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Sunday, August 27, 2006
Republican Guest Suggests Implementing
"Universal Service" to "Put Us On a War Footing"
Reported by Marie Therese - August 24, 2006
William Cohen, a Republican and former Secretary of Defense under Clinton,
appeared on this morning's FOX & Friends First.
WILLIAM COHEN: "... What we need in this war against terror - which I would prefer to call it (sic) 'a long twilight struggle' to use John Kennedy's phrase - a long twilight struggle against terrorism - you need better intelligence, better police work, covert activity, special forces, if necessary, ultimately military. But it's going to be through police work and the sharing of intelligence, that we'll be able to help defend us against attacks which are inevitably going to come."
BRIAN KILMEADE: "Hey, Mr. Secretary, finally, do you think in the next ten years we're going to be looking at some type of draft because we seem to need - have so many conflicts to cover?"
WILLIAM COHEN: "I'm not sure there'll be a draft. I think there should be a commitment to universal service. I think that only a few people are really committed to this war against terrorism and called. I think the American people have to be - understand - that we're all in this together. We ought to have a real call to national service to commit ourselves to some form of public service ...."
COHEN: "... helping out at homes, health care, nurses, etc. But something has to be done ..."
KILMEADE: "Something's got to be done."
COHEN: "... to put us on a war footing mentality. We're not there."
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From News Hounds
posted by Vetzine
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Is the U.S. Bankrupt?
By: Patrick Wood on Jul 17, 2006
Do Federal Reserve managers secretly believe that the U.S is bankrupt and is about to go under?
Well, where there's smoke, there's fire!
A stunning 23 page report by Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff titled "Is the U.S. Bankrupt?" was issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in November, 2005, and quietly posted on their public website. Although publicly accessible, it was totally ignored by the U.S. press.
Kotlikoff is professor of Economics at Boston University and has penned at least 355 papers published by the Federal Reserve over several years.
Kotlikoff concludes that "Countries can and do go bankrupt. The U.S., with its $65.9 trillion fiscal gap, seems clearly headed down that path."
The fiscal gap of $65.9 trillion is more than 5 times U.S. Gross Domestic Product and twice as large as national wealth. The fiscal gap is all the money that the U.S. owes now and in the future, for which it doesn't have revenue to pay for. According to Kotlikoff,
One way to wrap one’s head around $65.9 trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. One solution is an immediate and permanent doubling of personal and corporate income taxes. Another is an immediate and permanent two-thirds cut in Social Security and Medicare benefits. A third alternative, were it feasible, would be to immediately and permanently cut all federal discretionary spending by 143 percent. (p. 8)
Imagine Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Fed., getting up in front of Congress and stating "The U.S. is clearly headed toward bankruptcy!"
The stock market would crash, the dollar would melt down, the bond market would implode and real estate would be frozen in time.
This writer hates to be a pessimist, but this does not make for an optimistic near-term or long-term forecast. Monetarily speaking, it's time to "run for the hills."
The demise of the dollar may be at hand.
(Ed. note: For you history buffs, compare today's monetary scenario with 1928-1929 and the subsequent sharp removal of credit from the manic stock market of the 1920's.)
To read the 23 page report issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in November, 2005, written by Professor Laurence J. Kotlikoff, titled
"Is the U.S. Bankrupt?" click here.
http://tinyurl.com/hu55q
From The August Review
Global Elite Research Center
posted by Vetzine
Toward a North American Union
By: Patrick Wood
Editor, The August Review
Good evening, everybody. Tonight, an astonishing proposal to expand our borders to incorporate Mexico and Canada and simultaneously further diminish U.S. sovereignty. Have our political elites gone mad?
--Lou Dobbs on Lou Dobbs Tonight, June 9, 2005
Introduction
The global elite, through the direct operations of President George Bush and his Administration, are creating a North American Union that will combine Canada, Mexico and the U.S. into a superstate called the North American Union (NAU). The NAU is roughly patterned after the European Union (EU). There is no political or economic mandate for creating the NAU, and unofficial polls of a cross-section of Americans indicate that they are overwhelmingly against this end-run around national sovereignty.
To answer Lou Dobbs, "No, the political elites have not gone mad", they just want you to think that they have.
