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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Garlic Bubble Loaf Recipe
Orangutans under attack
Dear friends,
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The
world’s orangutans are hanging on by a thread, with scientists warning we don’t have much time left
before they’re extinct. Now there’s a brilliant plan that could save them,
if we all chip in what we can.
There’s a crucial corridor connecting two essential orangutan habitats in the wetlands of Borneo that is on the brink of destruction. Saving this land could be the difference between life and death for countless orangutans, who need continuous swaths of forest and trees to survive. Conservation NGOs and local groups have fearlessly announced they will buy the land and protect it for good, but to do it they need enough money to beat out profit-hungry companies looking to move in and destroy it.
This is exactly the kind of moment the Avaaz community was made for — our unique, people-powered funding model could allow us to finance the crucial sanctuary quickly, and create a fund to defend other key pieces of land around the world.
friend -- click to pledge what you can, we’ll process your donation only if we raise enough to buy the land:
There’s a crucial corridor connecting two essential orangutan habitats in the wetlands of Borneo that is on the brink of destruction. Saving this land could be the difference between life and death for countless orangutans, who need continuous swaths of forest and trees to survive. Conservation NGOs and local groups have fearlessly announced they will buy the land and protect it for good, but to do it they need enough money to beat out profit-hungry companies looking to move in and destroy it.
This is exactly the kind of moment the Avaaz community was made for — our unique, people-powered funding model could allow us to finance the crucial sanctuary quickly, and create a fund to defend other key pieces of land around the world.
friend -- click to pledge what you can, we’ll process your donation only if we raise enough to buy the land:
Orangutans
are some of our most intelligent, thoughtful relatives — their name means
“person of the forest” in Malay. They spend 90% of their time roaming and
climbing trees (the males can stretch their arms up to 7 feet!) — even
sleeping high up in nests of leafy branches, and they use big leaves as
umbrellas when it rains. So, as demand for palm oil skyrockets and companies
rush to clear more and more land, their homes are literally falling like
dominoes.
Allowing the world’s orangutans to die out would mean not only losing one of the planet’s most majestic creatures forever, but would also change the entire ecosystem of the rainforests they inhabit. As they roam the forest eating fruit, orangutans scatter the seeds far and wide, helping the entire forest stay healthy and robust.
In Borneo, where 80% of the orangutans’ habitat has already been destroyed, even a small area of land can make a massive difference as it can link together protected forests that have survived. That’s why this plan to save the orangutans is so powerful — by connecting a forest reserve with a wildlife sanctuary, we can get the most from every cent raised.
Click to pledge — if we raise enough money we can give the local groups the money they need to buy the land — and create a rapid-response fund we can use at a moment’s notice to defend wildlife populations from critical threats:
Time and time again the Avaaz community has come
together to protect forests and critically endangered species, from the Amazon
in Ecuador and Brazil, to elephants, rhinos and lions threatened by poaching.
Last year, nearly 1.5 million of us came together to call on the Indonesian
government to protect its precious orangutan population. Now, we have a chance
to make a massive difference in Malaysia, before even one more precious
orangutan dies. Allowing the world’s orangutans to die out would mean not only losing one of the planet’s most majestic creatures forever, but would also change the entire ecosystem of the rainforests they inhabit. As they roam the forest eating fruit, orangutans scatter the seeds far and wide, helping the entire forest stay healthy and robust.
In Borneo, where 80% of the orangutans’ habitat has already been destroyed, even a small area of land can make a massive difference as it can link together protected forests that have survived. That’s why this plan to save the orangutans is so powerful — by connecting a forest reserve with a wildlife sanctuary, we can get the most from every cent raised.
Click to pledge — if we raise enough money we can give the local groups the money they need to buy the land — and create a rapid-response fund we can use at a moment’s notice to defend wildlife populations from critical threats:
With hope and determination,
Ricken, Mia, Emma, Allison, Christoph, Diego, Mais, Wen-Hua, Oli and the whole Avaaz team
MORE INFORMATION:
Why is the Orangutan in Danger? (Orangutan Foundation International)
http://www.orangutan.org/orangutan-facts/why-is-the-orangutan-in-danger-2
Bornean orangutan (WWF)
http://worldwildlife.org/species/bornean-orangutan
Endangered Animals Fight for Their Lives in Borneo's Forests (New Indian Express)
http://www.newindianexpress.com/education/student/Endangered-Animals-Fight-for-Their-Lives-in-Borneos-Forests/2014/01/09/article1990789.ece
A New 9-11 Movie: "September 11- The New Pearl Harbor"
A New 9-11 Movie:
"September 11- The New Pearl Harbor"
Created by famed Italian movie maker Massimo Mazzucco
"September
11-The New Pearl Harbor"is a 5 hour documentary that summarizes 12
years of public debate on 9/11. While aimed primarily at a general,
uninformed audience, the film also
contains some new findings that may be of interest to advanced
researchers.
