This is unbelievable... Mr. Tough Guy in the gray costume is trying desperately to provoke a fight so he can screw this guy's life up and during his rant admits to planting drugs on people to put them away... this is a Canadian cop... you can read the story here.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Leaving Dystopia - New Rock Album from Indie Artist Awakens the Mind
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I stumbled upon this CD which I bought it and it is a great listen. Here's a review from Amazon that resonated with me... samples of the songs are available also on Amazon...really an excellent album of thought provoking songs.
"This album is a gem. A throw back to when music communicated a relevant
message. With a lean and clean production, "Leaving Dystopia" is about
awakening the masses to the dysfunctional and controlling world we find
all around us. From the first track ("I Dig You") to the last (an
awesome remake of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero") the music is
thoroughly enjoyable. Yes, the Beatles influence is there throughout but
in a subtle and unique way. On tracks like "Brain Dead" I sensed some
Floyd overtones, the rocker "Soldier of Love" shades of Collective Soul
along with the solo Harrison influenced and standout "Beautiful Soul"
(think Harrison's "Dark Horse" album). I found the entire album unique
and well crafted. Lyrically the message is powerful and relevant with
Williams unabashedly making a case for more truth, peace and love in the
world. "Leaving Dystopia" is a fine example of what Indie artists are
turning out compared to the meaningless mass produced rubbish of the
main stream music industry. This is a fine album. Beatles fans - you'll
enjoy it. Highly recommended."
I found the artist link here.
I found the artist link here.
Monsanto CEO Whines - Public Not Playing Fair
Monsanto Exec Hugh Grant accuses
Anti-GMO protestors of "reverse eliticism", saying their social media
campaigns aren't giving his company a chance to feed the world through
advanced technology. According to State Department cables reviewed by
Food & Water Watch, the biotech giant already has more than enough
help propagating to the world, as the US government lobbies foreign
nations on their behalf.
Ben Fulford Update - May 20, 2013
I don't typically post Fulford's updates but this one seems to be connecting some important dots with what's going on in the world... you can read and decide...
[Source] One of the most frustrating but necessary things for journalists is
to hold information on embargo until a go ahead is given for publishing.
This is one of those frustrating times. Embargoes are needed to ensure
plans are not sabotaged and lives are not endangered.
However, there are enough hints available in the public domain for us
to put some dots together. What is clear is that there is a lot of
hysteria in Washington D.C. (IRS, Benghazi etc.) and London, England
(pedophilia, gold market). It is also clear that for at least six months
public statements by the US State Department repeated in the Zionist
media have been regularly contradicted by the Pentagon. There are also
proliferating signs of a breakdown in the financial system. All of this
points to some sort of dramatic black swan incident soon. We will talk
more about this below.
In Asia as well, secret negotiations with North Korea and among Asian
powers are clearly preparations for a change in the post-war global
power structure. The visit to North Korea last week by Isao Iijima,
special envoy of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, was a case in
point. We got four different versions of what was talked about, two
Japanese, one North Korean and one Chinese. Like the Sufi story of the
blind men and the elephant (an elephant is big and flat, it is like a
hose, it is like a tree trunk etc.) you need to piece the different
versions together to figure out what is really going on. What the
stories all agree upon though is that the visit was a best a fishing
expedition, at worst a failure.
A source in the Japanese imperial family had the most interesting take
on what Iijima had to say to the North Koreans. According to this
source, Iijima asked the North Koreans if they would be willing to host 1
million Sabbatean refugees expected to want to leave Europe and the
United States soon and was told no. This story about 1 million refugees
looking for a place to go after leaving the United States has propped up
repeatedly and from enough different sources that it seems to stem from
a genuine belief that 1 million people will be asked to leave the US
once the truth about what has been done by them to the American people
is made public. My sources say they will not be allowed to leave but
will have to face the music (ie be sent to the Fema camps they prepared
for others).
The Chinese government source had a different angle on what went on
during this visit. According to him, Iijima was told very clearly that
North Korea was not willing to negotiate through the Japanese Foreign
Ministry because it was staffed with Zionist slaves who have twice
sabotaged deals reached between Japan and North Korea to normalize
relations. This was in line with what a source in the Japanese public
security police heard too.
