"24 new polls show GOP in grave danger of losing House in wake of government shutdown"
That's the title of the game-changing memo that we're sending to Washington reporters right now.
With small donations from MoveOn members, we hired the top firm Public Policy Polling to run polls in 24 Republican-held congressional districts this past week, and the results are truly astonishing. And now MSNBC and other major media outlets are reporting that Democrats could take back the House in 2014.2
In 17 districts a Democrat would likely beat the incumbent Republican if the election were held today—and that's the magic number, as Democrats need 17 seats to take back the House from Tea Party Republicans.
This is an incredible opportunity. We've seen wave elections that flip the House emerge before—as in 2006 when MoveOn was one of the first groups to say that Democrats could take back the House, and, together with our allies, we organized to do just that, and won.
Can you pitch in $3 right now to set in motion a major campaign to take back the House from Tea Party Republicans?
Yes, I can contribute $3.
Our analytics and campaigns teams have been working around the clock since the polling results started coming in, and we've crafted a major media and grassroots organizing plan targeting these swing districts that we could set in motion this week—but only if we can raise the money to fund the program.
If we go big now, when folks are paying attention, we can make sure voters don't forget how Republicans shut down the government, and we can create the conditions for Democrats to take back the House next year. So we've set an audacious goal of raising $500,000 this week to make the most of this moment.
It may seem early, but next year's elections could very well turn on the decisions being made right now—by those who choose to make nearly 800,000 public workers go without pay, who choose to try keeping millions of people from accessing health insurance, and who choose to lock thousands of children out of Head Start programs.
We've just run a major ad campaign that earned national attention, and this past week MoveOn members rallied outside dozens of congressional district offices demanding that Republicans end the government shutdown. If we double down now, we can lay the groundwork for an unexpected sweep next year—and give President Obama a Democratic-controlled Congress to work with in his final two years in office.
Can you donate $3 right now to make sure Republicans pay a price at the polls for shutting down the government?
Yes, I can contribute $3.
We're still digesting the details, but we wanted to give you a first look at these new polls because the results are so stunning. Here are a few details:
In 17 districts a Democrat would likely beat the incumbent Republican if the election were held today—and that's the magic number, as Democrats need 17 seats to take back the House from Tea Party Republicans.
Majorities of respondents in every poll indicated that they "oppose Congress shutting down major activities of the federal government as a way to stop the health care law from being put into place."
When voters learn that their Republican Representative supported the government shutdown over Obamacare, they're even more likely to support the Democratic candidate—with four more seats flipping Democratic when people learn that news.
The Tea Party's approval is in the gutter and some of their greatest champions are already trailing—like Steve King from Iowa who is known for immigrant-bashing, and is now trailing a Democratic opponent 45% to 49%.
This is a truly unprecedented opportunity—but we can seize it only if we can raise the resources to match. Can you pitch in?
Yes, I can contribute $3..
Because of Republican gerrymandering, it will be an uphill battle. But what seemed far-fetched before—winning a Democratic majority in Congress for Obama's last two years as president—suddenly feels within reach, thanks to the GOP's own actions. They recklessly drove our government into a shutdown because they can't accept that the Affordable Care Act is the law—and voters are starting to indicate they could pay for that at the polls.
Thanks for all you do.
–Ilya, Victoria, Eric, Joan, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "24 MoveOn polls show GOP could lose House in wake of shutdown," October 6, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=294125&id=75944-15018975-GzhCvax&t=5
2. "Poll: GOP could lose House in 2014," October 6, 2013
http://www.moveon.org/r/?r=294128&id=75944-15018975-GzhCvax&t=6
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
CEOs Whose Companies Made Them Rich
1. Warren Buffett
> Company: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
> Value of shares: $56.5 billion
> CEO since: 1970
Warren Buffett has been the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:
BRK-A) for more than 40 years and has been the controlling shareholder
of the company since 1965. In 2010, Buffett told CNBC that he began
acquiring shares in Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, when the company was a
failing textile maker. He only decided to buy up the company after
feeling he had been ripped off by its former management when he offered
to sell back his stock to the company. Today, less than 50 years later,
Berkshire is one of the world’s largest companies, and Buffett is
possibly the most celebrated investor of all time.
Also Read: The Countries with the Most Multimillionaires
2. Larry Ellison
> Company: Oracle Corp.
> Value of shares: $35.8 billion
> CEO since: 1977
Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) was founded in 1977, when three engineers formed Software Development Laboratories to build a CIA database program code-named “Oracle.” More than 35 years later, the company continues to build and sell databases, as well as a range of IT services and products, software and hardware. One of the three original founding engineers, Larry Ellison, has served as CEO from the outset. During that time, he has amassed a massive fortune, with nearly $36 billion in company stock. Outside of his role at Oracle, Ellison recently has generated controversy for his role in attempting to transform the America’s Cup, a long-running and prestigious sailboat race, into a made-for-TV event. Critics have accused Ellison of allowing participation in the event to become too dangerous after a New Zealand team sailor died in practice.
3. Jeff Bezos
> Company: Amazon.com Inc.
> Value of shares: $25.4 billion
> CEO since: 1996
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in 1994. By July 1995, the company began selling products online. Less than two years later, in May 1997, the company completed an initial public offering (IPO) at just $18 a share (or, splits adjusted, just $1.50 a share, according to the company). Currently, shares trade at close to $300. In 1999, Time magazine named Bezos Man of the Year, and he was hailed as having changed retail. Recently, Bezos has been in the news for his purchase of the Washington Post for $250 million in cash from the Washington Post Co.
4. Sheldon Adelson
> Company: Las Vegas Sands Corp.
> Value of shares: $24.9 billion
> CEO since: 1988
Sheldon Adelson is the founder, and current chairman and CEO, of hotel and casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS). According to the company, Adelson first found success as a trade show owner — he started the computer trade show COMDEX in 1979 and later sold it for $800 million in 1995. Adelson bought his first hotel, the Sands Hotel, in 1989 and began building his resort empire in 1996, when he imploded the Sands Hotel to build The Venetian. Adelson was key in helping to bring convention travelers to Las Vegas, the company notes, and his relatively early expansion into Asia was hailed as highly successful. In addition to his work with Las Vegas Sands, Adelson is also a prominent political donor and supporter of the Birthright Israel Foundation.
5. Larry Page
> Company: Google Inc.
> Value of shares: $21.5 billion
> CEO since: 2011
Larry Page is the co-founder of search engine giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), along with Sergey Brin. The two started Google in 1996 as a research project while they were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University. Initially, the search engine was called BackRub and ran on the university’s server. By 1998, Google had incorporated and was named by PC Magazine as one of the year’s top 100 websites. PageRank, the key component of the company’s search algorithm, which assigns a level of importance for any given webpage, is named after Larry Page. In 2004, Google went public, turning more than 1,000 employees into millionaires while making Page and Brin billionaires. In 2006, Google acquired YouTube, giving the company ownership of two of the most widely trafficked websites in the world. In early 2011, Page was named CEO of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt, whom Page and Brin had hired in 2001 to help manage and direct the company.
> Company: Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
> Value of shares: $56.5 billion
> CEO since: 1970
Also Read: The Countries with the Most Multimillionaires
2. Larry Ellison
> Company: Oracle Corp.
> Value of shares: $35.8 billion
> CEO since: 1977
Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) was founded in 1977, when three engineers formed Software Development Laboratories to build a CIA database program code-named “Oracle.” More than 35 years later, the company continues to build and sell databases, as well as a range of IT services and products, software and hardware. One of the three original founding engineers, Larry Ellison, has served as CEO from the outset. During that time, he has amassed a massive fortune, with nearly $36 billion in company stock. Outside of his role at Oracle, Ellison recently has generated controversy for his role in attempting to transform the America’s Cup, a long-running and prestigious sailboat race, into a made-for-TV event. Critics have accused Ellison of allowing participation in the event to become too dangerous after a New Zealand team sailor died in practice.
3. Jeff Bezos
> Company: Amazon.com Inc.
> Value of shares: $25.4 billion
> CEO since: 1996
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) in 1994. By July 1995, the company began selling products online. Less than two years later, in May 1997, the company completed an initial public offering (IPO) at just $18 a share (or, splits adjusted, just $1.50 a share, according to the company). Currently, shares trade at close to $300. In 1999, Time magazine named Bezos Man of the Year, and he was hailed as having changed retail. Recently, Bezos has been in the news for his purchase of the Washington Post for $250 million in cash from the Washington Post Co.
4. Sheldon Adelson
> Company: Las Vegas Sands Corp.
> Value of shares: $24.9 billion
> CEO since: 1988
Sheldon Adelson is the founder, and current chairman and CEO, of hotel and casino company Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS). According to the company, Adelson first found success as a trade show owner — he started the computer trade show COMDEX in 1979 and later sold it for $800 million in 1995. Adelson bought his first hotel, the Sands Hotel, in 1989 and began building his resort empire in 1996, when he imploded the Sands Hotel to build The Venetian. Adelson was key in helping to bring convention travelers to Las Vegas, the company notes, and his relatively early expansion into Asia was hailed as highly successful. In addition to his work with Las Vegas Sands, Adelson is also a prominent political donor and supporter of the Birthright Israel Foundation.
5. Larry Page
> Company: Google Inc.
> Value of shares: $21.5 billion
> CEO since: 2011
Larry Page is the co-founder of search engine giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), along with Sergey Brin. The two started Google in 1996 as a research project while they were Ph.D. candidates at Stanford University. Initially, the search engine was called BackRub and ran on the university’s server. By 1998, Google had incorporated and was named by PC Magazine as one of the year’s top 100 websites. PageRank, the key component of the company’s search algorithm, which assigns a level of importance for any given webpage, is named after Larry Page. In 2004, Google went public, turning more than 1,000 employees into millionaires while making Page and Brin billionaires. In 2006, Google acquired YouTube, giving the company ownership of two of the most widely trafficked websites in the world. In early 2011, Page was named CEO of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt, whom Page and Brin had hired in 2001 to help manage and direct the company.
6. Mark Zuckerberg
> Company: Facebook Inc.
> Value of shares: $18.7 billion
> CEO since: 2004
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in early 2004, along with
help from classmates Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo
Saverin. By the end of the year, the site had more than a million users.
From there, Facebook only continued to grow in popularity. By October
2012, according to the company, Facebook had more than a billion users.
Along with the company’s growth,
Zuckerberg’s wealth has grown as well — he was worth nearly $19 billion
at the end of the last fiscal year. But not all news about the company
has been positive. Most recently, the company’s initial public offering
was deemed a monumental failure. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:
FB) initially was valued at more than $100 billion, yet shares fell
immediately after the IPO and did not regain their initial valuation
until about a year later.
Also Read: States Where the Most People Go Hungry
7. Harold Hamm
> Company: Continental Resources Inc.