The reality over appearance is easily cleared up with a proper historical perspective of the last 35 years of political and economic manipulation by the same elite who now bring us the NAU.
This paper will explore this history in order to give the reader a complete picture of the NAU, how it is made possible, who are the instigators of it, and where it is headed.
It is important to first understand that the impending birth of the NAU is a gestation of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, not the Congress.
To read more, click here.
http://tinyurl.com/nyl5y
From The August Review
Global Elite Research Center
posted by Vetzine
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Can taxation curb obesity?
20 August 2006
Food and drinks high in sugar should be taxed just like cigarettes, say economists who believe it is the only way to combat the global crisis in obesity.
"When two-thirds of the population of countries like Australia or the US are obese or overweight, you can't handle the problem with simple solutions like education," Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, told a meeting of agricultural economists on Queensland's Gold Coast this week. Instead, he says, governments need to impose tariffs to replicate the success of tobacco taxes in reducing smoking.
For more, click here.
From New Scientist Print Edition
posted by Vetzine
German Company to chip US passports
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
RFID chips and security technologies
make the documents harder to copy.
Infineon Technologies, a Germany based company will be providing the electronic RFID chips that will be used in the new U.S. passports. The RFID chips digitally store each passport holder's basic information, such as the individual's name, date of birth and photograph.
Financial terms and the size of the contract were not disclosed by the company sources but the government expects to begin distribution of the first RFID-enabled passports later in this year.About 15 million passports will be distributed in the first year alone as per the government plans.
To read more, click here.
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Implanted Chips in Our Troops?
Monday, Aug. 21, 2006 11:21 p.m. EDT
A Florida company wants to get under the skin of 1.4 million U.S. servicemen and women.
VeriChip Corp, based in Delray Beach, Fla., and described by the D.C. Examiner as "one of the most aggressive marketers of radio frequency identification chips," is hoping to convince the Pentagon to allow them to insert the chips, known as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips under the skin of the right arms of U.S. servicemen and servicewomen to enable them to scan an arm and obtain that person’s identity and medical history. The chips would replace the legendary metal dog tags that have been worn by U.S. military personnel since 1906.
The device is usually implanted above the triceps area of an individual’s right arm, but can also by implanted in the hand if scanned at the proper frequency. The VeriChip responds with a unique 16-digit number, which can correlate the user to information stored on a database for identity verification, medical records access, and other uses. The insertion procedure is performed under local anesthetic, and once inserted it is invisible to the naked eye.
The company, which the Examiner notes has powerful political connections, is "in discussions” with the Pentagon, VeriChip spokeswoman Nicole Philbin told the Examiner. "The potential for this technology doesn’t just stop at the civilian level,” Philbin said. Company officials have touted the chips as versatile, able to be used in a variety of situations such as helping track illegal immigrants or giving doctors immediate access to patient’s medical records.
"It needs further study,” Joe Davis, a retired Air Force major and a spokesman for the D.C. office of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, told the Examiner.
And Liz McIntyre, co-author with Katherine Albrecht of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with RFID," said that VeriChip is "a huge threat” to public privacy.
"They’re circling like vultures for any opportunity to get into our flesh,” McIntyre told the Examiner. "They’ll start with people who can’t say no, like the elderly, sex offenders, immigrants, and the military. Then they’ll come knocking on our doors.”
To read more, click here.
From NewsMax
posted by Vetzine
Consumers Beware:
Dangerous Levels of Arsenic Found
in Non-Organic Chicken
From: Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
PRESS RELEASE April 5, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press contact
Ben Lilliston
(612) 870-3416 or blilliston@iatp.org
Arsenic Widespread in Chicken, Testing Finds
Avoidable arsenic commonly added to chicken feed;
Arsenic-free chicken available
Minneapolis
Brand name chicken products sold in American supermarkets and
fast food restaurants are widely contaminated with arsenic, according to
independent test results released today by
the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
Testing of 155 samples from uncooked supermarket
chicken products found 55 percent carried detectable
arsenic. Arsenic was more than twice as prevalent in
conventional brands of supermarket chicken as in
certified organic and other ³premium² brands.
