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I just grabbed this from a forum I frequent everyday. I love pets, I'm sure y'all do as well. So I C&P'ed without alterations.

Pet alert - Poisonous Mulch - Deadly to dogs & cats

Please tell every dog or cat owner you know. Even if you don't have a pet, please pass this to those who do.

Over the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog Calypso decided that the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn't acting lethargic in any way. The next day, Mom woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk . Half way through the walk, she had a seizure and died instantly.

Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company's website, this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats .

Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim that 'It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won't eat it.'

This Snopes site gives the following information: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp

Cocoa Mulch , which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores , contains a lethal ingredient called ' Theobromine' . It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks. Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker's chocolate which is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of th eobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine.

PLEASE GIVE THIS THE WIDEST DISTRIBUTION! !!

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REALLY IMPORTANT !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!   Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 10:57 AM  REMEMBER: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public next month. REMINDER.... all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. ..... YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You MUST call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.. It takes about 20 seconds

http://www.emergingearthangels.com/2009/wings3.5.2009.html

March 5, 2009...Starting Over
Welcome!
Bit by bit, piece by piece, we are starting over. After enough souls residing in the lower dimensional old world, had been given enough time and opportunity to choose if they would stay behind or move on to their newer and higher vibrating reality of the next step for the whole, many of us then left for the next rung of our very new reality. When we left, we may have felt a great completion, a sense of loss of identity and purpose, and perhaps great feelings of no sense of place. We were done with a very important phase, and because this phase was completed by enough of the whole, we were most certainly done with a very important mission. This was a huge completion. Because we are very done, we are now readying to start over...to experience a grand rebirth, and some very new beginnings.
Immediately before we entered our own very new space, or higher dimension, great muscle and physical pain could be felt, as we were squeezing what was left of any density we may have had within us, into a very small birth canal. But once we arrived, any discomfort may have magically dissipated.
Moving into a higher vibrating reality creates common themes that are always present. Some include: A very low tolerance for lower vibrating energies and ways of being, great loneliness, memory loss, a strong feeling of no sense of place, a great dis-connect from much of everything, extreme fatigue and feelings of not wanting to do anything but rest, apathy, sleepiness, mood swings, great joy, peace, a deeper connection to Source and our souls, greater feelings of love, and a very strong awareness of what is around us. What does all that mean, exactly?
· A low tolerance for lower vibrating energies: Lower vibrating energies are much too dense for those vibrating higher. They can feel very heavy, unpleasant, and downright awful. These energies are encouraging us to flee, to leave for a higher vibrating shore where we belong, and to create a higher vibrating reality somewhere else. We no longer belong nor do we reside in the lower dimensions. Personal sanctuaries and nature are the remedies for these challenging feelings, along with creativity and things vibrating high (love, caring, respect, art, music, and anything neutral, etc.).
· Great loneliness: The higher we vibrate, the more we spin off lower vibrating energies within and without. Eventually, there is not much left that we can surround ourselves with. Thus, we can become lonely as we are the forerunners, unless we are able to tolerate the lower energies for long periods of time, which becomes nearly impossible after a while. Eventually, we may seem to be the only ones around, but this is now changing (more about this further along in this post). Hanging with children (as they naturally vibrate higher), and finding small circles of friends and loved ones that really love us and care about us (even if they do not share our beliefs), and vice versa, are the remedies. True and authentic love vibrates high and this is enough to keep a connection, even if we have nothing else in common.
· Memory loss: We are evolving into pure energy, and also leaving much behind which can then become difficult to remember. In addition, the higher we vibrate, the more we exist in pockets of energy with different themes. What is in the now is all that exists, as we no longer hold strong and long connections to much. Higher vibrating energy moves in and out, very quickly, and is very in the moment. We are also becoming pure energy. In this way, specifics and details become moot after a while. I continue to receive correspondences from readers who feel a need to correct my spelling, grammar, and punctuation. What is happening here, is that I am now spelling phonetically and cannot remember detailed rules of grammar, etc. I used to be the continual winner of every spelling bee and meticulous about grammar and punctuation as I loved it, but it is simply not possible now, and too time consuming to send each WINGS post out to someone else for corrections. Superimposing letters and words in sentences is common as well in the beginning stages. Details and analyzing eventually become moot as well, as love and energy are all that will eventually remain.
· No sense of place: This experience is very common and will occur each and every time we move up a notch on the ascension ladder. We no longer reside in the lower dimensions and the new has not yet arrived. In this way, we do not fit anywhere. There is nothing to connect to and nowhere to go. We may feel lost, freaked out a bit, insecure, and perhaps loose our confidence as we feel out of our old groove. Knowing that these feelings always pass is the remedy here, as well as being in the moment as much as possible, and keeping busy and distracted can help as well.
· A dis-connect from much of everything: Much leaves our space through the ascension process. We may begin to vibrate differently than others and thus need to part, or perhaps our prior friends are now leaving for a very new and different "assignment" than ours. We can no longer relate to or become a part of the old systems, and even our loving animal companions may part as they are unable to travel with us to our very new shore (they always return again in a new form!). Connecting to the new is the remedy here and it can really make us feel so much better.
