U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rise by 25,000 to 584,000

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July 30 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans filing claims for jobless benefits last week held below levels seen in late June, before auto-related distortions set in, indicating firings are slowing as the economy stabilizes.

Applications rose by 25,000 to 584,000 in the week ended July 25, higher than forecast, figures from the Labor Department showed today in Washington. More than 600,000 claims were filed every week last month. The number of people collecting unemployment insurance decreased for a third week.

An analyst at Labor said distortions from the timing of auto-plant shutdowns “worked themselves out” of the data last week, returning claims to “trend.” While a resumption in hiring will be slow to materialize, payroll reductions are likely to slow as housing and manufacturing, the areas that led the economy into the worst recession in five decades, steady.

“Initial claims are still trending lower, which does suggest some improvement in conditions,” said Michelle Meyer, an economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York, which had forecast claims would increase to 585,000. “What we are seeing is less firing.”

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 1.2 percent to close at 986.75. Stocks also increased as companies from Motorola Inc. to MasterCard Inc. posted better-than-anticipated results.

Economists’ Forecasts

Economists forecast claims would increase to 575,000 from a previously estimated 554,000, according to the median of 40 projections in a Bloomberg News survey. Estimates ranged from 539,000 to 630,000.

The four-week moving average, a less-volatile measure than weekly initial claims, fell to 559,000 from 567,250 the prior week. The average at the end of June, before the auto distortions set in, was 616,000, higher than last week’s reading.

Claims tend to be volatile in late June and July when automakers typically halt production and idle workers to re- equip factories to build new models. General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC halted production earlier than usual as they worked through bankruptcy proceedings.

GM emerged from bankruptcy this month and Chrysler did the same in June.

Continuing Claims

The level of continuing claims decreased by 54,000 to 6.197 million in the week ended July 18, the lowest level since April. Because they come out with a one-week lag, these figures are still being distorted by the plant closings.

The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits, which tends to track the jobless rate, held at 4.7 percent in the week ended July 18. Eight states and territories reported an increase in new claims, while 45 reported a decrease. These data are also reported with a one-week lag.

Figures for the week ended July 18 coincide with the week the Labor Department conducts its survey for the monthly payrolls report. U.S. employers have eliminated 6.5 million positions since the recession began in December 2007, the most of any downturn since the Great Depression.

Economists have forecast that the worst of the job cuts may have past. Even so, hiring is limited and economists surveyed by Bloomberg earlier this month project the jobless rate will exceed 10 percent by early 2010.

‘Plodding’ Rebound Seen

The U.S. economy is nearing its low point and will begin a “gradual, slow, plodding,” rebound next year, Southern Co. Chief Executive Officer David Ratcliffe said yesterday in an interview. “For the most part we believe that this has stabilized and is poised for a recovery.”

Southern, the biggest U.S. power producer, said second- quarter earnings rose 15 percent as lower costs cushioned the impact of declining electricity demand.

Verizon Communications Inc. is among companies still paring staff. It said July 27 it plans to eliminate more than 8,000 jobs in the second half.


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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aNg3FgKf5cMk

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H1N1 Fall 2009 (FOX news reporting more FEAR, to push vaccine)

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Who Should Get Swine Flu Vaccine First?

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The new ‘retirement’ plan: Just keep working

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Dollar Falls to 2009 Low as Economic View Reduces Safety Demand

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July 28 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell to the lowest level this year against the currencies of six major U.S. trading partners as speculation the global economy is emerging from the recession reduced demand for a refuge.

The Australian dollar advanced to the highest level since September against the U.S. currency after the Reserve Bank said the economy may rebound faster than forecast six months ago. The euro climbed to a seven-week high against the dollar after Deutsche Bank AG said second-quarter profit rose 68 percent, beating analysts’ estimates.

“Riskier currencies are trying to break higher,” said Ian Stannard, a foreign-exchange strategist in London at BNP Paribas SA, France’s largest bank. “Upside potential is limited as euro-dollar has been quite disappointing in recent weeks, given that we’ve had near-perfect conditions for a rally to develop.”

The Dollar Index, which the ICE uses to track the dollar against currencies including the yen, pound and Swedish krona, fell as much as 0.4 percent to 78.315, the lowest level since Dec. 18, and was at 78.509 at 7:30 a.m. in New York, compared with 78.626 yesterday. The euro advanced 0.2 percent to $1.4256 per euro, from $1.4232. The 16-nation currency traded in a range of $1.3833 to today’s high of $1.4304 in July.

Gains for the euro may be limited after the European currency met resistance at about $1.4300 today, according to Jane Foley, research director in London at Forex.com, an online currency trader. Resistance is a level where orders to sell the euro are clustered.

‘Softer Tone’

“So far the euro has failed to hold above this level with the slightly softer tone of stock markets in Europe draining some of the enthusiasm for risk and pushing euro-dollar back down,” Foley wrote in a research report today.

Europe’s Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index was little changed after better-than-estimated earnings offset a forecast by BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward that any recovery from the first global recession since World War II will be “long and drawn out.” Standard & Poor’s 500 Index futures decreased 0.4 percent.

