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Become a Friendlier Person
1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.
2. Give honest, sincere appreciation.
3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.
4. Become genuinely interested in other people.
5. Smile.
6. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most
important sound in any language.
7. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
8. Talk in terms of the other person’s interests.
9. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely
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How Did the 10 Commandments get
to America before Columbus?
there were 12 tribes of israel!
"That is simple. In the Colonies we issue our own money.
It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion
to the demands of trade and industry to make the products
pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this
manner,
creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its
purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay no one."
Ben Franklin on money and banks!
"All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless,
producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is
withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have
produced addition to the common mass... It nourishes in our citizens
habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality... It has
furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the
legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters
whichever way it is directed."
--Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792. ME 8:344
Thomas Jefferson on paper money!
"[The] Bank of the United States... is one of the most deadly hostility
existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution... An
institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the Union,
acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment, upset
the government. I deem no government safe which is under the
vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority
than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an obstruction
could not this bank of the United States, with all its branch banks, be in
time of war! It might dictate to us the peace we should accept, or
withdraw its aids. Ought we then to give further growth to an institution
so powerful, so hostile?" --Thomas Jefferson to Albert
Gallatin, 1803. ME 10:437
Thomas Jefferson on the National Bank!
"the money masters!"
this is what Tom Paine warned us about!
"As to paper money, in any light it can be viewed, it is at best a bubble."
– Tom Paine
hidden in plain sight!
The truth about the Sunday resurrection & the Christian sabbath!
Why Are the following facts HIDDEN from Christians?  
FACT: Mary knew when Jesus was supposed to be Resurrected!
FACT: MARY WAS AT THE TOMB WHEN IT WAS SEALED!
FACT: CHRIST TOLD ALL HIS FOLLOWERS THE EXACT TIME OF HIS RESURRECTION! IT WAS THE ONLY SIGN HE GAVE! MARY WAS THERE WHEN JESUS GAVE
THE SIGN, THE EXACT TIME OF HIS RESURRECTION!
FACT: THE JEWS ADMITTED TO PILATE THEY KNEW THE EXACT TIME OF HIS RESURRECTION!
FACT: THE JEWISH GUARDS WERE STILL AT THE TOMB AT SUNRISE SUNDAY! IF JESUS HAD ALREADY ARISEN  WHY HADN'T THEY LEFT?
FACT: THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE AT SUNRISE SUNDAY! TO ROLL THE STONE AWAY BEFORE CHRIST ASCENDED TO HEAVEN!
FACT: JOSEPH OF ARAMATHEA ANNOINTED JESUS' BODY WITH 100 POUNDS OF SPICES BEFORE THE BURIAL! MARY DIDN'T BUY SPICES TO ANOINT A DEAD
MAN! SHE WAS THERE TO ANOINT THE RISEN CHRIST!
FACT: THREE DAYS AFTER THE CRUCIFIXION JESUS' BODY WOULD HAVE BEGUN TO  DECAY!
FACT: MARY WAS PROHIBITED BY JEWISH LAW FROM TOUCHING A DEAD BODY! SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAST OUT AS "UNCLEAN!" THEN WHY DID SHE BUY
SPICES THE DAY BEFORE THE RESURRECTION?
FACT: All the gospels place Mary at the tomb of Jesus at SUNRISE! WHY? ALL THE FOLLOWERS WERE TOLD WHEN CHRIST WAS TO ARISE! REMEMBER
THE SIGN!
FACT: JESUS WAS THE WAVE SHEAF OFFERING, THE "WAVE SHEAF OFFERING " WAS CONDUCTED ON THE 1ST SUNDAY MORNING AFTER THE PASSOVER!
FACT: THE LAW REQUIRED THE OFFERING OF AN UNBLEMISHED LAMB, ALONG WITH THE WAVE SHEAF OFFERING, IT  WAS OFFERED ON SUNDAY
MORNING!
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“Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value – ZERO...”Voltaire 1729
HOW MUCH MONEY IS THERE?

The Estimate of M3 is about $12/trillion dollars...
Although the Fed stopped reporting M3 because it doesn't want you
to know how much money they are really creating behind the
scenes...