· Apathy, exhaustion, and sleepiness: We feel apathy when we are re-booting, resetting, or in a space of hovering while we are waiting for our new connections or new roles. Exhaustion comes from re-wiring or having our bodies tune up to a higher frequency (our cells are morphing and this take a lot of energy), and sleepiness occurs when we are going from one dimension to another (as does being cold with an inability to get warm). No remedies here, except to just go with these stages and know that they are always temporary!
· Mood swings: We feel great around the higher vibrations and not so great around the lower ones. We can try and stay in the higher vibrations as much as possible and in a loving and accepting state when in the lower ones.
· Joy, peace, a deeper connection to our souls, and feelings of love: This is what occurs when we remove ourselves from the old, or the lower vibrating energies. If we can remove ourselves as much as possible, it is then much easier to be around the lower dimensions for the short periods of time that we need to. And when we are around the higher vibrations of unity, caring, respect, creativity, love, and joy even in the old world, we can easily feel much better as well.
· A very strong awareness of what is around us: The higher we vibrate, the more unity we experience. Separation occurs in the old reality, and when we encounter it after we are vibrating higher, it can feel downright awful. Being aware of each and every thing that is around us, and knowing that we are a whole and all one, becomes increasingly evident the more we evolve. In this way, much else can seem to be existing in great separation mode, almost within its own bubble of separation and locked doors, and thus appear to exist in some strange world of its own. This has always been the toughest one for me, as not "seeing" or acknowledging one another feels particularly unpleasant for me. Everything affects everything else, and the sooner we realize this as a planet, the better off we will be.
Over this past week-end (the end of February and beginning of March), we reached yet another milestone and were then ready to move forward a bit more. This manifested as feelings of great sleepiness, vertigo and spinning for some, and a strong desire to sleep, rest, and nest.
We had successfully released much of the old, had set in place enough of the new, and could now let go and move forward once again...forward into a very new reality. Ever so slowly, we have been putting the pieces together for our very new beginnings. New connections, new foundations, fresh and new pieces in our lives have ever so slowly been manifesting and are being put into place.
Yes, we are starting over. In this way, we needed to be removed and separated from much. We needed to be left with the bare bones of the bare minimum so that we could start once again. We may have found ourselves with fewer friends than ever before, losses of income, stripped of so much, and may even had feelings of being left out in the cold. This was because we had to be ready to start fresh and new...we had to be ready to begin a very new life with new connections and much of everything else very new. Our slates needed to be wiped clean before anything new could be added, as what will be added will be comprised of much higher energy that now matches our own. We needed a clean canvas before we added the first new brushstrokes of very new paint creating our very new picture.
(This scenario is also occurring in regard to earth cleansings and natural disasters. This is why our beautiful Australia has experienced such massive fires...it is preparing a clean slate for a very new and higher vibrating reality. What will emerge from the rubble will be a bright, shiny, and new area that will prove to be a very grounded and pristine place for the New World...a place that will be known far and wide for its very special contribution to the planet.)
Thus, we have been released from all of the old...from all of the unpleasantness of the past....from difficult and challenging connections...and from old responsibilities of bringing up the vibrations of the old world and its inhabitants. (If you are feeling miserable and still feel a need to get out, leave the world, and that you are possibly now in hell instead of heaven, know that this comes from a greater connection to the old. The more we are enmeshed in the old reality, the more difficult it can be, and the worse we feel. Things indeed get better as we leave the old world behind, say no to unpleasant ways and individuals, and know that when we are willing to leave and to refuse to participate, we will always be taken care of. Really letting go is always a great benefit that keeps us in the flow during the ascension process.)
Our new reality and our new world will being with us. It will begin with one. Soon (if you have not already done so), each of us will introduce one more piece, or one more person. Then we will have two in our new reality (continued relationships from the past can remain as well, but at even higher levels now). This then, will be the beginning of new communities. Know as well that it took a very long time to release the old, so then, it will take a while to create the new (but certainly not as long as it took to release the old!)
In addition, we have learned that we need to be hyper-vigilant about boundaries. We need to be ever so particular about whom we allow into our new world and new reality. Not everyone can enter, but those who cannot enter will be met at the dimensional border when they ask. Those who do not ask, are not yet at the dimensional border. And those who do ask, will most times be met through our new store-fronts, which will exist on the border, while we reside on another side, having all our needs beautifully met.
What is occurring now with the economy is part of the plan. It was supposed to occur. The old world needed to start over as well. It was time for it to crash, thus, this massive transition is indeed in divine and perfect order,.. and know as well, that we will indeed be protected. We have left that world. Going through these confusing, strange, and perplexing feelings of endings and loss of purpose, are simply proof that we no longer belong on that lower rung of reality (the one that is crashing), and in this way, we have indeed arrived in a land where things are very different. If we can trust that this is so, and if we can remove ourselves from the old world as much as possible (with the exception of our money-making store-fronts) , we can more easily experience the Promised Land of joy, peace, love, and harmony, among all else.
We are moving along quite nicely now. Feelings of heaviness, entrapment, distress, depression and panic, are indications of a residency in the old world or of interactions with old ways and lower vibrations. Staying still in our center, or in the center of the storm, and simplifying our lives as much as possible, can keep us out of harm's way. Staying still while being willing to let go and trust can be great resources that enable us to ride the current to a new arrival in the higher realms. We are also much more grounded now as we are readying for a very new reality right here. All the waiting and separation of many years past, and the isolation for many, will soon begin to depart. Yes, we are indeed starting over.
Much love and continued gratitude. Until next time,

