text: This is a list i got from my vet.... Plus there is a great link at the bottom of here to,as there is alot more info about other things..... Common Foods That Are Harmful Or Even Fatal to Dogs Avocados (fruit, pip, and plant) are toxic to dogs. They can cause difficulty breathing; fluid accumulation in the chest, abdomen and heart; or pancreatitis. Onions destroy red blood cells and can cause anemia, weakness, and breathing difficulty. Even small amounts can cause cumulative damage over time. This includes onions or chives - raw, powdered, dehydrated, or cooked. Garlic in large amounts cause the same problems as onions. Grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure in dogs. As little as a single serving of raisins can kill him. If the dog doesn't eat enough at one time to be fatal, he can be severely damaged by eating just a few grapes or raisins regularly. Tomatoes can cause tremors and heart arrhythmias. Tomato plants and the most toxic, but tomatoes themselves are also unsafe. (All parts of the plant except the tomato itself are also poisonous to humans. Nutmeg can cause tremors, seizures and death. Caffeine (from coffee, coffee grounds, tea, or tea bags) stimulates the central nervous and cardiac systems, and can cause vomiting, restlessness, heart palpitations, and even death within hours. Xylitol Diet products containing the sweetener can cause a sudden drop in blood sugar, resulting in depression, loss of coordination and seizures. Unless treatment is given quickly, the dog could die. :Macadamia nuts can cause weakness, muscle tremor and paralysis. These symptoms are usually temporary. :Walnuts are poisonous to dogs, a type of fungus common to walnuts (especially wet deadfall walnuts) will cause severe episodes of seizuring :Chocolate can cause seizures, coma and death. Bakers chocolate is the most dangerous. The darker the chocolate, the more dangerous it is. But any chocolate, in large enough amounts, can kill a dog. An ounce of chocolate can poison a 30-pound dog, and many dogs will happily consume more than this. The symptoms may not show up for several hours (and so might make you think all is well), with death following within twenty-four hours. A dog can consume milk chocolate and appear to be fine because it is not as concentrated, but it is still dangerous. :Apple seeds, cherry pips, peach pips, pear pips, plum pips, peaches and apricot pips contain cyanide, which is poisonous. :Salt in high amounts can cause kidney problems. Also, large breeds of dogs that eat salty food may then drink too much water and develop bloat, which is fatal unless emergency treatment is given very quickly. Fat or fried foods can cause pancreatitis. :Ham and bacon contain too much fat and too much salt, and can cause pancreatitis. Also, large breeds of dogs that eat salty food may drink too much water and develop a life-threatening condition called bloat. This is where the stomach fills up with gas and within several hours may twist, causing death. :Raw liver or too much cooked liver (three servings a week) can lead to vitamin A toxicity. This can cause deformed bones, excessive bone growth on the elbows and spine, weight loss, and anorexia. Check the label of your canned dog food to be sure that it does not contain liver if you are giving your dog liver also. :Wild mushrooms can cause abdominal pain, drooling, liver damage, kidney damage, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, coma, or death. :Raw egg whites contain a protein called avidin, which can deplete your dog of biotin, one of the B vitamins. Biotin is essential to your dogs growth and coat health. The lack of it can cause hair loss, weakness, growth retardation, or skeleton deformity. Raw egg yolks contain enough biotin to prevent the deficiency, so this is not a problem with raw whole eggs. Raw egg yolks could contain salmonella, so you should get your eggs from a reliable source or cook the eggs. :Grains should not be given in large amounts or make up a large part of a dogs diet, but rice is generally safe in small amounts. :Cooked bones can splinter and tear a dogs internal organs. Some Vegetables are undigestable (green beans, sweetcorn, lettuce, potatoes or yams) whole or in large pieces,Potato peels and green potatoes are dangerous. Dairy products are high in fat, which can cause pancreatitis, gas and diarrhea. A small amount of non-fat, plain yogurt is usually safe. Pennies/Coins made from the 1980s todate contain zinc, which can cause kidney failure and damage to red blood cells. A dog that consumes even one penny can become quite sick, or even die, if the penny is not removed. Got this list from my Vet,Hope it helps and keeps our babes safe ... GREAT LINK to FIND MORE,,, ASPCA: Animal Poison Control Center: Toxic Plants


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By Sunday morning my voice sounded like Lindsay Lohan in rehab.
How did I get like this?
Oh, I know how it happened - because I'm too stubborn to listen to the sage advice of the Dr. Richard Wickenheisers of the world.
I don't need no stupid flu shot.
Flu shots are for babies, old ladies, hypochondriacs and sissies.
I'm none of those things - quick where's my floral-patterned box of tissues and blankey. My toes are cold and I don't want to move.
I think I might have pneumonia.
I thought I could hold off this flu the manly way.
As soon as the first symptom surfaced I purchased a carton of orange juice and downed the whole thing.
That oughta do the trick.
Wait, my own prescribed therapy to cure my own diagnosed illness didn't work?
But I spent an hour on WebMD and that dude on Yahoo! Answers seemed so confident that if I just gargled salt water before bed I would be good to go the next day.
OK the manly thing to do now is just head off to work and infect others Walking Dead style.
Sure some of my co-workers will treat me like I have leprosy, but it's just a matter of time before they catch this thing anyway.
Better sooner than later, I say.
The rest of my co-workers will already be suffering as I am.
Instead of being productive worker bees, we'll sling tales of our sickly adventures.
"Mine started with a knot in my throat, then I got all congested and had a headache."
"Mine went stuffy, headache then throat." "Oh you must have something different."
No it's all the same!
We're all sick in this county cause some 5-year-old was in a Food Maxx grocery cart playing with his boogers.
I was there. I saw him doing it. I knew what this would lead to.
This happens every January.
I hate this month. I can't wait until I'm over this thing, until the sun comes back out, until I can barbecue again, until I can buy fresh corn-on-the-cob again, until I can hear the crack of a baseball bat...
ZZZZZZZZ Finally something worked.
Thank you NyQuil.
Wake me up when it's March.
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By Gordon Duff
"The 2010 election had one purpose, war with Iran, even if the risk is world conflict and the real loser, no matter what happens on the battlefield is the United States."
Plans are in motion for a "false flag" attack on America. Iran will be blamed, everyone knows that and Iran will be totally innocent. This is the last thing Iran would ever want. The most likely scenario is a nuclear attack.
Two bombs are missing, bombs built by Israel in South Africa and lost long ago. These were supposedly Saddam's bombs. Now we are told Iran has them. Israel has had them all along and the fear, they may be inside the United States already.
The Israeli game with these weapons is one of the worst kept secrets in the world and has already cost the deaths of many. It will take nothing short of the detonation of one of this Hiroshima sized Israeli nukes to push America into Israel's war with Iran, much as hunting for these nukes which Israel informed President Bush were in Iraq, led "the decider" to making one of the many blunders of his career. Our next 9/11 will be nuclear.
The purpose will be to push America into a 20 year war that will destroy Iran and Pakistan, take oil to over $300 per barrel and collapse the dollar and Euro. Iran isn't Iraq of 2003, toothless and starving. This will be America's last military adventure, and the end of America's place in the world as we know it. We know the details of the proposed military campaign and the military and political leaders who support it are the worst imaginable incompetents and traitors.
Invading Iran is an impossible task for America. Other than there be no reason whatsoever to engage in such folly, something that, of recent years, seems to concern fewer and fewer Americans. Turn on the TV, if the "rodeo clown" says "wipe 'em out" then we do it.
Invading Iran is an impossibility for America. Going to the moon was easier. No matter how senseless, how impossible, the decision has been made, more in Tel Aviv than Washington, for sure, but one that will be obeyed.
There are only two scenarios that can fulfill the nightmare Israel and her shiny new congress have in store with us. One is a preemptive nuclear attack on Iran and the other full scale total war with up to 500,000 Americans being drafted into the military.
Forcing America to return to a draft and begin a major war, one America can never really win as with Iraq and Afghanistan and, let us not forget Vietnam, is something absolutely vital to hang around the neck of a Democrat,
especially one of African American ancestry. Anyone who doesn't think the real heart of American politics has always been racism is a liar. Family values means "white" family values. African Americans know shame at the relief they have felt seeing Muslims targeted for persecution. Every political position in today's America is derived from institutionalized racism, be it immigration, health care or "constitution."
When a return to the "constitution" is brought up, by people who wouldn't know the document from a Croatian take-out menu, the reality is always race, fear, hate and envy, the glue that holds American society prisoner. Decades ago, and even more recently during our last presidential election, African Americans were represented as animals, "goyim" to the Jews. Now we play "Kill the camel jockey." Is this why the Christianized army we sent to Afghanistan murders innocent civilians for sport?
An America in total economic collapse will require another "decider" and more "Patriot Acts," even more totalitarian and vicious than the last, that and an end to the even farcical elections that are now inundated with drug money and cash from US based foreign corporations.
This is the plan and a criminal gang in America, some in government and the military but more behind the scenes, "banksters" and media moguls, many with ties to Israel, are working feverishly to bring it about. However clever the planners may think they are, their mechanations can be tracked through the media, the army of "Wolf Blitzers" that "work" the American people with the subtlety of carny shills.
