a "rock bottom" price and which very predictably BP has hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on.
Important to note is that none of this wealth Obama, Goldman Sachs, and other American elites is acquiring would be possible without this disaster, all of whom, as the evidence shows, "somehow" knew what was going to happen before it actually did, including the US energy giant Halliburton who 2 weeks prior to this disaster just happened to purchase the World's largest oil disaster service company Boots & Coots.
Unfortunately for the American people watching as these elites destroy their country is that they are being told none of the truth, especially about Obama, who while becoming enormously wealthy off the hardship, misery and toil of his citizens has become the only US President in history to begin jailing every government whistleblower he can find, has won the right to jail anybody he wants without charges and hold them forever, and most incredibly has claimed the right to assassinate any American citizen he deems a threat.
The great American Founding Father, and the United States first President, George Washington once said, "Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession." The American people to their great shame didn't heed these words, now they are paying for it.
© June 16, 2010 EU and US all rights reserved
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Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country
August 4, 2010
For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion's share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost entirely focused on the original decision to invade: what's happening there in 2010 barely registers.
That will have been reinforced by Barack Obama's declaration this week that US combat troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of the month "as promised and on schedule". For much of the British and American press, this was the real thing: headlines hailed the "end" of the war and reported "US troops to leave Iraq".
Nothing could be further from the truth. The US isn't withdrawing from Iraq at all – it's rebranding the occupation. Just as George Bush's war on terror was retitled "overseas contingency operations" when Obama became president, US "combat operations" will be rebadged from next month as "stability operations".
But as Major General Stephen Lanza, the US military spokesman in Iraq, told the New York Times: "In practical terms, nothing will change". After this month's withdrawal, there will still be 50,000 US troops in 94 military bases, "advising" and training the Iraqi army, "providing security" and carrying out "counter-terrorism" missions. In US military speak, that covers pretty well everything they might want to do.
Granted, 50,000 is a major reduction on the numbers in Iraq a year ago. But what Obama once called "the dumb war" goes remorselessly on. In fact, violence has been increasing as the Iraqi political factions remain deadlocked for the fifth month in a row in the Green Zone. More civilians are being killed in Iraq than Afghanistan: 535 last month alone, according to the Iraqi government – the worst figure for two years.
And even though US troops are rarely seen on the streets, they are still dying at a rate of six a month, their bases regularly shelled by resistance groups, while Iraqi troops and US-backed militias are being killed in far greater numbers and al-Qaida – Bush's gift to Iraq – is back in business across swaths of the country. Although hardly noticed in Britain, there are still 150 British troops in Iraq supporting US forces.
Meanwhile, the US government isn't just rebranding the occupation, it's also privatising it. There are around 100,000 private contractors working for the occupying forces, of whom more than 11,000 are armed mercenaries, mostly "third country nationals", typically from the developing world. One Peruvian and two Ugandan security contractors were killed in a rocket attack on the Green Zone only a fortnight ago.
The US now wants to expand their numbers sharply in what Jeremy Scahill, who helped expose the role of the notorious US security firm Blackwater, calls the "coming surge" of contractors in Iraq. Hillary Clinton wants to increase the number of military contractors working for the state department alone from 2,700 to 7,000, to be based in five "enduring presence posts" across Iraq.
The advantage of an outsourced occupation is clearly that someone other than US soldiers can do the dying to maintain control of Iraq. It also helps get round the commitment, made just before Bush left office, to pull all American troops out by the end of 2011. The other getout, widely expected on all sides, is a new Iraqi request for US troops to stay on – just as soon as a suitable government can be stitched together to make it.
What is abundantly clear is that the US, whose embassy in Baghdad is now the size of Vatican City, has no intention of letting go of Iraq any time soon. One reason for that can be found in the dozen 20-year contracts to run Iraq's biggest oil fields that were handed out last year to foreign companies, including three of the Anglo-American oil majors that exploited Iraqi oil under British control before 1958.
The dubious legality of these deals has held back some US companies, but as Greg Muttitt, author of a forthcoming book on the subject, argues, the prize for the US is bigger than the contracts themselves, which put 60% of Iraq's reserves under long-term foreign corporate control. If output can be boosted as sharply as planned, the global oil price could be slashed and the grip of recalcitrant Opec states broken.
The horrific cost of the war to the Iraqi people, on the other hand, and the continuing fear and misery of daily life make a mockery of claims that the US surge of 2007 "worked" and that Iraq has come good after all.
It's not only the hundreds of thousands of dead and 4 million refugees. After seven years of US (and British) occupation, tens of thousands are still tortured and imprisoned without trial, health and education has dramatically deteriorated, the position of women has gone horrifically backwards, trade unions are effectively banned, Baghdad is divided by 1,500 checkpoints and blast walls, electricity supplies have all but broken down and people pay with their lives for speaking out.
