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The Big GMO Cover-up
Publish date: Jul 21, 2009
Summary: Something doesn't quite add up about genetically modified (GM) foods.
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Big biotech claims that genetic engineering is a necessary step towards feeding the world's growing population. And yet debate still rages as to whether GM crops actually increase yields at all. Furthermore, the UN recently stated that 30,000 people a day were starving to death, but not because of underproduction of crops. It's simply through lack of access.
Independent scientific studies raised serious alarm bells over the safety of GM foods over a decade ago. But while this made front-page headlines in European newspapers, the North American mainstream media were conspiratorially silent.
Biotech companies stand to make billions from their seed patents. Governments and supreme courts have sanctioned the patenting of life itself. The planet's food supply is becoming increasingly dominated by fewer and fewer players.
If the biotech industry's stated intention of feeding the world is misguided or even misdirecting, is there another political agenda behind GM food? Have we been mis-sold? Were we even given a choice in the first place?
It looks the same—the bread, pies, sodas, even corn on the cob. So much of what we eat every day looks just like it did 20 years ago. But something profoundly different has happened without our knowledge or consent. And according to leading doctors, what we don't know may already be hurting us big time.
In May, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) publicly condemned genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food supply, saying they posed "a serious health risk." They called on the US government to implement an immediate moratorium on all genetically modified (GM) foods, and urged physicians to prescribe non-GMO diets for all patients.
Genetic engineering is quite distinct from selective breeding because it involves taking genes from a completely different species and inserting them into the DNA of a plant or animal. The long term effects of this for our health and our planet's biodiversity are unknown.
AAEM, an "Academy of Firsts," was the first US medical organization to describe or acknowledge Gulf War Syndrome, chemical sensitivity, food allergy/addiction, and a host of other medical issues. But the potential for harm from GMOs dwarfs anything they have identified thus far. It can impact everyone who eats.
More than 70% of the foods on supermarket shelves contain derivatives of the eight GM foods on the market - soy, corn, oil from canola and cottonseed, sugar from sugar beets, Hawaiian papaya, and a small amount of zucchini and crook neck squash. The biotech industry hopes to genetically engineer virtually all remaining vegetables, fruits, grains, and beans (not to mention animals).
The two primary reasons why plants are engineered are to allow them to either drink poison, or produce poison. The poison drinkers are called herbicide tolerant. They're inserted with bacterial genes that allow them to survive otherwise deadly doses of toxic herbicide. Biotech companies sell the seed and herbicide as a package deal, and US farmers use hundreds of millions of pounds more herbicide because of these types of GM crops. The poison producers are called Bt crops. Inserted genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus Thuringiensis produce an insect-killing pesticide called Bt-toxin in every cell of the plant. Both classes of GM crops are linked to dangerous side effects.
Doctors and Patients: Just Say No to GMOs
"Now that soy is genetically engineered," warns Ohio allergist Dr. John Boyles, "it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it." How dangerous are GM foods? World renowned biologist Pushpa M. Bhargava, PhD, believes they are the major reason for the recent rise in serious illnesses in the US.
The range of what GMOs might do to us is breathtaking. "Several animal studies," according to the AAEM, reveal a long list of disorders, including: "infertility, immune dysregulation, accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associated with cholesterol synthesis, [faulty] insulin regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation, and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gastrointestinal system."
"There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects," says the AAEM position paper. Based on established scientific criteria, "there is causation."
Difficult to Trace the Damage
Outside the carefully controlled laboratory setting, it is more difficult to confidently assign GMOs as the cause for a particular set of diseases, especially since there are no human clinical trials and no agency that even attempts to monitor GMO-related health problems among the population. "If there are problems," says biologist David Schubert, PhD, of the Salk Institute, "we will probably never know because the cause will not be traceable and many diseases take a very long time to develop."
GM crops were widely introduced in 1996. Within nine years, the incidence of people in the US with three or more chronic diseases nearly doubled - from 7% to 13%. Visits to the emergency room due to allergies doubled from 1997 to 2002. And overall food related illnesses doubled from 1994 to 2001, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, and autism are also among the conditions that are skyrocketing in the US.
The Lyme Induced Autism Foundation, a patient advocacy group, is not waiting for studies to prove that GMOs cause or worsen Lyme, autism, and the many other diseases on the rise since gene-spliced foods were introduced. Like AAEM, the LIA Foundation says there is more than enough evidence of harm in animal feeding studies for them to "urge doctors to prescribe non-GMO diets" and for "individuals, especially those with autism, Lyme disease, and associated conditions, to avoid" GM foods.
Another patient group, those suffering from eosinophilia myalgia syndrome (EMS), is more confident about the GMO origins of their particular disease. It was caused by a genetically engineered brand of a food supplement called L-tryptophan in the late 1980s. It killed about 100 Americans and caused 5,000-10,000 people to fall sick or become permanently disabled. The characteristics of EMS made it much easier for authorities to identify the epidemic and its cause. It only affected those who consumed the pills; symptoms came on almost immediately; and its effects were horrific - including unbearable pain and paralysis. There was even a unique, easy-to-measure change in the white blood cell count. But even though EMS was practically screaming to be discovered, it still took the medical community more than four years - and it was almost missed.
"The experiments simply haven't been done and we now have become the guinea pigs." David Suzuki, renowned Canadian geneticist.
What if the GMOs throughout our food supply are creating common diseases which come on slowly? It would be nearly impossible to confirm them as the cause. "Physicians are probably seeing the effects in their patients," says AAEM president Dr. Jennifer Armstrong, "but need to know how to ask the right questions." The patients at greatest risk are the very young. "Children are the most likely to be adversely effected by toxins and other dietary problems" related to GM foods, says Dr. Schubert. They become "the experimental animals," our collective canaries in the coal mine.
Warnings by Government Scientists Ignored and Denied
Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had warned about all these problems back in the early 1990s. According to secret documents made public from a lawsuit, the scientific consensus at the agency was that GM foods were inherently dangerous, and might create hard-to-detect allergies, poisons, new "super" diseases, and nutritional problems. They urged their superiors to require rigorous long-term tests. But the White House had ordered the agency to promote biotechnology and the FDA responded by recruiting Michael Taylor, Monsanto's former attorney, to head up the formation of GMO policy. That policy, which is in effect today, denies knowledge of the scientists' concerns and declares that no safety studies on GMOs are required. It is up to Monsanto and the other biotech companies - who have a long history of lying about the toxicity of their earlier products - to determine if their own foods are safe.
