DISTRACTION IS DISTRACTION is all I can say. Just a tip - who is Oprah's buddy? Obama ... a minion of the PowersThatBe. Oprah attended the Billionaires Club Meeting and more on that subject of the Billionaire's Club below.
While I was drinking my first cup of coffee - in that time before sunrise - the following in relation to the Chinese Billionaires receiving (in Singapore) gold plated tungsten bars: The Rothschild banking family got out of the commodity business in 2004. Like Rockefeller, Rothschild is one of those names finding connection to the PowersThatBe - and not as minions.
And, an interesting tidbit was Singapore researching and finding out the manufacturers of tungsten and a sizable amount sold and to whom ... leading to US manufacturers and to delivery to the famous U.S. Bullion Depository in Fort Knox, Kentucky (more on the gold depository in an article below).
For over a year I've heard the admonishment by those in the know - get out of paper. Buying gold and not taking physical delivery being a VERY bad decision.
COMMODITIES is the key word. Collapsing the US dollar has been planned along time ago and those once known maybe in the 80's - 90's (and earlier) as conspiracy theorists are now being called truth tellers. I watch the news because we live in a crucial time period in the history of the United States and what is happening impacts me and those I love.
Americans are only seen as COLLATERAL DAMAGE to those rich elite already having their fortunes out of the US$ and have and are buying up such things of value after the dollar crashes such as interstate highways originally paid for by taxpayers - to be toll roads, railroads, land, you name it.
We are living in a time period being said to be the Perfect Storm of Perfect Storms given what is also happening within our solar system and the effects upon our own galactic star we lovingly have named The Sun. The US dollar's collapse will affect not only our country, but also many others around the globe ... why the headline from the huge French bank regarding the preparation for a global collapse.
Société Générale tells clients how to prepare for potential ‘global collapse’A warning headline out of Europe for the rich elite, while Americans were being distracted with Oprah ending in 2011. Our society has been being dumbed down for decades, morality has degenerated via design, drug abuse with drugs being brought into the country by our Black Government, etc. Throw in corporatism's affect upon our food supply, a health system should be called disease-care based upon Big Pharma, our water has been polluted, and there is crap being sprayed from the air upon the populous.
Telegraph | Bank’s asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.
And, I return to one of my own personal very strong beliefs - this earthwalk of mine is an adventure to experience ... not a puzzle to solve. It's easy to begin to put the puzzle pieces together regarding why our manufacturing base was taken offshore, we are being overrun by illegals from all over the globe, our politicians being in the pocket of multinational corporations, and why little kids are given the opportunity to watch violence and play video games based upon killing.
Getting one's spiritual house in order is the first step. Then think water and food. With the collapse of the dollar - maintenance of very old water delivery systems will not take place and water mains are breaking all over the country. As the Hopi's say - know where your water is. Food deliveries will be impacted together with the fact our country imports 90% of our food - and our importing of food is a whole other story that sucks rotten eggs.
OUR NATION'S BIGGEST MONEY MAKING BUSINESSES - WAR, DISEASE CARE AND TERROR
Most Americans look at those minions in Washington DC as our government - when there is a BLACK GOVERNMENT actually holding the real power behind the scenes. Taxpayers have funded technology beyond our imagination and this technology is focused upon killing - not focused upon improving life for the global populous.
Our chief industry: War
The economy may be collapsing, but the war business is booming.
The CIA's secret drone war
Back in May, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta said something that high-level C.I.A. and administration officials have rarely acknowledged publicly either before or since: that controversial unmanned aerial vehicles—or "drones," as they're commonly called—were the "only game in town" for taking out Al Qaeda in Pakistan.
Mexican border city groups call for UN peacekeepers
Business groups in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez said Wednesday they are calling for United Nations peacekeepers to quell the drug-related violence that has given their city one of the highest homicide rates in the world.
US occupied Iraq, Afghanistan among world's most corrupt countries
US-occupied Afghanistan is the world’s second most corrupt country—after Somalia, where no government has functioned for two decades—while Iraq is the fourth worst, according to a report released by an international watchdog group.
Venezuela prepares for conflict with US in Columbia
Hugo Chavez has ordered his troops to prepare for a possible conflict with US-backed Columbia.
Rise in soldier suicides leaves Pentagon looking for answers
American soldiers are committing suicide in the greatest numbers since official records began in 1980, with the US Army at a loss to explain the phenomenon since a third of the dead have never been deployed in combat.
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Infowars | Alex Jones’ landmark documentary Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement is more important than ever.
THE BILLIONAIRE'S CLUB
THE CHOSEN ELITE BELIEVING THEIR PERSONAL SUPERIORITY IN CULLING HUMANITY
Secretive Rich Cabal Met To Discuss Population Control
Monday, May 25, 2009
Our speculation that the “secret billionaire club” meeting at the beginning of the month was primarily focused around population control, a cause célèbre embraced by David Rockefeller, Ted Turner and Bill Gates, has been confirmed by a London Times report.Details of the secret confab were thin on the ground in the initial reports concerning the meeting of rich “philanthropists” like Rockefeller, Turner, Gates, Warren Buffet and George Soros, which took place in New York on May 5 at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel prize biochemist and president of the private Rockefeller University.