The North Korean source also said the Japanese Foreign Ministry was
not to be trusted. North Korea has made a very friendly and detailed
proposal to deal with all outstanding issues preventing resumption of
friendly diplomatic relations between North Korea and Japan. We know the
details but have been asked to keep them secret for now.
The Japanese official also pointed out that countries like Germany,
France and the UK already have extensive relations with North Korea that
they were not talking about. British Tobacco, for example, sells North
Korean Tobacco labeled as British, he said.
There is also something going on under the surface in South Korea
that is related to this issue somehow. South Korean conglomerates are
desperate to get their hands on South Korean Won and have been offering
to trade them for yen at a two to one rate compared to the official
exchange rate. They are also trying to sell old imperial South Korean
gold (although they have not yet provided satisfactory proof of its
existence).
This is related to a major attack on control of the South Korean
banking system by Goldman Sachs, according to an executive at a Japanese
securities company. It is also related, as reported in previous issues,
to plans to tax the assets of South Korean residents of Japan who wish
to take their yen to Korea before tax officials seize them.
The Asians all seem to be waiting for some sort of major event in the
United States that will allow the map of North East Asia to be
fundamentally redrawn.
The question everybody who is not brain dead or bribed is asking, of
course, is when the crooks on Wall Street and in Washington D.C. will
finally be rounded up and put in jail where they belong.
Some sources say the takedown has already begun. The firing of 26
generals was a start. Now the Internal Revenue Service is being taken
down, they say.
The real question, of course, is when the elders of Zion are rounded
up and put in jail. Never mind the debate over whether or not the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a racist forgery. The fact of the
matter is that Zionism exists, it is not (but pretends to be) Judaism,
and it is guilty of massive crimes against humanity.
Here is a link for those of you who still have heads in the sand over this issue:
The Zionists must have leaders who could be labeled “Elders of Zion.”
A senior member of the Italian P2 lodge says two names in particular
are now blocking the start of the new financial system: Cohen and Levi.
Chinese sources have already identified a Jean Cohen of the Hoche Group
in France as having paid Chinese demonstrators 1200 yuan a day to stage
anti-Japanese riots. The Levi name is more mysterious but they will be
flushed out of the woodwork sooner rather than later.
When this high level crime syndicate is finally brought down, a
redistribution of criminally obtained assets (think hedge fund,
offshore, 100 times leverage, insider trading etc.) is certain to
follow.
That is probably why many of the richest Americans are in a panic to
take their fraudulently earned fiat dollars and turn them into hard
assets as quickly as possible. That is why there is frantic buying of
gold, art, real estate and anything else that actually exists in reality
and not just in a bank computer.
What we are about to witness is the unraveling of a giant apparatus
of lies, bribery, murder and illusion that has fooled us into wars and
out of our money for centuries. The repercussions will be historical.
Imagine the fall of the Soviet Union on steroids.
Boston Bomber Backpacks Don't Add Up
May 20, 2013
Source: Dave Lindorff, Who What Why
The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon, to hear the FBI and the Boston Police tell it, is solved: One bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is dead, gunned down by police and then run over for good measure by his fleeing brother Dzhokhar, who was captured a day later in a citywide manhunt, after being hit by a fusillade of police bullets fired into a trailered pleasure boat he was hiding in.
The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon, to hear the FBI and the Boston Police tell it, is solved: One bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is dead, gunned down by police and then run over for good measure by his fleeing brother Dzhokhar, who was captured a day later in a citywide manhunt, after being hit by a fusillade of police bullets fired into a trailered pleasure boat he was hiding in.
Among the reasons law enforcement sources are so confident they “got”
their men were video surveillance photos from a Lord & Taylor
storefront area showing the two brothers as they arrived at the
finish-line area, each wearing a backpack, allegedly carrying what the
FBI now says were two identical 6-quart steel pressure cookers marketed
by the Canadian corporation Fagor. Fragments of those pots, which the
FBI says were packed with black powder (gathered from a collection of
fireworks) as well as nails and BBs, were recovered at the scene.