# M0: Physical currency. A measure of the money supply which
combines any liquid or cash assets held within a central bank and
the amount of physical currency circulating in the economy. M0
(M-zero) is the most liquid measure of the money supply. It only
includes cash or assets that could quickly be converted into
currency. This measure is known as narrow money because it is the
smallest measure of the money supply.[6]
# M1: M0 + demand deposits, which are checking accounts. This is
used as a measurement for economists trying to quantify the
amount of money in circulation. The M1 is a very liquid measure of
the money supply, as it contains cash and assets that can quickly be
converted to currency.[7]
# M2: M1 + small time deposits (less than $100,000), savings
deposits, and non-institutional money-market funds. M2 is a broader
classification of money than M1. Economists use M2 when looking
to quantify the amount of money in circulation and trying to explain
different economic monetary conditions.[8] M2 is key economic
indicator used to forecast inflation.[9]
# M3: M2 + all large time deposits, institutional money-market funds,
short-term repurchase agreements, along with other larger liquid
assets. The broadest measure of money; it is used by economists to
estimate the entire supply of money within an economy
"I was born for the storm, and a calm doesn’t suit me."
WE WERE WARNED 172 YEARS AGO!
"...unless you become more watchful...and check this spirit
of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in
the end find that the most important powers of Government
have been given...away, and the control over your dearest
interests has passed into the hands of these corporations."
—Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address to America, 1837
The Corporations
Rise of the Corporations
After the Constitution was adopted, Americans were presented
with two different visions of the nation's economic future. One,
championed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson envisioned an
agricultural nation and was critical of a national bank., aimed to
preserve an economy based on independent farmers producing
agricultural products for market. In contrast, Alexander
HamiltonHamilton envisioned an industrial nation and supported
the creation of a national bank. envisioned a robust industrial
American economy.

Without guidance from the Constitution, these two powerful,
competing visions were locked in battle.

By 1830, it had begun to look like Hamilton's ideal of elite-
controlled companies and banks fostering national growth and
expansion, might win out. The rise of the corporationA business
enterprise legally separate from the person who operates it. had
important economic consequences, contributing to a shift in
power and wealth away from workers and landowners and into
the hands of bankers and capitalists.

"The tradesman...who had a real craft that supported him, would
find that businessmen were hiring women and children at very
low wages to work piecemeal."
—Sean Wilentz, historian

The dangers were not limited to financial security.

Jackson was convinced that corporations and banks also
jeopardized the political rights and influence of the common man.
Unless Americans succeeded in reining in big business, the
people risked losing control over their country forever.

Reining in Big Business
For Jackson, the cornerstone of this crusade against big
business was his opposition to extending the charter of the
Second Bank of the United StatesThe bank was first chartered in
1816 and was essentially a private corporation.. He felt the Bank,
chartered and backed by the government, enjoyed too much
unregulated power over the nation's economy - especially with its
ability to manipulate paper money.

And Jackson hated paper money.

In part because of a financial loss he suffered earlier in life from
devalued paper notes, he felt that paper money was inherently
evil, a device for enriching bankers and bilking farmers and
workers of their hard-earned wealth.

In a perfect world, only gold and silver coin would be used for
money.

The Bank War
Opposing Jackson was Bank President Nicholas BiddlePresident
of the Bank of the United States who clashed with Jackson over
the bank's function.. Biddle, according to Historian Daniel Feller,
believed that "American economic growth had been built on
credit. And to get rid of...credit and go back to gold and silver coin,
as Jackson wished to do, would throw the country back into the
Stone Age."

In what became known as the "Bank War,"Jackson fought to
eliminate the national bank which he believed was corrupt. Biddle
clashed with Jackson over the Bank's constitutionality and
usefulness.

Eventually Jackson triumphed in 1832 by vetoingThe veto allows
the president to strike down legislation passed by Congress. a
congressional act extending the Bank's charter and depriving the
Bank of government funds for the remainder of its current charter.

Farewell Warning
Jackson genuinely feared the rise of a moneyed elite bent on
enriching themselves at the expense of the hardworking people
of the United States. Upon retiring from the presidency, Jackson
gave a dire warning:

"...unless you become more watchful...and check this spirit of
monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end
find that the most important powers of Government have been
given...away, and the control over your dearest interests has
passed into the hands of these corporations."
—Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address to America, 1837
THE "WASHINGTON ELITE" FEARED THE PEOPLE AND THE
PEOPLE LOVED ANDREW JACKSON!
TO THIS DAY, THE "ELITE," FEAR ANDREW JACKSON. WHY?
BECAUSE "OLD HICKORY," KNEW HOW TO PUT THEM IN THEIR
PLACE!
IN 2009, WE NEED A NEW ANDREW JACKSON!
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT! THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SUNDAY RESURRECTION!
Paper Money and the Federal Reserve!
BRITISH ISRAELISM
THE STONE OF DESTINY!
Andrew Jackson closed "The Bank," and by doing so, he
was able to pay off America's National Debt. He is the
only President to have ever paid off the National Debt!
The Ancient mariners of Phoenicia
and the Israelite Tribe Of Dan!
The Great Commisssion
WILL ROGERS TALKS TO BANKERS!
Easy-To-Understand Illustration Of How A Woman’s Brain Works
Have you ever wondered how a woman’s brain works?
Well…..it’s finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:
Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision or
a problem that needs to be solved.

A man has only 2 balls and they consume all his thoughts.
Andrew Jackson: Reinventing the Presidency The Original democrat!
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SUN SALUTATIONS!
Dr. John Cannell on vitamin D
As flu ravages the world please get Vitamin D from the sun!
How to Make Irish Soda Bread (Video)
Irish Soda Bread is on the menu today in "Annie Cooks"—a video
series from Yankee that highlights senior food editor, Annie B. Copps.
'Shutter Island'
How to Make Strawberry Preserves
See how to make strawberry preserves with this very simple
recipe from Yankee food editor Annie B. Copps. You can enjoy
fruit all year long by preserving the summer bounty.
The Monitor's View
The rise of women -- just in time
As husbands lose jobs in the great recession, wives are coming to the rescue.