Why would anyone want to destroy America, kill millions, leave the nation that has been there to save the world over and over a virtual wasteland? If you think America's castrated government or the military, now relegated to acting as virtual mercenaries for drug lords, oil cartels and bizarre Zionist plots, have the will or ability to stop what has already begun, you have not been paying attention for some time. While the "circus of deception" went on, the utterly phony "war on terror," imaginary enemies, the 9/11 disaster, orchestrated by Israel and its puppets,
Israel has decided that America is going to war with Iran. The new congress, the one Israel openly boasts is under their total control, will make it happen, it was why they were put there. The upcoming war will leave the United States crippled, castrated, a "third world" nuclear power like the old Soviet Union. The plot isn't against Iran and Pakistan, that's just an excuse. The real enemy is what is left of a free and democratic America.
The real goal is to end America's leadership role in the world.
Israel has plans for Russia, China and India, especially India, to rule the world with them pulling the strings. America had been their "milk cow" for some time, now that cow is going to slaughter.
This is how it is going to play out. The news media has gotten their orders, Wikileaks is part of it. From now on, key members of congress will, on cue, begin harping about the threat of Iran. Governments in the Middle East that are under the total control of Israel and the American military will aid in every way possible. Thus far, of all the Islamic nations in the world, only Syria and Afghanistan are not taking orders from Tel Aviv.
The next step will be to replace key military staff as was done prior to 9/11, with "Israel friendly" third stringers, "dominionists" and "Israeli firsters" who place "end times" religious mythology over the welfare, safety and sovereignty of the United States. This group has been infiltrating the American military for years and has gained control of every service but the Marine Corps, starting with the United States Air Force.
The military pundits, with their laundered payoffs and free trips to Israel and the dozens of propaganda websites have already begun. If you have a computer, you can check this easily. Simply go into your email, it will be filled with warnings of Iran and nuclear terrorism. An Israeli teenager paid dearly to bring you that message, spending a difficult night in a hotel with one of our political or military "pro-Zionists."
Our newly elected "Tea Party' gang will be visiting Israel soon, watch and see, there is a "Monica Lewinsky" in their future. This is how it works, how it has worked for a long time and why we have sunk so low.
Anyone who talks about "liberal" media is part of it. A cursory check of who owns the media, "liberal" or any other media is easy. Israel owns our media, all of it. The stories will start with tales of Iran controlling the Shiite government of Iraq. Then you will hear of them controlling Karzai's government in Afghanistan.
Then the stories will start, Iran has to be tied to terrorist attacks on American troops. Watch for this. Americans will start dying and Iran will be blamed. Wikileaks started this with their fanciful stories about Iranians training Iraq in making explosives. A few years ago, we invaded Iraq because we believed they were building nuclear weapons, or so we were misinformed, now they can't build pipe bombs without Iranian help? Wikileaks is a clear demonstration at how childish, how outlandish the lies are going to be. Wikileaks is prestaging terror attacks on Americans as much as if they made the bombs themselves, no question about that.
Every media outlet that, under specific directions, carries the "party line" on Wikileaks and the rest of it, no matter how absurd, carries these fabrications without question or embarrassment, should be considered a terrorist organization and their employees enemy combatants.
It will be Israel doing the killing just as with 9/11 and the USS Liberty and, frankly, so many other times Americans have died, like the Marines killed in Beirut, an attack Israel admitted knowing of in advance. More and more, we are finding everything was "known" in advance, "known" because those who knew planned it.
Getting the scene set, all the assets in place, buying or blackmailing congress, keeping the president surrounded by Israeli advisors as he is today, silencing voices of reason in the military, all this is going on right now.
Years have been spent branding Iran and Pakistan as dangerous, the press continually ignoring reports that Iran has no nuclear program or endlessly repeating outrageous rumors that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are almost in the hands approaching "Taliban" forces. With Karzai's government Afghanistan openly negotiating with the Taliban after American forces, 9 years of fighting, have only managed to secure 3% of the country, building a case for war tied to Iranian "interference" in that conflict is going to be unmarketable.
This leaves Pakistan. Drone attacks in Pakistan have brought about considerable destabilization and an increase in terrorism in Pakistan. They have, as seemingly planned, worked to harm American interests in the region while attempting to bring about the dissolution of Pakistan. Continual reports of American contractors in Pakistan, working for the CIA and State Department, aiding terrorists, go unreported in the American media. Even when caught with weapons and explosives inside Pakistan, such reports are suppressed.
Increasingly, evidence is showing that the Mumbai attack, the massive terror assault on India blamed on Pakistan, was orchestrated by one of these American groups.
However, considering the financial collapse engineered though Bush era deregulation frauds combined with unstable tax policies and massive increase in government spending, combined with cost of two failed wars, America's options are limited. There is simply no revenue to pay the current military without rollbacks or sustain moderate capabilities and readiness. America is too broke, not just to fight a new war but to continue the two that are going or even maintain a fully peacetime force at near current levels.
In fact, our military expenditures need to be cut by 30% or more, as studies being reviewed by the Department of Defense and congress are showing. We have the choice of cutting back now or dealing with consequences later, including, not only cuts in military and veterans health care but substantial cuts in pensions and disability compensation as well.
Another war, and there is no question that another war is planned, will push American debt to $20 trillion or more, half being military expenditures, always a combination of pork, payoffs and "misplaced" weaponry and the rest looted from the economy by the planned massive manipulation of oil prices made possible by the shutoff of world petroleum supplies.
In March, 2010, a Chinese built missile factory opened in Iran. The plant builds a variety of missiles, primarily anti-ship, with ranges from 100 to 300 miles or more. These are advanced weapons that can be launched from hardened facilities along Iran's rugged coastline, from aircraft, both fixed and rotary, from patrol boats, from nearly anything. One of these missiles can sink a frigate, perhaps even a destroyer. Several can disable an aircraft carrier. Approaching Iran from sea is impossible.
Iran controls Hormuz, not just with missiles but patrol boats as well, and not just from their own shore but from the islands in the gulf, some of which were seized 30 years ago and are still held.
The government of the United Arab Emirates has discussed, from time to time, a canal bypassing the strait, through to Oman and into the Persian Gulf. However, the cost would be outrageous as a ridge of hills would have to be crossed, something difficult to manage with a lock system capable of handing the largest ships in the world, oil supertankers.
The missiles, the torpedo boats and the almost impossible network of islands and swamps along the coast would make suppressing Iran's capabilities impossible. The strait would close, oil would stop, Iraq, Iran certainly, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. In days, currencies would collapse, stock markets shut down, gas lines would form and gas rationing would be required around the world. All western economies would disappear overnight.
There is simply no way into Iran by land. We can barely keep American troops in Afghanistan supplied with many routes being hundreds of miles long, narrow roads from the Port of Karachi in Pakistan. Recently we found how easily this supply line could be cut off. Agreements with Iran, not to mention religious affiliations between Shiites in Iraq, the majority there and the Shiite based government in Iran, make an approach through Iraq impossible.
We could also consider that our existing forces in Iraq and the entire Persian Gulf could be cut off by Iran with no resupply by sea possible for, not only Iraq but Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Iraq. These nations and the US forces there would be immediately isolated. The only way in to Iran, restricted because of the topography, is through the province of Baluchistan, a remote area of Pakistan that borders Iran.
This isolated region has become the staging area for attacks against Iran, supposedly by Jundallah "rebels" but actually orchestrated by the Mossad and CIA. There are two independence movements wanting to break Baluchistan from Pakistan. One of the leaders I met in Islamabad while he was recovering from gunshot wounds. The other lives in Israel, surprise-surprise.
Because of the topography of Iran, the only way to approach Tehran is over more than a thousand miles of valleys. They can only be approached through Pakistan and there is only one port that serves that region. The only way to resupply other than through this small Chinese built port, Gwadar, is to truck into Kandahar, hundreds of miles, then back down into Pakistan, following the 500,000 man army into Iran in something closely akin to Napoleon's ill fated invasion of Russia, but even worse if that is possible.
The military analogies are inescapable, Dien Bien Phu and Stalingrad are two that come to mind. Though the government of Pakistan lacks strong civilian leadership and is largely dependent on US aid, the use of Pakistan's territory for another aggressive war in the Middle East that will perceived by almost all the world's population, not just Muslims, as a sign of Israel's control of the United States and its ability to get America to commit any crime, will not be acceptable to the people of Pakistan. It is also highly unlikely that even Karzai's government in Afghanistan would abide such an action.
Thus, America could become beset, not just from Pakistan but by its own allies in Afghanistan and, quite possibly, the newly trained and surprisingly effective army in Iraq as well.
America would become a rogue state, even if purporting to respond to a devastating terrorist attack. In the aftermath of 9/11, America lacks any credibility. The second a disaster strikes inside America, the world will immediately assume the worst, Israel has deemed such an act necessary to push America to war. No rational person could assume otherwise.
In order to stabilize the situation with our allies, those likely to become enemies, it will likely necessitate the decapitation of several regimes, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan initially. Others will quickly fall into line though some will be directly under the control of Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, in particular. They will become indefensible except through massive airlift, resources that will be needed elsewhere. Half the troops needed to secure America's lines of supply left military service after multiple deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq for nearly a decade. Many are sick, some are homeless and hundreds of thousands are simply "fed up."
