Last night, my friend and I were sitting in the living room and I said to
her, “I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some
machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the
plug.”

She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out my wine.

She’s such a bitch……..

As kids head to class again, pharmaceutical companies are ramping up their drug marketing.

We need to ramp up informing parents across the country about the mental screening trap.

Please, send this message to everyone you know and urge them to do the same:

I am writing to you on an important matter. There is a psychiatric / pharmaceutical plan to “”suicide screen”" every child in the United States before they graduate from high school. Evidence exists that shows massive pharmaceutical backing that will result in even more overdrugging of kids with psychiatric drugs .

Can you take a moment to view this very short video? Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfU9puZQKBY

And then sign and forward this petition http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html to your associates and everyone you know? It already has over 22,500 signatures.

Hey folks,

I am making a bid to be an active Artist on MyRecordLabel.net and I need your help to vote me in.

MyRecordLabel.net does not let any Artist onto their site. My Record Label is for determined independent artists who make their career a high priority and not just a hobby.

MyRecordLabel.net approved my application, and I have been placed in the voting polls. Simply go to: http://myrecordlabel.net/vote.php and vote me onto the site. Scroll down and find me in the list and vote for me every 24 hours. You can also find me in the Americana category and vote at: http://www.myrecordlabel.net/vote.php?genre_id=46

Thanks in advance for your vote and support!

Sincerely,
Ron
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Ron Rutherford
Rarestar Music
Rarestar Records
Los Angeles, CA, USA
www.ronrutherford.com
www.cdbaby.com/ronrutherford
www.myspace.com/rarestar

http://blog.myspace.com/rarestar

“I have recently read the Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz. I also read the Good Husband, also by Koontz. Here are some other books that I have read or I am currently reading:

Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard

Watership Down

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Lost Boys by Orsen Scott Card

Empire by Orsen Scott Card

Happy Reading! Much Love, Jen Nickerson

Yeah. Especially when it doesn’t work.

Check out my cool friend’s website: http://www.jorjeana.com/news/

I have known Jorjeana for about 8 years now. Soon you will know her, too! Just wait for those devilishly green eyes to appear on a stage or tv near you!

Just in case you were wondering, I am the evil twin!

Love,
Jen Nickerson

I gotta tell you, this gas price hike thing is really beginning to torque me off! And I’m bad. I mean it. I’m evil to the core.

I had to fill up the car with gas this morning – I still had about a fourth of a tank left but I don’t like to let it get too low. So I pulled up to Kum & Go and almost gagged when I saw the price per gallon! $3.14.9???? Excuse me??? I ripped the hard, long nozzle off the hook, plunged it into the round, wet orifice on the side of my car, and pumped hard. The cost of this quick screw was $42.75. This is when I transformed from Ms. Jekyll to Ms. Hyde. I didn’t mean to – it just happened.

I walked into Kum & Go and stood in line. Only one cashier stood behind the counter, a young girl I had never seen before. My turn to bleed at the alter came and I stepped up to the counter, head bowed, debit card at my side.

“I got gas on #4. Put that on my ‘WE KUM & KUM – YOU GO BROKE’ account, OK?”

“Your what account, ma’am?’

“You know . . . the new easy payment plan you people have for gas purchases now.”

She glanced around uneasily, looking for a manager – he must have been in the back cooking breakfast sandwiches or something because nobody showed up to help her out.

“Ma’am, I don’t think we have a payment plan like that.”

“Sure you do. I signed up for it online just last week. All I had to do was sign over one paycheck per month and I’m allowed to fill my tank twice during the following month – kind of a pre-pay plan.”

She finally caught on – bright girl.

“Ohhhhhhh . . . Well, ma’am, according to our accounts, you’ve already used up your tank allotment for this month.”

“Oh, maaaannnn . . . what am I going to do? I guess I’ll have to give you my bank card and hope like heck that it doesn’t overdraw my account. My husband got paid yesterday – gosh, I hope it’s enough!”

“Will that be debit or credit, ma’am?”

“Both.”