U.S. home prices probably fell at a slower pace in May, indicating the U.S. economy is recovering. The S&P/Case Shiller index of 20 major metropolitan areas, due for release today, will show property values fell 17.9 percent in May from a year earlier, according to the median forecast of 32 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. The measure was down 18.1 percent in the 12 months ended in April.

Australian Dollar

The Australian dollar climbed versus the greenback and yen after Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens said it appears “that the downturn we are having may turn out not to be one of the more serious ones of the postwar era, in contrast to the experiences of so many other countries.”

Stevens left the benchmark lending rate at 3 percent on July 7 for a third month amid signs the lowest borrowing costs in half a century and government spending helped the nation skirt a recession. The target lending rate is 0.1 percent in Japan and as low as zero in the U.S.

The Australian dollar added 1.1 percent to 83.17 U.S. cents and increased 0.6 percent to 78.77 yen, while the New Zealand dollar appreciated 0.9 percent to 66.28 U.S. cents and 0.3 percent to 62.65 yen.

A pickup in the 25-day rolling correlation between Aussie- dollar and the two-year swap rate differential “suggests further Australian dollar gains,” Steven Pearson, head of Group of 10 foreign-exchange strategy in London, wrote in a research report today.

‘Jammed On’

“With the risk appetite switch jammed on pressure on the dollar and the yen continues to mount,” Pearson wrote.

The euro gained for a fourth day against the yen after Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest lender, said in a statement net income rose to 1.09 billion euros ($1.55 billion), from 649 million euros a year earlier. The median estimate of 13 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for 944 millions euros.

“The bank’s results were better than expected,” said Lee Wai Tuck, a currency strategist at Forecast Pte in Singapore. “The latest upmove in the euro could be due to this.”

Deutsche Bank’s Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann said the banking industry and financial markets stabilized in the quarter, propelling a fourfold gain in income from debt sales and an improvement in equity trading.

The U.S. currency fell 0.5 percent to 94.73 yen, extending its drop this month to 1.7 percent.

Japanese exporters are taking advantage of the currency’s drop in the past week to repatriate earnings from overseas assets before the month-end.

‘Buy the Yen’

“Exporters are prone to buy the yen, given that the end of the month is near,” said Yuji Saito, head of the foreign- exchange group in Tokyo at Societe Generale, France’s third- largest bank.

Japanese companies forecast the yen would average 94.85 per dollar in the 12 months to March 2010, according to the Bank of Japan’s quarterly Tankan survey released July 1.

Adding to pressure on the dollar, China’s Assistant Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said on the first day of bilateral talks with U.S. officials that his government remains “concerned” about the value of its U.S. assets.

Zhu’s remarks come after repeated public assurances by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that the U.S. is committed to reining in a record budget deficit once an economic recovery is secured. China is the biggest foreign investor in U.S. government debt, and any decline in demand could push up borrowing costs.

“China has massive holdings of Treasuries, so it is obviously worried,” said Masanobu Ishikawa, general manager of foreign exchange at Tokyo Forex & Ueda Harlow Ltd., Japan’s largest currency broker. “Any diversification away from the dollar could be gradual, and the greenback may weaken a bit.”

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U.S. Assures ‘Concerned’ China It Will Shrink Record Deficit

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July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pledged to rein in the U.S. deficit as China underscored concern about preserving the value of its $801.5 billion of Treasury holdings.

The U.S. will ensure a “sustainable” deficit by 2013, Geithner said at the beginning of the first round of Strategic and Economic Dialogue talks under President Barack Obama in Washington. China is “concerned about the security of our financial assets,” Assistant Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said.

In a shift from meetings under the Bush administration, officials indicated there were few signs of tension over the value of China’s yuan, which U.S. lawmakers have labeled as artificially cheap and an aid to Chinese exports. That may be because the “best idea is just to keep the yuan-dollar rate stable” given U.S. need for Chinese demand for Treasuries, said Ronald McKinnon, a professor of economics at Stanford University.

“The Chinese are trapped with supporting the value of the dollar,” McKinnon said in a telephone interview from Stanford, California. “If they withdrew from the market, there’s a big appreciation” of the yuan as a result that would send China’s exports down, he said.

Record Holdings

The new focus on the deficit and Treasuries reflects the legacy of China’s record trade surpluses and its accumulation of dollars as a result of holding down the yuan. Chinese foreign- exchange reserves surpassed $2 trillion for the first time in the second quarter, and its holdings of Treasuries reached $801.5 billion in May, about 100 percent more than at the start of 2007.

Geithner is co-hosting the SED talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Vice Premier Wang Qishan and Dai Bingguo, a state councilor, are attending for China.

Obama said in a speech opening the meetings he wants to engage China in cooperation on a range of issues, beyond acting together to stimulate a global economic recovery.

“We must also be united in preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. He cited nuclear proliferation, terrorism, piracy, global pandemics, climate change and civil war as other common threats facing the two countries. In her sessions, Clinton addressed both the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs.

Talks Expanded

The Obama administration has expanded the talks that began under President George W. Bush, chaired by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Paulson, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. chief executive officer, pressed for a more market-set exchange rate and greater access for international financial firms to the country.

