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Re: QE4, DOLLAR COLLAPSE WORSE THAN NUCLEAR WAR – Greg Mannarino Interview

mikosloper — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:23:06 -0000

what an absurd assertion.... a nuclear war will be MUCH worse than an economic collapse.... WAKE UP!!

Re: Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination

antwrites — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:06:08 -0000

Thank you for your supportive comment.

Re: Health Authorities Now Admit Severe Side Effects of Vaccination

OH Brother — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:18:50 -0000

Wow 4 subscribers, zero comments (on nearly every posting), and nothing in terms of tangible articles to support half baked, biased comments. It makes no difference to "discuss" such things - you have all the answers. You can believe in a mythical god but cannot see simple truths.

Re: The Fight for Real Organic Food Continues

Ingredients Solutions — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:29:21 -0000

SO MUCH FOR THE MYTHS CONSIDER THE FACTS ON CARRAGEENAN FOR A CHANGE

Q. What is Carrageenan??

A. Carrageenan is a naturally-occurring seaweed extract. It is widely used in foods and non-foods to improve texture and stability. Common uses include meat and poultry, dairy products, canned pet food, cosmetics and toothpaste.

Q. Why the controversy?

A. Self-appointed consumer watchdogs have produced numerous web pages filled with words condemning carrageenan as an unsafe food additive for human consumption. However, in 70+ years of carrageenan being used in processed foods, not a single substantiated claim of an acute or chronic disease has been reported as arising from carrageenan consumption. On a more science-based footing, food regulatory agencies in the US, the EU, and in the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) repeatedly review and continue to approve carrageenan as a safe food additive.

Q. What has led up to this misrepresentation of the safety of an important food
stabilizer, gelling agent and thickener?

A. It clearly has to be attributed to the research of Dr. Joanne Tobacman, an Associate Prof at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She and a group of molecular biologists have accused carrageenan of being a potential inflammatory agent as a conclusion from laboratory experiments with cells of the digestive tract. It requires a lot of unproven assumptions to even suggest that consumption of carrageenan in the human diet causes inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract. The objectivity of the Chicago research is also flawed by the fact that Dr Tobacman has tried to have carrageenan declared an unsafe food additive on weak technical arguments that she broadcast widely a decade before the University of Chicago research began.

Q. What brings poligeenan into a discussion of carrageenan?

A. Poligeenan (“degraded carrageenan” in pre-1988 scientific and regulatory publications) is a possible carcinogen to humans; carrageenan is not. The only
relationship between carrageenan and poligeenan is that the former is the
starting material to make the latter. Poligeenan is not a component of carrageenan and cannot be produced in the digestive tract from carrageenan-containing foods.

Q. What are the differences between poligeenan and carrageenan?

A. The production process for poligeenan requires treating carrageenan with strong
acid at high temp (about that of boiling water) for 6 hours or more. These severe processing conditions convert the long chains of carrageenan to much shorter ones: ten to one hundred times shorter. In scientific terms the molecular weight of poligeenan is 10,000 to 20,000; whereas that of carrageenan is 200,000 to 800,000. Concern has been raised about the amount of material in carrageenan with molecular weight less than 50,000. The actual amount (well under 1%) cannot even be detected accurately with current technology. Certainly it presents no threat to human health.

Q. What is the importance of these molecular weight differences?

A. Poligeenan contains a fraction of material low enough in molecular weight that it can penetrate the walls of the digestive tract and enter the blood stream. The molecular weight of carrageenan is high enough that this penetration is impossible.
Animal feeding studies starting in the 1960s have demonstrated that once the low molecular weight fraction of poligeenan enters the blood stream in large enough amounts, pre-cancerous lesions begin to form. These lesions are not observed in animals fed with a food containing carrageenan.

Q. Does carrageenan get absorbed in the digestive track?

A. Carrageenan passes through the digestive system intact, much like food fiber. In fact, carrageenan is a combination of soluble and insoluble nutritional fiber, though
its use level in foods is so low as not to be a significant source of fiber in the diet.

Summary
Carrageenan has been proven completely safe for consumption. Poligeenan is not a component of carrageenan.