How food manufacturers trick consumers with deceptive ingredients lists
by Mike Adams

The myth: Ingredients lists on food products are designed to inform
consumers about what’s contained in the product. The reality: ingredients
lists are used by food manufacturers to deceive consumers and trick them
into thinking products are healthier (or better quality) than they really
are. This article explores the most common deceptions used by food
manufacturers to trick consumers with food ingredients lists. It also
contains useful tips for helping consumers read such labels with the
proper skepticism.

Deceiving consumers: Tricks of the food trade
If the Nutrition Facts section on food packaging list all the substances
that go into a food product, how can they deceive consumers? Here are a
few of the most common ways:
One of the most common tricks is to distribute sugars among many
ingredients so that sugars don’t appear in the top three. For example, a manufacturer may use a combination of sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, brown sugar, dextrose and other sugar ingredients to make sure none of them are present in large enough quantities to attain a top position on the ingredients list (remember, the ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in the food, with the most common ingredients listed first).

This fools consumers into thinking the food product isn’t really made
mostly of sugar while, in reality, the majority ingredients could all be
different forms of sugar. It’s a way to artificially shift sugar farther down the ingredients list and thereby misinform consumers about the sugar content of the whole product.

Another trick is to pad the list with miniscule amounts of great-sounding
ingredients. You see this in personal care products and shampoo, too,
where companies claim to offer “”herbal”" shampoos that have practically no
detectable levels of real herbs in them. In foods, companies pad the
ingredients lists with healthy-sounding berries, herbs or superfoods that
are often only present in miniscule amounts. Having “”spirulina”" appear at
the end of the ingredients list is practically meaningless. There’s not
enough spirulina in the food to have any real effect on your health. This
trick is called “”label padding”" and it’s commonly used by junk food
manufacturers who want to jump on the health food bandwagon without
actually producing healthy foods.

Hiding dangerous ingredients
A third trick involves hiding dangerous ingredients behind
innocent-sounding names that fool consumers into thinking they’re safe. The highly carcinogenic ingredient sodium nitrite, for example, sounds perfectly innocent, but it is well documented to cause brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and many other cancers (just search Google Scholar for sodium nitrite to see a long list of supporting research, or click here to read NewsTarget articles on sodium nitrite).

Carmine sounds like an innocent food coloring, but it’s actually made
from the smashed bodies of red cochineal beetles. Of course, nobody would eat strawberry yogurt if the ingredients listed, “”Insect-based red food
coloring”" on the label, so instead, they just call it “”carmine.”"

Similarly, yeast extract sounds like a perfect safe food ingredient, too,
but it’s actually a trick used to hide monosodium glutamate (MSG, a
chemical taste enhancer used to excite the flavors of overly-processed foods) without having to list MSG on the label. Lots of ingredients contain hidden MSG, and I’ve written extensively about them on this site. Virtually all hydrolyzed or autolyzed ingredients contain some amount of hidden MSG.

Don’t be fooled by the name of the product
Did you know that the name of the food product has nothing to do with
what’s in it? Brand-name food companies make products like “”Guacamole Dip”" that contains no avocado! Instead, they’re made with hydrogenated soybean oil and artificial green coloring chemicals. But gullible consumers keep on buying these products, thinking they’re getting avocado dip when, in reality, they’re buying green-colored, yummy-tasting dietary poison.

Food names can include words that describe ingredients not found in the
food at all. A “”cheese”" cracker, for example, doesn’t have to contain any
cheese. A “”creamy”" something doesn’t have to contain cream. A “”fruit”" product need not contain even a single molecule of fruit. Don’t be fooled by product names printed on the packaging. These names are designed to sell products, not to accurately describe the ingredients contained in the package.

Ingredients lists don’t include contaminants
There is no requirement for food ingredients lists to include the names
of chemical contaminants, heavy metals, bisphenol-A, PCBs, perchlorate or
other toxic substances found in the food. As a result, ingredients lists don’t really list what’s actually in the food, they only list what the
manufacturer wants you to believe is in the food.

This is by design, of course. Requirements for listing food ingredients
were created by a joint effort between the government and private industry
(food corporations). In the beginning, food corporations didn’t want to be required to list any ingredients at all. They claimed the ingredients
were “”proprietary knowledge”" and that listing them would destroy their
business by disclosing their secret manufacturing recipes. It’s all nonsense, of course, since food companies primarily want to keep consumers ignorant of what’s really in their products. That’s why there is still no requirement to list various chemical contaminants, pesticides, heavy metals and other substances that have a direct and substantial impact on the health of consumers. (For years, food companies fought hard against the listing of trans fatty acids, too, and it was only after a massive public health outcry by consumer health groups that the FDA finally forced food companies to include trans fats on the label.)

