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Make Your Own Big Mac Sauce

By RD Bentley on August 11, 2012 in

McDonald’s Executive Chef Dan Coudreaut reveals how the Big Mac secret sauce is made. You can discover the ingredients and make the Big Mac yourself. After 45 years of secrecy, the recipe is now declassified. Chef Dan Coudreaut even shows you how to make the classic Big Mac.

BIG MAC SAUCE INGREDIENTS

1 cup Miracle Whip salad dressing
1/3 cup creamy French dressing
1/4 cup sweet pickle relish
1 tablespoon of sugar
1/4 teaspoon of pepper
1 teaspoon of dry minced onions
classic yellow mustard
white wine vinegar
paprika
garlic powder
onion powder

OTHER INGREDIENTS USED TO MAKE BIC MAC

2 classic dill hamburger pickles
1 slice of American cheese
1/2 cup of finely chopped lettuce
sliced onions
2 100% hamburger patties
2 sesame seed buns
1 hamburger bun

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Wealth Against Commonwealth: Henry Demarest Lloyd

By RD Bentley on August 9, 2012 in

The Story of a Great Monopoly

Henry Demarest Lloyd’s best-known book was Wealth against commonwealth, which was published in 1894 by New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. It is an expose of John Rockefeller and his Standard Oil company. This is considered classic muckraker literature. In his popular selling book, Lloyd attacks big business of the day. Lloyd was very much against plutocracy and the crushing impact of wealth against the commonwealth.

Henry Demarest Lloyd was a progressive reporter that worked for the Chicago Tribune, from 1872 until 1885. Lloyd is well known for his searing attacks on unbridled corporate power, and his most famous masterpieces were against the oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. One such piece was published in The Atlantic (Monthly) — “The Story of a Great Monopoly,” in the March 1881 issue.

John Rockefeller was the founder of the largest oil company at that time, called Standard Oil. He amassed a great fortune in the oil refining business, but later gained a lot of harsh publicity for holding a monopoly on the market.

Here is an excerpt from Lloyd’s Wealth against commonwealth:

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty. “The splendid empire of Charles V.,” says Motley, “was erected upon the grave of liberty.” Our bignesses—cities, factories, monopolies, fortunes, which are our empires, are the obesities of an age gluttonous beyond its powers of digestion. Mankind are crowding upon each other in the centres, and struggling to keep each other out of the feast set by the new sciences and the new fellowships. Our size has got beyond both our science and our conscience. The vision of the railroad stockholder is not far-sighted enough to see into the office of the General Manager; the people cannot reach across even a ward of a city to rule their rulers; Captains of Industry “do not know” whether the men in the ranks are dying from lack of food and shelter; we cannot clean our cities nor our politics; the locomotive has more man-power than all the ballot-boxes, and mill-wheels wear out the hearts of workers unable to keep up beating time to their whirl. If mankind had gone on pursuing the ideals of the fighter, the time would necessarily have come when there would have been only a few, then only one, and then none left. This is what we are witnessing in the world of livelihoods. Our ideals of livelihood are ideals of mutual deglutition. We are rapidly reaching the stage where in each province only a few are left; that is the key to our times. Beyond the deep is another deep. This era is but a passing phase in the evolution of industrial Cæsars, and these Cæsars will be of a new type—corporate Cæsars.

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Savings and Loan Scandal: Keating Five

By RD Bentley on August 8, 2012 in

Conspiracy in the making—the Keating Five affair—which involved Charles H. Keating, Jr., Chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, and five senators. The Keating Five were: Alan Cranston (Democrat of California), Dennis DeConcini (Democrat of Arizona), John Glenn (Democrat of Ohio), John McCain (Republican of Arizona), and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Democrat of Michigan). The savings and loan scandal of the 1980′s and 1990′s resulted in the loss of at least 747 banks.

And yes, this is the same Senator John McCain that ran against Barack Obama.

“Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions Keating had made to each of the senators, totaling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention.”

In testimony, in 1985, before a congressional committee, Edwin J. Gray, chair of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB), “he testified that the US League of Saving Institutions, told him not once, but on several occassions, that the overriding strategy of the Savings and Loan industry was to buy time, to buy time, and to buy time, until only the taxpayer could bail it out.” In other words, the initial plan was for taxpayers to bail the banks out.