This leaves the new citizen army, the one America had to turn to because of a "9/11 – Pearl Harbor" disaster fewer and fewer believe the cover story on as days go by. Even in America, despite what Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu thinks, you can only fool people so many times. The most glaring example of the lack of foresight some of our "War College" grads have can be seen in the Gwadar Port facilities, the only place American can use for supplies for the most difficult invasion in history, with, perhaps, the exception of Okinawa.
The 2010 election paid for a war, there is no question of that. Many of the puppets in America's government had to be replaced as there was fear some of them might object to something as obscene as what is in the planning. Lies, fear mongering and childish rhetoric had never reached the levels seen in 2010. Never had a nation, since Germany in 1932, gone over to the "darkside" as clearly as America has done, a rejection of decency and common sense.
When the bill becomes due, and it most certainly will, that "smaller government" so many thought they would get will most certainly come true. What won't happen is a return to constitutional rule, that will be gone forever. Habeas Corpus won't be missed so much in a country where those without the cash to buy their way out of military service, yes, that great American tradition, will be one step ahead of the press gangs working to keep the military training camps filled to capacity. America may, quite likely, have bitten off a bit too much, a world war, and this time, no allies, none, not a chance.
- SOCIAL SECURITY: Plans for less government have always been around, we have seen attempts to put these plans in place many times, starting with attempts to have Social Security declared unconstitutional back in the 1930s. This will be first to go, Social Security. Getting rid of Social Security has long been a dream of the GOP, either through outlawing it as "Socialism," or "borrowing" the trust fund to cover war expenses or, more recently "privatization." Now, none of those will be needed. The money will simply disappear overnight, not to pay war expenses, not hardly. It will be split up and stashed in Swiss bank accounts the same place the "bail out" money went, the same place every 401k in America went, the same place the assets of our largest banks went.
- MEDICARE/MEDIAID: They will be the next to go. States will be asked to pay fund this themselves. There won't be any more questions about illegal aliens using our medical care, there won't be any, not for them, not for the poor or not for the senior citizens who paid into medicare all their lives. Just because it was paid for doesn't mean the government can't simply break its promise, there are loyalties more powerful and more important that our government has than to the people. 9/11 proved that to any rational person.
- TAX INCREASES: The time for borrowing, counterfeit money, the "Federal Reserve System" and selling T -Bills will be over. China and Iran are close. China will be finished with us, India too and no more Arab money. The dollar, the instrument we use to buy oil, fertilizer, metals and so many other things, will be worthless. We are going to have to invent a new form of monopoly money or go on the barter system. The dollar, as a world currency, will disappear.
- SCHOOLS SHUT DOWN: One good thing, schools will shut down. Thus, America's inferior education system will no longer do the damage it once did. Along with that, mothers will be home to take care of children, a "blast from the past." The downside, of course, the mothers will have lost their jobs, the homes will be unheated, some with no electricity, more with no water, all eventually repossessed and, unless the government starts giving out food as it had in the past, we will see starvation. The money that financed Food Stamps will be long gone.
- MILITARY AND VETERANS PENSIONS HALVED: Long seen as "freeloaders," veterans and military retirees will be cut off. Pensions once seen as a "promise" have long been referred to as "entitlements." Any entitlement can be "unentitled" and these will.
- MILITARY PAY CUT: Troops in Vietnam were paid $30 dollars a week. We are going to see that again.
The draft, worthless money, gas lines, martial law, metal detectors in supermarkets, cameras everywhere, everything filmed, recorded, everyone every day, biometrics, face recognition, these things will be part of our lives from now on. These are the plans and putting this machinery in place, much of it "designed" in Israel, is what Americans voted for, this and the invasion of Iran, part of a war where only Americans will fight and die.
No one cares about Iran. No knowledgeable person ever thought they had nuclear weapons or wanted them. It was never about them. They were never a target, they were never a threat. The threat, the target, was always the United States. We were the danger, a free people.
Free people can't be trusted, can't be managed.
The plans are in place to bring that to an end. How many Americans will continue to be a part of it?
Posted by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on November 11, 2010, With Reads Filed under Veterans. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
315 Responses to "The Plot to Destroy the United States"
And to those here who like to spout Soro's as dangerous, because Glen Beck or some other right wing propagandist says he is, perhaps you should include the Koch brothers in with Soro's. The Koch brothers are behind many political and ruling class fronts. Their father was one of the founders of the John Birch society.
And the author of this article, who may be way off base about some of what he wrote was right on about the "dominionists" or end timers, who seem to think by pushing for WWIII they will quicken Christs return. We also are seeing a rise in the Christian Identity Movement, a movement full of racists, bigots, militia, white supremacists, Birchers, tenthers, these people will most likely be the ones whose actions will bring on martial law in this country.
You are all wrong. It's the banksters, the crooksters on Wall Street, the multinational corporations, the anti US Chamber Of Commerce and our bought and paid for corporate whores in DC who will bring this nation down.
The enemy is within. The Citizens United decision was the final nail in our coffin. In the future all of our politicians, not just some or many but ALL of our politicians will be corporate puppets.
Thanks to the Citizens United decision which gives a corporation the same rights as a person, any politician who dares oppose any corporate agenda or legislation which favors the corporations will be out spent in his or her next election cycle and be replaced by a corporate friendly stooge.
All of this fear mongering and sabre rattling about Iran, Terrorists, Israel, China, Venezuela, North Korea, it's all a distraction to keep our attention and focus off of the enemy within our own walls.
We give tax subsidies to American businesses who CREATE jobs overseas. We allow corporations like Exxon-Mobile, Bank Of America, GE and Google, just to name a few, to not pay NOTHING in US taxes, yet the brainwashed lemmings complain about social safety net programs and welfare for the neediest.
We bail out the banks yet allow them and MERS to illegally foreclose on homes in which they don't even hold the original note. We have economic and financial terrorists working on Wall Street who nearly collapsed our economy and have destroyed hundred of thousands peoples lives yet not one of these economic or financial terrorists are in prison.
America is the new Babylon spoken of in the bible. Mammon is the God we worship and capitalism is our new religion. Our future will be what we deserve.
WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT 666 MILLION OF THE CHOSEN ONES WERE GASSED TO DEATH IN SHOA; BY THE GOYIM CATTLE…SO, ARTICLES LIKE THIS ARE ONLY ANTI-SEMITIC; HATE SPEACH DIRECTED AGAINST YUMAN RITES AND DEMON-cracy…
Hay Vin,
Wake-up, Wake-up, Wake-up it was your chose to work for a person who is Jewish for 15 years, you could have picked a different position of power, unless you were imprisoned! When the harlot USA goes down, down, down, your won't be any better off. Are all so called Jew's s.it heads "Of course Not!" Are all white people trailer trash s.it no! Take your head out from your a.s and Wake-up – prepare for whats in front of you, and if it's all one particular group of individuals agenda, what's going to complain about it do for you anyway!
Wake-up throw the first stone see where that will take you! Is the harlot USA heading for war HELL YES! Many people in this wonderful USA can barely keep their off the TV and mistresses skirts to see that USA is heading for some type of shake-up. Do the people in other countries want to go to war HELL NO!
We folks are heading into war war III; rock and roll, TV, sports, shopping, eating, sex, alcohol, or drugs can't stop the panic that people are feeling. Something is happening and it won't be shown on local government run news!
Wake-up, Wake-up, Wake-up the hour is soon upon this nation. With unemployment high people losing everything, families breaking up, college graduates unable to find work, YES our beautiful harlot USA is coming down, down, down on her knees!
Murdoch is jewish, and more rabidly zionists than Perle or Wolfowitz, if that's possible. Peter
Posted at Snippits and Snappits along with The Ugly Truth Podcast, Nov 19, 2010.
Thank you, once again, Mr. Duff, for pulling together so many pieces. I was unable to even introduce it as I often do, mere words are not enough, are they?
Hoffman, Wait…You are a Christian? Just for the record Hoffman with one "n" is a Jewish surename. Care to explain why you masquerade as a Christian? If you really are a Christian, have you denounced your Jewish heritage?
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Well done Gordon Duff! You have actually got SOME people thinking, which can only be a good thing, even if you are wrong, which I personally doubt.
BTW I am the only person who knows how to use a comma so far. What does that say??
58,000+ views. Congratulations Mr. Duff, I believe this entry has officially gone viral.
There is some merit in Gordon Duff's article.
America has for many years now NOT been backing its currency with gold. To maintain its currency value it got the Saudis and other OPEC nations to agree that oil sales should be in US dollars. All America then had to do for paying for its oil was to print more currency.
Saddam when faced difficulty in selling his Iraqi oil started to sell Iraqi oil in whatever currency he could get and that is why he had to go – there were no weapons of mass destruction. Baby Bush and indeed the whole world knew that!
[Baby Bush lied to the American people on something that was so fundamental to their lives but was not impeached, while poor Bill Clinton, who lied on something the average man would have lied on and on something only his family should have been bothered, was hauled up and before the House of Representatives, making America the laughing stock of the world.]