After overseeing GMO policy at the FDA, Mr. Taylor worked on GMO issues at the USDA, and then later became Monsanto's vice president. In the summer of 2009, he went through the revolving door again. Taylor was appointed by the Obama administration as the de facto US food safety czar at the FDA.
Dangerously Few Studies, Untraceable Diseases
"Where is the scientific evidence showing that GM plants/food are toxicologically safe, as assumed by the biotechnology companies?" This was the concluding question posed in a 2007 review of published scientific literature on the health risks of GM plants, showing that the number of studies and available data are "very scarce."
"The experiments simply haven't been done and we now have become the guinea pigs," says renowned Canadian geneticist David Suzuki. He adds, "Anyone that says, 'Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,' I say is either unbelievably stupid or deliberately lying."
When consumers realize the dangers of GM foods and that the FDA has abdicated its responsibility to protect us, they usually want to opt out of this massive feeding experiment. In fact, most Americans already say they would avoid GMO brands if given a choice.
It wouldn't take a majority of us to kick GMOs out of our food supply.
Kraft and other food companies wouldn't wait until half their market
share is gone before telling their suppliers to switch to the non-GM
corn, soy, etc. By using GM ingredients, they don't offer customers a
single advantage. The food doesn't taste better, last longer, or have
more nutrients. Thus, if even a tiny percentage of US consumers - say 5%
or 15 million people - started avoiding GMO brands, the millions in
lost sales revenue would likely force brands to remove all GM
ingredients, like they already have in Europe.
But the FDA doesn't want to give us the choice. They ignore the wishes of nine out of ten Americans for mandatory GMO labeling in order to promote the economic interests of just five biotech companies.
The Shocking Evidence of Harm from GMOs
Genetically modified (GM) foods have not been scientifically tested on human beings. (The only published human feeding study had ominous results) Instead, animals are used as our surrogates, but the few published animal safety studies are generally short-term and superficial. In fact, industry-funded research is widely criticized as designed to avoid finding problems. They've got bad science - down to a science. Even still, the accumulated evidence of harm is compelling people to read ingredient labels and avoid brands with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Infant Mortality and Reproductive Disorders
When GM soy flour was added to the diets of female rats, most of their babies died within three weeks - compared to only a 10% death rate among mothers fed natural soy. The babies from the GM-fed group were also smaller and later had problems getting pregnant.
When male rats were fed GM soy, their testicles actually changed color - from the normal pink to dark blue. Mice testicles also showed changes, including damaged young sperm cells. And the DNA in mice embryos functioned differently when their parents ate GM soy. Mice fed GM corn had fewer babies, and their children were smaller than normal.
About two dozen US farmers say that thousands of their pigs became sterile after consuming certain GM corn varieties. Some had false pregnancies; others gave birth to bags of water. Cows and bulls also became infertile when fed the same corn. Investigators in the state of Haryana, India, report that most buffalo that ate GM cottonseed had reproductive complications such as premature deliveries, abortions, infertility, and prolapsed uteruses. Many calves died.
In the US population, the incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.
Food, A Registered Pesticide?
When insects bite genetically modified Bt corn and cotton, they get a mouthful of a built-in toxin, produced by every cell of the plant. The poison splits open their stomach and kills them. The GM plants are registered as pesticides with the Environmental Protection Agency.
Biotech companies claim that Bt-toxin has a history of safe use, since organic farmers and others use Bt bacteria spray for natural insect control. Genetic engineers insert genes from the bacteria into the DNA of the corn and cotton, so the plants themselves do the killing.
They fail to point out that the Bt-toxin produced in GM plants:
- Is thousands of times more concentrated than natural Bt spray
- Is designed to be more toxic
- Has properties of an allergen
- Unlike the spray, cannot be washed off the plant.
Those exact same symptoms are now being reported by farm workers handling Bt cotton grown in India. According to Sunday India, medical records confirm that "victims of itching have increased massively . . . related to Bt cotton farming."
If GM crops kill animals, how safe are they for us to eat?
When sheep grazed on Bt cotton plants after harvest, thousands died. Post mortems showed severe irritation and black patches in their intestines and livers. Investigators said preliminary evidence "strongly suggests that the sheep mortality was due to a toxin. . . . most probably Bt-toxin." In a small feeding study, 100% of sheep fed Bt cotton died within 30 days, while those grazing on natural cotton plants in the adjoining field had no symptoms.
Similarly, buffalo that grazed on natural cotton plants for years without incident are reacting to the Bt variety. In one village, for example, they allowed their 13 buffalo to graze on Bt cotton plants for a single day in January 2008. All died within three days.
Bt corn was also implicated in the deaths of cows in Germany, and horses, buffaloes, and chickens in the Philippines. Even Monsanto's own 90-day rat feeding study showed evidence of poisoning in major organs due to their Bt corn. And a 2008 Italian government study found that Bt corn provoked immune responses in mice.
GMOs Contain Allergens
Immune system problems in GMO-fed animals are "a consistent feature of all the studies," according to GM food safety expert Dr. Arpad Pusztai. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine specifically notes an increase in cytokines, "associated with asthma, allergy, and inflammation." While all three conditions are on the rise in the US, it is the upsurge in food allergies among children that has generated the most alarm nationwide.
There are many reasons why GMOs might be the cause:
- The GM proteins produced in GM soy, corn, and papayas have properties of known allergens. They actually fail the allergy screening protocol recommended by the World Health Organization.
- The process of creating a GMO can introduce new allergens or elevate existing ones. Both GM soy and corn contain new unintended allergenic proteins, and GM soy has as much as seven times higher levels of a natural soy allergen - trypsin inhibitor.
- Herbicide tolerant GM crops have considerably more residues of toxic herbicides, which may provoke reactions.
- Skin prick allergy tests confirm that some people react to GM, but not to non-GM soy.
Soon after GM soy was introduced to the UK, soy allergies skyrocketed by 50%. But there are other non-GM foods that are also provoking more allergic responses now than in the past. Research shows, however, that consuming GM foods may still be the culprit by provoking sensitivity to other foods.
Mice fed Bt-toxin, for example, not only reacted to the Bt itself, they started having immune reactions to foods that were formerly harmless. Similarly, after mice ate GM peas, they started to react to other foods that previously had no impact. In addition, GM soy drastically reduces digestive enzymes in mice. If our ability to breakdown proteins is impaired, we could become allergic to a wide variety of foods.
GMOs and Liver Problems
As a primary detoxifier, the condition of the liver can point to toxins in our diet. The livers of mice and rats fed GM feed had profound changes. Some were smaller and partially atrophied, others were significantly heavier, possibly inflamed, and some showed signs of a toxic insult from eating GM food.