Charles Keating ran the American Continental Corporation and the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association. “When Lincoln failed in 1989, it cost the federal government over $3 billion and about 23,000 customers were left with worthless bonds. In the early 1990s, Keating was convicted in both federal and state courts of many counts of fraud, racketeering, and conspiracy.”

You can get more details out of the Keating case in a 1993 book — Trust Me: Charles Keating and the Missing Billions.

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The Banking Crisis That Started It All

By RD Bentley on August 8, 2012 in ,

The banking crisis that started it all—the savings and loan crisis—is a story that many Americans are completely unaware of today. The S and L crisis contributed to the large deficits of the early 1990′s, and that debt-ridden alignment has been carried over into the 21st century. Now we will take a look back at the savings and loan crisis.

The deregulation of S and L banks led to more command, and reduced regulation. They could then choose to be under a state or a federal charter. Previously, all had been state chartered and heavily regulated. As the banks became national, this eventually led to the demise of many.

The S and L banks began to take on much riskier assets, primarily investing in real estate. When the real estate market collapsed, the banks were shattered. This helped to cause a major economic downturn. “Between 1986 and 1991, the number of new homes constructed per year dropped from 1.8 million to 1 million, which was at the time the lowest rate since World War II.”

To take a brief pause back in history, the Panic of 1893 caused a decline, and nationals had gone from boom to bust. By the end of the 19th century, nearly all of the nationals were out of business. This would lead to localized banking, or what was called thrifts, also referred to as savings and loans.

The thrifts were entirely responsible for the great housing boom after World War II. This industrial expansion would prosper until the 1960′s. Rate wars between banks complicated the financial industry tremendously, and this sparked the stagflation era.

Hardships on the thrifts caused problems throughout most of the 1960′s and 1970′s, but overall they seemed to manage the fluctuations with calm. In 1979, things began to get a bit rockier. By then, the S and L banking system was struggling. This prompted change.

Congress enacted new legislation that would alter the banking industry forever. Two laws that would change everything: the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, and the Garn–St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982.

This set of actions accomplished two things. It was the beginning of the end of regulatory oversight. Also, the S and L banks would gain authority and expand in the process, which later would inevitably lead to the collapse of the thrifts. Corruption became rampant, and unsavory deals were numerous.

Hidden far behind the covered canvas were dark secrets that never extracted the attention of the mainstream media. The thrifts were being looted by banking bandits, politicians, and gangsters. Little known to the public, the moral hazard would fall on the shoulders of the taxpayers. The nationals were going to consolidate into what is now known as “too big to fail”, and the moral hazard is what we now call a bank bailout.

The billion dollar question remains unanswered: Who ended up with all of the loot that was withdrawn from the view of the public eye? “Between 1989 and mid-1995, the Resolution Trust Corporation closed or otherwise resolved 747 thrifts with total assets of $394 billion.”

“Some commentators (NPR) believe that a taxpayer-funded government bailout related to mortgages during the savings and loan crisis may have created a moral hazard and acted as encouragement to lenders to make similar higher risk loans during the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis.”

Pete Brewton, a professor, journalist, lawyer, philosopher, astronomer, and farmer, has written a book about the trials of the times — The Mafia, CIA and George Bush.

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Is Apple Worried About Phablet?

By RD Bentley on August 4, 2012 in

Is the phablet the next sensation? In October of 2011, Samsung introduced the Samsung Galaxy Note N7000 16GB Unlocked Android Smartphone – Dark Blue. The Samsung Galaxy Note is a hybrid between smartphones and tablets. The package comes loaded with a 5.3-inch screen and a stylus. Is Apple worried about this new phablet? Maybe.

Only time will tell if consumers want a new type of consolidated smartphone that has a bigger screen, camera, stylus, and has the capability of web browsing, email, games, or viewing photos and videos. To consolidate or to not consolidate? This is the question to have with that ice cream sandwich.

In December of 2011, Samsung had shipped a million of these phablets in two months, and by the first quarter of 2012, over 5 million had been sold. By June of 2012, 7 million of the Samsung Galaxy Notes had been shipped. This is a lot of sales folks.