> Value of shares: $13.8 billion
> CEO since: 1967
Harold Hamm is the CEO of Continental Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLR), one of the nation’s largest oil exploration and production companies. He has served in this role since 1967 when he founded Shelley Dean Oil Co., the predecessor company to Continental. The company is a major player in the Bakken area, and it was the largest leaseholder in the region at the end of 2012. Because of his role in the oil industry, Hamm was named to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2012. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe honored Hamm for Time magazine: “Through the use of hydraulic fracturing and other new technologies, Hamm, 66, has created hundreds of jobs and homegrown energy.”
8. Rupert Murdoch
> Company: Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.
> Value of shares: $10.4 billion
> CEO since: 2013
The 82-year-old CEO and co-founder of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (NASDAQ: FOXA), Rupert Murdoch spent more than six decades building his multinational media empire. In June, the company split from News Corp, the publishing division responsible for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, in part due to losses in its print newspaper operations. The split came in the wake of the widely publicized phone-hacking and bribery scandal within the defunct British newspaper News of the World, which was controlled by News Corp.
9. Steve Ballmer
> Company: Microsoft Corp.
> Value of shares: $10.4 billion
> CEO since: 2000
Steve Ballmer was one of Microsoft’s first business managers, having joined the company in 1980. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the global leader in software products. Best known for its Windows operating system, the company recently has begun a transformation into a devices and services company, signaled by its recent purchase of Nokia’s handset business. Since being named CEO in 2000, Ballmer’s tenure has often been criticized. During his time as CEO, Ballmer more than tripled the headcount from 39,000 to more than 131,000, including Nokia employees, according to Reuters. Over the same time, Microsoft’s share price dropped more than 40%. Last month, Ballmer revealed his intention to retire in the next year.
10. Richard Kinder
> Company: Kinder Morgan Inc.
> Value of shares: $8.5 billion
> CEO since: 1999
Richard Kinder, who co-founded Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) in 1997, has helped grow the business into the nation’s largest midstream oil company. Today, Kinder Morgan has more than 11,000 employees, as well as roughly 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals, according to its website. While Kinder is paid just $1 a year, his stake in the company is worth more than $8.5 billion. His company also serves as a general partner in several master limited partnerships — publicly traded stakes in energy infrastructure that offer investors favorable tax treatment.
11. Elon Musk
> Company: Tesla Motors Inc.
> Value of shares: $4.7 billion
> CEO since: 2008
PayPal founder Elon Musk is currently the CEO of both Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA),
an electric car company, and SpaceX, a rockets and spacecraft company.
Musk began running Tesla as CEO in 2008, just five years after he help
found the company. Within two years, in 2010, Tesla went public and
today is worth more than $20 billion. SpaceX was responsible for the
first privately developed spacecraft — the SpaceX Falcon 1 — which
successfully entered space and orbited around the Earth. Musk
is a hands-on chief executive, who oversees and participates in design
and development. He additionally served as chairman of alternative
energy company SolarCity Corp.
Also Read: The Best Economies in the World
12. Michael Dell
> Company: Dell Inc.
> Value of shares: $3.8 billion
> CEO since: 2007
Michael Dell founded his namesake company in a college dorm room in 1984. By 1992, Dell was the youngest CEO at the time to make the Fortune 500 list. This year, Dell is poised to reacquire the PC maker for $24.9 billion. In the past several years, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has struggled, due in part to the rising popularity of smartphones and tablets, which has accelerated the decline of the PC market. As a private business, Dell will attempt to transition its focus towards providing software and enterprise services.
13. Ralph Lauren
> Company: Ralph Lauren Corp.
> Value of shares: $3.7 billion
> CEO since: 1967
Ralph Lauren founded what would become Ralph Lauren Corp. (NYSE: RL) in 1967, when the designer’s ties first appeared in department stores. From there, Lauren continued to develop new ideas, including using men’s fabrics for womens’ clothing and his famous polo shirt. In 1997, he took his company public. Presently, Ralph Lauren has multiple brands in addition to the well-known Polo Ralph Lauren, including luxury, athletic wear and denim-focused lines. The company also has two restaurants located in Chicago and Paris.
14. John Hess
> Company: Hess Corp.
> Value of shares: $2.3 billion
> CEO since: 1983
Leon Hess founded Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) in 1933 as an oil delivery business near his home in New Jersey. With time, the company expanded beyond local delivery, purchasing oil tankers and building both oil terminals and refineries. By the 1960s, the company started opening gas stations and began offering its now-famous line of Hess truck toys. Leon Hess eventually was succeeded by his son, John. Recently, Elliott Management Corp., one of the company’s largest shareholders, heavily criticized John Hess and Hess Corp. for having a board of directors that was too entwined with the company’s management and the founding family. Elliott also accused Hess of poorly managing the company. In May, the dispute was settled with Hess being stripped of his role as chairman and the company overhauling its board of directors.
Also Read: America’s Most Popular Six-Figure Jobs
15. Frederick Smith
> Company: FedEx Corp.
> Value of shares: $2.1 billion
> CEO since: 1977
Frederick Smith founded FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) in 1971. He has served as either chairman, CEO or president, or some combination thereof, ever since. The company was a pioneer in combining air and ground express shipping. According to its website, in 1973, FedEx sent 14 Dassault Falcon jets to deliver packages across the nation on its first night of operations. Roughly 10 years later, FedEx became the first company in the country to surpass $1 billion in revenue without any merger and acquisition activity. Currently, FedEx has more than $44 billion in annual revenues and more than 300,000 employees. Smith’s ownership stake, totaling more than 6% of the company, is worth more than $2 billion.
> Company: Facebook Inc.
> Value of shares: $18.7 billion
> CEO since: 2004
Also Read: States Where the Most People Go Hungry
7. Harold Hamm
> Company: Continental Resources Inc.
> Value of shares: $13.8 billion
> CEO since: 1967
Harold Hamm is the CEO of Continental Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLR), one of the nation’s largest oil exploration and production companies. He has served in this role since 1967 when he founded Shelley Dean Oil Co., the predecessor company to Continental. The company is a major player in the Bakken area, and it was the largest leaseholder in the region at the end of 2012. Because of his role in the oil industry, Hamm was named to the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people in 2012. Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe honored Hamm for Time magazine: “Through the use of hydraulic fracturing and other new technologies, Hamm, 66, has created hundreds of jobs and homegrown energy.”
8. Rupert Murdoch
> Company: Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.
> Value of shares: $10.4 billion
> CEO since: 2013
The 82-year-old CEO and co-founder of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (NASDAQ: FOXA), Rupert Murdoch spent more than six decades building his multinational media empire. In June, the company split from News Corp, the publishing division responsible for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, in part due to losses in its print newspaper operations. The split came in the wake of the widely publicized phone-hacking and bribery scandal within the defunct British newspaper News of the World, which was controlled by News Corp.
9. Steve Ballmer
> Company: Microsoft Corp.
> Value of shares: $10.4 billion
> CEO since: 2000
Steve Ballmer was one of Microsoft’s first business managers, having joined the company in 1980. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the global leader in software products. Best known for its Windows operating system, the company recently has begun a transformation into a devices and services company, signaled by its recent purchase of Nokia’s handset business. Since being named CEO in 2000, Ballmer’s tenure has often been criticized. During his time as CEO, Ballmer more than tripled the headcount from 39,000 to more than 131,000, including Nokia employees, according to Reuters. Over the same time, Microsoft’s share price dropped more than 40%. Last month, Ballmer revealed his intention to retire in the next year.
10. Richard Kinder
> Company: Kinder Morgan Inc.
> Value of shares: $8.5 billion
> CEO since: 1999
Richard Kinder, who co-founded Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI) in 1997, has helped grow the business into the nation’s largest midstream oil company. Today, Kinder Morgan has more than 11,000 employees, as well as roughly 80,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals, according to its website. While Kinder is paid just $1 a year, his stake in the company is worth more than $8.5 billion. His company also serves as a general partner in several master limited partnerships — publicly traded stakes in energy infrastructure that offer investors favorable tax treatment.
11. Elon Musk
> Company: Tesla Motors Inc.
> Value of shares: $4.7 billion
> CEO since: 2008
Also Read: The Best Economies in the World
12. Michael Dell
> Company: Dell Inc.
> Value of shares: $3.8 billion
> CEO since: 2007
Michael Dell founded his namesake company in a college dorm room in 1984. By 1992, Dell was the youngest CEO at the time to make the Fortune 500 list. This year, Dell is poised to reacquire the PC maker for $24.9 billion. In the past several years, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has struggled, due in part to the rising popularity of smartphones and tablets, which has accelerated the decline of the PC market. As a private business, Dell will attempt to transition its focus towards providing software and enterprise services.
13. Ralph Lauren
> Company: Ralph Lauren Corp.
> Value of shares: $3.7 billion
> CEO since: 1967
Ralph Lauren founded what would become Ralph Lauren Corp. (NYSE: RL) in 1967, when the designer’s ties first appeared in department stores. From there, Lauren continued to develop new ideas, including using men’s fabrics for womens’ clothing and his famous polo shirt. In 1997, he took his company public. Presently, Ralph Lauren has multiple brands in addition to the well-known Polo Ralph Lauren, including luxury, athletic wear and denim-focused lines. The company also has two restaurants located in Chicago and Paris.
14. John Hess
> Company: Hess Corp.
> Value of shares: $2.3 billion
> CEO since: 1983
Leon Hess founded Hess Corp. (NYSE: HES) in 1933 as an oil delivery business near his home in New Jersey. With time, the company expanded beyond local delivery, purchasing oil tankers and building both oil terminals and refineries. By the 1960s, the company started opening gas stations and began offering its now-famous line of Hess truck toys. Leon Hess eventually was succeeded by his son, John. Recently, Elliott Management Corp., one of the company’s largest shareholders, heavily criticized John Hess and Hess Corp. for having a board of directors that was too entwined with the company’s management and the founding family. Elliott also accused Hess of poorly managing the company. In May, the dispute was settled with Hess being stripped of his role as chairman and the company overhauling its board of directors.
Also Read: America’s Most Popular Six-Figure Jobs
15. Frederick Smith
> Company: FedEx Corp.
> Value of shares: $2.1 billion
> CEO since: 1977
Frederick Smith founded FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) in 1971. He has served as either chairman, CEO or president, or some combination thereof, ever since. The company was a pioneer in combining air and ground express shipping. According to its website, in 1973, FedEx sent 14 Dassault Falcon jets to deliver packages across the nation on its first night of operations. Roughly 10 years later, FedEx became the first company in the country to surpass $1 billion in revenue without any merger and acquisition activity. Currently, FedEx has more than $44 billion in annual revenues and more than 300,000 employees. Smith’s ownership stake, totaling more than 6% of the company, is worth more than $2 billion.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Hail, Hail, Euphoria! No Taper, More Paper: Federal Reserve
Peter Coyne, checking in on the markets now that the euphoria has settled down...
Peter Coyne
Every suit on Wall Street had their Web browser opened to federalreserve.gov yesterday.