A 30-something couple in Minnesota with two young children has formulated their
own plan for dealing with a family financial crisis. The husband’s income at a
credit union has been severely cut, and he may lose his job entirely in the coming
months. They can no longer afford the payments on their large suburban house.

Their solution is to move into a smaller house with a lower monthly payment.

The key: The couple will qualify for a new mortgage based only on the salary of
the wife, who has a safe, good-paying job in the healthcare industry. That means
that even if the husband becomes unemployed, they won’t need to default on
their loan or risk losing their home.

The steady and dramatic rise over recent decades in education levels and job
opportunities for women has come just in time to help blunt the effects of the
great recession on male workers, who represent about three-fourths of those being
thrown out of work.

Women used to be teased that they went to college to earn their MRS degree – to
find a husband and breadwinner. Now the economics of marriage have seen a
reversal of fortune: Over recent decades, the financial benefits of marriage to men
have grown dramatically, says a study this week from the Pew Research Center.

In 1970, only 4 percent of wives earned more money than their husbands. But by
2007 that had shot up to 22 percent, according to the study, which analyzed
census data over that period.

Men who didn’t marry did least well financially. The income of married couples
and single women grew about 60 percent between 1970 and 2007. The income
of single men grew just 16 percent.

These economic changes mirror changes in women’s education. Forty years ago,
28 percent of wives were less educated than their husbands; only 20 percent had
more education.

By 2007 the numbers had flipped: 28 percent of wives had more education than
their spouses, while only 19 percent of wives had less education. (In the rest of the
cases, both spouses had the same level of education.)

Women in 1970 earned on average 52 cents for every dollar a man earned. By
2007, women earned 71 cents, a great improvement. But that’s not likely to grow
much as long as a greater percentage of women work in lower-paying fields and
more women than men leave the workplace for periods to raise children.

No one doubts that a family with two breadwinners can place a strain on child-
rearing and a general burden on maintaining a household. But more women
workers who are well educated means families have new options.

Jobs such as construction and manufacturing, with a high percentage of male
workers, are disappearing and aren’t likely to return to prerecession levels. In the
future, “Women are just as likely to be the primary bread earner, if not more likely,
than men are today,” President Obama acknowledged to The New York Times last
spring.

Men take losing their jobs harder than do women, at least one study suggests.
Right now, many have lost their status as the chief source of family income. This
all could be seen as “the death of macho,” as one scholar has called it. Some
predict it could result in a wave of anger, frustration, and even violence from men
faced with a new reality.

Another view imagines a world of marriages between equal partners, in which
economic stability allows both parties to find new opportunities for personal
growth, happiness, and fulfilling parenthood.
Let me get this straight: the same company that profits from
selling drugs to treat breast cancer, is also increasing the
incidence of breast cancer? Something tastes funny here.

Oh, that might be the water. Atrazine, America's favorite
weed killer, has been linked to breast cancer, fertility
problems, and birth defects, even in small doses, as
Cameron Scott reports on our Environment blog. (Men,
you're not off the hook either -- it also decreases sperm
count.) And it's in our ground water, having seeped down
from all those perfectly manicured, weedless lawns.
Anybody feeling thirsty?

Novartis, the parent company to atrazine's manufacturer,
also produces a drug that treats breast cancer, suppressing
the exact hormone the weed killer makes as hyper as a
three-year-old on a sugar high. This seems like a pretty safe
business model to me: if you cause the disease you're
treating, you're basically guaranteed to always have a
client base. Let the dough roll in!

But let's not just pick on Novartis' questionable business
practices. After all, we have an organization that supposed
to look out for corporate evils in the environment: the
Environmental Protection Agency. In the past, the EPA's
done a pretty shoddy job monitoring atrazine levels in the
water supply and letting the public know when it's "Danger,
Will Robinson." Tsk tsk. Tell the EPA to redeem itself by
banning the cancer-causing chemical ASAP.
The Meatrix 2
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How sunshine can help your body fight disease
By Fiona Macrae

A spot of sunshine doesn't just lift your spirits, it also boosts your
immune system.
Research shows that vitamin D, made when our skin is exposed
to sunlight, plays a key role in activating white blood cells that
protect the body from flu, food poisoning and even cancer.
Without the 'sunshine vitamin', the cells do not join the fight
against disease.


The discovery could help in the development of vaccines and
ways to combat auto-immune diseases and cancer.
It is well known that vitamin D is vital for calcium absorption and
bone health and some studies have suggested it has an
anti-cancer effect.


