http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO4VNvIx-rM
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/20/technology/SOPA_PIPA_postponed/
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Matt Goulding: Surviving the Supermarket - CBN.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=offEVj9ztB4&feature=related
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=700_Club
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CBN News Guests
Tom Delay, U.S. Majority WhipBenjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli Prime Minister
Bill Bennett, author and former cabinet member
JC Watts Jr., former Congressman
Sean Hannity, host of Fox News Hannity & Colmes
Oliver North, author and syndicated columnist
John Zogby, independent pollster and columnist
Eleanor Clift, contributing editor for Newsweek Magazine
John Fund, columnist and member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal
Fred Barnes, columnist for the Weekly Standard and Fox News contributor
Lawrence Kudlow, economist and former Reagan Administration member
Peggy Noonan, conservative columnist and former Presidential speechwriter
Senators and former Senators Jon Kyl, Sam Brownback, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman, Orrin Hatch, Mitch McConnell
Former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan
Special Features & Segments include :
"Bring It On" featuring Pat Robertson;
"Unsung Hero" on people who help others; and
"The Church of the Week."
Eleanor Clift
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Eleanor Clift, "a contributing editor at Newsweek magazine who reports on the White House, presidential politics and other national issues, is co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation Board of Directors.
"Formerly Newsweek's White House correspondent, Clift also served as a congressional and political correspondent for six years. She was a key member of Newsweek's 1992 election team and followed Bill Clinton's campaign from its beginning. In June 1992, she was named deputy Washington bureau chief. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, The McLaughlin Group, and a political analyst for the Fox News Network.
"Clift has written three books. Her latest book Founding Sisters, published in 2003, tells the story of the long struggle for passage of the 19th Amendment. Clift and her husband, Tom Brazaitis, Washington columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, co-authored the 2000 book, Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling, about the rise of women in politics and the prospects for a woman on the national ticket. Their earlier book, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics, was published in 1996." [1]
Has been invited onto the 700 Club.
Advisory Board, White House Project
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Contact
The White House Project434 West 33rd Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Ph: 212.261.4400
Fax: 212.904.1296
Web: http://thewhitehouseproject.org/
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Rights_Watch_Children%27s_Rights_Advisory_Committee
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Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Advisory Committee
Last updated April 21, 2005
Robert G. Schwartz, Chair
Roland Algrant, Vice-Chair
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Roland Algrant, Senior Vice President of HarperCollins International and creator of Harper Design. [1]
Member, Human Rights Watch Americas Advisory Committee [1]
Member, Human Rights Watch U.S. Advisory Committee
Member, Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Advisory Committee
Former Chair, Free Expression Project
HarperCollins
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HarperCollins (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.) is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is one of the largest English language publishers of books in the world. Its imprints such as Regan Books have published titles such as Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke, Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism by Sean Hannity and Rewriting History by Dick Morris. Other books are Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life, Scott Adams' Dilbert books, and Michael Crichton's State of Fear. The company's Zondervan unit publishes bibles and Christian books. The e-book imprint is PerfectBound. [1]
Contact details
10 E. 53rd StreetNew York, NY 10022
Phone: 212-207-7000
Fax: 212-207-7145
Web: http://www.harpercollins.com/
Goldie Alfasi-Siffert
Mark Allen Belsey
Rachel Brett
Pam Bruns
Bernardine Dohrn
Alice Henkin
Kathleen Hunt
Eugene Isenberg
Sheila B. Kamerman
Rhoda Karpatkin
Miriam Lyons
Joy Moser
Elena Nightingale
Valerie Pels
Wendy Smith Meyer
Lisa Woll
Dorothy Thomas
Hseng Noung Lintner
Contents[hide] |
Related
Holly CartnerSusan Rappaport - former director [1]
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch
References
↑ Board of Directors, Rothko Chapel, accessed August 20, 2007.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Fund
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John Fund is an editorial writer for the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal.[1]
According to a brief biographical profile on the website of the now-defunct National Journalism Center, Fund attended a course in summer '81 and has subsequently been "panelist, ABC, CNBC, Fox News Channel, editorial writer, Wall Street Journal, chief investigative reporter, Evans & Novak, co-author, Cleaning House: America's Campaign for Term Limits, published in Esquire, Reader's Digest, New Republic, National Review, American Enterprise, Imprimis, American Spectator, winner, Warren Brookes award for journalistic excellence (American Legislative Exchange Council)".[2]
Advisory Board, Free Africa Foundation
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christian_Broadcasting_Network
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The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) is a Christian television network based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S., started by televangelist Pat Robertson in 1961 and known for its 700 Club program.
