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Flashback This is how the food industry makes Americans fat and hungry


RT.com
Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:54 UTC
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Inundated with foods and drinks that contain high-fructose corn syrup, the US food industry is largely at fault for driving up obesity rates, since the cheap sweetener inhibits the brain from regulating the body's appetite.

From soda to ketchup, many processed foods and beverages contain fructose, which affects the region of the brain that regulates appetite, according to a study by the Scientific American, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers measured the hypothalamus, which regulates hunger-related signals, of 20 healthy adult volunteers to study their responses to consuming sweetened beverages.

Upon receiving a 300-calorie drink sweetened with 75 grams of fructose, the volunteers had a more active hypothalamus and showed greater signs of hunger. When the volunteers received a similar drink that was instead sweetened using glucose, their hypothalamus was less active and the participants showed signs of fullness.
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Bad Guys

Michigan cops shoot and kill mentally ill woman after boyfriend calls for help in dispute

Matt Durr
Michigan Live
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:40 UTC
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Aura Rosser
The boyfriend of the 40-year-old Ann Arbor woman who was shot and killed by police Sunday night said he doesn't understand why police had to use lethal force to take down the woman who had a knife in her hand as she confronted officers.

Victor Stephens, 54, is the homeowner at 2083 Winewood Ave., where his girlfriend was shot by police who were responding to a domestic disturbance call.

"Why would you kill her? He shot her in the head and in the chest," Stephens said. "It was a woman with a knife. It doesn't make any sense."

Stephens said the woman -- whose name is being withheld until police can reach the next of kin -- has three children, two sons and a daughter.

Police were called to the home at 11:45 p.m. Sunday night.

"Me and her, we had an argument. Glass was being broke, so I called the police to escort her out," Stephens said.

When officers arrived, Stephens said he was in a separate hallway in the house away from where the woman was with the knife. Stephens said the woman had a fish knife in her hand when police announced their arrival.

"The police said 'police,' so I stopped. She walked towards them," Stephens said. "They said 'freeze' and the next thing I know I heard (gunshots)."

Comment: Calling the police for help these days can be fatal. In a police state, the real 'bad guys' are your average citizen.

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Rooting out government corruption from the bottom up: Citizen watchdogs in Illinois

Adam Andrzejewski
Forbes
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:10 UTC
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Kirk Allen and John Kraft
Two regular guys from Southern Illinois, Kirk Allen and John Kraft, became folk heroes after lawfully "citizen arresting" their park district board. Now, their fight against corruption threatens to shake the political establishment.

Illinois' number one manufactured product is corruption. More than 95 percent of the Illinois legislature is safe in gerrymandered districts. The incumbent governor has three current federal investigations of his administration, but the Attorney General/state's attorney class can't find public vice anywhere.

So what can the law abiding citizen do? The answer is coming from some regular guys in southern Illinois who decided to hold public officials accountable. They call themselves the "Watchdogs."

Kirk Allen and John Kraft live in Edgar County which may be the most corrupt county in the country. For a couple of watchdogs, it's a target rich environment.

In 1985, New York prosecutor Rudy Giuliani indicted the local pizza owner during the mob "Pizza Connection" prosecutions. For twenty years, State trooper Michale Callahan staked his career on reversing the false double-murder convictions of Randy Steidl and Herb Whitlock and became a local legend. In a county of only 18,000 residents, just four units of government have amassed $79 million of bonded debt.

During the summer, the Watchdogs used a little known provision of law to "citizen arrest" an entire unit of government. The story was featured on Chicago broadcast news and garnered the front page in most downstate daily newspapers.


Comment: The Watchdogs have combined a close knowledge of their local statutes covering good governance in their state, and applied it. Every level of government from the Constitution on down has provisions for openness and transparency written into the law. It is up to the governed to make sure the law is being followed. Unfortunately, the pathocratics who have been allowed to shape our society have made it so complex and exhausting simply to survive, it takes extraordinary effort to do so. Hats off to these gentlemen. We need more of them.

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A sign of global debt bubble collapse? Gas is now officially cheaper than milk

Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple
Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:54 UTC
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You've probably had more than one sigh of relief at the gas pumps lately here in America. Gas is averaging under $3 a gallon across the nation. In some places, it's under $2.50. Gas prices haven't been this low in nearly half a decade.
"It's stunning what's happening here," says Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service. "I'm a little bit shocked."

The national average price of gasoline fell 33 cents to end October at $3 a gallon and dipped Saturday to $2.995, according to AAA. That marks the first time in four years that gas has been cheaper than $3 a gallon.

When the national average crossed above $3 a gallon in December of 2010, drivers weren't sure they'd ever see $2.99 again. Global demand for oil and gasoline was rising as people in developing countries bought cars by the tens of millions and turmoil was brewing in the oil-rich Middle East.

Now demand isn't rising as fast as expected, drillers have learned to tap vast new sources of oil, particularly in the U.S., and crude continues to flow out of the Middle East. (source)
The price has only continued to drop. Buying a gallon of gas is now officially cheaper than buying a gallon of milk.

So is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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Jury rejects insanity defense and convicts man for poisoning and dismembering his mother

Keith Coffman
Reuters
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:13 UTC
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A 26-year-old Colorado man who professed to be insane when he poisoned his mother to death and drove around with her dismembered remains in his car was found guilty on Monday of first-degree murder, prosecutors said.

Ari Liggett was accused of killing his 56-year-old mother, Beverly Liggett, in 2012 by giving her potassium cyanide, then cutting up her body in the Denver-area home they shared.

On Monday, jurors rejected Liggett's insanity defense and convicted him of murder, said Michelle Yi, spokeswoman for the Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office.