Even without the farce of the March elections, the banning and killing of candidates and activists and subsequent political breakdown, to claim – as the Times did today – that "Iraq is a democracy" is grotesque. The Green Zone administration would collapse in short order without the protection of US troops and security contractors. No wonder the speculation among Iraqis and some US officials is of an eventual military takeover.
The Iraq war has been a historic political and strategic failure for the US. It was unable to impose a military solution, let alone turn the country into a beacon of western values or regional policeman. But by playing the sectarian and ethnic cards, it also prevented the emergence of a national resistance movement and a humiliating Vietnam-style pullout. The signs are it wants to create a new form of outsourced semi-colonial regime to maintain its grip on the country and region. The struggle to regain Iraq's independence has only just begun.
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The Ultimate Food Betrayal: How Big Biotech Rigged the Research on GM Foods
Posted By Dr. Mercola | August 10 2010
By Jeffrey Smith
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/10/company-research-on-genetically-modified-foods-is-rigged.aspx
In 2004, the peer-reviewed British Food Journal published a study claiming that when shoppers in a Canadian farm store were given an informed, unbiased choice between genetically modified (GM) corn and non-GM corn, most purchased the GM variety.
The research, which was funded by the biotech industry and conducted by four staunch proponents of GM foods, other findings around the world that show how people avoid genetically modified organisms (GMOs) when given a choice.
The controversial article was nonetheless given the Journal's prestigious Award for Excellence for the Most Outstanding Paper of 2004. It is often cited by biotech advocates as proof that people are embracing GM foods.
Fortunately Stuart Laidlaw, a reporter from Canada's Toronto Star, had visited the farm store several times during the study and described the scenario in his book Secret Ingredients. Far from offering unbiased choices, huge signs placed over the non-GM corn bin read, "Would you eat wormy sweet corn?" It further listed the chemicals that were sprayed during the season.
By contrast, the sign above the GM corn stated, "Here's What Went into Producing Quality Sweet Corn." No wonder 60 percent of shoppers avoided the "wormy corn." In fact, it's a testament to people's distrust of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that 40 percent still went for the "wormy" option.
In addition to the signs, the "consumer education fact sheets" in the store were nothing more than pro-GM propaganda. And the lead researcher, Doug Powell, was even seen trying to convince a customer who purchased non-GM corn to switch to the GM variety.
The Science of Rigging Studies
Cambridge University's Dr. Richard Jennings, a leading researcher on scientific ethics, described the study as "flagrant fraud." But there are plenty more examples of "cooked" research in the much more critical area of GMO safety assessments.
When dairy farmers inject cows with GM bovine growth hormone (rbGH), there are plenty of changes in the milk—including an increase of that hormone itself. To allay fears, the FDA claimed that pasteurization destroys 90 percent of the hormone.
In reality, the researchers of this drug (then owned by Monsanto) pasteurized the milk 120 times longer than normal. But they only destroyed 19 percent. So they spiked the milk with a huge amount of extra growth hormone and then repeated the long pasteurization. Only under these artificial conditions were they able to destroy 90 percent.
To demonstrate that rbGH injections didn't interfere with cows' fertility, Monsanto appears to have added cows to their study that were pregnant BEFORE injection.
When Aventis CropScience prepared samples to see if the potential allergen in StarLink GM corn was intact after cooking, instead of using the standard 30-minutes, they heated the corn for 2 hours.
When independent researchers published a study in July 1999 showing that Monsanto's GM soy contains 12-14 percent less cancer-fighting phytoestrogens, Monsanto responded with its own study, concluding that soy's phytoestrogen levels vary too much to even carry out a statistical analysis.
Researchers failed to disclose, however, that they had instructed the laboratory to use an obsolete method of detection—one that had been prone to highly variable results.
To prove that GM protein breaks down quickly during simulated digestion, biotech companies use thousands of times the amount of digestive enzymes and a much stronger acid than what the World Health Organization recommends.
Monsanto told government regulators that the GM protein produced in their high-lysine GM corn was safe for humans, because it is also found in soil. Since people consume small residues of soil on fruits and vegetables, the protein has a long safe history as part of the human diet.
But the actual amount of the GM corn protein an average US citizen would consume (if all their corn were Monsanto's variety), would be "about 30 billion-4 trillion times" the amount normally consumed in soil residues. For equivalent exposure, people would have to eat as much as 22,000 pounds of soil every second of every day.
Monsanto's high-lysine corn also had unusual levels of several nutritional components, such as protein and fiber. Instead of comparing it to normal corn, which would have revealed this significant disparity, Monsanto compared their GM corn to obscure corn varieties that were also far outside the normal range on precisely these values. On this basis, Monsanto could claim that there were no statistically significant differences in their GM corn.