An ABC News report about the confab offered little more than fawning idolatry towards the attendees, and was little more than a sophistic exercise in ass kissing and creeping adulation for people like Rockefeller and Turner, who were portrayed as philanthropic saviors of the planet.
We questioned this premise by pointing out that Turner has publicly advocated shocking population reduction programs that would cull the human population by a staggering 95%. He has also called for a Communist-style one child policy to be mandated by governments in the west. In China, the one child policy is enforced by means of taxes on each subsequent child, allied to an intimidation program which includes secret police and “family planning” authorities kidnapping pregnant women from their homes and performing forced abortions.
Of course, Turner completely fails to follow his own rules on how everyone else should live their lives, having five children and owning no less than 2 million acres of land.
In the third world, Turner has contributed literally billions to population reduction, namely through United Nations programs, leading the way for the likes of Bill & Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet(Gates’ father has long been a leading board member of Planned Parenthood and a top eugenicist).
Our initial suspicions that the secret meeting was primarily concerned with population control has been confirmed by a London Times report, which states, “SOME of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education. The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.”
Of course, slowing the growth of the world’s population while also improving its health are two irreconcilable concepts to the elite. Stabilizing world population is a natural byproduct of higher living standards, as has been proven by the stabilization of the white population in the west. Elitists like David Rockefeller have no interest in “slowing the growth of world population” by natural methods, their agenda is firmly rooted in the pseudo-science of eugenics, which is all about “culling” the surplus population via draconian methods.
David Rockefeller’s legacy is not derived from a well-meaning “philanthropic” urge to improve health in third world countries, it is born out of a Malthusian drive to eliminate the poor and those deemed racially inferior, using the justification of social Darwinism.
As is documented in Alex Jones’ seminal film Endgame, Rockefeller’s father, John D. Rockefeller, exported eugenics to Germany from its origins in Britain by bankrolling the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute which later would form a central pillar in the Third Reich’s ideology of the Nazi super race. After the fall of the Nazis, top German eugenicists were protected by the allies as the victorious parties fought over who would enjoy their “expertise” in the post-war world.
As Dr. Len Horowitz writes, “In the 1950s, the Rockefellers reorganized the U.S. eugenics movement in their own family offices, with spinoff population-control and abortion groups. The Eugenics Society changed its name to the Society for the Study of Social Biology, its current name.”
“The Rockefeller Foundation had long financed the eugenics movement in England, apparently repaying Britain for the fact that British capital and an Englishman-partner had started old John D. Rockefeller out in his Oil Trust. In the 1960s, the Eugenics Society of England adopted what they called Crypto-eugenics, stating in their official reports that they would do eugenics through means and instruments not labeled as eugenics.”
“With support from the Rockefellers, the Eugenics Society (England) set up a sub-committee called the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which for 12 years had no other address than the Eugenics Society. This, then, is the private, international apparatus which has set the world up for a global holocaust, under the UN flag.”
In the latter half of the 20th century, eugenics merely changed its face to become known as “population control”. This was crystallized in National Security Study Memorandum 200, a 1974 geopolitical strategy document prepared by Rockefeller’s intimate friend and fellow Bilderberg member Henry Kissinger, which targeted thirteen countries for massive population reduction by means of creating food scarcity, sterilization and war.
In the 21st century, the eugenics movement has changed its stripes once again, manifesting itself through the global carbon tax agenda and the notion that having too many children or enjoying a reasonably high standard of living is destroying the planet through global warming, creating the pretext for further regulation and control over every facet of our lives.
As we have tirelessly documented, the elite’s drive for population control is not based around a benign philanthropic urge to improve living standards, it is firmly routed in eugenics, racial hygiene and fascist thinking.
The Times reports that the secret billionaire cabal has been dubbed ‘The Good Club’ by insiders. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Anyone who takes the time to properly research the origins of the “population control” movement will come to understand that the Rockefeller-Turner-Gates agenda for drastic population reduction, which is now clearly manifesting itself through real environmental crises like chemtrails, genetically modified food, tainted vaccines and other skyrocketing diseases such as cancer, has its origins in the age-old malevolent elitist agenda to cull the human “chattel” as one would do to rodents or any other species deemed a nuisance by the central planning authorities.
U.S. Bullion Depository - the official name for the gold at Fort Knox
A VERY GOOD ARTICLE
What building lies on the corner of Bullion Blvd and Gold Vault Rd. in Kentucky? Answer: Fort Knox, or U.S. Bullion Depository if you want to be official. Next question, who owns the gold at Fort Knox? Yes, there still is gold at Fort Knox a significant amount in fact. If you took all the gold and formed it into a cube it would be 20 feet tall and wide. The U.S. holds more gold than any other country in the world. Again, who owns that 20 foot cube of gold. I’m not going to directly answer that question. I’ll let you decide. But first let me provide some historical information.