Besides the photos of the two brothers wearing their packs, the FBI
also has released a photo of the remnants of one of the backpacks,
allegedly the black, or dark-colored, one worn by the elder Tamerlan
Tsarnaev. There is also a photo of what is described as a white
backpack, which was placed on the street side of a metal crowd-control
fence. It was said to contain the second bomb, which exploded 10 seconds
later, further from the finish line. This is presumed to be the same
light-colored pack Dzhokhar is seen wearing in the store video as he
arrives on the scene.
There are a number of serious problems with this supposedly damning evidence, however.
First of all, nobody looking at the evidence to date has tried
loading up one of these Fagor pots with the amount of weight that would
have been created by a big four or five quarts’ worth of black powder,
perhaps two quarts of nails, and perhaps a pound or two of BB shot, to
see what it would look like in a basic unstructured book bag of the type
the two men were wearing.
The first problem was buying the pot. This reporter looked it up
online and found that it was being sold by Macy’s. Going to the nearest
Macy’s at the Montgomery Mall in Montgomeryville, PA, we discovered that
the cookware section had no pressure cookers. The store clerk in charge
of that section was asked where pressure cookers were.
“We don’t sell pressure cookers,” she said.
“How can a cookware section not sell pressure cookers? Anyhow, your website says you sell a line of Fagor pressure cookers.”
She replied, “We stopped selling them after the Boston Bombing.”
So it goes. Guns—even the gun used in the incident, still get sold in
stores after the Newtown, CT, school massacre, but when someone makes a
bomb with an ordinary kitchen implement, they are taken off the
shelves. (What’s next, a demand for licenses to buy canning equipment?)
Luckily, we found several of the Fagor six-quart pots in a nearby
Sears store, and purchased one, on sale for $76.00. The dimensions of
the kettle are 10 inches in diameter and 7.7 inches bottom to top, not
counting the handle (which cannot be detached without exposing four bolt
holes through the top and side of the lid).
After getting a calculation that a quart of black powder weighs about
two pounds (a very general measurement, because the compound changes
weight according to the humidity, and can be loosely or densely packed
like any powder), and testing a bag of small nails to find that they
weigh about six pounds per quart, and after weighing the pot itself, we
found that the whole contraption, fully loaded with four to five quarts
of powder, two quarts’ worth of nails and BBs, and a battery and
ignition device, would weigh about 30 lbs. So we put a sufficient number
of exercise weight plates into our container, shut the lid, and tried
carrying it in two backpacks similar in construction to the ones on the
two brothers’ backs.
The results were instructive.
If you look carefully at the first set of photos, showing the
surveillance photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the model wearing a similar
pack containing the loaded pot, both packs being slung over the right
shoulder using the right strap only, you can see a dramatic difference.
There are stress wrinkles under the jacket of the right image on the
model, caused by the 30-lb. weight pulling downward, but Dzhokhar’s
jacket can be seen to be completely smooth under the strap. His pack is
clearly extremely light on his shoulder (which may be why he’s not
wearing it slung over both shoulders). As well, you can see that the
weight of the pot, pulling down and outward in the model’s bag on the
right, is causing a downward sloping of the top of the backpack, and is
also causing many vertical stress lines on the face of the bag itself.
Dzhokhar’s bag, however, is flat across the top, indicating no such
downward pulling force, and it does not exhibit any downward wrinkles on
its side. Whatever he is carrying, it is clearly not a 30-lb., or even a
20-lb. cylinder.
Read the full article here.
IRS Scandal: Armed Police 'Escort' Reporters Through Cincinnati Office
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Source: Breitbart
Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report
that details what journalists have faced while trying to get some
answers from the Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the
Tea Party targeting took place.
According to ABC, an "armed uniform police officer with the Federal
Protective Service" "escorted" reporters through the public building.
ABC says if the intent wasn't to "scare off" employees who might talk, "it was the effect."
ABC News is also hearing conflicting reports from Cincinnati IRS
employees and the IRS Headquarters in Washington. A Washington spokesman
told ABC that press queries are "referred to the press office," but
that "people have First Amendment rights, they are entitled to speak."
An employee in OH said that is not the case and that staffers have
been threatened with their jobs if they are caught talking to the media:
At the [Cincinnati] IRS office on the
fourth floor, a woman who answered the buzzer referred reporters to
officials in Washington, though they were not returning very many calls.