All 90 fast food chicken products tested by IATP
also contained detectable arsenic.
The full (IATP) report can be read at:
http://iatp.org.
To find out the brand name chicken products
tested by IATP and to read more, click here.
From Organic Consumers
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FDA Says Viruses Safe for Treating Meat
WASHINGTON Aug 18, 2006 (AP)— A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.
The combination of six viruses is designed to be sprayed on ready-to-eat meat and poultry products, including sliced ham and turkey, said John Vazzana, president and chief executive officer of manufacturer Intralytix Inc.
The special viruses called bacteriophages are meant to kill strains of the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium, the Food and Drug Administration said in declaring it safe to use on ready-to-eat meats prior to their packaging.
The viruses are the first to win FDA approval for use as a food additive, said Andrew Zajac, of the regulatory agency's office of food additive safety.
Consumers won't be aware that meat and poultry products have been treated with the spray, Zajac added. The Department of Agriculture will regulate the actual use of the product.
For more, click here.
From ABC News
posted by Vetzine
Consumer Warning:
Processed Meats Cause Cancer,
Per 7 Year Study
Sunday, May 01, 2005
By Mike Adams
Processed meat consumption results in 67% increase in pancreatic cancer risk, says new research.
Consuming processed meats increases the risk of pancreatic cancer, says new research conducted at the University of Hawaii that followed nearly 200,000 men and women for seven years. According to lead study author Ute Nothlings, people who consumed the most processed meats (hot dogs and sausage) showed a 67% increased risk of pancreatic cancer over those who consumed little or no meat products.
But researchers failed to accurately identify the culprit responsible for this increased risk of pancreatic cancer, says one author. The true cause of the heightened cancer risk is the widespread use of a carcinogenic precursor ingredient known as sodium nitrite by food processing companies, says nutritionist Mike Adams, author of the just-published Grocery Warning manual.
Nearly all processed meats are made with sodium nitrite: breakfast sausage, hot dogs, jerkies, bacon, lunch meat, and even meats in canned soup products. Yet this ingredient is a precursor to highly carcinogenic nitrosamines -- potent cancer-causing chemicals that accelerate the formation and growth of cancer cells throughout the body. When consumers eat sodium nitrite in popular meat products, nitrosamines are formed in the body where they promote the growth of various cancers, including colorectal cancer and pancreatic cancer, says Adams.
"Sodium nitrite is a dangerous, cancer-causing ingredient that has no place in the human food supply," he explains. The USDA actually tried to ban sodium nitrite in the 1970's, but was preempted by the meat processing industry, which relies on the ingredient as a color fixer to make foods look more visually appealing. "The meat industry uses sodium nitrite to sell more meat products at the expense of public health," says Adams. "And this new research clearly demonstrates the link between the consumption of processed meats and cancer."
Adams wrote Grocery Warning to warn consumers about the toxic, disease-causing ingredients found in everyday foods and groceries. (see related ebook on groceries).
"There are certain ingredients found in common grocery products that directly promote cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, Alzheimer's disease, osteoporosis and even behavioral disorders," Adams explains. His Grocery Warning manual covers them all, teaching readers how to prevent and even help reverse chronic diseases by avoiding the foods and food ingredients that cause disease.
To read more, click here.To learn more about Adams' Grocery Warning manual, visit http://TruthPublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html
From News Target
posted by Vetzine
BEWARE! Spoiled Meat
Treated With Carbon Monoxide
Sold Across U.S.
July 26, 2006
Is that beef fresh?
If you think the reddest meat in the supermarket is the freshest--listen up. Your store may be selling beef that's packaged in a factory with small amounts of carbon monoxide.
Carbon monoxide won't hurt you, but it does keep the meat red for a longer period of time. The meat is supposed to have a shelf life of four weeks or even longer. Some chains, including Publix and Kroger, have refused to carry it, but plenty do. Typically it comes in deep trays with plastic across it that doesn't touch the meat.
Consumer Reports just tested meat that is packed in this manner. All the meat tested was within its sell-by date and was red, but that didn't mean it was fresh. Lab tests showed that two packages of ground beef out of 10 had spoiled, and one was about to spoil.
Originally from Consumer Reports
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