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/congressional-data-mining-coming-soon

Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon?

How a little-noticed provision in a House spending bill could revolutionize access to congressional information.

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-Photo by flickr user I am I.A.M. used under a Creative Commons license. Thu March 5, 2009 10:04 AM PST

By slipping a simple, three-sentence provision into the gargantuan spending bill passed by the House of Representatives last week, a congressman from Silicon Valley is trying to nudge Congress into the 21st Century. Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) placed a measure in the bill directing Congress and its affiliated organs-including the Library of Congress and the Government Printing Office-to make its data available to the public in raw form. This will enable members of the public and watchdog groups to craft websites and databases showcasing government data that are more user-friendly than the government's own.

If the Senate passes the bill with the provision intact, citizens seeking information about Congress' activities-such as bill names and numbers, amendments, votes, and committee reports-won't have to rely on government websites, which often filter information, are incomplete, or are difficult to use. Instead, the underlying data will be available to anyone who wants to build a superior site or tool to sift through it. "The language is groundbreaking in that it supports providing unfiltered legislative information to the public," says Honda's online communications director, Rob Pierson. "Instead of silo-ing the information, and only allowing access through a limited web form, access to the raw data will make it easier for people to learn what their government is doing."

Successful, privately-created websites that provide the public with information about Congress' actions already exist. OpenCongress.org, GovTrack.us, Legistorm.com, and MAPLight.org all make legislative data available to the public in ways that are easier to navigate than Congress' primary web portal, a system called Thomas. Those sites currently get their data through techies who "scrape" Thomas and other government websites, which means they use bots to process the HTML and gather what is valuable. The process is labor-intensive and imprecise. "It's difficult to keep the data up to date, in some cases impossible, and occasionally there are errors in the data," says Josh Tauberer, the 26-year-old who runs GovTrack.us and does lots of the "scraping" that others use. "This could all be fixed by a bulk data download."

Tauberer expects that the availability of additional and easier-to-use congressional data will spur innovation. "You can expect to see other sites spring up doing new and interesting things with the information." He anticipates charts, graphs, and maps that represent congressional goings-on visually-"ways of visualizing the congressional process that we couldn't yet imagine." Honda, with his Silicon Valley roots, expects that developers and coders will quickly outpace the government's efforts to date. "We hope that we can learn from the wisdom of crowds," says Pierson.

