Diet In A Can
August 20, 2015
It seems like we've been told again and again that diabetes is a disease of those who are carrying around extra pounds.
Well, toss that one in the recycling bin. While you're at it, toss all your soda cans in there as well -- before you open them.
Because that daily soda is a lot more dangerous than America's favorite doctor -- Dr. Pepper -- would like to admit. And that's true whether you're overweight or not.
A new study in the British Medical Journal found that people who drink just one soda a day were nearly 20 percent more likely to become diabetic, regardless of how they tipped the scales.
This might explain why one in five people with type 2 diabetes are actually at a healthy weight. And they're the ones who are most likely to indulge in that soda without thinking twice.
And it looks like those so-called "healthy" diet drinks are even worse. Go the no-calorie route, and you're a whopping 25 percent more likely to end up with diabetes -- again, no matter what you weigh.
Well, you won't be surprised to hear that a soda trade group responded with the usual nonsense, about how...
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Governing Dynamics of Price Action
August 19, 2015
I have been involved with trading and investing for more than twenty years. Low-risk profits are a function of trading what is real, not what I feel. I’m able to eliminate subjective emotions from my trading by basing each and every decision on a simple mechanical set of objective rules that quantify supply and demand. These simple rules stem from three principles of price movement I crafted for my own trading long ago. These three principles form the foundation upon which my trading and investing is based. While everyone’s trading strategy will always be a bit different, perhaps today’s article will help set you on a path that allows you to focus on what is real and not what you feel…
Principle 1: “Price action in any free market is a function of an ongoing supply and demand relationship within that market”.
Principle 2: “Any and all influences on price are reflected in price.”
Principle 3: “The origin of motion/change in price is an equation where one of two competing forces (demand and supply) becomes zero at a specific price.”
First, understand that there are always two competing forces at work in the market, buyers (demand) and sellers (supply). Our goal...
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Red Alert - More Transparency Needed Over US$3 Billion Raised By 1MDB!
August 10, 2015
9 Aug 2015
One guess for the mystery donor is this Middle Eastern gentleman – the man who eventually claimed he bankrolled son Riza’s Wolf of Wall Street – Al-husseiny was the Chairman of Falcon Bank in 2013 and is still the CEO of Aabar.
Rumours are swirling that the Prime Minister is soon to produce his ‘Middle Eastern Donor’ for the secret US$680 million that went into his private account just before the last election.
Even his Deputy PM and Chair of UMNO had no knowledge of the money, but Najib says it was intended to be spent on the party and its election campaign – that it was “not for personal use”.
With no further details forthcoming on the matter the rest of the world has scant evidence beyond the word of the Prime Minister himself on these matters, which is hardly very satisfactory.
If UMNO was a properly handled sort of organisation, donations to the party would have instead have been recorded and the expenditures itemised.
There is also the small matter of election law, given there are limits on party spending, which have been exceeded several times over by this princely fortune that Najib secretly acquired....
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Malaysia's Najib feels the heat as state-owned 1MDB melts down
July 27, 2015
(July 22): In the spring of 2013, Song Dal Sun, head of securities investment at Seoul-based Hanwha Life Insurance, sat down to a presentation by a Goldman Sachs banker. The young Goldman salesman, who had flown in from Hong Kong, made a pitch for bonds to be issued by 1Malaysia Development Bhd., a state-owned company closely tied to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
It was enticing. The 10-year, dollar-denominated bonds offered an interest rate of 4.4 percent, about 100 basis points higher than other A-minus-rated bonds were yielding at the time, he recalls. But Song, a veteran of 25 years in finance, sensed something was amiss. With such an attractive yield, 1MDB could easily sell the notes directly to institutional investors through a global offering. Instead, Goldman Sachs was privately selling 1MDB notes worth $3 billion backed by the Malaysian government. “Does it mean ‘explicit guarantee’?” he recalls asking the Goldman salesman, whom he declined to name. “I didn’t get a straight answer,” Song says. “I decided not to buy them.”