Manipulating serving sizes
Food companies have also figured out how to manipulate the serving size
of foods in order to make it appear that their products are devoid of
harmful ingredients like trans fatty acids. The FDA, you see, created a loophole for reporting trans fatty acids on the label: Any food containing 0.5 grams or less of trans fatty acids per serving is allowed to claim ZERO trans fats on the label. That’s FDA logic for you, where 0.5 = 0. But fuzzy math isn’t the only game played by the FDA to protect the commercial interests of the industry it claims to regulate.

Exploiting this 0.5 gram loophole, companies arbitrarily reduce the
serving sizes of their foods to ridiculous levels — just enough to bring the trans fats down to 0.5 grams per serving. Then they loudly proclaim on the front of the box, “”ZERO Trans Fats!”" In reality, the product may be loaded with trans fats (found in hydrogenated oils), but the serving size has been reduced to a weight that might only be appropriate for feeding a ground squirrel, not a human being.

The next time you pick up a grocery product, checking out the “”No. of
servings”" line in the Nutrition Facts box. You’ll likely find some
ridiculously high number there that has nothing to do with reality. A
cookie manufacturer, for example, might claim that one cookie is an entire “”serving”" of cookies. But do you know anyone who actually eats just one cookie? If one cookie contains 0.5 grams of trans fatty acids, the manufacturer can claim the entire package of cookies is “”Trans Fat FREE!”" In reality, however, the package might contain 30 cookies, each with 0.5 grams of trans fats, which comes out to 15 grams total in the package (but that assumes people can actually do math, which is of course made all the more difficult by the fact that hydrogenated oils actually harm the brain. But trust me: 30 cookies x 0.5 grams per cookie really does come out to 15 grams total).

This is how you get a package of cookies containing 15 grams of trans
fats (which is a huge dose of dietary poison) while claiming to contain ZERO grams. Again, it’s just another example of how food companies use
Nutrition Facts and ingredients lists to deceive, not inform, consumers.

Here are some additional tips for successfully decoding ingredients list labels:

Tips for reading ingredients labels

1. Remember that ingredients are listed in order of their proportion in
the product. This means the first 3 ingredients matter far more than anything else. The top 3 ingredients are what you’re primarily eating.

2. If the ingredients list contains long, chemical-sounding words that
you can’t pronounce, avoid that item. It likely does contain various toxic chemicals. Why would you want to eat them? Stick with ingredients you recognize.

3. Don’t be fooled by fancy-sounding herbs or other ingredients that
appear very far down the list. Some food manufacturer that includes “”goji
berries”" towards the end of the list is probably just using it as a marketing gimmick on the label. The actual amount of goji berries in the product is likely miniscule.

4. Remember that ingredients lists don’t have to list chemical
contaminants. Foods can be contaminated with pesticides, solvents, acrylamides, PFOA, perchlorate (rocket fuel) and other toxic chemicals without needing to list them at all. The best way to minimize your ingestion of toxic chemicals is to buy organic, or go with fresh, minimally-processed foods.

5. Look for words like “”sprouted”" or “”raw”" to indicate higher-quality
natural foods. Sprouted grains and seeds are far healthier than
non-sprouted. Raw ingredients are generally healthier than processed or
cooked. Whole grains are healthier than “”enriched”" grains.

6. Don’t be fooled by the word “”wheat”" when it comes to flour. All flour
derived from wheat can be called “”wheat flour,”" even if it is processed,
bleached and stripped of its nutrition. Only “”whole grain wheat flour”" is
a healthful form of wheat flour. (Many consumers mistakenly believe that
“”wheat flour”" products are whole grain products. In fact, this is not
true. Food manufacturers fool consumers with this trick.)