There are government agencies that already provide massive amounts of data via databases. The Census Bureau provides huge amounts of information in raw form, allowing academics, statisticians, and think tank scholars to comb through it in any way they please. The Federal Elections Commission publishes unedited data on campaign contributions, giving rise to sites like OpenSecrets.org, which allows the public to see who is donating to whom, and allows journalists and watchdogs to investigate the influence of money in politics.

"In our Web 2.0 world, we can empower the public by providing them with raw data that they can remix and reuse in new and innovative ways," Honda told Mother Jones in a statement. (Disclosure: In the summer of 2002, I briefly worked as an intern in Honda's district office.) Honda's provision, however, pertains only to legislative data. Federal departments like the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Department of Energy have reams of data that political scientists, economists, and researchers of all stripes would love to get their hands on. Many who work at the intersection of technology, politics, and transparency believe that the key player in broadening Honda's effort to include the executive branch will be Vivek Kundra, the former Chief Technology Officer of the District of the Columbia who was named Obama's Chief Information Officer on Thursday. According to the National Journal's Tech Daily Dose, Kundra "told reporters Thursday he will launch data.gov, a Web site intended to 'democratize data' by giving the public raw feeds of information from a range of agencies."

John Wonderlich, the policy director at the Sunlight Foundation, which has created or funded several tools that make government data easier to analyze, is holding out hope that the president's Open Government Directive, which is due at the end of May, will further address the issue of data availability. He applauds Honda for putting Congress, at least, on the right track. "Without Honda's attention to this issue, congressional level attention to bulk data access would be unlikely," he says. "We're happy to see this first step."

"Outlaw the Shadow Banking System!" Guess Who Said It?

Matthias Chang

7^th March, 2009

When I read the remarks of President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown after their meeting at the Oval Office on March 3, 2009 and the speech of the latter to the Joint Session of Congress on March 4, 2009 , I realized that a growing antagonism has emerged between certain factions of the ruling elites in the City of London and in Washington DC.

The first warning of the acute differences was sounded by President Obama himself and it was most surprising that the mass media paid hardly attention to it. In his weekly address on February 28, 2009 , President Obama said:

"I realize that passing this budget won't be easy.  Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington. I know that the insurance industry won't like the idea that they'll have to bid competitively to continue offering Medicare coverage, but that's how we'll help preserve and protect Medicare and lower health care costs for American families.  I know that banks and big student lenders won't like the idea that we're ending their huge taxpayer subsidies, but that's how we'll save taxpayers nearly $50 billion and make college more affordable. I know that banks and big student lenders won't like the idea that we're ending their huge taxpayer subsidies, but that's how we'll save taxpayers nearly $50 billion and make college more affordable. I know that oil and gas companies won't like us ending nearly $30 billion in tax breaks, but that's how we'll help fund a renewable energy economy that will create new jobs and new industries. In other words, I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this:  "So am I."

Read the underlined words again.

It is clear something is definitely amiss within the ruling elites and President Obama has thrown the gauntlet to his adversaries. The skeptics may say that we should not read too much into this above quoted paragraph, as it could be mere spin to rally the troops in times of crisis. Time will tell.

I take the view that it is inevitable that the members of the ruling elites would go for each other's throats because those who were given the charge to ensure that the money-machine keeps running have screwed up big time. Someone must answer for the fiasco.

The Blame Game

It would be naïve to assume that the status quo would remain, when the Global Trillion Dollar Casino is for all intents and purposes broken down beyond repair.

Confirmation that the blame game has started in earnest can be found in the aforesaid remarks of President Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown on March 3, 2009 given after their meeting at the Oval Office and Brown's speech to Congress on March 4, 2009 .

Let us come back to the issue of the money-lenders. For some strange reason, many people are put off by the term "money-lenders" but are ever so comfortable with bankers.

But are not bankers, money-lenders?

In fact I would say that money-lenders are more honourable than your high street bankers, as they can only rob you in the millions. The global bankers, they rape and plunder in the trillions!

Is it any wonder that Gordon Brown and President Obama , the political representatives of the Power Elites have decided that it is about time that these financial harlots are to be brought under control before they wreck the entire global power structure?

Let us have no illusions about Obama and Gordon Brown . They are going after these financial harlots not because they want to protect us from these criminals, but because for too long the political faction had to play second fiddle to the financial faction in the overall scheme of global one world government.

Until lately, money power triumphed over political power. However, when the entire financial system broke into pieces, it was time to settle scores!