The mission of CBN and its affiliated organizations, according to its website, is to prepare the United States of America and the nations of the world for the coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a time in history when "the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." [1]
Multi-millionaire heir Joseph Coors serves on the Regent University (formerly called CBN University) Board of Trustees. His wife Holly Coors is on the Regent University Board of Regents. The Coors Foundation has given money to the university (Foundation Grants Index, 15th edition, 1986.)
The National Committee to Draft Pat Robertson for President, which featured Roy Rogers and Dale Evans as spokespersons, held a big fundraiser at the Dallas ranch of millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. Joseph Coors supported this run as well.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nelson_Bunker_Hunt
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Robert Engler writes that John B. Connally after "leaving his post as secretary of the treasury, he continued to advise the president on energy matters. Well-versed in manipulating the levers of power, he traveled the world in multiple capacities; he was on retainer from Armand Hammer (Occidental) and Bunk Nelson (son of H. L. Hunt), who held concessions in Libya jointly with British Petroleum, and who was on the board of Brown and Root..."
Robert Engler
Robert Engler (died in 2007), a friend and contributor to The Nation, he, "died at his desk, working on a biography of Thorstein Veblen, a longstanding project. A retired professor of political science at the City University of New York, Engler was a political economist who brought to contemporary issues the grounded research and philosophical vision of a scholar. His daughter Nadya recalled traveling with him to Alaska to investigate the Exxon Valdez oil spill: "He talked to everybody. He treated the opinion of a taxi driver equally with the officials'." The oil industry was his primary field of study; his best-known book, The Brotherhood of Oil (1977), analyzed it from the standpoint of institutional power and social responsibility. He also edited America's Energy (1980), an anthology of Nation articles. Of all Engler's writings here over fifty years, the most powerful was "Technology Out of Control" (April 27, 1985), about the catastrophic escape of toxic gases from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, which killed thousands. Engler wrote: "The tragedy gives credibility to the fear that the human race may perish by its own violent cleverness." Lives lost were not abstractions: "Bhopal was murder, if not genocide."
Thorstein Veblen
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Biographical Information
Thorstein Veblen, Social critic, economist (1857-1929). "From 1892 to 1906, he taught political economy at the University of Chicago, gaining a reputation as a brilliant, eccentric thinker and innovative teacher. His first and most famous book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), also established him as an important social critic. In this and subsequent works, Veblen fiercely assailed the influence of laissez-faire economics and big business in shaping modern society and culture." [1]Critics
- John G. Wright, "Thorstein Veblen, Sociologist," The New International, 2, January 1936. (Marxist)
- Arthur Davis, "Thorstein Veblen Reconsidered," Monthly Review.
Eat This Not That - David Zinczenko on The Bonnie Hunt Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLdesLBbFk&feature=related
The 7 Biggest Food Label Lies
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/9-food-lawsuits
Excerpt:
This is an election year, which means that if you hate being lied to, the next 11 months are not going to be pleasant.
Your instinct might be to turn off the TV, cancel the paper, and unplug the Internet until November passes. And that will work, to a certain extent. But if you really want to avoid being lied to, I suggest you take an even more radical step.
Stop going to the supermarket.