The two sides agreed yesterday that each nation shouldn’t withdraw economic stimulus measures “too soon because the recoveries are still very fragile,” David Loevinger, the U.S. Treasury’s senior coordinator for China affairs, said on a conference call with reporters.

“We talked about China’s exchange-rate policy” and Chinese officials “talked about their desire to reform the international monetary system,” Loevinger said, without offering specifics. Chinese policy makers have said they favor an eventual shift in the global currency reserve system away from the dollar, suggesting wider use of an International Monetary Fund unit of account.

Yuan Discussion

Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, told reporters yesterday that “compared with previous meetings” between Chinese and U.S. officials, “the U.S. side doesn’t lay as much emphasis on renminbi exchange-rate reform and opening of capital markets.” The yuan is a denomination of the renminbi.

The yuan has hovered around 6.83 per dollar so far this year after advancing for four straight years in the aftermath of China lifting a strict peg to the U.S. currency in July 2005.

Zhu, the assistant finance minister, also said China favors a “stable” dollar, indicating one source of concern is any collapse in the value of the U.S. currency. The dollar has dropped about 3.5 percent against the currencies of major trading partners this year, according to a Federal Reserve index, and has depreciated about 18 percent in the past eight years.

‘Stable’ Dollar

“We hope that the economy and financial markets remain stable and that the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar, which is a major international currency, remains stable,” Zhu said yesterday. “That’s why we’re focusing on the security of China’s investment in the U.S.”

The U.S. delegation included Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and Peter Orszag, Obama’s budget director.

Obama’s advisers told Chinese officials that the administration’s record $787 billion fiscal stimulus was necessary to get the economy out of its worst recession in half a century. Loevinger added that the deficit, which is on course to reach $1.8 trillion this year, will be made “sustainable” in part through future spending cuts and an overhaul of health care.

Geithner, in his opening remarks, reiterated the U.S. call for China to shift toward relying on domestic demand for growth rather than exports.

“They have to build more of a domestic spending society,” U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. If they do, “software, movies and the creative arts will be a great market for the United States.”

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California Budget Cuts

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Many Predict US Financial Collapse in September

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by Charles (A Reader)

Let us contemplate the day in the near future when the consequences of financial chicanery finally outpace the ability of the governments, central banks and big media to cover up and obfuscate the truth. Many respected voices have now gone on record that September 30 or thereabouts will be that day.

Bob Chapman [Internationalforecaster.com] revealed that the US State Dept has advised embassies worldwide to stock up on a year's worth of the local currency in anticipation of collapse of the US dollar. Look for a temporary banking shutdown timed for around September 2009. As under Roosevelt, some banks won't reopen. 96% of bank reserves are currently held with the Federal Reserve who tells the banks not to loan the money, but rather to save it for further banking acquisition and consolidation. Chapman foresees a bank holiday lasting 4-5 days. Chapman thinks this first bank holiday presages a much more significant bank holiday months to years later which will involve simultaneous devaluations of multiple currencies as well as other significant changes in the banking system.

Harry Shultz [as quoted in marketwatch.com] says "Some U.S. embassies worldwide are being advised to purchase massive amounts of local currencies; enough to last them a year. Some embassies are being sent enormous amounts of U.S. cash to purchase currencies from those governments, quietly. But not pound sterling. Inside the State Dept., there is a sense of sadness and foreboding that 'something' is about to happen ... within 180 days, but could be 120-150 days."

Benjamin Fulford [http://benjaminfulford.typepad.com/benjaminfulford/] states that for almost a century the US Treasury Dept has been issuing specialized debt instruments to countries with which the US has had a trade surplus. These complex debt instruments are tailored by complex treaties. Unfortunately, the recent US Treasury funding needs exceed the willingness of these creditor nations to extend additional credit. Fulford writes, "The problem is that after nearly a century of issuing these debt instruments, the chickens are coming home to roost. President Obama tried at the recent G8 plus 5 meeting in Italy to borrow more money than George Bush junior did in 8 years. He was told a resounding no. The result should be total economic chaos in the U.S. by September 30th . "

Jim Willie [goldenjackass.com] writes of an Asian led initiative ending dollar hegemony beginning this weekend. Willie suspects that the Fed/Treasury is covertly loaning foreign central banks the money with which the central banks are now using to buy US debt. Increasingly, US debt is being bought by foreign central banks taking up the slack of investors abandoning US Treasury debt. Willie confirms Chapman's comments and says he solicited and received "multiple confirmations." He adds, "CHAOS WILL PREVAIL WITHIN SEVERAL MONTHS, PERHAPS A YEAR AT MOST{his emphasis}."

Jim Sinclair [jsmineset.com] has recently visited China meeting with its leaders. He states that China is increasingly more willing to take on the United States in its apparent maneuvers to inflate its way out of its debt crisis. In early July Sinclair started a 120 day countdown till breakdown of the US dollar ends market manipulation and all those sour economic chickens come home to roost.