Read for yourself: -

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's remarks at the White House, March 3, 2009 : -

"Well, there's got to be deep regulatory change. We've just been talking, Barack and I, about the need for proper supervision of shadow banking systems, of areas where there was bank practices that were unacceptable, where remuneration policies got out of hand and weren't based on long-term success, but on short-term deals. And these are the changes that we've already announced that we are going to make.

"We've had a global banking failure, and it's happened in every part of the world. It's almost like a power cut that went right across the financial system. And we have got to rebuild that financial system. We've got to isolate the bad assets.

"You don't want shadow banking systems. You don't want regulatory tax havens. So we've got to act as a world together to deal with that. And that's one of the things we'll be talking about in April in London ."

President Obama's response at the White House, March 3, 2009 : -

"Now, having said that, the banking system has been dealt a heavy blow. It has to do with many of the things that Prime Minister Brown alluded to: lax regulation, massive over-leverage, huge systemic risks taken by unregulated institutions, as well as regulated institutions. And so there are a lot of losses that are working their way through the system. And it's not surprising that the market is hurting as a consequence. In fact, I think what we're seeing is that as people absorb the depths of the problem that existed in the banking system, as well as the international ramifications of it, that there's going to be a natural reaction.

"We are cleaning up that mess. It's going to be sort of full of fits and starts in terms of getting the mess cleaned up, but it's going to get cleaned up."

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Speech to Congress, March 4, 2009 : -

"And we need to understand what went wrong in this crisis, that the very financial instruments that were designed to diversify risk across the banking system instead spread contagion across the globe. And today's financial institutions are so interwoven that a bad bank anywhere is a threat to good banks everywhere.

"And you are also restructuring your banks. So are we. But how much safer would everybody's savings be if the whole world finally came together to outlaw shadow banking systems and offshore tax havens?"

Blink and read again the underlined words. You have just read that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has made the call to "outlaw the shadow banking system and offshore tax havens!"

Wow!

Even if you are a skeptic and holds the view that the quotes are mere spin to delude the people, you cannot deny that Prime Minister Brown has let the genie out of the bottle!

Whether there are any follow through actions by President Obama and Prime Minister Brown , the global citizens must take action independently, if they want to save their children, and their children's children from decades of impoverishment and extreme hardship.

The most powerful leader of the Western world and his side-kick has openly and unreservedly acknowledged that we are having a global financial melt-down. And that the cause for this catastrophe is the shadow banking system!

There is now an open warfare between the political factions and the financial factions of the global power elites. This will be ugly. And as President Obama warned, "they are gearing for a fight..." He has also responded to the challenge: "So am I."

Given the above scenario, we must first take out the financial elites, and thereafter the political faction, failing which we will all plunge into the black hole of financial Armageddon!

Matthias Chang is a prominent barrister, author and analyst of the New World Order based in Malaysia .

...here is the link for the full episode if you can get it in your area... it played yesterday and was incredible ! I tried to find it on youtube but was not up yet....


http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip149638

...a feud has been brewing for the past two weeks between Jim Cramer of MSNBC and Jon Stewart of Comedy Central... in a serious note Stewart shreds Cramer and the Networks for fuelling the economic disaster so that those in the know can profit from the loss of others... the clip was not available in my area but saw the show on TV...

...here is a previous clip that preceeds the face-off by a couple of days...

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...I found a clip of the episode but youtube had it removed... (this is common with controversial subjects)...

...there is Much going on behind the scenes... and Much more will be reaching the public soon... Maddoc is just the tip of the iceberg...

...keep your eyes on the news... things are going to get very interesting...

...and keep bringing in Light...the shadows are receeding quickly...

http://www.alternet.org/rights/131153

Here is the Sy Hersh excerpt in which he discusses the roving "executive assassination ring." Again this is 3D, black-and-white corroboration, foretelling accountability. Not yet mainstream media, perhaps, but out there.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/131153

Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney, Had No Congressional Oversight

Alternet.org

By Eric Black, MinnPost.com
Posted March 12, 2009

Excerpt:

"After 9/11, I haven't written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven't been called on it yet. That does happen.

"Right now, today, there was a story in <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/asia/10terror.html?hp> the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it's called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...

"Congress has no oversight of it. It's an executive assassination ring
essentially, and it's been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

"Under President Bush's authority, they've been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That's been going on, in the name of all of us.

"It's complicated because the guys doing it are not murderers, and yet they are committing what we would normally call murder. It's a very complicated issue. Because they are young men that went into the Special Forces. The Delta Forces you've heard about. Navy Seal teams. Highly specialized.