Closing Remarks
The consumer watchdogs with their blogs and websites would do far more service to consumers by researching their sources and present only what can be substantiated by good science. Unfortunately we are in an era of media frenzy that rewards controversy.

Re: Somali militants mock U.S. bounty, saying they’d give 10 camels for Obama’s location

Ant Writes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:42:22 -0000

Very well said. Thank you!

Re: Somali militants mock U.S. bounty, saying they’d give 10 camels for Obama’s location

Bran Deditems — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:41:58 -0000

The US need not offer bounties for what the Somalian country should be doing for themselves in the first place. Offering $ does not suddenly make the people appear and likely the $ will be used in other offshoots of terrorism. You will know them by their fruits.

Re: UPDATE: Judge Napolitano WAS fired [video] – Feb 18, 2012

antwrites — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:50:25 -0000

If you have time, you shold watch a movie called "The Lives of Others". It's a German film about hiring civilians to spy on their neighbors..the Stasi were real up until 1989
Thanks for reading

Re: UPDATE: Judge Napolitano WAS fired [video] – Feb 18, 2012

Freedombytheway — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:42:43 -0000

Bloggers will be next. I agree with THAT guy. The Judge should break out on his own. The noose will continue to tighten at Fox.
Thanks for the link.

Re: Chaplains Told What They Can and Can Not Say about Obama

antwrites — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:57:37 -0000

That's fine. Thanks.

Re: Chaplains Told What They Can and Can Not Say about Obama

Pat — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:50:13 -0000

No, just a lay person

Re: Chaplains Told What They Can and Can Not Say about Obama

antwrites — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:29:15 -0000

Thank you for the comment. Are you a chaplain?

Re: Chaplains Told What They Can and Can Not Say about Obama

Pat — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:07:45 -0000

This has gone too far and should be stopped.

Re: The Man Without a Plan – Jan 27, 2012

antwrites — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:54:36 -0000

I fear people will STILL vote for him

Re: UPDATE: Georgia Counts finds Obama Slam Dunk Unqualified to serve as President

Ehancock — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:44:37 -0000

One answer is that Orly does not understand Georgia law as it applies to ADMINISTRATIVE LAW COURTS, which this court was. It's not a regular court. It can only issue recommendations, in this case to the Attorney General, and it does not have the authority to issue subpoenas (though it can apply to a Superior Court to get one). If it does, it is the Superior Court that issues the subpoena.

It was ORLY, of course, who claimed that she had gotten a subpoena from the court.

Re: The Man Without a Plan – Jan 27, 2012

Freedombytheway — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:01:49 -0000

Oh, he has a plan...to destroy the America we know.

Re: UPDATE: Georgia Counts finds Obama Slam Dunk Unqualified to serve as President

antwrites — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:51:06 -0000

So I wonder what the purpose of it was...

Re: UPDATE: Georgia Counts finds Obama Slam Dunk Unqualified to serve as President

Ehancock — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:40:14 -0000

There was no subpoena in the Georgia case. Orly Taitz simply filled in some subpoena forms. When Obama and other "subopenaed" witnesses failed to appear, the judge did not say a word. Not a word. He certainly would have said something if they really had been subpoenaed.

The judge has not made a ruling. In fact, the court has said that it will accept briefs in the cases until February 5.

Re: Silence about NDAA Vindicates Conspiracy Theorists

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:12:19 -0000

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Re: Political Science for Dummies: Humor

antwrites — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:47:06 -0000

I apologize. I actually got this from an email forwarded to me. If you give me your contact info and link, I will definitely reference. Again, I apologize.

Re: Political Science for Dummies: Humor

LaughOnLine — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:38:23 -0000

Would you make please an own article and not to copy from us! Next time we will report such activity!

Re: Butter $500 per pound in Norway Dec 14, 2011

antwrites — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:43:33 -0000

Mi tradukos.
"Norvegujo, unu de la plej riĉaj landoj en la mondo, nun havas mankon de butero pro timo pri la estonteco de Eŭropo kaj la eŭro."
Ĉu tio helpas?

Re: Butter $500 per pound in Norway Dec 14, 2011

Piotr Rumiński — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:29:34 -0000

Kara, bonvolu klarigi la temon, cxar mi iomete ne komprenas pri kio temas.
amike piotr