Methods used by biotech companies to hide problems are varied and plentiful. For example, researchers:
Use animals with varied starting weights, to hinder the detection of food-related changes;
Keep feeding studies short, to miss long-term impacts;
Test Roundup Ready soybeans that have never been sprayed with Roundup—as they always are in real world conditions;
Avoid feeding animals the GM crop, but instead give them a single dose of GM protein produced from GM bacteria
Use too few subjects to obtain statistical significance
Use poor or inappropriate statistical methods, or fail to even mention statistical methods, or include essential data
Employ insensitive detection techniques—doomed to fail
Monsanto's 1996 Journal of Nutrition study, which was their cornerstone article for "proving" that GM soy was safe, provides plenty of examples of masterfully rigged methods:
Researchers tested GM soy on mature animals, not the more sensitive young ones. GMO safety expert Arpad Pusztai says the older animals "would have to be emaciated or poisoned to show anything."
Organs were never weighed.
The GM soy was diluted up to 12 times which, according to an expert review, "would probably ensure that any possible undesirable GM effects did not occur."
The amount of protein in the feed was "artificially too high," which would mask negative impacts of the soy.
Samples were pooled from different locations and conditions, making it near impossible for compositional differences to be statistically significant.
Data from the only side-by-side comparison was removed from the study and never published. When it was later recovered, it revealed that Monsanto's GM soy had significantly lower levels of important constituents (e.g. protein, a fatty acid, and phenylalanine, an essential amino acid) and that toasted GM soy meal had nearly twice the amount of a lectin—which interferes with your body's ability to assimilate nutrients.
Moreover the amount of trypsin inhibitor, a known soy allergen, was as much as seven times higher in cooked GM soy compared to a cooked non-GM control.
In December 2009, a team of independent researchers published a study analyzing the raw data from three Monsanto rat studies. When they used proper statistical methods, they found that the three varieties of GM corn caused toxicity in the liver and kidneys, as well as significant changes in other organs.
Monsanto's studies, of course, had claimed that the research showed no problems. The regulators had believed Monsanto, and the corn is already in our food supply.
Safe eating.
[Citations for studies are available in Part 3 of Genetic Roulette, by Jeffrey M. Smith, www.geneticroulette.com.]
To learn more about the health dangers of GMOs, and what you can do to help end the genetic engineering of our food supply, visit www.ResponsibleTechnology.org.
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-- From: Richard Eastman <richardeastmanyakima@q.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Items: Obama is privatizing Iraq occupation -- mercenaries to take over -- Largest seller of BP stock before Gulf disaster was Obama's pet investment company "Vanguard"
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August 10, 2010
Largest seller of BP stock before Gulf disaster was Obama's pet investment company "Vanguard"
[...]
Now to understand this report it must first be remembered who financed Obama's takeover of the Presidency, and in order of their contributions to his campaign they are: 1. University of California, 2. Goldman Sachs, 3. Harvard University, 4. Microsoft, 5. Google, 6. Citigroup, 7. JPMorgan Chase & Co., and 8. Time Warner.
The importance of these contributors lies in what and who they control, and they are: 1.) University of California and Harvard University have provided Obama with the "intellectual firepower" he needs to force upon the American people his "progressive agenda" remaking their once vital democracy into a totalitarian socialist state, 2. Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have given Obama unlimited resources through his allowing them to loot the US Treasury, 3.) Microsoft and Google have given him unlimited access to information on the American people unprecedented in modern times, and 4.) Time Warner who has given Obama near total control over all the information told the American people through their news outlets.
Upon Obama's taking office he staffed his administration with what is called a "Wall Street Cabinet", including former employees of Goldman Sachs who Rolling Stone Magazine in their devastating article "The Great Bubble Machine" on this banking behemoth warned, "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again."
And when Rolling Stone Magazine warned that Goldman Sachs was about "to do it again" they probably didn't even know how apocalyptic this banking giant's machinations towards the United States really are, and as evident by the BP disaster in the Gulf when just three weeks prior to the Deepwater Horizon explosion they sold nearly half their shares of BP stocks saving for their investors billions of dollars of potential losses.
Goldman Sachs wasn't alone either in its astute "foreknowledge" of the collapse of BP's stock value due to the Gulf disaster as BP's own chief executive, Tony Hayward, sold about one-third of his shares weeks before this catastrophe began unfolding too.
But according to this FSB report the largest seller of BP stock in the weeks before this disaster occurred was the American investment company known as Vanguard who through two of their financial arms (Vanguard Windsor II Investor and Vanguard Windsor Investor) unloaded over 1.5 million shares of BP stock saving their investors hundreds of millions of dollars, chief among them President Obama.
For though little known by the American people, their President Obama holds all of his wealth in just two Vanguard funds, Vanguard 500 Index Fund where he has 3 accounts and the Vanguard FTSE Social Index Fund where he holds another 3 accounts, all six of which the FSB estimates will earn Obama nearly $8.5 million a year and which over 10 years will equal the staggering sum of $85 million.
The FSB further estimates in this report that through Obama's 3 accounts in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund he stands to make another $100 million over the next 10 years as their largest stock holding is in the energy giant Exxon Mobil they believe will eventually acquire BP and all of their assets for what will be essentially a "rock bottom" price and which very predictably BP has hired Goldman Sachs to advise them on.