"In many cases, they were the best and the brightest. Really, no
exaggerations. Really fine guys that went in to do the kind of necessary jobs that they think you need to do to protect America. And then they find themselves torturing people.

"I've had people say to me -- five years ago, I had one say: 'What do you call it when you interrogate somebody and you leave them bleeding and they don't get any medical [attention] and two days later he dies. Is that murder? What happens if I get before a committee.?'

"But they're not gonna get before a committee." <snip>


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...everyday...  one step closer to the truth...

...this is about Sacramento, Cali. The news today is that they are going to create ordinances to outlaw them, which seems crazy because where will these people go ?...

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Subject: From Obama to his daughters

Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:33 PM

From the Histoical Collector, Issue 03, 2009, published by Patricia Ann Publishing Inc,
New York, New York
A Letter of Love to My Daughters, Malia & Sasha
Dear Malia and Sasha,
I know that you've both had a lot of fun these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably shouldn't have let you have.  But I also know that it hasn't always been easy for you and Mom, and that as excited as you both are about that new puppy, it doesn't make up for all the time we've been apart.  I know how much I've missed these past two years, and today I want to tell you a little more about why I decided to take our family on this journey.
 
When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me-about how I'd make my way in the world, become successful, and get the things I want.  But then the two of you came into my world with all your curiosity and mischief and those smiles that never fail to fill my heart and light up my day.  And suddenly, all my big plans for myself didn't seem so important anymore.  I soon found that the greatest joy in my life was the joy I saw in yours.  And I realized that my own life wouldn't count for much unless I was able to ensure that you had every opportunity for happiness and fulfillment in yours.  In the end, girls, that's why I ran for President: because of what I want for you and for every child in this nation.
 
I want all our children to go to schools worthy of their potential-schools that challenge them, inspire them, and instill in them a sense of wonder about the world around them.  I want them to have the chance to go to college-even if their parents aren't rich.  And I want them to get good jobs: jobs that pay well and give them benefits like health care, jobs that let them spend time with their own kids and retire with dignity.
 
I want us to push the boundaries of discovery so that you'll live to see new technologies and inventions that improve our lives and make our planet cleaner and safer.  And I want us to push our own boundaries to reach beyond the divides of race and region, gender and religion that keep us from seeing the best in each other.
 
Sometimes we have to send our young men and women into war and other dangerous situations to protect our county-but when we do, I want to make sure that it is only for a very good reason, that we try our best to settle our differences with others peacefully, and that we do everything possible to keep our servicemen and women safe.  And I want every child to understand that the blessings these brave Americans fight for are not free-that with the great privilege of being a citizen of this nation comes great responsibility.
 
That was the lesson your grandmother tried to teach me when I was your age, reading me the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and telling me about the men and women who marched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something.
 
She helped me understand that America is great not because it is perfect but because it can always be made better-and that the unfinished work of perfecting our union falls to each of us.  It's a charge we pass on to our children, coming closer with each new generation to what we know America should be.
 
I hope both of you will take up that work, righting the wrongs that you see and working to give others the chances you've had.  Not just because you have an obligation to give something back to this country that has given our family so much-although you do have that obligation.  But because you have an obligation to yourself.  Because it is only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential.
 
These are the things I want for you-to grow up in a world with no limits on your dreams and no achievements beyound your reach, and to grow into compassionate, committed women who willl help build that world.  And I want every child to have the same chances to learn and dream and grow and thrive that you girls have.  That's why I've taken our family this great adventure.
 
I am so proud of both of you.  I love you more than you can ever know.  And I am grateful every day for your patience, poise, grace, and humor as we prpare to start our new life together in the White House.
Love, Dad
From the Historical Collector's Issue 03, 2009, published by Paticia Ann Publishing Inc, New York, New York.