The Worst Finding of All? GMOs Remain Inside Us!
The only published human feeding study revealed what many find to be the most disturbing discovery. The genes inserted into GM crops transfer into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and continue to function. This means that long after we stop eating GMOs, we may still have potentially harmful GM proteins produced continuously inside of us. Although scientists only tested this on soy, if Bt genes from corn chips also transferred, they could transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories, possibly for the rest of our lives.
When doctors hear about this evidence, they often respond by citing the huge increase of gastrointestinal problems over the last decade. GM foods might be colonizing the gut flora of North Americans.
Even if GMOs helped combat global hunger, which they don't, it would be hard to justify putting these high-risk organisms into the food supply in their current state. Especially since GM crops cross-pollinate and contaminate the environment. Their self-propagating genetic pollution may outlast the effects of global warming and nuclear waste.
Shhhh! Meet the Scientists Who Dared to Break the Silence on GMOs.
Arpad Pusztai
Biologist Arpad Pusztai had more than 300 articles and 12 books to his credit and was the world's top expert in his field. But when he accidentally discovered that genetically modified (GM) foods are dangerous, he became the biotech industry's bad-boy poster child, setting an example for other scientists thinking about blowing the whistle.
In the early 1990s, Dr. Pusztai was awarded a $3 million grant by the UK government to design the system for safety testing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). His team included more than 20 scientists working at three facilities, including the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, the top nutritional research lab in the UK, and his employer for the previous 35 years. The results of Pusztai's work were supposed to become the required testing protocols for all of Europe. But when he fed supposedly harmless GM potatoes to rats, things didn't go as planned.
Within just 10 days, the animals developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems. Moreover, the cause was almost certainly side effects from the process of genetic engineering itself. In other words, the GM foods on the market, which are created from the same process, might have similar affects on humans.
With permission from his Director, Pusztai was interviewed on TV and expressed his concerns about GM foods. He became a hero at his Institute - for two days. Then came the phone calls from the pro-GMO Prime Minister's office to the Institute's Director. The next morning, Pusztai was fired. He was silenced with threats of a lawsuit, his team was dismantled, and the protocols never implemented. His Institute, the biotech industry, and the UK government, together launched a smear campaign to destroy Pusztai's reputation.
Eventually, an invitation to speak before Parliament lifted his gag order and his research was published in the prestigious Lancet. No similar in-depth studies have yet tested the GM foods eaten every day by Americans and Canadians.
Irina Ermakova
Irina Ermakova, a senior scientist at the Russian National Academy of Sciences, was shocked to discover that more than half of the baby rats in her experiment died within three weeks. She had fed the mothers GM soy flour purchased at a supermarket. The babies from mothers fed natural non-GMO soy, however, only suffered a 10% death rate. She repeated her experiment three times with similar results.
Dr. Ermakova reported her preliminary findings at a conference in October 2005, asking the scientific community to replicate her study. Instead, she was attacked and vilified. Her boss told her to stop doing anymore GM food research. Samples were stolen from her lab, and a paper was even set fire on her desk. One of her colleagues tried to comfort her by saying, "Maybe the GM soy will solve the overpopulation problem."
Of the mostly spurious criticisms leveled at Ermakova, one was significant enough to raise doubts about the cause of the deaths. She did not conduct a biochemical analysis of the feed. Without it, we don't know if some rogue toxin had contaminated the soy flour. But more recent events suggest that whatever caused the high infant mortality was not unique to her one bag of GM flour. In November 2005, the supplier of rat food to the laboratory where Ermakova worked began using GM soy in the formulation. All the rats were now eating it. After two months, Ermakova asked other scientists about the infant mortality rate in their experiments. It had skyrocketed to over 55%.
It's been four years since these findings were reported. No one has yet repeated Ermakova's study, even though it would cost just a few thousand dollars.
Andrés Carrasco
Embryologist Andrés Carrasco told a leading Buenos Aires newspaper about the results of his research into Roundup®, the herbicide sold in conjunction with Monsanto's genetically engineered Roundup Ready® crops. Dr. Carrasco, who works in Argentina's Ministry of Science, said his studies of amphibians suggest that the herbicide could cause defects in the brain, intestines, and hearts of fetuses. Moreover, the amount of Roundup® used on GM soy fields was as much as 1,500 times greater than that which created the defects. Tragically, his research had been inspired by the experience of desperate peasant and indigenous communities who were suffering from exposure to toxic herbicides used on the GM soy fields throughout Argentina.
According to an article in Grain, the biotech industry "mounted an unprecedented attack on Carrasco, ridiculing his research and even issuing personal threats." In addition, four men arrived unannounced at his laboratory and were extremely aggressive, attempting to interrogate Carrasco and obtain details of his study. "It was a violent, disproportionate, dirty reaction," he said. "I hadn't even discovered anything new, only confirmed conclusions that others had reached."
Argentina's Association of Environmental Lawyers filed a petition calling for a ban on Roundup®, and the Ministry of Defense banned GM soy from its fields.
Terje Traavik
Prominent virologist Terje Traavik presented preliminary data at a February 2004 meeting at the UN Biosafety Protocol Conference, showing that:
- Filipinos living next to a GM cornfield developed serious symptoms while the corn was pollinating;
- Genetic material inserted into GM crops transferred to rat organs after a single meal; and
- Key safety assumptions about genetically engineered viruses were overturned, calling into question the safety of using these viruses in vaccines.
The biotech industry mercilessly attacked Dr. Traavik. Their excuse? He presented unpublished work. But presenting preliminary data at professional conferences is a long tradition in science, something that the biotech industry itself relied on in 1999 to try to counter the evidence that butterflies were endangered by GM corn.
Ironically, three years after attacking Traavik, the same biotech proponents sharply criticized a peer-reviewed publication for not citing unpublished data that had been presented at a conference. The paper shows how the runoff of GM Bt corn into streams can kill the "caddis fly," which may seriously upset marine ecosystems. The study set off a storm of attacks against its author, ecologist Emma Rosi-Marshall, which Nature described in a September 2009 article as a "hail of abuse."
Nothing to Hide?
When Ohio State University plant ecologist Allison Snow discovered problematic side effects in GM sunflowers, Pioneer Hi-Bred International and Dow AgroSciences blocked further research by withholding GM seeds and genes. After Marc Lappé and Britt Bailey found significant reductions in cancer-fighting isoflavones in Monsanto's GM soybeans, the seed seller, Hartz, told them they could no longer provide samples. Research by a plant geneticist at a leading US university was also thwarted when two companies refused him GM corn. In fact, almost no independent studies are conducted that might find problems. According to a scathing opinion piece in an August 2009 Scientific American, quot;Agritech companies have given themselves veto power over the work of independent researchers. . . . Only studies that the seed companies have approved ever see the light of a peer-reviewed journal."