U.S. Monetary System
The gold standard is when currency is backed by gold. Meaning that the issuing entity (United States Government) guarantees to redeem the note or currency for gold valued for the same amount. Believe it or not the United States used to follow the gold standard all the way up to 1971. To be more accurate it effectively came to an end in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlawed private gold ownership. Then we were completely severed from the standard on August 15, 1971 with President Richard Nixon. We replaced the gold standard with a system called fiat currency. Fiat money is currency that is not backed by anything but the good faith of the government and that the currency will continue to be stable, trade-able and of some “value”. It is NOT redeemable for precious metals or anything else.
The Dollar
To further clarify the point of the gold standard take a look at the partial image of the one dollar bill. Do you notice anything different? There are two subtle but extremely substantial phrases on this bill that you don’t see on your bills today. They are “United States Note”, and “Will pay to the bearer on demand”. On our notes today the first phrase is replaced with “Federal Reserve Note”. If you think the Federal Reserve is a government agency then the difference between the phrases may seem insignificant. But, the Federal Reserve is NOT a federal agency, it is a private organization. The U.S. government is no longer in control of printing our currency. The second phrase was replaced with “”, that’s right nothing! This is what leaving the gold standard means. You no longer can redeem your note for anything of “real” value.
The Heist
Your ancestors held notes, currency, dollars or whatever you want to call their money. The notes they held was representative of actual gold sitting in a vault somewhere that they were entitled to. They could at anytime walk in hand over their notes and receive that amount of gold in return. So in effect all (or a substantially large percentage) of the gold at Fort Knox was owned by our ancestors, the common hardworking God fearing men and women who made this country great and worked hard to earn that gold. Then, the U.S. Government decides to stop backing the notes in gold, and refuses to redeem notes for gold. I now repeat my question one more time. Who owns the gold at Fort Knox? Did the government just steal all the gold from every single American in the entire country? Or, are they just keeping it “safe” for us?
OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE:
http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html
PhysicsCentral.com | The plot thickens; the ozone does not
In 1985, researchers discovered a gaping hole in the layer of ozone-rich cloud over Antarctica. Ozone, a molecule of three oxygen atoms, may seem unassuming, but it absorbs light in the UV-B range, considerably reducing how much of it reaches the surface of the earth. When it comes to sunlight, this is the nasty stuff—skin cancer-causing, molecule-destroying, plant-killing wavelengths of ultraviolet. Ozone, happily, absorbs the lion's share before it starts frying our eyes.
One scientist, however, wasn't buying it. In 2001, Qing-Bin Lu, then at the University of Sherbrooke in Canada, published a paper linking ozone depletion to cosmic rays, the high-energy nuclei, electrons, and protons produced in galaxies far, far away. Examining ozone and cosmic-ray data from satellites, balloons, and ground stations for the years 1997—1992, Lu found a statistical correlation between cosmic ray intensity, related to the 11-year solar cycle, and global ozone levels. He also showed in the lab that when CFCs bound in a "cloud" (water vapor condensed on a metal rod at below-freezing temperatures) were bombarded with low-energy electrons, they were a million times more likely to let loose active chlorine. (Cosmic rays rarely make it through the atmosphere intact, but instead produce showers of other particles, such as low-energy electrons, when they collide with atmospheric molecules.)
In April 2009, Lu came out with even stronger support for his idea, or so it seemed. This time his study spanned the years 1980-2007. Again, he showed a correlation between cosmic ray intensity and mean global ozone levels, and between cosmic ray intensity and fluctuations in Antarctic ozone.
"These correlations mean that nearly 100 percent of the ozone loss over Antarcitca must be driven by cosmic rays," he told Physics World, implying that UV was just not the culprit here. But other climate experts were very skeptical of Lu's attempt to explain ozone depletion by a completely new mechanism. FULL ARTICLE
CURRENT MOON PHASE
BEEN ASKED TO 'FIND OUT WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING ON THE MOON'
WAS BUSY YESTERDAY - WITH RESEARCHING QUITE A FEW SUBJECTS
MOON IMAGES - DIRECT LINK MENU
THE BELOW PICTURE CAN BE FOUND AT THIS LINK: http://thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/41Group_Lunar_FYEO/02files/FYEO_Lunar_02.html
Research presented in October 2009 suggests the Jupiter moon's oceans may harbor complex life—perhaps not unlike fish—thanks to a drastic upward revision of the seas' expected oxygen content. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/DLR
National Severe Weather Map
Near-record cold possible in Fairbanks on Friday
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - - 14 hours agoRecord low temperatures were recorded across a large portion of Interior Alaska this week. Bettles has been the coldest, with a low of 46 degrees below zero ...
CHINESE BILLIONAIRES NOT HAPPY WITH GOLD PLATED TUNGSTEN BARS AND LONDON
IS THERE WEATHER WARFARE GOING ON?
Britain hit by floods after record rainfall
Reuters - - 1 hour agoThe Meteorological Office said the amount of rain expected during the entire month of November had fallen in 24 hours. Britain has been hit by severe ...Record rainfall causes widespread flooding in NW England, SW Scotland and ... Continuity Central (press release)Bloomberg - Telegraph.co.ukCumbria floods spark major rescue operation guardian.co.uk
Artificial snowstorm in China kills 38
Officials have said the two storms in Beijing were artificially induced, sparking anger among capital-area residents, but the extent of the weather manipulation efforts remained unclear.