As 2:00 approached, fingers furiously tapped F5 on their keyboards to refresh the page… hoping to be the first to read the FOMC release and place their orders. Split seconds make a difference in the paper swapping business.
They were pleasantly surprised. "No taper, more paper" extended their lease on stimulus-fueled gains. Stocks booked record highs. Dow, 15,676; S&P 500, 1,725; Nasdaq, 3,783. Today, the market opened up but began paring back some of those gains.
Gold had lift off yesterday too. Trough to peak, it was up over $60 for the day. At writing, the yellow metal is sitting at $1,367.
The benchmark 10-year yield is 2.72% after sliding 16 basis points yesterday. The drop in yield made other currencies more attracBlogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog.tive relative to the dollar. The greenback is down against the euro and sterling.
By now, you know the magic numbers the Fed governors are looking for before turning off the money spigot -- 6.5% unemployment or greater than 2% inflation. Whichever is first. Until then, acres of money will be printed.
"According to data compiled by Bloomberg," writes David Franklin in yesterday's Sprott's Thoughts, "the Fed's balance sheet has been increasing at an average rate of $91.9 billion each month during 2013 -- yes, more than the $85 billion headline number. While the Fed has been buying assets at a rate of $85 billion per month, they have also been further adding to their purchases by investing earned interest and proceeds from maturing bonds.
"The largest single monthly addition to their balance sheet in 2013," Franklin continues, "was during the month of April when the Federal Reserve added $114.7 billion of assets, almost $30 billion more than the stated purchases of $85 billion."
By the Fed's own projections… we could see those purchases wind down as early mid-2014 or as late as mid-2015.
Then again, those projections could be wrong too. In the meantime, an avalanche of other economic data has been released in the past 48 hours…
Housing starts came in below expectations for August. Those numbers will be revised downward. Existing home sales reached a six-year high last month, beating expectations by about 200,000 sales. Buyers locked in mortgage rates before they head any higher. Jobless claims came in 11,000 fewer than expected for August. Those too will probably be revised upward.
Bernanke has made it clear that the data will pave the way for policy. But markets work in real-time while data come in on a monthly basis.
Doesn't that create a disconnect? Doesn't the situation on the ground change by the time the data are collected, collated and reported?
Data revisions only compound the problem. How can you make a policy decision if the facts are constantly changing? All of the Fed's policies, by definition, are outdated.
The Federal Open Market Committee makes policy more or less on a monthly basis. But by the time the Fed formulates a policy, it's addressing the specific scope and size of a problem that no longer exists. It thinks it has a live recording when all it has is a still shot.
So whenever the Fed does change its policy, figure it will be wrong. Figure it will be too little too late. Or too much too early. Or whatever combination of wrongness it happens to be. As an investor, you should assume only one thing: Your purchasing power today is greater than it will be in 10 years.
"Before the Fed trans-configured everyone's expectations [yesterday], the value of the dollar was something like a 1,300th of an ounce of gold," reads yesterday's New York Sun editorial.
"By the mid-afternoon, it had plunged to but a 1,360th of an ounce of gold. We wouldn't want to make too much of minute-to-minute fluctuations in the value of the dollar, not in this age of fiat money. But we wouldn't want to make too little of it either, not in this age of fiat money."
In today's episode of The Daily Reckoning, Dr. Ron Paul explains why government legislation is tying your hands when it comes to protecting yourself from inflation. Once you realize it, writes Dr. Paul, it "is no wonder that governments fight tooth and nail against sound money…"
Read on below…
[Ed. Note: If yesterday's gold spike made you wonder what will spur the next run up -- and where gold's going from here -- we have the perfect answer for you.
Oddly enough, it comes to us from a book published long ago by Rep. Ron Paul, during his first stint in Congress.
It's 221 pages long and best of all, since Dr. Paul is our guest essayist today and (and because it's one of the most important reads you'll have all year) we've locked in a copy for you for free.
To find out how to grab your free copy of what some call Dr. Paul's "gold bible" click here.
Peter Coyne
Every suit on Wall Street had their Web browser opened to federalreserve.gov yesterday.
As 2:00 approached, fingers furiously tapped F5 on their keyboards to refresh the page… hoping to be the first to read the FOMC release and place their orders. Split seconds make a difference in the paper swapping business.
They were pleasantly surprised. "No taper, more paper" extended their lease on stimulus-fueled gains. Stocks booked record highs. Dow, 15,676; S&P 500, 1,725; Nasdaq, 3,783. Today, the market opened up but began paring back some of those gains.
Gold had lift off yesterday too. Trough to peak, it was up over $60 for the day. At writing, the yellow metal is sitting at $1,367.
The benchmark 10-year yield is 2.72% after sliding 16 basis points yesterday. The drop in yield made other currencies more attracBlogger is a free blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your personal or team blog.tive relative to the dollar. The greenback is down against the euro and sterling.
By now, you know the magic numbers the Fed governors are looking for before turning off the money spigot -- 6.5% unemployment or greater than 2% inflation. Whichever is first. Until then, acres of money will be printed.
"According to data compiled by Bloomberg," writes David Franklin in yesterday's Sprott's Thoughts, "the Fed's balance sheet has been increasing at an average rate of $91.9 billion each month during 2013 -- yes, more than the $85 billion headline number. While the Fed has been buying assets at a rate of $85 billion per month, they have also been further adding to their purchases by investing earned interest and proceeds from maturing bonds.
"The largest single monthly addition to their balance sheet in 2013," Franklin continues, "was during the month of April when the Federal Reserve added $114.7 billion of assets, almost $30 billion more than the stated purchases of $85 billion."
By the Fed's own projections… we could see those purchases wind down as early mid-2014 or as late as mid-2015.
Then again, those projections could be wrong too. In the meantime, an avalanche of other economic data has been released in the past 48 hours…
Housing starts came in below expectations for August. Those numbers will be revised downward. Existing home sales reached a six-year high last month, beating expectations by about 200,000 sales. Buyers locked in mortgage rates before they head any higher. Jobless claims came in 11,000 fewer than expected for August. Those too will probably be revised upward.
Bernanke has made it clear that the data will pave the way for policy. But markets work in real-time while data come in on a monthly basis.
Doesn't that create a disconnect? Doesn't the situation on the ground change by the time the data are collected, collated and reported?
Data revisions only compound the problem. How can you make a policy decision if the facts are constantly changing? All of the Fed's policies, by definition, are outdated.
The Federal Open Market Committee makes policy more or less on a monthly basis. But by the time the Fed formulates a policy, it's addressing the specific scope and size of a problem that no longer exists. It thinks it has a live recording when all it has is a still shot.
So whenever the Fed does change its policy, figure it will be wrong. Figure it will be too little too late. Or too much too early. Or whatever combination of wrongness it happens to be. As an investor, you should assume only one thing: Your purchasing power today is greater than it will be in 10 years.
"Before the Fed trans-configured everyone's expectations [yesterday], the value of the dollar was something like a 1,300th of an ounce of gold," reads yesterday's New York Sun editorial.
"By the mid-afternoon, it had plunged to but a 1,360th of an ounce of gold. We wouldn't want to make too much of minute-to-minute fluctuations in the value of the dollar, not in this age of fiat money. But we wouldn't want to make too little of it either, not in this age of fiat money."
In today's episode of The Daily Reckoning, Dr. Ron Paul explains why government legislation is tying your hands when it comes to protecting yourself from inflation. Once you realize it, writes Dr. Paul, it "is no wonder that governments fight tooth and nail against sound money…"
Read on below…
[Ed. Note: If yesterday's gold spike made you wonder what will spur the next run up -- and where gold's going from here -- we have the perfect answer for you.
Oddly enough, it comes to us from a book published long ago by Rep. Ron Paul, during his first stint in Congress.
It's 221 pages long and best of all, since Dr. Paul is our guest essayist today and (and because it's one of the most important reads you'll have all year) we've locked in a copy for you for free.
To find out how to grab your free copy of what some call Dr. Paul's "gold bible" click here.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
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The Golden Age of Antibiotics is over! Learn how to protect yourself from the onslaught of deadly new organisms, resistant to all know antibiotics, that are spreading across continents.
Deadly microbes that cannot be destroyed invade the human body, mutating and multiplying at such a rapid rate that the entire global population is imperiled. Sound like the logline of a sci-fi horror film? It's actually a very real synopsis of the impending health apocalypse. The World Economic Forum's 2013 Global Risk survey cited antibiotic resistant bacteria among the top 50 risks threatening the human population.
We've been careless with our most valuable weapon: antibiotics. In less than eighty years after antibiotics were created we are now suffering the consequence of our abuse.
As more and more strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria mutate and spread, our ability to fight back diminishes—antibiotics are no longer the weapons of mass destruction they once were. Our ammunition has been used up and our battle-axes are now rusty and defunct.
Unless we can find new weapons with which to fight these pathogens our health systems and food supply will crumble, and common medical procedures such as surgery, organ transplantation and chemotherapy will no longer be viable. Armed with the right education, however, we can win the battle against infectious diseases.
A Brief History of Antibiotics
Scientists began the quest for antibiotics in the late 1800s as the germ theory of disease was gaining scientific acceptance. The germ theory linked bacteria and other microbes with various illnesses, and scientists realized how valuable it would be to find a chemical substance that could destroy particular pathogens.
It wasn't until Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928 that the antibiotic solution gathered momentum. The first antibacterial drug sulfa was developed in 1935, and Nobel Prize winners Howard Florey and Ernest Gain developed Penicillin G Procaine to be marketed as a drug in 1942.
After World War II the antibiotic assault was in full gear with Tetracycline, Amoxicillin and Trimox joined the ranks and cured fatal, and previously untreatable, infections at the time.
Where We Went Wrong
Antibiotics don't launch an attack against a specific infection, but go on an all-out destruction path to sweep out of trillions of bacteria—both good and bad—in the body.
Bacteria are incredibly resilient, however, and the sheer number of bacteria, coupled with the ability to mutate into ever-resistant strains, gave some bacteria an advantage. The bacteria that survived doubled their efforts and multiplied, and won the war against antibiotics.
How did we lose our offensive advantage against disease?
By over-prescription, coupled with the use of antibiotics in livestock, this nullified the potency of antibiotic therapy.
Prescription-happy doctors doled out antibiotics to cure non-infectious ailments such as colds and viruses that don't even respond to antibiotic treatments. The more we exposed bacteria in our bodies to antibiotics, especially when antibiotic treatments weren't called for, the more resistant they became. Perhaps the biggest culprit is the agricultural industry, which pumps livestock full of antibiotics in order to fatten up our meat. Europe banned the use of antibiotics in livestock years ago, but the United States still uses 30 million pounds of antibiotics in livestock each year! Bacteria resistance accumulates in cattle and is passed down to humans through food.
That's four times the amount of antibiotics prescribed by doctors, according to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
No Chance of Containment
We cannot depend on the drug companies to help us. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on an antibiotic that is only used for short-term benefit.
