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Forget salads – bacon, cheese and cream are the key to weight loss. Eating fat – rather than carbohydrates  – is the key to slimming down, according to Grant Petersen, author of Eat Bacon, Don’t Jog. For years, Mr Petersen tried to lose weight in the conventional way – through eating a low fat diet and exercising for up to three hours a day. While he says he wasn’t fat by American standards, he wasn’t losing weight and became frustrated. After researching different diets, he came to believe that rather than weight loss being a simple matter of calories eaten … Continue reading →

One of the most common questions we get from members is how many points will a given violation add to their driving record. It’s an important question, but it’s not the only one to ask after you get a traffic ticket. You also need to know how many points it takes to trigger a license suspension. The answers to both questions depend on what state you’re in. This is because different states use different systems for assessing points against your license, and some don’t use points at all. Traffic violation points systems assign a certain number of points for each … Continue reading →

The anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party (SVP) won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday’s national parliamentary election, keeping pressure on Bern to introduce quotas on people moving from the European Union. Success for the SVP, coupled with gains made by the pro-business Liberal Party (FDP), led political commentators to talk of a “Rechtsrutsch” – a “slide to the right” – in Swiss politics. Immigration was the central topic for voters amid a rush of asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe. ”The vote was clear,” SVP leader Toni Brunner told Swiss television. “The people are worried … Continue reading →

A bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of the ‘deal in blood’ forged by Tony Blair and George Bush over the Iraq War. The sensational leak shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to sign up to the conflict a year before the invasion started. It flies in the face of the Prime Minister’s public claims at the time that he was seeking a diplomatic solution to the crisis. He told voters: ‘We’re not proposing military action’ – in direct contrast to what the secret email now reveals. The classified document also discloses that … Continue reading →

Back in the 1930s, when white men were preparing for another round of mutual slaughter, few of them paid any attention to the Muslim world. They assumed it to be a backward region that history had long since passed by. One man saw it differently. The great Catholic polemicist Hilaire Belloc, an Englishman of French ancestry, remembered Islam’s past and predicted, in his book The Great Heresies, that it would one day challenge the West again. As late as 1683 its armies had threatened to conquer Europe, penetrating all the way to Vienna; Belloc believed that a great Islamic revival, … Continue reading →

USA –-(Ammoland.com)- ‘Tis the season for elections and campaign promises. Unlike most, my campaign promises are practical. If elected President, I’ll actually stick to them. Here’s my primary platform message: A Ruger 10/22 Rifle, or maybe two, in every home. What do you think? If you don’t already own a Ruger 10/22 Rifle, then vote for me as a write-in candidate because everyone should have a Ruger 10/22. They’re not only fun but useful. That’s why Ruger has sold somewhere more than six million of them over the past 51 years. Way back in 1964, Ruger released this gun, and … Continue reading →

Every profession has its in-group ways of using language, but not every profession requires native speakers of many different languages to communicate with each other every day. The European Union requires just this, and the people who work there, hashing out, drafting, and translating documents use English in a very particular way. A 2013 EU report outlined some of the unusual qualities of EU English, pointing out that, “over the years, the European institutions have developed a vocabulary that differs from that of any recognised form of English.” Much of that unrecognizable vocabulary is the result of translations or non-native-speaker errors … Continue reading →

Mainstream media outlets are systematically disregarding the hazardous health impacts of widespread U.S. military burn pits on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby playing a direct role in“legitimating the environmental injustices of war,” a harrowing new scholarly report concludes. “During the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the US Department of Defense burned the majority of its solid waste in open-air pits or trenches, producing large amounts of potentially hazardous emissions,” noted Eric Bonds, assistant professor of sociology at University of Mary Washington, in his investigation, published in the journal Environmental Politics. “It is well known that the uncontrolled burning of plastics, … Continue reading →

For many it is a guilty pleasure, an indulgence saved for the weekend. But, rather than feel bad about securing yourself a couple of hours shut eye during the day, a team of scientists are suggesting regular daytime naps might actually boost your health. Their research reveals that memories associated with a reward are preferentially reinforced by sleep. Even a short nap after a period of learning is beneficial. Lead researcher, Dr Kinga Igloi from the University of Geneva, said: ‘Rewards may act as a kind of tag, sealing information in the brain during learning. ‘During sleep, that information is … Continue reading →

Not all that long ago, people targeted 100,000 miles as their goal to drive their car because that is about the mileage you could expect before having a major failure.  However, cars have gotten much better, technology has improved, and people are doing more maintenance these days.  This is the reason the average age of cars on the road in the United States has reached an all-time high.  Simply put, cars are just better these days.  Can you get 200,000 miles out of your car with no major issues?  Some will, some won’t, but your behavior and maintenance practices can … Continue reading →

The society for people with the highest IQs may be famous for being full of brain box adults but 250 of the 20,000 members across Britain and Ireland are under 12, and the youngest is only four years old. And this week it was revealed this week that a record-breaking 50 pupils at Heathland School in Hounslow, West London, passed the test by scoring IQs of at least 132. Now, this quiz – which is exclusive to FEMAIL – will determine whether you fall into the top two per cent of of us who are clever enough to join the … Continue reading →

Chlorophyll is what gives plants their green pigment. It is also responsible for channeling the sun’s rays into chemical energy for photosynthesis in all plants. Photosynthesis is the transformation of carbon dioxide and water into useful carbohydrates and oxygen. In human beings, chlorophyll is one of the few substances that pulls more oxygen into the cells, while simultaneously protecting all of the cells from oxidative (free radical) damage. During the 1950’s, it was used in certain U.S. toothpastes, due to it being only toxic to harmful bacteria and yeasts, such as candida. It was a remarkable breath freshener that also … Continue reading →

Two years ago one employee said he couldn’t come in because his false teeth flew out the window while he was driving down the highway. Last year a worker said he felt he had to stay at a casino when he had money left after a gambling weekend. Another employee woke up in a good mood and didn’t want to ruin it. All of these silly excuses come from past surveys by jobs site CareerBuilder of employees’ most absurd reasons for calling in sick. Some gems from this year’s list: Employee claimed his grandmother poisoned him with ham. Employee said … Continue reading →

Following his interview with Breitbart London, Greenpeace founder Dr. Patrick Moore addressed the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London last night, telling them why he left the environmentalist group and became sceptical of man-made global warming. Here is his speech: My Lords and Ladies, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to set out my views on climate change. As I have stated publicly on many occasions, there is no definitive scientific proof, through real-world observation, that carbon dioxide is responsible for any of the slight warming of the global climate that has occurred during the past 300 years, … Continue reading →

The Current Situation We have last discussed the gold sector in a series of posts between August 11 and September 1, arguing that an interesting risk-reward proposition could be discerned, both from a longer term investment perspective and a shorter term trading perspective. In particular, with a major support level nearby, and a great many similarities in the technical set-up to previous significant lows (plus a fundamental backdrop with growing potential to shift to a more bullish configuration), an opportunity combining potentially high return with minimal risk had emerged again (meaning that risk could be minimized by using the nearby … Continue reading →