ARE YOU TAKING YOUR VITAMIN D3 AND MAKING SURE YOU ARE EATING ONIONS AND GARLIC?
THE BIOWEAPON FLU
Looks like the pneumonic plague has spread to Poland -- Reports are coming in of people dying of symptoms similar to the pneunomic plague in an Emergency Room in Bialystok in the north east of Poland.
Related Articles:
* Flu attacks Poland -- The AH1N1 virus has claimed a fourth victim in Poland and the number of those suffering flu-like symptoms has increased dramatically.
* Schools & hospitals in Poland closing down over flu fears -- A school in the southern town of Lipnik closed down after 75 per cent of its students failed to turned up for classes on Wednesday morning. School activities have also been suspended in several other cities.
Radical measures can't stop swine flu -- Quarantines, school closures and other steps to contain swine flu have not worked.
VIDEO: Medical doctor that recommended H1N1 vaccine retracts and says don't take it!
Aspirin kills 400% more people than swine flu -- Did you know that more than four times as many people are killed each year by common NSAID painkillers like aspirin?
The association of acetaminophen, aspirin and ibuprofen with respiratory disease and lung function
Vaccinations are causing impaired blood flow, (Ischemia), chronic illness & disease -- It is now proven that we are all being harmed by repeat vaccinations. This evidence must be circulated broadly in light of the imminent Fall, 2009 plan to turn North American schools into MASS vaccine centers to institute triple flu vaccine to us all. Children will be the first to be injected with experimental flu vaccines. The entire vaccine industry, as it turns out, has been experimental. We did not know that we were causing damages – for us all.
Moldovan soldiers given onions & garlic to fight swine flu -- Moldova's army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them ward off swine flu. Defense Ministry chief doctor Col. Sergiu Vasislita says about 0.9 ounces (25 grams) of onions and 0.5 ounces (15 grams) of garlic will be added to each soldier's daily diet. That roughly corresponds to a small onion and a couple of garlic cloves.
Microbiologist nabbed by FBI after warning that vaccine is a bioweapon -- Watch the actual videos as he is surrounded, gassed, and tasered. Joseph Moshe is a microbiologist who had called a radio station, and stated that the H1NI vaccine is actually a bio-weapon, and is the DEPLOYMENT OF A PLAGUE. The official propaganda line is that he had threatened the President, although there is no evidence that this is true.
Ukraine swine flu burns lungs -- British scientists suspect that swine flu virus has mutated in Ukraine. Some doctors say that flu in the country has shown unprecedented symptoms, creating the effect of “burnt” lungs, the Daily Mail reports.
If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse -- When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone era, like smallpox, polio or scarlet fever. But we haven't seen how bad things might yet get.
Aerosol spraying, weaponized viruses & Baxter
Swine flu deception & disinformation exposed -- There has been a flurry of contradictory swine flu events reported here and from Ukraine this early fall. These coincided with a CBS news program releasing information that very few reported swine cases actually tested positive for H1N1. CBS's state by state survey discovered that less than 5 percent of flu cases reported in most American states were confirmed as H1N1. In most states less than half the reported cases were not even a flu of any type!
Video coverage from Russia Today on Ukraine talks about the spraying
Biolabs multiplying like rabbits...a clear & present danger -- Earlier this year, during an audit of the nation's largest Level-4 BioSafety Lab (BSL-4) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, 9,220 vials of ebola, anthrax, botulinum, equine encephalitis virus, and other deadly germs were discovered in the proverbial dusty old storage area. No one even knew the vials existed and thus no one knows for sure whether any are missing.
Critical information may be missing from prescription drug labels -- Prescription drug use, sadly, is rising among people in the United States with one in six using three or more medications. Of special interest then is a recent commentary published last month in The New England Journal of Medicine which states that the FDA has critical information when a drug is approved that may not make it onto the drug label or package inserts that come with the medications.
UK: Dozens of birds drop dead during country show -- Autopsy show hemorrhaging in lungs.
Microchipping of US citizens to be mandatory? -- Already, It Looks As if Micro-chipping of US Citizens Will Soon Be Mandatory. Read More...
DUE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION'S STANDARDS - OUR GOVERNMENT MANDATED THE USE OF THOSE 'CURLY FLORESCENT' LIGHT BULBS (NOTE EU - EUROPEAN UNION .. MORE ON THAT SUBJECT LATER)
BETTER BUY SOME REGULAR OLD ROUND SHAPED BULBS - THEY'LL BE TAKEN OFF THE SHELF SOON
OUR NATION HAS AN UNBELIEVABLE NETWORK OF UNDERGROUND TUNNELS (More on that at another time)
TAXPAYERS HAVE FUNDED OUR BLACK GOVERNMENT WELL
Largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world
Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS | November 20, 2009
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New York readies for the Gitmo Five -- While some believe that trying the so-called "Gitmo Five" in New York City will result in more terrorist attacks in the city, Stratfor does not anticipate a marked increase in the number of plots or attacks.
Hasan's supervisor warned Army in 2007 -- Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan's incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing. NPR has obtained a copy of the memo, the first evaluation that has surfaced from Hasan's file.