Drug companies would rather spend their money developing drugs for chronic illnesses... drugs that need to be used over a lifetime in order to recoup their investment.
It's shocking to discover that no new antibiotic treatments have been proposed in over ten years! And it doesn't look like the government is going to be much help either. There have been no restrictions placed on the use of antibiotics to spur livestock growth. It's up to the individual to contain the rampant spread of daily antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Arm Yourself with Knowledge
Before antibiotics people fought off infectious diseases quite effectively with natural remedies, herbs and oils, soaps and salves that didn't harm a single cell in the body. It's imperative that we get reacquainted with our natural heritage.
Underground Health Reporter has discovered the most comprehensive authority on fighting deadly pathogens and bacteria. This must-read report teaches you how to survive in a world without antibiotics... a world that isn't just looming on the horizon, but that is already here. Every second new strains of lethal bacteria are developing and spreading. Click here to discover your antibiotic alternatives, as well as how to boost immunity and stave off infections for good.
Deadly microbes that cannot be destroyed invade the human body, mutating and multiplying at such a rapid rate that the entire global population is imperiled. Sound like the logline of a sci-fi horror film? It's actually a very real synopsis of the impending health apocalypse. The World Economic Forum's 2013 Global Risk survey cited antibiotic resistant bacteria among the top 50 risks threatening the human population.
We've been careless with our most valuable weapon: antibiotics. In less than eighty years after antibiotics were created we are now suffering the consequence of our abuse.
As more and more strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria mutate and spread, our ability to fight back diminishes—antibiotics are no longer the weapons of mass destruction they once were. Our ammunition has been used up and our battle-axes are now rusty and defunct.
Unless we can find new weapons with which to fight these pathogens our health systems and food supply will crumble, and common medical procedures such as surgery, organ transplantation and chemotherapy will no longer be viable. Armed with the right education, however, we can win the battle against infectious diseases.
A Brief History of Antibiotics
Scientists began the quest for antibiotics in the late 1800s as the germ theory of disease was gaining scientific acceptance. The germ theory linked bacteria and other microbes with various illnesses, and scientists realized how valuable it would be to find a chemical substance that could destroy particular pathogens.
It wasn't until Sir Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin in 1928 that the antibiotic solution gathered momentum. The first antibacterial drug sulfa was developed in 1935, and Nobel Prize winners Howard Florey and Ernest Gain developed Penicillin G Procaine to be marketed as a drug in 1942.
After World War II the antibiotic assault was in full gear with Tetracycline, Amoxicillin and Trimox joined the ranks and cured fatal, and previously untreatable, infections at the time.
Where We Went Wrong
Antibiotics don't launch an attack against a specific infection, but go on an all-out destruction path to sweep out of trillions of bacteria—both good and bad—in the body.
Bacteria are incredibly resilient, however, and the sheer number of bacteria, coupled with the ability to mutate into ever-resistant strains, gave some bacteria an advantage. The bacteria that survived doubled their efforts and multiplied, and won the war against antibiotics.
How did we lose our offensive advantage against disease?
By over-prescription, coupled with the use of antibiotics in livestock, this nullified the potency of antibiotic therapy.
Prescription-happy doctors doled out antibiotics to cure non-infectious ailments such as colds and viruses that don't even respond to antibiotic treatments. The more we exposed bacteria in our bodies to antibiotics, especially when antibiotic treatments weren't called for, the more resistant they became. Perhaps the biggest culprit is the agricultural industry, which pumps livestock full of antibiotics in order to fatten up our meat. Europe banned the use of antibiotics in livestock years ago, but the United States still uses 30 million pounds of antibiotics in livestock each year! Bacteria resistance accumulates in cattle and is passed down to humans through food.
That's four times the amount of antibiotics prescribed by doctors, according to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
No Chance of Containment
We cannot depend on the drug companies to help us. The pharmaceutical industry doesn't want to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on an antibiotic that is only used for short-term benefit.
Drug companies would rather spend their money developing drugs for chronic illnesses... drugs that need to be used over a lifetime in order to recoup their investment.
It's shocking to discover that no new antibiotic treatments have been proposed in over ten years! And it doesn't look like the government is going to be much help either. There have been no restrictions placed on the use of antibiotics to spur livestock growth. It's up to the individual to contain the rampant spread of daily antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Arm Yourself with Knowledge
Before antibiotics people fought off infectious diseases quite effectively with natural remedies, herbs and oils, soaps and salves that didn't harm a single cell in the body. It's imperative that we get reacquainted with our natural heritage.
Underground Health Reporter has discovered the most comprehensive authority on fighting deadly pathogens and bacteria. This must-read report teaches you how to survive in a world without antibiotics... a world that isn't just looming on the horizon, but that is already here. Every second new strains of lethal bacteria are developing and spreading. Click here to discover your antibiotic alternatives, as well as how to boost immunity and stave off infections for good.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
The Fall of the American Empire
Addison Wiggin, (still) shaking his head at reader comments...
Addison Wiggin
"The tone of this article is more than a little disturbing." charges one reader about yesterday's episode.
"Would it be a stretch for me to summarize it as: 'A new sector in the military industrial complex is booming - invest in it!'
"To hear a message like this from the Daily Reckoning is eerie. What the hell?" she continues.
"Calling totalitarianism an investment opportunity is no different from calling a company that wants to manufacture infect billions of innocent human beings with the Ebola virus an investment opportunity. That is sick."
"My money will go to those companies who can provide me with personal cyberdefence, for their courage to defend my sovereignty over myself - and they are welcome to it."
Oy...
Our beat is offering contrarian assessments where markets, money and politics meet. We're here to help you find ways to build wealth in uncertain times. Hopefully, we provide a few laughs along the way too. All we can say is, thank God we don't take "policy positions".
In Empire of Debt, one of the books we co-authored with Bill Bonner, we wrote that "A sensible man may not know the hour or the place of his demise, but he does not doubt that it is coming. If he is smart, he is ready for death any day of the week. So is a sensible investor ready for the day a great empire collapses."
We don't know when the empire will fall. And we know that because it hasn't happened yet our position isn't popular. But nothing lasts forever... least of all, empires. Its demise can be slowed down and even paused, but , for the most part, the trajectory doesn't change.
And right now, it looks as if it's speeding up...
"Grab a chair" writes Politico's Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei.
"In the next two months, the most unpopular institution in America will decide the fates of a president's power, a military strike, defense contracts, the budget, health-care implementation, the Federal Reserve chairmanship, illegal immigrants, and all of us who would be hit by a debt default."
But these problems didn't coincidentally crop up in the Fall of 2013. They're all the same can that's been kicked down the road for fifty years. We don't like it anymore than you do, but we at least expect it. It's how government works. When top Congressional aides were asked for their expectations of the next 90-120 days, they answered: "just muddling through without a catastrophe". How's that for rolling up your sleeves?
Here's another. The House of Representatives has until Sept. 30 to pass a spending bill. Otherwise the government will shut down. How many workdays does it have scheduled this month? Nine. What's they're solution if they can't pass a bill in time? Simple. Pass a temporary, one month extension.
By that time in October, Congress will have to decide whether it will raise the
debt ceiling for the 90-something time in our history. Politico's Allen and Vandehei aren't sure if they'll raise it or default. Heh. We can assure you, though we think the Empire will default there's not a chance in hell it will do it honestly.
No... in the meantime, they'll debate striking Syria. Who knows how much that will cost. According to ThinkProgress, the first few weeks of the U.S. intervention Libya cost $300 million. Of course, they don't have the money to pay for it... so the problem grows.
"Washington's empire," we quote Paul Craig Roberts in today's episode, "extracts resources from the American people for the benefit of the few powerful interest groups that rule America... The U.S. Constitution has been extracted in the interests of the Security State, and Americans' incomes have been redirected to the pockets of the 1%." Eventually, the system becomes top heavy. When all of the resources have been extracted, the whole house of cards comes down.
You can jump up and down about the investing in the military industrial complex all you want. But this empire's collapsing...with or without you. Question is: will you channel those "extracted" dollars back in your pocket and come out the other side intact?
In today's episode of the Daily Reckoning, we take a detailed look at another specific form of the empire's "extraction": charter schools. Read on below to learn how, if at all, you can reclaim your tax dollars from fat cats...
Then in today's DR PRO our own Ryan O'Connor follows up on one of his recommendations that's again popped 10% today after alright shooting up 16% yesterday. "Get in before the squeeze begins in earnest" he advises. If you
haven't upgraded to the Daily Reckoning PRO, you still have time to get in. Click here to "go PRO."
Addison Wiggin
"The tone of this article is more than a little disturbing." charges one reader about yesterday's episode.
"Would it be a stretch for me to summarize it as: 'A new sector in the military industrial complex is booming - invest in it!'
"To hear a message like this from the Daily Reckoning is eerie. What the hell?" she continues.
"Calling totalitarianism an investment opportunity is no different from calling a company that wants to manufacture infect billions of innocent human beings with the Ebola virus an investment opportunity. That is sick."
"My money will go to those companies who can provide me with personal cyberdefence, for their courage to defend my sovereignty over myself - and they are welcome to it."
Oy...
Our beat is offering contrarian assessments where markets, money and politics meet. We're here to help you find ways to build wealth in uncertain times. Hopefully, we provide a few laughs along the way too. All we can say is, thank God we don't take "policy positions".
In Empire of Debt, one of the books we co-authored with Bill Bonner, we wrote that "A sensible man may not know the hour or the place of his demise, but he does not doubt that it is coming. If he is smart, he is ready for death any day of the week. So is a sensible investor ready for the day a great empire collapses."
We don't know when the empire will fall. And we know that because it hasn't happened yet our position isn't popular. But nothing lasts forever... least of all, empires. Its demise can be slowed down and even paused, but , for the most part, the trajectory doesn't change.
And right now, it looks as if it's speeding up...
"Grab a chair" writes Politico's Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei.
"In the next two months, the most unpopular institution in America will decide the fates of a president's power, a military strike, defense contracts, the budget, health-care implementation, the Federal Reserve chairmanship, illegal immigrants, and all of us who would be hit by a debt default."
But these problems didn't coincidentally crop up in the Fall of 2013. They're all the same can that's been kicked down the road for fifty years. We don't like it anymore than you do, but we at least expect it. It's how government works. When top Congressional aides were asked for their expectations of the next 90-120 days, they answered: "just muddling through without a catastrophe". How's that for rolling up your sleeves?
Here's another. The House of Representatives has until Sept. 30 to pass a spending bill. Otherwise the government will shut down. How many workdays does it have scheduled this month? Nine. What's they're solution if they can't pass a bill in time? Simple. Pass a temporary, one month extension.
By that time in October, Congress will have to decide whether it will raise the
debt ceiling for the 90-something time in our history. Politico's Allen and Vandehei aren't sure if they'll raise it or default. Heh. We can assure you, though we think the Empire will default there's not a chance in hell it will do it honestly.