That staffer also said she was not allowed to speak to anyone – a line
that was repeated by agency personnel during the week.
IRS headquarters in Washington denied
that a no-talk rule was official policy because, after all, agency
staffers still have a constitutional right to talk to whomever they
want. …
Not so, said IRS folks in Ohio.
One of them, who asked not be named, told
ABC News that security guards did remind employees of the official
policy not to talk with the press – a warning cemented by the punch line
"or risk losing our jobs."
The Obama administration's Culture of Intimidation knows no bounds, apparently.
How Garlic Can Save Your Life

Sayer Ji, Green Med Info
Research on garlic indicates that it may provide an ideal
low-cost and safe alternative to drugs and vaccines in reducing the
three most common causes of death in the world.
In a world mesmerized by the false promises of pharmaceutical
industry marketing copy, as well as inundated with aggressively marketed
dietary supplements, many of which are manufactured by the same
companies making a killing off patented chemicals (Bayer owns One A Day,
Pfizer owns Centrum), it is reassuring to know that the kitchen pantry will never fail us…
Inexpensive, time-tested, safe and delicious, many
spices are attaining recognition for being, quite literally, ‘life
saving,’ which is likely one reason why, in ancient times, many were
worth their weight in gold.
This time around, the health benefits of ancient ‘folk remedies’ like
garlic are being confirmed by straight-laced men and women in lab
coats. Which, when it comes to the conventional medical establishment,
blighted as it is by the epistemological disease known as myopia, is
considered the only valid way to ascertain the truth. Never mind the
countless millions of people who, since the beginning of time, have used
a different standard of proof: if it works and it is safe, then its true.
We all
know that garlic is not shy to make its presence known. The smallest
culinary dose is enough to suffuse the entire body with its aroma.
Garlic also permeates the research literature: the biomedical database
known as MEDLINE, provided by the National Library of Medicine,
contains 4245 study abstracts on garlic, a number of which we have indexed and organized for your use on our site: Health Benefits of Garlic.
A cursory perusal of the literature there indicates that garlic has a
significant role to play in preventing or treating well over 150 health
conditions, ranging from cancer to diabetes, infection to plaque
buildup in the arteries, DNA damage to mercury poisoning.
In fact, a strong argument can be made (pun intended) that expanding
the availability of garlic around the world as both a food and a
medicine could prevent millions of deaths annually.
According to World
Health Organization statistics, the populations of poorer countries die
manly from causes directly connected to communicable infectious
diseases, which incidentally are not caused by a lack of vaccines,
rather, primarily through under-nutrition and malnourishment, lack of
sanitation and hygiene, as well as the adverse physiological
consequences of the depression and stress associated with poverty. The
greater use and availability of garlic might provide a perfect
alternative to global vaccine initiatives, the use of which are driven
less by compelling scientific research, and more by political and
economic forces. Garlic is easier to acquire and distribute, and can
often be grown by the affected persons or communities affected, making
it essentially free.
Garlic Versus #1 Cause of Death for the Poorest Countries
As far as the research goes, garlic has immensely powerful
anti-infective properties, experimentally confirmed to kill the
following:
- Thrush (Fungal overgrowth in oral cavity)[3]
- Pseudomonas Aerigonosima, including drug-resistant strains.[4][5][6]
- Cytomegalavirus Infections[7] [8] [9] [10]
- Mycotoxin-associated aflatoxicosis[11] [12]
- Helicobacter Pylori infection[13]
- Candida (Yeast) infection[14] [15] [16]
- Klebseilla infection[17] [18]
- HIV-1 infection[19] [20]
- Vibrio infection [21] [22]
- Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, multi-drug resistant[23]
- Clostridium infections[24]
- Viral Infections: Herpes Simplex 1 and 2, Parainfluenza virus type 3, vaccinia virus, vesicular stomatitis virus and human rhinovirus type 2.