Hugo Chavez is now America's major irritant because he has said he will sell Venezuelan oil for any currency other than the US dollar. That is why there have been quite a few attempts on his life. For the same reason Iran is now enemy No 1 for the US – it is not Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons but it's control in many ways of world petroleum supply that worries America. What is the use of having nuclear bombs? The only country that has ever used a nuclear bomb is America and the whole world knows the consequences of using a nuclear bomb and that America has no compunctions about using it.
I don't know how much involvement there is of Israel in all of America's shenanigans around the world, but one thing is certain, it is American support for Israel that is responsible for most of America's international problems.
As for 9/11 watch the movie Loose Change http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3oIbO0AWE
Bush was controlled by the tribe, too.
Richard Perle (Jewish)
Paul Wolfowitz (Jewish)
Douglas Feith (Jewish)
Edward Luttwak (Jewish)
Henry Kissinger (Jewish)
Dov Zakheim (Jewish)
Kenneth Adelman (Jewish)
I. Lewis Libby (Jewish)
Robert Satloff (Jewish)
Elliott Abrams (Jewish)
Marc Grossman (Jewish)
Richard Haass (Jewish)
Robert Zoellick (Jewish)
Ari Fleischer (Jewish)
James Schlesinger (Jewish)
David Frum (Jewish)
Joshua Bolten (Jewish)
John Bolton (Jewish)
David Wurmser (Jewish)
Eliot Cohen (Jewish)
Mel Sembler (Jewish)
Michael Chertoff (Jewish)
Steve Goldsmith (Jewish)
Adam Goldman (Jewish)
Joseph Gildenhorn (Jewish)
Christopher Gersten (Jewish)
Mark Weinberger (Jewish)
Samuel Bodman (Jewish)
Bonnie Cohn (Jewish)
Ruth Davis (Jewish)
Daniel Kurtzer (Jewish)
Cliff Sobel (Jewish)
Stuart Bernstein (Jewish)
Nancy Brinker (Jewish)
Frank Lavin (Jewish)
Ron Weiser (Jewish)
Mel Sembler (Jewish)
Martin Silverstein (Jewish)
Lincoln Bloomfield (Jewish)
Jay Lefkowitz (Jewish)
Ken Melman (Jewish)
Brad Blakeman (Jewish)
Bush was controlled by the tribe, too.
Richard Perle
Paul Wolfowitz
Douglas Feith
Edward Luttwak
Henry Kissinger
Dov Zakheim
Kenneth Adelman
I. Lewis Libby
Robert Satloff
Elliott Abrams
Marc Grossman
Richard Haass
Robert Zoellick
Ari Fleischer
James Schlesinger
David Frum
Joshua Bolten
John Bolton
David Wurmser
Eliot Cohen
Mel Sembler
Michael Chertoff
Steve Goldsmith
Adam Goldman
Joseph Gildenhorn
Christopher Gersten
More of Bush's Jews.
Mark Weinberger
Samuel Bodman
Bonnie Cohn
Ruth Davis
Daniel Kurtzer
Cliff Sobel
Stuart Bernstein
Nancy Brinker
Frank Lavin
Ron Weiser
Mel Sembler
Martin Silverstein
Lincoln Bloomfield
Jay Lefkowitz
Ken Melman
Brad Blakeman
This is why Bush "threw" the war in Afghanistan and went into Iraq. Saddam was Israel's number one enemy at the time. Bush's Jews told him to forget Afghanistan and instead fight for the Jews……which he did.
Guess what, Iran is now Israel's number one enemy. Yeah….get the connection yet ???
Richard Haass, the jewish president of the CFR is the puppeteer for Hillary, just like he was the puppeteer for Condaleeza Rice. He sits just under the table, as undersecretary of State, where he implements the plan he laid out in the book he wrote in 2005 called "The Opportunity". Administrations change, but the CFR tools stay in place. Is there any Democrat who can explain why Clinton hired Condaleeza Rice's undersecretary.
Why would Obama put one of the GOP's main operatives within his administration? Because we don't have two independent major parties, we have to parties run by jews to carry out the jewish agenda. The left/right stuff on abortion and gay rights is a distraction to keep America from recognizing the threat.
Since when has Judaism not been at war with Christianity. You would think that after 60 million Christians were slaughtered in the most vile gruesome ways possible, in Russia by the Bolsheviks who came from Brooklyn, Christians would have a clue about their fate if they don't wake up. This is war. They are winning because they know its a war. Christians have been fooled into becoming Christian-zionist, because they follow a jew written scam bible, instead of the real one. It's the Christian zionist in law enforcement and the military who are going to do the jew's dirty work against Christianity, when the jews spring their trap (like they did in Russia). The first people to be hauled away will be people like me. We will be labeled 'domestic terrorist'. The Christian-zionist will be proud and anxious to do their job for Israel, when the trap is sprung.
Are these the failed X Factor contestants?
This list reminds me of similar list that the Nazis had running in their film "Der Ewige Jude" where they showed the pictures and names of the most important, famous and influential Jews of their time. It must be noted that despite all the Nazi bluster, they were not even able to touch them but instead went after and killed the poor working average Jews who paid the price for others. Prejudice exists when all are blamed for the bad actions of a few. Unfortunately, in the eyes of the elite, rich and famous, everyone under them is expendable and should take the fall for them since they are too big and important to fail or fall.
Jewish Bigotry
If one says "I'm Jewish" when asked about oneself, it is akin to saying "I'm white" or "I'm black". It's a racist reply. Now, exceptions being the number one rule in life, if one says "I'm Jewish"……and is currently awaiting the arrival of the "Jewish Messiah", then that person isn't giving a racist reply….but those people aren't the majority of Jews as we know them…..
……..(those aren't the Jews thieving on Wall Street, our Congress, our White House, Cabinet, etc., nor are those the Jews of Israel constantly attacking and/or threatening their neighbors while refusing to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
To say "I'm Jewish" is no reflection of one's ethnic or national background, either, something that I suspect 90% of the Earth's inhabitants relate to as an identity. Instead, "I'm Jewish" refers to a midset of bigotry and superiority…..akin to what is often protrayed as quite evil on Jewish TV, except there it's "white supremacy" that's seen as evil. "I'm Jewish" is a reference to racist mindset of "Jewish Supremacy" (bigotry), just as "I'm White" or "I'm Black" would refer to a racist mindset, but in case of the Jews it's more of a "Tribal Supremacy" (tribal racism) not based on race, but more along the line of a radical cult.
There is no avoiding the idea of an inherent "Supremacist" mindset with Jew, and in this case, using ol' fashioned terminology, it's another, yet greater, case of prejudiced/racial bigotry, albeit with the cult/tribal twist, as their bigotry is world wide and defies regional borders and/or ethnicities.
To say "I'm Jewish" is to say "I'm superior". ….thus admitting to being what would otherwise be seen as a racist bigot. To even think of relating the reply to a country as an identity (as most all other people normally do) would require the reply to be "I'm Israeli"….thus revealing the traitorous nature involved in being Jewish and not living in Israel.
If one truthfully replied to a nationality or region as the rest of the world does for an identity, one would either be American or Israeli. If one replied American, there would be no Jewish issue. But if one replied in truth, "Israeli", then we would have to see them as being more loyal to a foreign country, even to the detriment of our own. We would have Traitors in our midst.
Therein lies the motivation why so many American Jews have spied for Israel against America. Therein lies the motivation for the Jews in our government to reward their thieving kin on Wall Street and why those thieving kin on Wall Street reward their thieving kin in our government. They consistently empty our Treasury for reasons that never benefit America. They are loyal to Jews and Israel first. Their loyalty there is from that very "supremacist" mindset….outright bigotry. That means Jews see the rest of us as being inferior. Jews are prejudiced bigots.
Ever wonder why our government supports the apartheid state of Nazi Israel and their attempts to annihilate what's left of their half-brother's family and steal even more of their land ??? Israel has nuclear weapons, refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and attacks more of it's neighbors than any other mideast nation. And Americans donate more tax dollars to those blood thirsty Jews than any other nation.
Here is why.
Ever wonder why our government donated over a trillion dollars to those "failed" Jewish banks on Wall Street that created worthless derivates…
……and sold them to America's retirement and pension funds knowing they were worthless all along ???
Here's the reason.
Obama's White House (Obama's owners)
(Radical) Rahm Emanuel(Jewish) –Chief of Staff
Mona Sutphen(Jewish) – Deputy Chief of Staff
David Axelrod (Jewish) – Senior Advisor to the President
Lee Feinstein (Jewish) – Foreign Policy Adivsor
Benjamin Bernanke(Jewish) – Chairman, Federal Reserve System
Timothy Geithner(Jewish) – Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department
Lawrence Summers(Jewish) – Chairman, National Economic Council
Paul Volcker(Jewish) – Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board
Jared Bernstein(Jewish) – Chief Economist and Economic Adviser, Vice President
Peter Orszag(Jewish) – Director, Office of Management and Budget(OMB)
Gary Gensler(Jewish) – Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission(CFTC)
Mary Schapiro(Jewish) – Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)
Sheila Bair(Jewish) – Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)
Karen Mills(Jewish) – Administrator, Small Business Administration (SBA)
Christina Romer(Jewish husband) – Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
Elena Kagan (Jewish)– Solicitor General
Dennis Ross(Jewish) – Special Advisor for the Gulf and Southwest Asia to the Secretary of State
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.)