House Panel Votes to Advance Ron Paul's Plan on Fed Audits -- A U.S. House committee advanced a proposal to remove a three-decade ban on congressional audits of Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions, a measure backed by a lawmaker who has called for the abolition of the central bank.
Idahoans see meteor explosion -- People flooded the phone lines Tuesday night as they called 911 trying to figure out what flashed in the middle of the night. It was actually a meteor traveling at unbelievable speeds.
IBM reveals the biggest artificial brain of all time -- IBM has revealed the biggest artificial brain of all time, a simulation run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer that requires millions of watts of electricity and over 150,000 gigabytes of memory. The brain simulation is a feat for neuroscience and computer processing—but it's still one- eighty-third the speed of a human brain and is only as large as a cat's. Will we ever get to truly capable artificial intelligence? PM reports from IBM's Almaden research center to find out.
GSK and Nabi announce agreement for NicVAX®, a vaccine for nicotine addiction -- GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA (GSK) and Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nabi) today announced an exclusive worldwide option and licensing agreement for a nicotine conjugate candidate vaccine (NicVAX®), an investigational vaccine for the treatment of nicotine addiction and the prevention of smoking relapse, as well as for the development of a second generation nicotine vaccine.
State Budget Shortfalls and Safety Deposit Boxes -- The United States has long been a socialistic country that thinks they are capitalistic. For decades America has had a centrally planned economy through the unconstitutional legal tender laws and illegal Federal Reserve which attempts intervention of both the money supply and cost of money. Government holds no solutions and is only making the situation worse the same way they did with the Great Depression.
Congress members asked where in the Constitution does it mandate health care? --Read the embarrassing & aggravating answers.
Iodine prevents breast cancer -- Fortunately, preventing breast cancer is easy, and iodine is one of the key nutritional strategies for accomplishing precisely that. Here, we bring you an extremely informative collection of information about how iodine helps prevent breast cancer. You'll learn how it works, which different sources of iodine are available today, and which books to read to learn more.
Grand Canyon uranium mine challenged -- A mining company's plans to reopen a long-dormant uranium mine near the Grand Canyon without an updated environmental review could damage the water, wildlife and "iconic landscapes" of canyon country, environmental groups say in Federal Court.
US wants China to buy into its small banks -- Chinese and U.S. regulators are negotiating a pact aimed at encouraging Chinese financial institutions to buy into small and medium-sized banks in the United States, bankers briefed on the plan said on Tuesday.
Teens help SWAT team practice -- As part of a training exercise for SWAT personnel, about 70 students, including volunteers from El Dorado and Yorba Linda high schools, joined police officers from the North County SWAT Team at Yorba Linda High School Sunday.
Government website says stimulus created jobs in non existent districts -- The federal website that tracks spending from the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus program reports that the program has created thousands of jobs in congressional districts that don't exist.
Pedal powered laptops in Afghanistan -- Pedal power laptop is a pedal powered machine that uses nothing but pedal power to operate the laptop. The system is set up so that just about anyone with two legs would be able to power the laptop and they claim that even a third grader can step up to the pedal power laptop computer and get to work with no problems.
TAKE YOUR TIME AND THINK ABOUT IT - IT TAKES 8 SECONDS FOR ACETONE (LIKE IN FINGERNAIL POLISH) TO REACH YOUR HEART
Women put 515 chemicals on their face & body every day in beauty regime -- A survey found women typically use up to 13 products, most of which contain more than 20 ingredients, including additives. Perfumes contain an average cocktail of 250 ingredients, the study found, with some containing as many as 400.
Website: The non-GMO project -- Our shared belief is that everyone deserves an informed choice about whether or not to consume genetically modified products, and our common mission is to ensure the sustained availability of non-GMO choices.
The Top 10 Most Unhealthy Foods In Your Supermarket
These unhealthy foods are responsible for the current decline in our health as a society including skyrocketing rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, allergies and dementia.
You might want to consider taking the following unhealthy foods off the menu if you want to live a long and healthy life . The food you put into your mouth every day plays a much bigger role in how healthy you are than your genes.
1. Margarine
The process used to make a liquid oil opaque yellow and spreadable produces an incredibly unhealthy product that hardly qualifies to be called a food. It doesn’t matter if you start with the best quality extra virgin olive, the final product is still an unhealthy food.
Promoted as a cholesterol free and healthier choice than good old butter, margarine is the ultimate source of trans fats, which rather ironically elevate cholesterol and damage blood vessel walls. Even more ironic is the fact that margarine is still recommended by health authorities including the Australian Heart Foundation who also promote reducing dietary trans fats. Clever loopholes in labelling allow margarines to claim that they are ‘virtually’ trans fat free. Margarine is a good example of a politically correct unhealthy food.
What about the new cholesterol lowering margarines?
Save your money, you’ll be getting a dose of the very same phyto sterols by using extra virgin olive oil liberally in your diet. Most fruits and vegetables also contain phyto sterols. Flaxseed or linseed meal, nuts, seeds and legumes are all rich sources of phytosterols.
2. Breakfast Cereals
These cleverly marketed, attractively boxed ‘foods’ are in my opinion one of the most unhealthy foods in your supermarket.