Unless you’re as easily misled as Newt Gingrich’s ex-wives, you’re already clued in to the idea that most political campaigns are nothing but a pile of baloney, sandwiched between two slices of toasted mendacity. But unless you have a Ph.D. in nutrition, you might not realize that the supermarket shelves are as full of shysterism as the campaign trail. Every time you walk into a grocery store or a restaurant, food marketers are trying to feed you a line of bull.
That's why we launched the Eat This, Not That! book series four years ago. By playing David to Big Food's Goliath, we keep the food industry honest. More than 6 million books later, the mindset of hungry Americans is clearly changing. Recent polls show 96 percent of us would like genetically modified foods to be clearly labeled, and 70 percent of U.S. diners want more transparency about the sourcing and nutritional value of their menu items.
But until those improvements come to pass, you’ll have to take your nutritional fate into your own hands. The shelves of your local supermarket and the pages of your favorite chain’s menu are rife with health food impostors, and it’s up to you—and me—to call them out. Some of these shady products are so egregious, in fact, that I believe they deserve a swift smack from the heavy hand of the law. Below I throw the book at 7 foods that just aren’t what they seem.
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FOOD LABEL LIE #7: Sunny D
The Crime: The day-glo liquid presents itself as a delicious, nutritious alternative to orange juice, but in truth, it’s little more than sweetened water.
The Evidence: Look at the label. The vast majority of this bottle consists of water and corn syrup, with less than two percent coming from concentrated juice swirled with artificial colors, sweeteners, canola oil, and sodium hexametaphosphate (don’t ask). The beverage company bases its vague nutrition claims (“sunshine in a bottle”?) on the fact that Sunny D contains 100 percent of your vitamin C. But you know what else has 100 percent of you day’s vitamin C? A scoop of broccoli, a few thick slices of red bell pepper, a medium orange, or a multivitamin. Also condemnable is Sunny D’s current marketing campaign, which encourages children to collect Sunny D labels in exchange for schoolbooks. Care for some diabetes with that diploma?
The Takeaway: “Fruit-flavored” is no substitutions for real fruit. If you want the full nutritional package, buy fresh, unadulterated produce—or at the very least 100 percent juice. Sunny D isn’t the only beverage that will drown your healthy diet. Take a look at the 20 Worst Drinks in America to learn which will do the most damage to your waistline.
FOOD LABEL LIE #6: Natural Cheetos
The Crime: Abuse of the term “natural.” Last I checked, Cheetos don’t grow in the wild.
The Evidence: When was the last time you saw a flowering field of disodium phosphate? Or how about a fresh crop of maltodextrin? Didn’t think so. These cheese puffs consist largely of corn, but they’ve been processed to the point that no 20th-century farmer would ever recognize them as food. What’s more, compared to regular Cheetos, they only have about 10 fewer calories per serving. Oh, and see those “natural flavors” on the ingredient statement? By FDA standards, those don’t even have to relate to the food in question. For all we know, those are tinctures made from bovine bone marrow.
The Takeaway: Except in the instance of some meat products, the FDA doesn’t regulate use of the word “natural,” leaving the food industry free to define it on its own terms. In 2008, natural products reached $22 billion in sales, four times that of organic products. Defend yourself by reading the ingredient statement. If you can’t pronounce it, it probably ain’t natural.
FOOD LABEL LIE #5: Mott’s Medleys Fruit and Vegetable Juice
The Crime: Although wholesome by juice standards, this one is promoted to parents as a substitution for real fruits and vegetables. But fruits and vegetables have fiber; Mott’s has none.
The Evidence: The Mott’s label says that each bottle contains two servings of fruits and vegetables, and sadly, the USDA agrees. The government’s MyPlate considers juice to be a suitable substitution for produce. But here’s why it’s not: One of the biggest health boons of fruits and vegetables is the fiber, which fills the stomach, slows digestion, and fights disease. According to a recent study from Archives of Internal Medicine, people who consume the most fiber have a 22 percent lower chance of premature death from any cause. Yet at the current rate of consumption, Americans are getting only about half the fiber they need. A single apple has more than four grams of fiber. That’s about four grams more than a bottle of Mott’s Apple Medleys.