Herb Kohl (D-Wisc.)
Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
Bernard Sanders (I-VT)
Jews in the House of Representatives
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
Jackie Speier (D-Calif.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
Howard Waxman (D-Calif.)
Peter Deutsch (D-Fla.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.)
(Son of a Jewish terrorist now in Oval Office controlling Obama)
Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
Ben Cardin (D-Md.)
Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Martin Frost (D-Texas)
Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
Bernard (Barney) Sanders (Ind-Vt.)
Stephen Cohen (D-NH)
Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)
Paul Hodes (D-NH)
Steve Kagen (D-WI)
Ronald Klein (D-FL),
John Yarmuth (D-KY).
You may have been writing but Rham ain't there any more
What was done to me by a jewish prosecutor, and how the whole affair has been kept secret is PROOF the jews are ALL Traitors. There are NO non-zionist amongst the jewish population. They are ALL scum who support judaism over America. They are the voices on the left opposing Israel, they provide the voices on the right and in the middle. Thieves, ripoff artist, propagandist. Don't dare run for office while opposing Israel's interests or they will put you on trial with an inapplicable statute too. And the entire press, from coast to coast, will keep it a secret. I'm proof that jews control ALL media directly or by proxy. How does a jewish prosecutor put a congressional candidate on trial for seven months without the story ever being covered by the press? Jew Power!
See http://www.Dumpdumanis.com for details in pdf
Watch how fast jews point to other jews who oppose Gaza abuse, as proof they they aren't all zionist. What a scam. Mossad owns the clowns. Controlled opposition scum who put Israel first. Robert Scheer, Norm Chomsky, and all the rest are controlled opposition Mossad scum; just like the worms at the ACLU.
I see the usual suspects have shown up to spew their "conspiracy theory" libel against anyone who speaks the truth. I got news for you Mossad dicks, we're not falling for it anymore. Everyone in America KNOWS we are victims of a conspiracy, and we know that every jew supports said conspiracy, because it's all about ending 2000 years of supposed persecution (it's actually being held accountable), by making Israel the only superpower in this world. Jews will stab all in the back forever, until they gain complete control over everybody and everything.
Well said.
Wow. Almost all of you guys would fit right in with Nazi Germany. Is VT a nazi website?
Forget about Nazi Germany and all other cheap rhetoric. Israeli Holocaust in the occupied Palestine was conspired before Hitler's one.
Colonialism – When Theodor Hartzl, the ideological founder of the Zionist movements in the 1890s, was asked what he proposed to do with the indigenous Palestinian population when his "state of the Jews" become a reality, he replied, "We will quietly spirit them across the boarder".
Source: Free America Now
Joseph Weitz, the head of the Jewish Agency's colonization department, confirmed this in his 1940 diary. "It must be clear", he wrote, "that there is no room for both people's together in this country … not one (Arab) village, not one tribe should be left". Source: Free America Now
In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement,…wrote: "Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an The Iron Wall , which the native population cannot breach." First published in Russian under the title O Zheleznoi Stene in Rassvyet, 4 November 1923. Source: The Iron Wall
Remember the Balfour Declaration too. Can't wait for the peeps asking what's that?
You guys are insane.
Please, don't respond with an explanation of how – until recently – 5 out of 6, of Obama's top economic advisers were jews, and how that could come about with someone conspiring; just call people names, and refer to them as 'conspiracy theorist. Then your job will be done for the day, and you can tell your Mossad supervisor where to send your check.
Show us your sanity by presenting the Israeli Peace Plan today!?! Please present us the Map of Ehud Barak's 'best offer' at Camp David (2000).
Ths two points I mentioned will expose Israeli conspiracy.
Remember, ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was conspired back in 1890s!
No side tracking please. I mean please present your facts to demonstrate your sanity.
welcome to the club!!
The sign of a crazy author who desperately wants people to assure him he's not crazy?
"No rational person could assume otherwise."
Suggest that anyone who believes differently is an idiot. Maybe I'll write up an article on how to tell when someone is completely full of it, using this article as a case study. There are so many logical fallacies in this article, it … well, it actually makes for quite a funny read, to be honest. Or, at least, it would be funny if there weren't people who actually believed this stuff.
So are you saying it was funny or you didn't find it funny? Can't you supremacist write a coherent sentence?
Go ahead and write your article. It will be akin to a tree falling in the middle of a dense forest (no pun intended). You can only bs people for so long before you lose credibility. All jews have NO credibility, because you're all supremacist. Your collective ability to open up your brains and let some truth in, has been eclipsed by your jewish ego.
Any conspiracy theory is beyond any jew's comprehension. That's been proven time and time again by the way ALL jews belittle anyone who can add 2 plus two and come up with four. If Understanding that conspiracies have always existed – as long as man has roamed this earth – and how they operate is toooooooo complicated for jews, then maybe you should stfu and let people with a clue do the talking (and writing).
I trust Gordon and not an elitist like you.
Anyway please show us the Israeli Peace Plan today!?! Please present us the Map of Ehud Barak's 'best offer' at Camp David (2000).
Ths two points I mentioned will expose Israeli conspiracy.
Remember, ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians was conspired back in 1890s!
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A highlight had to be our evening spent with our friend Sergio - we hit the west end of Santiago for some amazing Chilean steak and wine... before visiting the local Fire Station where Sergio volunteers. After a quick tour of the engines and the best fancy dress costume ever, involving more pisco but this time with coke (the off duty side of the fire service!)
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Cie. de Saint-Gobain SA, Europe's biggest supplier of building materials, said it will step up cost cuts this year after 2012 earnings missed analysts' estimates amid Europe's economic woes.
The company will slash costs by 580 million euros ($774 million) in 2013 after 520 million euros last year, Saint-Gobain, based in Courbevoie near Paris, said in a statement today. Net income fell 40 percent to 766 million euros last year. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg was for a profit of 1.07 billion euros.
Chief Executive Officer Pierre-Andre de Chalendar decided in July to step up cost cuts, reduce investment and put new acquisitions on hold to adjust to the European car and construction slump that has hit sales and prices of flat glass. Last month, the company agreed to sell its U.S. glass-bottle business for $1.7 billion to strengthen its balance sheet and focus expansion plans on building products.
Saint-Gobain said today it will present new medium- and long-term targets in the second half of 2013. Targets set in 2010 for 2015 sales and earnings can't be reached as they were made with an economic scenario that hasn't materialized because of the slump, the CEO said.
"For 2013, we're expecting a pickup in our earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the second half after a low point in the second half of 2012 or in the first half of 2013," the CEO said.
Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's, which rate Saint-Gobain at Baa2 and BBB respectively, have said they may downgrade the French company.
In 2012, the company's Ebitda fell 16 percent to 2.88 billion euros as revenue rose 2.6 percent to 43.2 billion euros.
Saint-Gobain will propose to pay a dividend of 1.24 euros per share this year, unchanged from last year.
The company's shares have fallen 2.5 percent this year, giving it a market value of 16.7 billion euros.


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Our Company Health Insurance Increased by 84%...thanks to Obama/McNerneyCare
Original post made by RememberInNovember, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Sep 1, 2010
The employer costs for our family for next benefit-year (starting October for us) increased a whopping 84% !!!
And what a deal...this increase is for an inferior plan compared to last year!
And the costs will keep increasing too!
McNerney...you've shoved this unconstitutional mandate down our throats. (BTW: I understand you voted to keep your elite Congressional health insurance package vs. accepting the plan for ordinary "lower class" Americans.)
We will remember in November.
You are a loathsome spineless socialist.
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a resident of Downtown
on Sep 1, 2010 at 8:02 am
Amazing that you can pack so many lies into one posting. Don't let the white hoods get too tight at your next Klan...I mean Tea Party meeting.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2010 at 8:30 am
Lies ???!!! I only wish.
Hmmm...So I'll contact my health insurance provider and tell them that "Peter" told me not to pay it because he thinks your bill is bogus. Is that it?
Last year's ppd cost for family coverage: $1,152.60
This year's ppd cost for family coverage: $2,116.28
Do the math.
It's an 84% increase and it is due to the passage of Obama/McNerneyCare.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2010 at 9:21 am
PS, Peter...
"White Hoods and Klan" were from the Democrat party.
Learn your history.
a resident of Del Prado
on Sep 1, 2010 at 9:35 am
@ November - Can you please cite a reference supporting your assertion that the recently passed health insurance reform legislation, which has not gone into effect for the most part, was responsible for the rate increases you have seen? Do you recall, Blue Cross was hammered last year for similar increases here in California before any bill was even debated and passed. I think your health insurer has used the legislation as a convenient strawman to increase your rates.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2010 at 10:14 am
Curious, you got it just right. RememberinNovember is so wrapped up in the tea bagger mentality that he/she/it uses any excuse for a rant against the candidates. BTW, I have not enjoyed the cold summer in P-town this year so RinN which Democrat shoved that one down my throat?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Sep 1, 2010 at 11:28 am
Yes, I too would like to see some documentation that it's the "Obama/McNerneyCare" that raised your health care premiums so much. My understanding is that the new health care legislation specifically RESTRICTS the amount that health insurance companies can raise rates for enrollees... AND that your health insurance company was going to raise the rates MUCH higher before the new legislation came in and put a cap on this gouging.