OUT OF TRICKS

Seemingly the Federal Reserve/US Treasury have exhausted their bag of tricks. The Fed is fighting rising interest rates, a difficult task given the hyperinflationary debt financing it is now doing. Once rising pressure on interest rates become too much for the Fed to control, there will probably be several sudden economic and financial surprises cascading with currently known dilemmas: crashing dollar; increasing home mortgage defaults; commercial mortgage defaults reaching critical mass; falling bond and stock markets extending insolvency of pension funds; defaults on debt by state and local governments. And don't forget derivatives and further exposure of corruption and criminality on Wall Street. Bernie Madoff may soon have lots of company.

Unable to produce any more financial wizardry, the cynical federal government is arrayed in full battle dress uniform: 1] Mass forced swine flu vaccinations scheduled this fall performed under the specter of martial law; 2] Rumblings of extending the wars in Asia into Iran and Pakistan; 3] Rekindling the Korean conflict may also be in the cards. Of course, don't forget that both Iran and North Korea are client states of the British World Order. All the recent saber rattling involving Iran and North Korea is wholly orchestrated. We need the distractions from the economic crisis, so our clients Ahmadinejad and Kim provide us with the necessary theater. So what will come first, further banner headlines of dollar collapse and market crashes or the distracting theater of more war or 911 type events?

What will this fall really bring? It is not too far away so we shall soon know. Unfortunately, it may make last fall look pretty tame. When the government answers economic distress by preparing for the worst, then the worst may very well be what happens.

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Equality and the Death of Love

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When I heard that 50% of marriages ended in divorce, over 20 years ago, even then I sensed something was wrong. And it has only gotten worse. The concept of equality is the basis of feminism and the knife the Illuminati uses to rip and shred the very fabric of society, the family. Men and women can never be equal. It is against nature.

Men clear the way, build and give. Women sweep up the rubble, make homes and receive. Men want to give their hopes, dreams and desires, and women want to receive, nurture and encourage this. Men do battle and need someplace to rest. Women do not care for battles themselves, but wish only to make a safe haven for their warriors to love, sleep and go out and do it again. And men in their turn protect and cherish them. Men want their lineage to continue. Women receive this desire and the resultant children are protected and raised to follow their own dreams and continue the traditions of a society that is strong and secure, creating nations that can withstand any onslaught of evil that may try to destroy them.

Men and women balance each other. Without women, men become frustrated, destructive and brutal. Women, with their refined and exquisite being, raise men from the dust to the sublime. But without men, women become bitter, unfulfilled and without direction.

This is the equality that Betty Friedan and her ilk wish for all mankind. The concept of men oppressing women with their love, protection and wishes for home and family is the single most destructive weapon in their arsenal. Convincing women that they can be equal and independent of men has created a hybrid race of (women? I think not) females that distain all past traditions in their lesbian attempts to become pretend men.

And that's the crux of the matter; men see this and also become disdainful of their own traditional roles and we have before us now the resultant societies that cannot hold together. We spin out of control and the Satanistic powers that have us in their grip must be well pleased.

I have stood firm against it, but what good does it do?? I cannot fight this alone. And frankly, am getting tired of this pitched and endless war. I am not made for battle. I don't know what I'm made for at this point, and really don't care anymore.

For further reading: Philip Jones - www.denmarkonline.dk
and Henry Makow - www.henrymakow.com
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Senate Blocks Bid to Audit Federal Reserve (zo)

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Stop Poisoning Your Body With 'Food'

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Ten Most Common Food Additives (Toxic, Deadly)
Jennifer Harrington
ABC News
7-12-9


Want to look better and feel better? What if you could avoid just 10 food ingredients and make a huge improvement in your health.

Paula Owens (PaulaOwens.com) the author of "The Power Of 4" says avoiding these 10 things will change your body dramatically. Owens has a master's degree in holistic nutrition and a bachelors degree in kinesiology.

She explains what ingredients to avoid and how your body will benefit if you avoid them.


1. HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP (HFCS)

HFCS is the number one source of calories for most Americans and causes obesity.

You'll find high-fructose corn syrup in processed food, fast food, sodas, syrup that goes into your Latte, etc.

HFCS is extremely toxic to your liver, increases inflammation, causes obesity, oxidative stress and creates an aggressive insulin response.


2. ALL PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OILS (TRANS FATS)

Partially hydrogenated oils are found in thousands of processed foods (breakfast cereals, cookies, chips).

Trans fats are proven to cause heart disease and contribute to obesity.

Restaurant food, especially from fast food chains, often serve food loaded with trans fats.

Consequences of a diet high in trans fats include:
* increased inflammation
* decreased immune function
* decreased testosterone
* Arthritis
* Cancer
* Decrease IQ ­ learning disabilities. American IQ has dropped 20 points in the past 20 years.
* Diabetes
* Elevated blood pressure
* Free radical production
* Heart Disease
* Interferes with neurological & visual development of fetus
* Liver damage
* Obesity
* Osteoporosis
* Type II diabetes


3. MSG

Monosodium glutamate is a chemical that has been associated with reproductive disorders, migraine headaches, permanent damage to the endocrine system leading to obesity and other serious disorders. MSG is used in many foods as a taste enhancer. It is linked to reduced fertility.