Restricted access is not limited to the US. When a Japanese scientist wanted to conduct animal feeding studies on the GM soybeans under review in Japan, both the government and the bean's maker DuPont refused to give him any samples. Hungarian Professor Bela Darvas discovered that Monsanto's GM corn hurt endangered species in his country. Monsanto immediately shut off his supplies. Dr. Darvas later gave a speech on his preliminary findings and discovered that a false and incriminating report about his research was circulating. He traced it to a Monsanto public relations employee, who claimed it mysteriously appeared on her desk - so she faxed it out.
Why is Science and Debate Being Silenced?
The attacks on scientists have taken its toll. There appears to be a de facto ban on scientists asking certain questions and finding certain results.
New Zealand Parliament member Sue Kedgley told a Royal Commission in 2001: "Personally I have been contacted by telephone and e-mail by a number of scientists who have serious concerns about aspects of the research that is taking place . . . and the increasingly close ties that are developing between science and commerce, but who are convinced that if they express these fears publicly, ... or even if they asked the awkward and difficult questions, they will be eased out of their institution."
University of Minnesota biologist Phil Regal testified before the same Commission, "I think the people who boost genetic engineering are going to have to do a mea culpa and ask for forgiveness, like the Pope did on the inquisition." Sue Kedgley has a different idea. She recommends we "set up human clinical trials using volunteers of genetic engineering scientists and their families, because I think they are so convinced of the safety of their products, I'm sure they would very readily volunteer to become part of a human clinical trial."
Failing that, are you willing to continue your participation?
This article is found at Signs of the Times News.
International bestselling author and independent filmmaker Jeffrey M. Smith is the Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology and the leading spokesperson on the health dangers of GMOs. His first book, Seeds of Deception, is the world's bestselling book on the subject. His second, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods, identifies 65 risks of GMOs and demonstrates how superficial government approvals are not competent to find most of them. Mr. Smith has pioneered the Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, designed to create the tipping point of consumer rejection against GMOs and force them out of the food supply.
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In a broad sense, these countertop convection ovens cook similar to a rotisserie style. Instead of the food rotating on a spindle, the air inside the appliance circulates.
What do countertop convection ovens do?
Countertop convection ovens cook typically at both lower temperatures and faster speeds due to the air circulating around the foods. Because of this, foods do not shrink as much as usual, so bottom line you have larger portions. This can reduce your food costs.
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Vegetables cook and caramelize quicker in convection ovens. Baked items express steam quicker, yet come out soft and springy.
- They both sit conveniently on a countertop for cooking.
- Both have racks at the bottom of the glass dishes so meats can sit on the racks. Fats drain off the meats to the bottom of the pan, making for healthier cooking.
- Both can cook meat from a frozen state, so great for people who don't plan in advance.
- Both have easy cleanup, just toss in the dishwasher, all except the actual heating unit
- Both use less energy than standard ovens, thus reducing power bills.
- Useful for cooking during the summer without heating up your whole kitchen.
- Both are portable. Useful for dorm living, RV lifestyles, small apartment living, tiny houses, and anyone that has small space or moves a lot.
There is a learning curve to both ovens. Both can cook a wide range of foods including breads, desserts and more. At the end of this post is a recommendation for a cookbook specifically for convection ovens.
Flavorwave Versus Sunpentown Reviews
Sunpentown convection oven recommends that meat be defrosted before cooking. That was a bit of a negative for me. I love the option of being able to place totally frozen meat in the convection oven. However, it does have a "thaw" mode to use. That greatly speeds up the process, giving an effective work-around.
Sunpentown convection oven seemed to take foods longer to cook than Flavorwave.
I didn't like the rack height options as well for the Sunpentown convection oven. They were either too low or too high in the unit for my liking. It also did not come with a height extender enabling one to cook a turkey. If you do not plan to be cooking turkeys in your countertop oven however, that wouldn't be a drawback.
Otherwise, the Sunpentown is a solid buy. I would purchase it again if I needed one.
With Flavorwave you could place frozen meat on the rack and it came out very moist nearly every time. I felt like it cooked it to perfection.
I preferred Flavorwave's rack height. It was in the one third percentile range that I liked. I loved that it had a height extender you could use for cooking larger meats such as a turkey. That could also give greater options when baking.
Flavorwave also had the additional feature of cooking with infrared light. I felt like food cooked somewhat faster due to this. The Supentown didn't have this feature.
After using both models for extended time, if I have to purchase again I would go with the Flavorwave. The Sunpentown is fine in its own right, I don't regret getting it, but Flavorwave has an edge for me.
You might also enjoy my posts: How to Host a Fantastically Low Stress Dinner Party, Gourmet Seriously Good Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe and Delicious Shepherd Pie Recipe.
I actually used these countertop convection ovens so much, that I gave one to each of my adult children for their families. Both families used theirs alot and commented how much they really enjoyed these small kitchen appliances. Do you have a preference?
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For the record, Antifa and BAMN rioters arrived at the demonstration to commit violence and did so. Whereas in Europe, it is typically a one-sided affair when the black bloc lashes out, at Berkeley, they met their opposite numbers. The full video clip of Damigo punching the rioter clearly shows that she delivered an ineffective short-hand to his chest before he slugged her with a stiff right-punch to the jaw. To paraphrase Mercutio: a plague on both their houses.
While organized skinhead violence in the U.S. is concerning to you now, where have you been when anti-Trump rioters ran amok following the election?
As for the Kremlin, it will support whatever it feels like. Its support did not make the anti-Vietnam War or anti-nuclear weapons movements any less genuine during the Cold War, and it certainly does not diminish the aspirations of Western peoples to protect their sovereignty from supranational institutions, control their borders and undo the official multiculturalism and political correctness ideologies that have disrupted social cohesion.
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To all readers of this thread….
I have been reading SWJ since 2004 when I first became aware of it…and I have since then contributed a few articles to it as well as FP…
But since the Russian military annexation of Crimea…their unleashing of non linear warfare with cyber and information warfare as it's core and then their military invasion of Ukraine and their adventure into Syria in the name to defeat IS which we all know is a farce……
During the last two years I have posted roughly 30,000 posts on these two areas and then starting posting more and more information on Russian infor and cyber warfare.