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We will know more about Bath's prospects shortly. They are due to face Leicester, Northampton and Saracens in successive weeks from mid-September, all established top-three opponents. This is a huge year, either way, for George Ford and Anthony Watson. And what kind of impact will Slammin' Sam Burgess have? Need to have the courage of their convictions.
Key player George Ford Man in charge Mike Ford
Exeter Chiefs
Last season 8th Prediction 9th
Sooner rather than later the Chiefs will be consistent challengers, with the cream of the south-west's young talent at their disposal. This season might be slightly tougher, particularly if they struggle early on without their injured captain, Dean Mumm, Jack Nowell, Dave Lewis, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Phil Dollman. A break from Europe's elite competition could be a blessing and Thomas Waldrom will supply tactical nous up front.
Key player Thomas Waldrom Man in charge Rob Baxter
Last season 9th Prediction 6th
The chequebook has come out with a vengeance. This time around Gloucester's tight five will not be caught short; if John Afoa and Richard Hibbard stay fit, the scrummaging boot could be on the other foot. James Hook is a proven catalyst and there has never been any disputing the Cherry and Whites' firepower out wide. Knitting the whole new structure together, however, may take David Humphreys and co a little while.
Key player James Hook Man in charge David Humphreys
Last season 4th Prediction 4th
Expect them to reach the play-offs if they start positively. The fixture computer has been kind, requiring just one league trip north of Birmingham – to Leicester – before Easter. With new signing Marland Yarde to supply finishing power and a clutch of other England men seeking to impress, they will be dangerous if they avoid injuries. Installing Joe Marler as captain in place of Chris Robshaw will galvanise all concerned.
Key player Danny Care Man in charge Conor O'Shea
Leicester Tigers
Last season 3rd Prediction 2nd; win Grand Final
In theory the pressure is on the Tigers, having failed to reach last year's final. People forget the injuries which hindered them last winter; Manu Tuilagi and Tom Croft are back and the class of Niki Goneva will trouble sides again. The continuing absence of Dan Cole and the departure of Steve Mafi are setbacks but Brad Thorn is one of several shrewd acquisitions – at the ripe old age of 72 (or thereabouts) he has the winning mentality that Leicester love.
Key player Julian Salvi Man in charge Richard Cockerill
London Irish
Last season 10th Prediction 10th
Off the field it is all happening at Irish: a spanking new training headquarters, fresh investment and a renewed sense of purpose. Luke Narraway, Tom Guest and James Short are all good signings, although the departure of Chris Hala'ufia will make them slightly less terrifying. A positive start would also help restore their supporters' faith; consistently big, loud crowds at the Madejski Stadium would help them no end.
Key player Shane Geraghty Man in charge Brian Smith
London Welsh
Last season n/a Prediction 12th
So many new players, so little time to bed them all in. On paper Welsh will be competitive but it is their misfortune to join a league looking stronger than ever. They badly need some early momentum; their last three fixtures of the campaign are against Leicester, Northampton and Saracens respectively. Piri Weepu will have to make an instant impression at scrum-half but Justin Burnell is an excellent coach who enjoys being underestimated.
Key player Olly Barkley Man in charge Justin Burnell
Newcastle Falcons
Last season 11th Prediction 11th
A new artificial pitch will greet visitors to Kingston Park but what their supporters really crave is more excitement. Last season the Falcons won just three games, scored only 23 tries and were slightly fortunate to stay up. More positive intent is being promised this time and new signings Alesana Tuilagi, Josh Furno and Juan Pablo Socino will make them tougher nuts to crack at home. The tighthead Kieran Brookes is rising up the English pecking order.
Key player Kieran Brookes Man in charge Dean Richards
Northampton Saints
Last season 2nd; Grand Final winners Prediction 3rd
The champions of England following their breathless final win over Saracens in May. Can they do it again? Recent history suggests not, the last four titles having been won by four different clubs. On the plus side they should have the influential Alex Corbisiero available more regularly and George North is now fully at home. The problem, as ever, will be coping with Test calls and juggling European commitments.
Key player Stephen Myler Man in charge Jim Mallinder
Sale Sharks
Last season 6th Prediction 8th
Steve Diamond reckons his side "punched above our weight" last season. Maybe so but, pound for pound, they have developed into one of the tougher units around. Their Kiwi captain, Dan Braid, leads by example and the arrival of the no-nonsense, much-travelled Nathan Hines will make them no less hard-nosed. Magnus Lund and Chris Cusiter will also make their presence felt, leaving Danny Cipriani to try to direct them into the top six again.
Key player Dan Braid Man in charge Steve Diamond
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The team to beat in the regular season, without question. Jim Hamilton and Juan Figallo will bring additional grunt, with the young English back-row sensation Maro Itoje set to show why he is so highly rated. Add Billy Vunipola, Schalk Brits, Jacques Burger and the fit-again Will Fraser and Sarries have all kinds of options. The only query is over their ability to close out big finals, while Steve Borthwick is no longer around. Will be serious contenders, even so, at home and in Europe.
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Dai Young has been recruiting busily, with the distinctly rapid Alapati Leiua among the league's more eye-catching arrivals. The Welsh lock Bradley Davies and the Sale pair Rob Miller and James Gaskell will also be eager to impress. As Young keeps reiterating, however, Wasps will not get far without a solid set piece. The new captain, James Haskell, will be worth watching; there will be no more talkative skipper in the Premiership.
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We saw the dragons two years ago. Have similar pictures. They are amazing. It was a surprise to me the only weapon the guides carry is a big stick!!! Keep enjoying We miss you!
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The "Dragons" are the largest species of lizard in the world. Their unusual size has been attributed to island gigantism. Island gigantism is a biological phenomenon in which the size of animals isolated on an island increases dramatically in comparison to their mainland relatives due to the fact there are no natural predators. As a result of their size, these lizards dominate the island. Komodo dragons hunt and ambush prey. They can sprint up to 18 Km per hour. Some of our groups saw a dragon and a wild boar sharing a meal
We were taken on a guided walk through the forest, actually designated as a National Park -- no one is allowed to go by themselves. We were led by a park ranger & followed behind by a guide. Our park ranger pointed out various birds and species of plants as we went but the big thrill was coming onto a resting place for three of the dragons. They really are a site to behold. The pictures do not really represent how massive these creatures are. The sight made the 98 degree heat and I'm sure 98% humidity worth it. If you check out this youtube site you will see the video that I uploaded of one of the dragons we were watching. I am glad I was in a group of people watching from behind than in the one he was walking towards! Made me wonder if he was picking out his next snack!


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Tuesday will mark 50 years ago since the first group of Freedom Riders boarded a bus in Washington, D.C., and headed on their historic journey south. The inaugural team had one ambitious goal: to help lead the charge against American racial segregation. Their plan was to defy the South's social order by brazenly traveling as an interracial group through Southern cities before ending their tour in New Orleans on May 17, 1961. History would take a different course, however. Before the first group of riders could reach Louisiana, they were met by angry mobs in Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Ala. Buses were set on fire and the riders were beaten mercilessly, but they continued their journey anyway, eventually making it to New Orleans on a plane that had to be chartered by the federal government. The trip sparked a nationwide movement in which hundreds of young activists joined the Freedom Rides and many were hauled off to one of the nation's most notorious prisons. The saga made international headlines and turned the nation's attention to the often brutal struggle against racial inequality.
A stunning new documentary debuting tonight on PBS details the extraordinary tale of the Freedom Riders and the activists who followed them. In "Freedom Riders," Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson uses masterful storytelling and gripping interviews with key players of the era to document what would eventually become one of the civil rights movement's major victories. But he also shows that those victories were deeply nuanced, as younger activists fought for recognition from the president and, sometimes, from older movement leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. Through it all, the riders were an organized team of well-trained activists who committed themselves to non-violence despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
On a recent celebration of the Freedom Riders on "Oprah", movement leader Diane Nash reiterated lessons from the era that are still applicable today:
"Voting is not enough. It's important, but it's not enough. That ten minutes that you spend in the voting booth every 10 years is not enough to fulfill our duty as American citizens. I think we need to begin seeing that all of us--millions and millions of us--need to use non-violent direct action to bring about the changes that need to be done in this country."
I spoke with Nelson following a San Francisco screening of "Freedom Riders" last week. He explained why the film is significant, and what young activists can still learn from the movement.
On the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides:
I think that it's a great story, it's also a story about the very beginnings of the civil rights movement. [It was] at a place where the civil rights movement was really in jeopardy of failing. It's a story that people don't know, people don't know the outcome, people don't know the ins and outs. So when you see it, you kinda don't know what's gonna happen from place to place. It's a story that has great witnesses and characters who are still alive, who are still vibrant.
On the Kennedys' role:
What was really surprising was the involvement--or non-involvement--of the Kennedys. John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy, they just wanted the Freedom Rides to stop. They want it to go away. They don't wanna become involved in it. They don't wanna be seen as in any way opposing the Southern political establishment. So they're not the kind of civil rights heroes so many times we've come to expect or think they are.