Important to note is that none of this wealth Obama, Goldman Sachs, and other American elites is acquiring would be possible without this disaster, all of whom, as the evidence shows, "somehow" knew what was going to happen before it actually did, including the US energy giant Halliburton who 2 weeks prior to this disaster just happened to purchase the World's largest oil disaster service company Boots & Coots.
Unfortunately for the American people watching as these elites destroy their country is that they are being told none of the truth, especially about Obama, who while becoming enormously wealthy off the hardship, misery and toil of his citizens has become the only US President in history to begin jailing every government whistleblower he can find, has won the right to jail anybody he wants without charges and hold them forever, and most incredibly has claimed the right to assassinate any American citizen he deems a threat.
The great American Founding Father, and the United States first President, George Washington once said, "Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession." The American people to their great shame didn't heed these words, now they are paying for it.
© June 16, 2010 EU and US all rights reserved
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From: Don Barness
"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."---Edmund Burke
"Remember, there is such a thing as good and evil." ---Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ---Edmund Burke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHY Elena Kagan was nominated
Elana Kagan was the Solicitor General for all the suits against Obama filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural born citizenship. All of the requests were denied of course --- by Elana Kagan, the Solicitor General.
Pamela Lee Barlow DVM bowiepetclinic@morgan.net
I read on the internet that someone figured out why Obama nominated Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court. Pull up the Supreme Courts website, go to the docket and search for Obama. Elana Kagan was the Solicitor General for all the suits against him filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural born citizenship. All of the requests were denied of course --- by Elana Kagan, the Solicitor General. They were never heard. Obama owes her big time. It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn't it? The American people mean nothing any longer. It's all about payback time for those that compromised themselves to elect someone that maybe has no true right to even be there!
The news media will never tell us this --- even Fox News is afraid to say anything about the "natural born citizen" issue. I don't know what the truth is about Obama's birth certificate, and if Obama continues to have his way we will never know. Pass this along to anyone you think would actually care about this, so that people will know what is going on behind the scenes.
"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."---Edmund Burke
"Remember, there is such a thing as good and evil." ---Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ---Edmund Burke
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHY Elena Kagan was nominated
Elana Kagan was the Solicitor General for all the suits against Obama filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural born citizenship. All of the requests were denied of course --- by Elana Kagan, the Solicitor General.
Pamela Lee Barlow DVM bowiepetclinic@morgan.net
I read on the internet that someone figured out why Obama nominated Elana Kagan for the Supreme Court. Pull up the Supreme Courts website, go to the docket and search for Obama. Elana Kagan was the Solicitor General for all the suits against him filed with the Supreme Court to show proof of natural born citizenship. All of the requests were denied of course --- by Elana Kagan, the Solicitor General. They were never heard. Obama owes her big time. It just keeps getting deeper and deeper, doesn't it? The American people mean nothing any longer. It's all about payback time for those that compromised themselves to elect someone that maybe has no true right to even be there!
The news media will never tell us this --- even Fox News is afraid to say anything about the "natural born citizen" issue. I don't know what the truth is about Obama's birth certificate, and if Obama continues to have his way we will never know. Pass this along to anyone you think would actually care about this, so that people will know what is going on behind the scenes.
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Obama says withdrawal is on schedule, but renaming or outsourcing combat troops won't give Iraqis back their country
August 4, 2010
For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion's share of media attention, as the death toll of Nato troops rises inexorably. Controversy about Iraq is now almost entirely focused on the original decision to invade: what's happening there in 2010 barely registers.
That will have been reinforced by Barack Obama's declaration this week that US combat troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of the month "as promised and on schedule". For much of the British and American press, this was the real thing: headlines hailed the "end" of the war and reported "US troops to leave Iraq".
Nothing could be further from the truth. The US isn't withdrawing from Iraq at all – it's rebranding the occupation. Just as George Bush's war on terror was retitled "overseas contingency operations" when Obama became president, US "combat operations" will be rebadged from next month as "stability operations".
But as Major General Stephen Lanza, the US military spokesman in Iraq, told the New York Times: "In practical terms, nothing will change". After this month's withdrawal, there will still be 50,000 US troops in 94 military bases, "advising" and training the Iraqi army, "providing security" and carrying out "counter-terrorism" missions. In US military speak, that covers pretty well everything they might want to do.
Granted, 50,000 is a major reduction on the numbers in Iraq a year ago. But what Obama once called "the dumb war" goes remorselessly on. In fact, violence has been increasing as the Iraqi political factions remain deadlocked for the fifth month in a row in the Green Zone. More civilians are being killed in Iraq than Afghanistan: 535 last month alone, according to the Iraqi government – the worst figure for two years.
And even though US troops are rarely seen on the streets, they are still dying at a rate of six a month, their bases regularly shelled by resistance groups, while Iraqi troops and US-backed militias are being killed in far greater numbers and al-Qaida – Bush's gift to Iraq – is back in business across swaths of the country. Although hardly noticed in Britain, there are still 150 British troops in Iraq supporting US forces.