4. SODIUM NITRATE

This is a preservative, coloring, and flavoring commonly added to bacon, ham, hot dogs, luncheon meats, smoked fish and corned beef. Studies have linked eating it to various types of cancer.


5. REFINED SOY

When it comes to soy, much of what we read and hear about comes from the people who market it.

Before you mix up a soy shake, snack on a soy protein bar or pour yourself a glass of soy milk consider this: unfermented, processed soy inhibits the thyroid, is deficient in amino acids, is toxic to infants and shrinks the brain.

There are some redeeming qualities to soy, however these are found primarily in fermented soy products like tempeh, miso, natto and soybean sprouts.

If you want to get some health benefits from soy, stick to these four forms and pass on ALL processed soy milks, tofu, soy burgers, soy ice cream, soy cheese and other soy junk foods that are disguised as health foods.


6. WHITE SUGAR

Sugar is more addictive than cocaine! Sugar has a profound influence on your brain function and your psychological function.

When you consume excess amounts of sugar, your body releases excess amounts of insulin, which in turn causes a drop in your blood sugar, also known as hypoglycemia.

In addition, sugar is pro-flammatory damages skin collagen and promotes wrinkles, increases your appetite, depletes your body of B vitamins, causes joint degeneration, ADHD and other behavior disorders, stimulates cholesterol synthesis and weight gain.


7. SODIUM CHLORIDE

Commercial table salt is highly processed and full of aluminum, chemicals and additives which are toxic. Opt for a healthier version such as Bragg's amino acids or Celtic sea salt (light pink, grey or beige color).


8. ASPARTAME, SPLENDA, SWEET N LOW, EQUAL

Aspartame is an artificial, chemical sweetener found in many foods and beverages including desserts, gelatins, protein powder, low calorie foods, drink mixes and sodas.

It may cause cancer or neurological problems, such as dizziness, migraine headaches, weight gain, increased appetite, bloating, rashes or hallucinations.

Aspartame poisoning mimics symptoms of MS. NutraSweet is in over 7,000 foods!

Side effects:
* Increased heart disease
* Bloating and edema
* Brain seizures
* Cancer
* Cravings
* Headaches
* Predispose you to Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease
* Rashes and hives
* Weight gain ­ results in obesity


9. FOOD COLORINGS (Blue 1, 2; Red 3; Green 3; Yellow 5, 6)

Six food colorings still on the market are linked with cancer in animal testing.

There is evidence that food coloring and food additives contribute to behavioral problems in children, lead to lower IQ, hyperactivity, ADHD, depression, hormonal dysfunction and cancer.

Red 3, used to dye cherries, fruit cocktail, ice cream candy and baked goods have been shown to cause thyroid tumors in rats.

This harmful artificial color causes cancer and changes in brain chemistry. Read the list of ingredients in your child's cough syrup (artificial color).

Green 3 is a potential allergen and has been linked to bladder cancer. Green 3 is added to candy, mint jelly, cereals and beverages.

Blue 1 and 2, found in beverages, candy, baked goods, cereals and pet food have been linked to allergies and cancer.

Yellow 5 is the most notable artificial color because it causes the most immediate allergic reaction in people sensitive to salicylates such as aspirin.

Yellow 6 has been linked to tumors of the adrenal gland and kidney. Yellow 6 is added to beverages, sausage, gelatin, baked goods and candy.

Take home message ­ Stay away from any product listing an ingredient with a color plus a number.


10. PROCESSED/REFINED WHEAT AND GLUTEN

Refined grains are devoid of nutrients, disrupt insulin levels and are highly allergenic for many individuals.

Wheat and gluten have adverse health affects for approximately 80 percent of the population. Gluten is a protein found combined with starch in the endosperm of grains, notably wheat, rye and barley.

Gluten intolerance/sensitivity is severely misdiagnosed or under-diagnosed ­ one estimate says that 97 percent of all sufferers don't know they have the disease due to unfamiliarity with it among U.S. physicians.

Signs and symptoms of gluten intolerance: The ultimate effect of this hidden wear and tear is the slow destruction of the healthy mucosa, or lining tissue of the small intestine causing an autoimmune response that's similar to an allergic reaction.

In some cases there may be symptoms in childhood such as allergies, asthma, anemia, reoccurring infections, a constant upset stomach or milk intolerance.

Other symptoms are nasal and throat mucous, feeling of food sitting in stomach, bloating, gas, diarrhea with periodic constipation, mental fogginess and skin rashes.

In severe cases, as with Celiac disease, there can be seizures, psychosis, violent behavior and withdrawal from self.

Eliminate gluten-products for 3-4 weeks and tell me how great you feel.
It's important to form a habit of reading the list of ingredients on ALL products!

http://thepowerof4-paula.blogspot.com
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More information on aspartame on www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
MSG - www.truthinlabeling.org

Critical Additional Information -

For starters, all meat and dairy are killers over time. Factory-farmed meat and dairy are so bad, it is difficult for the 'average' person to understand the dangers.