On lessons for today's young activists:
I think that it's important that we understand that the Freedom Rides are a great example of people taking a step and doing what they feel is right at great personal risk with no guarantee of success, but they take a step out there and they succeed. I think that's the kind of political action that we need now.
It's great screening the film with young people because they're always so inspired by the Freedom Riders. The first group of Freedom Riders were 13 people who just got on a bus in Washington, D.C., and traveled to the South, and ended up becoming a movement and ended up changing America.


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Preventing HIV from Breaking and Entering
By Amy Tsao
In the last five years, powerful new drugs have been able to win battles against HIV, the elusive virus that causes AIDS. But the war is far from over. The deadly virus has been fighting back, mutating into new strains that resist the medicines. And doctors are increasingly discovering that the drugs can be nearly as bad as the disease itself. Patients are beginning to suffer from a host of serious side effects, from diabetes to heart disease. "We need new, improved drugs," says Dr. Roy Gulick, director of the Cornell Clinical Trials Unit.
That's why a race is on to develop new weapons capable of outwitting HIV. One of the most promising is coming from Trimeris (TRMS ), a small biotech company in Durham, N.C. Trimeris is on its way to introducing the first examples of a new whole new class of HIV/AIDS drugs (see BW Online, 2/6/01, "Attacking HIV Every Which Way").
The existing 21 approved HIV treatments all work by preventing the virus from copying itself once it has infected cells. That approach is a bit like trying to kill a potential murderer after he has broken into your house. In contrast, Trimeris' drugs seek to keep the bad guy from getting inside in the first place, leaving him to stomp around harmlessly outside.
Specifically, the idea is to block a step in the infection process called fusion. As HIV approaches a cell, it first latches onto a molecule, called CD4, that sticks out from the cell's surface like a pole. Once attached, the virus begins a remarkable transformation. It first changes shape in a way that allows it to grab onto a second receptor, called CCR5.
Then the real action begins. The second binding triggers the unleashing of a molecular harpoon. Called gp41, the harpoon shoots out, spearing the cell membrane. Once anchored, the harpoon then folds into a hairpin shape, putting the guts of the virus down to the cell surface. From there, the cell is doomed. The virus fuses with the cell, spewing its deadly cargo of genes into its victim.
Trimeris scientists have cleverly devised a drug, called T-20, that can bind to gp41 -- and thus prevent HIV from breaching the cell's defenses. Conceptually elegant, T-20 and a more advanced version in development known as T-1249, will likely be the first AIDS treatments that stop the virus by barring the door to cells. "The importance of T-20 is that it has a unique mode of action," explains John Sonnier, an analyst at Prudential Vector Securities. "If you're resistant to multiple other drugs, the virus will still be sensitive to T-20."
Convincing doctors and analysts that a whole new tack to fighting HIV will work hasn't been easy for the company. "With the identification of a new target for HIV therapy comes a good deal of skepticism," says Dani Bolognesi, CEO of Trimeris. "For folks to realize there were extracellular targets, it has taken telling the story repeatedly for them to come to accept that."
So Trimeris is using a highly focused strategy to win over doubters and get the drug to market as fast as possible. The idea is to prove T-20 offers new hope to the estimated one-third of AIDS/HIV patients for whom the existing drugs don't work. Since these patients have no other options, the Food & Drug Administration is likely to put T-20 on the fast track for approval.
Trimeris, with its partner Hoffmann-La Roche, is already starting Phase III (or late-stage) trials in patients who have failed to respond to other treatment alternatives. These trials are expected to wrap up at the end of 2001, and a submission to the FDA should be in the works for the spring of 2002. The FDA could approve the product as early as the fall of next year.
But Trimeris also sees a wider use for the drug -- adding it to the potent drug cocktails being taken by many other AIDS patients. The company has begun trials to demonstrate that T-20 offers benefits even when existing drugs still work. At an HIV research meeting in Chicago in early February, the company released data that showed T-20 given with a cocktail of oral drugs was shown to be well tolerated and caused higher decreases in viral load than patients who were given the cocktail alone.
Unlike existing drugs, which are small chemicals, T-20 is a relatively large protein -- in fact, it's a piece of gp41 itself. That has advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, because of the large size, T-20 doesn't enter cells -- healthy or not. As a result, it seems to cause fewer of the debilitating side effects that AIDS patients get from the available pill treatments. "We see no systemic side effects nor any reactions with other treatments," Bolognesi says. "There are some really solid advantages that go with this molecule."
T-20 is hard to make, and hard to take. Patients will have to inject it
On the minus side, T-20 structure brings two problems. For one thing, the drug is hard to make. Because T-20 is a long, complex peptide, it cannot be manufactured easily by the methods used to produce other protein drugs. The extra length makes it hard to keep the chemical synthesis stable. As a result, analysts worry that mass production of T-20 will be very complicated and expensive. "There is no other peptide [being produced] on this scale that I know of," said Joe Dougherty of Lehman Brothers.
Trimeris claims it can meet the manufacturing challenge. In a separate agreement with Roche, the big drug company will make T-20 in one of its facilities, located in Boulder, Colo. The companies are able to make enough for the trials, and Dougherty expects they are "within striking distance" of the scale needed for commercialization.
The other big disadvantage is that T-20 can't be swallowed like a pill. Instead, it must be injected. In its original formulation, the drug had to be injected four times a day. Some patients dropped out of the clinical trials because they couldn't face that many needles. Trimeris has changed the formulation so that the drug requires only twice-daily subcutaneous injections. And its second-generation entry-inhibitor drug, T-1249, needs to be given only once a day.
If the drugs work as well as hoped, patients will be able to tolerate sticking themselves with needles every day, doctors say. "If you don't have a choice, then you will go with the subcutaneous," says Dr. Pablo Tebas, a researcher and clinician at Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, who has helped to conduct trials of T-20.
That's why analysts predict that T-20 should be a financial success, if not a blockbuster drug. Because of the manufacturing difficulties, Dougherty expects the companies will have to charge between $10,000 and $12,000 for an annual supply of T-20, about twice what each of the existing drugs costs. Profit margins will also not be as attractive as for a typical pharmaceutical, Dougherty adds, again because of manufacturing costs.
But Trimeris should do quite well. Sonnier expects the first full year of T-20 sales to start in 2003, with $68 million in the first year, $135 million in 2004 and $222 million in 2005. Dougherty is bullish too, projecting that the drug will reach around $400 million at peak sales.
Under terms of the Roche deal, Trimeris gets 50% of profits in the U.S., royalties on European sales, and milestone payments of up to $78 million as it jumps certain hurdles. Given the potential sales and the favorable deal, Sonnier has a strong buy rating on Trimeris' stock and a $75 price target. Dougherty rates Trimeris a buy, with a $90 price target. On Feb. 13, the stock was at $43.88, down from its 52-week high of $80.
To succeed, Trimeris, like all biotechs of its size (market cap: $700 million), needs substantial funding to keep moving forward on its research projects. The company has just under $100 million in cash reserves, and it will burn through $60 million by the end of 2001, Sonnier estimates. Trimeris will likely need to seek out financing sometime this year, Dougherty adds.
The company also has competition. Pharmaceutical giant Schering-Plough has several entry-inhibitor drug candidates in development that aim to block CCR5, the second cell receptor that HIV latches onto before the fusion process begins. Others biotechs, like Progenics (PGNX ) also have candidates.
Yes, Trimeris stock is still fraught with the risks of your typical tiny biotech, but if the company's products prove to work, they'll be a sizable advance for HIV patients. Given that the only way to fight the disease now is to come at it from all possible angles, Trimeris' T-20 opens up a new battle front -- for AIDS sufferers, doctors, and investors.
Tsao covers biotechnology issues for BusinessWeek Online. Follow The Biotech Beat every week, only on BW Online
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Sports betting tips
If you like sports, you be part of the group that enjoys when your team wins or even when you lose. Consider sports betting. This is an opportunity for the fans to win as well in a sporting situation. There are many options and avenues through which you can bet.
When it comes to betting, it is not all about luck. It is about risk assessment and investing in risks. You can improve your chances of winning when betting by observing a number of tips. These tips are derived from analysis of results from years of betting and adequate research. Here are the tips that you should consider when betting in sports.
Ensure you place the bets at the correct sportsbook
This may seem obvious but it should be focused. This is the primary tip to winning. You can increase your chances of winning by between 3% and 4% by shopping around for the best line irrespective of where you place your bet. Sports books are not the same. Where you place, the bet is equally important to which team you bet on. Remember most of your analytics will be derived from the sportsbooks. The decision is all about weighing your options. The question that leads to this tip is that are you equipped to make a good judgement? The sportsbook will be the source of this facility.
Bet on favourites early and underdogs late
This is a common trend among betting professionals. Seasoned sports betting enthusiasts will tell you that the public will always wager on the favourites. You can take advantage of this situation. There is value in buying back betting odds that are bloated by a massive influx of the public money. This principle applies in economic as well. The shift will always come and you can take advantage of it.