Meanwhile, the US government isn't just rebranding the occupation, it's also privatising it. There are around 100,000 private contractors working for the occupying forces, of whom more than 11,000 are armed mercenaries, mostly "third country nationals", typically from the developing world. One Peruvian and two Ugandan security contractors were killed in a rocket attack on the Green Zone only a fortnight ago.
The US now wants to expand their numbers sharply in what Jeremy Scahill, who helped expose the role of the notorious US security firm Blackwater, calls the "coming surge" of contractors in Iraq. Hillary Clinton wants to increase the number of military contractors working for the state department alone from 2,700 to 7,000, to be based in five "enduring presence posts" across Iraq.
The advantage of an outsourced occupation is clearly that someone other than US soldiers can do the dying to maintain control of Iraq. It also helps get round the commitment, made just before Bush left office, to pull all American troops out by the end of 2011. The other getout, widely expected on all sides, is a new Iraqi request for US troops to stay on – just as soon as a suitable government can be stitched together to make it.
What is abundantly clear is that the US, whose embassy in Baghdad is now the size of Vatican City, has no intention of letting go of Iraq any time soon. One reason for that can be found in the dozen 20-year contracts to run Iraq's biggest oil fields that were handed out last year to foreign companies, including three of the Anglo-American oil majors that exploited Iraqi oil under British control before 1958.
The dubious legality of these deals has held back some US companies, but as Greg Muttitt, author of a forthcoming book on the subject, argues, the prize for the US is bigger than the contracts themselves, which put 60% of Iraq's reserves under long-term foreign corporate control. If output can be boosted as sharply as planned, the global oil price could be slashed and the grip of recalcitrant Opec states broken.
The horrific cost of the war to the Iraqi people, on the other hand, and the continuing fear and misery of daily life make a mockery of claims that the US surge of 2007 "worked" and that Iraq has come good after all.
It's not only the hundreds of thousands of dead and 4 million refugees. After seven years of US (and British) occupation, tens of thousands are still tortured and imprisoned without trial, health and education has dramatically deteriorated, the position of women has gone horrifically backwards, trade unions are effectively banned, Baghdad is divided by 1,500 checkpoints and blast walls, electricity supplies have all but broken down and people pay with their lives for speaking out.
Even without the farce of the March elections, the banning and killing of candidates and activists and subsequent political breakdown, to claim – as the Times did today – that "Iraq is a democracy" is grotesque. The Green Zone administration would collapse in short order without the protection of US troops and security contractors. No wonder the speculation among Iraqis and some US officials is of an eventual military takeover.
The Iraq war has been a historic political and strategic failure for the US. It was unable to impose a military solution, let alone turn the country into a beacon of western values or regional policeman. But by playing the sectarian and ethnic cards, it also prevented the emergence of a national resistance movement and a humiliating Vietnam-style pullout. The signs are it wants to create a new form of outsourced semi-colonial regime to maintain its grip on the country and region. The struggle to regain Iraq's independence has only just begun.
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The Ultimate Food Betrayal: How Big Biotech Rigged the Research on GM Foods
Posted By Dr. Mercola | August 10 2010
By Jeffrey Smith
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/10/company-research-on-genetically-modified-foods-is-rigged.aspx
In 2004, the peer-reviewed British Food Journal published a study claiming that when shoppers in a Canadian farm store were given an informed, unbiased choice between genetically modified (GM) corn and non-GM corn, most purchased the GM variety.
The research, which was funded by the biotech industry and conducted by four staunch proponents of GM foods, other findings around the world that show how people avoid genetically modified organisms (GMOs) when given a choice.
The controversial article was nonetheless given the Journal's prestigious Award for Excellence for the Most Outstanding Paper of 2004. It is often cited by biotech advocates as proof that people are embracing GM foods.
Fortunately Stuart Laidlaw, a reporter from Canada's Toronto Star, had visited the farm store several times during the study and described the scenario in his book Secret Ingredients. Far from offering unbiased choices, huge signs placed over the non-GM corn bin read, "Would you eat wormy sweet corn?" It further listed the chemicals that were sprayed during the season.
By contrast, the sign above the GM corn stated, "Here's What Went into Producing Quality Sweet Corn." No wonder 60 percent of shoppers avoided the "wormy corn." In fact, it's a testament to people's distrust of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that 40 percent still went for the "wormy" option.
In addition to the signs, the "consumer education fact sheets" in the store were nothing more than pro-GM propaganda. And the lead researcher, Doug Powell, was even seen trying to convince a customer who purchased non-GM corn to switch to the GM variety.
The Science of Rigging Studies
Cambridge University's Dr. Richard Jennings, a leading researcher on scientific ethics, described the study as "flagrant fraud." But there are plenty more examples of "cooked" research in the much more critical area of GMO safety assessments.