And it’s not just me who thinks this.
According to Dr. Peter Dingle, a Western Australian Toxicologist and author of “My Dog Eats Better than Your Kids” and “The DEAL for Happier, Healthier, and Smarter Kids”, McDonalds makes a more nutritious breakfast than Cornflakes!
Even Choice Magazine agrees with me. They looked at the top 10 selling children’s breakfast cereals and concluded that you may as well have a candy bar for breakfast they were so high in sugar and lacking in nutrients. Iron man food they most definitely are not.
Besides the addition of sugar and refined salt, breakfast cereals are made from highly processed grains. You might start off with a nice healthy whole grain but by the time you’ve puffed it or turned it into a nice crunchy flake, you’re left with something your body no longer recognises as food. The process used to make the little ‘O’s, pellets, shreds, flakes and other shapes in your cereal bowl is called ‘extrusion’. The extrusion process damages the nutrients and proteins in the grain leaving them devoid of nutrients, highly toxic and not much more than empty calories – watch this space, they will be the trans fats of the future.
3. Refined Vegetable Oils
A diet high in omega 6 polyunsaturated vegetable oils has been linked to an increased risk of:
- Cancer
- Melanoma
- Learning disorders
- Allergies
- Immune suppression
- Heart disease
- Atherosclerosis (hardened plaques in your arteries)
- Reproductive problems
A pretty impressive list for a food we’ve been urged to consume more of for the last 20 years.
Polyunsaturated vegetable oils are highly fragile and easily damaged and subject to rancidity producing huge amounts of free radicals. The refining process also strips them of their natural antioxidants including vitamin E which in turn depletes your body of valuble antioxidants when you eat them.
The only oils in my kitchen include sesame oil, ghee and coconut oil for cooking, olive oil for salad dressings and butter to turn steamed vegetables from boring to mouth watering.
4.Doughnuts
According to Carla Wolper, Nutritionist at the New York Obesity Research Centre, "When it comes to health, the only thing good about them is the hole".
Break down a doughnut and you’re left with nothing but refined sugar and flour, artificial flavors and partially hydrogenated oil. They’re also loaded with trans fats – hello heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
Despite the fact that they’re about as healthy as a packet of cigarettes, doughnuts are increasingly used in school fundraisers these days. And we wonder why as a society that diabetes and obesity are set to cripple our health care system in the next decade.
Even if you live by the mantra of ‘everything in moderation’, treat doughnuts like rat poison rather than a food.
5. Soft Drinks
Your average can of soft drink contains the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar (about 150 calories) as well as artificial food colours and sulphites. Sulphites are well known triggers of asthma and other allergies. Diet soft drinks are just as unhealthy, artificial sweeteners like aspartame are potent ‘excitotoxins’ to the brain and nervous system and have also been linked to an increased risk of obesity.
Soft drinks are definitely not a ‘soft’ option in the junk food stakes, they increase your risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.
Soft drink are a particularly unhealthy food for children as they are a significant risk factor for impaired calcification of growing bones – you wouldn’t dream of letting your child smoke a cigarette or drink a glass of wine as a ‘special treat’ so it makes no sense that it’s OK to give a child a can of cola as a weekend treat.
According to a report in the medical journal of Australia, “There is much to be gained by reducing children’s intake of soft drinks and little — except excess weight — to be lost”. Not to mention healthier bones and teeth.
The easiest way to stop yourself and your family drinking soft drink is to simply stop buying it. If it’s not in the fridge you can’t drink it.
6. Aspartame
(Artificial sweetener: Trade Name Equal and NutraSweet)
As a natural health consultant I’m always trying to convince people to eat less sugar. But sometimes a little big of sugar is much healthier than some of the artificial alternatives.
There are far worse things than sugar hiding in your food.
Aspartame, the artificial sweetener also known as Equal and NutraSweet was first approved for use in dry foods in 1981. Its approval by the American FDA which paved the way for approval throughout the rest of the world was highly controversial. The FDA commissioner, Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes who approved its use over ruled his departments own board of enquiry who recommended against approving aspartame for use in food. Shortly after approving aspartame, Dr. Hayes left the FDA to take up a very well paid position in public relations for the pharmaceutical giant, Searle, who produced aspartame and pushed hard for its approval.
Why is aspartame so bad for you?
- Aspartame is broken down or metabolised into the well known toxin, methanol (wood alcohol).
- Methanol is then converted to formaldehyde and formic acid (which is responsible for the pain caused by ant stings).
- Formaldehyde is a potent neurotoxin and causes damage to the nervous system.
Other documented effects of methanol poisoning include vision problems and problems with DNA replication which can cause cancer and birth defects. The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) classes’ methanol as an ‘accumulative poison’ as it is excreted slowly once absorbed into the body. This means that even very small amounts of aspartame can be toxic if taken on a daily basis. When taken on an empty stomach, the metabolism of aspartame to these toxic byproducts is accelerated – ironic when you consider that most people who use this artificial sweetener are in fact dieters eating aspartame laced unhealthy foods and meal replacements.