But scientists had not realised what a crucial role it played in the
immune system.
A series of laboratory tests showed that the vitamin triggers
dormant white blood cells into turning into 'killers' that seek out
and destroy infections. Other
white blood cells turn into 'helpers' that enable the immune
system to build a 'memory' of the infection, allowing it to mobilise
more quickly on the next encounter.
Researcher Carsten Geisler, of the University of Copenhagen,
said: 'If the T-cells (white blood cells) cannot find enough vitamin
D in the blood, they won't even begin to mobilise.'
The discovery, documented in the journal Nature Immunology,
could shed new light on conditions caused by immune system
malfunctions, such as multiple sclerosis and organ transplant
rejections.
Although vitamin D is found in foods such as oily fish and eggs,
most of that found in the body comes from sunlight exposure, and
many of us simply do not have enough.
In England, half the population is low in the vitamin when winter
ends. In Scotland, it is two-thirds
The truly shocking thing about the latest and exceptionally massive recall involving Huntington Meat Packing Inc. out of
California (read the details here) is not the fact that more than five million pounds of beef and veal were recalled, nor is
it that “the company made the products under unsanitary conditions failing to take the steps it had determined were
necessary to produce safe products,” and it is not even the mere fact that the recall involves immeasurable amounts of
potentially tainted and/or compromised meat that was sold over the last 12 months and has likely been consumed ages
ago. No, the truly shocking aspect of all of this is that within a week, this seeming act of gross negligence will be all but
forgotten.

We live in an amnesiac food culture tempered by our selective memory and insatiable desire for cheap and delicious
meat. Sure, someone’s feet will be held to the fire for this oversight, at least long enough to satisfy our muted outrage
over five million pounds of substandard meat that has infiltrated hotels, restaurants and institutions around the state of
California. However, we (those of us who are hungry carnivores) turn a blind eye to the hazards and apparent disregard to
human and animal health and graciously allow Huntington and nameless others to feed us table scraps of our own
undoing. There is so much wrong with this picture that a few pointed rants and diatribes will be a disservice to a widely
systemic problem, where nearly everyone who pays, and is paid, is severely implicated. But again, the truly shocking
thing is that, as shocked as we may be, we ultimately forget the disgust, the outrage and the betrayal. I certainly am not
intentionally taking a sanctimonious stand on this one. Ask me about this recall in a few weeks and I will likely have
forgotten as well.

As widely systemic as the problem may be, and as unfixable as it may appear, there is one sure fire solution; don’t buy
the stuff and don’t support negligent factory farms. I am not saying don’t buy meat (I know better than that, as is
evidenced by the “food libel” suit filed against the ever-powerful Oprah Winfrey for expressing doubt and concern about
the safety of eating meat) I am simply saying know where your meat is coming from, and if you don’t have that luxury–
abstain. Think of the act of eating meat as a type of carnality (this shouldn’t be too difficult as they share the same Latin
root). In this day and age we hopefully practice a fair amount of caution and consideration when getting sexually
intimate with another. Ideally, we educate ourselves in an effort to avoid bodily harm as well as sticky entanglements
and needless drama. Maybe we should apply a sort of “carne knowledge” to buying and eating meat. Knowing as much
as possible about where our meat came from, how the animal was treated, and how our meal was handled from
slaughter to plate. If these questions cannot be answered with reasonable confidence, then maybe we could skip the
burger and take the culinary equivalent of a cold shower. All in all, it might be a whole lot easier than remembering,
and fretting over the numerous recalls to come.

How do all of these successive recalls sit with you? Have they changed the way we eat? Have you given up or just
decided to let fate be your guide? Is the food industry changeable?
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
SYNOPSIS:
For 19-year-old Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska), life is about take a turn for the
unexpected. When Hamish, the worthy but dull son of Lord and Lady Ascot, proposes
marriage, Alice flees, heading off after a waistcoated rabbit (voiced by Michael Sheen)
and falls down the rabbit hole, landing in a round hall with many doors. After a spot of
bother involving a bottle labelled "Drink Me", whose contents shrink her, and a cake
with the words "Eat Me" iced on top which makes her grow, Alice finds herself in the
fantastical world of Underland. There, she meets a swashbuckling Dormouse (Barbara
Windsor) the aptly named Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), an ever-grinning Cheshire Cat
(voiced by Stephen Fry), the hookah-smoking caterpillar, Absalom (voiced by Alan
Rickman), a creepy White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and her spiteful older sister, the
Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) - petulant ruler of Underland whose reign of terror
Alice is destined to try and end.

Review by Louise Keller:
Tim Burton's magical and inventive visualisation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in
Wonderland both reinforces and delights us with its upside down world, intriguing
perspectives and age-old conflict of good versus evil. A scurrying rabbit wearing a
waistcoat, a broadly grinning (and often disappearing) Cheshire cat, a perpetually
puffing blue caterpillar, the eccentric Mad Hatter and the evil Red Queen with the
oversized head are some of the memorable characters we meet with Alice, when her
recurring dream becomes a reality after tumbling down the rabbit hole into an alternate
world. Burton's sensibilities are happily compatible with the bizarre world in which
Alice finds herself and he has created a wondrous film in which the ordinary and
extraordinary are wildly stirred, delivering a bewitching fantasy for young and old.