Alone on the Ukrainian thread Views have in the last two years climbed to over 980,000 …the Syrian thread climbed in the same time to over 360,000. I also noted that in the last two months the Russian disinformation and hacking has climbed over 8,000 Views.
While it is hard to see if readers were looking/researching or just skimming through I am happy that they "viewed" anything as I have seen that basically a lot of what I posted never did make it into US MSM or if it did…then days later.
During this process I have learned the value of social media OSINT and the ability of conducting excellent information warfare using social media….and took pains to show how Russian info warfare was being conducted both in Ukraine and Syria….and developed along the way a working relationship with @bellingcat one of the best social media OSINT types going these days..actually produces better quality open reporting than anything I have previously seen in the IC which also uses OSINT...
Along the way I have bashed the Obama WH for basically changing the entire ME in the desire to tilt fully to Iran and for their apparent lack of a solid strategic strategy on virtually anything…and they walked away from engaging in the Ukraine…..the Obama WH was great smoke and mirrors machine and the US MSM never really challenged that…
We then transitioned to the Trump WH….and suddenly and truly we are seeing for the first time the somehat serious political theory of "Wag the Dog" in it's full glory being applied to cover up for a total lack of any strategy on anything other than "tweets" being used as a FP……using "on a whim and a prayer" as FP....
I learned a long time ago after VN if one does not ever speak truth to power things get worse….and in my work career that was a principle I held to which cost me sometimes, but I always learned even then you in fact move forward…because some along the way respected that.
The posting has led me to fully "see" and "understand" the intertwining of a lack of US FP built on well thought through strategies and allowed me to see at the same the interesting development of the Russian non linear warfare which is pushing their political war with the US….and they do view it as an actual war…somehow we do not…
BTW I have posted many comments on this concept of "seeing" and "understanding" something that drives me in all these years as I learned long ago ground reality "does talk to you..if you are willing to listen"….
After being recently chastised and sidelined for three days "for being on a soap box" that not many were willing to actually share…..even though reading and then responding by cut and pasting comments….I have decided it is now a good time to withdraw from SWC…it has been a great ride , the knowledge I gained in the postings has flowed into my company in a far different way than I even imagined and is openly up a startling new realm in integrating hacking defense with customers demanding now how to counter the everyday info war they are in….
It has been one heck of a long ride and I really enjoyed it…will comment on occasions if an article interests me…….
The killing in eastern Ukraine and Syria will just continue until someone stands up in the US and truly leads….and leads not by tweets….but by the realization of what Putin's geo political goals really are guided by a strategic strategy...finally.....
Based on evidence I have had the opportunity to be shown/review the person tweeting might not be in office much longer IF treason counts for anything these days in the US…
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AND if readers of this thread have not learned at least the following....Russian propaganda is no different than what the current US President is doing.....with his tweeting and then lack of clarification of what he tweeted......
The White House insists Trump is not trying to tilt outcome of #frenchelection after #ParisAttack.
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Another terrorist attack in Paris. The people of France will not take much more of this. Will have a big effect on presidential election!
NO US President prior to Trump ever used twitter to impact anything ....ALL previous Presidents have basically refrained from commenting on the internal elections of other countries.....
It has been the white nationalist Bannon and Trump who have repeatedly talked about the demise of EU after Brexit....they both in theory stated that Holland would go the way of UK followed by France......will be more than happy to provide the links to their statements....
AND this WH attempts to then deflect that Trump actually was supporting a French anti-Semitic white nationalist with a neo Nazi father...who wants to destroy NATO and walk away from EU and the Euro...as her stated goals....
WHICH actually are the same goals as Bannon and Trump....
[Investigation] Le Pen and Putin friendship goes back a long way
BTW...all her past meetings with Putin have always been held under tight secrecy.....and she recently stated she had not met him the last time she was in Moscow...but then social media did in fact prove she and then she attempted to lie further about the so called "non meeting"....
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Claiming to know anything about France and French politics when he has not read a single book...watches only ultra right/right wing social media and cannot put a complete sentence together and cannot spell when typing his own tweets says everything...
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One could actually argue that all the Trump rhetoric on the US being badly treated in trade deals is a farce designed to gain an economic advantage on bilateral trade talks as Trump and his WH are somehow afraid that they are not good at multilateral talks...or at least that is exactly what the Chinese and EU feel is behind the rhetoric.....if one really looks at the US proposed positions on TTP and TTIP...they were far more interested in driving strong protection for/tariff free movement of US financial services and high tech than say selling corn and beef...and other manufactured US products...why is that?...that is where the strength of the US "soft power" lies....
Putin is just modernizing the Communist rhetoric directed at those institutions during the Cold War....
AND then they will point at the ultimate US economic nuclear power ie SWIFT....this is exactly why Obama ever so quietly "allowed two Russians to be placed onto the SWIFT board"....to alleviate those Russian specific complaints....and attempted to use this to leverage direct discussions over Ukraine...which were driven by Nuland and Kerry and in the end failed.....why because Putin got what he wanted...membership positions in SWIFT...thus he no longer needed to discuss anything.
This is exactly why in their non linear doctrine they focus on what their current strengths are 1) cyber warfare and 2) information warfare.....for Putin the economic "soft power" of Russia is in it's "black money" via money laundering...at any given time 20B to an estimated 4T USDs are on the move illegally....if you look at all sudden positon shifts of those in the West who first were against anything Russian then suddenly proRussian...it has the "signs" of large amounts of money changing hands either legally or illegally.....
This comes from a recent article from a government insider who is considered to be a true SME on cyber warfare.....
While TC discusses the concept of war....we are already at war ...and if one really reads Russian non linear warfare used as the mechanism to drive Russian political warfare they attempt to keep the "kinetic" one step below actual warfare......until it is to late to even respond at the kinetic level.
While the CIA and NSA coupled with recent FBI actions are fighting a "strategic cyber defense" we do no yet see a clear and concise strategy coming out of either the Obama and now Trump WH......
Remember we are still awaiting that Trump promised 90 day cyber defense study and an action plan from him and Giuliana...and we are long after the 90th day..
Yet the Russian cyber and information war against the US continues unabated.....and Trump just tweets about a 90 day plan.
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Come on Outlaw, you have bee letting your biases get ahold since Trump has been elected. This is just another example:
Regan, Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama all failed to meet their first 100 day agenda. You can't get squat done in D.C. in 90 days, it was simply politically rhetoric to get elected. No one should be surprised to hear politicians aren't exactly the most honest people in the world.
Now back to Political Warfare, which may be playing out in subtle ways in France at the moment if an external hand is at play.
