Oil Price Surges To Highest Since May On Iran Worries

February 24th, 2012

MSNBC

By: Reuters

U.S. crude futures rose for a seventh day on Friday, ending with their best weekly performance since December, as a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog that Iran had stepped up work on nuclear enrichment was seen further inflaming tensions between Tehran and the West.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, crude for April delivery settled at $109.77 a barrel, gaining $1.94, or 1.8 percent, the highest settlement since May 3, when prices ended at $111.05.

In seven straight days, front month crude futures surged $9.03, or 8.96 percent, their biggest seven-day increase since Oct. 31, when they gained 9.25 percent. For the week, front-month crude rose 6.33 percent, the best weekly percentage gain since the week to Dec. 23, when prices rose 6.58 percent.

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How Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State

February 1, 2012

LeeRockwell.Com

By Karen De Coster

Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the “parent” best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults. To echo what former first lady Hillary Clinton professed, these public school champions believe “it takes a village” to cultivate a society of competent human beings.

As Hebrew University historian Martin van Crevald points out in his book, The Rise and Decline of the State, nineteenth-century state worshippers who wanted to impose a love of big government ideals upon the youth popularized the archetype for state-directed education. Additionally, there was an overall appetite for discipline of the “unruly” masses that reinforced the campaign to take education out of the hands of individuals. After all, the self-educated masses might resist government decrees, and this kind of disarray would be undesirable in the move toward building a powerful, controlling state apparatus. Prussia’s Frederick William I and France’s Napoleon discerned this, as did a legion of other despotic rulers throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. In a recent article published on the American Daily Herald “Dumberer and Dumberest,” Glenn Horowitz writes:

If you’re not familiar with it, the Prussian system was a teaching methodology designed to stamp out good little worker bees assembly-line fashion, trained to be complacent with their station in life and compliant with every demand of the State. An elite of those better educated but still proven unquestioningly loyal to the State were promoted to lead the proletariat, rewarded with elevated status and material success commensurate with their skills and the zeal they demonstrate in supporting the system. It specifically avoided developing creativity and independent thought, reasoning these were skills the worker classes didn’t need in their roles as mass produced labor.

Modern education is built upon a foundation set forth by tyrants. What is most disquieting about the public education mindset is that those who believe most strongly in it are convinced that there are no other suitable alternatives to the compulsory schooling provided via the public domain. The egalitarian core belief of these public education proponents is that society is responsible for obtaining, maintaining, and paying for the process of equally developing young minds.

Since the laws of the modern state that control the educational system lean heavily toward equality, federal compulsory schooling is necessarily a bias against the best and brightest of America’s children. Federalized education sustains the philosophy that schools have the obligation to treat all students as pure equals – equal in intelligence, work ethic, performance, and desire.

Such nonsense is refuted by H. George Resch in his article “Equality vs. Equity” on the Separation of School and State website. Mr. Resch contends that compulsory, government-controlled education is trying to achieve ends that are not possible due to the fact that general equality is not only impossible to define, but that biological, environmental, and cultural differences among us are so vast that a compulsory, standardized public education poses difficulties that cannot be overcome, and certainly not by a government-run school system.

It’s obvious that public schooling is neither beneficial to most students, nor is it efficient. Education is an acquired good, a good that has to meet the needs of the consumers or else face rejection in the free market. Accordingly, there is a necessity for unique, private educational institutions that cater to the urgencies of the marketplace, or home schools that provide a quality environment for each student’s direct needs.

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Green Tea Can Be Beneficial to General Health

January 10, 2012

Proven4.com

By Cathy Jen, PH.D.

Tea—both green or black or anything in between—has been a traditional daily beverage in Asian countries for centuries. The color of the tea is dependent upon the length of the leaves that are fermented (oxidized). The longer the fermentation process, the darker the color is. Black tea has a long fermentation process and a bitter, strong flavor. Green tea, on the other hand, is not fermented at all; rather it’s steamed after the leaves are harvested and dried. The majority of tea consumed in western countries is black.

Tea has long been considered to have health benefits starting as early as the Han dynasty in China (206-220 BC). Recent research has identified more than 700 distinct compounds in tea. Most of these compounds have anti-oxidant properties, meaning that these compounds can protect cells from being damaged by free radicals.

Tea also contains caffeine. However, the amount of caffeine found in tea depends on both the length of time that it’s steeped and the type of tea. Generally speaking, caffeine found in teas is less than that found in coffee.