When aspartame is heated to temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, large amounts of free methanol are produced resulting in greater toxic reactions due to faster absorption. Despite this, in 1993 it was approved for use in foods that would be heated to high temperatures such as jelly, cakes, biscuits and puddings. Aspartame toxicity is believed to be responsible for ‘Gulf War Syndrome’ caused by diet cordial and soft drinks consumed by troops that had been heated to temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius in the Saudi Arabian sun.
Some of the toxic reactions caused by Aspartame and acknowledged by the FDA include:
• ADHD
• Anxiety attacks
• Asthma
• Birth defects
• Blood sugar control problems
• Chronic cough
• Chronic fatigue
• Depression
• Headaches and Migraines
• Facial flushing
• Heart palpitations
• Hearing loss
• Insomnia
• Numbness or Tingling of extremities
• Seizures and convulsions
• Tinnitus
• Vertigo
• Vision loss
• Weight gain
Aspartame can also mimic or worsen the following disease:
• Fibromyalgia
• Multiple sclerosis
• Lupus
• Diabetes
• Chronic fatigue syndrome
• Multiple chemical sensitivity
• Epilepsy
And lets face it, at the end of the day, the sorts of foods that aspartame is found in are pretty unhealthy foods at best, making it pretty easy to avoid if you're even marginally interested in a healthy diet.
7. Soy Protein
Textured vegetable protein (TVP)found in vegetarian "Not Meat" products and Soy protein isolate found in most processed foods.
No matter what side of the fence you sit on the great soy debate, TVP or textured vegetable protein made from de-fatted soy flour is so processed that it hardly qualifies to be called a food anymore.
It is a highly processed and unhealthy food, it is NOT a health food.
If you want to include soy in your diet, use the whole bean or foods made from the whole bean – fermented of course!
TVP is used by many vegetarians and vegans to increase protein in their diet and is also used by meat eaters keen to reduce meat in their diets due to budget or health reasons but don’t want to miss out on essential protein.
If you're currently using TVP or other forms of soy protein you might want to find an alternative:
• Having most of the fats and carbohydrates removed means that it's no longer a whole food.
• Food grade soy protein was originally used as animal feed, which didn't pay all that well. So it was re-invented as a human food, and then as a health food, which was much more profitable. Think about the price of protein shakes, veg sausage, or veggie burgers, and you get the picture
• The world’s biggest manufacturer of TVP is the world’s second largest chemical company – DuPont. This same company funds much of research and telling us how healthy and safe texturised soy protein and soy powder is.
• Soy protein is used in a variety of foods such as salad dressings, soups, vegetarian foods, meat imitations, beverage powders, cheeses, coffee whiteners, frozen desserts, whipped toppings, infant formulas, bread and rolls, cereals, pasta products, oriental foods and pet foods. It is not used in these foods to enhance nutrition, it is used emulsify (combine oils/fats and water) and add texture to food - it's used for the convience of food manufacturers, not to make it healthier for you.
• Most soy these days comes from genetically modified soy beans (soy beans are genetically modified to make them resistant to pesticides, so they don’t die when the weeds growing around them are sprayed).
"SPI (soy protein) is not something you can make in your own kitchen. Production takes place in industrial factories where a slurry of soy beans is first mixed with an alkaline solution to remove fiber, then precipitated and separated using an acid wash and, finally, neutralized in an alkaline solution."
"Acid washing in aluminum tanks leaches high levels of aluminum into the final product. The resultant curds are spray-dried at high temperatures to produce a high-protein powder. A final indignity to the original soybean is high-temperature, high-pressure extrusion processing of soy protein isolate to produce textured vegetable protein (TVP)."
"But high-temperature processing has the unfortunate side-effect of so denaturing the other proteins in soy that they are rendered largely ineffective. That's why animals on soy feed need lysine supplements for normal growth." Nb. Denatured proteins are hard for your body to digest and often cause bloating and wind.
"Nitrites, which are potent carcinogens, are formed during spray-drying, and a toxin called lysinoalanine is formed during alkaline processing. 24 Numerous artificial flavorings, particularly MSG, are added to soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein products to mask their strong "beany" taste and to impart the flavor of meat. "
"In feeding experiments, the use of SPI increased requirements for vitamins E, K, D and B12 and created deficiency symptoms of calcium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, copper, iron and zinc.26 Phytic acid remaining in these soy products greatly inhibits zinc and iron absorption; test animals fed SPI develop enlarged organs, particularly the pancreas and thyroid gland, and increased deposition of fatty acids in the liver. "
8. Potato Crisps
Out of all the foods on my top 10 Unhealthy Food hit list, potato crisps are my biggest down fall and I have to admit to guiltily indulging in the odd packet of crisps despite knowing what a shockingly unhealthy food they are, whether they actually deserve to be called a food is another matter. If I know I’m headed somewhere that crisps will be laid out to tempt me, I eat a boiled egg before leaving the house which helps to keep me feeling full and satisfied and reduces cravings for unhealthy foods.
So if you find yourself falling afoul of the big bad top 10 unhealthy foods, don’t beat yourself up too badly. Simply avoid eating them every day (even once per week is too much) and if you’re regularly eating all ten super unhealthy foods remind yourself that by doing so you’re sending your body further into nutritional debt – think of it like going crazy with your credit card, at some point you’re going to have to pay for it, plus the interest.