The Takeaway: Modest amounts of juice can fit into a healthy diet, but it’s no substitution for whole produce.
FOOD LABEL LIE #4: Mission Garden Spinach Wraps
The Crime: Mission’s “Garden Spinach” wraps are guilty of identity theft—there’s no spinach to be found in these crooked tortillas!
The Evidence: Along with a ton of unnatural, unhealthy ingredients like enriched flour, these spinach imposters contain less than 2 percent of “spinach powder” seasoning. Yum! And the wraps’ green color? Courtesy of food dyes yellow #5 and blue #1.
The Takeaway: Don’t judge a book by its cover—or a product by its package. The front label is little more than an advertisement for the company, so for legitimately useful information, look to the Nutrition Facts Panel and the ingredient statement. And remember: Just because a food is “flavored” like a whole food doesn’t mean it contains a whole food.
FOOD LABEL LIE #3: Doritos
The Crime: On the front of the bag, Frito-Lay reassures us that Doritos contain “0 grams trans fat.” Problem is, it’s a blatant lie!
The Evidence: Partially hydrogenated oil is the primary source of trans fat, and these cheesy chips contain two types: partially hydrogenated soybean oil and partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil. So how does the company get away with the “0 grams” claim, you ask? The FDA allows manufacturers to market products as trans-fat free if they contain less than 0.5 grams of the artery-clogging acids per serving. But get this: The American Heart Association recommends we max out our trans fat intake at about 2 grams per day, so if you’re regularly eating foods with 0.49 grams per serving, then you can easily surpass that limit without knowing. That could lead to a host of cardiovascular problems, and one recent Spanish study even linked increased trans fat consumption with a lower quality of life and overall happiness.
The Takeaway: At the risk of belaboring the point: Read the ingredient statement. If you see anything that’s been “partially hydrogenated,” you have a trans-fatty food in your hand. Set it down and nobody will get hurt—least of all you. And if you're shocked to learn that hydrogenated oils are allowed to hang out in your favorite “trans fat-free” snacks, wait till you see this: The 20 Scariest Food Facts.
FOOD LABEL LIE #2: Chili’s Guiltless Grill Classic Sirloin
The Crime: This “Guiltless” entrée is, well, guilty—of containing a shameful amount of salt.
The Evidence: Chili’s loads this sirloin with 3,680 milligrams of blood-pressure-spiking sodium, far exceeding the USDA’s recommended daily limit of 2,300 milligrams (for some people, like those at risk for hypertension, it’s only 1,500 milligrams!). And the Chili’s marketing team has the nerve to put this on the restaurant’s “Guiltless Grill” menu? Guffaw! Sadly, Chili’s isn’t the only guilty restaurant when it comes to the sins of salt. Chains like Applebee’s and Cheesecake Factory, for example, also pack egregious amounts of sodium into specialty items geared toward health-conscious eaters.
The Takeaway: In terms of calories, diet or “light” options are usually superior to other items on a chain’s menu, but almost all major chain restaurants still take a heavy-handed approach to the salt shaker. If you’re going to eat out, make an effort to keep your sodium intake as low as possible for the rest of the day.
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FOOD LABEL LIE #1: Wendy’s Natural-Cut Fries
The Crime: Wendy’s promotes these spuds as a healthy alternative to typical fries—the chain’s website boasts that they’re “naturally-cut from whole Russet potatoes” and seasoned with “a sprinkle of sea salt.” But there’s more to it than that.
The Evidence: A quick skim through Wendy’s ingredient statement is all it takes to expose these fraudulent spuds. They contain preservatives, added sugars, and hydrogenated oil. Last I checked, there was nothing remotely natural about infusing vegetable oil with hydrogen. Technically, Wendy’s isn’t lying that these fries are “natural-cut.” But it makes one wonder: What would be the unnatural way cut a potato?