I laughed when Helena Bonham Carter's grotesquely bulbous-headed Red Queen rests
her feet on the tummy of a squealing piglet ('I love a warm pig belly for my aching feet')
and at the long-necked pink ostrich croquet stick who offers a sincere 'So sorry' to the
cute baby hedgehog, who is the ball. Through the kaleidoscope of brilliant colour, there
are plenty such moments as Alice sets out on her quest to find six impossible things
before breakfast. One of the constant visual joys is the ever-changing perspective as
Alice shrinks and stretches physically and mentally as she goes through self-doubt in
pursuit of The Real Alice. The mastery of Burton is the way he marries all the elements
- from the story at the heart to the subtle touches and embellishments which allow the
talking animals, polka-dot mushrooms, flying purple-blooded Jabberwocky, an army of
supple red playing cards, the selfless White Queen and the decision Alice must make
about her future in the real world.

In the role of a lifetime, Australian Mia Wasikowska is superb as Alice with whom we
share her incredible adventures, fears and hopes. All the best people are bonkers, they
say, and who else but Johnny Depp could satisfy as the red haired Mad Hatter ('The
best way to travel is by hat')? Bonham Carter's presence is every bit as big as her
oversized head and we love to loathe her. Anne Hathaway is a good choice as the pure
White Queen and all the voice casting is perfectly pitched - from Stephen Fry's
Cheshire Cat to Alan Rickman's hypnotic sky-blue caterpillar whose matter of fact
philosophy about life and the next world is an apt moment to leave the rabbit hole.
The dazzling camera work by master director Martin Scorsese makes 'Shutter Island' all the
more creepy ... not unlike the director's 'Cape Fear' from years back.




by Linda Cook 3 ½ stars
The dazzling camera work by master director Martin Scorsese makes "Shutter Island" all the more creepy, not
unlike the director's "Cape Fear" remake from years back.

My friend Missy, who has incredible taste in books (there it is in print for your book club to see, my dear) told me
"You just HAVE to read 'Shutter Island.' She was, of course, correct. The novel literally made me gasp aloud at
the end.

So did I know what was coming? Yes, but I enjoyed the journey nonetheless, and that's in large part to the way
Scorsese helms this thriller. The show is set in 1954, when Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner
Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are dispatched to Shutter Island, a facility for the criminally insane. One of the clients
who killed her children has disappeared, although it seems impossible for the woman to have escaped her
quarters.

Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) tells the investigators the truth or rather, some of the truth about how the institution is
run and the treatments the patients receive. To say that Teddy is ill at ease is an understatement: He winces at
the bright lights and feels faint from headaches that torment him as soon as he steps onto the island. He begins
to hallucinate or does he? And he can't escape the nightmares that continue to build in intensity, along with
memories of images from his days as a soldier who entered a concentration camp.

Although Teddy seems to be a clean-cut law enforcement officer at first glance, his attire and DiCaprio's
subtleties will lead you to wonder just what's happened to him in the past. What is that bandage doing on his
head? And why does he seem to be filled with such dread and distrust?

Like Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," this film is full of images that are unsettling. True, some are gory, and
some are bizarre. Together they create disturbing montages. Add to that the environment of the island itself, with
craggy cliffs, an impending storm, and a lighthouse that's hiding heaven-only knows what, and you have a
superb atmosphere that Alfred Hitchcock himself would have appreciated.

Scorsese fans won't be disappointed. And neither will those of you who already have enjoyed the Dennis
Lehane novel.

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer,
Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and Ted Levine.
Director: Martin Scorsese.
Screenwriter: Laeta Kalogridis, based on the Dennis Lehane novel.
Running time: One hour and 40 minutes.
Rated: R for violence, foul language and nudity.
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Salmonella Scare Prompts Wide Product Recall
FDA spots bacteria in common food additive; no illnesses yet reported
By Steven Reinberg

THURSDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- A wide array of food products are
being recalled after traces of salmonella were discovered in a common
ingredient, officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced late
Thursday.

Salmonella Tennessee has been found in a widely used brand of hydrolyzed
vegetable protein, a common flavor enhancer that is added to processed
foods, the FDA said.

Products such as dips, salad dressings, pre-packaged meals, snacks and soup
mixes from a variety of makers are included in the recall. A full list of the items
involved in the recall can be found at Foodsafety.gov.

"At this time, there are no known illnesses associated with this
contamination," FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg said during the
news conference.

The FDA said the problem was identified after a customer of the manufacturer,
Las Vegas-based Basic Food Flavors Inc., notified the FDA in early February
that they found salmonella in one lot of the company's hydrolyzed vegetable
protein.

The FDA collected and analyzed samples at Basic Food Flavors' plant and
found Salmonella Tennessee in processing equipment. Based on this finding,
Basic Food Flavors is recalling all hydrolyzed vegetable protein in powder and
paste form that was produced since Sept. 17, 2009.

Dr. Jeffrey Farrar, FDA's Associate Commissioner for Food Protection, said
that although the contaminated product is in potentially thousands of food
items, it poses a low risk to consumers.