Many different free radicals can be produced within our cells or brought into our body by inhalation. During physical activity or endurance sports events, oxygen intake is increased due to increased energy needs because efficient energy production requires an adequate supply of oxygen. This increased oxygen intake increases the production of free radicals, too.

Anti-oxidants such as vitamins C and E and CoQ 10 can neutralize the free radicals and reduce the amount of damage that they cause to cells.

Studies have shown that drinking 2 cups of green tea can reduce the risk of endometrial cancers by 25% as well as reducing the risk of atherosclerosis.

Several recent studies examined the relationship between green tea consumption and physical performance. One study that was conducted in the United Kingdom has demonstrated that ingestion of green tea extract increased fat oxidation (more fat broken down and utilized for energy production) during moderate intensity exercise when compared to the placebo phase. Furthermore, green tea extract improved insulin sensitivity. No effect of green tea extract on performance was examined.

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The Kevin Trudeau Show: 7-22-11

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Obesity Causes Loss Of $73 Billion In Work Productivity Each Year In USA

December 21st, 2010

Natural News

By: David Gutierrez

Lost worker productivity due to obesity-related health problems costs U.S. businesses $73 billion per year, according to a study conducted by researchers from Duke University and the National University of Singapore, and published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

The study was funded by Allergan, Inc., maker of the Lap-Band surgical weight loss device.

Researchers combined data from a 2006 survey of nationwide medical spending and the 2008 U.S. National Health and Wellness Survey. The latter survey not only included information on absenteeism, but also on “presenteeism” — decreased performance while at work. The researchers excluded all underweight and pregnant individuals from the data so as not to skew the analysis.

They found that after controlling for ethnicity, education level, income, insurance status, marital status and smoking, overall employer costs increased with an employee’s body mass index (a measure of obesity). In particular, presenteeism costs doubled when obesity increased from mild to moderate, then doubled again as it increased to extreme obesity.

Obesity is a major contributor to some of the country’s top chronic health problems, including heart disease, diabetes and many forms of cancer.

The total obesity-related costs were equivalent to hiring 1.8 million new workers at the average national salary of $42,000 per year. Only 18 percent of these costs came from missed workdays; 41 percent came from increased health payments, and the other 41 percent came from decreased productivity at work.

The researchers suggested that employers seeking to reduce this massive cost burden might do well to invest more in health-improvement programs for their employees.

“Now that we’ve uncovered this sort of hidden cost, I think that it ups the ante for [employers] to think harder about what sort of interventions they want to implement,” researcher Eric Finkelstein said.

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Stocks Are Up, Take Your Investment And Run!

June 15, 2010

CNBC

By Larry Kudlow

Stocks are up strong across-the-board with renewed hopes of global growth fueling a roughly 1 percent gain in all three indices.

Of course, today’s move to the upside follows last week’s strong equity performance.

So here’s what I think, folks: This is as good a time as any for investors to think long and hard about taking some profits off the table.

Why, you ask?

As my old friend Art Laffer continually reminds us, the Tax Man is coming to town on January 1, 2011. Taxes are going up across-the-board. So investors should seriously consider selling into any stock market strength ahead of the tax deadline. Doing this will enable investors to lock in a lower capital-gains tax this year and beat next year’s higher rates.

It’s a lesson investors literally cannot afford to forget: If after-tax investment returns decline, because the key capital-gains tax rate and other investment taxes go up, the future value of stocks is damaged.

In other worrisome news, despite some improvement in consumer sentiment, U.S retail sales fell on Friday for the first time in eight months. That was something of a shocker.

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Obama’s Approval Gradually Decreasing

May 24, 2010

RasmussenReports.com

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 25% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 (see trends).

Following passage of health care, enthusiasm for the president among Democrats soared. Today, however, just 49% of Democrats Strongly Approve of Obama’s performance. That’s down from a high of 65%. It remains to be seen whether this is a temporary aberration or the beginning of a lasting change.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters nationwide favor repeal of the health care law. That’s the highest level of support for repeal yet measured.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook.

Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty-four percent (55%) disapprove. The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter shows that media coverage of the President has been 51% positive over the past week.

Just 27% are even somewhat confident that Congress knows what it’s doing when addressing that nation’s economic challenges. That figure includes only 6% who are Very Confident that Congress knows what it’s doing.

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