The Takeaway: Restaurants toss out buzzwords like “natural,” “fresh,” and “wholesome” as a clever way of making not-so-nutritious items seem closer to what you’d make at home. Truth is, food manufacturers haven’t found a way to align your health with their profits, and until they do, the onus of healthy eating is on you and you alone.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zinczenko
Excerpt:
In 2007, Zinczenko launched FitSchools, a national campaign to reinvigorate physical education programs in America's elementary schools and get children healthy and active.[8] He continued his fight against childhood obesity by writing, with Matt Goulding, Eat this, Not That! For Kids, published in August 2008. The two co-wrote 10 books altogether in the series: Eat This, Not That!, Eat This, Not That! For Kids, Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide, Eat This, Not That! Best & Worst Foods in America, Eat This, Not That! Restaurant Survival Guide, Eat This, Not That! 2010,Eat This, Not That! 2011, Cook This, Not That! Kitchen Survival Guide, Cook This, Not That! Easy & Awesome 350-Calorie Meals, and Drink This, Not That!. He is also the author of the Abs Diet series, which has two new releases: The New Abs Diet and The New Abs Diet Cookbook.
Zinczenko also contributes regularly to The Today Show, where according to The New York Times, he is "trotted out as a spokesman for Everyman."[9] He has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, 20/20, The Biggest Loser, Rachael Ray, and Good Morning America. In 2002, he penned a New York Times op-ed on fast food and obesity[1],[10] and in 2011 wrote another in support of MMA fighting. [11] He also wrote two columns for USA Today, one on the obesity epidemic and another on the decline of American men.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2005/08/3912/pat-robertson-sourcewatch
Excerpt
Pat Robertson & SourceWatch
There's never a quiet day at SourceWatch, our open-source encyclopedia of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. Some days, articles that have been patiently compiled by our volunteer writers over months, are suddenly in demand.
Pat Robertson
A case in point is the article on the founder of the Christian Coalition of America, Pat Robertson, who proposed in a broadcast on his 700 Club program that covert American agents should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Associated Press quoted Robertson stating. Over the last eighteen months a number of regular contributors have compiled a comprehensive listing of online news stories on Robertson spanning the last decade. Others have started profiles on the various organisations Robertson is involved in.
Meanwhile Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside George W. Bush's ranch has put a spotlight on the cost of the war in Iraq. In a column last week for O'Dwyer's PR Daily, Kevin McCauley, contrasted Sheehan's vigil in the Texas heat with Bush remaining "cocooned in Crawford, sticking to the script of appearing only before supporters and people in the Administration."
I Won't Back Down Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
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The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the U.S.[1] The bill was introduced on May 12, 2011, by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)[2] and 11 bipartisan co-sponsors. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that implementation of the bill would cost the federal government $47 million through 2016, to cover enforcement costs and the hiring and training of 22 new special agents and 26 support staff.[3] The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill, but Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) placed a hold on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who_support_or_oppose_SOPA/PIPA
Excerpt:
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are two proposed draft laws that are being considered by the United States Congress. Supporters of the laws argue that they are needed to protect the intellectual property of owners of content. Opponents of the laws argue that they endanger free speech and free expression by harmfully regulating the internet.
I Won't Back Down Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act
Excerpt:
The PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA) is a proposed law with the stated goal of giving the US government and copyright holders additional tools to curb access to "rogue websites dedicated to infringing or counterfeit goods", especially those registered outside the U.S.[1] The bill was introduced on May 12, 2011, by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)[2] and 11 bipartisan co-sponsors. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that implementation of the bill would cost the federal government $47 million through 2016, to cover enforcement costs and the hiring and training of 22 new special agents and 26 support staff.[3] The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill, but Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) placed a hold on it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who_support_or_oppose_SOPA/PIPA
Excerpt:
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are two proposed draft laws that are being considered by the United States Congress. Supporters of the laws argue that they are needed to protect the intellectual property of owners of content. Opponents of the laws argue that they endanger free speech and free expression by harmfully regulating the internet.
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