If my memory serves me right (no pun intended), Steve Jobs was not a fan of the stylus. But somehow, in technology, things have a way of changing and people have a way of moving on. Samsung hopes that the S Pen catches on in a big way. You can write that down.

On August 29th, of 2012, Samsung will debut the Galaxy II, in Berlin, Germany. Apple is expected to showcase the latest version of the iPhone, which should be released in September. The next IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) will be held from August 31, to September 5, 2012.

The size of the screen of the Galaxy Note is about twice the size of the iPhone. The body is built from plastic with a metallised rim, and the front panel is made of Gorilla Glass. Steve Jobs convinced Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning, to develop the Gorilla Glass. This was released in June of 2007.

“Also in 2012, Corning and Samsung announced a joint venture to manufacture Lotus Glass, a next generation material to complement Gorilla glass with enhanced thermal and dimensional stability to enable greater resolution, speedier response times and reduced warping in electronic devices.”

Samsung was once a follower in smartphone sales, but it overtook Apple last year to become the world’s largest smartphone maker. Maybe Apple should be worried.

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Motorola Baby Monitor With Video

By RD Bentley on August 4, 2012 in

Motorola has a new high tech baby monitor for moms — Motorola MBP36 Remote Wireless Video Baby Monitor with Infrared Night Vision and Zoom, 3.5 Inch. This gadget sure is impressing a lot of people out there and it’s no wonder. This thing has a video monitor, where conventional baby monitors were only audio. This is a very worthwhile upgrade.

Some picky moms have reported this to be the best monitor on the market, even though it is a bit pricey.

A 3.5″ LCD color display has infrared night vision. The MBP36 digital audio baby monitor has an impressive range of up to 200 meters with an out of range warning, allowing mom to move around the house or yard comfortably, knowing that the little one is okay.

Here may be the difference. Motorola specializes in electronics, and this may be the edge that other companies do not have. The company seems to have got this one right.

The Motorola MBP36 is a great tool for spying on toddlers also. Nothing like having an extra set of eyes in the room, especially when the camera moves around.

I can see a real need for a visual monitor like this, and it would be real handy if a child has some kind of a health problem. It might keep the child out of real danger.

If mom has any big problems with the baby monitor, go here — Motobabycustomerservice@gmail.com.

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Is Aspartame Killing Us?

By RD Bentley on August 3, 2012 in

Is aspartame killing us? What are the dangers? Is it really safe for consumer use? Can it physically harm us? Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used as a sugar substitute in some foods and beverages.

Aspartame (E951) was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter. In 1980, the FDA cited that there were unanswered questions about cancer in laboratory rats. An independent board of doctors unanimously ruled that aspartame should not go on the market.

“In 1983, the FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame, allowing it to be used in all foods.” The sweetener is now being used in 6,000 products around the world.

James M. Schlatter discovered the sweetener when working for G. D. Searle and Company, which was later bought out by Monsanto in 1985. In March 2000, Monsanto sold it to J.W. Childs Equity Partners II L.P.  The subsidiary company is known as NutraSweet.

Aspartame has a competitor, known as Sucralose. NutraSweet has come up with another product, Neotame (E961), and it is between 7,000 and 13,000 times as sweet as table sugar.

There have been over 10,000 consumer complaints with products that include NutraSweet. Aspartame has caused brain tumors in laboratory mice. One gentleman from Louisiana, Ron Dodge, claims that aspartame is what killed his wife. He believes it came from the Diet Coke.

Activist Dr. Betty Martini acknowledges that numerous health risks come from aspartame: multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus, methanol toxicity, blindness, spasms, shooting pains, seizures, headaches, depression, anxiety, memory loss, birth defects and death.

A former pharmaceutical sales rep, Gwen Olsen, learned a great deal about aspartame when doing research for a book. She says that she is very surprised by the lack of public knowledge of the dangers of aspartame. Olsen mentions a gentleman by the name of Donald Rumsfeld.

From 1977 to 1985 Rumsfeld served as CEO, President, and then Chairman of G. D. Searle. In 1985, Searle was sold to Monsanto Company. Rumsfeld is believed to have earned around $12 million from this sale.

For more information on the topic, please visit DORway.

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ConDocs

By RD Bentley on August 3, 2012 in

Here is a list of Conspiracy Documentaries. These are very informational and a must watch for conspiracy truthers. The order listed is random, and please be advised that some may get deleted or rated as private. Do you have a favorite?