No... in the meantime, they'll debate striking Syria. Who knows how much that will cost. According to ThinkProgress, the first few weeks of the U.S. intervention Libya cost $300 million. Of course, they don't have the money to pay for it... so the problem grows.
"Washington's empire," we quote Paul Craig Roberts in today's episode, "extracts resources from the American people for the benefit of the few powerful interest groups that rule America... The U.S. Constitution has been extracted in the interests of the Security State, and Americans' incomes have been redirected to the pockets of the 1%." Eventually, the system becomes top heavy. When all of the resources have been extracted, the whole house of cards comes down.
You can jump up and down about the investing in the military industrial complex all you want. But this empire's collapsing...with or without you. Question is: will you channel those "extracted" dollars back in your pocket and come out the other side intact?
In today's episode of the Daily Reckoning, we take a detailed look at another specific form of the empire's "extraction": charter schools. Read on below to learn how, if at all, you can reclaim your tax dollars from fat cats...
Then in today's DR PRO our own Ryan O'Connor follows up on one of his recommendations that's again popped 10% today after alright shooting up 16% yesterday. "Get in before the squeeze begins in earnest" he advises. If you
haven't upgraded to the Daily Reckoning PRO, you still have time to get in. Click here to "go PRO."
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Discover the One Company Comcast, Verizon and Cisco Can't Do Without
Dear fellow investor,
I put this message together quickly, to get it to you ASAP. So, please forgive me if there are typos.
It concerns a rapidly developing investment opportunity you can get into today for less than $5 per share.
But as you'll see, that price is about to double -- and then double again by year end simply because it's ....
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Yours in profits and prosperity,
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Editor, PowerTrend Profits
I put this message together quickly, to get it to you ASAP. So, please forgive me if there are typos.
It concerns a rapidly developing investment opportunity you can get into today for less than $5 per share.
But as you'll see, that price is about to double -- and then double again by year end simply because it's ....
The One Company Comcast, Verizon and Cisco Can't Do Without...
You see, the company I'm talking about manufactures an irreplaceable semiconductor chip for almost every big name in the communications industry -- Comcast, Verizon, Cisco, Motorola, Samsung, DirectTV... the list goes on.
Chances are you've already got a handful of these chips in your home as they power your HDTV, paid television reception, and Wi-Fi internet connections. More importantly, without modification, these chips are already capable of handling the next-gen services on deck in the communications arena.
But here's the thing... Right now, there's probably only a handful of individual investors who even know this company exists. That's why you can still get shares of this company for less than $5 each.
However, I can guarantee you that's going to change quickly.
You see, the company has been pointing to the third quarter of 2013 as its profitability starting line, with revenues projected to jump 217% by year's end alone.
With growth that fast, it won't remain small for long.
That's why I am sending you a link to a time-sensitive investment report about this company.
I urge you to view it as soon as possible to discover why this company is the must-buy investment of the summer.
Because the quicker you get into it, the higher your profits will rise.
You see, the report explains in detail how this company's shares could double almost overnight -- within the next few months, or even weeks.
And they could even turn around and double again before year's end... Making your $5 shares worth $20 each, inside of six months.
So don't delay, click the link below and learn about this small-cap, chip-making company with a stranglehold on the communications industry:
The One Company Comcast, Verizon and Cisco Can't Do Without...
Realistically, it's only a matter of time before the street's Fat Cats take notice and start pouring in big money.
When that happens, the share price will take off like a Saturn V rocket. And early-in investors will make a killing. Become one of the earliest-in today,The One Company Comcast, Verizon and Cisco Can't Do Without...
Yours in profits and prosperity,
Chris Versace
Editor, PowerTrend Profits
Friday, August 30, 2013
Boston's Epidemic : We Need 100% Background Checks on Gun Sales Nationwide
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American Doctor Releases Cancer Treatment Before Government Spies Find it
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Why is one famous, God-fearing American doctor giving away all his most powerful cures and healing secrets in a huge 9-volume library... FREE?
Because thanks to Obama's online spying, no secrets are safe and he believes it's better to release information in print than let it get into the wrong hands.
In this 9-volume set, he includes:
--The astonishing revelation that cancer was cured back in 1925 (he gives the actual cure)
--How the annual flu shot is nothing more than a BALD-FACED SCAM to get your money (and there's a cheap, safe solution that wipes out the flu in 90% of cases)
--That something called "stale blood" is actually your biggest unknown heart attack threat (dump those statin pills!)
--And 80 more valuable secrets! FREE.
He's spent a lifetime doing the research and he's finally ready to release every shocking secret. And thanks to the online privacy war, he's decided to give them away for FREE to loyal Americans... so they never get covered up.
But only 715 copies are available through this video now. To find out how to claim your own copy, just click here now. You'll learn how cancer tumors can dry up to nothing, diabetes really can be defeated, heart disease reversed, Alzheimer's worries wiped out... and so much more.
To your God-given rights,
Brian Chambers
Publisher, Health Revelations
P.S. They are already going fast and he's only made 715 free copies available today. Click through now and discover how to get your copy of the complete library, FREE. The secrets in this video will shock you... and they may just save the life of you or a loved one.
Why is one famous, God-fearing American doctor giving away all his most powerful cures and healing secrets in a huge 9-volume library... FREE?
Because thanks to Obama's online spying, no secrets are safe and he believes it's better to release information in print than let it get into the wrong hands.
In this 9-volume set, he includes:
--The astonishing revelation that cancer was cured back in 1925 (he gives the actual cure)
--How the annual flu shot is nothing more than a BALD-FACED SCAM to get your money (and there's a cheap, safe solution that wipes out the flu in 90% of cases)
--That something called "stale blood" is actually your biggest unknown heart attack threat (dump those statin pills!)
--And 80 more valuable secrets! FREE.
He's spent a lifetime doing the research and he's finally ready to release every shocking secret. And thanks to the online privacy war, he's decided to give them away for FREE to loyal Americans... so they never get covered up.
But only 715 copies are available through this video now. To find out how to claim your own copy, just click here now. You'll learn how cancer tumors can dry up to nothing, diabetes really can be defeated, heart disease reversed, Alzheimer's worries wiped out... and so much more.
To your God-given rights,
Brian Chambers
Publisher, Health Revelations
P.S. They are already going fast and he's only made 715 free copies available today. Click through now and discover how to get your copy of the complete library, FREE. The secrets in this video will shock you... and they may just save the life of you or a loved one.
Friday, August 2, 2013
The Ever-Changing American Enemy: Thank you, Russia ?
Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader,
Baltimore, MD -- What happens when you spend a day at home searching the Internet for home appliances and maybe some back-to-school supplies? For most people, you get a lazy afternoon. But one couple in Long Island, N.Y., got a visit from their local police department. They had some questions about their peculiar Internet searches.
Better sit down before you read this. And move away any valuables you might throw at a wall in a fit of rage.
Michele Catalano was doing Google searches for pressure cookers. Her husband was looking for a new backpack. A couple days later, six members of the "Joint Terrorism Task Force" knocked on their door and asked them to explain their actions. These weren't people from the FBI, the NSA, or the Department of Homeland Security. Rather, they were local police officers. Yet they had access to Internet searches that only a few specific agencies were granted.
The news cycle is trying to draw the American attention away from the ongoing spying scandal, but it's stories like this that keep it from completely dying. This story of the Catalano family from New York merely confirms your worst suspicions. So why would police be looking at the Google searches of a normal, middle-class American family?
The government says that they can look at information of only Americans who are connected to terror suspects by no more than two people. And though it sounds small and limited in its scope, a simple example shows just how far their reach extends.
Let's say on average, a person calls or contacts 40 unique people. Under the current guidelines, the government would be able to mine the records of "only" 2.5 million people. So when the people behind the controls say they did "only" a few hundred searches, they're not including all the other records that fall under their extended network.
Which brings us back to the couple from New York. They're probably a lot like you and countless other people in America. People who accidentally fell into a government surveillance net. All because they knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who made a long-distance phone call to someone on a government watch list.
Fortunately, there isn't a sad ending to this story. The joint terrorism task force didn't arrest them for their inopportune Google searches. But it makes you wonder just how anonymous you are in the mass that is the Internet. Unlike getting lost in a physical crowd, there is an electronic marker that distinguishes you from all other Internet users. And now it seems like someone somewhere is always watching.
When Edward Snowden revealed just how deep the NSA spying rabbit hole went, he revealed how little privacy we really have. And as his story continues to unfold, America's reputation and honor quickly loses its credibility. Before, people saw America as a refuge from oppression. Now Americans are looking to our former enemies for the same protection.
But as Laissez Faire's own Jeffrey Tucker writes in today's article, America's fickle relationship with other countries seems to be a familiar theme throughout our history. See what it means for our current situation, and how Edward Snowden plays a key role for the foreseeable future.
Introducing Jeffrey Tucker's... Thank You, Russia?
Lon Snowden, father of whistle-blower Edward Snowden,
gave an interview to the media this week. The venue: Rossiya 24, a
state-owned station. His message was one of gratitude to Russia for
considering his son's request for asylum. Edward, as everyone knows, is
on the run for having revealed to the American people that their
government is logging every communication and storing it for later use.
In other words, Edward is in big trouble for revealing that our government is doing to its own citizens what the U.S. once accused Russia of doing to its citizens. In what is really a bizarre turn of events, Russia has become a safe haven for an American whistle-blower. Any friend of freedom has to join Lon Snowden in expressing gratitude. Because as it turns out, there are only a handful of countries in the world that the U.S. government can't intimidate into compliance.
I'm as glad as the next guy that "we" won the Cold War. But sometimes you just have to wonder: What was the point of those 45 years of nuclear stalemate? All that time, we were told that this was a mighty struggle between individualism and collectivism, between freedom and tyranny, between capitalism and communism.
But at the end of the day, once everything has shaken itself out, it is Russia that is providing sanctuary to our best citizens.
Is this some sort of strange dystopian novel? Well, yes, and it has a name: Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. Murray Rothbard once did a reconstruction of the hidden meaning of that novel. He demonstrated that Orwell was writing about the reality of the wartime and postwar period. A time when Russia's status as an enemy turned to friend and back to enemy again in the blink of an eye.
In Orwell's depiction, the world is dominated by three superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Alliances would turn on a dime depending on political priorities. "We've always been at war with Eastasia," says the slogan. Sounds just like something we'd hear today.
Islamic fundamentalists were U.S. allies in my living memory. They were heralded in the 1980s as freedom fighters who held to traditional family values and served as a mighty bulwark against atheistic communism. After the Cold War, our friends became our enemies. Now the right-wing talk shows speak daily of how we've always been at war with Islam.
The Russia case is particularly interesting. In the 1920s, American politics was sporadically consumed with the Red Scare. By the 1930s, Russia had become a kind of paradigm of progress. It was a model after which the New Deal copied its planning schemes for agriculture and large industry. By wartime, Russia was our dearest friend, a heroic ally in the struggle against Japanese and German imperialism. But only a year after WWII ended, President Truman spun it again: Now Russia was the biggest threat to Europe's freedom, and thus began the long Cold War.