7. Don’t be fooled into thinking that brown products are healthier than
white products. Brown sugar is a gimmick — it’s just white sugar with
brown coloring and flavoring added. Brown eggs are no different than white eggs (except for the fact that their shells appear brown). Brown bread may be no healthier than white bread, either, unless it’s made with whole grains. Don’t be tricked by “”brown”" foods. These are just gimmicks used by food giants to fool consumers into paying more for manufactured food products.

8. Watch out for deceptively small serving sizes. Food manufacturers use
this trick to reduce the number of calories, grams of sugar or grams of
fat believed to be in the food by consumers. Many serving sizes are arbitrary and have no basis in reality.

9. Want to know how to really shop for foods? Download our free Honest
Food Guide, the honest reference to foods that has now been downloaded by over 800,000 people. It’s a replacement for the USDA’s highly corrupt and
manipulated Food Guide Pyramid, which is little more than a marketing
document for the dairy industry and big food corporations. The Honest
Food Guide is an independent, nutritionally-sound reference document that
reveals exactly what to eat (and what to avoid) to maximize your health.

What would happen if you had to buy your car from a company that
operated in the same way as the pharmaceutical industries?

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, came up with 15 unsettling changes
that would occur.

Cost
—-
Your car would cost $4.5 million, a 30,000 percent markup over
cost.

The same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less than
$5,000.

Dealing with Competition
————————
Meanwhile, automakers would be lobbying Congress to outlaw bicycles
and airplanes, just as the drug companies try to do with herbs and
nutritional supplements.

All auto imports would be banned. If you drove a Toyota down from
Canada, you would be arrested.

Car dealers would be bribed with money, free vacations, free food,
and free cars by automobile sales representatives to push certain
cars.

Safety
——
Cars with no seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, or other safety
systems would be declared perfectly safe by the FDA, which would
instead focus on the dangers of bicycles.

Driver’s Ed programs would be cancelled nationwide, and people
would be encouraged to buy new cars rather than repair damaged ones
or avoid accidents in the first place.

Safety tests showing that cars were dangerous would be buried, and
scientists who produced such results would be prevented from ever
conducting car safety tests again.

After being sued by customers injured in the cars with no safety
systems, automakers would further lobby Congress to pass laws
protecting car companies against class-action lawsuits.

Any federally mandated warnings about car safety problems would be
printed in small type on a tiny label hidden under the driver’s
seat.

Driving certain cars would cause side effects like loss of sex
drive or full-body muscle pain.

Advertising
———–
Car companies would heavily promote new models each year, which
would be no different from the ones they were selling 30 years ago.

Car companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or more
cars.

Automobile advertising would be filled with pictures of happy,
healthy, energetic drivers, but the cars would break down
constantly, fail to perform as promised, and quickly stop working.

Cars would be sold to you with extra features like a sunroof, air
conditioning, or a navigational system, but when the car arrived
none of these features would be included, just as drug companies
exaggerate the “”multiple health benefits”" of their products.

This helps you kinda get a handle on the thinking the big drug
guys and their profit machine think.

23 Mar 2007 — Youth for Human Rights: Forging a Bridge of Understanding and Tolerance

Despite all our resources in the 21st Century, as you read these words, some 20 armed conflicts are being waged on Earth.

Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) publishes materials to educate youth all over the world, such as these youngsters in Monrovia, Liberia, who formed their own chapter of YHRI.

According to U.S. government estimates, between 600,000 and 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders each year, with millions more forced, duped, or coerced into slavery within their own borders.

Of all the rights laid out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, war and slavery are likely the worst violations, yet they are still with us, despite the Universal Declaration’s endorsement by the entire United Nations General Assembly, 58 years ago in 1948.

It is the firm belief of Youth for Human Rights International that education is the key to making these rights a reality for everyone. And to accomplish this they have created a series of educational materials that appeal to youth of all nations and are simple enough to convey the meaning of each of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. One example is the booklet Know Your Human Rights.

Each time this booklet is translated into a new language it enables these concepts to permeate a whole new segment of our global community. Which is why Youth for Human Rights International is so happy to announce the translation of Know Your Human Rights into two new languages: Serbian and Esperanto.

Human rights violations were at the root of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s, which cost hundreds of thousand of lives and left more than a million homeless. So the translation of Know Your Human Rights into Serbian is a milestone, as with human rights education we can prevent such a cataclysm from ever occurring again.