1. Banking With Hitler (Full Length) — A must watch film about the BIS and where Hitler did his banking. (44:15)

2. Loose Change | Final Cut 2012 (Full Length) — The 9/11 conspiracy theories are theories that disagree with the widely accepted account that the September 11 attacks were perpetrated solely by al-Qaeda, without any detailed advanced knowledge on the part of any government agency. (2:09:54)

3. Big Oil: What Iraq War was ‘ALL” About — Bill Moyers encapsulates the moment. (5:52)

4. The CIA & Nicaragua | US secret wars fought in South America — In 1909, the United States provided political support to conservative-led forces rebelling against President Zelaya. U.S. motives included differences over the proposed Nicaragua Canal, Nicaragua’s potential as a destabilizing influence in the region, and Zelaya’s attempts to regulate foreign access to Nicaraguan natural resources. (10:01)

5. John Perkins | Confessions of an Economic Hit Man — Interview with John Perkins author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”. Here is Part 2. (53:35)

6. Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets | Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers — In 1971 Defense Department analyst, former U.S. Marine company commander and anti-Communist Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. In this talk, Ellsberg presents an explosive inside account of how and why he helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon’s presidency. (1:28:33)

7. ZEITGEIST | OFFICIAL RELEASE — Zeitgeist: The Movie is a 2007 documentary film by Peter Joseph. A third film called Zeitgeist: Moving Forward was released theatrically on January 15, 2011, and online on January 25, 2011. (2:42:25)

8. ZERO An Investigation Into 9/11 (Full Length) — It has one central thesis, that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 cannot be true. (1:44:55)

9. The Money Masters (Full Length) — The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (3:29:21)

10. Antony Sutton | The Order of Skull and Bones — Sutton informs the public about the Skull and Bones Club at Yale. (31:58)

11. Antony Sutton | Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution — A classic interview by Professor Antony Sutton, who taught economics at California State University, and was a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. (13:29)

12. Antony Sutton | Wall Street and the rise of Hitler — Sutton talks about Wall Street financing Hitler. (39:59)

13. Michael Ruppert | Crossing the Rubicon — A talk by Michael C. Ruppert author of “Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil” given January 15, 2005 at Kane Hall, UW Campus Seattle. Here’s Part 2. (57:05)

14. Noam Chomsky | Manufacturing Consent — Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) is a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist. (2:47:16)

15. Making A Killing – The Untold Story Of Psychotropic Drugs — Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. (1:34:43)

16. Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World — Sweet Misery is a close examination into what many in the medical community have voiced over the last few decades on the safety of Aspartame sweetener. Is there a connection with Aspartame and illnesses? (1:34)

17. Big Money buys US Elections And Elected Officials | PressTVGlobalNews — Lobbies and lobbying in the US, K street, and its 15,000 to 20,000 registered lobbyists, spend around $4 billion annually to purchase favorable legislation. (25:37)

18. Sweet Remedy | The World Reacts to an Adulterated Food Supply — This documentary exposes the propaganda surrounding the poison-chemical sweetener called Aspartame. It discusses the health effects, the media cover-up, and the hidden agenda of the U.S. agencies and corporate organizations that profit off the poison called Aspartame. (2:17:37)

19. John Stockwell | CIA’s War on Humans — John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. (6:27)

20. Alan Grayson (High Quality Version): Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve? — This is a high quality version of the Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing of May 5, 2009. Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve Inspector General about the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve and where it went, and the trillions of off balance sheet obligations. Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman responds that the IG does not know and is not tracking where this money is. (5:24)

21. The Creature From Jekyll Island | G. Edward Griffin — G. Edward Griffin is an American film producer, author, and political lecturer. He is perhaps best known as the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island (1994), a critique of much modern economic theory and practice, specifically the Federal Reserve System. (1:47:20)

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Can Software Steal Votes?

By RD Bentley on July 31, 2012 in

STEALING AMERICA: Vote by Vote

Can hackers alter the computers that store voting data? Is it possible to use software that steals votes during any given election? Does this happen almost every election? Do you really think that the press is going to report this type of activity on the news? Is the voting game rigged?