Liggett and his mother were reported missing by family members in October 2012, police said at the time. Investigators searching for the pair traced credit card receipts from purchases made by the son to western Colorado.

Days later, a police officer spotted the missing vehicle in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village. When an officer tried to stop the car, Liggett sped away and ultimately crashed the automobile into a concrete wall.
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Question to soldiers: Are you really a hero?

Bernie Suarez
Activist Post
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:47 UTC
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In America there is no greater recruiting ground for the U.S. military than professional and college sports. Pro sports and the NCAA promote U.S. military men and women as "heroes" of honor to be admired and practically worshiped for their supposed valor, bravery, and courage. Sporting arenas throughout America this week will remind their audiences of millions of viewers that our "courageous" military men and women deserve to be honored for their service to America, but is all of this just a mass propaganda campaign to set the stage for recruiters throughout America to convince teenagers to join the military? I believe it absolutely is and here's why.

As I mentioned, in America we have an ongoing political advertising campaign that portrays the U.S. military as an opportunity, a proving ground that builds character, an entity that only selects the best men and women who supposedly believe in America and are willing to defend America and the values it stands for (notice the word 'freedom' is hardly ever used any more). The U.S. military is portrayed as a stage for those with honor, integrity, initiative, leadership and (as I mentioned before) courage. A close look at this list of virtues however proves that nothing could be further from the truth.
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No good deed goes unpunished: Chinese media censor Putin's chivalry

Malcolm Moore
The Telegraph
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:25 UTC
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© APVladimir Putin puts a shawl on Peng Liyuan as they arrive to watch a fireworks show at the opening ceremony of the APEC summit. Putin is now a 'role model' and 'father figure' to many young Russians
On a chilly night in Beijing, Vladimir Putin offers his coat to Peng Liyuan, the wife of the Chinese president, but his act of chivalry is quickly censored

Beijing has launched a major campaign to improve manners in the Chinese capital, called "Be a Splendid Beijinger".

And as world leaders gathered outside on a chilly night for the opening ceremony of the APEC summit, Vladimir Putin was on hand to show the locals how to be polite.

Noticing that Peng Liyuan, the wife of the Chinese president Xi Jinping, was shivering in just a silk qipao dress, Mr Putin stood up and draped a camel-coloured overcoat over her shoulders.

In turn, she demurely paused a moment before slipping off the coat, handing it to an assistant and putting on a cardigan.

Her husband, sitting on her other side, seemed oblivious throughout as he chatted with Barack Obama.
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Flashback Best of the Web: Dying vet's 'F*** You' letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American

Tomas Young
Dangerous Minds
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00 UTC

Comment: Iraq War 2 veteran and social critic Tomas Young, author of the following letter to George W Bush and Dick Cheney, has died at 34, one day before Remembrance Day 2014.


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Psychopaths often experience 'Duper's Delight'
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young

I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.

I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all - the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.

Comment: Pathocrats will always push for war. It's up to each of us to stop it by not accepting it. It's truly a shame so many are dead or injured because too few worked to prevent it. History repeats itself.

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Iraq war veteran and critic Tomas Young dies at 34, a day before Remembrance Day


RT
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:54 UTC
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© Reuters / Mark BlinchIraq war veteran Tomas Young - RIP
Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran and outspoken critic of the conflict he was severely injured in, died on Monday at the age of 34 - a day before Veteran's Day. There is no word about the cause of death.

Tomas Young enlisted in the military two days after 9/11 because he wanted to strike back at those responsible for the attack on America. Instead of being deployed to Afghanistan after joining the Army, he was deployed to Iraq. He was shot in the chest and paralyzed during an insurgent attack in Sadr City just a few days after beginning his tour of duty.

His injuries resulted in quadriplegia, paralysis from the neck down. Young became a significant critic of the war in Iraq - during which 4,488 soldiers and Marines died in Iraq and 30,000 were wounded - and an early member of Iraq Veterans Against the War advocacy group.

Following his return home, he was the subject of the 2008 documentary Body of War, which chronicled his life after Iraq.

Comment: If we are to celebrate Remembrance Day this year, there's nothing more fitting than (re)reading Tomas Young's letter again and share it far and wide, because this is exactly what we should remember, not just today but everyday: the psychopathic insanity of our leaders who stage wars, and ALL the victims of ALL wars, especially the ones being fought right now because of the "lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power" of said leaders:

Dying vet's 'F*** You' letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American

Hemingway addressed soldiers thus in his "Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter" first published in Esquire (September 1935):
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. [Horace's statement: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori] But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.


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A new fascist Golden Dawn in Spain


The Local
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:37 UTC
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Greek Golden Dawn followers
Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party has denied any links with a Spanish party of the same name (Amanecer Dorado) which was officially registered in Spain in October.

"We have read about it in the press, but don't know anything else," said a spokesperson for Golden Dawn of a Spanish party using the same name, symbols and ideology.

The spokesperson also denied any contact with the Spanish party which registered with Spain's interior ministry on October 27th.

Spain's version of Golden Dawn describes itself as being dedicated to "the defence of the identity, roots, culture, values and tradition of the people of Spain and Europe", Spain's El Diario reported.

But little else is known of the party with an Alicante address.

Comment: The only reason the Greek Golden Dawn refuses to be associated with the term neo-Nazi is because they are anti-German, due to the fact that they (along with the vast majority of Greeks and other Europeans suffering under inhumane austerity measures) consider Germany the cause of their, and their country's, financial fall. But their racist, ultra-nationalistic, criminal ideology is undoubtedly on par with Nazism.

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