The risk remains low because the ingredient makes up less than 1 percent of
any foods. In addition, these foods often go through a cooking step, which
kills the bacteria, Farrar noted.

"We believe the risk represented by this recall is very low to consumers," he
said. "Many of the foods that incorporated this product, at a very low level,
have 'kill steps' in place that would eliminate salmonella."

Only those products that do not have a "kill step" will be recalled, Farrar said.

The FDA has advised companies that the recalled product should be
destroyed or reconditioned according to the agency's protocol. For products
that may already be in consumers' kitchens, the FDA is advising that they
check the recalled product list and follow "cooking instructions for all foods."

In addition, the agency is asking anyone who had symptoms of salmonella to
contact their doctor.

Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young
children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
Healthy people infected with salmonella often have fever, diarrhea, nausea,
vomiting and abdominal pain, according to the FDA.

Most healthy people recover from salmonella infection within four to seven
days without treatment. However, in rare cases, the bacterium can get into the
bloodstream causing severe illnesses, such as arterial infections, infection of
the lining of the heart and arthritis, the agency noted.
Seek and destroy: Vitamin D, created when skin is exposed
to the sun, can help protect the body from disease
Pancreatic Cancer Linked to Sodas?
Study Says 2 Sodas Per Week Raises Pancreatic
Cancer Risk; Beverage Industry Says Study Is Flawed
Vitamin D 'triggers and arms' the immune system
Vitamin D is crucial to the fending off of infections, claims new research.

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Published: 6:00PM GMT 07 Mar 2010

The so-called sunshine vitamin, which can be obtained from food or
manufactured by human skin exposed to the sun, plays a key role in
boosting the immune system, researchers believe.

In particular it triggers and arms the body's T cells, the cells in the body
that seek out and destroy any invading bacteria and viruses.

Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have discovered that
Vitamin D is crucial to activating our immune defences and that without
sufficient intake of the vitamin, the killer cells of the immune system – T
cells – will not be able to react to and fight off serious infections in the
body.

For T cells to detect and kill foreign pathogens such as clumps of
bacteria or viruses, the cells must first be ‘triggered’ into action and
"transform" from inactive and harmless immune cells into killer cells
that are primed to seek out and destroy all traces of invaders.

The researchers found that the T cells rely on vitamin D in order
activate and they would remain dormant, ‘naïve’ to the possibility of
threat if vitamin D is lacking in the blood.

Professor Carsten Geisler from the Department of International Health,
Immunology and Microbiology, said: "When a T cell is exposed to a
foreign pathogen, it extends a signalling device or ‘antenna’ known as
a vitamin D receptor, with which it searches for vitamin D.

"This means that the T cell must have vitamin D or activation of the cell
will cease. If the T cells cannot find enough vitamin D in the blood, they
won’t even begin to mobilise. ”

The discovery, the scientists believe, provides much needed
information about the immune system and will help them regulate the
immune response.

This is important not only in fighting disease but also in dealing with
anti-immune reactions of the body and the rejection of transplanted
organs.

Active T cells multiply at an explosive rate and can create an
inflammatory environment with serious consequences for the body.

After organ transplants, T cells can attack the donor organ as a ‘foreign
invader’. In autoimmune diseases, like arthritis or Crohns Disease, T
cells mistake fragments of the body’s own cells for foreign invaders,
leading to the body launching an attack upon itself.

For the research team, identifying the role of vitamin D in the activation
of T cells has been a major breakthrough.

“Scientists have known for a long time that vitamin D is important for
calcium absorption and the vitamin has also been implicated in
diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis, but what we didn’t
realise is how crucial vitamin D is for actually activating the immune
system – which we know now, ” said the researchers.

The findings, continues Professor Geisler, “could help us to contain
infectious diseases and global epidemics.

They will be of particular use when developing new vaccines, which
work precisely on the basis of both training our immune systems to
react and suppressing the body’s natural defences in situations where
this is important – as is the case with organ transplants and
autoimmune disease.”

Most Vitamin D is produced as a natural by-product of the skin’s
exposure to sunlight. It can also be found in fish liver oil, eggs and fatty
fish such as salmon, herring and mackerel or taken as a dietary
supplement.

The findings are published in the latest edition of Nature Immunology.
WHITE AMERICA FALLS!
MINORITY BIRTHS OUTNUMBER WHITES!
             2010 TIPPING YEAR!
WASHINGTON (AP)  Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which
minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.

In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities
outnumbers that of babies born to whites.

The numbers are growing because immigration to the U.S. has boosted the number of Hispanic women in their prime
childbearing years. Minorities made up 48 percent of U.S. children born in 2008, the latest census estimates available,
compared to 37 percent in 1990.

"Census projections suggest America may become a minority-majority country by the middle of the century. For
America's children, the future is now," said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor at the University of New
Hampshire who researched many of the racial trends in a paper being released Wednesday.

Johnson explained there are now more Hispanic women of prime childbearing age who tend to have more children
than women of other races. More white women are waiting until they are older to have children, but it is not yet known
whether that will have a noticeable effect on the current trend of increasing minority newborns.