This
film is intended as an educational, not-for-profit operation, and must
remain so in order to fulfill all the requirements for the usage of
copyrighted material. As such, the entire film is made available online
for free from day one. Any purchase of the actual DVD will be considered
as a form of donation to the
author,
in recognition of the time spent to put together this material. Free
duplication and distribution of all DVDs is encouraged.
At
the bottom of the page you will find more information related to this
film, including the links to order the DVD, and the TRAILER.
Watch the complete movie in three parts:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=it&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luogocomune.net%2Fsite%2Fmodules%2Fsections%2Findex.php%3Fop%3Dviewarticle%26artid%3D167>
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great
moral crises maintain their neutrality" -Dante Alighieri
Created by famed Italian movie maker Massimo Mazzucco
"September
11-The New Pearl Harbor"is a 5 hour documentary that summarizes 12
years of public debate on 9/11. While aimed primarily at a general,
uninformed audience, the film also
contains some new findings that may be of interest to advanced
researchers.
This
film is intended as an educational, not-for-profit operation, and must
remain so in order to fulfill all the requirements for the usage of
copyrighted material. As such, the entire film is made available online
for free from day one. Any purchase of the actual DVD will be considered
as a form of donation to the
author,
in recognition of the time spent to put together this material. Free
duplication and distribution of all DVDs is encouraged.
At
the bottom of the page you will find more information related to this
film, including the links to order the DVD, and the TRAILER.
Watch the complete movie in three parts:
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=it&to=en&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luogocomune.net%2Fsite%2Fmodules%2Fsections%2Findex.php%3Fop%3Dviewarticle%26artid%3D167>
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great
moral crises maintain their neutrality" -Dante Alighieri
ABC Australia Exposes Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drug Scam and Pharmaceutical Criminal Activity
Removing
The Shackles
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Posted: 03 Feb 2014 03:06 PM PST
While the corruption of Big
Pharma and the medical machine is no new news for most of us, this is a
vitally important piece of information coming from a main stream media
outlet.
If you have friends or family that have been battling "high cholesterol" who won't listen to you as you try to warn them about the danger of Statin drugs, this might be the first piece of media driven information that might help get them to ask questions and to research and to listen. http://iinformedparenting.blogspot.com/2014/02/abc-australia-exposes-cholesterol.html
ABC
Australia Exposes Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drug Scam and Pharmaceutical
Criminal Activity
I
know this isn't one of my regular topics of discussion, but this is a vitally
important piece of information to get out to people.
We have been lied to for years and years about "bad cholesterol" and sold horrific drugs to supposedly combat it.... drugs that are literally killing people. Please spread this article around! and bravo to ABC Australia for actually covering this story, instead of sweeping it under the carpet as most main stream media have done.
February 3, 2014
 
ABC Australia Exposes Cholesterol-lowering Statin Drug Scam
and Pharmaceutical Criminal Activity
Health Impact News Editor
Comments:
ABC News in Australia has done an incredible investigative report on cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, daring to expose organized crime in the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. This is an area where no mainstream media outlet in the USA dares to go, due to the influence of the pharmaceutical industry. In this excellent investigative documentary, cardiologists are interviewed to reveal the fraud of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, and the criminal activity that has allowed this class of drug to become the best-selling class of drugs all-time. After ABC Australia aired Part 1, The Heart of the Matter, Australia’s top medicine safety expert, Emily Banks, urged ABC not to air the follow-up, because it might encourage people to go off their anti-cholesterol statin drugs. “If people stop using their statins . . . it’s very likely that it will result in death,” she said. But those scare tactics and attempts at censorship failed, and below is Part 2 as it was aired in Australia, and is now available for the world to watch via the ABC TV Catalyst YouTube channel. Some of the top cardiologists in the U.S. have stated that there is not one single study showing that people who take statins will actually live longer. This fraud is now coming out into the open. If you or someone you know are prescribed a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, you would do well to invest 30 minutes of your time to watch this investigative report. You are not likely to learn this information from your doctor, and it could literally change your life.
Heart
of the Matter Part 2 – Cholesterol Drug War
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Obama Family Discovered To Be Part Of Secret Muslim Terror Operation
Obama Family Discovered To Be Part Of Secret Muslim Terror
Operation
The Obama
family’s legacy — although most today would not even consider saying it — will
one day be etched in history books under the heading, “How
a family of terrorists fooled America“.
Muslim Takeover in Belgium and Europe,AMERICA WAKE UP
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings! You have probably heard about
the Muslimization of Europe. This short CBN-TV newscast will enable you to
understand the danger that the Western world faces from the Muslim religion. It
could happen here as well.