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This is the real world of kinetic activity that the previous quote refers to....and that is daily now...and silence out of Trump WH...
I have my biases and it is one of having the earned right to those biases when it comes to the defense of democracy.....and if I recall correctly I warned about Trump being elected. I took and still take the sentence in the oath....defend against domestic and foreign enemies seriously..
I like that I no longer have to ask permission to respond....as I own the response and it is my decision....
We spent the last week basically blocking Russian control servers handling a massive botnet which was supporting Le Pen on the info war front...so yes there was a hardcore hand at work....and no support came out of the US for these efforts....
So on the European populist front....Wilders blocked in the Netherlands...Le Pen down 26 points and will not make it....Austrian FPO lost even though winning first time around...German AfD down in polls to 7% from a high of 14% and going even more far right since yesterday.....
Europe is doing a rather good job of pushing back on the far right populism and the US response has been?
BTW...26 US proTrump twitter accounts were identified by us as being involved in this active Russian influence operations botnet effort....which had supported Trump in his campaign and now are suddenly "involved in France"???
We tracked a series of Russian started comments into the US and then suddenly watched them being picked up by these US proTrump accounts and fired back into France...coincidence...hardly....
Is it not strange that the majority of efforts to track/stop Russian influence ops with their fake news and fake/info war social media messaging comes out of Europe and not the US.....why is that?
Why is it that the democracies of Europe are far more involved in this "kinetic fight" than the democracy of the US?
This goes BTW to your political warfare thoughts...and not carried much in the US MSM was it?
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Quoted in the article..by a Russian criminal who claimed to have quit in 2016...
"In Russia we have power and safety...in Europe we have wealth and comfort"...
BTW here is a chart of some of those proTrump accounts supporting actively this week Le Pen.....up through mid day yesterday French time...
So explain to me why a GOP Tennessee twitter account under Ten_GOP is supporting a far right anti Semitic nationalist French political party which has nothing to do with US politics?
BTW...this twitter account had been relatively "quiet" then suddenly spiked in tweet numbers starting the morning time for Paris...coincidence?
Or were they just out there supporting Trumps' own Le Pen tweet?
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If you took the time as we do to analyze twitter accounts then the info war being driven by proTrump twitter accounts needs some serious thoughts tied around them....
Who owns them..what is the messaging intent and who is driving that intent is just a few of the basic 5Ws and 1H.....but it is not being asked.
Check the previously posted chart and notice the proTrump accounts Ten_GOP....Basedmonitored and then take a look as we did to their twitter activities the day before the French elections and on the day of the elections...
You will notice a sudden distinct spike in twitter numbers in outbound messages up from a rather quiet period before the election ...if one is an twitter analyst this is an indicator of a controlled account....because the volume is to high for a personal to type them out...
Then and this is the key....MLP_Officiel is the official Le Pen account who then took these US inbound tweets and retweeted them giving her account followers the distinct feel that she had massive support from proTrump accounts.....
Then if you read through both US accounts you will notice the following account being often shown.....
Mike Cernovich #
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14 hours ago
Every single mainstream media article on the French elections has to put "far-right" before Marine Le Pen. Almost seems coordinated.
Cernovich has been tied to the twitter account #syrianhoax which pushed countless tweets about the rebels being behind the Syrian sarin attack...was constantly pushing Russian tweets as his own and which actually many twitter analysts named as leading the Russian disinformation tweet campaign on the sarin attack in the US.
Then Cernovich's #Syrianhoax tweets are picked up and pushed by an alt right white nationalist site run by Alex Jones called Infowars WHICH Trump has admitted to often reading...
Now convince me we are not a ongoing brutal trench warfare kinetic fight....on the cyber and info warfare side....
Still stand by my biases....
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Bill...this is the current "war on the invisible front"...a GDR Stasi term.....
In German...who is behind the PR millions being spent on the ultra right German AfD ..Posters coming via a Swiss PR firm and the IP addresses of the computer hacking machines that attacked the researcher for this article came strangely from St. Petersburg....Rostov on Don....Kasan...and Jekaterinburg ALL in Russia.
Wer steckt hinter dem Verein, der Werbung für die AfD macht? Spuren fhren ins Ausland.
Out of that article is now a hunt on for information concerning a ultra right organization with the name of which no one seems to know anything about who funds them since they only have two members in the EU Parliment.........although the EU funds would not cover such a large scale operation.
"Foundation for a Europe of Nations and Freedom"......
Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) is a long time ally of Front National, FPÖ and Lega Nord and was from the beginning partner of the pre-group that Marine Le Pen formed after the last European election. Vlaams Belang is a Flemish independentist and right wing party that acts in line withe the importance of the national identity concept and operates in the Northern Dutch speaking part of Belgium
Northern League for the Independence of Padania
Founded on December 4th 1989 from the merger of several regional autonomist movements in northern Italy, with the main political aim to make Italy a federal State. In this respect, in 2006 it was able to make a constitutional reform approved by the Parliament, unfortunately rejected in the subsequent referendum in all Regions but Lombardy and Veneto.
Le Pen's The Front National aims to gather the Nation to defend its sovereignty, protect its integrity and to promote its historic values of civilization. Acting in strict compliance with the principles of freedom and democracy, we want to restore the Nation and its greatness by the application of republican laws and the establishment of a community of justice and solidarity. Attached to equality in law for all French citizens, without distinction of their origin, race or religion, the Front National defends national sovereignty and independence of the Nation.
The Austrian FPÖ sees itself as a social and patriotic movement and as an ideological representative of the political camp of German national and national liberal voters. The party is strongly associated with the legacy of the national-liberal ideas of the bourgeois-democratic revolution of 1848. The FPÖ is committed, in particular, to the protection of our cultural identity and the freedom of citizens in a constitutional state. The party also takes a stand for the traditional family and for the preservation of Austrian interests.
In considering the policy towards Europe, the FPÖ favours a Europe of historically evolved peoples and indigenous ethnic groups and rejects any form of forced multiculturalism, globalisation, centralisation and mass immigration.
So why would Russian hackers attack a server of a German researcher who publishes information on this group and their ties to the ultra right German AfD?
The deeper we dug on the research side on the Russian IP addresses and who they were talking to..the browner it became...all tied somehow back to Russian servers...
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Again this goes to the heart of my argument...just how can this President even think of a Russian counter cyber/informational warfare strategy??
Honestly can he even spell cyber correcty?
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Key stats are REACH and IMPRESSIONS
Most active retweeter of this account is the following account which is a well known Russian troll....active for the last two years
He started just right after the Crimea annexation.