The numbers highlight the nation's growing racial and age divide, seen in pockets of communities across the U.S.,
which could heighten tensions in current policy debates from immigration reform and education to health care and
Social Security.

There are also strong implications for the 2010 population count, which begins in earnest next week, when more than 120 million U.S.
households receive their census forms in the mail. The Census Bureau is running public service announcements this week to improve
its tally of young children, particularly minorities, who are most often missed in the once-a-decade head count. The campaign features
Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, the English- and Spanish-speaking Nickelodeon cartoon character who helps "mommy fill out our
census form."

The population figures are used to distribute federal aid and redraw legislative boundaries with racial and ethnic balance, as required by
federal law.

"The adults among themselves sometimes forget the census is about everyone, and kids should be counted," said Census Bureau
director Robert Groves. "If we fail to count a newborn that is born this month, that newborn misses all the benefits of the census for 10
years."

Whites currently make up two-thirds of the total U.S. population, and recent census estimates suggest the number of minorities may not
overtake the number of whites until 2050.

Right now, roughly 1 in 10 of the nation's 3,142 counties already have minority populations greater than 50 percent. But 1 in 4
communities have more minority children than white children or are nearing that point, according to the study, which Johnson
co-published.

That is because Hispanic women on average have three children, while other women on average have two. The numbers are 2.99
children for Hispanics, 1.87 for whites, 2.13 for blacks and 2.04 for Asians in the U.S. And the number of white women of prime
childbearing age is on the decline, dropping 19 percent from 1990.

For example:

In Gwinnett County, Ga., an Atlanta suburb, the population has shifted from 16 percent minority in 1990 to 58 percent minority in 2008. The
number of blacks and Hispanics nearly doubled, while the number of white young people stayed roughly the same.

The population of Dakota County, Neb., increased from 15 percent minority in 1990 to 54 percent in 2008, due largely to an influx of
Hispanics who came looking for work in meatpacking and other labor.

In Lake County, Ind., a suburb of Chicago, the minority population grew from 43 percent in 1990 to 53 percent in 2008 as the number of
white children declined, the number of blacks stayed stable and the number of Hispanics increased. The 2008 census estimates used
local records of births and deaths, tax records of people moving within the U.S., and census statistics on immigrants. The figures for
"white" refer to those whites who are not of Hispanic ethnicity.
                WHAT'S ARABIC FOR 'YOU'RE NO ATTICUS FINCH'?
A group of "leading conservative lawyers" -- a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" -- has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz
Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees. The letter calls Cheney's demand
"shameful," before unleashing this steaming pile of idiocy:

"The American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston
Massacre."

Yes, but even John Adams didn't take a job with the government for another 19 years after defending the British guards -- who, in 1770, were "the police." He also
didn't take a position with the U.S. government that involved processing British murder suspects.  I'd be more interested in hearing about the sacred duty of lawyers
to defend "unpopular clients" if we were talking about clients who are unpopular with anyone lawyers know.

Every white shoe law firm in the country has been clamoring to take the cases of Guantanamo detainees, while young associates line up to be put on the case. This
is even more fun than defending Ted Bundy!

As The Wall Street Journal put it in a 2007 article, a list of the law firms representing Guantanamo detainees "reads like a who's who of America's most prestigious
law firms" -- which conveniently doubles as Santa's "naughty" list.

The terrorists' lawyers have included Shearman and Sterling, Arnold & Porter; Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr; Covington & Burling; Hunton & Williams; Sullivan
& Cromwell; Debevoise & Plimpton; King & Spalding; Cleary Gottlieb, Morrison & Foerster; Jenner & Block; O'Melveny & Myers and Sidley Austin.

At least 34 of the 50 largest firms in the United States have performed pro bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.

Years ago, when I nearly died of boredom working for a law firm, I heard whispered rumors about a partner, Michael Tierney, whom none of the female associates
wanted to work with because his pro bono work included defending -- gasp! -- pro-life groups. (There was at least one female associate who wanted to work with
him!)

I didn't hear a peep about the august "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients" back then.

Like Hollywood actresses, lawyers need to believe they're noble and courageous to help them forget that they are corporate drones doing soul-destroying work,
which mostly consists of making photocopies.  Defending terrorists gives status-conscious attorneys a chance to get standing ovations at the annual ABA
convention -- much like promoting "global warming" makes climatologists feel like they're saving the world, rather than studying water vapor.

It took me exactly one Nexis search for "ABA," "award" and "Guantanamo" to find that the 2006 "Outstanding Scholar Award" at the ABA annual banquet was given
to New York University law professor Anthony G. Amsterdam for his "extensive pro bono practice, litigating cases that range from civil rights claims, to death
penalty defense, to claims of access to the courts for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay."

A rule I have is: You're not defending an unpopular client if you're getting awards from the ABA, particularly if the award mentions "courage."

You'll never see a pompous letter like the one attacking Liz Cheney on behalf of any lawyer defending clients who are unpopular with lawyers, which terrorists are
not.