When dairy farmers inject cows with GM bovine growth hormone (rbGH), there are plenty of changes in the milk—including an increase of that hormone itself. To allay fears, the FDA claimed that pasteurization destroys 90 percent of the hormone.
In reality, the researchers of this drug (then owned by Monsanto) pasteurized the milk 120 times longer than normal. But they only destroyed 19 percent. So they spiked the milk with a huge amount of extra growth hormone and then repeated the long pasteurization. Only under these artificial conditions were they able to destroy 90 percent.
To demonstrate that rbGH injections didn't interfere with cows' fertility, Monsanto appears to have added cows to their study that were pregnant BEFORE injection.
When Aventis CropScience prepared samples to see if the potential allergen in StarLink GM corn was intact after cooking, instead of using the standard 30-minutes, they heated the corn for 2 hours.
When independent researchers published a study in July 1999 showing that Monsanto's GM soy contains 12-14 percent less cancer-fighting phytoestrogens, Monsanto responded with its own study, concluding that soy's phytoestrogen levels vary too much to even carry out a statistical analysis.
Researchers failed to disclose, however, that they had instructed the laboratory to use an obsolete method of detection—one that had been prone to highly variable results.
To prove that GM protein breaks down quickly during simulated digestion, biotech companies use thousands of times the amount of digestive enzymes and a much stronger acid than what the World Health Organization recommends.
Monsanto told government regulators that the GM protein produced in their high-lysine GM corn was safe for humans, because it is also found in soil. Since people consume small residues of soil on fruits and vegetables, the protein has a long safe history as part of the human diet.
But the actual amount of the GM corn protein an average US citizen would consume (if all their corn were Monsanto's variety), would be "about 30 billion-4 trillion times" the amount normally consumed in soil residues. For equivalent exposure, people would have to eat as much as 22,000 pounds of soil every second of every day.
Monsanto's high-lysine corn also had unusual levels of several nutritional components, such as protein and fiber. Instead of comparing it to normal corn, which would have revealed this significant disparity, Monsanto compared their GM corn to obscure corn varieties that were also far outside the normal range on precisely these values. On this basis, Monsanto could claim that there were no statistically significant differences in their GM corn.
Methods used by biotech companies to hide problems are varied and plentiful. For example, researchers:
Use animals with varied starting weights, to hinder the detection of food-related changes;
Keep feeding studies short, to miss long-term impacts;
Test Roundup Ready soybeans that have never been sprayed with Roundup—as they always are in real world conditions;
Avoid feeding animals the GM crop, but instead give them a single dose of GM protein produced from GM bacteria
Use too few subjects to obtain statistical significance
Use poor or inappropriate statistical methods, or fail to even mention statistical methods, or include essential data
Employ insensitive detection techniques—doomed to fail
Monsanto's 1996 Journal of Nutrition study, which was their cornerstone article for "proving" that GM soy was safe, provides plenty of examples of masterfully rigged methods:
Researchers tested GM soy on mature animals, not the more sensitive young ones. GMO safety expert Arpad Pusztai says the older animals "would have to be emaciated or poisoned to show anything."
Organs were never weighed.
The GM soy was diluted up to 12 times which, according to an expert review, "would probably ensure that any possible undesirable GM effects did not occur."
The amount of protein in the feed was "artificially too high," which would mask negative impacts of the soy.
Samples were pooled from different locations and conditions, making it near impossible for compositional differences to be statistically significant.
Data from the only side-by-side comparison was removed from the study and never published. When it was later recovered, it revealed that Monsanto's GM soy had significantly lower levels of important constituents (e.g. protein, a fatty acid, and phenylalanine, an essential amino acid) and that toasted GM soy meal had nearly twice the amount of a lectin—which interferes with your body's ability to assimilate nutrients.
Moreover the amount of trypsin inhibitor, a known soy allergen, was as much as seven times higher in cooked GM soy compared to a cooked non-GM control.
In December 2009, a team of independent researchers published a study analyzing the raw data from three Monsanto rat studies. When they used proper statistical methods, they found that the three varieties of GM corn caused toxicity in the liver and kidneys, as well as significant changes in other organs.
Monsanto's studies, of course, had claimed that the research showed no problems. The regulators had believed Monsanto, and the corn is already in our food supply.
Safe eating.
[Citations for studies are available in Part 3 of Genetic Roulette, by Jeffrey M. Smith, www.geneticroulette.com.]
To learn more about the health dangers of GMOs, and what you can do to help end the genetic engineering of our food supply, visit www.ResponsibleTechnology.org.
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checkout Iowa cornfields, about 2 minutes in, Iowa is corn country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjpZD23tpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjpZD23tpg
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From: Adrian Salbuchi
To: Adrian Salbuchi
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:35 PM
Subject: RV: AUGUST 15TH - SAVE THE DAY!!! UNITED WE STRIKE....
Second Republic Project
"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"
Stop Collaborating with the Global Power Elite! RESISTANCE is the Key!!