- Group B Streptococcus Infection[25] [26]
This is an impressive smattering of research, but it is likely only
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to garlic’s ability to fight
infection. Remember, a lack of scientific proof does imply a lack of
efficacy. Given that conventional antibiotics are not only failing, but
driving bacteria and viruses into greater lethality, we can’t wait
around for the multi-billion dollar clinical trial-based drug approval
process to turn its attention to a non-patentable natural substance.
Such a profit-oriented approach would be highly unethical.
Garlic Versus the Developed World’s #1 and #2 Killers
The research on Greenmedinfo.com shows garlic has value in 167 health
conditions or disease symptoms, but the greatest density of research
indicates garlic’s role in preventing and/or treatingCardiovascular Disease and Cancers, the two primary causes of death within high-income countries.[27]
This is an interesting finding. The drug industry has been
fantasizing about a so-called ‘polypill’ for quite some time, an idea
involving mixing various patented medicines together for a condition
like heart disease (e.g. blood pressure, cholesterol, blood thinner),
but to no avail. Patented chemicals have far too many side effects, so
when you mix them together, you only compound their multitudinous
chemical toxicities. Natural substances, on the other hand, and
especially those which play a role in culinary traditions as “spices,”
appear to have the opposite karma. Namely, they have far more ‘side
benefits’ than ‘side effects.’
Garlic’s cardioprotective effects include:
- Retards progression of arterial plaque[28] [29] [30]
- Beneficially decreases white adipose tissue, increases white adipose tissue around heart muscle.[31]
- Protects against clotting[32] [33]
- Positively modulates blood lipids[34],[35],[36]
- Vasodilator[37]
- Reduces blood pressure[38]
- Antioxidant[39]
- Endothelial Dysfunction[40] [41]
- Vascular Inflammation[42]
Here is a quick review of the cancers that garlic has been found to kill:
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia[43]
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia[44]
- Basal Cell Carcinoma[45]
- Breast Cancer[46],[47]
- Cervical Cancer[48]
- Colon Cancer[49]
- Endometrial Cancer[50] [51]
- Gastric Cancer[52] [53]
- Leukemia: Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)[54]
- Liver Cancer[55] [56] [57] [58]
- Lymphoma[59] [60]
- Melanoma[61
- Osteosarcoma[62]
- Pancreatic Cancer[63]
Garlic, like so many other complex foods, contains a wide range of
phytocompounds that articulate at least 150 distinct physiological
responses in the mammalian body (see our 157 pharmacological actions
list on the Garlic Research page).
How can this be so?
One explanation is that all foods contain not only physical building
blocks, e.g. carbs, proteins, lipids, and are not only a source of
energy (caloric content), but contain gene and epigene regulatory
information. There are ‘packets’ of energy and information contained
within the conformational state of the biomolecules found within these
plant tissues. Our co-evolution with the plant kingdom for the past half
a billion years has resulted in the very genetic/molecular fabric of
our body depending on certain key compounds from plants in our diet,
delivered in natural form, not irradiated, overly-cooked,
petrochemically-farmed. Garlic’s ability to fit like a key, into many
different types of locks (an impossible feat for monochemical ‘magic
bullets’), reflects an likely infinitely complex intelligence in the
relationship between plant and animal species. Which speaks to how
important foods are not simply as ‘medicine,’ but that from which our
bodily health grows organically, and without which disease is a natural
consequence.
About the Author
Sayer Ji is an author, researcher, lecturer, and advisory board member of the National Health Federation.
He founded Greenmedinfo.com in 2008 in order to provide the world an
open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative
modalities. It is internationally recognized as the largest and most
widely referenced health resource of its kind.
Top 10 Worst Cereals
[Source] Would you eat a Hostess Twinkie for breakfast? How about feeding your
children three Chips Ahoy! cookies for their first meal of the day? Environmental Working Group
(EWG) reviewed 84 popular brands of children’s breakfast cereal and
found that the most dastardly of the bunch packs more sugar than a
Twinkie, while the rest of the wretches have more sugar than three
chocolate chip cookies. Sweet mercy, is it any wonder that childhood
obesity has reached epidemic proportions?