But it is even more complicated than that. As Rothbard wrote in 1986:
As should be clear, Orwell was not so much writing about a future that might come to pass as a present that had already revealed itself in politics throughout the 20th century. This was the century of the total state. What does that mean? It means that no aspect of life is conceptually out of reach for the government. All your data belong to them. All your products, services, and activities are their business. Our property we own only at their discretion. No aspect of life is unplanned by our masters, provided they have the interest and means to make it happen.
The totalitarian mind is revealed in its fullness in the attitude toward war. Beginning in the age of democracy of the 20th century, entire populations were considered to be combatants and potential targets. You know how during U.S. wars, we hear about how civilians are just as culpable for tyrannical power because they are somehow permitting the dictator to rule by failing to overthrow him? We heard this constantly during the Iraq War.
This is a totalitarian mentality. No one is considered outside the political constellation.
Freedom and the total state are incompatible, except that, of course, any state is happy to use propaganda to proclaim itself to be the true land of the free and home of the brave. The reality is borne out in the state's attitude toward dissidents. If you see something and say something bad about the government, what happens to you? It's a basic test of freedom. In this case, the U.S. has been failing miserably.
But the humiliation is increased for Americans to see our former enemies (well, one-time enemies turned friends turned enemies turned friends, etc....) now providing a safe haven to a young man who told the truth about the U.S. surveillance state. Edward Snowden, said Doug Casey last week at Agora Financial's Vancouver Symposium, is not just a hero, but a superhero. He gave up everything to do a public service, all in the interest of making a dent in the inexorable tendency toward total control.
What's fascinating is to see how completely lacking in cynicism Snowden truly is. He thinks that the system can change. He wants Congress to do something. He wants the American people to rise up and demand that their government keep to normal standards of civility and afford their citizens some degree of privacy. In expressing that hope, Edward Snowden revealed himself as one of the last men to actually believe that the system can work to the good. Most of the rest of us lost that hope long ago.
Now he hides... in Russia.
Or as George Orwell might write, "Yet, after all, we've always been at war with Russia."
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Tucker
P.S. Try to remember for a moment what some of your most recent Google searches were. Maybe they were just harmless inquiries that popped into your head. But to some government employee looking for a lead on the next big break, it could be an unlucky combination for you and your family.
Police knocking on your door because you made an innocuous search at the wrong time. Someone combing through your emails because something you wrote as a joke could be construed the wrong way...
Imagine that one day as they're watching your Internet activity everything goes silent. Your electronic trail goes cold. And there's nothing on the Internet that ties you to anything. You've gone dark, and the watchers have no idea what happened.
This isn't the beginning of a new science-fiction techno thriller. It's what thousands of Americans are doing in response to the NSA's surveillance program. Compliance means consent, and a growing number of people in the country have not consented, nor will they ever consent, to this level of government overreach. And now, if you haven't already, you can join their ranks.
Click here to find out how to go dark
Baltimore, MD -- What happens when you spend a day at home searching the Internet for home appliances and maybe some back-to-school supplies? For most people, you get a lazy afternoon. But one couple in Long Island, N.Y., got a visit from their local police department. They had some questions about their peculiar Internet searches.
Better sit down before you read this. And move away any valuables you might throw at a wall in a fit of rage.
Michele Catalano was doing Google searches for pressure cookers. Her husband was looking for a new backpack. A couple days later, six members of the "Joint Terrorism Task Force" knocked on their door and asked them to explain their actions. These weren't people from the FBI, the NSA, or the Department of Homeland Security. Rather, they were local police officers. Yet they had access to Internet searches that only a few specific agencies were granted.
The news cycle is trying to draw the American attention away from the ongoing spying scandal, but it's stories like this that keep it from completely dying. This story of the Catalano family from New York merely confirms your worst suspicions. So why would police be looking at the Google searches of a normal, middle-class American family?
The government says that they can look at information of only Americans who are connected to terror suspects by no more than two people. And though it sounds small and limited in its scope, a simple example shows just how far their reach extends.
Let's say on average, a person calls or contacts 40 unique people. Under the current guidelines, the government would be able to mine the records of "only" 2.5 million people. So when the people behind the controls say they did "only" a few hundred searches, they're not including all the other records that fall under their extended network.
Which brings us back to the couple from New York. They're probably a lot like you and countless other people in America. People who accidentally fell into a government surveillance net. All because they knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who made a long-distance phone call to someone on a government watch list.
Fortunately, there isn't a sad ending to this story. The joint terrorism task force didn't arrest them for their inopportune Google searches. But it makes you wonder just how anonymous you are in the mass that is the Internet. Unlike getting lost in a physical crowd, there is an electronic marker that distinguishes you from all other Internet users. And now it seems like someone somewhere is always watching.
When Edward Snowden revealed just how deep the NSA spying rabbit hole went, he revealed how little privacy we really have. And as his story continues to unfold, America's reputation and honor quickly loses its credibility. Before, people saw America as a refuge from oppression. Now Americans are looking to our former enemies for the same protection.
But as Laissez Faire's own Jeffrey Tucker writes in today's article, America's fickle relationship with other countries seems to be a familiar theme throughout our history. See what it means for our current situation, and how Edward Snowden plays a key role for the foreseeable future.
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Introducing Jeffrey Tucker's... Thank You, Russia?
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| Jeffrey Tucker |
In other words, Edward is in big trouble for revealing that our government is doing to its own citizens what the U.S. once accused Russia of doing to its citizens. In what is really a bizarre turn of events, Russia has become a safe haven for an American whistle-blower. Any friend of freedom has to join Lon Snowden in expressing gratitude. Because as it turns out, there are only a handful of countries in the world that the U.S. government can't intimidate into compliance.
I'm as glad as the next guy that "we" won the Cold War. But sometimes you just have to wonder: What was the point of those 45 years of nuclear stalemate? All that time, we were told that this was a mighty struggle between individualism and collectivism, between freedom and tyranny, between capitalism and communism.
But at the end of the day, once everything has shaken itself out, it is Russia that is providing sanctuary to our best citizens.
Is this some sort of strange dystopian novel? Well, yes, and it has a name: Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. Murray Rothbard once did a reconstruction of the hidden meaning of that novel. He demonstrated that Orwell was writing about the reality of the wartime and postwar period. A time when Russia's status as an enemy turned to friend and back to enemy again in the blink of an eye.
In Orwell's depiction, the world is dominated by three superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Alliances would turn on a dime depending on political priorities. "We've always been at war with Eastasia," says the slogan. Sounds just like something we'd hear today.
Islamic fundamentalists were U.S. allies in my living memory. They were heralded in the 1980s as freedom fighters who held to traditional family values and served as a mighty bulwark against atheistic communism. After the Cold War, our friends became our enemies. Now the right-wing talk shows speak daily of how we've always been at war with Islam.
The Russia case is particularly interesting. In the 1920s, American politics was sporadically consumed with the Red Scare. By the 1930s, Russia had become a kind of paradigm of progress. It was a model after which the New Deal copied its planning schemes for agriculture and large industry. By wartime, Russia was our dearest friend, a heroic ally in the struggle against Japanese and German imperialism. But only a year after WWII ended, President Truman spun it again: Now Russia was the biggest threat to Europe's freedom, and thus began the long Cold War.
But it is even more complicated than that. As Rothbard wrote in 1986:
"Our deadly enemies in World War II, Germany and Japan, are now considered prime Good Guys, the only problem being their unfortunate reluctance to take up arms against the former Good Guys, the Soviet Union. China, having been a much lauded Good Guy under Chiang Kai-shek when fighting Bad Guy Japan, became the worst of the Bad Guys under communism, and indeed, the United States fought the Korean and Vietnamese wars largely for the sake of containing the expansionism of Communist China, which was supposed to be an even worse guy than the Soviet Union. But now all that is changed, and Communist China is now the virtual ally of the United States against the principal Enemy in the Kremlin."And today? Following some years of friendship in union with the anti-Islamist cause (the U.S. has tacitly backed President Putin in all his imperial wars), Russia is the enemy again. After all, this awful state is protecting a whistle-blower from capture by the U.S.! Meanwhile, Japan doesn't figure into world politics at all, while China is said to be an unrelenting menace to our industrial superiority due to its propensity to steal trade secrets.
As should be clear, Orwell was not so much writing about a future that might come to pass as a present that had already revealed itself in politics throughout the 20th century. This was the century of the total state. What does that mean? It means that no aspect of life is conceptually out of reach for the government. All your data belong to them. All your products, services, and activities are their business. Our property we own only at their discretion. No aspect of life is unplanned by our masters, provided they have the interest and means to make it happen.
The totalitarian mind is revealed in its fullness in the attitude toward war. Beginning in the age of democracy of the 20th century, entire populations were considered to be combatants and potential targets. You know how during U.S. wars, we hear about how civilians are just as culpable for tyrannical power because they are somehow permitting the dictator to rule by failing to overthrow him? We heard this constantly during the Iraq War.
This is a totalitarian mentality. No one is considered outside the political constellation.
Freedom and the total state are incompatible, except that, of course, any state is happy to use propaganda to proclaim itself to be the true land of the free and home of the brave. The reality is borne out in the state's attitude toward dissidents. If you see something and say something bad about the government, what happens to you? It's a basic test of freedom. In this case, the U.S. has been failing miserably.
But the humiliation is increased for Americans to see our former enemies (well, one-time enemies turned friends turned enemies turned friends, etc....) now providing a safe haven to a young man who told the truth about the U.S. surveillance state. Edward Snowden, said Doug Casey last week at Agora Financial's Vancouver Symposium, is not just a hero, but a superhero. He gave up everything to do a public service, all in the interest of making a dent in the inexorable tendency toward total control.
What's fascinating is to see how completely lacking in cynicism Snowden truly is. He thinks that the system can change. He wants Congress to do something. He wants the American people to rise up and demand that their government keep to normal standards of civility and afford their citizens some degree of privacy. In expressing that hope, Edward Snowden revealed himself as one of the last men to actually believe that the system can work to the good. Most of the rest of us lost that hope long ago.
Now he hides... in Russia.
Or as George Orwell might write, "Yet, after all, we've always been at war with Russia."
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Tucker
P.S. Try to remember for a moment what some of your most recent Google searches were. Maybe they were just harmless inquiries that popped into your head. But to some government employee looking for a lead on the next big break, it could be an unlucky combination for you and your family.
Police knocking on your door because you made an innocuous search at the wrong time. Someone combing through your emails because something you wrote as a joke could be construed the wrong way...
Imagine that one day as they're watching your Internet activity everything goes silent. Your electronic trail goes cold. And there's nothing on the Internet that ties you to anything. You've gone dark, and the watchers have no idea what happened.