Highly suggested sites - www.notmilk.com, www.nomilk.com, www.meatstinks.com, and www.madcowboy.com

Jeffrey Smith's stunning work on GMO crops is extremely important - www.seedsofdeception.com
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Tesla: The Forgotten Mysteries II [The UFO Connection]

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Tesla: The Forgotten Mysteries

The "UFO" Connection

"When the great truth accidentally revealed and experimentally confirmed is fully recognized that this planet with all its appalling immensity is to electrical currents, virtually no more than a small metal ball, and by this fact many possibilities, each baffling imagination and of incalculable consequence, are rendered absolutely sure of accomplishment; when the first plan is inaugurated and it is shown that a telegraphic message, almost as secret and noninterferrable as a thought, can be transmitted 'to any terrestrial distance, the sound of the human voice, with all of its intonations and inflections, faithfully and instantly reproduced at any other point of the globe, the energy of a waterfall made available for supplying light, heat or motive power, anywhere - on sea or land or high in the air - humanity will be like an ant heap stirred up with a stick: see the excitement coming!"


~Nikola Tesla, 1904

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As early as 1910, Nikola Tesla was positing his ideas of flying machines based on electrical and reactionary (call it centrifugal) forces. These flying machines would not need wings, jets, propellers, and could travel great distances speedily and efficiently with very little energy.

There wouldn’t be anything magical, mystical about these machines nor involving dramatically new forms of energy or processes (remember this was even prior to the application of nuclear physics).

L1: thecriticalthinker.wordpress.com...

From Tesla:


The flying machine of the future — my flying machine — will be heavier than air, but it will not be an airplane. It will have no wings. It will be substantial, solid, stable. You cannot have a stable airplane.

The gyroscope can never be successfully applied to the airplane, for it would give a stability that would result in the machine being torn to pieces by the wind, just as the unprotected airplane on the ground is torn to pieces by a high wind. My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you would never guess that it was a flying machine.

Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in any direction with perfect safety, at higher speeds than have yet been reached, regardless of weather and oblivious of ‘holes in the air’ or downward currents. It will ascend in such currents if desired. It can remain absolutely stationary in the air even in a wind for great length of time. Its lifting power will not depend upon any such delicate devices as the bird has to employ, but upon positive mechanical action.





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Now let’s dig deeper.

Tesla was a mechanical engineer before he was an electrical engineer, what he later did was combine his 2 fields of study into what is now labelled a top secret area: ELECTRO-MOTIVE ENGINEERING.

Could these flying machines that have been reported in the last century (coinciding with Tesla’s work on flying machines) be that which some of us now label ‘alien spacecraft’? Is this why NASA and other government agencies ignore all those sightings of what obviously aren’t ‘ice crystals’ in countless STS footages?

Could the governments that stole from this man have developed, expanded on and are continuing on expanding this technology? Are “UFO’s” man made after all.
The reason all those fascinating spacecrafts in the NASA STS footages seem to zig and zag at rapid speed and then stop is because they control inertia with high voltage frequency electricity.

We all know very well that we are energy slaves, but how much better is the energy that we could be harnessing?

Electrical attractive force used by Tesla’s later classified flying machines (of which many rumours surround the Nazi’s involvement with the US government) is 10 ^ 49th power multiplied by 2.2 stronger than gravity.

That is, the electrical force Tesla used on his craft is: 220,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000 stronger than gravity.

Could this theoretically allow such craft to be as mobile as displayed in countless STS footage?


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Lets dig further, and learn about a man called Otis T. Carr, whom many believe to be the legit pupil of Nikola Tesla’s work. The following has been sourced from an article by a very intriguing individual, Doug Yurchey (www.unexplained-mysteries.com...)


Doug Yurchey: Otis T. Carr (1904-1980?) was a protégé of the great inventor Nikola Tesla. Carr and his team constructed a number of fully functional, flying saucers in the late 1950s. The flying disks worked and were demonstrated. Carr was serious about ‘taking his craft to the Moon.’ However, two weeks after a dramatic test flight, their laboratory was forcibly closed. Federal agents confiscated equipment as well as all documentation. Authorities told them Carr’s project would ‘destroy the monetary system of the United States.’



Now there are claims by Mr. Carr that he indeed ran a test flight of a spacecraft he conceived in the 1950’s along with a man called Ralph Ring. They claimed they didn’t fly but, ‘traverersed distance’. There is no proof of this event but Mr. Carr stuck by his story until his death, as Mr. Ring continues to do. More from source:


‘(Carr)…was an unquestioned genius. Tesla had recognized his quality immediately and had taught him everything he knew. He was inspired, and – like Tesla – seemed to know exactly what to do to get something to work. - Ralph Ring

The following is from Margaret Storm’s book ‘The Return of the Dove.’

‘It was in November, 1957…when Otis T. Carr of Baltimore, Maryland, announced that free energy and spaceflight had been once again made available to the inhabitants of this planet. Carr, a disciple of Tesla, has come up with two new inventions. One is an electrical ‘accumulator’ and the other a gravity motor; both utilizing the power of the sun and other forces in nature found in free abundance in the atmosphere.’ ‘Carr…has organized a solid business corporation under the normal conventions of the American free enterprise system.’