EWG explains that Congress formed the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children to propose standards to Congress to curb marketing of kids’ foods with too much sugar, salt and fat; yet only one in four children’s cereals meets the government panel’s voluntary proposed guidelines, which recommend no more than 26 percent added sugar by weight. Translated, that means three out of four children’s cereals are more than 1/4 sugar by weight, with the worst cereals exceeding 1/2 of their weight in sugar. Imagine eating one cup of plain oatmeal, and a half a cup of sugar on the side. It’s so outrageous.
It’s data like this which makes it impossible to ignore how little regard big food manufacturers have for our well being. The tens of billions of dollars spent on brainwashing kids (and parents) into wanting and eating food that is half sugar, in the face of the dwindling health of our children. Amazing. So hats off to EWG for tackling this sticky situation and bringing awareness to what seems nearly criminal.
And with that said, here are the top ten to avoid based on their sugar content by weight, number one being the worst of all.
10. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Original
Sugar by weight: 41.4%
There’s a reason they use the term “Froot” rather than Fruit. These loops get their “frootiness” from red 40, blue 2, yellow 6, and blue 1–very little actual fruit in the forecast.
Noted NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle puts it best: “Cereal companies have spent fortunes on convincing parents that a kid’s breakfast means cereal, and that sugary cereals are fun, benign, and all kids will eat,” she said, “The cereals on the EWG highest-sugar list are among the most profitable for their makers, who back up their investment with advertising budgets of $20 million a year or more. No public health agency has anywhere near the education budget equivalent to that spent on a single cereal. Kids should not be eating sugar for breakfast. They should be eating real food.”
9. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries
Sugar by weight: 42.3%
About one in five American children is obese, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has reported that childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years. Many have noted that rapidly increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes in today’s children will lead them to be the first generation in American history to have shorter lifespans than their parents.
8. Kellogg’s Apple Jacks
Sugar by weight: 42.9%
Johnny Appleseed is turning in his grave.
Many people know that ingredients are listed in order from most to least and we’ll look to see where, say, sugars or fats are listed in the order. But, ingredient groups aren’t required to be listed together. So, for example, an item could contain corn syrup, cane sugar, and fructose in seemingly minor quantities toward the bottom of the list–but if you combined them together in a general group of “sugar,” they quickly move to the top.
7. Kellogg’s Smorz
Sugar by weight: 43.3%
Dessert, it’s not just for after dinner anymore. In fact, it’s breakfast. Would you actually feed your child a s’more for breakfast?
Most children’s cereals fail to meet the federal government’s proposed voluntary guidelines for foods nutritious enough to be marketed to children. Sugar is the top problem, but many also contain too much sodium or fat or not enough whole grain.
6. Quaker Oats Oh!s
Sugar by weight: 44.4%
Oh!s, as in, Oh! my tight pants, and Oh! my diabetes.
A product may boast that it is “made with” or “contains” whole grains, but that doesn’t mean that whole grains make up the bulk of it. Many grain-based junk food items are predominantly made with refined grains, with a spattering of whole grains thrown in for labeling credibility. Check to see where on the ingredient list the word “whole” is. If the first ingredient is “whole” wheat flour (or other grain), you’re in luck. If it’s way down the list, you’ve been punked.
5. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch Original
Sugar by weight: 44.4%
A study by the Rudd Center of Food Policy at Yale found that cross-promotion with characters, celebrities, toys and movie giveaways targeted at children and teens increased by 78 percent from 2006 to 2008–and only 18 percent of products examined met accepted nutrition standards for foods sold to youth.
4. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries
Sugar by weight: 46.9%
Otherwise known as, Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! No Berries. What the fudge? Berries?
$3 billion annually goes to packaging designed for children. If you have ever seen a 3-year old faced with the choice between a wholesome cereal in a plain yellow box versus a bright rainbow box emblazoned with princesses, I think you’ll know that that $3 billion is being spent effectively.
3. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Marshmallow
Sugar by weight: 48.3%
For those who don’t find Froot Loops quite sweet enough, now you can get it with marshmallows! Fortunately, they’re fruit shaped–that’s almost like eating real fruit, right? And hey, it’s a “good source of vitamin D.”
According to EWG, studies suggest that children who eat breakfasts that are high in sugar have more problems at school. They become more frustrated and have a harder time working independently than kids who eat lower-sugar breakfasts. By lunchtime they have less energy, are hungrier, show attention deficits and make more mistakes on their work.