This isn't the beginning of a new science-fiction techno thriller. It's what thousands of Americans are doing in response to the NSA's surveillance program. Compliance means consent, and a growing number of people in the country have not consented, nor will they ever consent, to this level of government overreach. And now, if you haven't already, you can join their ranks.
Click here to find out how to go dark
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Get "Weekly" paycheck from the market
Fellow Investor,
Hi, my name is Kirt Christensen, and I'm an investor from Spokane Valley, Washington.
If you would like to know exactly how to generate a weekly 'pay check' from the market, no matter the size of your account (Even if you're a novice trader and don't want to be glued to your computer), then perhaps the following will interest you...
I'm going to be doing a free web event this week for investors (both large and small).
Here's what this live event is all about:
→ Why what happened on June 4, 2010 gives even the smallest investors a way to make solid weekly income!
→How weekly options can make every Friday your pay day.
→The simple reasons why on major stocks like Apple and Google "Weekly Options" make up 40% of total options volume!
The system I'm using for this web event can only handle a certain number of attendees.
So please Reserve Your Seat (Before all Spots Are Taken).
I'm also going to reveal how I finally discovered the "weekly options" system I'd been searching for that:
→ Uses a Trading “Vehicle” That’s Simple (Less Than 15 Minutes a Week).
→ Only Trades Optimal, High Probability Trades
→ Is “Rules Based” and Non-Subjective.
→ Triggers Trades in Trending and Flat Markets.
I'm looking forward to having you attend my live “tell all” web event where I literally give you everything you need to get started with this proven strategy for creating a solid weekly income.
Simply click here to reserve your spot.
And I'd be happy to answer any questions you have as well.
Warmly,
Kirt Christensen
Spokane Valley, Wa
509-720-7867
P.S. Reserve your seat now because space is limited, and I can promise that you've never heard of this weekly options system...
And I don't know when I'll be doing these web events detailing my findings again...
>> Get More Information Here <<
Hi, my name is Kirt Christensen, and I'm an investor from Spokane Valley, Washington.
If you would like to know exactly how to generate a weekly 'pay check' from the market, no matter the size of your account (Even if you're a novice trader and don't want to be glued to your computer), then perhaps the following will interest you...
I'm going to be doing a free web event this week for investors (both large and small).
Here's what this live event is all about:
→ Why what happened on June 4, 2010 gives even the smallest investors a way to make solid weekly income!
→How weekly options can make every Friday your pay day.
→The simple reasons why on major stocks like Apple and Google "Weekly Options" make up 40% of total options volume!
The system I'm using for this web event can only handle a certain number of attendees.
So please Reserve Your Seat (Before all Spots Are Taken).
I'm also going to reveal how I finally discovered the "weekly options" system I'd been searching for that:
→ Uses a Trading “Vehicle” That’s Simple (Less Than 15 Minutes a Week).
→ Only Trades Optimal, High Probability Trades
→ Is “Rules Based” and Non-Subjective.
→ Triggers Trades in Trending and Flat Markets.
I'm looking forward to having you attend my live “tell all” web event where I literally give you everything you need to get started with this proven strategy for creating a solid weekly income.
Simply click here to reserve your spot.
And I'd be happy to answer any questions you have as well.
Warmly,
Kirt Christensen
Spokane Valley, Wa
509-720-7867
P.S. Reserve your seat now because space is limited, and I can promise that you've never heard of this weekly options system...
And I don't know when I'll be doing these web events detailing my findings again...
>> Get More Information Here <<
Could Asparagus Be the Next Cure For Cancer?
Asparagus as a cancer cure is not as bizarre as it sounds.
Scientists around the world have been discovering the power of
antioxidant-rich nutrition in the fight against chronic illness and disease.
This flavorful vegetable is one of the most powerful.
There are more than 300 varieties of asparagus – Asparagus Officinalis is the variety most commonly grown and eaten in the United States – but less than 20 are edible. Asparagus shoots resemble spears with small florets at the top and are green or purple in color.
The more purple a bunch of asparagus health benefits that it has, the sweeter its taste. The best time of year to buy asparagus is in the spring and early summer – it should be consumed within two days of purchase.
Asparagus has been grown as a food source for more than 2000 years but it is still one of the least popular vegetables! A shorter growing season keeps the price higher than more typical vegetables such as broccoli and spinach, but the nutrients in asparagus make it crucial to cancer prevention.
Consuming foods with naturally high anti-inflammatory properties lowers the risk of inflammation getting out of control and possibly leading to disease.
The known cancer-fighting properties of the nutrient folate, found in asparagus, were discovered when patients diagnosed with the disease were found to be folate-deficient, according to the American Cancer Society.
Women who drink alcohol regularly tend to have low folate levels and are at higher risk for breast cancer. Adding dietary folate to your nutrition helps reduce risks associated with alcohol.
Folate regulates cell division – cancer is the result of damaged cells dividing again and again. Folate, along with its synthetic cousin folic acid, prevents cellular mutations.
Additional research needs to be conducted and human trials established before scientists can say definitively that asparagus is a cancer cure; adding folate to your diet now means this powerhouse nutrient can work to protect your DNA and prevent cancer before it starts.
Asparagus health benefits is a natural anti-inflammatory and anti-depressant.
Many people report a strong smell in their urine following consumption of asparagus, but scientists can find no cause for the odor. They are certain, however, that it is not an adverse reaction – there is no danger associated with the strange odor.
Folate is critical to heart health because it regulates homocysteine levels – an amino acid found in the blood that is caused by eating too much meat and not getting enough folate in your diet.
A study conducted in Norway linked high levels of homocysteine to strokes and heart attacks that resulted in death. Folate breaks down homocysteine and keeps it from forming fatty deposits in the arteries.
As a great source of vitamin K, asparagus health benefits prevents the buildup of calcium in the cardiovascular system, a proven cause of heart disease. Vitamin K also strengthens bones.
It increases urine output, which helps to prevent and treat bladder, urinary tract and kidney infections. The potassium, folate, glutathione and vitamin K in asparagus have also been shown to lower the risk of kidney stones.
The carbohydrate called inulin in asparagus prevents the growth of bad gut bacteria and stimulates the growth of good gut bacteria. Asparagus health benefits is also high in fiber, which stabilizes digestion, makes you feel fuller faster and prevents constipation.
According to the UCLA Medical Center, asparagus is naturally low in calories, salt-free and contains no fat or cholesterol, making it ideal for detoxification. Every cup of asparagus is packed with potassium, which has been found to minimize fat deposits in the belly.
The next time you pass it in your supermarket produce section, stop and give those stems a chance!
This flavorful vegetable is one of the most powerful.
There are more than 300 varieties of asparagus – Asparagus Officinalis is the variety most commonly grown and eaten in the United States – but less than 20 are edible. Asparagus shoots resemble spears with small florets at the top and are green or purple in color.
The more purple a bunch of asparagus health benefits that it has, the sweeter its taste. The best time of year to buy asparagus is in the spring and early summer – it should be consumed within two days of purchase.
Asparagus has been grown as a food source for more than 2000 years but it is still one of the least popular vegetables! A shorter growing season keeps the price higher than more typical vegetables such as broccoli and spinach, but the nutrients in asparagus make it crucial to cancer prevention.
Is the Cure for Cancer in Asparagus?
Scientists believe that chronic inflammation is the root cause of not only cancer but many other diseases. Heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases are among those linked to inflammation.Consuming foods with naturally high anti-inflammatory properties lowers the risk of inflammation getting out of control and possibly leading to disease.
Folate: The Key Cancer Prevention Nutrient in Asparagus
Asparagus health benefits has shown great promise in the fight against breast, colon, lung, prostate, ovarian and other cancers.The known cancer-fighting properties of the nutrient folate, found in asparagus, were discovered when patients diagnosed with the disease were found to be folate-deficient, according to the American Cancer Society.
Women who drink alcohol regularly tend to have low folate levels and are at higher risk for breast cancer. Adding dietary folate to your nutrition helps reduce risks associated with alcohol.
Folate regulates cell division – cancer is the result of damaged cells dividing again and again. Folate, along with its synthetic cousin folic acid, prevents cellular mutations.
Additional research needs to be conducted and human trials established before scientists can say definitively that asparagus is a cancer cure; adding folate to your diet now means this powerhouse nutrient can work to protect your DNA and prevent cancer before it starts.
Asparagus health benefits is a natural anti-inflammatory and anti-depressant.
An Overlooked Super Food
Many aspects of asparagus health benefits are simply overlooked perhaps because it’s either too expensive or because people are turned off by its effect on urine.Many people report a strong smell in their urine following consumption of asparagus, but scientists can find no cause for the odor. They are certain, however, that it is not an adverse reaction – there is no danger associated with the strange odor.
Asparagus and Heart Health
66% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of folate is contained in one cup of asparagus.Folate is critical to heart health because it regulates homocysteine levels – an amino acid found in the blood that is caused by eating too much meat and not getting enough folate in your diet.
A study conducted in Norway linked high levels of homocysteine to strokes and heart attacks that resulted in death. Folate breaks down homocysteine and keeps it from forming fatty deposits in the arteries.
As a great source of vitamin K, asparagus health benefits prevents the buildup of calcium in the cardiovascular system, a proven cause of heart disease. Vitamin K also strengthens bones.
Diuretic, Detoxifier and Digestive Aid
Asparagus works well as a natural diuretic for the treatment of water retention related to PMS.It increases urine output, which helps to prevent and treat bladder, urinary tract and kidney infections. The potassium, folate, glutathione and vitamin K in asparagus have also been shown to lower the risk of kidney stones.
The carbohydrate called inulin in asparagus prevents the growth of bad gut bacteria and stimulates the growth of good gut bacteria. Asparagus health benefits is also high in fiber, which stabilizes digestion, makes you feel fuller faster and prevents constipation.
According to the UCLA Medical Center, asparagus is naturally low in calories, salt-free and contains no fat or cholesterol, making it ideal for detoxification. Every cup of asparagus is packed with potassium, which has been found to minimize fat deposits in the belly.
Bone Health
Asparagus is the number one source for vitamin K – containing almost 70% of the RDA in a single cup. Vitamin K keeps bones strong and repairs damage, preventing the risk of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.Folate and Vitamin K Aren’t the Only Heroes in Asparagus:
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• Vitamin A is abundant in asparagus and protects vision, bone development and growth.
• Tryptophan is pivotal to the synthesis of serotonin – a mood-enhancing hormone. Low levels of tryptophan in those with cancer can lead to increased feelings of depression and hopelessness.
• Vitamin B2 metabolizes fat and carbohydrates in your body but is also crucial for normal cell growth.
The next time you pass it in your supermarket produce section, stop and give those stems a chance!
Friday, July 12, 2013
NSA Surveillance of European Allies May Block EU-U.S. Trade Talks
NSA Surveillance of European Allies May Block EU-U.S. Trade Talks
Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader,
Las Vegas, NV -- "See something, say something." That's the line that's touted in countless public transportation systems or transit hubs throughout the country. In our nation's capital, D.C., they actually encourage riders to ask one another, "Is that your bag?" As if making this inquisition hides the fact that they want you to do their dirty work. They want you to keep an eye on your neighbor.