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> From: mailto:susanrich66%40hotmail.com
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:21:22 +0000
> Subject: [GRT-CIP] Msg in your food...
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> A friend sent me the following about MSG. Darn, it's in everything.
> Let's do something to stop this NOW.
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> Some of us have known for a long time that MSG is not 'good' for us because of reactions we have from ingesting it. Makes you wonder about the incredible increase in dementia (all kinds) and cancer, as well as other afflictions.
> Read till the end please.
> MSG (a slow poison)
> The food additive MSG (Mono-Sodium Glutamate) is a slow poison.
> MSG hides behind 25 or more names, such as Natural Flavoring.
> MSG is even in your favorite coffee from Tim Horton's and Starbucks coffee shops!
> I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive obesity epidemic, and so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research assistant at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and spent years working for the government. He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America.
> In hundreds of studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to use in diet or diabetes test studies. No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so scientists have to create them. They make these creatures morbidly obese by injecting them with MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates, causing rats (and perhaps humans) to become obese. They even have a name for the fat rodents they create: 'MSG-Treated Rats.' When I heard this, I was shocked.
> I went into my kitchen and checked the cupboards and the refrigerator. MSG was in everything -- the Campbell 's soups, the Hostess Doritos, the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper, Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, and Kraft salad dressings, especially the 'healthy low-fat' ones. The items that didn't have MSG marked on the product label had something called 'Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein,' which is just another name for Monosodium Glutamate.
> It was shocking to see just how many of the foods we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. MSG is hidden under many different names in order to fool those who read the ingredient list, so that they don't catch on.
> (Other names for MSG are 'Accent, 'Aginomoto,' 'Natural Meat Tenderizer,' etc..) But it didn't stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started asking at the restaurants what menu items contained MSG.
> Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when we ask for the ingredient list, which they grudgingly provided, sure enough, MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere.
> Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every restaurant -- even the sit-down eateries like TGIF, Chili's, Applebee's, and Denny's -- use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish, salad dressing. and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin -- their secret spice was MSG! So why is MSG in so many of the foods we eat? Is it a preservative, or a vitamin?
> Not according to my friend John Erb. In his book The Slow Poisoning of America, he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the human body. Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers lobby group supporting MSG explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more.
> A study of the elderly showed that older people eat more of the foods that it is added to. The Glutamate Association lobbying group says eating more is a benefit to the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us? 'Betcha can't eat [just] one,' takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight!
> MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added. Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance.
> Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG has been added in larger and larger doses to the pre-packaged meals, soups, snacks, and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.
> The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They claim it's safe to eat in any amount. But how can they claim it's safe when there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these:
> 'The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of exercise in obesity.' Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT, RibeiroIA.
> Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol.. 2002. 'Adrenalectomy abolishes the food- induced hypothalamic serotonin release in both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats.' Guimaraes RB, Telles MM, Coelho VB, Mori C, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro.
> Brain Res Bull. 2002 Aug. 'Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats: An animal model of multiple risk factors.' Iwase M, Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima.
> Hypertens Res. 1998 Mar.
> 'Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodium glutamate in suckling period and subsequent development of obesity.' Tanaka K, Shimada M, Nakao K Kusunoki. Exp Neurol. 1978 Oct. No, the date of that last study was not a typo; it was published in 1978. Both the 'medical research community' and 'food manufacturers' have known about the side effects of MSG for decades.
> Many more of the studies mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to diabetes, migraines and headaches, autism, ADHD, and even Alzheimer's. So what can we do to stop the food manufactures from dumping this fattening and addictive MSG into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see? Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concerns to one of the highest government health officials in Canada. While he was sitting in the government office, the official told him, 'Sure, I know how bad MSG is. I wouldn't touch the stuff.' But this top-level government official refuses to tell the public what he knows. The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing issues with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the fast food industry may hurt their profit margin. The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, and now we are paying the price for it. Our children should not be cursed with obesity caused by an addictive food additive.
> But what can I do about it? I'm just one voice! What can I do to stop the poisoning of our children, while our Governments are insuring financial protection for the industry that is poisoning us? This message is going out to everyone I know in an attempt to tell you the truth that the corporate-owned politicians and media won't tell you.
> The best way you can help to save yourself and your children from this drug-induced epidemic is to forward this article to everyone. With any luck, it will circle the globe before politicians can pass the legislation protecting those who are poisoning us. The food industry learned a lot from the tobacco industry.
> Imagine if big tobacco had a bill like this in place before someone blew the whistle on nicotine?
> If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us and you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the National Library of Medicine at http://www.pubmed.com/. Type in the words 'MSG obese' and read a few of the 115 medical studies that appear. We the public do not want to be rats in one giant experiment, and we do not approve of food that makes us into a nation of obese, lethargic, addicted sheep, feeding the food industry's bottom line while waiting for the heart transplant, the diabetic-induced amputation, blindness, or other obesity-induced, life-threatening disorders.