Kim Carollo: Fruits and Vegetables Could Modify Gene Linked to Heart Disease g

Eating a healthy amount of greens could have an effect on genes linked to heart disease, according to a new study. Researchers from Canada's McMaster and McGill universities found that eating fruits and vegetables may actually change a gene variant, called 9p21, that is one of the strongest predictors for heart disease. "We found that in people with this high-risk gene who consumed a diet rich in vegetables and fruits, their risk came down to that of people who don't have that gene," said Dr. Sonia Anand, a lead author and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Michael G. DeGrote School of Medicine at McMaster University. The researchers analyzed the diets of more than 27,000 people from different parts of the world, who were already enrolled in two separate studies looking for heart disease. "Despite having a high genetic risk for heart disease, a healthy lifestyle can actually turn off the gene," said Anand. She also said it's not yet clear exactly how diet affects the gene. The study participants who lowered their risk through their diet ate at least two servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Raw fruits and vegetables played the biggest role in lowering risk, Anand said.

Brother Nathaneal Kapner: Putin Foils the Jews Again

Vladimir Putin has once again upset the Judaic geopolitical "bagel cart" by announcing his forthcoming creation of a "Eurasian Union" modeled after the economic integration of the European Union. Putin, who recently declared his intention to run for president of the Russian Federation, boasted that the bloc would become a "major" global player. Indeed, Eurasia is the prize, awash with oil, and blessed by providence with a strategic location. Apparently, Russia's prime minister is the first to claim the coveted Eurasian pot, sitting on the end of the geopolitical rainbow. Putin also confirmed that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan were already going ahead with market cooperation complete with a full-blown Customs Union established by the three countries in 2010. "The Eurasian grouping will become an indivisible part of Greater Europe," Putin told the Izvestia Daily in his article, Eurasia: The Future Born Today. The Union is an open project, and we welcome the addition of new partners,"the Russia leader added. All of this flies in the face of Zbigniew Brzezinski's strategy for the Zionist West's takeover of Eurasia, as outlined in his book: "The Grand Chessboard." Central to Brzezinski's program is that no challenger should emerge, who may be capable of dominating Eurasia, and therefore challenging America.

Gerald Celente: Celente Picks 2012 Presidential Winner

And the next President of the United States will be: Barack Obama. Should the Republicans nominate one of the three current frontrunners: Mitt Romney, Rick Perry or Michelle Bachman, Barack wins, despite polls showing him with with just a 41 percent approval rating. By playing the "populist card" he's already begun to deal. The President is already calling the bluff of his Republican foes, demanding a millionaire's tax, and daring a gridlocked Congress NOT to pass it! "Warren Buffet's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax than Warren Buffett," Obama moralizes. "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher, or a nurse, or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher taxes than someone pulling in $50 million." Obama began rehearsing his self-described role as "warrior for the middle class" some months ago. In the Summer 2011 issue of the Trends Journal, we alerted subscribers to Obama's populist campaign strategy: "Undaunted by his string of broken promises, in the summer of 2011, the born-again populist positioned himself to retain his core Democratic base, while wooing swelling legions of the hard-pressed, desperate for a government handout, the out of work and down and out were left with a Hobson's Choice: Either take Obama, or be left out in the cold by Republicans!

Poll:US headed in the Wrong Direction!

According to a joint survey by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News, released on Monday, 74% of the respondents said that the US is "off on the wrong track," while only 17% believed the country was headed in the right direction. Thirty-two percent of respondents also believe that the US economy would get worse, compared to only 21% who believed it would get better. Some 45% said it would stay the same. The survey included interviews with 1,000 adults from Oct. 6 to Oct.10, and had a margin of error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. The survey found a plurality supporting the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations against the financial sector in New York and elsewhere in across the US. Some 80% of the respondents said they had heard of the protests. Of those, 37% said they supported the demonstrators, and 18% said they tend to oppose them. When asked about the US government, only 1% said the government was "healthy" and "vibrant", while 17% said it was "OK and needs only small reforms." However, 47% said government was "not working well and needs large reforms," while 35% called it "unhealthy"and "stagnant."

Ron Paul: About Protecting Our Constitution!

According to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not some aspirational statement of values, allowing executions when convenient, but rather, it is the law of the land. It is the basis of our republic, and our principal bulwark against tyranny. Last week's assassination of two American citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, is an outrage and a criminal act carried out by the President and his administration. If the law protecting us against government-sanctioned assassination can be voided when there is a "really bad American", is there any meaning left to the rule of law in the United States? If, as we learned last week, a secret government committee, not subject to congressional oversight or judicial review, can now target certain Americans for assassination, under what moral authority do we presume to lecture the rest of our world about protecting human rights? Didn't we just bomb Libya into oblivion under the auspices of protecting the civilians from being targeted by their government? Timothy McVeigh was certainly a threat, as were Nidal Hassan and Jared Lee Loughner. They killed people in front of witnesses. They took up arms against their government in a literal way, yet were still afforded trials.

Kuwait News Agency: NATO now an Alliance Based on Security Partnership

NATO has evolved from an Alliance focused on a singular threat, to an Alliance based on security partnership between the 28 members and the rest of the world, thanks to the military intervention in Libya, a senior NATO official said here. "The Libya operation was a logical outflow of the view that we need to have partnerships with countries around the world. NATO would not have intervened in Libya without the Arab League making this request to the UN Security Council," said Ivo H. Daalder, United States Ambassador to NATO. His remarks were during a briefing on "US Policy on NATO", as part of the US-NATO Program for Opinion Makers from the Middle East, held at NATO Headquarters last night. In response to a question by Kuweit News Agency (KUNA), Ambassador Daalder said, "NATO is a source of stability in an unpredictable world. You become a source of stability by being ready to be able to act, if a crisis demands that action." "Who would have thought in November 2010 in Lisbon that four months later, NATO would lead a military operation in North Africa, under a UN mandate and at the behest of the Arab League: No one." NATO's 2010 Lisbon summit adopted a new "Strategic Concept", the alliance's new ten-year plan adopted at the 1999 Washington summit.

Franklin Lamb: Israel May Not Survive the Arab Awakening!

Three weeks after being named by President Obama in January 2009 as the 19th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and during his first day on the job, Leon Panetta, now US Secretary of Defense, signed off on a March 2009 "eyes only" CIA Report that had just been completed by his new agency. As reported at the time, the CIA Report predicted the demise of Israel within 20 years, if present political trends in the region continued. The CIA intelligence analysts concluded that it was unlikely that Israeli leaders would grant even minimal concessions in order to achieve a settlement with their neighbors, which comprise increasingly disillusioned and rapidly growing dignity and justice-seeking populations. The CIA Report noted that Israeli officials felt emboldened in taking Palestinian land by the myriad support Israel was receiving from the leadership of Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and three other Arab leaders. Israel and its two most powerful US lobbies, the US Congress and AIPAC, quickly squelched the 2009 Report, and only seven copies were eventually acknowledged, one by AIPAC and the others by staffers of select supporters of Israel on key Congressional Committees. During last week's meetings with Israeli officials, both sides knew that the 2009 CIA study was front and center even without Panetta being the first one to refer to it. President Obama sent Panetta to engage in frank discussions, which included the White House displeasure at Netanyahu's repeated humiliation of the President over the past 18 months, and Israeli threats to cut off Jewish aid to Obama's 2012 re-election campaign!