We summon all free-thinking men and women the world over to come together to take out countries back.
The Second Republic Project is a basic blueprint – a "Template", if you like – on how we can work together to do this.
We must build Critical Mass among public opinion in each country; then the scales will tip in our favour…
10th August 2010 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - www.asalbuchi.com.ar - arsalbuchi@gmail.com
Hello, Everybody,
One of the good friends we're joining forces with to help Awaken Sleepers and get them moving, is Karen Quinn-Tostado who's working very hard out of the US for the whole world.
Karen and her team are coming forward strong with their UNITED WE STRIKE proposal and, among many other very good things, she's setting up a monthly radio broadcast where many of us will be speaking and explaining and suggesting things to do…
The first of these broadcasts will be this Sunday, 15th August and I would like to invite you all to listen in.
Below is what is scheduled so far and a description of who will be the speakers…
I think you will find this to be very interesting….
Here's a video explaining the whole Project…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wB0hZ_Yysw
So, listen in, give us your feedback and please help us spread the word!!
Kind regards,
Adrian Salbuchi
(Buenos Aires – Argentina)
_____________________________
Description and Schedule of the UNITED WE STRIKE Broadcast, Sunday 15th August 2010 (all times are Pacific US Time)
· The earlier part of the broadcast is shaping up to really be international, as a matter of fact it will be presented in German, courtesy of one of our biggest supporters, web helpers, and a member of our core group, Detlev, from www.wakenews.net. Looks like the broadcast will begin at 7 am pacific in order to accommodate Detlev and his guests, one of whom is Jane Burgermeister, who is a journalist and will not only appear with him in the German portion, but open up as our first English guest at 9 am pacific.
· And Jane from the UK and www.taxfree15.org.uk has been hard at work as well, and will join us in our 9:30 am pacific slot, with Godfrey Bloom, a member of the English Parliment!
· At 10:00 am we've Michael Rivero, who has been a huge supporter of the Strike, and getting real news out there. www.whatreallyhappened.com is his site, and we hope his wife Clare will join us as well. This is a time that we will be able to take calls and also introduce the listeners to the other members of our team who have made this all possible.
· 11:00 am Sheriff Mack from www.sheriffmack.com will be featured, and we'll talk about the real power in our counties and why the position of Sheriff is so important.
· 11:30 am Bev Harris from www.blackboxvoting.org will speak about voting machines and how easy they are to tamper with.
· 12:00 pm We've got lawyer Larry Becraft who will share tips on some of the pitfalls patriots run into while trying to figure out the legal system. http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/
· 12:30 pm Former Special IRS Agent Joe Banister will shed light on his journey for truth within the corrupt system of the IRS. www.freedomabovefortune.com
· 1:00 pm We've got Charles Erwin from www.americanfreedombooks.com who will also shed light on our lawful vs legal system of taxation
· 1:30 pm Adrian Salbuchi from Argentina will bring more International flavor to our afternoon, and let us know why he thinks it's time for a Second Republic. www.asalbuchi.com.ar
· 2:30 pm is Rick Adams "Uncensored" from www.republicbroadcasting.org Rick has offered this movement time and a place to share information for about a year and a half now, and we are very grateful to him. Monday - Friday from 7-9 pacific ( 10-12 eastern) you can find him hard at work
· 3:00 pm Officer Jack McLamb, www.jackmclamb.com will share insights from a man who knows the ins and outs of the police and military. Officer McLamb is also featured on www.republicbroadcasting.org as well as www.gcnlive.com where he broadcasts his weekly Officer Jack McLamb show.
· 3:30 pm Mark Anderson is the editor of www.AmericanFreePress.net as well as a writer and traveling reporter, also from www.republicbroadcasting.org and his show "When Worlds Collide", Sundays at 8 pm eastern.
· 4:00 pm Luke Rudowski from www.wearechange.org will catch us up to date on his organization, as well as promote his upcoming Sept 11 expose, still working hard to get to the truth of that day and share what he knows.
· 5:00 pm Max Igan from www.thecrowhouse.com and Australia will join us and speak about the new world order and The Great Intention we can all be part of.
· 6:00 pm Ellen Brown from www.webofdebt.com will talk about the financial systems and how they can be made to actually work for, not against us.
· 6:30 pm .... may be discussion and call in time, ..we'll see. Could be a surprise guest
· 7:00 pm Schaeffer Cox will tell us about what he's been doing in Alaska in terms of Common Law Courts, Militia, Freedom, and staying safe while being such a threat to the current system of government we now live under.
· 8:00 pm Tom Cryer from www.truthattack.org will bring in his knowledge of the law and talk about his movement to expose the IRS.
Then we'll open it up for discussion...
To: Adrian Salbuchi
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:35 PM
Subject: RV: AUGUST 15TH - SAVE THE DAY!!! UNITED WE STRIKE....
Second Republic Project
"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"
Stop Collaborating with the Global Power Elite! RESISTANCE is the Key!!