The bond sale that Song passed up is part of a scandal that has all but sunk 1MDB, rattled investors, and set back Malaysia’s quest to become...
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Conterversy over 1MDB Issues
July 27, 2015
SOMETIME in September 2009, currency traders at Bank Negara Malaysia were jolted by huge purchases of US dollars in the domestic currency market and quickly decided to halt the selling pressure on the local currency. They were promptly told to stand down by their superiors.
The buildup of US dollar positions on that day paved the way for state-owned 1 Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) to move US$1 billion out of the country for an investment in a British Virgin Islands entity.
“At the time, no one knew where the money was headed or why such a large amount was being taken out,” said one senior Kuala Lumpur-based currency trader familiar with the episode.
“It was a company we needed to watch, because it came out of nowhere and showed clout,” said another chief dealer at a foreign bank in Kuala Lumpur.
These days, 1MDB isn’t just raising eyebrows. The secretive investment arm of the government is sending shockwaves through international bond markets and raising concern at home with its aggressive borrowings, opaque financial manoeuvres and risky bets. It is also becoming a hot political potato for Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s administration.
Opposition politicians insist that 1MDB is part...
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Putek lahir usahawan pelatih GiatMara
May 6, 2015
Putek Lahir Usahawan
ROMPIN - Kerajaan negeri menyambut baik usaha Giatmara negeri Pahang membuka peluang kepada bekas pelatih pusat latihan itu yang berpotensi menjadi usahawan melalui Kursus Pembudayaan Keusahawanan (Putek).
Selain diberikan kursus isentif dalam modul keusahawanan dan pengurusan kewangan, peserta terpilih yang melepasi temuduga turut menerima bantuan inkubator berjumlah RM6,500 termasuk latihan, peralatan dan modal mula.
Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Koperasi, keusahawanan dan Kepenggunaan Negeri, Datuk Sri Shahiruddin Ab Moin berkata, GiatMara menyasarkan 10 hingga 20 peratus pelatih menceburi bidang keusahawanan berdasarkan kemahiran yang diperoleh sepanjang menjalani latihan di pusat tersebut.
Menurutnya, langkah itu satu usaha yang baik sebagai peluang kepada bekas pelatih membina hala tuju dengan kemahiran yang dimiliki.
“Dengan latihan yang diberikan serta bantuan peralatan dan modal mula, kita harap bekas pelatih GiatMara ini mampu memulakan perniagaan sendiri untuk bersaing dengan bangsa lain dalam dunia keusahawanan,” katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditemui selepas Majlis Perasmian Kursus Pembudayaan Keusahawan Teknilkal (Putek) GiatMara Negeri Pahang dan Bantuan Inkubator Siri 2/2015 yang dirasmikan Pegawai Penerangan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Tosrin Jarvanthi di Tanjung Gemok, baru-baru ini.
Turut hadir, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Belia dan Sukan Negeri, Datuk Mohd Johari Hussain dan pengarah GiatMara Pahang, Sallehhoddin Abu Bakar.
Shahiruddin berkata, beliau bagaimanapun berharap bantuan yang...
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Profit Clicking Scam
June 17, 2013
Sherlock Holmes on March 23, 2013 at 11:45 pm said:
Update 1: Profit Clicking – Clickpaid – Frederick Mann – Profit Holdings – SCAM SCAM SCAM
It takes a real investigator to discover the truth of these career criminals. I was invited to join Just Been Paid in early 2012 and immediately recognized this was a Ponzi. I started attending calls being hosted by Frederick Mann, Carl Pearson, Lavour Lewis, PK Clarke and an assortment of moderators that handle the live meeting/training rooms. I began to investigate this organization to prevent more people being hurt. I always say “Don’t be a victim, be a hunter of the wicked and protector of the innocent!”
I have now developed relationships with over 60 of the key leaders and we have been compiling evidence to give to the Government where these leaders are located. We believe the organization has now exceeded 2.2 Million Members and has frauded people out of more than $200,000,000 Dollars. If you want to be added to this Investigation you can email me the details you have and we will add you to the package being prepared. There has been much recent activity as one of our key technical...