Select the best betting percentages
Sports insight will always provide betting percentage data. You can get the true worth of your betting options by consulting the betting percentages. Through percentages, a clearer picture of the facts can be presented. Consider this situation. You know that the host is favoured by a betting line of 9 is different from knowing that 95% of the bets placed on the hosting team are from the host team's 8. A clearer picture is portrayed using percentages. Remember that the betting is all about weighing your options. Using the instrument that gives the better picture of the events is what you should use. Percentages are better.
Bet against the public
This does not sound right. If it does not, maybe you are being emotional in making betting decisions. Let us pump some logic within. The tip is based on a simple logic. There is a simple and obvious reason why the sportbooks are in business. Data shows that fading the public is profitable. If you bet against the public, you are in with the sportbooks and they are professionals. They work the numbers and find it profitable to invest against the public.
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Turns out, it would be way more awesome.
Funny Road Signs: 10 Triumphs in Roadside Adverting That Deserve a Double-Take
Wherever you drive in this great land of ours, you are certain to see some crazy things. As the 5 Man Electric Band put it, "Sign, sign, everywhere a sign."Click here to read more
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Never believe it when people tell you that children want to watch tat
TILDA Swinton may be a fashion icon and Oscar-winning actress but somehow it comes as no surprise to bump into her on a back street in Nairn looking for a suitable nook in which her spaniel pup can obey the call of nature. "Rosie, just do a pee," she begs. "Oh no, she's doing a jobbie now."
There's no time for that. Swinton is in a rush to get back to see the second short film in a double bill at the Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, the film festival she has curated in her home town along with Mark Cousins, a former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival. The venue is a disused bingo hall on the High Street, not too far from the Highland Hospice, a charity shop that Swinton lists in the current issue of Vanity Fair as her favourite place in the world to buy vintage clothes. She's in the magazine as part of their Best Dressed Women lists, along with Carla Bruni and Michelle Obama. Today, Swinton, 47, is wearing a kilt and furry waistcoat; the little leather sporran round her neck has been borrowed from her god-daughter and she's using it to carry her mobile. Later on, this look will be complemented by a huge pair of Vivienne Westwood sunglasses. And a bridie.
The tabloid journalists hanging around grumble into their drinks that she's not looking glam enough for their pages, and they are also peeved that George Clooney, rumoured to be turning up, has failed to do so. The truth is that the Cinema of Dreams, which runs until Saturday, is not a red carpet kind of event. It's aesthetic, it's ramshackle and home-made. This extends to the entrance fee. Instead of paying money, you can bake some cakes, bring them along and get in for free. If you do pay cash, it's not dear. You could go and see every film in the programme for 42. The Sunday morning screening of the Miss Marple adventure Murder Most Foul will be free to anyone who turns up in pyjamas; wear a kilt and you can enter gratis to Boswell And Johnson's Tour Of The Western Isles, written and directed by Swinton's partner, John Byrne.
I follow Swinton into the cinema. The space has been transformed for the occasion, painted in red and blue and decorated with Chinese lanterns and Warholish silver balloons. There are 140 people in here, a full house including dozens of children, many of them reclining on deckchairs and beanbags. There was a big queue this morning, which is extraordinary when you think that what they are so eager to see are two short films for children from 1949 and 1966.
The first is in Danish and a young woman, Emily, shouts out the English translation as it plays. I sit beside Swinton and watch a charming film called Paddle To The Sea, about a little boy who carves a wooden toy and sets it loose on the waves. Rosie growls a little but no one seems to mind, and at the end everyone claps and cheers. There was an idea that people should rattle jam jars full of dried peas, but I can't hear this over the sound of someone waving wind chimes about.
"That was absolutely wonderful," says Daryl Joyce, a local woman who has brought along four-year-old Ciara and three-year-old Joel. "It's magical for children and exactly what we need. It drags Nairn out of the Dark Ages."
In the adjoining caf afterwards, Swinton and Cousins chomp tablet and explain that this event is the first initiative of their 8 Foundation. They are hoping to establish a cinema day for children, funded by the film industry, which would mean that anyone who applied over the internet would receive a great film on DVD when their child turned eight-and-a-half. It would be piloted in Nairn and a town in Iraq, then rolled out internationally.
I ask for their own childhood memories of cinema. Swinton remembers going to see newsreels in London – "Saying that makes me feel like bloody Captain Mainwaring" – but says she actually preferred the panto to the pictures, especially when Ronnie Corbett and Stanley Baxter were performing.
"The first film that had a real impact on me was The Exorcist," says Cousins. "I was 11 and my aunt got a bootleg copy. Because it was a very Catholic family, she said: 'We can only watch it if we put holy water on it first.' So she put it in the VHS player and then blessed it. I remember I was eating chips, and when I put white vinegar on, I felt as if I was blessing them."
Swinton chats to some people who have come from Papua New Guinea and Lithuania and then heads for the gents' toilet with a piece of white chalk. "I'm inviting graffiti," she explains before writing "The strangest things are true and the truest things are strange" on the wall. The poor chap in the cubicle looks a bit embarrassed when he comes out. A woman going into the ladies asks whether it is okay to write something rude. "Whatever you like," says Swinton. "One person's obscene is another person's Hallmark card, and vice versa."
By this time, the 1950 film All About Eve is due to start. David Bowie's 'Oh You Pretty Things' blasts out. When the chorus kicks in, a spotlight begins sweeping the room. Swinton and Cousins climb the stepladders at opposite sides of the screen and unfurl a huge flag on which John Byrne has painted 'The State Of Cinema' in gold. "Welcome to the Cinema of Dreams," Swinton says, "and what could be dreamier on a Saturday afternoon than All About Eve? This has been my daughter Honor's favourite film since she was six, and she can recite lines from it, so never believe it when people tell you that children want to watch tat. They don't. Children want Joseph Mankiewicz."
I speak to Swinton shortly afterwards, next to the box office. She seems giddy with success. When I tell her that locals have been saying they want something like this here permanently, her eyes gleam. "Actually, my great dream is to run a cinema," she says. "That would be absolutely wonderful."


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by Peter Mutai
NAIROBI, July 12 (Xinhua)--What started as a weekend shopping spree has with time become a daily occurrence as many people flood markets in search of their popular traditional vegetables in major markets in East Africa.
In the main markets like Owino and Kikomba markets in Uganda and Kenya respectively, shoppers are seen parking their cars as those without vehicles also walk along the narrow pathways to be able to choose the best leafy vegetables of their choice.
The demand is the same in Tanzania bigger towns and smaller towns as well smaller towns in Uganda and Kenya.
According to the traders, the number of their clients has increased in the past few years hence helping sustain the business that was once unthinkable to operate in major urban centers as traditional vegetables were regarded as a village reserve.
John Kebati who transports vegetables to Nairobi from Nyamira in the Kisii highlands in western Kenya attributes the high demand of traditional vegetables in Nairobi to popularity of fresh vegetables that are grown under natural environment unlike the ones grown in urban farms. "I started off my business in a small way but it has since improved so fast as the businessmen whom I supply in Nairobi has increased in numbers," he says.


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Ayla Brown's appearance yesterday on behalf of her father, would-be US Senator Scott Brown, is big news: the Herald gives it the cover treatment, and WBUR currently has a story hooked to Ayla's presser front and center on its web site.
The question is, why? Yes, Ayla is an "'American Idol' startlet" (per the Herald).


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Bogus debt collectors. Imposter IRS agents. Phony sweepstakes. These types of scams pose a threat to virtually every American – and savvy scammers use every trick in the book to gain trust, such as building rapport, using professional-looking websites, and even playing on emotions. But how prevalent are these deceptive practices? We wanted to find… Read More »


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body lift
I have a 90 yj and I bought this thing with 31-12.50 tires and I have about 1 to 2 inches of clearance between the tires and fenders I was thinking about a 3 inch body lift. I heard that body lifts are garbage I would like some input on the body lift verse a susp. lift.
i would go with a suspension lift...body lifts are ugly and the mess up linkage and you have to mess with your fan shroud...and i've heard of the body coming off the frame in accidents when people are hit in the rear because of body lifts and they sit so far off the frame
I think a 1 to 2 inch body lift would be ok. I had a 2 inch body lift on a truck, and it was fine. 3 inches wouldn't look so great, I don't think. Personally, I wouldn't go over 1 inch on a body lift. You could just add a leaf and get about another 1.5 inches out of it, which is close to the 3 you want and wouldn't cost you an arm and a leg.
I have always heard about the body of a vehicle slipping off a frame in an accident, but I wonder if that isn't an urban legend. I'm sure that it is possible, but maybe not as likely as the rumors say.
i think hardy1234 on here said he has heard of it before...and i've read about it...a truck with a 3 inch body lift got hit from behind and the body came off onto the car that him him in the rear
and im with a amerijeep, don't go over an inch when you can add a leaf
Use the 1" poly body mount kit from Daystar. It will accomplish what you want with out creating a bunch of problems.
ya it gives new spacers between the body instead of going over the stock ones
I have a 3 inch body lift on my jeep, had one on my ram, and one on my bronco, and one on my dads jeep, never had a problem with them, all of my friends have them, they never had a problem with them. If you dont like the look, buy gap guards, they are 50 bucks, and it takes 30 minutes to install. Body lifts are great and cheap.
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