The British Heart Foundation built an effective campaign around the slightly nauseating image of a young girl drinking cooking oil directly from a great big bottle to try and alert parents to the dangers of feeding their kids crips. British kids consume almost 10.5 pints of oil annually if they eat one bag of chips a day.
Another British crisp fact: Brits consume a ton of chips every 3 minutes, or enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool every 14 hours. I'm sure that Australian statistics are just as bad.
Gross statistics aside, just how bad are crisps?
Very bad.
The oil that crisps are cooked in is heated to extremely high temperatures forming all sorts of toxic compounds. To make matters worse, the oil is filtered and reused again and again and again.
Some of the toxic chemicals produced include carcinogens such as Acrylamide as well as toxic fat molecules that are cross-linked, fragmented, bond-shifted oils and polymerized (which translates into dangerous fats, far worse than trans fats).
Some brands of crisps tested had levels of cancer causing acrylamide 500 times more than the safe limit set by the World Health Organisation for acrylamide in drinking water.
After they’re cooked, crisps are then loaded with flavour enhancers (MSG), stabilizers, anti caking agents, preservatives and colourings.
Crisps are one of the most unhealthy foods that people eat on a regular basis and you'll be doing your body a huge favour if you boycot the crisp aisle in your supermarket.
9. Fructose and Sucrose
If are interested in diet, nutrition and health, chances are you’ve come across the term HFCS, otherwise known as high fructose corn syrup. The internet is awash with the dangers of this sweetener added liberally to processed foods and drinks, including soft drinks.
And it’s all true.
The good news is that HFCS is not used in Australia.
The bad news is that the sweetener currently used in Australia, sucrose, is every bit as bad.
Fructose on the other hand has always been thought of as a healthier sweetener as it doesn’t have an immediate effect upon blood sugar levels. This is why soft drinks such as certain Cola drinks have a low glycemic index. Fructose, unlike glucose doesn’t stimulate insulin production. Insulin’s job is to store energy, in other words, insulin’s job is to make you gain weight. This is why a high glucose or sugar intake leads to weight gain.
According to Dr Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, research over the last 10 years has shown that fructose is by no means a healthy alternative to glucose.
In Dr Lustig’s own words, “We’re being poisoned to death by fructose”.
He describes fructose as behaving more like an alcohol and a fat than a sugar. In fact he describes fructose as “just like alcohol without the buzz”.
You might want to keep this statement in mind the next time you reach for a glass of fruit juice or a ‘sugar free’ jam sweetened with fructose.
A high fructose diet can over many years can cause:
• Liver damage
• Weight gain
• Elevated uric acid (gout)
• High blood pressure
• Unhealthy cholesterol levels (elevated VLDL’s, the Very Bad cholesterol)
What does fructose have to do with sucrose, the main sweetener used in Australian processed foods?
Sucrose is actually 50% glucose and 50% fructose making it 100% unhealthy. High fructose corn syrup also known as isoglucos contains 45-58% glucose and and 42-55% fructose.
Sucrose is also known as table sugar or sugar.
Fructose does occur naturally in fruit, but our bodies are not designed to handle it in the amounts that are currently being ingested.
Our consumption of fructose has increased from around 250 grams per year in 1970 to 25kg in 2003. It comes as no surprise then that we’re all getting fatter as a society, despite the fact our fat intake has decreased from 40% to 30%.
Choose a piece of fruit over a glass of fruit juice and limit your consumption of sugar sweetened foods (if you really care about your health make it a priority to eliminate these unhealthy foods altogether). Also beware of ‘Sugar Free’ foods as these are often sweetened with fructose.
10. Fat Free and Diet Foods
If you’ve ever struggled to keep your weight under control, you’re probably already aware that fat free foods don’t help. A diet too low in fat leaves you feeling depressed and battling food cravings which does nothing to help your self esteem (or your waist line).
Fat also makes food taste good and if food doesn’t taste good most people won’t buy it. Food manufacturers know this, so in order for a low fat processed food to sell they load it up with sugar, salt, fructose, msg, artificial sweeteners and other bad things in order to make it taste appealing.
Fat free is a marketing gimmick based on what we thought we knew about health, nutrition and the human body back in the 1950’s. We now know that fat is not responsible for making most people fat – we’re already eating a diet much lower in fat than our grandparents.
We get fat thanks to our own hormones – insulin and cortisol, not just extra calories from unhealthy foods. A diet high in refined sugars and carbohydrates are the primary culprits behind high levels of these fattening hormones. You should be fearing the processed, colourfully packaged unhealthy foods in your supermarket more than fat. Other culprits responsible for fat producing hormones are lack of sleep, high stress, calorie restriction diets and lack of exercise (and in some cases, over exercising).
If you want a truly healthy low fat snack, pick up an apple instead of a fat free processed and unhealthy food snack.
Now you know what the most unhealthy foods are lurking in your supermarket. Being aware of them and the tricks manufacturers, advertisers and even your supermarkets use to promote these unhealthy foods as healthy is the first step to eliminating them from your diet.
Hope your Friday morning is going well. Will talk at you all later!
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