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Mara Gives Out RM4 Bilion Loans To 190,358 Bumiputera Entrepreneurs From 1951 To 2011
June 6, 2013
KUALA TERENGGANU, June 4 (Bernama) -- Majlis Amanah Rakyat (Mara) has given out RM4 billion in loans to Bumiputra entrepreneurs between 1951 and 2011 involving 190,358 recipients nationwide.
Mara director-general Datuk Ibrahim Ahmad said RM169 million was allocated for 1,976 Bumiputra entrepreneurs in the eastern region of Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang last year
Furthermore, he said for entrepreneur development activities in the region last year, 2,346 entrepreneurs had been given training and guidance involving an allocation of RM4.1 million.
"I am confident there are those among the famous millionaires and corporate figures today who have received aid from Mara during their early involvements in the world of commerce.
"So this success must be used as a basis for us to carry out a more impactful effort in the future," he said in his speech text which was read by the Eastern Zone Mega Entrepreneurs Carnival Committee chairman and Kelantan Mara director Mohd Ishak Zakaria in conjunction with the programme, here.
Ibrahim said Mara was aware entrepreneurs played a major role and directly contributed to the development of the national economy.
He said, the involvement of more Bumiputra in the field actually played a significant role towards ensuring the political and...
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Organ Gangs Force Poor to Sell Kidneys for Desperate Israelis
November 10, 2011
Aliaksei Yafimau shudders at the memory of the burly thug who threatened to kill his relatives. Yafimau, who installs satellite television systems in Babrujsk, Belarus, answered an advertisement in 2010 offering easy money to anyone willing to sell a kidney.
He saw it as a step toward getting out of poverty. Instead, Yafimau, 30, was thrust into a dark journey around the globe that had him, at one point, locked in a hotel room for a month in Quito, Ecuador, waiting for surgeons to cut out an organ, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its December issue.
The man holding Yafimau against his will was Roini Shimshilashvili, a former kickboxer who was an enforcer for an international organ-trafficking ring, according to evidence gathered by police in Kiev. Yafimau says that when he pleaded with Shimshilashvili to let him get out of the deal and go home, the big man sliced the air with Thai-boxing moves and threatened him.
“He said if I didn’t go through with it, he would leave me in Ecuador and kill my family,” Yafimau says.
Doctors removed Yafimau’s left kidney in July 2010 and transplanted it into an Israeli woman, according to the Kiev police investigation....
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Menu Rakyat sedap, berkualiti
October 19, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR 18 Okt. — Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak memuji makanan yang dijual di restoran yang menyertai Program Menu Rakyat 1Malaysia sambil menyifatkannya sebagai sedap dan berkualiti.
Perdana Menteri menyatakan sedemikian selepas menikmati nasi berlaukkan ayam masak merah, ayam masak kicap, daging goreng, sayur taugeh dan papadom di Restoran Ukhwah di Lorong Medan Tuanku di sini hari ini.
Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob yang mengiringi Perdana Menteri, berkata, kunjungan Najib ke premis itu adalah untuk menikmati dan menilai sendiri kualiti makanan yang dijual kepada rakyat pada harga RM4 untuk makanan tengah hari dan RM2 untuk sarapan.
"Perdana Menteri datang semata-mata untuk makan. Beliau nak rasa sendiri makanan yang dimakan oleh rakyat," katanya kepada pemberita.
Ismail Sabri berkata kunjungan Najib juga membuktikan bahawa persepsi sesetengah pihak kononnya menu murah di premis atau restoran yang menyertai program anjuran kementerian itu tidak berkuliti, adalah tidak benar.
Katanya, kualiti makanan yang dijual di premis atau restoran yang menyertai Program Menu Rakyat 1Malaysia adalah sama seperti makanan yang dijual di tempat lain dan kementerian sentiasa turun padang memantau keadaan agar aspek kualiti tidak diambil mudah.
"Saya rasa Perdana Menteri sangat gembira di mana hari ini, beliau dapat...
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