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‘While governments still deny the existence of flying saucers and daily newspapers refuse to give outstanding news to their readers…the uninformed public remains uninformed. They do not even know the problem of spaceflight has been solved on this planet by an American citizen.’

‘Carr’s free energy motors will power automobiles, for one thing; a development which would do away with the need for gasoline…’

‘Large space vehicles will be brought down to size of about ten feet in diameter. They can be built to sell for less than the cost of a modern automobile and are designed to take a family across town, across the nation or around the world in absolute comfort and safety and in a fraction of the time ever before possible.’



L2: www.keelynet.com...

Governments of the 21st Century KNOW how to build flying saucers. Some of the UFOs are ours. What we need most of all is a government that does not suppress a quantum leap, but one that will allow a giant step to benefit its citizens and all of the Earth. But, does the creation of a worldwide, saucer-transportation system terminate the concept of countries? At the same time Tesla was teaching the likes of Carr, Arthur Matthews and Einstein, we should consider what was happening in Nazi Germany. Hitler and his fascist regime of the late 1930s may have also developed the electrified disk known as the ‘saucer.’ The flying ‘electric motor’ is a scientific possibility. Why wouldn’t German scientists be close to discovering the answer? Study Victor Schauberger’s involvement with developing flying disks for the Third Reich. Numerous Internet sites and books deal with the subject of round, Nazi crafts.

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Source: from our very own TeslaAndLyne: [theufostore.com...]



Ever heard of the concept of Free Energy? What the term means is the ability to generate more energy than was expended to create that energy in the first place. Or, in other words, to create powerful, usable energy virtually out of nothing. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, it should be literally impossible to do so. But Lyne doesn't let something like Einstein stand in his way as he recounts the history of maverick inventor Nikola Tesla's pioneering efforts to create just the kind of Free Energy device capable of powering the manmade flying saucers Lyne believes the Nazis operated before, during and after World War II.

As Lyne says in "Nazi UFOs: How They Fly," when Tesla offered his new experimental technology to the U.S. government, they turned him down flat, believing he was quite insane. It was at that point that the Germans sent in a covert operative to cultivate Tesla's friendship and bring Tesla's device to the aid of the Nazi military effort in the years shortly before the war. Nazi rocket genius Werner Von Braun took Tesla's technological breakthrough and applied it for use in a saucer-shaped aircraft that could fly by way of an energy that was ten to the fortieth power stronger than the gravitational field, making the aircraft capable of unbelievable speeds and maneuvering.

Why was this technology kept secret after the war ended? Lyne says it was because it would render obsolete so many mainstays of our world economy, including our dependence on fossil fuels and our outmoded forms of transportation. So the alien explanation, what is often called "the extraterrestrial hypothesis," was slowly leaked to the public through a long-term disinformation campaign to maintain the cover-up of technologies that would have set our econommy on its ear.



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Operation Paperclip brought many Nazi scientists to the USA, many of whom had been continuing Tesla’s work. One scientist who brought new knowledge to America was Viktor Schauberger. Although there is no evidence that Schauberger had Nazi sympathies, he was viewed by the Americans as a collaborator and put `into protective custody' for six months at the end of the war.

Dr Walter Miethe, and Rudolph Schriever also entered America under Operation Paperclip, however it is believed that their colleague Habermohl fell into Russian hands.

Whilst in the US, Miethe continued his `flying disk' work working primarily for the US Air Force, however he was sub-contracted to A. V. Roe and Company.

In 1959 Jack Judges, a freelance cameraman was flying over this company's plant in Canada when he saw and photographed this picture (left) of a disk shaped craft sitting on the ground.


In summary i would like to pose some questions to those on here who believe that those obviously intelligent spacecraft we see in NASA footage are being flown by other intelligent beings.

Would it not be more possible that it is in fact our own governments work? Flying ‘saucer’ technology first theorized and patented by Tesla, later expanded upon and developed by the Nazis. Could this have been the reason for Operation Paperclip?

If the US government did in fact gain Tesla’s and Nazi’s work regarding these machines then could they have not perfected them to the advanced state we see today? The Pentagon gets TRILLIONS of dollars (that we know off (Estimate $3.3 Trillion Missing From U.S. Treasury: www.rense.com...)) to continue funding Black Projects. Could you be certain that it isn’t simply going into research into developing more advanced spacecraft?

- Would this not explain NASA’s / governments ignorance to the public regarding such matters? Why would they want to tell us?
- Would this explain if those really are alien spacecraft, why they wouldn’t have shown themselves publicly already if they were visiting?

-Could all those "UFO's" caught on tape by NASA simply be tests, that they themselves are running?

All just questions for you ATS, i personally do not believe we are being visited by any aliens and am simply trying to make connections.

Cheers.


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Tesla: The Forgotten Mysteries

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I was inspired to do this write up here for ATS after today; Nikola Tesla’s birthday was displayed on Google.

www.telegraph.co.uk...

I also know there are a lot of Tesla fans here on ATS, so this one’s for you, let us hope we attract more members to this topic.