Clint Curtis, a United States computer programmer and ex employee of NASA and ExxonMobil, was asked a question: “So one person putting in bad code in the central tabulation machine could affect thousands and thousands, or tens of thousands of votes?” Curtis answered: “Right.”

Soon after this hearing, Curtis passed a lie detector test given by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

It has been proven that computer hackers can manipulate votes electronically, without leaving a trail. In only a few minutes, a voting machine can be hacked by simply exchanging memory cards. And get this — one master key can be duplicated. Which means every voting precinct could potentially have a key…

A company near Atlanta, Georgia, ChoicePoint, has acted as a private intelligence service to government and industry.

Source Wikipedia:
ChoicePoint combined personal data sourced from multiple public and private databases for sale to the government and the private sector. The firm maintained more than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sold to an estimated 100,000 clients, including 7,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies (March 30, 2005 estimates).

ChoicePoint was used to perform consumer and criminal background checks on prospective employees of the Obama administration.

In the aftermath of the vote (2000 presidential election), the owner of DBT Online, ChoicePoint,was accused of cooperating with Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Secretary of State of Florida Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, in voter fraud, conspiracy involving the central voter file. It was also accused of having a bias in favor of the Republican Party, for knowingly using inaccurate data, and for racial discrimination.

The allegations charge that 57,700 people (15% of the list), primarily Democrats of African-American and Hispanic descent, were incorrectly listed as felons and thus barred from voting. Reports estimate that 80% of these people would have voted, and that 90% of those who would have voted, would have voted for Al Gore. Other allegations include listing voters as felons for alleged crimes said to have been committed several years in the future. The official (and disputed) margin of victory, in the election, was 537 votes.

ChoicePoint says that it acquired DBT Online after DBT delivered the initial 2000 voter exception list to Florida officials for verification and that it has…”no involvement in any election in any country.” However, ChoicePoint’s acquisition of DBT Online was made public on February 14, 2000 and in May 2000, DBT discovered that approximately 8,000 names were erroneously placed on the exclusion list, so their claim of no involvement does not match the timeline.

On February 16, 2001, DBT Senior Vice-President George Bruder testified before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that the company had misinformed the Florida Supervisors of Elections regarding the usage of race in compiling the list. Greg Palast concludes, “An African-American felon named Will Whiting might wipe out the registration of an innocent African-American Will Whiting, but not the rights of an innocent Caucasian Will Whiting.” Palast alleges that 80% of the 57,700 people allegedly barred from voting were African-American.

STEALING AMERICA: Part 1
STEALING AMERICA: Part 2
STEALING AMERICA: Part 3
STEALING AMERICA: Part 4
STEALING AMERICA: Part 5
STEALING AMERICA: Part 6
STEALING AMERICA: Part 7
STEALING AMERICA: Part 8
STEALING AMERICA: Part 9 (???)
STEALING AMERICA: Part 10

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Pssst, Call It A Smartwatch

By RD Bentley on July 31, 2012 in

Let’s presume that you’re a jogger, golfer, bicycler, or a hiker. The Motorola smartwatch (Pssst, they don’t call it a smartwatch yet) provides you with technology that allows you to do a number of things. You can plan your workouts, create long-term goals and more. Track your heartbeat, track your golf shots, and get maps of you doing donuts in the parking lot.

I’ve said more than once that someday we would be talking through our watches, and we’re almost there.  The Motorola MOTOACTV 8GB GPS Sports Watch and MP3 Player has taken us one step closer to this Jetson reality. This is a smartwatch that is BlueTooth enabled, which allows you to receive texts and calls delivered from your Motorola Android smartphone. Download the free MOTOACTV App and you’re in business. But this watch does a whole lot more.

Another nice feature — MOTOACTV is capable of receiving software updates in the future. This type of gadget is somewhat in the development stage, so this is an extra bonus.

You can track your distance, time, speed, heart rate, and calories burned so you can monitor your workouts. The GPS on this thing works great. It is up to par with GPS units.

Not only does it have GPS tracking capability, it plays music also. It syncs with iTunes and it does Windows Media MusicAn FM radio. You can listen to music while you go jogging or biking. Or map those lost balls out of the fairways.

MMOTOACTV is a fitness tracker and smart music player combined into a lightweight, wearable device. What a great companion to take on the golf course, err… I mean the next fitness workout.

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