2. Post Golden Crisp
Sugar by weight: 51.9%
Cereal companies spend more money than any other packaged food category in marketing their products to children ($229 million in 2006), which is why we may be more familiar with Post Fruity Pebbles, a pretty severe offender, than the same company’s Post Shredded Wheat Spoon Size Wheat ‘n Bran, one of the best cereal choices.
1. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks
Sugar by weight: 55.6%
Smacks you right in the BMI, that is; 55.6% of this cereal’s weight is sugar!
Nutrition expert Marion Nestle recommends: Cereals with a short ingredient list (added vitamins and minerals are okay). Cereals high in fiber. Cereals with little or no added sugars (added sugars are ingredients such as honey, molasses, fruit juice concentrate, brown sugar, corn sweetener, sucrose, lactose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup and malt syrup).
Source: care2.com
EWG explains that Congress formed the federal Interagency Working Group on Food Marketed to Children to propose standards to Congress to curb marketing of kids’ foods with too much sugar, salt and fat; yet only one in four children’s cereals meets the government panel’s voluntary proposed guidelines, which recommend no more than 26 percent added sugar by weight. Translated, that means three out of four children’s cereals are more than 1/4 sugar by weight, with the worst cereals exceeding 1/2 of their weight in sugar. Imagine eating one cup of plain oatmeal, and a half a cup of sugar on the side. It’s so outrageous.
It’s data like this which makes it impossible to ignore how little regard big food manufacturers have for our well being. The tens of billions of dollars spent on brainwashing kids (and parents) into wanting and eating food that is half sugar, in the face of the dwindling health of our children. Amazing. So hats off to EWG for tackling this sticky situation and bringing awareness to what seems nearly criminal.
And with that said, here are the top ten to avoid based on their sugar content by weight, number one being the worst of all.
10. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Original
Sugar by weight: 41.4%
There’s a reason they use the term “Froot” rather than Fruit. These loops get their “frootiness” from red 40, blue 2, yellow 6, and blue 1–very little actual fruit in the forecast.
Noted NYU nutrition professor Marion Nestle puts it best: “Cereal companies have spent fortunes on convincing parents that a kid’s breakfast means cereal, and that sugary cereals are fun, benign, and all kids will eat,” she said, “The cereals on the EWG highest-sugar list are among the most profitable for their makers, who back up their investment with advertising budgets of $20 million a year or more. No public health agency has anywhere near the education budget equivalent to that spent on a single cereal. Kids should not be eating sugar for breakfast. They should be eating real food.”
9. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries
Sugar by weight: 42.3%
About one in five American children is obese, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has reported that childhood obesity has tripled over the past 30 years. Many have noted that rapidly increasing rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes in today’s children will lead them to be the first generation in American history to have shorter lifespans than their parents.
8. Kellogg’s Apple Jacks
Sugar by weight: 42.9%
Johnny Appleseed is turning in his grave.
Many people know that ingredients are listed in order from most to least and we’ll look to see where, say, sugars or fats are listed in the order. But, ingredient groups aren’t required to be listed together. So, for example, an item could contain corn syrup, cane sugar, and fructose in seemingly minor quantities toward the bottom of the list–but if you combined them together in a general group of “sugar,” they quickly move to the top.
7. Kellogg’s Smorz
Sugar by weight: 43.3%
Dessert, it’s not just for after dinner anymore. In fact, it’s breakfast. Would you actually feed your child a s’more for breakfast?
Most children’s cereals fail to meet the federal government’s proposed voluntary guidelines for foods nutritious enough to be marketed to children. Sugar is the top problem, but many also contain too much sodium or fat or not enough whole grain.
6. Quaker Oats Oh!s
Sugar by weight: 44.4%
Oh!s, as in, Oh! my tight pants, and Oh! my diabetes.
A product may boast that it is “made with” or “contains” whole grains, but that doesn’t mean that whole grains make up the bulk of it. Many grain-based junk food items are predominantly made with refined grains, with a spattering of whole grains thrown in for labeling credibility. Check to see where on the ingredient list the word “whole” is. If the first ingredient is “whole” wheat flour (or other grain), you’re in luck. If it’s way down the list, you’ve been punked.
5. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch Original
Sugar by weight: 44.4%
A study by the Rudd Center of Food Policy at Yale found that cross-promotion with characters, celebrities, toys and movie giveaways targeted at children and teens increased by 78 percent from 2006 to 2008–and only 18 percent of products examined met accepted nutrition standards for foods sold to youth.
4. Quaker Oats Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! All Berries
Sugar by weight: 46.9%
Otherwise known as, Cap’n Crunch’s OOPS! No Berries. What the fudge? Berries?
$3 billion annually goes to packaging designed for children. If you have ever seen a 3-year old faced with the choice between a wholesome cereal in a plain yellow box versus a bright rainbow box emblazoned with princesses, I think you’ll know that that $3 billion is being spent effectively.
3. Kellogg’s Froot Loops Marshmallow
Sugar by weight: 48.3%
For those who don’t find Froot Loops quite sweet enough, now you can get it with marshmallows! Fortunately, they’re fruit shaped–that’s almost like eating real fruit, right? And hey, it’s a “good source of vitamin D.”
According to EWG, studies suggest that children who eat breakfasts that are high in sugar have more problems at school. They become more frustrated and have a harder time working independently than kids who eat lower-sugar breakfasts. By lunchtime they have less energy, are hungrier, show attention deficits and make more mistakes on their work.
2. Post Golden Crisp
Sugar by weight: 51.9%
Cereal companies spend more money than any other packaged food category in marketing their products to children ($229 million in 2006), which is why we may be more familiar with Post Fruity Pebbles, a pretty severe offender, than the same company’s Post Shredded Wheat Spoon Size Wheat ‘n Bran, one of the best cereal choices.
1. Kellogg’s Honey Smacks
Sugar by weight: 55.6%
Smacks you right in the BMI, that is; 55.6% of this cereal’s weight is sugar!
Nutrition expert Marion Nestle recommends: Cereals with a short ingredient list (added vitamins and minerals are okay). Cereals high in fiber. Cereals with little or no added sugars (added sugars are ingredients such as honey, molasses, fruit juice concentrate, brown sugar, corn sweetener, sucrose, lactose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup and malt syrup).
Source: care2.com
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?
President met with anti-Tea Party IRS union chief the day before agency targeted Tea Party.
Jeffrey Lord spectator.org
May 20, 2013
Jeffrey Lord spectator.org
May 20, 2013
“For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House
Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?
The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts.
March 31, 2010.
According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report,
the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union,
Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon
time of March 31st.
The White House lists the IRS union leader’s visit this way:
Kelley, Colleen Potus 03/31/2010 12:30
In White House language, “POTUS” stands for “President of the United States.”
The very next day after her White House meeting with the President,
according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS
employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in
earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America.
The IG report wrote it up this way:
April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit, suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.
In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly
anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with
President Obama, the manager of the IRS
“Determinations Unit Program
agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.” As
stated by the IG report.
The NTEU is the 150,000 member union that represents IRS employees
along with 30 other separate government agencies. Kelley herself is a
14-year IRS veteran agent. The union’s PAC endorsed President Obama in
both 2008 and 2012, and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 2010 and 2012 election cycles to anti-Tea Party candidates.
Putting IRS employees in the position of actively financing anti-Tea
Party candidates themselves, while in their official positions in the
IRS blocking, auditing, or intimidating Tea Party and conservative
groups around the country.
The IG report contained a timeline prepared by examining internal IRS
e-mails. The IG report did not examine White House Visitor Logs,
e-mails, or phone records relating to the relationship between the IRS
union, the IRS, and the White House.
In fact, this record in the White House Visitors Log of a 12:30
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 meeting between President Obama and the IRS
union’s Kelley was not unusual.
On yet another occasion, Kelley’s presence at the White House was
followed shortly afterwards by the President issuing Executive Order
13522. A presidential directive that gave the anti-Tea Party NTEU — the
IRS union — a greater role in the day-to-day operation of the IRS than
it had already — which was considerable.
Kelley is recorded as visiting the White House over a year earlier, listed in this fashion:
Read the full article here.
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