We summon all free-thinking men and women the world over to come together to take out countries back.
The Second Republic Project is a basic blueprint – a "Template", if you like – on how we can work together to do this.
We must build Critical Mass among public opinion in each country; then the scales will tip in our favour…
10th August 2010 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - www.asalbuchi.com.ar - arsalbuchi@gmail.com
Hello, Everybody,
One of the good friends we're joining forces with to help Awaken Sleepers and get them moving, is Karen Quinn-Tostado who's working very hard out of the US for the whole world.
Karen and her team are coming forward strong with their UNITED WE STRIKE proposal and, among many other very good things, she's setting up a monthly radio broadcast where many of us will be speaking and explaining and suggesting things to do…
The first of these broadcasts will be this Sunday, 15th August and I would like to invite you all to listen in.
Below is what is scheduled so far and a description of who will be the speakers…
I think you will find this to be very interesting….
Here's a video explaining the whole Project…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wB0hZ_Yysw
So, listen in, give us your feedback and please help us spread the word!!
Kind regards,
Adrian Salbuchi
(Buenos Aires – Argentina)
_____________________________
Description and Schedule of the UNITED WE STRIKE Broadcast, Sunday 15th August 2010 (all times are Pacific US Time)
· The earlier part of the broadcast is shaping up to really be international, as a matter of fact it will be presented in German, courtesy of one of our biggest supporters, web helpers, and a member of our core group, Detlev, from www.wakenews.net. Looks like the broadcast will begin at 7 am pacific in order to accommodate Detlev and his guests, one of whom is Jane Burgermeister, who is a journalist and will not only appear with him in the German portion, but open up as our first English guest at 9 am pacific.
· And Jane from the UK and www.taxfree15.org.uk has been hard at work as well, and will join us in our 9:30 am pacific slot, with Godfrey Bloom, a member of the English Parliment!
· At 10:00 am we've Michael Rivero, who has been a huge supporter of the Strike, and getting real news out there. www.whatreallyhappened.com is his site, and we hope his wife Clare will join us as well. This is a time that we will be able to take calls and also introduce the listeners to the other members of our team who have made this all possible.
· 11:00 am Sheriff Mack from www.sheriffmack.com will be featured, and we'll talk about the real power in our counties and why the position of Sheriff is so important.
· 11:30 am Bev Harris from www.blackboxvoting.org will speak about voting machines and how easy they are to tamper with.
· 12:00 pm We've got lawyer Larry Becraft who will share tips on some of the pitfalls patriots run into while trying to figure out the legal system. http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/
· 12:30 pm Former Special IRS Agent Joe Banister will shed light on his journey for truth within the corrupt system of the IRS. www.freedomabovefortune.com
· 1:00 pm We've got Charles Erwin from www.americanfreedombooks.com who will also shed light on our lawful vs legal system of taxation
· 1:30 pm Adrian Salbuchi from Argentina will bring more International flavor to our afternoon, and let us know why he thinks it's time for a Second Republic. www.asalbuchi.com.ar
· 2:30 pm is Rick Adams "Uncensored" from www.republicbroadcasting.org Rick has offered this movement time and a place to share information for about a year and a half now, and we are very grateful to him. Monday - Friday from 7-9 pacific ( 10-12 eastern) you can find him hard at work
· 3:00 pm Officer Jack McLamb, www.jackmclamb.com will share insights from a man who knows the ins and outs of the police and military. Officer McLamb is also featured on www.republicbroadcasting.org as well as www.gcnlive.com where he broadcasts his weekly Officer Jack McLamb show.
· 3:30 pm Mark Anderson is the editor of www.AmericanFreePress.net as well as a writer and traveling reporter, also from www.republicbroadcasting.org and his show "When Worlds Collide", Sundays at 8 pm eastern.
· 4:00 pm Luke Rudowski from www.wearechange.org will catch us up to date on his organization, as well as promote his upcoming Sept 11 expose, still working hard to get to the truth of that day and share what he knows.
· 5:00 pm Max Igan from www.thecrowhouse.com and Australia will join us and speak about the new world order and The Great Intention we can all be part of.
· 6:00 pm Ellen Brown from www.webofdebt.com will talk about the financial systems and how they can be made to actually work for, not against us.
· 6:30 pm .... may be discussion and call in time, ..we'll see. Could be a surprise guest
· 7:00 pm Schaeffer Cox will tell us about what he's been doing in Alaska in terms of Common Law Courts, Militia, Freedom, and staying safe while being such a threat to the current system of government we now live under.
· 8:00 pm Tom Cryer from www.truthattack.org will bring in his knowledge of the law and talk about his movement to expose the IRS.
Then we'll open it up for discussion...
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This Chemical found in several of Kellogs cereals is a chemical that is a constituent of petroleum automotive exhaust and other bizarre sources.
This Chemical found in several of Kellogs cereals is a chemical that is a constituent of petroleum automotive exhaust and other bizarre sources.
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