Paul Joseph Watson
Here is his stats for just from 10am to now 6pm today
The key stats of his effectiveness are REACH and IMPRESSIONS....
So exactly what does an evidently solid US proTrump twitter account have to do with Le Pen and a well known Russian troll even though the troll is using a US persona...and based in Macedonia??
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Bill..I said this morning that the Russians really do believe we the US are waging a non linear against them........
Nice to see that their TASS media outlet agrees with me.....
Kremlin advisor reveals 'cure for US aggression'
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Putin's advisor also believes that Donald Trump is just "doing what the ruling elite expects him to do"
NOTE...Reuters recently reported that the USIC had two key documents from this Malofeev NGO that were the actual plans for the hacking and influence operations conducted by Russia against the US election adamently denied by Russian FM....and that they were signed off on by Putin....
Katehon 2nd member Glazev is a figure in #FrolovLeaks, commands active hybrid war branch frm Orthodox Church side against ukraine
Head of #Russian Institute of CIS Zatulin, in Jan 2013, writes a memo using terms "Sacred Crimea & Novorossiya"
Only in German and or Russian
That memo, one year and one month prior to Crimean annexation, ends up on desk of Glazev, Putin advisor on developments in CIS.
Ukrainian Cyber Alliance (UCA) hacktivists shared with InformNapalm a massive data dump from the mailbox of Kirill Frolov, Vice-Director of the Institute for CIS Countries, spokesman of the Union of Orthodox Citizens and ROC expert....
Russian response was initially that it was all "fake" but in the end admitted he had been indeed hacked BUT by the CIA.....
Only in Russian and or Ukrainian
Only in German
NOTE...the UCA has also hacked into the email account of the Putin's personal adivsor to the Russian mercenaries in eastern Ukraine Surkov WHICH the US is now trying to open a back channel to by Trump's appointing of "WH special advisor" which does not need Congressional approval as a way to finally establish a back channel link between Putin and Trump.....
Again Russia claimed this hack was done after they first stated Surkov had no email account...by again the CIA.....they defintely were not about to admit UCA pulled it off....
Russian political warfare hard at work.....
BTW...it is extremley important to understand the Russian foreign spy service (SVR) chief who replaced Malefeev......and how he fits now into Russian political warfare.....as a mjaor player as he is very close to Putin....
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Now one can see what some of us are actively and aggressively trying to fend off with the coming German general election......our efforts are aimed squarely at the Russia info war side of the house....BUT in that effort we find ourselves drawn straight into the proTrump social media front which is showing very strong ties to that Russian info war aimed at France right now and currently well underway since yesterday.........
When this election is over we will be publishing our findings on the depth of that proTrump social media support to Le Pen as a way to understand the depth and breath of the Russian info war against both US and Europe in general....and how many Americans are part and parcel of that effort.....based on their social media activities...
Macron Campaign Wards Off Hacking Attempts Linked to Russia
Presidential candidate's campaign suffers multipronged phishing attack beginning in mid-March
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April 24, 2017 1:17 p.m. ET
Russian TV host Vladimir Soloviev is hopeful: "Terrorist attacks can still play a role in helping Le Pen... Two weeks is a long time."
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Ruth went to her mail box and there was only one letter. She picked it up and looked at it before opening, but then she looked at the envelope again. There was no stamp, no postmark, only her name and address. She read the letter:
Dear Ruth,
I\'m going to be in your neighborhood Saturday afternoon and I would like to visit.
Love Always,
Her hands were shaking as she placed the letter on the table. \"Why would the Lord want to visit me? I\'m nobody special. I don\'t have anything to offer.\" With that thought, Ruth remembered her empty kitchen cabinets.
\"Oh my goodness, I really don\'t have anything to offer. I\'ll have to run down to the store and buy something for dinner.\"
She reached for her purse and counted out it\'s contents. Five dollars and forty cents...


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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Press is sending the third volume of the Western Frontier Library
into the world, that is, into the hands of anxious readers, old and
young, and onto the shelves of libraries, especially in our great
Southwest. The jacket announces that the first volume in the
series is The Vigilantes of Montana, by Thomas J. Dimsdale,
and that the second volume is The Banditt of the Plains, by A. S.
Mercer. Other books-eighty-seven in all-are listed on the inside
of the jacket and are classified under three heads.
Billy the Kid was William H. Bonney. He was born in New
York on November 23, 1859, and was shot by Pat F. Garrett, the
sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, on July 14, 1881. There
is some doubt about how many men Billy the Kid shot. The
number generally given is twenty-one, not including Indians and
Mexicans, but Dykes, the editor, fixes the number at seven in all.
This, the fifth edition of Garrett's book, clearly attests the in-
terest of readers in the book. The first edition appeared in 1882
at Santa Fe, had 137 pages, and was illustrated. The present
edition has 156 pages of story and six illustrations. Its principal
new feature is an introduction of eighteen pages by J. C. Dykes
which forms interesting reading in advance of the story.
The University of Texas
The Buffalo Hunters. By Mari Sandoz. New York (Hastings
House), 1954. Pp. xii+372. Illustrations and maps. $4.50.
One of the dramatic episodes of the West, the slaughter of the
great buffalo herds for their hides, has been the subject of fre-
quent controversy. Sentimentalists have lamented the vast waste
of meat and the near extermination of a game animal of almost
majestic appearance if often stupid behavior. Yet this clearing
of the Great Plains was a necessary prelude to white settlement.
General Phil Sheridan made this evident to Texas legislators
when they threatened to outlaw the hide hunters as those of sev-
eral states already had done. He told the solons that, instead, they
should give each of the hunters a medal with a dead buffalo
depicted on one side and a discouraged Indian on the other.
"These men have done more in the last two years to settle the
vexed Indian question than the entire regular Army has done in
the last thirty years. They are destroying the Indians' commissary.
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Getting smashed
This past Sunday was the release of Smash Brothers Brawl and since I didn't have a Wii, I headed out to Toys R Us before opening hours to camp out for a bit. I had previously purchased a Wii during the week of Super Mario Galaxy's release but promptly sold both on eBay after I finished the game.
Mario Galaxy was captivating for the 12 or so hours it took to beat the main quest, but when I started to go for the complete 120 stars, I realized I didn't have the drive to play through all those time trials and coin collect-a-thons. All for what, an artificial gaming badge of honor? I had sapped the sweet nectar from Mario Galaxy and was ready to move on to the next promising gaming bud.