WHAT CAN THE PEOPLE DO TO RESTORE LIBERTY
WHAT CAN THE PEOPLE
DO TO RESTORE LIBERTY
PART 1
PART 1
By Timothy N. Baldwin, JD.
June 14, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
June 14, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
President Obama made a statement in early June 2013 that permeates
the attitudes of many politicians and shows why the federal government has
become so large and effectively out of the people’s control. In response to a
journalist’s question regarding the federal government’s using surveillance on
United States citizens, Obama said,
If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t
trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges to make sure that we’re abiding
by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have
some problems here. (See source).
Obama’s philosophy diametrically opposes what is required for a
republican form of government to maintain liberty and constitutional integrity.
A history lesson may be needed to prove the point today considering the number
of people who voted for Obama, but in short, the Bill of Rights and the federal
form of the United States Constitution reflect the reality that government is
not to be blindly trusted, and people that do so are ripe for slavery.
Although disgusting, Obama’s statement is not surprising. As I
wrote in “Diffusion of Responsibility and the Constitution Soaked
in Urine,” one of the inherent flaws of a republican form of
government is the diffusion-of-responsibility phenomena. This essentially means
that the branches of government and persons composing those branches have
incentive not to uphold the Constitution because they can conveniently pass responsibility
to the other branches or members of government. In most cases, getting
reelected has nothing to do with upholding the integrity of the Constitution.
So, as the formula proves, the larger and more complex the society is, the more
the diffusion of responsibility flaw prevails in that system, causing the
tighter and tighter downward spiral into either tyranny or anarchy.
On March 14, 2013, Senator Feinstein (D-CA) expressed the
diffusion-of-responsibility flaw clearly during the Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on her gun control bills. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked her if she
thought her gun control bill was consistent with the Second Amendment.
Feinstein responded in part, “Congress is in the business of making law. The
Supreme Court interprets the law. If they strike down the law; they strike down
the law.” In different words, Congress need not worry about whether laws are
constitutional; that is the Supreme Court’s job. Thus, while Congress (and
their bureaucracies) passes thousands of laws each year and the Supreme Court
hears less than 100 (see source), the rate of laws left
unconstitutional are overwhelmingly against the Constitution and the people’s
rights and in favor of autocratic power.
America’s founders knew of this inherent flaw in republican
governments and wrote about it—the Federalist Papers being the most notable
source. Alexander Hamilton said this in Federalist Paper 22,
In republics, persons elevated from the mass of the community, by
the suffrages of their fellow-citizens, to stations of great pre-eminence and
power, may find compensations for betraying their trust, which…may appear to
exceed the proportion of interest they have in the common stock, and to
overbalance the obligations of duty.
To check Congress or the President’s decision not to uphold the
Constitution, the Judiciary, of course, is or should be a protection against
such trust- and oath-breakers. Hamilton said, “[l]aws are a dead letter without
courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation…Their true
import, as far as respects individuals, must, like all other laws, be
ascertained by judicial determinations.” But this is not the only level of
protection between the people and the federal government as Feinstein and Obama
suggest. Nor does this even consider the people’s inherent power to alter or
abolish their government as they deem fit.
In discussing the reasons for and against ratifying the
Constitution proposed by the delegates in 1787, the Anti-Federalists argued
that the federal government would not be sufficiently controlled by the people.
James Madison marks this argument in Federalist Paper 46 and rebuts,
The adversaries of the Constitution seem to have lost sight of the
people altogether []; and to have viewed these different establishments [of
state and federal governments]…as uncontrolled by any common superior [the
people] in their efforts to usurp the authorities of each other.
Madison corrects his perceived error of the Anti-Federalist view
of the Constitution noting that the people oversee the actions of both state
and federal governments. He said,
[The opponents of the Constitution] must be told that the ultimate
authority…resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on
the comparative ambition or address of the different governments.
Put differently, whether the state or federal government encroach
its limits in the new constitutional structure will ultimately depend on the
people and not only the respective, separate governments. But there is more to
a constitution’s existence than what most Americans admit today. As expressed
by our Founders, what the Constitution created in 1787 may not last forever,
not because of oath-breakers but because of time, changes, judicial decisions,
and the nature of words themselves.
James Madison recognized that the Constitution may develop over
time, through court decisions, to a form the people, or segments of the people,
fundamentally do not accept or prefer. Madison described the unlikely event
that words on paper will protect liberty over a long period of time in
Federalist Paper 37. He said,
All new laws, though penned with the greatest technical skill, and
passed on the fullest and most mature deliberation, are considered as more or
less obscure and equivocal, until their meaning be liquidated and ascertained
by a series of particular discussions and adjudications…
[I]t must happen that however accurately objects may be
discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be
considered, the definition of them may be rendered inaccurate by the inaccuracy
of the terms in which it is delivered. And this unavoidable inaccuracy must be
greater or less, according to the complexity and novelty of the objects defined
James Madison also shows that the States’ interests may become too
opposed to be governed under the same constitution. He said,
Other combinations, resulting from a difference of local position
and policy, must have created additional difficulties. As every State may be
divided into different districts, and its citizens into different classes,
which give birth to contending interests and local jealousies, so the different
parts of the United States are distinguished from each other by a variety of
circumstances, which produce a like effect on a larger scale.