Because once you can't even trust your fellow countrymen, they're banking that you end up putting your trust in your all powerful, Big Brother.
"See something, say something. If you're not sure, let the proper authority handle it."
And for some people, it's not just a suggestion. It's an order. And if you don't follow it, meaning that if you don't keep tabs on your fellow Americans, you could wind up breaking the law.
You see, this administration, in an attempt to put Nixon to shame, is making government employees responsible for keeping state secrets secret. But we don't need to tell you that this isn't surprising. As more and more stories about the government's surveillance program leaks out to the public, the less surprised the American people become. And that's the real danger.
Fortunately, our allies overseas are getting fed up with constantly being spied on. And even though president Obama tried to calm the American public by saying everyone does it, they're not taking the bait.
And as today's article by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) writer, Maira Sutton, shows, the NSA's surveillance tactics could cause an international incident. As part of EFF's International team, she monitors and advocates emerging tech policy around the world. Some areas they focus on are intellectual property and innovation issues.
Obama's been working hard on various trade agreements that would help create better trade relations with our European allies. Unfortunately, in order to gain an upper hand, he's had his snoops bug various offices of diplomats. And now that they're aware of what's going on, it could jeopardize these potential trade agreements. While it's bad press for the administration, it's regular Americans like you that ultimately feel the brunt of it.
Introducing Maira Sutton's...NSA Surveillance of European Allies May Block EU-U.S.. Trade Talks
The first round of negotiations over a new trade agreement between
the U.S. and the European Union is scheduled to start this week, but it
may be doomed before it even begins. EU officials are demanding answers
and threatening to call off the negotiations in light of the latest NSA
revelations released last week showing how the U.S. has been involved in
extensive spying on EU diplomats. The diminishing trust between the two
allies could have a knock-on effect on global copyright regulation and
stiffen Europe's resolve to better protect its own citizens' online
privacy.
The new NSA leaks shed light on the extensive nature of U.S. surveillance on EU officials. By installing bugs and infiltrating their computer networks, the NSA has had access to private discussions, emails, and internal computer documents housed in the EU office in Washington, D.C. There is even indication that EU reps at the United Nations were similarly spied on. According to the leaked documents, the aim of the surveillance scheme was "to gather inside knowledge of policy disagreements on global issues and other rifts between member states."
That kind of inside information would no doubt be put to use in the forthcoming negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), also known as the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). Negotiators plan to draft TTIP under the same secretive processes as previous trade agreements. Officials from both regions have indicated their intention to regulate copyright in this latest trans-Atlantic trade deal. Also on the bargaining block has been the regulation of trans-Atlantic data flows of personal information from and about European citizens to American companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.
The EU has had comparatively better privacy safeguards, but it's clear the U.S. has been working to chip away at them, partly to protect U.S. companies that rely on the "safe harbor" exceptions to European privacy law and partly to defend its international spying activities. Over a year ago, the Obama administration lobbied EU officials to drop an "anti-FISA" clause from Europe's current reform of its privacy legislation, the Data Protection Directive. According to The Washington Post, the European Commission dropped the rule in order to avoid complications in future trade deals, including TTIP.
Given recent revelations, the EU may now have two big reasons to push back harder on privacy, no matter how much that might "complicate" relations with the United States. As European Digital Rights (EDRi) said last month:
It's still unclear as of the time this was written whether EU-U.S. trade negotiations will go on as scheduled. Other countries targeted in the surveillance program include Mexico and Japan, which are parties to the separate negotiations. While Japan has joined the call to demand answers from the U.S., it is not yet clear if this will also lead to similar complications for those trade talks.
Trade agreements, like any other international policymaking space, reflect the geopolitical and economic realities in which they take place. It's clear that these NSA spying revelations undermine the trust and goodwill other nations held for the U.S., the consequences for which will likely be felt for months, if not for years, to come.
It may also transform the debate about the transparency of international agreements. The blatant hypocrisy of the U.S. government asserting the importance of negotiating trade agreements in private -- out of the sight of public scrutiny -- yet all the while covertly collecting such intimate information on the internal debates of our state allies may give other countries pause as to how imbalanced supposedly secret negotiations can be.
It's now clear more than ever how crucial transparency is for enabling democratic international rule making to take place. In order for our governments to enact proper, functional policies that address real issues and primarily benefit the broad public, our laws and the process for creating them need to be out in the open, visible to all: not just those who have the resources and the brazen intent to spy on their international partners.
-- Maira Sutton
Article originally posted here.
[Ed. note: There's something even more devious at play here. Europe might be upset about the United States spying on its diplomats, and even its citizens. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their own systems in place tracking your internet usage. And as bad as it is that our government is watching us, at least there's a chance of legal recourse.
When the bureaucrats on the other side of the Atlantic watch, monitor and record us, there's very little we can do. In fact, it might actually be a way that president Obama can say in truth that his government doesn't spy on American citizens. He just gets his allies to do it for him.
Regardless, when we say you should protect yourself from the watchful eyes of government, we're referring to all governments equally. We've worked hard on our privacy report, and we're working even harder to find more ways to protect you against all the threats out there on the Internet.
To claim a free copy, click here and learn more about how you can take back control of your personal privacy. ]
Dear Laissez Faire Today Reader,
Las Vegas, NV -- "See something, say something." That's the line that's touted in countless public transportation systems or transit hubs throughout the country. In our nation's capital, D.C., they actually encourage riders to ask one another, "Is that your bag?" As if making this inquisition hides the fact that they want you to do their dirty work. They want you to keep an eye on your neighbor.
Because once you can't even trust your fellow countrymen, they're banking that you end up putting your trust in your all powerful, Big Brother.
"See something, say something. If you're not sure, let the proper authority handle it."
And for some people, it's not just a suggestion. It's an order. And if you don't follow it, meaning that if you don't keep tabs on your fellow Americans, you could wind up breaking the law.
You see, this administration, in an attempt to put Nixon to shame, is making government employees responsible for keeping state secrets secret. But we don't need to tell you that this isn't surprising. As more and more stories about the government's surveillance program leaks out to the public, the less surprised the American people become. And that's the real danger.
Fortunately, our allies overseas are getting fed up with constantly being spied on. And even though president Obama tried to calm the American public by saying everyone does it, they're not taking the bait.
And as today's article by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) writer, Maira Sutton, shows, the NSA's surveillance tactics could cause an international incident. As part of EFF's International team, she monitors and advocates emerging tech policy around the world. Some areas they focus on are intellectual property and innovation issues.
Obama's been working hard on various trade agreements that would help create better trade relations with our European allies. Unfortunately, in order to gain an upper hand, he's had his snoops bug various offices of diplomats. And now that they're aware of what's going on, it could jeopardize these potential trade agreements. While it's bad press for the administration, it's regular Americans like you that ultimately feel the brunt of it.
Introducing Maira Sutton's...NSA Surveillance of European Allies May Block EU-U.S.. Trade Talks
 |
| Maira Sutton |
The new NSA leaks shed light on the extensive nature of U.S. surveillance on EU officials. By installing bugs and infiltrating their computer networks, the NSA has had access to private discussions, emails, and internal computer documents housed in the EU office in Washington, D.C. There is even indication that EU reps at the United Nations were similarly spied on. According to the leaked documents, the aim of the surveillance scheme was "to gather inside knowledge of policy disagreements on global issues and other rifts between member states."
That kind of inside information would no doubt be put to use in the forthcoming negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), also known as the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA). Negotiators plan to draft TTIP under the same secretive processes as previous trade agreements. Officials from both regions have indicated their intention to regulate copyright in this latest trans-Atlantic trade deal. Also on the bargaining block has been the regulation of trans-Atlantic data flows of personal information from and about European citizens to American companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo.
The EU has had comparatively better privacy safeguards, but it's clear the U.S. has been working to chip away at them, partly to protect U.S. companies that rely on the "safe harbor" exceptions to European privacy law and partly to defend its international spying activities. Over a year ago, the Obama administration lobbied EU officials to drop an "anti-FISA" clause from Europe's current reform of its privacy legislation, the Data Protection Directive. According to The Washington Post, the European Commission dropped the rule in order to avoid complications in future trade deals, including TTIP.
Given recent revelations, the EU may now have two big reasons to push back harder on privacy, no matter how much that might "complicate" relations with the United States. As European Digital Rights (EDRi) said last month:
"The USA already has one scandal on government access to data (PRISM) undermining trust in U.S. companies. They know that the lack of a comprehensive privacy framework means that a scandal regarding corporations' use of data is inevitable. The U.S. desperately needs to ensure that Europe does not have a privacy framework that will give it a major competitive advantage."EU officials are rightly upset over revelations that their own negotiators are being spied upon. Leaders of EU nations including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande have called on the U.S. for explanations. German officials have accused the U.S. of using "Cold War"-like tactics to undermine their mutual trust. Hollande has called for an immediate halt to the programs or else will call off the TTIP talks next week.
It's still unclear as of the time this was written whether EU-U.S. trade negotiations will go on as scheduled. Other countries targeted in the surveillance program include Mexico and Japan, which are parties to the separate negotiations. While Japan has joined the call to demand answers from the U.S., it is not yet clear if this will also lead to similar complications for those trade talks.
Trade agreements, like any other international policymaking space, reflect the geopolitical and economic realities in which they take place. It's clear that these NSA spying revelations undermine the trust and goodwill other nations held for the U.S., the consequences for which will likely be felt for months, if not for years, to come.
It may also transform the debate about the transparency of international agreements. The blatant hypocrisy of the U.S. government asserting the importance of negotiating trade agreements in private -- out of the sight of public scrutiny -- yet all the while covertly collecting such intimate information on the internal debates of our state allies may give other countries pause as to how imbalanced supposedly secret negotiations can be.
It's now clear more than ever how crucial transparency is for enabling democratic international rule making to take place. In order for our governments to enact proper, functional policies that address real issues and primarily benefit the broad public, our laws and the process for creating them need to be out in the open, visible to all: not just those who have the resources and the brazen intent to spy on their international partners.
-- Maira Sutton
Article originally posted here.
[Ed. note: There's something even more devious at play here. Europe might be upset about the United States spying on its diplomats, and even its citizens. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their own systems in place tracking your internet usage. And as bad as it is that our government is watching us, at least there's a chance of legal recourse.
When the bureaucrats on the other side of the Atlantic watch, monitor and record us, there's very little we can do. In fact, it might actually be a way that president Obama can say in truth that his government doesn't spy on American citizens. He just gets his allies to do it for him.
Regardless, when we say you should protect yourself from the watchful eyes of government, we're referring to all governments equally. We've worked hard on our privacy report, and we're working even harder to find more ways to protect you against all the threats out there on the Internet.
To claim a free copy, click here and learn more about how you can take back control of your personal privacy. ]
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