Ken Starr, a signatory to the "Please God, Let This Get Me a Good Obituary in The New York Times" letter, once, totally by mistake, had a case unpopular with the
establishment: Bill Clinton's impeachment.

He's shown his mettle by saying that if he met Clinton today, he'd say "I'm sorry." Because isn't that what Jesus said? Be very concerned with the opinion of the
world!

Speaking of which, I also never heard any testimonials to the sacred duty of lawyers to defend unpopular causes when every lawyer working on the Clinton
impeachment was being smeared as a "tobacco lawyer."

Tobacco companies, being wildly unpopular, are in need of a lot of legal services. Scratch any litigator from a big law firm and you'll find someone who, if
necessary, could be slimed as a "tobacco lawyer."

You will notice a pattern developing: We only hear paeans to the "American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients" when it's being used to defend
causes popular with liberals -- serial killers, terrorists and a horny hick who promised to save partial-birth abortion.

Lawyers want to be congratulated for their courage in defending "unpopular" clients, while taking cases that are utterly noncontroversial in their social circles.

They'd be scared to death to take the case of an anti-abortion activist. Defending the guy who killed George Tiller the Baby Killer won't make them a superstar at the
next ABA convention.

Not only do Americans have a right to know the legal backgrounds of lawyers setting detainee policy at the Department of Justice, but I personally demand the right
not to have to listen to Eddie Haskell lawyers constantly claiming to be Atticus Finch.

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Seven Muslim immigrants were arrested in the Republic of Ireland yesterday, over an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist who drew a picture of Mohammed
with the body of a dog.

The bounty was placed upon the head of cartoonist Lars Vilks in 2007, by groups closely linked to al-Qaeda. The group offered £67,000 for the murder of the
cartoonist; a further £34,000 if he was murdered ‘like a lamb’, the technique used in barbaric halal slaughter.

It also offered £34,000 for the murder of the editor-in-chief who allowed the cartoon to appear in the regional newspaper, Nerikes Allehanda.

The pictures, published in 2007, were used as an excuse for rioting by Islamic colonisers in Sweden and caused diplomatic protests from Iran, Jordan, Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Egypt. Mr Vilks remains in defiant mood, explaining that he has an axe ready should anybody breach his round-the-clock security.

“I’m not shaking with fear, exactly,” he told Swedish news agency TT after Tuesday’s arrests.

“I have prepared in different ways and I have an axe here in case someone should manage to get in through the window.”

According to reports, the Islamic extremists — three women and four men — were granted asylum regardless of the fact that they passed through several safe
countries to arrive in the republic, having left their home countries of Morocco and Yemen.

Two of the offending images, below.
Obama recently pledged to reward “reformed” public schools with money and punish other schools. At the top of the list
is specific “civil rights issues.”

The Obama administration is calling for totalitarian race based discipline at public schools. Currently blacks students on
average are three times more likely to be suspended. However, blacks are seven times more likely to commit murder
than other races. This statistic alone suggests that public schools are already coddling black students. The rate at which
blacks misbehave in school compared to others should be at least as high as their murder rate.

School administrators are already in fear of punishing black students, and it is getting worse every day. Yet Obama wants
to make it worse. Obama’s program calls for punishments and litigation against schools who don’t improve the
imbalance in suspension rates between the races. This means that schools will have to suspend whites for doing
something a third less severe than what a black student is currently suspended for, or black students will have to be
suspended only when they do something three times more severe than what they are currently being suspended for!

The message that Obama is sending to black school children is that they should be able to misbehave all they want. When
a teacher threatens them with punishment they should scream “that’s racist,” and they will have the full backing of the
president of the United States. America is starting to look a little bit like Zimbabwe.
A 51 year old mother of ten is running for president of Austria under the Freedom Party of
Austria. Barbara Rosenkranz is a well known free speech activist. Kronen Zeitung, the
largest newspaper in Austria endorsed her. However virtually every other daily paper in
Austria and around Europe is viciously attacking her.

The Freedom Party of Austria(FPO) is a very conservative/populist political party. It currently
has two seats in the EU. They control about 19% of the Austrian parliament with 34 seats. A
second conservative/populist party based around former FPO leader Jorg Haider controls
another 21 seats. That party has similar goals, but is seen as reaching out to young people
by supporting environmental laws and minimum wage increases. However they support
the same restrictions on immigrations. Both oppose ceding sovereignty to the EU. Socialist
and communist control 77 and moderates control 51.
The five point platform of the Freedom Party of Austria is:

* No accession of Turkey into the European Union (EU)
* No intrusion of EU policy in Austria
* No increase in the Austrian contribution to the EU
* Restrict Austrian citizenship law
* Stop the abuse of the asylum system

Americans who like Sarah Palin are going to love Barbara Rosenkranz.
    Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal   
About 200 of America's first women military pilots, for decades unacknowledged as
veterans, were finally rewarded for their service at a ceremony Wednesday where they
received Congressional Gold Medals. The surviving Women Airforce Service Pilots, or
WASPs, flew non-combat missions during World War Two - a long wait for recognition.