So this was my second chance with the Wii. Smash Brawl is exactly what you'd expect, a fun party/pseudo-fighting game steeped with Nintendo lore. One of the biggest new modes is Subspace Emissary, a side-scrolling adventure mode revolving around a campy storyline that is essentially a thinly veiled Nintendo fan fic. This is a world where Link walking in the forest passes by a sleeping dinosaur (Yoshi) with hardly a second glance, and where Fox and Diddy Kong team up to fight a giant Pokemon. The actual gameplay is a real chore since you have to navigate through mazes to find the end of the levels, but watching the entertaining cutscenes makes it almost worthwhile, plus you can unlock most of the characters by going through this mode.
However, the real feature is the online play of course. In theory, this is what Nintendo fans have been wanting for years, but the execution thus far has been pitiful. I am spoiled by the Xbox Live experience, no doubt, and I can understand Nintendo's position on limiting their online service to protect kids from predators. But everybody not under 12 years old suffers as a result. Each "Smash Bros. friend" you want to add to a friends list requires inputting a 16 digit code. If you want to share custom stages with that person, you'll need to add him as a "Wii friend", which requires inputting another 20 digit code. No voice chat and a bare-bones online presence are what I expected and Nintendo delivered exactly that.
All that can be forgiven if playing random strangers actually works, but it's very spotty. In the first several days of release, getting into a game was almost impossible as Nintendo was clearly unable to handle the server load. Last night and today, I was finally able to get into a few games and had some fun, though the lag is immense at times. I'm talking 2 frames a second lag. Perhaps later this week or next week, the online play will be smoothed out.
Despite all the negativity, Brawl is the best game on Wii without a doubt and I'll probably be keeping the Wii this time around. The fighting mechanics at the core are solid and it's great fun to beat up all these Nintendo characters. But for now, stick with playing local multiplayer.


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Brand, Friedrich August#
b. Vienna, Dec. 20, 1735, d. Vienna, Oct. 9, 1806, landscape and historical painter, copperplate engraver; son of Christian Hilfgott Brand, brother of Johann Christian Brand. From 1783 taught at the Vienna Academy.
Works#many copperplate engravings after his own and other people's sketches; altar-pieces in Weitersfeld, Lower Austria.


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They were never meant to be together, so they do everything to push each other away.
Chloe has to watch Chance sleep his way through hundreds of women while she secretly harbors her crush on the hot ex-Marine. She could never have him, so why can't she just move on?
Chance can run away from the truth all he wants, but when the rest of the world is telling him he can't have the one woman he has ever truly wanted, that's all he can think about now. He'll break all the rules just to get what he wants.
But now he is on the run from his long time enemy, and when he learns that Chloe is also in danger, all hell breaks loose. Can he save her before it's too late? And can he make the world accept their love?
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Killing these wild animals for a so-called "sport" does not help and give benefits anyone
GMO's are too big a risk for a small world to take.
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Yesterday, there was a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan in which a someone blew himself up at a Shia mosque on the day of Ashura. This is just one of many suicide bombings that have occurred in Pakistan as of late.
I can't understand this. Not only the killing, attempted or otherwise, of innocent people, but the act of suicide to accomplish such an act. Every Muslim knows that killing oneself is a sin in Islam.
In Dying to Win, author Robert Pape writes about the origin of suicide bombing and its use as mostly political (foreign policy, etc). Basically, it was never used as a religious form of terror. And yet here, it is. All of a sudden, some Muslims believe that it is totally OK to kill themselves for religious purposes. I really, truly wonder what is said to them that convinces them that performing this act is not a violation of the core of their own religion.
I haven't been to Pakistan in a couple of years, but I'm wondering if there's some sort of movement to help re-educate the brainwashed few and make them stop killing themselves and their own people. A massive undertaking, no doubt, but I'm sure it would be well worth it for the country to invest in a project like this. I know it's easy for me to say that sitting here in the States but I worry about Pakistan and I really do want it to be a better place, InshAllah.


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The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, to enhance public awareness of an ever-growing drug problem that is facing our nation.
By Sherry Vogel
The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) released Chasing the Dragon: The Life of an Opiate Addict, to enhance public awareness of an ever-growing drug problem that is facing our nation. The film that was shown to the general public in Baker on Wednesday evening, April 19, was viewed in the Longfellow gymnasium. The film has also been scheduled to be shown at Baker High School to students 7-12 grades.
Fallon County is not immune to this epidemic. Although local law enforcement has had a number of successes at curtailing the local drug problem, the demand for drugs continues. One of the more worrisome trends is a growing epidemic of prescription opioid and heroin abuse, especially among young people.
One out of five high school seniors report having used prescription medications that were not prescribed for them. The DEA reports 46,000 deaths related to opioid use each year. A common practice that leads to these fatalities is mixing various pills together or mixing pills with alcohol, which can be a deadly undertaking. Overdoses are common as the addict finds he needs to take higher and higher doses to reach a high. Opioids are known to slow respirations and this is the cause of many accidental deaths.
Prescription opioid abuse is a gateway drug to heroin use. As the opioid addict finds his access to prescription drugs is cut off and his funds won't support his drug of choice any longer, he moves on to heroin because it is less expensive. This choice leaves the addict at the mercy of whoever is supplying his addiction. Heroin that is cut with other additives during manufacturing to fill the packet is often times poison to the human body. Additives such as strychnine or even meat tenderizer have been found to be used as additives. These additives do not fully dissolve and when injected into the body can clog blood vessels that lead to the lungs, kidneys or brain causing destruction of vital organs.
Users buying heroin from dealers never know the actual strength of the drug in a packet, thus users are constantly at risk of an overdose.
Heroin is highly addictive and withdrawal is extremely painful. As the addict tries to avoid withdraw symptoms he finds himself on a perpetual treadmill, in a vicious circle, that demands he seek a daily fix. He sells his soul and often times loses the people and things that are held most dear.
Does this sound like some big city problem? Don't fool yourselves. People right here in Fallon County are living this life style. Funny thing is they aren't all adolescents or from low economic status. Some are your neighbors who have gotten hooked on painkillers after injuries; they are from all walks of life and of all ages.
Stay alert; be aware of those around you who may be caught in this vicious cycle of Chasing the Dragon. It might not be too late to help your loved one or friend, find the help that they need, before the Dragon turns and slays his pursuer.
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The speculation continues ramping up that the Boston Red Sox are looking to unload Josh Beckett, even if the front office are trying to downplay the speculation.
Beckett has 10-5 rights to veto any deal, though he's commented recently that he'd rather stay in Boston but he'd accept it if the team no longer wants or needs him. The Atlanta Braves are thought to have kicked the proverbial tires on the righthander but shown no other interest in the former National Leaguer.


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