It was only under the assumption that the federal government’s
powers would be “few and defined” (James Madison, Federalist Paper 45) that the
Founders believed the diverse interests of the States would allow them to be
governed under one federal constitution. This assumption can hardly be the case
today, and thus, the federal government acts like a State in the
traditionally-understood meaning with the power to regulate the health, safety
and well-being of the people. See, James Madison, Federalist Paper 45 (“The
powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in
the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of
the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”)
Madison admitted in Federalist Paper 38 that only time can really show where a
constitution or political association may need altering or abolishing. He said,
[It is] an unreasonable conjecture, that the errors which may be
contained in the plan of the convention are such as have resulted rather from
the defect of antecedent experience on this complicated and difficult subject,
than from a want of accuracy or care in the investigation of it; and,
consequently such as will not be ascertained until an actual trial shall have
pointed them out.
Madison admitted that where time shows the constitution to be
inadequate to limit the federal government, two realities inevitably result:
either (1) usurpation of power by the government because of the constitution’s
inability to control the government, or (2) dissolution of the constitution by
the people because of its inability to meet the wants of the people and protect
their rights. Madison put it this way concerning the Articles of Confederation,
The public interest, the necessity of the case, imposed upon them
the task of overleaping their constitutional limits. But is not the fact an
alarming proof of the danger resulting from a government which does not possess
regular powers commensurate to its objects? A dissolution or usurpation is the
dreadful dilemma to which it is continually exposed.
Keeping with the Founders’ realization of the temporariness of any
political structure or constitution, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Joseph Story,
stated that where the requisite human spirit of liberty and constitutional
understanding is lacking, the Constitution itself will not last. He said,
[T]he fabric [of the United States Constitution] may fall; for the
work of man is perishable. Nay, it must fall, if there be not the vital spirit
in the people, which can alone nourish, sustain, and direct, all its movements.
Joseph Story, A Familiar Exposition of the United States Constitution,
(New York, NY, Harper and Brother, 1868 reprinted), 100-101.
Many liberty-minded people today argue that the Constitution has
been, at least, ignored. Other less optimistic people feel the Constitution is
gone forever with no possibility of return. But these are only declarations
that something is wrong but do nothing to articulate what systemic remedies are
not only possible but also likely to produce success of limiting federal power
and increasing individual liberty and State autonomy. Declaring the illness
does nothing to characterize the requisite “vital spirit in the people” to
revive the Constitution, just as the Anti-Federalists’ debunking the
Constitution proposed in 1787 did nothing to remedy their constitutional
dilemma.
By logical necessity, having a “vital spirit” in the people means
that the people are truly guardians of their own liberty and masters of their
own fate, not only legally (i.e. passing laws through Congress); but also
constitutionally (i.e. amendments) and politically (i.e. restructuring
political associations). It means having the actual power to effectuate
political change, not based upon the government’s will, but based upon the
people’s will.
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Do the people have the kind of power exerted by our forefathers to
“alter or abolish” the government they determine is evincing a design of
despotism? Or do our actions fall more in line with Obama’s description of the
role of the people, to simply trust their government and accept their mandates?
Answering the questions will require an objective and systematic approach of
not only inspecting ourselves but also identifying all of the means we have to
implement self-government in the current generation, not just speculative
generations to come. It means stepping outside our comfort zones to explore, as
our Founders said it, the science of government and politics. It means
abandoning emotional responses to suggested remedies and embracing what science
reveals about our governmental and political reality.
In the following articles, I will address the remedies the people
have and attempt to show which ones are or may be necessary to restore the
fundamental notions of liberty as expressed by the Enlightenment philosophers
and our Founders and explain why. I will address:
Coming up:
Part 2, Voting
Part 3, Political Pressure
Part 4, The States
Part 5, Constitutional Amendment
Part 6, Constitutional Convention
Part 7, Revolution
Part 3, Political Pressure
Part 4, The States
Part 5, Constitutional Amendment
Part 6, Constitutional Convention
Part 7, Revolution
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Life In The Army
140: Life In The Army
MP3 DOWNLOAD: http://traffic.libsyn.com/smellslikepodcast/SLHS140.mp3
Guy Evans welcomes a longtime friend to the podcast to discuss
life in the armed forces. Enjoy!
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