Nikola Tesla, the Serbian born inventor is labelled by today’s society as a mad scientist, others label him as nobody important hence his lack of recognition in text books and history, others see him for what he truly was, THE inventor of the 20th century, possibly even of the 21st, the man we owe so much too but yet know very little about. There is much mystery surrounding this fact, Tesla’s countless inventions of limitless, free energy, or zero-point energy. Could this be a reason why we don’t study him, why we don’t hear about him, why what he discovered is well known to have been stolen and suppressed by the full-power of the US government.



Introduction

Before we get to the mysteries and the conspiracies, you need to get inside this man’s head, what better way than to quote him.



'Impossible as it seemed, the planet, despite its vast extent, behaves like a conductor of limited dimensions. The tremendous significance to this fact in the transmission of energy in my system had already become quite clear to me. Not only was it possible to send telegraphic messages to any distance without wires, as I recognized long ago, but also to impress on the entire globe the faint modulation of the human voice. Far more significant is the ability to transmit power in unlimited amounts to almost any terrestrial distance and without loss.'




'My invention requires a large plant, but once it is established, it will be possible to destroy anything, men or machines, approaching within a radius of 200 miles. It will, so to speak, provide a wall of power offering an insuperable obstacle against any effective aggression.'




'In Budapest, I could hear the ticking of a watch with 3 rooms between me and the timepiece. A fly alighting on a table in the room would cause a dull thud in my ear. A carriage passing at a distance of a few miles fairly shook my whole body. The whistle of a locomotive 20 or 30 miles away made the bench or chair on which I sat vibrate so strongly that the pain was unbearable. The ground under my feet trembled continuously...'




'They laughed in 1896, too when I told them about the cosmic ray. They jeered 35 years ago when I discovered the rotating field principle of alternating currents. They called me crazy when I predicted the radio. And when I sent the first impulse around the world, they said it couldn't be done.'


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The Kansas City Journal-Post ran this headline on September 10, 1933:

TREMENDOUS NEW POWER SOON TO BE UNLEASHED with the subtitle: Nikola Tesla, Starting His 78th Year, Works on Revolutionary Power Project and Also Is Completing Process for Photographing Thought.

The following are quotes from this newspaper:

'Several of these inventions or discoveries will be looked upon as 'miracles' by many people, for Mr. Tesla has long been a scientist years ahead of his time, one whose advanced theories have alternately stamped him a 'madman' and a wizard. Just as people ridiculed Copernicus' theory of the planetary system, the unenlightened jeered Tesla's pronouncement, years ago regarding cosmic rays.

The pathfinder and the pioneer - and Mr. Tesla is both - are always condemned by the masses.' 'Mr. Tesla is the father of the alternating system of power transmission and radio, the induction motor and Tesla coil.

Asked about his startling new scientific discoveries, one of which concerns the 'photographing of thought,' which will, he maintains, bring about a tremendous social revolution, he said: 'My first and most important discovery concerns the harnessing of a new source of power, hitherto unavailable, to be developed through fundamentally novel machines of my invention.'


It was Tesla, not Edison who invented the poly-phase alternators that power the world we live in today, and it was Tesla who was eventually awarded Marconi’s wireless patents, after they were both dead. Tesla had contributed well over 1200 patents, of which 200 are being used to this day. If you ask most people, they would know or would have heard of a Tesla coil without knowing about Nikola Tesla, but how many people, how many people would answer if you asked them about the wireless electrical transfer of energy prior to 1900?


John O'Neill, author of Prodigal Genius, describes Tesla's New York lab as: '...seemingly unearthly forces that with invisible fingers set objects whirling, caused globes and tubes of various shapes to glow resplendently in unfamliar colors...transplanting the darkened room into one crackling with hissing sheets of flame which issued from monstrous coils.'


In 1901, when Marconi received world acclaim for sending a few 'clicks' across the Atlantic Ocean...Tesla had already developed and began construction of his Radio City. This tower 'Wardenclyffe' would have been able to transmit reproductions of photographic pictures (TV), news service, music, navigation service for ships and much more information which could be received anywhere in the world. (Tesla planned to contact Venus and Mars with his World Wireless!)

Marconi literally stole the idea of radio right out of Tesla's lab. Marconi almost got away with it; Tesla was slow to capitalize on radio because he was so consumed with wireless principles applied to electricity.

uforeview.tripod.com...


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Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8

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By Lyubov Pronina

July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”

“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see it and touch it.”

The coin, which bears the words “unity in diversity,” was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8 delegations, Medvedev said.

The question of a supranational currency “concerns everyone now, even the mints,” Medvedev said. The test coin “means they’re getting ready. I think it’s a good sign that we understand how interdependent we are.”

Medvedev has repeatedly called for creating a mix of regional reserve currencies as part of the drive to address the global financial crisis, while questioning the U.S. dollar’s future as a global reserve currency. Russia’s proposals for the G-20 meeting in London in April included the creation of a supranational currency.

To contact the reporter on this story: Lyubov Pronina in L’Aquila, Italy at lpronina@bloomberg.net

Last Updated: July 10, 2009 10:23 EDT
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